Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h...
by wh1t3n01s3 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:57AM
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The hardcover version is only 814.57$
Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h...
by pure-awesome on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:24AM
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My goodness, would you look at that! Luckily the paperback is only 1% the price, so solid deal there!
I thought it's a data entry error, but no, it looks like that's the legitimate price range for the NEW hardcovers (the actual listed ones are even more!):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007JVUSK/ref=dp_ol...
It's either a ripoff, or some sort of collector's edition original versions. Though if it were the latter, I'd have expected it to be advertised as such.
Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h...
by ComputerGuru on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:25AM
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They’re priced by different algorithms that “outbid” each other.
Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h...
by pure-awesome on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:06AM
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Do they start them at $1'000 and let them bid down from there?
Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h...
by SQueeeeeL on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:05PM
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This isn't exactly related, but it's one of my favorite blog posts.
Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h...
by ComputerGuru on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:11AM
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One of the algorithms could be capped at $1000 for their inventory.
It is a fascinating book, and I can recommend reading it, though having been published in 1925, it is possible some of the information is out-of-date.
https://www.amazon.com/Soul-White-Ant-Complete-Unabridged/dp...
"White Ant" actually refers to termites, though the same principles apply. The book was originally published in Afrikaans. According to Wikipedia:
> [The book] was plagiarised by Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, who published La Vie des Termites (translated into English as The Life of Termites or The Life of White Ants), an entomological book,[3] in what has been called "a classic example of academic plagiarism" by University of London's professor of biology, David Bignell.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais#Theft_of_hi...
Following reference [4] led to this page which I unfortunately don't have the time to read in its entirety right now, but from a skim seems to have some interesting further information on termites:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070915005006/http://www.biolog...