My name is Nick Johnson. I'm the lead developer for the Ethereum name service, and I'm here today to give you, thank you very much, here today to give you an update on what we've done in the last year and what we're up to now. So first for the few of you in the hall who may not already be intimately familiar with the Ethereum name service, what is it? The ENS is a naming system that solves what we call Zuko's Triangle. It's a trilemma that says no naming service can be human meaningful, decentralized and secure all at once. And for a long time, people believed that was probably true. The advent of consensus systems with blockchains has made that untrue. And following a named coin's footsteps, we've been able to launch ENS, which satisfies all three of those properties. And so ENS is the Ethereum name service. It's a naming service built on Ethereum, but that doesn't mean it's just for Ethereum. It's not for naming just Ethereum resources. You can use it to name IPFS content, swarm content. You can use it to insert text records. You can use it to point to onion sites, as I'll show you later. So we really want it to be the new naming service for the internet that satisfies all three of those important properties. So today I'm going to talk about what we've done in the last year, how things have been going. I'm going to talk about our migration process to the permanent registrar. I'm going to talk about the short name auction process, which is underway currently. Then about DNS namespace integration, which is how we're making it possible for you to use your DNS names inside ENS. Our IPFS and onion integrations, and then a brief preview of the things we're working on now and what we're looking forward to launching in the next year. So first of all, the last year at a glance, this is the number of names registered on ENS, how it's evolved over the time since we've launched. The top line there in the blue is the total number of names in the system. The second line there in the red is the number of names with resolvers set. And the third line is the number of names that resolve to addresses. So as you can see, we've had steady growth in the nearly three years since we've launched. And let's drill down on that a little bit. October 2018, so this time last year, we had 224,000 names registered. And this year, that's up to 310,000. But I think the other two figures are the more interesting ones. First of all, we've got the number of names with resolvers. And so this is the first step in setting up your name. You first buy the name and then you set a resolver contract for it. And if you're buying the name just to speculate on it, to sell it to somebody later for more, there's no reason you'd set this up. So this is a reasonably good metric for actual adoption and use for ENS in the wild. And so it's gone up from 28,000 this time last year to 60,000 now. And it's not just an increase in absolute numbers. It's an increase in percentage from 12 and a half percent all the way up to about 20 percent. So we're really pleased with that and we want to keep monitoring this and we hope it will continue to grow. Likewise, names, sorry, addresses aren't the only thing you can translate ENS names to. But they're probably the most popular application at the moment. So we can monitor similarly the number of names of the addresses and that's up from eight and a half percent a year ago to 12 percent today. So we're really encouraged to see that this growth in ENS isn't just more people speculating on names, more people hoping to make a profit off reselling them, but it's more people actually using them for their intended purpose. So next up, I'm going to talk about a migration process. So in May, on May the 4th, we launched the new permanent registrar. That replaced the auction registrar, which required a lengthy auction process in order to register names with the new instant registration. So when we launched that, there's a one year migration period. During that period, anyone who owned a name on the old registrar can migrate it to the new one. And when they do that, they get their registration extended until May the 3rd, 2020, and they get a full refund of the deposit they put down to originally register the name. You also have the option to just release the name. You can do that and you get deposit back, but then the name becomes available for registration by others. So there's a one year migration period. The new registrar supports instant registration with just two transactions. And in order to keep your name, you have to pay $5 a year per name rent, and there's no limit on the renewal periods. So for instance, somebody has registered Walmart.Eath and ProtocolEath, and they have paid the registration all the way out to 2040, which means that that name is absolutely solidly locked into the system at least until then. So we've had 10,000 new registrations since launch, and the migration process is interesting to look at too. So on migration day, E&S had 309,000 names registered in it, and there was 176,000 ether locked in the deed contracts. So when you bid on the name on the interim registrar, you had to put a deposit down and you get that deposit back when you release the name or you migrate it to the new registrar. So how are we doing today? Today, we're down to 241,000 that haven't been migrated or released. We had 4,000 about 1% were released and 59,000 about 19% have been migrated. In terms of the ether, it's actually even less. There's 13% of the ether deposits have been returned and 86% are remaining. And you can sort of see the progress here with the exception of a blip around the middle of the year. It's been reasonably steady, but it's actually tapering off a little bit. So if you have E&S names that you registered before May 4th, 2019, there is free money sitting there waiting for you to claim it back. Release your name or migrate it, which is the better option to the new registrar.  And we can stop sitting on all of this ether that's doing nothing. So next up, the short name options. We have been moving on with making shorter names. Three to six characters available via OpenSea. And some of you, probably most of you will be aware that we had a slight hiccup a week or two ago where somebody managed to obtain a number of high value names without paying full price for them. So I'm going to go into a bit of detail on just how that happened. What you're seeing here on the screen is an example of an OpenSea order message. So OpenSea works by people placing bids by signing a message offline and sending it to the OpenSea API. And that message contains a number of important fields, such as which exchange contract to use, who the maker is, the person making the bid, who the taker is, that's our contract, how much they're willing to pay and so forth. It also contains the target address, the address that should be called if the bid's accepted, and the call data for it. And we believed that OpenSea's API was validating all of this data. We also had a series of additional checks of our own against many of these fields. Unfortunately, we were mistaken and they were mistaken and neither of us was verifying the target data, which is embarrassing. The result was that somebody was able to place bids that were ostensibly against one low value name that ended quite soon, but in actual fact, would finalize another name. So by bidding on fubar.eath, they were able to finalize defi.eath before that auction should have ended. So that resulted in them obtaining 17 names and for very small bids in each case. So what we did, we obviously stopped the contract. We made an offer to them. We said, if you want to return those names to us, we will re-option them the way they were supposed to be auctioned. And we'll provide you with a bug bounty of 25% of the final sale price. And I'm pleased to say that they accepted the offer. They returned the 17 names to us and those are now back on auction. So if you are here, thank you very much. If you want a security consulting job, please talk to us. There was a second smaller issue with the auctions that we've also resolved while we were paused. And that was that some bidders were given the wrong information in terms of what fields to fill out in the bids. So if you were using the user interface via web browser, this was absolutely fine. But if you were using the SDK integration, if you were sending bids yourself with an automated solution, you may have been submitting bids with the wrong target field. We identified the roughly 30 or so auctions that were affected by this, where the top bid was a bid that didn't have the right target field. And those auctions have been extended a little further to give those users an opportunity to place valid bids that replace them. And if you were affected by this, you will have received an email that gives a full description of how to do that. So the short name auctions in general, we auction off all three to six character length domains in partnership with OpenSea. We sort of looked at all the effort we put in for the original auction contracts. And we went, well, we're not an auction business. We're trying to do naming. We're trying to build a naming system. We don't want to put hundreds of hour hours into building a system that somebody else has already built and they already know how to operate it. So we partnered with them in order to do the name allocation. So most five to six character names, all of these names are on auction now. The five to six character ones are ending between the 15th and the 22nd of October. Four characters a week later, 22nd to 29th and three character names, the shortest ones, ending between the 29th and the 15th of November. If you're interested in getting a name that represents you, some of these are quite contentious, but many of them are going for the minimum of five bucks a year. The auction process exists in order to make sure names are fairly allocated. But that doesn't mean necessarily your first name or your last name is going to be popular amongst a lot of other people. So if you want to get it, go there, have a look and maybe snag yourself a name that represents you. So next up, I want to talk about the DNS namespace integration. So, ENS is more than just .ETH. .ETH is the namespace that is native to Ethereum that we sort of completely control. We can enforce strong contractual guarantees on it, but it's not all there is. We believe that ENS exists as part of the global namespace, the same namespace that's inhabited by .COM and .XYZ and .TV and so forth. And so we're doing our best to integrate with that. And there's two ways we're doing that. One is a permissionless integration via DNSSEC, and the second is bespoke integrations with top level domains that are working with us. So first of all, how does the DNSSEC integration work? It permits anyone who has a DNS domain, like mysite.com, to register the same domain on ENS. So that means that if you have mysite.com in DNS and that's your website, you can also have mysite.com in ENS and people can pay you by typing in mysite.com. They can load up your smart contract by typing in mysite.com into any wallet or any application that supports ENS. So to set this up, this is deployed right now on .XYZ and that's our sort of test domain. We're gonna roll it out to way more top level domains like most of the 2,300 top level domains early next year. But right now, if you have a .XYZ domain, you can go to app.ens.domains, which is our new URL for the manager. You can enter your domain name and it will provide you with a series of instructions for setting it up. The second sort of integration we're pursuing is the individual bespoke ones. So these are top level domain providers who've decided to work with us directly to make it easier for their users to integrate with ENS. And the first of these was .lux. They launched a bit over a year ago. They have first pass support for ENS, which means that if you register a name with them using one of their supported registrars, you can go into the control panel into your ENS Serial Ethereum address, hit go and it's just done. It's several steps shorter than the DNS second integration. It's as simple as it could possibly could be. So if you're interested, get one of those and you can instantly start using it anywhere that a ENS name is accepted. The second integration is slightly