Hi, hope you all are safe and well. I'm delighted to be the jury chair for IDMA 2020. Data and technology have disrupted the advertising and marketing ecosystems. It has now become a critical component of the marketing mix. Creativity has also expanded with brands finding newer and newer ways of engaging with consumers. I'm excited to be part of the jury. And along with my fellow jury members, look forward to seeing and learning from these extraordinary examples of creativity at IDMA Awards 2020.


I thought the structure of the whole course was great. Each session kind of building on the loss like I found all like the templates and the guides really great kind of supplement to the course. I thought that the sessions on like building personal brand were really unique and valuable like not the typical you know just through like a LinkedIn post or something or like articles that you tend to see on job hunting so I found that super valuable. My name is Scheherazade but feel free to call me Shaz and I really wanted to transition into product design. I took the Brain Station UX design bootcamp and then I've been looking for a job ever since so it's been a long road. I really like role plays and mock challenges really helpful like I think was really great to know kind of what to improve and focus on next. It was one of the toughest activities for sure but it was also so nice to like after just like looking for a job for over a year like being able to actually design it's like oh yeah I actually love doing this part of it.


Mentorship is an opportunity to help someone set and reach goals for their career. It is a two-way relationship that is beneficial to both the mentor and the protege. There are some questions to ask yourself if you are considering becoming a mentor. Do I have good communication and people skills? Am I willing to be responsible for helping someone in their career growth and development? Am I willing to give constructive feedback and coaching? Am I equipped to assign a protege tasks that will improve their skills and to share with them my contacts and knowledge of the field? Am I willing to make and honor a time commitment? If you can answer yes to these questions, then you should consider becoming a mentor and making a lasting impact on your protege, yourself, and your community. Some things to remember in order to make life easier when mentoring are, explain to the protege why things must be done, make instructions clear while keeping them realistic and reasonable. Practice the things you recommend to your protege. It is important for them to see you abiding by the best practices.


Hey guys, welcome back to come again TV the only place on YouTube. We're all geek culture collides I'm Shannon and today on the show. We're taking a look at the Star Wars electronic talking bank Waving lightsaber with light and sound original voice and music from soundtrack. I Found this at a antique thrift store last week. I had this When I was in high school And junior high I really liked this this just came out Around the same time as the re-release of the original series Two of them came out at the same time in between the release of the original series Re-release of the original series and the release of the Phantom Menace There was this Darth Vader Bank, and then there was a Darth Maul Bank I Had not seen the Phantom Menace yet So I didn't know anything about Darth Maul, so I went ahead and got the Darth Vader Bank As you can see here the box came in very pretty decent condition for the age. This came out back. Oh I'd say around 1998. I will double check when we get to that part Because there's a side there Darth Vader says impressive most impressive But you are not a Jedi yet Waving lightsaber with light and sound effects Turn body with light up chest box and belt You got a coin slot and a try me button, and then it's the same thing on the other side Then the back here The original copyright was 1980 This came out in 96 So I Was very pleased to see that this was still in a really good condition It says here place the coin into slot to start bank functions or press the Star Wars insignia for try me feature Battery instructions remove lid to retrieve savings under adult supervision Open battery cover with a screwdriver and insert as shown three double-a batteries included And I believe because this was in the box sealed still connected to the Twist ties That are in there So I believe this Still the factory batteries that came with it Here's the top And here's the bottom Let's go ahead and move that out of the way We'll take a look at the Darth Vader bank Let's go ahead and zoom back in this thing is a little dusty It's pretty old And it is almost identical pretty much identical to the one I had growing up a Very good likeness of Darth Vader there And well, let's just Check out the let's put a coin in there and see if that function works because it never really worked on my original one I always had to press the button on the original And anytime I dropped a coin in here it never it never lit up as you can see there's the imperial logo on the base Let me find a coin here. We have a quarter. It doesn't work It doesn't work just like my original it did not work And I will tell you from experience. It is very difficult to get all the money out of the bottom of this thing Very difficult, but let's go ahead and press the button so you guys can see the features Pretty cool. My kids got a kick out of that Here's the side view of it pretty nice Back view the cape is kind of a very soft rubbery plastic The other side view very nice now I'll go ahead and Zoom in on this thing So you guys can see all the detail up close So there you have it guys the Star Wars electronic talking bank released in 1996 for ages for an F. If you find this thing at a garage sale or anything just remember the Coin slot does not work as It says on the box You pretty much have to press the button in order to get the sounds and The movement so I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did hit the like button give us a thumbs up Leave a comment down below if you had this one or if you had the Darth Maul bank Make sure you subscribe for more content I'm Shannon for come again TV the only place on YouTube. We're all geek culture collides Take care geeks If you enjoyed that video make sure you hit the subscribe button right there So you can see up to date on all things geek culture Also, make sure you check out one of these two playlists on the side for more videos Just like the one you just watched I'm Shannon for come again TV the only place on YouTube.


