If you think your home Wi-Fi connection is fast, think again. Scientists have been working on a new way to transmit data wirelessly, and they can now transfer a scorching 2.5 terabits of information per second. Let us put that another way: that’s over 8,000 times faster than Verizon’s fastest wired home internet connection, FiOS, that only manages a paltry 300Mbps. Or, to put it in real terms, it’s the same as transmitting seven full Blu-ray movies per second.

Well, the team of American and Israeli researchers have used a neat new concept, where the electromagnetic waves that usually carry data are twisted into vortex beams. ExtremeTech describes the concept well:

These twisted signals use orbital angular momentum (OAM) to cram much more data into a single stream. In current state-of-the-art transmission protocols (WiFi, LTE, COFDM), we only modulate the spin angular momentum (SAM) of radio waves, not the OAM. If you picture the Earth, SAM is our planet spinning on its axis, while OAM is our movement around the Sun. Basically, the breakthrough here is that researchers have created a wireless network protocol that uses both OAM and SAM.

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Scientists Create Wi-Fi That Can Transmit Seven Blu-ray Movies Per Second (via myserendipities:journo-geekery)

!!!!!! the future will be fast

Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is already home because she figured out a faster way to get things done.

— David Bozin, Rework (via fancyhands)

Bill Murray’s Hall of Fame Speech for the Sally League

The Feynman Algorithm

— A simplification of Feynman’s technique to learn anything:

Simplify the problem down to an “essential puzzle.” Here’s how Danny Hillis explained Feynman’s use of simplicity: “He always started by asking very basic questions like, ‘What is the simplest example?’ or ‘How can you tell if the answer is right?’ He asked questions until he reduced the problem to some essential puzzle that he thought he would be able to solve. Then he would set to work.”
Continually master new techniques and then apply them to your library of unsolved puzzles to see if they help. As mathematician Gian Carlo-Rota explained when describing Feynman’s use of this strategy: “Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!’”

Reacting well to competition requires critical analysis of your own product and its shortcomings, and a complete, open-minded understanding of why people might choose your competitors.

— Great post from @marcoarment on being honest with yourself and learning from your competition. (via arainert)

omniar:

Brilliantly simple guerrilla wayfinding campaign, started by designer Matt Tomasulo in Raleigh, NC in an effort to encourage walking in his city. Now he’s got a Kickstarter campaign to create an open-sourced online resource for anyone to easily create signs to export, print and install in their city.

Companies die from not being eaten by their competitors, but from self-inflicted wounds. They don’t have discipline. Their best people get frustrated. They chase all these shiny objects that aren’t core to the business. They become complacent because of early success.

— Drew Houston, Dropbox (via sequoiacapital)

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

So true

(Hank Aaron told me) ‘Don’t dig in against Bob Gibson, he’ll knock you down. He’d knock down his own grandmother if she dared to challenge him. Don’t stare at him, don’t smile at him, don’t talk to him. He doesn’t like it. If you happen to hit a home run, don’t run too slow, don’t run too fast. If you happen to want to celebrate, get in the tunnel first. And if he hits you, don’t charge the mound, because he’s a Gold Glove boxer.’ I’m like, ‘Damn, what about my 17-game hitting streak?’ That was the night it ended.

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Dusty Baker on Bob Gibson (via natsturner)

When I met Hank Aaron in Atlanta, his hands were enormous. I don’t know how to describe it beyond making a baseball bat look like a toothpick. Thinking back to that night, it makes this comment about Bob Gibson even more significant and meaningful.

curiositycounts:

Absolutely lovely video postcard of one adventurer’s year’s worth of travel   (via)