# The beauty of the CPU

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Podcast: [The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440)
Published: 2025-05-09T17:28:34+00:00
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## Resource

If you are bored of contemporary topics of AI and need a breather, I invite you to join me to explore a mundane, fundamental and earthy topic. The CPU. A reading of my substack article https://hnasr.substack.com/p/the-beauty-of-the-cpu

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