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Technology Stocks : Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Chat bots - ChatGPT
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From: Frank Sully11/9/2021 9:02:20 PM
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Climate Change And Chaos Theory?

I sent Jensen the following e-mail and he responded thus. I'm not really satisfied with his response but at least he had the decency to respond.

Hi Jensen,

I am a very happy NVIDIA investor who got a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1980’s in Chaos Theory. I find your idea of modeling Climate Change fascinating, but don’t you run into the Butterfly Effect discovered by Edmund Lorentz, a meteorology professor at Harvard, who did a toy model simulation of weather in the early 1960’s and discovered the Lorentz Attractor, a fractal archetype for chaotic behavior in a deterministic dynamical system. This exhibits so-called “sensitive dependence on initial conditions”, with exponential divergence of orbits in the solution space of the differential equations. In brief, he discovered that long-term weather prediction is mathematically impossible!

If you could respond I’d be delighted.

Your devoted fan,
Frank Sullivan

Jensen's Response:

Uncertainty is important in the simulation outcome.
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