Rylan Schaeffer

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“I didn't want a Death who agonised over her role, or who took a grim delight in her job, or who didn't care. I wanted a Death I'd like to meet, in the end. Someone who would care.“

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Statistical physics: undirected graphs to represent distribution over large system of interacting particles
Genetics: directed graphs to model inheritance
Statistics: interactions in multi-dimensional contingency tables