So I have an update to a rumor we reported on last week It was kind of this one-off mention by Jeff grub Jeff grub is a journalist for venture beat. He also does his Jeff grub's game mess show over on twitch And he has been pretty much right on anything that he quote-unquote leaks out there cuz he waits So he's got verification. He's got proper sourcing He'll even mention sometimes things that he's hearing But he's not really that confident in and this was something he was confident in was that in a Event that Phil Spencer did a little bit ago that everything on his back shelf meant something Specifically he was focused a lot on what the Death Stranding character in the back meant with the potential partnership between Kojima and and Microsoft but He also kind of one-off said even the switch means something, but he doesn't know what and that sprung a whole much of speculation Including in our video. Hey, are we gonna get game pass or are we getting x-cloud because x-cloud is now Heading to PC with a game pass and like there's there's a lot of stuff happening even some Apple devices now have have it in beta So like there's been a lot of stuff happening With game pass and all that well today today Things get a little bit crazier with potentially a little more confirmation information although nothing is Technically announced at this point although maybe at this point to borrow that changes Although I don't think we're gonna hear anything about it yet because an announcement like game pass and x-cloud Coming to switch would be a massive deal that I'm sure Microsoft would want to work directly with Nintendo to potentially announce and Microsoft and Nintendo are both presenting at E3 so it would feel like a really cool Gamer moment to announce it at E3. So I don't think we're gonna hear about it anytime soon If that is what this partnership is, you don't know. I mean it could be anything, you know We talked about how hey, maybe they're bringing banjo-kazooie back and they're bringing it to switch Maybe they're you know, because it's been a rumor old age-old rumor about rare replay coming to switch Who knows it doesn't necessarily have to be game pass or x-cloud But what has people all in a tizzy today is there's a current event going on for Microsoft and the switch is part of the event Let's get into this But first thing I tell you hey look we're giving away a hundred dollars cash money We all could use an extra hundred bucks. I could use an extra hundred bucks But you know what I'm giving that hundred bucks to one of you guys So if you would like to win head down to the pink on it or the description to enter Let's move on it is our giveaway from the month of April. So What's happening is Microsoft has their game stack live event going on today and tomorrow This event basically is a developer event. So it's open only to game developers And it's really talking about a bunch of different technologies going on behind the scenes And all that jazz and what happened during this event is In the background of the event as Tom Warren tweeted out Oh look We have more items in the background of a Microsoft event and you see an Xbox series s an Xbox You know series s slash X controller along with the game stack hat and an Xbox series X Of course, so you're seeing their current systems. But wait, what's that on the third shelf? Why is there a series s a series X and then a Nintendo switch? What a Nintendo switch is in the background next to Microsoft's things during a game Developer only event ran by Microsoft Ho ho ho, huh? Yeah, like the game stack event is crazy because it goes in the deep technical dives and demonstrations of new tools in middle Where you know You're gonna get new exciting things from gate for game pass subscribers and all that jazz Microsoft doesn't do this stuff by accident What's been clear about Phil Spencer's background because if you guys don't remember the series s was actually in the background of a video Before it was unveiled and literally nobody saw it Maybe maybe because of the way it was position people thought it was an Xbox one s which is also white So it was kind of a clever thing where he hid it in there But you know at first glance you didn't think anything of it What's interesting here is Microsoft is Intentionally putting switch in the background of their videos And we don't know what this means but when when you hear about it at a game developer only event That sort of indicates that this is Something that isn't just them putting rare replay on switch or something right like yes They might do that but also why would it be in the background of a game developer event if that's what they're talking I want to be in the background because hey your games on game pass can also be on switch through xCloud Who that we're talking massively about xCloud and game pass services at this event? So it's an event that focuses on a lot of these technologies and these technologies could potentially be coming to switch Here's a switch in the background. Have a good day. We're not actually going to talk about why the switch is in the background Until we're ready to make the announcement or until Nintendo and then we're ready to make the announcement Yeah, this is Just further like when you saw the switch in the background of Phil Spencer's video Jeff Grubbs said it means something That's something literally could have been anything we speculated it meant game pass we speculated it meant xCloud Specifically on switch But we also mentioned or at least I mentioned in that video that that might not be what it is There's a lot of different things it could be but in this case in this situation in the background of a Game developer event that is focused heavily on xCloud and game pass Yeah, that's kind of Narrows down the possibilities So again, we don't have any confirmation. We're not gonna get confirmation again I think the earliest we see is an announcement at E3 where we know Microsoft and Nintendo are both attending and it would be a really Really cool announcement to either cap off Nintendo's conference or cap off Microsoft's conference Or maybe it's just something they jointly announced together on stage. Maybe they bring sugar Miyamoto out on stage although, you know Probably should be Doug Bowser and Phil Spencer, but I don't know if they're gonna go that route They might just go with sugar Miyamoto. We'll see but it feels and again on stage. It's gonna be a pre-recorded thing But I do think it's something that should Happen, I don't really see a reason for game pass to not come to switch Pretty much none of the games on game pass are on switch Some of the ones that are like doom eternal and obviously all the Bethesda games now that Microsoft owns Bethesda I mean you could still buy them locally for your switch which some people are gonna prefer to play it anyways But hey, if you have your switch docked at home Specifically if you have your switch docked at home and you're using the ethernet dongle like why the hell not Play game pass like xCloud works XCloud works great. Imagine that you could play MLB the show 21 on your switch through xCloud through game pass Imagine that you could do that Yeah, you'd only get 1080p. Yeah, you'd only get 60 fps. Who cares? Who cares you're getting the full might of Microsoft's library on switch Yeah, it's game streaming. Yeah, you can't take it with you on the go. It's compromise But think about that that is just Insanity to me and that seems to be at least heavily what's being hinted here without actually using the words again Yes, which was just in the background of a whole bunch of stuff with Phil Spencer and it meant something Jeff grub didn't really know what Now it's in the background of a developer event right next right well right above Technically the Xbox series X and series s like literally it's there as if it's another Microsoft platform It might be another Microsoft platform for game pass so again you guys Let me know what you think about this down in the console Is this something you even want to see happen? Is this something you're excited by? If I found footage of the actual event, I'll throw it up in here Otherwise you got screenshot with gameplay. I will be back on camera soon re-organizing the things in my office the Shot use shots you've seen in the past with the TV in the background to me That's kind of what future videos are gonna be like. I'm they're not really changing that style I'm just reorganizing a few things and I can't get the camera in its proper spot But that'll be fixed up a bit later today. So my next video should be just me on camera like normal Otherwise folks, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Thanks for all your support. Thank you for entering those giveaways I'll be we've had a slew of giveaways happening over on Twitter We have one going on right now for a $20 Nintendo switch e-shop give card You don't want to head over to at ninty prime on Twitter to enter that and find the post there for that Otherwise folks, thank you guys, and I'll catch you in the next video


