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Intermittent means the pattern has not been found yet. It does not mean there is not one.

26 SEP 2026PROBLEM SOLVING

Nothing inside a machine is genuinely random. It fails when it is hot, when the floor flexes, when somebody heavy uses it, or forty minutes into the first class. Intermittent describes your information, not the fault.

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