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double the input, get triple the chaos — or none at all.
means a system where cause and effect refuse to scale proportionally, so small nudges can trigger huge shifts or vanish entirely.
from from linear algebra's straight lines and superposition, once math left the graph paper for weather, brains, and markets, everything bent.
butterfly effectnamed after nonlinear weather equations by lorenz
neural networksuseless without nonlinear activation functions
linear is raremost of nature is nonlinear by default
chaos theoryborn from studying nonlinear dynamical systems