{"id":443,"date":"2026-02-01T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/?p=443"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:25:29","slug":"exponential-as-used-by-non-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/exponential-as-used-by-non-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Exponential,&#8221; as used by non-scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxbgadvance.com\/p\/digital-insights-energy-data-centers\">an example<\/a> of a non-scientific writer using the term &#8220;exponential growth&#8221; to mean &#8220;big, strong growth.&#8221; There is nothing &#8220;exponential&#8221; about the increase in data centers, unless <i>the rate of increase of data centers is directly proportional to how many data centers there already are<\/i>. Not likely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an example of a non-scientific writer using the term &#8220;exponential growth&#8221; to mean &#8220;big, strong growth.&#8221; There is nothing &#8220;exponential&#8221; about the increase in data centers, unless the rate of increase of data centers is directly proportional to how many data centers there already are. Not likely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}