Christopher Langton

Person · Open Library

Born

1521

Died

1578

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6

Total plays

48

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 25,573x

2. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 23,655x

3. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

   · 2009 · cited 22,576x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,887x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

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Quotes

• “Biological systems are dynamical, not easily predicted, and are creative in many ways... In the old equilibrium worldview, ideas about change were dominated by the action-reaction formula. It was a clockwork world, ultimately predictable in boring ways.”
• “A system in which a few things interacting produce tremendously divergent behavior; deterministic chaos; it looks random but its not.”
• “You can see these two species coexisting in a long period of stability; then on of the them drops out and all hell breaks loose. Tremendous instability. That's the Soviet Union.”
• “Artificial Life (``AL or ``Alife) is the name given to a new discipline that studies "natural" life by attempting to recreate biological phenomena from scratch within computers and other "artificial" media. Alife complements the traditional analytic approach of traditional biology with a synthetic approach in which, rather than studying biological phenomena by taking apart living organisms to see how they work, one attempts to put together systems that behave like living organisms.”
• “[AL] views life as a property of the organization of matter, rather than a property of the matter which is so organized. Whereas biology has largely concerned itself with the material basis of life, Artificial Life is concerned with the formal basis of life.”
• “It starts at the bottom, viewing an organism as a large population of simple machines, and works upwards synthetically from there — constructing large aggregates of simple, rule-governed objects which interact with one another nonlinearly in the support of life-like, global dynamics. The ‘key' concept in AL is emergent behavior.”

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