I will stop by discussing several examples. The first example is the problem of Pythagorean triangles. As everybody knows, right-angled triangles satisfy Pythagoras' theorem, where the sum of the squares of the sides is the square of the hypotenuse. So we have the usual three, four, five triangles, the simplest example. So this leads to the following problem. How can we classify all Pythagorean triangles? So there are several ways of doing this. I'm going to discuss an algebraic way and a geometrical way. So first of all, let's do the algebraic solution. So we want to solve x squared plus y squared equals z squared with x, y, and z integers. So here's the algebraics. We may as well assume that x, y, and z are co-prime because if any two have a common factor, we can just divide out by it. If we look at the equation mod four, we know that x squared, y squared, and z squared are all congruent to zero or one, mod four. And since they can't all be even, we see that z must be odd and one of x, y must be even and the other must be odd. So we may as well take y to be odd without any loss of generality and x to be even. Then we can rearrange the equation as y squared equals z minus x times z plus x. And we notice that these two numbers are co-prime. Since x and z are co-prime, the only possible common factors, these two numbers would be two, but since z is odd and x is even, they can't have a common factor of two. So they're co-prime. Now, if we've got two numbers that are co-prime whose product is a square, then both the numbers must be squares, at least opt to sign. So by changing the sign of this, if necessary, we can assume that this is a square, say r squared, and this is a square, say s squared. Well, then we can solve for z and x. We find z is equal to r squared plus s squared over two and x is equal to s squared minus r squared over two and y is equal to rs. Here, r and s will be odd. And co-prime. And for example, you can read off some solution. So if r and s is one, three, or one, five, or three, five, then we find the solutions, three squared plus four squared equals five squared, or five squared plus 12 squared equals 13 squared, or eight squared plus 15 squared equals 17 squared, and so on. So that's a perfectly good solution, but it's not completely satisfactory. It's slightly messy because we've had to assume, we've had to pick one of these numbers to be odd and we have r and s must both be odd and so on. So it's a slightly messy. So that's the algebraic solution. Now we're going to discuss a geometric solution in the style of algebraic geometry. For this, we want to solve x squared plus y squared equals z squared in integers. Well, integers don't work terribly well geometrically. So let's instead put big x equals x over z and big y equals y over z. And then we find x squared plus y squared is equal to one, x, y, rational. And I guess you all recognize this equation. It's just the equation of a circle. So what we're trying to do is to find rational points on a circle where a rational point is, of course, one whose coordinates are rational. Now, since we've made this geometric, we can draw a picture of what is going on and it just looks like this. So here we have a unit circle and we're trying to find rational points on it. And there's a very simple way of doing this. What we do is we pick this point here and here we have some point with rational coordinates x, y. And we just draw the line through x, y and this special point minus one, zero. And it intersects the y-axis in a point zero t. I'm using t instead of y because I've already used y for that. So if you look at this for about very briefly, you notice that t is just the slope of the line. So the slope is equal to t. And we can calculate t. We see that t is just y over x plus one. And conversely, so if we're given x and y, we can construct a rational number t. And conversely, given t, we can find x and y and these will be got by solving some quadratic equation and we know one of the roots of the equation is rational. So the other root must also be rational. Anyway, we can do this explicitly as follows. So we know y is equal to t times x plus one and substituting in, we find t squared x plus one squared plus x squared equals one. Rearranging it slightly, we find x plus one times t squared plus one x plus t squared minus one equals zero. And this factors and of course, x plus one is just this point here, which we're not really all that interested in. And this root here corresponds to this point here. So we find x equals one minus t squared over one plus t squared y equals two t over one plus t squared. And obviously, big x and big y, both rational with t is rational. So what we have here is a correspondence between points on the circle. They almost correspond to points on the y-axis. Well, they don't quite correspond because there's one slight problem. If we chose this point here, then we would kind of be trying to find the intersection of a vertical line with the y-axis, which doesn't really work. So this is the points on the circle which are not point minus one zero. So we almost have a one-to-one correspondence between the circle and the y-axis, a straight line. In algebraic geometry, this is called a birational correspondence or a birational equivalence. So a birational equivalence roughly means one that is an equivalence except on subsets of code I mentioned at least one.  So this concept is uninteresting in the smooth manifolds and there's a characteristic feature of algebraic geometry. This correspondence between the line and the circle is also used in calculus. Here it's called the Weierstrich substitution. The Weierstrich substitution is one for use used for evaluating integrals of some function of sine theta and cosine theta. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this point X, Y, if this angle is theta, then X is equal to cosine of theta and Y is equal to sine of theta. And T can be worked out because if you remember Euclidean geometry, you can see this angle here is theta over two. So T is tan of theta over two. And now you may recognize the Weierstrich substitution. You remember if you've got an integral involving cosine theta and sine theta, you put T equals tan theta over two and turn cosine theta and sine theta into these rational functions of T. So any integral of sine theta and cosine theta can be turned into an integral of some rational function of T. In calculus textbooks, this is obviously presented with this really mysterious puzzling substitution that comes from nowhere at all. But from algebraic geometry, it's clear where this substitution comes from. It's simply the easiest, my rational equivalence between a straight line and a circle. So what you're doing is you're turning integrals over a circle into integrals over a straight line in the simplest possible way. Anyway, we should just have a quick example. So what this says is if you choose a rational number T, you get a solution to, you get a Pythagorean triangle. So let's try T equals a half. Then we see X is equal to three-fifths. Y is equal to four-fifths. So we get the solution three squared plus four squared equals five squared. And similarly for other rational values of T. Well, treating this as a geometrical problem rather than algebraic problem gives you additional insight into the solutions. In particular, circle forms a group. In fact, you can identify it with just the group of rotations of the plane fixing the origin. And we can work out the group operation fairly easily. For instance, suppose you've got two X1, Y1 and X2, Y2, and you wish to multiply them by the group operation. Well, this is just X1, X2 minus Y1, Y2 to Y2 plus X2, Y1. Where does this formula come from? Well, it's just the well-known formula for the cosine and sine of some of two angles. So we can think of this as being cosine theta one, sine theta one. When I say it's well-known, I mean, it used to be well-known. Of course, nobody memorizes these things anymore. So this is cosine theta two, sine theta two. And this is just cosine theta one, cosine theta two, minus sine theta one, sine theta two. And I'm not only getting the board of writing this out, but I've run out of room, so I'll leave you to fill in this one. So of course, this is just the well-known formula for cosine theta one plus theta two. So here we have the addition of angles, which is the group operation of the circle corresponds to this operation on the circle in rectangular coordinates. This is one of the simplest examples of something called an algebraic group. So informally, an algebraic group is a group whose group operation is given by polynomials. And so here the polynomials of that and that. There's another way of thinking of algebraic groups or for that matter algebraic varieties. You can think of this as being a functor from rings to groups. I explain what this means. Suppose we take any commutative ring R, pretty much all rings in algebraic geometry are commutative by default. Then we can map this to the set of pairs x, y in R squared with x squared plus y squared equals one. And now we can define the group operation by this formula here. Well, we should of course also have an identity of a group or the identity we can just take to be the point one zero and the inverse x, y inverses, of course, just going to be x and y and y and y and y. And you can easily check that if R is any commutative ring whatsoever, then the set of solutions of this equation forms a group under these operations. For example, if we call this algebraic group G, we can ask what is G of the complex numbers. So if you put the real numbers in here, we just get the unit circle. So if we put the real numbers in here, we just get the unit circle. So what would the analog of the circle be for the complex numbers? Well, it's the set of points x squared plus y squared equals one with x, y complex numbers. So let's see if we can figure out what that is. Well, that's easy enough because of the complex numbers, this factorizes as x plus i, y times x minus i, y. And we can set x squared plus i, y minus i, y. So x plus i, y equal to z, in which case this is equal to z bar. Next, not z bar, it's equal to z minus one. So all we have, one of the set of complex numbers that have an inverse. So this is the set of non-zero complex numbers z. So the circle group, you can say it's real points are just the usual circle of radius one say, and it's complex points turn out to be, you can identify them with the group of non-zero complex numbers. So to summarize this example, we have seen several different ways of thinking about a circle. So this is ways to view the circle. So first of all, we can just think of it as being a subset of the real plane. Secondly, we can think of it as being a polynomial x squared plus y squared minus one. And of course, if we've got any collection of polynomials in several variables, we can think of them as being a subset of some vector space. So the set of zeros of such collection of polynomials is often called an algebraic set. Thirdly, we can think of the ideal generated by x squared plus y squared minus one in the ring of polynomials in two variables. So this ideal is of course just the ideal of all functions that vanish on the circle. So we can try going from ideals to subsets of space. So we just, if we've given an ideal, we can take the set of all common zeros. And conversely, if we've got some subset of the plane, then we can look at the ideal of all polynomials vanishing on it. We'll be discussing this in much more detail in later lectures. Well, if we've got an ideal, we can take a quotient might, so we can look at the ring r x y modulo, this ideal. This is called the coordinate ring of the circle. And we can think of this as being the collection of all functions on the circle. Well, you may think it's not all functions on the circle, but if you're an algebraic geometry, you can use all functions on the circle, because the only functions we're going to allow are going to be polynomials. So this is the set of all polynomial functions on the circle, which are the only functions, algebraic geometers are really comfortable with. You can also think of this as being a smooth manifold. So one thing you can do an algebraic geometry is pretend that things are smooth manifolds and start applying methods of differential geometry to this. This doesn't always work because in the first place, we want to work over fields like finite fields where smooth manifolds don't make a whole lot of sense. And secondly, as we will see fairly soon, you can also have solutions of equations that aren't smooth. Number six, we can think of this as being a group or rather an algebraic group. So algebraic group theory is quite a big area in algebraic geometry. And another way of looking at it is as a functor from rings to groups or sets, if we don't want to think of it as being group. So this is a very powerful method of studying algebraic sets introduced mainly by growth and dick. Thank you.


