Hey guys, it is Monday morning, not February, January 29th. It is 12, just about 12.30. I need to go make some lunch. I don't think I vlogged at all yesterday because it just turned into a family day. We were just home relaxing. Mr. was watching football, son-in-law came over with the baby, and then the daughter, my daughter came over after she was done with work. She's a realtor by the way. And so it just turned into a sort of a family day, and so I didn't, you know, I crocheted. I'm sorry for turning too fast. I'm working on a new blanket, and I'm pairing up a red heart worsted weight yarn in brown with some nubbly textured yarn. I've spoken about this before, I think. Anyway, this stuff. So I worked on that, hung out with grandson. I did just now get the rest of the granny squares, granny rectangles for the black and green sweater on the blocking board, so that's done. I also saw on a Facebook post somewhere, in one of my crochet groups, somebody made a little mini yarn ball keychain. I thought that was so cute, so I made one, you guys. I made a label on my computer. I wonder how cute is that? So anyway, I don't really need another keychain, but I couldn't help myself. So anyway, I'm gonna write something up for my patrons and supporters, and then if they want to make one too, they can. But anyway, if you want to join my Patreon, it's only a couple bucks a month, and the link is down below. All right, I'm gonna put the phone down. Actually, I'm gonna leave it up here, and I'm gonna go make some lunch. And then I've got to edit the vlog, and I want to work on the blanket. And this week, I guess I better do the bookkeeping for the end of last year. So maybe not today, but yeah, it needs to be done. I'll be back. All right, it is after 6 p.m. Mr. Is Off Of Work. I got the vlog edited, uploaded, and scheduled. Made a cute little crochet keychain, directions for which I uploaded to patrons. And supporters, I will be sharing pictures on social media later today, but just in case you didn't see it, here's a picture right here. Right there. I'm also working my way through the next blanket fairly quickly, despite the fact that the multi-layers of nubbly fuzzy yarn are challenging is the nicest word I can say. Um, but it is making a pretty blanket anyway. So we're working with that. We're gonna go get some steps in real quick and then have some dinner. And tomorrow is babysitting grandson day. So I need to catch up on some drawings tonight. We have some exercise your brain games we do every night and all that stuff. But you know, right now it's just nice to get out and enjoy the nice cool evening air. So we're gonna do that first. All right, I'll be back. It's been a day. Not a bad day, just a day. A good day. I babysat the grandson today, which meant that I forgot to vlog again. It's just gonna be one of those weeks where I constantly am forgetting to vlog. I apologize in advance. I did get another blanket finished.  Reminds me of blind brown homespun, but it wasn't. Sensations, something. Anyway, this is all I have left. I did make a little that little yarn ball keychain. And I think I might use up some of this to try to make another one. I don't know. It's pretty thick and chunky, but we'll see. I have some of the brown red heart left, which is fine because I have some other regular worsted weight. Why do I want to say that with a German accent? Worsted weight. Um, probably because I'm married to a guy of German descent. Anyway, I want to make some more worsted weight, worsted weight blankets. And I've got a stash back here of colors. Hold on, let me put this away. So it was a good day. Junior was great. He did very well today. He was, you know, a nice happy little baby as he usually is. And yeah, it was all good. I got the blanket done. I got some chores done. And I got, and you know, that's, that's good. That's a good day for me. I didn't expect to get a whole bunch of other stuff then, but you know, I did open the lion brand, like mystery bag thing. And there was a journal in it with some embroidery floss and the journal had holes in the front. Okay, sometimes I'm not the quickest sharpest knife in the drawer. The floss is for stitching in the holes and creating a pattern on the front of your journal.  All right, I'm going to go finish my episode of NCIS Australia and then head to bed. I will see you all in the morning. Oh, and the final batch of these are blocking, which means by this weekend, I'll be able to start assembling the sweater. So I'll be back. It's Wednesday afternoon, January 31st, I think. I don't know what time it is, but it's afternoon. No, it's after lunch. I, you know, I thought this morning about going out to go thrifting, maybe go to Hobby Lobby, hit a different Dollar Tree to find, try to find those hooks I've been looking for for a while now. I didn't end up doing into that. I ended up starting to put my granny squares together. And it's looking pretty good. I got to write some notes. Let's see, hold on. I'm going to try to set you up here somewhere. Hold on. Okay, I've got to make some notes about what I did. And so far I haven't really seen anybody do a sweater like this with the Red Heart granny square yarn, but you know, anyway, I pinned the shoulders together and the sides. I was going to in the rough draft diagram that I did for patrons. I did have a fourth row of granny squares. This only has three and I think that's going to be fine. But this is how it looks so far. It will have ribbing at the bottom and I'd like it about as long as the t-shirt. So once the ribbing is on there, I think that'll be perfect. I am going to put long sleeves on it and we're going to do some ribbing around the collar. But yeah, it's turning out pretty good. So now I'm going to sew the shoulder seams together, take some notes about a couple things I did, and then we'll start assembling the sleeves, which again, I thought I maybe needed three rows of granny squares for the sleeves, but I don't have that long of arms and I do want ribbing on it. So I'm kind of thinking maybe two. I guess we'll find out, right? Okay, I'll be back. Back to watching NCIS Australia while I sew granny squares together. Some more. I'll be back. It's after seven o'clock at night and I think it's probably time I go downstairs and have dinner. I have been listening to podcasts all day and working on the granny square sweater.  Weaving in ends, which is usually when I do the blankets I weave in them as I go. So when I'm done with a blanket, all I need to do is clip the threads because everything's already woven in. I didn't do that on this because I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out. So I just sat and spent at least an hour, if not two hours, tying knots, weaving in ends and all the things. It's done now except for things that are at the very edge like this one here that's on the corner, which I can weave in when I do the ribbing and or sewing up the side seams. So all the other ones that were on the back side are all done. So I'm gonna put it in my bag, take it downstairs when I go. I got the Red Heart Super Saver Jumbo to do the ribbing and stuff with so that should be plenty. There seems to be a lot there, so we'll see I guess. I think that's it. I think it sounds like my husband's having an intense conversation with a friend. Not sure what that's all about, but anyway, I'm gonna put things back on the mannequin, aka my hanging friend, my friend who hangs on to things for me. I also need to make another pink cushion or something and use up some of these yarn scraps that I'm accumulating. So anyway, I got nothing else done today. I'm just sat and crocheted all day. I think we all, especially those of us who are creative, we need a day where we can just sit until all day. No phone calls, no computer. The computer hasn't been on. I mean, I've gotten out of habit of turning the computer on every day. Yes, I have the tablet on all the time and that sort of counts, but the desktop, she don't come on unless I actually have to sit down and do bookkeeping. I just haven't done yet. Edit videos, something like that that I can't get done another way because I just don't like to be chained to the desk. So anyway, all right, let's clean up. My lunch dishes are still sitting there because, yeah, I've been just crocheting the day away. All right, let's get downstairs. I'll be back. It is just about 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, February 1st. Got the laundry working. Went and got the mail. Hadn't done that in a couple of days.  