Data Skeptic

[MINI] Ant Colony Optimization

Aug 8, 2014 · 15 min · 18.1 MB
0:00-15:07

Streams straight from the publisher. podnod never proxies or re-hosts episode audio.

In this week's mini episode, Linhda and Kyle discuss Ant Colony Optimization - a numerical / stochastic optimization technique which models its search after the process ants employ in using random walks to find a goal (food) and then leaving a pheremone trail in their walk back to the nest. We even find some way of relating the city of San Francisco and running a restaurant into the discussion.