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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Combinatorics. I summarized at the time, tagging it as “something I wanted to explore in more detail one day”: Rounding out the rest of A New Kind of Science take another seven years of intense work. Meanwhile, I was throwing all the methods I knew at rule 30. Dynamical systems theory. Logic minimization. Statistical analysis.