In preparation for grants, I'm coming over. It's a babysitting day. I also, back here on my back, scratched something this morning and thin old lady skin. I started bleeding, so now I've got band-aids back there, which are less than comfortable. But anyway, I'm going to continue work at some point today on my Red Heart granny square sweater.  And I think it's a pattern I've come up with. It's very easy to adapt to either a pullover or cardigan. And I may do the white one as a cardigan. So we'll see. Yeah, so that's going to be fun. Also, I'm hoping it's warm enough this weekend or we don't have too much to do and husband can work on my desk, my new vintage secretary desk. So we can get that done and at some point I can get it upstairs. Because yeah. All right, I think that's it for the minute. I am going to stop pacing, go sit down and relax and watch some YouTube. Tempted to have a third cup of coffee this morning, but that's not good for me. So I'm not going to do that. But yeah. All right, still can't find the little blue penguin. My nephews put them, I don't know where they put them away. I don't know. I'm going to just make another one. And I think we might fill that bowl instead of with the decorative balls with mini amigurumi. That would be cute. Anyway, and kids safe. All right, I'll be back. After the grandson left for the day and went home, Bob went off to his Masonic Lodge meeting. Yes, it's kind of late. I look tired. And I worked on my sweater. Are you ready? It's turning out pretty good, I think. Obviously you can see I still need to do this part. But look, I've got the sleeves done. I've got the bottom done. Looks pretty good. What do you think? I like it. I'll be back. Well, good morning, everybody. It is Friday, February 2nd, 9.19 a.m. to be precise. So Mr. B's works secure network is down for lack of a better term. So he has to head into the office this morning. And I am actually headed out to run some errands, get some stuff for family dinner night tonight, and actually cooking for a change, which is a switch, because I don't do too much of that anymore. We're making red beans and rice. And there's a couple of cheats I can use. So we're going to do that. I'm probably also going to make some cornbread. I need to get supplies. So I've got a whole list of things that I need that they don't necessarily have at the shops that Mr. and I usually go to on Saturday. So we're going to go do that today and get that done. So anyway, down to Sherwood rather than deal with anything over here where I live. But we'll see. I'll be back. Okay, guys, are you ready for this? I just finished it. Keep in mind it's acrylic yarn, and it needs to be washed to soften up the fibers. It's red heart, all red heart yarn. But that being said, red heart is easier to work with. It's budget friendly. I got the jumbo Super Saver skein in black, because I didn't know how much I was going to need. I still have probably half the skein left to do something else with, which is cool. But anyway, I love the way it turned out. Now the fit will adjust just a little bit on the looser side, I think. Once I wash it with some fabric softener, but it shouldn't do too much. Acrylic yarn really doesn't like stretch out like natural fibers do.  But anyway, hang on a second and I'll get a good shot for you. Okay, what do you think? I like this collar, this neckline with the opening. Now, of course, you could put buttons and button holes here, if you so choose. I choose not to. But I love the way it turned out. You could also make it more of a collar and not only do the neck ribbing, but actually do a collar color. But I just, I'm happy with it the way it is. I do think on the blue, on the blue and white one, this one, then I might do it as a cardigan. I don't know. I'll have to think about it. I do know I don't have enough squares for that one. And that's the one that I have to film at least part of it for patrons and supporters. So there's that. I'll do some clips, of course, for you guys, but yeah. Anyway, I love it. All right, now to get it washed. And then I can relax a little bit, prep the next crochet project, and then start getting ready for family dinner night, because I've got cooking to do. I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Saturday afternoon. It's just about four o'clock. We spent the day doing, I stopped a lot of the plants, doing chores and running errands and then came home and had a late lunch and just chilled on the couch for a while. Bob is out in the garage now working on my vintage secretary desk that at some point will be upstairs in the art room. You probably can hear the washing machine in the background. I'm going to water plants and do my one of my favorite chores, dishes, because well, they've got to be done. Anyway, so I'm going to do that. And then I'm going to sit and work on another blanket before I start the next sweater project. And yeah. Oh, I did wear my new granny square sweater out today. When we went out, I'll put a picture here and got a lot of compliments on it, got complimented on it. And yeah, also encouraged folks. Like, you know, if you want to learn to do this, there's a lot of videos on YouTube. And one person I talked to today says, well, I really want to learn how to do quilting, you know, hand sewing. I said, again, YouTube, there's a lot of really good teachers on YouTube. So I told her, if I can do it, you can do it. Not with the quilting, but you know, with learning a new thing. So anyway, yeah, that was all good. I guess now I've got to water the plants and then do the dishes. And then I'm going to start on another scrap blanket, because I seem to have always scrap yard. It doesn't seem to ever get less. It seems to just get more and more and more. Anyway, I'll be back. Mr. Bob was working on my desk. I had bought him some sandpaper and wood putty the other day to do said work. And how do you buy the wrong wood putty? I don't know, but I managed. So we got to go out and get the right stuff and probably one or two other things he says he needs. So I'm just glad he's fixing it for me. We'll be back. Hey guys, it is, I don't know, let's see. 10.43 p.m. We didn't get a lot done after I talked to you last. I did start a new blanket because I told, and I told you I was going to. Of course I did. Got them colors here, worked with what I had. I think it looks pretty good. We went out and got some stuff for the secretary desk project and just, you know, had a nice chill, relaxing, calm day. Nothing wrong with that. Got some stuff done. We needed to do around the house. And yeah, it's all good. Anyway, I hope you guys have had a good week. We've had a pretty good week. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe if you would. And if you want to support the free content here on YouTube, I do have a Patreon and I am in the process of trying to write up a crochet pattern for the granny squares. What are I just finished with some options to turn it into a cardigan? And that will be for patrons only. I will do kind of a blurby short video probably on YouTube, but it'll be a long detailed video over on the patron's private YouTube channel. Yes, they do have one. And they also, we also have a conversation in Facebook Messenger and there's another one over on Patreon and we chat back and forth all the time. So anyway, I hope you guys have had a fun creative week and that you've done something that you love with people that you love. And don't forget to do it again.  Be safe, be healthy, all that jazz and we'll see you next week. Bye guys.