What's up, how are you guys this week another Tuesday down at Frankie's free-range meat new here new meat I came up with that all on my own actually usually not that creative with stuff like that, but This might actually be one of the few weeks where I don't think we have any new products And but we do have a few re-stocks and some things you guys have been waiting for so let's take a look around So Monday through Wednesday, we're packing up most of the orders guys We sent out almost all of the meat orders yesterday here We have some of the eggs and we're gonna try to get the remaining eggs and Frankie's range foods orders out by tomorrow Wednesday, we're just waiting on a fresh egg delivery this week because you guys have been ordering a lot of them and I guess we Could take a quick look at the the food stuff the new bill tongue products So I'll show you guys these last week, but we got some new sizes in These were the garlic and herb beef sticks These are the regular classic beef sticks that have the typical bill tongue spices like coriander and clove What's new is in addition to the two ounce plain bill tongue flavor We got the eight ounce plain bill tongue So this is much cheaper overall like per pound if you guys want a larger amount of it same with the original flavor So we now have the two ounce original flavor, which is like coriander rosemary those typical bill tongue spices as well as the larger eight ounce bags Here we just got some of the banana rice crisp that we just made last week So if you guys want to try out the bill tongue the drawers beef sticks or the jerky We have the plain no salt salt and pepper teriyaki as well as steak seasoning check out Frankie's range foods calm Where we also have the eggs available in lower quantities. So if you guys don't want to order so many eggs at once We have them available in three six nine and twelve dozen increments Frankie's range foods calm Guess let's hop in the freezer and jog my memory of what came in last week So we have a lot of pork belly here And the reason I'm mentioning that is because there's gonna be a price increase Starting this year and unfortunately with like certain price increases once it gets over a certain amount per pound people kind of stop buying it So if you guys want to stock up on the Iberico pork bacon, this is the time we have a good amount in stock But maybe like two or three months from now. We're gonna have to increase the price when our vendor does More of a reason for me to really really really really need my own processing plant and a farm because you know These price increases aren't stopping guys, and I'm not making enough money. So To grow the business and keep providing you guys with high quality products Got to happen soon got to happen soon. So we got some of the vet steaks in stock last week I'm gonna do a video on showing you guys how to cook these because there are a little smaller This is actually two four ounce steaks in this package. So it's nice portion perfect for one person Hey, some of these strip steaks look pretty high marbling. It should be we haven't had the prime recently But T tender just came back in stock too. So we have two and a half pounds as well as three pounds These are like three or four nice fillets very affordable compared to filet mignon and very comparable Yeah, this is the Iberico pork bacon. You guys want to get some of this Before it increases in price. I think we're actually out of the beef testicles This is it and these are all accounted for so we do have the goat testicles lamb testicles as well as veal testicles in stock Which I actually prefer over over these but you guys like the beef to beef livery stock last week as well We have one pound portions and we're kind of low on ground beef outside of our wagyu, which is very affordable. This is only nine dollars a pound guys. So We have the wagyu ground beef 90-10 pretty lean actually if you guys want something Lamb hearts and lamb livers are actually the two main things that came in last week So we have plenty of one pound portions of lamb heart, which you actually can't really find online guys These are really affordable. We only charge like I think it's 12 or 13 dollars a pound The cheapest you'll find online is 20 dollars a pound Same with the lamb liver, you know, we have a very affordable price on the lamb liver Again, very very hard to find here's the Iberico pork belly and the whole slabs if you guys want to buy that as well Make your own bacon. So I guess I should mention we have a very high quality pet food grind just 100% raw grass-fed beef It's only like 550 a pound cheaper than any of the other raw pet foods online And we did run out of ribeye for a week or two, but we have some 100% grass-fed ribeye and stuff So if you guys haven't waiting to order the ribeye package, we got the nice one-inch thick cut steaks Plenty of the salmon caviar, and I think we ran out of the collagen broth already My guys are bringing out all the water keeper right now. You guys bought all of it. That's the pineapple Yeah, so that's kind of it on the meat end of things for this week. We are gonna have a big delivery I think on Thursday that's gonna be a lot of like portion ribeye steaks portion strip steaks at a really really good price So I'm excited to kind of relay those deals to you guys and it's definitely gonna be the most affordable steaks online There's also a lot of ground meat coming. So we're gonna have different 80-20, 85-15, 93-7 Just a nice restock for some things we've been missing lately So you saw my guy wheeling out the pineapple water keeper. This is the ginger that we just made today So this is gonna go on the website and it's probably gonna sell out within a day And I showed you guys the cheeses last week and the main thing is we don't have the regular cheddar We just have the A2 A2 farm cheddar, which is much more affordable This is $15 a pound and I actually just did a discount on the the gouda cheese and the Kobe which is not only $12 a pound and then of course we have our delicious 100% grass-fed roast beef cooked rare for you guys I don't know. We might give some of this away one week just to increase the sales volume You know thing is I'm trying to sell these A2 A2 cheeses for this farmer But you know you guys seem to like the European cheeses even though they're way more expensive So I don't really mind. It's just you know letting you guys know this is the local stuff if you guys do want to support that And the roast beef, you know, it's tough if I'm You know making that stuff every week and you guys don't buy it I just throw it out at the end of the week. So we'll see how that goes, but I'm hemorrhaging money anyway So I'm kind of over it organ supplements. I've showed you guys every week for like the past few weeks We got the new supplement line I think I'll show you guys my morning supplement routine on Thursday or Friday and I didn't want to mention I've been using the iodine lately for nasal flushes, which has really prevented me from getting sick Like I feel like an itchiness and my nasal cavity or like the back of my throat Or I'll feel like you know a little bit building up in my throat But as soon as I do the nasal flush with you know the iodine very very diluted in water feel a lot better We did a video on that on I don't know last year or something if you guys want to see how to do that The biggest sale this week is the Wi-Fi shielding clothing guys everything is 10% off You know the t-shirts are in the 50s the shorts I think are in the $20 range all of the joggers the you know the pants and the sweatshirts are heavily heavily discounted Same with the foldable canopies. So if you guys want to buy the Wi-Fi shielding stuff I guess you could say now is the time on Frankie's naturals Everything is in stock in the new larger four ounce containers at a much more affordable price I'm also reaching out to a few different companies that are making products that I can't really make whether it's like body wash shampoo or shaving cream that type of stuff Because you know I don't really sell that much of it and I rather just have a nice product to offer you guys Yeah, and I'll mention again We got the wagyu tallow available now a lot of the wagyu stuff was in a few weeks ago And we're also going to try to get the glands back in within a few weeks You know, I told you guys we're running out of the beef testicles. We ran out of the adrenal glands I'm pretty sure we ran out of the thyroid glands as well or Maybe not quite the adrenals yet, but we're definitely going to get a new shipment then hopefully within a month or two But as always, thank you guys for continuing to support the businesses if you go to frankdestofon.com You can see all of them with the unique and creative products that not everyone has copied yet. So Guys, please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below Subscribe so that YouTube cannot subscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos I'll see you guys soon


Thank you for staying with us on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa So finally we have Yamgul here in the studio He made it, let's happen to Yamgul this morning It doesn't sound like I was missing, missing person, missing adult I was about to put a flyer somewhere Well, I'm not late technically, first I know the late for church Now when he comes, I'm going to church this time So everybody that's on the school will do So let's just say that the match started And I'm here for the second half So I'll still do my bit as it is You still have a good time Well, very good morning to you and thanks for staying with us till this moment It's time now to take another very interesting topic Actually our first hot topic for the day And Serap have asked the World Bank to suspend loans to Nigeria's 36 States And we are glad to have with us here Barista Kolaouli or Luwa Dari The Deputy Director Serap Good morning and welcome to the program Good morning Let's just get this clear So that it doesn't become like a INEC issue, 36 States and Abuja You said the loans should not be given to the 36 States Is Abuja not in the free? Just start out Okay All right, now that we know that So how are you going to prosecute this case How are you trying to get this done Thank you very much This need not end up as another public interest situation Like we've always affirmed time and again The advocacy issues that we think of Advocacy on Transparency and Accountability Become matters of public interest litigation Because government and public institutions Will not throw the part of the rule of law And naturally as law abiding citizens We will end up in court And in