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Re:Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again by tomrod on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:39PM (#6000832)
The phrase you're looking is diminishing marginal returns. You hit the behavioral nail on the head with this analysis!
Re:Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again by thaumasiotes on Sunday July 07, 2013 @02:39AM (#6001279)
Well, sqrt(x) has diminishing marginal returns, but it's still unbounded. I'm pretty sure there's a hard limit to how good recommendations can get at all (think more like arctan(x)).