README.md

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 # What every scientist should know about computer architecture
 
 ## Introduction
-  - [Puzzle](puzzle.ipynb)
+  - [Puzzle](puzzle.ipynb) ➔ [read-only rendered notebook](https://nbviewer.org/urls/git.aspp.school/ASPP/2024-heraklion-comp-arch/raw/branch/main/puzzle.ipynb)
   - Question: how come that swapping dimensions in a for-loop makes out for a huge slowdown?
   - Let students play around with the notebook and try to find the "bug"
   - A more thorough [benchmark](benchmark_python/)
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 Two exercises to activate the body and the mind
 
 Common goal of both exercises is to sort a deck of tarot cards by value
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-Before starting, make yourself acquainted with the meanining and the power of the tarot cards. Carefully read [this booklet](https://aspp.school/wiki/_media/tarot-runic.pdf)
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 ### First experiment: human sorting
 Setup:
 - 1 volunteer to keep the time spent sorting
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 ## A final exercise to put it all together
   - fork this repo to your account and clone your fork on the laptop
   - create a branch `ex` and switch to it
-  - work on the [exercise](exercise.ipynb)
+  - work on the [exercise](exercise.ipynb) ➔ [read-only rendered notebook](https://nbviewer.org/urls/git.aspp.school/ASPP/2024-heraklion-comp-arch/raw/branch/main/exercise.ipynb)
   - push your solution to your fork and create a Pull Request to this repo
 
 

architecture/README.md

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   - UTF8 encoded, flexible width from 1B (byte) to 4B (bytes): 1,112,064 Unicode characters (code points)
   - ASCII: 7 bits (fits in one byte), 127 characters ➔ [ASCII table](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/ASCII_Table_%28suitable_for_printing%29.svg)
   - [visualization](https://sonarsource.github.io/utf8-visualizer/)
-  - actually in Python strings (more precisely: unicode objects) are stored in different formats depending on which characters are stored for memory efficiency. Look at the gory details [here](https://docs.python.org/3.14/c-api/unicode.html) ➔ not for the faint-hearted!
 
 - **hexadecimal notation**:
   - base16 ➔ '0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e, f'