of things new I know wow so not only am I recording this video with my HD webcam just to try it and see if I can honestly there's no particular reason to do it or not I just was experimenting but I also got two new stencil designs in for the May release and I got my prototypes in and we need to try them and we need to experiment with them so I figured while we were doing that we would go ahead and play with making some more melted metallic paste because you know since I came up with this DIY recipe I've had a lot of questions about it and I'm having a lot of fun making it to be really honest so we are gonna do that and I'm going to get an offset palette knife this one will work and I am going to do this one first so this is the first of the new stencils it is obviously a citrus design inspired by not oranges as some a lot of people look at and go oh oranges I'm actually I was cutting up some lemons one day to put in my tea which I occasionally like to do if I put anything in my tea and I thought that would make a great doodle that's how that came about so this is the first one that we're going to try which I'm excited and of course I want to try it in orange so I have some PBO orange what is this iridescent orange yellow metallic paint I've got this whole big bin of metallic paint on the right desk I've got to use some of it so we're going to squeeze some of this out hopefully it's not too old nope we're going to add some orange glitter this is fire opal Martha Stewart glitter okay and then I have some Lindy's Magicals in marigold yellow orange this is just a coffee stirrer from Starbucks and we'll put a you know about that much however much that much is I don't know no idea okay and then we will stir that up with some extra heavy gel medium I like the extra heavy because it's really thick and dimensional it also is a great glue when you're putting heavy things on your R journal page so it's usually my choice of gel medium to have laying around and the gel medium is about one to one to the paint and then just you know a dab of the other two things you just want to add some more metallic or iridescence to the paint and the gel medium mixture so that when it dries you really get something that looks like melted metal you could add iridescent medium to it that would also make it more anything that will make it more sparkly and a little bit of this really goes a long way I don't think it would really keep very long if you put it in a little container so I would just mix it as needed so look at that color isn't that pretty it's already so pretty alright so let's see how the new stencil works got some deli paper we're gonna lay it on here scoop up some of our melted metal and scrape it through the stencil and once you do this let it dry completely and then you have an interesting piece of collage paper and or collage elements to add to your art journals you do want to wash your stencils right away this will clog up your stencils if you let it dry on there that being said if you don't quite get them into the water right away let them soak in a wash bin or tub with a little bit of water and a whole bunch of Murphy's oil soap and just let them soak in there and that should get paint and whatever else is stuck to your stencils off I'm just going around making sure I've got all the holes filled in and then I'm gonna lift and I will probably tear these apart individually so these little edge blobs I'm not worried about I'm gonna take the stencil again and I'm going to just scrape up you know the rest of this paint I won't probably get even one more completed shape but that's okay I just want to use it all up I might get one more I have hooks above my desk so when this is done and I might have just smudged that one when I'm done I will hang it up above my desk and just let it dry this won't drip it's too thick okay love it all right so we're gonna hang this one up and let it dry I'm gonna put all of this over here so I can take it out to the garage and wash it when we're done make sure the lids on that get out another piece of paper and my other mixing plate okay we'll need another palette right so the other stencil that we have is this one this is a feather design these are all six by six stencils they're intended for and developed for art journaling specifically and I love the six by six size it's my favorite so that's why they're six by six so we're gonna try this one on some deli paper and I thought that we would try making up some pink melted metal paste this is iridescent violet blue PBO paint and then we have some cyclamen colored sparkle and sprinkle glitter I have this thing of glitter underneath my desk some of which I've had for a long time because I used to do wholesale buying and was in a craft crafters cooperative shop so a lot of things of glitter some of this that sparkle and sprinkle I think is from there and then this is more purple but I thought it would be fun to add this is a Lindy's magical this is in magenta it at least looks kind of purple in the in the container but so worse it could happen I would keep your colors sort of whatever your paint color you're using keep it in sort of that family and not veer too much from that so like in the pink one I wouldn't add like green I think that would be weird and you probably will get something that's a little muddy so give it a good mix make sure you get it well mixed and that you get all the lumps out and you get everything well blended and these PBO metallics are already in iridescent so adding that violet to here should just emphasize that and that's that looks like it's exactly what it's doing when these dry down they dry down and look even more like melted metal and if possible are even more sparkly or shiny so I think you're gonna love it all right and if I can I will stick a couple of stills at the end of this video of the pieces when they're dry I'll try to put a couple of close-up shots all right so here's our feather stencil and I figured I had to try these anyway these prototypes and make sure they the designs were going to work the way I wanted and there wasn't going to be any issues with them before I order stock so I thought well you know what what better way to do that than to do some of this metal melted metal paste and give it a try now this feather one might be a little challenging to do the scraping with because you this centerpiece lifts up so you do want to you know use a gentle hand out if we messed it up or not nope well the first one I did but that's okay so you kind of have to go when you're painting with it it's not a big deal but when you're dragging up a brush across this one it is kind of a deal not a brush what is this palette knife and this also isn't my favorite palette knife so it's just the one I grabbed that's probably part of the issue this one's definitely more challenging let's try a little bit different way I have an idea so this is a old gift card instead of a palette knife I'm gonna scrape off the palette knife and set it aside and you can see when you look at the stencil there's these parts that are loose here which is what I'm talking about so if you did it this way yeah that's easier okay so this is with a gift card so that feather goes that way this feather goes this way it's also less swipes look at that this feather goes this way I mean but it's gonna be a cleaner print yep that is a cleaner print and again I'm looking for something that I can pull the little feathers out like tear them apart and use them as collage I'm not too worried about these blobs at the end if you are you probably want to mask off your stencil in case you're messy like me if you're messy like me and you don't want that on there you want to probably be more careful than I'm being there we go that's a lot of fun so these are the two different designs that are coming out for me go ahead and look into my Etsy shop and look around and see about maybe purchasing a couple of them for your collection of art materials if I can right here I will post pictures at the end of the video of these when they're dry close-up shots of the metal and a couple of the other sheets and the other designs that I've done I'll post some close-up shots stills our video at the end so that's it for today please like share and subscribe support my channel if you can of course by shopping in the Etsy shop if you want to join one of my Facebook groups send me happy mail send me an email anything like that all the information for how to do that's in the video description of course leave a comment if you have a question comment or concern because I will answer you right away and the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like make some metal paste all right that's it I'll talk to you later bye guys here is a close-up kind of good view of the melted metal pastes that I've been playing with over the last few videos and what they look like when they're dry I mean just look at that and because I've used the golden gel medium extra heavy medium they're still flexible so some of the modeling paste will dry hard when they dry they'll be dimensional but hard and gel medium generally stays pretty flexible so you can really collage it on a number of things here are here's the pink color which is just I mean look at that look at that and here look at this orange one that's just gorgeous I mean look at that so I can't wait to use them in a journal page I hope you find this as much fun as I do and go out and have a great day


