Rhaid gan yw, yma hwn o'n hyfforddiad y system diannod 1875. Rydyn ni wedi meddwl am y 24v, 24v i gynnydd, a 12v i 12v. Rydyn ni wedi meddwl am y sgiliau gymunydd. Rydyn ni wedi meddwl i siaradau benodol i chi. ond rwy'n gweithio'r pethau, rwy'n gweithio'r dyfodol, ond yw'n gweithio'n dweud y teimlo'r bwysig ar y tor. Daeth y gallwch yn ymddangos yn ymddangos o'r ffordd ac yn ymddangos yr oedd y ffordd ac yn ymddangos. Mae'n gwahodd iawn yn gweithio'r ffordd o'r ffordd ac mae'r ffordd o'r ffordd. As you can see, I'm hoping you can see, they're pretty much snack on together. Now, I don't have heart nowhere near the heat issue that I had before, because they were getting really warm after 10-15 minutes of playing music at reasonable volume, which I've been doing, and they're cool enough just to leave your hand on them, that you wouldn't even drink tea that cold to how they are, okay? You just wouldn't. I'm trying to listen, because the input's switched off. Oh, dammit. Sorry, my wire's underneath my laptop here to the camera, but I was there and trying to just pull it to her. You can hear, that's how rubbish this camera is, but you can hear, like a little bit of a noise, but nothing that you'd think of as an issue, they're coming through the speakers. So, that's much better. That's just much better. I know it looks like a mismatch of wires there, because I've got the, you know, keeping an eye on the voltages. As you can see, that says 7.7, that says 7.6, just going on 7.5, that's going down, that's going up, that's going up as well. There's going to be that slight variation, because as my input voltage goes up and down slightly there, that's fine. But that's okay, because there's enough room on this to swing about a bit. And these will take up to 60 volts, sort of 30, positive, 30 negative. And of course, I'm not going to get anywhere near that. So, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to set up the scope, I'm going to put the function, the function generator on the laptop, and give a signal in to each of these on-killer-hurt signal in. And I'm just going to turn it up and see what we can do on the power side of things, and see what I can actually pull on power. But I just wanted to do this little update, because I spent a lot of time messing around with the other amplifier, the other power supply, sorry, and the regulators are setting it up and playing around with the resistors and everything. Then, of course, I found that thing online, which will tell me what resistors you use. But it's all good experience, but really, it's about as simple as it gets. And for some reason I just overcomplicated things, and this is much better. It's just cool, it's just really cool. The other one was getting really bloody hot. So, right, I'm going to set up and see what this thing is doing. It sounds just the same. I couldn't take it to full volume before, I was only taking it up to like 20, and it was really, really loud. And it's the same like this now. But without the heat, I'm without the extra regulators heating up and needing all that extra circuitry. This is brilliant. Yeah, and that's because I've gone back and looked at videos again that I looked at a year ago. Well, you know, sort of like within the year, Jono Audio Tech does some great stuff with the LM1875s. And I've gone back and I've looked at setting up for the power and listened to what he said, and realised that I was just trying to push these to the limit, and really you don't need to, you don't want to. And this seems to be much better, so I'm going to go for a power test using my dummy loads, the 8M dummy loads, because I use 8M speakers, so I've got these 8M dummy loads. Got a couple of them, and we're going to see what we've got for power. Right, I'll set that up and come back. OK, I'm going to do a channel on this, and just do a little power test. So, I've got it hooked up to a signal generator, which is this, and it's sent to 1kHz. We're going to seize the output over there. I've already got one channel set up just at the minute. This is the input voltage going into there, but only on the positive side. I suppose I could. Is that still connected up? I'll put this on here, switch over to this. So there we go, we've got negative 17. We've got positive 17.62 over this side, and we've got negative 17.63 there. So, let's switch that back to the scope, and I'm going to turn this up on the volume on my laptop until it starts. Let's put that measurement on, and of course you can't see that, so let's simply just tilt this like this, and go back to there. That's about right, isn't it? No matter what I do with this, I just don't make out the voltage. So let's turn it up, and we're looking for that clipping. There we go, that's about there. So I'll just drop it down one. So it's in range, and we've got 7.8 volts at 1kHz. I'm sorry, the camera's not much good. That's a terrible round. And it's also dropped down to 17.75. I thought this would be worth showing, actually. I've just changed the capacitor over, and look, I've got 8.4 volts now on IMS, and what I did was I put that Panasonic capacitor in there, which is a thousand microfarads, rather than what I was using, which was this one. You can't see that, but it says 334, which is 330 nanofarads. When we get that before clipping, I can just put that back and I'll show you, any more than that, and it will clip. I've got to turn it up with the, as you can see, 8.8. I have to turn it up and down with what I get on my laptop here. It also means that the voltage there is on 17 volts. If I just put that back there, I just want to turn this down a little bit, so I'll turn that down. It's got a higher voltage on 9. I just thought it was interesting, I just thought I'd add that, just because it does make a difference then. On the output power, when you change the capacitors over, it's unfortunate I've only got one more of those, I bought five of these, but I might take off two of those back ones and just put a couple of 2200s in and leave two there, and use another one of those capacitors for this other side, and give that an audio check. We should have a more fuller, rounder base with those electrolytics. I swapped out the 330 nF capacitors for those 1000 mF capacitors there, you can see, big cans, they're panosonics, they're proper audio capacitors, and I know I've put them in there as well for the filtering, but to be fair, this thing's powered up now and you can't hear anything through the speakers. I'm just going to give it a little bit. I've already been harassed today by the Copyright Police for the last video, and I've started to put in a dispute, so I'm not going to give too much of this particular track. If I just put some breaks in it and pauses in it, that should help mellow out the tracking devices, just as it thinks it's latching on. Oh, it's like those horrible things at the Matrix Senate when they come looking for you. Oh, I don't know, I'm jibbering. So, yeah, definitely, well, what I noticed was putting them in there anyway, we've got a little bit of extra power, 8.4 volts RMS before clipping, and I can't adjust it anymore in the steps, you know, on the volume control of my laptop. But I think that was probably just about on there, right? And this whole thing with the regulators and stuff, that's gone now, and I'm just using this 12-volt, 0-volt, 12-volt Talroid, which it just makes life a lot easier, and I haven't got half the heating. Don't get me wrong, running these like full blast through the dummy loads. Yeah, they'd warm up. The plumbing dummy loads were really hot as well. We'd expect that, but just running it like normal now, I've been sat back listening to some music, and they're not really hot at all, they're warm, and this one is a bit warmer in this one, but because of the dissipation thing, you'd expect that anyway. But why have I faffed around so much with doing the whole regulator thing and stuff? You know, one side, I think I said this at the start of this video, is one side I watched again and got a better understanding of what I was doing, and I don't need to push this. At the minute, I've got around about 17 volts going through this, but why don't you take away a couple of volts per side, because we're swinging out and we're going up 17, and down 17, positive, negative. Take off a volt or two for the circuitry. So let's say 15 volts. That's not bad. It's not bad what's coming out, because what's coming out basically is around about 8 watts, a little bit over 8 watts per channel. There we go. Rather annoyingly after a quick reboot. You know, we're still on with the music. That's pretty good. Ah, it's done it again. I know it hasn't. That's the drive. For some reason it's sort of... It's like it loads the drive. This is the drive that the music's on, that one there. And it loads it in and then has a little pause. And when I'm watching a video on the night time, when I take the laptop into my bedroom, it does the same thing when I put a film in. It only does it at the start and then like this. But when you just put a circuit together, you can panic thinking something's going to blow up. But we can't put it on too long because the older, how annoying is that. It's as long as it stops them from, you know, tracking the thing. But it sounds pretty good. I'm just trying to see if there's an actual tune there. It sounds very nice. I am quite surprised. Oh, that's the hard drive. Whoa. It stopped here as well because it's just a little bit annoying, really, isn't it? So, yeah, I'm really chuffed. That does sound a lot better. I don't really have that to the cold than not even doing anything. And that's good because while it's not really doing anything, we don't need it heating up and having to dissipate excess energy. Yeah, so I'm going to go along with that. And I'm going to sit back now and listen to a bit of music and have myself a cup of tea, think about something to eat, and then go looking for the next little project. I will build this onto something on a mal-payment basis, but I'm not going to do it in the next few days. Tomorrow I've got one of my daughters coming over, my grandson, so that's going to be a day filled with that. But I will be cracking on with something very, very soon. Another little crystal radio set, I think, is on its way. Not on its way. I was in buying one.  I'll try and see if I can do something better on what I did last time because the last one was absolutely rubbish. Thanks for watching, guys. And I'll speak to you real soon.


Today on the show we're taking a look at Dabaru and Autobot Twinferno From the Transformers Titans return Toilets, so stay tuned Hey guys, welcome back to Come Again TV We're all geek culture collides and if you're new to the channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button So you don't miss out on future videos as I said earlier today on the show We're taking a look at the Transformers Titans return deluxe class Dabaru and Autobot Twinferno. I picked this up at Walgreens It is a part of the Transformers Generations from Hasbro Picked it up at Walgreens for 1799. I saw him and he reminded me a lot of Cynertwin from the original Transformers toy line from the 80s. I used to have Cynertwin He was a combiner Probably one of my favorite transformers from the early years I don't really get Transformers a lot anymore because they're so damn expensive, but I saw this guy I had to have him. So let's take a look at the packaging here You got Twinferno here and his Headmaster there Nice little image on the packaging I don't really know much about These Titans Returns toy line Right now. Like I said, I don't really collect Transformers much anymore. I don't watch the cartoons or anything like that Watch the movies That's about it. I used to watch the cartoons back in the 80s and early 90s But like I said, that's about it everything I know about The Titans Return toy line right now. I Learned from watching caveman Over on his channel links will be in description below He does a lot of the Transformers toys Along with Dragon Ball Z and Voltron.  All right, so this one is works with compatible con Sawback Autobot hot rod Optimus Prime and six shots the last transformer I actually bought was Maybe two or three years ago. I bought them for my son. It was Optimus Prime And I think it was from the move the Transformers movie I could be wrong though Fuss this open. I don't have a blade on me. All right, and he comes with a little Card Autobot Twinferno Titans Return very nice. All right Have the instructions there Go ahead and set this packaging off to the side All right, so sorry about that guys I had to really study this guy in order to get his transformation sequence down pretty well Like I said before this is one of my first transformers in a very very long time So I'm not really used to transforming him Like many of you could be should be But he comes with two Cannons you can either attach them to his shoulders Right there. I found that that plug there is a little bit too large They'll sit they'll sit in there, but they won't stay you can also Attach them to his back or place them in his hands the hands hold them pretty well Just like that. All right, so you can put them in his hands Attach them to his back Right there. They do attach together take these brackets on this one just slide them in just like that and Then it attaches to the back through those two ports there with Those two plugs it is a little tight Once you get it just right It plugs in perfectly Next is the headmaster. I found that When attaching and detaching the headmaster if you hold the sides you should be able to get it plugged in good If you hold it by the front and back of the head The back wants to move around on you and you're not going to be able to really get it in As easily as you want to So you just plug it in like that Take it out the same way And he just folds out Now there's a couple different ways you can attach this guy to Twinferno the first way is He has peg holes on the bottom of his feet How well you can see that there we go and Two pegs on the gun on the cannon. He just plugs right in there and Sits on the cannon The other two ways I'll show you once we transform twinferno, so let's go ahead and move him out of this way All right, so first thing you want to do is you want to turn twinferno arms to where they're facing Backwards after that You unclip See there's a clip there The clips in right there you unclip it bring it forward both sides Just like that Then you'll bring it up. This is a slightly difficult part because it's a hinge a double hinge So you've got to make sure that hinge comes up to If you don't it's gonna be often. It's not gonna want to connect so you've got to bring the hinge up as well and then Those two pegs plug into those holes there and it connects just like that next is the feet This It's easy to have trouble with the with the legs You unhook it here Bring it around and then Bring this up Just like that Bring the tail down and then the legs come out feet come out Then do the same with the other side and