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Emulate RandomActivation with `DataFrame.rolling`

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
pandas, python
Domain
data

Research direction

No repository file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reading the issue context and the linked pandas.DataFrame.rolling documentation, then identify where agent scheduling and environment updates are implemented. Done would require a defined implementation scope and tests showing the intended RandomActivation behavior.

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Description

feature

If you shuffle the Agents DataFrame, and then apply a rolling operation, you kind-of can emulate RandomActivation scheduling. The environment wouldn't be updated, but the other Agents will be.

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.rolling.html

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
1

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