Hey, good afternoon, everyone. It's a little cold in here. And this is nice afternoon. And we are just meeting after the break. I saw a lot of people on the show floor still busy chatting and sipping coffee. I'm very happy you made it here. And today, together with my colleague, Shailesh, we're going to talk about a very interesting topic. So the topic is, how do I build enterprise applications using Cloud Foundry instance on my laptop? So as we all know, Cloud Foundry is mainly intended to simplify a developer's job. How do I get my application quickly built and post to Cloud Foundry instance, running wherever that is in the cloud? So let me actually start getting into the presentation. We have a lot of material to cover, not this slide, not this one. So we saw Cloud Foundry instance could be used in three different ways. One is, just to get familiarized, how does Cloud Foundry work? What is the platform behavior, where I'm interacting with the platform as a developer? What is my interface for the platform? The command line interface for pushing an application, browsing the various different services, creating a new service, binding an app to the service, all of that good stuff. So I want to get familiarized with that. And if I have an easy way to do that, like a Cloud Foundry instance running on my laptop, nothing better than that. And if the instance on my laptop is also capable of providing different services that are needed for enterprise applications, like a powerful database, different kind of services, predictive, geospatial, text processing, even better. So that's what we have here, number one. Secondly, now as we all know, real enterprise applications are not built by one developer on laptop. Obviously, ideas can emerge from one person's mind, and you might get started with a really good skeleton code. But then you need a collaborative environment for different people in a team working together, building the app. So now if we take an instance on premise, just to make it easier for development, why not? And then once your app is ready, then you can push it to the Cloud Foundry instance in the cloud. We're not saying this is the recommended method. This is the recommended methodology from SAP that we should follow this, and this is the best practice. But we find this quite useful in many cases. And we thought this is something worth sharing with the community here. So what is this Cloud Foundry instance on my laptop? So how many of you have heard of SAP HANA? Good. So a few years ago, SAP revolutionized the entire data management, the way how we build applications. It combined a database that handles asset transactions with the same database now handling your analytical queries. You don't need to have these data instances separate. You don't need to create whole warehousing down some time, and then process analytical queries. You can do all of those transactional systems. You can run your transactional systems, and you can run your queries on the same data. So that's simply for a lot of things. So I'm glad many of you heard. So I just wanted to mention a couple sentences about that, because that is a topic on its own. So we thought that the Cloud Foundry instance on the laptop should definitely have a HANA instance running. Now HANA takes care of your data management. It has very powerful engines like graph engine, text processing, predictive, geospatial. But oftentimes, you need a small app server sitting on top of it that can take care of, for example, user experience management, user interface that can take care of making some callouts that have to go to some other system. So historically, we started with having a small JavaScript engine running right next to the HANA system. But then we slowly realized that many of the developers want to use not just HANA, but maybe Java, maybe some other language. And all of that's still sitting close to the HANA database. So that is where we found out that Cloud Foundry architecture is applicable not just to the Cloud Platform in the Cloud, but for this app server that is running right next to the HANA system. And that can now support this multiple runtimes. So what you see here on the slide are basically you have the HANA system as the platform. And then we got a couple versions of JavaScript for historical reasons, really. And then you have Java runtime. And then you can add any other runtime that you wanted to. And all of this is utilizing the Cloud Foundry blueprint underneath. And then we have on top application router, which is a web application that does more than just being a web application and serving static HTML. It becomes your front end router so that it can serve the static content as well as route any incoming requests to the different runtimes. So that's the overall architecture. I think this should be familiar to many of the Cloud Foundry developers that you need different runtimes for handling your application code written in different languages and powerful backing services. In this architecture, the backing service happens to be HANA. So this is now showing how the blueprint is exactly same for the on-premise system and in-cloud system. So on the on-prem system, you got the on-prem server, the physical hardware, and things. And then you have all of these platform services needed, logging, monitoring, job scheduling, and things. Then we have the runtimes, static HTML, Java, Node, bring your own language. Then we have the backing services as HDI container, app router on top, serving to different user interfaces, mobile or desktop. And UA is handling user account and authentication. If you look at the Cloud version, it's very similar architecture. In addition to backing service being just HANA, now you can access also the other typical backing services that Cloud Foundry developers would be used to, like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Rabbit, MQ. And you can also obviously add more services as well. And interestingly, SAP Cloud Platform runs on different infrastructure as a service provider. Today, it runs on Amazon Web Services. It also has GA for production purposes. It also runs on Microsoft as a beta offering, and we're soon to support Google Cloud Platform as well. So it is not just an option that you take and run, but actual Cloud Platform from SAP runs on these different infrastructures today. So it's a fully managed Cloud solution from SAP. So besides my main points over here, so the point is you have exactly same Cloud Foundry architecture supported on-prem and in Cloud. So with that, I would really want to directly jump into a demo of what we can do with these things. So what I wanted to show is maybe start with building a static HTML page and then directly get into the database, create a small data model. And then once you have a data model and if I wanted to build a user interface, you would need some logic in between. And in HANA, then we have multiple ways to build logic on top of that. We have support for building stored procedures, in which you can build a lot of procedural code. But if the scenario requires analytical processing, where you don't necessarily need to write a lot of code, but you still need a way to filter the data, aggregate the data, basically analytical views. And we have nice analytical modeling tools that are fully integrated with the same tooling. And then once you have all of that data and the logic sitting on top in the database, now you want to expose it to the world. Now at SAP, we have standardized on a standard for exposing functionality and data called as OData. How many of you heard of OData as a standard? Excellent. So OData is really the standard right now for accessing data and functionality. So we then would need OData provisioning system that will take this functionality in the database and make it available as a OData service. And then finally we can link back that OData into the static page that we would start with and make that pages dynamic. So that's the general scheme for this demo here. Obviously, may the demo guards be with me? Let's see how that goes. So yeah, so that's the general idea. This should give us an idea of the overall technological stack. And my colleague, Shailesh, would then come and show how this is not just a technological platform for us to play with, but SAP is actually building enterprise applications on the same stack using the same model and really is getting in cloud. He's an architect in the IoT, Leonardo organization and they're building really cool enterprise applications on the same stack. So that being said, let me shift gears. Okay, so I have a VM running here, which is running basically the HANA Express Edition. So the HANA system I talked about comes in a version called as HANA Express Edition. I thought I had a browser here with the download page, but you can easily Google HANA Express Edition. You'll get a link to download it and you can run it on your laptop. So that's what I'm running here. And then I use a simple web interface then. Oh, oh, oh, we are not seeing my screen. So I think it was basically only showing. Shailesh, do you want to look for the gentleman who was helping out with the displays? Can you help me out? Just duplicate it at that first. Thank you, have you now? Okay, so let's see this works now. Okay, so what I was showing basically is I have a VM on my laptop that is running HANA Express Edition. Then I would use a simple web-based interface to access the HANA Express Edition running on my system and do the things that I just said we can do it over here. So one of the things we would do, so in the interest of time I'm gonna build a few things and use some of the pre-deployed things so that you can get a feel of what's going on over here. So for example, what I would do is create a new project right here. And we have a specific type of project here that is pre-loaded as multi-target application. Now what is multi-target application? At SAP we got very used to this terminology, so oftentimes I forget that, I need to explain that, we call it MTA, multi-target application architecture. It essentially stands for an application having different components written in different languages. This track is about polyglot applications, remember? So you might have different components written in