Nanopositioning Metrology, Gödel, and Bootstraps
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4 days ago
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pdonis
2 hours ago
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This article would be better without the opening two paragraphs about Godel's Theorem. They're just fluff, and much of what they say is wrong.
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Insanity
43 minutes ago
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When they claimed "Gödel’s findings may seem rather obvious" that kinda put me off of the article. Obvious to whom? It wasn't obvious at the time and I'm sure _most_ people haven't even heard or thought about the problem before.
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pdonis
21 minutes ago
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Maybe the wrong version of Godel's findings that the article states seemed obvious to the author. Lots of complex questions have simple, obvious wrong answers.
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philipkglass
3 hours ago
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If you found this interesting and are a non-expert, I recommend browsing Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Wayne Moore (1970):

https://archive.org/details/Foundations_of_Mechanical_Accura...

Manufacturing got down to nanometer precision starting with macroscopic precision visible to the naked eyeball.

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