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RE: Introduceyourself Applepiie - My Girdcoin Experience so far
ciao @applepiie, i am also from Switzerland, ETH alumn and builder of computers out of used computer parts... if you need help drop me a line... and remember to keep studying ;-) gridcoin is fun but it is easy to loose the focus
Hi @dangermouse77 I just read your other blog post and it seems pretty cool what you did so far. I will obviousely do my best in my studies at ETH and as you surely know, it is time consuming. However, there must be some spare time and if you have an idea where I could get started, that would be great!
hey @applepiee, i forgot to tell you that the student time at ETH was the best time in life i had (although i did well in all life periods so far, I really can not complain ;-)
i think at best you keep studying hard and invest some 500CHF stake into gridcoin. i loaded with credit card 500$ on bitstamp.net and then transferred it to poloniex.com and then moved to my gridcoin address. Soon they will be very valuable indeed!
i hope you have a credit card, when i was student i did not!
btw if you send me your gridcoin address i send you some!
Thats really nice of you! SL6G5faJgaBKs7qfsApj3qBzke4s14Z4ym
I don't have 500.- at the moment so I just keep on mining via grcpool until I have a decent amount and can go solo.
What did you study?
ok i send you 1500 GRC at midday when i am home... maybe it is enough to go solo, i do not know. i also started mining on the pool, but i had previously done quite a lot of work on BOINC and was very disappointed when i understood my BOINC stats will not improve anymore. so i deleted the account and went solo... we are mining with two friends on the account "Deep Space Computing" now. A kind of mini pool. The idea is to start a company if GRC price goes up enough...
computer science. G.P.U. was my semester thesis in main topic and then also my diploma thesis. but at the time we had "erster Vordiplom" and "zweiter Vordiplom" first and then 2 years of "Fachstudium" with an additional 6 month "Praktikum" in the industry...
I almost don't know how to reply to that, thank you so much!
Since I am really into the computational part of chemistry, I think I will try to go in that direction. I will take another lecture next semester on programming in C++ etc.
It sounds pretty cool your G.P.U and that you were able to do this during your studies. We have a lot of lab work in chemistry but no "projects" we could follow up to now. This may change in the upcoming semesters as we have semester thesis and a master thesis to writ in the upcoming 2-3 years.
As I mentioned, I would really get deeper into the computer sciences in my leisure time. Do you have any suggestions where to start? Should I find a project and learn by doing or are there good books etc?
find a project where you have fun. maybe something in chemistry that can be parallelized. i suggest you buy the book "CUDA by example" and start right programming in C with CUDA extensions on your Nvidia card... the examples in the book are neat. get them working!
Cool, thank you for the suggestion! I will look around for a used one or buy one myself since it is not too expensive.
Does the book start at the very basics, e.g. "What is parallelised computing?"? Because as of now my experience is very limited as I mentioned before.
yes believe me it starts at the very basic. it is in C, so you do not have the barrier of C++ with object oriented programming.
it does not teach you well about parallelised computing but it forces you to write parallelized code for simple examples. and remember simple things work, complex things never work!
you just have to install the Nvidia CUDA Development kit on your rig, it is quite a huge package.
1500 ? That's so generous of you!!
he common sense says that Swiss are rich ;-)
The generosity is still remarkable, even for the Swiss!
but 1500 GRC at 0.03 USD/GRC is 50CHF right? my 3 kids will not starve... btw the "CUDA by example" book should be also around 50CHF