<p>Season 2, Episode 1 explores Grace Hopper’s famous nanosecond demonstration and uses it to explain latency, systems design, and why distance and architecture matter for performance.</p>
<p>The episode also traces Hopper’s work on automatic programming, Flow-Matic, and the push toward COBOL and standards—showing how she turned software into teachable, maintainable infrastructure.</p>

Season 2, Episode 1 explores Grace Hopper’s famous nanosecond demonstration and uses it to explain latency, systems design, and why distance and architecture matter for performance. The episode also traces Hopper’s work on automatic programming, Flow-Matic, and the push toward COBOL and standards—showing how she turned software into teachable, maintainable infrastructure.

The Nanosecond Lesson

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The Nanosecond Lesson

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