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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, "what" is right. Wtf is this?

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's making reference to logistic curves and how rabbit populations, which can grow exponentially, will oscillate between a low and high population size.

In short, it explains why some years there are a shit ton of rabbits, and other years, very few.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But there is no oscillation visible here, just aliasing of the lines that make it appear as if there are suddenly none. Note the "none" instead of few. Also it would still not make sense since 1 can not split into 2? And why should the generational succession get faster and faster? 9 woman get 1 child every month kind of math or what?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

It’s going well

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

more like the triple point of two rabbits

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

And the best part in this is that it all aligns with the Mandelbrot set, for some reason

Edit: Nevermind, it's the bifurcation diagram of the Mandelbrot set that does this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

funny how you can come to the same conclusions if you're - a) doing science b) doing Buddhism c) doing drugs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It doesn't, the one that aligns is the bifurcation diagram of the function used to make the set (f(z)=z^2+c), which is different from the rabbit one (the logistic map, f(x)=rx(1-x)).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They easily map to each other via linear transformation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh I never knew that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

that's meaningless because every bifurcation map looks the same

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As so often with anything related to maths, pi pops out at the most unexpected places.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

If you look hard enough, everything has a circle in it somewhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago