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Re:Ant mill by saint_angels on Saturday January 22, 2022 @02:07PM (#30039778)
following unrewarding pheromone trail for too long could trigger a timeout and walk in the random direction. Then search for a new trail. Even better if an ant could just return to the last visited anthill on timeout
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Re:Ant mill by marcosdumay on Saturday January 22, 2022 @02:43PM (#30040128)
I'm sure you will get enough problems with the definition of "unrewarding" and time control to make the change a net loss. How stable is the travel speed of ants anyway? Because trails do change form all the time.
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