Welcome to this Cube Unstoppable Domain Showcase. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We've been showcasing all the great content about Web3 and what's going around the corner for Web4. Of course, Unstoppable Domains is one of the big growth stories in the business. Brad, Ken, the co-founders here with me of Unstoppable Domains. Brad, great to see you. Thanks for coming on, The Showcase. Thanks for having me. So you have a lot of history in the Web3 they're calling it now, but it's basically crypto and blockchain, you know, the white paper came out and then, you know, how it developed was organically and you saw how that happened. Now, the co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, you're seeing the mainstream, I would say mainstream, you're seeing Super Bowl commercials, okay? You're seeing it everywhere. So it is here. Stadiums are named after cryptos, companies. It's here. Hey, it's no longer a fringe, it is reality. You guys are in the middle of it. What's going on with the trend and where does Unstoppable fit in? Where do you guys tie in here? I mean, I think that what's been happening in general, this whole revolution around cryptocurrencies and then NFTs and what Unstoppable Domains is doing, it's all around creating this idea that people can own something that's digital. And this hasn't really been possible before Bitcoin. Bitcoin was the first case. You could own money, you don't need a bank, no one else, you can completely control it, no one else can turn you off. Then there was this next phase of the revolution which is assets beyond just currencies. So NFTs, digital art, what we're working on is like a decentralized identity, like a username for Web 3 and each individual domain name is an NFT. But yeah, it's been a crazy ride over the past 10 years. It's fun because on siliconangle.com, which we founded, we were covering early days of crypto. In fact, our first website, the developer wanted to be paid in crypto, which is interesting, price of Bitcoin, I won't say how low it was. But then you saw the ICO wave, the tokens started coming in, you started seeing much more engineering focus, a lot of white papers coming in, a lot of cool ideas. And then now you got this mainstream of it. So I got to ask you, what are the coolest things you guys are working on? Because Unstoppable has a solution that solves a problem today that people are facing. At the same time, it is part of this new architecture. What problem do you guys solve right now that's in market that you're seeing the most traction on? Yeah, so it's really about, so whenever you interact with a blockchain, you wind up having to deal with one of these really, really crazy public keys, public addresses, and they're like anywhere from 20 to 40 characters long, they're random, they're impossible to memorize. And going back to even early days in crypto, I think people knew that this tech was not going to go mainstream if you have to copy and paste these things around. If I'm getting ready to send you like a million dollars, I'm going to copy and paste some random string of numbers and letters. I'm going to have no confirmations about who I'm sending it to and I'm going to hope that it works out. It's just not practical. People have kind of always known there was going to be a solution. And one of the more popular ideas was doing kind of like what DNS did, which is instead of having to deal with these crazy IP addresses, this long random string of numbers to find a website, you have a name, like a keyword, something that's easy to remember, like a hotels.com or something like that. And so what NFT domains are is basically the same thing, but for blockchain addresses. And yeah, it's just better and easier.  Just not the way moving, you know, billions of dollars of value is going to work in the future. Yeah, and I think one of the things you just pointed out, make it easier. One of these, when you have these new waves, these shifts, we saw it with the web, web pages, more and more web pages were coming on, more online users, they call the online population is growing. Here are the same things happening. And if the focus is on ease of use, making things simpler to understand and reducing the step it takes to do things. Right, this is kind of what is going on. And with the developer community and what Ethereum has done really well is brought in the developers. So that's the convergence of all the action. And so when you, so that's where you're at right now. How do you go forward from here? I'll see this business development deals to do. You guys are partnering a lot. What's the strategy? What are some of the things that you can share about some of your business activity that points to how mainstream it is and where it's going. So I think the way to think about an NFT domain name is that it's meant to be like your identity on web three. So it's going to have a lot of different contexts. It's kind of like your Venmo account where you could send me money to Brad.Crypto, can be your decentralized website where you can check out my content at Brad.Crypto. It can also be my login, kind of like a decentralized Facebook OAuth where I can log into DApps and share information about myself. And bring my data along with me. So it's got all of these different things that it can do. But where it's starting is inside of crypto wallets and crypto apps. And they are adopting it for this identity idea. And it's the same identity across all your apps. That's the thing that's kind of, that's new here. So, yeah, that's the really big and profound shift that's happening. And the reason why this is going to be maybe even more important than a lot of your listeners think is that everyone's going to have a crypto wallet. Every person in the world is going to have a crypto wallet. Every app, every consumer app that you use is going to build one in. Twitter just launched, just built one. Reddit is building one. You're seeing it across all the consumer finance apps so it's not just the crypto companies that you're thinking of. Every app is going to have a wallet and it's going to really, it's going to really change the way that we use the internet. I think there's a couple of things you pointed out I want to get your reaction to and thoughts more on this concept of DApps or decentralized applications, DApps, or what you call it. This is applications and that take advantage of the architecture. And then this idea of users owning their own data. And this absolutely reverses the script today. You see Facebook, you see LinkedIn, all these silos. They own the data, you are the product. Here, the users are in control, they have their data, but the apps are being built for it, for the paradigm shift here, right? That's what's happening. Is that right? Totally, totally. And so it all starts.  It feels like it's this like really foreign weird thing. All it means is that you sign in with your wallet instead of signing in with a username and password where the data is stored inside of that app, like inside of Facebook. So that's the only real core underneath difference to keep in mind, signing in with the wallet. But that is like a complete sea change in the way the internet works because I have this key, this private key. It's on my phone or my device or whatever. And I'm the only one that has it. So if somebody wanted to hack me, they need to go get access to my device. Two years ago when Twitter got hacked, Barack Obama and Elon Musk were tweeting the same stuff. That's because Twitter had all the data. And so you needed to hack Twitter instead of each individual person. It's a completely different security model. It's way better for users to have that. But if you're thinking from the user perspective, what's going to happen is, is that instead of Facebook storing all of my data and then me being trapped inside of Facebook, I'm going to store it and I'm going to move around on the internet, logging in with my Web3 username, my NFT domain name. And I'm going to have all my data with me and then I could use a hundred different Facebooks all in one day. And it would be effortless for me to go and move from one to the other. So the monopoly situation that we exist in as a society is because of the way data storage works. So that's a huge point. So let's double down on that for one more second. This is a huge point. I want to get your thoughts. I think people don't understand it in the mainstream. Having that horizontal traversal or ability to move around with your identity, in this case, your unstoppable domain and your data allows the user to take it from place to place. It's like going to other apps that could be like Facebook where the user's in charge and they're either deciding whether to share their data or not, or they're certainly continually their data. And this allows for more of a horizontal scalability for the user, not for a company. Yeah. And what's going to happen is is users are building up their reputation. They're building up their identity in web three. So you have your username and you have your profile and you have certain badges of activities that you've done and you're building up this reputation. And now apps are looking at that and they're starting to create social networks and other things to provide me services because I started with the user and so the user is starting to collect all this valuable data and then apps are saying, well, hey, let me give you a special experience based on that. But the real thing, and this is like, this is like the core, I mean, this is just like a core capitalist idea in general. If you have more competition, you get a better experience for users. We have not had competition in web two for decades because these companies have become monopolies and what web three is really allowing is this wide open competition. And that is what, that's the core thing. Like it's not like, you know, it's going to take time for web three to get better than web two. You know, it's very, very early days, but the reason why it's going to work is because of the competitive aspect here. Like you can just, it's just so much better for consumers. I would also add to that, first of all, great point, great insight. I would also add that the web presence technology based upon DNS specifically is first of all, it's ASCII, so it's not foreign characteristics, not Unicode for the geeks out there, but that's limiting too. It's limits you to be on a site. And so I think the combination of kind of inadequate or antiquated DNS has limitations. So if, and that doesn't help communities, right? So when you're in the communities, you have potentially marketplaces that could be anywhere. So if you have an ID, you're just kind of thinking it forward here, but if you have your own data and your own ID, you can jump into a marketplace, two-sided marketplace anywhere. An app can provide that if the community's robust. This is kind of where I see the use