different languages. So when you look at the application, although there are parts written in different languages with their different target runtimes, some of the components may actually be running in database, some running in JavaScript and Java and so on and so forth. You would want to manage this MTA as a package for its end-to-end lifecycle as a single application. So unless we have this notion of MTA as part of your design right from the beginning, it gets very difficult later. You might end up deploying a really cool application but when you want to say, when you want to find out what is your application, where it is running, it gets extremely hard. So MTA meets that need. Oh, so I'm creating a new application. Let me call it as CFSummit for example. So I'm creating this application in a space. Now this terminology should be familiar to Cloud Foundry developers. There's an organization and a space that every developer works in and that's what we're using here. So I create an app and there is now a new project created for me over here. Now within that, I can very easily and quickly create, for example, an HDB module which essentially stands for Database Module. Let's call it as DB and let's accept the defaults and let us do some data modeling here. Okay, so within the DB module, let me close the other windows that have been opened. So here I can now create, for example, a new CDS artifact. Now in the interest of time, let me quickly say one word about CDS. CDS is an abstraction layer on top of Database so that you have the entire view on the data objects in a more human readable form. So it's an abstraction or the detailed database. So let me use a text editor. So here now we got a CFData as our context. Within that, let me create a couple of, I'm actually not able to edit here. So let me pick two entities here. So very simple and this is, if you browse for our HANA Express Edition download and follow the tutorial. So very simple example that has been described there. I'm using the same for, so that you also get familiar with that. So basically there are two entities, world and country. Every country belongs to a certain continent and that's a simple module that has been represented here. Now I save that and if I now go back to my module and build it, this automatically creates all those tables in the database. So you don't need to worry about what's my database user, does it have the right access, what is my schema, does it have the right isolation, am I stepping into some other areas? So all of that is taken care for you over here. Likewise over here then I can create the stored procedure on top. So let's quickly do that. The analytical view, whereby then you can say, I want to access only countries in a certain continent. So that would be another simple thing to do. So I would create new calculation view for example. How many of you are familiar with the term calculation view? Sometimes I wonder if it's SAP only term. Basically it's an analytical view. So let me call it as a my view and select the default as a category. So this allows me now to model creating the analytical view. So I got a bunch of tables. I can say give me only this data from this table and I want to have analytical view which will take certain parameter and expose certain data externally. So this is going to be a very simple analytical view. So let me just create one projection on certain table. Normally the projection on top would be used to take a look at different projections of different table and aggregate that into something to be surfaced at the top level. But over here we are going to have a simple projection where I would then add let's say some data from one of the tables. So I'm searching for what tables do we have over here. Let's pick the country table here and then let me take all of the columns as output from this table. Okay, all right, good. And then I can quickly write a filter here to say I want to select only the countries in the continent of Europe. Okay, then I can go to the top level, the aggregation which is now looking at the projection from the bottom level and then I'm going to connect that to the output. And that's about it. So this created a simple analytical view from the two tables. Obviously this doesn't do a whole lot but hopefully this gives an idea. Now then I save this data model and go back and I can build and this will take care of creating this analytical view as well. So there are various different steps that you might go through. Let me quickly show you how simple it would be by picking another project here which I created just before I walked upstage here. So I likewise, just like how I created a database module, I would create a Node.js module here. We can debug that but don't worry about that at the moment. So I will create a JavaScript module and within that by simply creating a new file with an extension called XSO data, I would be able to expose the analytical view that I just created as a OData service. And once I have that, then I would create, for example, a web module and then within the web module I can very simply use the OData JavaScript API to access that OData service which is being provisioned by a Node.js based on time which is basically exposing the analytical view in the database. So we got covered creation of data in the database, writing a stored analytical view on top of that using Node.js to expose it as OData service, consuming it from a web interface. So if all the steps, if we go through all the steps, then this is the final output that you would see over here which is basically listing the different countries in on the continent, how are we on time? So basically, I hope this gives you a good picture of what are the different parts of the architecture. And at this time, I would like to hand it over to Shailesh who is gonna show how we're using this architecture to build enterprise applications at SAP. Thanks a lot, Sanjay. So hi, so I'm working as an architect in an application called Connected Goods. So Connected Goods is basically an IoT application under Leonardo portfolio. It allows you to monitor coolers, vending machines and other kind of devices which keep sensor data and then we try to merge the sensor data with the business data. So for example, if there is a vending machine and vending machine is sending the temperature and the door is open for too long and then we have, we can create an alerts to the service engineer saying that there is something wrong with the machine or we can manage, we can also merge the transactional data. For example, there is a cooler and cooler, we can merge the correlate the door openings with the number of items sold and the transactional data can come from the other business systems like SAP or PIS systems. So just a quick glimpse of Connected Goods. So Connected Goods is an application built on Cloud Foundry using couple of microservices. And we have rules, the simple example of rule is if the temperature of the machine is greater than some threshold, then you want to create an alerts or notify the service engineer and also we want to monitor, for example, here is the application where we are monitoring the vending machines and some of the coolers. For example, and then I will click on one of the cooler to see how this cooler is behaving right now. And it will show me the real time data about the temperature, the number of times the door was open where this cooler is located and all the analytical details. And then this cooler also can be have, we can configure some rules on the schoolers to make sure this cooler behaves as normal. And there are couple of microservices that we have here. For example, rules, geospatial, for tracing the location of the cooler and also some master data, like also some other third party data which we want to bring as a part of the application. So going back into the quickly architecture slide on how Connected has some problem with the... So we have, as Sanjay explained briefly, the MTA architecture.  These are some of the microservices which are noted here. There is a user interface on the top which is the HTML file application embedded in a server by a Node.js module. And we have app router which is a part of an takes care of routing the request to an appropriate microservices based on the URL pattern or based on certain regular expressions that you can put in the URL. And then on the Cloud Foundry side, we are using HANA as a backing service. We also have Spark for big data and also UAA for the authentication and authorization. So all these are provided by also by the access layer, the HANA access A. And now I will go back to the code actually to how we have developed this application using the SAP. So going back to the runtime. So basically I'll just show you on the Cloud Foundry times. This is a running application in Cloud Foundry SAP Cloud. So these are some of the microservices that are we are running. And one of the advantage that Cloud Foundry brings us is that we can scale each of the services based on the traffic or based on the demand. For example, if you have getting a lot of data from the sensor provider, we can easily scale the ingestion layer so that we can handle too much traffic. And same for each of the other microservices. Now going back to the development environment. So here I have, I'm using WebID and one of the advantage that WebID brings me is that I can develop this app locally without having the hassle of pushing every time to Cloud Foundry. So basically I am going to some of the services. For example, I can go into the geospatial service and here you see this is just a REST API using Java and that is exposing creating a fence. And whenever the device goes out of a fence, I want to get an alert or I want to send a notification. So there are a bunch of other services using Java and Node.js and that brings us the power of both different platforms and different languages here. And then I go back to one of the CDS artifacts about the same service we have. I'm showing the very simple, easy to create a data model. So a developer can just go and create a data model using drag and drop options here. And once this is all ready, the CDS can be deployed onto either XSA, HANA, local system or to the Cloud. Similarly, here I'm showing just for the