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Quantifying Self-Organization in Cyclic Cellular Automata
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, Kristina Lisa Shalizi
Cyclic cellular automata (CCA) are models of excitable media. Started from random initial conditions, they produce several different kinds of spatial structure, depending on their…
The Backwards Arrow of Time of the Coherently Bayesian Statistical Mechanic
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Many physicists think that the maximum entropy formalism is a straightforward application of Bayesian statistical ideas to statistical mechanics. Some even say that statistical mec…
Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
In this chapter, I review the main methods and techniques of complex systems science. As a first step, I distinguish among the broad patterns which recur across complex systems, th…
Symbolic Dynamics for Discrete Adaptive Games
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, David J. Albers
We use symbolic dynamics to study discrete adaptive games, such as the minority game and the El Farol Bar problem. We show that no such game can have deterministic chaos. We put up…
Pattern Discovery and Computational Mechanics
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, James P. Crutchfield
Computational mechanics is a method for discovering, describing and quantifying patterns, using tools from statistical physics. It constructs optimal, minimal models of stochastic…
A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, William A. Tozier
In the spirit of the many recent simple models of evolution inspired by statistical physics, we put forward a simple model of the evolution of such models. Like its objects of stud…