1024-a Form 2018-2022

The universe is not a 1024-bit vector.Could the universe be encoded by a 1024-bit vector? No.Could it be encoded by some vector, much larger than a mere 16 quadwords? Yes. How large? Who knows? 2^1024 bits might be enough, but 2^2^1024 is more like it. Of course it’s not enough to just encode it. Some sort of machine would be required to translate the encoded description into the world I experience. The obvious way to analyze the question is in the context of the Virtual Reality Simulation hypothesis. The details are daunting, let’s leave it at that.To return to your question, if we found the universe was a 1024-bit vector, that would be like finding that 1+1 = 3, or everything is green unicorn square circles. IOW, complete and utter nonsense. So any conclusion can follow. It would, indeed, seem to remove all meaning from life.What if we found that the universe was represented in a simulator as a 2^1024 bit (or whatever) vector (i.e. array of bits, memory)? To me, that would make life more meaningful, because suddenly the universe, and life, would make sense.

Make it compellingQuickly and clearly make these points:Who you are and why you are doing thisHow long it takesWhats in it for me -- why should someone help you by completing the surveyExample: "Please spend 3 minutes helping me make it easier to learn Mathematics. Answer 8 short questions for my eternal gratitude and (optional) credit on my research findings. Thank you SO MUCH for helping."Make it convenientKeep it shortShow up at the right place and time -- when people have the time and inclination to help. For example, when students are planning their schedules. Reward participationOffer gift cards, eBooks, study tips, or some other incentive for helping.Test and refineTest out different offers and even different question wording and ordering to learn which has the best response rate, then send more invitations to the offer with the highest response rate.Reward referralsIf offering a reward, increase it for referrals. Include a custom invite link that tracks referrals.