device data, we are having the data modeling and some of the analytical business case, for example, some geospatial analytics and we are already can use the calculation view. Here it's example of a business logic is shown where we are basically getting the data from multiple different tables and we are doing a complex joints and aggregations and then finally provisioning it through OData so the UI can display this OData back on the UI. Now I can quickly go into the, so one of the, another advantage that WebID brings when working on the team is that it has out of the box integration with Git. So for example, I have changed any file here. I can check in right from here and there. And then I can also check out from any Git branch. So once you are happy with the changes, you can run this application locally using HANA Express or HANA that is running on premise and what do I do now to deploy in Cloud Foundry? So basically one of the things this brings is that we have written a Cloud Foundry CLI plugin to deploy this MTA. So when I say export after this, it will generate MTA and the MTA is basically looks something like it's archive and then I can take this MTA and I can download it to my local system on the command prompt. And then I can go to my Cloud Foundry, the Cloud Foundry CLI and I can use this command called C of deploy and I can just deploy the tar file, mtar file. So this will take care of creating the database into the Cloud Foundry. Also it will create, it will deploy all the services into the Cloud Foundry landscape and also I can also have option of using the YAML file to change the host names and also change the memory and all that. So this is an example of the YAML file that we are using and this also shows you how we are binding to the different services on the backing services. Yeah. So that basically brings to conclusion what we wanted to present just to recap. Cloud Foundry is really meant to simplify a developer's task to create an application without worrying about what are the different runtimes involved, what versions of which library has to be running where, how they are connected together, how do they scale. So and in order to bring this benefit in a really, really simple form for a developer, now we got three ways in which you can use the benefit of Cloud Foundry. Have a Cloud Foundry instance running on your laptop with the very powerful HANA and other backing services available. So you can get a feel of how to use Cloud Foundry in a phase, build enterprise applications. So that is mainly to learn and experiment. Now then you can have a team and collaboratively using tooling like GitHub and others, you can build that application and when you are totally happy to push it to production, then you can use the same interface, CF Push or CF Deploy and have that application deployed in the cloud. So that's the overall model and what we have shown you here is still a slice of the overall Cloud Platform. SAP Cloud Platform then includes a plethora of other services for analytics, mobility. There's an entire suite for integration requirements, collaboration, jam, and then obviously you can add your own run times and add your own services. And all of this is available in a multi-cloud setting on different IS options that you have today and obviously it's also running in a CP data center. So that's the overall story. I hope this gives you a general idea of what SAP is doing with Cloud Foundry and how we have made it super easy for you to get started. So if you wanna get started today, it's really easy. You can browse for Google for HANA Express Edition, with that you can get a HANA system running on your laptop and then you can also get a trial version of SAP Cloud Platform. So cloudplatform.sap.com then you can sign up for a trial account and it's a perpetual trial account and within three minutes we think that you should be able to have a CF Push Code and deploy a useful application. So that's pretty much what we wanted to conclude with. We basically wanted to display our email address but anybody who is interested can obviously stop by or look up for our contacts online. Thank you for being here. And of course, if there are any questions, you can still, yep. So two things. HANA Express Edition is the downloadable HANA system that you can play with, right? That's for a local instance. Cloudplatform.sap.com is SAP's Cloud Foundry-based Cloud Platform running in various different IaaS options. So cloudplatform.sap.com, yep. Any other last question? I think we have one more presentation after this so we can obviously continue the conversation offstage as well. All right, great, thanks again.


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Content warning for the following adult content. Sexual references. Dick jokes.  Year 2056. Dewberch Jewish Temple approximately 20 miles from site 17.  Sobbed Draven Kondraki in the front pew of the funeral service. His boyfriend reached out a hand and patted his leg comfortably, nodding solemnly in response to the sentiment. He could confirm that the child of the deceased was an incredible bottom. He was so good at breathing. Wimpered alto clef tearfully from beside them, the staffers around the widow were nodded. Benjamin Kondraki had been good at breathing. One seep punched me in the face for the last donut. Cried the newly appointed director moose. Jesus Christ, I'm gonna miss him so much. This is a Jewish service, Tilda. Director whispered in her ear from the proceeding pew. As if to clarify, Dr. Wright's elbowed him sharply in the ribs in response. As the rabbi finished the sermon and walked to the casket, the small group of assembled family and friends fell silent. Some final words were said, something about the power of love and God. And then called the pallbearers up to the altar, intending to carry the casket to the small cemetery outside. Solemnly, the attending began to close the lid. There was a brief moment of confusion among the occupants of the temple at the sound. Plastic and rough. The casket lid would not close.  The med team couldn't get it off, wailed Draven. 55-year-old foundation director Benjamin Kondraki awoke from the very specific but not quite unlikely nightmare in a cold sweat in his home in the present day, very much alive, with four hours to his shift. Fumbling for the switch, he turned on his lamp and yanked up his boxers to double-check. All that remained of the incident was a bag of frozen peas to numb the soreness. He breathed a sigh of relief. The newly-purchased Tenga egg pocket-pussy on his nightstand lost its balance and fell to the floor with a sad and lonely thud. Okay, listen, says Kondraki from inside the bathroom door. I just want you to understand that this is not my proudest moment. It's hemorrhoids, thinks Alto Clef from where he's standing outside the bathroom door in Benjamin Kondraki's apartment.  He canceled our day because of hemorrhoids.  Completely understandable, says Clef. I don't. This doesn't happen to me regularly, says Kondraki. Like seriously, if I thought I could drive like this I would, but it kinda hits a certain point where your body's structural integrity is kinda negligible, you know? He's gonna have ass-stitches, thinks Alto Clef. He seems like the kind of guy who will be constipated to the point of ass-stitches. Of course, says Clef. Don't laugh, says Kondraki after a long, thoughtful pause. I bet he's just constipated, thinks Clef. Like he's been holding in one massive ship for the entire time he's been director, and it's time to give birth to that stress-based monstrosity. I won't laugh, says Clef. We've been friends for what, 20 years, 30? Says Kondraki. I met you in 89.  And you know, as we discussed recently, I do have feelings for you, but it really is kind of a delicate situation here. Connie, says Clef, I've seen you half-dead three whole separate times. No state I can possibly see you in at this point will surprise me, okay? So to reiterate the plan here. Continues Kondraki seamlessly, nervously brushing over Clef's response. You don't have to look at it, seriously, just drive me to the infirmary. If we can get there without anyone seeing us, I'll consider it a victory. And we're not telling Draven about this either. Okay, yeah, understandable. Do you need help like, God, I don't know, getting up? Maybe a little. Okay. The door's unlocked. All right. Really, I didn't mean for this to happen. No one ever does. Okay. Okay, I'm coming in. The Kondraki household is an apartment situated a short walking distance from site. It's an overall happy and comfortable living space adorned with books, manuscripts, and scratches on the walls. There's a bedroom for Kondraki and a now empty bedroom where his son grew up. There's a kitchen and a living room, an office, and a currently occupied bathroom. Clef has been there many times over the years and has been here more often since the onset of Kondraki's surprisingly potent empty nest syndrome several years back, beginning with Draven's moving out into the task force barracks for training and onward. He'd gauged easily when they'd met up again for the first time after several years of working on separate sites that he was feeling a little lonely, a destroyed marriage now a little over 20 years in the past, a kid out of the house, moving through middle age in a strange and alien stupor. Clef himself was more acquainted to living on his own, but it didn't mean he wasn't prone to under-fulfillment himself. They'd been close for years. This elevation of their relationship from strictly friends to testing the waters of a potential partnership was a very recent one, but not one that was necessarily unwelcome at all. There was an element of trust that wasn't there before, an element of strange security and even something like affection, admiration, love. But Kondraki was lonely. Being asexual himself, this was an element that he admittedly may have underestimated in his newfound partner. He wasn't quite sure why he didn't consider it.  