What is a computer

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    8 months ago

    There is a game called Turing complete where you start with simple logic gates and you start building upwards from there. Then you’re only missing the part where you build transistors from silicone wafers.

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    “Halt and Catch Fire” was pretty good!

    From Wikipedia:

    It depicts a fictionalized insider’s view of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s and the early days of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.

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          8 months ago

          Plenty of that in Cosmos, too.

          But I see them as shows that teach you how to learn, and how to want to learn, and how to wonder. About history and technology and science, sure, but also about humanity, and the universe. To look around us in awe and ask ourselves why?, and how?, and to try to find out the answers (and enjoy the process even if we end up not finding them).

          The kind of shows every child should watch at least once, or every adult if you haven’t seen them before (never too late!) or feel like having a rewatch.

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    Before we used rocks to think we did it with vacuum, heat, and glass. At the time we did have some very very basic thinking rocks with primitive semiconductor diodes made from lead and sulfur.

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    8 months ago

    Hidden Figures. Not quite what you want, but pretty close. The Imitation Game is also worth a watch.

    edit: Sorry. I misunderstood your question. It’s late and I read it as you asking for movies about early computing, not actually explanatory videos.