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

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

[–] njaard@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week 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 18 points 1 week 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 week ago
[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 week ago
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

It’s going well

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

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

more like the triple point of two rabbits

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago (1 children)
[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago

Oh I never knew that!

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

that's meaningless because every bifurcation map looks the same

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

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