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Butterfly Effect, Chaos Theory, Black Swans
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Butterfly Effect, Chaos Theory, Black Swans

What seems random may not be

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Mar 11, 2021
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Slender Threads / Global Citizens / Public History
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Butterfly Effect, Chaos Theory, Black Swans
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Edward Norton Lorenz (1917-2008), an American mathematician and meteorologist, established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability. He discovered the butterfly effect when he observed that his weather model, when loaded with initial condition data and rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner, would fail to reproduce the same res…

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