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Impostors are those who in trying to deceive others, pretend to be someone else. Aspirants are those who have ambitions to achieve something. On occasions, I deceive myself into believing that I'm more capable than in reality. I don't do this on purpose but rather as a coping mechanism to avoid feeling unequipped. On those occasions I am an impostor.

This branch of mathematics underpins how computers perform operations on binary data. Understanding Boolean algebra is essential for designing and optimizing hardware architectures.

Starting from the humble Nand gate, it's possible to build a complete computer by dividing the complex task into smaller modules. Computers only understand bits, so a big part of building one is translating instructions into sequences of bits through gradual, modular construction.

If you don’t have a solid mental model of how a computer works, higher-level abstractions are fragile. Shimon Schocken suggests that the best way to understand computers is to build one yourself. This idea is explored in the book The Elements of Computing Systems, co-authored by Schocken and Noam Nisan, which guides learners through building a modern computer from the ground up, starting with simple logic gates.