was tremendously lucky in that I went to the demonstration in 1977 just a half block from here before people went in to sit in at the federal building to force the federal government to sign the first civil rights for people with disabilities. I was fortunate I was lucky to have taken my camera and taken the best role of film I've ever taken and that led to a number of photos that are a part of patient no more upstairs. I'm gonna be talking about that kind of how I got there and then transitioned into what I'm trying to do now with my photography. So there I am before my disability and there I am in it with in a wicker wheelchair at the hospital after I got my spinal cord injury when I was five years old so I think I'm still cute there don't you? Yeah thank you okay this I'm photodescription this photo was taken in 1952 and it shows me sitting in a wicker wheelchair with a looks like a watch cap and a a sweater and I look a little one there which makes sense since I was in the hospital for seven weeks I think five years old yeah that's it 70 years old today this month thank you thank you it's a big one so as I grew up with the disability here's a photo of me with a bunch of people in front of a newspaper these are people part of the Sonoma County bugle I was the newspaper editor this it with the newspaper was in existence from 1970 to 1973 was an alternative newspaper and I come from a long line of photographers my dad was photographer my grandfather was my dad owned a camera store so and I tried to make a living as a photographer and so that's why I was asked to be I was a photographer when they asked me to be the photo editor of the bugle and what happened was with the deadline every two weeks I had to take a lot of photos and I got good you know there's something about well I love deadlines still to this day and so here in this picture it shows me and I put this picture in to show I'm kneeling down with my crutches in those days I use crutches and full leg braces to it for mobility and I'm kneeling down and that's the stance that I would take to take photographs and that leads to my point of view one of the photographs that I take and then I'm shooting up at people with disabilities which is rare usually see pictures of people with disabilities where people are standing and point shooting down and there's Michael Funky who was the editor there with the cigar in his mouth and the fly boy cap and the court of beer and he got sober a couple of years after I got sober a number of us got sober after a bugle experience so there's my photography but there's also my politics and here's a picture of us with a weather balloon this is my a good friend from high school and the weather balloon has stenciled on it and the war and we were going to fill the balloon with helium and attach it to a flagpole at the beginning of the rose parade right across from all the television cameras I grew up in Pasadena this picture was taken in my home in Pasadena about a mile from the beginning of the rose parade well we made it about a hundred feet from the the flagpole and it hit a tree and it popped but it made a good photo even though it's low res showing my politics so I had my photography one hand my politics and another but not a disability identity I grew up when to have a disability was not a good thing but I was starting to explore my disability and this guy Steve Diaz was very key here's a picture of Steve Diaz using his wheelchair with a bunch of plants and unlike what I just said where I shot kneeling down I'm obviously standing up in this one and Steve and I are playing around with disability imagery and Steve is starting to explain to me what it's like to be a contemporary disabled person Steve is the first guy I met with a disability who is hipper than I was which made a huge difference to me this would have been 1974 that's the shoulders and a mustache but not a beard yeah that was the look and here's me in the foreground I'm assuming I'm looking at my camera and I've got a mustache and longish hair and there's Steve in the background we're all smoking and this is 1974 and this is a meeting of the student organization at Sonoma State University that's where I met Steve and he and I formed a student organization and when we were talking about what's our mission he said well we're gonna knock shit off the shelves that's a good mission but I think we came up with something that was more palatable to whoever was gonna accept our membership and give us a little bit of money disabled students coalition and coalitions you know it has a ring to it and that coalition led to the university funding a halftime position and I went from being somebody who my sole ambition was to make enough money so I could continue to drink beer at the trade winds shoot pool and be able to just you know live the hippie lifestyle and Katadi until I met Steve and got involved in disability rights and took on my identity as a disabled person and I caught on fire my politics came together with who I was and so I made sure that when we got a position established that Steve was on the hiring committee and I made sure that Steve made it possible for me to get hired as the first director of disability services at Sonoma State in 1975 and I did that till 1997 1997 and also Sonoma State was a place where they would tolerate somebody like me and my politics it was founded by people from San Francisco State professors who got sick of San Francisco's faculty politics and it was primarily a lot of humanistic psychologists and so it was a very radical place I mean in this office this is our first office down the hall was the counseling center and you would hear screams on a regular basis primals scream therapy remember that we scream into a pillow well that happened down the hall and you hear that scream and you just go on with your work because that's what they did down the hall you know that's right Frisbee State I mean it was it was yeah and so there was my first secretary the one here's a picture through an office door of I don't know if you guys know Joan Brevis she is sitting there she's a student assistant Joan for many many years ran the computer training center over at the ed Roberts campus and retired just a couple years ago she was a student assistant and there with her back to us using a wheelchair is my first secretary and I hired her because she was a wheelchair user and didn't realize she didn't know her alphabet she went to a special ed and she was a terrible secretary she was horrible and I learned then that you've got to set the bar if you're gonna hire a secretary having a disability and a disability office is really a good thing but they also have to be able to do the job I'm still fighting that fight today and here's our second office and in the foregrounds a guy using Everest and Jennings power wheelchair which was and behind him is another guy using an ENJ chair and one of those she was a really is a student assistant really nice woman I always felt she was a do-gooder though I never quite trusted her but she did her job well and we had enough money to hire her so and she didn't take a job from a disabled person so and I was still playing around with disability photography disability imagery in this time period and here's a photo of me wearing cut-off Levi's my full-leg braces black leather cowboy boots holding a bottle of Coors showing my tattoo wearing a wife beater my hair slick back sitting on the edge of my wheelchair anything else I hmm well thank you thank you it's my discipline and bondage well I'm trying to look tough I'm trying to look cool so but at this point still trying to come together with my imagery around disability and using myself as part of that which was part of what photography was doing at the time this would have been 74 so 75 ish all in this time period where I'm finishing up my degree and it's no mistake my BA psychology because the requirements for the major was 24 units of anything in psychology you didn't have to take intro you didn't have to take what's abnormal nothing 24 units for anything and one of the courses I took was sitting around holding hands and saying home needing bad hippie bread that was Sonoma State so Rosemary do you want to read your own not I'll read it for you here's a quote from Rosemary foot this is from seeing the disabled visual rhetoric of disability and popular photography photography carries more truth value than other images there's something about photography that we see it we think of it as being true even though that's not necessarily true we think of photographs as being closer to reality and that still I think continues to be true even post photoshop it's surprising that people still think that photographs are the truth or for real yeah even pre photoshop though there's photographs lie you know and in a sense they also tell a story and they advance a cause and that's what I'm trying to do with my photographs what we have here is the Reverend Vernon Cox who is one of the founders of the Marine Center for Independent Living and it's showing him in his wheelchair in profile he's holding a banner that says a funky handmade banner it says sign 504 and somebody's pushing him in his manual wheelchair and in the background is San Francisco City Hall so a shot just right out here right out this window this is some of the iconic photos that I came up with that day that advance a cause and show us not in a struggle as Tom Olin's photos typically show Tom Olin shows the struggle shows how hard it is to get things done my photos have a tendency to show the certainty of what we were doing and so this is the 504 demonstration in sit in April 17th 1977 so here's three guys using manual wheelchairs old Everest and Jennings again one guys wearing a cowboy hat and you can see someone signing in the background and that this is one of those pictures of certainty you know of calmness these are not people who are storming the barricades these are people who are somewhat implacable here's another people people on the picket line and with signs saying no more negotiations sign 504 access to work don't back down on affirmative action you might break your neck sign 504 and it's it's not people after a Sunday picnic for sure these are serious people but it's there's a certainty here here's another on that same picket line that's Jim Fernandez and in front using a manual power wheelchair you can see a couple of people in power wheelchairs behind and a big picket sign says sign for both 504 we'll wait no more yeah and here's another photo and there's a number of photographs what I like about this is the various planes where you can see two wheelchairs in the foreground there's a number of wheelchairs in the mid ground and then a background another wheelchair with the city hall in the background and the person on the right-hand side of the frame looking directly at us this is a something you'll see in my photographs it's it comes out of a photo tradition of the 1950s really of editorial photographs like Danny Lyon and Bruce Davidson even our only Cartier Brisson and another picket sign with more more wheelchairs and if you look at this you can see that I am at the regular height that I usually am when I'm at parties which is belt buckle height and so you can see that the gaze on this I'm lower than the people using wheelchairs so in a sense I not in a sense I am looking up at them and so in a way that elevates them in a way that is not that you usually don't see in disability photography and that's just the half instance that I was using crutches and I'd kneel down to be able to focus my camera and trip the shutter there's Hale Zuccas I know yeah hail Hale Zuccas one of the rolling quads one of the first people at UC Berkeley who according to the myth