But I do understand what you’re saying - and for anyone not concerned with the mathematics just about any complex system a user does not control is, in that limited context, indistinguishable a black box and is effectively non-deterministic. But outside of that context no - just because a seed value is (I suppose theoretically) random does not make the system itself non-deterministic. It’s a semantic argument though, and most people really don’t need to care about the distinction.
(Well literally no, but I’m only pointing that out for the cheap math pun (and to share a good summary article on this subject))
But I do understand what you’re saying - and for anyone not concerned with the mathematics just about any complex system a user does not control is, in that limited context, indistinguishable a black box and is effectively non-deterministic. But outside of that context no - just because a seed value is (I suppose theoretically) random does not make the system itself non-deterministic. It’s a semantic argument though, and most people really don’t need to care about the distinction.
I think we’re on the same page with this, but agree to disagree on functional determinism being a semantic argument in the context of this thread.
Fair enough! Have a nice day!