It was impressive he had been able to keep himself alive and a downright miracle that he'd been able to successfully raise a child. Kondraki was brilliant. They wouldn't have made him a director if they hadn't been sure of his capability, his grasp of spontaneity, his mental agility under pressure. And this is what he thinks about in defense of Kondraki when he reflects on the next thirty seconds of events unfolding at the Kondraki household, which are recorded as follows. Clef opens the door. He sees Ben there, pantless, which he expected. He sees him also without underwear, which he didn't quite expect but wasn't out of the question. Ben isn't making eye contact and Clef opens his mouth to say something along the lines of, do you need help pushing?   He feels his brain short circuit, then leans forward from the door to make sure that he's seeing it right. And he is. It's stuck. That's the problem here.  The bottom of the bottle is rested on the toilet seat like a display case for an unfurled flag of surrender. So you're probably wondering how I ended up like this, says Kondraki. And I just want you to understand that the main problem here is really the aerodynamics of the thing. I kind of underestimated, like, when I was starting out here a couple hours ago. Clef leaves the bathroom. He leaves the apartment, actually, and stands in the hallway. He has surpassed laughter into tears. He takes out a cell phone and dials.   There's a bottle on his penis, Clef confirmed. The voice on the other end of the line was silent. Then with a low exasperated sigh, it asked the one question that any reasonable or not so reasonable person could ask in this situation. Wow. Beats me.  Clef asked.  Kondraki grumbled. He doesn't say. Clef said into the phone. Anyway, I was just wondering, is this a regular thing with your dad? Is there a procedure for this sort of thing?  Some guy usually call in this sort of situation. Alto.   And he just hung up on me.   Kondraki snarled. Hey, don't worry about it, Clef said. It's no big deal.  It sounds like a fire alarm.  Kondraki confirmed.  Every door on the floor was open and all of Kondraki's neighbors were walking out into the hallway, grumbling to themselves as they filed down the hall to the stairs. Hey, Clef asked. You know what this is about? Not exactly. An older woman in a blue flower print knighty said. I think it might just be a false alarm. There was a cry of alarm from the end of the hallway as the door to the stairs opened, revealing a cloud of thick white smoke. Or not.  The old woman cried.  Clef carefully closed the door and turned to his boyfriend, who had somehow managed to go green with nausea, white with fear, and red with rage all at once. Your apartment building's on fire, he said unnecessarily.  Leave me to die, he moaned. Save yourself.  Clef replied curtly. We ride together.   You couldn't knock me out if you tried, Kondraki retorted.   God, Ben, you got such a one-track mind.  No one'll know. Kondraki rushed back into his bedroom. There was the sound of some rummaging around in the closet. He came out wearing a black trench coat with a gigantic, tense-shaped bulge in the front at crotch level. Wow. He said flatly. This sure did help a lot. No one will notice anything wrong now, yes, Suri Bob. Fuck. Clef glanced out the door. The smoke was starting to build up a bit, and the last few neighbors were quickly making their way down the stairs, heads lowered and wet rags placed over their faces. All right, Clef said. I didn't want to do this, but we have no choice. He took a deep breath. Where's your pantry?  Captain Buchanan said, that's not great. The fire was largely contained to a single unit on the northern side of the apartment building. Clear from the flames looking the curtains and the lurid, orange-red glow that could be seen through the window that this was no mere trash can fire, affects further evident to the dozens of glum-looking people in nightdress standing on the sidewalk nearby. All right, he said into the radio, let's get these bystanders out of the way first.  There were two men walking down the sidewalk, both of them wearing scarves around their heads and wide-brimmed hats. Only scarves around their heads and wide-brimmed hats. And one other thing, water bottles. Each of the two men in question had a water bottle on the end of their dicks. Captain Buchanan's radio handset fell from his nervous fingers. He felt his world collapse inward. The fire, his waiting firefighters, the bystanders standing on the sidewalk. It all fell away, leaving behind only himself, his eyes, and two stark-naked middle-aged men merrily walking down the street with hats on their heads, scarves on their faces, and water bottles on their dingalings. The two men skipped into a car. One of them turned, made eye contact, and shot Captain Buchanan the finger guns. The car started up and drove away. The cold, unforgiving silence that always filled the auditorium at Site-19, regardless of the number of people present, was broken only by the soft click of dress shoes moving across the stage. An assembly was never good. It meant one of three things. A major change in initiative of some sort, an announcement of some imminent threat that was inimical to all life on Earth, or possibly the worst, a new initiative from the O5 Council designed to help the common workers of the site. Most often, these ended up causing more long-term harm than short-term improvement, a fact that was exacerbated by the fact that it was Dr. Gears slowly moving across the stage. He moved with the normal, shuffling gait of a man who had progressed in years, though he held his back straight and even. He stepped up to the podium, then shifted a three-ring binder of pre-prepared notes out from under his arm, opening it and then pressing one of the controls along the edge of the lectern to dim the lights and start the projector in the back of the room. I am here to announce a new O5 initiative. Gears said, his voice flat and even, at once the air seemed to go out of the room. The collective assholes of approximately 600 personnel clenched, most of them lowering their heads in resignation as Gears pressed the button for the projector, bringing up the first slide. This is a standard Class 3 plastic liquid containment vessel. Gears began, turning and gesturing toward the wall behind him, then looking down at his paperwork again. Recently, there have been a rash of incidents caused by the improper use of these devices in the line of work, and we are making efforts to correct these misconceptions. Please note that these devices can be used to contain any number of approved substances. A memo has been distributed site-wide which lists the correct form of... There was a soft cough from the front row, a hand raised slightly, faces turned and looked at the man sitting there, most of them somewhere between shock that someone was interrupting Gears and relief that, for the moment at least, the new initiative seemed to be on hold. The man stood, brushing at nothing on the front of his lab coat and shirt. Dr. Gears, sorry to interrupt. My name is Dr. Bridge. Sir, I just want to be entirely clear. That... That's just a bottle, right? Gears' expressionless face regarded Bridge for a moment, and then he nodded slowly. Yes, Doctor, this is a standard Class 3 plastic liquid containment vessel. Yes! Agreed, Bridge. But that is just a bottle, right? There's no special structure to contain Euclid threats or something weird like that, Gears paused a moment, turning to look at the slide, then back to Bridge. In layman's terms, yes. So, we're being called here because there's a misuse of... bottles? He continued. Gears didn't frown. He never did, as far as anyone knew. But he might have narrowed his eyes in a method that anyone not close to him would have called imperceptible. Yes, Gears said. Bridge nodded slightly. Sir, and again, I apologize. But before we cover the proper use of the bottles, could you perhaps address the improper usage of the bottles? Gears looked down at his notes again, then back to Bridge. I assure you, Doctor, that by going over the proper procedure for using the device that the problem will be alleviated. Yes, Bridge agreed. But I think, as an object lesson, it might be a good idea to address this. If I may, if I may suggest I mean, he said, sorry. Gears paused for a moment, then looked out at the crowd. There were a few nods of agreement, and after a few seconds, he shuffled his papers around, looking down at them again, then pressing the button several times, moving through slides labeled proper substances, filling and emptying, funnels and you, until he stopped at the final one. There was a soft swear from somewhere to the side of the auditorium. Dr. Kendraki, previously unseen and sunken slightly in his seat, had leaned up again as eyes darted from the slide to Dr. Kendraki to back toward the slide again. It's not the first time most of you've seen it. Kendraki muttered, turning toward the wall. Please, Gears began. Remember that inserting non-specific objects or substances into the bottle can cause unexpected results. Specifically, placing an object capable of expanding in size may result in great difficulty in removing the object at a later time. In this particular case, medical intervention was necessary. Thankfully, no long-term damage was caused with the subject. People were shifting uncomfortably. Half were deeply concerned, and the rest were too afraid to laugh. The silence thickened, and then after a moment, Gears pressed the button on the lectern again. From this angle, you could see the pressure being applied. Gears continued, pressing the button again, and from this angle, you'll notice that there seems to be a small amount of tension in the lower back, which can lead to a number of medical concerns. Gears added, a pamphlet has been completed by the site's seven medical staff, which will outline the risks involved with such incidents. Each of you will receive a copy of this in the intracite mail tomorrow.  Kendraki muttered, those bastards. Clef elbowed him slightly. Hey, it's not like it can get worse, he said. And now, Gears finished, an instructional video on what to do if you... He narrowed his eyes at the pre-written notes, reading it twice to be certain.  