tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post664997084470471913..comments2023-09-28T08:13:11.489-07:00Comments on Only In It For The Gold: The Dread ExponentialMichael Tobishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-50816169254168564842010-01-27T10:46:04.184-08:002010-01-27T10:46:04.184-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888223087774725299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-44940576592362847172010-01-27T10:43:21.586-08:002010-01-27T10:43:21.586-08:00Wikipedia does a decent job in English:
http://en....Wikipedia does a decent job in English:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth<br />They also throw in an explanation of logarithmic growth, which explains why I can hear my keyboard now and still go to a Metallica concert.<br /><br />Dot Earth has an exponential hamster on it today:<br /><br />http://www.impossiblehamster.org/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888223087774725299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-43106101085850361072010-01-27T00:43:30.782-08:002010-01-27T00:43:30.782-08:00To someone who already has notions of differentiat...To someone who already has notions of differentiation and integration, it is easy to explain the exponential function as the solution of the equation dX/dt = a X. Otherwise it is very difficult.<br /><br />I am afraid many economists and business people usually make quantitative calculation of short time duration only, where linear and exponential extrapolations make no essential difference. Assessment of costs of climate change requires a sort of thinking they do not do.<br /><br />By the way, Ms. Junko Edahiro, an environmental journalist and the Japanese translator of "Limits to Growth - The 30-Year Update", says that we need double decoupling to achieve sustainability, namely, decoupling CO2 emission from GDP, and decoupling GDP from happiness. This statement does not explicitly refers to exponential growth. But I think that that is the reasoning behind it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437041108856598560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-68486543645719789202010-01-26T20:41:22.520-08:002010-01-26T20:41:22.520-08:00wow, dude, this is not only exponentially quantum ...wow, dude, this is not only exponentially quantum .. it's NONLINEAR! Up to approximately 10-90% of people won't get that.<br /><br />Oh, and "resonance."<br /><br />(I've just determined that science runs from Galileo through Tesla to me.)Marion Delgadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493068399042656060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-91233022323811301612010-01-26T16:09:30.330-08:002010-01-26T16:09:30.330-08:00Solved if all costs were internalized?
Thought ex...Solved if all costs were internalized?<br /><br />Thought experiment only as determining "all" seems impossible...David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-32701309210624969242010-01-26T09:56:43.808-08:002010-01-26T09:56:43.808-08:00All of the best teachers seem to have speeches tha...All of the best teachers seem to have speeches that run – “people do not understand exponential growth.” I got that speech over and over. However, I do not believe it. I believe that “anybody that did not get very high grades in 2 semesters of college level calculus does not understand exponential growth.”Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.com