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Tracking guppies that die in transport through streams #1

Open paulszefer opened 7 years ago

paulszefer commented 7 years ago

Ecosystem's adjustForCrowding method keeps track of the number of guppies that die due to overcrowding; however, this also includes the indirect deaths of guppies dying in transport after having been removed from their original pool due to overcrowding.

This could be ambiguous. Should the guppy deaths in transport be handled in another way?

chris-thompson commented 7 years ago

Hi Paul. Yes. I think this is a great observation and yes, there should be some way for us to see and know that Guppies died while in swimming downstream. Have fun!

paulszefer commented 7 years ago

Hi Chris. Thank-you for your response. Since we plan to move into random algorithms of modifying the ecosystem (randomly selected pools/guppies instead of each pool in sequence), we won't need to keep track of how many guppies die directly and indirectly to overcrowding across the ecosystem. Instead, we should be able to track how many are moved out of the pool due to overcrowding and how many die in transport separately. I'll wait until then to see if this needs a specific solution.

chris-thompson commented 7 years ago

I am looking forward to seeing your design evolve this summer. As we develop the UI we will see what sort of information we want to generate.