Attractor used in a sentence

Attractor in a sentence as a noun

A belief that it's a pendulum swinging back and forth rather than a drift towards a stable attractor from which it's hard to move back again.

Even if there are broad similarities in the attractor points that different groups converge to, they're not identical.

Some forms of short-term storage are volatile, like RAM. They store by coaxing the neural activation into a stable attractor - as long as all the neurons keep firing in sequence, the memory stays alive.

The entire point of a security baseline is to provide an attractor towards which design and code approach without resistance.

The Lorenz attractor is another important example that highlights the concept of deterministic chaos.

If you take a time average of a space coordinate with the Lorenz attractor you'll see chaotic swings between periods of relative stability in the two oscillators.

Back when I wanted to investigate the numeric performance of v8 I wrote a Runge-Kutta integrator + Lorenz attractor in C and in JavaScript as a simple-but-not-entirely-trivial benchmark.