Good money. Good money. Good money you guys. We are outside We're outside Once a week JB and I are walking we go all the way to CVS, which is like 1.5 miles And he bikes so I'll show you guys what he looks like biking You don't have to pedal but we're going downhill. Yeah, this is JB's little friend Oh no, he's our baby Slow, you hear what I'm saying JB. Oh the joys of living in Phoenix I bought two or three houses before. What is it baby? That's awesome Two or three houses before we get home JB starts screaming. I'm like what is it my thing?  Whatever. This is the second time He's been attacked forgotten This is so pretty. Yeah, this is the prettiest twist out ever. So Look at this storm coming in y'all This is crazy the temperature has now dropped probably can't see Definitely over there the storms coming the temperature has dropped a good 15 degrees since yesterday Phoenix is crazy Look at all the babies out here running around this this section area is specifically for first grade and kindergarten Where is my belt? Where's JB at I put on JB a red. What is he yet? Can y'all see him? Where did he go? I let him take something to school and I told him not to do anything with it Yeah, y'all the temperature dropped so it's 61 and I'm a planner. Okay. I had all my outfits planned Oh, they're gonna bail. Hold on y'all.  Are you cool? Have a good day sweetheart Bye-bye. Yeah, I'm parked outside of the grocery store. I'm only getting two things. I'm going to contact What time is it? What time is it in Switzerland y'all? I need to contact someone over there Lioness y'all know who Linus Davis is I think she lives like yeah, she lives in Switzerland. She does she lives in Switzerland I've spoken to her we're Facebook friends So I want to ask her about because she's one of the only few people those you don't know I'm in the middle of a grease I Reused some grease for my hair for a twist out, but I use the green no the blue one instead of the green one Which one I use the blue one instead of the green one And she's one of the only few people I've seen on YouTube that shows the difference between the two She stated the one that I use is a lot greasier so I'm gonna ask her if she's ever used it with Jill Because I still don't think it's gonna give me enough hope and since it's raining it's gonna be humid a couple of days I'm really perturbed. I'm also gonna ask her how many times she use it a week I just want to know because she has thick hair. She has thick hair, too. I Set my hair yesterday. I'm not taking it down to a Thursday So I'm wondering I just wondering if I could use just a little bit more Wednesday night with a Jill or if that's gonna be too much. Let me ask her y'all. Let me see if she's up What time is it over there? Um Grandma, I'm sorry. Oh, it's not too bad. It's five thick 13 513 p.m It says that she's online. Oh No, it just says She's so pretty Who is this Nick y'all Nick? Nick makes me laugh. Nick sent me a message last night talking about my mama.   I don't know my my spirit was bothered looking at all that in the crowns and in the you know Like I said that the sub the subconscious symbolism surrounding their What do I know what you call it their uniform? Yeah, it's dark in here because it's dark and She's not in switch. I don't know. I thought that she's in Sweden We're just talking now, but long story short girl. She has not used Jail with grease and she told me good luck Oh, I hope that didn't see sorry y'all. It's kind of shotgun It's gonna get flagged. I'm not pulling it up to us and we're not doing karate today Normally he has karate on Tuesdays and Thursday, but with the weather being Baby Now any time soon babies soon baby. It has to be cleaned. Okay, and plus we want everything perfect And I have my decorations up there. I have you to move. Okay Bowl of soup No, baby is coming tomorrow It's gonna be a busy week It's teachers appreciation week and Jamie just told me it's there's a theme every day and I'm doing every every day You don't have to I'm doing every day because I appreciate these teachers. It's a hard job Okay, I couldn't do it. You couldn't do it, but some of you guys are teachers You are very appreciated. So every week is a theme.  I just went to the dollar store and got some stuff like today was book day So I found the book in his collection gently used like I think we've only read it twice Tomorrow is supplies no snack and then there's supplies and then you give them a gift which I'm gonna show you I the gift but Jimmy told me today. No one else bought a book. I see even the only one about something's like, yeah, yeah So let me show y'all what I bought her his teacher First of all, I burger shop and I Re-gift not re-gift, but I go shopping in my stuff. So half of this stuff. I already had at home I shopped in my mind makeup. Y'all I need to declutter if it if I can shop in my makeup and give people stuff And this is not even all the new stuff This is from last year Matley Matt, I'm giving her that eyeshadow. I showed you off from Dollar Tree. I have a couple of um What do you call them?  So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and fix me some soup. I'm fixing JD's lunch for tomorrow And I'm gonna lay it down. All right y'all. I just have to turn on the camera to show y'all when I'm cooking today I haven't made a very detailed cooking in the middle of my vlogs video in a while. So I have time today So I'm gonna show you So it's a little cold out here. Um, so I'm gonna make some chicken corn chowder So I'm gonna show y'all some alternative alternative though because this soup is the base for a lot of soups This soup actually is a base for chicken papaya and chicken noodle soup You can switch it up though, you know depending on what ingredients you have or what you like I'm just butter to the side So you hear the chicken on the side bubbling away and y'all I cook what I have in my fridge better than boy on premium oh, yes premium Roasted chicken base made with seasoned roasted chicken You have to be real careful now when you add in salt or using salt because most chicken boy Young already has sodium in it unless you get one with um reduce or no sodium Now I'm gonna go back to this. No, let's just leave that behind So what you hear behind here is some chicken now Technically you can just go ahead and boil chicken for what I like to do. Okay. This is extra flavor I'm gonna go ahead. This these are chicken tenders. I'm sorry y'all chicken thigh chicken thighs in my opinion Or um juicier. So all I'm doing here is seasoning up my chicken thighs I have here some garlic powder pepper onion powder Italian seasoning Some himalayan pink salt you want to use regular salt that's fine All right, so yeah, I have to switch and um because that that yeah, whatever that wasn't working That wasn't working. So I have to switch this out. All right, because I want to put my um Vegetables in there and the chicken is over there. Look at look at it. Yeah, I ain't gonna take long at all So I have oh by the way what you see down there is the grease I use from the chicken Oh, yes girl. We ain't wasting nothing. We we cook them like it's a great depression. Okay I'm gonna I'm gonna keep an eye on it. You can even at your season is there if you want to look at all that garlic about 10 10 minutes or so I'm gonna add a little bit of oil olive oil One and a half tablespoons might maybe not even that This is gonna be so good. I don't have a lot of heavy cream in there. Unfortunately I have about I'll see uh Three fourths of a cup All right, so my chicken is done. I want to take two forks and shred it apart Not shred shred not not, you know, I like a little bit of chunky. Well I like a little bit of I don't know. I don't like the meat to be so small. Okay This is my broth all the way done. I turned the eye back on for this and so we're gonna um Bring her back up sprinkle in some flour And y'all we're at the home run. I'm gonna let it simmer for about 15 20 minutes and that is it Okay, this is what it looks like with my chicken stock in here Now if you are vegetarian and if you don't eat meat fine You can use veggie broth and omit the chicken. Okay, um add like some chickpeas to it. That sounds good Okay, once the veggies are Done, this is what we're looking at like now. You see how? I meant that I didn't really break up the chicken too bad So once the veggies are done, I'm gonna pour in my heavy cream sprinkle on the parsley and we are done All y'all we are done. I've turned it off and look how thick it's gotten now. I thickened it up with cornstarch Just take took some of that leftover Chicken broth and pour it like one tablespoon of cornstarch You gotta be careful with cornstarch too because it could change the taste Of your soups or whatever. So yes, I am done. So this is what I'm gonna have for dinner For today and tomorrow maybe the next day, but this is great because you can also freeze this No, that's chemicals Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. It is the night Yeah, I'm not in the mood. I I'm not in the mood It's just I don't know there's stuff going on I'm okay with it.  I'm trying to be quiet because he's back there asleep I'm like, that's nothing. So the guy came last night late last night And took the measurements and he said he'll come over friday. Look the bathroom is 90 done. Just a glass up and we're good so Moody about that girl Today i'm the reason why i'm beat and the hair is laid is because um jb has an event this morning for mother's day He was acting an absolute Like a Tasmanian devil like out of control this morning He uh, he was going in look Six o'clock this morning. I'm not a morning person.  Don't bother me So six o'clock this morning. He's going around through the house pretending like he's in a game Like he's a character in the game opening up doors and she I was like, you need to come back.  I got these shoes from the Goodwill for $6 I'm gonna show you what my outfit looks like. There's my necklace. It's my makeup The hair is already up the hair is from um blue magic grease just Yeah Then I got upset because I was doing my research on blue magic and find out blue magic is not black down It used to be black on All right, let me show y'all Yeah, it comes out like this. I don't like that, but it's okay. And I'm just wearing my black and my curves Just to give it a pop up, you know, brick up the black, you know Oh, yeah, let me call my best friend and give me the good mood and Hopefully these babies will put me in a good mood Sometimes kids can't bring joy This is the little flower that we got from mother's day. Just one more thing for me to take I got it, baby. Okay. Let's go. Sorry Is there like going on huh?  