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i had a whole room dedicated to my pet ants and i spent 10+ years building their colony, it took countless hours and dedication. The amount of blood sweat and tears that go into something like that is more than i will ever amount to in my life. In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants stand for multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants. The pheromone-based communication of biological ants is often the predominant paradigm used. Combinations of artificial ants and local search algorithms have become a method of choice for numerous optimization tasks involving some sort of graph, e.g., vehicle routing and internet routing. Anyways this MF ♥♥♥♥♥♥ my ants.