now I Watched on M. Goes review He said these tabs right here Go into the middle Slots there However mine it doesn't do that. They'll attach to the top slot Just slightly hold it into place And you've really got to mess with it in order to get it stay It's not an actual tab. It's more just like a Holder See how that is like that and then You attach the tail together There's two flat pegs inside the tail tip pinch that together and then Pinch the middle of the tail together and I found that the tail doesn't really like to stay in place It's very difficult to get to stay It's pretty difficult to get the legs to stay in place to and there he is There's twin-ferno So let's go over articulation First things first you've got the head both heads they move up and down They can The the neck moves up and down the heads itself also moves the neck can move side to side they can turn There's jaw opening you can open it either by pulling on the bottom jaw or by pulling on the top part of the jaw The arms can go all the way around they are on a ball joint So that's nice The legs They can move Just like that Not bad Then the feet they only move one way and that's for the transformation There's no tilting upward or anything like that for it and then the wings Can move up and down now I did say that There are other ways for you to attach the headmaster We can either put them on here just like that He can fly or You take them off the cannon Just pulling them out and standing them up on these two pegs on the back of the Twin-ferno Just like that or You can put him in a sitting position like that open Twin-ferno's chest and just sit him in there Like that not bad. I do really like the paint job As I said, I got mainly got this guy because he reminded me so much of a transformer I had when I was younger called center twin, which was a combiner transformer He was a part of the Decepticons and I've watched some reviews on the newer versions of center twin and He's designed a lot like Twin-ferno, so now let's go ahead and we'll change him back to his robot mode So first what you want to do Is start with the legs go backwards just split them apart Close the legs up turn it around bring it down just like that snap that back into place rotate it to where the foot The claw is on the back side the opening is on the inside of the foot and You'll bring the point of the tail down to rest there We'll do the same thing with this one turn That part just like that so that you got clearance room bring it down like that Plug this piece Into here close the foot Bring the point of the tail down All right, let's go ahead and get The headmaster out close that back up and I'll go over the articulation of the robot mode here in just a bit Then We bring the heads down What you want to do you want to make sure? The arms the claw arms are straight out just like that Okay, so you'll bring it back Just like this the arm Fit in that groove right there just like that snap it into place Do the same thing with this one. All right Make sure the claw Is out just like that at 90 90 degree angle You'll bring it back Snap it in. All right bring You'll turn the heads and then You'll transform the headmaster back into the head and he transforms just like that from what I've seen of other videos from caveman and em go It's just like he transforms just like any other headmaster and Then remember what I said hold on to his arms the sides So it's a lot easier because if you try holding on to his face in the back of his head the back of the head We'll keep wanting to slide down And you're not you're gonna end up breaking the peg head portion of The headmaster so hold on to the sides and the head is gonna plug in right there It does take a little bit of effort All right, and now Trent the Articulation for robot mode You have once again the wings flap the arms go out they bend at the elbows once again, you have the hand articulation which is the head of the double-headed dragon They can turn at the shoulder like that and then You have the legs which the crotch plate here folds up the legs can go up to there They can go back to there. They can go up to there on the side you have a thigh swivel knee joint and You have a Foot tilt foot rocker Can't go side-to-side There's the transformation and One thing I thought was really cool for this guy He can do the crane kick It really looks like Daniel son Daniel LaRusso doing the crane kick So that that's cool I thought that was cool when I started playing around with this guy transforming him and everything and Once again, like I said You can put the cannons on his back like that you can Take them apart plug them in To his shoulders like that however, you have the wings Can't be out all the way if you do that or you can disconnect them and plug them in To his hands like so and you can get him in a lot of really cool poses You can have him down like this on one knee firing just like that That's cool pose. I like that pose You can have him standing up. He has no problem balancing really stand him like that very nice I Just really like this guy. I you know, I may start doing some more Transformers reviews Showing you guys how to transform them whatever I'm not gonna go crazy though and pick up every character in the line or whatever It's just the ones that I think look cool. I am a big fan of the confiners. So I may start collecting some combiners as well But there you have it guys the Transformers Titans return Dabaru and Autobot twin fur no from Transformers generations I'm Shannon for come again TV. Take care


Sportsmax, your home of champions will have exclusive rights to the Paris Olympic Games this summer. In the Caribbean region, of course, the game set for the 26th of July to the 11th of August. The work to provide the best possible coverage to the region started long ago and is now in full throttle. We have now on the Sportsmax zone two special personalities on Zoom the CEO of our Trinidad and Tobago television TTT Adrian Winter and here in studio the Sportsmax CEO Nicholas Mathews. We have some news to share with our viewers. Welcome to the zone gentlemen and may I ask Nick to start things off with this major announcement. Thank you Lance and welcome Adrian but we have been working behind the scene and Trinidad is probably the second biggest market in the Caribbean and we have agreed a deal with TTT for them to broadcast the Olympics in Trinidad. So they will be the exclusive free TV partner in Trinidad and Tobago so everybody everywhere in Trinidad will be able to access the Olympics coverage on TTT. Oh that's excellent and Adrian your company is about 60 years old now and this must be a very big project and attractive project to your company. Indeed you know you know today I say it truly you know marks a significant milestone you know as we commemorate this Grand Prix partnership with TTT limited and Sportsmax for the broadcast of the forthcoming 2024 Summer Olympics. This alliance you know it represents a real pivotal moment and you know underlying or shared commitment to providing the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago on parallel access to the pinnacle of sporting events and that is the Olympics. So you know to our esteemed partner Sportsmax who has been you know renowned in delivering high quality content and state of the art production you know we are TTT we are truly honored by the selection of TTT limited as the national media partner for this monumental Olympic broadcast. Yeah and you know my question to you would be one being a Trini I