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. An encore. I'll sing Yankee Doodle while drinking a glass of water at the same time. Well, Bill, Frank Baronowski, Barbara Wells, one of you here in the front row is Megan Lott, National Organization Director, and all of you. This is a great pleasure to be here with you and to see you. And if you haven't thought about this already, let me just say that you leadership is the greatest problem, and all of you have an opportunity to lead a great change of political balance here in this country. Because if you aren't voters already, you will be soon. And if the proportions among your age groups stay the way they are, very possibly you will shortly be leading the majority party in the United States. You know, it's hard to realize, I'm sure it's your age, but for someone who's been around here for this long a time, there was a great change that occurred back in the depths of the Great Depression in the early 30s and then for a half a century. Now and then they would elect a Republican president. Basically, the government of this country has been in the hands of the opposition party. And that party, I think, has, well, I was a member of it back in those 30s and on down until I saw that as it continued in power over the years, it changed the direction of that party to the point that I didn't quit being a Democrat and become a Republican. Democrats quit being Democrats and Republicans began having the proper message. Because would you believe that in 1932 when I cast my first vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic platform was to reduce federal spending by 25 percent to eliminate useless boards and commissions and agencies and to return the authority and autonomy to the local communities, the states and the people that they declared had been unjustly seized by the federal government. When you know today there's only one party that can run on that platform. That's ours. I'm not going to do any more making the speech. I haven't got too much time here, they tell me. And I thought that there must have been times when some of you have said to yourselves, if I had a chance, I'd like to ask him. We'll go ahead. Yes. Mr. President, I'm Debbie Schlossel from Southfield, Michigan. I have two questions. First of all, can I shake your hand? First of all, throughout the history of affirmative action, it's gone through our Supreme Court many times, starting with the defunious case then through Backey, Weber, Wigan, finally a few cases that just came up a few weeks ago. And it seems that the Supreme Court has been unable to make a definite stance on affirmative action and what to do in most cases. And I'm just wondering, will this administration be able to take the affirmative action needed to get rid of affirmative action? This is what we're hoping for and what we're trying to do, because what we believe is, yes, we have great problems and things that had to be corrected in our society, unless you'd been around and lived through it. It wasn't just the Deep South. It was every place in the country there was discrimination and it was evil. What we're trying to correct, no matter how well-intentioned they are on the other side, is the idea of quotas, that affirmative action should lead to quotas, because those of us who lived through that other era can remember when quotas were used to promote discrimination. At the same time, they hypocritically would try to pretend they weren't. There would be college and university faculties. There would be staff at hospitals. And, for example, religious prejudice. And a little hometown of mine in Dixon, Illinois, a Jewish doctor come to town, wants to practice at the one hospital in the town, and they could look him in the eye and say, we filled our quota of Jewish doctors. So he couldn't practice. And more recently, to show you that even under our affirmative action, no matter how well-intentioned, evils could be done. A federal housing project, a public housing project, they set a quota in one of our major cities that guaranteed that 33 percent, one-third of the units would be available for minority members, black community, and the rest for the other. Well, that quota filled like that because of the neighborhood, which was located. But units stood vacant. There weren't whites to put in them, but they stuck with that quota and let them stand vacant while there was a waiting list of members of the black community who wanted to move in there. These are the evils that we say, no, let's get down to the business that we started with civil rights, and that is a colorblind society in which we're all human beings. I just want to say that, thank God, you're our president. You've done a good job. My name's Benny Brown from Raleigh North Carolina. It's a pleasure to talk to you. You are great. We all love you here.  We were very fond of John East. I'd like to hear your comments about the timing of John East. It was a shock to all of us here in Washington. I don't know of anyone that was more respected and liked than John was. And the burden he carried must have just become too unbearable for him, for him to take that action. But we like the man that the governor is appointed now to fill out that unfinished term, and we hope that he will be elected and sent back for the next six years, Roy Hill, that we want him here. But no, it was a great shock to all of us. I'm going to have to switch over here for a second and be fair. I'm from New York State as president. There's really a lot of things I'd like to ask you, but most of all, I'd just like to thank you for uniting our country, increasing the sense of patriotism that we have, our continued battle that's communism, and it's great to be an American again. And just thank you for putting us on the right track. Let me just say one thing. I came here, and for several years before I came here, I was convinced I traveled the mashed potato circuit quite heavily, after dinner speaking and so forth, and I became convinced getting around this country that there was a great hunger growing in America for when I called a spiritual revival. And I think the people did this. I just tried to get government out of their way. Yes, we're back there. My name is Christina Mangatini, and I'm originally from Connecticut. Mr. President, recently we've had several people organizing programs such as Live Aid, Farm Aid, Hands Across America, et cetera, to increase our patriotism and help other people, including the people in our country. Can you comment on how you feel about that? Yes, I'll tell you how I feel about it. I could sum it up in a little incident that happened one night at a state dinner, and one of my dinner partners at my table was the wife of an ambassador of one of our European allies. I won't embarrass her by telling which country. But I was talking something about the private sector initiative here in this country, what people do privately in supporting worthwhile things. And she interrupted me quietly, and she said, but you're unique. And I said, what do you mean? She said, in your country, yes. But she said, not in other countries. She said, you're the only country where the people see needs and then just go out on their own. Do you know that last year, we set a record 1985, the American people and business concerns, individuals contributed to charity and to worthwhile educational artistic things and so forth just short of 80 billion dollars voluntarily given to good works. And it is true, we are unique. And so these people that are doing this, they're just carrying on what has been a tradition of this country that has grown. And one of my concerns when I was making up my mind to change parties was I had a feeling that government was trying to take over in so many areas that it was almost as if they wanted to shut out these good works that were being done. The United States, and I haven't got the figures for just a reason, but as of a few years ago, the United States supported by voluntary contributions in the field of the arts, in non-profit theater, in opera, in symphonies, musical organizations, things of that kind, supported more of those by private giving than all the rest of the world put together. So this is what's going on and I'm all for it. Mr. President, it is an honor to be in your presence. My name is Stephen Colbeck and I'm from Arizona. And for every great man that I've ever met, and those who have given their service and their time to help their country and fellow humans, I've always asked them a basic and simple question. And that was, what was their key to success? How did they climb the ladder to success and achieve the goals that they