Hello there. I want to share a personal experience of how i got a job because of rubik's cube.
Well. I am 18 years old and a have been for about 6-8(i dont remember exactly) years long into computer programming. This year i entered the college and i am studying computer's science.
The same week the class started i meet a guy who as a speed(not much)-cuber, i was fascinated and on the same day o brought a rubik's cube and solved it with some YouTube's tutorial. At the end of the semester i needed to do an program for my language programming class. Then i made one cube solver, and, since i had a lot of time i expanded the program to do some parallel execution. But i didnt had lots of computer to execute the program, so i talked to some teachers and one of then was building on cluster on the department of computation. So i talked to him and he said that i must wait because the cluster wasnt finished. Well, i waited about 2 or 3 weeks and i grew impatient and started my own cluster project inside an open source group named Colmeia. One guy from the Colmeia worked on a cluster at the department of physics one year before and said that one lighting storm screwed up the cluster and it was nonfunctional since them. My 4 computers cluster was working and he said to me that one physic's teacher needed someone to rebuild the cluster. I found the professor, and he said that another student already had taken the opportunity. But... The student said that he would need about 3 months to make the cluster operational, i said that i would need only about one or two weeks. Then i took him to see my own "cluster" and he liked it, so the teacher took me instead the other student
. I made the cluster fully operational in 8 days and later i expanded the cluster to use Nvidia's CUDA. Now the cluster have 9.2 teraflops and i work 20 hours per week as a researcher and maintainer of the cluster, and i can use the cluster for my personal projects when no one is fully using the cluster.
So, this is my history of how did rubik's cube gave me a job.
I also started alone one speed cubing group. On the next semester it will be official. About 6 peoples makes part of the group now, including some teachers.
My name is Renan, i am Brazilian, student at UDESC(university of the state of Santa Catarina). I solve the 3x3x3 using (almost full)fridrich's method. My personal records are 27.03 avg and 22.22 single. I also solve the 2x2x2 with a record of 3.54 and an avg of 11.72. Now i am going into blind both on 2x2x2 and 3x3x3.
Well, i hope you guys liked and thanks for your attention.
Ps: Self taught English. I bet that there is a lot of grammar problems. Sorry for that.
Well. I am 18 years old and a have been for about 6-8(i dont remember exactly) years long into computer programming. This year i entered the college and i am studying computer's science.
The same week the class started i meet a guy who as a speed(not much)-cuber, i was fascinated and on the same day o brought a rubik's cube and solved it with some YouTube's tutorial. At the end of the semester i needed to do an program for my language programming class. Then i made one cube solver, and, since i had a lot of time i expanded the program to do some parallel execution. But i didnt had lots of computer to execute the program, so i talked to some teachers and one of then was building on cluster on the department of computation. So i talked to him and he said that i must wait because the cluster wasnt finished. Well, i waited about 2 or 3 weeks and i grew impatient and started my own cluster project inside an open source group named Colmeia. One guy from the Colmeia worked on a cluster at the department of physics one year before and said that one lighting storm screwed up the cluster and it was nonfunctional since them. My 4 computers cluster was working and he said to me that one physic's teacher needed someone to rebuild the cluster. I found the professor, and he said that another student already had taken the opportunity. But... The student said that he would need about 3 months to make the cluster operational, i said that i would need only about one or two weeks. Then i took him to see my own "cluster" and he liked it, so the teacher took me instead the other student
. I made the cluster fully operational in 8 days and later i expanded the cluster to use Nvidia's CUDA. Now the cluster have 9.2 teraflops and i work 20 hours per week as a researcher and maintainer of the cluster, and i can use the cluster for my personal projects when no one is fully using the cluster. So, this is my history of how did rubik's cube gave me a job.
I also started alone one speed cubing group. On the next semester it will be official. About 6 peoples makes part of the group now, including some teachers.
My name is Renan, i am Brazilian, student at UDESC(university of the state of Santa Catarina). I solve the 3x3x3 using (almost full)fridrich's method. My personal records are 27.03 avg and 22.22 single. I also solve the 2x2x2 with a record of 3.54 and an avg of 11.72. Now i am going into blind both on 2x2x2 and 3x3x3.
Well, i hope you guys liked and thanks for your attention.
Ps: Self taught English. I bet that there is a lot of grammar problems. Sorry for that.
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