GizmoQuest Computing Lab

20/01/2024

🔬✨ We're thrilled to announce the upcoming DeSci Kolkata: A 4-Day Ideathon on Decentralized Science happening from 5th-8th March 2024! 💡

Join us at the Blob Co-working Space for an immersive event where we dive deep into the potential of decentralized science. Let's unlock knowledge together and explore how we can independently shape the future of scientific discovery.

📆 Dates: March 5-8, 2024
📍 Location: 7th Floor, Yamuna Building, 86, Golaghata Rd, Dakshindari, Kolkata - 700048, West Bengal, India

No entry fee, just your time and ideas! 😉
RSVP now at +918777062387 or email us at [email protected].

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This event is organized by GizmoQuest Computing Lab and powered by https://DeSci.World, x.com/DeSciAsia, and https://NuNet.io.

Let's come together to empower science and innovation! 🌟

01/04/2022

Extremely delighted to start a full-time journey from today in the ever expansive world of Decentralized Science!

My laboratory or my own research had no medium of funding ever since I began my work from January 2016 and were all backed by occupational work payouts as well as my royalty savings from my GPU Computing book.

Fast-forward to late 2021, I realized that perhaps what most people call “mining rigs” could also serve as a platform for Research.

With my savings, I was then able to build such a platform that would finally make my laboratory truly independent and decentralized from institutional dependency. A single platform where I can carry out molecular and cellular dynamics for , as well as mine for !

Finally, my have liberated my Science🥲:

1. My GPUs fold & simulate for Bioinformatics.

2. After it's done, those GPUs mine for my laboratory funds without lying dormant.

3. Meanwhile, I spend this time in interpreting the results & concluding the work(1).

4. Cycle repeats.

This idea is like a "recursive cycle" for self-sustainability, because the same hardware that does science also funds it as well..thus a computing lab that literally uses Financial Computing to empower Scientific Computing. for !

But then, the question of “survival liquidity” arose. How would a solo researcher go about liquidating his crypto for daily bread in a country like , where will never become legal tender?

Life found a way...thank you Vauld🙏!

My encounter with crypto isn’t very ancient..well, maybe it is! When I first learned about Bitcoin, I did have a go about how to mine it…

27/11/2021

Most exchange owners and in seem to be pretty much clueless about what the exact definition of a private cryptocurrency is.

This confusion and chaos has been driven by the recent about the government apparently confused whether to do a or .

All those news articles that sprung up about the , initially were based upon this generic understanding that all are private in nature.

The term means and based on the idea of . It establishes a level of secrecy among transacting users.

has differentiated between private and public cryptocurrencies 4 years back.

However, the explanation for each of them seems to be difficult to understand for all.

Simply said, private cryptocurrency is defined as a cryptocurrency which is very privacy friendly and very difficult to trace in terms of transaction information. An example for a private crypto coin is Monero.

Lookup .

On the other hand, public cryptocurrency is defined as a cryptocurrency which is very public and transparent, making it traceable in terms of transaction information. An example for a public crypto coin is Bitcoin.

Lookup .

is directly proportional to .

Therefore, judging by the degree of anonymity, private coins rank much higher on that regard than public coins.

On November 2021 (last week), Bitcoin implemented an update called that greatly revolutionizes transparency in terms of the transaction aspect.

Be it a private or public coin, this update should be embraced by all kinds of developers, as it very intelligently manages to handle both KYC and non-KYC users.

References:

Know Your Coins: Public vs. Private Cryptocurrencies https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/know-your-coins-public-vs-private-cryptocurrencies-2017-09-22

Explain Like I’m Not a Developer: Taproot Privacy
https://braiins.com/blog/explain-like-im-not-a-developer-taproot-privacy

01/07/2021

The reason I put this together was AMD GPUs..have been facing a lot of anomalies in the installation process and so I added my workarounds through this article.

Learn how to setup OpenCL on Linux and Docker for both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs!

30/04/2021

Such a beautiful idea and just what we need during these difficult times..only a child can redesign a paper that could make it crystal clear for the general audience. That's real science(for all)!

"It’s amazing how much you can learn from the children reviewers."