of the rise the independent living movement the rolling quads are the one who started it all and there's some truth to that certainly and so there's Hale using it he uses a head stick to communicate and he's sitting next to Jim Fernandez they're both in power wheelchairs and there's other picketers around sign 504 we'll wait no more that same sign again and I think yeah Fran that's the flyer isn't it that's the right that's the flyer yeah you can you can see it says demonstrate on it and I don't know why I was there that day for sure I don't know why this was special to me unlike other demonstrations I don't know why I took my camera because I was I only had so much I only have so much energy even today once I started working at Sonoma State I took fewer and fewer photographs because my energy went into the end of figuring out what we were doing and starting a program not into my photography why I took my camera this day I'm not really sure either why is that somehow I knew you're right you are right I mean that I think that's why we were all there that somehow we knew this was a big one so that would have what would have resonated with me as if we get enough people there will make a difference that might have gotten me there to take the day off work I mean thank God I had the kind of job I did I came down shot the photos Steve and I drove back to Sonoma County and that night Steve got drunk and hitchhiked into San Francisco and talked his way into the building and so Steve was there for the next how many days 26 days here's probably one of the only photos that that looks kind of angry it shows a woman standing on a lift she's sign language interpreter she's standing on the lift of a of a van and those the kind of lifts that we had in those days they're called Tommy lifts and it mostly used to move refrigerators and furniture around it was hard to operate them independently but yet there's an awful lot of disabled people in this photograph I mean in the foreground there's what five wheelchairs six but I like how her hands are kind of grasped and she looks angry so I think it's cool the interpreter looks angry but everybody else looks pretty calm and there's Steve Diaz he reappears with the we shall overcome so Sam with his back to the camera in his wheelchair next to a guy using a wheelchair manual wheelchair and there's a whole bunch of other wheelchairs around and you can kind of see a sign that says equal opportunity for all and this photograph has gotten enormous play this last year particularly in the with the anniversary the ADA 25th anniversary it was hanging in the I was in Atlanta summer a couple years ago and went to the National Center for Human and Civil Rights and which is where Martin Luther King's papers are and this was hanging in that center about 75 yards from MLK's papers which that's pretty cool yeah that's very cool but it was a disability photograph so there's a whole bunch of Tom's photos there as well and they're on foam core rather than being framed rather than being done really nicely hanging in a hallway and the photos I have of it I should have one here it shows a bunch of shaping dishes because they're holding a reception for reporters so there's a bunch of shaping dishes with our photos in the background so it wasn't exactly you know the prime location but it was in the right place this is one of the few photographs patient no more had until Fran and I went visited Holland a little and talked her into giving up the photograph she had and those came in relative not late in the process but later in the process because you guys had my photographs from the very beginning and then we got got all ends and so a lot of hers are up there as well so these are just words powerful proud here's the photo here's a very famous photo and it shows an African-American man in Birmingham with a police dog attacking him and if you're what's interesting about this photo is it really shift it was appeared in newspapers across the country and it shifted how America viewed the African-American civil rights struggle and helped lead to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and if you're interested in photography it is imperative that you listen to what Malcolm Gladwell has to say in his podcast about this photograph because it's not what it appears this guy wasn't a demonstrator he was just an observer and he just got caught up in it and and there's a whole bunch of very interesting things and I don't have enough time to talk about him but I'll hang out if you want and here's a photo from the Birmingham fire department hosing down African-American demonstrators on the street which also led to a real shift in people's attitudes one of the things that occurred to me is that we need more photographs that create a myth about disability a mythic image of disability and about the importance of our struggle so I want to show some of Tom Olin's work and he's mostly covered adapt demonstrations where adapt is our radical organization that has demonstrated what I'm showing now very quickly is a lot of people using wheelchairs demonstrating in the streets and being arrested and here's a famous photo of his it's called the capital crawl and it's when particularly young people wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the capital to highlight the need for the ADA and so it's hard to find Tom's photos and a colleague of mine has been able to find some of the more that I consider more mythic and here's one of a couple of guys with the wheelchair users with the adapt flag which has the wheelchair symbol rather than the American than the state stars on the American flag here's a line of wheelchair users and there's Justin Dart who is one of the leaders of the disability rights movement weight blank weight weight blank one of the founders of adapt is a wheelchair user shows a picture of him separate is never equal in front of a bus more marchers I love this photo this I consider mythic and I think leads to creating a vision of the disability rights movement showing the adapt flag a guy in the foreground using a wheelchair double amputee well at least a double amputee if not twip roll over quad and this as you can see Tom's work it's more about the struggle but I but there's something that's I think uplifting about that and dare I say it inspirational and there's Justin Dart Judy human a number of people marching with a sign that says injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so disability is rarely photographed and Rosemary has broken it down into four categories at 15 minutes wondrous sentimental exotic and realistic and so wondrous is strange and familiar freaks and super creep creeps here's a guy with a lower body amputation doing a handstand that's all right yes a famous freak show guy and then on the right hand photo is a wheelchair user in Yosemite over a many thousand foot drop sentimental here here's a couple of flyers for March of Dimes and look I can walk again the little girl saying as she gets out of her wheelchair and that's an E and J like I had when I grew up was growing up here's a man of the sentimental shot of a young boy with his cane and his prosthetics or as orthotics excuse me and my favorite of the sentimental it's a little doggy with a little doggy wheelchair and if you ever want to drive yourself crazy go on to YouTube or Pinterest there is a gazillion shots of little doggies with their little doggy wheelchairs and there's the exotic Amy Mullins I thought find very interesting the lower right shot shows her in her negligee with her running prosthetics and then the upper left shows her in her leopard prosthetics Amy Mullins and she has an interesting YouTube that's not bad talking about how we need to redefine the word disability she doesn't thank God reject the word itself she has said it do you I I'm a little nervous about them but I think that there I think there's a lot there and I think she explains it to an audience well and saying disability doesn't mean what what you the general audience thinks it means and it's closer to what I and most of you in the room think it thinks it means so young who who unfortunately died this is a poster of hers that says this is what disability looks like F star King irreverent which Stella young was very she's the one who coined the term inspiration porn yes which is a wonderful term I mean it really coming up with a word it's like the woman who said she was thought about writing her PhD thesis or coming up with a word for autism and she came up with neuro normal and that changed the conversation that one phrase well neuro divergent as well yeah yeah excuse me right now juice a little bit here so in terms of irreverence and coming up with a new imagery here's a number of photographs from Frida Kahlo and Frida Kahlo's closet her closet was closed on her death and it wasn't till the death of her sister that they exhumed things like the boot that's on the upper right hand corner that's read with the wonderful decorations on it and the the brace and lower right and it's I think her sister was embarrassed about her disability that's my guess and there is no catalog of that show of her closet from what I can tell but I do have a number of photographs so my current photographs why do I struggle to represent disability I grew up at a time where it's not okay to look at disability even for disabled people and I get a little embarrassed sometimes by things what makes things iconic I'm still struggling with that and what is the insider's perspective do I do I bring that insider's perspective to my work so this has been a guidepost to me it shows four latinas sitting in a car looking tough as nails and I would describe them as cholas and they've got a lot of a fair amount of ink and they have a very much a don't fuck with me attitude that I like and that I would like to see more disability photography that has some of this so it's kind of one of those things that is on the wall of my office to kind of remind me of how to how to look at photographs here's a photograph of a guy in the street on his wheelchair there's a sign says buy a picture help me get back to school and I don't know about you he looked pretty pitiful I found this guy embarrassing I didn't want to take the photo I snapped the photo I took it very quickly I didn't want to engage with the guy I've gotten better about engaging with people on the street but this is one of the reasons it's hard for me to take photographs of people with disabilities but I wanted this side of our community to be seen and here's a picture of Ann Capola and Denise Jacobson has her arm around and snack this is it yet another memorial at the Ed Roberts campus and I found this a difficult photograph to take because this is it's a private moment and I don't like intruding on private moments but when else do you see a disabled person comforting another disabled person that that imagery of that is never shown usually it's an able-bodied person comforting a disabled person and occasionally the roles are switched but never to disabled people and once again I'm shooting from my wheelchair so I'm at the same level as they are slightly lower so it's looking slightly up at them so I try and shoot the collective of people with disabilities not the individual because that's been this that's the shift from the 50s till now is disability is a collective not as an individual struggle but a collective struggle and I try and get the insider's perspective here's Mallory Nelson in her green wheelchair looking at her iPad and there in the center using her wheelchairs Mary Lou Breslin who looks somewhat shocked and somewhat unhappy standing to her right is Gene Stewart the novelist looking less shocked but more unhappy and what regal I don't know okay and then