Corey Malone coming on the show. That's right. Hi, Corey. How are you doing? Thanks for coming on the program Thanks for inviting me this podcast first podcast ever for you ever. Hell. Yeah, so this is Boom pop in the cherry pop in the podcast Podcast sherry. I love it. Yeah, especially because it's a podcast so focused on the nature of reality And that's what you so dearly care about. So it makes sense, of course Yeah, and we've been connecting for past couple days on that subject And it's been very flowy and natural. Yeah, for sure. Yeah Yeah, and we're of course still at the shift into permanent alignment retreat of Benton Moussaro's here in Costa Rica and we are Vibing at a really strong level between us and between several of the other attendees around the nature the true nature this abiding as Which many people recognize as just Awareness which is again juxtaposed with the transient clouds and thoughts and perceptions and sensations So most people get to that level of at least being awareness and then even further beyond that is making that Impersonal making that eternal making that shared among us That is infinitely colored by all of these worlds that we create and then recognizing even the source Realization the void the infinite realization. Yes, and that we've been vibing on that So let's play some tennis and then also I'll ask Corey about some of his Satori as well Which has been really exciting to go back and forth on so how has it been like for you? Recognizing the impersonal witnessing so well, I guess even be getting into some of the Satori here as well How has it been like for you getting into that juxtaposition between those transient clouds and the awareness and then making that Impersonal and then recognizing that source void infinite. Yeah, absolutely great awesome question For me the easiest thing was kind of how Bentinia says focus on awareness that has been the easiest thing Just become aware and then at first when you first start it's it's you don't really Grasp it. You don't really get it. It doesn't really land, but you keep going to keep okay awareness. Oh, I am aware. I'm aware Somehow I'm aware.  Yes So for me that awareness of awareness gives you that pushback that view that broad broader spectrum perfect of Of that seeing the clouds and abiding as a awareness itself. Yes. Yeah So that helped me when when did you become aware of awareness? When was that for you? When was that transition for you? It happened in kind of Baby steps. Yes. It I'm not really the type to sit down and meditate I'm more of an active meditator. Totally go out for a long walk Just sit here and contemplate. Yeah, so it'll be just like a moment aware of awareness. Oh Yeah, oh cool. That was cool. So it's not like I'm aware of awareness and I'm there permanently. No, it's a lot of those I mean I can access it now. Yes. Yes But it's just a lot of those doing it for a second for a second for a second. Yeah, so maybe about two years ago is when I was like oh Because it's so liberating and you feel your whole body relaxed And you feel your experience just relax What about you? So great. So that was about two years ago or so. I would say about two years We have to share this right now. Look at this. Oh My gosh, this is so cute. We have some friends. Wow. Maybe they'll speak on Maybe we'll speak on abiding as a Wow, look at these guys. Maybe they are right now Costa Rica little monkeys. Look at them. Look at us Wow Wow, that's so so so cool. That's so cool. I Love that scene. That's so great We got to share that yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, that's almost like perfect It was perfect. Yeah picture picturesque so Okay, so about two years ago or so for me. Yeah for you and for me It's probably about four months ago or so. Okay. Yeah about four months ago and And very similar to what you described very very similar and that's basically the core of The mystic traditions is to become aware of awareness itself. Okay, and I really like the Going back. That's something that also roomy and so many others have talked about was kind of the sinking back and back and back More and more and more and then you really gain that meta level perspective And then all these analogies like the sky and then the clouds appear and disappear a chance. It's like so easy It's easy. It's childlike in simplicity. Yes, and then you just recognize that more and more in When you look up at the sky and then you see the clouds moving and you recognize that that's exactly so it's super important That's why Douglas Hofstetter called Analogy the core of cognition. So it's the core of cognition It's not just some little area of cognition. It's literally the core That's why when we use this sky and clouds or the ocean and the waves analogies The reason why we use them is because it's the core of cognition. It's what makes it That here's enlightenment and then here's the sky and the clouds slash the ocean and the waves We draw the comparison between the two Because it's the core of cognition. Mm-hmm. Yeah, right So it's already there as a foundation. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. It's as above so below mirrored everywhere in Existing yes, there you go. Awesome. We as the creators make the as above so below It's like the fractal kaleidoscopic creativeness of our like that. Yeah Of what we made. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I like those words put together, too. That's cool. Yeah, actually one of them Yeah, and one of them actually came from mr. JB Jordan Bates who just walked in he Because what this is in many ways is this is that fractal kaleidoscopic, mr. JB You want to join it come come join it and say hello say what up? Yeah, say what up? What's up, everybody?  We just we we actually showed as monkeys We showed them the monkeys we showed them these in the video already We were already celebratory Yeah, Jordan in our last episode. She has a probably seen mentioned Kaleidoscopic right and that's very much what this shirt is pointing to as well the kaleidoscopic fractal Ness the yeah, yeah, and and so that's what like we Share here is that everything we see is just like the seer itself just like the source itself It's all that same patterned right self-similarity. It's just a direct reflection. It's a direct reflection right now right here Absolutely, or you can even go with the sky here and these exactly right here exactly. Yep Yep, and that's this is exactly what we shared on the show with Jordan just a bit ago. Yeah, we share this similar visualization so it's Okay, so let's keep let's keep playing with so Now you you mentioned how as you get into the aware of awareness about two years ago Does it feel like then you're extending the amount of time that you're in that state during the day? Yes, absolutely, and then it you realize more timelessness as well. Yes, you don't really feel that Okay, it's two o'clock now. It's three o'clock. You don't feel that One after another anymore It's less cause and effect. It's more now perfect So which is really cool perfect once you experience it. It makes life fun for me. It makes life beautiful It's a different experience, but it is experiential Yeah, before you experience it it can be conceptual. It really won't make sense. Yep. Yep It sounds kind of crazy whoo, whatever And it has everything contained within it has healing properties You become more of yourself you become more of service. Yes, you are able to flow You're able to naturally do what you need to do and do your passion. So It's uh, it's it's there's no words really I love how you indicate that as you Abide more in the timeless presence the timeless being of pure bare empty awareness itself that has shared an eternal among us That time disappears along with ego time disappears. Yeah, those two things are the two that disappear So that's the egoic contracted separate entity that needs to seek happiness from Substances and experiences and other selves. Yes, that kind of thing disappears. It dissolves absolutely And then also time dissolves and when time dissolves you really recognize that timeless presence and being and awareness That's shared in eternal and then you abide as that more and more and the realization sets in more and more the true timelessness Sets in more and more. Yeah, absolutely. So you felt timelessness as well. Yes. Yeah, awesome Yeah, especially in these last couple of months abiding more. Yes is the key really Abiding so for those that are not yet really at this abiding as source or void or infinity to abide at least as awareness itself Start there start there start just being aware of something Aware of this water here where they were talking. That's good. It helps just to be aware of something and that's really that's mindfulness There you go. Yeah, so mindfulness is we take an object We have these you know these sunglasses here and we focus or on Corey's shirt his pink shirt here We're on this fracture or whatever and we take an object and we just practice and this is what's taught in there about a Buddhist and Mahayana Buddhism a lot of the Buddhist practices, especially in the mystic traditions even across the Abrahamics basically what is taught is is that to become aware of respiration Mmm, and then as you become aware of respiration You also become aware of concentration at the same time because as soon as your attention goes away from the respiration from the breath Or from the object right when you're looking at somebody else in the eyes and If the moment that you follow one of the clouds of thought to oh, I have to go to this important thing later today or whatever You lose eye contact with them You lose your focus on them the concentration and you can tell energetically that the conversational energy Decreases because you're not as present there absolutely And so that's why they use the breath because the breath is the tool that's always with you Right, and if you have to you can use an object like this, but really the breath is the main key And so as we get more accustomed to the breath what happens is we become more accustomed to Concentration and when we become more constant to concentration That's when we can recognize the difference between the thoughts and perceptions that are like the clouds that appear and disappear Versus the awareness of the consciousness the witnessing in which they happen So those are like the frames the frames absolutely movie that go by right and to be the one that's witnessing the frames of the movie as They go by and then you abide as the witnessing and that's a great first step. It is it is it's the first step mindfulness is wonderful Get familiar with that but don't stay there exactly don't stay there because it will only take you so far And what you really want is to be that aware of awareness. That's the easiest way for me to put it Yes, so it's almost like when I started the aware of awareness practice I would it would help to visualize like almost here's awareness and then I'm aware of this Like my mind would kind of place something on top of something so I'm aware of that so whatever works for you Yes, you know whatever work to help you hone in to that aware of awareness. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, and Ram Dass is I am loving awareness has been something also really powerful and he and East Forest made a Musical collab about that as well. I am loving awareness and with the great music it's good to Leverage that also to abide in a sense. It's almost as though we can use Music Which Alan Watts and so many others have said is very much like the nature of reality is like the endless music that is played Yes, and so to recognize and David Hawkins has talked about it as you're and we talked about this yesterday The surfing on the crest of every wave Yeah, I want to surf on the crest of every wave and not Fighting against the waves or like when you see the the movie film that comes and then you fight against the movie film You're like I want a different Or like I don't fuck that cloud. I want a different cloud. It's not the shape. I like But going back to that which will relate is how you said the ego kind of dissipates Yes, when you practice or abide in that aware of awareness, which is Which is where that comes from. I don't like that cloud. I don't like that thought. I don't like what I just saw I don't like where my life is going. Okay. No It's going perfectly if you can swim with that if you could kind of smooth that out a little bit It's gonna take a little time. Maybe maybe not depends on what's going on But smooth that out surf a little bit go with the flow don't swim upstream. Yeah You're already the oceanicness that is endlessly exploring and yet there's also This is the whole perfection Perfecting thing that I think is gonna be really crucial as We move forward, which is really what the Taijit do in Where you have the monist Perfection and then the yin yang inside of it, which is the perfecting because here's the thing Because you and I both know this five years ago, right? When we weren't aware of awareness when we weren't abiding a source infinity void when we weren't doing that What were we? We were the egoic separate contracted energy. Yes, okay So although that was perfect because it was going with the flow It was also perfecting in the sense of the purification of the diamond Becoming less egoic and less dirty and becoming more enlightened. Yes Absolutely eggs. And so that's the core here is that as you also You become at peace with the clouds or with the waves then or with them Images that appear on the movie screen, but yet you also as the witness recognize that there is a constant bifurcations that are happening in your trajectory and that if you abide more as Hey, I'm gonna take that recommendation from, you know, Corey and Atlas talking about Ram Dass or Alan Watts or Bantino or whoever and I'm gonna pick up be here now by Ram Dass and I'm gonna read that. Yes, right? And so now see you see that bifurcating moment where it's like am I gonna be lazy Lethargic and not really care too much because then there's just gonna be another sledgehammer that comes You know that oh, yeah, because suffering is the drill sergeant or will you take it, right? And then that's those bifurcations to perfect the diamond. Yes, yeah Absolutely, that's beautiful because it will it will kick you punch you slap you into alignment Depending on how far away You're not wanting to to go with the flow So that's really that's really beautiful another thing that helped me as well is The follow the breadcrumb trail of excitement. Yeah, I heard that from Bashar. Yes a while ago And I've always loved that because that's also your flow totally so if you can do that if you can go, okay Well Somebody invited me to go out tonight What feels true not? What do I want to do what feels like? Okay, cool or that sounds fun or something exciting kid like do that if it's stay home do that Because it'll help you like get used to that flow You know so maybe that'll help you get used to that aware of awareness as well Yes, and that's something that I like to tell people as well because it's a cool way to live too Yeah, you know because it's your higher self going okay Go that way do this take that sip of water do that do this meet this person exactly go with the flow And you get used to it and it's like a muscle and it becomes pretty natural Yes, so and Joseph Campbell talks about it like following your bliss. Yes, and then also the Bantino talks about it. Like there's nothing more true about you than the seeking impulse That's like he calls it the absolute GPS callback Right and and that's what's taught in the parable of the Portugal Sun Yeah, the Sun ventures outwards seeking peace and happiness in Maya in the illusion Yeah, trying to extract it and then it turns around because it hits a breaking point with suffering to investigate consciousness or awareness itself that Absolute GPS callback and so all of these the bread come trail that is that that is that is that and so they're all all these different Teachings are just different ways Different pointings different faces of the same mountain different paths to the one end as Alan Watts as many paths one end Yes, yes, that is so cool and that's why another reason why that's a beneficial way of Following your resonance is because everyone has a different path that we talked about this last night as well Or yesterday the unique style of fine. Yes at lunch. We talked about it What that I will Jude the unity of all finding everyone Corey's gonna have his own unique style of Finding with his own paths his own books his own Meditations his own aphorisms his own teachers and then I have my own you have your own etc Exactly, and I love the all your terminology using for all these mystic Terminology because I am not very familiar with that It's something that may spark an interest in me at some point But it just goes to show that you can get to the same point without you don't need to learn the history You don't need to learn that just follow what feels right and that teacher will pop up for you No matter if it's if it looks that way or that way. Yep, so Okay, so now let's talk about yeah as you've become more and more used to Abiding in awareness itself then you recognize that even that is Impersonal so that our awareness is shared the awareness of all eight billion units on the planet is shared It's the same observation that's happening through all eight billion perspectives. Yes, okay And then how has that process been like in your day-to-day right here? You are sitting here with me. Mm-hmm. You're abiding as the observation happening through both of us simultaneous, yeah, okay, absolutely cool Yeah You just abide in that awareness of awareness and you become more present Yes to the moment. Yeah, you don't have to practice presence Unless that works, but you become more present and Then like we talked about earlier that timelessness you feel that you experience that and at the same time You experience oneness. Yes. Yes, so right now. I'm looking at you. Yeah, but I feel one that's right It's not even person-to-person one is it's a It's just it's one it's a one non physical spiritual existence Yeah, a non physical spiritual existence a one God self, right? Yeah operating as one. Yeah, that's one. Yeah Yeah, so I'm okay, so I want interested a little bit on your awareness of awareness. Yes, so four months ago. Yes, is your approach more meditative sit down and meditate Read what it what is your approach to read or or? Yeah, so or is it moment-to-moment like? Yeah, Sonia and I were actually talking about this today as well. So She asked about my Satori I asked her is about I asked about hers yesterday and Probably the two core contributions to Satori for me We're over the last five years picking up meditation. So specifically like Theravada Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism specifically like Zogchen specifically the Other mindfulness and meditation practices that basically what they do is what we talked about earlier, which is that you become aware of Respiration and then you basically over and over again like you're at a gym doing repetitions or you're practicing shooting three pointers Or you're practicing playing the violin what you do is you train the monkey mind to stop Running rampantly with clouds and instead you become aware of the witnessing of those clouds, right? So that was the first key thing is sitting for these 10 straight days over and over again to practice that and then the second key thing So the first keywords meditation and the second keyword is polymathy being a polymath, which means having learned much across many disciplines So when you study science and you study entrepreneurship and you study spirituality across all the mystic traditions all this type of stuff What you end up doing is you build up a really robust lattice work That then assists you in seeing the same mountains faces and paths to the one end So you see all those different paths And so they're all like concepts in the lattice work science entrepreneurship spirituality merged together and then they all interplay on this So then that led up to the piercing of the veil is veil, which was I Yeah, I cried and went into the fetal position for like 15 minutes once I realized the root the It was what I thought would you that really landed it for me it basically took me away from Being focused on what was happening externally and I became permanently focused on awareness And then I recognized that everybody shares that awareness But and then everybody has their own unique finding and then right when that hit that clicked as I was reading through what I thought would you specifically William Chittick's explanation of it from the Ibn Arabi Society and I Cried I wanted the fetal position for like 15 minutes because I finally as the roomie quote goes you go from room to room looking for the Diamond that's already around your neck And I didn't know exactly it's so good and I didn't know what he meant by it You would read the quote like a dozen times and over a couple years And you'd never you'd never get it and then I finally got it and I said the guys go and so he's go greatest of all time for That quote and beyond But that was basically it and then since then it's also been abiding let's actually talk about this now abiding as Infinity source void and so for you what has been the recognition for you as even The source realization or infinity or void realization that the first agent or the first Attribute of that is awareness. Yes. Yeah, so how has that been for you? To recognize the awareness to begin with to recognize that even awareness is an attribute or an agent the first go even So you get familiar with that aware of awareness and that pushes you back you see the clouds you see your thoughts you see your emotions all this stuff But there's there's more you can keep going I would have to relate it to Very much relate with Bentinia's work. I would talks about the God state and then the absolute On a walk, I was I was thinking about the absolute So I was abiding in that awareness of awareness felt very aware and just very present and very free and then I just thought of What's beyond that and then just I can even see it in my in my mind's eye right now.   