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My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
Reflections on whatever I'm thinking about that week (the web, culture, computer graphics, math etc)
They then proceed to explain what “binary code” is: that we use a series of “on” and “off” switches, and we can choose to make these sequences represent anything: numbers, letters, or commands. He expresses his frustration with people who write simplified explanations of technical matters because they don’t think the layperson is capable of, nor interested in, understanding how things work. When they tell Billy Van to think of a computer as “a lot of little Aristotle’s turning on and off”, I know it’s a silly metaphor, and I know it’s simplified, but I recognize the useful truth it gives the viewer.
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