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With the rapidly evolving machines, the resistance knew they couldn’t be a linear system. We took a pretty big gamble on a hunch that they were also deterministic - that they would always generate the same output for a given input.

We lost decades trying to get a butterfly to beat its wings at just the right angle to tip the algorithms into a chaotic storm of computation. They just watched, perplexed.

Use the comments to complete the following, “See, here I’m now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That’s that’s ____.”

A photo of a large sculpture depicting a bridge that spans a deterministic nonlinear system, crafted by Edward Lorenz.

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