Kendraki was mortified. Bad enough that his one-off impulsive decision ended in disaster, again as usual. Worse was the fact that everyone had to know about it. And know about it with visual aids, from an O5-sanctioned presentation. Kendraki wasn't too much more paranoid than any other reasonable adult on the site, but he could swear that he felt people's eyes on him leaving the meeting. The wound to his pride was too fresh. He decided to seclude himself to his work for the day and hoped no smartass came by with a bottle themed Get Well basket. The distraction was mostly sufficient if completely soul-suckingly boring. So a pretty normal day doing paperwork. Aside from the occasional dull ache from his lower half, Kendraki was able to mostly put the incident out of his mind. No more issues or lingering embarrassment, just reams of paperwork to be filled out. Not glamorous, but necessary. It was going great, actually. He was making good progress and a decent dent in some of the work he'd been totally not putting off. And it might have given him a little free time on his day off instead of having to take work home again. Then disaster struck. As Kendraki lifted his coffee cup to his lips once more, he realized that he'd sipped it dry. His stomach sank as he realized that meant he'd have to get up and actually go get more. Absolutely no way around that. He just hoped that no one got between him and his source of endless power. Or that he didn't hear the telltale sound of crinkling plastic. After a minute or two of grumbling to himself, he finally got the nerve to head down the hall to refill. He didn't walk with his head down. He didn't want to see him ashamed. After everything he'd already pulled, there wouldn't be a point anyway. Just a chip to his pride. Just before rounding the corner to where the coffee pot awaited him, Kendraki overheard a conversation. Alright, okay, you remember the thing with the Pringles can? Began the first voice, sounding a little exasperated. Yeah? Came the reply. I still have the scar on the back of my hand from where the scissors slipped trying to get me out.    Great, fantastic. Maybe if he kept his head down, Kendraki would be able to get his coffee and go without the two noticing. I get what you're saying. The second voice added, closer now. But why would he do it in the first place? Sometimes people just do things, man.  Like, remember Ryan? Great and I got his arm stuck in the plastic tubing in art class because he wanted to see if he could make himself a robot suit out of PVC pipe. Isn't that the guy who drank so much Red Bull that the company sent him a laptop? Yeah, that's the one. They had to call an ambulance to get him cut out of the pipe because if we tried to use the pipe cutters, we could have got his arm. Same principle. Okay, but Ryan was a complete dumbass. Yeah, but everyone's a bit of a dumbass.  At that point, Kendraki routed the corner and made a beeline for the coffee pot. The small half room wasn't very big, so it wasn't very far at all. But he was able to move quietly towards his warm, holy grail. He had made eye contact with one of the two voices. They were both young researchers, hadn't been at the site long. Or at least he assumed judging by their age. He didn't really recognize anyone unless they did something noteworthy, and even then it was pretty hit or miss. The first voice, belonging to a short young man who now wore a barely suppressed look of fear on his face, stopped in its tracks when Kendraki made eye contact on his way to the pot. The second individual, taller but just as young, had his back to Kendraki when he walked in and hadn't seen him. Like, I can get that the idea came to him. Started the second man, who ignored his colleague that had begun shaking his head frantically in favor for eyeing up the vending machine. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought of something like that before, but to actually go through with it, Kendraki poured himself a cup and didn't turn to look at either of the two. What can I say? Seemed like a good idea at the time. The silence that followed was almost unnatural. The only sound of the room came from coffee being poured. Even the vending machine seemed to stop its endless quiet hum, if only for a few seconds. That was followed by some frantic shuffling, and the sound of two sets of footsteps retreating down the hall. Kendraki half chuckled to himself. Seems they were more embarrassed than he was. He finished fixing his coffee and began his return trip back to his desk to finish both his paperwork and his self-isolation over the incident. So things maybe weren't as bad as they seemed. Just like any big mistake, people would eventually talk about it for a few days and then be over it when the next fresh gossip came out. It was just how people were. They might work with dangerous, impossible, and generally horrifying objects and entities every day, but thankfully most of them were still pretty human. Sometimes humans did amazing and noble work for the good of mankind.   Thank you for listening.  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Hi there, I'm joined by Lauren Bezina who is currently a PhD student here at the Australian National University in the Department of Nuclear Physics. Her undergraduate studies were at the University of Wollongong where she majored in both physics and chemistry. Lauren, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you very much for having me, Tim. I'd like to start by asking you to share a little bit about what you're currently doing with your time. So what I'm currently doing is I've been working from home a lot recently. I've been analyzing some data that we've collected in previous experiments. Earlier in the year, I was also preparing for an experiment. Unfortunately, we had some equipment fails, which sometimes happens in science, but while we're waiting for some new equipment to be shipped from overseas, I've had the opportunity to look back at some previous data and spend some time analyzing that. During your PhD, it's not just about being in the lab, it sounds like. It sounds like there's lots of different components there that go on concurrently. Yeah, that's right. I think that's one of the coolest things about studying nuclear physics here at the ANU is that you can work on the whole journey of an experiment. So you can be around kind of when it's being thought up and then you can work on preparing for the physical part of the experiment where you might be working in the lab and then you get to run the accelerator yourself while you're collecting the data. And then you are also the one who gets to analyze the data and draw out the physics conclusions from your accelerator run. And this is not to say that it's all on you. In fact, like almost every step of the way you have, there's a lot of collaboration and a lot of help. There's a really good team at the ANU and everyone pitches in with each other's experiments. And some parts of it are fun, some parts of it can be a bit frustrating, but that's all part of the journey. Is it that experimental side that drew you to doing a science degree in the first place or were there other factors? So when it came to my undergraduate degree, not so much. I think when it came to my undergraduate degree, I just wanted to learn more. It didn't matter what it was, whether it was experimental theory. I was just really curious about how the world worked. And it seemed like I could learn the most about that and about how the natural and the physical sciences work by doing an undergraduate degree. Then when it came to my PhD, I chose to do that because I met this amazing group of very passionate and engaged people who also gave me the opportunity to participate in running an accelerator. And so that's when the experimental side of it really came to the forefront and that was super exciting for me. You've mentioned working with your peers in this kind of research space. Is peer collaboration both within a university and globally a major factor in the science research world? Yeah, absolutely. Definitely in the past few years, since I started my PhD, we've had so many international... We've had visitors and we've also had people travel for conferences and things, but even since travel has become less possible, I guess, we still will have online seminars and talks and there's talks of moving some conferences online. Because science is all about testing your ideas and the more people you have pitching into that conversation and doing those tests, the more robust the conclusions that you can get from those ideas. So once you've collected the data and you've analyzed it, you've been looking at your data for a really long time and sometimes maybe you know the answer that you're trying to look for. It's really useful and actually really important to have someone else look at that data and give you some more ideas. Have you tested this and have you tested this? What about this? Did you think about this when you were doing that experiment and have you accounted for that when you've done your data analysis? That's what science is based on and so having these international collaborations, people working together but also kind of challenging each other a little bit is super important. So speaking of data sets, I would assume that in nuclear physics you're working with a lot of data. Has the data collation and analysis increased with the increases in technology that we now have available? Yes, so with my data, there's only a few parameters we actually collect when we're doing an experiment. So these will be things like position and time and sometimes energy of a particle that's incident on your detector. But you can then turn those things into like the angle that it hit the detector and the velocity that it hit the detector and you can get a correlation of one particular particle with another particle. And now you need to consider both of these things when you're building up a picture of what the physics is, I guess, basically. So what is actually happening in my case it's in nuclear reaction, that's what I'm looking at. Each one of these signals is another piece of data for even just one event, let alone when you start thinking about combining all these events and making a huge picture. We end up with file sizes of gigabytes worth of raw data that we then turn into some kind of physical picture as what's happening in that nuclear reaction. Thank you, Lauren, for taking us through all the exciting work that you're doing. We'll leave it there. Alright, thank you very much.