this instance like we've always done I see no reason why this should become a subject of litigation It is merely a call to the World Bank To perform the statutory obligations to Nigeria as an equal partner In the committee of nations On the other hand, for the state government To also be responsible to obey the rule of law The various duties they owe to Nigeria I see no reason why this should be a subject of public interest litigation Is it that the World Bank would say That it doesn't mind how these loans That is granted to Nigerian states That have been spent Or would the government perhaps say That spending this huge sum of money Without being transparent And accountable to the people Sometimes some frivolities justify it I cannot see anything in fact of law Where this should end up in court And that's why ultimately Compatuals like this are important for citizens To own these as it were And to be able to co-bell Each of these public issues Just including the World Bank and its affinities To do the writing in these circumstances But what really informed you You're going to court because of this Because everybody will They will tell you The people who you are trying to stop Will tell you that everybody borrows Before you could do anything meaningful For your state or your country For that matter And then was it on the premise That you know that the six states Can sustain themselves With the right capacity to sustain themselves Without having to borrow Because if they cannot do that without borrowing Then it will make no sense This issue is not about borrowing In the strict sense It is actually a matter of expenditure That is the use of public funds No matter the source Of those public funds But in this instance for context We do know that the bulk Of the public expenditure So finance in Nigerian projects Really those of the states Are also borrowing Fark allocations Are not really being Not much and aggravated as it were Even so the fark allocations Are also source of borrowing And the idea of those states Are not doing as well as they should That now brings us to the issue Of the source of those loans And the duty and obligations That the World Bank All the Nigerian people Through the various conventions And treaties that Nigeria has ratified So for instance For the proper context of this conversation It is not wrong And we are not saying Government or the states In this instance should not borrow But that borrowing was done Within the context of the rule of law And there are various laws That guide both the borrowing And the spending Spending being the most important aspect In this conversation Because if we spend Invexing the inefficiently There should be no need to borrow And if you have to borrow You will be justified So in case of point We will be fiscal responsibility That provides clearly What the means of borrowing In fact, it mandates The federal government and the states To carry out a cost-benefit analysis Before any borrowing And that borrowing Should primarily be For the expenditure But how can you justify The purchase of over 400 million Pull-and-truth cards From the chief of staff In Lagos state In the midst of growing poverty Will you justify that? Or it's really well that The pop of those What's about Is justifying And the previous expenditures That we've seen Across the states Are indebted to the world bank And is affinate To not justify the reality Of the borrowings Particularly in the life Of the people And that's why we're calling On the world bank That's the responsible organization In this instance To ensure That they are transparent And are collaborative mechanisms And in this instance To give it To do what I do For it at the door To ensure that Those funds are being Juditiously spent With the present facts In the property domain As they are now Those funds Are being spent In free-for-loss In free-for-loss ways Including for Recurrent expenditures Payment of pensions To former governors In the deputy Payment of security votes And what not And the paper expenditure Sometimes are over-inflated We've seen in the case Of Lagos data Nearly all the states In the engineer Orchids A civil society Organization Released a report You can check it On their open-gov website You would see The details Of the budget Of each of these states And you would wonder What are these funds for And you would look At the growing level Of poverty in these states You cannot max the borrowing Even the basis Of the borrowing And development in these states Which is why In World Bank Asked to work Your life These responsibilities To ensure That in the county Who will ultimately Pay back these funds And not taking for a ride We've seen in the In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous In the previous త్వ్ల్నూటికొలంవార్స్నైగ్ంకిసంట్కొట్గ్ల్ర్. న్డివాంట్లిత్కె మోట్ల్ల్నో. ὤ្្蟶 ៻៻៱៑៉ ៴៻៼�washʋ៲-៳ក� Pastor ៻៷៱៭៸ក៱ ៱៱ẇ៬៸�官 ៷៸៱x ៸៻ ៸៼! ៸៸ Wheels � Balka ៸៸᲋៸ ៴YYaj ៸ar it is for the office of the chief of staff and not for the chief of staff himself so they can actually argue that they are using these monies that they get as loans fine I understand that we shouldn't borrow more than we're spending we should find a way to cut our costs however what if they argue with you and maybe we have like a litigation case whereby they are saying they are actually spending judiciously because you can say that this spending is frivolous but they can also argue that this spending is judicious since then we took two courts I will call one the court of public opinion and then the second will be the court primary of judiciary as the questioner has given the judiciary in our power now we want to see the governance they explain to their citizens some of the ends of course in the various budgets of the state which again makes this kind of conversations very important if people have access to these budgets and scrutinize the various budget lines these questions will be asked so why are these things happening in the government state because people can see now these government is pouring to the authorities to be justified under the face of great poverty 70% of the millions are poor so why can't you justify buying such a jeep that's for the office because of great poverty it's just not justified it's for the government that has sworn to less millions of dangers of poverty it's not justified it is really not justified if they can convince Sarah by the way these governments can convince the citizens of their state that this spending is in their interest it belongs to people and that is why if we go to court and don't forget the court represents the people that's why the court is called the last of the common man so on behalf of the people the court determines that these spending are justified but let's repeat we are bound by the view of the court in any regard because of public opinion like a major linear even Nigerians think that this spending is justified they don't say why this is not and you can see the reactions to those things that come out from the spending of the various states and people are angry people are calling for asking questions and they are here to see any public officer if they can justify this spending it just doesn't matter how can you spend two billion dollars to purchase rechargeable funds to the office of the deputy governor in a state where people are really poor where there are still bad rules where all of the schools most of the schools are low eventually we will have to wrap up here at this point because of time we would have loved to ask you so many other questions especially like how is the federal government connected to this case because we here 36 states and the federal government is borrowing even more than the states put together when they promise that they are not going to borrow and so many other things around it but we do hope that you get a win for this because it's the fight for the common man now we are not so sure that the courts are the last hope of the common man but we will still keep fighting and fighting all the time thank you so much Barista for coming on the show thank you thank you very much thanks on the opportunities we are talking with Barista Kola Wale Oluwadari deputy director at SERAP and we are going to take a short break and when we return we will be looking at COP 28 say with us


So we've already gone through some of the rules of, you know, how you add and subtract. If you have two things added, subtract it together with equal sign, how you would solve for a variable. We've done multiplication division. We've done exponents and radicals, right? And we talked about cross multiplication, where it's just sort of a tool that you can use to help you out in solving equations, when you get larger equations, more complicated equations. One thing we really haven't talked about is what's the big deal about solving equations. Why are we learning this? And this is something that is rarely talked about before you get into this stuff. Usually, you know, in most curriculums that I've seen, they actually, you know, teach you how to solve equations. And they tell you what it is that you're solving for, why you learned this technique, right? It's like adding and subtracting, you know, think about solving equations as, you know, the first time you learn how to add and subtract or multiply and divide, right? You had to, you know, you're pretty rusty at it at first, and then slowly, once you got it down, it was, you know, just like riding a bicycle, you don't forget how to add, you don't forget how to subtract. You might forget how to multiply and divide, but adding and subtracting, you never forget, right? Solving equations is the same thing. This is sort of the core of mathematics, when you're going to analyze functions, where you have to solve equations. So solving equations, the reason we're going to learn this technique is, you know, if you can think about every equation as basically a function. For example, we've already talked about simple equations like 2x plus 1 is equal to 0, right? And we solve for this. You bring the 1 over, it becomes negative 1 divided by 2, so x is equal to negative a half. But what is it exactly here that you're solving for? This isn't unknown. It could be anything. But the way it works is, every equation that you see, when you see 0 on this side, think of this as another variable. This is your function that you're forcing for it to be equal to 0.  