Connecting the Dots

For an answer, consider a hive of bees. Bees are remarkably efficient at finding food. According to Thomas Seeley, author of The Wisdom of the Hive, a typical bee colony can search six or more kilometers from the hive, and if there is a flower patch within two kilometers of the hive, the bees have a better-than-half chance of finding it. How do the

You can’t plan away uncertainty; you need to experiment it away.

Homo sapiens. Whether we are playing rock, paper, scissors; improvising on a jazz theme; or exploring the possible solutions to a math problem, randomness is an essential ingredient of a solution.