deal with perimeter and circumference so let's take a look at this first one we see the area of a square is 64 square feet and we want to find the squares perimeter well in order to find perimeter we need to know side lengths so let's draw a picture so we have a square and we know that the area is 64 square feet well how do we find area of a square remember area of a square is just one side length raised to the second power and so if we know that the area was 64 we can find one side length by solving that equation so we'll undo that square with a square root and we get that one side length is equal to 8 and so now each of these sides is 8 and so now the perimeter comes pretty quickly remember the perimeter is the sum of all of the sides there are four sides and all the sides of the same so we could just say the perimeter is 4 times 8 in this case that would be 32 feet let's try another problem here we have the area of a circle is 81 pi square feet what is the circles circumference so first off in order to find circumference remember circumference is either pi times diameter or pi times 2 times r so we need either the diameter or the radius so now let's draw a picture we know we have a circle and we know it's area so we have a circle and we know that the area is 81 pi so we'll have to reverse engineer that area remember the area of a circle the formula is pi times r squared and if the area was 81 pi we'll solve the equation 81 pi equals pi times r squared now this looks more complicated than it might be on both sides of the equation we have pi and remember pi is just a number and so that means we can divide both sides of the equation by pi and that leaves us with 81 because pi divided by pi is one pi divided by pi is one so therefore 81 is equal to r squared and now this looks a very similar to the problem that we just solved with the square we want to find the radius so we'll take the square root of 81 and so that gives us a radius of 9 feet now coming back to our circumference we can pick either of these two formulas since I already have the radius I'll use this formula and I know that the circumference is pi times 2 times the radius which was 9 and then we can clean that up 2 times 9 is 18 so we would say that the circumference is 18 pi feet now that would be an exact answer an answer expressed in terms of pi if we wanted to we could multiply 18 times pi or 18 times 3.14 to give an approximate answer but if you're asked for an exact answer you would leave it as 18 pi feet let's try one more minus 3 I believe that's fixed on your on your note sheet so it should be 2x minus 3 now we know the perimeter right the perimeter is given to us is 39 feet so remember to find the perimeter of a triangle the perimeter was side plus side plus side so all three sides added together we have information only about two sides however remember that these congruence marks indicate that if this side is 3x plus 5 then this side is also 3x plus 5 and so now we have all the information about three sides in order to find the length of one of those sides we need to figure out what x is so let's plug this information into our perimeter formula I see that the perimeter that was 39 and that equals one side let's say 3x plus 5 plus another side plus this third side so now we need to solve this equation solve it for x first I see I've got 3x 3x and 2x together that makes 8x then I have plus 5 plus another 5 makes 10 minus 3 and minus 3 plus 7 and that equals 39 now we'll solve that equation we'll subtract 7 from both sides and then divide both sides by 8 so awesome we get that x is equal to 4 but we're not yet done remember let's answer the question that's asked we're asked to find the length of each side so we'll have to substitute x back in so for this side let's say we'd say 3 times 4 plus 5 that'll give us one side length so 12 plus 5 makes 17 I know because these congruence marks that this side is also 17 and then this last side 2x minus 3 so 2 times the quantity 4 minus 3 2 times 4 is 8 minus 3 that gives us a side length of 5 now we see that we were working in feet and so we'll have to go back in and say each of these is 17 feet 17 feet and 5 feet


Hello and welcome. I am Samuel, your MC-92 support. The first section of MC-92 deals with the challenges of natural language processing. It introduces the basic concepts, compares classical and modern language models, and highlights the differences between earlier AI-based and today's generative chatbots. My recommendation. Use the question sheet of the how to proceed section for guidance. If you can answer the questions, great. If not, either click on the hyperlinks or use chat GPT for help. The mastery test of this unit involves 10 questions about the challenges and the foundations of early and modern natural language processing. To be awarded the mastery badge shown on my right, you have to correctly answer 70% of all the questions. Finally, there are several questions for you in the self-study section. Have a go at them to round off this unit. Good luck and see you.


The narcissist wants this more than anything. This is what the narcissist wants from you. This is the reason why they loved Bombed You in the beginning and the reason why they later devalued and discarded you. This is the reason why they have to be so impressive and opposing. This is the reason why they care so much about their image and reputation. They want this more than money. They want this more than sex. It is more valuable to them than anything else. What the narcissist wants more than anything is attention. They want you to take notice of them. They want you to regard them as something interesting or important. They want you to pay close attention to them and attend to their comfort or wishes. They want you to emotionally react to them. They want you to feel or think something in response to a situational event and the reason why they need your attention so desperately is because they cannot attend to themselves. They abandoned their true character and personality a long time ago and created a false self. Their false self has to be externally validated. It needs constant emotional reactions. They need to feel seen at all times. They need to feel hued and if at any time they don't feel seen or hued they will throw a fit. They will have temper tantrums because they're like big babies. They need constant emotional support. They need to feel like they exist and nothing makes their false self feel more real than when you emotionally react to them which is why the narcissist wants attention more than anything else. They will go to any length to get their target's attention even at the expense of other areas in their life.  Thank you for watching. I hope this video earns it with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description. Couching and inquiries, you can email me at narksforevercoaching at gmail.com Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


everyone. Sam here with latent sports cards. Rip in 22 tops five star baseball hobby, eight box case break number 37. Pick your team style. Read off a list of our names and teams. Doug R. with the Royals, Phillies, Rays, Cubs, Giants, Rockies, Twins, and Athletics. Thank you, Doug. Edward P. with the Reds, Cardinals. Aaron L. with the Yankees. Evan R. White Sox. Heath N. Orioles. Jim L. Metz, Nationals, Guardians. Jonathan S. Braves, Padres, and Blue Jays. K. Wren with the Mariners. Mason C. Astros. Nick L. Pirates. Stephen S. with the Diamondbacks Marlins. Stephen S. H. that is with the Diamondbacks Marlins. Stephen S. W. with the Red Sox. Troy L. Brewer's Rangers. Way C. with the Tigers. Zachary P. Dodgers. And Zach L. with the Angels. Let me get these copied. All right, let me, never mind. Thought we were doing a random there and whatever.   Well, I went to TikTok for this. I mean, something went wrong. I did. I did mess up. Good luck. Again, guys, no recap after this one, as this is a hits-only break, and it's very quick. So still playing the cash register, eh, squiddy. Too bad that couldn't have killed me. Too bad that couldn't have killed me. Loc Troy. Yeah, I see a nice Nolan Ryan out of here, man. We are going to recap you this afternoon's football. Yes, sir. Yes, we are. There is Ozzie Smith, the wizard going to the Cardinals. Nice one there, St. Louis. Ozzie Smith on the base. And Golden Graf's blue color match, 3 out of 20, is Daryl Strawberry. Nice one there. So the Mets. The Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles. Haven't you noted, SpongeBob? We don't listen to anything the Pioneers do, because there are none of them left. The 10186 Nolan Ryan. That's actually kind of nasty. That's really nasty, Wahoos. That's awesome, dude. Going to the Twins. That's 37 out of 50. Curtis Terry. Rookie Otto. Staying in the PC card. There you go. There's Donnie Baseball. Don Mattingly going to the Yankees. Nice one there as well. One more Yankees captain, Don Mattingly, that is. Eli, probably Peter Lanzo, Patch Auto, number to five. That was probably the best hit so far. I mean, this is only the third break, so. What time of the month does international mail shift usually like the first week? It should be to you by the end of the first week of the month. So like, I would say on the 6th or the 7th? 6th or the 7th, I would say April. It should be there. Will Clark with a giant. Nice one there. That's Nitty. I know, we really have him, Blake. And Jason Beretek going to the Red Sox, 5 and 30. Nice one there on the golden graphs. I see a filler really quick, Donnie. No problem, April. Slow rolling. Yeah. What do you think this is? Berge Jenkins for the Cubs. Congrats on that. There you go, Chicago. And we got a redemption. We got a redemption. It's going to be five star autograph Jumbo Prime card, Silver, Rainbow, Foil, Parallel. That's Rainbow. You know, it's the thing that like, Austin Riley going to the Braves. Nice one there. Atlanta, Jonathan S. Congrats on that. All right, you all have fun. Later, Lanez. I'll look that up after, I'll look it up now. Why not? 25, that sounds right. Now Beretek stinks. Oh, it'll be out of five. That'll be out of five. That will be out of five. So good luck. Or congrats on that one, Jonathan. Nice, Riley. Oh, you can just talk. That's actually pretty cool, Matteo. Yeah, Randy Johnson's stuff out of this is sick. Got it. Josh Lowe, rookie autograph, 51 out of 75 on the green for the Rays. Trash. Donnie, Shane's calling your name. There's Jose Ramirez for the Guardians based on him. I looked away for five seconds. Got him. Donnie just got body bag. Oh, no. Hopefully, Ben. Oh, no. The stream's over. Oh, no. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. There's a, um, wow, Hoy Park. Holy cow, dude. Going to Zach L, this next one. This is massive. This is massive. We've got numbered one of five, Mike Trax. Angels. Hold on a second, guys. Hold on a second. We've got to go ahead and cast this reel out. There we go. We just got the trout, baby. Let's go. That's huge. Congrats, Zach. Nice one there, buddy. That is so nasty. So nasty. Big time hit right there. Big time. We'll get that right into a mag for you, Zach. Congrats, buddy. There you go. Sloth. Let's go. I'm delayed five of five now. Holy cow, dude. Three cards numbered out of five in this one case. This is a God case. That was a good one. See, wow. Wow. Everybody, that's the first time everyone's like, oh, that wasn't bad.  I lost brain cells. There's the 25, another Jose Ramirez. 24 out of 25. The small, I should get one of those, honestly. I should get one of those. That actually would be a good, that's a great prop right there. I wanted to be excited for the challenge and then I just see Sam do that and it's like, oh. It's not, not cool anymore. Randy of Rosarena, base auto going through the race. Team Matt Chapman numbered 14 out of 75 for the Blue Jays. Nice one there. We'll do it for the break. Thank you guys again for the fill. Next up, we've got Bowman.


The word cancer has actually been used for almost 2,000 years now. The biggest thing that's changed is the understanding that it's not one disease, but it's thousands of diseases. It's this understanding of the complexity of cancer that really changes how we think about treatment, because now that we understand that the disease is so complex, we don't think of one cure for cancer, but rather thousands of different types of treatments that are all going to have to come together to be able to treat a patient. We need new tools to really understand what we're making, and that science is happening as we speak. Really what's going to change is that chemotherapy and radiation will still happen, but they won't be the first line anymore. Instead, it will be these new, more targeted therapies, and it will really change the way that people think about cancer and how to treat it. Going forward, a big part of the solution is going to have to be figuring out how to develop and manufacture these new therapies that are going to be more personalized, doing that in a very cost-effective way. As cancer moves from a terminal disease into potentially a chronic disease, there'll be all sorts of shifts in how we have to change our thinking about it. So there'll be all sorts of challenges related to patient mental health, expenses, all these different things have both incredible promise, but also are challenges that we need to think about addressing. To cancer diagnosis, the big impact is just the notion that life will never be the same. After that diagnosis, certainly for the individual, but also for the family. It's really a defining point in time for everybody involved. And it's really that link between not only the science, but bringing the human element in that I think makes this a different science conference and a different cancer conference than anything you've seen before.


Everybody forced here ripping five boxes of 2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball hobby for Joshua E Thanks, Joshua, and good luck Again guys last one of the night More personals after group breaks tomorrow ten bucks Tuesdays with Sam starts 4 p.m. Eastern future shimmer first bowman Roderick Arias Number 73 of 199 Dented of a caro base. I will grab an empty mini box and send it with the order rookie Image variation Roanzee Contreras first woman base auto Mason hour Nice card there Nolan Aranada refractor 39 to 499 Atomic James Outman Arizona Fall League insert 122 of 150 and nice as Sammy Munoz first woman base auto Good first two autos there. Let's see some color going forward Salvador Perez refractor numbered 438 to 499 What what do you mean illegal what do you mean blame for not knowing aqua pink paper Christian Hernandez numbered 64 out of 125 First woman base auto Jorge Barrosa Atomic Invicta Carlos Kalman are as numbered 5 of 150 purple shimmer Harry Ford 192 out of 250 well, obviously, but green refractor first woman rained on cone 7499 first woman base auto Willie Faunas We got a trade to put these cards Yo, the Wendy's like the chicken parm thing they have it's like a mozzarella chicken sandwich thing I need to get that Yeah, I need to get that purple shimmer Carson Williams numbered 165 of 250 first favorite player I can remember well, I mean I guess it depends on the sport I watched basketball a lot younger So basketball It's like T-Mac pretty much yellow blaze Jordan numbered 43 of 75 I love Manny and Poppy obviously still do Yeah, Manny and Poppy Refractor auto Cooper Bowman 259 to 499 So I wasn't watching sports like super young because my parents didn't watch a lot of sports So like I didn't really start like watching sports until You know, I was like 9 or 10 Like watching watching refractor nick madrigal number 377 to 499 Manny poppy T-Mac I liked Vince Carter. I liked Kobe Bryant Allen Iverson What are you In what way am I messed up? You need to elaborate on that I don't disagree. I'm just curious aqua pink vapor louise maza first bowman 98 of 125 And a yeson morta bell first bowman base auto. It's a pretty good autos here Let's look over that like low numbered hit. I guess But the names have been good shimmer Anthony Volpe What about you illegal? Who were your like first like favorite players? Yeah, I'm gonna guess John crook purple refractor Brandon Crawford Number 212 out of 250 speckle first bowman auto roiland machandi 60 of 299 Ken Griffey jr. I think that's every like Every every person every like younger person that watched baseball from like the early 90s Like mid 90s. It's it's it's it's grippy every single person You know what I mean like between the ages of like 34 and like 40 like 32 and 40 vj armstrong is a cool one too Wasn't he with the magic for a bit? I think of nick Armstrong I know he was with the bulls refractor south frailich Number 112 out of 499 first bowman base auto esthe van machado I think there was one year of nba jam where like the magic had I think I think I think it was a Shack and vj armstrong You always chose vj over penny because he could hit the threes I think they were I think they were together at one point on the magic Maybe I'm wrong there or it's like horse grants and like vj armstrong or something All right last one joshua here we go man green shimmer gruby ellen helis 25 of 99 Yeah, it's true adam I always forget I always forget like things like that purple first bowman oscar collas 56 of 250 Nice color parallel on the collas First bowman auto antonio penero. All right one more auto coming up. Maybe some more color too Invicta tyler black refractor jose ramos 115 of 499 and a base nice of ricardo cabrera first bowman auto Pretty good stuff joshua and that's gonna do it I'll get these out to you shortly


Welcome to today's special council meeting. Let's see if we have a fourth council member for quorum Great and madam clerk, could you please call the roll? Yes. Thank you mayor councilmember tidbits Councilmember Schwedhelm here councilmember Sawyer here councilmember Fleming councilmember Alvarez Come vice mayor Rogers as it mayor Rogers here Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez councilmember Fleming and councilmember Tibbetts Great madam deputy city clerk. Could you please handle public comment for this item? Thank you mayor. Well do For those just joining the meeting who wish to make a public comment via zoom Please raise your hand if participating by telephone. Please dial star nine Mayor there are no public comments from the council chamber We did not receive any written public comments nor voice message public comments And there are no hands being raised via zoom for item 2.1 on this special meeting agenda Great, thank you so much. We'll go ahead and recess into closed session. Let's go ahead and reconvene madam city clerk Can you please call the roll? Yes, thank you mayor councilmember Tibbetts councilmember Schwedhelm here councilmember Sawyer councilmember Sawyer Here thank you councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez Vice mayor Rogers Mayor Rogers here Councilmember Tibbetts have you joined us? Okay, let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of vice mayor Rogers and councilmember Tibbetts All right, madam city attorney. Can you please do a brief report out on our closed session? Yes, thank you, mr. Mayor the council met in closed session to discuss the potential acquisition of real property Council gave direction to the real property negotiator and made took no final action. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much with that We will adjourn


9. Signs that someone may be emotionally attracted to you 6. They value your opinions, and most of your life values appear to be in sync. They encourage you to express your opinion, thoughts, and feelings without judgment, regardless of whether they agree with you or not. 7. They're comfortable being vulnerable around you. Have they let their guard down when they're with you? This is because it shows that they're able to trust you with their worries and insecurities. 8. They express an interest in meeting your family and friends, and vice versa. You're usually able to introduce your partners to your closest relatives, only when you're emotionally connected and invested in that relationship yourself. 9. They want to commit to you without pushing commitment onto you, and it shows that they respect your boundaries and feel a strong emotional connection to you. 9. Have you experienced an emotional connection with someone?


Dry powder inhalers, or DPIs, are among the most widely used inhalers currently available for treating patients with asthma and COPD. To be effective, DPIs must reliably deliver a predictable drug dose and generate drug particles of a specified size. They must also be simple and easy for patients to use. A recent study assessed the robustness of Easyhaler by assessing the delivered dose and fine particle dose over the inhaler's lifespan and under stress conditions, mimicking everyday use by patients. Currently available in several European countries, Easyhaler combines two drugs for the treatment of asthma and COPD, salmeterol, a long-acting beta-agonist, and fluticosone propionate, an inhaled corticosteroid. The Easyhaler's unique internal design uses patient inhalation to de-agglomerate and dispense the two drug formulations at specified doses. In a non-comparative in vitro study, researchers evaluated the performance of the Easyhaler using two batches of inhalers at two different dose levels. They found that both the delivered dose and the fine particle dose remained constant throughout the inhaler's lifespan or through 60 delivered doses. The fine particle dose of the delivered drugs also demonstrated as aerodynamic particle size distribution via impactor stage-by-stage analysis was not affected by dropping onto a hard wooden surface. The size distribution also remained unaffected by vibrational stress. Similarly, the fine particle and delivered dose achieved by the Easyhaler was not affected by moisture, as measured by storing at 75% relative humidity for 48 hours. The fine particle and delivered dose remained constant after submitting Easyhaler to three cycles of freeze-thawing during a two-week time period. Unfortunately, these stress tests can account for all scenarios encountered by patients in everyday life, including more realistic testing methods such as those that mimic lung deposition more accurately could offer valuable insight. Still, the findings are promising. They suggest that the Easyhaler is able to deliver consistent and reliable dosing even under simulated stress and or suboptimal handling. For patients with asthma and COPD, the Easyhaler represents a safe and effective treatment option.


This review highlights the positive and negative impacts of social media platforms on public health, as well as potential applications for communication, monitoring, and predictions. However, more research is needed to objectively investigate measures to mitigate against its negative impact while harnessing effective applications for the benefit of public health. This article was authored by Dinesh Viswagunasekharan, Alton Chu, Ishvar K. Chandrashakar and others.


Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel Sunday Market Update. I wanted to make this video really quickly for you guys because player of the year is coming today. That's going to be the main point of this video kind of a last minute player of the year talking about investments you know looking at VVD looking at sterling cards since those are kind of the two specials to win this award. The two most you know I think the people that most projected players to win this award I think it's going to be sterling and VVD. We'll look at some other players today as well but a lot of people have invested for those two cards and with those SBCs probably coming tonight at midnight UK after the award ceremony obviously you're going to know who wins the award and then you'll know what SBCs will be coming out so this is kind of a fun game that we get to play each year with this player of the year stuff. A lot of people have been looking at sterling and have been looking at Virgil van Dijk for sterling as young player of the year and VVD as player of the year. Now we're not going to actually know until the ceremony the results are released and everything like that but a lot of these informed prices will react to who is voted for the winner who you know who maybe does not win and stuff like that so let's say sterling is the winner of young player of the year a lot of people have invested in the 88 and 89 the inform because in years past there's always been a special card requirement as you see here there's actually a lot of people probably invested in sterling a lot like back in here in this time frame I know a lot of people that have been invested in sterlings in a long for a long time and he kind of hit a low this week or this couple days ago actually yesterday 148 so those are a really low point for this card now if you're invested in this card I don't know where you've got to that he's 160 right now both consoles I don't know if you got him for lower than that you're making money I might just stay content and take the money because the way and this is what I want to talk about today concerning SBCs the real question as with these SBCs are going to be possible is how much they come out and cost in the SBC section now yes we can speculate we can look at who wins the award and that's going to change some prices and that's going to impact the market but it all comes down to how expensive and how much EA values these SBCs that they're going to put out for player of the year and young player of the year now obviously if we get a Raheem sterling card obviously his highest rated card this year on foot is a 92 rated he just got this team the group stage card 92 rated card if they boost him up let's say his team of the season would probably be somewhere like a 94 to a 96 somewhere in that range I would guess would be his team of the season rating and that's what this card will be these player of the year and young player of the year award winner cards will have the same stats as their team of the season cards that will be coming out in the next couple of weeks we've seen that in years past that's something that we know is true so basically when you're doing this SBC you're getting the player of the year card you're getting that card design but the stats are the same as the team of the season and that's where we have to look at the value of the SBC and kind of really look and see is this SBC worth it based on the rating of the card and this is going to be his tats card and maybe if you just want the cool dynamic image and the card design that's why you would do this SBC but EA makes you pay more coins for that because it is an SBC we're right before team of the season and they're definitely trying to suck some coins off the market now speaking of a couple different things I want to look specifically at VVD because I think he has a really good chance to win and a lot of people have invested for him but as I mentioned in yesterday's video I think he has a very interesting situation on hand with all of his special cards and the rating areas that he has this actually might be easier to see on flipping we go back over here I'm showing you guys right now the team of the year which is down a lot look at this he was down at 10.68 on Xbox right now or on Thursday right now he's 10.90 I think you could see more panic selling of this tomorrow leading up to the awards ceremony of people that are thinking he's going to win and they think they're going to do the SBC I'm really curious to see what they do with this rating if they make him a 94 rated because he obviously has a 93 and his team of the year is a 95 will they jump over the team of the year's rating make him like a 96 or 97 or will they keep him under the team of the year and stick him at a 94 my personal thinking on this is I think they're going to give him a 94 but I could be totally wrong we really just had to see what EA wants to do and if Van Dyke wins the award if he doesn't win the award and you see panic selling on this team of the year card or any special version of Van Dyke go and pick that up because this is such a special card he's going to get panic sold and even though the market is in such a down point right now there's definitely going to be people that are buying back this card to play with especially on the lower tier ends here maybe look at the foot birthday card being 397k I mean if you see this drop down to like 325 and some panic selling or maybe this inform dropping down to you know in the 200s under 300k that would be something that I would look at for a possible panic sell and then you know an investment to flip in the rebound but regardless it really just depends on what they value and what rating they give this DVD card and how much they make the SBC cost if they give VVD a 94 rated card and they make the SBC cost 700k you're probably going to see this team of the year dip down and value a decent amount because this one's over a million coins and if it's one stat rating less but 300,000 coins cheaper to do the SBC you're going to have people that are going to go out and do the SBC probably that's my thinking just because it's the second best version of Van Dyke and it's considerably cheaper some people might even be able to do it for 500k with untradables in their club that's why I like I'm going to watch this card for sure this weekend tomorrow today actually today and just kind of watch hit his card card price along with the investments for these cards now again as I mentioned in the beginning of the video if you're invested for a lot of this stuff the special cards for Van Dyke the special cards for Sterling like the informs the UCLs any special card that people are investing in I would sell that into the hype sell that tomorrow actually sell it probably as early as you can as more people because more people are going to start selling into the hype yes you could lose out on an opportunity to make a lot of coins but I'm always a fan and a proponent of selling into the hype now if if you just bought them and you bought one to just cover yourself to make sure if he gets in because you want to do the SBC that's a case where you hold but if you're mass selling these Sterling cards if you have tons of the Sterlings or tons of the Van Dyke's I would be very very careful now if they get announced and they actually do win their special cards will shoot up very quickly for a point in time that's gonna be your opportunity to get out I mean we saw it last year with Neymar his cards his informs went from like 600k his cheapest informs they went up to almost like 800 900 thousand coins some of them almost a million at one point because people went and did that SBC it was just a crazy crazy SBC and he was not projected to win so his informs and special cards weren't inflated but Van Dyke and Sterling are projected to win so there are a lot of people that have invested in this card in these cards even though it's not super duper inflated in price there's still a lot of these that are overpriced in my opinion and they're just kind of hovering there they haven't dropped yet and that just shows you that there are people investing in them now let's say Van Dyke does not win you're gonna see those cards go crashing crashing down and that will present an opportunity for another Neymar like situation last year let's say Aguero wins I don't think that they would they could require a special version of Aguero he only has an inform in the UCL and this inform is very rare so I would not see that likely but I would see like a gold card requirement likely for for a guy like Aguero I think I overshot his gold card there's 70k you see about 70k maybe like 65 000 coins somewhere in that range and that could be something where this gold aguero card if it gets required could shoot up over 150 000 coins just depending on the SBC and you know they're going to make this this SBC pretty expensive because the way that they have been valuing SBCs in this pre-team of the season period is they've really been juicing up the price they've really made you pay a premium for some of these cards this otteries card I wouldn't pay any more than like 25 or 30k for that basically a discard 87 rated and you get to get to try out the card maybe for a couple games go ahead as same thing maybe 40 or 50k for that type of card but they're just requiring way too much for some of these Erickson is interesting because he probably will get a team of the season it'll be better than this but I'm a Spurs fan so that one I haven't done that SBC yet it's tempting me I probably won't do it though but regardless of that they've been really overpricing the SBCs making you pay a lot and that's in a time period where you know if we go over here to sheepest players by rating on footbin a lot of the higher rated are down in price from where they have been in weeks past we have 85s under 10k we have 86s under 20 and we have the 87s and 88s still lingering but coming down these are a lot lower than they used than they were in the previous weeks during the icon SBC hype so a lot of these SBCs are actually really expensive if you put them these high rated gold players back to their previous prices the SBCs that we're seeing right now that are being put out are pretty expensive now let's say EA makes this SBC expensive tomorrow and the high rated gold prices are low I mean that gold that that SBC price is going to be very expensive because you're going to have informed shooting up you're going to have requirements shooting up in price I mean these are SBCs that people want to do so just the valuation of the SBC is the thing that I'm most interested to see tomorrow from EA but again if you're holding any cards that are like Premier League Informs or you know the English Informs or gold cards like Odomandy Edderson you know maybe some Liverpool 86 Rated like a Mane or a Firmino or a Firnandinho so I'm thinking of I might just hold on to those they're high-rated they're still in demand for other SBCs and these Informs really haven't moved too much and you know they really only have the option to go up further so I don't see selling into the hype for the SBC stuff you know like the the high rated golds and the Informs that you may have invested in that are not Informs of that specific player that you think is going to win I think those are fine to keep and to hold on to because those can really only go up with more SBCs that we get at the least at the worst they stay stagnant and you and you're chilling and you just have to sell for for break even after tax or something like that so other than that I mean I think a lot of these cards are going to be sought after for people the whoever wins the award if if a hazard or an Aguero or maybe even Bernardo Silva picks up an award that's going to be a special SBC um the people are going to want to go and do so if you have any indication of you think who's going to win based on um that or maybe the leaks that come out I'm not condoning leaks or anything like that but if you see stuff on Twitter um just be careful with that today as well there's going to be people who are saying that oh this person is a surprise winner and they're going to try to hype some things up or you just can't always believe the things that you see coming out of the news um right away so the player of the year is the big thing for today and I wanted to make this video kind of just a last minute thoughts about player of the year and again watch out for that team of the year van dyke watch out for those high rated van dykes and obviously the special cards for all of these guys because they could be kind of fluctuating in price a lot tomorrow and if you time it correctly if you can figure out who wins the award right away somebody like this hazard if he wins the award I can maybe see a special hazard required but I would more likely see the gold a requirement for that as well just because it's he's so high rated he doesn't have a lot of icon or not icon but he doesn't have a lot of informed cards on the market so that's just something to kind of keep your just keep your eyes out for keep watching um and it should be a fun day a player of the year hype and a lot of SBC hype always a fun time of the year as we're still awaiting the great grand team of the season announcement from EA sports if you enjoyed this video smash a thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new it's been Nate the photo counting catch you guys later peace out


This is the Rex cohort doing our monthly check-in call for October of 2018. I will start by reading a poem by Mary Oliver titled The Journey. One day you finally knew what you had to do and began through the voices around you. Though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice. Though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. Mend my life, each voice cried, but you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations. Though their melancholy was terrible, it was already late enough in a wild night and the road full of fallen branches and stones.  So I think these are sort of sobering times and maybe that's kind of a sobering poem for sobering times. How about that? It reminds me of volume three of Lord of the Rings where they're going toward Mount Doom and they're really, you know, they're having a hard time. And I forget whether it's Frodo or Sam sees like one star in the sky and that one star kind of just reignites trust or hope. Something more permanent out there than all the stuff. I think that's something we've had.  I was reading an article this morning off of a really interesting mailing list about Brazil and about why the new far right guy who's very likely to win is winning. Like what happened? And it turns out that the far left broke trust over and over and over and over again, just like shattered it.  We don't want to hear you anymore. We're going to go with this tough guy who's going to go shoot all the criminals. But it's, you know, just more evidence of the kind of chaos that's happening in different places and that's probably going to get worse. Yeah, there was a really extensive article I read in The Atlantic. I've written by someone I think from Poland. We've seen this before. Oh my God, was that a good article? Has anyone else heard of this article? Sounds familiar. I'm going to see if I can find it. Is that the one about McConnell playing such a crucial role? Oh, I think that is the one. Yeah. Well, it was written by an insider who's like who's a central European insider and those all these people. Now, detailed how country after country is going for, you know, the internal elites and nationalism. And like, it's a very familiar story. And it's one of the articles I read a while ago was pointing out that Trump is very much a European national. He looks like a European central European sort of leader. Is this, is this the article, The Suffocation of Democracy by Christopher Browning? No, but that sounds like a good article. Oh, really good. This is also a New York review of books. So it's a different one, but I'll place it into our Zoom chat here. This one, the one I just pasted is excellent and it is about Mitch McConnell. And it basically, God, it basically says McConnell. This is a quote from the article. McConnell is the grave digger of American democracy. I found it a warning from Europe. The worst is yet to come polarization conspiracy theories attacks on the free precedent of session with loyalty. Recent events in our state power pattern Europeans know all too well. There we go. What's the title of the article? A warning from Europe. The worst is yet to come. I'm going to send it to you guys in a minute. Thanks. Thanks. So partly I've been thinking like, okay, what, what do we do? What do I do?  But that's, that's high on my, on my mind these days. It's like, all right. So many of these things are happening. What, what, how do we actually sort of buckle down and get some of this done in a productive way? You found it. Yeah. Oh, thank you very much. Beautiful. So let's, let's, let's leave the, leave the gloomies behind for a moment and just do a brief check in and see where we are in the world of things like this. Anybody want to lead? Yeah, I know. Mark, you want to head into it like what kind of stuff you're interested in these days? Sure.  And I'm, I'm more and more disillusioned about the prospects for that. Particularly, you know, through various kind of studies finding that, for example, the more you understand the rules of logic, the more it's actually more likely that your bias increases with that. There's not, there's recent article on what's called my side bias. And, you know, which basically kind of implies that people like, well, the whole framing thing, the question is how do you frame things and how does framing happen in a non-rational or more than a rational way. Anyway, that's kind of one thread. Another thread kind of in my life is that kind of the about actually maybe it's more like 15 years ago. I kind of, I was involved in Buddhist meditation practice and still am actually, but I was involved with the organization founded by, you know, one of the people and a few months ago they ended up on the front page of the New York Times as they're now part of the Me Too movement.  So, you know, it's not, of course, exclusive to Buddhism, but it just shows how power seems to just, I mean, there's just this kind of universal quality to it where people get attracted because of the power. They start exerting power, then that goes into sexual power and so on. So that's been, so even though I'm not in the organization percent of lots of people in it, it was a meltdown happening through that. So that's another kind of theme going on. Those are two great things. I remember, I remember once long ago I went to the Kripalu Institute, which is like a yoga ashram up in Ryan Beck, New York, and that whole kind of crystal zone of Western New York, or Eastern New York rather Western Mass.  They're still around. They had to heal after all that. But yeah, there is something about these positions of power. There's probably also kind of a, what's it called, the recency effect here where because Me Too is big and we're seeing a lot of people in the spotlight of Me Too, we're noticing a lot more of this is going on. I'm not sure the frequency is up or anything like that. This is just always, I think it's always been going on at some proportion. And I think also maybe it's not completely rampant everywhere. I mean, it's really easy. And I think this is happening on the far right in the alt right. When Donald Trump says it's really hard to be a boy in America these days, you know, and everybody who's trying to make a dent in these issues does a face palm. It's easy to feel like, you know, anybody could fall from any accusation at any moment and the flimsiest of actions might lead to an accusation, et cetera, et cetera. So interesting how this is unrolling as we speak. Yeah. And I guess a third kind of theme is, I mean, I've been involved in tech for a long time in this kind of perhaps in retrospect, kind of overly naively optimistic way. Although, well, so one aspect of this that, you know, people like Buckminster Fuller would say, you can't change how people are so we're going to work on the technology side, because we can work with that.  There's many people that that's a common thought and, you know, I think that's fatally flawed because I think as we're seeing now it's not just that. Well, I think what we're seeing is the feedback from the technology side to the human side and especially recently like looking at Facebook and Google and YouTube and so on where, you know, where we're seeing that the monetized selling of our fragmentary attention is actually directly affecting our own capacity to act sanely and wisely. And so it's not just so technology, you can't separate technology from the business model driving it, and it's certainly not value neutral.  But it seems to be true and it's not just in the US. So, so that's kind of on one level disillusioning on the other hand it raises the question of how can we work more directly on kind of human system, you know, like angle angle bar talk to a tool system in the human system. And so anyway, that's kind of another ongoing theme and in fact that's kind of, you know, I'm trying to identify what I'm most concerned about it's kind of that intersection of technology society and sanity and how those things work together. I like that. It's interesting in so many dimensions. Partly, one of the things that jumps up at me is that I think I think many people stick to positions that seem illogical, mostly because of membership and identity is that is that renouncing that position would probably be an ostracism from a group that believes in those things or that has held hold to those things as a position. And there's there's now kind of because because these battles have surged so much into the foreground. Some some of the stuff used to just be background politics but now it's like this this is sort of how people are identifying and how groups are connected. And it's happening in churches is happening in lots of places where there used to be other discussions going on.  So they're in that sense. And what you were saying earlier about how sometimes facts of the presentation of facts just strengthens beliefs. So one of the things I wind up seeing is how do we build bridges to new places of seeing or new places of thinking, because for people who feel under siege or under threat, and like abandoning any part of a particular set of beliefs, means loss of membership in community and friendship and everything else. How do we create stepping stones through what looks like a horrible river to a place of better life together with others. I don't know. But these these kinds of changes don't happen easily. And and different places in the world are getting more and more rigid and using more and more fear sort of pumping up the volume on fear. I made the mistake of finishing watching the documentary Icarus, which is about blood doping and bicycling and in which a mid range bicyclist who realizes he's never going to be the next top cyclist decides, What the hell? Why don't I contact the best Russian doping guy and see if he'll help me. And then I can document the whole thing. And then I can document the whole thing. So amazingly, this guy who's like this Russian doping expert who also happens to run the Russian anti doping agency says, Sure, I'll help you. And then like about everything that's been going on, like it's been doping for years. It goes all the way up to Putin, etc. So I finished watching Icarus, but then I also watched Active Measures, a new documentary about basically nonlinear warfare and all the other stuff that's going on. And everything goes back to Putin. And it talks about how Trump Tower was a perfect place for money laundering from Russia and this and that all kinds of crazy stuff. And at the end of it, I was a little shaken because I'm like, All right, all right, gotta do some deep breathing because if so much of this is going on. How do we work our way past it? How do we build those little stones across the river? Sorry to riff on and on about this. But I think I think, Mark, you're tapping into some very, very strong things that are going on. So I just wanted to this is Jermay, can you hear me? Yes, you're just great. You're coming in five by five. Well, that's nice because I'm here in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sweet. And this is actually on my lunch break. Oh my God. And I realize that the timing worked out to basically give you all a holla. A holla. You can't pass bread through Zoom, but... The conference is on the future of agriculture, primarily around livestock stuff. And I'm giving the closing keynote. So I have to find the right balance between scaring them and inspiring them. Zoom, Zoom, but it's all going to be okay. Yes, but it's been fascinating. I basically, we had a speaker yesterday who was the... I guess we can put it at the Brazilian Sean Hannity. Wow. Yeah. He's a print guy instead of a TV guy. But you may know that Bolasaro came close to outright winning the first round election and almost certainly going to win the second round. By 2%, he would have been declared winner already, yeah. Right. He got 43, but his closest opponent got 29, something like that. So it's really unlikely that anyone else is going to win. And he is my best describer as a combination of Trump and Duterte. Yes. And he's a charming guy. Likes the finger guns apparently. And this speaker yesterday was essentially going to talk about how wonderful it is that this guy is going to favor the producers over the parasites and is going to de-leftify the government and purge the leftists from the government. It was fascinating. Yeah, I've never been so close to such intense evil. Oh, and you've been in Kazakhstan. That's true, but I never got really close to them. I mean, I was sitting in the front row, so he was like maybe 25 feet away. Oh. That's very intense. Like the timing of your being in Brazil is crazy. I know, I know. I asked to do some tweets about it yesterday. I have met some interesting people and I do need to move on from this body. I saw that the timing was good. I wanted to poke in and say hello to everybody. You know, the mobile version of the mic. You're breaking up now. Oh, yeah, okay. See you other folks. Can you hear me again? Yes, you were breaking up just a little bit there at the end. I was checking to see the other screens to just see who else was here. But I wanted to say hi since I know I haven't been in a couple of months. It's just been crazy busy. But, you know, the future waits for no one. And I didn't realize you were still in Brazil because I've watched your travels a bit. And I think I'll see you next Thursday at the institute. You will. Talking to a Brazilian company, no less. Bing. All right, folks, I will let you get on with your conversation. I just wanted to say hello. Thank you. And that I will check in again more regularly once things have died down a bit. Happy trails and break a leg. Give him hell. Okay. Ciao. Ciao. That was really great to be checked in. That was great. Yeah, that was like bizarrely perfect timing. Can I just say how strange and wonderful that was? Yeah. Yeah, there's a so John Oliver did a whole segment on Bolsonaro and his finger guns and everything else. And it's crazy land. It's it's absolutely fascinating what's happening there. There were last year there were 62,000 murders in Brazil. That's a lot. Yeah, I know. Susan, by the way, sent me a note that she's has to teach something right now, but she's going to join us at about 40 minutes in. So Susan will come and join the conversation at some point. Mark, thank you for for the things you put in the conversation because like, that's that's I share a lot of your concerns and interests in that nexus of, you know, did we, did we take tech too lightly or too naively? And how does this stuff all play together? Oh, were you going to jump in? Okay. Todd, Todd, do you want to check in? Yeah, this is the the autumn of action for me. I have a lot of things that I've initiated. I'll post some links here in a minute. In response to that question of, you know, what do we do when these times are so dark and chaotic. I think with some intentionality and some just instinct.  And that feels good because my energy level is high. I've not felt overwhelmed except for fleeting moments and I spent some time at NASA on the East Coast last week. With one of my clients that's working through deep collaboration, body based skills with them. And that was just is just encouraging for for as much as we hear about dysfunction and organizations and dysfunction and government to these people were all thrilled to be working there. And they were all thrilled to be learning how to work with difference, whether they were engineers or finance people and and they let me just walk around and explore buildings where I shouldn't be. So that that was a fun little bonus too. Did you say body based skills? Body based skills, yes. So learning learning conceptually what is needed in order to meet another or meet or show up in a group and then doing active skills with your body to train yourself. So that those behaviors become more lodged. So you're actually asking engineers and finance people to get up and do strange things together, which there's resistance at first, and then it reaches a point where they just love it. They, they love that they're moving around the room and they're doing things that they're have full permission to do and it everyone else is doing it. It's it's it's quite transformational. Really cool. Love it. I just put a link to the leadership training program which starts the week after next that I'm doing with Marty Spiegelman who she jumped on the design from trust call. Didn't she? Yes. Yeah, I'm so happy to see that I watched some video. And then I am co hosting. I'm leading a retreat next weekend to to test some of the material I've been working on. And then I'll send one more here. That's great. Wow. And then throughout this month I've been doing interviews with folks about consciousness. Called the Oneness World Summit. And those will all be released next month. On 11 11. So what's it called? Chopsticks Day. No parallel day. There's a name for 11 11. Chopsticks Day. I've heard that one before. Yeah. Very cool. Do you want to? Is there is there any part of these events that we can help you think through or reflect on? Just as prep because you've got a lot on your plate here. There's a lot coming up. It's cool to see. Is there any part of this that we can help you ponder? Let Bo check in and then come back to me. And I'm sure I have something that I'm chewing on. Cool. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Senior McFarlane, would you like to jump in for a little bit? Yeah. I'm going to put something in the chat. I went to this conference this weekend. Because Dave Gray had tickets to it, and then he couldn't make it.  It was a weird, very weird, very interesting. The thermodynamics. Of emotion symposium. We integrated stuff. Like there's this guy, this about he Adrian, the Jean, construct a law. Have any of you heard about that? The constructal theory. I've heard of that. Yeah. I suspect you have, right, Jerry? I'd have to look it up to remember it, but it's in my brain. Construct a law. Everything involves to facilitate flow. Right. Very good, Jerry. Very good. I think there's other guy who's like a dog trainer. And he, so he uses dogs to look at emotion and everything.  You know, I didn't know anything. Which actually was pretty fun because. So I just reserve judgment and listen, listen, listen, listen. It was a small one at that Kennedy school. Jerry, you know, the Kennedy school. That was not important to know this, but, um, Kennedy school is a beautiful bungalow school that was built to be a bungalow school. So there's no second floor. And it's just, it's really nicely, oh, it's really beautiful as a courtyard in the center. Anyways. And so it's really well preserved too. So it's fun to be in a school where you can like drink alcohol. By the way, you're just like, yeah, I don't know. There's something about that. That's true. And they have two, you know, four nice bars in that place. They do. Yeah. Yeah. The Kennedy school is one of the things that made April on me look at each other and go. Hmm. Hmm. Where else do we find things like this? We need to maybe move here. Yeah. So, um, I made it always was Friday, Saturday, Sunday and mid Sunday morning. And then I just got, I was felt sick and I went home and I've been basically for the last Sunday, Monday, Tuesday I just stayed in bed. Hmm. Um, I cannot say as yet whether I'm really like what happened in the conference. I can't say that I agreed with it. I can't say. I, and I don't know, you know, whether I'll read more of the books that they referenced. I don't even know if I'll do that. Hmm. Were there, were there any nuggets, any little shiny pieces that smelled interesting, separate from the larger sort of framing and theory and all that? Were there little pieces where you're like, Oh, that's interesting. Well, the guy that ran at this, William Wilhelm guy, uh, Larson, he was, he was very good. And, um, he was very good. And, uh, I would say that it was really great to be in a conference that actually concerned itself with human emotion and not some sort of behavioral psychology way. Hmm. Um, and, uh, I'd say it was very, as far as, uh, emotionally, uh, sensitive and, um, insightful. I do believe it was. So, uh, I'm sort of shocked that it was. Um, we did this constellation stuff where you work out family emotions. So it was, it really was expert in that. Have you, um, they do horse constellation therapy. Oh my God. Yeah. So are you guys aware of constellation therapy? So correct me if I'm wrong Bo, but as far as I know, uh, you take one person who's the client of the particular moment you're going to do it. They think about their system, like who's connected, like who are they having issues with, et cetera. So they write down the names of the different roles on different sheets of paper. And they, and they fold them up so nobody can tell what the role is when you hand them to the people in the group. And then you ask the people to just sort of hold, hold the role without seeing it and go stand in the room in some way. Stand, stand somewhere relative to the client person that this is about. And it turns out that unconsciously or through other energies, the people end up standing like facing away or directly, whatever, the people end up reflecting the dynamics that are in question. Like it's, it's like a terror reading that works or something like that. They didn't do the pieces of paper. They told the people what the role was. So that was very explicit. So they knew, okay. Yeah. But, but apparently it's uncanny how these things happen. And I've heard you can do this with horses. And in fact that horses have insane sensitivity.  And so, so you let the horses wander around in the pen relative to the client. And that, and that seems to work as well. Got me. Okay. Well, that really doesn't make any sense. All right. So, okay. Then there's this dog trainer guy who was who wrote all these books about that. And he uses dogs as what he likes about dogs is that they're very sort of pure heart is what he would call them. So he uses them as an analog to understanding human emotions. And actually I got to say the system is pretty elegant and pretty explanatory. Which I was a little shocked at.   Really? Okay. And then there's a, the guy who ran the conference is a tracker. Like a guy that goes out and tracks people down, right? You know, like because of the footsteps and stuff, that kind of tracking. So this has got to be the weirdest conference I've ever been to, ever. And it was also so very Portland. I mean, at least half the people there were Portland. Yeah. Which means that everyone is incredibly civil, sensitive, nice. It was just nice to be with people like that. Okay. What we were talking about. I'm trying to make the leap of understanding the connection with dogs. Well, since dogs have co-evolved with us. And in fact, there was this theory which was really neat. You know, Jerry, you and I were thinking about finding a civilization. And what they were thinking about was maybe dogs being our co-hunters. Maybe that's actually what enabled us to have a connection with dogs.  So they posited that dogs might have been the founding of civilization because animal husbandry, for example. Anyway, so dogs are pure heart. They're not, they don't get, their heads don't get in the way of what they're doing. So, and since they co-evolve this and they said horses aren't like that. Horses are different. So that they use that to say, to do an analog to emotion.  I don't know if I just answered your question, Todd, but frankly, I was mused and the whole time I was just sitting there okay, you know. What's interesting to me about things like family constellations is that partly they seem to work and partly they seem to talk to people in a completely different channel from the logical channel of here's what the science is telling us about climate change or whatever, right? And partly we've talked a bunch in Rex about storytelling and the role of stories and narratives and all that. And some of these experiences are ways to break through to people's understandings. And so I find that really interesting because in these settings or when you're doing an exercise where everybody's doing something weird, but they don't mind because everybody else in the room is doing the weird thing, you break through to some different place of being with each other. And Todd, I don't know if this is all useful for the work you and Marty are going to do. It's probably similar to some of the exercises that Marty would put people through. But you know getting... was really good at... you project your emotions on a group of people. You mean that no matter whether the horses of the human being to understand anything it's really useful for projecting it out into the theater of life. It's almost a little bit like you know how they discovered the Van Allen radiation belts around the earth and it turns out that like the earth throws out force way further than you think it does and when you see an image of what they discovered patterns of magnetism and interactions and then you bring in like solar winds and all that there's this drama playing out at these levels of radiation way further out in space than you think it's kind of like humans are like that and we're busy throwing out all sorts of different kinds of energy some of which we're kind of aware of because we're trying to convince somebody of something some of which we're completely oblivious to because it's family history that's stuck in us and is trying to figure out where it is and the constellation work is almost like a way of putting like iron filings and a magnet on it so you can sort of see where the energy is hey Susan we have had the most unpredictable conversation so far like who the hell knew who the hell knew we were going to get where we've gone but hey it's Rex that's what we do that's what you do so Jamai dropped in he's in São Paulo Brazil at a conference about the future of agriculture the capstone speaker and he's going to try to not doom them too much but tell them where to go except he's in the middle of the Brazilian election with Bolsonaro you know the far right guy about to be like made president and so we talked about that for a while and then Bo our mutual friend Dave Gray gave Bo a ticket to a conference he couldn't attend here in Portland called the thermodynamics of emotion and there was a bunch of interesting stuff happening there including family constellation therapy and the role of dogs and a bunch of other things that Bo was like right yeah exactly it was like the weirdest conference he's ever been to so we've just been through a bunch of that trying to figure out how does it fit where does it take us etc sounds wonderful is there anything sort of a direct see on your radar or schedule that you'd like to check in on because we were sort of doing the round of check ins well I can check in on the talk that I mentioned that I didn't do last week last time which I just got through giving and on working with bots and the role of conversation and I don't want to go through it all here but it got an extraordinary response positive to my like people were coming out of the woodwork and saying it's time to talk about these things so I find it ironic that linguistics is now back in and I said well yes actually it never should have gone out I'm not going to complain that's great that's awesome bots are poking their heads up in lots of different places yeah we're doing a we're putting together a thing I'm working with media X at Stanford to put together and you heard it here first except it hasn't been announced yet the visiting bots program sweet so yeah it's yes and yeah so I've been deep into bot world and I think I'm astonished I mean I didn't know that there were just robotics I didn't know there were 267 companies in the San Francisco Bay Area robotics companies just in the Bay Area and are you talking here robotics companies or bot and chatter bot I'm talking about chatter bots bots iron bots blue bots red bots so the whole thing and actually I think what I'm proposing in particular would actually apply to would be an interesting architecture conversational architecture for our interactions with with other types of AI beings and avatars and also AI assistants have you read any Ian Banks why do I know that name he's a science fiction author who invents it's the culture series and I read only one of them I think the first of the culture series novels and apparently as you keep going deeper it gets more and more interesting and a lot of this is about spacecraft he gives spacecraft really funky names and then creates these pots but there's like an intelligence in the culture that inhabits these vessels and that can hide itself and that does a bunch of different things and just it's an interesting thought exercise and what happens when machines get really intelligent so it might help you play with some of the bot futures ideas yes Ian Banks yep Ian Banks I'll put them in the chat I keep staying away from science fiction because it's a whole world I think tasting it every now and then really helps I got into it when I was in eighth grade it's about the time people do sort of right after you've done volcanoes and dinosaurs here here's the culture series anyone else with thoughts on bots well I think that we need to think about collaborating with them well so I've had this what I'm about to say has shown up in conversation three or four times in the last couple of days it sort of goes through explaining AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero and then talking about freestyle chess so AlphaGo is the Google's go playing game that was trained on historic go games the way you train neural networks okay fine and it beats LeasyDoll and we sort of watched that happen AlphaGo Zero wasn't given any historic games it was only given the rules of go which are very simple until go play yourself for a while until you get good at this and in 48 hours AlphaGo Zero was better than AlphaGo 5, 6 days it got better than everything and everyone and go scholars are studying the moves that it began to invent so it managed to break through some ceiling of capacity of even what we thought go moves should be like could be like we're done because if you know go there's a whole culture of what move is probably going to get played next and in fact in I recommend watching the documentary AlphaGo it's on Netflix and they're in game two move 37 is totally counterintuitive and this doesn't show up in the documentary but I heard that the guy who is sort of playing the stones for AlphaGo at first is about to put his stone down where he thinks that AlphaGo is going to play and it's like no no it's in a different place and that was kind of creativity and innovation on AlphaGo side then after Kasparov loses to Deep Blue years ago he in a whole bunch of others go like you know what we're going to go deep into this tech thing so they invent something that's called freestyle chess that has a bunch of other names as well but basically you form up teams and you're allowed to use any technology you want and as many humans as you want and those teams compete in a game of chess and it turns out that humans matched with software are better than just software yeah well there's another book out I don't know if you keep up I don't always HBR I mean Harvard Business School Press a couple guys now called humans and plus with a plus sign machines which I just read this week and it's of course right in the space where I'm thinking but I'm thinking that one reason why it might work so if I'm right tell me if I'm taking the right lesson here so I mean there's sort of basically there's the machine learning of learning to play go and there's the rule based version of playing go and we tend to think that the rule based stuff is sort of waning and that machine learning is everything now I don't know that's not the lesson I'm I got but is that true so interesting so AlphaGo Zero is still machine learning neural network style it's just that it wasn't fed the data of a whole bunch of historic games it created its own history by playing itself but the learning was still done it was not a rule based system oh it built the rules yes so it basically absorbed how to play go by playing go against itself as opposed to what you and I know as expert systems and you know the old fashioned AI where you actually build you know explicit rules etc so it was not it's not one of those at all okay so what might my what I'd like to know I may I will go watch it and see if I can learn anything but is whether or not I think the thing about conversation that I was trying to make is that the structure of the conversation it's not like and it's not like grammar rules it's like it emerges out of the interaction between and among people and it's the structure of the interaction that I'm interested in and how that emerges over time and what kinds of building blocks we have many of which are meta reflexive on the interaction right so so I can see that how how how that could work I mean it must be sensitive to the emergent structure out of the interaction one question I would do I would do a quick Google search to see if anybody is doing research using TensorFlow which is Google's open source neural network engine and bots like if somebody's crossed those two things together like they're probably doing something interesting and you had me thinking partly because I'm stimulated by AlphaGo Zero like is it possible that bots could find a simpler way to answer questions that humans pose to them and could find shortcuts to establishing trust with humans if they could understand that those might be the goals of an interaction might the bots find their way to very different ways of establishing trust and solving problems you know that's um yeah I mean I think of course I think everything's emergent everything is emergent but you know it's interesting to look at the trust as an outcome and I think that there has been a sensitivity I think some of this happens because it doesn't work in um in um call center calls there people have been trained differently because it didn't work very well people got angry now I just get angry at the bot um yes I think I think I think it is this sort of back and forth in the timing of it not exact but you know what I mean there's a signal and you respond to the signal mm-hmm yes I think so I mean tensor flow and bots yeah it kind of oscillates over time yeah yeah and also we have you know we have human history with some of this technology from we used to use bank tellers to go withdraw and deposit money and cash checks and all that kind of stuff and then money walls you know ATMs took over uh and then you know when you call who answers and how does that work also the call center was invaded by technology in hundreds of different ways that are super interesting we've got a couple of recs members who are really big on that uh be Greg and Kelly who really understand that side of it I think I think actually I wish they were on this call because um this that's territory they would be really interested in have you talked with them this is the consortium for service innovation folks on in recs oh yes not for a while not deeply but I keep thinking I should go back you know pink Kelly and say hi or something and um I think there's a super interesting conversation for you to have with that group uh because they must be looking at bots and I think the perspective you're bringing into the whole thing is is unique I think that I think the they would they would I mean it's only been you know how you know these things and then they only then you then they occurred to you as if you didn't know them yeah um and so one of those is thinking that um since I'm a big believer in the co-creation of value in use that um conversations are the place where a lot of value is created and so they would they would certainly have insight and then they wouldn't anyway contextual chatbots with tensor flow uh yeah it's it's all it's all over there there's a chatbot magazine um fascinating yeah exactly yeah I mean now while I was asked today what was I thinking about this for just for human machine interaction and I said no I think I think if if we're successful in making the digital work more visible more transparent uh in virtue of interacting with them differently and they're being differently architected um then then I think we have another route to holding ourselves accountable and our machines accountable and so if the same principles can apply if the conversational architecture could be used in in tensor flow and chatbots that would be interesting um I don't see anything in the in the quick google search I'll have to look again that was just sort of a stab in the dark I don't know I don't know of anything like that no but that's that's that's really useful because that's going to open up the whole question and oh god so I started my whole my whole talk today with a picture of rabbit a place that said warning rabbit holes uh huh did you use like a cover of watershed down no I should have I just went and borrowed a borrowed a picture okay of uh uh yeah and then you know then a rabbit going down a hole and then a rabbit coming out of a hole and all of that then it was interesting that the guy who was the CEO of cognizant said afterwards he said I can't you know this is just I can't tell you how timely this is he said I've been trying to hire linguists and I can't find them wow he said I could die or a hundred of them he said because it's the interaction you could become the linguist employment office you could just like connect up to the ones you know and say dudes hello you know why I have it I don't have it I'm not part of the linguists community any longer um we should work our networks and and cross over into some group of linguists who are like oh we love language but nobody wants to hire us we know how to do this the people who know how to do this are there's a bunch of them in England mm-hmm because they were chomsky eyed there used to be a bunch of people who did like this kind of stuff at the University of Waterloo um I don't know if that still exists but well there are also the there's all of the sociology ethnomethodology work and conversation analysis mm-hmm which also started in the 60s everything started in the 60s we're just getting old now and it's coming back yeah partly what you're saying makes me think of how much transparency and how much data is useful or needed and I'll give you two extremes one extreme is I just heard about an app that I installed on my iPad but I haven't used yet the app is called moody it basically needs a 10 second sample of your voice of you saying something and it will feedback what your emotions are and a little bit about your personality profile oh no yes 10 seconds 10 second clip of audio um and I have no idea how accurate or whatever I think it's I have no idea whether I think this personality research and all of that stuff is I totally agree and I'm positing moody as one extreme here yes right and the other extreme is I publish my brain openly online you can infer a whole ton about me and my beliefs and what I think because it's all right there now there's no API to the brain nobody's done this but imagine as a thought experiment that I was interacting with a bot that had full access to published brain might it find ways well it could probably easily find ways of manipulating what I think by understanding what I value and all that but might it actually find sort of honest, truthful trustworthy ways of giving me complete shortcuts to things that I need solved might my publishing a lot about how I think and what I believe be very useful in problem solving or whatever it is we're describing here because I've uploaded more of me than most people have yes I was at Fujitsu's Expo yesterday of all things and there was one guy there who had written an API mashup tool which of course maybe you could use that to mash up your brain definitely sorry I'm monopolizing you anybody else with thoughts on bots? well one thing that there's the whole idea of mental models and I know that Demis, Hassan is in the deep mind group I've been doing stuff just with their TensorFlow now based technologies and so on and that also has a lot to do with the question of modeling a person so a bot would want to model you in order to do the kind of stuff you're talking about Jerry like make Jerry plus plus be bot assisted in terms of using his brain and developing a model derived from that and then of course there's a model for self-awareness which is also kind of interesting in terms of how the mental model stuff could you use that though to infer the mental model that the bot has well that's it oh that's what they're doing the question is would that develop more self-awareness for the bot because when the bot has some model of itself as well as some model of you and because you know that's how conversations happen you know you're talking developing my model maybe I might feedback you then also you know I'm positioning myself relative to you based on my model of what you're I thought about that work for years I didn't like it because it wasn't social enough in its assumptions which part well the models that got built that were the representations of the models that got done was sort of very scientific and very very it was recognized that the model the mental model was very partial but not as partial as it actually is I think in because you can go into a conversation and go for so long without understanding each other and say even on simple things like pronoun reference you know you you think that the he or the she was referring to was used to refer to particular individual and you I heard that I just did this this morning I was saying something about and I thought they were talking about me so silly and they were talking about somebody else and I thought well that's not true of me that's not you know I was like and I said that's not who they were talking about because you had a model of yourself well yeah but I think those models are partial I think they take the context to be filled out to be filled out it's one of the reasons that we can that language in particular for instance is very efficient is that that things can be used to refer to many different things and many different contexts that's what makes it work but downside is there's not a one-to-one match so I was so sometimes the models to me were were excessively complete I mean they were often used for you know things like you know how does electricity really work I still need to know how that works I'm sure I don't have the right one because I just tried to program my my mate too which is controlling the automatic turn on the generator and you can't get it right oh no we were up in Bellingham recently after a trip to Seattle and there's an electricity museum in Bellingham which is very very good like I was shocked and there was a whole hahaha didn't realize I said that and they had a whole area with early radios and TVs and like lots of you know lots of sets lots of stuff but then there was a lot of background they went right back to you know the early flag semaphore systems and signaling and then right on through they also had a demo area with some Tesla coils and kind of explanations of what's happening and really really nice well done yeah yeah well yes electricity the models we have the mental models that we have of electricity are seldom true one that I was favorite was a German guy who was doing this for early days at IRL and he'd figured out that you know a good metaphor for amperage was on a bicycle chain that there's it's not electricity but it needs to be you know it's pulled or pushed it's pulled by the thing you plug in by the amount of amperage which is the amount of power that it's pushing and he began to start to get a different model of what's going on a different feel for it I'm forgetting who it was somebody somebody famous used to think of everything in terms of gears and cogs and that was that was kind of his mental model process for a lot of things but it gave him a lot of explanatory power and I'm wondering what were Nikola Tesla's mental models because Tesla had a better intuitive grasp of electricity and radiation and all these the electromagnetic spectrum than pretty much any modern human has I think he understood it more deeply than most people do today I don't know that he ever articulated them etc but for example he invents out of whole cloth the electrical grid as we use it today everything from power stations to high voltage transmission to the substations to the plug in the wall he invents that and pretty much it works out of the shoots the way he designs it it's sort of like Mozart composing whole symphonies first pass I blame mental models for his ability to do that he somehow got somewhere where he could picture well or faithfully what was actually happening behind the scenes a lot of what we're talking about with stories and narratives is also this mental model stuff and there's people like Shane Parish at Farnham Street and Black Rock Valio and a bunch of others who are busy working their way through kind of more analytic mental models but they're making big collections of mental models which I'm collecting over in my brain I put a link a little earlier here to useful frameworks but a lot of those mental models are good for statistical mail kind of things and they're not good for social intuitive kind of things yeah yeah well yeah that's because our mental models of how those things work aren't sufficiently human or social I would say we know a lot about being human now but we don't know as much about being social yeah we know it but we don't behave as if we know it all too true any any other thoughts on oh well one more thought on that oh please the idea that you put something out there to presumably I mean Tesla did lots of drawings and writing and all kinds of things he externalized what he was thinking or understanding and often you put it out there and you go well that's not what I meant and then you draw something else and you revise it and so on and so forth but it was also what was interesting at the early days of IRL was we had a lot of attention to to teaching math and science which you know and the mental models and the sort of mind bugs that people had as John C. Brown would refer to him as and all of that trying to understand how to do that but someone who was in the school of education down at Irvine wrote a dissertation on how it is that people saw those story problems which mathematical story problems those have been around since Egyptian times I mean we've been trying to figure out how to get people to do this forever so and but what he studied people who were professionals who used a lot of math and there were about four strategies that people used one was using those formulas that were taught one was which very few people did but the people who the people who got the most right answers of the people who drew pictures my grandmothers at this station and the trains over here and the blah blah you know but they had to build the context for the story so a lot of what's going on also not just the social interaction stuff but a lot of it is we indexed to the context very thickly and the more we do that the less transferable knowledge is so for a while I had this well knowledge idea was that if you get corn from native corn seeds and you try to plant them here they're not going to grow and so what happens when you tame it is that you get to know more and more about the context and what context it's in and then we elaborately construct a field and elaborately construct all the amount of water it needs and the fertilizer it needs and the sunshine it needs and everything else it's seed to that particular context and Lord knows we've been able to produce great deal more food but I think that's one of the things that we fail to understand is how much we need to externalize the context how much we're depending on the context that our understanding is even when we're not having a conversation and even when we're not mentally having a conversation with ourselves but we're putting something out there writing, art you know that's how design happens you put something out here oh my god no no no no the wrong color of paint and it would be lovely if we could elaborate elaborate on these scaffolds that help us think and externalize and converse if we had more variety and more memory of them I'll settle for just awareness that that's how it works but yes there are many many many ways and all of those disciplines they have ways of doing it that's true Bo, Mark, any thoughts on this? we've gone over the hour so I figure we should wrap the call pretty soon but does this spark anything for you guys? well I think this notion of ourselves being anticipatory systems so it was like that whole question of how do I know what I'm going to say before I say it and how do I know that I didn't quite say this right I didn't quite so I have some tacit model in some vague sense of what I want to say and then I go for it and so in terms of bots I think what we want is similar kind of anticipatory you're using most of context what context am I in, what is important for me today and therefore what are the important bits and pieces for someone go ahead I was just going to say yes, yes and and I think I'm getting kind of annoyed with all the attention that gets paid to emotion and how much that has to do with everything I mean certainly we have emotions and we have emotion and that's relevant but what you're just replying to is even more important it's like I don't anticipate what a chatbot is going to say and it's not just because I don't know the answer to the question that I'm asking I just have no model of how it's going to get there isn't part of a chatbot's design to emulate human discourse and therefore it's going to greet you first and then it's going to repeat what you said last and then isn't there a predictable rhythm to that isn't that part of the design from the earliest chatbots some of them because they're trying to emulate the sort of the model that they're trying to emulate is not how it actually works as well there's a discharge between what they think is happening and what's actually happening because we try to make it all neat and clean things aren't quite that clean I remember going out and trying to fix the fence out here and I had to have two vise grips and a wrench and everything else and I was in tears because I couldn't make it work and so I went back to you know back to Brian and I said Brian I just can't do this and he came out he had the same thing the vise grips fell off you know he couldn't get the wrench to stick in this position that he wanted it to stick in and he just kept going until he got it to work and I said oh I see yeah yes he's good no it's not good I mean look my books are all organized you know by color you could be organized by color it looks really people do it yeah there was a bookstore in San Francisco that used to organize their books by color it was really pretty it is hard to find unless you know what color you're looking for but a lot of people do know the color of the title that they're looking for yes I know most of the colors of the books tell me a book I'll tell you what color it is kind of funny isn't it the alternate index method mental energy except that I think it's automatic you're taking a snapshot of the context exactly any closing thoughts on anybody from anybody on what we've covered whether it's Bolsonaro and Brazil about to take Brazil down the tubes or anything else you're cool well thank you very much this has been a completely interesting check-in I really appreciate it Susan thanks for joining us fresh from your talk I think it all worked really well thanks everyone worked out just fine


In GRISP Seam 1, which is all about genetic resources, conservation, characterization, and their increasing utilization for what precise breeding of new rice varieties, one of our major new efforts has been to initialize what we may call a massive global gene discovery effort. So scientists from all over the world will be working now on sequencing the genomes of several thousands of rice accessions, rice varieties, traditional varieties, modern varieties, hybrids from all over the world. And that will be done in collaboration particularly with institutions in China, but also other institutions within the GRISP network. And the activities have started, it will lead to a huge amount of new genetic information becoming available very soon to geneticists, rice breeders worldwide. So I think an undertaking like this would have been very difficult without GRISP and we're very happy that the first activities have been started in 2011.


Today, 50% of the world's population is under 30, approximately, and many of them face challenges unlike before any generation before has ever faced. And one of the key things that made it even more difficult is the advent of the pandemic. And so during the pandemic, one of the few silver linings that we see is that it made using digital technology much more inherently accustomed to within the system. So for example, education, with an employment, you see many students learning online as opposed to learning just only offline or through physical means and basis. Though one of the key things that we have discussed today during the ITU Summit and really kept it on the anchors for youth development is how can we utilize digital technology in a way that actually doesn't affect young people's development also negatively because they're also dangerous. And so one of the best ways for young people today to really jump the stages and jump through the challenges that the pandemic has presented themselves with is through digital technology. And this is an amazing platform for that. As a board member myself and the Generation Connected Visionaries Board and as a Saudi, we see a lot of collaboration because when we're talking about Saudi youth in general, about 65% to about 70% of the population is below the age of 35. That's a lot of young people. And we share many of the challenges as well as the opportunities that could be coming in through digital inclusion and through digital connectivity. So there's a lot of opportunities to connect. There is also a lot of initiatives currently within Saudi Arabia that focus on youth. One of the main ones is the MISC Global Forum which is the Crown Princess Foundation's main initiative to engage global youth in bettering their future. And there is an event happening in November where we're really engaging with young people from all over the world. So of course the Generation Connected Board members are invited as well as people here from ITU. So I work at the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation MISC which is a foundation that works on enabling and empowering young people in Saudi Arabia but also beyond. Today, for example, we talked about the Global Youth Index, a piece of research that we've done with more than 30,000 young people from 30 countries around the world. This research told us a lot about what young people are facing during COVID-19, some of the challenges. And today during our session, we really brought young people together to look at some of the issues and how we can as global citizens look at solutions together. And as a young person myself, we really advocate for change and the betterment of all young people across all the different issues to make sure that we get to the future that we need. My first impression of the Generation Connect Global Youth Summit is the energy. It's amazing. Everyone here is ambitious, they're excited, they're finally getting to speak, to represent themselves, to ignite their voice. And I'm just so pretty excited to be here among amazing individuals and get to learn and get to experience this. I'm so excited after attending the Generation Connect Summit. We had several dialogues with people from around the world, from more than 150 countries. And we have discussed how we can contribute to some critical global issues like security, education, healthcare and climate change.


Okay, hi, I'm Johan van Hoenen, I'm a professor in geodynamics in Durham, at the University of Durham in the UK. Okay, so my research involves things like subduction zones and plate-mental interaction. So one of the key questions in my field, I think, is when and how did plate tectonic start and how did it evolve over time. So this topic has become more popular over the last decades, but I think the open question still remains and the more we learn about it, the more interesting it becomes actually. And another nice aspect of that particular question is that there is so few information known about the early Earth that it automatically becomes very multidisciplinary to grab as much information as you can. Which I really like. I've been going to EGU since the 1990s when it was still called, what was it, EGS in EG, so, and I've been going since then most of the years, I might have missed a few ones, but I guess I've been to EGU around 20 times or so. Well, actually, I do also do remember the first time I went to Vienna, yeah, huge conference centre and I was quite impressed with the whole venue. Yes, it was actually years ago, a long time ago, I attended, well, I wanted to attend one of the Euro sessions in geodynamics, but I went to a big room and it completely filled up. And when it all started, I realised I was actually in the wrong room. And I was, it was a long metal talk from a completely different division. I didn't dare to leave really because I thought it was rude, so I stayed for the whole talk, even though I had no idea what it was about, I think it was bio-geoscience. Yeah, since then I try to make sure that I'm in the right room. Well, the main goal, I guess, is and should be that the Geodynamics Division runs smoothly, as it has in the past, and that will be my main goal. So, and I would like to see if I can advertise Geodynamics more and integrate it with other disciplines, and bring Geodynamicists around the world together in the framework of EGU. One of the problems with Geodynamics might be that there is generally a lack of funding for blue skies research, and that probably includes Geodynamics, so at least that's true in many countries, and even though Geodynamics doesn't always lead to new energy sources or saving lives, I think indirectly it really underpins this research. For example, finding mineral exploration or geohesits through pioneering modelling work that often starts in Geodynamics. I know that not everybody is a fan of online conferences, but I hope that after COVID, I hope that it becomes more normal to go to conferences virtually, and I think we can all help to reduce some travelling. And therefore I think EGM should remain a hybrid conference in the future, where you can attend it both from home and in person.


With COVID-19, a fast-moving and global health crisis has collided with many slower and more entrenched political, social and economic crises around the world. And those multiple underlying fractures which have made us more vulnerable to this virus and create entry points for its harms result primarily from political processes that exclude people's voices and gaps in human rights protection. I see important opportunities for us to assist states to devise human rights-based actions that can de-escalate tensions, support sustainable development and preserve people's well-being even at this challenging time. Humanity has faced many crises. I'm convinced that together we can weather the current challenges and that our societies can emerge better able to prevent injustice. It is time to rise onto the occasion.


My name's Tony Kirk. I've been in the Army for 19 years. I joined the Army because when I was a kid I wanted to be GI Joe. When I thought I made the games I was ecstatic. It's been my goal for years. So usually a workout will be like four different events. Like you saw me do one event and now you're seeing me do another event. You know as soon as you get that goal it's like what's next. And I mean now my goal is the win. You know I'm coming here to win the games. I'm not coming here to take second place. I'm not coming to take third place. Like you know we put in the work. You know I know it's possible. You know so we're going to win. We're going for everything. When I take a full rest day I feel like it hurts more. You know like the next day. Like I feel like I lose two training days when I take a rest day. Perseverance is a great event. And you know and the you know the grade never stops.