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I wrote a Bloom Filter for college in CUDA in 2009. My advisor was a former Nvidia guy. I then went on to not do any GPU programming at all in my career.

I probably could have made $100,000,000 if I had made a different choice there.



Same here.

I'm quite sure I wrote one of the first GPU optimized bioinformatics toolkits ... out of curiosity, on a GeForce 8, using CUDA v1(!) back in 2009.

Then went on to do other things ... missed the big bux.


Improbable considering it was a CS idea in 1970. Surely every idea for GPGPU was fair game.

I wrote a hashcash implementation on a GPU 10 years ago. Pretty sure it's valueless now.


I think their implication is not that they weote a $100M one off but instead that if they had stayed in GPU programming they could now be making the proverbial big bucks in the current ai boom


I ported a machine learning algorithm to CUDA for my honours project, shrugged my shoulders and went into embedded programming


Could have also bought Bitcoin and made a lot more... just saying.




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