Don't worry about it. We will get into it at some point. But basically, functions are an equation you come up with where you say, this thing varies based on this. So this 0 here, you can think of as y. Okay. Better yet, better symbol than y is f of x because it gives you more information. So for those of you who've gotten into functions where you're using f of x, stop using y, this is way more powerful. And later on, we will talk about this. But for now, while we're solving equations, the way you should think about this is, you're solving this equation for when y is equal to 0. So what you're doing is, you're forcing this thing to be equal to 0 and then solving for when, what x has to be for y to be equal to 0. And in the first series, we talked about x and y. And x and y are just a coordinate system. So this is your Cartesian coordinate system. You have your x-axis here. You have your y-axis here. And your y-axis is really f of x. Hopefully you can see this.  So what you're doing here, if your function was y is equal to 2x plus 1, usually you put the y on this side, by the way, but we're doing it this way for now. So y is equal to 2x plus 1. This is a linear equation. A linear equation means a line for those of you who've gotten into linear equations. One question that I've asked a lot of students in the past is, what's a linear equation? A linear equation is a line. So this graphs a line that we will get into as well later on. But what this does is, you're forcing y to be equal to 0. We've talked about before in the first series, when y is equal to 0, you're on the x-axis. If this is a coordinate system, if you take a point here, that's your x and your y. Well, y is positive here going up, negative here going down, x is negative this way, positive that way. At the pivot here, you're at 0, 0. This 0 means the y. When you move this way, the y doesn't change, it's still 0. So when you're solving for equations, what you're doing is, forcing y to be 0, and you're asking yourself, when is this function, when is this equation, equal to 0 for what values of x? And what that gives you is, where you cross the x-axis for your function. Now, this is a line, the y-intercept is 1, and your slope is going to be 2 over 1, 1, 2 over 1. Your y-intercept, your x-intercept is going to be here, which is, if we solve this equation for y is equal to 0, we're forcing y to be 0. That means we're forcing y to be 0, and we're trying to find out what x is when y is equal to 0. And when we solve for this, we're going to get a negative of half, and that's where the x-intercept is. So for all of these questions that we're getting, when they're asking you to solve an equation, what they're asking you to do is solve for the x-intercepts. And there are numerous, numerous ways, later on in high-level mathematics, all they're going to say is solve for this equation. But there are different terms that mean the same thing. Solving is the same thing as finding the x-intercepts, finding solutions, finding roots when it comes to quadratic or higher-degree functions or higher-degree equations. So solve, let's see, do we have enough room here? Solve means x-intercept, and finding the roots means finding the zeros. All of these things are asking you the same thing, and solving is getting a solution for something. All of these things are asking you the same question. They're asking you to find out when you're crossing the x-axis, no matter how complicated the function gets. This is just a linear equation that could give you a quadratic equation. So when they give you a function like this, this represents a quadratic function. The quadratic function is, for this it would be a problem, because that thing is positive. What you're doing is, when they give you a question like this and they say solve for this, and in general functions put over here, when they actually want you to solve for this, they'll put the zero on this side. They mean the same thing, it doesn't make a difference if you put equal zero here or equal zero here. So what they would do is say, solve this equation, and what you're doing is, try to find out what x is when y, when the function is equal to zero. So when you're crossing the x-axis. And that's what we're doing when we're solving equations, and the tools that we learned of how to move things around when they're added, subtracted together, multiplied, divided together, or exponents and radicals. Those rules that we learned are going to help us, you know, solve equations which are going to be later on when we're going to start talking about functions. They're going to have meaning for us when we're trying to interpret the functions. Now, that's why we're learning this stuff, that's why we're about to go into this whole series of solving different types of equations. And what I'm going to do is, I'm going to go through this stuff really fast, okay, because there's a lot of material. When I decided to talk about this, I opened up a gigantic can of worms. Because, you know, you can start with linear functions, go to quadratic functions and cube functions and higher degree functions. And, you know, every level is just a little bit more complicated. A few more rules get added on for you to be able to solve for the equations, because it's not as simple as just getting x by itself on this side, right? Because if you remember your exponents and radicals, you can't add this guy and this guy together. So, it's just by, you know, moving things around, you're not going to be able to get x equals the number. This has two solutions, or a maximum of two solutions. Or, yeah, maximum of two solutions. There's different techniques for solving this equation than there is for linear functions, such as, you know, two x plus one is equal to one, or is equal to zero when you're solving for it, right? So, this one is really straightforward. All you do is just move this stuff around and divide. You're done. For this one, you can't do that. You have to factor this equation. And the way we're going to deal with that is, use a property of zero where it tells us the only way that you can get any type of equation equal to zero if things are being multiplied together, if one of the terms is zero. But we'll talk about that as well in this series, or in these batch of videos that's coming up. And that's the reason why we're solving equations. It's sort of a precursor for us to be able to deal with functions. Super powerful, super important. So, basically, one of the first steps we get into when we're analyzing functions, when we're creating models, when we're, you know, trying to make predictions or trying to understand some kind of system.


I'm, as I said, I'm a forest oncologist so I'm mainly looking at the impact of logging on the resilience of tropical forest. We have two presentations, one yesterday it was about the contribution, the possible contribution of forest management into the small farm system in the Amazon. We were coordinating, I was coordinating a project in the Brazilian Amazon looking at the contribution of forest management into the incomes of the small farmers. Something that is very important in the Brazilian Amazon because first the forest the forest code required that each farmer must preserve at least 50% of its land into forest land and also because those small farmers are all more than 12 million hectares of forest and then all the problematic is to know how they could get money from this forest. I was moderating this morning a session about the resilience of managed and logged over forest in the tropics so we are building up a network, an international network, including the Amazon basin, the Congo basin and Southeast Asia and we are working with permanent sample plots that has been set up for some of them 30 years ago and they are monitoring the dynamics of the forest after logging and we are looking in each region how those forests respond to logging and to climate change. First it was to emphasize the importance of the role of forest in small farmers in the Amazon and put some numbers. We have a lot of study emphasizing the importance of forest but we have very few study saying how much a forest can can earn for the small farmers. So it was for me important to be to this session yesterday which was a session actually of presentation of a book that will be published by the WFSE project from Eufro which would be published and launched in the next work Forestry Congress in 2014. For my expert in them from the Brazilian Amazon I think one of the main challenge what we what we know already is that even the deforestation rate in Brazil has decreased tremendously but because of control but also repression from the government state. Now I think that the second phase would be to promote forestry for small farmers because some studies seems to show that big farmers already adapted to the new requirement of the government but for small farmers they don't have any choice. If we want to promote some alternative we will have to support them in terms of training but in terms also of feelings of feelings and one of the main challenge I think for the Brazilian Amazon is to develop forestry for small farmers which has particular characteristics and so far the forest regulation is mainly adapted to big company which cover with the big areas of concession.