Let me let me do something y'all I'm not getting out to get jb. Did y'all hear about that houston?  Well, I agree and disagree I could not imagine telling my big mama what she could wear to go pick up her own child But my big mama wasn't dressed like that. She had enough since not to be walking like that I was looking like a dang on fool Some of these young parents some of y'all just be looking a mess now This is about as ratchet as I'm gonna look but when I look like this I put my butt in the pickup line I'm not gonna embarrass my baby Not at least not today Oh, yeah, my tooth still hurts. It's my gums really I got an appointment in for Thursday, but that's too far because I I want to eat.  I need to get with you y'all see the van pass by I don't know what it is y'all I There are so many settings on this particular camera and this is one of the older Vlogging cameras that a lot of the vloggers were using Something I don't know what happened, but something was off. So we're gonna try to use this auto setting That's why I'm glad I'm gonna be slowing down on some videos So I don't have to be stressed out about this shit But yeah, it's just yeah, it's been a weird two weeks. They finished our bathroom finally yesterday this morning Um, we're gonna go to wall march because I had ordered some rugs from wait fair First of all, I ordered four rugs from wait for I ordered a long rug To go go across the jack and jill sinks the double sinks. Excuse me. That was a good quality rug Well, the rugs that came in yesterday are so cheap.  I think there's something I think there's something wrong with this feeling So I have a dentist appointment in the morning myself Look y'all I look I don't this is what I want to talk about real quick. I don't get on facebook a lot Sorry, I don't get on facebook a lot probably once or twice this morning Child I got on this morning I don't know y'all sometimes looking at stuff. I think any month anyone when you look at certain type of stuff in the morning It puts you in a mood One girl one of my friends posted that um this is her Father her first child passed away suddenly yesterday He had addiction issues and it's one of the reasons why they divorced I believe That's just so sad and her child is the same age as jb, you know Uh someone else posted the father suddenly died yesterday. I'm like, oh my god. So let me get out of here and scroll down. Look at something else Scroll down and there was a woman y'all when I read this I'm in a white group And I don't want to get in too much detail because we're technically not supposed to share this information, right But there was a woman who stated that after 21 years her husband left her yesterday She went to go take a shower And looked around and saw that some stuff was missing and After an hour it finally hit her and so she said calling calling calling calling calling He wouldn't call her back. Finally. She got a hold of him And you know after 21 years of marriage raising their two kids who are now grown up in college. He is bored And he feels like this is the best time to basically leave He's bored with the marriage The only reason why he stuck around all this time is he felt like they meaning the kids and her needed her So the thing that breaks my heart is that she and it's not to say when you get in their marriage You have a backup plan, but as a woman you always want to be able to Center your own two feet and not necessarily need a man to come. I don't I don't want to say complete you her her posts come off as She basically says she doesn't know what to do Like, you know, she has a job, but she she has no idea what to do She feels like she needs a Explanation more explanation of why and I get it. I honestly get it girl. My husband, but not ever Do you hear me? First of all, he already knows I'm crazy. So he better not ever Um, and that's not Yeah, no, I'm crazy But you know at the end of the day, I've heard of this happening y'all where a spouse gets up and leave and say They're bored. They're done. Oh, he said he still loves her and unfortunately It happens where people are like They're done the marriage is done But what I don't understand after 21 years You have waves you you there's ups and downs at any relationship Especially in the marriage like right now my husband are in a state of Retired, you know, I mean we're tired. We're over it just because of stuff going on with the house And it's been straining on our marriage. So we can't wait to have this trip to kind of rekindle and we make sure we have our date night Girl, could you imagine?  So I'm gonna try to be positive redo my bathroom. Um We're gonna be cooking I'm gonna be cooking chicken lettuce wraps Y'all see that something's going I need to fix the lighting the lighting is going in and out in and out in and out And it shouldn't be doing that the light and should be stabilized May I get it adjust, but it shouldn't be adjusting this this much. I've tried every setting I don't know. Hopefully it will correct itself. I didn't drop it. So We'll see y'all. All right, y'all. I'm rambling. I need to go warm up my coffee.  We don't know now, you know We started this project back in february It is may 15th We let go of the people who originally started it two weeks ago The new contract is finished and I will say one and a half weeks. Okay Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it. This is our walk-in shower Um, this is considered to be a seamless type shower. Um, we wanted to go for at least accurate I want to go for all a very natural spot like feel We have the chrome What do you call this?  Now, there's no filter on this So I will not be washing my hair in the shower Which I'm kind of perturbed about because all this room to put my conditioners and shampoos and stuff The baby's here. Jay. What baby? JB, I'll come fix it. Okay. I'm showing in the shower and I'll come fix it. Okay The natural looking rock here the rock along the border and then we have the jet The jet it took girl now y'all this is going to be a beast to clean Because you have to ensure ensure that the the pipes stay clean. I need to clean the shower I mean this at the bottom here. I just saw some dirt. Um, if not, it can cause all type of issues So I went and used I already had some stuff, but then I also Purchased some things. I didn't spend only any money on this stuff All of this stuff that I purchased new was from the Dollar Tree Really, really nice and the rugs match this rug match the rugs that are in here And yeah, so I love it. I love it. I love it. I can't wait to use it We will officially be able to use it by He said two days and so we will take off the tape It should be good to go and yeah y'all. This is nice. Nice. Nice really nice All right y'all now you can really see the coloring. This is so pretty. This is a bad Bad swim suit he has to tie to me. I heard you baby. I'm talking to the people Oh, it was that funny Child, I don't know where my husband went typically on his days off He goes grocery shopping to get all his snacks. He better give me something. I am not yeah I think I'm going to end this vlog now I was waiting to have a vlog while I revealed this dang on bathroom girl just over it But I'm excited. We are done now the next project. I know those of you who follow me on instagram me so we want the way to wow because I don't know y'all I'm hoping that with a painting I would assume that with painting a house It shouldn't take no dang on months. You know, it's you should be good for me getting to end within a week Um That's going to be the next project I need to discuss with my husband 90 times soon because I know he's over it But I need to discuss with him to discuss with him a timeline because I don't want to work on my sheet room I have this furniture. I need to be putting together for but it doesn't make any sense Like I stated in my other vlogs It does not make any sense to put the room all together and have to take everything down if we're going to be Painting and like a month or so. Um, so I'm just going to hold off and I have everything ready to make it Perfect even the bedding. I thought I showed some of you guys what it looks like in my previous vlogs. So, um So I write y'all next week is the last day of school Let me tell you something.  Are y'all ready for your kids to be out of school girl Are you ready for this thing going how many days we have? We actually go to school early They start going back to school August 1st But are you ready for them to be home and working your nerves? So I have some plans for jayva to do I already created my little summer packages for him to um Work it from home And uh, yeah, but yeah, I'm not ready. So next week's gonna be a little bit busy I will try to film as much as possible because my baby's officially graduating from kindergarten Um, so we'll be filming that anyway y'all. I'm rambling at this point. Thank y'all for your support And yeah, that's it. Take care y'all. Bye


Parmesan crusted, lemon chicken and it's so easy to make. Check this out y'all. Simply start out by just butterflying your chicken breast, just cut it in half. And then we pound it out then. Now you simply grab the cheese neaten, that's the cream top. It's Parmesan cheese mixed with dandos and Italian herbs and spices. Now just preheat you a pan to a medium temperature. I'm going to use grape seed oil and in we go with our chicken. Looking pretty. All right let's set to the side. Cut us a lemon. Give us a fresh squeeze right over the top. Let's go in here. Give us a bite. Parmesan crust right there. Look at that how juicy it is. You want to talk about taking some chicken to the next level.  That's the cream top. I love y'all. Keep sprinkling. We'll see you next time. Leave a like, leave a comment. See you later.


The Senegalese national team has been sanctioned by FIFA for the incidents that took place during the second leg of the World Cup 2022 qualifying play-off between Senegal and Egypt in Dakar on the 29th of March. FIFA found Senegal's sub-caffederation $180,000 for fund this order at the World Cup play-off game, including shining laser pointers at Egypt's Ta Mohamed Salah in the penalty shootout. The Senegal went on to win the shootout in Dakar in March with Salah's Liverpool teammate Sadhu Mane scoring the decisive spot kick.


