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Update section about naming of Surge and Jounce

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> Curious about the name _Surge_? Back in the mid 90's, Apple, IBM, and Motorola teamed up to create [AltiVec](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec) (a.k.a the Velocity Engine), which provided a SIMD instruction set for the PowerPC architecture. When Apple made the switch to Intel CPUs, AltiVec was ported to the x86 architecture and rechristened [Accelerate](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Accelerate/Reference/AccelerateFWRef/_index.html). The derivative of Accelerate (and second derivative of Velocity) is known as either [jerk, jolt, surge, or lurch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_%28physics%29), hence the name of this library.
> Curious about the name _Surge_? (And _Jounce_?)
> Back in the mid 90's, Apple, IBM, and Motorola teamed up to create
> [AltiVec](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec) (a.k.a the Velocity Engine),
> which provided a SIMD instruction set for the PowerPC architecture.
> When Apple made the switch to Intel CPUs,
> AltiVec was ported to the x86 architecture and rechristened
> [Accelerate](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Accelerate).
> The derivative of Accelerate (and second derivative of Velocity)
> is known as either [jerk, jolt, _surge_, or lurch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_%28physics%29);
> if you take the derivative of surge,
> you get the [_jounce_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce) ---
> hence the name of this library and its parent organization.
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