Hello, everybody, Andrew my asking here with dental L. So this is not tutoring related It's more dental professional related. So I had found this great product that you can paint your nails at home and the nails will not chip. So I'm one of those people where I always have nail polish on I would put nail polish on easy, but then I would have to keep retouching it retouching it or just having to redo them like twice a week. Until I found some gel nail polish off of Amazon. That was pretty good, but it can get pricey because the bottles are so tiny. You need a base coat. You need the Polish color. You need the top coat. You need a light and it's very difficult to take the nail polish off where I swear I was damaging my nails to take it off. Until a patient of mine actually a good friend and a patient had introduced me to a new company. Where I love it. And that's why I'm talking about it because I can't be the only dental professional out there that wants to have nice nails right Plus, we're in a pandemic. So a lot of people don't want to go out really if they don't have to You can do it at home and it's so easy. All you need is a light and like, look how cute. This is you need a polish color and to take it off. I use this stuff. So you don't have to use this. You literally paint it on your nails. Oh, here. Sorry, guys. Let me show you guys you paint it on your nails. It takes about 15 minutes and then it just kind of peels off. So it's really nice. They also have though gel remover like pads that you can use. But this is just so easy that I much prefer this. But let me show you guys a little bit about it. So here are my nails. Okay. Notice how I have a longer one here. So they're pretty short because I was I was biting them too much. So they look pretty bad actually now. So give me a week and I will show you guys what they can look like. But This has been on for two weeks, maybe actually two weeks and like two days, but look, they still look pretty good. Right. You might notice there's no nail polish on this one, but I had taken it off on purpose because I was showing people how to use this and then you'll also notice this one is longer. Right. I did this myself. So my natural nails are like this short. Sorry. I don't even know if you guys can see that very well. Sorry. But then I did this one myself. Check that out. It looks pretty good practice makes perfect. But let me tell you guys how I did that. I bought these little Like nail templates where I literally just put it on my nail. It goes right underneath And then you just kind of hold it like this and then you paint upwards with your polish. The nice thing about this polish is you don't need a top coat either. So it's super easy. This will last you forever. It's non toxic. 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So I took a couple pictures of how I did it. So here's my natural nail. You put it on. See how it's a little bit bigger longer already they could technically be longer, but I don't want my nails that long. My sister would probably have them that long. But um yeah and just see I did have to obviously shorten it, but look how short my nails are And then I made them longer and it looks really, really nice when I had my nails done. I don't know, like two years ago. It was $80 and I had gel polish and they made them longer. So how cool is that And this obviously isn't $80. So it's so much nicer to have it at home. As I said, you guys, I list the products here. There's so many different colors, even if you just try one polish, you will be addicted All you need is the light a polish and done. I did put this together for you guys. 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Here she is, Helen Faulkner, telling us something about Debian in Skynes Research. I think it's quite easy to tell that this is the last session, and that half the conference is already left, but that's life, and I'm really enjoying my new email address. For anyone who hasn't figured that out, and I might almost be tempted to go and hug Elmo again, except that I'm scared that he'd take it away from me, so maybe I won't. You're right, I could do. Now, how do you work this? Magic. Okay, so about me. I'm a physicist. I do academic research. I'm at the beginning of my career, hopefully to be a shining one, and mostly I do optics, mostly theory, mostly focusing on electron microscopy, which is entertaining and useful sometimes. Most of my work is theoretical, but I've done a bit of experiment in the last few years when I was living in the UK. And my research is, to put it as simply as you can, it's about seeing small things, looking inside really, really small things like crystals or proteins and seeing what the chemical structure of those is. And I just love this cartoon. How many people here are involved in science? Anyone? A few of you. Oh, that's great, because I was really, really hoping that lots of the people who showed up would be people who have opinions about this stuff. I've used Debian for a few years now since I gave way to my housemates' urgings and said, all right, will you shut up if I let you install it? And he did, and the rest is history. I got much more heavily involved with Debian about a year ago, thanks to the Debian Women Project and the early controversy which surrounded it. And mostly I use Debian for my research. That's what I mostly use the computer for, that and IRC, of course. And I'm really interested in making Debian more useful, easier to use for science research because I think it's such a great operating system with such potential for science. And one of the reasons is that there's a really clear match in philosophy, in my opinion, between science and free software. Scientists, research scientists, we're used to collaborating with people to achieve a common, sometimes a very far-off, goal. We're absolutely used to building on the work that people have done before us. It's often extremely incremental. We're used to sharing our work so that other people can build from it. And we're used to making judgments about each other and ourselves based on the quality of the work that we do and to knowing that our success is very strongly connected to our reputation as a good scientist or as a bad scientist. And everything depends on that funding, getting a job, being able to do the research that you want to do, depends on having a good reputation. And I think that's not unlike the free and open source software community. So scientists really already understand very well and agree with the philosophy of the open source movement. If we didn't agree with it, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing. And I think that that means that Linux is a very natural choice for scientists to use in the computer work that we do. And of course, Debian is the best distribution out there. So the question is, why don't all scientists use Debian? I'm not gonna tell you actually, I want you to tell me. But here's what I think. What do scientists want out of an operating system? Well, I wrote down the stuff. That's not all showing, is it? Oh, that's bad. Can you scroll? Well, I can't see it here, I don't remember what it was. Yes, but there's at least one other point. That's a problem. Okay, we have a problem with the, possibly with the difference in resolution between this screen and my screen. Yeah. All right, so I'll be guessing the bottom point on every slide from here on, but we can deal with that. Okay, so I sat down and thought, oh, what do I want as a scientist? And the first thing that I need for my work, which is mainly theoretical, is a coding environment and compilers for the languages that I'm using. And I know that lots of people might laugh at me for admitting it, but I grew up writing physics code in Fortran. And there's a whole lot of people still doing that because there's such a wealth of numerical libraries for Fortran, and it's fast and it's easy. And then I've since coded in C++ mainly because I thought it would be entertaining to switch without having any idea of how difficult that would be, but that's a few years past and I've sort of gotten my head around it. The other language that the people that I've worked with have used extensively is MATLAB. And again, because it's so easy, it's high level. You don't have to think about the grotty details and I mostly don't want to know about the grotty details. The next most important thing that I need is graphing programs which will handle really large data sets, which I collect with my research and produce plots that I can whack into papers easily without mucking around for hours and hours. I want access to high level languages or scripting languages or things within the graphing programs that allow me to do sophisticated or interesting analyses of my data so I can pull out the information that's in it, get the results that are in there. And of course, I need to use latech or sometimes word processors. In physics anyway, there are some journals which will only accept Microsoft Word documents as paper submissions. So mostly I use latech when I can, but I can't always. So we need this stuff for writing papers and for writing talks, I usually use open office but you need some sort of presentation. I often hear it asserted that open office is not on. It says it's on, oh there we go, it's just the levels. I often hear it asserted that open office produces word document format, that is good enough but sometimes academic publications have extremely strict standards. Is it your experience that openofficeproduces.doc files that they can't tell you're not using Microsoft Word and that they find acceptable for print publication? In my experience, it's 95% likely to do so and I admit that my computer, my laptop is dual boot and I check it in Microsoft Word first before sending it if it's important. If it's something that's not very important, I don't bother but if it is important or if it's complicated because I still find sometimes that I open my Word document that was saved in open office in Microsoft Word and the pictures have moved or the formatting has gone a bit funny somewhere or an equation hasn't come out or something stupid like that. So it's close but it's not quite there. Ditto shifting between open office impress and PowerPoint is the same, it's close but in my experience it's not quite there. I haven't tried open office too. That might be better, I don't know. Hopefully they've rectified some of those and people in the scientific community in particular can, we can get them involved in reporting bugs and trying to resolve that. Of course Microsoft will move the bar again their next release but you know. Yeah, of course. Okay and the last thing that I need is access to the specialist software that applies to my field and this is not necessarily going to be available for Linux. That's in fact the main reason why my computer is dual boot in that I have to be able to write digital micrograph scripts. This is a scripting language that you use to talk to an electron microscope. It's very broadly used in my field. It's dead easy to write scripts in but it's not available for Linux. So that ties me to using Windows at least some of the time and I think that a lot of scientists are actually in that position. And one of the implications of this is that I often want to be able to use software which is available for Linux and Windows so that when I'm stuck in Windows for a day because I'm doing mostly digital micrograph scripting I can do the other stuff that I'm also doing in Windows as well. So I mean open office is good for that. I mean obviously latex is fine as long as you've got reasonable editing environment on both sides and so on. In terms of the broader features, broader things that I think scientists want or that I want, I want stuff that just works. I would much rather be doing physics. It's more interesting than trying to figure out what on earth this thing is doing that's just died on me and why it's died and then writing a bug report and then having the maintainer of the package get back to me to say I've got no idea what you're talking about. Can you please clarify? And then I try again and then, you know, I'd rather be doing science. I want software which is easy to find. I spent, I don't know how many hours, ages really, tracking down different plotting programs, trying to find something that would plot a three-dimensional data set. And I tried, I don't know, lots of different things. Everything that I could find that was available in Debian except for the ones that have a really scary command line interfaces because I don't like those. I ended up packaging Labplot because there was nothing really good but you know, this to me is the issue of having to hunt through so many different packages to find the one that actually works for you. To me is a big hassle. I would rather have gone to a website and had someone say, yeah, you should use Labplot. You know, then I could do more physics.  