Today, I want to show you how to program a question in WebWorks that has randomized values. So I do have my question here above, which I want to program. It had some fixed values and I want to program those to be changeable and therefore be different for each student. So first thing I do, I go to WebWorks and I already created myself a new homework set. And in that set, I'm going to add a new question and then here I'm going to edit it. And now that before I do anything, I'm going to click on new version. I'm going to give it a different name. So this will be my mass spring one. And I'm going to append it to the test bank. So that I have it as a second problem in my test bank. Okay, now this is what I get as a template actually from WebWorks itself. But I have my own templates. I'm going to erase this and I'm going to be editing this for myself. So in my case, this is a question on a single motion. Okay, so now here, the first section is loading some macros. I'm not going to even touch that. And then here I say if we show partial correct answers, this case is going to be for a test. So I decide to know here will be the random variables. The way here, by the way, how I did it with two different randomized things is in order to control the number of significant figures. And here is where I put the question. And actually also have a question context. I should add this here at the beginning. So here is where I'm simply going to copy paste from my question over here. Okay, now question here, I'm going to have question one, which is the first I'm going to program and calculate the amplitude. Actually calculate, let's define the amplitude of the system. And then the answer unit will be in meters. Now I'm going to do the randomization. Okay, so here we had a spring constant of 20 newtons. So in K instead, I'm just going to write here K, let's call this K. So now at this point, it's going to insert me the spring constant K, which now I put in my randomized values instead here was one with ohms. So here I'm going to now update this to randomized values. So K, I want it to be, wait, let's put it with, let's put this with three significant figures. So something factor of 10, maybe not that high, let's go seven. So here I'm not going to use the current anymore. Now here I could do a random value for my initial position as well. However, this is where you have to pay attention when you do this randomized numbers because we don't want any, or there are initial positions that will not be possible for the total energy of the system. So actually, I probably should calculate the solution first, which is the amplitude, and then give a certain percentage of that amplitude as the initial position. So let's calculate the answer first. So the amplitude is the square root of the energy over the spring constant. And now my initial position, I can calculate it as a fraction of the amplitude. So let's do amplitude times and then a random value from 1 to, let's say from 10 to 90 over 100 would give me the amplitude in meters as a fraction of the amplitude, here I had centimeters, so I don't need the 100. Okay, and now my solution was the amplitudes. All I have to do here is answer, I put in here amplitude. And now I think we are ready for part A. I can also select the tolerance for my answers. So where did I put this one? Tolerance, actually I should. Set my tolerance, otherwise it will not work. Oh, here I did it. So here I say 20% tolerance, let's go a bit lower. Let's go with 10% and let's make here another paragraph. And now let's see how this works. So I go on update, which will save it, and then it put me in a new window. If there's any coding issues, it will spit out errors. If it works, let's hope it works. So let's see. Yeah, so here's my question. So a block is attached to spring with, it's total. So I made a typo, edge is in a dual, that seems fine. The block is at, okay, so here, because I randomized it, I got too many, many significant figures. So I'm going to change this. So errors, it's total energy. And then here, let's make question A out of this, because I'm going to add a B later on, the amplitude. So I wanted to round this one here. Let's just round this to full centimeters. Let's see what we get now. Okay, so that's nicer. Spring can't see, okay, okay. So the first part of my problem seems to work right now. If I want to add a second question, all I do is I duplicate my question set up here. I'm going to do the second question. So for the moment, I just leave amplitude and everything as it was as the answer. So here this is question two, answer two, unit, answer two, amplitude. And then now here in the screen output, what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to duplicate this. So question two, so two unit. And then what I have to do here for decorating, I also have to duplicate this one. And here I say, take answer two. So let's see how this looks like. Okay, so right now it should be actually twice the same thing. Yay, and it worked. Or if I put this one wrong, I would tell me which one is correct, which one is wrong. Okay, that's how you program a question with randomized numbers. So right now my spring constant, my total energy, and the initial position, which is completely irrelevant for that first problem here are randomized.


very much. Thanks very much. Thanks very much to the organizers for inviting me. It's a great pleasure and honor to be here. So everything I talk about today is joint work with the Kashi Taniguchi. The sort of main object of study for today's talk is the family of elliptic curves. So let me tell you what I mean by that. So every elliptic curve over q can be written uniquely in the form y squared equals x cubed plus ax plus b where a and b are integers. And to make sure that this way of writing elliptic curves is unique, you also have to assume that p to the 4 dividing a implies p to the 6 does not divide b for all primes p. And then you can construct your family of all elliptic curves to be all eab. So we'll call this elliptic curve eab. And here of course, like a and b need to satisfy the same conditions. And additionally, this cubic polynomial needs to have this distinct root. So we also need 4 a cubed plus 27 b squared not equal to zero and above conditions. Now, we know that given an elliptic curve, you have a rank that's associated to it. And of course, the study of Frank's elliptic curves is a very deep and important topic. But today we're going to be studying what happens to the rank and to other arithmetic invariants of elliptic curves as we vary over elliptic curves in this family. And the main conjecture, which motivates this this topic in arithmetic statistics is a conjecture, which is due to the works of Goldfeld and Kat Zanak. And the conjecture says that 50% of elliptic curves in our family have ranked zero. 50% have ranked one. And the average rank of elliptic curves in our family is a half, which is to say that the zero percent of elliptic curves with rank which are not zero or one don't actually affect the average very much. Now, when I make any kind of statement like this, any kind of statistical statement like 50% have ranked zero or average rank as a half, I need to order my elliptic curves in a certain way because it's an infinite set of elliptic curves. And what like what we would like to do of course is order elliptic curves by conductor or order elliptic curves by discriminant, but that turns out to be a little bit too difficult to do. So instead we will order elliptic curves by height. So when these elliptic curves are ordered by height, where the height of EAB is the maximum of 4A cubed and 27B squared. The 4 and the 27 here are not important. It's here so that it kind of mimics the discriminant in certain ways. And we do expect this conjecture to be true under almost any natural ordering. We expect it to be true when you order by conductor, when you order by discriminant, when you order by height. Today we're going to be ordering elliptic curves by height. Okay. So the way we study ranks of elliptic curves, algebraic ranks of elliptic curves is frequently via their two-cell mer groups. So let me tell you what this two-cell mer groups of elliptic curves are. So instead of giving you a sort of a definition of it, I'll just tell you the exact sequence they fit into because that'll explain why they tell us something about the height. So if E is an elliptic curve of a Q, then there's an exact sequence. Zero goes to EQ mod 2EQ, which injects into the two-cell mer group of E, which surjects onto the two torsion in the state chauffeur, which group of E. So this is a nice exact sequence. It's particularly nice because the two-cell mer group here is finite and it's a very important quantity. So for example, models prove that the ranks of elliptic curves are bounded. Basically, in secret is a proof that the two-cell mer group of an elliptic curve is finite. Now, there's a Cohen-Lenstra style heuristic given by Poonen and Reins, which predicts the distribution of the two-cell mer groups of elliptic curves. And in fact, it predicts the distribution of the P-cell mer group of elliptic curves for all primes P. And in fact, there's a heuristic of Del or Ne, which predicts the distribution of the two torsion of the state chauffeur, which group and it all sort of matches together. So you've got your CAT-SANAC, your Goldfeld CAT-SANAC heuristic, which will tell you how E of Q mod 2, E of Q is distributed, namely 50% of them are trivial, 50% of them is Z mod 2 Z. You've got the Poonen-Reins heuristics that tells you how the two-cell mer group is distributed and you've also got Del or Ne's conjectures telling you how the two torsion in the state chauffeur, which group is distributed and everything sort of fits together nicely. So we have a very good picture of how this behaves. And in fact, there's this sort of very beautiful work of of of Bhargava Poonen-Reins chain in and Lensstrah in which they predict how this this entire exact sequence is distributed as the curves vary over over a family F. And so given that we have all these different conjectures that are made in very different ways. So for example, the CAT-SANAC conjectures are made by studying the family of L functions associated with elliptic curves in conjunction with the BSD conjecture, where the Poonen-Reins heuristics are very much sort of co-in Lensstrah style heuristic that sort of model the two-cell mer group as a random group. And the fact that they all fit together is very strong evidence to believe that these conjectures are true. But what does the data tell us? So the data I'm afraid is not particularly satisfying. It had been noticed when people looked at the Kremona tables, the ranks of elliptic curves were significantly higher than the goldfell CAT-SANAC conjecture would would predict for them. There seem to be a particularly high percentage of ranked two curves. They seem to be the average rank and seem to be bigger than one in the data and so on and forth. But the Kremona tables didn't have all that much data because Kremona ordered elliptic curves by conductor and it's actually very difficult to even know that you've listed out every single elliptic curve of a given conductor. It's computationally quite expensive. However, recently this work of Balakrishna, Ho, Kaplan, Stein, Spicer and Weigand who collect a very large amount of data on elliptic curves when they're ordered by height. So in particular they can go up to height as large as 10 to the 10.5 and they still see a much larger