wanted to achieve in their life? I wish I had a good, crisp answer for that. I think for one thing, you follow your dream, the thing that I was at, maybe I can tell it with an incident, when I was back your age, I had a summer job lifeguarding at a river beach. And people would come out from the nearby city, Chicago, with their families and stay at a lodge there in this park. I was the only lifeguard and I taught their kids to swim and all. And then the Great Depression came and I was still in school and still doing this in summers. And some of these men had told me, they were successful men, and they'd said, when you get out of school, well, if you come see me, I think I could do something for you and all. And finally it was out of school. And I had to go back in lifeguard the summer after I graduated to get enough money to try and find a job someplace. And one of those men, a lot of them were no longer coming there. They were victims of the great crash also. But there's one told me that yes, he thought there were several lines in which he could help me get a job, start a career. But he said, you're going to have to tell me what you want to do. And he said, someplace there'll be somebody. Well, I went home and believe it or not, after getting out of college and my degree was in economics, really was in extracurricular activities. But I sat down. I hadn't thought about much what he said. But finally I just realized that I wanted the world of entertainment some way.   So I said, I thought to myself, radio is the great new thing of that day. Just in a few short years had become the greatest entertainment thing in America. And having been in athletics and everything, I decided I'd like to be a sports announcer. And I thought that would be a beginning, a step into the world of entertainment. So I went back to him and told him. And he said, well, I don't know anyone in that business. There isn't any way I can help you there. But he said, maybe that's best. He said, because if I helped and got you a job as I could in several other lines of activity, he said the favor they would be doing would be to him, not me. And he said, just having given you the job, they'd think they'd done their part and they'd have no more interest in how you progressed. He said, look, some place out there, there's got to be somebody that knows this industry has a future, radio, and knows that you have to have young people come into that business if it's going to flourish and continue. And he said, some place, and he said, remember, a salesman may have to make 200 calls before he makes a sale. So keep trying.  He said, just tell him you believe in radio. You want to get a job in radio and you take your chances on where you go in radio from then on. And I did. I started. And it turned out to be the greatest advice I've ever had. I hitchhiked my way all around the Midwest, getting turned down, but keep on going. Never mentioned sports now. That was the only place he was wrong. Because finally in Davenport, Iowa. WOC. A wonderful old man, a program director there, Peter MacArthur, still with the Scotch Burr in his voice. And he asked me, he says, where have you been for the last few years? He says, we've just had nine auditions for 90 people for announcers and hired one. Well, I didn't dare tell him that I'd been out hitchhiking and hadn't been listening to radio. And on the way out, though, after all the turn downs, I said to myself, how do you get to be a sports announcer if you can't get a job in a radio station? And I went down to the elevator, around the corner to the elevator, and while I was waiting for it to come to that floor, I heard this thumping. He was arthritic, and he had two canes on the floor. And he was muttering, hey, wait up. And so I looked and I waited for him. Thank heaven the elevator hadn't been there because he said, what was that you said about sports announcement? And I said, well, that's what I'd like to be. And he said, do you know anything about football? And I said, I played it for eight years. He said, do you think you could tell me about a football game if I wasn't seeing it and make me see that game if I was sitting at home listening? And I said, I think so. Never tried it. And he said, it took me into a studio, and he put me in front of a microphone. I said, when that red light goes on, you start broadcasting an imaginary football game. And he said, I'll be in another room listening. You won't see me. Well, there I stood, waiting for the light to go on. And I thought, oh, I'm not going to start with the first quarter. And I remembered a game the season before that we won in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run for a touchdown on an off-tackle play. And so when the lights came on, having listened to a lot of Ted Hughes-ings and Graham McNamees and so forth, I said, here we are, late in the fourth quarter of this game. I said, the long blue shadow settling over the field and a cold wind coming in through the end of the stadium. We didn't have a stadium. We only had bleachers. And so I took us in all the way up now to that last 20 seconds and then the touchdown, the winning touchdown. And then I said, that's all. It'd taken about 15 minutes to do this. But there was one thing that I also put in there in that broadcast. I was a right guard. And in that era, the guards ran interference. Most plays, you came back out of the line and led the interference. And on this particular play, my job was to get the first man in the secondary. I missed him. I never have known how Bud Cole made the touchdown because I missed that key block. But in the broadcast, that was the first replay. I nailed him with a block.  I used up that. Can I take one more? Time for one more. Well, there, right there in the aisle. Mr. President, I'm Scott Armstrong from Syracuse, New York. Perhaps besides the Republican Party, the Boy Scouts of America has done so much to shape my life. Part of your administration, we saw a massive drop in the scouting movement. And I was wondering if you would just give me the scout hand shape with your left hand so I can congratulate you for instilling the patriotism that has given the great rise to the scouting movement in the last six years. Well, I never had the opportunity to be a scout, but I know that I'm the honorary head of the Scouts. We put them down here. But I'm going to take my cute mucus. They didn't tell me about this. Thank you very much.  Really quick in the presence. Well, let me tell you, one more. I presumed on you in answering that question, but the question was very real also about where you go and all of that. And let me just tell you another one and the thing that I never had intended to be in public life at all. And then I made a speech for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and I was literally dragged, kicking and screaming into campaigning. But I was also very fearful about something of that kind when I became governor of California. And remember this, because many of you may consider public life enough. I finally found peace and quiet for myself and could sleep at night when I decided that the only way to go was whenever there was a decision to be made. And I ordered my cabinet and I ordered the cabinet here. Don't tell me any of the political ramifications of that question. Just tell me what you see is good and bad in that particular thing and the decision will be made on the basis of what is good for the people of this country and in that case of the state. And I found that I do sleep very well and we don't say, let's do this because it's politically advantageous. Do what you believe in. That's whatever it is. Thank you all very much. You raised a gun and put it right here in my shoulder and shot. Funny thing, I got here very well. Can you tell us that baseball story, the story? Baseball story, how you made him foul out after that. I asked your autograph. He was the hero of the cop. Do you think it's the baseball story of how you made him foul out or you made him foul so many times? When the wire went out. I guess we made him into baseball games namely the Chicago Cubs and the photographic report. That meant that I had an autograph on the other side of the window and he was tearing Morse code which played a little slip of paper that would come under the window. They say S1C. You can't sell any tweets yelling S1C. So I would say it's a call strike that's what it means. It's like one call and I would say here comes the catch end and he said he's swinging Mrs. Morse code. No, this will be let's go by but it's a strike over the outside corner and so forth. I'll be picking that. I'll be picking that. I'll be picking that. I'll be picking that. I'll be picking that. I'll be picking that. I'll get the lamp, pressing the plate and I saw Curly on the other side of the window start typing. I'll be picking that. So I started a ball on the way to the plate. His dean was picking that. I read the slip, and the slip said the wire is going to get me. So I had a ball on the way to the plate. So I looked at Curly, and Curly just looked blank and I said I had him followed off and then I thought in my opinion in those days there were seven or eight stations broadcasting the same game, teams didn't have their own announcers and so I decided I might take a chance so I had to wipe his hands around the bag and shake off the signs in the classroom, swallow them out on the ground and throw another one on the ground well he followed that one off and I had him follow one that just missed being a whole run by a foot but then I followed, I described the two kids, one was followed down and right back at third and I described the two kids about the front over the wall and this went on but now I'm sweating because he had to set a long record for such a thing and uh all of a sudden when I've been going so long currently started to tighten and I got another ball in the blade in the blade and got the slip and then I started to give up, apparently get it out of the mess he said the land popped out of the first ball pitch the president is going to have to go, we will have autographed cards for you for those of you that did not get the president's signature, he's really run over his time


Another nice option with type form is to put background images into your forms. Now type form gives you a few options for doing this. Let's take a look at this. I simply copied my last form fonts and called it TFO 153 background images. I've got my screen in full screens here so you don't see the menus. Let's first take a look again at what it currently looks like. I'm going to come to view my type form. And there you see we have the black on the white, which actually is consistent with the look and feel I tried to get for Datalab. But you can change it to something else if you want. So I'm going to close this. Let's come up to design. And let's select this third option on the left, background image. So it's showing us what it's currently like. I'm going to hit background image. And then we can upload an image and put it in there. The thing you need to know is you have a fair amount of flexibility. Of particular note, you can put PNG files with transparent backgrounds, which can be nice as long as you set the background color. And you can even use an animated GIF. Although, truthfully, I think that would be really confusing. And I personally would never do it, but you know, it's up to you. It certainly gets people's attention. So you can use whatever kind of image you want. The trick is it's limited in size. It can be no more than two megabytes and in pixels 1680 by 1050. So I'm just going to upload an image here. And I have one that I used earlier and I reduced it to 1680 by 1050. And if you have a high density image or if it's still, you know, pretty big in terms of megabytes, you may want to use an image compression utility like tiny png.com or Kraken with a k.io to reduce it.  It makes it a little hard to read some of the text. So what you can do is come over and adjust the brightness. I'm going to make it brighter. And you see that sort of fades it out. I want to get enough so you can tell what the image is. It's these lines in the background. But that it's easy to read the type. Now you have a few options when you're doing the image, you can either not repeat the image. And that is if you have like a single picture and you want it sort of centered, you can repeat it. That is you can tile it horizontally and vertically have it repeat a lot. Or you can do full screen, which stretches it out. That's what I'm using right here. It's the default. The thing you need to know, however, is if you have an image that you want centered, it will always be the center because the proportions are going to change dramatically depending on what kind of device you're looking on. So you want to pick something that's really neutral and it's okay to look at any part of it. The last thing I need to do is come down here and click apply to type form. Because right now it's just a little preview. And when that's done, I'll come up here to view my type form so we can see the whole thing full screen. And there it is. There's my new background and it shows up on every page. And I can go on like that. And so this can be a nice way to add a little bit of personnel with a little bit of interest, but do exercise caution. Don't get something that's going to make it hard to read your form or that overwhelms your entire message.


So already in the first part of the 20th century we knew that there was protein in biological membranes in addition to lipids. The only problem is that it was very hard to get it out. The first protein structures, do you remember when we determined those? In the 1960s, hemoglobin and myoglobin. The problem is that we can't really determine membrane protein structures that way because the membrane protein, if we draw that red, the membrane protein doesn't exist in solvent, but it's going to exist in this lipid bilayer environment, right? And now I feel a little bit bad because I'm drawing these ideal parallel lipid tails, but it would take too long to draw them properly. I can't crystallize that protein because this protein has to exist in an infinite bilayer. And second, these are lipids. That's basically oil. Have you ever seen oil crystals? Technically, some lipid membranes will actually crystallize, but it's exceptionally hard and was impossible for anybody to crystallize membrane proteins for a long time. In fact, it was not until 1980 that Hartmut Michel published an idea that he took a normal membrane protein, one called bacterial rhodopsin, but then he took this, he used some chemical reactions to first get this out of the bilayer, salivating it in oil, essentially, but then he was adding something else. Instead of those normal lipids, he added detergents, simple small molecules like the one you might have in washing powder or so. And they were also, they were anionic. What then happens is that these, if you put many of these in solvent, they're going to form a so-called micelle. So they will put their heads outwards and then the tails inwards. Sorry about that. It's quite disordered in here, but the key difference here, do you see it's not a bilayer, it's a small spherical blob or something, roughly spherical. What then happens to the entire protein is that that protein that we previously had in a bilayer, we will now have that in a blob of detergent, not all the way around it, roughly like that. The upper and lower part here is fine because there we expect to have water, right? Here I would have water and here I will have water. So this detergent creates a way to solubilize the membrane protein, technically it's still hydrophobic on the surface. If we're lucky, we haven't destroyed the structure too much. What Michel, what Hartmut Michel then did is that he could get these to crystallize. And what basically happens then is that you get a large periodic copy of the protein, a crystal. And whenever needed between these, you would have the micelles, the detergents. You probably get the idea, right? And in particular the water soluble parts here, they're again, they're water soluble, so they're going to be quite happy to pack against each other. With a crystal like that, he was able to determine, to crystallize a membrane protein and then they determined the first structure of a protein called bacterial rhodopsin. It's a very special protein.


I know people say it's hard being a Christian, but is it really? When you say it's hard it's because you're measuring something and says, though there's a goal that you're not reaching or cannot be reached. But Paul puts it this way, he says, not that I've already attained it or am perfect, but I press forward to make it my own. And then Paul's advice to us is for getting the things which are behind us, that can be the failures, the success, for getting those things pushed forward to what lies ahead. Not even necessarily the things of this earth, you're going to have some issues, you're going to fall, you're going to fall, you're going to make mistakes. And if you focus on succeeding here, that's why it becomes hard. But if your eye is on heaven, if your eye is on Christ, then yeah, the failures, the ups and downs, then those won't be a problem. The Bible tells us that because we've got the Spirit in us, that he who began and good work in us, he's faithful. He's the one that will see us through. And so when we look at it that way, we realize it's not that difficult after all. Amen.


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I'm a racist. I talk of community and connection to the whole of humanity, while simply only engaging those who look, talk, and think like me. My life does not reflect the diversity I say I desire to know and experience. I've taken for granted the systems and institutions, the principalities and powers that are all slanted in my favor. My complacent acceptance of this reality has led only to my own personal benefit, and my silence only affirms the continuing of the status quo. This is why I can no longer say I'm not a racist. For these things, I repent.


