Already the title of your submission does not check out. Do you know how many clock cycles a 1 GHz CPU realizes in one nanosecond? One. Just reading the input a

Already the title of your submission does not check out. Do you know how many clock cycles a 1 GHz CPU realizes in one nanosecond? One. Just reading the input argument of a function takes a "nanosecond-scale" amount of time. > I'm a self-taught developer and researcher who left school at 16, and I've spent some time exploring a first-principles approach to system design for various frontier problems. As much as I appreciate new ways of thinking, whenever I read "first-principles approach", my alarm bells go off. More often than not it just means "I chose to ignore (or am too impatient to learn about) all insights that generations of research in this field have made". The "left school at 16" and "self-taught" parts also indicate that. This may explain the hyperbole of the title as well, as it does not pass the smell test. If you are looking for advice, here is mine: try to not ignore those that came before you. Giants' shoulders are very wide, very high up and pretty solid. There is no shame in standing on them, but it takes effort to climb up.