Cultural Evolution and the Impending Singularity « Replicated Typo

Cultural Evolution and the Impending Singularity « Replicated Typo: "When the charge is large enough, the metal balls begin to move towards the edges.  They do so in linked lines – several lines will compete to be the first to get to the edge and complete the circuit.  When they do, they self-organise into a particular structure.  The exact structure is impossible to predict, but the shape always converges to a tree network with particular properties:

There are no closed loops
22% of the nodes will be leaf nodes
22% of the nodes will have 3 neighbours
the rest of the nodes will have 2 neighbours
It is self-repairing"