David MacQuigg wrote:
Here is another suggestion: How about a program to predict stock prices? We'll need maybe 1000 traders, each responding to a dozen random external events. That will gives us a simple random walk around the mean. Now let's make it more interesting. Give each trader a "herding tendency" making it follow more closely what its nearest neighbors are doing. Turn up the "herding coefficient" and watch how it makes the market more erratic, ultimately turning random walk into boom and bust.
I love this idea... It would take either a certain skill level (raw beginners might not be able to handle it) or some scaffolding to work, but it's a great idea. If someone has the time to work up a sample version, I'd love to see it. (Unfortunately, at the moment I don't have that time myself.)
Cheers, Vern -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
