tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29272965.post5961018753767639602..comments2019-10-18T11:41:18.556+01:00Comments on The thoughts of a 'Ranting Loon': Is reliability harmful?Luke Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497553509267110240noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29272965.post-6930281982006579442007-01-09T21:26:00.000+00:002007-01-09T21:26:00.000+00:00Hmmm... I don't seem to be able to edit my comment...Hmmm... I don't seem to be able to edit my comments. I appear to have prematurely committed to my mistakes of thought, spelng grammar and....<br /><br />Oh dear... <br />--Blogger.ApparentFeatures;Luke Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06497553509267110240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29272965.post-12471524345717913142007-01-09T21:17:00.000+00:002007-01-09T21:17:00.000+00:00You are of course correct. :-)
My corrects are a ...You are of course correct. :-)<br /><br />My corrects are a grose over simplification, intended to get the point across with minimal extra verbage.<br /><br />The actual curve, as you suggest, looks more like a 'sigmoid' function<br /><br />http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SigmoidFunction.html<br /><br />For a more detailed analysis, try 'Information Rules' byt Shapiro and Varian.<br /><br />Thanks for the correctionLuke Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06497553509267110240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29272965.post-72672245292390556592007-01-09T20:40:00.000+00:002007-01-09T20:40:00.000+00:00You characterise the network economics law as "The...You characterise the network economics law as "The value of the product to the user = n^2 for the number of users, n". But isn't that a bit simple? <br /><br />It ought to rise steeply at first then flatten out. Adding the 2nd user is good, adding the 100th is great, adding the 1,000,000,000 makes no perceptible difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com