case going. How do you guys, do you guys agree with that statement? And how do you see that ability for the user to take advantage of other competitive or new emerging communities or marketplaces? So I think it all comes down. So identity is just this huge problem in web two. And part of the reason why it's very, very hard for new marketplaces and new communities to emerge is because you need all kinds of trust and reputation. And it's very hard to get real information about the users that you're interacting with. If you're in the web three paradigm, then what happens is, is you can go and check certain things on the blockchain to see if they're true. And you can know that they're true 100%. You can know that I have used Uniswap in the past 30 days and OpenSea in the past 30 days. You can know for sure that this wallet is mine. The same owner of this wallet also owns this other wallet, owns this certain asset. So all of having the ability to know certain things about a stranger is really what's gonna change behavior. And one of the things that we're really excited about is being able to prove information about yourself without sharing it. So I can tell you, hey, I'm a unique person. I'm an American, I'm not an American, but I don't have to tell you who I am. And you can still know that it's true. And that is, that concept is gonna be what enables what you're talking about. I'm gonna be able to show up in some new community that was created two hours ago and we can all trust each other that a certain set of facts are true. And that's possible because of what- An exchange, an exchange value with smart contracts and other no middlemen involved activities, which is the promise of the new decentralized web. All right, so let me ask you a question on that because I think this is key. The anonymous point is huge. If you look at any kind of abstraction layers or any evolution in technology over the years, it's always been about cleaning up the mess or the, or extending capabilities of something that was inadequate. We mentioned DNS, now you got this. There's a lot of problems with web two, 2.0 social bots. You mentioned bots, bots are anonymous and they don't have a lot of time in market. So it's easy to start bots and everyone who does either scraping bots, everyone knows this. What you just pointed out was an anonymous environment that was user choice but has all the data that could be verified. So it's almost like a blue check mark on Twitter without your name. Kind of- It's going to be hundreds of check marks, exactly. Because there's so many different things that you're going to want to communicate to strangers but that's exactly the right mental model. It's going to be these check marks for all kinds of different contexts. And that's what's going to enable people to trust that they're, you're talking to a real person or you're talking to the type of person you thought you were talking to, et cetera. But yeah, I think that the issues that we have with bots today are because Web2 has failed at solving identity. I think Facebook at one point was deleting half a billion fake accounts per quarter, something like the entire number of user profiles they were deleting per year. So it's just a total- And they spring up like mushrooms that just pop up, this is the problem. I mean, the data that you acquire in these siloed platforms is used by the company. So you don't own the data so you become the product as the cliche goes.  Okay, that's time, that's reputation data.  That's yours. And that's immutable, it's on the blockchain. You can store it and make that permanent and add to it. Exactly. That's a time-based thing versus today bots that are spreading misinformation can get popped up when they get killed. They just start another one. So time actually is a metric for quality here. Absolutely, and people already use it in the crypto world to say like, hey, this wallet was created greater than two years ago. This wallet has had transactions for at least three or four years. Like this is probably a legitimate user. And anybody can look that up. I mean, we go look it up together right now on EtherScan, it would take a minute. Yeah, it's awesome. You have a big fan I can tell. I love this product. I think you guys are going to do really well. Congratulations. I'm a big fan. I think this is needed. What are some of the deals you've done? Blockchain.com is one and Opera. Can you take us through those deals and why they're working with you? Let's start with blockchain.com. Yeah, so the whole thing here is that this identity standard for web three, apps need to choose to support it. So we spent several years as a company working to get as many crypto wallets and browsers and crypto exchanges to support this identity standard. Some of the largest and probably most popular companies to have done this are blockchain.com, for example, blockchain.com, one of the largest crypto wallets in the world. And you can use your domain names instead of crypto addresses. And this is super cool because blockchain.com in particular focuses on onboarding new users. So they're very focused on how we're going to get the next four billion internet users to use this tech.  Like how can we onboard this next several billion people if we have to explain to them about all these crazy addresses? And it's not just one. Like we want to give you 10 40 character addresses for all these different contexts. Like it's just no way people are going to be able to do that without having a user name. So that's why we're really excited about what blockchain.com is doing there. They want to train users that this is the way you should use the tech. Yeah, and certainly no one wants to remember. Remember how writing down all my, you know, writing, I was never a big wallet fan because of all the hacks. I used to write it down and store it in my safe. But if the house burns down or I kick the can, who's going to find it, right? So again, these are all important things. Your key, storing it, securing it. Super important. Talk about opera. And that's an interesting partnership because it's got a browser that people know what it is. What are they doing different? Almost imagine they're innovating around the identity and what people's experiences with what they touch. Yeah, so this is one of those things that's a little bit easier. And I strongly encourage everybody to go and try DAPS after this. Cause this is going to be one of those concepts and be a little easier if you try it than if you hear about it. But the concept of a wallet and a browser are kind of merging. So it makes sense to have a wallet inside of your browser because when you go to a website, the website's going to want you to sign in with your wallet. So having that be in one app is quite convenient for users. And so opera was one of the trailblazers, a traditional browser that added a crypto wallet so that you can store money in there. And then also added support for domain names, for payments and for websites. So you can type in brad.crypto and you can send me money or you can type in brad.crypto into the browser and you can check out my website. I've got a little NFT gallery. You can see my collection up there right now. So that's the idea is that browsers have this kind of superpower in web three. And what I think is going to happen, opera and brave have been kind of the trailblazers here. What I think is going to happen is that these traditional browsers are going to wake up and they're going to see that integrating a wallet is critical for them to be able to provide services to consumers. I mean, it is an app. I mean, why not make it a D app as well? Because why wouldn't I want to just send you crypto like Venmo you mentioned earlier, which people can understand that concept. Venmo, my cash, same concept here, but built into the browser, which is not a browser anymore. It's a reader, a D app reader, basically with a wallet. All right, so what does this mean for you guys and the marketplace? You got opera, pushing the envelope on browsing, changing the experience, enabling the applications to be discovered and navigated and consumed. You got blockchain.com with the wallets and being embedded there, good distribution. Who are you looking for for partners? How do people partner? Let's just say theCUBE wants to do NFTs and we want to have a login for our communities which are all open. How do we partner with you or do we? We have to wait or is there a, I mean, take us through the partnership strategy. How do we, how do people engage with unstoppable domains?  We would love to have you support being able to send money using domains. We also have all sorts of different kind of marketing activities we can do together. We can give out free stuff to your communities. We have a bunch of education that we do. We're really trying to be this onboarding point to Web3. So there's, I think a lot of, a lot of cool stuff we can do together on the commercial side and on the marketing side. And then the other category that we didn't talk about was dApps. And we now have this login with Unstoppable Domains which you kind of alluded to there. And so you can log in with your domain name and then you can give the app permission to get certain information about you or proof of information about you, not the actual information if you don't want to share it because it's your choice and you're in control. And so that would be, that would be another thing. Like if you all launch a dApp, we should absolutely have login with Unstoppable in there. Yeah, there's so much headroom here. You got a short-term solution with the exchange. Get that distribution. I get that. That's early days of the foundation. Push the distribution, get you guys everywhere. But the real success comes in for the login. I mean, the sign-in, single sign-in concept. I think that's going to be powerful. Great stuff. Okay, Future, tell us something we don't know about Unstoppable Domains that people might be interested in. I think it's really, I think the thing that you're going to hear about a lot from us in the future is going to be around this idea of identity, of being able to prove that you're a human and be able to tell apps that. And apps are going to give you all kinds of special access and rewards and all kinds of other things because you gave them that information. So that's the hint I'm going to draw. You know, it's interesting, Brad. You bring trust, you bring quality verified data, choose intelligent software and machine learning, AI and access to distributed communities and distributed applications. Interesting to see what the software does with that because it traditionally didn't have that before. I mean, just in mind-blowing. I mean, pretty crazy. Great stuff. Brad, thanks for coming on. Thanks for sharing the insight. Co-founder of Unstoppable Domains. Brad Kamp, thanks for stopping by the cubes. Showcase with Unstoppable Domains. Thanks for having me.