NOOOOOOO. You are talking to a military romance scammer. I received an email from the US Army that directly answers your question that is pasted below please keep reading.I believe you are the victim of a military Romance Scam whereas the person you are talking to is a foreign national posing as an American Soldier claiming to be stationed overseas on a peacekeeping mission. That's the key to the scam they always claim to be on a peacekeeping mission.Part of their scam is saying that they have no access to their money that their mission is highly dangerous.If your boyfriend girlfriend/future husband/wife is asking you to do the following or has exhibited this behavior, it is a most likely a scam:Moves to private messaging site immediately after meeting you on Facebook or SnapChat or Instagram or some dating or social media site. Often times they delete the site you met them on right after they asked you to move to a more private messaging siteProfesses love to you very quickly & seems to quote poems and song lyrics along with using their own sort of broken language, as they profess their love and devotion quickly. They also showed concern for your health and love for your family.Promises marriage as soon as he/she gets to state for leave that they asked you to pay for.They Requests money (wire transfers) and Amazon, iTune ,Verizon, etc gift cards, for medicine, religious practices, and leaves to come home, internet access, complete job assignments, help sick friend, get him out of trouble, or anything that sounds fishy.The military does prall the soldier needs including food medical Care and transportation for leave. Trust me, I lived it, you are probably being scammed. I am just trying to show you examples that you are most likely being connned.Below is an email response I received after I sent an inquiry to the US government when I discovered I was scammed. I received this wonderful response back with lots of useful links on how to find and report your scammer. And how to learn more about Romance Scams.Right now you can also copy the picture he gave you and do a google image search and you will hopefully see the pictures of the real person he is impersonating. this doesn't always work and take some digging. if you find the real person you can direct message them and alert them that their image is being used for scamming.Good Luck to you and I'm sorry this may be happening to you. please continue reading the government response I received below it's very informative.   You have contacted an email that is monitored by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Unfortunately, this is a common concern. We assure you there is never any reason to send money to anyone claiming to be a Soldier online. If you have only spoken with this person online, it is likely they are not a U.S. Soldier at all. If this is a suspected imposter social media profile, we urge you to report it to that platform as soon as possible. Please continue reading for more resources and answers to other frequently asked questions:  How to report an imposter Facebook profile: Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16...   Answers to frequently asked questions:  - Soldiers and their loved ones are not charged money so that the Soldier can go on leave.  - Soldiers are not charged money for secure communications or leave.  - Soldiers do not need permission to get married.  - Soldiers emails are in this format: john.doe.mil@mail.mil Caution-mailto: john.doe.mil@mail.mil anything ending in .us or .com is not an official email account.  - Soldiers have medical insurance, which pays for their medical costs when treated at civilian health care facilities worldwide • family and friends do not need to pay their medical expenses.  - Military aircraft are not used to transport Privately Owned Vehicles.  - Army financial offices are not used to help Soldiers buy or sell items of any kind.  - Soldiers deployed to Combat Zones do not need to solicit money from the public to feed or house themselves or their troops.  - Deployed Soldiers do not find large unclaimed sums of money and need your help to get that money out of the country.  Anyone who tells you one of the above-listed conditions/circumstances is true is likely posing as a Soldier and trying to steal money from you.  We would urge you to immediately cease all contact with this individual.  For more information on avoiding online scams and to report this crime, please see the following sites and articles:   This article may help clarify some of the tricks social media scammers try to use to take advantage of people: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/ Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/   CID advises vigilance against 'romance scams,' scammers impersonating Soldiers  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749   FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx   U.S. Army investigators warn public against romance scams: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130... Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...   DOD warns troops, families to be cybercrime smart -Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450... Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...   Use caution with social networking  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146... Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...    Please see our frequently asked questions section under scams and legal issues. Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ or visit Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ .  The challenge with most scams is determining if an individual is a legitimate member of the US Army. Based on the Privacy Act of 1974, we cannot prthis information. If concerned about a scam you may contact the Better Business Bureau (if it involves a solicitation for money), or local law enforcement. If you're involved in a Facebook or dating site scam, you are free to contact us direct, (571) 305-4056.   If you have a social security number, you can find information about Soldiers online at Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... . While this is a free search, it does not help you locate a retiree, but it can tell you if the Soldier is active duty or not.  If more information is needed such as current duty station or location, you can contact the Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) by phone or mail and they will help you locate individuals on active duty only, not retirees. There is a fee of $3.50 for businesses to use this service. The check or money order must be made out to the U.S. Treasury. It is not refundable. The address is:  Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) 8899 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46249-5301 Phone: 1-866-771-6357  In addition, it is not possible to remove social networking site profiles without legitimate proof of identity theft or a scam. If you suspect fraud on this site, take a screenshot of any advances for money or impersonations and report the account on the social networking platform immediately.  Please submit all information you have on this incident to Caution-www.ic3.gov Caution-http://www.ic3.gov (FBI website, Internet Criminal Complaint Center), immediately stop contact with the scammer (you are potentially providing them more information which can be used to scam you), and learn how to protect yourself against these scams at Caution-http://www.ftc.gov Caution-http://www.ftc.gov (Federal Trade Commission's website)