average rank than predicted. So even in this very large height range, the average rank looks more like 0.97 or something like that than the 1 by 2 that it's supposed to be. But very curiously, they also see the average size of the two-selma group. This looks smaller than predicted. So it looks like 2.7 in the top height range, which is smaller than the 3 that it's supposed to be. So you have your exact sequence. This average looks much bigger than predicted and this average looks much smaller. And this is actually, I mean this is obviously just a feature of the data because the average size of the two-selma group has in fact been computed and it's a result of Manjul, Bhargava and myself that the average size of the two-selma group of elliptic curves when they're ordered by height is 3. So it is what it's supposed to be and that this 2.7, the data is, I mean it's smaller for some reason that needs some explanation. And the purpose of this, the main result for this talk is a possible explanation for why the average size of the two-selma group looks much smaller. It's because of the existence of a secondary term. So this is the main result I'll be talking about and it's due to Taniguchi and myself. And what we prove is that if you sum over elliptic curves in our family of all elliptic curves and we sum over those with height less than x and we sum the size of the two-selma group, then this grows like three times the number of elliptic curves with height less than x. So that's in accordance of course with the result of Manjul and mine, but there is in fact a secondary term. There's some constant times x to the 3 over 4 along with an error term, along with the power saving error term. So some delta greater than 0. Okay, so I mean just to orient ourselves this term, the main term, the number of elliptic curves with height less than x, you're basically counting a cube less than x and b squared less than x. So they should be about an x to the 1 by 3 plus 1 by 2 of them. So this grows like an x to the 5 by 6 and this grows like an x to the 3 by 4. So if you sum up two-selma groups of elliptic curves, the first term is 3 times some constant times x to the 5 by 6, well the second term is some constant times x to the 3 by 4. And I see this is a possible explanation of why elliptic curves have, there's a possible explanation of what's going on with the data because for the moment we are not actually able to compute what this constant c is. We can only prove that it exists. We would expect it to be negative. We can't even prove that it's negative but we have some theoretical evidence that it is negative and so far that's the best that we can. Okay, sorry, I should I guess monitor chat to see if there are any questions but not yet. Okay, so before I dive into how this result is proved, I want to talk about why we care about secondary terms in arithmetic statistics. So one reason to care about secondary terms is that they are necessary for good error terms. So for example, the result of Bargava and myself in which we compute the first term, the error term there was just a little low of x to the 5 by 6 and Takashi and my result, it's the first power saving that we have for the count of two cinema groups of elliptic curves and okay, so the main term grows like an extra 5 by 6 and note that if you want a power saving error term that's better than an x to the 3 by 4 then you automatically need to get a secondary term. You're not actually going to prove a power saving term of better than x to the 3 by 4 unless you also recover the second audit. So if you want really good error terms then you need to isolate the secondary term and good error terms are in fact necessary to for example study families of L functions that you might associate with this. So for example, the cat Sanak heuristic is obtained by studying families of L functions associated to elliptic curves and what they predict is that the low lying zeros of this family has an orthogonal distribution and that has been proven for test functions of certain support and those results in fact give you bounds on the average analytic rank of elliptic curves so they're very useful results. But suppose you want to for example study families of elliptic curves which are weighted by their two Selma groups and you want to understand how you want to try and prove something about how the two Selma group is distributed along with how the analytic rank is distributed. So like one of the consequences of Poon and Reims for example is that if you take the average size if you take the distribution of two Selma groups and you restrict to elliptic curves having rank zero or you restrict to elliptic curves having rank one and there should be about 50 percent of each the distribution doesn't really change and if you want to prove things of that sort then what you have to do is you have to study families of L functions of elliptic curves but you have to weight each elliptic curve by the size of the two Selma group and you have to prove some result about that family of L functions and you can't do that without power saving error and so our result for example will imply that that family also satisfies satiate equidistribution of the family of L functions will satisfy satiate equidistribution. So that's one reason for why you might care about secondary terms namely good power saving error terms which are also important for other things. So another reason why you care about secondary terms is secondary terms are really needed to align the theory with the data so it's the sort of nature of arithmetic statistics that we have a very wide ranging set of conjectures and we haven't proven very many of them so we know how class groups of number fields are expected to be distributed we know how Selma groups of elliptic curves are expected to be distributed. We have a whole bunch of things that we very strongly believe are true uh proving them is a much slower endeavor and if you want to be sure that our conjectures are actually correct then we and we want to get evidence from data then we're going to need to understand how secondary terms look like because otherwise you're just not going to be able to match uh to match the data with the prediction. So for example even even in in our case even in the high-range age around 10 to the 12 the first order term looks like a 10 to the 10 and the second order term looks like a 10 to the 9 and there's a factor of 10 between them. So if you really want to see good convergence to the predicted answers you need to know what the second order term is. A very nice example of this showed up also in the family of cubic fields so the classical Davenport and Heilbrom theorem says that the number of cubic fields with discriminant less than x grows like an x divided by 3 zeta 3 but the fit with the data was really bad they just seem to be far fewer cubic fields than this theorem would predict and Roberts conjectured that in fact this count is is an x divided by 3 zeta 3 plus some constant which he's which he actually wrote down explicitly some constant times x to the power of 5 by 6 along with the narrator and and this conjecture and this conjecture has been proven jointly uh by by sort of independent work of of uh Bhargava myself and Sima man and sort of independently by also by work of Tani Gucci and Thon once you plot the data against not just the main term but the sum of the main and the second main terms then you get a perfect fit this is absolutely no doubt when you look at the radar that it's that it's correct sort of fits quite wonderful a third a third reason you might care about secondary terms is that they often have theoretical significance I put a question mark because actually secondary terms are no way near as well understood in arithmetic statistics as primary terms for primary terms we have conjectures for a whole bunch of families of arithmetic objects like we we have the coincidental heuristics that tell us what the primary terms of summing up any torsion subgroup of a class group of some fixed degree number field should be the uh should grow like we have primary terms for the number of number fields of fixed Galois group with discriminant up to x we have primary terms if you want to sum up Selma groups of elliptic curves and we don't really have an understanding of what secondary terms should be like but but we do expect them to have theoretical meaning a sum of this theoretical meaning can be seen in the function field setting where there's some speculation that second order terms could correspond to secondary homological stability in the sense of Galatius Cooper's and Randall Williams but I'm going to talk about a very nice source of secondary terms in arithmetic statistics that come from pre-homogeneous vector spaces so let me give you an example of of what happened in the pre-homogeneous vector space case so if you look at if you look at the representation of gl2 on the set of integral binary cubic forms which I'll call v3 of z so this representation is pre-homogeneous which means that there is a unique that the ring of polynomial invariance is generated by a single element which I'll call delta generated by the discriminant so there's a result of Davenport which counts the number of gl2z orbits on integral binary cubic forms with discriminant less than x and this result of Davenport says that this grows like three zeta two times x and this result was generalized by Shantan so to tell you what Shantan is generalization is let me define for you what the Shantan is zeta function is in this case so given any n we let hn be the number of gl2z orbits on integral binary cubic forms having discriminant equals n and then you can put all these numbers hn together into a zeta function so you define the Shantan is zeta function to just be summation hn divided by n to the s and what Shantan you prove is that this zeta function has an analytic continuation to the whole complex plane along with the functional equation and it has poles at s equals one and five by six and as a consequence he was able to prove that when you count the number of gl2z orbits on binary cubic forms which says zero less than the discriminant less than x then this grows like the same constant the Davenport got obviously times x along with a certain constant times x to the five by six and I was saving error term and so this secondary order term corresponds of course to the pole of the of this Shantani zeta function zeta function that's nationally associated to any pre-homogeneous vector space and in fact there is a general theory of Sato and Shantani which says that if you take any pre-homogeneous vector space so so what do I mean by that I mean you take a reductive group G and you take a representation an irreducible representation W of G which is pre-homogeneous and what it means to be pre-homogeneous is that the ring of polynomial and variance is generated by a single element then exactly as Shantani did in the case of binary cubic forms you can make a Shantani zeta function associated to this representation and this general theory of Sato and Shantani proves that that this that this zeta function has a functional equation and analytic continuation and they also prove that that there are just finitely many possible poles for this zeta function and they show that the poles are contained inside the set of zeros of the Bernstein Sato polynomial associated to the discriminant function and so that's a very satisfying theory you get given any given these given any pre-homogeneous representation