It’s pretty crazy what happens inside every computer...

It’s pretty crazy what happens inside every computer around the world. Over the past ~80 years, we’ve gone from the mathematical concept of boolean algebra to the beautiful software that is now possible to build. It’s particularly striking that the software canvas’s limitlessness is supported by the simplest of basic pieces within a computer." "" "At the very core, computing is simply abstractions built on top of wires and gates, wires only containing a boolean value of 0 or 1 depending on their current electrical voltage, and gates determining how those voltages should change as electrons move through them. One may assume that there are thousands of gate types to help support the complex software we use today, but that’s where the simplicity strikes: there are just three types of gates. Put together in various combinations, though, these three gate types combined with boolean algebra can support all the software we have today. " "" "So remember, it’s only 0s, 1s, ANDs, ORs, and NOTs that power all the software you use! #bendevtip

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