I thought Darwin was the tip of Australia. This is the tip of Australia. It's about seven kilometres straight across opposite Papua New Guinea border. Hello, my name is Aaron and I'm a movement monitoring officer stationed here at Boygo Island in the Torres Strait. Okay, so who's the first boat here? There was a treaty signed by PNG and Australia. The treaty was enabled for the Papua New Guinea visitors to do free trading with the Torres Strait Islanders and it is our job as movement monitoring officers to monitor those movements and trades. Traditional visit only, butter and trade is your main purpose on the island. Okay, and you can sell the crabs for a reasonable price at the marketplace. It is an important part of the economy. People come and purchase those items from the marketplace to check them at the decoration and they would use them elsewhere for ceremonial purposes as well. It's imperative for the MMO, the monitoring movement officer to monitor every vessel that is coming from the international border. Who am I? Mark. Each morning I come down to the ramp with a quarantine officer and quarantine does his check. Once he completes his check, then I do my checks by they have a permit, they have a piece of paper with all the names signed on the paper and then I put a name to the face and check the names with the face and then I debrief them by what time we're meeting and what they should and they shouldn't do on the island. What makes me smile about my job is the challenges that I face each day. I get challenges from the local community and also from the people that I clear, the international visitors, they put a smile on my face because that's their burden trade and it's rewarding for me to keep a smile on my face and to be positive.


Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay? I think I lost my voice on the flight. All right my name's Erica Fuchs. I am a former compensated gestational carrier. I'm also a faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch but today I'm going to be talking about my experiences a little bit of my research and how things worked for me and I was a carrier in Minnesota at the time. I want to list my conflicts of interest because in academic I have intellectual personal biases and I've been sponsored to attend today. So who am I? I'm the married mom of three kids 16 and 6 and almost 2. I'm a social and behavioral epidemiologist in maternal child health and I delivered twins as a gestational carrier in June of 2006. It's been a while. The goal in the US for compensated surrogacy of course is for all parties to be legally empowered and protected and this is really important because the ultimate goal is to have a healthy outcome for the gestational carrier and the resultant children. I sometimes feel like the carrier is left out of this a little bit with the supreme focus on the well-being of the child. So what are the steps and requirements? Well there's basic requirements that are listed by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and SART. The gestational carrier should be between 21 and 45. The raising one of her kids at least have had one term uncomplicated pregnancy. Ideally being done having her own children that wasn't the case for me but I didn't know at the time life happens. In a stable environment then she should be financially secure. She will then go through psychological screening, some interview and testing with a qualified mental health professional. Hopefully they have experience dealing with fertility and fertility. Go through medical screening and then she will enter the matching process and the legal process and sometimes those steps are mixed up a little bit. So my experience here I put the basic age and financial requirements. I then had a psychological screening with a PhD licensed marriage and family therapist. I had an interview with her in person for about two hours I think and then I took the Minnesota multi-physic personality inventory the longest exam except for my dissertation. I had medical screening a records review of my previous pregnancy and delivery and many many lab tests and invasive tests as well. Everything to ensure the lowest risk of adverse events this is for the gestational carrier for the babies and of course an intended parent wants a good womb right. So the benefits of using an agency in the U.S. private businesses can help facilitate the process. Some of the things that these agencies do are schedule screenings, facilitate with the matching process, assist with legal representation for one party usually the intended parent or parents, coordinate travel and reimbursement and support the gestational carrier and intended parent or parents in communication and mediation when things come up. In a previous study that I conducted 71% of gestational carriers used an agency in their most recent gestational carrier arrangement. My experience with an agency which was Steve's so full disclosure extremely easy and the matching process was facilitated via phone because this was 2006 we didn't have texting or video chat screening travel hotels and reimbursements were all handled I rarely had to pay anything out of pocket I think I was telling somebody earlier today the only thing I recall paying out of pocket were cab rides from the airport to the hotel. So some of the matching preferences that people might look at when they are entering as