Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/18/2013 05:36 AM: > Thinking along the lines of Moore's law, extrapolating it backwards. I > love stories that are told across cosmological time scales: > > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/
We have to give credit where it's due! ;-) Roger already posted this. Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/16/2013 08:44 AM: > I don't know if retrodicting an exponential growth curve back to > it's origin is technically an extrapolation, but aside from that > quibble this is very cute. > > Plot Moore's Law, it hits the origin in the 1960's when there were > zero transistors on chips. > > "A similar process works with scientific publications. Between 1990 > and 1960, they doubled in number every 15 years or so. Extrapolating > this backwards gives the origin of scientific publication as 1710, > about the time of Isaac Newton." > > Now make some assumptions about the time of origin of various > genetic complexities evident in the history of life on earth, and > plot the growth curve for that. When was its origin? > > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/ > > http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381 > > -- rec -- -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. -- Milton Friedman ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
