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The drag coefficient remains almost constant at a value around 1 until R ≃ 3 × 10 5 , at which point it drops precipitously for a while.
And following this, there were for a while many efforts to formulate precise models for human languages, and to relate these to properties of the brain.
Randomness is in general a convenient way to allow local decisions to be made while maintaining overall averages.
(For Xor , there are 2 possible σ , while for Or there are 3.)
Pictures (a) and (c) below show simulations of the shift map on a typical computer, while pictures (b) and (d) show corresponding simulations on a pocket calculator.
For while building Mathematica has taken a considerable amount of my time, I would without it as a tool never have been able to do the vast majority of what is now in this book.
Yet while this was found in the 1990s to have a correspondence with spin networks (see below), it has remained impossible to see just how it might yield ordinary general relativity as a limit.
In the context of the 2D Ising model this phenomenon is associated with the fact that those configurations of a large array of spins that have high total energy are overwhelmingly likely to have near zero overall magnetization, while those that have low total energy are overwhelmingly likely to have nonzero overall magnetization.
Ironically enough, while cellular automata are good for many things, they turn out to be rather unsuitable for modelling either self-gravitating gases or neural networks.
But the crucial point is that while this may in principle be possible, it may essentially never happen in practice—just like classical reversible systems essentially never show behavior that goes against the Second Law of thermodynamics.
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