We know that aromatic rings are electron-rich and this is why one of the most popular reactions of haloarenes is electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions like nitration, sulfonation, priddlecraft reactions and so on. But what if I told you that we can also make these aromatic rings undergo a nucleophilic substitution reaction? You might find that pretty absurd because how can a nucleophile attack another electron-rich species and bring about a substitution reaction? If you thought so, you are absolutely right. And that is why we need to tweak a couple of conditions to make it happen. As I already mentioned, if I have to make a nucleophile attack this electron-rich ring, then I need to somehow decrease electron density in this ring and make it more electrophilic, right? Only then the nucleophile would want to attack it. And we can decrease electron density on the ring by introducing an electron withdrawing group. When we have a strong electron withdrawing group, it would draw away the electron density from the ring towards itself, make this ring electron deficient and facilitate a nucleophile to attack. Therefore, to make this haloarene undergo a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction, it must have a strong electron withdrawing group attached to the ring. In fact, more the number of electron withdrawing groups present in the ring, greater would be the rate of the reaction. The rate of the reaction substantially increases with more number of nitro groups attached to the ring, as you can see here. So, let's now look at the mechanism of this reaction. The first step is the addition of the nucleophile. Now, here we have an orthoisomer and as the nucleophile adds to the haloarene, the electron density gets delocalized. Now in this case, the pi electrons get delocalized onto the electron withdrawing nitro group. And as you can see here, the electron density in the ring is drawn away by the nitro group and delocalized onto the more electronegative oxygen atom here. This negative charge gets further delocalized within the ring and eventually results in the elimination of the halogen atom. And this process is much favored because it also restores the aromaticity of the ring. So, this is why nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions are also called addition elimination reactions. The first step is the addition of the nucleophile and the second step involves the elimination of the leaving group, which in our case is the halogen. Now, obviously the rate determining step in this reaction is the first step or the addition of the nucleophile. The step is slow because it results in the loss of aromaticity. As we know, the aromatic ring does not want to lose its stability and it takes a good deal of energy to get this step started, whereas the elimination is a much faster step because here the aromaticity is restored. So, the rate determining step in this mechanism is basically the first step. Now, the only small caveat here is that the electron withdrawing group, in our case the nitro group here, should always be present at the orto or para positions to the leaving group. Now pause the video and think why orto and para positions are preferred and not the meta position, okay? So, basically in the case of the orto isomer, the electron withdrawing group stabilizes the negatively charged intermediate via resonance. And the same thing happens in the case of the para isomer. Here again, the pi electrons get delocalized onto the more electronegative oxygen atom of the nitro group and thus withdraws electron density from the ring. And this facilitates a nucleophilic attack, whereas in the case of the meta isomer, no such delocalization is possible. Here, the negative charge remains stuck on the less electronegative carbon atom and cannot move on to the more electronegative oxygen atom. And that means electron density pretty much stays within the ring and does not decrease because of the presence of an electron withdrawing group. So, basically having a nitro group at the meta position is not of much use as it does not decrease electron density in the ring or make it electrophilic enough for a nucleophile to attack. And this is why the rate of the reaction is much faster in the case of orto and para isomers, but very slow in the case of the meta isomer.


Hello. Today we're going to be walking through how to use CLO Tributor to find issues to work on an open source. CLO Tributor is a tool which shows and lets us search through issues that are open in projects from CNCF and LF data and AI. Its core functionality is this big long list of issues which have either good first issue or the help wanted tag applied to them. So these are all things that you can start working on right now, so someone would like a contributor to pick it up. And that's great, since these are all places you can start contributing. And there's a lot. You see we've got over 1100. That's a lot of issues. So maybe we want to narrow it down. First of all, I can pick foundation. If I'm really interested in cloud computing, I can pick CNCF only. I can also pick what projects I'm interested in if I already know that. Or maybe I'm not so sure. So I can also say, oh, maybe I want to do a documentation issue. I can, this is only, these are all documentation issues. I can also pick the languages that I would like to program in. So maybe I really like programming in Java. I can pick Java and I'll get all the Java issues. Maybe instead, I really like programming in Go. And I can search, we've got Go, I can select that. And these are all the open Go programming issues. And I can also search up at the top. Maybe I'm interested in serverless. So I can search serverless. And these are all the open serverless issues. And I can come through, find what I'm interested in. Once I have one I'm interested in, there are two useful links here. First of all, there's a link to the repository that this came from. If I click on this, this will open Knative Survey. And I'll be able to look around the repository. There's also this main link here, which takes me to the issue. So if I click on this, the issue will open. I can read the issue in GitHub. And if I want to assign it to myself, I can pick this up and start working on it.


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Okay. Welcome everybody. My name is Jenny Fuster. I'm the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Data Commons Program Manager for the ARDC. So we're going to get started. But before we do, bear with me. So I'd like to acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging. And just to let you know that I live and work on Ghana Country. I'd also like to introduce Rosie Hicks, our CEO who's here to participate in the Q&A at the end of the session. And Reese Williams, my colleague who's here to assist today. I'd like to introduce Jill Ben, Kylie Brass, and Chris Haverly, who are all from our advisory panel, as well as Vanessa Russ and Len Smith from the Indigenous Data Network, who are also here to answer questions if there are any at the end of the session. So before I start, I want to let you know that this session is being recorded. The primary purpose of today's session is to ensure that we are keeping the community informed of our work on the humanities, arts and social sciences research data commons and Indigenous research capability program. We're really excited, as I'm sure all of you are, about this long overdue development and we want to ensure that we proceed in a transparent and collaborative manner. So during today's session, I'll give a little bit of background about the work of the ARDC, as well as some background about the investment into the HASS RDC and Indigenous research capability program. I'll let you know what progress has been made to date and how you can engage in the planning process over the next month. Today's purpose is not to look at the content of the project plans for the HASS RDC and Indigenous research capability program, but we will let you know later in the session where you can find that content. We will be answering questions at the end of the session and I'd ask you to add any questions that you might have to the shared document and I think that Reese has added that link into the chat. So have a look at that shared document. If somebody's already asked your question in that document, you can add a plus one to the column in column three that is and that will help us prioritize the questions so that we can answer them. Rest assured that if we don't get to your question today, we will be answering all of those questions in that document and we'll make sure that you have the link. We'll email it out to you after the session. So let's start with the ARDC. The ARDC was formed following recommendations of the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap by merging the Australian National Data Service or ANS, NECTA, the National Research Cloud and Research Data Services RDS. It was incorporated in May 2019 and now runs as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee with 20 institutional members and we have a skills-based board as well. The ARDC's purpose is simply to provide Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data. We deliver that through accelerating research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets. So you can see here the areas of activity that this includes are data and services, storage and compute, software and platforms and people and policy. In each case, we're driving coordination and coherence in Australia's national digital research infrastructure. So within those fourth themes, the ARDC is currently running a major program of projects and services. Services include the National Information Infrastructure, the NECTA, Research Cloud and projects include a portfolio of 26 platforms and the National Data Assets Program. And culture change through skills and policy underpins these activities. The ARDC is a hub of expertise connected both domestically and internationally. All ARDC projects are highly collaborative. For example, the institutional underpinnings program is uniting 25 universities to develop a coordinated approach to research data management. 60% of our platforms projects have more than 10 institutions involved in them. So we do like to collaborate. The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability Program will be the first of hopefully many thematic research data commons. The thematic RDCs will bring together data and related resources, so storage, models and computing infrastructure to enable researchers from across disciplines and industries to deliver world-class data intensive research outcomes in strategic thematic areas. The ARDC is shifting towards the support of thematic RDCs because as digital research infrastructure has become mainstream, it has also become clear that the domain specialist should not also have to be a data and compute specialist. As a hub of expertise, the ARDC is positioned to drive best practice in the creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets and share this expertise across domains. So what is a research data commons actually? A research data commons will co-locate data, storage and computing infrastructure with core services and commonly used tools and applications for managing, analysing and sharing data to create an interoperable resource. Now turning to the HASS research data commons and a little bit of background for you. The need for investment in both humanities arts and social sciences and indigenous research was detailed in the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. The Department of Education Skills and Employment or DESI subsequently commissioned three studies which identified a number of investment-ready programs that would benefit from national research infrastructure funding. Whilst not all of the recommendations of those scoping studies have been funded at this time, the activities earmarked to participate in the initial round of development displayed an advanced state of readiness to participate in and benefit from a HASS research data commons. Funding for the four activities has been guided by the recommended investment ratios in the DESI studies. Even I get it wrong. The leads of those activities are Professor Michael Haw from UQ for the Linguistics Data Commons of Australia, Dr Stephen McKacken from ANU for Integrated Research Infrastructure for Social Sciences, Alison Dellert for the Trove Research Platform and Professor Marcia Langton for the Indigenous Research Capability Program. As you know, the ARDC and the HASS RDC and Indigenous Research Capability Program are supported as part of the National Research Infrastructure Strategy Encrase and these investments are in response to the National Research Infrastructure Road Mapping process. We can see this in these project program objectives that reflect the research infrastructure investment plan as well as the increased principles. So to date the activity leads have participated in two workshops. The workshops were designed to guide the project plans and ensure that they contribute to the HASS RDC and Indigenous Research Capability Program as a coherent whole. The discussions included opportunities for collaboration or integration across the activities, the potential development of collaborative tools, utilising shared underlying infrastructure and Indigenous data governance considerations. The draft project plans have now been submitted to the ARDC. We've also appointed an advisory panel to ensure that broad community engagement will be achieved and that community feedback will be reasonably incorporated into the project plans. The advisory panel is led by Jill Ben as Chair and Representative from the Higher