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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] njaard@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month 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.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month 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?

[–] Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 month ago
[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 month ago
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

It’s going well

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

[–] turnipjs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

more like the triple point of two rabbits

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

funny how you can come to the same conclusions if you're - a) doing science b) doing Buddhism c) doing drugs

[–] bsolos@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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)).

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Oh I never knew that!

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

that's meaningless because every bifurcation map looks the same

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Hupf 3 points 1 month ago