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Comment · 4 years ago
It's about deminishing returns, the more ram you have the more likely you need to move bytes around.

For applications that are moving more bytes from drives to memory, this means we need to wait for the transfer and we end up preferring to delegate these applications to the cloud instead of running on our own machine, because servers are where the ram is increasing and abundant.

So basically we are doing a lot more big ram computation elsewhere and doing small ram computation on our desktop

Comment · 4 years ago
Please please check gridcoin.world
Comment · 4 years ago
you need to check gridcoin.us using energy to help scientific projects do computational is both satisfying and rewarding
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I am curious is there similarities to BOINC[1] ?

[1] boinc.berkeley.edu

Comment · 5 years ago
These here might want to check out Gridcoin https://gridcoin.us:

... while Bitcoin secures its network through an energy intensive[2] proof-of-work scheme, Gridcoin uses a more energy efficient proof-of-stake system. ... nearly all of the energy goes to science - https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/GridCoin ... Gridcoin compensates researchers for contributing computational power towards BOINC research using an energy-efficient Proof-of-Stake process, instead of generating heat and using computational power for a Proof-of-Work algorithm ... nearly all of the energy goes to science - https://gridcoin.us/wiki/ ... do not require huge amounts of energy consumption to be mined. This makes PoS coins such as Gridcoin a more eco-friendly alternative .. - https://coincentral.com/what-is-gridcoin/ Altcoins like SolarCoin and GridCoin are better for the environment - https://medium.com/@johnniec/altcoins-like-solarcoin-and-gri... What if we could mine cryptocurrency using meaningful calculations with additional real-world benefits?- https://medium.com/adventures-in-volunteer-computing/cryptoc... Sustainable, efficient technology - With its unique PoR/PoS hybrid technology, the GRC blockchain uses PoS to secure its blockchain, while the entire computational capacity is devoted to performing computations for scientific research via PoR. This leads to a very efficient, and lean network, whose computational power is used for a noble purpose. - https://coinswitch.co/info/gridcoin/what-is-gridcoin One of the main advantages of Gridcoin is that crunching (“mining”) does useful scientific research - https://gridcoin.us/wiki/advantages-and-features Gridcoin attempts to address and ease the environmental energy impact of cryptocurrency mining through its proof-of-research and proof-of-stake protocols, as compared to the proof of work system used by Bitcoin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin

The project can be found at https://gridcoin.us

p.s. the wallet can run on all major OS, the database will sync before you can finish you lunch and research crunching can be done on almost all devices including raspberrypi, android and old pcs

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
check Gridcoin.us
Comment · 6 years ago
You might want to take a look at projects under the World Community Grid which uses distributed computing for protein and other compound simulation
Comment · 6 years ago
Take a look at boinc there are many cancer related computation projects
Comment · 7 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
Been in touch with them over here in Hong Kong, and although they seemed professional in handling inquires, seems management is preventing them to be more active on local opportunties, also marketing is not effective against local competition.
Comment · 12 years ago
I agree, stenotype's advantage is not chording and I think our insight is similar; it's the phonetic shorthand which is breaking a word down into syllables which is always shorter than the number of characters (for English anyways).

I think of it as a readily available syllable->word database, which any chording mechanism can take advantage of.

You're right, arbitrary symbols is not stenotype's strength, but chording is somewhat, at least when number of key switches is limited and the whole keyboard size is really small.

I suppose the question is whether chording in a confined space is any better than a full size keyboard, because there is zero or less wrist movement and fingers do not need to reach out (no positional issues).

The answer to that question is yes, chording is better in a setting like mobile phones, which by the way is where we do most of our typing these days, so you shouldn't lose interest.

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