As you are doubtless aware, this blog is free to read, free to comment. Of the several thousand people who typically read a post, very few subscribe, which is fine with me. If "everything is free" strikes you as too expensive you may need to adjust your expectations :D I deeply appreciate the support from the very few who do subscribe, of course.
Sorry. My tongue-in-cheek remark did not hit the mark.
While you may not be the expert to write an academic paper on the subject, I would trust you over anyone else to write an engaging treatise on resonance in classical and modern watchmaking. As far as I know, we do not have independent results to confirm if resonance is actually occurring in the watches currently sold by F.P. Journe, Armin Strom and Vianney Halter. If resonance is present, what percentage of the wear time is it occurring? There are murmurs from amateur enthusiasts, that different approaches do not delivery equal results, but nothing I've seen that really settles the matter.
Answering this question would be of interest to passionate enthusiasts who can afford a resonance watch, as well as those who wish they could. Proof that the resonance is occurring is what matters to me, as we live in an era where a simple mass-produced movement (or my phone) will have a higher power density and probably deliver better rate-keeping.
I couldn't see the study finding a home in a commercial magazine or website, due to the possibility that the study's conclusions have a negative commercial impact. Would the research have willing commercial and/or government partners? I would be doubtful, as the grant writer would have to stretch the truth.
This leaves curious enthusiasts: enthusiasts to loan you their watches and enthusiasts to collaborate with you on the experiments. I would struggle to come up with enough money to make a dent (today), but perhaps there are enough well-off patrons within this niche of a niche, to turn it into a viable team effort.
That is very kind of you and I apologize for misinterpreting your comment – unfortunately it happens all the time; I hope to answer your questions as to the plausibility of the phenomenon of resonance in the story, which I'm going to publish before the end of the week, God willing and the creek don't rise 😂
I think the math is not as important as the quantitative analysis. I have brute-forced my way through solving problems for 25 years. If you can model the effect, then you force yourself through with raw computational power. It is the American way. Besides, you do not even really need CUDA skills anymore as CPU's have become monstrously powerful (a 16-core AMD Ryzen will do you just fine, and that is a consumer CPU sku).
My advice to you is to start everything in Excel, and then take it to wherever you want, unless you have code from someone else in Fortran or something. I have worked on a related, but different problem (using many small cheap high-variance thingies instead of one large expensive low-variance thingy, and it really does yield fantastic results. You can easily model it, and it works in real life.
Perhaps you should start soliciting advice from practitioners who are using this in their jobs. They are often the best because they are actually building/doing stuff. Academics write badly and are a pain to deal with, if you can get them to return an email. Some random engineer or analyst might enjoy helping you understand and brag about how he used this to solve something cool. The American nerd is friendly as well as intelligent, however extreme his flaws may be. I say this as on of the nerd tribe.
"Academics write badly and are a pain to deal with, if you can get them to return an email." 😂 it's funny because it's true. On help with quantitative analysis, are you volunteering sir 😀 because I'd love to give it a shot
Yes. I am in. I am good with numeric methods. I am no so good at advanced math (anything beyond linear algebra and calculus is beyond me). I am good with data and modeling. I would enjoy helping. It sounds fun. Any recommended links to start reading?
I have a feeling that this could be the start of something rather special...
I sure hope so because it's been a huge time suck so far 😅
But *does it work*??? Now I will be the one laying in bed staring at the ceiling...
Well, that depends on what you mean by "does" and "work" 😅
Sounds like perhaps YOU are going to write a book?
I have had a book proposal in development hell for almost a year but yeah ... I'd like to.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you sir will do for as long as I am spared 😉
Touché, sir. Touché.
Really, really looking forward to ths one... Can't wait.
Hmm...how many Substack subscriptions is a fat annual stipend made up of?
As you are doubtless aware, this blog is free to read, free to comment. Of the several thousand people who typically read a post, very few subscribe, which is fine with me. If "everything is free" strikes you as too expensive you may need to adjust your expectations :D I deeply appreciate the support from the very few who do subscribe, of course.
Sorry. My tongue-in-cheek remark did not hit the mark.
While you may not be the expert to write an academic paper on the subject, I would trust you over anyone else to write an engaging treatise on resonance in classical and modern watchmaking. As far as I know, we do not have independent results to confirm if resonance is actually occurring in the watches currently sold by F.P. Journe, Armin Strom and Vianney Halter. If resonance is present, what percentage of the wear time is it occurring? There are murmurs from amateur enthusiasts, that different approaches do not delivery equal results, but nothing I've seen that really settles the matter.
Answering this question would be of interest to passionate enthusiasts who can afford a resonance watch, as well as those who wish they could. Proof that the resonance is occurring is what matters to me, as we live in an era where a simple mass-produced movement (or my phone) will have a higher power density and probably deliver better rate-keeping.
I couldn't see the study finding a home in a commercial magazine or website, due to the possibility that the study's conclusions have a negative commercial impact. Would the research have willing commercial and/or government partners? I would be doubtful, as the grant writer would have to stretch the truth.
This leaves curious enthusiasts: enthusiasts to loan you their watches and enthusiasts to collaborate with you on the experiments. I would struggle to come up with enough money to make a dent (today), but perhaps there are enough well-off patrons within this niche of a niche, to turn it into a viable team effort.
That is very kind of you and I apologize for misinterpreting your comment – unfortunately it happens all the time; I hope to answer your questions as to the plausibility of the phenomenon of resonance in the story, which I'm going to publish before the end of the week, God willing and the creek don't rise 😂
I think the math is not as important as the quantitative analysis. I have brute-forced my way through solving problems for 25 years. If you can model the effect, then you force yourself through with raw computational power. It is the American way. Besides, you do not even really need CUDA skills anymore as CPU's have become monstrously powerful (a 16-core AMD Ryzen will do you just fine, and that is a consumer CPU sku).
My advice to you is to start everything in Excel, and then take it to wherever you want, unless you have code from someone else in Fortran or something. I have worked on a related, but different problem (using many small cheap high-variance thingies instead of one large expensive low-variance thingy, and it really does yield fantastic results. You can easily model it, and it works in real life.
Perhaps you should start soliciting advice from practitioners who are using this in their jobs. They are often the best because they are actually building/doing stuff. Academics write badly and are a pain to deal with, if you can get them to return an email. Some random engineer or analyst might enjoy helping you understand and brag about how he used this to solve something cool. The American nerd is friendly as well as intelligent, however extreme his flaws may be. I say this as on of the nerd tribe.
"Academics write badly and are a pain to deal with, if you can get them to return an email." 😂 it's funny because it's true. On help with quantitative analysis, are you volunteering sir 😀 because I'd love to give it a shot
Yes. I am in. I am good with numeric methods. I am no so good at advanced math (anything beyond linear algebra and calculus is beyond me). I am good with data and modeling. I would enjoy helping. It sounds fun. Any recommended links to start reading?