May 28, 2005

Evolution - Devolution

Richard Feynman was unfortunately right when he lectured that we live in an unscientific age. H. Allen Orr of the University of Rochester reports in his essay DEVOLUTION (The New Yorker 2005-05-30):
In October, 2004, the [Dover Area School District’s] board decreed that ‘students will be made aware of gaps/problems in Darwin’s theory and of […]


May 19, 2005

The times they are a-changin’

For many years liberals and conservatives (in Europe) fought side by side against a common enemy: socialism. This alliance, although proved to be successful in its main purpose, created confusion and led people to think that there is no difference between the two. Recent developments though, the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern […]


May 9, 2005

The Ant Colony System

I just posted a paper on the Hiveworks.com site, discussing the application of the Ant Colony System meta-heuristic to the Traveling Salesman Problem.
This approach, first described by M. Dorigo in 1996, uses the emergence properties of real Ant Colonies, to solve hard optimization problems that cannot be efficiently solved by deterministic algorithms. Marco Dorigo, […]


May 9, 2005

THUMB’S UP for Michalis!

Hiveworks officials (reference to Michalis Sarigiannidis) say the new Hiveworks.com site is in good spirits after several hours of surgery and is up and running.
You can visit our new site at
www.hiveworks.com


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