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Wait what this is the best reason to write a bunch of assembly AND learn about ants?
And (potentially) go to Hawaii! But in all seriousness, ants are smarter than they look. They operate as a collective. Just in the same way that assembly needs to operate collectively to get the best output. They're more closely linked than they appear from the outside ;)
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And (potentially) go to Hawaii! But in all seriousness, ants are smarter than they look. They operate as a collective. Just in the same way that assembly needs to operate collectively to get the best output. They're more closely linked than they appear from the outside ;)
Someone else who has read Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter?
Nice way of hiring but is it really worth it to give the public a trip to Maui (kinda expensive these days) Does it really reveal that much talent to make it worth the money? Just curious
It's less about the money. It's about giving people a chance to do something fun / show off their skills and get rewarded for it. Plus, Hawaii is awesome.
Wait what this is the best reason to write a bunch of assembly AND learn about ants?
And (potentially) go to Hawaii! But in all seriousness, ants are smarter than they look. They operate as a collective. Just in the same way that assembly needs to operate collectively to get the best output. They're more closely linked than they appear from the outside ;)
I'd argue the opposite, ants are dumber than they look. You look at a random ant stack in the forest and it looks like they're smart, but that's only when they're "controlled" by the collective, individual ants themselves are pretty dumb in the end, but it's hard to see as typically we always see them around/in their stacks in nature.
I only see "MOMENT" and "All systems nominal"
what is this? assembly for ants?
Wait what this is the best reason to write a bunch of assembly AND learn about ants?
And (potentially) go to Hawaii! But in all seriousness, ants are smarter than they look. They operate as a collective. Just in the same way that assembly needs to operate collectively to get the best output. They're more closely linked than they appear from the outside ;)
Many moons ago I had a big pot of rhubarb in my back yard¹ and was initially irritated by the appearance of ants and aphids, until I took a moment to watch them and realise that the ants were bringing in the aphids and tending to them. The buggers were farming. The ants can't digest the leaves of the rhubarb, but the aphids can and excrete a sugary by-product that the ants “milk” from them. It is a fascinating bit of nature to read into. They even defend the aphids from predators and so forth, so it isn't a bad life for them either.
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[1] Not a euphemism for a lovely garden in that case, it was literally about a square yard of concrete behind the mid-terrace I was renting.