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Rabbit Population (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 weeks 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] 18 points 3 weeks 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] 44 points 3 weeks ago

It’s not a graph of population over time.

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

It’s going well

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

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

more like the triple point of two rabbits

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Life is just fractals tbh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

They easily map to each other via linear transformation.

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

Oh I never knew that!

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

that's meaningless because every bifurcation map looks the same

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

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

Nah. 4.669

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

Yes.