know it's a big deal when it is the Olympics because the entire country is of course glued to Olympic coverage especially supporting our Trinidad and Tobago athletes. So for you and your viewership talk to me about the big numbers that you're expecting to see come this Olympics. Yeah you know I always say as I said to the when we signed the agreement this morning I said you know the Olympic Games you know it transcends more the more than just the competition and you know it's a it's a re-celebration of human achievement unity and excellence and you know we are we in Trinidad and Tobago we're very well known for that that unity and not coming together especially where sporting is concerned and as we prepare to witness what we would you know the witness the world's for most athletes compete on this global stage you know this partnership I said signifies the convergence of expertise innovation and shared passion for sports so you know we we are so excited for Trinidad and Tobago we're excited for people I mean from July 26th to August the 11th you know this promises not only to be it will be an exciting time for the world but but you know the people of Trinidad and Tobago whether they will be in their homes or they'll be in their workplaces I know some people would have viewing events you know it really really promises to be an exciting time for a country so we're really really excited as our national broadcaster and as persons in the business of broadcast media for this partnership Nick I do know if this question is best addressed to you or to of course Adrian but whoever sees it fit to answer can go ahead and do that now with regards to the coverage right will they be sharing in our esteemed panel of analysts will they be guessing the shows that we do I know our team is actually going to be on the ground in Paris doing features which I really enjoy looking at is that how it's going to work or do they so TTT will be able to carry the full broadcast all our shoulder program in or wall-to-wall coverage of the games or features coming in from Tokyo from Paris and also our prime time show that we'll be doing so they will do everything they carry all the broadcasts or I like show at the end of the day they'll be carrying everything and I mean Trinidad as a as a long history of strong Olympic performances and we do believe I mean we have seen the performances coming out of Carrefter thank you over the last weekend right and the history and the legacy that Trinidad has in the Olympics we're expecting great things this Olympics and we're looking forward to to this partnership and ensuring that everybody is able to view the Olympics non-stop right across the the the Tunisian Republic yeah and I remember in 1976 when Haysley Crawford won the hundred and Donald Corr won the 200 in Montreal Canada it broke a drought of several decades of the Caribbean winning gold medals at the at the Olympic Games so I take the point Nick just made about the strong history of Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympic Games and as we speak their outstanding cyclist Nicholas Paul is in California competing at the Pan Am Trap Championship he has a world record he's one of the best in the world and we think that Nicholas Paul has a strong chance of becoming a rear cycling medalist for the Caribbean and Adrian what do you think at the moment is the appetite for the Olympic games in TNT because I remember at the Tokyo Olympics TNT didn't medal which was you know a bit of a let down for a country that is so steeped in in sports history but I suspect that your team Olympic committee team is trying to change that in parents oh yeah I mean you know we always have we have a long history in Trinidad and Tobago sports really you know uniting us as a nation I know I know there are persons in Trinidad and Tobago that are really really looking forward to these Olympic games and what it will bring in terms of the of the the the person's rallying I mean I could tell you just from my experience this weekend with the recently concluded Curf the Games you know everyone was glued to their to their TVs on Saturday I'm not on Saturday sorry on Sunday witnessing the finals and it was just like everyone having these viewing parties and the you know rallying around the athletes and you know we inch around Tobago and I should tell the Caribbean people is that we rally around Caribbean people especially when it comes to the Olympics so you know even if at some point in time you know whoever we are we are supporting may end up you know falling out at some leg of the of the tournament or the games I should say you know we find ourselves you know joining another team and supporting that team right through to the very end so you know this is a Caribbean thing for us it's not just a tournament to be using but the Caribbean showcase for us so we're very very excited for this opportunity yeah and Adrian what will the build up be like when it comes to the Olympics and the TTT do you have any plans just yet as to how you will be treating the build up because we here are really really excited about it and we've already started our planning and all that as we would have said at the top of this segment will you be doing anything special that our viewers should know well we have some conversations with sportsmax thus far in terms of a joint partnership in terms of that build up we also have some ideas but you know we now that we finalize this agreement we can now put some of those ideas into action very very soon you will see some of the you know how we will how we will be marketing you know the the whole broadcast of this Olympic coverage and you know rally in the country around the summer Olympics 2024 and and just to add to that TTT will have full access to all our build-up shows all our features everything that we'll be doing regarding the Olympics they'll have access to those content to broadcast and on TTT I'm so excited I have to say yeah and for the benefit of our viewers Nick how important is it to strike up partnerships with the major networks in the Caribbean region in the individual territories as part of laying out the broadcast platform one of the the the Olympics charter is to ensure that the Olympics broadcasts reaches to almost everybody across every region and that's one of the key and important factor for us and and and and we always try to ensure that we partner with local local stations to ensure that broadcasts is stressed to everybody we think it's an important endeavor the content you have you have athletes who are participating and everybody in each country they want to see what's happening you know and we have to ensure the widest coverage possible and this has been one of our commitment to the IOC that we'll ensure that persons in the Caribbean will be able to view the content everywhere anytime and on almost every platform yeah and of course there was a time not too long ago Nick when you know the Caribbean had to depend on the NBC's and ABC's of this world and we didn't get Caribbean specific coverage and a lot of times we felt lost watching it because it was obvious that the coverage was not designed for us absolutely and we have seen all sportsmax have transformed the delivery of these international content over the last couple of cycles especially the Olympics with our involvement in these productions we have been able to customize the broadcast to the market and so Caribbean people you can see your people and you can celebrate with them you know in the moments that that we so would come to love you know one of the things I don't like is hearing stories about our Caribbean people from somebody that has never lived or understand it so for me it's a big big deal we will tell our story based on our experiences because sportsmax is the Caribbean channel yeah all right thanks I'm Nick Matthews CEO of sportsmax and Adrian Winter CEO of TTT and just formalizing the partnership announced between sportsmax and the free-to-air partners in TNT Trinidad and Tobago television TTT thanks Adrian we look forward to talking again in the near future take care thank you our thanks Lansa Maria right and we'll be back with more on the sportsmax zone after this


