I write a lot of spreadsheets for games I play, so adapting them into more sophisticated software is always something I chip away at. Good opportunity to learn how to implement concepts in new languages too. Right now I’m writing a Warframe simulator in Racket.

Reading the responses here, why are people so mad about types? Maybe I’m biased coming from a background of statically typed languages and mathematics. I’d rather have a good typing system that makes me think about data than just hoping I’ve thought about a problem right.

Now someone needs to study goats and pigeons!

On a serious note I love studies like this. You also see it in other interspecies relationships. Always interesting to see empathy in commensals and parabionts too (obviously doesn’t include horses and humans). In another life I’d love to study ethology.