Hi everyone, I'm Marina Biefsa, I'm the head of customer success at Agronome. Thank you all for joining today and with us we have Michalis as well. Michalis, would you like to introduce yourself? Of course Marina, so hello everyone from me as well. I am Michalis, my background is in computer science. I've been with Agronome over the past roughly eight years now. I've been with specifically our data product, Fudakai, since it's very beginning. And I'm working in Agronome as a data engineer and also leading our data team. Marina, back to you. Thank you so much Michalis. Here is our topic for today, we hear a lot about Fudshifty workflows. Fudshifty executives are unsure about the best ways they should process, combine and integrate high quality data regarding external risks into their workflows. Many already have comprehensive streamline methods for the collection, harmonization and integration of this volume of data into their everyday workflows. However, the extremely complex processes around the integration and the use of horizon scanning tools make the successful management of extensive datasets very complex. The challenge remains the same for everyone. How can food and beverage companies seamlessly process, combine and integrate large volumes of data into their already complex workflows? And here Michalis will give us an overview of this from a data perspective. Thanks Marina. And indeed, what we're here to talk about today is how can we integrate a food safety related data into our existing workflows, whatever we're working in the food industry. Specifically, what we plan on talking about today is that we have identified three specific use cases for us to showcase what kind of insights can be extracted from integrating such data into our day to day workflows. But specifically, what kind of processes are the ones that are expected to be affected when doing such integration? What are also the challenges involved in such a data integration? And finally, what we plan on doing throughout this webinar is also for every use case that we will present, we also plan on showing specific examples of how one can make use of the data that we have at our disposal, of the data that they have at our disposal, in order to enhance the data decision making. Moving on to the next slide, we're talking, you heard the word data a number of times. And indeed, in Agrono and specifically in Fudakai, what we have been doing ever since 2016 is that we have been collecting and processing food safety related data that are announced around the world. What have we done this over the past roughly eight years? You can see a quick snapshot of the data we currently have at our disposal on the top side of your screen. You are seeing specifically the data sources we are collecting, we're aggregating data from. You can see that they cover pretty much the whole world. And on the lower side of the screen, you see specific data insights directly taken from our data platform or database. More specifically, what one should pay attention to is that, as I'm sure many people in the audience already know, in order to cover holistically from a data perspective, the food safety sector, a number of different data types are involved. Food recalls and borderizations are one, but we can also, we need to also take into account other kinds of data like price data, production data, trade data, and so on. And using collecting all of this data has resulted, at least for us, in having collected and processed more than one billion data records coming from food safeties around the world. Thank you so much for the overview and we'll talk a lot more in detail about the use cases in a minute. Before we start, we have a quick poll for you that we would like for you to answer. I'm going to share the poll with you. What challenges do you encounter when incorporating high quality food safety data into your daily workflows? And here you have a few potential answers. I'll give everyone a couple minutes to answer. See, we are at 53% of participation. We give you everyone a few more, a little more time, one more minute, and then I'll end the poll. Very interesting results I'd say so far. Definitely, and we'll be able to discuss a little bit of this further down the workflow as well. And I'll share the results. Moving on, we'll start with our first use case. So the first thing we'll discuss a little bit more is how companies tend to develop complex monthly reports to share with their teams to take preventive measures. Many food companies have managed to streamline methods for the collection, harmonization and integration of their data into their everyday workflows. As they need that data, one, to develop complex monthly reports on individual ingredients as well as suppliers, to later analyze and colorate that information into actual insights for distribution-relevant teams. They also tend to utilize those reports to develop trends and forecasts every month to share with each plant manager for them to set the appropriate preventive measures in place. However, what happens when the data changes constantly, when they need to add new ingredients in their supply chain, and new suppliers, and when the data sources for monitoring and alerting are multiple? A workflow can be set, but the data needs to be updated and validated on a constant basis to stay ahead of any emerging risks and potential incidents. And at the same time, to inform internal teams as well as plant managers to take the appropriate measures. And Michalis here has a very relevant scenario for one of our partners that he'd be able to share and walk you through a bit of the process. Great, Marina. Thank you very much. Now before we dive into this first scenario we have identified, interestingly enough, this one definitely applies to the result of the poll that actually scored the highest. So during the poll, what most of the people in this webinar mentioned is that the main challenge is scanning the web throughout the heterogeneous data sources, different languages, and being able to identify which are the data records relevant to their own day-to-day work. Indeed, this is the use case we plan on showing as the first one. And now to dive in deeper into this first use case, we know and the audience knows way better than we do that the food safety sector is a very complex one in terms of the supply chain. Various food companies are sourcing ingredients from various regions around the world using numerous suppliers all spread around the world. What we are showing here is a way to easily integrate, easily simulate your own, your internal supply chain within a system, a solution such as our own food archive. In the image on the top left side, we have added a specific what we call preference. Basically this simulates your own supply chain in terms of ingredients and geographies, regions where you are sourcing your ingredients from. So basically in the terms of this example, let's assume that we are sourcing specific herbs and spices like basil, cinnamon, and so on from countries based in Asia, like India, Thailand, and Turkey. This is one side of the supply chain we want to simulate in a data system such as food archive. The other one is incorporating supplier related data. Most of the food companies out there are already using numerous suppliers around the world. What we are showing here is a way for this data to be incorporated into a system such as our own and say that okay, I am working with supplier a which is based in Thailand and I'm getting basic cumin and the rest of the ingredients you are seeing in this image. And I'm also working with supplier be a supplier based in New Delhi, India, from which I'm getting chili peppers and basically. What are the effect the advantages of integrating, simulating your supply chain within a system such as food archive. First of all, I'm pretty sure there is no human being that can go through one billion data records. So you can get customized email alerts for every food safety related record that's announced out there and that much is one of your preferences that's relevant to your supply chain. But we can, you can also incorporate the fact that we are working, we are living in a dynamic environment such as the food safety sector. You can also incorporate updates to your day to day work updates to discuss the customizations that we have done to also reflect a better your day to day work flow. So step number one, add your own ingredients, add your own suppliers, get email alerts, but also incorporate any potential updates. If we move on to the next slide, however, most of the people in the audience, I'm pretty sure that they are generating reports on a specific on specific intervals like monthly reports, three months reports or yearly reports based on their own supply chain. Again, using a system that has been already customized to feed your own supply chain, you can generate this kind of reports automatically be able to store them if in case they are very complex one and it generate them anytime you need them. What's important to mention here is that as the supply chain as your supply chains are getting more and more complex, you can generate this kind of reports and share them to the to the matching shareholders within your organization. For instance, that we have a specific monthly report that we're generating for every supplier we're working with that we are sourcing heads from another one for, I don't know, fruits and vegetables and so on. You can generate as many of these reports as you want, take into account newly available data and share them with whoever is relevant to receive this kind of insights. Thank you so much for the explanation in the showcase. Here's another poll for you. I'm going to share it with you away. Second, perfect on a scale from one to five how useful would you find such a complete customization report automation in your workflows. And we see that for most of our partners it is vital that they have the ability to continuously update their customization and preferences as their supply chain changes. It's vital to get a lot of information on time and to be able to be fully prepared. And then of course share that with their partners, plan managers, suppliers, any stakeholder involved in the process. I see five for the most part, which is great. I'll give everyone one more minute as you see there's some more replies coming in. And the poll. Thank you so much for taking the time and participating. Moving on into our next use case. We have noticed through our partners that many retailers have extremely complex processes around the use of horizon scanning tools to monitor their white label finished products as well as suppliers in several retail locations around the world. It's vital that they don't only monitor external data through various data sources, but also have the ability to integrate their own data into such platforms. In order one to have a harmonized view of their internal and external data in a secret dashboard that supports with risk monitoring assessment as well as prevention, but also export food safety data analytics on finished products. Hazards and suppliers from horizon scanning tools, which they then can provide to their store managers in order for them to take the appropriate preventive measures worldwide. We highly believe we have a use case here that we could showcase in a potential scenario that would elaborate on this a little bit more. Marina and thank you very much for the intro. Now, before we dive into this second scenario have identified as we mentioned initially, we talked about the data that are out there and that are made publicly available. Indeed, it's a lot of data. It takes some time to go through them identify the relevant ones to you, but this is only one side of the story. The other one is the data that is internal this generated internally from food commands around the world. I'm pretty sure that almost everyone in the audience who is working at the food company, they are already doing some kind of internal for instance lab test or audits to their own suppliers. And this kind of data are stored into various systems within an organization at times possibly disconnected with one another. Such systems that you may already be familiar to is SAP or Salesforce or whichever system you are using to store your own internal lab test or audits course and so on your own internal data. What we want to showcase in this second scenario that we are showing here is a way to combine these two different data sources. What does the outside view the publicly available data talk about and what do your own data talk about. Now, as you can understand, the biggest challenge here is actually making these two different data sets talking the same language. This is from a technical perspective what's called harmonization process so making sure that whatever the external data or the internal data are talking about. They are talking about the same thing. They're using the same kind of terminology, the same vocabulary is only after this step has taken place. Can we be able to extract data and sites combining these two data sets going through the specific example we have identified here. Again, we're using our similar suspects supplier a and supplier b and we have identified two different sources of data we will use in order to perform a supplier is concerned for these two suppliers highlighted