And I even have a section on what I call 'designer snowflakes,' which is us growing crystals in the lab,trying to understand how the physics works."

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So people started turning these machines they developed on themselves to try to understand how they worked.

人们开始利用自己发明的器械研究人体,试图了解其运作方式

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It's basically to get you to load up Python on your machine and make sure you understand how to interact with it.

它基本上让你在你的机器上,装Python语言,并确保你理解如何与它互动。

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