Hey Teach, I get how code logic flows, but if computers are just bunches of transistors and transistors are just switches, how does any of this actually run or work?
You know, I don’t actually know, I only ever learned coding…
* 3 years of electrical and computer engineering Later *
Huh, those are the most wildly complicated and impressive things ever built, thank god I finally got a grasp on it.
Optical computing won’t change anything. The compiler takes care of it.
Even quantum computing basically works just like a GPU. You give it an algorithm and data to retrieve the result a bit later. Someone will make a quantum equivalent of CUDA before commercialization.
It doesn’t really matter, it’s not enough for me to just black box it and say the compiler will handle it, I want to have a rough idea of how every part of the stack works, otherwise I’m right back to high school.
Me in high school computers class:
* 3 years of electrical and computer engineering Later *
* 1 year of quantum and optical computing later *
Optical computing won’t change anything. The compiler takes care of it.
Even quantum computing basically works just like a GPU. You give it an algorithm and data to retrieve the result a bit later. Someone will make a quantum equivalent of CUDA before commercialization.
It doesn’t really matter, it’s not enough for me to just black box it and say the compiler will handle it, I want to have a rough idea of how every part of the stack works, otherwise I’m right back to high school.