in blue. Are the insights directly extracted from the public available data. So for instance supplier a has been involved in roughly 30 calls happening on a national level 25 border dissections 14 inspections and so on. Whereas supplier b as far as the publicly available data is concerned. We only know that he has been here she has been involved in seven food records that have taken place on a national level. This is one side of the story. And this data can be used of course to generate the risk assessment for the specific suppliers. What we want to showcase here is actually highlighted in green. What if we add internal data into the mix. As we said, food companies are generating their own data internally, whether it's lab test or this course and so on. How about taking them into account as well when performing suppliers assessment highlighted in green. In this specific example, we are adding the output the score we are assigning for each supplier we're working on, we're working with, based on the audits we're doing. Main advantage here is that we can combine both of these data sets and perform supplier is assessment on top. What we want to also showcase in this example is that interestingly enough, if you look at the data actually supplier a by taking into account both the sources of data scores in terms of risk assessment five times more as opposed to supplier b. And this can be an indicator that something out there is being announced for the supplier that we may want to take into account. And what we can do to tackle that Marina if we move on to the next slide is dive into further detail. So what we're showing here again we're sticking with supplier a he's the one that has scored highest in terms of supplier is assessment with a score of 53 specifically this for whatever reason catches our eye and want to dive in deeper and say, okay, what actually happened. What is the reason behind this assessment. Again, what I want to say to showcase here is that we and any system like our own data analytics solution has a way to provide a unified and aggregated view on top of data in this specific example for supply array. We are aggregating and this is highlighted in blue, all of the data we know about for this specific supplier, whether it is this data is coming from a publicly available data source or an internal data set provided by the food company. We're talking about this is irrelevant. The important thing is that all of this data are combined together and are shown here in one unified view, both in terms of total numbers like how many inspections have they can place how many food recall how many border rejections. Also in terms of risk assessment. What is the risk assessment for the specific supplier given the food recalls and border rejection one knows what there is assessment given the geography, the specific supplier the region, the specific supplier this company is based in, but also highlighted in green. The interesting thing here is that we are also able to identify insights concerning risk assessment in this case specifically for the ingredients want is sourcing for this supplier highlighted in green here are out of all of the ingredients we are sourcing from the supply array. What are the hazards the prevalent hazards for each and what's the respective risk assessment for that main advantage of using such an aggregated view for a for a specific supplier you are working with is that you can both get an overview of what the food safety authorities are out there are announcing for this specific company, but also how does this reflect to your own supply chain to the ingredients you are sourcing for from this one. This covers the supplier side of things. If we move on to the next slide and as we mentioned initially a, the food safety sector in order to cover holistically from data perspective the food safety sector, more data need to be added into the mix. Incidents for the course important sections one, but many other data are also important. Love test is one such a case is such a case. What we want to showcase here is that as the audience is more familiar than us in that is that internally food companies are performing their own lab test and they are integrating them internally into some system. You use a solution such as for the guy to integrate this kind of data this wealth of data this insights you are generating already internally, integrate it into such a solution as for the guy, combined with a publicly available one as highlighted here with in this drop down that we have data source so we have the food safety sector of Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands, and so on. But we have also specific data source my company incorporated that is dedicated to our own data data. We are the only ones of course we have access to but can use this in combination with other data sources and generate insights on top. An example of such an insight could be what are the food safety authorities out there taking for herds and spices what are the specific parameters they're taking for when performing their own lab test, and are the lab test we are doing internally in coherence to what the food safety services are out there are checking and if not perhaps we should perform some kind of update to our lab test plan or to our audit plan. Discover this part of the use case. And finally, Marina if we move on to the next slide. We all know that most probably internally you're already familiar with BI tools used for data analytics. I'm pretty sure that most of the people in the audience are already familiar with Power BI provided by Microsoft. But internally you already have such a system in place, a data and analytics solution, some kind of BI tool that aggregates the data visualizes them in some fancy way. And of course, needless to say that this kind of insights is kind of data we just presented the combination of externally available data and internally available one can be incorporated into such a tool and generate insights on top. By the way, what you are seeing here and pretty much all of the screens that you will see throughout this webinar are directly taken from either food archive and or our internal BI tool. And also stay tuned, we would not want to make any spoilers but in roughly a month we have a dedicated webinar specifically dedicated to links data integration so stay tuned on this topic we will talk a bit more over the next month. Thank you so much. And here as I share with you another form based on the specific use case. It's really important to highlight that these requests come in from our partners quite often in terms of ways that will be able to do such integrations with internal and external data. To be able to do that in one dashboard that's actually user friendly and will be easy for everyone in their teams to use. I'll give you one or two minutes to answer. I see some people have already answered. And just to repeat the question if you guys can see it on a scale from one to five how useful would you find the integration of all internal and external data into one dashboard. See some more answers in. Thank you so much for participating. And as we move on to our next use case for today that we have prepared. We have noticed and we've discussed about this so far in the previous use cases as well that food companies have managed to streamline the collection and harmonization of data for risk monitoring and assessment. However, due to unforeseen disruptions in their supply chain, as well as other geopolitical and environmental factors, food companies need to be able to anticipate unexpected risks in their supply chain. With the food safety risks always increasing. It is more pressing than ever for companies to be able to have the complete overview of all emerging risks when compiling risk intelligence reports. Food risk prevention measures in a enable companies to be proactive, take the right risk mitigation measures on time can prevent risks associated with ingredients as well as with suppliers. Through early warning features. They can identify potential hazards and take the necessary mitigation measures to prevent vehicles plan and intensify the supplier or the space from the forecasted risks in a region. Check and update the lab testing plan according to emerging risks and be always one step ahead. And Michalis here has prepared a relevant scenario that he'll walk us through. Thank you, Martina. Again, thanks for the introductory part. Now, before we dive into this third scenario, interestingly enough, this is actually tied to the first poll that we took in this webinar. The second scoring answer was the one that the biggest challenge is identifying emerging and or new hazards and incorporating them into the internal workflows. Hopefully, this scenario is for the people that selected this specific choice. So what we want to show to showcase in this scenario is a way to utilize all this data that is made publicly available. A, that is generated internal by companies, B, use them in combination with one another and generate insights. The kind of insights we're looking for are in this example, the identification of emerging and or increasing risks. What we mean by magic. This is highlighted in red here in the slide for emerging risks. We identify emerging risks as the ones that are showing an increasing tendency in terms of risk using the data we have at our disposal. In the specific example we are seeing here, heavy metals is scores quite high for for appearing within cinema. This is a very interesting indicator because we can easily tie that to the lead in applesauce outbreak that we recently experienced within, I believe it was the United States. Now, this kind of insights taking advantage of this historical data at our disposal and perform this kind of analytics on top. So we can easily identify which are the hazards that are showing an out of the ordinary behavior in terms of risk assessment. And we can prioritize them in our internal lab test, but this is not all. We can also use this wealth of data to identify very, very new or unknown hazards highlighted in blue on the lower side. We're identifying some of these hazards specifically for the ingredients we added and we're following throughout the examples we're using in this webinar. Interestingly enough, these new or unknown hazards are hazards that have taken place for the first time over the past days or weeks, as opposed to roughly the 45 years of data we have at our disposal within Fudakai. This is a very interesting insight because usually these kinds of hazards are either not taken into account when drafting a lab test or an audit plan, or score high, score lower in terms of prioritization concerning the hazards we are taking in our day-to-day. In a nutshell, we can use the imaging hazards as the new hazards to make sure that we have added them into our own workloads on a day-to-day basis and also prioritize them higher if we have not already done so. This is one thing, this is the early warning, let's say, side of things. Before we move on to the next slide, now we will attempt to move towards the forecasting capabilities of this data integration we're talking about. Before we dive into the actual data and insights here, let's spend a moment to talk about these forecasting techniques. As we mentioned, both in the initial slide with the data records available at our disposal, we have many data records that have been announced over the past roughly 45 years. This is, as far as I know, goes, of course, internally within food companies, possibly way more data exists. The idea of these forecasting techniques is to utilize all of this data, train forecasting models in order to attempt to predict what will most probably take place for a specific ingredient and or for a specific hazard, specific reason behind recalls and or a combination of them or adding even regions into the mix and attempt to predict what will take place in this case over the next 12 months. The interesting thing here is that this way we can identify outliers, imaging cases that are expected to take place in the future. Specifically, this screenshot we're seeing here involves these forecasting techniques applied on top of the product category of herbs and spices, and we're identifying here, we're showcasing the hazards that are most likely to increase over the course of the next 12 months. In this case, we see that many pesticides seem to be quite prevalent, but also the presence of foreign bodies or chemical hazards also exist. The main idea here is both to identify hazards that are likely to increase in the future, but also make sure that we are taking them into account when drafting our own internal audit or lab test plan. Thank you so much for the use cases and as I share one more poll, and it's the last one for today. I wanted to highlight the fact that we have seen these preventive measures taken from our partners and we have some very successful use cases. They've been able through the alerting system that offers to warn suppliers ahead of time for clients as well to avoid potential pickles. And the question for the poll, on a scale from one to five, how useful would you find food safety forecasts in your workflows? Glad to see most answers are towards five, and we'll give everyone one more minute. That's a good thing Marina, and while people are answering our poll, let me also add here that the use cases two and three that we just saw can also work in combination with one another. So in use case three, we saw how internal data can be added and combined with external data, whether it's a BI tool or a system like Foodacai, it's irrelevant. The base idea is combining two different data and how use case three, how can these two data sets can be used in combination with one another to perform forecasting techniques. And these results of the forecasting techniques of the identification of emerging hazards or likely to be increased can also be incorporated back into internal systems and or BI tools. Definitely, and we've seen this need from partners as well, whether they're working on a project internally and they'd like us to fit that in or develop or, you know, the support on our side on those tools. It's definitely a major need to be able to kind of combine the data and also evolve that along with the predictions capabilities with the predicted capabilities. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer the board. Moving on into the next part of the webinar, we have an open Q&A. Feel free to share your questions on the chat, we'll do our best to answer them, all the Q&A of able to see both and read them. The first one we see here is how easy it is to deploy such a solution into a company's workflows because I can start with that and of course feel free to add. I would say in working with multiple partners, multiple companies, smaller to larger scale. It's really, it is a process to be able to deploy such solutions and kind of incorporate it into the workflows. We work very closely with partners from a customer success perspective to be able to train team members to have regular meetings with them and touch points to be able to understand the solution and how they can incorporate it into their workflows, substitute maybe time consuming activities like reporting for example or unlearning where they can do it through Budakai directly in a more efficient manner. Perfect, and I definitely agree with what you said Marina, and let me just add on top of that that at least the way that we are working, I think when trying to integrate a solution such as ours into the day-to-day life of food safety professions, we take it one step at a time. So identify the specific pain points they are experiencing in their day-to-day, see how each one can be tackled with a system such as our own. And if I may, Marina, you also see another question in Q&A, I think it's quite into what you just described, so perhaps we could take this one now.  That is a great question, and it does tie to that. So adoption obviously changes with time. We would say that with proper training and proper touch points, we would definitely need three to six months for a team to be fully engaged on the platform. And as we move forward in a year, two and three years, then the adoption factor is definitely higher because they can't accustomed to the platform. They get used to using it even more. They have integrated fully into their workflows. We'd like to think that it's a user-friendly platform, so it's usually easy to add up as long as it stands properly. And Marina, no time to catch a breath. I see another question related to what you just described now. So someone else is asking, should the person be dedicated full-time? So that's a great question as well. We've seen that the adoption, the way the adoption works, it could be various ways. It really depends if it's a centralized team, if we're talking about various regions around the world, various teams. Always a project manager, a dedicated person from a partner's perspective is advised because they have that kind of central information for everyone they can share it across. So it is always great to have a dedicated person. It does not need to be full-time though, but it helps to have a main point of contact, especially for talking for various regions worldwide, various teams, which is what we usually do with the guy. Perfect. No, no, please, please. I see a question here. What are the typical challenges or problems faced when adopting such a solution? I see a lot of questions around adoption, and this is really, really interesting as we've seen this challenge arise a lot from our partners. A few challenges here. It's about collecting the data, be able to represent that into a dashboard, but also may have people actually use it, incorporate it and update their daily workflows with something new. If the solution is done properly and in a systematic way, it definitely works. Typical challenges or problems we've seen is that if the solution is just another solution for a partner without proper training, management, the proper ways to build those workflows, substitute those time-consuming actions or specific features on Fudakai, then we've seen that it could be problematic, it could be a challenge for people to adopt to it. If it's done properly in a systematic way, expanding into teams, whether it's based on region, whether it's based on food safety team and any other specific breakdown in teams that the partner has, then it definitely works. Perfect. Then Marina, perhaps you can take a moment to catch your breath. I can take on another question that has to do with the identification of emerging hazards. So someone is asking, does the system identify hazards that are not looking relevant? For example, emerging hazards that do not result in a reality change. As we've seen throughout this presentation, a solution such as our own is basically a data and analytic solution. So in order specifically for a hazard to be identified as emerging, some kind of data needs to exist within the system. Now, what we saw in terms of risk assessment for specific hazards follows the formula, the risk assessment formula we have incorporated internally. For a hazard to be identified as emerging, it means that at least one case, one data record exists over the past one year. So in essence, no emerging hazard will be identified if we do not have at least, let's say, one food recall or one border rejection. But of course, this is linked to the formula that we're using internally for risk assessment. If someone is incorporating our data and assessing risk using their own internal formula, of course, whether a hazard will be identified as emerging depends on the formula needed. At least for the one that we're using, at least one record needs to have taken place over the past one year. Thank you, Michalis. And I see a question about data harmonization on the chat, which is very, it's a very common question. How are data harmonized in the platform? Do you want to take that? Yeah, definitely. Let me say I'm super happy that someone actually answered this question. It means that the sense, the concept of data harmonization is known to people in the audience. This is very nice. So how is the data harmonized? What we're doing internally for our data platform is that we have our own vocabularies, our own taxonomies, basically lists of terms that we're using to assign to annotate each of the data records we have. We have a predefined list to describe every product category, every ingredient, every commodity out there. Same goes for hazards. So we'll have, again, a taxonomy, a vocabularies that we're using to annotate our data records using hazards. This is by the way organized in a hierarchical manner. And the way that the data is harmonized is before made available to the end user using, for instance, Fudakai. Regardless of the language or the format we are collecting, the raw data is announced. We are harmonizing them into our own vocabularies, which of course, by the way, is in English, and then making them available into Fudakai. So the harmonization step basically takes place on the backend side of things, on the back office side of things. Thank you, Michalis. I see a few questions about training. If training is provided, if the team is available for in-person training or workshops if needed, the answer is definitely yes. We do provide training online for the most part. There's dedicated account monitors for each account, which provide a very detailed training on Fudakai to cover all teams from a partner's perspective. And also, if there is need for an in-person workshop with any partner, we make sure that we cover that as well when it is possible and available. Our partners are really located worldwide. So that gives us the opportunity to meet and plan workshops in person. And there is also a question here I see, are retailers following different deployment paths? We work closely with food manufacturers and retailers. We have set various deployment scenarios and paths to cover various needs based on the partners. So yes, there's different deployment scenarios for retailers because the need is different and the challenges are different. There's different deployment scenarios for food manufacturers. And these are all customizable based on every partner's needs. Perfect, Martina. I see another question. It's a fairly quick one. What if our team's main working language is not English? Do you want to take that, Marina? Okay, so the platform is fully curated in English. We cover, as Michalis mentioned at the beginning of the use cases, multiple data sources around the world. All in several local languages. We take that information in a wonderful curation team who takes care of that. So it's only unified and harmonized in English for everyone. There is no plan at the moment to have the platform available in another language. But we do understand the challenge and we take consideration. And Marina, I am also saying here some other questions around the ease of integration to the day-to-day workflows. We partially covered that previously. Let me just add on top of what we have already discussed that concerning specifically data-wise integration, as long as the companies using our system are using some kind of known system, the integration is very straightforward. I will give a specific example. If a food company is using Azure or AWS infrastructure for their own BI tools for their own analytics to take place, then the integration, whether it's from agronome side to the company side or the other way around, is very straightforward. If they're using some kind of custom solution, however, of course, this is not such a straightforward approach and we'll have to consider this like a custom project or work specifically on this case. Thank you so much, Michalis, and thank you to everyone who sent or shared all their questions on the chat and on the Q&A. If there are others that haven't answered, we will make sure to follow up after the webinar. We do have them. We'll have them here in store. And as we are wrapping up, Michalis, would you like to share a few thoughts on these use cases shared so far? Yeah, of course, Magna. So what we talked about today is actually we attempted to identify three specific use cases to showcase the importance of integrating either external data insights or generating internal data insights and adding them into your own workflows into the day-to-day life of food scientists. Now, in the first use case, what we saw was a way to make sense of the weight of information announced out there concerning food safety and make this information that reaches your mailbox, for instance, tailor-made to your own supply chain. In the second use case, we saw how can we build on top of simulating our supply chain into an external solution such as Foodacai, how can we extend the insights generated from such a tool by also incorporating our own data into the mix. And the final step, we have added a lot of data using the first two use cases. The main idea of the third one is can we use all this data to generate risk assessment insights and or perform forecasting AI techniques on top to be able to stay ahead of potential cases? Thank you so much, Michalis. It's been a really interesting session. And if I can comment a little bit on the questions we got through the chat in the Q&A, it seems that the concerns and the worries and the challenges are very common to everyone. We often get these types of questions from partners. How others use the platform? What are some successful use cases? Is there a training? What's the integration like? How do others manage to incorporate Foodacai into their workflows to save time? Hopefully, we'll get to answer some of those questions today with Michalis and give you some real-life examples and ideas and inspire you a little bit. We hear from partners that the challenges are many but common across the board. Too much historical data scattered across digital and physical touchpoints, which makes it extremely challenging to gather it all in one place. Then once that data is gathered and collected, the next challenge is to visualize that into one dashboard in order to be able to assess, to make informed decisions and to take preventive measures. And finally, once the dashboard or the app is set, it is needed to be easy to train, easy to incorporate, easy to navigate on a daily basis for people to actually adopt it and adopt a new way of working and incorporating it to their workflows. Those other challenges were constantly trying to accommodate Foodacai with the continued support from our partners because the shared interest and goal is mutual to reduce food safety risk in the supply chain for all. Thank you so much for today. Thanks everyone.


