{"id":10618,"date":"2013-03-27T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2013-03-27T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T05:22:58","slug":"intelligent-goo-does-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2013\/03\/intelligent-goo-does-math\/","title":{"rendered":"INTELLIGENT GOO DOES MATH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1691 alignleft\" alt=\"unclassified\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unclassified.gif?resize=100%2C99\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>MIT Technology Review has reported that a blob of \u201cintelligent\u201d (but thankfully still virtual) goo can compute solutions to one of the most famous problems in mathematics&#8230; what the heck could possibly go wrong with that?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Jones and Andrew Adamatzky at the University of the West of England in the U.K. found that by representing the cities (involved in the famous \u00a0traveling salesman problem) as a series of dots in a virtual petri dish and submerging the dots in a blob of virtual goo &#8212;\u00a0 consisting of many particles that each move according to a set of simple rules, like autonomous agents &#8212; results in a kind of intelligent blob that shows emergent behavior and rudimentary intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what these guys are doing, but as long as it stays on the laptop I&#8217;ll be okay with it&#8230; for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Technology Review has reported that a blob of \u201cintelligent\u201d (but thankfully still virtual) goo can compute solutions to one of the most famous problems in mathematics&#8230; what the heck could possibly go wrong with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":11990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[91,766,1121,1120],"class_list":{"0":"post-10618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blob","9":"tag-grey-goo","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-unclassified"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shrinking-blob-300x2361.png?fit=300%2C236&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}