title: MACHINE CODE
projekt: zer0
author: Borislav Nikolov

About this book

I am writing this for my daughter. It is what I would like to teach her, maybe some of it will be useful to you as well.

I want to teach you what it means to compute and what really is a program.

What is the electricity of the if? Why does if even need electricity?

From electrons and wires, to machine code, to neural networks. Making your own computer, your own machine language, and your own language, train your neural network on pen and paper.

But most importantly, I hope to teach you to be curious and kind.

How does one do impossible things? Like making a computer from wires, when they know little about wires or computers? To do an impossible thing you need to either not know that it is impossible, or, not care if it is.

Ignorance, curiosity and kindness.

I am writing this as we have entered changing times - excitement and fear are in the air. Maybe we create the next evolution of intelligence, maybe it helps us solve all our problems, or maybe it destroys or enslaves us; maybe it's fake and doesn't do anything at all.

Time will tell.

Whatever the outcome, nothing can stop us from creating, reading and writing anything we want, one word at a time, one symbol at a time.

Now more than ever, when the internet is dead.

NB: This is the book before the book, I will rewrite it, hopefully 3 times.