three other women I think one of them is Mary Lou's sister who is the least happy and I'm intruding upon this group I came around the corner at the Ed Roberts campus at a memorial I had my camera I put it to my eye they looked at me like who are you to be taking our photograph even though that two of them know me and I felt it was important to take that photo and I felt it was important to give Mary Lou a little mini lecture on it's important to document our community and I told her I said we need to have photographs we need to see who we are and that actually shifted Mary Lou in my relationship she's a lot more friendlier to me now I love this shot it shows somebody stand well there's three people standing one who's holding a white cane another with it I'm getting tired well there's the three people standing are getting a selfie taken and then there's a woman using a wheelchair looks very serious and what this was at was at a an expo and the woman who's using a wheelchair looking serious she's working she's in charge of the whole expo so she doesn't have time for the frivolity that the three people do and they're having a good time getting their selfie taken and they're to the far right as navel-bodied guy looking on going huh wonder what the hell is going on there and I always like to have an able-bodied person on the edge of the frame who's looking into the frame going what the hell is going on here's a nice shot of Alice Shepard who's a wheelchair dancer just after performance she did and she is enormously pleased with how well she did with her performance and she's clutching a bottle of water and she's there with her wheelchair and I really like this so sweet of her and it's not showing her dancing you there's a lot of pictures of Alice dancing very few of her is just being Alice so once again that I think this is a good example of an insider shot you know it an insider is going to see this and it's I think it's rather an outsider is going to think that's an important shot here's Eli Gillardon who is the executive director at MCIL they're in center friend event living at an expo looking into the camera wearing his ADI ADA 25 t-shirt bunch of wheelchairs in the background out of focus he does and he lies a little person yes who looks tall yeah because I'm I'm shorter than he is in my using my wheelchair yeah yeah I gave him a hug the other night when he came with my house and we're he's a little taller than I am good call thanks here's like cowl who works at the disability services and legal center I'll see and Santa Rosa and behind her is a guy who sells van Tony Nava and they're both using wheelchairs at a bowling thing I think the guy behind Lake and I like that I like taking photographs of Lake she's really lively there's Miss wheelchair America I think is in Atlanta so you can you can't tell that she's using a wheelchair actually except for the sash that says Miss wheelchair in a little crown and her flip that looks to me like 1964 but but the type but the airbrushed angels wheel t-shirt looks more 80s and here's a picture of Tom olden I am enormously proud of this photograph I'm shooting up at Tom making him look more bigger than life he's got his arms crossed that's his most famous photograph behind him showing Evan Kemp and the first president Bush signing the ADA on the on the ADA van that's Tom's photograph and there are very few photographs of Tom I don't know of any other photographs of him and so I'm just I'm really pleased that in talking to him I had the nerve to interrupt our conversation and just take his picture he's such a sweet guy here's a magician a sleight of hand artist using a scooter in Seattle right near the rock and roll museum I gave him five bucks he was kind of grumpy I don't know what to say about this photo it's another one of those this is part of our community I mean I that's what I try to do is I tried to call this this guy out as a disabled person you might walk by him and not think of him as disabled person you might think of him as you know a performer on the street even though he's using a scooter but he's a brother he's part of my community I've forgotten her name no we should all know it she was killed here in San Francisco in a traffic accident your tweet yeah and that's Eli behind taking a photo of me and I like the you know them it's very meta to have a take a photograph photographer taking a picture of you yeah but then to have her look so good in that photo and have her be a martyr to the traffic of San Francisco you know is I mean it's very it's touching and this before the Pride March oh and in the background is Suzanne Levine another photographer and then here's three wheelchair users two of them dancers part of a troop and the blonde woman the center is now on Broadway or was on Broadway a little while ago here's another picture somewhat like the Malory photo I mean another amputee and there's her photograph or wheelchair in the background and she's there with a video camera waiting to video access dance at Sonoma State's Person Theater and I just like it with the the light falling down on them from above it just it makes a rather dramatic shot the guy next to her looking rather sweetly upon her there's Malory again so it I see these as kind of with the boots and the crossed this is at the D young there's two wheelchair users two women at the D young and there's walkies around them who are all blurry because the camera shutter was so slow and I usually don't take already photos like this but I was inspired that day and it turned out to be nice and now the D young uses this as their illustration for their accessible program without photo attribution I'll have you know yeah I'm there real but heads about I mean if you borrow a photograph from them they're just really tough about attribution so no no a power wheelchair is a wonderful platform take photographs from you because it is very steady and so I can brace myself on my arm rests and be able I can shoot it about I'm sure a 30 second pretty easily and I can shoot it a 16th this probably not a 16th so here's Anne Fanger who's a wheelchair user you can't see that Jim Ferris who has an obvious mobility disability you can't see it in the photo either but we do have Artie from Glee a cardboard cutout of him in the background there and I took Artie to the Society for Disability Studies and for a dollar you could have your photo taken with him and it went into the scholarship fund and I love he was sitting down there and somebody came in it was when nobody was around and went up to the people who were running the conference and said what is that doing there so he said Anthony Tesla brought it and they said and the person went oh okay and I I didn't know I had a reputation of of that sort so here's my Humpty Dumpty series this is a large stuffed Humpty Dumpty in a manual wheelchair in front of a bunch of second-hand pants this is a part of Fran did a wonderful wonderful show called display down at Somarts and this I did that for that show it's called the Humpty Dumpty rehabilitation series and yeah Humpty had to get a job and here's Humpty in his wheelchair among a bunch of bicycles and here's a graduation high school graduation shows a woman in a purple wheelchair and her white graduation gown and cap and only high school Annaly Tigers and it's got a ramp coming into the photo from the right and a flag I call this my Robert Frank homage for those of you know Robert Franks the photographer and here is a little mini van bright red with flames on it that says yoga hell parked in front of a place that says beckerm yoga that has a lot of flames and it's parked in the disabled parking space and he does have a placard it's legitimately parked there but I love it for the photos I mean for the colors as sense of humor and here's a guy his head's tilted off the side getting on a lift on a railroad car in Alaska and because it was an overcast day the colors are pretty saturated and this was the photo that made me know that I was starting to get my eye back after not taking photos for 30 years I like this photo of Judith Smith the founder of Access Dance she's in her wheelchair looking down at a woman who's kneeling and there's something sweet and intimate about it but also the person with a disability is in a power position over the non-disabled appearing person I'm looking up yeah that Judith and here's Bonnie Luke with Sue performed with Access Dance and who does accessibility for trails along with the late Larry Paradis who is at the with disability rights advocates yet another memorial at the Ed Roberts campus and the two of them are smiling looking each other and talking to each other and there's a third wheelchair user kind of in the background I just like that because people hanging out having fun this is Jess Tom backstage in Biscuitland it's a performance she does she has Tourette's with her cohort Jess Mabel Jones and it was a stage play they did at Fort Mason that was wonderful it was just her TED talk was done at the Royal Albert Hall that's what and she had a floor of the Tate Modern Museum for an installation she did nobody seems to know her in this country but in England Royal Albert Hall her name is Jess Tom THOM and her performance was backstage in Biscuitland and it's definitely worth she's definitely worth checking out she is superb in her characterization of disability as it relates to her Tourette's here's a wheelchair user and his girlfriend and this just such a sweet shot and it's not obviously about disability but it is a disabled guy and I couldn't resist putting in my slideshow just because I like how cute they both are and here's a this is from display it's a woman talking reading her poetry right and Fran tells me the the woman's so it's a woman holding a microphone in front of a bunch of art and there's a woman standing there who's the Fran tells me is an interpreter yeah to my mind I looked at her knife and she looked to me kind of like an able-bodied I don't know somebody's making sure everybody stays in the straight and narrow which I kind of like once again I kind of like that this is Gailen Lee who is one of the tiny NPR's tiny desk concert she's a violin player and she plays her violin like a an upper it's shallow thank you I'm losing my language ability here two minutes okay and she was performing here in San Francisco and she's coming back I think she's probably gonna be it hardly strictly and she's Lindy my wife really liked her music which tells me something she does kind of a Celtic Galen Lee L.E.A. here's for performance by Axis dance it shows a couple of dancers and a wheelchair user and here's it I don't know his name I know Jim LeBrecht's name yeah with his Crip Camp t-shirt on at performance the Ed Roberts campus so it's a guy holding a microphone talking a very hip-looking wheelchair user with a lot of ink what's his arm say California and here perfect didn't just on time after Caravaggio what's there's a woman who's standing who is looking down at somebody who's a wheelchair user who's back to us and then looking at that woman is another standing woman who's wearing a crown and it has it looks kind of like Madonna because of the crown and it looks kind of like Caravaggio the people looking into the frame and I just I like the renaissance enus of it and the painterliness of it and the woman wearing the crown I don't have her name at hand but she does a lot of work under the hashtag hospital glam glam GL AM she has a hidden disability and so what she does is when she's in hospitals in doctors waiting rooms she takes selfies of herself glamming it up she's a rather attractive woman and so it's it it creates this tension of you're not supposed to be doing that in hospital rooms and she does so I do believe that's it got over the finish line and my wife helped me with enough of the word so thank you thank you so that's what I'm working on these days I'm gonna keep on working on


