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Statistical physicist interested in self-organization, complexity measures, computational mechanics (a method for building causal models from data) and cellular automata.

His [notebooks | http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks.html] are worth checking out.

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I first heard of Mr. Shalizi when he reviewd the CoV for the [Hyper-Weirdness|http://web.archive.org/web/20011130195957/http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/formerly-hyper-weird/] web site back in [95 | http://www.lucifer.com/virus/virus.95/0184.html].

''An offshoot of the Extropians. It's actually not so much a religion ---
even a "a memetically engineered atheistic religion" --- as a bunch of
militant rationalists who've O.D.'d on Richard Dawkins and general systems
theory (the latter a boondoggle if there ever was one). "The name Virus was
chosen to be deliberately antagonistic, to put people on their guard and let
them know this idea was designed to infect them. Call it truth in
advertising." {CRS, himself a militant rationalist fond of Dawkins}''

-- DavidLucifer

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See other InterestingPeople.