Ahoy Hoy and today I'm going to show you some stuff that someone has sent me in the mail. I set up a PO box recently specifically for the purposes of reviewing like products because every once in a while people will message me about like an SCP product. Usually it's digital or a service or something like that and sometimes it's not SCP related that they want me to promote on my channel and I thought to myself I don't really want to do those things unless I can hold the products in my hand. The idea is that I want to be able to look at the thing and make an evaluation of it essentially before I recommend it to my viewers so in order to do that I have to set up a PO box obviously. And there's also been some art that people have done different kinds of art that they've wanted to send me that I didn't feel comfortable giving out my home address for. I'm not a particular I don't really care one way or the other people know where I am like that's not people like act like that's the worst thing in the world and for some people it might be for me I don't really care but I don't know I feel I should still take precautions anyway at this point you never know but anyway I set up a PO box and the PO box address is going to be in the description below if you have like artwork or anything like that you'd like to send over my way that you think that I would enjoy that's unlikely but it's there just in case regardless I'm going to go over some of the gifts that I've been sent so far I should say yeah there's multiple gifts here but they're only sent by one person so first of all I will say these are pretty amazing actually this is Dr. Sumerian and this is a seal from SCP I believe it's three two one three they had eyes there was these little button eyes that you could stick in here that were stuck in here but unfortunately they seem to have fallen out in shipping I had one left there's one eyeball right here it was a one-eyed guy but they still work even without I mean then they probably would I can probably get some myself at some later point but this is pretty cool I got I have to admit see if I can stand him up hold on look at that it's even got the burn marks on the side I was doing the wrong side right there this is pretty cool and then I guess if I ever get a shelf set up behind me which I might want to put something right here for like displaying stuff if I get enough stuff I will probably put up a shelf for displaying it in the videos but this you're wrong little easel for it too I think it's called an easel yep I actually I love I love those too but I actually wasn't expecting this at all and I kind of like it a little bit more maybe I'm not sure I mean I I'll say the SCP or the Dr. Sumerian thing is pretty good right I'm not gonna read the note that was sent here but I will say I'm reading it now because I want to make sure that the crediting is done properly these were created by at ghostly crafts on Instagram so if you like these really cute things check it out and secondary to that is this so I was contacted by sell art that's CELL ART about promoting a deck of playing cards that they have SCP themed playing cards and I wasn't actually planning on doing it originally because usually I say I won't promote your product until I have it in my hands and they're like okay fine we'll wait or we'll do it later than that later never comes however they were very understanding and sent me two decks of cards I've already opened one I left one closed so that we could open it together I actually technically I opened one and then gave it to my dad it's very much his these very he's going through a goth phase we'll say that I'll hold on real quick a little cut well I don't want to damage it you probably just stick it in there yeah it could be more aggressive with it and probably get this done faster but I'm gonna be careful because the box is I'm sorry I'm sure real quick the box is actually pretty cool looking too so I don't want to damage it I actually personally I even wanted to keep that other deck but I really thought my dad would like it but yeah I'm actually I have decks of playing cards all over this place playing cards is actually a thing of mine that I'm sometimes I don't know why but I'll be in like Walmart or a store or something and I'll win I'll just buy another deck of cards okay now on the first glance I just want to put this a little closer so you guys can see it that's the box art on this side and that side make sure you get that frame come on focus focus there we go I'd cover up my face all right so what we have here a variety of it looks like series one SCPs some symbols which I'm not necessarily recognizing yeah series one series oh man I used to imagine gathering a lot they have that they have that smell this is cards have no smell I don't know it's weird not really hmm it's an odd design choice I these are very high quality they look amazing see that looks way better than that it's done hmm I got a thing I'll bring up in a second yeah that's weird so what SCPs are in here um this is the math so here's an example of what the the art looks like I have to put it in front of my face and here's what the back of the cards look like it's amazing I actually really like this however there's one card that really I don't understand why it's like this so this is your two of spades right here sorry let's back it up a little bit that's your two of spades and this is your ace of spades now I feel like that might be supposed to be an SCP it's on top of the keys but it's like multiple pieces of art like stacked and layered for some reason I'm giving you my honest review by the way obviously they're literally every other card this looks amazing but that one in particular the ace of spades I I don't understand the design choice there hmm kind of would have been cool I'll tell you what so every one of the ace of spades are nice it's every one of those spade cards has these keys on them what would have been interesting to me I remember looking at it and thinking that it was gonna be like a key ring and but this is probably a specific SCP yes I'm critiquing something that I'm supposed to be promoting there's gonna be an affiliate link by the way I should make clear that there's gonna be an affiliate link in the description below so you can purchase these and if you decide to buy them you'll send a little bit of money my way that's a really cool art style though look that's a CP049 I'm yeah I'm a huge fan of the style and I'm kind of surprised there are no doctors in here though to be fair and annoyed well I mean a doctor Sumerian it could have been so bad to have a doctor Sumerian in here yeah well okay yeah there's just a lot of series one SCPs regardless though I I mean I'm a huge fan of this I'm gonna keep these these are gonna be my go-to playing cards I think for a long time yeah I would I highly recommend these these look amazing for the price point I think just double check right so they cost about $15 which is a little high for a deck of cards but for the quality you're getting I honest God I think that is very very much worth it so again there'll be a link in the description below to the page for these highly highly recommended and if you want to send me anything like like this stuff over here which makes me smile you can click on the you click on the or not click on there'll be a P.O. box listed in the description thank you very much for watching I wanted to get this out of the way because very much a bit a bit of a hassle and a half to get that P.O. box wanted to make a video out of it thank you very much for watching hit the subscribe button I'm not asking then head on over to patreon.com forward slash D Sumerian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has including VV Dr. J redacted and Cinturiki who have all pledged $100 and Morgan was pledged at $40 it's nice to know that I'm not alone out here and I will see you all again on Tuesday almost forgot the day


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What are the edit icons? In order to add learning activities and resources to your course, or even to change the wording and description in your course sections, you need to have the editing turned on. So let's take a look at that now and see what the edit icons mean and do. If we turn the editing on in our course, menus appear against each section and activity or resource. So let's zoom in and take a look at them. Other themes may have different editing icons from these, but they'll be in the same order. The icon to the left of an item allows you to move it up or down by dragging and dropping. If you can't move items by dragging and dropping, then ask your site administrator to check your settings and the site settings. It's the same crosshairs icon to move a section, so here I am clicking to move speaking up above listening. The icon to the right looks like a pencil, and if you click it, it allows you to immediately change the title of that particular topic section, resource or activity. Then press Enter and you've changed it. Further along, clicking Edit reveals other options. Edit settings will take you to the main editing screen of this resource or activity to update it in more detail. The Move arrow allows you to indent an activity or resource to the right and then back again to the left, and the I icon lets us hide items from students, and we'll try that in a moment. With Duplicate, you can make a quick copy of a resource or activity, modifying it slightly for instance for a different class or group. Assign roles relates to roles, something we won't go into much detail in this teaching with Moodlemoog, but which you can learn about in the documentation. The bin is for deleting an item. If we delete something by mistake, we can find it again from the Recycle bin in the gear menu top right. Here are any recently deleted activities and resources, and we click Restore to put it back into the course. We can add blocks to our course by going to the Add Block link in the nav drawer and choosing the block we want. We can then hide or delete the block by clicking the gear to its side, and we'll explore blocks in a later video. Let's now try hiding the announcements from students by clicking the Eye. The Person icon here relates to groups, again something we don't focus on in this MOOC, but which you can read about in the documentation. When we click to hide it, we can see now that the Eye icon has a line through it, and the announcements are grayed out. If we go to our user menu, we see Switch Role to, and as a teacher, we can switch our role, amongst others, to a student, or, as we've renamed it in our course, Learner. This then displays the course page as students or learners would see it, and the announcements are invisible because we've hidden them. So if we go back to the user menu, and to return to my normal role, remembering to turn the editing back on again, we can see that the announcements haven't vanished, it's just that we hid them with the icon. We will now unhide them so our learners can read the announcements and get started on the course. And note that if you need to edit an existing activity or resource, simply click on it, and you will see again the gear menu giving you options for editing. Finally, in each section, there's also a menu with an Eye icon to hide that section manually and a Highlight icon. If you click this icon, then it will highlight that particular section for your students to focus on. If you use weekly course format, the current week is automatically highlighted.