Growing up in a dysfunctional family is not always obvious. Similar to symptoms of anxiety and depression, the signs may range from mild to severe, which can go unnoticed in everyday lives of toxic families. Here are five types of dysfunctional family dynamics. 1. The chronic conflict family In this type of dysfunctional family, members fight with each other in harmful ways that leave one another physically and are emotionally wounded. The tension is breeded from toxic parental styles, such as abusive and authoritarian. The parents will usually be strict, rigid, and unreasonably harsh with their kids. Fear is a tool commonly used by them to maintain control, and punishment methods are often abusive, illness treatments that can be traumatizing for the individual. Prolonged conflict within the family can damage a child's neurochemistry, which can create chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and an insecure attachment style, as they cultivate relationships with others outside of the household. 2. The pathological household In this type of family, severe psychological, mental health disorders, terminal illnesses, and substance abuse or drug addiction affect the members' everyday lives. One or both parents may suffer from terminal illnesses, such as cancer, mental disorders like schizophrenia, personality disorders, such as borderline personality disorder, or mood disorders like bipolar disorder. Along with drug addiction problems, one or both parents may also have addictions associated with alcoholism or gambling. In the pathological household, the family roles are reversed, in which the children are more responsible and take care of everyday functions, whereas the parents are the ones being looked after. The parents' disorders or illness can cause children to become preoccupied with tasks they aren't meant to handle until they are more mature. This can cause them to develop social deficiencies, anxiety, and depression over time. 3. The chronic household In this type of family, the children are often poorly looked after. When the parents are too busy, not present, or do not set clear and consistent regulations, the parents do not establish any organization, system, or routine that the whole family can follow, which makes it hard for the children to find any grounding or assurance. Often, the older siblings take on the responsibilities the parents have failed to fulfill, and they learn to play the role of the caretakers. Meanwhile, the younger siblings, or school-aged children in the chaotic household, usually have trouble with discipline, concentrating in school, and listening to authority figures. 4. The dominant submissive household In this type of family, one parent is the dictator, while the other one is passively obedient. The dictator parent has no considerations for the wishes or feelings of the other family members. This often causes the other parent to feel depressed, and they usually have a lot of repressed, negative, and angry emotions.  While one parent is controlling and pays little attention to the way their actions affect the whole family, the rest of the members suffer silently from their poor choices, showing little open revolt. 5. The emotionally distant family This may be one of the least obvious dysfunctional family types. On the outside, nothing is loudly or noticeably chaotic, but behind closed doors, there's very little affection shown between the family members. The parents rarely show warmth towards their children, which teaches them to repress their feelings as they grow older. This brings about an insecure or non-existent attachment, which can negatively affect the child's identity, self-esteem, and their ability to form relationships with others. In this household, communication is rarely open, and the members often choose to deal with their problems alone instead of seeking help. What type of dysfunctional family dynamic do you resonate with most? We understand that this is a hard topic to talk about, but we strive to be a platform where our community members can open up to each other and support one another. We encourage you to share your story with us below. Also, don't forget to subscribe for more content from Psych2Go, and check out our Patreon. Thanks for watching!


The shaft on a traditional pot can be rotated less than 300 degrees total, but a multi-term potentiometer can make multiple full rotations. They're useful in high precision applications, where you need to find a very specific resistance value. These are both 10-turn wire-wound pots, and a quick look inside will show us how they get their name. The resistive element is coiled or wound along the inside of the cylinder, with each end connected to one of the pot's exterior terminals. When the shaft is rotated, the attached wiper contact slides along the length of the coil, providing a varying resistance based on its position. It's basically the same mechanic as a regular pot, just extended, while maintaining a similarly sized footprint.


I want to just note one thing that as I've listened over the course of the day I think we should keep challenging ourselves on is this question of whether or not this really is an issue where the left or the right is more or less likely to be purveyors of truthiness or whether the sort of open net in a sense on the substance in fact favors in the sopa example or others that Yokai use favors a certain kind of truth or the process of letting truth to spread. I suspect we are more in this room well I should say we're probably not by and large devotees of Fox News just listening to the the commentary and I guess I resist a little bit this impulse that this is you know the left is always right or correct and that the right is always pervading misinformation that may not be right but I do want to just note that I think we should keep challenging ourselves in that way the the openness of the net itself as an example in the sopa case seems to be one where there actually might be some favoring of certain kinds of cultures and technologies and topics where the spread of the kind of thing that were that you okay laid out might actually have somewhat more grip than that left-right thing anyway throw that out as just an observation as we switch over to Christian and Esther thank you. Thanks so much John okay well while that gets set up welcome to interventions for individuals tools and personal empowerment I'm Christian Sandvig like the sessions in the morning we're moving to a format now we're going to do some rapid fire presentations so I appreciate your your patience with our brevity I have two big points for you and then Esther my co-moderator will say her points to frame the panel and then we'll introduce the people on the panel in the order indicated in the program so my two big points are these I'd first like to tell you a way to think about interventions for individuals that that I think might be useful and then second I'd like to to throw down a research and tool building challenge so for the first point how many people have ever run across this book anyone it's obscure and old right so it's Mark Steffick's book way back in 1996 did they even have the internet in 1996 that's so long ago but he said in 1996 that actually there are four ways to think about the internet trying to get out of that light in my face there are four ways to think about the internet that he called archetypal metaphors and his point was that the internet is a really complicated technology and it can be used for many different things but that the metaphor that we have underlying our thoughts about the internet is really going to condition what public policy or regulation seems useful what design interventions seem useful and so on so his four ideas about the internet is that we think about the internet number one as a library and this was the 90s we had this electronic library the digital library that doesn't mean that we digitize libraries it means that that's the metaphor we use to think about the internet as a place that has information that we can look up his second was we think of it as the mail or you could say the telephone and so that's more about individuals and interpersonally communicating in some way the third is that we think of it as a virtual world and the fourth is that we think of it as a marketplace now I find these really valuable in thinking about this conference as it's unfolded so far today I think the dominant metaphor in this room so far has been the internet as a library the library is where you go to look at newspapers in the reading room right and it's where you go to look up facts and but you know obviously that metaphor doesn't really work with the internet the library is publicly funded and the library has these trusted intermediaries called librarians right and the internet doesn't have that it has this other class of inner intermediaries so the the way that I think about the presentations that we're going to see about interventions for individuals are really that we have kind of two areas of work that I've seen a lot on one is a kind of help the patron of the library metaphor or empower the individual or you could say blame the patron so in other words that the library doesn't produce the information that you want and the solution should be that we should get the patron up to speed but you don't know how to use the card catalog properly if we can just help you out then we'll help solve this problem about information what I'd like to do is also draw attention to I think what was your guys challenge in the morning and that was to move away from this library metaphor to say that what might be happening is that on the internet we actually have a metaphor of the library but what's actually happening is a marketplace so you think of it as a library where you're looking things up but Facebook thinks of it as a marketplace where it's selling you or Google thinks of it as a marketplace and so a second class of tool that I haven't seen as much work on but that would be great to do would be a class of tool that tries to point out to the user that they are in fact in a marketplace when they think they're in a library and that could involve the political economy of the internet could involve money flows we've heard something about that but then I'd like to depart from these two areas in which I think we've done a lot of work and issue a kind of research challenge where I don't think there's been a lot of work although the panelists that are coming up may prove me wrong and that's I want to move to my second big point and talk about Robert Merton this is not Robert Merton this is not Robert Merton anyone know who this is Kate Smith alright there we go Kathleen Hall Jameson nails it yes so Robert Merton very famous Columbia sociologist he coined the phrase role model he coined the phrase self-fulfilling prophecy he wrote in 1945 about Kate Smith and he was afraid he said you know Kate Smith is such an amazing media celebrity in this year of 1945 she is so powerful as a media celebrity that it may be that she can get people to believe things that aren't true just because she is this really powerful celebrity and he he I imagine I don't know that he did but I imagine maybe in 1945 he had a conference at Columbia that would be just like this one so it would be like our conference he didn't have the gift of naming that