Say, look, no, you don't have to pay for a license. No, it's free. Give it to your students, all that. I think that's a massive advantage of free software for science. And all right, as I was saying, I want software that's available for Windows. I don't use a Mac, but some people would, but for Windows and Linux so that I can use it myself and so that I can obviously save something as a PowerPoint presentation and email it to my boss who doesn't have open office or whatever. That last slide says anything else. I want to know what other people want. One thing that I've seen needed in my meteorological environment of the moment is small tutorials. People find the software and maybe there's a huge manual. Maybe there's a complicated common line interface. They have no idea if it does what it needs. Maybe if they find it useful, they read the whole manual, figure it out, do lots of stuff, but having like a two page, like do this, this, this, this, this, and see the results just to have an idea of the whole philosophy is really important. It's usually done by peers. Like do this, do that. Oh nice, oh yeah, okay, oh it does like this. Yes, great. But it's rarely found on a piece of document. Maybe useful stuff for that would also be things like screenshots on web pages to say this is what you can produce with this piece of software. I know I find those useful when I can find them. I'm into electronics. And there's a lot of software for electronics in Debian and in Linux in general. And I feel that the thing that's missing is that it should be all integrated. If you want to do something, you have to take parts from all different places. You have to use like 10 different packages and each package works differently so you need to convert one format to the other and it takes a lot of work because it's not integrated. I feel that in my field, that's the main lack. Do you think it would be possible to coordinate the packages either at the Debian level or communicate with the upstream developers of those packages to achieve greater integration? I think that the problem is actually upstream. It's not at Debian level because they are so different that it's difficult to integrate it at Debian level. Yeah, we should talk to upstream and work on that direction. Is it mostly a problem with file formats? Sort of, no, there are different things because sometimes it's file format, sometimes it's lack of data for a certain program. You need like, for example, the definition of the components and one program has some components and the other has some other components and that's tough. Yeah, fair enough. I guess wish list bugs might help but I also think, as far as I can tell with the very little specialized things, it's often someone writing the thing that he or she needs for their own research and if they don't want to use the stuff that you want to use it with then they don't have motivation to spend lots of their research time writing the component that does that. Yeah, maybe we can talk to people more about it. Also, there are some programs missing in Debian which has programs for clusters which is, for example, QS systems similar to PBS. As far as I know, there are no such programs in Debian. There is ITP but no packages. Also, we needed a Globus toolkit. We tried to compile it in Debian but it uses Java and we just failed to compile it and we needed to install Red Hat and there was also a problem that some complex programs only have RPM packages and it is not trivial thing to compile them for Debian. Okay, the one I'm aware of is a thing called ImageJ which does image manipulations and calculations on the data and I've thought about packaging it a couple of times but it's Java and I'm scared of it. But that I would like to see in Debian. I just make a comment about the batch schedulers and then also grid middleware like Globus toolkit and stuff like that is that typically on different clusters people have their own setups so coming up with a package to fit all of these different sites would be quite difficult and also if you've probably installed PBS it's sometimes just easier to install it and then forget about it. Then regarding the grid middleware or grid software people work on these things but then when they apply for funding to work on these things they don't consider things like packaging. So you have people who are writing software and then they package software but they don't they package in a format which is or they make a package that works but not a package that is let's say nice. Running a few clusters on Debian there is a packaging of OpenPBS Torque but it isn't in Debian proper but there is a third party packaging for Debian. Also you can find versions of Globus for Debian just not from the main site. A couple of the centers that do run Debian actually republish their packaging of common cluster software under Debian as Debian packages. I think one thing that would probably be really very very nice indeed when it comes to scientific software not just in Debian but outside Debian is if scientific software held the same standards of quality as any other piece of software. I've spent far too much of my life firstly trying to find out how this stuff is supposed to work at all secondly trying to work out how they ever thought it could have worked because it plainly can't possibly. And thirdly these pressing things seems to be that on the whole scientists can't write software. And possibly shouldn't be allowed to write software a lot of the time. There's a lot of scientists with no formal training in software writing. And unfortunately we end up with a huge pile of software and people find it easier to rewrite rather than to try to get somebody else's software working. Possibly just forming a good pool of easily available scientific software would do something to alleviate that if people could make it. If people had some expectation that they could install a piece of scientific software and then modify it for their own needs or just use it for their own needs then they may be less inclined to spend months writing grant proposals in all suspends years rewriting it. Yeah that's a very sensible idea. Okay so I said down to write down what I think of the pros the benefits for using Debian for science research. And I mean the first obvious one is that there are a lot of packages. If you want something chances are there's already one of those in Debian. And this is good. And Debian gets flack because it's supposed to be too difficult but actually I think that most scientists or scientifically minded people can deal with the level of complexity of the Debian installer. And that's not an insurmountable problem for most people. Certainly in physics most physicists are very geeks at heart. I think that would be a bit different in some of the software sciences psychology for example. There might not be so many people with the computer skills required to install and run Debian. And one of the other benefits is that certainly some of the software available in Debian or Philonix generally is better than what you can get for Windows or for Mac. I'm all about KDevelop. I use that as my development environment and I think it's much better than the environments I used in Windows in the years before I switched to Debian. There are other examples. Debian is cheap, download costs really or the cost of a CD. And this really matters to students and also for people like me and early career researcher. I don't have much funding. When I have students I need to provide software for them. There won't be much money to do that. So Debian is really good from that point of view. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars in licensing costs for some obscure piece of graphing software. And also Debian is sticking around. It's not going to be gone in five years. So you know that you can start someone off on a PhD. They're going to be three or four years maybe longer. The software will still be around. Hopefully it will still be maintained. Hopefully. You know that Microsoft is not going to stop supporting it. So I think that there is a time investment involved in learning to use Debian if you haven't used it before especially if you haven't used Linux before but I think that that's going to pay off in the long run. Does anyone else have other? That was my list. Does anyone else have other ideas of what the advantages are using Debian for research?  I mean there's nothing else good about it. Yeah. Debian tends to have installation tools a bit more advanced than others like FAI. And when you have to reinstall all the labs or something like that you can build a bit larger infrastructure than that. And while I work in a Fedora environment and well now they've been spending like three months to test the new Fedora Core 4 if it's going to be any decent or not. And then they will have to like install it machine by machine spend like a month on it and they're going to be quite hit by it. Okay. Yeah, that's right. That is an advantage. So the disadvantages I thought of. The first one is that there are a lot of packages and you can spend a long time fishing around for the one that is actually going to be useful for you. And it can be sometimes very difficult to find to get any sort of measure of the quality of any particular package in Debian. I think we need to give them stars or something.  And also it's true that some of the software in Debian as far as I know is actually not as good as the non-free alternatives. And the one that really springs to mind that I'm aware of is MATLAB. As far as I know, Octave, are you going to disagree? I'm not expert, but my impression is that Octave doesn't really compare.  