I love the Sim City games (ever since I played the original in school in the early 90s!) I recently grabbed Cities: Skylines on Switch when it was on sale for less than $10 and I haven't dived in yet, but I'm psyched to eventually.
But this time, instead of just jumping in and building whatever (as I often do, recently with both the Sim City mobile game and the Sim City on DS), I'm doing some research on city design, to try and build something in a meaningful way. I want to see what designs I really like most, etc. From what I hear about Skylines, it's super realistic, and I should be able to build a cool, futuristic city that's fully green, sustainable, etc.
Anybody else played Skylines or is a big fan of any of the other Sim City games?
I'm debating with myself whether to write it in Python, and so pretend it's best to use a language physicists know, or Ada, and thus a language that doesn't suck and which everyone can read. Then also I can recommend translation to Python as an exercise for the reader who actually cares. (I, after all, came up with such stuff by translating from a mere sketchy description of a program that I think was in Scilab.)
in this work, we explored the importance of the multiple re-acceleration by shocks in the intracluster medium, as a general mechanism to explain why many clusters of galaxies light up with radio emission in spite of the fact that the shocks
they contain are weak.
This version does NOT ‘swap channels’, as have my earlier versions, and therefore is unobjectionable in that regard.
(Channel-swapping is mathematically equivalent, ‘in the limit as n->infinity’. Nonetheless it did not give strictly correct statistics for the simulation. It gave merely a less accurate approximation.)
I do not expect this simulation to change many minds. The Bohr cult is a cult. When it comes to quantum mechanics, supposed scientists are not scientists at all, but authoritarian cultists.
However, the truly interested may want to take a look at the program. It’s my best yet, for sure.
@sebastianlague latest video made me want to try his spatial grid algorithm. I've been wanting to try gpu-based spatial partitioning for quite a while and Sebastian's explanations are really nice to follow and wrap one's head around the concept.
But first, particles!
How do you compute the forces in a system of connected beams? I have no idea, so I tried the stupidest options and wrote a blog post about it. It has an interactive playground where you can test the algorithm yourself :)
Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher is a Switch game on sale on the eStore for half-off! It is a Spin-off / collaboration of the mainline franchise Monster Rancher and Ultraman franchised Kaiju instead of traditional "Monster Rancher" breeds....
Pretty even-handed assessment of the success and failure of the EU-funded Human Brain Project, which is ending. Probably the most impressive thing is that, given its troubled inception, it produced some meaningful, if rather ad hoc, brain science. #HBP#brain#simulation#neuroscience
An old friend of mine is the owner of a Dutch company called Cruden, creating high-end, hydraulics-based automotive driving simulators. He invited me for a test drive some years ago, and I didn't hesitate. 😃
Life is struggling... It's a fine line between overgrowing and never really getting ahead...
The dots are clans spawning. In the beginning they have zero speed, a small range of temperatures they survive and an even smaller range they thrive in. When thriving they can grow, evolve, or split up. When surviving, they can move towards better Temperature.(if they already evolved speed).
So rather hard coded Evolution Parameters... What else could I add? (Not too calculation intensive)
Re-added/ported more agent behavior building blocks today, incl. path following and path attraction (both for open/closed geometries). In total there're now 7 freely combinable behaviors, each weighted and so usable as soft/hard constraint.
Here's an example of path following (here a Hilbert curve) and separation only...
Rapid KL is informing people that Rapid Bus will be organizing Rapid Bus Open Day 2023 at Kompleks Rapid Bus Cheras Selatan on 23 and 24 September from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Various interesting activities await the visitors of the event:
Nothing new, but maybe a little unusual: Using boids as alternative to Lloyd relaxation and/or Poisson-disk sampling. The boids here are using only two behaviors: local separation, plus a randomized attractor to create global disturbances. Cell density could also be varied by spatially adjusting the separation distance between boids. Overall convergence/relaxation can be much faster than shown here...
"'LifeSaveHer is a company developed by MIT and Harvard undergraduate students, who are also EMTs and CPR instructors, to create female manikin covers that address gender disparities in CPR training.
Research from the National Institute of Health shows that women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR."
New! preprint coauthored with Charles Hulme: "When alternative analyses of the same data come to different conclusions: A tutorial using DeclareDesign with a worked real-world example".
We use DeclareDesign to compare 2 analyses of a RCT of Graphogame intervention that came to different conclusions https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e #intervention#analysis#simulation#literacy
Kaiju-Sized Pet breeding/Sim Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher on sale for 50% off (biggest discount since release) through 12/4
Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher is a Switch game on sale on the eStore for half-off! It is a Spin-off / collaboration of the mainline franchise Monster Rancher and Ultraman franchised Kaiju instead of traditional "Monster Rancher" breeds....