meaning you, DeSoto, in your Bishop Museum. Hi, good morning. Good morning. And me, Martin Despang, in the bathroom studio of the Grand Hotel in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, are broadcasting live to playlists, to this playlist that you're watching, we have to say, of our show, Human Humane Architecture of Fink Tech, Hawaii.  And this is our 261st show. So let's get that started. And it's part of a sequence of comparing two cities, two windy cities, the one of Chicago, Illinois, and the one of Oahu, Hawaii, because it in some ways wants to be like that. We have some reasons to think so. So let's go to the first slide, DeSoto, and commemorate something that we had to think about last week. What was that, DeSoto? We had the anniversary of September 11th, 2001. And it's difficult to believe it has been that many years, if you're an adult, to think back to that very horrible, terrible, shocking day in which the World Trade Center in New York City was completely destroyed. And not only was it shocking that the airplanes actually were flown into the buildings, but that they completely collapsed. And that's something that if you saw it happen, we both did. We're old enough to do that. And they were both by an architect who left us with two promising buildings here to make, you can never make up for it, but at least there's humanity surviving him as the architect of this tragic case. And this is Queen Emma Gartens and 1315 Alamoana Boulevard, which we think are still the finest examples of tropical exotic dwelling here from its century modern. And so in Chicago, we have a building by an architect who we also have a building from. I have on campus at my work. And this is Edward Jarrell Stone with a show quoting the building at the very bottom right. And as we have to say, there was shoving, which we call a microwave banana in front of it, but you can still see its original beauty behind. And that was actually fairly early was in 1971, as I was reminding myself and looking back into that show that we did about revolving, it's about the architecture up at your age. And Edward Jarrell Stone did a building in Chicago that in at its time in 1974, where it was called the standard oil building later renamed the Amoco building. And now it's the Aon building that was built in 1974. So three years later than the one we have on campus here up at your age. And that building is still standing. It used to be the tallest in Chicago. And I think it was the third tallest in the United States, not even the world. And we see down there that little chart from the Chicago Tribune that shows the kind of the competition and heights going on. If that building next to the Chicago Tribune tower would be built at tower, then that would push this building back to position number five. Because you have genie gangs and Regis tower topping it. Then it's Mr. Trump, unfortunately, who trumps her tops her with that. Then we would have Smith and Gil with that Chicago Tribune tower. And then we have the CS tower. So unmatched another icon from the 1970s. We were saying, you know, one was innocent as far as fossil fuel. So we can't blame it for what it did back then. But all the other three buildings are now squeezing themselves in between this standard oil building and the CS tower. We're not so sure. We think they actually have to careful analysis. They haven't shown enough consideration of environmental issues that have been increasing ever since. Also, we want to just sensitize us about climates. Our climate here is always hot. And the sun is really something to protect yourself from, especially our light skins and our bald heads. The two of us needs to wear a sun, needs to put sunshade on or wear something to shade it from the sun. Exactly to prevent skin cancer. But there's that climate in Chicago, it has that too in the summer, but it has something else that you experience in your childhood and I, we both grew up in that cold. And in fact, in the very left picture at the bottom where these people are walking on, I took this picture about must have been the aqua tower genie gang's tower, which we see that is a pretty tall building, but it looks almost short compared to Ed Stone's standard oil building here. It was just finished. So it must have been around 2009, 2010 when I was there to take that picture. And what are we emphasizing on here as far as materials science, this Soto that we were talking about that again, we won't have here lucky. But again, don't be too comfortable because again, material gets really brittle, you know, a short amount of time getting beaten by the UV. But in addition to that, what could be broken by the cold? Well, there are lots of different things that happen in cold. And as you pointed out, when we were talking before the show, that white stuff on the ground is snow. And cold weather, the variation between hot and cold is something that is very potentially damaging because we talked about this a lot. Heat makes things expand, cold makes things contract. So when you have a cycle like in Chicago of extreme heat going to extreme cold, even if it's spread out over a period of months, that expansion and contraction can cause a lot of problems with materials that gradually will become brittle, as you said, and it can make things fall apart. And the problem is, of course, even metal, not only metal, the stone and concrete, if you've got something adhering to something or being held on by something, as that expansion and contraction continues, eventually you can have things crack, break, and literally fall apart. Yeah. And we said, you know, in the last show we were saying we're in Hawaii are lucky to lead the ranking of life expectancy. So people get the oldest here statistically because the human body doesn't have to power against both extremes because, you know, the human body has a constant temperature that it needs to sustain and maintain. So in order to, you know, heat it up, takes energy from the human system and then also to cool it down. So