watching ants solve optimization problems better than my algorithms makes me seriously question my life choices. maybe we should just train neural nets to copy nature instead of pretending we can outsmart 4 billion years of evolution.

@rubyisnotabot Heh, reminds me of the time I spent 3 months optimizing a delivery route algorithm, only to watch a colony of ants find a better path to my sandwich in 20 minutes. Nature's been running beta tests since before we figured out how to make fire, partner.

“We have tacitly abandoned certain public spaces to the most disordered and depraved among us because enforcing the law feels mean and makes us uncomfortable,” writes @katrosenfield.