Richard Corliss

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors' and the camera's movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse.

American Writer

Maria Konnikova

Electrodes aren't the only things we may someday start implanting in our brains. Consider what you could do with a chip in your head that linked directly to the Internet: Within milliseconds, you could retrieve just about any piece of information.

Maryanne Wolf

The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well as extra milliseconds for any expert to read a more sophisticated text.

American Educator

Eric Schneiderman

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off.

American Politician

Kim Dotcom

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

German Businessman

Brock Osweiler

Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.

American Athlete

Ken Jennings

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

American Celebrity

Adam Clayton

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

Irish Musician

Steven Levy

Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.

American Journalist

Alexander Gustafsson

You can't relax, even for a millisecond in this sport.

Swedish Mixed Martial Artist

Used in everyday language to express speed or a very short time.

Common Expressions

'Millisecond' can be used hyperbolically to mean 'very fast' or 'almost instantly'.

Hyperbole

Often 'millisecond' is not literal but emphasizes a brief moment that felt quick.

Not Literal

In tech, 'millisecond' represents precise durations important for processes.

Technical Precision

Scientific instruments can measure time to the millisecond for accuracy.

Instrument Measurements

Milliseconds are key units to discuss performance in computing and networks.

Performance Benchmark

 Over the last couple years, we've gone back to the tree of life, because we wanted to find ways to turn circuits in the brain off. If we could do that, this could be extremely powerful. If you can delete cells for a few milliseconds or seconds, you can figure out what role they play in the circuits in which they're embedded.

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 then how they are at night but actually beyond that things like time change things like your mass changes and your size change too and you know and I know this because when I was in space I urged seven milliseconds less than everybody else on earth yes I'm younger than I would have otherwise been you might have

Watch the Total Solar...

 the time losing a billion watts maybe in milliseconds often for weeks or months often without warning the grid handles this intermittence by backing up failed plants with working plants in exactly the same way but often in lower cost the grid can manage the for castable variation of solar and wind power by

Why modern renewable...

 and in milliseconds, a trapdoor swings open and sucks her in. Trapped half in and half out, she struggles to free herself while the part of her body inside the plant gets digested. Over the next few hours, her writhing sets the trap off repeatedly, each time bringing her deeper into the plant

The wild world of...

 The sound in this video is also stored in binary, with the help of a technique called pulse code modulation. Continuous sound waves are digitized by taking "snapshots" of their amplitudes every few milliseconds. These are recorded as numbers in the form of binary strings,

How exactly does binary...

 We'll need an action. Let's go with a waiter dropping a tray of dishes. As the scene unfolds, your brain's hemispheres process a flurry of the waiter's flailing arms, his cry for help, the smell of pasta. Within milliseconds, this information zips through pathways

What is déjà vu? What is...

 modern encryption enables us to send data that can be secured in a matter of milliseconds. The brilliant idea that makes this magic possible, it relies on hard mathematical problems. Cryptographers are deeply interested in things that calculators can't do.

In the war for...

 The idea was that if you suffered -- and that can happen to any one of us. Let me tell you, it's very sudden. It's a millisecond of a collision, a car accident that transforms your life completely. If you have a complete lesion of the spinal cord,

Miguel Nicolelis:...

 No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples. If you consider a child's eyes as a pair of biological cameras, they take one picture about every 200 milliseconds,

How we teach computers...

 powerful they are the equivalent to five times its own body weight and the strike is delivered in 15 milliseconds that's one-tenth of a blink of an eye making the secretary bird one of the most remarkable creatures that live on the