Beautiful post by Tara on network connectivity and outbreak of exponential spread in disease transmission.
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The Exponential Function. I think this is the first time we've done it here. It won't be the last. You could write a book about it, and someone probably has. Here's the usual picture:
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ScienceBlogs' Razib is back from the Singularity Summit, with summaries of a good portion of the proceedings and some interesting links.
The survey of abused words in quantum computing shows the word "exponential" as having an, um, exponential, lead over its competitors.