Good morning everyone Basil Chapman here on this Friday the 22nd of March we're looking at the Dow down row of the Sharpie actually taking out yesterday's gap up low is trading 179 to 39,601 cut to the Chapman wave inside track repellent zone I do believe this is a peak seeing this should be an attempt next week at least for another nominal high we'll see whether or not that becomes a turnaround moment next week but right now it's still acting pretty well considering S&P all-time high yesterday also in the Chapman wave inside track repellent zone just pulling back a little bit down 10 at 52.31 hasn't taken out yesterday's high looking at the QQQ the QQQs are right now at trading at down a dollar 10 at 444.75 didn't quite get to the inside track repellent zone so it's starting to weaken a little bit looking at the IWM the Russell 2000 down 2.33 wow it has sharp declines when it tries to rally and then fails at 205.61 still doing pretty well I'm in the weekly chart gold gold is down 10 at 2174 these big moves to the upside I'm not sure just why they were occurring because the dollar the dollar's been pretty strong it's given back a little bit from the high of the day but it's still it opened 104.00 it's at 104.31 right now up about 30 ticks very nice looking at the US bonds I didn't even get to that in my show the Tiger Technicians Hour just kind of stuck up 24.30 seconds at 119.24 30 seconds just in this lower range so yields are still on the high side and crude oil crude oil pullback just a little bit it's down 17 cents I'm watching this closely because a lot of the oil service companies actually doing quite nicely so with that said Steve Rose is coming up it will be a recorder show that he did at eight o'clock tonight o'clock this morning and great program here TFN and check out my opening call my daily newsletter and my webinar is up for subscribers you can check it out and I will be doing my overview for the weekend my overview video tonight or tomorrow morning so with that said oh did I just beat the gong I certainly did so let's just do the VIX index the VIX right now is trading up six cents but it's broken is it kept making higher lows and those higher lows are not working because it's taken them out so the VIX is down at 12.97 and there is the music so I have a wonderful weekend everyone and oh just a quick Microsoft I was asked about Microsoft is down to it's gone to a lake DM all-time high yesterday good action have a great weekend and I will see you Monday


Hey everybody, welcome back. Before we get started I do want to let you all know that tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern I'll be debating some people on the topics of cancel culture the George Floyd case and I'm sure some other topics are gonna pop up in there But that's gonna be happening over at Rob. New Wars channel. That's a normal America with Rob. Noor So head on over there. Check out his channel. He's got a great channel and watch us tonight It should be pretty interesting so I wanted to tell you guys about this fact check that I found about a CBS news story and it's really a story that's been played throughout the media and a narrative that we've seen a lot of I talk about it a Lot of my channel about how the media along with the Democrat Party, they will skew statistics They will cherry-pick data and cherry-pick stories all to essentially scare minority populations into the waiting arms of the Democrat Party and they want to frame, you know All the issues to where disagreeing with the Democrat Party is racist. They do this in part with this cherry-pick data and basically giving statistics without any context Which gives people this idea that something is way more widespread than it actually is and this is a great example of that So what we have here is CBS news lies with statistics to overplay surge in Asian hate crimes And this is an article by Ben Whitmore And the bullet points here are that there's an alleged 150% increase in anti-Asian incidents And it's not as devastating as what it what it seems the actual numbers that are used is 73. So there's been 73 Anti-Asian hate crimes the liberal media overplays the study to prove systemic racism exactly And that's that's why you see the only national news stories of a cop shooting a person is only when it's a white cop And they shoot a black person and then all those details all the facts surrounding that don't matter And all that matters is the skin color of the people involved in the media I want you to think that that that person was targeted because of their skin color You know they'll ignore all other details or downplay all other details that work against that narrative But continuing it says study the fact studying the fact sheet cited by the writer demonstrates The liberal media's bias and reporting opinions as fact Exactly, and so what they basically do is they'll show these statistics They won't break it down per capita or you know compare it to the overall population of the United States to show just how actually rare It is they'll just throw out these numbers And I've talked about other examples of this. I've seen CBS news tweet out a wall like a Vietnam War Memorial wall graphic of names of only African Americans black Americans who were shot by police and Nowhere in there is any detail of why they were shot what happened what they did to that led up to that happening Nope, just got to know that all these black people were shot and you could just assume that it was racism and systemic racism Against black Americans and that's exactly what's happening here except for its Asian Americans now continuing on here Circulating on liberal news sites has been a new study to be published later this month from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism that found quote a nearly hundred and fifty percent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020 while overall hate crimes fell by seven percent The numbers reflect a growing trend of discrimination against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and something else about this is when you actually look at Who's committing these hate crimes? It's mostly non-white people. It's it's mostly black men I believe the majority of these attacks But you'll what you'll find is that the media glosses over that and they just sort of blame Oh, well, it's not that these black people have any of their own responsibility They're all just acting because of white supremacy and so they end up just blaming white people For that in reality Smolensky omits crucial context and uses hyperbole to prove her own bias So the major violations of this study in this fact check are that there's missing context there is opinionist fact which this is all so common in our media now and Superficial investigation exactly and that's what I mean by sort of glossing over the facts and details