concepts: logistic function

2015

August

2015 Aug 4
Moore's Law

I've always been skeptical of many of the claims that people who are pro-Singularity have made regarding Moore's Law.

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2016

January

2016 Jan 28
Growth of Capitalist Economies

I honestly don't understand why everyone uses exponential curves for their models when sigmoidal curves seem to better model reality for lots of phenomena: population growth, language change, diffusion of innovation… and perhaps even the growth of capitalist economies.

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May

2016 May 12
Stationary Phase

An example of the fact that exponential growth cannot continue forever simply because of the laws of thermodynamics.

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