This is our flagship program, we go out to events, distract the ceiling from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of Slavette. I'm John Michael, Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, Rodney Perkins is here. He is the director of IT at Farmer's Insurance Group, Federal Credit Union. Rodney, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, David, I appreciate it. How are you doing today? Good, good, doing great. Another VM, you weren't up on stage today, isn't your 10th VM world, is that right, or? Well, you know, normally they put me on stage, but I told them this time I had something to do with CUBE TV, so I said I wanted to downplay, so I said I'll just take my time. So have you been doing a lot of VM worlds in your career? You know, this is my second one, where actually, I really got introduced last year. They just kind of pushed me up front, and I kind of, you know, just started working my way in. But this is my second year, and I'm really enjoying myself, and it's been great. It's been amazing to watch just virtualization, you know, generally, VMware specifically, sort of take the world by storm. How did it affect your world? Well, I'll tell you, when you look at, I mean, even today, when they were speaking, the keynote was speaking, and the different things that they're coming out with the enhancements, when you look back, just when I started with farmers only three years ago, the virtualization was really taking whole consolidating servers and doing different things of that nature. Now you see today where things are trying to go to the cloud, people or businesses are trying to provide what better business continuity strategies, delivering better disaster recovery services, and trying to just keep their end users, which is what we do in IT, providing what better service and support. So, you saw the keynote this morning, and Robin was sort of talking about the journey, and I started with consolidation. Is that pretty much described what you guys went through or are going through? Where are you on that curve? So when you look at the direction in which we're going, you can't help but fall in line with how technology is now embarking and taking a closer look at everything going to the cloud. Us being a federal credit union, we understand there's regulatory compliance things, and we have over 50,000 members, and so we have to be very precautious with just embarking on trying to do a lot of things with the cloud, protecting our members. But when you look at technology and technology driving you, then you have to find ways to go around some of that red tape in order just to provide the best technologies that are out there, like Nutanix and VMware, VMware. Okay, so we were talking about converged infrastructure earlier. What's your take on all that? I mean, is that something that you guys are aggressively going after? You just mentioned Nutanix. Are you deploying Nutanix?  So that's a great question. Early on when I was looking at virtual desktops, looked at your traditional blade systems, looked at your traditional HP systems of different things of that nature, and so Nutanix was introduced to me on a small scale, so I started to do my research. With my background, my background came from mainframes desktops, through the network systems and through networking, as soon as I saw the engineering behind the technology that Nutanix was running, it was sort of an easy no-brainer. They're taking everything and they're putting it all into this one box. So we talk about convergence and we talk about bringing that all into one, creating this one appliance that now takes up to you where my blade would take up a half a rack, my sand would take up another half a rack or so, depending on how much storage I do want to bring in. So again, we go back to looking at bringing in a sales rep, he's showing me this demo and I'm looking at how the technology of the Nutanix software and the programming and how the system equipment actually works together and it became apparent to me that these guys have caught on to something that no one else has and then it made it an easy decision for me to be able to bring it in, do a proof of concept, through the proof of concept, be able to tell my CTO, hey look, we need to go with this. This is something that's looking pretty good and I'm telling you for the future, they've got an idea, they've got something that's going to be hot. And that was a VDI use case, is that right? That's a virtual desktop infrastructure use case. And so it was sort of a quasi, my corrective was a quasi green field, you didn't have to rip and replace anything so that's a great example. Absolutely, because we had a system in place of course. The system that was in place of course was so antiquated, frustration from your end users, performance problems, problems even trying to troubleshoot problems within your enterprise. Running VDI. Running, not running VDI but running Zen app. Just do your traditional terminal services. Then we said okay well we need to provide a desktop for our environment because of the applications, the legacy applications, different things that we're running. So what we did was we said okay well if we need to have desktops, we need to let's look at doing virtual desktops instead of providing a desktop for each end user and so forth. So then that's when we got into the use case of saying okay let's do VDI and with the virtual desktops I looked at Nutanix and then everything started to come together from there. So how do you protect that data on the apps running on the infrastructure? So today right now basically user citrix it's a one day thing. So you use it for one day, the next day it comes in clean. So at each day everything erases and you have a brand new desktop every day and there's nothing that stays dormant within that environment and within on that desktop because of how we have it set up. So you're providing new image every day. New image every day but we have profile settings that sit in the back that don't accumulate cookies and caches and different things of that nature. We just have your necessary tools that you need for day to day atmosphere. Absolutely. So I got to get word in here about this because honestly I've been sitting and listening but the thing we just talked with Nutanix CEO and they're a very successful startup but one of the things we heard earlier from some other guests in the industry is agile. I mean it's kind of overused, it's kind of played but it really is relevant. So I want to ask you, you're in the trenches what does agile mean to you? And specifically, you got compute, you got cloud available, all those new software. Storage still is the pain point. Storage and networking. What is the, what does agile mean to you? You got sands and dasses out there. What's the deal? So you have all these things right there. So agile for us is making sure that what? You have ease of administration. You have simplicity versus the complexity. Back when Sands first came out if they provided a lot of complexity. Nowadays things are so simple. You got a couple of clicks here and there bringing agile into it. So you say, when you look at agile, you say, well I want my IT support personnel to be able to be working in an agile environment to be able to provide that service and support on a much quicker pace. We look at our end users and they get frustrated when we can't fix things right away. We look at our members when home banking and when they can't see their money, when they can't get into things, you got frustration. We need to bring everything together. Unhappy customers. Unhappy customers. That's not good. That's not good. So we need to bring everything together and have that environment that we call agile and that we are able to mesh around and be able to quickly and efficiently be able to recover and do things. One of the, all the thought leaders talk about automation, blah, blah, blah, scale. But really it is about labor, right? And a lot of mistakes and the security issues around manually doing stuff, having guys provision a new server at the port, provision that, configure, manage it. So that should go away, right? What do you guys look at? Cause that's the natural progression. Exactly. Where are you guys on that path and how do you guys do that? So for us, when I look at just speaking, just talking about Nutanix, I'm talking about virtual desktops. Now that we have that footprint in place, now like we talked about, when it's time to scale out, adding more end users, adding more applications, doing different things to provide what, better resources for both internal and external customers. And so for us, provisioning now becomes what? Adding an extra node to our Nutanix equipment, being able to quickly, efficiently deploy a server, being able to get that software on that server and out to our customers and end users for them to use. And that's what it's all about. Can you quantify the impact of bringing in this converged infrastructure in terms of, a percentage of labor reduction or CAPEX or OPEX? Absolutely, I can give you a little bit on that. A lot of estimated numbers, but I had put some numbers together for at least the CAPEX. So we say over the next five years, it looks like I'm going to be saving about two million, not having to really deploy as much infrastructure, not worried about other assets and softwares that I have to bring in because I have my VMware, I have my Nutanix, and so I'm good over the next five years. Then I say, as far as operating expenses, normally what do you do? You throw another body in, every time you add something or you look to do something or you got to have another project, you throw in bodies. So I'm taking away from that, I'm looking at cutting at least close to a half a million to almost 800,000 a year on operating expenses alone. And so those numbers again, just something that I played around with, but looking, but it was easy enough to help us quantify the future. And then I look at some of the performance with Nutanix that came about using the equipment where we say what? You go from two minutes to log in in your desktop when you first come in in the morning to only under 30 seconds. So that was a wow in itself. Rodney, my last question is you said, it was kind of a no-brainer, but I understand why you're saying that, but in a way you took a chance on a small company. So what's your experience been like, service that you've received? Can we talk about that a little bit? That's awesome. People get nervous. Absolutely. So like you said, I took a risk, but when you look at that risk, you say, well, it's really just a very big desktop. And my background came from the desktop and understanding that as long as the software and the infrastructure held up, then we would be able to move on. So I say, okay, well, that's what I said, let's bring it in. I'm not going to just sit here and listen to the salesman. I need to see it for myself. Let me see how it actually works. Once I brought it in-house and I was able to quantify it, actually it failing, actually the service and support that I was receiving just as a startup, the service and support that they were providing was phenomenal. Working with VMware made it even better. And so then you have two partners versus one partner. Now with Nutanix, I have VMware, both of them together gives me a strong suit. Awesome. All right, Rodney, really appreciate you coming by. It was great to meet you. Thank you, David. Appreciate it. Rodney, good job. Great to hear from the customers. See, we love hearing from folks who actually have to deploy the technology and live with it.  Congratulations to your success. This is theCUBE, we'll be right back with more. Wall to Wall covers this day one at VMworld 2013. We're live in San Francisco, Moscone South Lobby, all the actions here. Stay with us all day today, tomorrow and Wednesday and into Thursday morning, we'll be right back. Excellent.