we only have to keep ourselves cooled down. So this helps our system to actually maintain itself longer. In Chicago here, something happened to this building here, it was clad with something beautiful that you see in the central picture there, that sort of this ghosty effect. That's a picture I took in the lobby of the building and the security people were kindly believing me that I was not another terrorist. But meaning well, and I captured this picture, thanks, Eric, for zooming in as to show you see the picture above is me taking a picture of that situation. And this is reflecting the staircase and the bell astray there. And so this material was highly reflective and it was marble, it was beautiful. The picture at the right of that shows you some yellow spot on it looks like someone spilled coffee, but I believe it was like water from cleaning creeping up on it on the that's like a column that touches the floor that shows the vulnerability you were saying people have, you know, marble as countertops, and it stains because it is not as closed and it's structure and it's porous that granite is. And so water can seep in there. Now, when, as you were talking rightly so about things contracting and expanding, when humidity expands, we notice if we leave a beverage in the freezing compartment of the fridge at burst and causes a mess. And because water expands. So this is what happens to a spongy material that marble is not a hard stone but a soft stone. And I think in the in addition to that, it was the fast nurse of how the stone was attached. So some of that failed and cost only 15 years after the building was built. So in 1989. So I was we were thinking must I still have witnessed and it's an original condition. And yes, I have because my year in college at UNL was in 1991.  So I haven't right because in 89 it was reclad. So I just missed it. That's the case. Yeah. So I can only imagine from the images. And just to give you an idea of the poetry of that one means thunder row or the sort of grumpy, hardly smiling cigarette smoking guy always fly this building's dark. You figure, right? If there was a relationship, I leave this up to real as architectural historians, or others, I would say. And so at material stone wanted to contrast that with a light guy with a smiling guy with a with a happy guy. And that's why I believe he choose this, this bright white marble. And in fact, there's another difference significant difference between, you know, weather that we have a lot of cloudy days in Chicago, there's like the lake effect, you know, clouds pushing in. And so you have that situation that you see at the very top left, which you hardly ever get on postcards because they choose to have and sun out there. But this condition you have or not. So what this made that the building was climbing this white material that was reflecting the clouds were reflecting in its facade. So it was like dematerializing itself at that time was must have been really, really beautiful. Again, as I was just remembering, senior moment, I had to miss it and not seen it in that one. But if you ever be in Chicago, please go into the lobby. You can take the same pictures that I took there that we talked about in the center. It basically gives you an idea how the building was that small picture left to that sort of height chart there is how it is clad. Now, after that, we have to say that the the the money the budget for the recladding was as much as the initial building costs. That's how basically and that just tells us, you know, these coats, these raincoats with puffy material underneath, because there needs to be insulation that also very likely had to be replaced. We all don't have that. It's just sensitizing us how much easier we have it or we could and we could should have it. Once we design buildings, which we are currently not doing because we're throwing the same moos as we identify over the buildings as we do in Chicago. Also, next slide, what we also do again, Senator Stanley Chang always sends us his newsletter the minutes before our show. Thanks Stanley for that. And we have a chance to glimpse through it at the very bottom left. We have one from his last week's newsletter that gets sort of nostalgic about nostalgia of buildings. And it says that people are probably since Ronnie Reagan took over and one was saying, Oh, everything in the past was better than until Carter where one believed the future is the best. People get romantic about traditional buildings and historic high rises. That's the point to a point that they want to be in them. And how is this about our Chicago Tribune building that we looked at before last week? Well, we've got there's a lot of things to talk about in this and I think the one thing that comes to my mind initially that I just want to just bring this back to us here is we talk a lot about older high rises being easy breezy. That's not something that is necessarily a valid for Chicago. And we're not talking about it as a romantic thing so much as we're saying it is a environmentally conscious way to not have to do as much fossil fuel to heat to cool buildings here. When you've got a lot of open, you've got open sliding doors to your lot and I, and you've got jealousies and you've got windows that you can open and that's true of the older buildings. Those are not necessarily elegant buildings. We're not talking about old word elegance, but we are talking about something that perhaps is, well, there are attributes that are really positive for us today. And I know that's not what we were discussing before, but that's what just came to mind when I looked at that little piece from the newsletter to think, yeah, there are a lot of good things from the past. And we talk about that a lot that are not necessarily just purely design elegance, but are utilitarian and sensible. Yeah. And as far as Stanley Chang is concerned, he's again the one up there on the political stage to try to figure out the utmost challenge of providing housing, dwelling in dignity