being a gestational carrier the type of intended parent that they're interested in do they want to work with a couple hetero gay single person or some other arrangement they might have religious preferences some people want to work with somebody who is their same religion or lack thereof they might want to work with a domestic or international couple as far as compensated surrogacy goes it's usually an astral process sometimes people want to talk ahead of time about the relationship that is desired from the end of this agreement some people want to have a really close relationship with the intended parent or parents and some people want to have more of a hands-off relationship and have it be a little bit more of a professional relationship and then of course talking about termination of pregnancy is really important ahead of time and hopefully everybody discusses that. Some of the other matching preferences the desired communication frequency which I already mentioned diet or exercise preferences some intended parents really want a woman who has a specific diet or is willing to have a specific diet during her pregnancy these aren't really things that are legislated so much but you know might be talked about or discussed during that matching process birthing preferences some women really want to get birth at home or in a birthing center some intended parents aren't into that or vice versa pumping and breastfeeding is really hot topic in this area as well some parents really want their babies to have breast milk for the first few days or weeks whether a single or dual embryo transfer will occur is important and the number of attempts that they may be willing to go through so if you agree on all of these congratulations so the legal experiences already has been talked about by the other speakers it varies widely by state from prohibition of compensated gestational carry or arrangement to pre-birth orders Minnesota was in between which doesn't prohibit but didn't have any case law Steve already talked about this my case was a single intended parent and so once my rights were removed there was no mother to be added to that birth certificate afterwards there's a great map of the state laws on the creative family connections website so other important legal considerations reimbursement or compensation how much insurance coverage for health and life which is necessary in the US establishment of parentage how that'll work again multiple embryo transfer if you're willing to undergo that or not and then talking about termination or reduction in what kind of circumstances that will occur there are risks of multiple gestation the top five risks are preterm birth low birth weight preclampsia gestational diabetes and cesarean section in the previous study that I did the percentage of carriers with multiple births was 35 percent which is 10 times higher than the population overall but this is actually half as much as it was in the early 2000s so single embryo transfers have gotten much more popular and so therefore the multiple birth rate has gone down substantially so again terminal termination agreements cannot be enforced so the woman still has autonomy over that choice regardless of what they talk about or agree about prior to the pregnancy occurring so my experience I was 22 years old and I became pregnant as a gestational carrier I had one child that I was raising I did a frozen dual embryo transfer which failed and then a dual fresh embryo transfer that resulted in twins so in the mid 2000s it was still really common to do dual embryo transfer my delivery experience was very easy twins were born a little bit early but they were very healthy I put my conversion up there for you uh Kilgram users um the intended parent was able to attend their birth which was really great um and I delivered in a large metropolitan area in the Minneapolis area of Minnesota but at the time it was still kind of unusual for them to be dealing with this but everything went very well so in my case there were three major necessities that made it very easy for me I had a supportive family I had financial security and a lot of backup child care which was very needed especially um at delivery so some difficulties that I uh incurred during the process life kept happening so things come up my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer during my surrogate pregnancy so that was difficult um attending court during recovery can be tough um I was sick during one of my court appearances but I did make it there so having to go to court you know three days after you have a baby not the most comfortable experience so here's a picture of me one of the babies I used in an emoji to protect a baby's privacy but uh they're 13 years old now so I don't think you'd recognize them um baby's spent I think 12 days in the nursery they were not in the make you at all and I just got back to my usual life going to school and parenting so in in hindsight the things that I found very important for me personally was screening is very important for everybody's protection while being I really think that's important um agency support made the process super easy I mean a lot of people do these things independently but I was too lazy for that so um agency support was great legal contracts are important for when things go right or wrong and without interpersonal support stability the process could be very stressful so that's it you can ask me invasive or non-invasive questions at the