Exactly. Nothing's happening There's not even this experience. That's right Yeah, and um yeah Really don't even know how to express it further than that because there's no no words. Yeah, there's not a thought there's not a word That can relate to that because the thoughts the words are here on this plane, but absolute reality the infinity infinite is Nothing Yeah, nothing nothing and everything and everything exactly absolute nothingness and absolute Infinity at the same time at the same time. It's it's this and that. Yes.  It's just it's not The experience that you feel like you're having and that's why the best way to describe it when you say that it's hard To use words that we found so far is the dream So when you when you make a dream you simulate a dream at night during sleep You simulate the environment and you simulate the observer So you simulate the little quarry that goes into the dream that then experiences the dream But then when you wake up the next day did the dream happen, right? There you go. That's the nothingness that we're talking about right, yeah, which It's also not to say that this isn't massively relevant It's massively relevant and beautiful And truth and true and play and play and that's the thing it makes it more fun It makes it okay. This is more flowy. This is more easy And then you can you know realize your purpose and in that's what the creator wants to express through you Is that that individual purpose of why am I here? And then you can answer those questions so much easier and so much more of a play Kind of sense to it Yeah, so what about you for this absolute infinity very much similar to where you're playing with it I love that so much. It's like and as we've talked about several times throughout keep going Keep going when you get past the thought clouds And you get to the Observation state the awareness state keep going because then you go from your localized your personalized awareness To the impersonal Awareness to the shared eternal awareness to quarry's awareness being the same Awareness that this atlas is awareness the same awareness that's coming through you guys And then you begin holding that sort of Macro level god state consciousness that incorporates all of these little perspectives at the same time And then you become that right so that's one layer back and then now As bantino has been using this really good way of understanding it Which is you basically pluck the last Thorn which is awareness the shared impersonal awareness out And then that's what the absolute the void the infinite realization is There's it's agentless Yes, it's Attribute less. Yes. Those are the two best words to describe it agentless and attributeless and also absolute Nothing and absolute infinity at the same time And that's what's meant by enlightenment the no self And the all self At the same time So that's how I've been basically now the game is abiding as the title of that episode You basically you abide as awareness first step one abide as infinity second step And that's the game that that's that's the game, right? Yes Absolutely and and and a good way of looking at it is a kind of a spectrum Yes, it's not uh, oh, I invited as affinity and then that's it.  I was like, okay. It's like a destination once I get there What's gonna happen? Am I gonna change? No, no, no, it's just Just what we're talking about you just end up more flowy your life becomes more, you know efficient in a In a positive way Um, but yeah resting as infinities. It's it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. It's cool. It's the natural state It's the natty state as frank gang says it's the natty state. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah And anything that's not that is also technically the natty state But it's also what's being perfected towards the natty state, right? Yeah Yes, because you don't want to be the separate entity that suffers You want to be the god state you want to be the infinite you want to be that? Yes, absolutely And it's so relaxing the contraction the energetic contraction disappears dissolves That's that's another beautiful thing is as soon as you do that you feel your body just relax You just your shoulders drop you relax You're like, ah Nice That's just I mean, it's yeah right right Right And any issue you have or whatever social anxiety depression it'll just naturally Flow away really if you keep doing abiding in this. Yes, if you keep doing this And so if it doesn't matter how long it takes if this is something that's truly pulling you towards just keep going Yeah, that's what it you know, yeah Absolutely All of these different wells another way to view the wadad al wujud the unity of all finding is like all of the different wells These are the different styles We all dig these different wells in different parts of the world But guess what's at the bottom of every one of the wells.  Yeah, yeah, right So you have that water underneath and then you have the wells, which I guess are the people, you know The person consciousness up here. Yeah, so keep digging digging digging and then you're gonna hit that boom and then the oceanic Exactly. Yeah, I love it. It's so that's cool And so see how analogy is really the core of cognition All of these different analogies make it easy because they're just the different pointings different ways to point to the same End that then make it easier for people to see it. Yes, because you're always already Free you're always already the absolute And yet it remains for you to recognize it. Absolutely. Yeah, that that is another wonderful point is you're already there It's like that awareness of awareness and beyond that the infinity is just Yes, whatever back here waiting for you. Yes. Yes, it's going. I'm here when you're ready Exactly, and then you just kind of melt into it. Exactly. That's a great way to put it. Yeah, it's the background It's the undercurrent the background the undercurrent Nisargats at the Maharaj says that the absolute abide as that which is Behind and beyond all all that is movable and transient Yeah, and so it's the undercurrent the background like you said and it's there always It's it's like laughing at you always like why do you keep suffering come back to me? Yeah, come back to me Yeah, exactly It's just like come on man. Come on. Don't do that anymore. Yeah, or do it. That's fine, but I'll be here. Yeah. Yeah, exactly That's great. Yeah, that's so awesome and the Maya Source in many ways can be described by Source equals Awareness plus Maya So at the beginning of this creative exploration that this is This specific one What happens is that awareness is very low and Maya is very high the intoxication the illusion Is very high then what happens over time? In the creation is awareness increases and Maya disappears because we become less intoxicated by the illusion We become more of a Gnostic beings. We know our true nature Yes, and that's where we're going with this enlightened civilization as we're all building towards yes And so the next creation follows a very similar pattern Which is awareness starts off and we go through the rebirths The nirvana at the some the samkara and the nirvana over and over and over again with our rebirths Until we finally liberate ourselves from the illusion from Maya And then it doesn't even matter because nirvana and samskara are the same thing because what happens is is that When you go into the next creation you just do the same thing Yeah, so we're gonna have to wake up to infinity the next time we do this right again. Yeah, right? That's not like the end. There's not that. Yeah, I realize infinity. That's it. That's it. No, no This is the start all you can do once you've realized it is to serve other people There's nothing else you can do. Yes. Yeah, and the good thing is it's Naturally serving to other people. It's not like you got to think about well, you don't think anymore really You do and think less and less. Yeah. Yeah, so it's spontaneous flow and creativity at that point. Yes, absolutely Another thing that came up while we were talking about this was uh, I don't know who said this but the analogy of tennis tennis Yeah, I was saying that the last couple of days if I hit you the ball I'm not gonna run after the ball To try to hit it back to me because I want to do that.   So Just visualization analogies really help you. Yeah, all of these podcast conversations are tennis You're we're just hitting the ball back with a creative unique Spontaneous thought around abiding as awareness and infinity in our true nature And then we're just creating the conversation spontaneously back and forth Whereas what it used to be like for me at least, you know, five years ago It used to be much more of a deeper concern with this person Right. I I used to you know, wonder how can I get peace and happiness from everything? Yes, and so that's this big difference.   