Hello, everybody! Sometimes when you try to connect a USB pen drive or an external hard disk to your computer, the operating system warns you that it should be formatted before we can use it properly. Let's explore the situation when there is some data on such a disk that should be saved, or if there is no important information on the hard disk or USB drive and formatting them is not a problem at all. Most of the time, when you see the notifications saying you need to format the disk in the drive before you can use it in Windows 10 and 11, it happens due to a file system error, which is caused by not removing a drive properly, interrupting a write operation or by some other factors. However, you may also see this notification in various situations. If this USB drive or hard disk is a new one, it may come without formatting at all, so it is your first duty to format them before using. If the drive you are trying to open has been previously formatted and used in Linux or macOS, and their file systems are not supporting Windows, this includes EXT-3, EXT-4 for Linux and HFS or HFS Plus or APFS for Mac drives. If a memory card was used as internal storage on Android, if the disk file system is shown as raw. By the way, in our channel, you can watch a very detailed video about raw disks and how to fix them. You can find the link in the description. Alright, so you have connected your USB drive, memory card, or an external hard disk to a desktop PC or laptop, and got the error. You need to format the disk in Drive before you can use it. What should you do? If you encounter this error with a disk, volume or USB drive that don't contain any important available data, or if you have copies of such important files elsewhere, another case is that the data on the disk is not important at all, so we can fix the disk or USB drive just by formatting them. You can do it in any way that you find convenient. By clicking the Format button when trying to open a disk, or by right clicking on it and selecting the Format option, or by using the Disk Management tool. When you do it, all data will be erased, but the disk will start working properly again. If Windows doesn't suggest formatting the disk when you try to open it, and you can't format it in any other way, you can fix the problem without keeping the files by using the Command Clean and the Disk Part tool. Launch the Command Prompt as Administrator, then enter the Command Disk Part, and then List Disk. Now we can see the list of all disks connected to this computer. In my case, I need to clean a USB pen drive. Be very careful when choosing the volume for this operation. After that, enter Select Disk. To clean the volume, type the command Clean and press Enter. After the process is complete, we can see a report saying that disk cleanup was successful. After that, type the command Create Partition to create a volume on this pen drive. To choose it, type Select Partition. Now we need to format the USB pen drive in the choosing file system. For example, NTFS. To do it, enter the command format FSNTFSQuick, that is, we perform quick drive format. Press Enter. Wait until the process is over. Then assign a letter for this pen drive, for example, M, with the help of this command. As you do that, close Disk Part with the command Exit. Close the Command Prompt. Go to the File Explorer, and now we can see that our pen drive is completely operable now. It's a much nestier situation when the drive that refused to open used to hold important data. Then you have not only to format it, but also to restore the partition containing the data. In this case, don't format the drive, as it will just erase all the information. Instead, do the following to have your files back. Launch the command Prompt as administrator, enter the command CheckDisk, RequiredDisk, and its letter. After checking the drive, the computer will repair the damaged sectors and your NTFS file system in this volume. Remember that this method is only good if the USB drive or hard disk were initially formatted in NTFS. Let's go back to the drive. As we can see, now it works properly. All the files it had before the failure are still there. If the drive used to have the FAT file system, you will see this error when trying to run the command CheckDisk. What if the command CheckDisk didn't work properly for some reason? All the raw drive used to have the FAT file system before. Despite of all that, your files from such drive can still be recovered, because in fact, they are not deleted yet. It's just a file system failure that makes them inaccessible. So how can you do that? Here is the disk and we can't access the data inside it. To restore this data, run Hetman Partition Recovery. You can find a link to download this program in the description. Select the disk which encounters this error. Click on the disk and select Full Analysis. After the scan is over, the program will detect and display all partitions. Click on the one you need and you will see the files stored there in the window on the right. If there are many files on this disk and you need to find and recover a particular one, click on the folder with the named content of our analysis. Our program has sorted the files into folders by their format. You can use the preview window if you want. To restore the files, drag the necessary items to the recover list and click Recovery. Select the method to save the files and specify the pass. Hit Recovery. And now the files have been recovered. And that is all for now. Hit the like button below to subscribe to our channel if this video helped you repair a disk or to recover data from there. Thank you for watching and good luck. 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The Ebola outbreak was an unprecedented outbreak and a very huge crisis in West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people and making the situation very worse, impacting the socioeconomic situation in the three most affected countries like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There was a vaccine at the early stage, in animal stage, but there was not tested at the human stage that the reason we started testing this vaccine as a clinical trial on the field with some little patient, voluntary patient, in phase one clinical trial and then moved to phase two clinical trial, about 100 and 200 cases. Our research took the opportunity to test the vaccine during this epidemics. It was a consortium composed by Canada, MSF, WHO, Wellcome Trust and among other who was involved in this clinical trial and that clinical trial was very informative because it was the unique occasion to test this vaccine during the epidemics. Our research found that the vaccine can stop an outbreak. When people heard that there was available vaccine, everybody would like to be vaccinated, but the most cost-effective strategy was to vaccinate around the at-risk population like Ebola positive cases, contacts and contact of contact. That is more cost-effective strategy as we did with WHO during the 1980s for smallpox eradication.


Their counselors were fantastic role models. They got to meet an undergraduate biomedical engineering student who's involved in research. They also had a graduate student in computer science who helps doctors and is a girls who code instructor. I liked learning about the high school students and that they each have their own unique way of doing things. It's really interesting to see that they might be really really passionate about something but they won't come out and say it right away but you can just pick up on little things about them and get to know them as a person. They learned about the community in Guatemala called Buena Vista which has a community building right next to a health center. Both of those buildings have no lights unless they use a generator so our solar suitcase project will power lights for two buildings that are side-by-side. They'll also be able to charge phones with the solar suitcase and when the engineers without borders student chapter from UWM is traveling there they'll be able to power their laptop. We got a great opportunity to hear about the village from Diego Rivera who is in Guatemala. Marissa who is the faculty advisor for engineers without borders translated a speakerphone call so that the students could ask their questions about the community. Two students really improved our communication tools that will be used in Guatemala for people to understand how the solar suitcase works. The people in Guatemala speak in a shill language which is very different from Spanish so the communication can be really difficult and these new illustrations and descriptive Spanish translations are going to help a lot. The campers met some amazing women engineers. They got to meet Lauren an electrical engineer now working with Generac. They met Carly a mechanical engineer. They got to have lunch with Medea Ahmed who's a professor of industrial engineering. They got to meet Dr. Priya Premnath and hear all of her stories about her journey as a biomedical engineer. That in quest 22 camp visited a community garden site in Milwaukee where the high school students collaborated with UWM architecture professors and partner organizations where they made shade and water collection structures. That quest campers prepared a big solar panel for installation there. That quest campers also were able to visit various labs on campus. They visited the foundry where they were able to make metal castings out of black sand and they also visited the advanced mobility biomechanics lab where they were able to work with force plates and learn about gate analysis with Dr. Rammer. They also had a coding experience with Sammy where they learned various Python techniques. The end quest campers got experiences to help them navigate their way towards college. They met an engineering academic advisor who got them thinking about what they're excited about, what they're nervous about when they think about their futures. The end quest 2022 day campers made me really proud because they accomplished a lot in a very short time.


