How this whole thing started

 Official Launch of SoloResearch

SoloResearch was launched as a means for me to leverage my skills at this time of uncertainty - with various big tech company layoffs, high inflationary macroeconomic environment, and super-exponential growth of technological and scientific advancements.

Launching my own business and website has been a dream of mine - however, it seemed to always take a backseat.  Thanks to the Google Business ecosystem afforded to me, I am able to seamlessly integrate various domains for my websites and consulting business advertisements.

The odd beginnings of this idea came from a discovery I made about Worldcoin - which promotes the idea of the merging of digital and physical biometric identification. Imagine the merging of your digital twin with your physical self - under a blockchain architecture underneath.  It is almost as if your physical and digital selves are working together - as with the Alter Ego game (which originally came out on the ZX Spectrum microcomputers then ported to NES ROMs in 2011.

Worldcoin is the brain child of Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI (of the as-of-now famous ChatGPT and other variants such as GPT-4).  The idea is to connect biometric security and digital security into one; however, there has been controversies surrounding Worldcoin due to the very nature of combining the physical and digital and linking them semi-permanently.

Regardless of this, I was intrigued in Worldcoin and wanted to join the waitlist - and instead of creating a normal Github link and associating a business saying "self/student/independent/etc.", I decided to create a whole new Github profile, a new website, email, and in order to package all of this, a whole new business.

Although this completely roundabout and utterly grandiose task, inadvertently this led to a "creating a forest for a tree".  This "happy little accident" (as Bob Ross may call it) went from "pulling a sword out at the sight of a mosquito" (a phrase from 見蚊拔劍 (견문발검) - an example of  Sajaseong-eo, which are Korean lexeme derived from Chinese characters,  similar to Chengyu in Chinese four-character idioms or Yojijukugo in Japanese) to spawning a new leaf in my tree of life, adding a potential alternate (or additional) path.

I hope that I can update information here that is interesting in the quantitative sense, interesting informational amalgamation and research synthesis, and startup ideologies.  See here for regular updates on interesting technological advancements or scientific discoveries, as well as their relation to the core of my interest areas - quantitative research and methodology, data science, finance & economics, and computer science and engineering.