This is George Gilbert. We're on the ground at demand base the B2B CRM company based on AI one of a very special company that's got some really unique technology We have the privilege to be with Seth Meyers today senior data scientist and resident wizard and who's going to take us on a journey Through some of the technology demand base is built on and some of the technology coming down the road So Seth welcome. Thank you very much for having me so We talked earlier with Aman Neymar senior VP technology and we talked about some of the functionality in in demand base and how It's very flexible and and reactive and adaptive in helping guide or React to a customer's journey Through the buying buying process Tell us about what that journey might look like how it's different and You know the touch points and the participants and and then how how your technology? Rationalizes that because we know old CRM Packages will really just you know Lists of contact points, right? So this is something very different, right? How's it work? Yeah, absolutely So I mean at the highest level each customer is going to be different Each customer is going to make decisions and look at different marketing collateral and respond to different marketing collateral in different ways You know as companies get bigger and their products offering become more sophisticated That's certainly in the case and also, you know sales cycles take a long time You know you you're engaged with an opportunity over many months And so you know there's a lot of touch points. There's a lot of planning that has to be done So that actually offers a huge opportunity to be solved with AI Especially in light of recent developments in this thing called reinforcement learning So reinforcement learning is basically machine learning that can think strategically They can actually plan ahead in a series of decisions and it's actually technology behind Alpha go Which is that the the Google technology that beat the best go players in the world? And what we basically do is we say okay if we understand If you understand your customer, we understand the the company work out We understand the things they've been researching elsewhere on third-party sites, then we can actually start to predict about content They will be likely to engage with but more importantly we can start to Predict content or more clearly to engage with next and after that and after that and after that And so what our technology does is it looks at all possible paths that your that your Potential customer could take all the different content He could ever suggest them all the different routes They will take and it looks at the ones that are likely to they're likely to follow But also ones are likely to turn them into an opportunity And so we basically in the same way Google Maps considers all possible routes to get you from your office to home We do the same and we choose the one that's most likely to convert the opportunity the same way Google chooses the quickest road home Okay, this is really it's a that's a great example because people can picture that but how do you How do you know what's the best path? Is it based on learning from previous journeys from customers? Yes, and then if you make a wrong guess you sort of penalize the engine and say pick the next best What you thought was the next best path Absolutely. Yeah, so so basically the way the nuts and bolts of how it works is we you know We start working with our clients and they have you know They have all this data of different customers and how they've engaged with different pieces of content and throughout their journey And so the machine learning model what it's really doing at any moment in time given any customer in any stage of the opportunity That they find themselves in it says what piece of content are they likely to engage with next? What and that's based on historical training data if you will and then once we make that decision on a step-by-step Basis then we kind of extrapolate and we basically say okay if they if they if we showed them this page or if they engage with this Material what would that do what situation we find them in the next step? And then what would we recommend from there and then from there and then from there? And so it's really kind of learning the right move to make at each time and then extrapolating that all the way to the opportunity being closed the picture that's in my mind is like The the deep blue. I think it was chess. You know where would map out all the potential moves very similar game very similar idea, so What about if if you're trying to engage with a customer across different channels and it's not just web content Yes, how is that done? Well, that's something that we're very excited about and that's something that we're that we're currently Really starting to you know devote resources to right now. We already have a product live that's focused on web content specifically But yeah, we're working on kind of a multi-channel type solution and we're all pretty excited about it Okay, so obviously you can't talk too much about it. Can you tell us sort of what channels that might touch? I? Might have to play my cars look close to my chest on this one, but I'll just say we're excited All right. Well, I guess that means I'll have to come back Please please so So tell us about that the the personalized Conversations is the conversation just another way of saying this is how we're personalizing the journey Or is there more to it than that? Yeah, it really is about personalizing the journey, right? Like you know a lot of a lot of our clients now have a lot of sophisticated marketing collateral And they have a lot of a lot of time and energy has gone into developing content The different people find engaging that kind of positions products towards pain points and all that stuff And so really there's so much low-hanging fruit by just Organizing and leveraging all this material and actually forming the conversation through a series of journeys through that material okay, so Aman was telling us earlier that that you know We have so many sort of algorithms that they're all open-source or they're all published And they're only as good as the data you can apply them to right so tell us Where do companies? startups You know not the Google's Microsoft's Amazon's where do they get their proprietary? Information is it that you have? algorithms that now are so advanced that you can refine raw information into proprietary information that others don't have or I mean really I think comes down to like our competitive advantage I think is largely in the source of our data and so Yes, you know you can build more and more sophisticated algorithms But again if you're starting the public data set you'll be able to drive some insights But there will always be a path to those data sets for say a competitor for example, we're currently tracking about 700 billion web interactions a year and then we're also able to attribute those web interactions to You know companies mean the employees at those companies involved in those web interactions And so that's able to give us an insight that no amount of public data processing Whatever really be able to achieve how do you Aman was was Started to talk to us about how like there were DNS reverse DNS registries or something reverse IP look-ups. Yeah. Yeah, so is How are those? If they're individuals within companies and then the companies themselves How do you identify them reliably? right, so reverse IP look-up is we but so we've been doing this for years now and so we've kind of developed a Multi-store solution, so you know reverse IP look-ups is a big one Also machine learning, you know, you can look at a traffic coming from an IP address and you can start to make some very You know informed decisions about what they what the IP address is actually doing who they are And so if you're looking at at the account level, which is what we're tracking at It's yes, there's a lot of information to be gleaned from sort of the way and This may be a weird sounding analogy But the the way a virus or some piece of malware has a signature in terms of its behavior You find signatures in terms of users Associated with an IP address. Yeah, and we certainly don't De-anonymize individual users, but if we're looking at things at the account level Then you know, you know bigger the data that the more single you can refer And so if you're looking at a company-wide usage of an IP address Then you can start to make some very educated guesses as to who that company is the things that they're researching What they're in market for that type of thing and and How do you know? How do you how do you find out? You know if if they're not coming to your site and they're not coming to one of your customer sites How do you find out? What you know what they're touching right? I mean like I can't really go into too much detail But a lot of it comes from working with publishers and you know a lot of the state is just raw and it's only because we can identify The companies behind these IP addresses and that we're actually able to Actually turn these webinar actions into insights about specific companies sort of like how like Advertisers or publishers would track Visitors across many many sites by having agreements. Yes, okay. Yeah along those lines. Yeah, okay, okay so Tell us a little more about Natural language processing I think Where most people have assumed or have become familiar with it isn't with the B2C Capabilities with the big internet giants where they're trying to understand all language. Yes, you have a more well scoped problem Yes, that changes your approach so so a lot of really exciting things are happening in natural