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No Such Thing As A Fish

519: No Such Thing As A Noice Computer

Feb 22, 2024
Topics include competitive eating with budget meatballs, linguistic intricacies of Russian language, technological advancements, Joni Mitchell's music legacy, and the complexities of Archi Conjugation in a remote Russian village.
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Quick takeaways

  • Advancements in transistors have led to computing power growth at an astonishing rate.
  • Russian language complexities include distinguishing genders of nouns like viruses.

Deep dives

Transistors and Car Speed

If cars had improved at the same rate as computers since 1971, they would now be able to travel at nearly the speed of light due to the incredible advancements in transistors, with chips being able to fit an extraordinary number of transistors in an increasingly small space.

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