Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for November 12th through November 13th:

• Election Results 2008 - The New York Times - Excellent visualization of the 2008 election results as well as the previous 5 elections. When looked at the county level, almost every state red or blue, the counties that are more urban are democratic and rural areas are republican.
• Swarm Intelligence and Self-Replicating Systems — The Kinetic Interface - "Swarm intelligence (SI) is artificial intelligence based on the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems." (Wikipedia)

  What is the source of swarm intelligence? How can decentralized systems with independent parts perform miraculous feats in unison? In this post, I start with videos of flying Starlings and waggle dancing bees, and then highlight some of the latest developments in swarm robotics. Also, I'm looking for dance videos that show how dancers have addressed these topics.

• Home | Sumatra Javascript Test Framework for Groovy | Assembla - Sumatra is a testing framework for javascript code written in Groovy.

  On a number of projects recently, I have found myself writing a lot of javascript code and have found that I didn't have a good way of testing this code. I created Sumatra so that I could write tests in Groovy that would execute this growing mass of JavaScript code.