SciShow: 4 Algorithms We Borrowed from Nature

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Content of the Lesson: We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up all over nature, too, in places like your immune system and schools of fish, and computer scientists have learned a lot from studying them. Here are four ways our technology has improved thanks to algorithms we swiped from nature! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/algorithm https://www.pnas.org/content/108/46/18726 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-00267-0_9 Fly hashing: https://www.slaney.org/malcolm/yahoo/Slaney2008-LSHTutorial.pdf https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6364/793 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2017/11/09/358.6364.793.DC1 https://medium.com/@jaiyamsharma/efficient-nearest-neighbors-inspired-by-the-fruit-fly-brain-6ef8fed416ee Object recognition: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361841517301135 (open copy at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05747.pdf) https://dev.to/clarifai/what-convolutional-neural-networks-look-at-when-they-see-nudity http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~vplab/courses/CV_DIP/PDF/Feature_Detectors_and_Descriptors.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~10701/slides/Perceptron_Reading_Material.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718241/ https://knowingneurons.com/2014/10/29/hubel-and-wiesel-the-neural-basis-of-visual-perception/ http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neocognitron https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2015.00036/full https://www.rctn.org/bruno/public/papers/Fukushima1980.pdf Anomaly detection: https://blogs.oracle.com/datascience/introduction-to-anomaly-detection ftp://ftp.dca.fee.unicamp.br/pub/docs/vonzuben/lnunes/ieee_tec01.pdf https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/283699.283742 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11047-006-9026-4.pdf https://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/publications/virus.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221421261630240X https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-59901-9.pdf Swarm algorithms and TERMES: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124051638000016 https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/13068244/Petersen_gsas.harvard.inactive_0084L_11836.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2e4GIZ3W1o https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/754 Simulated annealing: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/learn/guide-to-understanding-pdb-data/methods-for-determining-structure https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.pc.42.100191.001213 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00517# https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780124167438/nature-inspired-optimization-algorithms https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/annealing https://science.sciencemag.org/sites/all/libraries/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=/content/sci/220/4598/671.full.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/simulated-annealing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9370-8 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/itor.12001 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubel%2Bwiesel.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/29122039942 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_showing_the_position_of_the_thymus_gland_CRUK_362.svg


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