How to pronounce “ab initio” in English

the whole of mathematics and in particular the question whether you could have a sort of process that would enable youto tell ab initio whether any particular mathematical theorem is provable or not.And the reason I put this picture of this slightly balding guy on the left hand side of this slide is because that's Max Newman.

And then you get, you know, a silicate, kind of, a rocky mantle and then crust, all of those details.Those are kind of beyond being able to do full 3D simulations from ab initio, from scratch.We're not there yet.

And that's because in particular, complex systems-- we can't sort of sit down ahead of time and write down all of the ways that our systems aregoing to fail. We can't sit down ahead of time and kind of just list ab initio, these are the things that can go wrong,because we don't know.