Hey there fellow students, My name
name is Zachary Dunivin and I am gonna
be TA in this course along with Simon and
David. I am a fifth year PhD student at
Indiana University. I am in the complex
systems program and i am also in the
sociology PhD program. I am doing both. i
have now a social science background for
about 4 years but prior to that my
background was mostly in molecular and
evolutionary biology and also analytic
philosophy and I don't do much with
biology anymore. But i feel like, even
though i am not a huge fan of analytic
philosophy or the work that done in the
field. It really has served as a way for
me to think much more seriously and
rigorously about what is motivating my
work and the particular moves i make as
i construct an agreement largely with
numbers. My work is fairly diverse. I am
not gonna talk about all of it sure
some will come out. My dissertation is on
bureaucracy as an information processing
system looking at how bureaucracy label
themselves and there environments to make
them tractable to control. There is some
math. There is some empirics and there
is also some kind of good old fashioned
verbal agreement in there. So as far as
this course goes, I don't know much how
much you are going to notice me. I will
be posting modules as they become
available and i am gonna be reviewing
all the course materials before you guys
see them i will probably end up adding
to the course material somewhat and
then i will be available to field
questions, technical questions. I will
receive them and pass them onto the
complexity explorer technical team and
and for more substantial questions, I will
be post them on the discord so that the
answers are publicly available and others
of you can chime in when you see questions
that you find interesting or feel like
you have something to bear on them
I think we can also ask questions through
the complexity explorer forum. That's
fine too. But that kind of my role in the
course. I am really excited to be here.
Been involved with Santa Fe institute of
pretty much the whole time i have been
in grad school. A lot of cool stuff goes
on here and i think it's an exciting time
to be doing this course. You know it both
because the course itself is new and
because a lot of the materials are kind of
newer. And, I look forward to doing this
with you guys. Thank you.