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Ants and Algorithms
David Sumpter describes the algorithms ruling the world.
What can ants tells us about whether something deserves to be popular? This is a question tackled in David Sumpter鈥檚 book 鈥� 鈥楾he Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too.鈥� He tells Tim Harford about some of the algorithms that you see in nature, and those harnessed by tech companies such as YouTube.
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