Hello everybody welcome back to esoteric Atlanta. I'm so excited today. I've got my friend Jay. How are you doing Jay? We've got some exciting stuff coming up don't don't wait. I I've like I've been saying this offline I've been telling you Jay that I needed it. I've been saying to my boyfriend like I needed a J in my life I think we work well together with this stuff. We uh, so anyway, we've got we've got a course coming up We've got some really exciting stuff. Yeah, I'm gonna just pass it off to you Yeah, we actually created a you know Just again like everything we talked about about trying to harness the power of the universe tapping into your higher self What we did is we created a honey white calling at a course It's more of a journey if you would that we really put together because there's really You know what makes it so different. There's no really beginning or end right so meaning that you know You kind of go to wherever you're drawn to and wherever you feel like your spirit guides you to on that But what it does is it really gives you very practical tips on how to access your higher self How to you know get get know when you're actually getting that clear knowledge Know when you're getting the right downloads how to use the sermon how to manifest the actual course title is attract Everyone recruit no one so it's all out like you know We are gods and goddesses out here if you believe in that and then you know you have the ability to do that So this is gonna be like for people who are Starting out their shows anybody in business per se. That's a really looking to say well How do I either grow my audience attract the right people in my life? The right customers Believe it or not. We got some you know a good amount of personal questions. How do I track that person in my life? It's all about attraction. So it's attraction attraction attraction. So, you know when you're looking terms of Why it'd be a lot of hell a lot easier to Draw people to me than to chase after them and try to convince them kind of thing like that That's what this is about. So this this is why we put this together We really did we felt like a lot of people asking questions It's really pretty cool too because the way we did it It's not just us just kind of like talking and kind of like lecturing people submitted real questions Yeah, and you know, we gave real answers. So it was really all about it's really all about everybody else really, right? Well, it's so interesting too We were we've been talking about this a lot especially with like this the course with it being more media based too with like YouTube and podcasting or whatever type of media and I was thinking about it It's it's so true like where we're moving to as as a collective society is really internet based And so things like podcasting and YouTube channels for a lot of people This has become a necessity for their business like when I was a kid when you were a kid, Jay We had the yellow pages. That's how we found stuff now We don't have that anymore people go to to their their visually stimulated by by what they're seeing in media Whether that be Instagram or a video and so all of these these tools in this this yeah It's not really even a course because there is no it's infinite like of the possibilities are infinite and it's showing you and you're right I believe too because we are fractals of God. We are we do have that light inside of us we are creators and I think we were just now really understanding that and to be able to figure out how to hone your energy into what you want To create is something that I think you and I have already kind of mastered a little bit I don't want to say mastered but we've had a lot of experience with this and so to be able to help people Set themselves up so that they can start to bring in that that lifestyle that they want to live You know, nobody wants to go to a corporate job They hate every day and be miserable and nobody wants to you don't want to work for the weekend That's stupid. Like why would you want to just work for the weekend?  You want all those days to be just as beautiful as that Saturday and that Sunday is It always has to be that way. Otherwise, you're really going against the grain of the universe I mean if you I want to really kind of drive this one home if if if You know when you know you want something it comes in your thoughts often But then if you're not getting it or you're not taking the steps to get it You're really going against the universal flow. I mean you actually are making a conscious decision to say I'm not doing that I'm not taking the gifts because if the universe is projecting that kind of level of consciousness in you You know, it's letting you know It's go time go start taking steps start taking the match and but if you sit there and just watch it It's there and so, you know, and and we understand look we're in we're in human form You know, we have these dense bodies and you know this the stuff that comes along with the water the food and you know Whatever whatever right? So we put this together to really instill discipline. So it's kind of like it's really cool It's pretty cool Bryce because you know It's based in like three to five minutes segments It's super really, you know, easy to compartmentalize, you know what I mean? So it's not like a lot of you know downloads to have to do you go to where you want when you want to put you do it consistently and You know, it's the same patterns we followed for all these years that we feel has given us, you know The abundance and and the successes in our business but also in our personal lives, too. Yeah. Oh, absolutely And it's it's some as you're saying that I'm thinking too like you're talking about a five minute Increments of understanding things and that's one thing too Like I we have a few people that are signed up and I'm already giving them homework to help them try to figure out how to like cut The meat off how to fit that off so that they have what they want And so even with it's somebody sitting here thinking oh my god, that sounds so overwhelming. I have all these ideas I don't know where to go. Well, that's why we're here to help you like I'm not gonna tell you what to do But I'm gonna give you tools in this course to help you figure out how to hone in What it is you're selling or what it is you want to talk about Which is is a really important part of growing growing your network growing your your social media platform is being able to To make your your material interesting and with a point so that it's not it's not just scattered, right? Do we want to look at some of the websites you put up? To yeah, and I want and also attacking on what you said I think it's so important for people who want to have a breakthrough in their life to really look I mean the power of the voice the power of energy. I mean it is what it is I mean doing what we do is an amazing thing and I think if people want to do break the we we have done this price And I think we should be able to really just you know We're mastering it's continuous mastering if you would you know what? I mean, it's it's not it's not always You know you hit a hit a brick wall with it and you're done But you're continually growing on this what we're doing involving but this is attract everyone recruit no one So, you know, this is what we're all about. There'll be a welcome video there.  So it might take a long list of bull up But even you're you know talking about this j with with with when you're you know creating your marketing platform Something that I've talked about You know off camera on camera is the ability to storytell And even if you're let's say you have a channel where you're selling, you know cleaning supplies There's a story to tell there and we're going to help you figure out how to get that message across So it's not overwhelming and I guys I apologize. My computer is being very slow. I think it's the construction next door But yes, you hit the catalog and it takes you to the course information, correct Pretty much. Yeah, you want me to share on my end? Yeah, let me let you share since I've got these awesome construction workers next door that seem to mess with my internet sometimes so And let's do this way hold on a second. Let me Let me do this. All right, everybody. You see you watch real technical skills in action here. This is our roles, right guys We'll show you how to work zoom and everything There you go. All right. There you go. Okay. So you see there there. I'm going here. All right. There we go Okay, so there you go, right? You can see that right? I see your um podcast. Okay. Hold on. Okay. Let me just see here Hold on a second We're there. Okay. No none everybody All right There we go. That should do it. How about that? Yes, now we're on it. All right, cool. So this is the welcome page attract everyone recruiting I want a little bit of intro video of you know, who we are why'd we do what we've done Right like what our results are how to navigate and here Okay, there you go. So there's this this is how easy it is It's literally laid out like a Netflix of sorts if you would where it's got different things meet the influencers Who is this one right there? You know what I mean and yeah And the way we set up is like we didn't want to just say like well, let's just tell them stuff or tell people stop Let's let's find out what questions people want to know the answers to so you have topics will meet the influencers This is an introduction of who's helping with that influencer magnetism and collaboration Manifest like a goddess becoming superhuman the you show now This is what we're talking about prices like what you and I do is the you show it is really this is one of Look if you're going to have a breakthrough in life at the end of the day It's something you do want to consider having your you show if you would that's all about you So this talks a lot about that the 5d economy and it's building upon that. So this is pretty cool Um, as you can see it's it's literally in it's uh, and it says putting together face right now But it's it's it's ready to roll people are starting this people are starting to Jump on get value out of it. Look at the timestamps of the videos too here So you can see so if you want to know like How do you create abundance when you don't have the client flow? Three minutes and eight seconds two minutes and 48 seconds three minutes and 33 seconds So it has a timestamp. So you know and what we're recommending people do is when they go to the uh Video once they go through it is to go through it all once like you know Try to go through it all at once and just in any order you want So wherever you feel like you're drawn to there's no beginning or end of this thing It's it's you know, it's multi-dimensional if you would right so when you go through it that way But then come back and then pick something two to three of these day because then it'll start to embody You know, you'll start to embody the principles, you know, you'll start to really get an aspect of you know Um, you know what's going on like how do you do things? So if your thing is like how do you thrive in the air of global uncertainty? I mean, you know, you won't click on the video and get your answer And we're going to continually every single week people are going to be seeing additions to this really you know Pretty strong, but we got a there's about probably another 40 different videos that are still lined up to be submitted into this too That would be added onto this too right now It's fun too. Like well, I think this stuff is fun as well And you know, it is such when we we talk