for all the people, right? So it's sort of a little seems a little off subject, but actually not as we will find out. And there's actually potential in it quite a bit. This one here shows the conversion of a building from one use to the next, because it was the main building for the newspaper, the main newspaper, the Chicago Tribune in Chicago, and they moved out. And now people move in because it gets converted into a residence. This is obviously a high end high rise residential. And I, you know, these pictures are from me visiting these few months ago, and it's currently under construction. And you have these sort of glimpses of actually they advertise more the top of the tower where this where the tower becomes an outdoor space and sort of a garden and urban garden. That's obviously, you know, you can imagine it's beautiful to be up there in the evening, sunset times, not so much in the winter when it's packed with snow once again. And they're adding little things up there. There's this little chrome canopy for for a new entrance there. And when you look up who the architect is is one of our friends here on the island, because they love to build new buildings here recently, I rise is for hard use. And others is Solomon Court will be once here they are again. And talking as sentimentality going to the next slide. Germans are not free from that either. This is a very prominent and interesting example. It's by an architect who when I went to school was really a hot name and still is and he was, for that reason, I believe, hired by the ETH, one of the highest respected Ivy schools in Europe, the in Zurich, the Eipke Nessische Technische Hochschule, it was a professor there. And so he was initially at the bottom left that image there. That was in the same year actually that Ron designed the Halle Polanyi, bravely resisting and staying away from really bad postmodernism. And so color of it, color of design, you can see this almost being a hybrid between the Corbusier andropius, you know, the Bauhaus or the Fagos factory. But then he got sort of depressed, professionally speaking, because he people he said people just don't believe in modernism anymore, they gave up on it. And so why would I want to try to force something, push something, you know, that they don't like. So he sort of thought he had to recalibrate and re strategize and he did it in what was for some, including me a little hard to understand. But the more I think about it, the more I think I get him. And I understand him. He basically said, Well, let's save not modernism as sort of the imagery of it. But it's sort of philosophy of industrializing arts and crafts and providing high quality for the people by mass production and new technologies. And it but so he said, I want to do that. But in order to then you know, having the people like what I do and what I do for them, I need to go back in time because people at that point, in the 80s, 90s, were sort of again, going retro and conservative politically. And, you know, as politics is just an image of culture, right? So he went to build in such a nostalgic romantic way in a place in Berlin and Germany are capital again, after their unification that you told me that had fascinated you a lot and you have been looking at that a lot. And where is that? And we see that at the top left. The place is called the Potsdamer plots. And it is located in Berlin, as you said, before World War Two, Potsdamer plots was considered this exciting, wonderful part of the city. It had the most traffic in all of Berlin. It was the place where they had the install the first traffic lights in the 1920s. It was surrounded by a variety of important buildings. It was also an entertainment center. And then it was mostly destroyed. Much of it was destroyed in World War Two. And then it happened to be the location between where East Berlin and West Berlin were created. And the Berlin wall was built through it. And all of the buildings were completely destroyed. Everything was wiped out. And after reunification and the destruction of the Berlin wall, this huge tract of open land was available in Berlin to be entirely redeveloped. So this was not only a huge project to deal with just in construction, but there was a lot of pre-planning of which architects to choose, how are they all going to be integrated, etc. So this is part of that fascinating to me, urban change of major urban part of a city completely wiped out and then entirely rebuilt all over again. Yeah, and then obviously that prime piece of real estate, how do you redevelop that, right? How do you which architects do you choose? Which architecture are they representing? So you get this really interesting three guys from the gas station kind of consortium here of at the very left is someone who we going to revisit who many consider and I agree, former governor Neil Abercrombie was crazy about him for good reason. That's Renzo Piano. He is, you could say the most intelligent and sensitive ecological of all the big shot star architects out there. The one on the right, that glass tower is familiar to us and will continue to be because he is a hybrid of American and German as I am. And that's the legendary unfortunately not around anymore because he got run over by two cars on his bicycle at his young age of 80, not that long ago that is Helmut Jan, a German born architect that we will revisit who shaped Chicago as many other cities also are exotic escaped as an expert. Susanne is the town of Munich, he put two high towers there. So this is a Helmut giving his footprint you know of being German American. And then there's Hans Koloch in the middle with this brick high rise and Koloch by that time having gone sort of retro basically took his clients to America to Chicago and New York and they were studying and getting overly excited about these 1930s Art Deco high rises. And they decided that to be the style for this new building at the turn of the millennium, which is rather interesting, right? Because why do you pick something from going back to represent something that obviously goes to the future as you had just correctly explained. And in the 2000s up there, as little guys top right show quote, we're also dinking around. We have the expo coming up in my little sleepy hometown of Hanover and we were also going back as this image shows to my architectural ancestry, the Hanover School of Architecture up there with Conrad Willem Haadeh his main leader and he did this building with his facade that fascinated me because it had little to no mortar joint and trying to you know, do this as well and evolve that was quite the endeavor. And there was some experimenting and you know, trial and error that goes with it.  