@sereeena @pseudonym by the by, I had to try and define the word “probabilistic” for the first time yesterday — someone had, understandably, thought it was a joke word — and luckily I didn’t have to define “probability”.

But without that, I thought maybe #deterministic and #probabilistic are antonyms, opposites. Are they?

@sereeena @pseudonym same but if I’m honest, it’s my love for the deterministic era of computer software, in the 8-bit and 16-bit era when multitasking and machine “state” weren’t enforced by monolithic, undocumented registries and UUIDs

Ah that’s probably why I hated MS-DOS 5 adding serial numbers to floppy disks

#UUID #registry #windowsregistry #deterministic