Trust me because the suffering gets worse. Yeah, me too. It's a lot. Yeah But it's good. It's good because then it makes you appreciate it more. Yeah, we designed it So that Maya would punch us in the face That's so great. That's a great way to put it. We designed it so Maya would punch us in the face Yeah, exactly. But you know, you can look at it however you want.  So why am I gonna? Why do I want to keep Irritating myself or punching myself? Yes. Yes. Um, yes So you realize that from a higher, you know point of view.  Yes. We've done that for too long. Yeah Wow, okay gorgeous convo. That's such a such a good convo. Let's wrap on a fun question. Let's do What is most beautiful? It is most beautiful What's coming up for me is this might be just how my personal experience is That transformation.  Who's that guy? And you go, I'm so proud of myself. I love myself. This is great And I love everybody and so I don't know the personal transformation to me. What about you? Perfect dancing. Yeah It's not a lot of love What a good word. That was great. Yeah, that was wonderful. Yeah, what a good one I'll second the answer. Such a good one. Beautiful. Wow Great timing. Love you all. We love you. Thank you so much for tuning in. We're so grateful We would love for you to leave your thoughts in the comments below on what we talked about Let us know how you feel Subscribe to the channel if you haven't like the video support it so that it gets up in the algorithm Share the video with other people that you know, it would make a profound influence on And also check out the links in the bio below. We'll put some of kori's Links in the bio for you to check out. What's a good place for people to check you out on what platform? I have instagram. I have four pictures on there. I'm in my own transformation right now I don't have a lot but soon More I'll have some stuff. Perfect. So we'll put the instagram down there for now and Abide Abide shift from the person to awareness And then make that impersonal and eternal And then abide as infinity as void as source


Welcome everyone. It's the fifth day of our program and today we're gonna start the hackathon. So the real competition so far you had four days of lectures and The real thing is really starting today. So for the next three days You'll work with teams teams of five people on a use case Mentored by experts on the domain experts either from Quantinium or from industrial companies that are partnering with us for the three days that are bringing use cases so I'm gonna finish introducing the rules of the hackathon Then I'm gonna give the mic to the different industrial mentors for a few sentences so that they can just say their name From which company they come so that you can also identify them if you want to talk to them later on and After that Jean will indicate different rooms we have for the different teams So you'll work in a collaborative manner During this next three days for the people who did give me their GitHub ID Yesterday I did add you on the GitHub repos of your team If you did not give me the GitHub ID and you want to give it to me today I'll run into the different rooms to gather your ideas to add you to the repo where you will find the use case for the people who have a problem accessing the GitHub repo I'll also help you with this and On Sunday morning you will present your solutions in front of a jury and you will be judged on for criteria Then I'm gonna write again on slack later on today So basically you will be judged on whether you added any value on top of established approaches Meaning whether you just copy pasted some random code online or you read it something by yourself the second criterion will be about The investigation of the scalability of your solution if your solution has an exponential complexity Then we'll never have any quantum advantage and if we know it from scratch Then that might not be the best solution to start with the third criterion will be About the quality of your presentation and the fourth criterion will be about the quality of your s answers to the question of the jury You will be judged actually by both the jury and also your mentors So the mark will be like two third from the jury and one third from your mentors And will basically be the same criteria for your mentors But since they did follow you for three days, they'll also have some bit of insight of how you team did perform So on this few words, I will give them back to the different Industrial mentors so that they can introduce themselves Thomas you first because you've done that exercise already. So hi. I'm Thomas as you see come from the commitment You know this t-shirt maybe from yesterday, and so I'm I'm from the company called Mac There are two max in the world. We are the good ones. So we are at the German based companies, so we do pharmaceuticals We are the Amazons of Chemicals or whatever you need to get it from us and we are supplier for the electronics industry I brought a challenge on Transparent AI and that natural language processing because we are super interested to make interesting things which natural language processing And I'm I will be really keen also to learn from the other challenges and exchange who's doing what because we are not doing the obvious Which I know that BMW is doing the obvious doing a quantum chemistry So therefore I'm really interested also to see what the other teams are delivering and if you need me grab me Yeah, hi, I'm Francesca from Cup Gemini we are a big consultancy company for IT and technology and Yeah, we're interested in new innovations and quantum is definitely innovation and that's why we are working here on quantum computing tasks, and I brought a use case from quantum chemistry Which quite interesting Excitation energies of of Molecules and yeah, my background is a little bit I coming from theoretical chemistry, so I have a background of all these excited states and chemistry and yeah I'm happy to see what what you deliver it Hi everyone, I'm Alessia Maruzzo. I'm from any and I we are an energy company I mean the HPC I'm from the HPC department and Physicists by training so I'm very excited to be here and also to to learn I Brought a case related to a machine learning problem on focusing on photovoltaic power plant Thank you. Hi. I'm Jack. I'm I'm from into San Paolo one of the biggest bank in Italy We have bread we have brought a new case on quantum machine learning and fraud detection and If you want to know something more there are me and my colleague Jambi Agio We are happy to answer all of your question and many many things So hi, I'm Chandan and I'm from BMW group and we brought the obvious quantum chemistry case And it's a it's a on part of like ongoing research like platinum cluster for catalysis like for fuel sales and The idea is to look into different quantum and jada Label and also like if if they succeed faster that there will be some more additional Challenges added to that depending on how fast they move the team. Hi everyone I'm Matteo Malosetti from a security in a rally I belong to the Generally group at office data science team generally is one of the major insurance companies in Italy and worldwide we brought an application of prediction of defaults of Companies so the use case is called the credit risk contagion with Real data and Yes The goal would be to predict and understand the diffusion of default of financial institutions in the market Hi, my name is Philippa. I come from Kondela. We started as a hardware company But now we are developing software and we brought the challenge using a VQE So you'll need to learn part of our software and implement something in it. Thank you Hello, my name is Abdullah Lisa I came from a company called Saudi Aramco It's the largest oil and gas integrated company in the world and we brought a use case Cryptography cyber security. We know the risk of all of the information Going around so it's a very interesting topic to engage you and the all of the energy In the room here. Thank you very much Okay, so Now the point is to find new spots. So, you know, you will be five plus one mentor each So you don't need so much space each time. This room is huge So I think at least four or five teams could consider staying here There are other spots so maybe I can Bring you around so for those who've seen a bit around ICTP if you see the cat where the cafeteria is the first floor Just on the left of the cafeteria. There is a nice spot with a large blackboards So I think we can put two teams there On the same corridor just in front of the cafe cafeteria, you go towards that direction There is a small spot with another blackboard and chairs. Okay and Also close to the cafeteria Just after this huge space with the blackboards There is a room called Stasi room where we can put at least three teams. You have blackboards. You can also Plug your computers on the screen if you need to share anything so In case there are not enough plugs available close by what we can provide to you are this kind of Extensions these plugs they should be enough for every team. So please take one They should be few hidden somewhere there So you can also take them or leave them here for those who stay in that room If one or two are missing just tell me and I'll find others So once you have found your spot just stay there and okay, so just maybe for lunchtime you can Put a small piece of paper saying This is our spot for the day. Please leave this space free. Okay, people know there is this hackathon going on Tomorrow ICTP is just for us. So they won't be that problem So essentially the point is just find a place where you feel at ease and stay there and they should be plenty of space Okay, so if you have any issue with anything missing just come to me and I find a solution Okay, so enjoy your day and good luck for two other teams At our exactly I Think your four teams should be here To make things simpler for four teams should stay here the team working on qnlp and zx calculus Because Richie is gonna help you on those four projects and cybersecurity obviously Whereas team 16 Team 16 anywhere. This is your mentor. You have to find your mentor. Oh, yeah, we're gonna have the tutorial in the presentation about So


