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Santa Fe Institute
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Sep 2
Catch up on SFI’s recent Community Lecture “The Indefinite Sublime: Tom McCarthy on Moby-Dick.” In this lecture, McCarthy reflected on the richness and complexity of Melville’s novel, and on why Moby-Dick still invites new ways of reading and thinking. Watch on SFI’s YouTube
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Santa Fe Institute
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Aug 31
The Santa Fe Institute is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work with SFI Professor David Wolpert on the thermodynamic cost of distributed computation, from digital circuits and neural networks to human brains. We are seeking a scholar with expertise in physics, computer science,
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Santa Fe Institute
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Aug 28
A random walk is a simple model of motion: each step goes in a randomly chosen direction. It's a useful approach to studying random motion, from molecules in a gas to stock-market fluctuations, and it usually assumes the walker is moving through surroundings that stay fixed.
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Santa Fe Institute
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Aug 26
While "optimism" isn't quite a taboo word in science, it is not a sentiment most scientists would use to describe their outlook. So much of the process of science is defined by failure, and successes are caricatured as intrepid scientists raging against a status quo machine. In
Santa Fe Institute
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Aug 25
Animals forage, immune cells patrol the body for pathogens, and algorithms trawl for optimal solutions to thorny problems. In natural and artificial systems alike, the act of searching is ubiquitous, says SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar. It's also