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I tell my junior engineers; that humans took rocks and struck them with lightning, and now they work for us. Still blows my mind sometimes.
by zikduruqe 3y ago
I tell my junior engineers; that humans took rocks and struck them with lightning, and now they work for us.
Still blows my mind sometimes.
- karmajunkie 3y agoi had a prof many moons ago who liked to start each semester with the observation that computers do two things: add bits and move them around. everything else is an elaboration on that. i’m not enough of a circuit of electrical engineer to know if that’s still essentially true, but it definitely made an impression.
- mrWiz 3y agoAll binary operations can be reduced down to NAND gates, so in a sense all your computer does is that one operation given a variety of inputs.