We're here at ITU telecom world 2012 in Dubai And I'm very pleased to be joined by group captain Anu did knack on tap who is minister for ICT for Thailand Minister, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. You're welcome Max I'd like to start off by asking you about ITU telecom world and why events such as this are important to you The real Thai government is aware of the importance of the ICT as Central nerve system of the newer economy over the last decade ICT have been expanding at a great speed fostering economic growth and Changing the way people work Communicate entertain the business and of the night their lives Now Thailand is going to be the host for ITU telecom world 2013 why is Thailand a particularly appropriate host? Which it's read in it as the center of the air travel in Southeast Asia the center of the conference in the region the readiness in term of transportation Accommodation to replace us expertise on information and communication technology the experience in hosting telecom Asia 2008 and also other related factors, I think Thailand has You know, therefore being selected by ITU as the venue for ITU telecom world 2013 And what can we look forward to in Bangkok in 2013? I would like to ensure you that the ITU telecom world 2013 will be one of the most successful Telecom events They're in which the latest technology and innovation in telecom and ICT sex that will be showcased with the exhibition zone Why business opportunity will be explored and challenges will be at risk due to telecom forum on Various topics of the global interest. This is when we will also be a great opportunity to promote collaboration among ITU members and Beyond for the benefit of stakeholders in telecom and ICT sector And what key message would you like to deliver ITU telecom world 2013? We are confident that the attractiveness of Thailand the friendly nature and hospitality of people and Our class convention facility will currently the success for the ITU telecom world 2013 Although we will need to work very hard to leave up to the expectation for all of you Now that you have experienced that the UAE impressive hosting We promise to do our best to ensure that the human in Bangkok will be one of the most successful telecom event Minister Nakontap. Thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much max. See you in Bangkok. I look forward to it


Alrighty, let's check this out And You actually have another version that is Splendid out. I'm actually gonna take a look at that one instead. It's always a bit easier to Check spacing and everything. So looking at this and also looking at your question. You had an issue with pose 26 and then the in-betweens and Then the settle so the thing about a jump what you're doing, right? Is that you want a full extension? Sometimes people have jumps where they jump off like that or even the land with legs like that's a bit tricky You have extensions, which is great What I would look out for is that when you're doing this there are a couple of things Hey, you're your legs like with that type of line of action for this You're almost expecting with that arc that your character is going to Jump like this Maybe a bit forward to something like that.  So the weirdness if I draw it like that you have This is your path Or the implied path that I'm that I would like to see but then what's happening is that you're actually going this way And then the problem with that is that a does it's not what you would expect given the energy and path But also the problem is that when you have a jump forward like this is that the body keeps Being straight like this now you might argue well if someone's running then you can totally have a body like this That's totally fine and I agree but the thing is this is a jump where You if you want to jump from here to here, right? Then your body is going to be something where you're like this and then you're really Jumping like that and then at the end you might have legs here and Arms up and that's a weird drawing there Like many drawings that I have but that will be The idea so if you do this You have to look at where is this pointing? Where is the path going with this? So it feels like okay. Well, that's going to be a jump this way So that's generally the path that's on So you want to make sure that it's not this but if you're going all the way over there That it's going to be that and that your character doesn't have to be in terms like a flying path where it has to You know be like oh, I'm flying and be on that path But you still want an idea of the lean forward lean forward and then it can go back end up being down here But I think I just know my file attached it So it'll be actually easier if you can send me that and then I can Help you out with that the other thing is the spacing so you look at the amount of spacing you have It's all fairly small. That's fine. You look towards the end. It would accelerate It's not small small small small small and then suddenly jump here and that's the other issue That I have there. I'm gonna switch to minus all this color. So if you track The root with this lot really here right above there.  Okay, that thought was a cheat Always the undo button undo button undo is the undoing the wrong thing there you go strange and Down into those smaller bits here So if you look at this and Let me be fancy again You can see there's a section where you have something happening here That's all fairly small and then pop on to huge spacing moments And it's only small again through here all the way through there So that section here small and then suddenly big again So on a jump like that you want to make sure that it's in my you know might start somewhere Crouch participation and then might be you know round it out here And then it will bow and then it will Shoe and have a little bit of hang time which you're looting to which is great And then you will gradually accelerate again And so you have no the job the jump Jolt with a bit of hang time slowing it down and then as you did correctly it starts to accelerate because of of the Gravity, but the spacing is just a bit too harsh That for sure. That's a massive linear key right there and This could be smoothed out a bit. This doesn't feel quite like a land Because a the path doesn't feel like it's like this it feels more like you're doing this and Then that section a because it's so straight and doesn't have an arc and it's on the accelerates It feels more like someone's pulling the character so jump and then Suddenly gets pulled through there And then if you jump like you know if you shoot your reference or you find something It's also a bit odd to have the upper body to be in that hunched over position Till the end like it just it feels very stiff And it feels like if you're already down like that and you have that whole forward momentum with it The landing wouldn't be this you're asking about the saddle to me The landing would be well now you're gonna lean forward and take another step to stop Because the body is leaning forward and the one point the hands will be somewhere and then you might take another step and then straighten up for that So I would have again this is a whole connection of you got to lean forward. That's your path You might be like this in the middle But then when you're landing Your body is going to be back out again, and you're gonna try to land again arms up whatever it's going to be So you have a bit of a of a change Let's go crazy again where it's like this and that and that Instead of staying straight and actually hunching over so again, this would be back here Into the land because if you're back like that with your body then you can compress Even then the compression will probably with the body a bit further back and then as it goes up That's when it will catch up and be maybe here and then at the very end They might still have some forward momentum, and then you might have to take one more step forward But that's what I would do in terms of the settle because it is quite a distance. You also have to look at realistically That is a ginormous distance to cover for a jump so you would really have to have a Massive lean forward arms up and then those arms are going to Really swing forward In order to get there So you also potentially have to consider maybe Character lands only here and that's that's your path But it really has to be a push-off a massive push-off here with the legs and a big Swing with arms to get that extra swing momentum going forward into that land I Hope that makes sense again, I feel like with the myosin That might be a bit easier to show in terms of the path. I'll let me know if that makes sense or not And that's it. Thanks All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


From Ogun Street now to Ike-de-State, where seven out of eight all-progressive Congress governorship aspirant have demanded the suspension of the ongoing primaries in the state. The aspirants are protesting and let irregularities in the conduct of party primaries. They throng the party secretariat in Anduikiti, where their supporters claim that the process has been manipulated to favor Abiodo Oyebanji, who is that governor, Coyote Fire, mispreferred choice. They also accused the superintendent and officials of distributing voting materials earlier than scheduled with a sinister objective to give a sole aspirant an edge. They are already giving this to all the election materialists. They are doing whatever they like with the results it supports us of one of the aspirants. For how long are we going to continue this kind of election? So there is no election going on anywhere in Ike-de-State. The whole process is advanced. It's not going on anywhere in Ike-de-State. It's only the supporters of one of the aspirants, Mr. Abiodo Oyebanji, that asks all the materials for the election. If they want to fail in June 18, or if they don't want to fail June 18, they need to stop whatever they are doing now and let us reorganize, recompose the needs of people that are going to conduct this election. And then we go to the field and do the election. And the summary of everything we are saying is that the electoral process has been hijacked by officials of Ike-de-State government. The process has been hijacked from the election committee that was set up in Abuja that was sent to Ike-de-State. They are not the ones in charge. People both said that the results of this primary election would be written. We all thought it was a joke because we thought people in government here were too civilized to do that. That was our thought. But this money is playing out. Sensitive election materials that were meant to be distributed by this secretariat by before 8am this morning in the presence of aspirants or their agents were distributed between 10pm and 12 midnight last night.


