gillette power-law curve
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
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:49 am
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.
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:55 am
Josh, you know I reject all maths involving hyperbolic functions. As well as the works of Sergei Eisenstein!
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:32 pm
I did a little exponential regression on these data and got different predictions:
2100 will bring 178 blades and 2200 will bring 7881.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I guess I can’t include images. Here is the graph:
http://www.maykids.org/drupal/files/razor_interpolation2.png
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:03 pm
That’s so awesome. I guess stubble will be pretty bad by 2200.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Is that, um, like, statistics or something?
March 24th, 2006 at 11:43 am
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.
April 25th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
September 30th, 2008 at 2:09 pm