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Any suggestions for how I can get to anywhere close to Lina's skills? It's just mad skills.. I don't believe simply putting in huge amount of time in front of the machine is adequate. Neither is simply being smart. Is it just a combination of being smart, sinking in a lot of time, interests etc?

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Read computer architecture and computer systems books.

Any suggestions? I'll start with something that might be a good beginner friendly way to get familiar with some of the concepts: 'The Soul of a New Machine' by Tracy Kidder.

You'd be wasting your time with that. Go read the bible (Computer Organization and Design by Patterson) instead.

Do you recommend any specific one? I guess there are multiple for ARM, RISC-V, etc. Thanks

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