This Post Took 10,000 Heartbeats - by DavidXYu - XY-Wise
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Musings on Notions of Time
0:00 -8:35 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Time is a precise thing. We are able to measure down to picoseconds (that’s 10^-12 seconds), and this precision gives us industrial orchestrations that are nothing short of magic. The computer I'm writing on can run at 3 Gigahertz, that's 3 billion cycles per second. The plane I'm flying on has jet engine turbines spinning at 20,000 rounds per minute. All these processes are controlled to such a degree that if my flight across a continent is delayed by even an hour, I would be upset, along with hundreds of…
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