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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, "for" or "against").
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person. Based on the idea that a person's opinion can be likened to the up or down spin of a quark. Coined by Piotr Nyczka and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron in 2013.
