I find time accuracy to be ridiculously interesting, and I have had to talk myself out of buying those a used atomic clock to play with [1].
I find time accuracy to be ridiculously interesting, and I have had to talk myself out of buying those a used atomic clock to play with [1]. I think precision time is very cool, and a small part of me wants to create the most overly engineered wall-clock using a Raspberry Pi or something to have sub-microsecond level accuracy. Sadly, they're generally just a bit too expensive for me to justify it as a toy. I don't work in trading (though not for lack of trying on my end), so most of the stuff I work on has been a lot more about "logical clocks", which are cool in their own right, but I have always wondered how much more efficient we could be if we had nanosecond-level precision to guarantee that locks are almost always uncontested. [1] I'm not talking about those clocks that radio to Colorado or Greenwich, I mean the relatively small ones that you can buy that run locally.
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
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I find time accuracy to be ridiculously interesting, and I have had to talk myself out of buying those a used atomic clock to play with [1].
I find time accuracy to be ridiculously interesting, and I have had to talk myself out of buying those a used atomic clock to play with [1]. I think precision time is very cool, and a small part of me wants to create the most overly engineered wall-clock using a Raspberry Pi or something to have sub-microsecond level accuracy. Sadly, they're generally just a bit too expensive for me to justify it as a toy. I don't work in trading (though not for lack of trying on my end), so most of the stuff I work on has been a lot more about "logical clocks", which are cool in their own right, but I have always wondered how much more efficient we could be if we had nanosecond-level precision to guarantee that locks are almost always uncontested. [1] I'm not talking about those clocks that radio to Colorado or Greenwich, I mean the relatively small ones that you can buy that run locally.
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