It might take a lot of processing before my brain can integrate this information well enough to formulate the next question!
What strikes me at first is that if this pattern is universal... then... well, it means that the THINGS that we think about - the exceptions, the problems that people encounter in their work and in their personal lives, come from fundamental aspects of numbers.
e.g. the power engineer who has to deal with spikes and outages; the pcb designer who has to deal with interference and cross talk, the plumber who has to diagnose a shaky pipe in an old building; the network engineer who can't fully explain latency; the spouse who can't synch with their partners mood; the athlete who surprises every now and then; the baseball team that should be winning but isn't...
And more specific to the topic, I wonder how world and country population forecasts are made. Do the models take account of Verhulst's dynamics?
What strikes me at first is that if this pattern is universal... then... well, it means that the THINGS that we think about - the exceptions, the problems that people encounter in their work and in their personal lives, come from fundamental aspects of numbers.
e.g. the power engineer who has to deal with spikes and outages; the pcb designer who has to deal with interference and cross talk, the plumber who has to diagnose a shaky pipe in an old building; the network engineer who can't fully explain latency; the spouse who can't synch with their partners mood; the athlete who surprises every now and then; the baseball team that should be winning but isn't...
And more specific to the topic, I wonder how world and country population forecasts are made. Do the models take account of Verhulst's dynamics?
What do weather forecasters know about this?