VAuroch comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 31 December 2013 07:35:51PM 2 points [-]

I got Macaulay's The Way Things Work (the original) at a slightly higher age. I suspect a big reason I became a computer scientist was the joy of puzzling through the adder diagrams and understanding why they worked.

Comment author: Nisan 23 January 2014 11:35:10PM 1 point [-]

I traced those adder diagrams as a child as well, and it surely was a formative experience.