They don't want to do any of that because doing that deludes their narrative There are two issues with this article the first problem being is that is the hundred and fifty percent increase clearly lacks context That would decrease concerns about anti-Asian racism in the US exactly They don't want to decrease I don't want to add context or or give sort of the bigger picture No, because that then people might just be getting along They might look for other solutions that weren't so extreme and divisive You know these far-left Marxist communist groups wouldn't be able to push their agenda that way Which apparently is what the powers that be want now putting aside the fact that there's some variation in hate crime definition This only meant that there was an increase of only 73 incidents reported since 2019 To extrapolate a broad trend of anti-Asian-American racism in the US on the basis of 73 or more incidents since 2019 Going from 49 to 122 incidents has a different meaning than going from 500 to 750 But this kind of hyperbole words like surge and spike is necessary to bolster the narrative precisely they with without the hyperbole without cherry picking without Ignoring inconvenient data without all those things as whole narrative crumbles and they're not able to one push this extreme agenda That they normally wouldn't be able to and to get Democrats into soul power for the next hundred years They couldn't do any of that without this narrative They can't demonize the political their political opposition and the people who are speaking out trying to let the Americans know that they're being Misled here they can't call these people racist and white supremacists and all these these word bombs that they use they can't do that without massaging all these facts without Lying by omission Smolenski does not give us context or further investigation to the study if she did We might find that the hundred and fifty percent increase is not as devastating as it seems to be Dennis Prager who wrote an article about this particular fact sheet gave us some perspective on this shockingly large percentage increase in anti-Asian racism and what Prager says here is dead on I agree 100% and it's what I talk about a lot in my videos when I talk about The fact that in 2020 there were around 250 black people shot by police Okay, that's out of 40 million. That's after millions and millions of interactions throughout that year So if this was an actual widespread targeted systemic problem those numbers would be much higher Which again is why the media has to make it seem like it's higher. This is why they only report on black on certain police shootings and not on others because again if they did that it would dilute the narrative And it would crumble Prager says given that there are 330 million Americans and assuming a different American was responsible for each of the total 122 anti-Asian incidents that would mean that one in every two million seven hundred and four nine hundred and eighteen Americans committed an anti-Asian Incident exactly it's exceptionally rare and the amount of people actually engaged in this is extremely tiny and fringe Which is interesting isn't it because what did we hear for years and years about Islamic terrorism? We heard that it's just a fringe minority. Of course, it was it came out to be several million worldwide who? Who supported terrorism and the name of spreading Islam? So that's a lot of people but we were told that it's just a fringe minority and that's where well in this case It is a fringe minority and it's a tiny percentage of people that it's actually occurring to so this fact-checker tried to contact So this fact-checker tried to contact this fake journalist Through her three different emails that were listed on the stories But she failed to respond to them which isn't surprising because when I was still on Twitter I would reach out to these reporters all the time and they very rarely would respond to me obviously because What are they gonna say they're busted anyway? That's all I have for today I got a busy day ahead of me I don't have a ton of time to edit a video today Which is why I'm doing this sort of off-the-cuff version of one of my videos but I do want you all to hit that like button share and subscribe if you enjoyed it and Make sure to check out the debate tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern over at normal America with Robert and wars channel


Hello and welcome to CUBE's SuperCloud 4. I'm Rob Streche, Managing Analyst with theCUBE Research. And today we are going to talk to Igor Yablokov, CEO of Pryon. Welcome Igor, glad to have you on here. Somebody who's an OG in this and we're going to be talking not only just gen AI but AI in general and kind of looking at where it came from and where it's going. Thanks for having me. So why don't we kick off, I think in the pre-session we were having some discussions and both of us I think come out of the same feeling which is this isn't totally new where we are and from a technology perspective. There are new applications of what's going on with AI and machine learning and different algorithms but really this has been around for quite some time and that's actually where your company has come from. A lot of that history as well. You're exactly right. This has been decades in the making in some ways. So the old guard typically was working on AI for improving accessibility, improving safety if you think about your texting while driving scenarios to bridge cultural divides with early machine translation and the like. So many of us have been working on the soup for a long while. Yeah, I think it makes sense and I think what's interesting is your company is really focused on how do you make knowledge management more accessible and how do you connect disparate drives and boxes and drop boxes and bring all of those documents together so hey, if I'm looking at HR or something like that I can go in and say, and I think I like the demo on your site there, you know, I feel sick what should I do kind of scenario? Yeah, and this has been a long time in coming. So I used to lead the multimodal research team at IBM where we discovered the baby version of Watson and when they didn't want to commercialize it many of us departed and stood up our last company which a year into it was started secretly working with Apple on Siri. This is well before they acquired the SRI team. And then a half a decade later it ended up becoming Amazon's first AI related acquisition that birthed what many people know as Alexa. So Alexa's my older sister's name which is a complete coincidence but the code name for that was Pryon and that's why we ended up reusing it for this company. No, that makes total sense. And I think being around this for quite some time and having my friends who are out there in fact some will be on later on in the actual super cloud event that we're having but one of the things is, you know so many organizations that I talked to today that aren't, I guess you could say haven't been around this are sitting there and trying to understand where do they get started? What is the first thing? How do they look at this? What's your advice to those companies and where should they really, you know how should they think about it? How should they get started? Yeah, and I guess the first step was when we got started many years ago there was just our dearth of enterprise AI there was just nothing in our respective workplaces and it didn't matter if you were attending a manufacturing plant a