Twenty years later, we reconnected over an unusual project: integrating with a SCUIID workflow (Scalable Continuous Unique Identifier). What started as a nerdy experiment became a profound journey through memory, probability, and friendship.
I was intrigued. Not just by the tech, but by the chance to play RPS with my childhood friend again — even if through a terminal. The NVIDIA Tesla V100 is not your everyday GPU. With 640 Tensor Cores, 5120 CUDA cores, and 32GB of HBM2 memory, it’s designed for AI training, molecular simulations, and massive parallel computing. Alex had access to a V100 node through his university lab. rps with my childhood friend v100 scuiid work
One evening, a message popped up: "Remember RPS? What if we build something with it? I have access to a V100 cluster. And I’m dealing with this annoying SCUIID system at work." Twenty years later, we reconnected over an unusual
— blending nostalgia, game theory, and a tech twist. RPS with My Childhood Friend: How a V100 & SCUIID Work Brought Us Back Together Introduction: More Than Just a Game We all have that one childhood friend — the person who knew you before braces, bad haircuts, and career anxiety. For me, that friend is Alex. And our bond was forged not over video games or sports, but over the simplest, most ancient of hand games: Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) . Not just by the tech, but by the
We proposed a fix: use RPS outcome patterns as a . Every RPS round’s result (0 = tie, 1 = Player A win, 2 = Player B win) would be fed into a Fisher-Yates shuffle for the SCUIID sequence.
– Stands for Scalable Collision-Resistant Unique Identifier . It’s a distributed ID generation protocol used in high-throughput databases. Alex’s work required generating billions of unique IDs without overlap. He wanted to test randomness distribution… using RPS as a metaphor.
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