Netlogo volunteers

[Rajesh Kasturirangan]

Been playing with Netlogo. Here is a collective homework assignment: 

Can we convert all the models that Scott Page is lecturing on into working Netlogo demos? We can then build a GUI on top of it and voila, we will have a "models for muses" implementation and the whole world can do model thinking on our platform. I am going to volunteer a few people into this task:

1. Sudhir - you suggested netlogo. 
2. Ganu - you installed netlogo of your own free will.
3. Nishant - you work for me. 
4. Amay - I know your dad. 
5. Dharav, Naresh since I know you must have programming skills. 

and anyone else who might want to volunteer. It will be fun, we will build models and help the programming illiterate but insight rich scientists and social scientists of India get a taste of model thinking and that way we will have the best of both worlds. 

Rajesh

[MG Subramanian]

> 4. Amay - I know your dad. 

Thank God! He doesn't know MY dad! Else I may have been "volunteered" to do a couple of million lines of code as well..

Jokes apart I am no good writing code-realised models..Once I go thru NetLogo models I may find the right things I can contribute to in this exercise on a'musing' models.(It better be! No one should say model thinking isn't funny!)   I may be able to do some " architecture" on plain old block diagram and flow charts thru Dia an informal charting tool with the flavour of MS Visio, but under OGL.

I down loaded Dia from here, ..ahem.. of my own volition. . Some inconvenient words have common roots with other nice words. No wonder I get volunteered often

-ganu

[nishant seth]

while the 'I work for you'' is reason enough, it's hardly motivating! but after taking a quick look at netlogo, i got the needed motivation :) 

it looks really useful. i'll try and learn it through some of scott's models then

[Sudhir P]

wiw! such a huge flurry of activity. Have to catch up with everything now!

I'd still say its still on the ambitious side to write a netlogo muse edition. But i'm willing to attempt the task. The first step of which would be to learn netlogo itself!

[naresh shah]

I'd have to do that as well. On a side note, the nlp class is starting on the 12th of March. So I'm not too sure that I'll be having the time for programming models with 6 courses + Programming a Robotic Car + NLP + Model Thinking.

Still going through netlogo documentation.

-Naresh

[Rajesh Kasturirangan]

You might be able to consolidate some of the models if you are lucky. Also consider that this is the only one of the four where you are building something on top of what Coursera/Udacity are giving you.....

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Rajesh Kasturirangan
www.regularities.org

www.rajeshkasturirangan.com

[MG Subramanian]

Programme the robot to do the NLP..you do model thinking and netlogo..-))  Neat ,,huh..?

-ganu

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:35 PM, naresh shah <naresh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Sudhir P]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:35 PM, naresh shah <naresh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd have to do that as well. On a side note, the nlp class is starting on the 12th of March. So I'm not too sure that I'll be having the time for programming models with 6 courses + Programming a Robotic Car + NLP + Model Thinking.

I'm on a similar courses list! NLP, game theory, CV, Models, PGM, robotCar.(and anatomy to give a slightly different flavour). But, the thrill of building a model ground up, has reserved its own unique spot in my mind. 

Have been playing around a bit with example models on netlogo myself too. Still wondering how a poet-edition of it can be made in a reasonable timeframe.

[MG Subramanian]

where r all these courses... in coursera?

[naveenkumar s]

ya, may be in more general, www.class-central.com

>>>>> while the *'I work for you''* is reason enough, it's hardly

[naresh shah]

Udacity for Programming a robotic car.

NLP in Coursera.Starts March 12th.
Model Thinking on Coursera.
PGM on Coursera.

CV on Coursera.

GT(Game theory) on Coursera.

Anatomy on Coursea.