Saturday, October 20, 2012

The pointlessness of looking closer

From Wikipedia:


1 comment:

  1. Actually, that is not quite how it works in the real world. Even the Mandelbrot set only exhibits that specific kind of scale irrelevance when you zoom on the Feigenbaum point. That kind of case is very special indeed.

    The stock market is also quite different. If a chart has not time scale, there is no way to tell if you are looking at seconds, decades, or any magnitude in between. But you do not get self-identical pattern replication. You get a kind of pattern similarity that can be characterized as Elliott Waves.

    Tis.

    JzB

    ReplyDelete

The spam filter's been acting up again lately. I'm aware, and checking it often.
Oh, what fun they must have with this at Blogger!