you get the zeta function and then you get a whole bunch of possible poles of the Bernstein zeta polynomial this again doesn't mean that you can you can say what the poles are for example so there's still there's still many open questions around here so for example I'll just give you a pre-homogeneous vector space that corresponds to Quintic fields so if you take pairs of four alternating five by five matrices and this is a representation of the group gl4z cross sl5z then it is then again this is a pre-homogeneous vector space so the Shantani zeta function has an analytic continuation of functional equation but the possible poles there are a whole bunch of possible poles I mean they correspond to these zeros of the Bernstein Sato polynomial this Bernstein Sato polynomial was computed by work of Kashiwara, Kimura, Kawaii and Sato and the possible poles were there's a whole so I'm going to miss some of them but four by three there was a ten by nine one is a possible pole nine by ten five by six I think I missed a seven by six whole bunch of possible poles and then there was work of Cable and Yuki which said that these are not actually poles that these three don't actually occur as poles and then there's work of Bhargava which says that one is a pole he proves that one is a pole and computes a residue at one but there's still a question mark on the remaining ones and answering which remaining possibilities are poles will give you higher will give you lower order per terms in the counting function in this vector space so like if you can compute the secondary term and counting this stuff you'll know whether or not nine by ten is a pole of this pre-homogeneous of the Zeta function associated with the stream. Okay so now let me talk about our situation so remember we're trying to we're looking at two Selma groups we're looking at elements in the two Selma groups of elliptic curves I told you previously that secondary terms are known for the family of cubic fields and the way the secondary term was computed for the family of cubic fields is the set of cubic fields injects into the set of gl2z orbits on integral binary cubic forms and secondary terms for counting these orbits were determined by Shantani and so that should correspond to secondary terms in counting cubic fields and similarly if you take the set of all two Selma elements in elliptic curves this doesn't quite inject but it is related to the representation of pgl2z on integral binary quartic forms now this representation is not pre-homogeneous but it's the next best thing it's a co-regular representation so if I look at the ring of invariance for the action of pgl2z on the space of integral binary quartic forms then it's generated by two elements which I'll call a and b where a is a degree two polynomial and b is a degree three polynomial on the coefficients of binary quartic forms and the way there's a relation between the two Selma group of an elliptic curve e and orbits of this representation is that if I take the two Selma group of the elliptic curve eab then this is going to be you can write this as a sum over pgl2z orbits on integral binary quartic forms with invariance equal to a and b but you have to weigh this f by a certain weight function okay so just as yeah sorry for interrupting you please and there is a question the chat um up here on would you like to unmute and ask away yes yes yes yes absolutely it's a great question thank you um yes indeed so so the way so so so the way this works is that there's a sort of by the I think on the name but it's sort of very well known and analytic number theory that when you have a zeta function so so so how so so the so the subtle Shintani zeta function associated to a pre homogenous vector space is taking the number of orbits with a given discriminant and then putting all of that together into a zeta function now you have on the one hand the question of can I count the number of orbits having bounded discriminant and on the other hand you have the question of what are the analytic properties of the zeta function and those two questions are very closely related so for example the fact that these three are not poles and that one is a pole says that we should count the number of these orbits with discriminant less than x then the leading term is an x which is in fact what are approved and if for example four by three was a pole then the leading term would grow like an x to the four by three not like an x does that does that answer the question yes yes thank you yeah great thank you table and yuki gave an upper bound of a smaller than x to the fourth 10 ninth yes that's what they did okay absolutely absolutely absolutely so I should say also that that bhargava's result uh which which which implies the which implies that one is a pole and which computes a residue a bhargava used that to give asymptotics of course for the number of uh gz orbits on on wz with bounded discriminant he also and and then he he also did a sieve like together with his worth parameterizing quintic rings he also he managed to actually prove that that the number of quintic fields with discriminant less than x grows like x which is sort of huge result in in arithmetic statistics so so I mean this this result which which he proved in conjunction with his higher composition laws result parameterizing quintic rings was what was with the two ingredients that went into counting quintic fields okay so so we've got so just like just like the family of cubic fields was associated to orbits on binary cubic forms the family of two cell elements of elliptic curves associated to pgl2z orbits on binary quartic forms now there's an issue with trying to evaluate so so so obviously so I mean like just as the first step for getting a secondary term for cubic fields was shuntani's result getting a secondary term for gl2z orbits on binary cubic forms I mean the sort of natural first thing to do when counting when you're trying to count if you're trying to get a secondary term for counting two-cell elements of elliptic curves is to get a secondary term and counting pgl2z orbits on binary quartic forms and and this this we do so this is a result of again mine with the kashi in which we prove that if you count pgl2z orbits on binary quartic forms with height less than x and what's the height on binary quartic forms well I mean it's the same height that you put on elliptic curves max of 4a cubed and 27b squared right given a binary quartic form you have two invariants a and b associated to it and and so you make the natural height uh and and and so what we prove is that if you count this you get a certain constant times x to the 5 by 6 and the primary term of this was proven by uh myself and manjul bhargava but we prove that there is in fact a secondary constant associated to it sorry I'm running out of I think I've you see for every single indeterminate constant so far but um but let me let me continue doing that and we can prove that this constant c2 prime is less than zero we can give some sort of explicit description of c2 prime and it is negative it's a negative secondary term okay so we can count binary quartic forms with two main terms and we want to go from there to counting two cinema elements in elliptic curves with two with two main terms but here's where things get very different from the case of of of cubic fields so so to prove our main result we need to prove an analog of this result except instead of just counting binary quartic forms you have to weigh them by this function w of f things aren't that bad so this also happens in the cubic case but w of f is a local is a local function so it's a product over all p w p of f where w p is just defined on v z p however and this is very different cubic case also you had some cubic case the corresponding local thing was defined mod p squared so here w p is not defined mod p to the k for any k it's genuinely just some function on v z p so we need a bunch of ingredients so first we want to write w p as a sum so we write w p as a sum overall little k w p of a where w p k is defined mod p to the 2k secondly w p k is sparse which is to say w p k is supported on forms whose discriminants are highly divisible by p so the first thing that we do is we write our weight function as a sum of functions each of which are periodic and which are also increasingly sparse we do this by we do this essentially by interpreting w p as sort of counting nodes in the brouhatt tree of pgl2 so once we have this then what we want to do is sum over pgl2z orbits on integral binary aquatic forms we have to sum what we want to do is sum w of f but we've shown that w of f is just a summation over n uh w n of f where w n of f is simply product over p to the k dividing n w p k of f so we have to sum we have to sum a weight function we've broken up the weight function in this way and each w n is supported on forms where n squared divides the discriminant of f so it's an increasingly sparse set and of course to count this we just use some we just use like standard like this is sort of very familiar from sieve theory we break this up as n small and we count this using equidistribution techniques and then for n large we have to prove a uniformity estimate so for n small we count using equidistribution techniques and for n large we just bound it with some sort of tail estimate and that's how the result is proven so I think I'm out of time 50 minutes being passed so I'll stop now for questions


This is Game Chat with Buona Episode 128, The Hunt for Monster Performance. Rawr, man. Rawr. Game Chat with Buona. Welcome to the show. Now, here's your host, Buona McCall, with all the gaming news of this week. By the way, that's me. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Episode 128 of Game Chat with Buona. We got a great show lined up for you today is Wednesday, August 1st. What's left of it? I'm recording a little bit late, but, you know, I got some stuff done today. And I'm happy to announce that I have secured a short-term campaign with Quip. Quip is a toothbrush. Yes, we're going to be partnering with a toothbrush. Very nice toothbrush. And I'm going to be having a deal with them that's related to my live stream. So if you want to get the links on that, you go over to my live stream at Twitch.tv. You can either type Escalation Point Quip in the chat or you can click on the giant picture of a toothbrush on the channel. It's not going to be promoted that much on the stream. I just wanted to announce that we're going to be doing that. In case you do go over to the live stream, you can check it out. That's going to be running for about a month. And hopefully we'll have some more deals in the pipeline. And my goal is to get more episodes of the podcast out so we can have some deals with this show as well. Game Chat Buona covers the best of the news for the week. And hopefully this week's news will get you smiling boys. Alright, let's get to it. And for our first story, we're going to be talking about Monster Hunter World. And we're going to be talking about Monster Hunter World on the PC. And this game hit the PS4, the consoles pretty much on, I think it was like earlier this year. February, January, February and March. I remember I stopped playing it around the March timeframe. It was earlier this year. And you know, I was a little salty because I'm a PC, I'm primarily a PC gamer. And I was like, man, where's the PC version? Because they pre-announced this. And I was like, where is it? And it's like, we'll have information on that