Sam BOTB to World NewsEnglish • 1 year agoFor the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature recordwww.abc.net.aumessage-square291arrow-up12.07Karrow-down135file-textcross-posted to: worldnews
arrow-up12.03Karrow-down1external-linkFor the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature recordwww.abc.net.auSam BOTB to World NewsEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square291file-textcross-posted to: worldnews
The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.
minus-square@DABDAlinkEnglish17•1 year agoThere’s also a good example of exponential change described using a doubling drop of water in The Power of Compounding
minus-square@KellyThomaslinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoMeh. It’s doubling each step. If course it’s at 1/(2^n) of the final volume at n steps before the final step. At half of its final volume one step before the end a quarter of its final volume two steps before the end an eighth of its final volume three steps before the end a sixteenth of it’s final volume four steps before the end
minus-square@DABDAlinkEnglish8•1 year agoMathematically it’s obvious and straightforward but the point is that it’s not intuitive from a typical person’s subjective perspective. It’s easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable.
There’s also a good example of exponential change described using a doubling drop of water in The Power of Compounding
Meh.
It’s doubling each step.
If course it’s at
1/(2^n)of the final volume atnsteps before the final step.Mathematically it’s obvious and straightforward but the point is that it’s not intuitive from a typical person’s subjective perspective. It’s easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable.