Given the speed of modern computers, I'm fascinated by the fact that so many processes complete in human-scale time (seconds-minutes), rather than milliseconds or years+, depending on problem complexity. If times for compute tasks have some power law distribution (a big if...), I'd expect a very small part of that distribution to overlap with the 'seconds' range.
Then again, computers do so many things in the millisecond range and faster that maybe what we observe IS only a small fraction of the total.
Then again, computers do so many things in the millisecond range and faster that maybe what we observe IS only a small fraction of the total.