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Episode 51
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Audio file
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August 25th, 2017
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1 hr 53 secs
What happens inside computers?
- The cream yellow Volvo 850 T5-R wagon (Pinterest)
- What is a computer? (Computer Hope)
- When women stopped coding (Planet Money, NPR)
- Women computers in World War II (Engineering & Technology History)
- Human computers: The women of NASA (History)
- How do computers work? (Explain That Stuff!)
- How does a computer work? (Computer Hope)
- What does the inside of a computer look like? (Computer Hope)
- What is computer hardware? (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Turing machine (Wikipedia)
- Turing machines explained (YouTube)
- Central processing unit (Computer Hope)
- Transistors (Explain That Stuff!)
- How transistors work (How Stuff Works, Electronics)
- CSIRAC: The only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world (Museums Victoria)
- Transistors used to be vacuum tubes: The transistor in a century of electronics (The Nobel Prize)
- Logic gate (Computer Hope)
- Binary (Computer Hope)
- What is silicon & why are computer chips made from it? (Extreme Tech)
- Facts about silicon (livescience)
- Why silicon computers rule (Cosmos)
- Moore's law: The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every 2 years (Wikipedia)
- The 'doubling of grains of rice on a chess board' fable (The Math Forum)
- The tunnelling transistor (IEEE)
- Deterministic algorithm (Wikipedia)
- Motherboard (Computer Hope)
- Universal serial bus, or USB (Computer Hope)
- How USB ports work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master: Have we finally reached our limits?(aeon)
- Raspberry Pi
- Arduino
- Random access memory, or RAM (Computer Hope)
- Read only memory, or ROM (Computer Hope)
- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps (The Phrase Finder)
- Boot (Computer Hope)
- What happens when you switch a computer on? (The Linux Documentation Project)
- How PCs work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Power-on self-test, or POST (Computer Hope)
- Boot sector (Computer Hope)
- Kernel (Computer Hope)
- Kernel (Wikipedia)
- What is shut down? (Computer Hope)
- What is actually happening when a Windows computer is shutting down? (How-To Geek)
- How to shut down a computer (Computer Hope)
- Energy efficiency guide for iOS apps & 'batching transactions' (Apple)
- CPU power dissipation (Wikipedia)
- Power efficiency in OS X (Apple)
- Public service announcement: You should not force quit apps on iOS (Daring Fireball, John Gruber)
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