More importantly, I was learning about the PC and software industry and building a client base.

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However, the theories underpinning software programming were extremely dense, and the difficulty I had with learning and understanding code led to my first moment of realization: perhaps the world of computer science was not for me.

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But I agree with your reader, Dan Kimberg, in that the magic is in the machine learning software, not the hardware components.

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