The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

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So there're actually some really interesting computer science ideas underlying that we promised on Wednesday that computer science.

其实在我们周三,要上的课程中涉及很多有趣的,计算机科学的思想。

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It can't be true because there's two ways in which the brain is better than a computer.

这个观点之所以不对,是因为大脑在两个方面上,要优于计算机

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And if you ask the TAs in recitation tomorrow, they'll tell you that you see a lot of n log n algorithms in computer science.

如果你明天在复习课上问助教的话，他们会告诉你在计算机科学中,存在着非常多的n，log，n规模的算法。

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A patterned series of these tiny charged berries on the disk represents a single bit of data in the binary number system used by computers.

这些在磁盘上的有序的小粒子,代表这个当代计算机中,二进制中单独的一位。

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So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.

在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。

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One of the discomforts, one of the reasons that I think so many people in society and even in this class are uncomfortable when it comes to computers and intimidated by technology and kind of throw up their hands when things go wrong that you don't understand is frankly not necessarily your fault.

当我想到在社会中，即使在这个班级上,有那么多的人,使用计算机时是不舒服的,他们被这种科技吓到了，束手无策,当发生故障时，你也不知道，其实,这也不是你的过错。

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So what would be the letter A in binary inside of a computer's memory when you hit the letter A on the keyboard, for capital A?

当你敲击键盘上的字母A时,那么在计算机二进制的存储中,字母A是什么样的呢？

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Well, we saw the teaser in terms of that animation that suggests this merge sort algorithm when implemented by a computer is absolutely faster.

我们从前面的动画中可以看到,这个归并排序算法在计算机上实现之后,绝对比其他算法更快。

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human text, ASCII text as input and output zeroes and ones that represent that program in a manner that the CPU, interesting, dammit, not installed on this computer.

编译器以人输入的文本，ASCII码为输入,它输出一些cpu实际上可以理解的，在这台计算机上没有安装。

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