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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 21:59:31 JST nixCraft 🐧

   What’s a compsci (computer science) concept that still amazes you?

   • Bork! (electric_gumball@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:10:27 JST Bork!

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     That we have ludicrous amounts of processing power & most of the things people use it for daily, probably only needs a 386.
     That, & the truly stunning amount of processing power it takes for Ai to make a computer actually lose it's ability to do maths.

   • Wayne Dixon (waynedixon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:14:40 JST Wayne Dixon

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     @nixCraft compilers written in the language they build.

   • JackTLadd (jacktladd@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:45:00 JST JackTLadd

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     @nixCraft that any of it works.

   • Chris Laponsie (xentropy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 23:15:59 JST Chris Laponsie

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     @nixCraft gradient descent

   • Michael Grinder (mgrinder@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 04:01:26 JST Michael Grinder

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     @nixCraft Computational complexity. Being able to show that some well-defined problems are unsolvable or not solvable in a reasonable amount of time still blows my mind.

   • Matthew Simpson (msimpson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:13:51 JST Matthew Simpson

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     @nixCraft It's all 1s and 0s, our entire technical infrastructure works because of the idea of AND and OR logic. So much from such simplicity