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering DevNet Create 2017, brought to you by Cisco. Welcome back everyone, we're here live in San Francisco for theCUBE's special exclusive coverage of Cisco's inaugural event DevNet Create, a foray into the developer open source world as they extend their classic DevNet core developer program three years old now going into the open source world. This is theCUBE, I'm John Furrier, my co is Peter Burris, the next guest is Matt Howard, EVP and CMO of Sonatype, know something about open source, Matt, great to have you on theCUBE, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. So first, talk about Sonatype, what do you guys do? Give a quick minute to describe the company, then I got some pointed questions for you. Well, we provide tools and intelligence to modern development organizations to basically reinvent how open source components are flowing through the pipeline, through the value chain, through the development life cycle.  It's a subscription service and we provide two products. There's a product, which is a repository manager called Nexus where you store, organize and distribute software binaries into the development life cycle. And then there's a second server product called Nexus IQ, which provides intelligence on top of those binaries. So think of it as like FDA food labeling database. So if you're looking at a bag of potato chips as a consumer, you can see that there's calories, sugar, salt, it's gluten free. If you're looking at a software binary, you're able to see metadata that we provide which allows you as a developer to make intelligent decisions with respect to this component's good for my application because it's properly licensed or this component's good for my application because it doesn't have any security. You're verifying the code basically, in a way. Yeah, absolutely. Verifying and qualifying the open source. And the problem you solve for the customer is what? The customer basically gets to build applications at scale, at speed with quality open source components. So you take the worries off, like whether the licensing is a work well. Licensing security support. Is it like the Yelp for software? No, more like Amazon reviews for open source binaries. Okay, great, cool. Thanks for taking the time. So we was just talking on our intro, open source, I'm old enough to know one. We used to pirate software and then open source. Woo, this is great. Now, and then it became a tier two in the enterprise player. Red Hat brought it to tier one. It's booming. Communities are changing. You're in the middle of it. What's happening? Give us your take on how open source is evolving because it's the classic case of cliche open source. I'm standing on the shoulders of giants before me. And when you now the next generation is standing on the current generations of shoulders, a new generation is happening. What's going on? So just think of supply and demand, simple supply. We live in a world right now where development organizations are facing an infinite supply of open source. I mean, there's a thousand new open source projects a day, 10,000 new versions and 14 releases per year. The supply is massive. And in a world where supply is incredible, consumption is equally incredible. Last year alone, there were 52 billion download requests from Maven Central for Java binaries, 50 billion plus requests for NPM packages in the JavaScript ecosystem. So we are basically dealing with a world where software is no longer a marginal cost to doing business, it is the business. I mean, developers are king, developers are the lifeblood that's flowing through every great enterprise today because innovation is ultimately the thing that will allow companies to compete and win on a global plane. I mean, it's almost intoxicating for these guys who are just drinking from the trough of free software because if you compound the new projects with the fact that Google and these guys are donating like awesome libraries, Amazon's machine learning stuff is not something to shake a stick at. It's great software. TensorFlow, Spanner, I mean, all this stuff. It's great software and just think it. In a world of infinite choice, which is what the world we're living in, how do you make the best choice? So where's the growth coming from? Peter and I were speculating that in talking to Abby Kerns yesterday from Cloud Foundry and then with the Cloud Native Foundation. A lot of money's coming in so the business model for players and vendors are coming in and suppliers now helping out and donating software. But we're speculating that there's a whole growth area that's different than we've seen before. Are we on that? Your comment to that and your thoughts on where this evolution's coming from the next wave. Is it horizontal? You know, our view is that the DevOps transformation from waterfall native development to DevOps native software development is happening and it's real and it's arguably in the early days but it's no stopping that train now. As organizations continue to sort of reconcile demand from board members and shareholders and CEOs, I mean, how do you remain relevant? How do you put yourself into a position where you're innovating with software fast enough to remain competitive? And that's a tremendous pressure and it's