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> There’s even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. When you know somebody didn't take calculus or didn't "get" it. Either that, or he didn't
by etatoby 8y ago
> There’s even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth.
When you know somebody didn't take calculus or didn't "get" it.
Either that, or he didn't explain what he meant.
(Not Paul Allen, just another interviewee.)
- jodrellblank 8y agoInterviewee? That's a quote from Google Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
- sterlind 8y agod/dt e^t = e^t. So while vapid and pop-sci, technically true. Of course, the exponent is constant or we'd be talking about the Ackermanity instead.
- grumdan 8y agoTechnically true, but the quote makes it sound as if this were not necessarily the case for some kinds of exponential growth, which is clearly false.
- KnightOfWords 8y agoKurzweil really is the hand-waver of all hand-wavers. Exponential progress is the exception rather than the rule, due to hard physical limits.