Michael Sherman

Awesome -- welcome, Kyle. @chrisdembia may have other ideas for where you can contribute.

Here is a related Differentiator issue: #8 ("optimizer limits should restrict differentiator perturbations") that could be a good project. It is more complicated because it requires some API changes and...

I would prefer to look at this in a pull request. @jozuenoon, please submit a PR. We can discuss it there and it is easy for you to make subsequent...

Nice -- and thanks for the example. I'll review the PR as soon as I have a chance!

> Does considering how one would serialize a state trajectory affect how we want to serialize individual states? That's a good question. My first thought is "I hope not!" I...

> No...I think I was just being annoying. I don't think so. It is a good question IMO, even if the answer turns out to be "a trajectory is just...

I looked at boost serialization (old school) and the very nice modernized [cereal](http://uscilab.github.io/cereal) package. Cereal looks great for an application where you have control over the whole file format, but...

Currently I'm thinking it may be impossible to deserialize into a completely-empty State, due to the need to have cache entries properly set up. It might have to be something...

Most DiscreteStateVariables use basic types like bools or ints. Those will serialize with no trouble. It will be easier to write the (de)serialization methods for new classes than you might...

My first complete serialized State object! This one is from a low-level test and barely has anything in it. (Not likely to be the final format.) ``` xml 0 1...