1/ As someone who enjoys, thinks constantly about, and almost romanticizes tool building, I really liked this article by @mZargham and @gablerjonathan. It talks about something that's been bothering me for a while and I agree with: there's a tooling gap.https://medium.com/block-science/cadcad-filling-a-critical-gap-in-open-source-data-science-fcd0d3faa8ed …
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4/ Why is this useful? Because iterative and interactive programming and analysis is incomparably more productive. Executing and interrogating simulations in a
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5/ I think MASON / Repast / Swarm are great in that they're performant. But, inspection (even with JVM bridges to REPLs) feels too low resolution.
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@netlogo is pretty fantastic in that it's has "full" IDE and you can ship people your simulation really easily. But, again, interrogation is coarse. (Plus, I don't want to write in LOGO.)Show this thread -
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@badnetworker and@JackieKazil did a great job with MESA. ABM's in Jupyter /#IPython — that feel's good! But, writing ABMs in python for richer models demands Cython (or sometimes happily@anacondainc's numba), which slows *me* down. https://mesa.readthedocs.io/en/master/Show this thread -
8/ I haven't tried cadCAD yet. And, there are lots of recent entrants trying to rethink computational modeling, obviously. But, I'm most excited by the idea of hoping off the path of the currently dominant ABM frameworks and following one that considers what can be done now.
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