Then this PhD Cornell Microsoft person should not be throwing around the word 'random' in a highly publicized periodical when it is clearly not the term that suits the situation. Alternative terms would include seemingly random, deterministically chaotic etc... but certainly not random.
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It's an avalanche effect. The outcome may not be random as you point out, but it certainly looks so.
Then this PhD Cornell Microsoft person should not be throwing around the word 'random' in a highly publicized periodical when it is clearly not the term that suits the situation. Alternative terms would include seemingly random, deterministically chaotic etc... but certainly not random.