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		whycome on Jan 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with... Ants are like a real-life machine learning model.

shostack on Jan 4, 2024 [–]

Read Children of Time and have your mind blown.

whycome on Jan 4, 2024 | [–]

Thanks for the rec! That seems right up my alley!

Re: ants. A quick google suggests there could be around twenty quadrillion ants on earth. With such volume, they could literally "learn" through pure trial and error like a machine learning model.

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