And he told me the story that it needs to be reclaimed because Hans by that time, he probably saw them in that not building that we will elaborate on this show later in one of the future volumes that was built in massive brick. Well, at the beginning of the new millennium, that was not possible anymore with ordinary developers. A labor is not anymore what he used to be at the time of the Manette knock. So he had to find a compromise and compromise was to do the clandest with a precast concrete, which we have great specific rock and precast here big times in Campbell industrial parks on industry and they were then baking the bricks into that. Well, something must have happened that over the time, some of these veneers that were baked in fell off. And so same thing as with Ed Stone and massive remodeling. The difference is that once you look for it with Ed Stone, it's out there right big times not covering up history. But here, not only did I not find anything about it. So I think Hans must have done a good job. No offense with his liars and eliminating everything up to the point, which is really weird. To my personal archive of pictures on my phone and computer where also cannot find that proof of evidence picture driving in Matias's car. But believe me, that's the story I was told. And I believe it was right. Because what why else would you have scaffolded the whole building? Right. So far about again, about architects and addressing their buildings having to dress warm. Once again, reminding us of that we don't have to do that here at all in Honolulu. In fact, we could leave the buildings almost naked. As buildings used to be here, just the hollow pealy grass roof over you covering you from the sun at the rain. And there were some enclosed ones that you have one rebuilt in your museum that we talked about that were just as you taught me for temporary occasional human events and activities as sleeping and storage, right? But the main inhabitation and habitation happened basically outside. Okay, we bring up the next slide, but only to briefly talk about it. And that was important for you to sort of because you said there's also an urban aspect of nostalgia and not right? Absolutely sort of just do an appetizer of that and then go back to that next week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is a picture. These are pictures of Rockefeller Center in New York City, which was built in the 1930s and achieved a tremendous amount of fame internationally. And not only was it the most modern, it was very important and very thoughtful and future thinking in allowing open spaces for the rest of the world to come in. And up until that point, when you built on a lot, you built a commercial building out to the very edges and you occupied everything. And here, they intentionally left open plazas and open walkways for the public to come in, walk through, even if they didn't have any business there, they welcomed people in. And it was also very finely detailed. They spared no expense in how well it was built, how well the art was done, etc. So it's the Rockefeller Center is really an icon for urban development, which some of those concepts ultimately spread to other places, including right here in Honolulu with the financial plus of the Pacific many years later in the 1960s. Yeah, and I have to again, in defense of Hans, there is something very, very heroic about, I mean, the the typology of high rises is an American invention. And the ways American did that, especially in the pioneering phase, there is something really absolutely fascinating about it. I have to give him that. So maybe again, to return to that, once you do high rises in Germany, wasn't that bad of an idea? Again, should you then evolve that technologically, ecologically, that's something to think about, especially for the emerging generation now, that will save this all world that our generation, speaking about myself has unfortunately, let's get to the point where we are, where we're very, very worried about it, right? Okay, I think that's we ate up the last three minutes. And again, you already said what we going to see next, we will start next week with that simple positive of the Pacific, because there's also something very worrisome going on as we're speaking, that was brought to the attention or attention by our Doko Momo friend, Graham Hart, thanks Graham for that. So until then, please all stay easy breezy breezy easy and appreciate it more the way we have it here because in Chicago, it's getting fall there getting cold back home where Suzanne is from, we have three degrees Celsius at nights already so we're getting there. Anyways, stay happy and healthy here and see you next week. Bye bye everyone. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at ThinkTechHawaii.com Mahalo.