the Berkman had because he he called this idea pseudo G'mineshaft he did have a gift of naming but just not in this case and what he meant by that is that in 1945 people were thinking about propaganda right it was on the mind and and he said technology is really interesting because what's happening is that technology is creating this false community of values where people will believe that they are in a community of values with Kate Smith and they'll believe what she has to tell them about issues of the day when in fact it's an intermence it's an instrumental relationship and they shouldn't believe her and he was really concerned about this and so he actually said in 1945 though he had this different take that I haven't seen at the conference here today instead of saying what we need to do is to find the facts that are wrong and combat them he took it in a very different direction he said really what we have is a situation where we could create what he called a climate of reciprocal distrust when there's too much emphasis on facts and misinformation and the danger he said is that society will be experienced as an arena for rival frauds and that this is the major challenge that we face is not that thanks is not that that there is misinformation and we must respond with fact but rather that all facts will be devalued and he said that what might happen is that we would begin to fetishize sincerity and the natural and the spontaneous and I was really struck by that with Tim's comments about his botnets that were fake sincerity you know by by using the mechanical Turk and so so his big concern was not that there are facts that are wrong or that people could be persuaded to believe things that weren't true by say Kate but rather that all facts are being devalued and so this is my research challenge I wonder if it's possible to have a tool that would be empowering for individuals but that it wouldn't actually address specific factual problems instead it would address this climate of reciprocal distrust or address all the status of all facts and say how do we make society as something that's not experienced as an arena for rival frauds so okay so that's my my challenge hack day you guys can solve that one for me he's not looking all right that's like there's no hope then they're not going to address it okay so all right and now I'm gonna hand it over to Esther and and she's going to speak briefly and then we'll move on to the rest of the presenters in the schedule thank you okay so let's start with a factoid where did Stephen Colbert go to school okay Northwestern yes so he is Northwestern University School of Communication alum although you might think he's a Dartmouth alum no had you guys actually watch his show so the Stephen Colbert and the Colbert report did go to Dartmouth but the Stephen Colbert in real life went to Northwestern anyway thought I'd throw that out there I wear very proud of him at Northwestern of course so we've got no sorts of challenges things that we have addressed and things that we haven't really addressed and so I'm going to throw my part into that mix part of the title of our session is tools and then part of it is personal empowerment and I think we've heard a lot about tools and we've heard a lot about what content is out there and what are the what is the misinformation that gets around how much of it is around what I don't think we've talked about that much is how people actually see the content that's out there so so people what are they actually doing how do they understand what's out there right so we can come up with all sorts of tools but if there's a tool out there and no one uses it did it make a difference right so that's just one another angle to think about all this and so I want to share just a tiny bit of my research about how your average person out there actually encounters some information that they see online so thanks to support from the MacArthur Foundation I've been studying young adults and how they approach the internet for the last five or so years and here I just wanted to report on a question that I posed on a survey to some young adults about being able to read URLs correctly right so here's a multiple choice question and I'll give you a moment to look through the options and I have a feeling in this room most of you probably get this right think for yourself what you think you would pick well here's the one that's right and hopefully that's not too surprising to too many of you but what did these young adults the supposed net digitally savvy net generation pick well they picked all sorts of other things just over 10% of them actually got this question right so what does this say about people's ability to figure out the the credibility of content they encounter when they can't even tell what website content is hosted on right so that's the point here just wanted to show you just two examples of websites that I think are interesting little case studies of what you might encounter depending on what websites you're surfing this particular example I didn't know about until we were running a study and we asked people to we gave them a hypothetical about unfortunate incident with a broken condom and how would they deal with it and so one of the search terms one might put in in that instant is morning after pill and if you do that search on Google one of the hits you are one of the results you get is morning after pill.org which sounds potentially relevant so you click on it and if you just sort of go with the flow you read the site but eventually if you're really careful which most people it turns out are not it turns out that this is a website that is very much against the morning after pill and will in no way let you know how you can obtain it. However there seems to be very interesting misconception about the whole idea of .org domain names for those of you who know how domain names work .org and .com are pretty much equivalent you can buy it the same way there's really no difference in in terms of the credibility of content that might be hosted on .org or .com interestingly that's not at all how the average person perceives these sites .org seems to have much more credibility so that's just one example another one that you may have heard of or may have seen before and this one came to me again I didn't know about this website until a student actually used it for a homework assignment and then I incorporated it into a project this one is if you search for information about Martin Luther King one of the websites you get is Martin Luther King .org raise your hand if you've ever seen that website okay so some of you know where this is going by the way not to be tough on Google on Bing it comes up pretty much on top as well or near the top so if you go to Martin Luther King .org this is the website you get I'll give you a moment to look at some of the content if you're actually somewhat critical and if you're in the context of a truth in us meeting so you know that I must be showing this to you for a reason you might start noticing things that might not really make sense on a website about Martin Luther King so if you scroll down you see a link to Storm Front which takes you to this website and here you find out who sponsors this website and then you might think hmm that might not be the most credible information for Martin Luther King content what we did so first of all again because it's a .org site a lot of people think it is credible they actually talk about it as a source they would use if for example they were doing a homework assignment so one thing we did and this is one of these challenges where I think we need way more work of this sort because basically what happens is we create all sorts of tools and on occasion if we're lucky there are interventions that people think of training sessions but we never evaluate them right we don't know of training sessions we have out there to improve people skills actually work so I designed a very tiny I mean these are expensive a very tiny random assignment training intervention where the idea was to help people learn about this website and the questionable credibility and several months later then observed people who had gotten the training and people who hadn't and basically found that of the people who went through their training about URLs and specifically this website so it was a very targeted program almost nobody would have relied on this website whereas almost half of the people who didn't get their training would have relied on this website so there are actually ways of intervening and helping people understand better the content of what's out there and the credibility of content that they find but currently we just don't seem to be doing a lot so I thought it was interesting when Ethan was talking about the culture of MIT Harvard I thought where that was going is that at MIT we have the tools and then Berkman the policies I think and sort of institutional level questions a little bit missing from this is I think then the people but what's great about Berkman is that actually it's really good about incorporating social science and seeing how people actually use services and how we can study people on the ground so we do have that but I so my call for where to go with the rest of the conversation is not to forget the people that we're actually talking about right the average users what do they know what can they do and how can we not just create tools but actually make sure that they know about the tools and know how to understand what's out there better so that's my call for the conference thank you


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspysCaseBreaks.com with a quick mosaic football hobby pack break number 30 with 10 of those Zenith football random team spots being given away at the end of the break. But as always, we're going to do the the pack break first big thanks to this group for making it happen for filling this up. Appreciate it. Thanks for taking the risk and all teams are in. Let's do the break first, let's roll it, randomize it. My mouse wants to cooperate today. There we go. One out of four, five times, one, two, three, four, and five. One out of four, five times for the teams, fifth and final time. All right, here's the first part of the list right here and the second part of the list right over here. All right, no trade windows, let's get right into the pack and then let's get into the giveaway part of it as quickly as possible. Ooh, I'd noticed that Steve. Maybe that translates into a little Dodger Joe mojo perhaps. All right, so nothing too crazy here in this single pack, but excuse me, the important part about this, the main part about this is those 10 Zenith spots. So let's gather your names again. Let's roll it, randomize it. One out of five, six times, top 10 after six, one, two, three, four, five, and one, six and final time, six, good luck, top 10. So from 11 on down, Nico, sad times, thanks everybody for taking the risk on this. Top 10 though, you're happy because you're in the break, Jason is happy, Tim is happy. So is Steve, Flood, Charles, Tyler, Nico, Nico, Mark and Arthur. All right, Nico did get a couple spots though. Thanks everybody. Congrats again. I'm Joe. I'll see you a little bit later tonight for that Dieth Break probably. Hopefully, you got to do one more filler, Jasper's case breaks.