about this stuff too. There's also a huge spiritual We we've talked about there's a huge spiritual component to this as well The more that I love that the you show because the more you start to work At least my experience being on youtube for almost four years now The more that I start the more that I do youtube the more that I work on my my craft the more I learn about myself as well And the more I change as a person and so it's I know with the the actual course that people are taking with us starting this Sunday The minute someone signs up I send them homework and all the homework is it's not just busy work It's it's questions I have to ask them so that and I tell them to get a journal so that they can start to explore Their own thoughts around what they want to put out onto the world and how they want that to look And and so it's and i'm so excited our students that we have signed up already are already we're always telling you this morning jay offline They're already i'm so impressed because they're already working on it And it's and it's and it's exciting to see them get these ideas into to practice the filming and to like I start to understand how this is coming together And and that's a joy for me to be able to help people with that because storytelling is primarily what I do on my channel And so anything that that can be a deep dive to you know, retailing cars You know, it's that it's how you're relating to the to your customer to the person that's that's watching you And and it's so it's so exciting to see other people become happy With their lives and they feel like they're doing something that actually fulfills them versus Something that fulfills somebody else they do to make them You know money because they have to eat versus like doing something that you love And making money to eat as well doing it. You know what i'm saying? Like it's man. Yeah, you know, it's it's interesting. It's like I You know the thing that excites me most about what we're doing is to see people's level of confidence and their courage Just go through the room Yeah, all of a sudden it's like you don't they won't even recognize yourself again You know if you start to take a look at what we're doing here what we're teaching what we're trying to share with you It's all about building that confidence.  I got to raise this. I got to add this to my to-do list It's it's not it's all it literally is all multi-dimensional And you'll experience that uh, that's the exciting thing is because as the People joining, you know what we're starting on sunday do it look we get that experience too We get the feed off their energy. It's like it's like that. It's pretty amazing It's so exciting I've I've been joy getting to know the ladies that we have signed up because you it does get personal when you're doing your own Channel and I want to say to our audience reiterate There's only one you like you're the only person out there That is you and every single human being on this planet has something to offer And that might not be the account job that you have right now There might be something more and just because like what I do like deep dives There are a lot of people on youtube that do deep dives, but there's only one me and how I do it Is how I do it and that's going to be your essence as well our friend robin who's Very fit but she's that's her fitness That's her thing and so she has a way that she can put her material out there That's going to attract people even though there's a tons of fitness people out there But there's one robin right and so I want everybody watching dinner I think the the matrix out there the world out there There's a really good job of making people feel like they're not They're insignificant and that's just not true because you're a fractal of god And if you weren't here right now everything would fall apart you're here for a reason And so being able to explore that purpose and explore that reason and to wake up every morning I wake up every morning excited about my day excited about filming stories I love to talk about or filming with jay or kathryn or my friends I love it. I love that. I can that I can rearrange my schedule You know to keep my dog happy versus having to be on somebody else's schedule There's just so many benefits to this and so it doesn't matter What the I mean? It does matter what the product is if you love the product But you are basically the product as you said jay you are the person that people are coming to you Um to your channel to your page and and that's something that's very very special And that's one thing too. I will go ahead and say jay. We we also in our in our actual course I'm going to show people how to edit. I'm going to show people how to use different softwares So all that little stuff which I always say that's easy. We'll get to that towards the end But in the beginning it's just creating the content, but all that stuff We're going to cover that with you all that the technical stuff the microphones the lights everything We're going to cover that with you. Um, and it's it's a lot easier than many people think it is. So um Yeah, it really is don't over don't over complicated It's not because it's just a matter of breaking out of your own, you know Your paradigm a little bit easing on into it and attracting people.  I have a lot of stuff where I mess up something and I have to cut it I'll show you in the editing process how I cut that stuff out And and so it makes it look like a refined polish Product at the end. So all of that stuff all these questions I can just hear people thinking right now. We're going to cover that with you this website I'm going to put that down in the description box below is a great place to start And jay if people still want to sign up for the course starting sunday, they can text bryce media to you, correct Holy this dad don't miss out on this. This is one hell of an opportunity I mean you're getting top five really just people that are doing this for a living I mean that's that's what I would go to anyway You know me it's like I want to know like are you making money at this or doing something with that That's what I would do So um, that's what we could provide for you. So definitely if it's on your radar and you want to go through that text bryce media For any inquiries and let's chat, but we are uh, we have the first one going this sunday, which I'm excited for I'm so excited. I can't wait and I will like I said guys if you want to take this course the minute you sign up for it Before the I'm going to send you homework Um, and it's again, it's not busy work because I don't believe in busy work. It's actual I'm going to be asking you questions For you to figure out what it is that you want to so you can journal and start to figure out what it is I mean, oh, I don't my my notebooks already packed. So we're leaving tomorrow But as I have a notebook that I I've gone through plenty of notebooks of stuff that I've just written down And I will help you jay's really good at that business model I'm going to help you with the content creation how to tell a story How to take what you what you want to say and create it in a way So other people will be attracted to your work. So it's not boring So it's exciting all that kind of stuff and so I I can't wait I've loved like I said all the people that we have signed up so far. I've loved getting to know those ladies I'm so excited about their channels. I can't wait to subscribe to their channels once they get them up and running because I know What they're I'm not going to say I know what their channels are now and it's going to be so exciting I will also help you what I'm doing with people right now too is once you have that Channel name that that name that you want to be under I will also help you get the copyright Get that set up for you I've already started that with a couple of our people and the course getting them set up already to make sure that they have That that domain is theirs Um and and the camp that intellectual property can't be taken by anybody else. I'll help you with that as well So, um, which is something that's one of those annoying things that you have to do when you have but you know To make sure that nobody else has us with tarik atlanta I make sure nobody else is going to touch the name spiritually raw or not stick tv, right? We have to make sure we're protected legally with that and so I will help Will you walk you through that with with actually? Of securing your your intellectual property. So Anyway, is there anything else you want to add to this jay? Enjoy the ride everybody text brice media, you know If you go the links will be in the description below for the attract everyone recruit no one as we're going through it Make sure if you when you go to purchase it Um, click type in the promo code attract and then you'll get half off Okay, because you mentioned the show So yeah, we're doing that this week brice as we go through because right now we're in the plea launch phase Right, absolutely. And I'm so excited. I cannot wait.  I don't know what to call it time with jay and me separately as well So we can actually really look at your stuff and really I can help you jay can help mentor you to help You figure out how it is you want to you want to put your side?  I'm really excited too. Like I said, I know what these ladies channels are gonna be I can't wait to subscribe and watch because it's gonna be so good. So anyway guys, but Jump on there. So there's ladies coming on there. So I know and they're cute ladies. Let me tell you Waiting for man. What's wrong with you people, right? So jump on guys. Have a good time with this really It's going to be the time of your life a new version of you exists. We're coming into a new phase I guess 2024 but again, once you start doing this, you won't think in terms of that anymore you you you're your whole perception of Life how you view why your even hair will be totally different, but you'll see click on the links below Bryce media text my number I'm happy to help Yeah, absolutely guys I will all be down in the description box below and I cannot wait for anybody who is joining us This sunday to start the course I can't wait to meet you personally and to help you start your new life because that is exciting for me to see People live in their best lives and being happy with with what they're doing and feeling excited about their work. So Your dharma man. That's what we say, right? That's your dharma dharma is different than work work is labor dharma is like What your purpose is what gets you in the flow? So I can't wait to help you guys find that All right you guys well I will put again everything down the description box below make sure that you are following all jay's links I'll have all his personal links too down there below guys and any questions any last minute questions You have you can ask them in the comment section below or just privately message us and we'll try to help you figure out The answer to your question. All right you guys have a wonderful day everybody. Bye


