The ants and the pheromones
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
TLDR; this is the last edition of The Morning Paper for now. Plus: one strand of research you won’t want to miss! I was listening to a BBC Radio 4 podcast recently ( More or Less: Behind the Stats – Ants and Algorithms ) in which the host Tim Harford is interviewing David Sumpter about his recent book, ‘ The ten equations that rule the world.’ One of those equations, the ‘reward equation’ models how ants communicate using pheromones, and our own brains keep track of rewards using dopamine.
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