Follow

Red Queen Theory—“it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”—rules everything around me.

At the personal level, it’s been a very busy day at work, and, now that it’s finally over, I can start on the workday tasks with which I had intended to begin it with.

Zooming out, I once again had to remind someone that entropy is real, software decays, and you will burn calories just to maintain what you already have; if you want more, you either need to give something up, or lace up your running shoes.

Sign in to participate in the conversation
myna.social

Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.