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  • EP24 - The Chorus of Light: How Self-Driving Cars Actually See

    EP24 - The Chorus of Light: How Self-Driving Cars Actually See
    2025/10/23
    A self-driving car navigates a chaotic city street with a calm, superhuman precision that feels like magic. We think of it as a car with better eyes, but the truth is far stranger and more profound. How does a machine perceive the world in three dimensions, and what can its chorus of secret senses teach us about the nature of reality itself?
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    29 分
  • EP22 - The Ghost in the Machine: How Recommendation Algorithms Curate Your Life

    EP22 - The Ghost in the Machine: How Recommendation Algorithms Curate Your Life
    2025/10/17
    Your phone seems to know you better than you know yourself, suggesting the perfect movie or the next viral video. We treat it like magic, but what if it's just a clever trick of pattern-matching? This episode opens the black box of recommendation algorithms to reveal the simple, powerful principles that are quietly shaping your world.
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    31 分
  • EP21 - The Electric Skin: First Principles of the Modern Touchscreen

    EP21 - The Electric Skin: First Principles of the Modern Touchscreen
    2025/10/16
    We touch, tap, and swipe on glass screens dozens, even hundreds of times a day, manipulating the digital world with our fingertips. It feels like magic, a seamless connection between our intent and the machine. But the glass isn’t sensing pressure; it’s sensing something far more fundamental about what we are, and the secret lies in a silent, invisible orchestra of electricity.
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    25 分
  • EP20 - The Echo in the Machine: The Surprising Illusion of Digital Audio

    EP20 - The Echo in the Machine: The Surprising Illusion of Digital Audio
    2025/10/15
    We press play and a universe of sound fills our ears, from the subtle notes of a symphony to the familiar voice of a loved one. But how can the rich, continuous, physical reality of a sound wave be captured in a stream of ones and zeros? This episode opens the black box of digital audio to reveal an elegant process of clever measurement and a surprising trick of human perception that makes our modern soundscape possible.
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    33 分
  • EP19 - The Unseen Librarians: How a Search Engine Actually Builds the Library of Everything

    EP19 - The Unseen Librarians: How a Search Engine Actually Builds the Library of Everything
    2025/10/14
    You type a few words into a simple box and, in a fraction of a second, you're presented with a list of the most relevant documents on planet Earth. It feels like magic, but it’s not. So how does a search engine actually navigate a library with trillions of pages to find exactly what you’re looking for, and do it faster than a blink of an eye?
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    27 分
  • EP18 - The Smart Grid: A Nervous System for the Planet

    EP18 - The Smart Grid: A Nervous System for the Planet
    2025/10/14
    We flip a switch and the lights come on. It's the most reliable magic in modern life. But our 20th-century power grid, the largest machine on Earth, is groaning under the strain of a 21st-century world. What does it take to keep the lights on, and how is a quiet revolution turning our power lines into an internet of energy?
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    28 分
  • EP17 - From Thought to Thunder: Deconstructing the Language of Code

    EP17 - From Thought to Thunder: Deconstructing the Language of Code
    2025/10/12
    We tap an icon, and a universe of information appears. We think of software as magic, but what is it, really? This episode travels into the heart of the machine to deconstruct the most fundamental "black box" of our time: code. We'll discover how simple text written by a human is translated into the electrical commands that power our entire digital world.
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    26 分
  • EP16 - The Blockchain and the Unbreakable Promise: A Ledger Without a King

    EP16 - The Blockchain and the Unbreakable Promise: A Ledger Without a King
    2025/10/11
    We buy tickets and trade digital goods with the tap of a screen, assuming a bank or corporation is making it all happen. But the blockchain proposes a world without that middleman, a system of trust built not on people or power, but on pure mathematics. How can a group of total strangers create a single, unbreakable source of truth?
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    33 分