stracer

More cache means slower read/write operations to it, and less transistors for other things.

Use it or lose it. There is no other way. Either get a job as EE using these skills, or do some projects using them in your own free time.

Thanks, I was disappointed first that it's only a virtual computer in a simulator, but then I found out there is a real physical realization, using an FPGA board:

https://gitlab.com/x653/nand2tetris-fpga/

Thanks.

EM theory. Ask away...

Amazing. Do you have some docs / resources on this online? How would you go around building a computer out of commodity components today?

Do you think compiling everything on own computer results in noticeable increase in performance? Say, distribution provides binaries built on Intel, but I want to run on AMD, does it make sense to recompile binaries on the AMD?

Ok, but notice this argument is based on purely probabilistic assumptions and that all micro-states are equally probable to occur and do occur in time. There is still the question whether these assumptions are valid in a given physics system.

In physics we know much more about evolution of systems, for example in classical mechanics model of gas, there are deterministic equations of motion which also conserve some quantities like energy. So not all thinkable chaotic states are accessible, and the evolution of state is not a repeated random choice out of the whole set of states.