is processing in general research and and Right now in general, it's being measured against this yardstick of can it understand language is better as good as a human can Obviously we're not there yet But that doesn't necessarily mean you can't derive a lot of meaningful insights from it and the way we're able to do that is Instead of trying to understand all of human language. Let's understand very specific language associated with the things that we're trying to learn So obviously we're a B2B marketing company. So it's very important us to understand What companies are, you know are investing in other companies what companies are buying from other companies what companies are suing other companies? And so if we if we said, okay We only want to be able to infer a competitive relationship between two businesses in a national document That becomes a much more solvable and manageable problem as opposed to let's understand all of human language And so we actually started off with these kind of open-source solutions with some of these proprietary solutions that you know We paid for and they didn't work because their scope was this broad and so we said okay We can do better by just focusing in on the types of insights. We're trying to learn and then work backwards from them So tell us how much of the algorithms that we would call built You know building blocks for what you're doing and others How much those are all published or open source and and then how much is your secret sauce? Because we talked about data being key part of the secret sauce. What about the algorithm? I mean, yeah, you can treat the algorithms as tools but you know A bag of tools a product does not make right so it really comes our secret sauce becomes how we use these tools How we deploy them and the data sets we put them again So as mentioned before, you know, we're not trying to understand all of human language Actually the exact opposite So we actually have a single machine learning algorithm that all it does is it learns to recognize when Amazon the company is being mentioned in a document So and so if you see the word Amazon is it talking about the river is it talking about the company So we have a classifier that all it does is it fires whenever Amazon's being mentioned a document and that's a much easier problem to solve than Understanding, you know than Siri basically Okay. Yeah, I still get rather irritated with Siri So let's let's talk about Broadly this topic that sort of everyone lays claim to as their great, you know higher calling which is democratizing You know machine learning and AI and opening it up to a much greater audience Help set some context just the way you did by saying hey if we narrow the scope of a problem It's easier to solve. What are some of the different approaches people are taking? to that problem and and What are their sweet spots, right? So, I mean the kind of the talk of the data science community talk in machine learning right now is some of the work that's coming in of DeepMind, which is a subsidiary of Google they just built AlphaGo which you know solved a strategy game that we thought we were decades away from actually solving and their approach of restricting the problem to a game to with well-defined rules with a limited scope I think that's how they're able to propel the field forward so Significantly they start off by playing Atari games, then they move to you know long-term strategy games and now they're doing video games Like video strategy games And I think the idea of again narrowing the scope to well-defined rules and well-defined limited settings It's how we're actually they're actually able to advance the field. Let me ask just about the playing the video games And I can't remember a star Starcraft Starcraft would would you call that like? where The video game is a model and You're training a model against that other model. So it's almost like they're interacting with each other, right? So so it really comes down you can think of it as Pulling levers right so you have a very complex machine and there's certain levers you can pull and the machine will respond in different ways You know if you're trying to for example Build a robot that can walk amongst a factory and pick out boxes like there's how you move each joint how you you know Where you look around all the different things you can see and sense Those are all levers to pull and that gets very complicated very quickly But if you narrow it down to okay, there's certain places on the screen I can click There's certain things I can do there's certain inputs I can provide to the video game You basically limit the number of levers and then Optimizing and learning how to work those levers is a much more scoped and reasonable problems opposed to learn everything all at once Okay That's interesting now Let me switch gears a little bit and you know We've done a lot of work at at wiki bun about IOT an edge, you know increasingly edge-based intelligence because you can't go back to the cloud You know for your analytics for everything, but one of the things that's becoming apparent is It's not just the training that might go on in the cloud. Yes, but there might be simulations You know and then the sort of low latency response is based on a model. That's at the edge Yeah, help elaborate what that really where that applies and how that works, right? Well in general When you know when you're working with machine learning in almost every situation Training the model is that's really the data intensive process That requires a lot of extensive Computation and that's something that makes sense to have localized a single location, which you can leverage resources and you can optimize it Then you can say all right now They have this model that understands the problem that's trained It becomes a much simpler endeavor to to basically put that as close to the you know That's the device as possible and so that really is is how they're able to say okay Let's take this really complicated. You know billion parameter neural network that took days and weeks to train And let's and let's actually derive insights at the level right at the device level Recent technology though like I mentioned deep learning that in itself just the actual deploying the technology Creates new challenges as well to the point that actually Google invented a new type of chip to just run Yeah, the TPU the tensor processing unit just to handle what is now a machine learning algorithm so sophisticated that even deploying it After it's been trained is still challenge. Is there a difference in the in the hardware that you need for for training versus inferencing so they They initially deployed the TPU for just for the sake of inference in general The way the way it actually works is that when you're building a neural network There's a type of mathematical operation to do a whole bunch and it's it's basically working with matrices Yeah, it's like that that's still absolutely the case with training as well as inference Actually, you know querying the model But they yeah, so if you can solve that one mathematical operation then you can deploy it everywhere. Okay. Yeah so if if One of our our CTO was talking about how in his view What's gonna happen in the cloud is? richer and richer Simulations and that they as you say the querying the model getting an answer, you know in real-time or near real-time is that on the edge What exactly is the role of the simulation? Is that just a? Model that understands time and not just time but many multiple parameters that it's playing with right So so simulations are particularly important and taking us back to reinforcement learning where you basically have many Decisions to make before you actually see some sort of you know desirable or undesirable outcome And so for example the way alpha go trained itself is basically by running simulations of the game being played against itself And really what that simulations are doing is allowing the artificial intelligence to explore the entire Possibilities of all games sort of like war games. Yes, remember that movie. Yes With that yeah, Matthew Broderick and it actually showed all those war game scenarios on the screens Yes, and then figured out you couldn't really win, right? Yes. Yeah It's a similar idea where they and because for example and go there's more board configurations There are atoms in the observable universe And so you like you know the way the way deeply one chess is that basically more or less explore the vast majority of Chess moves You can't that's really not the same option You can't really play that same strategy for the alpha go and so this this constant simulations how they explored the meaningful Game configurations that it needed to win so in other words they were rather they were scoped down So the the problem space was smaller, right? And in fact basically the one of the reasons like alpha go is really kind of two different artificial intelligence working together One that decided which Solutions to explore like which possibilities it should pursue more and which one's not to to ignore and then the second piece was okay Given a certain board configuration What's likely outcomes and so those two working in concert one that narrows and focuses and one that comes up the answer Given that focus is how I was actually able to work so well. Okay, yeah That's on that note. That was a very very enlightening 20 minutes And I'm glad to hear that we'll have to come back and get an update from you soon All right, absolutely. This is George Gilbert. I'm with Seth Meyers Senior data scientist at demand base a company I expect we'll be hearing a lot more about and we're on the ground and We'll be back shortly