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title: "Cosma Shalizi"
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stime: 2026-07-08 @ 2:00AM
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Cosma Shalizi is a researcher with a focus on building predictive models from data generated by stochastic processes, then applying those models to questions with relation to neural information processing, self-organization in cellular automata, etc.

He is a prof. at [], and his academic page can be found [here](). He also has a page on his personal site detailing his [research](https://bactra.org/research/), [teaching materials](https://bactra.org/teaching/), as well as other more informal works like his [blog](https://bactra.org/weblog/), and [notebooks](https://bactra.org/notebooks/).

cshalizi@bactra.org

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