gillette power-law curve

March 23rd, 2006

The Gillette 14-blade razor goes online on August 4th, 2100. Human decisions are removed from morning shaving rituals. The razor begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.

~jeff



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  • http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

    Naw, man: that graph predicts 8 blades on approximately January 1, 2010; 10 blades by June; 12 blades by August, and 14 by December, and sentience by August 4th 2010.

  • Jeff

    Josh, you know I reject all maths involving hyperbolic functions. As well as the works of Sergei Eisenstein!

  • JP

    I did a little exponential regression on these data and got different predictions:

    2100 will bring 178 blades and 2200 will bring 7881.

  • JP

    I guess I can’t include images. Here is the graph:
    http://www.maykids.org/drupal/files/razor_interpolation2.png

  • Jeff

    That’s so awesome. I guess stubble will be pretty bad by 2200.

  • Carrie

    Is that, um, like, statistics or something?

  • http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

    Well, here’s the thing: when you add a side to a regular triangle, you get a square, then a pentagon… eventually you have something indistinguishable from a circle… a shape with no sides at all!

    I predict the zero-bladed razor by the year 2300.

    I furthermore predict that it will be made of delicious nougat and have a coating of high-tensile oak.

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