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How Computer Processors Work
Hardware Algorithms Programming
19 days ago 207.8K views 0 shares
How Computer Processors Work
The most technically accurate hardware diagram you'll ever see! The CPU (top) is that one beefy strongman doing all the heavy lifting one task at a time, plowing through sequential operations like a boss. Meanwhile, the GPU (bottom) is literally a swarm of tiny workers tackling problems in parallel—thousands of simple cores doing math simultaneously. This is why your gaming rig needs both: CPU for the big brain decisions and GPU for those sweet, sweet parallel matrix multiplications that make your graphics go brrrr. Next time someone asks why their Bitcoin mining rig needs more GPUs than CPUs, just show them this masterpiece of computational architecture!

Brute Force vs. The Swarm
Hardware Algorithms Programming
4 months ago 156.3K views 1 shares
Brute Force vs. The Swarm
The strongman pulling a truck represents your CPU - powerful but working alone, handling one big task at a time. Meanwhile, the GPU is like those dozens of people working together to pull an airplane - individually weaker but massively parallel. After 15 years in tech, I've watched countless developers throw CPU cores at problems that scream for GPU parallelization. It's like watching someone use a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame.

When Your "Big Data" Fits In A Spreadsheet
Databases Hardware Programming Cloud
5 months ago 282.9K views 0 shares
When Your "Big Data" Fits In A Spreadsheet
The joke here is that 60,000 rows is an absolutely tiny dataset in modern data engineering. Like, microscopic. A competent data engineer could process this on a 10-year-old laptop while running a YouTube video in the background. It's like bragging that your car overheated after driving to the end of your driveway. Any data pipeline that can't handle 60K rows without hardware failure is the computational equivalent of a paper airplane trying to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Real data engineers regularly process billions of rows without breaking a sweat. This is why everyone's laughing - it's the equivalent of someone claiming to be a weightlifting champion because they can lift a gallon of milk.