Come, come, come, please have a seat, take a seat quick and Rahul we welcome you, we find you are from Bihar and your subject has been mathematics optional, otherwise you are electrical engineering IIT Patna. Yes sir. Good and 25th May is your and how many times have you appeared? Sir, this is my first attempt. Written. Yes sir. Personality test first again obviously. Yes sir. First time. Both. Both. Good. So, you are a bright candidate, you made it in the first attempt and we will try to help you whatever we can. So, I will start with Brigadier. You are so delighted that you are here. Okay. Absolutely be comfortable right, we are not trying to answer. Now tell me in electrical engineering, I will first say, right, which is the subject you like the best? In the signal systems, the control system, these subjects are feel more comfortable. Okay. Tell me how can technology make a difference as far as governance is concerned? Sir, technology has got a huge potential in like making governance more people friendly, more proactive. Sir, for example, we can see that sir using like Oomang app, sir all the governance service delivery mechanisms have come at one place at a finger tip. So, sir, at any time it has basically made governance are 24-7, anywhere, any time. Okay. But how is it, we are not finding you know like many countries are reformed themselves with the technological platform, but we are still slow as far things are concerned. We are not going in for that, most of things on paper. So, how do you want, how can you make a difference? Sir, the reason why sir we are lacking bit slow, sir, I would say bit slow, sir, because we don't have the required digital infrastructure, especially in the rural areas. Sir, to first, sir, if what I hack, what I can do sir is like first we need to create awareness. Like many times people are not aware that they can file a complaint through like app or they can register any booking or they can do a bookings through app. So, first thing will be sir to create awareness, especially at the grassroot level. Sir, secondly, sir, we can incentivize more companies, especially like PPP models we can develop for like more apps, more people friendly apps and all that. So, you feel PPP is one of the answer, so the government per se cannot take on their old responsibility. Okay. Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana. Yes. Heard of this? Yes. Do you think they are spending so much of money really worth it? Sir, I think it is totally worth it because sir, especially in this COVID lockdown, sir, many people, especially the poor people, they were like deprived of their income. And sir, the problems of hunger could increase, therefore to tackle that, sir, proactively government launched the Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, in which they have taken care of the basic needs of the most vulnerable section of our sector. So, the thing is still how long now? What is the duration of this Yojana? Sir, if I am not mistaken, sir, it is going to end this year. End this year? Because it is going to extend it. Okay. Rahul, your option is mathematics. Yes, sir. Suppose I have to cross a river, I know in need, mode and median of its depth, which is more significant for me so that I can take a decision to cross the river. Sir, I know my height. Do you understand the question? Yes, sir. The river, I know the mean, mode and median of its depth at different places. I know my height. I have to take decision. Should I cross it? Should I not cross it? What is significant out of all these three? Sir, I think mean would be the most significant because sir, if in mode, sir, maybe the frequency of lesser depth is more, but there can be a depth which is very great and which like we can drown in that, especially similarly like in median, it just gives us the middle value. So, it does not give us like what is the greatest depth and what is the lowest depth. So, the best probability will be to go according to the mean. Mean. Yes. So, at one place this is 50 feet deep, at other place this is just 1 feet deep. Yes. So, you just go and drown. Sir, there are like this is not the 100% proof, sir, but we are going to cross. So, nothing is important. What is more important, most important for crossing the river? Comparatively. And what is most important? What is the maximum depth of the river? Yes. Isn't it? Okay. What are the protection given to a civil servant in Indian constitution? Sir, they can be removed only by the, for all India services, sir, they can be removed only by the order of a president and sir, like for inquiring, for constituting an inquiry against them, sir. No, I am talking of civil service, there are certain constitutional provisions which provide the protection from removal or from reducing in rank. What are the protection? Sir, these are mentioned in, sir, article 311 to 315, sir, in this. Can you tell me 311? Sir, like they cannot be like as a dismissed or like reduced in rank if by authority lower than who is appointing them and so that is like precedent. Right. Right. In any circumstance, can they be removed? Without, without, there is another thing which is required by the authority. Sir, I think sir, there should be like some, like some approved misbehavior or some incapacity. How would you find out? What will you conduct? Sir, I think Supreme Court can, sir, decide like for UPSC members, it does Supreme Court, sir, so if in my opinion. No, civil servants, man. All right. How can a law be declared a ultra virus of constitution? On what basis? Sir, if it infringes on the basic structure of constitution, sir, the Supreme Court and high courts can declare the law ultra virus. What other things are there? Sir. What others? Sir, like if it impinges on, sir, like fundamental rights of people. Suppose the state government of Bihar makes a law on currency of India, whether this will be valid law or this will be ultra virus. Sir, I think this should be ultra virus because currency comes. So, what is the basis? Sir, currency comes in like the union list on which state government. Sir, whether the concern, parliament or the SA has got power to make it or not. Yes. All right. Thank you, sir. Oh, Rahu. Yes, ma'am. You, given mathematics as your subject. Yes, ma'am. Do we have a Nobel Prize in Mathematics? No, ma'am. What do we have? Ma'am, we have Abel Prize. Who got it in 2022? Ma'am, Dennis Sullivan. Yeah. For what? I have forgotten that. What did he get? Contributions to the fields of topology and dynamical systems. What is topology, mathematics? Topology