It’s typically the case, but it’s not quite that simple.The Hardware Reason: LCDIn the case of an LCD display, all of your light and nearly all of your power consumption is from the LED backlight • the LCD itself only uses a tiny bit of power. And you might imagine that your LED doesn’t have to change relative to the LCD, which is also true.But here’s the thing• as you can see in the image, there’s a pixel/subpixel pitch • the size of a pixel or subpixel cell • and there’s the pixel/subpixel fill percentage • the size of the LCD pixel that’s actually transmitting light. It tends to be the case that as the LCD grows in density, the overall pixel fill rate is reduced a bit. This defines the effective transmittance of the display, how much light actually gets through. And so, to get the same relative brightness on a higher resolution screen, you need a bright backlight.So it’s reasonable to expect that a higher resolution LCD display will take a bit more power, because of the need for a brighter backlight, than a lower resolution display. However, it’s not always true, because technology advances in the direction of lower power as well. One of the reasons for the size of the pixels vs pixel cells is the surrounding electronics. When companies started using IGZO (Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide) transistors rather than amorphous silicon, they could shrink the transistor size and still deliver the same power. So IGZO displays got higher density without needing more light, at least over one generation. Going to quantum dot LCDs lower the power needed to deliver the same brightness of LED. So in comparing an older generation device to a newer generation, you can’t necessarily expect a higher resolution display to use more power.For any display, there’s also the issue of display refresh. And yes, it certainly would take the hardware more power, all things being equal, to refresh 24 million or 12 million subpixels than 6 million subpixels. But all is not necessarily equal. New generations of display hardware move to smaller chip geometries and lower voltages, so they don’t necessarily use more power, generation to generation. Within a single generation, the larger display’s refresh probably does use more power, but this is still fairly small compared with the issue of making light.The Hardware Reason: OLEDOrganic Light-Emitting Diode displays are different, in that the pixels/subpixels actually do emit light. So going, say, from a 1080p to a 1440p display, you have twice as many OLEDs, so the expectation might well be a display that uses twice the power.However, that’s never actually the case. For one, when going to higher density pixels, those LEDs are made smaller, yet, but specifically, lower power. That’s not just for marketing the higher density display, it’s actually a critical design factor. Because OLEDs actually do emit light, they’re also emitting a bit of energy in heat rather than light. Too much heat in an OLED panel and the Organic LEDs gradually start to fail. In fact, in some of the very early and hyper-expensive OLED televisions, this was a pronounced effect in 5–6 years. On my Galaxy Nexus, the OLED display was definitely starting to show its age after only three years.Some of Samsung’s AMOLED displays also use a “diamond pattern” in their OLED. If you’re a photographer, you may have seen this before • this is exactly the same kind of arrangement of photo sensors and filters on nearly all photo image sensors, called the Bayer pattern, after Bryce Bayer of Kodak, its inventor. In this, there’s a green subpixel for every display pixel, but red and blue are interpolated between pixels. This allows a display to use fewer actual OLEDs. It was first developed in an effort to keep OLED displays cooler and, thus, longer-lasting, but it’s also a power savings. And not something terribly noticeable on higher resolution phone displays.However they manage it, higher density OLED displays absolutely have to lower their per-pixel/subpixel power consumption. But it’s a goal of all OLED displays to reduce power for longer life. So there’s no guarantee of any specific relationship between power consumption and density. For example, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 AMOLED display moved to 1440p, versus the 1080p display in the Galaxy Note 3. And yet, the display uses 14% less power.Another Power Issues• Maybe?I was reminded about other issues with OLED displays. The well-know issue is, of course, that OLEDs create their own light. So a totally black screen is using almost no power, and a totally white screen is fully maxxed out. You can dim your overall display brightness to save power, but that runs into another another issue with OLED that’s not well known. But this was pretty visible, at least back on my old Galaxy Nexus.On an LCD display, your screen brightness is, of course, controlled by a PWM (pulse-width modulation) controller driving the backlight LEDs. That sets the brightest white you’re going to see, and the LCDs control all the dimming. It’s that cross polarization that sets the blackest black, which is why a typical LCD only manages around 1000:1 contrast ratio.The LEDs are pulse modulated because they don’t really work well with a dimmer, like you might think of for an incandescent light. The LED itself is a based on electrons jumping a band gap and releasing light. It’s functionally a voltage source• if you increase voltage against the LED’s characterics, it fights the LEDs natural voltage level and burns out quickly. If you drop below the characteristic voltage, electrons can’t jump the band gap, and so, no light. But LEDs turn on and off wicked fast, so we pulse an LED really fast to control the brightness.That’s one reason an OLED display can have a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The LED is off when you want pure black and fully on (well, three subpixel LEDs) when you want white. But you can slice that pretty thinly in-between, based on the pulse-width sent to each LED. But here’s the thing: you have to use that pulse modulation to control the overall screen brightness as well as the 256 or 1024 or whatever levels you want for the actual display content.So when I set the overall brightness too low on the Galaxy Nexus, the display essentially broke down• different rows of LEDs showed what was essentially patterned noise. The problem seemed to be that I was hitting the minimum on-time, and it wasn’t necessarily the same, row to row. You’d never see that with a brighter display, but it does set a lower limit on your power saving capability. It’s quite possible they’re getting faster OLEDs with the smaller subpixels on today’s displays, or they put a dimmer limit to prevent that ugly display. Of course, setting a dark theme will also save power on an OLED phone.The Software ReasonYou’ll find a number of modern phones • I know Samsung offers this • allow you set a lower screen resolution for some power savings. Obviously, they’re not actually shrinking the physical display resolution, nor are they only lighting up every fourth or sixteenth pixel. Samsung of course uses OLEDs in their premiere phones, so they could do that, it would save power, but it would deliver an unusable display.What they’re doing is restricting all of the operating system and GPU drawing to a smaller area, and using lower power rescaling, or even hardware pixel duplication support, to fill out the display. It certainly takes more CPU and GPU power to fill a 2160p or 1440p screen than a 1080p or 720p screen, so that’s what they’re saving on in these modes.