They were furious. In this episode, evil lawyers receive justice themselves. Snake relatives lose all because of greed. Annoying neighbor gets put into place and an abusive bully's soldier gets his life destroyed. Naturally, viewer discretion is advised. These revenge acts might be disturbing to snowflakes. Many moons ago, I was about 10 years old, my aunt was a victim of rape while she was getting a routine surgery from her doctor. Needless to say things got really messed up rather quickly. Now, we don't have a lot of money so the doctors obviously lured up to the teeth, and they were trying to dig up anything they could find to paint my aunt in a bad light. She had her one lawyer and soldiered on. A few months into the lawsuit, we noticed random cars kept stealing all of our trash, so she hired a private eye and found it was the defense lawyers doing. Now, their cars were pretty nice. It was always a Range Rover or a Black BMW, possible seven series because it was quite large. They would pull up and dump the entire contents of the trash in the trunk and speed off. This was unsettling to say the least, so my aunt and mom hatched a brilliant plan.   Oh, not bagged either. Just right into the can. It was then topped off with random shredded documents, so it looked like a jackpot of a find. We added a ton of small good stuff to help hide the stink. Let me clarify that the litter wasn't a full dump from pan de can. It was sifted over a long period of time and collected. The next trash day, like clockwork, they showed up in the Black BMW and two people quickly picked up the can and dumped 80% of the contents in the trunk before they realized what was happening.  To top it all off, my aunt walked outside with a cup of coffee, waved and said good morning all cheerful like. They sped off and we never saw them again. She ended up winning the case about a year later. A bit of a context here. I work as a lawyer for an excellent and famous law firm here in North Italy. My family went through some tough times.  One of my aunts was brutally murdered because of a 150 euros cautionary deposit, my granddad was diagnosed with cancer, and some other funny stuff in the middle. Because of that, our bonds became stronger and stronger. Must say that with my family, I mean my mother, her parents and my two aunts. This year, COVID-19 managed to take away both my aunts. I loved them to the moon and back, but one of them was married to a complete douchebag. He always considered himself to be better and smarter than anyone else. And so were his relatives. My aunt and her husband, I refused to call him uncle, lived in a huge house, and so did his brother with her wife and son. He died around seven or eight years ago and left almost everything he could just to his brother and his family, completely ignoring my family, because my granddad is already rich, why should he leave anything to his daughter and grandson, basically. This year, my aunt died of COVID. I was grieving, since I really loved her and cared about her, and I already lost another aunt prior. When the notary called us to read the will, both me and my mother came out completely astonished. She left us just a few things, even though she always said she would have left us basically everything. I don't need the money involved that much, as I already inherited from my other aunt, and my job pays me really well, but my mom always had to struggle, financially speaking. It would have been a huge help, since she doesn't want anything from me. I tried to give her some money in the past, but she always sent them back, being stubborn as she can be. As we walked out, I pulled my cousin by my side to ask him just one thing. Me, hey, cousin, listen. I know it's a dumb question. But, when I last saw her, I brought my aunt a little ceramic bell, shaped as a lady. She held it to her chest all the time. I'd like to have it back, it would be a memory of her.   But don't expect us to give you anything more, we had to sweat bullets for this will to work. Me. I'm sorry, what do you mean? He realized he screwed up, so he just left. My mom went back home, I headed back to my office to take a closer look on my aunt's will. It was bulletproof, and the handwriting was, without any doubt, my aunts.  It took me several weeks to finally get the clue. She wrote, as previously mentioned by my husband. It was just this small phrase. My aunt's husband died seven years before, how the hell could he mention anything? Since zombies are still nowhere to be seen and I don't know of any deceased person talking from his grave, I started to scan the whole will once again. Things I never noticed became as clear as the sun. There were missing pages. My aunt numbered them, but the second and fourth page were missing, with sentences left hanging there. Some of the corrections were legit, but looking closely, there were a few of them where the uncertain hand of a 81-years-old lady suddenly became stronger and more precise. My aunt's husband was mentioned every time my aunt was talking about money and valuables. He did say something about the savings, but apparently his were to be given to charity and didn't need his approval. Strange, huh? When I talk to my mom and her parents about this, my grandad, who is 74 and still has more strength and lucidity than your average 40-years-old dude, mentioned my aunt's husband will. We don't know what he said, his family never let us even take a look at it and it wasn't worth it to sue them. I went back to the notary the next day, asking to see the will, since I was a relative, he let me, but asked what was going on. I simply said you'll know soon enough.  I rushed back to my office and started to write everything down. Shit was about to hit the fan, but not for my family. After a few days, me, my mom, her parents and my aunt's relatives met once again in front of the notary. I already told him what was happening, I could see him trying not to look disgusted as my aunt's husband's beloved ones walked in. Notary started with, we are all here. Apparently, Op has some things to discuss with us, concerning inheritances. You could hear a pin drop a mile away. I stood up and opened my bag. My family was smiling, my relatives were staring daggers from their eyes.  Nothing is wrong here, as she didn't have any direct relationship with anyone in this room. What is wrong, is the reason behind it. I handed a copy of the will to everyone, with some parts being highlighted. I said, as you can see, pages are missing? Some corrections are. Different, to say the least. But, most importantly, my uncle is sighted quite often. This led me to his will. At this point, my relatives turned wider than snow. My cousin tried to stop me, telling me I couldn't possibly use my uncle's will, as more than five years passed. The notary told him that I totally could, as the allowance to contest a will is 10 years. He kept silent. I continued, he left my aunt everything he had if she would have left it to you after she died.  You see, in our state it's not legal to make such a kind of contract. They started screeching and screaming, calling me names and wishing me an obviously pleasant and late death.   They have been forced to leave the house they were living in, all their bank accounts have been blocked and even their farm had to be closed, since it was also my uncle's previous activity. The correction in change of ownership was actually very precise and some items, jewelry, ingots, cash, are now mysteriously missing, they even have to pay for an equal value.  Ladies and gentlemen, please, listen to me. If you want to screw with someone, at least have the courtesy of not doing it to a lawyer. This happened a few years ago. My neighbor started parking on the street behind my car, like literally inches, for no apparent reason. My neighbor has a driveway which was empty, and also lived two houses down the street. I don't have a driveway, so on street parking is a must for me. So, after a few weeks, I asked if it was necessary to park so close when there was literally no cars on the street for over a quarter mile. He said no, but there's no law against it with a big poo poo eating grin on his face. A few weeks passed by, and my car gets hit because someone thought there was enough room to clear as his truck blocked the view of my car entirely. I see this happen, but unfortunately can't get a model or license plate number. I find my neighbor's email address, because I really didn't feel like talking to him, and asked him again, if he could just park further down the road, closer to his house. He replied, nope.  I had lived here for quite a long time, and never had any issues with him or any other neighbor. I keep to myself, never make noise, don't have any noisy pets or parties, etc. His truck has his business name on it. Googled it. Find out it's his own business. Lots of Yelp reviews, needy-bee rating, etc. All these links point to his website. I go to check his website, it doesn't load up. I head over to a domain registry and see that the domain isn't registered. I snag it. Before I think of what to do with it, I google the owner's name and find out he's been convicted of murdering a child 20-ish years ago. I find a handful of links that details his story rather explicitly. I copy-slash-paste all those links into an email to him, a throwaway account so he can't just reply to me as I deleted it afterward.  Here's all the links I plan on posting on it. I don't have to list your business name because all of your business listings across the internet have this URL pointing to it.  Yes, it's legal, but you are willfully doing this just to annoy me. I legally bought your domain, and can legally link these articles. Park behind me again, and I'll launch it. Within an hour his truck was moved into his driveway. He asked me for the domain, and I told him, when either you move, or I move, I'll hand it over. Until then it'll remain offline. This happened last week, not a few years ago. He was originally charged with capital murder, but his lawyer convinced him of a plea deal for manslaughter because they had way more than enough to convict him of capital murder. I was working as a civilian with the US military overseas and I lived off base in an apartment complex popular among the US military. One morning I accidentally hit another soldier's vehicle. Upon exiting the vehicle I noticed that both our vehicles were what you could call a hoopty. A hoopty is an old car that is pretty beat up that has been passed around from service to service member and they generally sell for $1,000 to $2,000. I also recognized that I was at fault for the accident. It was a very minor accident. His rear bumper was dented in slightly, but I could hear both our cars still running. I approached the driver who had already gotten out and he was in uniform. I apologized and said if it was alright with him, I'd like to negotiate a payment that I will pay him in cash and we don't involve the authorities. I wanted to keep this simple. I'll be honest, the accident was so minor I expected him to say, now man it's good, but even if he wanted some money I'd have paid him. I have always been of the opinion, that if you have a fender bender and can negotiate agreeable terms between both the parties, it's best to not involve insurance slash police. He told me he wanted to call the police, I said we could call the police or we could go on base together and I could give him $300. He said that wasn't enough. So I upped my offer to $500. He proceeded to punch me in the face. It was a sucker punch, he got into his car and took off and in the process nearly ran me over. Now I had a black box in my car which recorded everything. I went to the provost martial office on base. That's our police station for the military. Reported the accident and the assault and showed the MP the footage which they used his license plate to track him down. I was also asked if I wanted to involve the local authorities slash press criminal charges off base. Honestly, I felt like the soldier would learn his lesson if I let UMCJ, the military court basically, handle this and I said, not at this time. I was told it was an option. The end result was that the soldier in question, got 60 days of extra duty, reduction in rank and forfeited a portion of his paycheck. Essentially if he dealt with that, this would have been the end of the whole ordeal. Honestly, at this point I assumed our little ordeal was over. Well a few days after his punishment was decided on, which was not long after the incident itself, I was in the commissary, grocery store on base, shopping when the soldier who assaulted saw me and began to insult me.   