Secondly, set a resolution for a week time scale, not a year time scale.

第二，定一个时长为一周的目标，而不是一年的目标。

But the difference is the time scale.

但是不同的是时间段。

These are on a very short time scale.

而是非常短的时间尺度。

It's hard to put time scales like these into perspective.

很难理解这样的时间尺度。

Over long time scales, Earth's rotation is actually slowing down.

从长期来看，地球的自转实际上正在减慢。

But that's still incredibly uncommon on a human time scale.

但从人类的时间尺度来看，这仍然是极度罕见不寻常的。

There is no good concept for our brains to grasp these time scales.

很难有一个适当的概念让大脑掌握像这样的时间尺度。

The question is how exactly close is the Martian time scale to earth?

问题是，火星的时间刻度和地球到底有多接近？

Evolutionary adaptation usually occurs along time scales of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

进化通常需要几亿甚至是几十亿年的时间。

We're increasingly reliant on computer algorithms to make us profitable trades in split-second time scales.

我们日益依赖于能让我们在即刻盈利的电脑算法。

The users were also 81 percent less likely to become obese over the time scale surveyed.

使用公共交通工具的人们患上肥胖症的几率降低了81%。

Big caveat: a lot of politicians these days don't think on 15-year time scales.

很多政客认为不需要花费15年时间。

Historically, sharks and humans haven't been around each other a lot, especially when you think in geological time scales.

鲨鱼一直和人类并不是经常在一起，特别是当你从地质时间维度方面来考虑。

This controller operates on a fine time scale, thirty times per second and is trained via a four-layer neural network.

这个控制器是在精细时间刻度上运作的，每秒三十次，经由一个四层神经网络来进行训练。

This controller operates on a coarse time scale, only twice each second and is trained via a deep convolutional neural network.

它在粗略时间刻度上运作，每秒运作两次，经由一个深卷积神经网络来训练。

They just exist on different time scales.

它们只是存在于不同的时间尺度上。

So my motivation then was that, well, my life is finite, really a flash in the pan on a galactic time scale.

所以我当时的动机是，好吧，我的生命是有限的，在银河系的时间尺度上真的是昙花一现。

This posits that black holes can emit tiny particles, causing them to lose energy, shrink, and ultimately vanish over colossal time scales.

这假设黑洞可以发射微小粒子，导致它们失去能量、收缩，并最终在巨大的时间尺度上消失。

But it's important to realize that all of these activities are relatively recent inventions when looked at on an evolutionary time scale.

但重要的是要认识到，从进化的时间尺度来看，所有这些活动都是相对较新的发明。

We're interested in what's happening on time scales of days or months or years.

我们感兴趣的是在几天、几个月或几年的时间尺度上发生的事情。