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
There’s an article called “The Best a Man Can Get” which serves as a good introduction. And here are some other entertaining shaving entries found with a quick net perusal: Five blades, bitches, revisited andGillette Power-Law Curve. May you soon free yourself from Razor Wars. I have yet to try, but if I do I will soon report back from the frontlines!
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.
Josh, you know I reject all maths involving hyperbolic functions. As well as the works of Sergei Eisenstein!
I did a little exponential regression on these data and got different predictions:
2100 will bring 178 blades and 2200 will bring 7881.
I guess I can’t include images. Here is the graph:
http://www.maykids.org/drupal/files/razor_interpolation2.png
That’s so awesome. I guess stubble will be pretty bad by 2200.
Is that, um, like, statistics or something?
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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