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October 9, 2015

#1588: Hardware Reductionism explain

Hardware Reductionism

[Cueball holds his smartphone looking at it while talking to Megan who is holding her smartphone in her hand.]

Cueball: Your photos from the triathlon got so many more likes than mine.

Megan: Yeah - My phone is quad-core. Research shows that iPhones like yours have just two cores, so they have a hard time capturing scenes with three different events in them.

[Caption below the frame:]

If we talked about phone hardware the way we talk about brain hardware