This is a research project investigating the impact of inheritance on problem solving ability. Inheritance is implemented as one person working on a solution to a problem for a while, and then passing the solution on to a second person to continue. Teamwork based around inheritance is referred to as diachronic teamwork, which can be contrasted with synchronic teamwork, where teamwork is divided among team members working in parallel. The goal of this project is to understand the conditions under which diachronic teamwork is a more effective use of labor hours than synchronic teamwork. Also considered are isolated individuals working for the same total number of labor hours. Isolated individuals have the most time for individual learning, but may get stuck where the diversity of teams may not.
Here's how I set up to work on this project.
$ git clone https://github.com/pedmiston/diachronic-teams.git
$ cd diachronic-teams
$ git submodule init && git submodule update
$ python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/totems
$ source ~/.venvs/totems/bin/activate
(totems) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
(totems) $ inv -l