So last week, I got a lot of hate, a lot of dislikes, because of what I did to Nesco-chan, to those people and to Nesco-chan, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for what I'm gonna do to your brother. He's stuck in the chainsaw. I'm not done with you yet. Let's get to episode six. Why is the episode called Kill Denji? And why does it just start like this? I'm not ready. I need to prepare. Yes, sir. Ma'am, so cute. Oh my god, I love you. What's her name, Kobochi? Kobini, Kobini, Kobe, rest of bees. Yo, y'all better not be showing titties this episode. I got demonetized twice because of power.  The OST, the sound design, the animation, chainsaw man, you're overdoing it. Mappa, have they slept? They're probably still not asleep. Bro, that looks like a real hotel room. Like, what? Y'all better be feeding this team. Oh, I love her. Kobini, I love you. So the eighth floor, it's like the devil universe. It's an alternate universe. It's like the devil's power. It reminds me of JJK. Intro. I know y'all saw the drip. I'm prepared every week. Got my chainsaw man undies on. Oh, I feel you, Denji. I feel you, bride, you're on too. I can't even watch them on a bed without thinking things. You know what I mean? This is what the show has done to me.  Because that's what life is about, mister. And look what this show does to us. You make it fun of power. What she just said, she's never seen a devil do something that clever before. Powers literally in the room. Pochita is still alive. I want to see what this guy can do because all he does is cry. But I bet he has God's here powers. This lore, lore on top of lore.   That performance, wow, I felt that. Holy shit, I don't know much about it, but bravo.   I love you, I want to drink you. Look how red I am now. That's the power of power. Bro, what's with the number eight? That's my favorite number. What are you doing to me? I'm never going on the eighth floor of any, oh my, wait a minute, I'm on the eighth floor. Whoa, whoa, what did he say? What did you call me? He's completely fine with that, bro. I would not want to be stuck in a room with anybody else, but the woman that's right next to me. Hitmen power are gods here, I swear to God. I owe the devil for the snap. Thank you, the devil. Thank you, Satan. I'm pretty sure Satan wrote this show with what they do to me. Drenji, you are my spirit animal, my spirit dog. Man, look at the movement. Oh my God, I paint attention to the story and all of a sudden this guy starts moving and I'm blown away because of the animation. Damn, I wouldn't be in separate rooms. Yo, just stay in the same room.  Why would you do that? Is that a thing in Japan? When y'all get anxious, do you start drinking out of the toilet?  My toilet, you don't want to look that, trust me. Not after what I did this morning. This is definitely one of the most unique shows I've ever watched.  It's power, all I know is power. Perfect time for a blunt.  I'm surprised they didn't bleep that out. Man, I hate cigarettes, but I'm so happy this show or anime, I'm sorry, anime.  That's what we need more of. But in America, they would never do that.  She'd be holding a bag of lollipops right now because we gotta be PG friendly. We got a virtue signal.   Did I think it's that got Titan Blimp? It's great for socializing. Why are you telling me this? Am I about to be influenced by her? I'm writing a letter to the Chainsaw Man building in Tokyo. What are you doing to me? What episode I asked for? Not to blow my mind. That's like a requirement for this job. Have a chip on your shoulder. If you don't check that box, you ain't in. You ain't gonna fit in here. Minds well smoke, we're all gonna die. Okay. Next video on smoking. Mommy? Oh, I was about to say it's your mom, but oh. It's Chainsaw Man, I forgot. This complexity behind her, that emptiness that makes her talk and think like this. I feel for her. Get over here! Oh, yo, yo!  Man! I feel so bad for him. He's so innocent. No, no, no. I just finished death note. What are you doing to me? It breaks my heart because of everything they've been through and how they act now and what this flashback really means. It's just showing their relationship and why they're like this. I really love that, but let's not even, let's talk about this fucking... Mapa, please, please tell me y'all are giving them drinks or something. Please, please tell me you let them eat. Because this looks like I don't eat behavior. This looks too good, man. That food looks too good, anime food. Fuck! She's over here trying to put this cigarette in his mouth! God damn, that's influence on the next level, man! I'll care about my bones. I want her to jump my bones. Yo, if one of them die, the other one is gonna... Yes! Yes! Smoke that sig! Why am I applauding him for doing that? You know what? You know what, bro? Cancel me. Do it. Nick, you're applauding cancer? Yeah! Yeah! Cancer! Oh, yeah! W.  You did! You see what you did? You got him hooked! He's getting bigger and bigger. Not Geodude, the Geodude one! Oh, that made, that scared me, man! Still trying to wonder why it's called Kill Denji. Ew! It's moaning! That's why it's called Kill Denji! Imagine you're like, okay, we accept. Aki would say yes! Wait, is this the dude? I have chills right now. Do you understand why? The storytelling in this anime is next level. Yes! Yes! I'mma do this to everyone I hate! Of course we won't. Ew, no! He's still joking around. I can't believe it. I love him. I love how she's not even looking at him. That is the biggest disrespect you could ever give anybody. She's not even looking at the devil. Imagine not looking at this thing and just turning around and talking to somebody else. Bro, how is she not looking at this thing? What are you doing? You're having a whole dialogue session with Denji. Yo, I love how they're protecting Denji. Aki. I love that.  Okay, okay. I bet they do. You love him, don't you? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! We know why you're not feeding him to the devil because you love him. Just say it. I still love you. Just say you love him. I'd give her a tombstone, but I'd stay in the tombstone position for an hour. Is this the staring devil? He just stares at you. I mean, he wants to get that contract done.  I guess use the sword.  I can't believe we're like 70% of the way without seeing any titties. This is a big achievement. Bro, the power ate it. I'm gonna eat her. Yes, she is my new spirit animal or my devil, my spirit devil. You know, I love her. I don't know all the characters' names yet and I know she's panicking so she's acting like this, but she has a backstory. Her parents wanting to put a brother through college, that's why she took the job. But there's more complexity and more story behind that that we're gonna figure out throughout the season. I bet or throughout the show. I just feel bad for her, bro. I want to see her power, like why is she there and the other guy. The guy that looks like he just got back from a slumber party on the weekend. Man, this voice actor's needs a raise. God damn, you better be paying her well. Spy, that ain't Lloyd Forger. This girl wants to kill everyone. Here we go. Chainsaw man, dubstep. The eternity devil. If y'all ain't paying this voice actress enough, I'll take, I'll go on the boat, I'll go straight to Japan tonight and I'm giving her everything I got in my savings. Because, God damn, she is performing her heart out, bro. Give her a Grammy and Oscar. Everything. All the presents under the Christmas tree. Damn, wait, what's with the sword?   I feel like it's 818 right now, bro. Time just stopped.  I don't get a break. Do I don't get a break from this shit, man?  Power would never like me. Yo, yo, what the fuck, man? Oh. Yo, man, I'm shaking right now, man. It's too fucking, yeah, yeah.  It's all he cares about. Man, yo, yo, what are you doing to me? I think this is my favorite anime right now.  That is, that just solidified their brotherhood right there. Yes! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.  Oh my God, tensions were high, emotions were high in this episode. I feel like the 8th floor, being stuck on this floor, there's more to it than just them being trapped, but their minds being messed with at the same time. Like you see Kobini, I think her name is, you see her absolutely losing it, conflicting with her emotions, her emotions getting the best of her. The other guy just had panic attacks. This girl, I gotta learn the names. Oh my God, there's so many names, but I really want to learn all of them with Aki, with the partners and the smoking, the cigarettes, the stuff.  They have a similar goal and he knows, Aki knows he needs Denji in order to achieve that goal because of how powerful Chainsaw Man is.  Yeah, I throw comedy in and I'm entertained by a lot of the things I watch, but I'm rarely going that crazy, unless it's like Attack on Titan, One Punch Man, other things like that. But this one has my full attention. I am so in love with these characters. Makima wasn't even in this episode, so I won't get demonetized because there's no titties.  I love that. I mean, I don't love that she's having that, but I love character development like that. And we're just seeing all of these characters thrown at us at once, but in the right way because we're spending time with each one of them.   I can't wait. I cannot wait, bro. But what'd you guys think of the episode? Did you love it? Did you hate it? Let me know why, but I personally loved it. This anime just continues to get better and better and better. No filler, just constant evolution. The story gets better and better. The emotions, the character growth, everything. I'mma watch this episode again. I always do that. Every week with Chainsaw Man. I love this anime so much, guys. Can't you tell? Can't you tell?  I'll never forgive the Chainsaw Man team for that. Goodbye.