Matthew Yglesias waxes rhapsodic about being on the "back half of the chessboard" in terms of the exponential growth of computer technologies. The point of this, in terms of technological progress, is ...
People sometimes use the word “exponential” in conversation to mean “very fast,” says the University of Delaware’s Miao-Jung Yvonne Ou, but for mathematicians who are working in the field, the process ...
Just when you caught your breath, a new era is emerging—one that transcends the familiar bounds of exponential growth to venture into the breathless territories of super-exponential acceleration. This ...