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A flock from three rules

Craig Reynolds’s model (1987): three rules and no leader. Real starlings, Ballerini and colleagues showed in 2008, track about six or seven nearest neighbours, however many birds are close by.

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The Celestial Code · Chapter 5

The Universe Learns

In August 2020, Vitaly Vanchurin, a theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota, posted a paper on arXiv with a title that made his colleagues’ eyes twitch: “The World as a Neural Network.” The title reads literally: “The World as a Neural Network.” Ontologically, without…

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