1.0Probably Overthinking Ithttps://www.allendowney.com/blogAllenDowneyhttps://www.allendowney.com/blog/author/allendowney_6dbrc4/The World Population Singularity - Probably Overthinking Itrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="APUbgiTUVY"><a href="https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/10/22/the-world-population-singularity/">The World Population Singularity</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/10/22/the-world-population-singularity/embed/#?secret=APUbgiTUVY" width="600" height="338" title="“The World Population Singularity” — Probably Overthinking It" data-secret="APUbgiTUVY" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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One of the exercises in Modeling and Simulation in Python invites readers to download estimates of world population from 10,000 BCE to the present, and to see if they are well modeled by any simple mathematical function. Here’s what the estimates look like (aggregated on Wikipedia from several researchers and organizations): After some trial and error, I found a simple model that fits the data well: a / (b-x), where a is 300,000 and b is 2100. Here’s what the... Read More Read Morehttps://www.allendowney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-10.png