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to what degree does the Gartner hype cycle resemble the Gibbs phenomenon?
by 082349872349872 2y ago
to what degree does the Gartner hype cycle resemble the Gibbs phenomenon?
- marcosdumay 2y agoTo the degree that society is a complex system with feedback. But notice that the Gartner hype cycle is full of unjustifiable hidden assumptions (like the fact that the thing being hyped is useful at all) so it has no predictive power. It only happens that some times people act like that. Also, there's no guarantee that the society's response to a change will be stable.
- WJW 2y agoOne of the most "useful" insights I ever had is that 0. Any transfer function higher than 2nd order overshoots. 1. Society is super complex, has a ton of internal feedback loops and would easily be higher than 2nd order. 2. So of course it overshoots all the time. I haven't been able to actually "use" it for anything but it does describe a lot of what we see every day in society.
- RossBencina 2y ago> Any transfer function higher than 2nd order overshoots. That's false. Any LTI system higher than first order might overshoot. But it's easy to design high-order systems that don't overshoot. Consider for example a cascade of first-order sections. Related terms: Bessel filter, complex vs real poles, overdamped system.