[gambit-list] Gambit and termite on an embedded system (Nintendo DS)?

Jeff Read bitwize at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 16:59:47 EST 2008


On Jan 27, 2008 7:56 PM, Bob McIsaac <bobmc at fcibroadband.com> wrote:

>  Think of termite and ant colonies, and bee hives.  Intelligence seems to
> arise from dumb little insects sharing smells with each other. So too  you
> can create intelligence with a vast army of "termites" with Scheme running
> on a mini-itx or other single-board computer playing the "mother-ship" role.
> Of course, each object is simple so you can effectively model the system
> before building any hardware.

On the other hand, it took fat humans to discover lambda calculus and
build computers.

Hmmm, getting an ant colony to perform lambda-term reduction in some
way seems like a fun science project! Do you have kids, Bob? :)

--Jeff



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