EPISODE · Jan 9, 2021 · 8 MIN
Ants and Algorithms
from More or Less · host BBC Radio 4
What can ants tells us about whether something deserves to be popular? This is a question tackled in David Sumpter’s book – ‘The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too.’ He tells Tim Harford about some of the algorithms that you see in nature, and those harnessed by tech companies such as YouTube.
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