I live in Germany. I got an invite to the Quora partner program the day I landed in USA for a business trip. So from what I understand, irrespective of the number of views on your answers, there is some additional eligibility criteria for you to even get an email invite.If you read the terms of service, point 1 states:Eligibility. You must be located in the United States to participate in this Program. If you are a Quora employee, you are eligible to participate and earn up to a maximum of $200 USD a month. You also agree to be bound by the Platform Terms (https://www.quora.com/about/tos) as a condition of participation.Again, if you check the FAQ section:How can other people I know .participate?The program is invite-only at this time, but we intend to open it up to more people as time goes on.So my guess is that Quora is currently targeting people based out of USA, who are active on Quora, may or may not be answering questions frequently ( I have not answered questions frequently in the past year or so) and have a certain number of consistent answer views.Edit 1: Thanks to @Anita Scotch, I got to know that the Quora partner program is now available for other countries too. Copying Anuta’s comment here:If you reside in one of the Countries, The Quora Partner Program is active in, you are eligible to participate in the program.” ( I read more will be added, at some point, but here are the countries, currently eligible at this writing,) U.S., Japan, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Australia.11/14/2018Edit 2 : Here is the latest list of countries with 3 new additions eligible for the Quora Partner program:U.S., Japan, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, India and Brazil.Thanks to Monoswita Rez for informing me about this update.

Get an introduction to the target company through a referral if possible.  A lot of the companies that retain us even talk explicitly about "no agency referrals" on their website.  There are times that going in through HR or their staffing org can be to your benefit but more often that not it helps to have a referral with a "VP" in their title to get you that introduction.  You might still be a long way from getting a fee agreement signed (retained or contingent) but you'll be a lot close than being one of the hundreds of agency recruiters leaving voicemails for the VP HR or Staffing Manager.

A two-hour gig? That's 120 minutes of on stage performance or setup inclusion? I'll go with stage time, and also assume you've negotiated appropriate setup, and such.Another assumption is genre. I'll assume it's pop structured (as most radio friendly music is these days), so average song time would be roughly 3 and a half minutes…give or take.You're looking at roughly 30 songs. Thats…over 2 hours. Now, that's a rough estimate, as song times vary, etc.Oh, but wait. You'll need to include breaks, for “personnel” i.e. the band members. Normally, the drummer will need the longest break, followed by others. The drummer is using all four limbs continuously, so…they need them.If you're headlining, and depending on what you've negotiated, you might not be allotted “dead air”, so someone's staying on stage on breaks. Usually, that means at least a guitar player and/or the singer. Maybe not a long guitar solo, but…maybe an acoustic filler/singalong for the crowd. Plus, in between banter, there's that too (paring that down was always a plus for us back in the day)So, practice 30ish and get them flawless, because you're only going to need 20ish. Why 30ish? Because…more is good for flexibility. Always. Plus, it allows you to keep your set list semi-”fresh”, while only putting in a little extra work.setlist.fm - the setlist wiki is a good resource for structuring a setlist in a professional way (I wish it was around during the “trial and error” days.)

I was selected for a summer internship 2016.I tried to be very open while filling the preference form: I choose many products as my favorite products and I said I'm open about the team I want to join.I even was very open in the  location and start date to get host matching interviews (I negotiated the start date in the interview until both me and my host were happy.) You could ask your recruiter to review your form (there are very cool and could help you a lot since they have a bigger experience).Do a search on the potential team.Before the interviews,  try to find smart question that you are going to ask for the potential host (do a search on the team  to find nice and deep questions to impress your host). Prepare well your resume.You are very likely not going to get algorithm/data structure questions like in the first round. It's going to be just some friendly chat if you are lucky. If your potential team is working on something like machine learning, expect that  they are going to ask you questions about machine learning, courses related to machine learning you have and relevant experience (projects, internship). Of course you have to study that before the interview. Take as long time as you need if you feel rusty. It takes some time to get ready for the host matching (it's less than the technical interview)  but it's worth it of course.