Swarm intelligence
by Kennedy, James · first published 2001
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As a total noob, I got a lot out of the book Swarm Intelligence [2001] by Eberhart, Shi, and Kennedy. Terrific survey of optimization overall and then dives into bee colony inspired algorithms (particle swarm optimization). Lots of books with similar name, so here's…
on “Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?” ↗A really good book on this subject is Swarm Intelligence by Russell Eberhart http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolution... (I'm not affiliated with the book in any way :)
on “Artificial intelligence: Riders on a swarm ” ↗There's also this[1] which is a great introduction to Swarm Intelligence and it's relationship to Evolutionary Computing, Genetic Programming, Genetic Algorithms, etc. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolution... And anybody who's really into this…
on “Swarm intelligence” ↗Looking up PSO, I came across Russell Eberhart's name as the co-author of the algorithm. He is also the author of the excellent book called Swarm Intelligence where I first encountered the Simulated Annealing algorithm (and many other cool ones)
on “Climbing the wrong hill (2009)” ↗Cool. There's also a book called "Swarm Intelligence" by Kennedy/Eberhart that describes swarm behaviors very well (my favorite book). For anyone interested, here is the Craig Reynolds page that describes the flocking behavior http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
on “Neat Algorithms - Flocking” ↗The books I'm in the middle of reading to one extent or another, that I can think of right this moment: Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Swarm Intelligence - James Kennedy & Russel C. Eberhart How The Mind Works - Steven Pinker A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
on “Ask HN: What are you reading right now?” ↗…Outside of ScrewPile related stuff, I spent a lot of time learning Lucene, read parts of a couple of books on Machine Learning / Collective Intelligence, read Steven Pinker's "How The Mind Works," read the "Swarm Intelligence" book by Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi, & James Kennedy, and started Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid." I also managed to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," watched "The Social…
on “Ask HN: What did you do this year?” ↗…persuasion somehow bypasses our defenses. Maybe we have an evolutionary glitch, where fearful stressed out people are more malleable. #3 We don't remember changing our minds. This is terrifies me. Swarm Intelligence [2001] explanation of social cognition cites the research about our amnesia. My guess is that forgetting is somehow necessary for learning. https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolutio...…
on “The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'” ↗I read some time ago in a book titled 'Swarm Intelligence' that ants use pheromone to optimize their way to the food. Ants which go through the shortest path come back earlier, thus incrementing the amount of pheremone in that path, thus attracting more ants…
on “Ants have a sense of number” ↗