Ants and Algorithms
What can ants tells us about whether something deserves to be popular? This is a question tackled in David Sumpter\u2019s book \u2013 \u2018The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too.\u2019 He tells Tim Harford about some of the algorithms that you see in nature, and those harnessed by tech companies such as YouTube.