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> Executables aren’t magic. Nothing in a computer is magic. It was all designed by humans, every single one of which was once a clueless noob. No one is born

• JoshuaRogers 3y ago
  > This does a bunch of Very Important Things that I don’t understand very well, including calling main. So I won’t explain them. Honestly, this line was the best in the whole article. It felt like at that moment I knew the person talking to me wasn't trying to prove that they were some sage (personally guilty here) but instead of was someone who wanted to show me something cool that we could both enjoy. Wonderful write up.
• infinite8s 3y ago
  "It is no exaggeration to regard this as the most fundamental idea in programming: The evaluator, which determines the meaning of expressions on a piece of paper, is just another piece of paper." --SICP
• latexr 3y ago
  > Nothing in a computer is magic. I think that’s covered by the text, in the sentence right after that one (emphasis mine): > ELF is a file format like any other!
• olsher 3y ago
  The actual /behavior/ of computers, though, tends to emerge from the confluence of complex processes that humans /can't/ understand...our AGI leverages this emergence to enable problem solving in domains where complexity exceeds human capabilities.