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Napkin Math is a technical reference project for estimating software system performance from first principles. It collects practical numbers, benchmark-style measurements, and mental models that help engineers make fast back-of-the-envelope calculations. The project is useful for questions like how much memory throughput matters, how long storage operations may take, what network latency to expect, or how expensive logging could become at high request volume. It treats these values as...

This repository, owned by the user zonination (Zoni Nation), presents a data visualization and analysis project on long-term returns from broad stock market indexes, especially the S&P 500. The author gathers historical price data (adjusted for inflation and dividends) and computes growth trajectories under a “buy and hold” strategy over decades. The key insight illustrated is that over sufficiently long holding periods (e.g. 40 years), the stock market stabilizes and nearly always yields...