driving transformational change like DevOps and so is that demand for speed continues to grow? We think it only increases the appetite for open source and it creates opportunities for organizations like ours to basically automate how that open source innovation happens. We do a lot of crowd chats and we surface the landscape and the common theme that comes up is oh, your organizational mindset has to change and we were commenting, Peter and I were talking yesterday about if your org's not set up, you'll have, what's the law? Conway's law where the output matches the organization. But the bigger question is, you know, Ford CEO got fired. He's been in the job for less than four years. He didn't have time to transform. So the question is, how does open source help people transform faster? Do you have any observations around that? Because that's the number one question we get is, okay, I need to configure resources to do that. And then the other theme that we're here and I'd love to get your reaction on is, oh my God, I'm going to lose my job through automation. And certainly Cisco has networking guys who are looking down the barrel of potentially being irrelevant if they don't make the network programmable. So this is, we've lived through the cycles. Is it the mainframe guys who kind of lose their jobs, kind of thing going on? Or is it a transformative opportunity for the people as well? Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, there's a lot there, but I think the notion that, they say software eats the world.  And if you look at, we refer to the 110 one rule. Today in every large IT organization, you got 100 developers for every 10 IT operations professionals for every one security professional. It's impossible for the application security professionals to maintain governance over 100 software developers. I mean, it's just the old way of doing something like application security in this world where we're talking about infinite supply of open source needs to be automated with machine intelligence. It needs to be scalable early, everywhere and throughout the entire development lifecycle. And unless it's not, you're going to basically get some of the benefit of open source, but not all of the benefit of open source. Well, I want to push you a little bit on this, Matt, because we, one might argue, and I'm going to be a little bit apocryphal here for a second, but one might argue that we also have an infinite supply of different types of bubblegum. And at the end of the day, one can say, well, do we need another bubblegum? We may or may not, and yet we do. So the reason why I'm bringing that up is I want to square the infinite supply, which I don't disagree with, with the idea that certainly our clients, especially in the big data side, are still concerned about the fact that they can't find tooling or combinations of open source tooling that can help them with their use case. And so as you think about, one of the things that intrigued me about what your company does is the idea of to what degree can you start with a business problem, use that business problem to do some design work, and then based on that, start finding the tooling that will be most appropriate for solving the problem. Yeah, it's a great question, and I think it goes back to this idea of automation. Let's just give a real world use case. This is one of many, but if the demand for speed and innovation is what shareholders, boards, and CEOs are looking for out of their IT organizations and their development teams, then the first thing you do, in the theory of constraints, as you look for, where is the friction? Right? And so theory of constraints basically points to something like the process inside of a large financial organization that involves a developer requesting approval for using an open source component. How long does that take? How many people are involved in that process? How many hours? How many dollars? Does it have to be that hard? Or can you basically create policy and define policy and build effectively a firewall that then automatically governs the flow of open source, healthy open source components into the development lifecycle with no human intervention at pace, right? And that's the idea of what we're doing. When we talk about scaling open source and innovation early, everywhere, and across the entire development lifecycle, it starts at the perimeter. The moment the developer requests the open source component for use, it has to be automated. You can't afford to take three months to approve it. He needs it now. So let me turn it around and see if this is a service that you are providing or actually could provide. Given that you probably have visibility into a lot of the problems that the developer's trying to solve, and therefore their ability to check open source in and out from the variety of different sources, are you also gaining visibility in the types of stuff that people can't find and making that information available to the world about, here's some of the places where the open source world could step up and do perhaps a better job of delivering that software. And I'm specifically thinking of the big data universe because there are so many, for example, I got a client, big financial institution, who is tearing his hair out right now, trying to come up with some standard componentry for complex machine learning pipelines. Real, real hard