later this year. And we finally got a release date. It's going to be August 9th, which is right around the corner. And some prominent content providers out there already have access. And they've already been showing content. I believe their NDA allows them to show up to three hours of content. And it's been interesting. So let's talk about the story that I want to cover first. And this has to do with the performance. Because when it comes to PC, you know, that's the main thing people look at first. You know, the content of the game, the length, the quality and all that stuff. You know, it matters. But the first thing people want to know is can my PC run this? Because consoles have the luxury of not having that issue. You know, if you get the game for the console, generally it will run. Like, okay, what are the system requirements? What kind of CPU do I need? Did I need a new video card, et cetera, et cetera? So it wasn't very, very good news. It wasn't very good news when people started reporting that. Even on a decently high-end system that they couldn't maintain 60 frames per second at 1080p on the highest settings. And these are the best, according to this article, the best graphics cards out there couldn't handle it. And this article also points out over on Rock Paper Shotgun that the game is actually crashing as well. I didn't know that. It was crashing quite a bit. So, you know, one of the differentiators, and again, this is a game that's running on consoles today. People are happily playing it. I played it for a while, I had fun, but I hit a wall. We'll talk about that in a bit. And the PC version, I guess the incentive is that, okay, you're going to have multiple input options, whether you want to play with keyboard or mouse, your own controller. You don't have to use whatever the console makes you use, et cetera. Hire graphical fidelity. We're talking 4K. People want to go up to 1440p. They probably want to run on cap frame rate.  So if you got that incentive, you know, performance is a very important thing. You don't want to have to have the best system on the planet to enjoy the benefits of PC gaming. But there's some performance problems already with this early build. So this article points out, and this is kind of where my brain went, is that hopefully these will be fixed with a day one patch or day one graphics driver update, et cetera, et cetera. I'll tell you, just based on my experience, that's probably not going to help. Probably not going to happen. But anyway, Capcom, the reason why I'm talking about this story, they responded to these claims. They said, this is a quote from marketing William Yagi Bacon. Yes, that's his name, weighted on the subject saying, To eliminate interstitial loading during active gameplay, Monster Hunter World loads the entire level into memory. In addition to managing assets loading into memory, it keeps track of monster interactions, health status, environment object changes, manages LOD and object culling, calculates collision detection and physics simulation, and tons of other background telemetry stuff that you don't see yet require CPU cycle. This is in addition to supporting any GPU rendering tasks. While in the multi-threaded framework engine has been around for ages, it does a good job of distributing CPU cycles and load balancing tasks across all available cores and threads. The engine itself is optimized for x86 CPU instruction set. As highly scalable and loosely speaking is platform agnostic, regardless of PC or console platform, so as long as it confirms the x86 instruction set. Now, PopQuiz, do you remember any of that? No, I didn't think so. Basically saying that there's a bunch of CPU stuff going on and that they're probably going to try to improve and optimize it, but we're going to be stuck with what we got. That's kind of my takeaway from that. According to the article, Capcom recommends that you play with one of the Intel 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs, the quad-core Intel Core i3-8350 to be precise, as they are much better at multitasking. They also mentioned the Ryzen 5 1500X. Rather than this year's Ryzen 5 2600X, they recommend the 1500X. Traditionally, AMD CPUs have a much better multitasking than Intel's processors due to having even more cores in their name, so AMDPs will find themselves better off in this respect compared to their Intel chums. This guy on the article says he'll do his best to back in with some testing to see how they compare. Again, this is opinion. This is not fact yet. So apparently, according to the quote, multi-threading may help that all the CPU stuff that they have to do, all the checks and balances, multi-threading may help, but I have my skeptical glasses on, and I'm going to say it probably is not going to help that much. Now, that's the article. That's the factual part. Let's get to my opinion about Monster Hunter. We've got another story about Monster Hunter as well. I hit a wall with Monster Hunter. I got tired of the fetch quest. I got tired of the footprint quest. I really got tired of the tutorial, and I really wanted to just hunt monsters. I was pushed by people, and this may have been my mistake, I was pushed by people who have gotten past the hump to say, I should really, really push past the story and get the story done, because that's when the game really opens up, and that's when I can really farm monsters in Monster Hunter World. I never got to that point. I got so sick of it. I was spending hours one Saturday night on my live stream. We basically had a night dedicated, it was Saturday night, dedicated to me and the community playing Monster Hunter and trying to make some progress. I was very, very jaded, and I was just mad, and I just didn't want to do it anymore. I got tired of running around the maps multiple times, looking for footprints. I was like, I didn't buy this game for this. I really didn't. And people told me, well, Bonny, maybe you'll like Monster Hunter Jelly Bean on the 3DS, and I'm like, I don't know what Monster Hunter Jelly Bean is. That's not the name. I'm just making up something. You know, and I just got tired of it. And ever since then, I've been playing Dauntless on PC, which is the exact opposite. Everything is hunting monsters, everything. So I was like, yes, this is what I wanted. So maybe a future Monster Hunter will be like that, or maybe there is one out there like that, that you guys will probably comment and let me know is the case. But I hit a wall and I just stopped playing it. So I don't plan on buying Monster Hunter World for PC and reading this article, given that the weakest component in my current system, given that I have an Intel Core i7 3770K, is that my CPU is going to be a huge bottleneck, a ginormous bottleneck. So I imagine I'm probably going to have to kick it down to 800 by 600 on low settings to even get 60 frames per second. Because the CPU is the bottleneck. I have a 1080 video card. So the GPU is only going to be able to do so much. If the CPU is the bottleneck, I am out of gas. The same is true for Final Fantasy XV. I'm even having trouble right now with No Man's Sky, even though I'm loving it. I'm CPU bound. My CPU pegs really, really, really quickly. So my system is quickly starting to age and I'm starting to feel like, I mean, I've had it for five years. So I mean, 2012 is when I bought the system. So it's six years now. Yeah. Yeah, it was 2012 when I got my current system, my current CPU. So it's going on six years. It's pretty old. So I'm not going to blame the game. My system is just old. But check the story out, guys. This is really close to launch. It's less than, what, seven days? No, eight days. It's August 9th. Eight days away and performance problems are being reported everywhere. Are they going to have time to address this? Are people just going to have to deal with it? Check it out, guys. Rock, paper, shotgun. They got the details over there. And for our next story, we're going to continue to talk about Monster Hunter World. And this one has to do with the in-game squads. Now, you may have just heard me talking about some of my complaints with Monster Hunter World, namely in the form of the questing that I had to do in the storyline. I didn't really enjoy it. Probably the next thing on my complaint list was the partying and the grouping on the PS4. It was clumsy. That's the best way I can think of. There was a lot of hurdles.  That's what it felt like. It was just hurdle after hurdle. But it looks like they're trying to do some cooler things on the PC release. This article comes by wayofdestructoid.com is that they're going to be integrating Steam groups on PC. Now, the level of integration is not yet known, but what they're showing in this article is that you will represent your primary Steam group, which you can designate as an icon in-game. So when you log into a game, you're going to have a little icon next to your name, which is going to denote your primary Steam group. So if you're part of the All Things Buona Steam group, you can rock the smiley face of life and just put net out there. But anyway, you can actually go in the game according to this article ondestructoid.com and change which group you want to rep. That is really, really cool. So I got to imagine what other things they're going to be integrating with this. Are you going to be able to easily invite people from your Steam group to your game? Are they going to be able to join in you easily from your Steam group? I like the idea of that. I like the idea of going beyond this friends list of Steam because I don't like having to add a ton of people to my friends list, but I have an open Steam group that people can join and one of the things we used to do and one of the things, yes, I'm showing my age, is that I will join the group chat, the Steam group chat, and people will right click on my name and join my server. So I don't have to tell them the server, they just join the chat room, right click on my name and the server and then join the server. So if I were to play Monster Hunter on PC, which I'm not planning to, but if anybody else in my Steam group wanted to join on each other, if they have more and more of this tight integration with Steam groups on PC, that would be a win-win. That would probably alleviate a lot of my concerns with what they're doing with squads on the PS4. So check this story out guys, OverDestructory.com looks like they're doing some interesting stuff with Monster Hunter World and Steam integration. Now I gotta wonder, what about other platforms? Does Monster Hunter World only work on Steam? I haven't verified that, but it looks like if they have this kind of deep integration with the game of Steam, it probably will only work. I don't think they're gonna have a God version, a GOG version, or Origin Access version. I don't know what they're gonna have. Let's check it out guys. Over there in Destructoid, Monster Hunter World has some in-game squad stuff that's related to Steam groups. And for our next story, we're gonna talk about Valve, and they're a new card game that you may have heard of called Artifact. Artifact is a collectible card game. It's not a trading card game. So I don't think trading's gonna be allowed in it. Oh, actually it is.  