basically means like a chart basically where like we take according to which we can, it's basically architecture of any function or any problem where according to which the decisions or the output is decided. You come from Samasthipur. What is Samasthipur famous for? Ma'am, there's a Central University of Agricultural Research there. Okay. And ma'am, apart from this, in ancient times, ma'am, it was the part of the oldest democracy. Vaishali? It was the part of Samasthipur, was a part of that. Part of what? Sir, Vaishali. Vaishali. Oldest, you said. Yes. You didn't name Vaishali. Yeah. It's also got a Hindu-Muslim unity kind of monument there. What is it? Actually, I'm not aware of that. Kutni Beebe is Makbara? Yes, ma'am. Famous? Yes, ma'am. Everyone goes to it, right? Yes, ma'am. You have been there? No, ma'am. Okay. Samasthipur ma'am is my birthplace. I have lived most of that part of my life in Begu Sarai. Okay, okay. All right. You have given IFS as your option of foreign service, right? Yes, ma'am. What attracts you to the foreign service? I mean, if you get it, you have of course given it as fifth. Yes. But if you got it? Ma'am, it's a very dynamic and very important job for, like, especially the responsibility it has, it has hinged India's diplomacy, India's diplomatic power and external relations. They hinge on the IFS officers. Ma'am, if I get the opportunity, ma'am, it will be very great for me to serve for the country at the highest level, like, ma'am. Okay. Now, when you come to the Indian-Russia war, which is engaging everybody's attention, Russia is the key supplier of oil and gas, right? Yes, ma'am. And now there are the sanctions which will soon be signed and put into effect, which will stop, you know, the European countries. What did Russia say two days ago that if you put these sanctions, I will divert my oil and gas. He has threatened also, yeah, counter threat. You stop my imports, then I am going to export to the, you stop to the west, then you export to? China and Ma'am. East, Asia and China. China is of course the biggest user of these things. So he has said that and he's already, they've got pipelines, isn't it, from Russia to? No, Nord Stream pipelines. No, Nord Stream is this side. Europe. This is Russia to China also. There are pipelines that supply oil and gas to China. So now tell me something about what is India's foreign policy, just five goals, main goals. Overall, India has always been a supporter of rules based international order. It always has put focus on dialogue negotiation, dialogue and negotiation and immediate cessation of any form of violence or conflict. Ma'am, third, it wows on Ma'am justice. Basically, like, for example, like climate justice, like it should be like who is responsible should take more responsibility and who are not like third world countries should be less responsible for that. And Ma'am, India wants to be of world prosperity, like Vasudev Kutumbakam, the principal which he has followed, like world is a family and Ma'am, fifth, it would be territorial sovereignty and mutual respect of borders should be there. These are some of its goals. Recently, our prime minister had a virtual meeting with, very important, it was 2 plus 2 and you know it's going on with whom? USA. What were the main points that emerged after this? Ma'am, the few points which... Significant, yeah. Ma'am, it has come out that USA has understood clearly that India's position, India's... Why India is like a slow bit, like not that harsh on Russia, what are India's interests with Russia? And Ma'am, they have understood, they cannot sanction India for oil and gas because India has clearly stated its stances and its interests, what is there? Okay, thank you. Sir, thank you. I have been heard of RERA. Sir, RERA, the Real Estate Regulation Act. What is it? What are the broad features? Sir, it basically was enacted to regulate the real estate sector to protect the interests of the consumers, like who are the buyers. How does it ensure this? Sir, first of all, it has created a state-level authority in each state where complaints can be filed. And sir, like in this... So there's a provision that if the position, whatever the date it has been specified for giving the position, it should not be delayed. If it is delayed, sir, then whoever is the seller, then he has to pay compensation for that. There's also another provision which starts with this, with which it starts, which is basically that every builder has to register himself along with his agents. That is the identification for each one of them. That's where it all starts. Okay, sir. Have you heard of the Rosary Act in the context of Jammu and Kashmir? Sir, actually I'm not exactly aware of that. I can faintly, sir, like it was for land acquisition related. Land acquisition? Exactly, sir. I'm not aware of the details. Can you find out? And lately, the Home Minister had made certain remarks about Hindi as a language. Can you explain and throw some light on what is it that he said and what did it lead to? Sir, basically he wanted Hindi to become the link language and the compulsory teachings in schools. It can lead, sir, like southern states have again protested that they don't want any imposition of Hindi language and similarly, the north-eastern states have also protested against it. Have you heard of Parampeer Singh? Yes, sir. Who is he? Sir, he was the commissioner of police of Mumbai. What is happening in his case? Sir, he's currently, sir, out of country. He's been declared fugitive currently. Sir, there was allegations against him of corruptions and especially in that Sachin Vajay case. The case is under investigation by the state government or the CBI? Sir, if I'm not wrong, it's with CBI. And what is the issue regarding Akhasta, West, Atlantic and the whole of it? Yes, sir. The deal was related to attack helicopters which India wanted to purchase. Sir, there is one allegation like that. There was a middleman, I'm forgetting his name, that he took commissions for forwarding this deal and pressing it for the final conclusion. Some senior level officers have also been arranged in this? Sir, I'm not aware of these details. Okay, Janab. Rahul Anand. Yes. I want to ask you about status of China vis-a-vis these semiconductors fabrication. What is Moore's law first? Sir, Moore's law states that, sir, like the prices of the chips or the semiconductor, what we call semiconductor chips will, sir, decrease after every four or five years. It is not about price. Try again. Sir. It is number of transistors on a microchip. Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. Thank you for that. Ajay, what is the status of China? So, China is, sir, among the one of the leading manufacturing factories. No, they are importing 300 million worth of semiconductors every year. The leading is not there, but still you elaborate how, what are they doing actually in semiconductors? They are also trying to, like what India is trying to sort of build up a semiconductor industry. Yes. They are also trying to build, sir, because they have a huge manufacturing outside, like they are one of the huge manufacturers of smartphones, laptops. So therefore, they want to end their dependency on other companies. So what are they doing for that? Sir, exactly I'm not aware, but sir, they must be like setting up, giving incentives and setting a tactic. What is the size of semiconductor microchip? They can manufacture in their factory, which is known as SMIC, semiconductors manufacturing international corporation. What is the minimum they can do? Sir, exactly not aware sir, but if, Approximately. Sir, like 10 nanometer. Sir, 10 nanometer. Hi, you are very near, it is 15 nanometers. Why do they need so small ones these days? What for? Smaller the size of sir, there's chips on them. Many more transistors can be accommodated on a single chip. There is one, secondly? Sir, secondly sir, the processing, like if on a given space, there are more transistors and will provide more transistors. Miniaturization. Miniaturization of equipment. Okay. Now, who are the major countries from market share of semiconductors from top to down? Sir, the biggest manufacturing. Yes sir, the biggest manufacturer is TSMC in Taiwan. Sir, around 60% of the global manufacturing is done by the single company of Taiwan. And sir, second is South Korea. I thought it was America which has 50% share of the world market. And Taiwan actually is only fabrication unit. It does supply to 92% of the microchips to all over the world. So, how many types of factories you have then? Sir, broadly sir. One is just which design? Yes sir. And? The second would be sir, like which manufacturers are basically the which fabricates in. And third would be sir, which assembles it. And third maybe, which does both design as well as fabrication? Fabrication. And sir, one more can be sir, which assembles it. What are, what is India's status? Sir, India currently is only I would say assembler. India is trying to become a manufacturer and it has also announced policy regarding this. What is that policy? Sir, it's a DLI. Sir, some measures actually. Yes sir. One is a DLI scheme, designing the incentive scheme. Okay. Then? Sir, then sir, it's an PLI scheme also sir, it has given like a incentive. No, no, no. I said then, what else? They have announced 10 billion dollar of assistance for India semiconductor vision. And there are three measures read about it. December 21 it was announced. So if your interview is over, we'll give you a feedback. Thank you sir. How do you evaluate yourself after the question and answer is over? Sir, I gave two, three wrong answers which I thought. Sir, I gave two, three wrong answers which I thought. Doesn't matter. Overall say out of 100, where do you put your answer? Sir, around 60. 60. Yes sir. Okay. That's not bad. We'll interview. We'll advise you a few things. Your, again, expression should be very clear and distinct. There is no hurry as such, but it also doesn't mean that you keep on thinking and then go slow. Before mirror, do some exercise. Read out two page, three page, five page. Work harder. Some six to eight hours a day because you are left with not many days. Okay. Try to understand things which you have not understood. Go through the CD which will be given very carefully and see where you could have done better. Better in the sense, not in terms of the, you know, you know, information or anything, but in terms of the understanding of the subject. Sure. Okay. Then we say that, you know, read newspapers. Which paper do you need? Read. Sir, the Hindu and Indian Express. Hindu and? Indian Express. Both. Good. And try to understand what they write in the editorials and opinion page. And the news also is important because every day, a lot of things are happening, isn't it? Yes sir. In our country, outside country, and you have to understand that. You see, mere knowing is not enough. Understanding is a must. Yes. We find you quite bright and most likely, you will make it. And be careful about your dress. For example, this, this is small. Yes sir. This should have been removed before you came here. Sir, just outside the room, I came to know sir about this. Okay. So, then we also recommend this Wikipedia to our candidates. Wherever you find a difficult term, phrase being used to do refer to Wikipedia, they are very authentic. And where they are not authentic, they will say, edit. Okay. Yes sir. Then we also recommend a Veon channel. I do watch that. You do read here 9 to 10, that particular bulletin. Yes sir. I will grab it as a bunch of. Then Shekhar Gupta has given. Clear the clutter. Cut the clutter. Yes sir. Okay. These are the things that come to, then I to I contact, you are very good. You are doing exactly what you are expected to do. And one or two things more we will, don't feel guilty or you know, don't hesitate if you are not able to answer some questions. Nobody can answer all the questions. You know it very well. Yes sir. So don't hesitate. And there is a tendency to repeat the question, you know. We say which are the most powerful countries in the world. So there is a tendency to say, most powerful countries are one, two, three, four. Give the answer directly. Okay sir. Russia, China, whatever you say, are the most powerful countries sir.  