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Book review: What a Bee Knows. Some amazing facts

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At adaptive-emergent , we are looking for simple behaviours in nature that add up to quite complex ones. The resulting model can be used to massively scale basic business rules into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. However if you want to apply this by studying bees and beehives, think again. These creatures are already complex. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Lives of the World's Hardest-Working Creatures (2023)  by Stephen Buchmann is a fascinating exploration of the lives of bees, filled with remarkable insights into their behaviour, biology, and importance to ecosystems.  Note the audiobook is narrated by the author, and he has a great, soothing voice for the task. Here are some of the most amazing facts about bees from the book: 1. Bees Are Ancient Creatures Bees are incredibly old creatures, with fossils showing that they have existed for around  100 million years . They have co-evolved with flowering plants, and their role in pollination has shaped th...
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adappt.io is now adaptive-emergent (part 3 of 3): software the way Nature intended

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  Generated using  FLUX.1 [Schnell]  by black-forest-labs -  Part one of this series  looked at the history from 2015 to 2021;  -  Part two explained  why adappt.io was given that name. - In the last part of this series, we look at what adaptive-emergent now represents, the meaning behind the brand, and the paths being pursued.  The Goals of adaptive-emergent adaptive-emergent now has a more focussed direction: Explore agents with minimal rules collectively creating emergent behaviour, mimicking patterns found in Nature Encoding this into  Holochain-based systems Using AI to assist in coding and debugging Describing how to do this with the possibility of a Holochain course for middle school students Let's touch on each of these goals. Goal 1: What is "adaptive"?  What is "emergent"? Defining these terms is worthy of 1 or 2 blog posts alone,  and the whole concept may be best expressed in a whitepaper, which will appear in the "...
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adappt.io is now adaptive-emergent (part 2 of 3): what's in a name

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In the previous blog post , we reviewed what was adappt.io , from 2015 to 2024. In this article we explain why the brand has been updated to focus on applying natural designs to communication networks. What's in a Name? adappt's heritage is in its name: the "Dapp" part comes from the Ethereum term for " decentralised applications ". Note the dash in the letter "d" in the adappt logo: besides looking cool, the Đ is known as "eth" in Old English and Icelandic, so a Đapp could be pronounced "EthApp" (or at least that is the folklore .. I had to look that up).  The ladder was a stylised 'A'. If adappt had ever created its own cryptocurrency, this could have been its symbol. The "io" extension was fashionable in the late 2010s with  "input/output" associated with technology, even though the country code top level domain was created for specks of islands in the Indian Ocean. In 2024, ".io" is most...
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