non-linear

The slope is very likely non-linear, but nobody knows what it looks like.

The problem is that your monitor works in non-linear colourspace - sRGB, while the image is generated in linear RGB but not converted to sRGB afterwards.

Are you saying that you understand the true future effect of one change to a very complex non-linear system?

Also Firefox used the sRGB non-linear colorspace for Phong shading producing incorrect results, but it was a different annoyance.

Yes, which is a reason why all non-linear clustering techniques can be a challenge when investigation follows outlier detection.

Conversely there are measurement based models for quantum computation that rely purely on the non-linear process.

The actual dynamics is a collection of non-linear processes in a complex system.

> which have so far failed to explain the appearance of non-linear processes in quantum mechanics satisfactorily.

This is merely saying that you believe in Everett style interpretations, which have so far failed to explain the appearance of non-linear processes in quantum mechanics satisfactorily.

But that's another story.) The real trick with wheels from experience as a wheel builder is that all the really interesting behavior is in the non-linear region.

Actually one of the big worries is that some of the large carbon sinks like the arctic tundra will start warming up enough to result in a non-linear runaway release of GHG.

I'm assuming you need a non-linear kernel.

The effectiveness comes from their non-linear nature and their ability to "learn" (store knowledge in the weights, that is derived from the training process).

Which is more "meaningful" to you, attempting to understand the mapping of incomprehensible numbers of physical neurons, or attempting to understand the mapping of incomprehensible numbers of non-linear equations?

Quantum computation is not simply "doing the computation in each possible world", it also is some trick to extract (collapse) the information into one particular world, and I don't think we currently understand fully what that means, but it's certainly non-linear.

Millions of human minds connected for the first time in an elaborate feedback loop -- we get these non-adaptive non-linear emergent effects, these harmonics, like "flame wars", hatred, and all kinds of weird new forms of harassment.

Non-linear reading isn't a degradation in reading skill; it is a valuable skill in it own right.