Education Library community. Jill is the Chair of the Council of Australian University Librarians and University Librarian at UWA and Jill is with us today. Dr Kylie Brass is the Academy of the Humanities Representative. Kylie is the Policy and Research Director at the Australian Academy of the Humanities and I believe Kylie is with us too but there are so many faces that I can't spot her. Dr Chris Haverly is the Academy of Social Sciences Representatives as CEO of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Associate Professor Anna Johnston is the Representative for the Researcher Community. Anna is Associate Professor in English Literature in the School of Communication and Art at the University of Queensland. Ron Decker is the International HASS Digital Research Infrastructure Representative. Ron is the Director of CESTA, Eric at the Consortium of Social Science Data Archives and the Coordinator of Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud, otherwise known as SHOCK. He's also the Project Leader of the EOSC Future Project that aims to realise the European Open Science Cloud. We are still awaiting the appointment of the Indigenous Research Community Representative but that is in progress. So I now want to touch on the project plans. In particular in relation to the evaluation criteria, a selection of which you can see here. The project plan evaluation criteria have been strongly tied to the anchor's principles and so to name a few of those principles. Australia's investment in research infrastructure should be planned and developed with the aim of maximising the contributions of the research. Major infrastructure should be developed on a collaborative national non-exclusive basis. Infrastructure funded through Anchris should serve the research and innovation system broadly, not just the host or funded institution. Funding and eligibility rules should encourage collaboration and co-investment. It should not be the function of Anchris to support institutional level or even small-scale collaborative infrastructure. Access is a critical issue in the drive to optimise Australia's research infrastructure. In terms of anchor's funding, there should be as few barriers as possible to accessing major infrastructure for those undertaking meritorious research. And due regard must be given to the whole of life costs of major infrastructure. So these are all things to be considered in the evaluation of our project plans. So I just want to share with you the timeline for the next month. It's certainly been a busy time in the lead-up to this information session and it's going to be a busy time in the lead-up to our board meeting on the 19th of October. So draft project plans along with the evaluation criteria and Anchris principles, as well as a feedback submission facility, are now available on the ARDC website and we'll share that link with you in the chat when I finish speaking. On the 14th of September, video presentations given by the activity leads which will give more context to those project plans will also go live on the ARDC website. On the 21st of September, from 10 until 3 Eastern Standard Time, we will be holding roundtable discussions which will give you an opportunity to ask any questions of the leads that you may have. As you've registered for today's session, you'll automatically receive details about the roundtable sessions via email. September the 27th will be the last day that you'll be able to submit feedback, so please make sure that you add that date to your diary. The leads, the advisory panel and I will be working to ensure that any feedback received is incorporated into the plans where reasonable. But we will also be compiling a register of needs and capabilities that we can't cover in this round. So any capability gaps that we can't cover, we will feed into the current NRI road mapping process through DESI. On the 19th of October, I will be presenting the recommendations for the project plans to the ARDC board. If we feel that any of the plans are not ready, that will not preclude the other activities from getting underway. Okay, thanks for your attention. We're going to go to questions now, but I'm going to ask Reese Williams to give me a hand. And I'll just pop my contact details up there in case anybody wants to get in touch with me via email. So how are we going, Reese? No questions. Okay. I can't see any questions in the question register. Now, we can wait a few minutes for someone to type some. If there's not, we may, even though we've got 110 people, we may be able to ask for people to put their hands up, but I'll give you a few more minutes if there's something that you wanted to add to that. And Marcus, while I've got the floor down the bottom left of where it says mute, if you click on the little arrow on the right, it'll take you to the audio settings. In the bottom left of your Zoom window, you should have an Zoom's audio settings option. I can't hear you, Jenny, through your mute, I think. I'm just going to stop sharing my screen and find the link for you to the ARDC page that has the project plans and submission feedback. So we'll start on the questions in a minute. Okay. I've just popped that link to the project plans into the chat. So Jenny, there's a couple of questions about Indigenous data governance, effectively, the one about care principles, and then is there a universal definition for Indigenous data governance that we are using? So this sort of related. I'm going to ask Vanessa or Vanessa Russ or Len Smith, please to address that question. I think you're still muted, Vanessa. What's the question? Is there a universal definition for Indigenous data governance? Oh, look, I think that there's still work being done. I do think there's quite a lot of work that people like Ray Lover and Maggie have done, but I think in terms of its application, there's still work to be done. Yeah. And the care principles always see are... It's the same thing. I think it's actually about really understanding how do you put that into sort of a data management setting? How do you actually make it work that people use it? It's no point talking about it if people aren't going to use it. So I think it's not that there's anything wrong with those things. It's just how do we take them and then apply them and thinking about the difference between, say, a community-controlled organisation and a non-community-controlled organisation because there are going to be different things as well. Yes, thank you. I'm typing and not reading. Jenny, you mentioned the process for recruiting the Indigenous lead. Can you give us any more information about that at the stage? Sorry, Ray. You mentioned the... It's very hard. We're in the same room. It is. It's a bit weird. The process for recruiting the Indigenous lead, can you give us any more information about that? But Linda's asked if we've got any more information. You mentioned it was in progress. Oh, no, that's not the lead. The lead is Professor Marsha Langton. We are looking for the advisory panel member, and we've been guided by the Indigenous data network and provided with a number of people, a few of whom have declined due to the workload and general busyness. So we are working our way through that list that was provided by the Indigenous data network. Sound data, as a data type, is there a provision for that? For example, musicology, recordings, I'm sure there could be. As I said, the investment has been very tied to the scoping studies. So there are those four areas that I mentioned. Of course, I'm sure that Michael... Is Michael Hall with us? Michael, speak now or forever hold your peace. I can't see him. Michael is working with linguistics, and obviously linguistics often involves recordings. And are there IDN working with any sound recordings, Vanessa Linn? It's quite likely where they're still in the process of identifying clearly which data sets they will be working with, but I will let them speak. Is that right, Vanessa? Yeah, I think there's a lot to this. It's a massive project. So trying to get it narrowed down has been really important. And I don't think we're really... I'm not sure if we're there to intend to sound. But, Linn, I don't know. Somebody in the... James told us that the language data commons is working with sound, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. What else? I just noticed that Kylie, I think... Was that Kylie Brass had popped a question into the chat. Yes. What's the end game for the program and where do we want to be at the end? At the end, we want to be in the middle, not at the end. I would suggest is the answer to that. And maybe not even in the middle. So we view this very much as being a pilot to a more long-term piece of research infrastructure. So we do hope that we will be able to expand the capabilities that we're looking at in this phase of the project. And then somebody said, following on from Kylie, how do we best position the HASS community in the increased roadmap discussions? And I think I might ask Rosie Hicks if she can talk roadmap with you. Certainly. Thank you, Rosie. Thanks, Jenny. Good afternoon, everyone. So I'm going to split this into two different components here. The ARDC is obviously very involved in the data and compute components of this year's roadmaping process. And I can confirm that we have a workshop with the department tomorrow afternoon. And we have both representation from the Indigenous network with Vanessa Russ and Len Smith on the call this afternoon. And from the technical side of the HASS RDC, we have Peter Septon representing the interests of the HASS community there. And I would put that in context. So we have three representatives tomorrow. I'm not sure of the total number of attendees in that meeting, but it's off the order of 2025. So it is a significant footprint, which I think is a great result fitting into that process. We, the ARDC, of course, continue to advocate for the HASS work in our interactions with the roadmaping process. In addition to that, I'm not aware of the details of the consultations. I can't have further comment. Thanks, Rosie. Rhys, we've got any more questions? There are a lot more questions. There's a question that says, will the commons in the research data be comprised primarily of existing archive data? If so, are any popular archives going to be used at this stage?  That's from how? Yes. There will be existing data that will be used in these programs. In fact, most of the data is already in existence, I would say. Yeah. And in terms of which archives? Well, Trove, obviously, there will be tapping into Trove data. So, you know, that's a fairly representative group of data from across Australia in terms of lands. Paradisic, which is an existing data repository, will be leveraged. ADA is being leveraged, which is an existing data repository for social sciences. IAXIS data will be used. So, yes, there's a lot of reuse of existing archival data. Thank you. A couple of people have asked about the scoping studies. Can we see the scoping studies? The scoping studies that were carried out by DESI have not been made public. One of them I have not seen at all. Two I have, because one of them was done by the ARDC, and another was carried out by the Academy of Humanities. And I don't know, is Kylie here? I know that DESI has released that, but I don't think it's been released completely publicly. Yeah. So, just picking up on that, these scoping studies, there's a backstory to this. They weren't initially envisaged as the scoping studies, but I think they have effectively become the scoping studies into the process. So, as you were saying, ARDC did one piece. Alexis Tindall was involved in that, and in Duncan, and I haven't seen that piece. None of the scoping studies people actually crossed paths, I guess, in terms of the work that we were doing, even though we were swapping intel as we went across the process. There was another study that was done by Dandolo Partners, and again, I know that there was some high-level consultation on that, but we didn't see that. We did a piece, the Academy of Humanities, looking at international infrastructure models. At this stage, I've had permission to share that, and look at me, overalls on. I wasn't expecting to be on camera. I've had some permission to share that, as you know, Jenny, with you now, and with the kind of working teams, and I'm working on hopefully getting that more publicly available, because I think it's a useful resource, and so hopefully there's more to tell you soon on that, and making that publicly available. I do know, having spoken to counterparts in Department of Education, that some of that work has been made available to the expert working group, a synthesis of it, as far as I understand, and yet, so it's a bit of a watch this space, and we're certainly working behind the scenes to get access to those documents more broadly. Thanks, Kylie. Lots of work in progress, really. Alex, Alexis has given us a long question. Thanks for that, Alexis. If an organisation is managing Indigenous research data, that would benefit from improved governance arrangements, and may benefit communities from being incorporated into any new discoverability made possible by the Commons, it wouldn't be the best approach to get involved, short version. Are you seeking collections or open to working with dispersed collections of Indigenous research data? Vanessa and Ling, I'm going to throw over to you for that one. That was very well handled. That's very good. You got to take that, Vanessa. I think there's multiple end points to that question. I think there's lots of things we don't know. Alex has probably been better to email me so that I can actually talk it through with you, because there's things around governance