Could you please explain why you say that Octave doesn't really compare? I have to admit that I haven't used Octave, but I've asked people about it. And at the last time I looked at the MATLAB development environment, which was MATLAB 6 or so, I was staggered by how much it had improved since I used it as a student. It's really, really easy. It's something that you can let a student with no programming experience loose on and they'll be able to work it out. Well, Octave is pretty stable, pretty freezed, but you have the Octave Forge part, the one that's developed in SourceForge. And they really work a lot to keep up with MATLAB new functions and everything. And at least as far as I've needed to use it, and I've used it quite a lot for different subjects at university, it has never failed to do anything, everything I needed to do for my subject. Maybe in some specific field, it might not fulfill the needs, but I really feel it's good enough. Okay, that's good to know. I disagree. I use, so everybody I work with in machine learning uses MATLAB. And I thought, well, fair enough, I'm gonna switch to Octave. There's very little support for sparse data matrices. And if you're working on huge, huge data sets with like several million features, you need to use the sparse matrix toolkit, which is there in MATLAB, but isn't there an Octave yet? People are supposed to be working on it, but in the year and a half that I've been looking at this, nothing has been done. There are various other functions that exist in MATLAB that I try to use that exist in MATLAB, but don't exist in Octave. So for instance, when somebody gives me a large MATLAB program that they've written, I can't run it in Octave. Without going back, editing it, hopefully stuff will actually be there in Octave, maybe having to rewrite functions that are built in in MATLAB. Octave for many years was much slower than MATLAB. Recently, it's been not so bad. You can do some really cunning stuff with Atlas and stuff like that to make it run faster. And then it does run very fast, but I've never succeeded in getting that to work. Like I put several hours into trying to compile the relevant stuff, and no. Yeah, I've used both the standard Octave stuff and Octave forage, yeah. And I find it incredibly frustrating because everybody I work with uses MATLAB and the compatibility is not there and the speed is not there, the sparse matrix support isn't there, there are many other functions that just aren't there and maybe it's okay for some fields, but certainly for machine learning, it's not. And that's a really big problem, machine learning. So probabilistic modeling, Bayesian probability but for practical tasks basically, yeah. So we need a lot of finding probability distributions, we need a lot of sparse matrices, that kind of stuff. Yeah, did you want to say? Well, yeah, I mean, the basic problem is just this, that there are these big standard libraries of functions for machine learning and most people just don't care or have never tested whether they work with Octave. So it's maybe not that difficult to fix each individual bit of program to work, but you'll then end up spending your whole research time fixing other people's code and they probably won't even want to take the changes back. Sure, MATLAB is available for Linux, isn't it? Yeah, so it's just a question of forking out for the license. Yeah, I want to agree with the last opinion. I've been used MATLAB a lot in my investigation and so and it doesn't reach the level we need, it lacks a simulink, the libraries lack a lot of functions and work very differently and it doesn't reach the level. All the people I know that uses Linux at the university for this are using MATLAB for Linux, not Octave. So maybe we really need to warn people that if their research is very dependent on MATLAB, they're gonna have a problem with Octave before they waste weeks trying. Great if there was a document around actually detailing the differences between MATLAB and Octave and saying which things aren't supported and Octave. But the problem is the people who actually have that knowledge are too busy publishing papers to actually write such a document. So I think there is definitely a need for that but I don't know anybody who has time to do it. Yeah, so going on, for me, I have problems in my research because I need to use proprietary software. I spoke earlier about digital micrograph which is only available for Windows and for Mac.  That means I need a dual booting laptop. It's not the end of the world. Cross-compiling my code so that my colleagues can run it on their Windows machines has been much more entertaining. And I think I've gotten it beat now but it was difficult and I think that we could probably do better at, again, maybe producing, maybe I should write a how-to, producing documentation so that people who need to do this for their research and I think it can't be that uncommon. It can get some information about whether it's likely to be practical or whether it's likely to be easy for them to do or if it's going to take weeks or whatever. Does anyone else here cross-compile? No, am I the only person insane enough to agree to do that? All right, well, okay, so let's grab that. Another problem that I think is possibly more significant is that you go to the IT person in your department and say, oh, I'm running Debian and they say what? Actually, I was very impressed when I started at Monash recently that the IT guy was able to point me to a webpage which claimed to give instructions for setting up the email stuff in the email system for Linux. It didn't work, but at least there was something there. But actually, in practice, not all scientists want to support their own systems, especially not their system and the system of the five students under them which is likely to get broken because students mess around with computers. Well, yeah, you may not even be allowed to, even if you'd like to. So this is a problem. I was just gonna say, I mean, certainly in the department where I work, this is kind of an interesting one because, I mean, their Windows is unsupported as well, but in the standard system is some kind of weird forked stuff from Red Hat. But that means again, in that situation, people are actually less likely to want to go for a Debian system just because they've already got this mostly working system. And even though people with, I mean, well, I don't know whether it's the problems with the Red Hat or the problems with the stuff they've done to it, but people waste a huge amount of time with things that I know would work fine on a basic Debian system. But of course, yeah, if you're gonna throw away the fact that it's supported, it's a big decision to actually bother doing that and running it yourself. Yeah. Of course, the other side of it is that universities tend to be fairly permissive about things and you can quite often get away with doing whatever you want to do, which you might not be able to do in a different work environment. And what other problems do people have? It occurred to me after watching Margot's talk about our users and are we really prioritizing them that internationalization of software would be a problem for lots of researchers. It's okay for me, but probably other people that's all right. Anything else? You're gonna be boring again, I don't know. So where do we go with this? One thing that I think would be, yeah. I think of Debian compared to Red Hat is that it's harder to make packages. Of course in Red Hat, it's very easy to make crappy packages, but at least where I work, they can make Red Hat packages of the software they use and put them in some local app repository. There's in no way they may be able to do it with Debs. Maybe there's a case for Debian people to put their names on a list to volunteer time to a will package your thing for you so that you can use it with Debian. Because if it's simple, it's a trivial matter for many of us to create a working Debian package, which might require hours of work for someone who doesn't have that experience. So one of the things that I thought would be of great use to people trying to decide to use Debian or people using Debian for research would be to have a list of the stuff that you really want installed so that you don't have to muck around comparing different packages that do roughly the same thing. So I wrote down the things that I use. I use, the first thing I use is the development environment and I use KDevelop. Plus the compiler for whatever languages you're using. I use Labplot to draw my graphs. I use LaTeX and a GUI editor for it. And I use OpenOffice. Beyond that, things that I might use in future include Octave, though maybe not based on what your people are saying. And Python I've been told is very good for numerical analysis and I don't know about that. I've been told. GNU-R. Sorry, GNU. GNU-R. Okay. I've been using the GNU-R for... MCMC packages. Okay, sure. You were saying that GNU, is it R? R, okay. I'm not familiar with it, but... Okay, the website... I don't. So the website is... Okay, great. Okay. Yes, Brandon. I think we need a mic. Yeah, it's simple. It's a stop. It's simple. You can repeat it. Okay. You are stopped. All right. We'll go back to Enrico, because I'm sure he'll like what I said. I was just wondering about Kyle. I actually hadn't heard of it and I've been a Lix user for some time. If you could use Lix, could you give me some insight as to the differences between the two? I haven't used Lix. I think I might have looked at it once. Kyle is an editor. Give it a go. I find it easy, but I'm heavily into GUI things. If I can press a button to say compile and run, I will rather than having to type something in. So that's my take. Yeah. It's not WYSIWYG. Is Lix WYSIWYG? There is... Okay, Kyle is not. Kyle is you're actually writing. Yeah. Look, tell me what you think. Yeah, I'm installing it now. Sure. Do you know if there's a GNOME equivalent to KDevelop? I assume that there is, but I don't use GNOME. Can anyone answer that? Oh, okay. Is it good? What's the name of the packet? Anjuta. Anjuta, okay. I haven't tried it. I'd expect there'd be something as good as KDevelop or, you know, broadly similar. Okay. Cool. Anything else? Can we have a small party for the final introduction of Fortran 95 in Debian? Yes. Yes, there's that. I think... Yeah, okay. That sort of comes up on my next page, which is this question of how does Debian software compare with the alternatives? And I think we've already discussed Octave and Matlab. And again, I haven't tried the Debian Fortran 95, but I'm interested actually in switching back to using Fortran for my physics code. Because it has some real advantages that I'm sure lots of you would be aware of. So can anyone comment on the new compiler? Does it work? I mean, is it easy? Or am I going to spend hours or weeks getting it to work? Has anyone tried it? Yeah. It's still pretty... It's still pretty raw. I don't use Fortran myself, but judging from the man on this, it's still pretty raw. It's very actively being developed upstream. I think once GCC hits 4.1, it'll be a lot better. OK, so I should not leap into it right away. Well, don't, like, you know, make your job depend on it. OK. I think lack of Fortran is a real problem. Has been, possibly, obviously still is a real problem for a lot of researchers. Certainly in physics, loads of people use Fortran. That one is a problem. And again, for me, again, we talked about it briefly. The office suites or word processors that sometimes you're going to have to use to submit papers. Has anyone else got experience of major problems with Debian packages for producing word documents or