Local rules need to be passed to agents somehow

[drphilmarshall]

Agents need at least two methods: where to start and what to do each time step. These will be different in each model, so we need a mechanism for telling the agents what to do. One way we could do this is by inheritance, maybe?

Then, the swarm will need to know about these new agents. Can we do this at instantiation time, with swarm then making as many copies of the agent as it needs?

Need to try this and see how it looks. Writing the new agent class needs to be super simple...

[drphilmarshall]

See "rules" object idea in #4...

[mbaumer]

Hey Phil,

It does make sense to have a “rules” class—that would make it a lot easier for people to use! I have a lot to catch up on today post-hack, but would you have time tomorrow afternoon (after the morning’s BAWL) to chat about this?

I’ve also started machine learning this quarter, and would be interested in talking about a potential SpaceWarps/GalaxyZoo project, if you were still thinking of analyzing the forum data or something!

Mike

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[drphilmarshall]

Yeah, let's hang out this week! Hadn't realized BAWL was in the morning, is
that for sures?Usually it's in the afternoon. In the meantime, can you git
pull and tidy up the notebooks (incl words between code blocks), we have to
get the README at https://github.com/mbaumer/ScienceSays into shape because
this is what the hack day wiki points to... It should point to an nbviewer
link that is of an mbaumer notebook, too - I can fix that, but first it
needs to exist!

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Mike Baumer notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hey Phil,

It does make sense to have a “rules” class—that would make it a lot easier
for people to use! I have a lot to catch up on today post-hack, but would
you have time tomorrow afternoon (after the morning’s BAWL) to chat about
this?

I’ve also started machine learning this quarter, and would be interested
in talking about a potential SpaceWarps/GalaxyZoo project, if you were
still thinking of analyzing the forum data or something!

Mike

On Oct 6, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Phil Marshall notifications@github.com
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