# Ru'id ramblings/ravings **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 8, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruid-ramblings-ravings/186532 "2010-04-08T14:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thunk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@thunk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thunk)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruid-ramblings-ravings/186532/1 "2010-04-08T14:05:30Z")
I have thought of a simple way to communicate about this to demonstrate the fascinating potential role of Mathimatica: The author has demonstration (full) that has these parts SwarmCaster ``` screen1 screenn ``` SwarmReader from an email to Stephan Wolfram the “ru’id” (which are Boid like, but not threaded) had a number of very interesting properties: 1. they can be authored from 1. any expert anywhere (with web access) 2 are simple 3 are distributed 2 the real kicker for you - is that on the SwarmReader side reports and control panels are AUTOMATIC - and of obvious limited utility the really interesting thing IS that a SWARM\_READER extension would need be STATISTICALLY BASED (and much more interesting)