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From the Ted Talk by Hannah Fry: Is life really that complex?

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So if you take these three analogies together and _______ them, you can come up with a mathematical model of what actually happened, that's capable of replicating the _______ patterns of the riots themselves. Now, once we've got this, we can almost use this as a petri dish and start having conversations about which areas of the city were more susceptible than others and what ______ tactics could be used if this were ever to happen again in the future. Even twenty years ago, modeling of this sort was completely unheard of. But I think that these analogies are an incredibly important tool in tackling ________ with our society, and perhaps, __________ _________ our society overall.

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Original Text


So if you take these three analogies together and exploit them, you can come up with a mathematical model of what actually happened, that's capable of replicating the general patterns of the riots themselves. Now, once we've got this, we can almost use this as a petri dish and start having conversations about which areas of the city were more susceptible than others and what police tactics could be used if this were ever to happen again in the future. Even twenty years ago, modeling of this sort was completely unheard of. But I think that these analogies are an incredibly important tool in tackling problems with our society, and perhaps, ultimately improving our society overall.

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