Cost to Deploy a Contract on the Ethereum Network

The cost of your deployment is based on 5 things, with a 6th affecting the estimated cost of deployment:

The flat fee of 32k gas. The CREATE op code, which is called during contract creation, costs a fixed 32k gas. This is of course on top of the 21k gas of a normal tx. Note: During contract creation from an EOA (non-contract address), the CREATE opcode isn’t explicitly called. The return value of the tx is actually used to create the contract, but the fixed 32k fee is the same. The amount of bytecode in the compiled contract. More bytecode means more storage, and each byte costs 200 gas. This adds up very quickly. Note that inherited parent contracts are also included in the bytecode. The TX data. All the bytecode your sending as tx data costs 68 for non-zero bytes and 4 for zero bytes. The code actually runs before creation of the contract, e.g. the constructor of the contract. If the constructor requires a lot of computation to generate the bytecode, then it’ll be even more expensive. The gas price. The higher gas price you use, the higher it will cost. See  

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Quantum Hardware – Notes

Dilution Refrigerator, uses liquid helium
Absolute zero, optimal operating temp – 273 celcius

Top to bottom – different stages of cooling, filters, amplifiers

Sample holder holds quantum processor

CPU vs QPU

CPU – data/voltage/1’s 0’s flows through the gates (and, or, xor, etc.)
QPU – Data is on the chip, circuit is on the chip, pulses are sent to the chip 

chip created by lithography, metal deposition, all, oxide, etc.

Quantum Gates

Called block sphere
Pulses represent the gates.

Rotate qubit from ground state to 1
Example: Ex Pi rotation

Send another pulse, Pi/2

Quantum Entaglement

2 Qubits, and some interaction between them

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Have some time?

This single list of link has fueled a lot of reading for me over the past few months … The most counterintuitive facts in all of mathematics, computer science, and physics:

It is possible to compute over encrypted data without access to the secret key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption It is possible to prove that you know a value x, without conveying any information apart from the fact that you know the value x: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof It is possible to play poker by telephone in a trusted way which prevents cheating: http://math.stonybrook.edu/~scott/blair/How_play_poker.html If customers take on average 10 minutes to serve and they arrive randomly at a rate of 5.8 per hour then the waiting time for one teller is five hours while the waiting time for two tellers is 3 minutes: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/21/what-happens-when-you-add-a-new-teller/ There exists a set of three dice, A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but it is not true that A rolls higher than C more than half the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice Causation does not imply correlation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03118 The Earth makes 366.25 rotations around its axis per year. (Related: 0% selected the right answer on this SAT question: Circle A has 1/3 the radius of circle B, and circle A rolls one trip around circle B. How many times will circle A revolve in total? youtube.com/watch?v=kN3AOMrnEUs) There is a surface that has only one side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip It is possible to travel downwind faster than the wind: 

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Memorable Rides: Sedona, AZ

Another rad guys trip to Sedona, Arizona!

Day 1Drive from Denver to Sedona
Day 2Mezcal, Chuck Wagon, Cockscomb, Hiline
Day 3Templeton, Slim Shady
Day 4Skeleton Point Hike in Grand Canyon, Llama, Little Horse
Day 5HT Trail, Scorpion
Day 6Manzanita – Adobe Jack, Javelina

The SAP Community

Reminiscing and looking back on this, its strange to think that I have had a SAP Community or Forum account since my late teens … Multiple TechEd events, talks, blogs, being a SAP Mentor, a job at SAP, friends, colleagues, and most recently a part of the SAP Champion program has been a personally rewarding commitment over the last 20 odd years … #timeflies

https://people.sap.com/paul.aschmann