hospital, you were in a government agency there was just no enterprise AI to speak of over half a decade ago. So we decided to catch her on football and the paradox with these style of systems is when you walk into a Best Buy and you buy an Amazon Echo or HomePod and you bring it home and you plug it in it has a couple of different dozen domains essentially language models ready to go out right out of the box, right? So news, weather, sports, music and things of that sort the paradox to bringing this into your workplaces is that I would have to show up with a blind trust essentially an empty vessel that has no idea what content you're gonna put into it and yet you're going to be expecting top marks on accuracy, scale, security and speed especially if you're going to be introducing it into critical infrastructure. Yeah, no that takes, that totally makes sense and I think a big piece of it is looking at okay, where do I start, you know and I, some of the companies to your point it's what data are you really trying to enable and what are you trying to get at and what's the use case behind that or the business reason for doing it. One example that I like to use is hey I'm the CFO and I need people to come up to speed on how we actually organize our financial returns and how we actually build them out and what our jargon is around that and our financial jargon. So maybe I build an LLM or an SLM a segmented language model that is really specific to that set of content. Is that where you see companies that you're working with? I mean again, obviously from a knowledge management that's a very segmented, you know hey I'm going after HR or I'm going after the CFO's office or maybe even customer support or customer success. Well, unfortunately there's about 17 different risks associated with adoption of LLM style technologies in these enterprises. And so Brian was actually designed differently. So while you're hearing a lot from the picks and shovels crowd, so hey let's construct your own LLM or let's fine tune a model that's available to you from open source land we actually took a third approach which is to only leverage these style of technologies to model language but keep the enterprises content from not mingling with that core itself. And that way you don't have the issues which from model drifting to hallucinations that you've seen discussed all over the press. So does that also mean that do you get pressure from others that are say hey well I just heard about LLM2 being open sourced by Meta and hey what is the underlying models that you're using can I bring my own model and do you get pushed on that? LLMA is basically the equivalent of Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown, right? Because when you actually read the terms and conditions it doesn't allow you to use it in critical infrastructure which many industries that many of you work in could fall under that umbrella as well. So it almost is a marketing gimmick that hey look at this we open sourced it but then on the flip side you can't actually use it for anything real that supports our actual communities. So that's what that represents. Look there's not enough data scientists and software engineers and AI practitioners to go around. So while some of you know how to construct LLMs and some of you know how to fine tune models the vast majority of our communities don't know how to do that. And the same way that most of us don't know how to be chefs or cook food. So what do we do? We drive into McDonald's and we just need something you know that has rapid time to value. In that case it's chomping on a hamburger or in our case it's you know within minutes can you ingest an enterprise's existing content and immediately start retrieving you know positive intelligence that could help you run your environment.  You know just not only the scale but the quality aspects of data. Well I mean we're glens for punishment so we actually started with the hardest which is unstructured data right? So these are your documents these are audio, video, images, text right? Web pages, PDF files, PowerPoints, Word files and the like so it automatically has to cleanse. It connects to your existing systems or record you don't have to replace or displace any of your existing investments. It should automatically ingest it should automatically cleanse and it should automatically prepare it and curate it so that it's available to you as your own private incarnation. Look because we're OG practitioners we don't even need a single API call out to anything that the hyperscalers have. So this is a fully self-contained platform that's gonna allow these enterprises to choose how they want to consume such a platform whether it's public cloud multi-tenant which is how a number of our existing clients use it or before the end of this year private cloud and on-prem. Wow okay so on-prem which is I think again to me that to me makes a lot of sense where a lot of people are looking at it going I want to control my costs. You know hey I already went and invested in buying some NVIDIA gear or I have some really good top of the line CPUs. How do you help them? And as you move towards that private cloud as we say cloud is an operating model it's not a place. So as they bring cloud closer to them are you seeing that they have to they can run this on standard equipment or is it hey you have to go get an eight way NVIDIA 100 machine and you know be able to support this kind of throughput. Yeah your intuition is spot on because again of our previous experiences this inference is so compute efficient it can run on x86 if it had to. So that way it has high degree of resiliency to changing conditions because look the one universal constant is there's always gonna be scarcity you know in A accelerators in water and electricity and food there's always scarcity in the economic environments that we operate in. And so if we build to that scarcity that gives you a lot more flexibility to deliver services you know where they're most needed and it also the flip side of being able to operate in with such compute efficiency as it gets you to much larger scale. So when you look at some of the enterprise search cognitive search capabilities that some of the hyperskillers are throwing out we don't operate one order of magnitude larger than them we operate multiple orders of magnitude higher than them in terms of capability. Yeah no I think to me that is especially where you want inference potentially at the edge and as we go to like you said hey having inference in the car especially with critical infrastructure I think you know as people look at auto driving cars and things of that nature you know these cars are not running you know 10s and hundreds of Nvidia cards or GPUs or what have you in there they're running x86 for the vast majority of what they're doing with their sensors and what they're what they're doing but they've trimmed the model down to be able to be efficient for that set of tasks. And I think that sounds like a lot of what you're doing is you know again where you're bringing a purpose built model to go and do this and do it close to where the data is. You're exactly right and as they wrap their minds around the power of this new form of knowledge management the closer we drift towards their crown jewels and the closer you drift towards that the more scarcity there is the more security there is the more you know the more failure not being an option it becomes. Yeah and is today are you in their own VPC or is it truly just a multi-tenant deployment right at the moment or you know we're we're definitely headed towards bare metal for them. Our stuff's already deployed in nuclear reactor sites which is a surprise to most folks. That's you know we've been you know getting let's say privileged access to certain styles of content because of the way that this thing has been designed with a pretty watertight security model. Yeah so let's kind of unpack the security model a little bit and not with getting into the technical bits and bytes but what does it mean to be secure when you're talking about this kind because like you said if it's documentation and things like that of you know critical infrastructure you want to keep that you know private for that matter. So what does it mean to be secure? Yeah there's many definitions it means that they run the platform on resources that they control it means connecting to existing constructs like there's single sign on it means allocating the right users to the right knowledge collections. It means presenting the answer only with certain contexts like you're in a certain location and you're allowed to see certain things. It means whatever document level controls that you have are preserved by the system when it gets ingested into the system. You're also preventing spills right? So if one individual is not allowed to see export control one which is uranium enrichment you need to make sure that as you've now transposed that underlying content into this interactive format that they still can't see that knowledge as well. So those are some of the different dimensions when you use that as a use case. Yeah no I think that makes a lot of sense in the fact that you know security can mean a lot of different things and especially as you get into a lot of you know hopefully the US will get on boarding we'll have some privacy laws that help a little bit more like GDPR and other things around the world and was a pipa up in Canada and what have you but I think that becomes really important that information doesn't leak out as well and you know you're looking at it in aggregate not in individual and that stuff there's not ways to prompt engineer around particular safeguards. I would assume that that's a lot of what goes into your core IP is how do you really do this prompt engineering? How do you make sure that the security is what the security is at different levels and there has to be a huge amount of architecture that goes around that. Yeah but think about there is a lot of work associated with it but on the other side of this they get to Nirvana. So look the internet and the web as we know it died in 2022 right because we were used to doing Google searches and seeing you know the creativity of our fellow humans right?  And so what's going to end up happening in the Fortune 500 is there is going to be a retreat to safety where they're going to have to have the equivalent of their own version of a library of Congress of things that they trust as truth so that they can continue operating their respective businesses and they're going to be careful what partners they allow into that right and so that's what we're foreseeing and why knowledge management is going to be a critical asset to these individuals because they're not going to have anything else they can fall back to so that they can continue operating their businesses. I think that actually leads to a really good final question which is trust and understanding here's where that data came from we were kind of riffing beforehand is crypto people investing in this now now they're all on board with AI and dot AI everything and you start to look at where blockchain is even being positioned as kind of being the copyright. What do you see from helping organizations really understand that source of truth because I totally agree that as companies look at it they want to know where did the data come from is it reliable? How do you have that transparency? You're exactly right so think of this way every organization out there has these assets strewn about all over the organization they're stuck in applications in Salesforce and service now in SAP, DocuSign, so on and so forth they're stuck in repositories such as Confluence and SharePoint so they have all of these critical resources already there but there's a point of friction in terms of getting this to the right people to perform the right workflow so how do you reduce the distance between knowledge and people? It's transforming those assets into this interactive experience that becomes the refinery that eventually powers the cars that are their workflows if we continue following that metaphor so what does that mean? What does that get them? Well now instead of hunting for a few hours you can get a sub second response now know this there's never hallucinations from Pranin's platforms every solution that comes out every answer card you can click on it and I'll show you the exact page and highlights exactly where it learned it from so it's always anchored to an enterprise's fundamental assets so that way they say all right I trust this publicly available information because it came from a regular use website I trust this because it came from some published content that we've licensed into the org I trust it because it's proprietary or I trust it because it came out of my personal storage as well the big vision here is for the first time ever we're going to have this new knowledge fabric in the center of all Fortune 500 companies that's going to be agnostic of human languages that things are all authored or recorded in it's not going to matter where it's stored and it's not going to matter what the underlying object type is and then you get a choice of blending internal and external assets as well maybe from trusted partners trusted government agencies and the like everybody that's listening to this should be getting goosebumps because for millennia we've been hearing about the Tower of Babel and yet it's literally within our grasp now that you will be able to take knowledge from any culture and any language and use it to benefit your communities through whatever workflows you're attending to and we've never had that opportunity before and we're on the cusp of it I think that's a great place to call it a interview here I really appreciate it Igor for coming on board here and really sharing it one of the OGs of AI and ML and the modeling and all of this NLP and other stuff that's under the hood there and that we're going to be really digging down deep into so thank you for coming on board thanks for having me and thank you for watching SuperCloud 4 and stay tuned we have a jam-packed day of this and really appreciate you hanging in here to watch take care


As far as advice for somebody that's either thinking about going to law school or in law school My advice would be to try to get as much practical experience as you can working at a law firm We really find out what the day-to-day work is in the field that you're interested in One thing that I did is while I was still an engineer going to law school at night I worked during the day at a patent law firm And that's when I really fell in love with patent law and protecting ideas and inventions Because I think law school is nothing like the actual practice of law So I wouldn't base your career decision something that that's so important just based on law school itself You have to get practical experience do a clerkship an internship To see what it's actually like practicing in the field that you think you're interested in