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Re: Different Clocks

#21

Placed my cursor at the top of the hour peak on the 'Peaks' clock. Few moments later, it shifted slightly to the left. Had a bit of existential dread as I saw time slipping away. Nice clocks though.

If you would like a little more existential dread https://ttl.hex.nz/

Oh, I clicked the link. My life is almost 50% complete.

However, the expected lifetimes are obviously too low. It expects me to end up at approximately age 80, but that is an underestimation. I dont know if the lifetimes that are used are just outdated, or if they lack expected mortality improvements.

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#22

very cool. reminds me of an old iPhone clock app called "hms" that displayed a rectangular prism, and each dimension (x, y, z) corresponded with the hour, minute and second, so the shape would grow over time before resetting one or more dimensions. it got delisted years ago for some reason but i used to love it as a "nightstand mode" clock.

https://hms.gysin-vanetti.com/

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you would like a little more existential dread https://ttl.hex.nz/

Oh, I clicked the link. My life is almost 50% complete. However, the expected lifetimes are obviously too low. It expects me to end up at approximately age 80, but that is an underestimation. I dont know if the lifetimes that are used are just outdated, or if they lack expected mortality improvements.

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I clicked the link. My life is almost 50% complete. However, the expected lifetimes are obviously too low. It expects me to end up at approximately age 80, but that is an underestimation. I dont know if the lifetimes that are used are just outdated, or if they lack expected mortality improvements.

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.

77 is the average life expectancy for all people. If one enters the website at 40 their life expectancy is much higher, since they are already 40

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#25

You're missing the Towers of Hanoi, my personal favorite clock. https://saej.in/post/hanoi/

The Hanoi clock represents time by mapping disk positions to binary bits - each legal tower state uniquely encodes one moment, with the smallest disk moving every minute creating the beautiful recursive pattern where larger disks move exponentially less frequently.

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post #22

very cool. reminds me of an old iPhone clock app called "hms" that displayed a rectangular prism, and each dimension (x, y, z) corresponded with the hour, minute and second, so the shape would grow over time before resetting one or more dimensions. it got delisted years ago for some reason but i used to love it as a "nightstand mode" clock.

https://hms.gysin-vanetti.com/

Ahh that’s it! I would love for that to be a StandBy face for iOS.

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#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.

77 is the average life expectancy for all people. If one enters the website at 40 their life expectancy is much higher, since they are already 40

Yea. It's kind of the same error, in a way, as people who assume that there were no old people in the middle ages. The overwhelming majority of the increase in expected lifespan between then and now comes from drastic decreases in the infant and child mortality rates. While current medicine is only really making slow, incremental progress on letting the oldest people live longer, even if this was the bulk of the advancement you wouldn't see the kind of movement on overall life expectancy you'd get out of reducing those, and that's just on the pure statistical basis of how the metric is constructed. But on top of that, I think it's nearly impossible to understand just how many infants used to be stillborn, and how many diseases we essentially eliminated. The death of a child from an illness used to be a fairly common tragedy, now it is a rare one.

It's just a little internet toy that probably cashes out to be a slightly more impactful version of "memento mori", but you could add a little backend complexity without collecting any more demographic information and get a more accurate life expectancy given only one's current age from extant actuarial tables. If you wanted to be extra cheeky, you could have it adjust on a regional basis based on IP address too

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#28
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I like the combined blob clock a lot! I plan to make a codepen of it, with just hours, minutes and seconds, to see what that's like.

Here's what I cooked up, in the spirit of the original I invite folks to modify it to their liking. Currently it has an hours shape, an hours-and-minutes shape, and an hours-and-minutes-and-seconds shape.

https://codepen.io/rezmason/pen/empBWgY?editors=1111

Beyond some basic style variation, I think there's a lot of room for experimentation with shapes and their centers of rotation.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.

77 is the average life expectancy for all people. If one enters the website at 40 their life expectancy is much higher, since they are already 40

It is higher, but not that much higher. It's not like 90 or 100.

For the U.S. you have https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.html for this.

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#30
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

77 is the average life expectancy for all people. If one enters the website at 40 their life expectancy is much higher, since they are already 40

Yea. It's kind of the same error, in a way, as people who assume that there were no old people in the middle ages. The overwhelming majority of the increase in expected lifespan between then and now comes from drastic decreases in the infant and child mortality rates. While current medicine is only really making slow, incremental progress on letting the oldest people live longer, even if this was the bulk of the adva…

Well, average life expectancy in the middle ages was in the low 30s or high 20s, but the child death factor does not bring the typical old person age to the 80s that we're used to from today, but into the late 50s, early 60s. That was an old person.

As for making the predicion more accurate, it's a rabbit hole you'd rather not enter. Whether you smoke or not or whether you live in a big city or not or your social class all have much higher impact than whether your IP is from Spain or Poland or Florida. Including people with the time and means to browse such website are a very select group. Not even speaking of VPNs hiding your actual geolocation. Whatever you do beyond "let's shoot at 80 for approximate time" may be making things worse.

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