Cosma's Home Page
Mail to "cshalizi at bactra dot org dot oryx". (My address doesn't really end with the name of a genus of antelope.) Actual human mail is welcome, though I'm a criminally slow correspondent; if I don't get back to you, rest assured the fault lies with me. (This does not apply to strangers asking me for jobs, internships, post-docs, or for help getting in to grad school. In any case, I am not taking new students until 2020 at the earliest.) Attention Conservation Notice: What follows is long, self-absorbed, and boring to look at; much of it was written ten or even twenty years ago. This is the "worst home page ever," according to yankthechain.com. I'm very proud. My site is deliberately low on graphics. Not that I object to pictures on principle: here are depictions of me, my office, my work (note the matrix for hidden Markov models in the background) and my old neighborhood in Madison. Nonetheless, this page is proudly optimized for PinealWeb. This website is powered by fossil fuels an