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jdiffyesterday at 8:03 PM1 replyview on HN

That's reproducible, I wouldn't call it deterministic. Small, semantically meaningless changes in the input can still result in wildly different output.


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asQuirreLyesterday at 8:25 PM

That's the definition of a chaotic system (small change in initial conditions results in large, seemingly -- but not actually -- random changes in output), but it's still deterministic (same input results in same output).