Finding the hidden structure in big data
At the Santa Fe Institute, we're asking big questions
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This is the Santa Fe Institute, a sort of Justice League of renegade geeks, where teams of scientists from disparate fields study the Big Questions.
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Architectures of Complexity
Can we generalize approaches from across the sciences to describe the behaviors of seemingly unrelated complex systems?
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Complex Economies
How do complex economies and markets arise from the self-organized, adaptive, and often irrational behaviors of many interacting decision makers?
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Computational Cultural Evolution
What drives how we think, speak, and act, and how can computational methods reveal patterns in these evolving cultural processes?
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Computational Worlds
How do biological and physical systems process information to improve outcomes (a.k.a compute) in evolutionary, developmental, or learning time scales?
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