Santa Fe Institute

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States) and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.

Small environmental changes trigger slow evolutionary processes that eventually precipitate collapse

Wisdom of the crowd corrected for bias gets accurate

In 1907, a statistician named Francis Galton recorded the entries from a weight-judging competition as people guessed the weight of an ox. Galton analyzed hundreds of estimates and found that while individual guesses varied wildly, the median of the entries was surprisingly accurate and within one percent of the ox’s real weight. When Galton published

Wisdom of the crowd corrected for bias gets accurate

Why innovation thrives in cities

Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. In 2010, in the journal Nature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Institute showed that when the population of a city doubles, economic productivity goes up by an average of 130 percent. Not only does total productivity

Why innovation thrives in cities

How men and women organize their (online) social networks differently

Men and women socialize differently, and it turns out these gender differences hold true in online games that involve social interaction. A new quantitative study of data assembled from the online multiplayer game Pardus shows how females and males manage their social networks drastically differently. “It is fascinating that we maybe see traces of

How men and women organize their (online) social networks differently

More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People

Many workers, in short, are losing the race against the machine A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The automation of more and more work once done

More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People

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Court to weigh Baldwin codefendant's plea on weapons charge
Hutchins died shortly after she was shot Oct. 21, 2021, during rehearsals at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe. Baldwin was pointing a pistol ... founder and CEO of the Canadian Health Policy ...
State Investment Council pumps $97.5M into two ‘frontier-tech’ funds
The State Investment Council is pumping another $97.5 million into two venture funds that will invest in “transformative,” next-generation technology from New Mexico’s national labs and research ...
Mexico: Fire at migrant detention centre kills dozens
More than three dozen asylum seekers died in a fire on Monday night at the National Migration Institute, an immigration detention centre in the border city of Ciudad Juárez near the Santa Fe ...
Artists Contemplate Sovereignty in Santa Fe
The Santa Fe Art Institute’s 2024 International Thematic Residency focuses on what sovereignty means for artists from across the world.
Local team raises more than $100K in Padres Pedal the Cause
A 48-member cyclist team called Cancer Curators raised $111,000 on March 18 for the 10th Padres Pedal the Cause, an annual bike ride that supports collaborative cancer research in San Diego County.

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Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival returns this weekend in new location
The city of Gainesville and RTS, in an effort to make the festival more accessible, will be offering free services this weekend with extended routes.
Local team raises more than $100K in Padres Pedal the Cause
A 48-member cyclist team called Cancer Curators raised $111,000 on March 18 for the 10th Padres Pedal the Cause, an annual bike ride that supports collaborative cancer research in San Diego County.
Chevrolet Cadillac of Santa Fe
Please accept our apology for not exceeding your expectation. Our goal at Chevrolet Cadillac of Santa Fe is to make all our guests completely satisfied. I was able to get the AWD vehicle that I ...
Free Things To Do in Santa Fe
Since the city's founding in 1610, the Santa Fe Plaza has been its cultural hub. Today, surrounded by numerous ancient buildings like the San Miguel Chapel and the Palace of the Governors ...
Hyundai Santa Fe spy photos show Ioniq-inspired interior
The next-generation Hyundai Santa Fe has been caught again by a spy photographer. There's not much new to report about the exterior, but this time, the photographer managed to capture the interior ...