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Rabbit Population (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago

It’s not a graph of population over time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_diagram

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days ago (1 children)

Life is just fractals tbh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days 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] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 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 4 days ago

Oh I never knew that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

that's meaningless because every bifurcation map looks the same

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago

Veritasium - This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

more like the triple point of two rabbits

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

It’s going well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Nah. 4.669