Sunday, April 22, 2018

The Geometry of Latency

... AKA hyperbolae.

Here's a mnemonic tabulation based on dishes and bowls:

Hopefully this makes amends for the more complicated explanation I wrote for CMG back in 2009 entitled: "Mind Your Knees and Queues: Responding to Hyperbole with Hyperbolæ", which I'm pretty sure almost nobody understood.

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1 comment:

  1. testinglass aka ViktoriiaSunday, April 22, 2018 at 1:48:00 PM PDT

    Hi Neil,

    Gotta say, this picture made zero sense to me, so I went and read your original article, which made way more sense. Thank you, it was a very interesting read even though I can't say I understood all of it (curves - yes, proportional equations - no).

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