Sharkskin

Sharkskin is a rough surface patterned with grooves and ridges that make it hard for micro organisms to attach themselves. It is being used as a model to create similar surfaces in hospitals and elsewhere to cut down on microbial infections. But there are s where you can set out where the stations are, and it won't come up with the most efficient way to do it. What happens is that the slime mould sort of gets stuck in what we call a local minimum. Think that's where we humans are sometimes much better at looking at the overall picture and seeing, oh no, you've got stuck. And that's the amazing thing with machine learning and a i because there's a