different. We're working with .cred, the TLD, to support DNS record integration. The idea is that we can host the DNS zone for .cred on the blockchain. And effectively, this turns every Ethereum node in the world into a secondary name server for .cred. It means that if you have a .cred domain, it can't be taken out by, or the DNS servers can't be taken out by denial of service. It can't be taken out by service failure because anyone in the world can replicate those records and serve them up and verify them for themselves. Finally, we're also working with .art. You might be familiar of the .art's digital twin. This is their project to have physical artworks that have a corresponding existence on the blockchain, the form of a non-vungible token. We recently enabled their namespace on DNS, so they'll now be able to offer domains via DNS. Next up, we've been working with the IPFS team. We've got a generous grant from them and we've been working with them and Jim McDonald to build integration, closer integration, between IPFS and ENS. The way this works is you can point any ENS site on .eath or anywhere else at an IPFS content. And if you use it right now in MetaMask, it will just resolve. But you don't have to be running MetaMask for this to work. We, the ENS team, operate a DNS and an ENS and IPFS gateway on eth.link. So if you add .link to any eth domain and that domain has IPFS content, it will load in any browser anywhere in the world, no special integration supported. So as an example, go to almonot.eth.link and it will load you a directory of decentralized websites that you can access anywhere. You can operate your own gateway. You don't have to trust us to correctly serve up the right DNS records and IPFS content. You can run this yourself. And finally, something that we got working just in the lead up to this, we have a DNS over HTTPS gateway. If your browser supports that, you can point it at our servers and your browser with no plugins, with no special support, will start resolving .eth domains in the browser as if they were top level domains in the global route. And we're also been doing some integration with the Tor network. So we had a hackathon project in eth new York, a project called S Torgate, and building on that, ENS can now point at onion hidden services, which means that you can take an ES domain and point it at any onion hidden service. For instance, example, Facebook Tor.eth was set up by us, the ENS team. And when you go there, it will load the Facebook hidden service. If you load it in a browser that has both Tor and ENS support, such as the Tor browser with MetaMask. And if you look at the records for Facebook Tor.eth on our manager or on etherscan, you'll see that they're actually owned by nobody. And what this means is that once it's been set up, it is permanently that way. You don't have to trust that whoever set it up is not going to redirect it to a phishing version of Facebook tomorrow, because that resolution is now locked in. It's set in stone. So last up, finally, what are we working on next? So the first and biggest thing that we're working on right now is multi-chain support in ENS. It's EAP 2304, if you want to read the standards document. But what it means is it's a way for encoding addresses for multiple chains, for Bitcoin-based chains, for Ethereum-based chains, for EOS-based chains, for whatever you want in an ENS record. And that means that ENS can become the naming service not just for Ethereum, not just for internet resources, but for every single blockchain out there.  And we really like to thank BinanceX for giving us a grant that helped us get this past the line. So we wrote the CIP about two weeks ago. We started sort of talking to wallets and so on, and I'm delighted to say that we already have so much support. Descent were the first to launch support, so thank you very much. And I want to specifically call out Bruntly, our outreach person, because some of these have arrived just now, like literally minutes before the talk. We now have Coinbase wallet, Trust wallet, I am token, Haven, MyCrypto, Portus and Opera have all committed to add support for this in their wallets. Just like I think it was amazing. And if you're building tooling and you want to do this yourself, the ENS libraries on JavaScript will support it, but Ethas.js is adding support almost immediately. So if you don't use it already, I suggest taking a look at it. If you do, then you will just be able to use this straight away. What else are we doing? So as I mentioned, we're rolling out DNS support to most TLDs. That's effectively every internet top level domain that has DNS sec enabled, which is about 80 to 90% of them. We're working on more manager improvements, of course. That's our ongoing work. We want to make it, for instance, easier to do multiple operations, updates to resolvers and a single transaction. We're working on improving the manager interface for short name registration. Again, fewer transactions. And of course, once the auctions are over, you'll be able to register three to six character names just as you can seven plus character names today. Adoption, adoption, adoption. It's unsexy in a way, but our main job now is making sure that DNS is as ubiquitous and universal as it possibly can be. And that means making sure that every wallet supports it. Every tool chain supports it. It should be the default. You should be able to write a DAP and not even know about DNS, but just have it work because your underlying tool chain already has support for resolving DNS addresses. So, want to hear more? We have a little more detail. If you'd like to see more about how we're reaching out past just a name resolution on Ethereum, then come see Bratley's talk tomorrow. It's 9.35 in the convention room and we're talking about how DNS is taking Ethereum to the rest of the internet. And that's all I have today for you. Thank you very much.


The Boeing jetliner that suffered an in-flight blowout over Oregon was not being used for flights to Hawaii after a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on three different flights. A federal official said Sunday, Alaska Airlines decided to restrict the aircraft from long flights over water so the plane could return very quickly to an airport if the warning light reappeared, said Jennifer Hommendi, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Hommendi. Cautioned that the pressurization light might be unrelated to Friday's incident in which a plug covering an unused exit door blew off the Boeing 737 MAX-9 as it cruised about 3 miles, 4.8 km, over Oregon, the warning light came on during three previous flights, on December 7, January 3 and January 4, the day before the door plug broke off. Hommendi said she didn't have all the details regarding the December 7 incident but specified the light came on during a flight on January 3 and on Jan. Or after the plane had landed.


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When Britain joined in 1973, we should have seen what was coming. When the documentation was brought in for signing, it took two strong men to carry it. Of a new and a greater united Europe. It soon became clear that the common market was so much more than a trade deal. Shiny new buildings kept appearing, the administration grew, and the price of membership kept going up as the EU assumed greater powers and demanded more money from member states. Inevitably, this burgeoning bureaucratic machine reflected the values of the university educated people who ran it and who benefited from its generous funding. Staying in the EU is the right kind of thing because it's what civilised, sophisticated people do. If you believe in the EU, you believe in the arts and arts funding. I think there is a mindset amongst the cultural and the political elite that their role on the planet is to direct the lives of the rest of us. They think that ordinary people need to be controlled and looked after. They think the world needs to be ordered from above and that they should be the ones doing the ordering. There's a tremendous snobbery built into the whole project. The idea that you are part of the elite which should decide how the little people live their lives. These people up here, the intellectuals, are looking down on the plebs and saying you aren't bright enough to decide the future of your country. As the EU's power steadily increased, so did the number of regulators and the volume of regulation. The bureaucratic class can find no area of human life that they don't want to write a rule book about. What vacuum cleaner you've got, where you get your hair cut, what kind of size your shoes are and those rule books stack up one on top of the other such that no reasonable human being could now possibly have an understanding of all the rules they need to obey. You've got thousands and thousands of bureaucrats, civil servants and administrators and their job is to push paper, write on paper, have rules on paper, pile up more and more paper.  That is actually what the bureaucracy sees itself as there to do. If the list of EU rules could be put into one document today, it would take more than two men to carry it on. Such a document would reach as high as Nelson's column. Regulation is so vast and complex, even the EU is unable to tell us how many laws there are covering different areas of our lives. So we've used some helpful EU databases to make the best estimate we can. Here is regulated EU man waking from his regulated slumber to start his regulated day. You wouldn't think you'd need a law for pillowcases, but the EU has five. But that's nothing. The pillow inside is subject to 109 different EU laws. As far as we can tell, there are only 11 EU laws pertaining to radio alarm clocks. There's around 400 governing the other stuff on Joe's citizens' bedside table. You can't be too careful with duvets and sheets, so there's around 50 laws governing those. There are 65 laws governing bathrooms, but that doesn't include the contents. How they manage to think up 31 laws for toothbrushes is beyond me. But let's face it, toothpaste is a bit weird, so 47 laws sounds about right. Mirrors have been known to crack and get dirty, so they're covered by 172 laws. As for the shower, well, we've all seen psycho. Murdering girls like that is now strictly prohibited. Shampoo can get in your eyes and cause discomfort, 118 laws. EU bureaucrats seem terrified by towels for some reason, slightly more relaxed about radiators.  Just 84 laws cover fridges, but an impressive 12,000 laws cover milk.  Bowl, 99 laws. Spoon, more than 200 laws, same for the orange juice. But the coffee, whoa, stand back, grandma, this toxic jungle juice can keep you up all night. The best dog in Britain is unaware of the odourless fog of canine legislation, but careful ruby ignorance is no excuse. Our regulated man leaves his regulated house. There are only 92 laws about pavements, after all, they're just pavements, but you get the idea. EU regulations surround us like invisible barbed wire.  But it's much worse than infuriating if you're thinking of starting a new business. It's like entering a legal minefield. The small and medium-sized businesses and start-ups, it's perilous. Complying with regulation imposes huge costs, and falling foul of regulation can put you out of business. Big established firms don't mind regulation so much. For a start, it means less competition. Big corporate interests tend to love the EU. It suits their purposes perfectly. All the corporations love the European Union because what it does, it creates the regulations which destroy their small arrivals. Big business loves regulation. Don't forget that. Big companies can lobby in Brussels, and no matter how money they spend, they're staggeringly large. One of the first things that stuns you are the number of invitations on your desk to lunch, breakfast, dinner, champagne receptions. And invariably, they come from lobby groups. There are people who make their entire livelihoods, make shouts of being professional lobbyists in Brussels. So a lot of the lobbying goes on. So you will see the lobbyists from different companies, from NGOs. The returns they get by stifling competition and framing regulations in a way which suits them and keeps other people out is very, very striking. It used to be called a rich man's club, and that is by and large what it is.


Thank you Ashkan.  That's because after you eat your blood tends to be redirected towards the digestive system rather than your cardiovascular system and you may have a heart attack. Well the same thing goes because the blood goes to the digestive system. It doesn't go into the brain.  This is how all academics start their slideshow. Made up title. Made up institution. There's no such place really. And misspelled flotation because it's not spelled F-L-O-A-T. It's F-L-O-T-A-T-I-O-N. Okay I'm leaving. I don't have to put up with booing. Okay anyway. So I'm going to be talking about what we know about the effects of rest flotation and otherwise on creativity. So what do we know about the effects of rest in general? As you know I don't read my slides you can read faster than I can talk anyway. But those are effects that have been replicated by more than one study with reasonable size samples, with reasonable controls, and with reasonable measures. So they're not just anecdotal. They're not just the impressions that people get from speaking with people who have floated and so on. These are hard data. Okay. What you'll notice there is that doesn't say anything about creativity. Now if we go to what I called anecdotal results, that is what do people tell us when they come out of the tank. Then you get lots of stuff about creative or pseudo creative experiences. Like vivid dreams and imagery. Well they're not really creative in the sense that people consciously or deliberately create them but they are different. And so you know that's what I mean by pseudo creative. There's deep introspection. Contrary to what you have heard earlier about the effects of rest on memory and on the quality of what you remember, we have found that people remember pleasant occasions, pleasant experiences more often than unpleasant ones. So that's kind of nice. And then there's some changes in values. Like universalism, which is one of 11 values measured by Shalom Schwartz's universal value scale. And it tends to go up at least temporarily after floating. And some people actually achieve a meditative or self hypnotic state. We once floated a Zen master who wanted to see what it was like. And he came out after about 45 minutes when it ended. And he said that all his adult life he had meditated four or five hours a day. And during the course of a year of doing that he reached a state of meditation that was about as deep as he had achieved in 45 minutes in the tank. I always wanted to follow that up and get some measures and get some more practitioners of meditative techniques, but we never got around to it. So if anybody would like to try that, I'd be really interested in the results. Now there have been studies purporting to measure the effects of rest on creativity. But there is a definitional problem. If you try to measure creativity in a way that is quantitative, measurable and so on, you can do statistical analysis on it, et cetera, you have a problem in identifying assessment techniques. And so what people usually do if they try to measure the effects of rest on creativity is to use a variety of psychological tests, psychometric instruments that are designed to do that. The Guilford test, for example, is a test for unusual uses. So you'd give the person who's being tested a stimulus, for example, a hammer. Think up as many unusual uses for a hammer as you can in a given period of time. And then the more unusual uses you come up with, the more creative your score is. There are other things like making up a new way of solving a problem, or telling a story based on a stimulus that the experimenter gives you, either orally, verbally, or a picture, and then somebody rates how original that is and so on. But I have a problem with that because I think that originality and creativity are not the same thing. Original just means it's, as in the unusual test, unusual uses test, that it's unusual, okay? If you tell somebody make up uses for a hammer, they can say, you know, you hit a nail, you break open a jar that you can't open any other way, and so on. Those are not original, but you can say you can use it as a pendulum on a clock. That's unusual. It's not very creative because it's not very useful. And creativity, I think, has to involve something that is both original, that is not your standard response, but that also has some kind of value to it. That is, a new way of actually solving a problem that's important or at least meaningful. As I said on the slide there, that represents new and improved ways of looking at a topic, and it can be improved in many different ways. It can be prettier, more beautiful. It can be more fitting. It can be morally superior to the normal solutions. It can be more useful in the real world, and so on. And so for something to be actually creative, you need more than for it just to be unusual. So, you know, a beautiful painting, a musical composition, a new scientific theory, a new political system, and so on would qualify in my definition as creative if they are also original. If they are only original, then that doesn't meet the standards. So what do we know about rest? Well, there have been, I think, a couple of studies of so-called creativity, actually originality, in flotation. And one is quite old. Fourgaze and Fourgaze was over 50 years ago, and there's also a newer one that's about 10 years old, and they both found some improvement in performance on these tests of originality. That looked like a beneficial effect of floating. I did a couple myself of these experiments. I'm not citing myself, but we found pretty much the same thing. We use a storytelling task. Storytelling, I'll give you an example. There is a person standing in a phone booth. Do you remember phone booths? Probably not. I do. Anyway, there's a person standing in a phone booth with the phone in his hand, and there's somebody standing outside hammering on the door. Make up a story. Now, people can make up lots of stories. Some of them are pretty obvious. Some of them are not so obvious. But the question is, how do you score that? And what we did was develop the scoring system. For example, to what extent did the story include why the people who were doing this, what they were trying to accomplish, and how would it turn out? And we had rating scales, and we had people who used the rating scales to judge the stories. And in fact, it turned out that people in rest did more creative stories than a control group. But then when I thought back on it, is this creative? Well, it's kind of between depending on how good the story is, how interesting it is. It might be creative, but if it's just a story that's off the norm, that may or may not meet my more stringent criteria for creativity. So, basically, as you've heard me talk before, what I have to say is, what are the effects of flotation on creativity? We don't really know. So, we've got clues. We've got some kind of related data, but we don't really have the data to answer that question. After that, I did a couple of studies, one of which was kind of surprised my department at the University of British Columbia. I asked some of my colleagues in the psychology department to float and talk into a microphone about ideas about their research when they came out, or sit in their office for an hour and record ideas about their research. And then we came back six months later, by which time they'd forgotten what was what, and we had their ideas all mixed up, so they couldn't tell which was in the tank and which was in the office, and we had them rate how creative those ideas were. And now, we used the definition of creativity that was both original and important, or in some way really contributed either to your research program or to your theoretical ideas. And it turned out that they rated the ideas that they'd come up with after floating as more creative than the ideas that they'd come up after being in the office. So, that was a clue. What was the problem with it? Well, one of the problems with it is that it was self-rating. And you can always think, well, maybe they did remember which one was which, where they generated the idea and so on. So, we should have given it to outside observers and asked them to rate it, but we didn't do that. The second study, which came out about five years ago, was on music students who were given a task of performing an improvised piece for their professor, their jazz professor, so somebody who's an expert in the field. And we asked the professor to rate various aspects of the performance. And this was either after floating or not. And what we found was that that rating music is more complicated than perhaps we had realized because the professors rated some things as more creative, some aspects of the music as more creative, but other aspects as not. So, we had mixed results. That's why I said before, we still don't know the answer to the original question. Now, there's another question that intrigues me. And that is, to what extent, if there is an effect, a result that supports the hypothesis that floating improves creative performance of some sort, to what extent is that really due to floating? To what extent is it due to stimulus reduction? Floating is a multidimensional experience. Stimulus reduction is part of that. It's one of the dimensions of the multidimensional experience. Obviously, it's not the only dimension. So, can we say the reduction of feeling of gravity increases your ability to create new ideas? Is it lying supine in an epsom salt solution? Is it the silence? What is it? And so, I looked at, as I like to do, at historical analogs. Other environments in which stimulus reduction occurred, but not in the context of a flotation tank. And there is a list of some of the environments that I looked at and found all kinds of creative events, I guess, in many of those. For example, if you look at the originators of the major world religions, every one of them, of the major world religions, obviously a lot of minor ones, in terms of the number of people who adhere to them, and in terms of their influence on the world, every one of them generated his basic ideas in solitude, in an environment in which they were not only alone, but they were in a situation of reduced stimulation in a desert, on a mountain, in a forest, under a tree, in a cave, and so on. So those ideas were creative. They were both original and they were very influential. They changed the lives of millions of people in some cases, almost all of those cases. So in that conclusion would be that it's a stimulus reduction that can have a creative effect. And if you look at some of these other examples, there are many similar findings. And the third person phenomenon, I don't know if you're familiar with it, it's a finding of people who are in, again, reduced environmental stimulation situations, but usually in trouble of some sort, mountain climbers, shipwrecked sailors, people like that. And they imagine a third person being there who helps them survive. Now you could say it's a hallucination, but it helps them survive. It tells them, for example, if they're lost, it tells them in which direction to go. The most famous example is that of Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world single handed. He was in his little boat off the Azores. He got sick, probably from food poisoning. And there was a big storm coming. And if he couldn't steer the boat into the wind, it would capsize. And he would drown. And he woke up and there was a man steering the boat. And he was steering it properly into the wind. And Slocum was very scared. And the man said, don't be scared. I'll steer your boat so you'll be safe. And I'm the pilot of one of Columbus's ships. Okay. Now, I mean, we can take that at face value. Maybe it was, right? But maybe it wasn't. And so what was it, if it wasn't true, if it wasn't the real thing? Nobody knows, of course. And many, many examples of that. There is a book called the Third Man Phenomenon that you might want to look at if this interests you. Okay. Now, the autobiographies and biographies of people who are accepted by the world as being highly creative. I have a long, long list here. I'll give you some examples. These are from some of my historical work and some from a book by a British psychiatrist named Anthony Stores. So here are some examples. Mozart, Picasso, Kafka, Sandberg, Einstein, Tesla, Descartes, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and there are many others. And there's also Raymond Cattel. I didn't want to leave out the psychologists. But all of these in their autobiographies testified that they did their best creative work. And in some cases, they could only do creative work if they were alone in a quiet environment, low stimulation, some of them in darkness or semi darkness, and so on. So to what extent does flotation or rest in general facilitate creative activity, creative accomplishments, and so on? What can I tell you? I said, I told you before, we don't know. But it looks like stimulus reduction can in fact contribute to that kind of behavior. And presumably then flotation can as well. And because flotation gives you more profound stimulus reduction than most other environments, maybe it can help more than other environments. There's a book here, I don't know if you've and if you've seen it's called Artwork from the Void, okay, from float on, of which you've probably heard, edited by Ashkan of whom you've also probably heard, which has a whole lot of examples of artwork, and some essays and poetry, and so on, that people produced when they came out of the tank. And it's some of it is fairly standard, not terribly unusual, but some of it is really creative, I think, in artistic terms. So again, it's anecdotal. And as we know, anecdotes are not data. But they can point the way to things about which data could be collected. So go out there and collect it. Thank you.


Hello everyone, welcome back to another CapCut tutorial. This one's going to show you how to add your own music to your videos or to your projects. All right, click on the plus sign here for a new project. Good stuff. Now we're going to pick one of these videos. I got a puppy dog here, so let's go with this one. Excellent. I clicked on, now I'm going to hit the add button. All right, you're following along with me. Let's keep going. You'll notice here at the bottom left, the second one in, the second icon in is audio. Click on that and you get a few different options, effects, sounds, extracted, etc. What we're looking for is the sounds button, but what not everybody realizes is we can actually bring in our own music. The way to do that is to click on this second icon that looks like a folder. Click on that and now you get two options, extracted and from device. Click on from device, even though it's not lit up, it's not bolded or highlighted, don't worry about it. Click on that and then it's going to open up your music library. Now I don't have any, I have mostly lectures on my phone here, but I got a bike horn just to show you an example. So I'm going to hit this top one, hit the plus button to that and now this is a song or in this case a sound effect that's on my phone. Let's hit the play button.  That's a sound. Now that's off my phone. That's not from TikTok. That's not from CapCut. That's not saved anywhere except on my phone. That's how you do it guys. Thanks for watching. There's other stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another destiny video and today I want to talk a little more about the rise of iron now I was sitting there last night catching up on that game of thrones hold the door hold the door which was a great episode by the way but in my opinion flash is still a better series but yeah I was sitting there watching game of thrones when something crazy came to my mind what if the rise of iron is speculated new DLC what if this ain't what we all think what if it isn't the next major DLC now I know what you're thinking but what about all these reliable sources like Kotaku who state that this is the next DLC and it will be a fallen themed expansion which features a raid and will be bigger than the previous two major DLCs we've had well Kotaku is somewhat reliable but they are for damn sure not always right so if this ain't the next major DLC what the fuck is it you may be thinking well like I said while watching game of thrones this idea came to mind what if this is nothing more than the next weekly event they add to destiny to fill the much needed gap for content between now and when the next major actual DLC comes out this September I mean from what we know of the poster that's Lord Saladin the main man looking over the PVP event that I am banner what if what we are seeing here is just another PVP themed event where Saladin is the main quest giver and there is one map the twilight gap there are special balances for us to complete as well as a quest line the axe we see Lord Saladin holding in the poster is the ultimate reward for completing this so-called quest now please don't get it twisted there's nothing factual beyond what I am saying at all but it is a few like many others that have popped up which can in a way tie to what we are seeing in this poster the idea of a week-long event though in my opinion would make more sense if we are going by this poster alone if it did indeed or is supposed to represent the next DLC in my opinion ain't much to sell it I suppose we'll just have to wait until E3 to find out this guys is just another theory don't take it too seriously but guys let me know down below in that comments section I can't be the only one that thinks that this could just be another event that lasts a week a PVP event a lot like that doubles crap we had for Valentine's Day and Sparrow Racing League which actually really enjoyed and I'd love to see come back what if this is just another event like I said to fill the gap between now and the actual next major DLC expansion which I believe is supposed to come out sometime in September but who knows but like I said guys we're just gonna have to wait until E3 to find out more but guys hoping you enjoyed the video let me know your opinion on this down below in that comment section thanks for stopping by as always and I'll catch you guys on that next one peace out till next time P.O.C.E


The Bible describes your natural condition, your default position as being among the household of the damned. Paul says that we are sons of disobedience.  That's all over the Bible, and that's God's word, God's testimony to us. We are sons, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, apart from God's one provision for sin. We are sons of disobedience, driven out of the garden, cut off from return, as it were, by a flaming sword of God's judgment. We walk according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air. That's all Scripture pertaining to our condition, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ.


