tags: sigmoidal curve

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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October

2015 Oct 29
Apparently Approaching the Stationary Phase of Moore's Law

Without some new breakthrough in physics, it seems unlikely that the original formulation of Moore's Law will continue to hold. This is certainly not the first gloomy forecast.

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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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