By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Via Simon Ricketts (Twitter) I'm going to cut the preamble here and get straight to the chase: what the hell is going on in this GIF? How did it all happen? Did a troupe of butterflies flap their wings really hard on the other side of the planet, and through the Super Chaos Theory cause this ev
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