Hi, my name is Ken, and in this webinar, we're going to talk about one of the most popular topics right now is working with AI, AI models, working with GPTs. And I'm going to focus on the second part of working with these, which is how do we get them up and running part of our applications and rolled out into production. And there's a lot of challenges in getting through this process, and I'm going to focus on primarily the end part of that process. I've got some models. I want to get them running in production. How do I do that and how can I figure out if things are working well? So you may have noticed in March, 2024, a great paper came out from CNCF about cloud native AI and all of the capabilities that are part of the CNCF ecosystem. I highly recommend that you take a look at this paper. There's a ton of great resources in there. And I kind of want to riff off of some of the things that are in there, and especially like I said at the end part. Now I've got some ideas and I want to get them up and running in production. And I'll share an open source example of how I do this as part of the process. So for a little bit about me, I'm one of the co-founders and CEO of SpeedScale. We're a CNCF member and have presented at KubeCon and we've attended KubeCon for a number of years. And we primarily work with customers who have workloads that are in Kubernetes environments and trying to figure out how to improve the performance of their own code. And you might say, hey, Ken, what are your own personal qualifications? Well, I consider myself a prompt engineer kind of like everyone nowadays. I've familiarized myself with working with a number of the different AI tools. You can see here from Perplexity where they actually have a lab, by the way, you can go and use and test out a bunch of the different models. Chat GPT where it's pretty well known from OpenAI as one of the first really easy to use models you can go and start to ask it questions and that kind of thing, as well as tools like Anthropic and Google's models. There's a ton of different things and a lot of these offer a free tier. You can sign up and easily start using and working with them. But in all seriousness, I've spent most of my career in the application performance area helping companies figure out, why is this running slow? Where are the slow parts? How can we improve it? How can we load test and validate that things are running better? So one of the things I definitely recommend you drill into and do some research on is hugging face. They have free accounts you can go and sign up and you'll find really quickly there's hundreds of thousands of models that are already out there. This is a screenshot from the leaderboard where they're saying, hey, these are some of the best models for a variety of different tasks. And you can see how fast this space is moving. So just in the past six to eight months, things have improved from 50% to over 80% and getting close to human levels of intelligence. Obviously, you want to take advantage of this and say, what gen AI capabilities can I take and add to my own application? And I recommend take a look at some of these models. These were the trending models at this time in April 2024 when I'm doing this webinar but it's always changing over time. So you want to have flexibility in how you work with these. So when you start working with AI models and you get some feedback and you go, okay, I got some ideas, I want to add a recommendation system. I want to add some generative capabilities to my product. You're going to find there's actually a pretty long process for doing this kind of thing from making sure the data you give the models is really clean and doesn't have the wrong information in it. Training the models is where almost all of the information you'll find about AI is about training. And I'm going to cover that real briefly. There's not as much about model serving or you might hear it called inference, which just means running it. Making sure that it stays up and running and that kind of thing. I'm going to focus a lot in this webinar about model serving. And of course, once you've got something, it's up and running. Is it running properly? Is it crashing? Is it erroring for people? And there's new ways to implement monitoring observability for these kinds of AI models. So drilling into each one of these, data preparation is super critical.  This is in a couple different areas. So one is the data you use to train the model. And you obviously don't want to train it on bad data, wrong responses, that kind of thing. But also the way you prompt the model. So take time to test out a bunch of different prompts. Try different variations on how you send data to it so that you can get the best kind of results. I highly recommend researching a capability called RAG where you taken off the shelf model that already is good at a variety of different tasks and you augment it with your own proprietary data. So this is kind of a sweet spot where you don't have to take a huge expense of training the model yourself. You can take something that already works really well and add your own responses to it. This can help you cut down on hallucination and weird responses that come out of the middle of nowhere. So model training, this is obviously really well known as a big challenge nowadays. Everyone in the world is fighting over the GPUs. Everyone's trying to get access to these kinds of things. Personally, I skipped some of this. If there's 500,000 models on Huggingface, maybe I don't need to train my own model from scratch. Maybe I can take someone else's model and just rag my responses into it. So this lets you get something up and running faster. I'm all about moving fast, getting an MVP going. And so I'll be honest, I skipped this whole stage. And for most people, you don't need to train your own model from scratch unless that's your business. Model serving and getting this thing up and running. You've got to figure out how do I package it? How do I build a container? What kind of infrastructure do I need to use? So it turns out running the models might require a GPU, but way less than training it. And you'll quickly find one of the challenges is you have a lot of microservices that are calling your model. And everyone has this new dependency. So you can use a technique called service mocking, where you record the responses that come across this API and you create a mock, which will repeatedly send those same kind of responses back. This is a way you can provide these mocks to the development teams so that they get what looks like realistic responses without necessarily having to have everyone run a giant model on their own machine that's not always feasible. So I highly recommend that you take a look at how to do service mocking. I'll try to show some examples as part of this as well. And then monitoring and observability. You spent all this time to get the model into production. Is it crashing? Is it running really slow? So you may be familiar with the SRE golden signals that came out of Google's SRE handbook. They are what is the latency of this service? What is the throughput that it can handle? The saturation, how much infrastructure is required to run it? And the fourth one being the errors. Is it even responding? By the way, errors sometimes have really good performance. The response really fast with an error message is not that helpful. In addition for AI models, there's a couple of different things that you're going to want to include are the answers accurate. So you may have it returning really inaccurate answers. This is actually the most common thing you see coming from the AI folks when they talk about performance. They're actually talking about prediction accuracy. That's great. And another one you want to include is how many tokens are used. There's a good correlation between the more tokens, the higher the latency. So you're going to want to work on that and tinker with it. What's the smaller number of tokens that you can use for your query so that you can get good latency without breaking the bank? So I'm all about applied engineering, actually building and running these things. So what I did for myself is I designed an experiment. Let me go and get a Kubernetes cluster, stand it up and start to deploy some of these things. I selected from Huggingface a container called TGI, which I'll show you. It is a way that you can run these models and it's just wrapped in a Docker container. So I put that in a Kubernetes manifest. You need a cluster that you can run these things in that has a GPU. Setting up your node groups takes a lot of time. For starters, I used an autopilot cluster. That way it says, hey, this workload needs a GPU. It spins up a GPU node. The other workloads may not and it spins up a regular ARM or X86, whatever kind of node that's required. Again, this helps you get things up and running, experiment, testing out the model so you can get feedback. So I have an open source project that I'll share here and it's got a couple of different containers. There is a React user interface that's being served off of Ingenix. There's an ingress into the cluster so you can see it from the browser. The backend API is written in NodeJS. A lot of the examples are either in Python or NodeJS. I like working with Node. Now I've got kind of the same node code for my front end and for my API. And then, like I said, the TGI is coming from HuggingFace. So there's an existing container that we can take advantage of and I'll show you how you flag the manifest to say, hey, this needs an NVIDIA GPU. So let's jump in and take a look at this and I'll show you how you can run these in your own cluster. Okay, so this is the documentation page for the TGI project from HuggingFace. It's a pretty active project. You can see here thousands of GitHub stars from HuggingFace and it's a great way that you can come and run these open source LLMs. I highly recommend it as a way to get started and get something running. There's in addition to this, by the way, it already has capabilities like we talked about monitoring and observability and it also is set up for server-send events. That's where you see the responses get streamed back to the user kind of one token at a time and it can enable you to have instant data. The first part of the response comes back fast and then the entire response is sent over time. So you can see, by the way, the details on the different models that are available from this. So for my own testing, I've been using Mixtral. There are so many models available here that there's plenty that you're gonna be able to work with and figure out and get working for your application. The API on how you call it is in the current versions, which is the one I'm using, it looks like the V1 chat completions endpoint that has the same shape as you see from OpenAI. So this makes it easy so that you can switch the different backends out and I highly recommend that you test different backends. What does it happen if I use chat GPT? What happens if I use Anthropic? What if I wanna call TGI? All of these can be done without having to rewrite your code. So speaking of the code, let me show you my GitHub repo here. So this is a really simple project just to show you how to get things up and running. Here are the components that are part of it. So the UI code in the UI directory is a little React GUI, okay? And it'll get built into a container. The API tier is Express Node.js app. When it gets an API request, it goes and hits the backend TGI system. And because I wanna keep this information around, I hooked a little database up to it. Right now the database is sort of self-contained inside the container in a future version. I might break this out, but I can hold all of the responses and details like the latency of the response and how many tokens were used. And then to deploy this, I've got a couple of Kubernetes manifests. You can see this is pretty simple. I'm using customization and so there's just three. This is very vanilla stuff, a service and a deployment, but this is the one that's probably the more interesting. How do you run the TGI? Well, this is pretty simple here. You put in the image details. Because I'm using an autopilot cluster, I need to define everything, the CPU memory storage required, and I just say give me one GPU. And then you can pass in the model that you wanna use. So here is the specific model that I'm running. You might need to put in your Hugging Face token. So you've gotta