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    "![Just a banner](https://github.com/ianmcloughlin/images/raw/master/banner-flowers.jpg)\n",
    "\n",
    "# Stochasticism"
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    "### Determinism\n",
    "\n",
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    "def f(x):\n",
    "    return x*x\n",
    "\n",
    "for i in range(1000):\n",
    "    if f(2) != 4:\n",
    "        print(\"Error\")"
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   "source": [
    "### Are computers deterministic?\n",
    "\n",
    "<hr style=\"border: 2px solid #2196f3;\">\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "[A mathematical theory of communication](http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf)\n",
    "\n",
    "Claude Elwood Shannon;  The Bell System Technical Journal; Volume 27, Issue 3, July 1948\n",
    "\n",
    "[http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf](http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf)\n",
    "\n",
    "---\n",
    "\n",
    "[Error detecting and error correcting codes](https://signallake.com/innovation/hamming.pdf)\n",
    "\n",
    "Richard W. Hamming; The Bell System Technical Journal; Volume 29, Issue 2, April 1950\n",
    "\n",
    "[https://signallake.com/innovation/hamming.pdf](https://signallake.com/innovation/hamming.pdf)"
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    "### Is reality deterministic?\n",
    "\n",
    "<hr style=\"border: 2px solid #2196f3;\">\n",
    "\n",
    "[What Does the New Double-Slit Experiment Actually Show?](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-does-the-new-double-slit-experiment-actually-show/)\n",
    "\n",
    "Scientific American; Matthew Francis; June 7 2011\n",
    "\n",
    "[https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-does-the-new-double-slit-experiment-actually-show/](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-does-the-new-double-slit-experiment-actually-show/)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "---\n",
    "\n",
    "[Simulating Physics with Computers](https://github.com/ianmcloughlin/papers/raw/master/feynman-simulating-physics-with-computers.pdf)\n",
    "\n",
    "International Journal of Theoretical Physics; Volume 21; June 1982\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "[https://github.com/ianmcloughlin/papers/raw/master/feynman-simulating-physics-with-computers.pdf](https://github.com/ianmcloughlin/papers/raw/master/feynman-simulating-physics-with-computers.pdf)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "---\n"
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