And then we try and get our simulation to match the past, and hope that that will help it predict the future.

尝试让仿真程序能和这一部分实际数据相符，并且希望它能够帮我们对未来进行预测。

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So in fact, it is the case, if you look at data, and by the way, that's the way I ended up setting a lot of these parameters and playing with it, was comparing what my simulation said to historical stock data.

所以实际上，在这个例子中，如果你看到数据，顺便说一下，这就是我设置很多变量,然后编程的方式，也就是把我的仿真程序得到的结果,和历史股票数据进行比较。

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It's the various programs you run on your computer along with the various data files that you have saved on your hard drive,and so forth.

是你自身这个电脑中运行的各种程序,硬盘存有的各种数据和文件，类似种种。

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