This interpretation sounds right to me. I found it cool that the article characterizes success in terms of prediction accuracy out to N "Lyapunov times", a con

This interpretation sounds right to me. I found it cool that the article characterizes success in terms of prediction accuracy out to N "Lyapunov times", a concept that is supposed to incorporate the unpredictability of the system. So perhaps discovering these regularities proves that in this implementation, the true Lyapunov time is longer.