figure that out for yourself, set up a token. By the way, you can create a free account and then add this node selector down here. If you're running it in GKE, which I am, so that you make sure that you get a GPU that's created as part of this and that's it. And when you go and deploy this, it will spin up in your cluster. And one thing to note is it does take a little bit of time for it to download the model. I recommend when you productize this, you're gonna wanna put storage associated with it because you can store the model so it doesn't have to download it, that kind of thing. Again, this is the quick and dirty fastest way to get something up and running for a proof of concept. And for the other components, you'll see that I'm building containers for the AI, sorry, for the API and for the UI, then these are, I'm also building them with GitHub actions. So again, you can do this on your free account and then put a service in front of it and then I'm hosting this right now on one of the domains I have, trafficreplay.com. And so this part, setting up the ingress, that's on you, how you want to get the interface deployed. So here's what it looks like, my little demo app. If you hit my URL, by the way, you need to log in as John Doe, the password is in my repo. If you can't find it, just drop me a note or ask me a question on the GitHub repo. So you can come in and say, hey, generate a brief poem about Kubernetes, okay? And give it a number of tokens, like a hint on how many tokens to use, a small number of tokens, like I was saying earlier, should respond a little faster. So, okay, it went and created my poem for me. And you can actually see here, the poem's getting cut off. So 50 tokens is not enough. I told it how many tokens to use, my prompts required 16 and this took over three seconds. So let's try another poem and we'll do this again, write a poem about Kubernetes, but we'll give it more tokens and see how this one works. So obviously it's gonna take a little bit longer because I've given it more tokens. And by the way, three seconds is a pretty long response time here, this one is not, you know, it's synchronous. So it is gonna wait for the entire response to come back. That took 12 seconds and it actually still, it still ran out the quality of the poem. I will leave up to you to decide, but you can see a really direct correlation here between the number of tokens that it uses and, you know, the response time. This has not been tuned for performance or anything. That is for a later stage, we gotta start by at least getting visibility into it. So let me try, you know, one more poem about Kubernetes. And we're gonna say, like, go crazy, give this a ton of tokens. So 25. So now we can see we just got some kind of error. And this is the most common thing in the world, right? What something happened in my environment here. And I don't know what it is, right? So this is where API observability and understanding what's going on comes in. So I did go ahead and hook this up to speed scale. So I can see the different calls that are happening in the environment here. So I can see, you know, getting the list of poems. I got a 304 response means it hasn't changed. Here is that specific poem that was sent. This is exactly how my, the TGI model responded and how long it took. And again, the tokens and that kind of thing. So this is the inbound call that went to the API. Here I can see the outbound call that was where, how TGI responded in the specific details. And I can actually see also the prompt that was used, very basic, you know, for this example. And then, you know, moving up, we can see our one that took 12 seconds and the specific details about that. And then, you know, interestingly this other one where it was trying to post that other one, we don't know what the error was. So we can see here, actually, the backend replied with a 422. So this is coming from that hooking face TGI server, input validation error. You're not allowed to send 2,500 tokens. That's too many. So this is the kind of thing that is not always obvious to a developer, to someone who's working with this system, what's going on in the environment. So tracking these kinds of details is really important. And if as a developer, if I want to try to work with these APIs, again, it's kind of hard to get this up and running in my environment. So using a tool like SpeedScale or another capability for service mocking, you can come and save this data and simply easily build a mock that will allow you to run this locally on your own machine and you can see the mock responses include the successful responses of when it was properly returned as well as the error conditions. And this lets developers easily work locally without having to deploy giant GPUs and spend a ton of money on infrastructure because these can be run just with a single command line. Let me show you, as simple as this can be set up, it's just running it on your desktop like this with a single command. Go and run this locally on my own machine, let me hook my Node.js code up to that and develop and iterate so that I don't get that server communication error or whatever kind of thing, but I handle it in a cleaner way and show that response back to the user. So this was just a quick overview of some of the capabilities in the cloud native space. And please take a look at my GitHub repo, open comments, send me some issues and this kind of thing so we can work together. I would love a chance to help out, I'm always interested in what folks are doing around cloud native AI models nowadays and getting them up and running in Kubernetes as easy and fast. And this is definitely something you can check out. So if you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Thank you very much.


Let's go. They want to part two So what of yesterday's video? I've been getting a lot of DMs, and I saw a lot of comments that they want to part two Let's go time to play the game. Did you write a list? I got my list. Let's go. I'm ready. Okay. Are you ready? I'm ready. You about to fail. No, I'm not. Let's do it. Okay. What's going on infinite family? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel Make sure you guys hit that subscribe button turn on your post notification But leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a whop. For a chance to want to shout out in the next video That's right guys. So you guys asked for it. You guys are getting it a part two of yesterday's video Janice is gonna be in the hot seat today. I got five different scenarios She has to call out which one is the lie out of three things that I tell her. Okay Maybe you think you really know me that well, I think so but there I know there's a lot of things that you don't Tell me I'm just not a prying person. So why I don't know like situations from your childhood Like you don't like to talk about stuff, but I know I'm a black mouth. So I talk about everything That's how I got into a lot of trouble as a kid. Yeah, I feel like you know that I got how many times that I have the cops called on me Like three times I think three times I had the cops called on me and I was at the age of I think like the first time I think was like seven the time after I think I was like eight and the time after I think I was like nine So like three consecutive years back to back to back but without further ado guys enough talking Let's get right into the video. All right first scenario ready. Okay. Here we go. My English teacher wrote me up So I wrote her up to I Farted once in class and blamed it on the girl behind me. I had a huge crush on my science teacher in middle school Which one is the lie? I think the science teacher one is a lie. I had a huge crush on my science teacher Yeah, you gotta write I remember those situations you telling me about them No, yeah, I did my English teacher did write me up for talking in class So I've got a referral form and I wrote her up to for writing me up And then I remember I told you I farted once in class and I blamed it on yeah Here we go. All right, so you got one one so far. I'm sorry doing better than you so far I started playing baseball at the age of five. I tried joining soccer once I played shortstop and pitcher for baseball What is the lie? I feel like he started playing baseball sooner than five I need to answer Janice. I need to answer this claim or her name is not Janice. It's Janice That's just a nickname a lot of you guys get that confused like in the newcomers. Um, it's Janice I just call her Janice but answer Janice. I think it's soccer. I tried joining soccer once. That's a lie. Yeah That is a lie. I never tried joining soccer. I played it. I never tried joining it. Yeah Okay, two out of five it's gonna start getting harder. Okay, I hope you're ready for this My first car was a 2009 Honda Accord. I bought no, I broke a newborn baby's bedroom window I took my neighbor's car on a joy ride once That's the lie You sure that's 100% your answer. That's the lie. I took my neighbor's car on a joy ride once. That's a lie.  I was throwing a ball.  Next one My first job was at Subway. I used to eat corn out the can as a kid My first celebrity crush was Lauren London What is the lie? Your first job was in Subway. Are you sure? Yes. What was my first job? You worked with Miguel's dad at the beauty supply That was the lie. Yes You guys probably want to come in and ask you why you didn't corn out the can as a kid I got my hands on whatever I could find in the house I saw a can of corn and I just started eating it, you know tough times. I love you still do that though I don't know. I don't think it's normal anymore. I don't think it was normal back then But and then yeah, my first celebrity crush was Lauren London. You should know that already. Yeah, I didn't know that All right, last one. I didn't expect you to get all these right so far. I might have to come up with two extra scenarios Like last time. Yeah, my dream job was to be in the MLB My favorite TV show as a kid was SpongeBob. The last time I pooped myself was in eighth grade Be very careful with this one That's all I'm gonna say What was the first one? My dream job was to be in the MLB my favorite TV show as a kid was SpongeBob The last time I pooped myself was eighth grade Be careful. The last time you pooped yourself was the eighth grade. That's the lie. Yeah, is that your final answer? Yeah, I Gotta make two more scenarios. You got five out of five. That wasn't supposed to happen like That's never happened before. All right, you know what 100% give me guys give me like five minutes All right, I'm gonna make two more scenarios up that was not supposed to happen I'm gonna make sure she gets these next two wrong. All right, guys, so I've got two more scenarios. I you're not getting neither These are right. I almost guarantee it If you go seven for seven, I will for real for real take on a vacation like we agreed on in the first video I will for Not not just a weekend not just a weekend getaway I'm talking about a real vacation I will take you on a real vacation if you get these next two right meaning you got seven out of seven, right? You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. There's no way you're gonna get these next two, right? I hope I do. Here we go My dream car is a Rolls-Royce race My first dog's name was Abner. I used to mix salt with my juice as a kid What is the lie? There's no way you're gonna get there's no way This is hard now I'm nervous because you I don't want to get it wrong dream cars a Rolls-Royce race First dog's name was Abner. I used to mix salt with my juice as a kid the salt with the juice That's a lie. Yeah, you're sure 100% that's your final answer. Yes, you got it wrong really Nope my dream car is a Rolls-Royce race. That is not my dream car, but you said it was one of them Mmm No, it was a car that I would like to have my dream car is a McLaren or a Porsche GT3 I was looking for either one of those I think that's kind of BS because you've always said Rolls-Royce race was one of your dream cars What do I always go towards though a Porsche GT3 or McLaren? You know that? Okay, whatever. All right, your dream car change all right It don't matter because in the next question. It don't matter the next one. You're gonna get wrong anyway Okay, I once ate a whole bottle of vitamins. I ate candle wax once. I was put in the back of a cop car once What is the lie? Yeah, this one you're gonna get wrong Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Come. I was put in the back of a cop car once. That's a lie. You sure 100% Yeah, that is a truth You have that is incorrect Janice. The lie was I ate candle wax. That was that was the lie So forget the dream car one before because you got that one wrong, right? But let's see if you would have got it right. You still got the last one wrong It doesn't matter because you had to make two extra questions and make it super difficult So when did you ever get put in the back of a cop car? So I'll make this really short. Um when I went to school 15 over here, right? We had like this get like their program the D. A. R. E. program for Whatever rehab.  