It's a sequel to H.G. Wells The Time Machine, of which there are plenty. This one is notable because it was officially endorsed by the H.G. Wells estate and it was released in 1995, exactly 100 years after the original. It picks up exactly where the original left off. The Time Traveler leaves for the year 800, 2000 or whatever to rescue the little Eloy girl he had left behind. But he finds himself in a future that is very different. There are more locks but they are very intelligent and a highly technological society. It's not a great book in some ways not even a good book but it's memorable for a number of reasons. I often find myself wishing that authors would take their ideas and push them to their farthest conclusion. Baxter does this in The Timeships but he does it repeatedly over and over until it starts to get silly. There is one scene that has stuck in my mind all these years. The Morlocks ask the Time Traveler how does your machine actually do this? And he starts to give them the same speech he gave in the original book about how if you consider time to be a fourth physical dimension it's merely a matter of turning in that direction and they say yes yes we know all the theoretical geometry and all that but how does your machine do it? In other words they're having the very conversation with him that we the readers want to have and as I recall they never get a straight answer from him. Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron there's a link in the description below.


What I wanted to do today is show how you can determine which pins on your microcontroller can be used for I2S audio. So we have a couple of different products that use I2S audio standards. A really high quality audio standard allows you to send digital to an amplifier which can then send out beautiful, full rich sound. And when you use these, you may need to do some juggling around of which pins you're using for what? Because not every combination of pins can be used to do I2S audio. You have a bit clock pin, a word select pin, and a data pin. And you're not going to usually see those on the typical pinouts for a microcontroller. So this was actually a really cool program that Katnney developed. And what I'll do is I'm actually just going to run this again. So I'm just going to resave this to my little feather microcontroller. And now what it's going through and doing is testing different sets of three pins to see if it will allow those to work as combinations of those three pins that you need for I2S. For any of them that actually passed this test, they show up in this list. So now you can just go through and find a combination that works for you for your project. And what it does in code is it's attempting to set up an I2S audio on a set of pins and finding out with a try and accept if that works or not. So the key thing here is this function called is hardware I2S. And then it has inputs of three pins for bit clock word select and data. Then it goes through and tries pins that are available on the microcontroller. And then it gives you this nice list here. So now you can go through and find a set that works for you. I like to go to some of the digital pins here, some early ones. Let's say, OK, D4, D5 and A0. That's a nice little set that I could use. And that is how you can find out which pins on your microcontroller are going to be able to be used in Circuit Python with I2S audio. And that is your Circuit Python Parsec.


Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.  Yeah, I know that. But if Gucci Man signed Lil Blake to tomorrow, everybody will sort of look Lil Blake hard, like what he talk about is wrong.  So it's basically like, you can be the hardest underground. It is, it is, it is. Don't let them tell you that, for real. You can be the hardest underground, whatever, whatever.  Like, that's why I too much don't.  Like until I'm on that platform where it's just, I got so many urge listening to it and know what I'm talking about already.  Don't know what I'm talking about. See what I'm saying?  They like, oh yeah. See what I'm saying? So it's just like, if they confused on what's going on, it's just like, damn, I don't know if he telling the truth or he lying or what's going on.    Hotboy. Hotboy, yeah. Do you think he was hard? We been on Hotboy though. Hotboy, where it's hard? No, my soul. Hotboy, yeah. Hotboy, yeah. Don't you just say that. Gucci, if Gucci signed. Man, watch out for that Hotboy. But what you see, look though, that's a prime example though.  It's just like, Char Boy used to post them and everybody used to post them. Yeah, he tough, boom, boom, boom.  Yeah.   I told him he gonna be signed like two years like. No, I told him like, probably a year ago. Yeah. I told him. The street niggas was on them for sure. But it just like everybody got on them when that Gucci got him. Yeah. So what's up with you in the Asian though? You still communicate with her? Yeah. With your home girl, right? That's my brother. Hey, hey, you're funny. So I mean, cause y'all rock, right? Y'all got some music together. We got a book of music, I just, Asian like, she ain't even know, like to me, she like, assisted to me for real. Like, I talked to Asian like every time we talk, I just talked to Asian like two days ago. And it's crazy like, only thing we talk about now is Von and Wadi. Yeah, yeah. Cause I, Wadi, I think me and Wadi talked about her as well when he was on the show.  She was like, she do her own thing. She was like, she do her own, own thing. That's what she do.  You're like, nah, she be doing it, whatever. That's what he told me. I can get her to come up here on my show, she'll come up here. But that's dope. Cause she ain't like that. She ain't like no industry like. Yeah, no, no. That's what, he say she do whatever. So it wasn't in a bad way. But I just think that it's dope that y'all have that relationship. How did y'all meet? Damn. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I met her in Atlanta.  Like my little sister used to listen to her tough.   BFG? Okay. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We used to listen to them in four words.  We used to listen to, what's that shit?  You know what I'm talking about?  Oh God, I used to listen to that whole, and we used to, oh God, we used to listen to that whole tough.   Like when you a girl, you fascinated by artists like way more than niggazes.  This was before she was popping anything. It was just Dallas, but she was in Atlanta for something. And I was like, I'm like, damn, you Asian dog.  You know me?  Boom, boom, she was like, call her.    Like we was with anything, like the fight and the shoot, anything that came behind whatever by his career. And then we was pushing our career too.   So boom, he was like, he gonna get us a feature of her or whatever. Cause our house was like, our Airbnb was like a minute from that store.  Like, like, she had pulled up that night and did the song or whatever. But when she came, it just like, I ain't never like, you know how it be like, say just me and Lil Blake and then like, I don't wanna put like, who? Like say Lil Baby walked in or something and then you know how niggas would be. Oh, yo, what's up Lil Baby, this that, this that.  It just like, she always wanted to know who I was cause I just went to sleep. Like soon she came, I went to sleep. Like I don't know if I was on that drink or whatever.  But Mad Max and JJ, they was on there like they did the song or whatever. I already had the song recorded. So when she came, she just put her verse on it and she boom, boom, boom. Then after that, we just was talking on Instagram, talking on Instagram. Then we linked up after that. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon talk.