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No, it is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon - Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

(if you know the state of a system + all the rules then you can know the next state)

and determinism actually applies way beyond just algorithms.




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