Re:Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensiv...
by coldcode on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:39PM
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Seems similar to the various Simcity designs. I wish it was available in a form we could interact with. When designing simulations like this of real life, among other problems the initial conditions are hard to generate since real cities grow in historical contexts, not at some recent starting point. I assume the initial conditions probably result in a fairly unpredictable and chaotic end state.
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Re:Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensiv...
by vdnkh on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:35PM
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The scifi book Blindsight has a similar concept - simulated environments for disease testing - but instead of creating a new simulation researchers use MMOs. Thinking about real-life examples, I wonder if a game like WoW with history and aspects of civilization would be accurate enough to research disease spreading.
Re:Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensiv...
by kolinko on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:05PM
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This article: https://www.google.pl/amp/s/mrepidemiology.com/2011/09/07/us...
And an amazing podcast, "This week in virology": http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-7-viruses-in-video-games/
Re:Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensiv...
by jmcmahon443 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:11PM
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Here is how you can interact with it: https://github.com/frnsys/hosny
Re:Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensiv...
by amyjess on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:56PM
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Ooh, I have a new toy now. My main personal obsession right now is a Census/ACS data project (I'd be tempted to post it here, but I'm worried about the HN effect stomping my Linode flat), so something like this is right up my alley.
And it's even written in Python, just like my project!
I can't wait to get home tonight and play with this...
Re:Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensiv...
by jmcmahon443 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:39PM
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:) see you on there