that are still new to the actual data management side of things, I think. Yeah, there's a lot in that question. If you could send me an email, that'd be great, and I can get that through. Jenny? And that may be one that we can take away and think about a bit. Jules asked about this audience, so everybody on this call, do you have any comments about how comfortable you feel with the process that we've outlined for the consultation? So Jenny's taken us through what the proposed timeframe is and the steps involved in the consultation. Are people okay with that? I mean, Jules asking that question as a member of our advisory board for this program. Any comments from anybody? If you have any, think of any and you want to type them into that document in the response part, please feel free to do that. Jenny, what else can you see there? I think that Steve's got his hand up. He had his hand up. He's put it down again. Sorry, I'll just give a quick comment on the previous question. As I say, we've been in terms of the working with collections, we actually have been, so I've been sort of helping the ANU part of the idea and discussion. We have been looking at models for kind of doing audits and surveys of what collections are available there and we've been looking at how to roll that out. So it might, you know, it might well be the case that there's within that framework of how we're looking at those data audits that we could fit in the sorts of things that Alexis is talking about. So Sam Provost will be able to talk to that as well. And Vanessa can bring you into touch with those relevant people there, but I'd say it is certainly within the some of those discussions that we've had. Okay, Jenny, your quick question about the timeline for the deliverable. So did you talk about the overall timeline for the program? Overall timeline for the program is we're working to an end date of June, end of June 2023. So we've got a very tight timeframe to deliver on this project program, which is why you can see that we're working in a very tight process of feedback. So we've had to ramp up quite quickly. I only joined the ARDC back in June, so we've been working very quickly to get things properly underway. Okay. What else? We're nearly there, I think. Advice, do we have any advice for data custodians hoping to make their digital collections accessible through emerging RDCs? I'm not sure who's written that in. That might be a rosy, if we're talking some thematic RDCs more broadly. Oh, perhaps, yes. Does that refer to others other than the HASS RDC perhaps? Does the person who asked that question want to stick their hand up and clarify if they're comfortable to do so? No. No, that's okay. The next one says, will the HASS RDCs start us in RDA? Well, sorry, Rosy. I will comment. I notice that someone's still typing there, but just in case we're talking about other emerging RDCs, what I would say is that we anticipate in the next financial year to be able to set up two thematic RDCs, but at this point in time, we don't know the areas that they will be focused on. We're working it out at the moment, and I am absolutely delighted to say that on the first of this month, the 1st of September, we appointed Dr. Anita Cannon as the senior architect for the thematic RDC strategy, so Anita's work will be very much on identifying where we start with the first two. Obviously, I see that expanding over the years, not beyond a handful, but certainly for those first two. So when it comes back to having advice for data custodians seeking to make connections accessible through emerging RDCs, it is watch this space. There will be more information coming soon, but of course, making them available through research data at Australia is a critical, important first step. Now, I hope that's answered the person's question, but if not, I think it's great information to share with this group anyway.  What are you saying here? Right. Well, I've just given a lovely, I can see you, I've given a lovely example, a lovely answer about thematic RDCs in general, but you are actually focused on this one, working in an organisation active that makes some digital collections programme.  Oh, Alexis. Very, Jenny. I just want to say many of us here are custodians of has relevant data, and I think one of the things that's not necessarily clear right at this stage, and perhaps it doesn't need to be answered today, but perhaps it's something for the further round table, is pathways for stuff that's already digital, that we don't necessarily, we're not, I'm not necessarily turning and asking for money for digitisation or anything like that, but where our commitments to open scholarship can be turned into accessibility in these new research environments. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that I can actually answer that question just yet, Alexis, to be honest with you. But as Rosie said, I think it's a matter of watch this face. I mean, I'm incredibly mindful of exactly what you have expressed in that question, but cannot right now answer it. I don't think I can think of Alexis as a fairly generic answer, but obviously, if we're looking at everything that our DC does is around fair the fair principles and those kinds of things. So and we provide a lot of expertise as to this project as well to others. So if you've got existing resources and you need assistance to make those more available through some skills work, software development advice, professional advice, we obviously bring all of that expertise of ARDC to that.  That's okay. They know that I call them nerds. It's a affectionate term. And I'm pleased to see that people are typing in responses, which is really good. Just asking Jenny and putting her on the spot. Nick T. Berger says, can fair be fair if it doesn't include long term guaranteed curation of research data? Well, I mean, it's, it can. It's got to be as long as possible. But who's going to give an ironclad guarantee? My colleague Keith Russell said, if people want to establish a PID for something, you should give them a puppy because it's a long term arrangement. So we all we all just fairly willy nilly established a PID for something. But that's no different to putting it to arguing the same thing about a long term repository.  That is the principle. We have to get right. And thank you to Alexis for her comment. Agree that it is an important question to be on the table. Thank you. Yeah. We need to keep having that discussion, Alexis. Yeah. Yeah. Are there any more race? There's one that says us about the medical concept differing from existing in our facilities and funding. That's a rosy question. That's a rosy question. A rosy question. There is a very significant difference to the way that the ARDC has been operating historically. We have undertaken support and collaborations with a significant number of national data assets and platforms, programs producing some really fantastic research capability. But much of this has come about through an open call process. And we are acutely aware that digital research infrastructure is no longer at the vanguard. It's absolutely underpinning the mainstream of our research. So we have to change the way that we do this to ensure that we can support the needs of the greatest number of researchers to have the highest impact. And so we, in putting together the thematic RDCs, we're looking to make significant strategic investments very much in the same model, building on the model of what we're doing here with the HASS RDC that are brought about by significant consultation and facilitation and building the communities to identify the gaps and the challenges and going forward to build those solutions, rather than an open competitive process, building this shared national research infrastructure. And I think another really important point that we need to speak to here is the sustainability of our e-research infrastructure. And if we continue to fund in short bursts and to fund in projects, we're not looking at the sustainability issue. If there is a national need to have this capability as the national research infrastructure that RDC has to commit longer than a three-year window. Now, of course, it's limited by the existence of the RDC minor point there. But beyond that, we then come back to reviewing the impact of having particular capability and the demands of the research sector. So it is a significant shift between the way that things have been done previously, recognising the mainstream needs of the research sector and what we think is necessary for the next 10 years. We see you are typing furiously. I wonder if we might put a link to the ARDC website that explains this in a bit more detail for everyone that's on the call today. Yes. We've got something on the format of the RDCs on the website. We have indeed. So you could tell by the length of my answer that it's a very exciting time for us. Thank you. Thank you, Rosie. Is there anything else there, Jenny? I'll just stop looking at it. There's a comment there about knowing where it fits into the international initiative. So I think that sort of goes well with the previous comments about knowing what's there in terms of mapping existing data collections. There's a piece that there's a sort of a landscape or environmental piece that's amongst that, I think. Thank you. Rosie, did you paste that? Thank you. That was Keith. Thanks, Keith. Thank you, Keith. Keith is the keeper of the guru of finding the right thing and sticking in in there. Thanks, Keith. Okay. I've pasted your comment in there, Nick. Jenny, can you think of anything else we should cover off? I'm just having a quick book in the chat. No, I can't think of anything else unless there are any further questions. Steve's got his hand up. Steve? Yeah. Jenny, I just thought it might be useful to back to Kylie's point about what's the end game here and your point about this is the end of part one. Because I think that helps for people to understand when they're evaluating and reviewing what we've put together to understand we focused on there is going to be a part two. That's the premise that we're really working towards. And as a result, some of what we've written into those plans is premised on we can't do everything straight away, but we certainly we're trying to set it up for thinking forward there. And so let's say that lines up with the road mapping discussions and others that Rosy and Jenny have touched upon. But that point about their implicit in this is assuming a part two. And so some of the questions around what's in and what's out is which parts can we get, can we do now and which parts can we be ready for as we go forward is kind of embedded in certainly some of the thinking that the social science group has done. And I think with across the other projects as well. Okay. Thanks Steve. And thus also our desire to capture feedback that will help shape, you know, what future capability we might the sector might benefit from that we can't meaningfully create in this round. Thanks Steve. Anybody else? Yes, it is recorded and it will be made available. Vanessa, can I just follow on from what Steve just said that I think one of the components for us is actually there's a lot of consultation and engagement required. So there's still quite a lot of conversation that's required from our end. And I think we're all we're all feeling the pinch. So it's not that we we don't know certain things. It's just that how do you make them functional is is out there and and we need to bring all the people the right people into the room. And so that still takes the sorts work to be done. So to speak. Thanks Vanessa. Great. Lynn's asking as long term sustainability job for NCI. Rosie? I think we all have a part to play. There is certain data that most appropriate is sits with NCI. There is data we're looking for that seamless connection across government data, health data, industry data, community data. I think our DC has a significant role in working to raise the tide. I think if I if I go back to like all ships rise with the tide, working with the institutions across Australia to raise the availability and standards of institutional repositories so that they expand beyond the strengths of publications and really address the responsibilities for maintaining data into the future. Then add to that some domain specific repositories and our need as a country of what are we up to today 26 million in a broader global landscape and need to make sure that we are also interoperable and working with global data as well. Thank you Rosie. Anybody else? We make it an early minute. So I encourage you to have a look at those project plans. At the moment there's three project plans available. All four will be available tomorrow. We just had to rectify something in one of them. So they'll all be up there tomorrow. Please take a look. Please have a look at the videos. They will be up on the 14th of September and then come back and participate with us in the roundtable discussions where we'll have a much longer time to discuss those plans in detail with the project leads and their partners and then I really strongly encourage you to submit your feedback because as I say that will help us to shape what capabilities the community needs going forwards. So I'm really glad that you've attended today and if you have any questions that you think of after the session either pop them into that shared document or you can email me but we'll keep working on that shared Q&A document just so that everyone can read the answers and I think we will sign out. So thanks again for attending and I'll see you at the roundtable in a few weeks time. Thanks everyone. Thanks Rhys. Thanks Rosie and Vanessa and Len and my advisory panel. Thank you very much for attending.


