actors_for_state_on_workers.ipynb

@willirath, it looks like you .ipynb is not valid json. AFAICT, it is the concatenation of two identical json files. Look at https://gist.github.com/lesteve/7d5bae082457153573861dd45dfc7d9d for the fixed json and feel free (of course) to copy it and update your gist accordingly.

If you end up doing something interesting with actors, I'd be interested to know more about it by the way.

Thanks a lot! I didn't notice this. Probably just hit paste twice and then went somewhere else before the renderer could tell me that this wasn't valid. :)

Re using actors elsewhere: I'm quite excited about them right now. Opens cool new (for me at least...) ways of playing with concurrency. Over here, I tried separating particles from the spatial domain + data and the RNG needed to move the particles, have the spatial domain + data living on a worker, the random state on another, and the particles on the front end.

This https://github.com/benbovy/dask-pregel also looks interesting.