job, a lot of different tools. They work together at some level, but they're not solving the problem because they're more focused on serving, of solving each other's, each other projects problem. Am I making sense? You are making a lot of sense and you should introduce us to your friend because we would love to have a conversation and talk exactly how it is that you can create prescriptive architectures with open source components to remove friction back to the theory of constraints concept. I mean, this process of innovation has to flatten out and we are very narrowly focused on one particular piece of that pipeline and it is making sure that the development organization is benefiting from all of the greatness that open source has to offer, but none of the bad. And you have to do that with automation. So just really quick, John, for those of you who don't know, the theory of constraints to a computer science person looks like Andal's law.  Herbie the Boy Scout. Exactly, so it's speed up the thing that is causing the most pain. Right, right, right. So the question I have for you is, okay, given what you guys do, which is great service, cutting edge, it's in the DevOps wheelhouse, so what is in your opinion the most important metric for your customer's success? These are V DevOps, okay? I'm in, I've been hearing about this cloud native thing in DevOps, we got a change to Agile, we wrote a manifesto, we changed our organization. What is the important metric that you think they should look for for success? You know, there's a lot of metrics. There's no one answer, but I'll give you a really great one. Since you mentioned Red Hat earlier, Red Hat is an amazing company that has probably done more for the evolution of open source than anyone. They have a phenomenal track record of managing, you know, REL, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux stack, upstream and downstream, to the point where today, they publicly touted at the Red Hat Summit just recently in Boston, you know, I think it's a day or two, meantime to repair for a zero-day vulnerability. They understand the supply chain for REL extremely well, and you know, from our perspective, we are trying to create the same type of hygiene for custom software development that REL has long practiced in support of Red Hat. Red Hat has long practiced in support of REL, and so meantime to repair, for example, if a zero-day vulnerability hits, do you have a software bill of materials? Are you wondering where that particular component is? Do you even have the component? How many applications in production are affected? I mean, this is a real-world scenario just two weeks ago with Struts 2. How many, you know, how many organizations are still working today to figure out the answer to that question? You'd be surprised. It takes organizations months. But this is more than a library. This is more than a library. So explain why it's more than a library. Struts 2? No, what you're doing. What we're basically doing is imagining a software supply chain. So step back and sort of imagine a world where you could build software applications the same way that Toyota builds cars, right? You have Deming's Principles, which says you basically take and source the components or the parts from the fewer suppliers and you source the absolute best parts and you track and trace the location of those parts through every step of the supply chain all the way into production. So that Toyota recently had to conduct an orderly and effective recall for four million Takata airbags, right? In software terms, the next time you're basically sitting on top of a zero day, you need the equivalent of that orderly, effective recall so you can, in a matter of minutes, not months, you know, patch that vulnerability. Hence why I use gold rates theory of constraints. So in many respects, this is a digital supply chain tool. We believe it's software supply chain automation. What about digital? Can I also think about how digital objects can be included in that? Again, going back to the big data notion. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this is supply chain theory as well understood in a physical goods world. Certainly, if you look at how physical goods move through a supply chain and you come to grips with what's happening in sort of digital transformation today and the evolution of DevOps and the proliferation of open source, you know, continuous integration, continuous delivery, speed is king, you know, it's all going in the direction of a supply chain. So when you have so much bubble gum, as Peter said, after it loses its flavor, you get a new piece, right? So same with software. Final question for you. You guys are doing well. I can imagine that operationally as companies operationalize open source, your key component there. And that seems like a good opportunity. How early are you on that operational progress?  