There, I'm Sandy. Welcome to the studio where I'm going to do a little vlog today because I'm having a good hair day. I love being able to have cooler weather so my hair can be down instead of up in a ponytail or in a bun, which is where it's been for this long hot summer we had and it's been nice for the last month or two to see the weather cooling down. Yay! I also got new pair of glasses and the two of them together made me a little excited. I set up my camera along with my microphone and my sound board and e-cam and just all the stuff that it takes when I shoot a vlog because it's a different setup than when I'm shooting my artwork and when I moved everything earlier this year I lost track of which plug went into which other plug and how it all came together but I think I've got it figured out now. Yay! I'm going to be posting a piece of artwork over here. I don't know what it is yet because I haven't created it but you can watch that if you'd rather watch it than me which is totally fine. I would love your feedback by the end of this video on whether or not you found yourself wanting to watch that and just listen to me or do you need to see the face thing because I don't really like having my face out here all that much but I would love seeing somebody do some artwork and chat with me about something as opposed to the face but I'm going to let you weigh in on that as well as maybe some topics that you might have in your brain that I should talk about. Okay? My subject for today is why the heck am I still blogging in 2021? There's a lot of people who have stopped blogging. I've asked a lot of friends who have stopped why they did. A number of them have said it's because they just can't find subscribers anymore. Nobody is subscribing to blogs. I've had other people who said that they just didn't build the community that they had hoped to build and they weren't getting comments. They weren't getting feedback. That's what they wanted was feedback from people on what they were creating and they just didn't get that anymore. Other people said it was because the expense of hosting a blog was higher than the income that they were making from affiliate links. What that means is when you shop using someone's links in general if they have an affiliate disclosure they are going to get a percentage of the income from whatever you purchase but they also have to pay for their website. They have to pay for perhaps the URL that they purchase. They have to pay for if they use a service to deliver the blog to someone like MailChimp or something which is what I use. It just doesn't balance out anymore because people aren't using affiliate links nearly as much as they used to and the cost of running a blog is higher than that so people have made the choice to just stop blogging entirely. So that said I'm going to give you my reasons for why I am still blogging after all these years. First one is because of my longtime subscribers because I've been blogging since 2007. I have people who have been with me for a really long time and they like to get their content sent to them via email or via whatever whatever way it is that they get it if it's a feed reader or something and there are some people who regularly comment either on the blog or they reply to an email that they've gotten about the blog post and they give me their feedback. I know there's a bunch of people out there like that God bless you all I love you all and for the nine people who regularly comment the most on my blog all the time I'm gonna be heading to the grocery store after I get done with this video can I pick you up a pack of gum or something because you know we tight all right that's reason number one reason number two is because of SEO search engine optimization now I am terrible at doing SEO you're supposed to write your post in such a way that the first paragraph has this in it the second paragraph has that and then there's a bolded sentence and then something at the end there's like just all kinds of craziness that I never learned so I don't do any of that but what I figure is I have a bunch of words on my blog post that Google can look at and go this is what that blog post is about and when you type something in that has those keywords in it then Google might send you my blog post yes they sometimes will send a YouTube video when you're looking for something but YouTube only has so many words in the title and maybe that first sentence I feel like my blog posts are gonna do that a little bit better even if I'm not good at SEO stuff the third reason I continue to blog in 2021 is I have so much work to organize I could easily let go of all that stuff from the past and let it fly away and disappear never to be seen again but after all the work of making more than a thousand videos I don't want to lose all that stuff so what I have chosen to do in 2021 is to put together blog posts where I collect each one of those into themes so on one Saturday I'll put out a post that has all of my fall and Halloween videos in one big post another one I'll do all of my Copic intermediate stuff another one I'll do my beginner watercolor and all year long I've been doing these so there's a ton of them out there and several people have told me they feel like classes because even though they're not organized in a you know here's step one build on it with step two build on that with step three they're on a theme and so they kind of go together and they feel like a free class that you're getting just on my blog and I want to share an idea that Marcia gave me she gave me permission to tell you her story she loved one of these posts so much and she had gone through and done each one of the tutorials with other stamps that she had and she said it felt like she had been in a class and that it was worth a lot to her and she was amazed that it was just free right there on my blog and she wanted to know how she could just send me money for it and I recommended she become a patron because patrons sent a little bit each month and she was super happy with that she didn't feel guilty about getting all that free content and all the work that I'd put into it so I really appreciate that from her so Marcia welcome to the patron family and I just love that all of these posts are arranged with these big juicy photos I really like that the tiny postage stamp photos in YouTube do nothing for me so I enjoy being able to look through my own work and looking back over history and seeing where I've come from how my work has changed over time and being able to organize my blog search through it find things that you're looking for somebody recently looked for a puffin they said you did a puffin recently I don't remember what it was I could just type the word puffin into my my dashboard on the backside and all of a sudden all my puffin post came up and I could find the one that she wanted it was very easy so having my blog keeps me organized that way I can find everything the fourth reason why I am going to blog for the continuous future as far as I can see is what happened a few weeks ago you might remember we had an outage of Facebook and Instagram for about six hours the world went into a panic oh my goodness what happens there were rumors that went around that all of that content was gone that it was wiped out all your pictures all your everything gone I just went and took a walk I went drawing with some friends I did other things I did not panic and then came back everything was fine and they've kind of had some tweaks that they've been doing over time but it's mostly back and it got me thinking about how important it is to have my content somewhere else what happens if Facebook just goes the way of my space and implodes they've been losing usership like crazy in the last year or two and it's dropping like a rock maybe Facebook is going to implode I don't know I don't want all my content just there I want it somewhere where I can access it if something happens on Facebook or Instagram or wherever so having it on my blog means if some new social media pops up there's some new site that we all migrate to at some point I don't know what that's going to be but I still have the reservoir of all of my content that I can go and populate on the new site and be able to share that with more people for my foreseeable future blogging is part of my world everything is going to end up on my website so that I have that repository you may want to consider at least having a folder in your hard drive where you keep everything don't trust it all to a social media because you never know what's going to happen so I hope this was helpful if you have any thoughts on the whole topic please feel free to leave them in the comments down below as well as let me know if you would rather watch that than this because I'd be curious what you think I will see you guys later peace out


Hello and welcome to the session I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question which says using the method of integration find the area of the region bounded by lines 2x plus 5 is equal to 4, 3x minus 2y is equal to 6 and x minus 3y plus 5 is equal to 0. Now we know that the area of the region bounded by the curve y is equal to fx, x axis and the lines x is equal to a and x is equal to b where b is greater than a is given by integral from a to b y dx. So using this key idea let's start the solution. In this question we have to find the area of the region bounded by the lines 2x plus y is equal to 4. Let us give this equation as number 1, 3x minus 2y is equal to 6. Let us give this as number 2 and 3y plus 5 is equal to 0. Let us give this as number 3. First we will find the points of intersection of these lines. For this we have to solve these equations simultaneously by taking them in pairs. Now from equation 1 and 2 we have an equation 1 by 2 we have 4x plus 2y is equal to 8 and equation 2 is 3x minus 2y is equal to 6. On adding we have 7x is equal to 14 or x is equal to 2. Now from equation 1 is equal to 2 implies y is equal to 0. Let a is the point of intersection of lines 1 and 2. So the point of intersection whose coordinates are 2, 0. Let c is the point of intersection of lines 2 and 3. So we will get the coordinates of c by solving equation 2 and 3. Now from equation 2 we have 3x minus 2y is equal to 6, 35 equation 3 by 3 we get 3x minus 9y is equal to minus 15. So on subtraction we have y is equal to 21 or y is equal to y is equal to 3 implies x is equal to 4. So the point of intersection whose coordinates are 4, 3. Let b is the point of intersection of lines 1 and 3. So from equation 1 and 3 we have from 1 we have 2x plus y is equal to 4 and from 3 we have x minus 3y is equal to minus 5, multiply equation 3 by 2 we have 2x minus 6y is equal to minus 10. So on subtraction we have 7y is equal to 14 or y is equal to 2. Now from equation 1 y is equal to 2 implies x is equal to 1 and it is the point of intersection of lines 1 and 3 is b whose coordinates are 1 and 2. These points to identify the region whose area we have to determine. So we get a triangle abc. So we have to find the area of this shaded region. Therefore required area is trapezium bn, bn area of triangle acm plus area of this is equal to. Now area of trapezium bnmc is integral from 1 to 4 y of line bc that is it is equal to integral from 1 to 4 y of line bc dx which is equal to integral from 1 to 2 y of line integral from 1 to 2 y which is integral from 2 to 4 y of line is equal to integral from 1 to 4 y of line bc. Now y of line bc is x plus 5 over 3 dx minus integral from 1 to 2 y of line ab Now line ab is 2x plus y is equal to 4 so y is equal to 4 minus 2x integral from 2 to 4 y of line ac now line ac is 3x minus 2 y is equal to 6 so y is equal to 3x minus 6 upon 2. Now this is equal to 1 over 3 into x square upon 2 plus 5x and the limits are from 1 to 4 minus 4x minus 2x square upon 2 and the limits are from 1 to 2 minus 1 by 2 into 3x square upon 2 minus 6x and the limits are from 2 to 4 and this is equal to 1 over 3 into 4 square upon 2 that is 16 upon 2 plus 5 into 4 20 minus 1 over 2 plus 5 minus 4 into 2 8 minus 2 into 2 square 8 over 2 minus 4 into 1 4 minus 1 square upon 2 which is 2 over 2 1 over 2 into 3 into 4 square which is 3 into 16 that is 48 upon 2 minus 6 into 4 24 minus 3 into 2 square that is 12 over 2 minus 6 into 2 12 and this is equal to 1 over 3 into 8 plus 20 that is 28 minus 11 over 2 minus 4 which is 4 1 by 2 into 24 minus 24 which is 0 minus 6 minus 12 which is minus 6 and so this is equal to minus 1 by 2 into 6 and this is equal to 1 over 3 into 45 over 2 minus 1 minus 3 and this is equal to 15 over 2 minus 4 and this is again equal to 7 over 2 hence the required area is 7 over 2 so the answer for the above question is 7 over 2 I hope the solution is clear to you bye and check you


