Complexity, Chaos, and why predicting pandemics is a lot like predicting the weather
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Today's conversation: Complexity and chaos. For those not up on the term, “chaos” is the technical term for what happens when things affect other things in complex ways. As a result, the whole system can become inherently impossible to predict. Even the slightest change in how things start out lead to huge differences in what happens later. Weather is one example of a complex system. The spread of disease is another.
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