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jtagen
on Sept 11, 2011
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How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years
I wish there were more technical details - the engineering behind building something designed to last 10k years would make for a great article.
gwern
on Sept 11, 2011
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The real cleverness seems to be in Hillis's mechanical digital logic for time-keeping; I looked up the patents once to look at the diagrams, and realized I had no idea what I was looking at. (Still looked pretty cool, though.)
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