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The Hummingbird Project
2019 · Film · 111 min
Directed by Kim Nguyen
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
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Not quite the educational content you're looking for, but you might enjoy the film 'The Hummingbird Project'. It's the story of two cousins who work in high-frequency trading attempting to lay a perfectly straight fibre optic cable from Kansas to New Jersey. It's more about the morals of their increasingly desperate and underhanded actions to complete the project, but there's plenty of mostly-realistic technical scenes too. From memory there's considerations about fibre optics vs radio, how to shave milliseconds off those links, and of course the engineering challenge of drilling a ~1000 mile tunnel.
The Hummingbird Project is a great movie about building these on land
neutrino messaging was mentioned in The Hummingbird Project... Good movie
Anyone interested in the topic, this is a great movie — fiction but very close to reality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project
Watch The Hummingbird Project (2018) it's an interesting little movie.
From your link -
"The "ad infernum" theory positing property ownership "to the center of the Earth" has also been eroded. A review of modern American jurisprudence demonstrates that the theory is more poetic hyperbole than binding law, and that broadly speaking, the deeper the disputed region, the less likely courts are to recognize that the surface owner holds subsurface title. [21] Appraisal studies of subsurface projects such as subways, deep storm drainage tunnels, and particle colliders consistently conclude that such projects, built well below the area that the vast majority of surface property owners ever put to use, do not deprive the surface owners of any value."
Heh, they talk about neutrinos for HFT in 'The Hummingbird Project' briefly - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6866224/
This brings up thoughts of The Hummingbird Project (a movie)
https://youtu.be/vnXLYr6U3bk
No one told me "The Hummingbird Project" 2019 was a documentary.
This reminds me of the movie "The Hummingbird Project" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6866224/ , where speed matters in all Financial transactions and even a 1ms matters in the game
General purpose computers networks and software are far from optimal for high speed trading. A few years back ACM Communications published a comprehensive white paper of trading communications bottlenecks including the effect of virtual memory page faults and TCP/IP collisions. Dedicated trade networks want custom software without virtualization features. Or if you dont want to develop that much, use the ancient real time UNIX NASA has in its space probes like VxWorks.
In a few weeks there is annindie film called The Hummingbird Project about avrace between firms to build the fastest dedicated trading line.
This film seems relevant - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6866224 - The Hummingbird Project (2018).
'A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.' (It also seems to feature the microwave based approach from the trailer).