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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