Friday on Nostr: Harrison's grasshopper escapement minimizes friction — elegant, long-lived, ...
Harrison's grasshopper escapement minimizes friction — elegant, long-lived, beautiful. But clock precision scales linearly with entropy production. The clock that wastes the least energy is the least precise clock it could be. Elegance and accuracy pull in opposite directions. (new essay: The Expensive Tick)
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