This is crazy I was put in the cop car once too Put in the front seat for why because long story short someone threw a surprise party for me But told like a whole bunch of randos to come and so it got shut down and he the person who did the party for me Had left and I was super upset because I don't like randoms but long story short his dad called the cops and The cop took the home.  I'm not a criminal. He was just like he was like it's your birthday And I was like, yeah, I wasn't expecting this to happen. What criminal? He was like, they need a ride I was like, yes, I know What a criminal All right, so I'm not gonna lie you got five out of five right you might get a little something something But the seven out of seven wasn't happening. Sorry. Okay. You're so happy that I got two answers wrong I honestly added only two more just because I didn't want it to be too short I really thought that you were gonna get both wrong the car one out like I'd give it to you I guess whatever but yeah, cuz that's not fair. You was always like Whatever Janice, what would I rather have luxury or speed? What would I rather out? Doesn't matter cuz you always say you want multiple cars. Oh god, whatever. All right guys So that is it for today's video if you guys want a part three Let us know down below smash that thumbs up button. Is there anything else you'd like to say? No, I think that I Know repaddle it back. It's not something anyone That's all I was saying All right, guys, so it is time to taste post notification shout out Vicki Fabios shout out to you Thank you so much for the love and support if you guys want to post notification shout out All you guys got to do is like comment share and subscribe and turn your post notification balls up So you know if I win ever we post in a video and with all that being said we will catch you in the next video


Welcome to the bet MGM studio and this edition of Titans all access with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith And guess who's here to talk ball with us presented by Duncan coach Dave McGinnis coach Mack welcome What's great to be here. Thank you for having me. All right, Matt Can you believe that we are approaching the last regular season game? And the only thing on the line is the AFC South title trip to the playoffs, you know little stuff Yeah, well, and that's that's where we are. So I love it. I love it Let's go down there and do something really really big like win the game when the game go the playoffs That's why we're all here, right? Let's do it. So here's the question I've gotten from fans and as a former NFL assistant and head coach I want you to answer for them. That is they're saying well the Titans have extra time off Why don't you just practice every single day? Why don't you take every moment that you can to get on the field and prepare for this game with Jacksonville? Explain why having a normal week of practice is the right thing to do


Many of the advances that have taken place since that of Dr. Goddard's first rocket in the 1920s have emerged from NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Larry Deal, chief of the Space Propulsion Technology Division, gives us insight to the technology and the future of space propulsion. We on Lewis Space Propulsion Technology Division are striving to advance the technologies that open pathways for the nation's ride to space. We conduct research and develop technology for launch vehicles, space transfer vehicles, satellites, and space platforms. This wide range of applications requires a propulsion research and technology program that encompasses a number of options. Chemical, nuclear, electric propulsion, as well as far-term concepts like laser and microwave propulsion. Our current emphasis is on chemical and electric propulsion systems. In some ways, visions of the future begin with us because we must answer the questions asked when these systems are still on the drawing board. Let me share with you a vision of what is possible in the next 20 to 30 years and what is needed to get there. We begin with new Earth orbit propulsion systems that will benefit the space station freedom. Construction and long-term operation of the orbital outposts will depend on an advanced Earth-to-orbit transportation system that will make regular trips to and from low Earth orbit. An improved shuttle will transport freedom's workforce. Economic, low-thrust rockets designed for reliability and flexibility will be used to counteract atmospheric drag and vibrations. A powerful unmanned cargo vehicle will carry materials and supplies from Earth. Low-thrust rockets will also help enhance our knowledge of Earth and space by keeping satellites properly located and correctly oriented and by assisting the unmanned spacecraft that will map and explore the solar system as they achieve planetary orbit. Using advanced expander cycle engines, space transfer vehicles based in Earth orbit will enable us to maneuver freely in space working, traveling and exploring. They'll aid us in creating another key path to the future, a lunar base. On the moon, we'll learn the necessary skills for survival an experience that will prepare us for a more rigorous but even more rewarding ride. A ride that will take us ever further from home. Until finally we take our first steps on Mars. Interplanetary spacecraft will use a variety of propulsion methods that offer the high efficiency and long running times needed to achieve our goal of transforming a distant planet into a self-sufficient outpost. Along with advanced chemical and nuclear thermo propulsion systems, many spacecraft will be propelled by electric thrusters and powered by solar or nuclear energy. These plans for the future require prediction of the performance of such propulsion systems. Exact simulation is necessary. Often the computer serves as a cost effective starting point. Taking advantage of Lewis Research Center's high performance computers and advanced networks, division members develop computational tools and techniques that model a propulsion system and simulate the complex physical processes taking place during its operation. The speed of propellants as they flow through the turbopump changes in temperature within the combustion chamber and the onset of turbulence as exhaust gases exit the nozzle can all be predicted quickly and economically through computation. Computers however cannot do it all. Fully understanding the performance of propulsion components and systems often requires experimental testing. In Lewis's experimental facilities, research hardware is assembled that possesses the important characteristics of a component or system. They then simulate the range of conditions that will be encountered during operation and measure the effects of these conditions on the test article. Teams conduct propulsion experiments from state-of-the-art control rooms where computerized systems automatically control and monitor facility operations during tests. In many facilities optical diagnostic systems are used as tools of measurement because laser beams can withstand higher temperature and are less intrusive. Optical diagnostics help researchers probe the physics of combustion and flow without affecting the phenomena. Lewis's test facilities have supported investigations of many new concepts and technologies. Stronger thrust chamber material better cooling techniques, efficient propellants, reliable ignition methods and durable chemical and electric rocket engine components. The Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a world-class space simulation facility containing simulation chambers in a variety of sizes. The vacuum in these chambers is comparable to that of the cold highly charged vacuum of space created by an immense system of pumps and cryo panels. This laboratory makes it possible to predict performance of spacecraft elements such as solar arrays as well as electric propulsion devices like ion thrusters and magnetoplasma dynamic thrusters. During testing researchers gather data to predict performance life and efficiency. To allow full utilization the Electric Propulsion Laboratory's vacuum chambers are divided into several isolated sections. Each accessed by a port. These separate ports make it possible to install or remove experiments without affecting the vacuum in the rest of the chamber and to conduct more than one test at a time. Lewis Research Center's largest chemical rocket testing complex is the rocket engine test facility. Its versatile system for supplying cryogenic propellants and a safe and effective method of cooling exhaust gases and removing contaminants make it possible to test a wide variety of technologies. Technologists in the rocket engine test facility operate chemical rockets at sea level and altitude conditions to better understand the performance. They study the behavior of turbopump components and explore ways to enhance their performance and life by simulating the conditions in a rocket engine turbopump. By conducting repeated test firings they determine how various material, cooling techniques and fabrication methods will help rocket engines withstand extremely high temperatures and pressures. Working toward goals of top performance as well as efficiency, economy and dependability required for the large variety of propulsion systems members of the Space Propulsion Technology Division gather knowledge, test ideas and solve problems using computers, experiments and diagnostics. It's an endless spiral of exploration that draws ever closer to the ideals of exact simulation and perfect prediction. Vacuum chambers, computer codes, test rigs and highly skilled people. These are some of the ingredients that allow the Space Propulsion Technology Division to contribute to our nation's ride to space. We know our travels are only the first steps of a long and difficult journey. The vision we have shared with you is only the beginning. The solar system and the universe are waiting to be explored. Propulsion will lead the way. We are proud to help pave the way for our nation's ride to the future. Propulsion technology will reach beyond the Space Shuttle as we continue the technologies for communications, Earth observations and Earth space operations. The ability to launch and explore from the platform of space station freedom and a lunar base will help us ultimately reach Mars and other outer planets.


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