It’s exponential along its entire range, all the way back to negative infinity. It also is not an asymptotic function.
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Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days agoWhat are talking about it asymptoped at 5units. It cant be described as exponential until it is exponential otherwise its better described as linear.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sure. Everything is exponential id you model it that way
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
No, exponential functions are that way. A feature of exponential functions is that it increases very slowly until the slope hits 1. We’re still on the slow part, we didn’t really have any way of knowing exactly the extreme increase will be.
NaNin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Do you think that our current iteration of A.I. can have these kinds if gains? Like, what if the extreme increase happens beyond our lifetimes? or beyond the lifetime of our planet?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
An exponential function is a specific mathematical concept, like a circle or an even number. I’m not sure what you mean by “asymptote” here - an exponential function of the form
y = x^k
asymptotically approaches zero asx
goes to negative infinity, but that doesn’t sound like what you’re referring to.Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Its horizontal asymtote. From x=1 to around x=-4, as demonstrated in the graph, the asymtote is easily estimate.
mxeff@feddit.org 6 days ago
Exponential growth is always exponential, not just if if suddenly starts to drastically increase in the arbitrarily choosen view scale.
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A simple way, to check wether data is exponential, is to visualize it in loc-scale, and if it shows there a linear behavior, it has a exponential relation.
Exponential growth means, that the values change by a constant ratio, contrary to linear growth where the data changes by a constant rate.
qaz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There’s no point in arguing with OP, he’s doubling down at an exponential rate.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s what I said. Exponential growth is always exponential.
mxeff@feddit.org 6 days ago
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