Simple answer: Computers weren't initially designed to use binary... rather, binary was determined to be the most practical system to use with the computers we did design. Full answer: We only use binary because
Computers don't understand words or numbers the way humans do. Modern software allows the end user to ignore this, but at the lowest levels of your computer, everything is represented by a binary electrical signal that registers in one of two states: on or off. To make sense of complicate...
Binary Signal: 010101010 Every computer is made up of many electronic components. That is why a basic knowledge of electronics is needed to understand how and why binary numbers are used in computers. We’ll keep it very simple.A computer is built with many connections and components, which ...
I present a personal account of self-organizing systems, framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. With this aim, I start with a notion and examples of self-organizing systems (what?), continue with their properties and related concepts...
All we had to do afterwards is write to the appropriate offsets and resume the thread. At first, we didn’t expect this would work since this would require stopping some kernel mode thread “in the middle” of its job. But to our surprise it did. Basically, all we needed to add...
Automated clinical coding is the idea that clinical coding may be automated by computers using AI techniques, e.g., NLP and machine learning8. It is a branch of computer-assisted coding (CAC)9. In recent years, AI has been considered a promising approach to transforming healthcare by intelli...
What do you want to know about the future based on the past? What do you want to understand and predict? You’ll also want to consider what will be done with the predictions. What decisions will be driven by the insights? What actions will be taken? Second, you’ll need data. In ...
As defined by the Pthreads standard, the thread-start routine (specified in thepthread_createcall) returns a(void *)type. However, you’ll often find that your thread-start routines must return something other than an address—e.g., a binary TRUE/FALSE indicator. They can do this quite ...
Understand the Machine (Think in C) When we discuss the behavior of certain portions of code, or certain features of other languages, with colleagues, we end up “talking in C:” Is this portion passing a “pointer” to the object or copying the entire object? Could any “cast” be hap...
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