Hey everybody, welcome to JSA fast forward. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast live from the JSA TV newsroom Right here. I'm LinkedIn and you too Yeah, I am Dean Perine executive vice president at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely miss Jamie Scott Okataya founder and CEO of JSA, but she's not only that my friends No, Jamie is much more than that yesterday. Just yesterday Mobile magazine named Jamie one of their top ten influencers Forget this diversity equity and inclusion in the mobile industry captain Kudos to you. Bravo. Bravo. Thank you so much. Do you know I am I am so honored It is an incredible group of ladies women friends Streams Katie O'Hara on the list collogics. You see oh Laura Artman googles a dear Fox Martin like this is an incredible list I'm I'm so humbled to to be even mentioned in the same sentence and Again incredible women who are championing De and I and using their influence to really raise awareness across the world and particularly in our mobile industry It's it's it's incredible. I appreciate this so much It is it is an incredible honor, but I got to be honest with you Jay I'm having known you for the better part of the last two decades or more. This is not a surprise to me So congratulations to you again Definitely well-deserved Thank you and congrats to you my friend. You are fresh back from Metro connect down in Fort Lauderdale and How are you? I mean the show is so huge. Do you even have a voice left? I'm working on getting rid of it, but I'm good for at least the next 15 minutes I gotta be honest though Jay I when I left Fort Lauderdale, it was 85 degrees and when I landed in Chicago It was 25 degrees And so my body was just like what are you doing? Go back go back over there So but no it was a it was a really really great event a record-breaking attendance event from what I understand Obviously I was on site doing jctv live videos. I also got a chance to moderate a really really cool 5g panel specific to 5g implementation even more specifically 5g implementation as it relates to getting broadband access To those who may not have it at all or may have kind of crappy broadband access So it was a really really cool panel. So again to capacity media Thank you very much for having us and for all of those folks who I got to interview while on site in Fort Lauderdale Thank you all very much great conversation We're actually gonna get a chance to hear about some of the news that we that we scooped so to speak while on site on This very fast for a video. So here we go And wow, it's been an insane way to kick off January big four weeks for JSA and our industry with both PTC Metro Connect back-to-back huge turnouts a record pre even pre-pandemic numbers We broke all sorts of records for PTC and Metro Connect huge events JSA TV again on site Thank you. And and by the way guys, that's that's we got scooping headlines. We got over 50 companies reporting their headlines on JSA TV in the last four weeks. So kudos to our whole video team here Supporting this. This is incredible. Very very exciting. It's so so appreciated such a huge team effort That's exactly how it felt to me Jay I was telling telling you about this just last night But at any rate with all of them with all of the the the scoops that we had There's a lot to talk about today. So let's go ahead and dig into this month's fast-forward review Yes, yes, yes today. We're bringing you the headlines from the world of tech telecom and Data centers and new for us. We're doing it jeopardy style Yep, we're going to take turns giving each other trivia questions where the answers will be hints for this month's big New stories and announcements and we are going head to head. Jamie. Are you ready? Oh? Dino, I was born ready And you know what you are going down my friend, you know, I know that that's a line either one of us We're born ready for this, but here we go anyway My trivia specialties are in 90s rock as you know and British automobiles So let's see if any of that nonsense comes in handy here So sure, but I think I appreciate your optimism so so I'm feeling the confidence of someone who doesn't really have What to expect going forward so Jamie, why don't you go ahead and burn us off? We only have like we have separate scripts here guys, so we have questions no answers So my my question to you do do do I don't know you know the Japanese theme song I should the cartoon character is a child, but it is known for being very wealthy the cartoon character Scrooge McDuck. Oh, you mean who is Sorry Dean the wrong answer Correct the answer is Richie Rich. Oh Scrooge McDuck, I would have said that one too. All right, so we're talking rich because rich communications services net number announcing a new riding service based around which communication services RCS, so they're calling it our CS routing service letting operators and providers Identify phone numbers that are enabled with rich communication services to enhance their delivery See how we're doing this now. This is gonna Not a not a strong start for Dino, but I will come on strong that much I can almost not guarantee you Here's one for you Jamie name one of the two NASA space shuttles that was destroyed in a disaster. Oh Oh Well, I gosh, I remember when I was a kid They wheeled the TV out in a cart in the hallway and you all sat In Indian Cross style and watched the Challenger that was so sad as the first teacher in space So Challenger, I don't know. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Challenger. Well done Challenger in 1986 and the other was Columbia in 2003 and the reason I'm going to jump right off of this topic because who wants to talk about that? But the reason that we're talking about disasters is because our friends at in Volta and I just spoke to them Just the other day and Volta have launched an all new disaster recovery package. It's going to be interesting to you, Jay It's called disaster recovery as a service Plus and it's a multi-tiered service model with flexible consumption options They're hoping that it'll provide an even better service for clients with even better protection against stuff like cyber attacks and natural disasters Here's what was really interesting to me about this, Jay Is that a lot of folks will wait until that disaster has happened to be like, oh crap I should have done something well this tiered disaster recovery as a service is a way for them to do something Right away and kind of dip their feet into disaster recovery before that disaster happens. So very very cool stuff I love that. I love that. I love a disaster recovery as a service plus well done. Well done and well done. All right Next ready for another jeopardy question my friend. Here we go. Whatever you're not Which physicist is credited for developing the nuclear bomb? Okay, as soon as you said physicist I was like, uh-oh, but I actually know this one Because there is a movie coming out about this person. I believe it is Pop and Weiner Open Schengen Kuznab! Yes, you get it Before you say something not made for live for now Uh, oh, yes. Yes, openheimer. Yes, that's right We're talking nuclear guys because I love this headline Humilious data is going nuclear the company's flagship data center campus in northeast Pennsylvania will be first of its kind in the u.s. To be totally powered by nuclear energy Yes guys over a thousand acres of data data center campus with zero carbon emissions Impressive Yeah, that is so so so very cool. But um based on my calculations I'm on the board now with one answer. So we are all tied up which is awesome Here's the next one for you. Jamie Jamie besides oxygen. What is the other element you can find in air? Oh gosh, we're we're going all science here. This is not my oh wait. I'm gonna say nitrogen Thank you. Got it two for two. That's exactly right. Um, and speaking of air There is some big big new nice job here, bret There are some big news in the area of data center air filtration. This is one of my favorite news bits It's a big topic for data for data leaders and now there's a new kid on the block K&N, you might remember k&n from k&n racing. They're all over the racing circuit formula one and things like that K&N is a company famous for automotive world in the automotive world for their air filters and last month they introduced a new type of washable reusable air filtration solutions for data centers, so this is this guy goes hand in glove With the energy stuff and all the clean the sustainability. This is a I believe it's a 15 year life cycle air filtration, it's washable and high performance, so you're not losing any of the performance It's all washable 15 year life cycle think of all of the air filters that are no longer in landfills Because of this new air filter solution from k&n really cool stuff. I just love that. I love it. All right, dean Here's another one in the original star trek Who is captain kerks chief engineer? I actually do know this one too because captain she can't take much more It is it's be me it be me up scotty. It's scotty. Yeah He was an average guy. Oh, he's yeah, dean two for you. That's that's and guess what guys There's another scott in the news this month too. We're talking the new chief revenue officer over at extinet His name scott pummy kalsky in his new role as of last week He's moving over from nokia where he served as executive vice president to Again the new chief revenue officer over at extinet. So congrats scott Yes, nicely done scott be me up scottie Okay, so here's another tv show question in the show Frazier Which you know brett is doing a really nice job of like making this kind of like age appropriate for us, isn't he In the show frazier. What is frazier's last name? Frazier. Well, okay. Okay. Frazier's his first name. So I got that right last name. Oh my gosh How do I not know this? I used to love this program My nbc like thursday night must watch tv. Why am I not? Why am I blanking? All right? I guess I just watched the news these days. Okay, the correct answer is frazier crane I'll see you don't have to feel too bad about not watching too much tv j So we're all good there But we're talking cranes because crane data centers announced the development of a brand new data center Just outside of portland, oregon The initiative is part of a new partnership with principal asset management, which will result in 300 000 square foot 100 megawatt facility that is correct The crane data centers, they have a partnership with principal asset management that will result in a 300 000 square foot 100 megawatt facility in portland very cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Dina. Here we go again Whether dental or zen This daily practice can help you focus and calm the mind Uh, what is What um, what is buddhism? Yeah What is buddhism and only because I wasn't quite sure if it was What is buddhism? And and guys nice work, you know, but we are talking zen because our friends at zen layer one big at ptc Founder and ceo joe jew receiving the award for outstanding sea level huge award and so well deserving joe Congratulations. Congratulations to joe. Okay my turn. Uh, this nintendo game console was launched in 2006 Oh Was I playing games then I really remember what xbox and playstation? Uh Correct your nintendo. We the answer is Oh, that was not correct Yeah, that answer is not correct. It's nintendo We but speaking of consoles there was news last month about a new partnership with console connect not The console connect nicely done It's another announcement coming out of oma hall with 1623 farm. I just met with them as well Who is always busy and uh, that is absolutely true this time They announced a partnership with console connect a network as a service platform 1623 clients can now connect to cloud sass and data center partners through console connect even more globally even more global connectivity At 1623 barnum is always a good thing and is there ever a fast forward where we're not talking about 1623? No, and and console connect will be Um, also on the minds of many here jsa tv I um, I love when two great companies great people Working together more global connectivity. Yay. All right dean Here's your next question. You're still back on that hot seat of ours as one of the most famous sports venues in the united states This was home to the los angeles lakers and kings through the 1980s and 90s your guests my friends So you guys know i'm not really much of a sports guy. Um I don't I don't even know I don't get tash mahal. I don't know I honestly I would not have known and I've lived in LA um, the correct answer is the forum the connection there by the way is Open xr forum Open xr forum is a working group that aims to advance the development of xr optics And the products and services powered by xr optics So last last month they announced the addition of three new organizations Joining this uh consortium three companies being a light liver Inno-light technology and dz s an important technology initiative guys great to see more industry leaders jumping in to help lead the charge So very cool. Yeah, very cool. All right, jaymy. Here's here. This is gonna be right up your alley I can just feel it. Uh, this next one is a music question. So here we go She is the most successful successful country music artist of all time. She's famous for songs like this kiss this kiss and Anyway, good guess, but it's actually faith hill Oh Okay, now we cannot rewind but um the operative word here is hill That's faith hill and now we're moving on to news about hills Borough or again, this is amazing Which is just outside of portland an agreement between bandwidth i g and flex sensual will be a big win for connectivity Just outside of portland in hills borough faith hills borough bandwidth i g will expand to start fiber network into flex sensual hills borough to data center with two new entrances being installed In the facility so live very cool partnership between two very cool companies bandwidth i g and flex sensual Oh, I love that. I love that and I kind of want them to rechange the name to faith hills borough. Is that a thing? Well, we'll we'll see if you can get a petition going or something All right, jino after five questions And a little bit of my smack talk your head three two So wait, we guys we're in the halfway point buckle up. We're gonna go for a ride. Let's do this Here's your next question Which engine part turns engine force into rotating power? I honestly, I know this one. Um, because I do I do I do love cars. It's a it's one of those things For me. It is the crank shaft. Oh come on now. Oh, seriously It's also which is also a comic strip that my grandfather used to want I swear. All right. All right. Fine. Well, guess what you got it. Well, no, I thought I had you there. All right And here guys, here's the news wrapped around crank shaft Speaking of power our next news item is about Powerhouse data centers and the infrastructure mason's that I mason's climb an accord getting a new member this month It's powerhouse data centers joining the fold to promote sustainability in the data center industry. We love that Yeah, I love iMason's and all the work that they're doing over there, but uh, okay. Jamie Is it woven in I'm not sure but anyway, go ahead That's next one. This is a person that you have to guess Um, so this person I was an italian explorer who is known as the man who discovered america Who am I? Well, I'm going to go with good old christopher fumas That's correct. Good old christopher columbus and speaking of columbus. Let's talk about columbus ohio the midwest You know how much I love my midwestern people Um, that's where summit infrastructure group is launching a new dark fiber network These 200 miles of new infrastructure are completely underground and are scheduled for completion by the end of this quarter So congratulations to the summit infrastructure group on their new fiber expansion And here's a tappetine in spanish. This body part is known as global acura So my spanish is not good was never good. Um, I'm gonna say the funny bone I want nice try actually but eyeball And so here we go. We're going ocular connect base announcing another strategic industry partnership This time with lb networks the company behind ocular ip ocular ip guys a tool for boosting network performance reporting and combined with connect basis ecosystem platform We're going to enable performance assurance for any connectivity buyer here. So cool headline Yeah, very cool connect base lots of stuff going on over there with them. Okay, so that was a tough one funny bone I thought for sure was going to be spot on Not really I mean So that was a tough one, but I think that this one is actually going to top it I had I have no idea what this is the deepest location on earth on earth Marianne's trench is located in which ocean? Oh my god. Okay. So seriously, I know this because of my Uh, my friend eric contact. I want to say the pacific The pacific is indeed correct. Thank you. Jamie and thank you eric. You're Just kind of phone a friend of sorts Uh We're we're talking real sub-c stuff here and there was some interesting sub-c stuff on tnn last month That's telecom news now. That is jsa's blog for for the record. Um, there were a couple of great articles last month by Rajiv Jayawarda, Jayawardina. Hopefully I got that right. He's the executive Vice president at fiber sense. Uh, he focuses on the future of fiber sensing technology in sub-c cables Including in cases of very cool stuff seismic activity and tsunamis. It's really really fascinating stuff. So definitely go and Check out that that tnn blog from last month. Oh, absolutely a series of blocks incredible. All right, dino A person you have to guess here. It's he's been called the greatest track and field athlete of all time winner of Record nine olympic gold medals I'm gonna go with the bolt man who sane bolt A little older. It's carl lewis And Good guess though from Carl to another in volta recently promoting carl gordellic to their cfo position. He's been with the company for 15 years I love when they grow and and uh internally, uh, and and uh, and this is a great example 15 years different finance not positions But now leading the company Uh across through several important transitions as well So way to go carl earning that cfo coveted position on top. Well done. Yeah, excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Okay. Uh I show that we are tied up for correct answers in peace So here is your next question Jamie which united state city has a time you're gonna get this one I know you are which united state city has a type of cream pie named after it What a cream pie cream pie Wait, uh, oh, oh, oh boston boston cream pie. Also, I think cream pie. It is correct answer captain. Nicely done I now I actually do what's in boston cream pie. I know I didn't represent my new england roots here too. So here's the reason we're talking about boston To ward x yep to ward x and network provider in the boston area completed the region's first Open access utility entrance for fiber networks this month This is cool stuff the new fiber optic corridor exists in a facility owned and operated by none other than core site In case consists of 68 new conduits and the ability to accommodate more than 135 New fiber optic cables. So lots of cool stuff there. Yeah That's that story. All right dino your next question and right up your alley You're gonna get this name one of metallica's albums I could probably name almost all of them But for this one, I'm going to go with my favorite ride the lightning. It's a rock masterpiece You even made those devil horns. I love it. Okay. Yeah, uh, okay What a classic you get that one We have some real metal on the t&m blog recently to dark points launching their new bare metal surface Which offers single tenant servers where users can customize any way they like So dark points uses is a great opportunity to provide added performance and security To those that need it most Yeah, okay, uh, I show that we are tied up five five correct answers for me five for you Five rights, that's impressive. Okay, good I did not think you were gonna get the marianne's trench one but talk on it You've got the final question. So this is in fact the tiebreaker. Are you ready? Because it's a sports one How many players play defense On a baseball diamond How many players are playing defense on a baseball diamond? Um, I'm gonna say all of them All right Uh, good one a good player always plays defense. Um, but okay, I've lived in the US long enough to know that it is nine You're right. Correct. That is right. It is nine. It is nine. It is nine. Okay So going from baseball to connect base nice fill there There is a new you're gonna love this piece of news j you probably heard earlier But connect base there's a new face on the executive team at connect base They hired jezebel gilmore who brings 25 years of industry industry experience to serve as the organization's first chief Commercial officer. So nice work. Uh to connect base nice work to jamie for getting nine, which is in fact correct And excellent work to you jezebel. We're uh, we're thrilled to have you at connect base Yes, yes. I reached out to ronald and did it with a yay note, uh, and you know what great note to end this fast forward on to you jezebel all right, um Ever fast forward trivia contest, uh, and and you won and i'm glad that you did you are the boss. You're supposed to win these things I just think we had uneven like if I threw you another question you try it out. So anyway, but Yeah, and you know what? Hey, my daughter never lets me win at candyland. So this feels good a little win. I'll take it Okay, congratulations j and seriously, uh, totally off script. This influencer thing is really really cool I i'm so so proud and so happy to uh to work alongside you. Congratulations. Thank you dean. It is a total team effort I i've so blown away by you and and all of our our family here at jsa um We're we're at a new level it's 2023 and uh and and look at this our month of fast forward news To be part of this industry is Um humbling and um anyway, let's we got to get our trivia in Thank you. Thank you also for the glory of the she's trivia win for Congratulations Head to head uh in a in a next one Until next time everyone will see you later. Take care everybody and happy networking


Celtics, they were cooking last night time now for bringing the heat brought to you by Eastern propane and oil there in your neighborhood. The Celtics were very much bringing the heat against the Kings the last night. The four starters minus Jason Tatum. Each put up big numbers. Some might even call them all star performances. Hint hint, Joe Bazula. Let's bring in Forsberg and Forsberg. Let's go into Forsberg's four and I'm guessing it's all about those guys who are on fire. Yeah. So right now the Celtics are making the pitch that all five of their starters should go to all-star weekend. I'm just gonna bring a little bit of reality. Not five guys from the Celtics are going to all-star weekend. We know that Jason Tatum is gonna be there, right? Like he's gonna probably get voted in as a fan voted starter and then I'm eager to see what happens from there because they could very easily split the vote but I am here to make the case for why each of the other four non Tatum starters ought to be an indie with him and we start with 14.4 and that is the number of assists points created per game by Jalen Brown over Boston's last seven games. Remember when we said Jalen Brown couldn't dribble, couldn't create for others and like we just pigeonholed him as this score-only player even though he was all NBA and clearly had more to his game at that point. Jalen Brown has gone to another level as a passer this season. I think he's been fantastic especially in this stretch. Ever since ESPN posted that little graphic. I was like right after that post it started going up. He called it corny and ever since then he's been picking teams apart and I love it because JB5's motivation and everything. Over the last seven games he has a team best 5.1 assists per game. I just love the vision. There have been plays where he's attacking the basket and just whips it through three guys. Passes that he wasn't making a year ago, two seasons ago. Maybe even at the start of this season it just feels like he is so hell bent on being great as a playmaker and I love it because now you can run offense through him and good things happen. I need more of this JB moving forward. The points will be there. The Southlakes have so much talent there though and I want Jalen to continue to be a great creator. That's why Jalen Brown said it was corny in the comments because he knows what he could do as a playmaker. Duh he knows what his ability is. All right what's the next one? I will say I'm going to now whenever someone makes fun of me on Twitter I'm just going to call them corny because it's a great comeback. Plus 10.5 that is the net rating differential with Derrick White on the court. Okay the easy way to do this. The Southlakes are a team best 13.2 net rating when Derrick is on the floor and it drops to a team worst 2.7 when he's off the court. Here's why that matters. Those are Jason Tatum like numbers in terms of how the Southlakes perform. Like in past years the Southlakes were super great with Tatum and super bad when he was off the court. Now all of a sudden Derrick White putting up those numbers and he's done this to a certain degree throughout his career but this year is even more noticeable. The Southlakes are plus 222 in his time on the court this season. That's fourth best in the NBA right now. I think that's only going to go up as we move forward. Here's the other part. So I told you that number there. Plus 10.5. Here are the other starters. Drew Holiday plus 2.9. Poor Zingas plus 2.1. Jason plus 0.1 which is a mind boggling number because he's to the moon. And Jalen at minus 1.3 which is weird because Jalen has been so good this season. But for me it just comes down. Derrick has been so good at every aspect of the game. Defense. Creating plays. Hustle plays. Just making every right decision out there. And if I had to fill out that bad. I told you two weeks ago people when we did this segment all about Derrick go watch that if you want more Derrick propaganda. I think Derrick White should be an indie and that's no slight on everybody else. But he's just been that good. Yeah. Derrick White definitely takes his Celtics team to an entirely different level when he's out there on the floor. What's the next one? All right. Number three is 1.39. And that is the points per play the Celtics are producing off of post-ups. Celtics post-up by Kristaps Poor Zingas. And so I think when we knew when the Celtics went out and got Poor Zingas this season that you would be getting a guy that could stretch the floor that would give you a presence around the basket. What I didn't know is just how much of a luxury it is when your offense is struggling when you got nothing going on to play. You just lobbed that ball in there to Kristaps and he's going to work a smaller defender. They've done a great job of targeting when he does get a switch onto a small. I mean like these guys have no chance of stopping this. You can't do anything with Kristaps Poor Zingas. His number that 1.39 is the best in the NBA among players with at least two and a half post-ups per game. He's shooting 68% in those situations. And I just think you look at the numbers overall. The Celtics are 16 and 4 when Poor Zingas plays. That's an 800 win percentage. That's like 62 wins and 63 wins. He's really good. He's good at basketball. And we didn't even touch on the defense. I think you can make a strong case for how good Kristaps is better in the difference maker he's been since arriving in Boston. During the off season, I did not realize how big of a component Kristaps Poor Zingas would be for this Celtics team. But looking back on it in hindsight, I'm completely happy that they added to this roster. It was a perfect fit. Last but not least, what do you think about that? And we miss you, Marcus, but like Poor Zingas is just something out there. The last number is minus 7.6. And this is the percent below expected field goal percentage that opponents are shooting inside of 10 feet against Drew Holiday. Okay, we knew Drew Holiday was a great defender. He came in with this reputation, all NBA, all defense type of guy, first team guy, someone who probably should be in that DPOY conversation. What I didn't know is that the versatility that he has, his ability to guard pretty much exclusively bigger players. I can look. Here's among his top 20 most frequent matchups this season. Here's the list. Donovan Mitchell, Julius Randall, Jalen Brunson, Paulo Banquero, Tyrese Maxi, Tyrese Halliburton, Darius Garland, Joellen B, Carl Anthony Towns, Yanis, Pascal Siaka, Miles Turner. Okay, first off, I just gave you a list of what felt like all All-Stars or soon to be All-Stars or whatever the case may be. Some MVPs in there. And I give you guys that are pretty much, we went from 7 foot 2 down to like 6 foot 8. And so Drew's ability to take on these guys. In that game against the Magic, where Paulo had it going in the first quarter, what'd they do? Hey, go take this guy out. I think it's amazing the way that you can deploy Drew Holiday in those situations.  We obsess about like, you know, all this stuff that is very obvious.  And so I think we, he's underappreciated for what he's doing and the role that he's taken on in this team. And now three point shots coming around. He's still playmaking. He's giving the game what it needs. The man makes winning plays.


Hello everybody, my name is Itai and I would like to tell you about my paper on the streaming indistinguishability of a random permutation and a random function. So I will start with the classical problem. An adversary tries to distinguish a random permutation from a random function. And the permutation and the function think of them as having input and input domain of size n. And the adversary has a budget of q queries. So it's kind of querying the permutation or function oracle getting back answers and he's trying to decide whether is interacting with the random permutation oracle or a random function oracle. And the switching and lemma says that the adversary has advantage which is bounded by q squared divided by n. And this is basically how it's written formally. And this switching lemma is is important in cryptography because it allows us to establish some concrete security bounds for crypto systems. Basically up to what is known as the birthday bound q equals the square root n because that's when the advantage is roughly constant. And in particular it allows us to establish security of some modes of operations like the counter mode. And this switching lemma is basically tight and how do you show it? You show it by a matching algorithm. So a matching algorithm is basically an attack. So how do you distinguish between a random permutation and a function with q queries basically you store the answers and then you try to find the collision among the answers. So if there is a collision, if you gather enough elements, then you're likely to find a collision if you're interacting with the function. So that's how you distinguish. However, this algorithm that I showed you requires q bits of memory. An interesting question would be what happens if your memory is restricted. It turns out that you can actually achieve about the same advantage with restricted memory by running some cycle detection algorithm. And the cycle, such cycle detection algorithms typically require a very small amount of memory and they achieve basically the same advantage. However, such algorithms require adaptive queries to the AuraCon. And what if you cannot issue adaptive queries? For example, you just eavesropping to communication. In particular, what if your memory is restricted to s bits and you're given just a stream of q elements that are produced from either a random function or a random permutation. What happens in this case? So you can think about it in the following way. So you're just getting replies from the oracle which correspond either to a random function stream or a random permutation stream. And you have a limited amount of memory and you're trying to distinguish. And this problem was first considered by Jager and Tessaro at Eurocrypt 2019. And what they proved is what I'm going to call a streaming switching lemma, which states that an adversary with s bits of memory and access to a stream of q elements that are drawn either from a random permutation or a random function has a distinguishing advantage, which is bounded by the q times s divided by n and square root of that. This is actually kind of useful because it allows you to obtain better security bounds against memory restricted adversaries for some modes of operation. Okay, for example, if you consider AS based counter mode, then you can actually prove based on the security of the AS and the streaming switching lemma, you can actually prove that if the memory of the algorithm is limited then counter mode is secure beyond the birthday bell. And you do this by essentially applying the streaming switching lemma and the details of how you actually do this can be found in the JT19 paper. However, this lemma has two limitations. The first limitation is that its proof is based on some unproven combinatorial conjecture. And the second limitation is that this bound is actually not tight when q times s is smaller than m. And so just as an example, assume that you have basically s equals q, meaning that you can roughly store all the q responses, all the q elements of the stream. Then what you expect to get is essentially the original switching lemma, q squared divided by n because you essentially have no restriction on the memory. However, this bound, if you plug in here q times s, you get the square root here. So it seems like it shouldn't be there. So what I do in this work, basically I overcome these limitations. These limitations and I prove a new switching lemma where the bound on the advantage is q times s divided by n and this bound is actually tied up to this logarithmic factors. And how do you show that it is tight? Well, you consider an attack. And the attack is actually trivial, kind of very simple. So you assume you have a memory of s bits, maybe a bit more than what you do is actually store, say, the first s elements in the stream. And then you try to look for a collision between your memory and the stream. And so that's the attack. And if you analyze it, then you see that this is roughly the advantage that you get. And this shows that this bound is tight up to logarithmic factors. Another kind of way to see that, not to see, but maybe to an intuition of why this bound is tight is that when you plug in s equals q, here you get roughly the original switching lemma. So this is kind of what you expect. Okay, so in the remainder of the talk, I'm going to discuss on how I prove this switching lemma. And I'm going to use a classical technique. I'm going to reduce the streaming problem from a communication complexity or CC problem. Okay, and this is done using kind of a generic framework. So I'll explain roughly how this framework works. So Alison, Bob are trying to solve some communication complexity problem, and they are given access to some streaming algorithm. So the way they do it is as follows, Alice has her input, Bob has his input, and they kind of view their concatenated inputs as a stream. And now Alice simulates the streaming algorithm on her input and passes its state to Bob, which continues the simulation and then outputs the results. And now how many bits have to be communicated? Well, because the state of the algorithm is bounded by aspects, then Alice basically has to communicate aspects. This shows you that the streaming algorithm with the memory of s gives a one way communication protocol with communication cost of s and the same distinguishing advantage. However, the way it is actually used almost all of the time is to obtain lower bounds on streaming. And this statement is actually equivalent to the following statement, the lower bound on the cost of the communication protocol. So if the communication protocol is hard, this gives you a lower bound on the memory of the streaming algorithm. So this means also that the kind of the streaming problem is hard. You have to use a lot of memory. Okay, so now we'll kind of go back to our problem of distinguishing a random permutation stream from a random function stream. So let's kind of try to use just the framework that I presented to solve this problem. So here's an attempt. So each player is going to get half of the elements of the stream chosen either from a random permutation or a random function. And they're going to kind of try to distinguish between these two cases. However, it turns out that this reduction is useless because the communication problem is easy. Why it is easy because, well, I think for example that if the stream contains more than square and elements then the players can trivially distinguish between a random permutation and a random function without any communication. Just by looking for example locally for collision. Okay, why is that because the players are have unlimited resources. They have unlimited time and unlimited space and the only way that we're charging them is just by their communication. So kind of a conclusion from this, from this is that if we want the communication complexity problem to be hard then the joint distributions of Alice and Bob's input should have the same marginals. Essentially this means that Alice and Bob's would have the same local view and both of these distributions otherwise they can just distinguish locally without any communication. However, this restriction is kind of impossible in our problem of distinguishing a random permutation and random function because there's just no way to divide the output such that this restriction holds. And this is a problem and we're going to try to get around it. And the way we try to do it is by a hybrid argument. So what we're going to try to do is to consider intermediate hybrid distributions between random permutation and a random function and we're going to prove that distinguishing between neighboring hybrid distribution is hard and we're going to do it by a reduction from communication complexity. So let's see a first attempt at that. So in this attempt we're going to define Q hybrid games. And game I is going to be defined as follows so you have a stream of length Q and the first Q minus I elements are going to be chosen without replacement meaning from a random permutation. The remaining ones are going to be chosen from a random function. That's the first distribution and the second distribution. So you kind of consider consider a shorter prefix by one element here chosen from a random permutation and the remaining elements are going to be chosen from a random function. So the only difference here is here is this element. So this is a valid attempt. Unfortunately, it does not, if you kind of do the calculation, it does not give you a tight bound on the problem that we want to solve. Essentially, this is because there are Q hybrids and the distinguishing advantage that you get for each such game is as not as small as we want. If you want to think of an algorithm like with small memory that can distinguish between these two cases with reasonable probability, then think of just storing kind of the first bits of each element. Here, not sorry, not storing but storing a majority among the first beats, the first bits of these elements and comparing to the bit here. So this actually gives you a decent distinguishing advantage. And this means that this problem is not as hard as we wish it would. So we're going to try a different approach. The approach will be actually to break the stream into halves. So we'll denote the sequence by the first half of the sequence by X's the first the second half of the sequence by Y's. So the first distribution naturally will be a random permutation. Okay, so that's the first distribution that will consider in the in the game. And the first intermediate hybrid is going to be defined as follows. So the first half of the stream is going to be chosen from a random permutation. The second half of the stream is going to be chosen from a random permutation. However, these permutations will be independent. What does this mean basically the, for example, X1 cannot be equal to X2 because they are chosen from the same permutation and similarly Y1 cannot be equal to Y2. However, for example, X1 could be equal to Y2 because these permutations are independent. And the reduction from communication complexity basically is what you would imagine Alice gets the first half of the sequence Bob gets the second half and they want to decide whether they have the say that their inputs are drawn from the same or from independent permutations. And note that now the marginals are identical because basically the local locally in both of these cases each player just gets a q half elements drawn from a random permutation. Okay, so I'm going to call this problem a permutation dependence or p depth. In short, this is just an ad hoc problem that I just defined. And as I said, Alice and Bob just want to distinguish if their inputs were drawn from the same or random permutation and what the way we're going to use this is basically by a reduction to streaming using the framework that I've shown. So basically, there was basically nothing special about this reduction now. Okay, so I've defined the speed of problem but the question is, is the speed of problem really hard. Remember, we want hard communication problem. So is it really hard. So it turns out that it is hard and this is shown. I show this in the paper by a reduction from classical communication problem. Called this jointness, which has been studied for many, many years. And in this problem, each player, Alice and Bob receives a set of size M, and they want to decide where their sets are intersect or are this joint. And I use what I use as a as a problem is a theorem that states that this problem is basically hard in the sense that if Alice and Bob communicates the sea beds, then their advantages bounded by C divided by N. So this is what what I'm going to use. And how do I use it. Well, what I show is basically reduction that converts this jointness instance to an instance of PDEP. I'm not going to really discuss the parameters that everything is obviously proved in formally in a formal way in the paper. So what you get by applying this, this reduction and using the previous theorem about the hardness of the this jointness problem is you get that the advantage maximum advantage and solving the PDEP problem is q times s divided by N. Okay, so let's zoom out and see where we are. Let's zoom a random permutation to a random function. And now what we have is where we started with the stream of a random permutation and we've broken it into two independent paths. Okay, so how can you continue. Well, natural approach would be to kind of try to continue recursively now that we've broken the dependency between the two halves. We're going to consider each one of these two halves and we're going to break them into quarters. We're going to consider another instance kind of the PDEP communication problem here and here, and so forth. And finally in the last level, what do we have? Well, we have basically q elements that are divided into q independent permutations. We've broken the dependency between all the elements. So what we get is a random function and this is what we want. The advantage, so it turns out that the advantage advantage advantage at each level is bounded by q times s divided by N. I've shown you this for this level. It turns out that for each level, the advantage is bounded in a similar way. So if you sum up all the advantages, you get this log q factor because you have a log q levels. This essentially sums up the summary of the proof. Of course, more details are in the paper. So let me conclude. So I've approved the new streaming switching demo. And the bound that I get is this, which is essentially typed up to polylaborate with factors. And what I've used is a reduction from communication complexity to streaming, which uses a somewhat unconventional hybrid argument. So why is this somewhat unconventional? Because standard streaming problems are usually defined in a worst case setting, meaning that you're actually free to choose the hard distribution for the communication complexity problem. However, in our setting, and this is kind of a standard setting in cryptography, the streams are fixed. So we're not free to choose them. This is kind of why we have to define these hybrids in order to get around this difficulty. Of course, in the future, it would be kind of interesting to try to see whether similar hybrid arguments are applicable to more problems in cryptography and maybe in other domains. And the paper also prove some extension of this, this problem to multi pass algorithms. Okay, so details are found in the paper, and I encourage you to take a look. Okay, so that would be all. I thank you very much for your attention.