Looking at the income tax formula we're focused on line one income remember on the first half of the income tax formula is in essence an income statement although just an outline the scaffolding other forms and schedules flowing into these line items one of those being the schedule C which is in essence an income statement in and of itself it having income minus expenses or business deductions get into the net income which rolls into the line one income of the income tax formula we see here page one of the form 1040 the schedule C rolls into the schedule one which rolls into page one of form 1040 line number eight that we see here here's an example of a schedule C profit or loss from business where we see the income statement format of the income minus the expenses that said let's focus on the income side of things now we're looking at the business income remember and the general rule for income from the IRS's perspective anything you get is basically income unless the IRS has an exception saying that it's not income right so when we're thinking about our business income the question is one is this income two is it exempt from us having to report it as income and if it is income where do I have to report it do I report it as business income on the schedule C or possibly somewhere else on the form 1040 or some other former schedule that said let's look at the business income introduction this chapter primarily explains business income and how to account for it on your tax return and what items are not considered income that's just as important to know what don't I have to include in there what are the exceptions and gives guidelines for selected occupations clearly different occupations have their own different needs and categorizations and some specific items related to them so if there is a connection between any income you receive and your business the income is a business income because you got it in connection to the business therefore business income so a business you'll recall in the past when we talked about if you are self-employed or not will depend in part if you're doing the activity in order to generate revenue you have a profit motive as the motive for doing the business a connection exists if it is clear that the payment of income would not have been made if you did not have the business so you can have business income even if you are not involved in the activity on a regular full time basis you so you might be saying hey it's only gig work I got a little youtube income I got a little gig work platform income or whatever it's not a big deal but it's like business income even if you're not full time I got another w2 job you still you still need to report the income says the IRS typically business income so income from work you do on the side in addition to your regular job can be business income for example you may be in the business of providing services for a ride-sharing business as a second job so you so you report most business income such as income from selling your products or services on schedule c that's where our focus has been the good old schedule c in essence an income statement but you report the income from the sale of business assets such as such as land and office building on other forms instead of the schedule c meaning if you had something on the books that you had to innocence capitalize and record the depreciation and then you sold that stuff the equipment for example you might have to report it on other forms to record the gain or loss for those particular sales as we saw in prior presentations presentation so for information on selling business assets you could see chapter three we looked at that before you got the non-employee compensation business income includes amount you receive in your business that were properly shown on form 1099 NEC remember how the structure of the IRS works this is an income tax system that means income is in essence bad with regards to taxes the government has an incentive to kind of get involved and look in like like pry into your business to make sure you're reporting your income they have the leverage to do that on the payer of a transaction therefore if you are in a business where you work for another business as a contractor as a sole proprietor then that business will likely be sending you not a w2 but a 1099 most likely a 1099 NEC if you do business for like an end customer you're a masseuse you're a hairstylist you work at a restaurant or something like that the customer is not going to give you a 1099 NEC because you cut their hair most likely because the government can't make them do that right but they can make a business do that if you get income from another business either way you still need to report the income for from a legal perspective but note that if you get a 1099 NEC the IRS has of course the 1099 NEC and they're kind of they're looking into it in that way as opposed to traditionally before they got more intrusive and more intrusive they used to randomly audit people kind of thing it was a general way of keeping things in line so this includes amounts reports on non-employee compensation in box one of the form so you can find more information in the instructions on the back of the form 1099 NEC you receive therefore on the income line of your schedule C you would expect it to be at least equal to and most likely greater than the sum of all the forms 1099 NEC you have if you put an amount on the schedule C that's less than the sum of all 1099 NEC forms it's likely the IRS will will automatically kind of question that because they're like hey wait a sec but i'm showing here my list of forms shows you have more income than you reported that doesn't mean that your net income after expenses is going to be the same as those 1099 NECs and that's often where small businesses run into a problem and that they don't report their taxes meaning the government only has the income side the 1099 NEC and the government will actually come after you at some point and say hey look you owe us money based on top line income not net income because you didn't file your tax return and therefore you didn't give us the expenses so that's another area that could come up that's to be aware of so payment card and third party network transactions so if you are in a business you may receive form 1099 K representing total dollar amount of total reportable payment transactions this may not be the amount you should report as income as it may not include all the receipts and it may include items that are not included in your receipts such as sales tax so the iris is also trying to get involved notice that we have these gig work economies that are coming into play which has skyrocketed the amount of like gig work small businesses that have come up which in my mind is great but the iris wants to the iris likes the structure of a smaller amount of big employers that have employees because they have leverage over the employer so all these small businesses that sparkled up after this gig gig economy stuff isn't exactly what the iris likes right because because they they don't have not only do they not have the control control of an employee or employee situation there they also don't have as much control to force people to give a 1099 because now you're working directly for the end customer not for another business so then they they might pressure like the payment providers the pay pals the credit card companies and so forth to try to get involved with issuing the 1099 situation and so that's where you might have another kind of 1099 form which would be reporting income so business income deduction income you report on schedule c may be qualified business income and into and entitle you to a deduction on form 1040 or 1040 s r line 13 c form 899 5 a or form 899 5 to figure your deduction if any


say that someone has a concept, right? Oh, I have the concept of ties. No, we don't say that, all right? Why? Because that would imply all sorts of things that are going on inside that we can't observe. So we have to behavioralize that because we all know what it means colloquially or in the vernacular, we know what it means to say, I have the concept of tie, I know the concept of tie, right? It's like, okay, it just doesn't work behaviorally because you can't observe all that stuff. So what we do say is conceptual behavior. So in order to develop conceptual behavior, you need to teach the organism, the person to discriminate within a response class. So whenever you show me a whole bunch, or sorry, generalized within a response class. So whenever you show me all these different versions of ties, there's a tie here, I suppose I have, look, here's another tie. This one's untied tie. It's a different color, it's even a different shape, it even has patterns. This one doesn't, well, it does, but it's not the same kind of pattern, but you get the idea. So we're generalizing within the response class, or within the stimulus class of tie, okay? So and if we keep doing these and teaching me what ties are, there's bow ties, there's bow low ties, there's these kind of ties, there's skinny ties, there's wide ties, there's probably a lot of other ties, but I don't necessarily know them at the moment, or can't speak them at the moment. So the point is, is that I am demonstrating conceptual behavior. Okay. So I'm demonstrating that I can discriminate between classes of stimuli and generalized within classes. So conceptual behavior, there you go.