PowerPoint presentations, being the main ones? Open Office Calc tends to kind of blow up when you try to connect it to databases to pull in data sets. Mm-hmm. I know I've had trouble with Excel spreadsheets opening them in Open Office, and they died because Excel isn't case-sensitive. Open Office was, is by default. That's about the only trouble I've had with Calc. I was just going to say, I mean, in machine learning, the journals still tend to ask people to do stuff in latex, and then, in a way, it's easy for us there, and it's actually the windows user who will have a who end up having problems. But on the other hand, if we want that situation to stay the same, rather than people all to switch to Microsoft Word, then we as, well, the free software community needs to make sure that the facilities for writing latex and so on continue to improve. I mean, for example, the GUI editors, which I think, I mean, I think are kind of that, but it's still people end up having problems. I mean, again, even if you're just using latex, even if people are happy writing raw latex, you can still have problems with things like ending up with PDF files with bad fonts in them and so on, and all these kinds of technical issues that really should be solvable. Yep, yep, I agree. Actually, speaking of PDF, I think OpenOffice is saved to PDF is one of the best things they've ever done, and that's one serious advantage it's got over Word. As far as I know. And again, the other thing that I use is the plotting programs. I used Sigma Plot in Windows for several years. It's good. It's really, it's a bit slow, but it's good. In my opinion, Psygrafica used to be better. Does anyone use Psygrafica now? I've had a lot of trouble with it in the last couple of years. As far as I know, it's not being maintained upstream, and it seems to have died, at least for me. Maybe it just hates me and my, however the Python stuff is set up on my computer. And that was why I ended up packaging Labplot, which is being very actively developed upstream, but it's still lacking some of the features that Sigma Plot and Psygrafica had. Notably, I think really easy rotating on the axes to get a look at your three-dimensional data from whatever direction you want, stuff like that. So I have hopes of Labplot in the future that I think it will well overtake the competition, but I don't think it has yet. Does anyone else know of good plotting programs that we should know about? GNU Plot. Everybody I know uses GNU Plot. I don't use it. It may suck, but everybody uses it. Yeah. People have a lot of respect for it, even though it is apparently horrible. So it's probably worth at least looking into. I'm sure I did look at it, because I've heard of it, and I went through everything I could find in Debian, but I must have had so much trouble that I've blanked it out, because I don't remember exactly why I didn't like it, but I didn't like it enough to... So if you use Octave, then all of the plotting stuff. So Matlab has a plotting environment built in, whereas Octave uses GNU Plot. So that's another Octave Matlab difference. Yeah. Well, that's a good thing. If Octave compares to Matlab in its plotting abilities, then that's a good possibility. Well, only kind of. Matlab's pretty good for plots. Yeah. Hello. Well, I used POR++. I don't know if anything could be useful, but it's quite powerful. It's available in Debian. Okay. I don't know. And the last thing is the question... Yeah. ...of making it easy for scientists to use Debian, or to get the help they need with using Debian. I've wondered whether it would be worth setting up a mailing list, Debian Science, something. And, yeah. I was just going to suggest an idea which has just been pinging in my mind over and over again since your talk began, is this sounds like a great opportunity for a custom Debian distribution, like Debian Med or Debian EDU. You know, have Debian Psy, or whatever a real scientist would want to call it. There's something more clever. Yeah. As an unlettered person, I wouldn't presume to pick a name for the project, but that's something I might personally be interested in getting involved in is kind of the Debian... It's an interesting idea. Debian experienced half. You know, as a person who can probably package something quickly, you know, you maintain the X window system for a few years, you learn the ins and outs of packaging, at least up to a certain point. I think that's something that we should probably try to move on towards. You have not been the first person, I believe, on Debian Day, which was a week ago, Saturday, there was a talk given relating the... Actually, it was Gunnar Wolf's talk relating the scientific tradition to the principles of free software. It seems a very logical place to have a kind of marriage. Absolutely. That's a really good idea. I hadn't thought of that. I think that's a really interesting idea. We should talk about it. Well, that would go a little bit further than making a wiki for people to write down their experiences. But... Yeah. I think it would be great if people could search on, you know, Linux science software or something like that and come up with a page listing, well, this is good and this is crap and this one's changing. Well, of course, because Debian is distro. Anyway, don't... You know what I mean. And the other thing that we can do as scientists is let our colleagues and our students know about Debian and say, hey, I've got this great piece of software that I'm using that I can use because it's Debian and I can just say, I've got to install this and it's there and all its dependencies are there and you Windows people don't have a hope and you Red Hat people are going to be struggling for hours. Let people know why it's good. Yeah. I know there are some kind of knopics-like life CDs for different kind of scientists and maybe you can have a look at the software selection they used to give a free environment for this kind of scientists. Yes, that's the good idea. It would be great to be able to hand new students. Here's your CD. You can just install this or whatever. About CDDs, this seems one of the fields for simple CDD which is a script that takes a package selection and a list of pre-seeds and builds a DI image for it and it would be nice to expand it to make a live CD. Yeah. Well, the problem of making a CDD for science sounds like the problem of making a CDD for non-profits. Science is really broad. I'm in the weather environment and things are totally different than in physics than in electronics and so on. So you need to have a large variety of stuff which you can do when you have a simple tool and you allow everyone to make their own one and at least they would work 100% inside Debian. They would be motivated to package for Debian having it inside of the BTS and so on. And that was my command for CDDs so I guess simple CDDs is a good way to try. A good thing to try for that. Okay. About other things that could help DevTags has now really shitty support for science tags because I haven't been into the science world for long and I'm no way expert and I could really use some help in finding out categories from people who actually know science software inside Debian. If I try to have a look I get lost between quantum physics and things that I can't understand if it's math or physics because they refer some mathematical thing that I totally don't know but that could be a nice effort because I am pretty sure we could come out with a lot of categories because we have a lot of software which will show that Debian actually contains a lot of useful stuff we are not used to think of. That's a great idea. I think that we're just about out of time. I think, well, we've done that bit really. So if there are no more comments I think. Last two. I have a small request for help if anyone has worked with Starlink software, among other things they contain possibly the best library for binding Fortran and C together which can do the bindings for any possible architecture and it's GPL software and I can't get it into Debian because they are the packaging equivalent. They are British and they are the packaging equivalent of driving on the left. There's no way to take their upstream tarble and turn it into something useful and it's like that's one major packaging problem I'd like to talk with others about. Okay. I was just thinking about an idea that was suggested before and it's opening some kind of project in which scientists or developers who do not have a clue on how to package for Debian would put their programs, asking for help. I mean, I do have this problem I want this package and everybody could have a look at it and say, well, I'm interested in this one. It would be nice to open such a project inside Debian. Yes, I agree that would be great. So I think that's the end. Thank you for telling me what you think now I know more than I did.


Yeah, you can. You can take that berm right there by the red road right there. White house on the back side. White roof, yeah, over there. Follow me. Ready to go. Covering up down that road. Second gun's going in this berm right beside this white house with the red roof facing down this little street coming at us that we can't really see down. There's no one that way. Until they start shifting this way, everyone else. So we're in northern Norway and we just executed amphibious assault off of the Dutch ship Rotterdam to initiate our first steps in conducting exercise cold response. This is a very unique situation for the United States Marine Corps to be embarked on a Dutch Royal Naval vessel and then conduct amphibious assaults off of that vessel. No one has done it in our battalion and no one has done it, I think, at all ever. And so this is a first, not only for the Dutch Royal Navy, but also for the Marine Corps specifically here in the high north. The message that it sends is that we're strong. The message that it sends is that we are united. In these times, that is the most important message that we can send that we're doing this together as a team. Marines from day one are told that we're going to fight any climate in any place. And I think being here with NATO solidifies that and nothing changes. We always train hard. We train for whatever may happen in the world. For us to be able to have that interoperability with all of our allies and be a deterrent force here is incredibly important. So all the Marines have really enjoyed learning from the Dutch and learning from the Norwegians about how to survive and thrive in a cold weather environment in the far north. And I think that the other countries have learned from us as well. We created this exercise two years ago and it has been two years of planning. We haven't changed the exercise objectives much. We have stand two. We had enough forces available to reach the exercise objectives.  That's normal, quite normal. We also had to deploy a frigate to the Mediterranean. But what is good is that we have the command network and available assets necessary to resolve our training objectives. What it means for me is the importance to rehearse our plans and to exercise together with the allies because we need to be prepared. And the most important thing I do is to avoid war on NATO territory. That's my job. And to reach that goal, we need to exercise and to have a credible capability. So I think that's the most important part of it.


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