Yeah, well, you know, to be frank. We're a customer on the journey. In other words, people realize that I got to operationalize, are they just doing it and not kind of having a checks and balance? Our business is really interesting in the sense that, you know, product market fit for any young company can take quite a while. And, you know, we're fortunate enough to have a CEO who is remarkably patient and savvy and experienced. And his name is Wayne Jackson. For anybody knows here at the Cisco conference, he was previously the CEO of Sourcefire. So an interesting connection there. But patience is key. And we're being rewarded right now because all of the trends that you guys have already talked about here and everything we've talked about at Cisco DevNet, point to a simple fact, which is that software is key to how companies will compete and win in the future. And as long as that's true, they're going to be looking for ways to improve innovation. Right now, our business is early. We're still creating budget in some situations, but that's increasingly changing. And I would say that you should expect our business to continue to grow. People are operationalizing with the source line and getting serious about some of these things. We're seeing budget now that we didn't see last year. For operationalizing the flow of open source into a DevOps pipeline. Final, final question, since I want to get your take on the show. Cisco's moves here into this world, obviously a good move in our opinion, I'm sure you agree. Risky for them, a good move, progress. What should they do next? Your thoughts and reaction to DevNet create? Because men, they've got DevNet, a growing, robust community of Cisco developers. DevNet create a new opportunity. What's your thoughts? You know, I've learned a lot. I mean, I'm glad to be here and just saw some things yesterday that make it very, very clear that DevNet create and what Cisco is doing with it is a great move. I mean, my personal belief is that developers are king and as you expose core services, network services to developers and innovation happens and value gets created. And so they've done so much at the network layer for so many years and if they're now exposing that network sort of innovation to developers, it'll be exciting to see what kind of innovation happens. Matt, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. I'm glad we got you in. Great to meet you last night and congratulations on your startup that you're working with and growth and been around the industry a long time. You've seen a lot of waves and appreciate the insight here on theCUBE. Appreciate it. Appreciate you having me. All right, we are live in San Francisco for exclusive coverage of Cisco's inaugural event, DevNet Create. I'm John Furrier, Peter Burst. Stay with us for more day two coverage after this short break. Hi, I'm April Mitchell and I'm the Senior Director of Strategy and Planning for Cisco.


In this video, I'm going to talk about solving absolute value equations. So basically what I'm going to do is look at these two equations, unless they have an absolute value in both of those. Basically what I'm going to do is I'm going to solve both these equations, show you how to solve equations that have absolute values in them. It's a little bit different here, a little bit different. Now, if you have an absolute value that's just on a number, it's not really that big of a deal. It doesn't really change very much. But if you have an absolute value on a variable here, that actually changes a lot. Changes a lot. So I'm just going to show you. I'm not going to go into a lot of description of why we solve it this way. But I'm just going to show you the way that we solve this. A little bit different from what you usually do. So now with absolute values, we know that an absolute value is the distance from that number to 0 on the number line. So now you can actually have two distances. You can either go the positive direction or the negative direction, ending up getting the same distance. Now, in that kind of aspect, we're going to have to solve this two different ways, because we have to think about the positive way to solve this and the negative way to solve this. So we're going to solve this twice, basically, is what it equates to. So what we're going to do, we're going to take this inequality, we're going to split it up. We're going to kind of split it up. It's kind of a split, not really. Basically, what we're going to do is we're going to rewrite this thing twice. The first time that we're going to rewrite it, we're going to rewrite it as we see it, except for we're not going to put the absolute value sign as symbols. So 9, or excuse me, x plus 9 is equal to 13. So that's the first one I'm going to go right, this first split that I'm going to make. The second one over here is actually, when I split this up, when I rewrite this, I'm going to rewrite the left side without the absolute values, but then the right side, I'm actually going to change. The right side, I'm going to change to a negative 13. So take a moment and look at those two. x plus 9 is equal to 13, and x plus 9 is equal to negative 13. Now again, remember, absolute values are distances on a number line. So basically what we're looking for is a distance that's going to be 13. Well, from 0 to 13, that's a distance of 13, but then also a distance of 0 to negative 13 is also a distance of 13. So you got to take both into account. That's kind of why we split both of these up. Now again, that's a very vague and very quick generalization of why we split this up twice, but it gives you an idea of why we have to do this twice. Okay, so now what we do is we just solve this, just like you would any other equations. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to subtract 9 from both sides, x equals, what would that be? x equals 4, okay, subtract 9 from both sides, x equals two negative numbers, that would be negative 22. And that's it. Okay, so now if you're still a little confused on this, what you can always do is just plug these numbers back in to figure out if they still work. So let's take that, let's take that 4. Okay, let's take a little bit of time. Take this 4 here and we're going to plug it back in. Okay, so 4 plus 9, absolute value of that, is that going to be equal to 13? Okay, that's kind of the question we have here. Is that going to be equal to 13? Okay, well 4 plus 9 is 13, and the absolute value of 13 is 13. So this does work. Okay, a little check mark there, this does work. All right, so let's do this with the next one. Let's try this with negative 22, okay? So negative 22 plus 9, we're going to take the absolute value of that, and we're going to see if that still equals 13. Okay, well negative 22 and positive 9, that actually makes a negative 13, and the absolute value of negative 13 is 13. So look at the left and the right, it does work. So basically what we have here is two numbers, two numbers that both work in this equation. Two numbers that both work in this equation. Again, because we're working with absolute values, absolute value is a distance, so the absolute value of 13, and the absolute value of negative 13, it's basically the same thing. All right, so that's kind of a quick explanation of what that is. So I'm going to work on a second example over here, work on the second example. Now notice it's a little bit different. Over here, everything was, I got the absolute values on the left, numbers on the right, and this one's a little different. We got absolute value and a number on the left, and then numbers on the right. So the first thing you actually have to do with this before you split it up, is you have to kind of move everything across or away from one another. This absolute value needs to be by itself, and the numbers need to be on the other side. So the first thing I need to do, the first thing I need to do is actually add eight to both sides. Now I have the absolute value of 6x, I got that by itself, and now I got 30 by itself. I got the absolute values on one side, numbers on the other. Now I can actually start to split this apart. Now I can actually split this apart. The left side is gonna be 6x equals 30. I'm just gonna basically write it as I see it without the absolute values, and the other split is going to be 6x equals negative 30. Equals negative 30, that's a bad three there. That's a bad three, that's okay, we'll just leave that. Okay, so now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna solve both of these. So now actually, interestingly enough, and you can kind of catch it from the first one, the first one we just subtracted nine both times. This one over here, we're gonna divide by six both times. So actually, when you split this apart and you solve it, you're gonna do the same exact steps on this left one over here and on this right one. You're gonna do the same exact steps. Now you're doing them to a different number, but again, the steps are gonna be the same. So it's kinda nice, kinda nice. X is equal to divide by six, this is gonna be five. Divide by six, x is equal to negative five. All right, now again, what I'm gonna do is real quickly, just plug this in and to see if this actually works. I'm gonna plug this back in to see if this actually works. All right, so six times five in the absolute value and then subtract eight from it, is that going to be equal to 22? Okay, well six times five is 30. Okay, the absolute value of 30. All right, the rest of us down. The absolute value of 30 is 30. So I have 30 minus eight is equal to 22. Well that, in fact, 22 is equal to 22. That does work. That does work. On the other hand, getting down here in the corner of my work here, on the other hand, what happens if I plug in negative five? So I have six times, well parentheses here, negative five, absolute values, minus eight equals 22, is that going to be true? Is that going to be true? So six times negative five is a negative 30. So I'm taking the absolute value of negative 30, subtracting eight from it, is that going to be equal to 22? Okay, so the absolute value of negative 30 is in fact 30 minus eight is equal to 22. Well, in fact, yes, 30 minus eight is 22. Okay, so notice that actually down here, these two were relatively similar. Okay, we actually had the kind of same steps here. Alrighty, and in fact it did work, 22 is equal to 22, so these are my solutions. Five and negative five are both solutions that work for this. Okay, so there's a quick couple of examples of solving absolute value equations. The thing you gotta remember here, two things you gotta remember, is that first of all, you gotta switch things up, or excuse me, you gotta split things up.  The second split is going to be the left side, the absolute value is gonna stay the same, but the right side, you're gonna change the sign of it. So it's gonna go from positive to negative or negative to positive, depending on your problem. And also, one thing to remember is that you have to get the, before you split everything apart, you have to get the absolute value by itself and the numbers by itself. So notice we had to add eight to both sides here before we could do anything, before we could split it apart. Okay, so that's a nice quick short video on how to solve absolute value equations.