It took me 10 years of almost weekly physical therapy to get back to a new normal life. I have a memory of my husband walking down the hall of the hospital and I was sitting on the floor and I looked up and I said, Leah died. A 27-year-old young man with a normal, healthy heart and lungs should not die of cardiopulmonary arrest in a trauma center, intensive care unit. You know, we've learned a lot in healthcare and we're better than we were 10 years ago. We can't set the target at some harm or a little harm. Our target has to be no preventable harm. We can't rely on someone on our left side or right side to solve a problem that is ubiquitous and is challenging as humans make an error. Whether you're a doctor or a nurse, CEO of a hospital, CEO of a med tech company, an engineer, a government or someone who cares because you've lost someone, we have to all come together and put an end to it.


In this video, we are gonna discuss the solution to question nine from the practice midterm exam in Calculus II, Math 1220.  A trough is filled with a liquid of density of 840 kilograms per meter cubed. That feels like a lot. What is this, like mercury or something? I don't know. So we have a trough that's filled with a liquid of density, 840 kilograms per meter cubed. The ends of the trough are equilateral triangles. So this is actually gonna form for us our plate for which it's gonna be submerged in this liquid. It's not water, but honestly, the fact that we're using a different liquid other than water will change the density, but it will make much of a consequence other than that, right? So our density value here we see is gonna be rho is 840. I'll show you how that compensates in a moment. But we have equilateral triangles and the vertex is at the bottom, like you see right here. And we see that the side lengths are eight meters long. So it's eight meters across the top. It's eight meters diagonally right here as well. So we wanna set up the integral for the hydrostatic force on one end of the trough. And we're gonna use acceleration for gravity to be 9.8 meters per second squared. This is a setup, do not solve the integral type thing. So when it comes to hydrostatic force, the guiding principle you wanna use here is that the hydrostatic force is gonna equal the integral of pressure times the area of a cross section where a typical cross section is gonna look something like this right here. Now, because it didn't say anything about a variable, we can define our variable to whatever we want. And I think the easiest setting is always gonna be set X equals zero to be the top of the water. This thing is completely filled here. It said the trough is filled. So it's all the way to the top. So start at the top X equals zero and point the positive X direction downward. What this accomplishes for us is that we'll note pressure is gonna equal our, it's gonna enter this, the pressure is gonna equal this delta times the depth D here where delta is these constant coefficients that show up here. It's gonna incorporate the density of the liquid which is 840 kilograms per meters cubed. It's also gonna incorporate the acceleration due to gravity. So delta here, delta is gonna equal gravity times the density row, right? This is when you use scientific units and if you're using British or American units, you don't need to multiply by the acceleration due to gravity because in that situation, you would have pounds per cubic foot and pounds is already a force. It's not a mass which has a subtle difference here. So you only have to multiply by 9.8 for scientific units. And honestly, because this is not a physics class I don't expect you to memorize this number. I'll actually tell you to multiply by 9.8 basically. If you don't see the 9.8, don't multiply it. And so getting back to pressure here, you're gonna have 9.8 times 840 times the depth. Well, if you set X equals zero to the be the top of the water and you point X downward, then depth will just equal X, which is really nice. Depth will just equal X. And so this gives us our pressure right here 9.8 times 840 times X, which if you wanna multiply those things together, you can, I don't need you to. If you leave a fact, it's perfectly fine. This gives us the pressure. Now in terms of area, right? How do we deal with the area? This is actually the hard part of the problem. Well, we have a rectangle over here which is our cross-section. It's a rectangle. Its width is gonna be a DX. Its length is gonna be, well, a length L. That's kind of the hard part here. Area will be length times DX. This is typically the hard part of a hydrostatic force problem because the cross-sections are always rectangles and the thickness will always be a DX or DY depending on what you named the variable. So how do we describe L right here? Well, to begin with, what I wanna mention here is that we do have this equilateral triangle. The height of the triangle is gonna be relevant for our discussion here. The height of the triangle. This is a right triangle, which one angle is 60 degrees. The other angle will be 30 degrees. This is a 30, 60, 90 triangle. You can use some trigonometry with cosines of 30 degrees, 60 degrees or a cosine of 30 degrees, 60 degrees. But if we know that this length here, my picture's kinda getting messy. I'm gonna draw it somewhere else here. If we cut the triangle in half where this length is eight and this is, again, our 30, 60, 90 triangle, then my symmetry at the top would actually be four. And then this side over here is gonna be four times the square root of three. Again, you can use a cosine argument or a tangent or something, so you can use some so-cato arguments to figure out the other side. Or that's one that many people just memorize as this 30, 60, 90 triangle. We do know the height of the triangle is four root three. The other thing that's important here is we're gonna set up a similar triangle, right? We're gonna set this triangle up, which is this big one, with a little triangle right here.  We're gonna have half of L, one half L right here. And then I also wanna mention that notice, the way we set up X, the distance from the top of the plate to the cross section, that's what we mean by X. Which means that the remainder is gonna be the total height with this four root three minus X. And that's what's gonna go right here, four root three minus X. And so if we try to set up a proportion argument going on there, see what we're gonna get. We're gonna get L halves, it corresponds to four. This will sit above four root three minus X, which will correspond to four root three. So cross multiply here. We're gonna end up with two root three L is equal to 16 root three minus four X. And so divide by two root three on both sides. We end up with, get a little crowded here in my space. In the end, we end up with an L is equal to, let's see, we're gonna get eight minus two over square three X, that's our L value. In which case we then want to put that in for, we're gonna put that in for our L. That's what we had there, like so. And so putting this together, right? Force, the hydroxych force is pressure times area. So we have our area right here. We have now, sorry, we had the area right there and then the pressure's right there. So putting those all together, we're gonna integrate the pressure, which was 9.8 times 840 times X, that's the pressure. And then we're gonna times that by eight square root of three minus two X DX. That was the length times the width right there. Just double checking our math right there. That looks pretty good. Oh, I'm sorry, I put the square root of three in the wrong spot. Let me fix that. Eight minus X over the square root of three DX. That was the L value we found below. Oops, sorry, there was a two there as well. Apparently I can't even copy my own answers down. Eight minus two X over the square root of three. Right, that's good, that's good. So the only thing we have left to do is identify the bounds, right? And so looking at our diagram right here, what are the acceptable values of X? We could have X at the very top, which like we said before, that's X equals zero. And at the very bottom, that would correspond to X equals four root three. And so those are gonna be the bounds we set up here. We're gonna go from zero to four root three. So there's a lot of details going on here, but this would give us the correct antiderivative. We don't need to simplify anything really here and multiply them because we're not trying to evaluate. Just want you to set it up. So things I'm gonna look for on this one is I do wanna see the correct bounds. This thing should go from zero to four root three, right? I wanna make sure that the pressure is there, 9.8 times 840 times X. I wanna make sure that the area is correct and that includes the differential DX. If you're missing a DX there, that's gonna be a forfeiture of a point. So make sure you have your differential as it's part of the integral. Now this is just one example of how one could set up this integral. We based it on the assumption that X equals zero is the top of the plate. Another possibility would be to set X equals zero at the bottom of the plate. I think that sets up a slightly more complicated integral, but it is still correct. And so I will accept any correct integrals that you can come up with. It depends on your coordinate system. And as such, it can be very useful to actually specify with a diagram what is your coordinate system that makes it easier for me as I'm grading it. And therefore a happy grader makes a happy student. Am I right? Am I right? And that gives us an example of one of hydrostatic force. This one's a little bit more technical than others, but it was deliberately chosen for this practice exam to give you one that would stretch you maybe a little bit beyond what you saw in the homework perhaps.