A store employee witnessed the entire encounter and I got the employee detail and reported this interaction to his command. His commander told me he had been ordered to not interact with me and would take action. His commander also recommended me to involve the local authorities, since this soldier obviously isn't learning his lesson. So I did. I contacted an attorney. The attorney was unsure if we could successfully sue the soldier and said he would need a cash payment to take the case. I was mad and I wanted to teach this guy a lesson. I agreed, it was not cheap. To keep this story short, we ended up in a court off base. We presented our evidence. The soldier in question had decided to represent himself. He had outbursts in court several times. The judge ended up granting me a judgment of approximately 50,000 US dollars. When the judgment was given, the soldier called the judge a son of bitch, and that the army would cover for him. So the judge changed his judgment to 80,000 US dollars and then asked me if I also wanted to press charges against this soldier in criminal court. Honestly, it was obvious this guy wasn't going to learn a lesson. I told the judge I wanted to pursue criminal charges in addition to the judgment. My lawyer later advised me that if I ever wanted to see the money, I should pursue an international hold. With my judgment it's likely that a judge would grant me an international hold. An international hold would mean that this soldier would not be allowed to leave the country until I was paid my 80,000 US dollars. He also told me that according to the agreement between the US military and the host country, the US military would honor the international hold. Basically, the US military would not protect him or move him out of country to avoid punishment. By this point, I had paid my lawyer thousands of dollars, and I honestly didn't feel like paying thousands of dollars and getting nothing for it. So I said yes, I wanted to go forward with the international hold. About a month later the international hold was granted, and the US military was informed of this. Two months after that, the criminal case was over and the soldier was sentenced to 90 days in jail. By this point the soldier had been moved onto the base into his barracks by his commander. I remember the day I was informed the MPs handed him over to the local authorities to begin his 90-day jail sentence. Did I mention he still owed me 80,000 US dollars? I heard nothing for a year, and then one day I get a call from his commander, his commander wants me to make a statement in regards to the case. I go in and make the statement. During the statement, I find out the US military was in the process of chaptering the soldier out of the US military. The commander also informed me that he was close to coming up with the money to pay me, so he could have the international hold lifted. The commander also asked me if my lawyer would be willing to make a statement. I contacted my lawyer who also made a statement about the facts of the case. A few weeks later his ex-wife contacted me, when this all started I knew he was married, guess his wife decided to divorce him. She informed that her ex-husband had the money and needed the details on how to pay me. I provided her the details, and a few days later I got the payment and contacted his ex-wife to inform her I had been paid. She then asked me to send a receipt, so he could have the international hold lifted and returned to the states. I asked her how he got the money, she said he maxed out his credit, and also had family help out. Also during this conversation, I had found out the army had chaptered him out of the military. I sent her the receipt and that was the last I ever heard from his side. I took his 80 thousand US dollars and bought myself a brand new car and used the rest of the money to put down on an investment property. Thank you for watching Royal AI. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell to receive future episodes. Share your experience in the comments, or tell us what you think of these stories.


play a game called Surround. Surround is also known as Tron, not the disc throwing Tron, the bike Tron. Now there are a lot of Tron games out there and I don't want to say this one is the best because Ricochet is the best. Wow someone actually knows Ricochet. Yeah. So I was going to do a comparison between this and another surround game called Snafu on the Intellivision however Intellivision emulators. So also you know there were so many games like this because Tron was so popular in the early 80s in terms of break a licensed properties related to video games but only one game could actually be called Tron the game right or discs of Tron.  Yeah right so this is the one that was on the Atari 20600 and it's pretty good actually. So we're going to play this competitively and we're going to play you see there's a lot of levels here we're going to play every single level in sequence in a one shot because remember what I talked about raising the skill cap escalation this game will show you with a I mean look the way this works that's how big the blocks are there's not a lot going on.  So there's so few pixels there's so little space on the screen and all we've got is a stick and a button. The button doesn't even do anything. The button does something later. Oh does it. Let's see how many variations on this game there can be because every variation is the previous version plus a twist and remember this is an Atari game we're playing here. I'm the green guy and I'm definitely going to win. I'm not falling for your trap. Oh Scott's pushing it. I got more space than you but you can do about it.  No I think you can wall me off. I think I messed up. I messed up real bad. I messed up real bad. Oh I messed up real bad too. Okay good. There's a little bit of an execution component because remember this is an Atari controller. Yeah. Does that count? I guess. Aren't we changing modes or not? So look at this. It's still making this play until 10. Oh look we can cross the bridge over like that. That's actually clever. I didn't know that. Oh my god that's not good. Uh oh what's going on here? Oh Already the simplest mode is pretty fun even for some people who probably played this game literally thousands of times. I haven't played thousands of times maybe hundreds. Come on come on to my parlor. Step into my parlor. I'm just rushing right over there. Here I come here I come. Well you can see this one. You're gonna play to the end. It's even right now. We're not gonna play every mode ten times. No the next mode. Alright so slightly different mode. Let's see what's going on here. Looks the same to me. Is it a little faster? Actually what's going on here is the orange guy is an AI. Oh. Alright now here's the next real mode. I'm yellow. How fast is this gonna get? The answer? Faster than you think. Faster than slot racers? We didn't even get there. Let's try to get there. Now look at this design look how quick as soon as it's over it just throws you into the next round. This game is just go go go go go go go. Mutual death. It doesn't affect the game that much but the fact that you can cross over each other and it's just very interesting. Really? I didn't think you'd fall for that. I was trying to go one higher. I pressed the button too soon. So already we're in a mode where I guarantee you guys could play this mode for weeks. There we go. Please mess up. Please mess up. Oh right the speed. I'm not gonna make it. Alright. So let's escalate. That's the AI. So let's escalate again. Is it the AI? Ohhhh. So now you can do crazy stuff. Let's see if I can pull it off. I'm trying to go through my own stream. Oh I thought I was gonna get in the thing.  It's not easy to even though there's a lot of big pixels. It's not easy to figure out exactly where to turn to cut through. But up until now your light trail has always been an impenetrable wall. Oh I did it. I did it. That felt so good. Design wise look at what it's doing. So it gave you something that you never had before. The other modes just added a difficulty like a speed factor. This mode gives you options now. Are you going to conserve space? Are you gonna mess up the board for the other person? The other thing you have to consider right is that because this is a grid and it's not a hex map, when you move diagonally you're actually moving it basically one and a half to two back speed. Right? And you're bad at this one. So if you can figure out how to get in between those lines right you can really just devastate your opponent by covering so much more pixels. Yeah it lets you move faster. There's a way to overtake someone. Wow do we literally have the same strategy now? I'm coming for you. I'm coming for you. Oops. No I'm not. Alright. Let's see what we got now. I'm green. You can hold the button and stop dropping whatever it is you're dropping behind yourself. I'm just gonna make a wall and hide over here. The sudden speed up was not enjoyable. So now we've added a whole bunch of different pixels. Wait I got an idea. I got an idea.  Okay what are you trying to do? Hold on. What are you gonna do?  I'm gonna write packs. Let's start writing packs together. Alright I messed it up. I can still do an X. I'm writing the P. This is harder than it looks guys. Alright give up on that. It's close enough to packs you can get the idea. What's going on in this mode? Well I can't hit the button doesn't do anything anymore. Where'd the walls go? Where'd the walls go? I'll just leave a trap here. Oh. You saw me do it. I wasn't looking at you I was looking at me. The buttons don't do anything anymore. It took away diagonal movement. It's giving us a new option and resetting everything else back to default. Right this new option is so awesome that I had to take away all the other options. This is real fun. Everyone wants to play and now they're just watching. It's like what they do at home. I think I'm gonna win this one.  Oh! I thought I had all four corners. Were you about to say I actually think I'm gonna win? I thought I had all four corners available to myself. Right and I could sort of fill in a box that would just be offset and wrapping around. You got nothing. You got nothing.  Alright. Let's see what's going on now. Is this diagonal wrapping around? It's diagonal wrapping around and the speed up. Oh for once I died. Alright conservative play. I'm just gonna play nice and get out of here. I got this. I got this. Oops. I think I'm not good at this game anymore. And of course everything together. Let me tell you this is the reason we're not talking as much now is this is so hard. There weren't that many pixels yet. I didn't see the wrap around come. So again I mentioned this point before but like the same thing to Super Meat Boy.  They feel like the game robbed them. But if you lose in a game like this or a game like Super Meat Boy, the Super Meat Boy is harder to do. If one pixel of the edge of one blade touches one pixel Super Meat Boy he is dead.  It didn't hit me. You know it hit you.  In this game you absolutely cannot complain about losing ever right. Both you and your opponent get the exact same everything. You start in the exact same spaces across from each other and you move at the exact same speed right. There's absolutely no difference between you and your opponent. It's 100% symmetrical. If you lose you lost man. Now there's one more mode. You ready for this one? What is the one more mode? Let's go. Oh you can stop. It's perfect control mode. It's not even. We're just drawing.  You cannot kill me in this mode. But I want to show you something very interesting. So I can delete stuff.  This is like Mario Paint of the 80s. Alright now let's write pegs.  But I want to show you something very interesting. We can't move diagonal. There's another mode. Diagonal. Diagonal free drawing.


Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another Top 5 Friday. Sorry, there haven't been any videos this week. I'm still trying to get over cold. I got a little bit of congestion up here. My throat's kind of bothering me, but all that's starting to go away, so if I sound a little funny, that's why. First thing I want to talk about, if you look down below the video, you'll see a brand new join button. YouTube approved me for adding members now, so if you want to support the channel for $4.99 a month, you click on that, you get some generic icons or whatever you can use when we do our live streams or whatever, but that's really the only difference. That and you're going to get two extra videos a week that you normally wouldn't get here. So you'll still be getting movie reviews, book reviews, all the stuff that you normally get, all the stuff that the members are getting, completely new content stuff that I actually need the income to be able to provide for the channel and the community. But nothing is changing as far as if you like Edward Lauren channel the way it is right now. Nothing is changing whatsoever. So jumping in at number five on this list, we're going to do the top five tropes. Tropes isn't really the proper word here. I was looking it up on Wikipedia. Tropes is like a metaphor for something, a piece of dialogue or something or writing that's a metaphor for something. Tropes has become in the internet landscape of today, it has become like a storytelling device kind of deal. And Wikipedia does go over that also, but I'm going to label the video top five tropes even though tropes isn't the right thing just because it sounds better than top five story devices. The first thing is bad people getting their comeuppance. Any time that there's a group of bad people, like I love reading about thieves, murderers, criminals, serial killers from their point of view, I like getting in their head whether it be first person or close third person, I really like deep dives into a character that isn't the best. I'm super tired of reading about nice people or people who do the right thing. There's literally been hundreds of years of content for those type of people and it's only been within probably the past, I don't know, maybe 50 years there's been a rise in stories about bad people, just about bad people. I remember one of the first movies I watched that was in this theme was Mel Gibson's payback where he was a criminal and he was getting back at other worse criminals. I don't think he got what he deserved in the end, but I do like the stories where it's bad people against bad people and there's no real moral right or wrong area, it's all gray area, I really love those stories. Next up is anything coming of age, I like reading about kids who find out that the world is not perfect, I love reading about kids who that moment where they find out that they're not invincible, that they might, that we're all going to die one day, that coming of age, not the coming of age like sex, you know, the puberty, what not, of course that usually comes hand in hand, but there's a whole subgenre like on Amazon that's coming of age that's just new, not new adult, but like YA mixed with new adult, it's like YA with sex, very, very weird. But I think the characters are over 18 so it makes it okay, that kind of thing, I'm not sure where that gray area is, but I'm talking about things like Stephen King's It, Richard McCammon's Boy's Life, even Mystery Walk by McCammon, Summer of Night by Dan Simmons, and it doesn't have to be horror, Chad Lutsky, well people call Chad Lutsky a horror author, but he writes really good dramas about coming of age, and usually about, you know, it's a very weird circumstance, Foster Homes and Flies, Skull Face Boy, both of those are terrific coming of age books. Next up is any kind of fictionalized documentary, I like taking like a real subject and giving it some kind of twist, especially like Dan Simmons the Terror, and that'll come into my number one also, but Dan Simmons the Terror takes a real life expedition and fictionalizes it. Kea Wilson's We Eat Our Own is back there behind Pennywise, that was a fictionalized version of the filming of Cannibal Holocaust, excuse me, actually might not have been Cannibal Holocaust, it might have been, I can't remember exactly what hers is about, I don't think it was Cannibal Holocaust, it might have been, I just don't remember, so let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not I'm right or wrong, but any time you take a real situation and you put like either a supernatural spin on it or you change something to help the fiction to make it more interesting, you're adding some kind of element, I really dig that, what I don't like is like alternate histories like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, I mainly don't like that one because of the vampires, but that's not what I'm talking about, there has to be some real things going on, like 11.22.63 is another one, had there not been that huge chunk of romance right in the middle, I would have loved that book. Alright, next up, at number two we have Grief, my favorite authors as far as grief is concerned is Keelan Patrick Burke and Stephen King, they both do grief so tremendously well, they also build dread and there's a lot to be said about dread and grief and how those two things are so close together because grief builds dread and dread can build grief, it's that idea that something is coming or that something has already happened and you expect that to happen to everyone you love, it's that kind of thing, so dread and grief really, if I were doing like top emotions and I would add dread in there also, but grief, if someone has died in the story and someone is mourning them, I am showing up for that and finally, number one is cold weather, whether they be out at sea, whether they be up in the mountains, whether they be in Maine or whatever it is, anything with cold weather I love, the only thing that I've ever read that was based in the snow or the cold weather is that I didn't enjoy was Dreamcatcher, oddly enough, I enjoyed most of the stuff that happened in the cold weather and it's once a certain character dies and the military comes in that I stop enjoying the book, but Dan Simmons the terror, the abominable is another one I didn't like, but only because he really got bogged down into the minutiae of rock climbing or mountain climbing and bored the mess out of me and just about everybody who read it, it was interesting for a while and everything that happens on the mountain, any of the stuff that happens there was really interesting, really fun to read about, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the terror. Another one that I read that was in the cold weather, I think the North Water by Ian McGuire, is that it? Yeah, Ian McGuire was really good, just about anything in the cold weather as long as it sticks to the cold weather, I use a Bone White by Ronald Malfee, is another one that is just absolutely fantastic, but those are my picks for top five tropes or slash story devices, if you have a list let me know down in the comments below, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another Top 5 Friday, I'll talk to you guys later, bye bye!


If you look closely at a board's traces, you may be surprised at the variety of shapes and styles you find. Against the mostly straight lines, these folded curves look a little strange. But they start to make more sense when you consider the tight timing constraints required by the board's fast processor. With signals potentially operating in the gigahertz range, trace length becomes an important variable. If the trace is too short, you may have, say, a clock signal arriving too early at an input pin. So by simply extending the length of a trace, a signal can be delayed to better synchronize with the rest of the board and meet those tough timing constraints. And all those rounded corners ensure that the trace maintains a consistent width and consistent signal characteristics as a result.