16 milliseconds is the time it takes for a hummingbird to flap its wings once, and it is also the golden key to the stock market.
Build a straight fiber optic cable from New York to Kansas, get stock quotes before other high-frequency traders, buy first at the opening, sell at a profit, in milliseconds Dominate Wall Street by volume, this is the "time travel" of a pair of cousins Vincent and Anton in the movie "The Hummingbird Project ".
Anton, a technical houseman, is desperately trying to simplify the code, research the supporting hardware, and strive to change the transmission speed from 17 milliseconds to 16 milliseconds.
"Liar" Vincent, looking for investment, staring at projects, looking for construction teams, negotiating contracts, he needs to cross mountains, rivers, seas, lakes and swamps, farm houses, and the purpose is to let this optical cable go straight through
There is such a group of people who want to race against time with their own ambitions, but lose out to modern technology.
Vincent and Anton's old boss, Eva Torres, used several signal towers and microwave technology to finish the project in 11 milliseconds ahead of them.
This is a tragedy where tradition and future collide, a metaphorical story and a fictional true story.
Director Nguyen Kim came up with the concept of the film precisely because he was overwhelmed by the crazy people who dug thousands of miles of tunnels only to shave milliseconds off stock market trading times.
The image of stock market crooks in expensive suits trudging through swamps and slushy forests kept running in his mind, betting their sanity on this one pipe.
Countless people have failed miserably on the road.
For Vincent, he faced not only the failure of his career, but also a physical and mental collapse.
Because the stomach pain was unbearable, Vincent went for a gastroscope.
The pipes entered his body like the optical fibers they had driven into the ground.
The result of stomach cancer seems to have prematurely spoiled the doomed ending.
He needs to give all the people he pulls into the team a standing image, and he also needs to allow himself to accomplish a great thing in the last moments of his life.
And when the signal tower that can go back and forth in 11 milliseconds stood in front of him, his vigorous ambition and belief in supporting his body fell.
The doomed ending gave Vincent a lot of relief and insight.
In the end, their pipeline was successfully connected, and the test speed reached 15.73 milliseconds.
The speed of optical cables is destined to be unable to withstand microwaves, and microwaves will eventually be defeated by Anton's neutrino concept.
A millisecond of time may bring enormous wealth, but there are also more good things that cannot be bought. Such as life, such as family, such as love.
How do humans define their own life? Success or failure in the world?
If you end up getting everything you want, then what?
Sitting in a small bar typing codes, Anton explained their business model to a curious waitress: If you were to sell shares in a company that sells lemons in Zimbabwe.
The waitress asked a question: What did the lemon man get?
In the mathematical model, lemon growers are not considered at all in this fast-moving financial empire. They don't matter.
When everything disappeared like a flash of smoke, Vincent lay in bed and was terminally ill. They brought up the dream of dominating Wall Street, but it seemed that the ending they were looking forward to was no longer the same as the dream they once had.
If life is only as long as a hummingbird flapping its wings, it is no different than living for 100 years.
Those who seek to shorten every millisecond of time end up sitting dead in the heavy rain, leaving us with a back that slowly flows in the last moments of our lives.
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Original: Yi Xiaomeng
First published on the public account: a little movie
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