It is going to be released on Windows, Mac, and Linux November 28th, 2018. That's the contents of this press release. And on mobile, Android iOS is gonna be in 2019. The price is going to be $20. I'm actually glad to hear, pardon me, it's glad to hear that it will have a price. Because a lot of these trading card games and collectible card games, they may be free to play, but then you end up having to buy all these card packs in order to compete if that's what you want to do in these types of games. Let me go ahead and read the press release. This is over on Reddit that I got a link to. Artifact, the digital card game from legendary designer Richard Garfield and Valve. Dota 2 and Steam. Richard Garfield is from Monster... I'm not Monster Hunter. Magic the Gathering. I've been talking about Monster Hunter too much. Magic the Gathering will be playable by attendees of this year's Packs West in Seattle, Washington, August 31st through September 3rd in the game's first public showing. Players will battle each other in a continuous single elimination gauntlet for the right to challenge a champion on the main stage. Everyone who plays will earn Artifact merchandise, including signed prints of artwork and two keys for free copies of the game when it is released. Targeted for release on Steam on November 28th, 2018, Artifact is designed to give trading card game enthusiasts the deepest gameplay and highest fidelity experience ever in a fantasy card game, offering more than 280 cards in the shipping set. Players will be able to buy and sell cards on the Steam Community Marketplace. So there you go. It's gonna have a price and you'll be able to trade, buy and sell cards on the Steam Community Marketplace for the dollars. For the Steam dollars, that is. Not the real dollars. Your money will be trapped on Steam, but there's always a black market. There always is. So, pretty cool. If you haven't seen this game, it's fairly unique. It looks incredibly difficult. You have three lanes of cards. Not traditional lanes like you see in other games out there, but they actually look like mobile lanes and the entire interface shifts when you move from lane to lane.  Basically, you have heroes, and you have creeps and all kinds of stuff. It's a well-thought-out game, and I'm hoping it succeeds. It could easily fall flat on its face.  It's very complicated, very involved, and I don't know if the Dota crowd plays these types of games. I've seen some. Some of the streamers that I watch, they'll play games. They'll play card games like this. They'll play Hearthstone. They'll play Magic the Gathering. They'll play some of the other games that are out there. Shadow Realm? Shadow something. They'll play these other games out there. But Artifact, we got a release date in November. That's gonna be a busy time of the year, man. There's gonna be a lot of Call of Duty's and Battlefields, and the end of the year is really busy when it comes to new releases, and Artifact is gonna be right there with them. Check it out. The press release is on Reddit November 28th, and Mobile is gonna be 2019. That confirms the mobile release. I wasn't sure they were gonna do mobile, but now I am. Check it out, guys, over on Reddit. They got the details over there. And for our final story, we're gonna talk about Fortnite and just the landscape of just esports and video games today. You've probably heard of Ninja. Ninja is, as I heard on an outlet today, the most popular online gamer in the world. That carries a lot of weight. The most popular online gamer in the world. To the tune of 100,000 to 200,000 viewers every night that he streams. Millions, I think he's going on 15, I don't know how many, in the teens of millions of subscribers on YouTube. Untold amount of followers on Twitch. 100,000 to 200,000 subscribers on Twitch, which all of those people are paying him money. It's featured on CNN, talking about how much, or it was the CNBC or CNN, they were asking them, you know, how's it feel to be making millions of dollars as a gamer? Right now, video games is being seen as a legitimate profession. And some of that things can be attributed to him because he is projecting that into the limelight. The story I want to talk about now has to do with just the current generation of upcoming gamers. And this is an article on IGN that reads, parents are getting their kids Fortnite tutors.  You know, as an African-American youth, I looked up to basketball players and football players as being like career role models because a lot of them started with the same type of, you know, humble beginnings that I started with and they rose to the occasion and basically made it in this world because, you know, we looked at them as heroes, especially when you're like 8 to 12 years old, you're really young, you know, you're easily influenced by these people. You know, when I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of access to, you know, successful businessmen that looked the same as me. I didn't see a lot of that or did the same things that I did. I did play a lot of video games, but I also played a lot of sports and I think that was my role model. So, if my parents were to come up to me and say, you know, we want to help nurture this, we want to get you some training, you know, some stuff like that in basketball, you know, I would have jumped all over it. I actually begged for a Michael Jordan tape which taught you basics. It was a Michael Jordan tutorial which was like teaching you how to shoot, how to dribble and stuff, how to do drills, and I begged my parents to buy it for me and they did. And, you know, at the time, I didn't really have serious basketball aspirations. Like I said, I was malleable. I was really, really considering, you know, this as a career because I, like I said, I didn't have access to see a lot of people who were successful in business or, you know, corporate world or in self-entrepreneurship was like unheard of. To me, a self-entrepreneur was a drug dealer when I was growing up.  You know, that's what I saw around me. That was in my neighborhood. So, just fast-forwarding to today, kids are seeing Ninja make half a million, million dollars easily playing video games.  They play video games. Okay, there's a lot of parents out there that want to nurture their kids' talents. They want to see their children succeed. You know, they may, you know, a lot of parents are strict about getting good grades, you know, with your good math and sciences, arts and sciences, I'm sorry, arts, writing, you know, language, good with your hands, vocational stuff, building, fixing things, whether it be parents are out to nurture their kids' talents and or hobbies. It doesn't surprise me that parents are going to be paying for their kids to get Fortnite tutors because today it is a legitimate and seemingly accessible career move. From a parental perspective, now I'm a live streamer, I'm pretty sure some of you, like Buona, don't tell me you think that too, that it's easy to do this. Of course not. Just like it's not easy to become a successful actor, become successful, anything in the entertainment industry is incredibly difficult. Athletes, same thing. I mean, you could be a high school star, you could be a college star, and then you just, everything just stops after that. You don't take that next step into the big time. The same is true here. It doesn't surprise me that parents are doing this. It doesn't surprise me, you know, because these parents are probably the same age as me. You know, they're probably around the same age as me.  We recognize that video games these days is in a lot better place than when they were when we were playing video games. You know, the best thing we had was Starcade, which was a TV game show where we watched people play video games and we used to scream at the TV because they didn't win that Commodore 64 because they didn't know how to play that stupid game that we knew how to play. These days, these kids got e-sports. They got tournaments. They got millions of dollars online by playing video games. Now, a lot of people want to, they want to dismiss this video games as being a legitimate sport. I personally don't care. People are doing things that are making money doing it.  People are creating content. They're creating live streams. They're making money doing it. So whether you want to call it a job or not is irrelevant. The money is being made and it can support your lifestyle. It can support your family if you have a family. So, you know, the semantics are kind of laughable at this point. But the game, I mean, Epic has contributed. They basically have committed to millions of dollars to give to e-sports players these days. So what parent out there, I mean, even when I was growing up, a lot of parents would dump money into their kids so they could possibly be a football star, be a basketball star, be a track star, you know, be a tennis star, be, you know, a chess star. I don't know. They might be playing chess. They might be doing debate club. I don't know. They might want to get into Harvard. They will invest in their children, especially if the kids want it. You got to think about that. I mean, some people look at these parents as being like mean and overbearing and stuff. A lot of these parents are just trying to nurture what the kids want. And there's a legitimate claim. Like I said, when I was growing up, it wasn't really there. Now there's a legitimate claim that, hey, you can make a living playing video games if you're really good at it. And not more, not just make a living, but you could be a millionaire by these examples. Of course, they're not going to be easy to get. But the opportunities are there and they're rising. Twitch is growing. YouTube is growing. Mixer is growing. This is only getting bigger. Last week, the Overwatch finals was on national television. You can't say that happened when we were kids, you know, 20, 30 years ago. Some of you weren't even born. I'm dating myself here. You can't say that, though. Like I said, we had StarCade. That was it. So check the story out, guys. I mean, the article itself doesn't have a whole lot in it, but I just looked at the title and it got me thinking about this whole, you know, esports craze, which some may say is getting worse. Some may say is declining because, you know, StarCraft II isn't as big as it used to be. CSGO is kind of on the decline. Call of Duty kind of fills it out a little bit. And I think some of the Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six stuff is starting to pick up a little bit. Fortnite is picking up. PUBG is picking up. And the Battle Royale craze. But when these guys die out, something else is going to pick up the slack because advertisers, not only technology advertisers, a lot of other advertisers are beginning to recognize that there are people with money in their pockets watching these kids play games. I mean, if you watch Ninja Stream for an hour, you will see hundreds, sometimes even thousands of dollars go the way into this guy's pocket watching him do this. And advertisers go, okay, they got that money. I'm going to stick my product in their face. Maybe they'll buy that.  It's actually smart business. So while we can laugh at this, you see this article headline. You can laugh at it. Sit back, analyze it, and think about it. It makes a lot of sense.  