...90% of the time when people say "nonlinear" in everyday use, they seem to mean specifically either "exponential" or "non-sequential"...
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...this is actually pretty rational, since those are nonlinearities that cannot even be usefully bounded between linear approximations
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surely when people say "nonlinear" they're using it as a metaphor for "does not behave predictability when conditions vary"
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yes but they want to add some faux-precision to that thought. Otherwise other metaphors/words are more evocative
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can only speak of mine... all of the above
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How huge an infinity is it?
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Powerset of the cardinality of the continuum. Probably no less than aleph-2?
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similarly from "Complexity and the Economy" by Brian Arthurpic.twitter.com/eCaQWfd95f
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Actually nonlinear means exactly the same thing as curved.
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the actual "linearity" was lost when translating from the mathematical
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