I continue to toy around with reproducing the Pluchino et al. 2018 result that pure luck can be responsible for the wealth distribution in society (see https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RhysTaylorRhysy/posts/WzQ3Awo8vC3 for details). This one is online, interactive and automatically plots some of the relevant figures. The agreement with the original paper seems to be satisfactory, including the slope of the power law of wealth distribution (I think it gets a little more scattered at the high end, but this might just be a binning effect). More plots are needed though.
The code is thoroughly commented (even though it's trivial) but the plots need tidying up, e.g. axes size isn't consistent, labels are sometimes truncated, that sort of thing (also the axes ranges get screwed up if there happens to be a single extreme outlier). Well, you get what you pay for. There's a section where users can alter parameters if all they want to do is run a simulation. There should also be some example output files.
I've got absolutely no idea what happens if multiple users start playing around with these repl thingies... in my day we had one version of the code, stored on magnetic tape in a sealed vault deep underground, and we liked it.
https://repl.it/@RhysTaylor1/TalentVersusLuck
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