You know, if they didn't ask for it, I probably wouldn't. That's just me. That's something that if I were doing it, they would have to ask or beg, and I'd have to see the potential. Because I know I could see potential. I could see people playing Fortnite. I know if they got the stuff or not. But it definitely is something that you would consider, especially if your child wants it. Now, by the time you guys listen to this half-kiss, there may be a different game out there. There may be a different type of e-sports thing. Blizzard is doing a great job of legitimizing e-sports. They are taking e-sports to the professional level that we have never seen before. They are taking it to levels toward NBA and NFL and the baseball, hockey, NHL. All these people are taking this stuff to the professional level with agents and contracts and benefits and salaries. They are taking it to that level and they are taking it to a format to where it's acceptable by people who play and watch other sports like basketball, football, hockey, and baseball. So that's paving the way for other people and other outlets and other video games out there to do the same thing. So by the time you guys have kids, or if you have kids now, by the time they grow up, a lot of the work will have been done and you may be heavily, heavily considering giving you kids some tutoring and some video games. Giving them some lessons, some video games. Something to think about. Check it out, guys. Overonign.com, they got the details. Parents are getting their kids Fortnite tutors. Is it crazy or not? Let me know in the chat. Wait, we're not chatting. Let me know in the comments. Tommy. And that concludes episode 128 of Game Chat 1. 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I'm pretty sure they know what I'm saying. What about a new person who just comes along and finds us? There are no new people here. But today we're reacting to a Dabar Festival video. This has happened. When you said we're going to do a Dabar Festival and I thought you were going to say we're going to react to a Dabarge, an old Dabarge video. Remember those sisters? We were reacting to a sister. The classical singing duo. I don't know if they're sisters, but they're the duo. The two sisters. Anyway. Stunning, say this name. Chandra Khons and Mada Khons. Ranjani and Gayatri. Yes, this is ringing a bell to me now. Thank you. You'll recognize them when you... But all of the Dabar stuff has always been fantastic. It kind of just transports you into another world. See you in another world.  But if he's actually talking or you read a book in that realm of people who have that level of understanding of mathematics and science. You just don't understand a word they're saying. Just don't understand anything they're saying. They all understand each other. But the references that they're making to things, you're like, no idea what you're saying. That's what it's like listening to. Not just her singing, but all of them. It's like jazz improvisation taken to nuclear physics level. It really is. And I know there's structure to it that those of you who know it would say, yeah, you probably get it. If you understood they're just counting off these particular things. Yeah, but still. Yeah, but still. Because it isn't just the counting off of the things. It's the feeling of the music and being connected to each other. I loved watching their body language because the other sister didn't sing. But their body language often was exact. She knew exactly what she was going to do. What she was going to do. Her left hand was moving right along with hers. Just beautiful, beautiful fine artistry. And I didn't understand what she was saying when she was saying two ragas. Are they the ragas? Well, the Raga is forgive me because we're still learning. But I think my understanding of a Raga is it's a particular form of musical interpretation that happens in the midst of the song. It's a period of the song where a Raga is done and it lasts for a certain amount of time. Like an improvisational thing. Like in jazz you say for 24 measures we're going to do this. And you know, measure 24 we're going to change the rhythm. So for 24 measures we're going to be in this field. Well a Raga will have changes of feel for a certain period of time. So I guess what they just did was freaking blend two kinds of Raga's. It's Neil deGrasse Tyson. Beyond me. Yeah, it's obviously stuff we can't understand but we can definitely appreciate it. We've been able to appreciate it since we first heard it. Because it's just, it sounds so beautiful. And unique. And you can hear the syncopation. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist pun intended to appreciate the difficulty. And also just the simplest exposure to Western music and hearing how pitch perfect she is in landing just underneath what we would call the tonic in Western music. And then getting around it and under it and over it. It's just the complexity is unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Yeah. It's a whole other. It is the Neil deGrasse Tyson level of musical understanding. I'm hoping once because they've reached out to us one year. I think it was last year, but it was like the week before the bar was happening. Right. Oh, I remember that. Yes. The bar reached out to us asking us if we wanted to come. But obviously my wife was pregnant and it was like a week before. Week before. But they literally, we could have gone. So we were like, okay, let's do it next year. But obviously it's not happening this year. COVID-19. COVID-19. And so I'm hoping one year we'll be able to go. Because this, everything we've seen at this festival has been incredible. Incredible. Could you imagine? This would be like when we got to see a Stadio Secure Hussein and company like tenfold. You know? One after another. One after the other after the other like that. I would love to do that. That would be fantastic. Yeah. Just like this. Because we want to be transported.


I have two questions here that hit a really interesting issue, one by Kofi Iaboa, as well as JobScout. And they say that there's a cost to online courses. You guys are talking about technology. There's a cost to online courses, the cost to access the internet. In some countries, people need to pay for the internet. And then JobScout says, but these jobs require connectivity. We know this, but they also require that you know how to use the internet. So how do you get around that? How do you have those people who aren't, as don't have that same level of knowledge about the internet become connected? That's the partnership and, you know, Minister Lois would, I mean, that's what government can, that's the big part of what government can assist in. I'm waiting for the Spanish interpreter. The Spanish interpreter is not speaking. The Spanish booth is silent. The education system. Employment demand. Access to the internet. Market demand. Vocational requirements. Improvement in employer liability. Improving the quality of online courses. More and more companies, many more high-tech companies are launching new products, new tools. And they are launching new products that tailor to the technical requirements of a vocational schools so that they can better help young people to learn through these e-tools, e-platforms, through online learning. Many young people can catch up quickly with a high-tech boom.


Every week this month I'm reviewing a science fiction novel series and this week It's the heritage universe by Charles Sheffield these stories take place several thousand years in the future when the human race and Seven or eight other space faring species who are not at war with each other Surprisingly have the common experience of finding the galaxy littered with vast Abandoned machines some the size of planets some even light years across who built them what they're supposed to do Nobody knows the action of the first book centers around two planets that are literally attached by an artificial tether And they are fast approaching a grand convergence with the double star They orbit and the gas giant that they share the system with experts from all over the galaxy are convinced that this means something If you're interested in the alien artifact type story, then obviously this is for you the writing style is very dry There's a fair number of characters and they are not at all interesting some of the text actually consists of excerpts from a Catalog describing the various giant artifacts and of course those are the most memorable parts There are two other books in the series that came years later, but I never got to those You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There's a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumbler. That's my headquarters in addition to my videos I publish links and updates there every day


Just what were you seeing from your vantage point. I saw a little bit of that. Sometimes the execution wasn't wasn't exactly there in the first couple of things. But after that he really he ran it in and you know he gave us a chance to win and we ended up coming back but just couldn't finish it. He had talked about part of the game plan being trying to establish that fastball especially very early on.  In the first thing they definitely came out swing and aggressively at the heater and. You know that and the sorry. The I think the first two innings definitely kind of set the tone and after that we ran it in. But you know by then the main damage was pretty much done. Are there other questions for Kyle Klappish. Please unmute. Kyle Garrett has set the bar so high the last couple of years. And really the sense is fair or not that you know when he's on his game. He can pretty much dominate any team any lineup. Throw that fastball by anyone that double digits strike out. So when he doesn't get there it stands out. It's it's rather unique. You sent any any drop off in his stuff this late in the year given how few and easy through last year. I mean it's a it's a unique situation to go from from 90 innings last year to double that this year. So I'm wondering if you sense that there's been any effect because of that. I mean I haven't I haven't seen anything to be honest. I think today I mean the stuff was there. We're just you know a little scattered early and then we got into a rhythm but you know I haven't seen any that I can't speak to how he's how he's feeling. But you know I think his stuff looks good. Thank you. Randy Miller you've the next question. Kyle what is this wildcard race. What do you make of it. Four teams separated by two games the four days go in the season. Is it nerve wracking. Is it fun. What's your take on how this is you find yourself looking at scoreboard a lot more. Yeah I mean I'm sure it's fun for the fans. You know we just know we have to keep winning. That's the only thing because we were in control of our destiny right now. So it's up to us to keep winning and and you know it's a at least we know we're in that you know good position. How important is it to play that game next week at home in your mind. You know it's it's really important. I think you know Yankee Yankee fans are in the playoffs are it's it's some of the craziest atmosphere I've ever seen. So you know I think that's that's that's going to be big for us if we can pull it off. Thanks. Ryan Hoke you have the next question. Hey Kyle what did that mean to you that Boone stuck with you in that opportunity in the seventh inning there they had Gary on the bench but he gave you a chance to hit there. Yeah I mean you know I I wasn't really thinking about anything like that until until he either inches for me or whatever. I don't I don't doesn't really cross my mind. So because it really can't you know you got to always stay focused on the situation and the job you have to do. So you know I always believe I can get the job done so you know the fact that I was able to go up there and get a hit that you know it's I feel like I did my job in that situation.