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comparative more ergodic, superlative most ergodic
(mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state. quotations examples
“The real world is not ergodic,” he says. “If I jump out of the window, that's it–it's not, like, a mistake I will learn from.”
2020, Brian Christian, quoting Jan Leike, “Conclusion”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company
(statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole. examples
(literature, information science) Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse. quotations examples
Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.
2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics