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But digital chips are designed to use transistors as on/off switches, so the complicated physics don't matter for understanding a microprocessor. (It's differen

by yarcob 5y ago

But digital chips are designed to use transistors as on/off switches, so the complicated physics don't matter for understanding a microprocessor. (It's different for analog ICs, where the characteristics of the individual transistors do matter)

adrianN 5y ago
Yes, but you wouldn't know that if the best knowledge you had about the inner workings of microchips is essentially looking which parts get hot while they perform different tasks.
titzer 5y ago
Wouldn't it suck if brains are just reservoirs used by the internet that can store roughly 3 memes at a time?
- taneq 5y ago
  holds up a Duracell battery "You think thermodynamics means using humans as batteries is a dumb idea? Where do you think you learned thermodynamics?" faint nyan cat music in the background
  - cwillu 5y ago
    "May I have a physics textbook?" "No. The real world doesn't run on math."