And some part of the sentence need not be emphasized. Otherwise your expression is good. You are alert. Your IQ is good. And if you have to ask something, you tell us. So like the questions I gave wrong, like Moore's law, I just confused and gave wrong answer. Moore's law says that number, the number of transistors on a microchip will keep on doubling every two years. Yes. Every two years. Sir, I was like aware but sir, on the question. It is all right. That's what I said. Nobody can know each and everything. And it also says that it will add to the efficiency of the system, obviously. And the capacity of the, you know, instrument is the bathroom. So that, then read a little bit of Shreemad Bhagavad Gita. Read it from Wikipedia only. Otherwise, you know, 18 chapters. Bhagawan Sri Krishna, so read it. If you are interested in the BBC world, then watch it. Otherwise, forget it. Sir, like the voice, I think I was speaking today a little low. Like you have to. Sir, voice. Okay. A little louder. Would I be helpful? But otherwise, audible. It's not as if it was, you know, we have had candidates who were just bubbling and we had to work our ears. That it was not the case. But it's a little bit of good voice though. Sir. But be confident with your body language and your gestures are all normal. And I think you should do well. And the advantage is you have age on your side. Yes. The way, young. Your... UPSC rooms will be smaller. So you won't see a seat that far. The chairperson, to here, to here. And you will sit very near. You won't have the distraction of the AC running behind. But be confident and we wish you... I think you have a very, very bright chance. Read something about... In any case, you know, what we are saying here is only representative. It's not as if the same questions are going to be asked. Yes. It's only to draw your attention to a range of subjects which are likely to be discussed. And how you respond to them. And in many of the cases, there are no... a set cast iron, the right or wrong answers. Good. All the best. Thank you, sir. All the best, sir. You'll make it. First attempt. You'll break the record from Begu Sarai. How so? You're going back only. What is playing on it? Delhi is preparing. No, sir. I'm staying in Delhi in preparing. Okay. Till the interview. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, sir.


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It's just before 11 a.m. on Sunday the 19th. We are headed out for a walk after chores and coffee with, you know, not Jabba over there, not Bob the dog. It's not raining. It's not super dark out, although there is supposedly another storm coming. So we'll get some steps in while we can run. And yeah, all right, I'll be back. And yes, I know I look slouchy, but you know what? I'm good with it. I don't care. My hair is so wet, but that's all right. I'll be back. I should say good afternoon. It's 12.39 p.m. just after lunch on Monday, November, something like that. Anyway, it's the Monday before Thanksgiving. Mr. Bob is not feeling 100%. He's coming down with a cold, I think. So we're going to run some errands that we have to. He's going to stay away from people as much as he can. And we have to go to the grocery store. Anyway, he's driving me to go pick up some free yarn. He's going to stay in the car. I'm going to go get that. We're going to run errands that have to be done. And then if we do Thanksgiving this week or not, we'll depend on how everybody is doing, including him, because other members of the family are also not feeling well. No, it's not the big C. It's just a cold. That doesn't mean we want to spread it around. I'm not babysitting tomorrow because we don't want to give it to the grandson, and his mom is one of the ones that's already not feeling good. So yeah, anyway, happy holidays. Happy holidays. Yeah. So anyway, all right, we're going to go get it done. I'll be back. Morning, everybody. It is early. It's November 21st, 8.44 a.m. Yeah, sounds right. Mr. Bob is still not feeling well, but he had an appointment this morning. So he's off doing that. Nothing medical. He's off getting the oil changed in the car. He didn't want to put it off. He actually is feeling a little bit better, but sounding a whole lot worse. So I don't know how that's going to go. Anyway, he's off doing that. I'm going to edit the vlog and do my scheduled posts for the first of December for Facebook and Patreon while he's gone. So get that done. And yeah, later today, I think I'm going to have a little chat with my dear friend, Leslie McGrath, and it's going to be a chill day at home because Mr. Bob's not feeling good, but that's okay. All right, I'll be back. I got the vlog edited. It's loading right now. I'm scheduling for tomorrow morning. I got the Patreon and supporter posts that they get once a month from me over in Patreon scheduled for the first of December. And I also got my Facebook group, which I've had for a really long time now. I'm just realizing there's a post that goes up there once a month and that is going up and scheduled too. So I think once the video is loaded, I can actually turn the computer off. Yay! And go downstairs, take this off my head, and maybe try to finish my sock this morning. And then when Bob gets back, we'll see how he's feeling. So all right, I'll be back. Yeah, I'll be back. Okay, so this week hasn't exactly gone to plan. Bob is sick. He's been sick for at least three days with a fever, congestion, cough. Pretty sure it's a cold and not strep or anything or the big C, but yeah.   I just, um, I don't have a fever or anything. I do have a cough and some congestion. Not unusual for me. So it's hard for me to tell if I'm getting sick or not. Again, I don't have a fever. I did kind of have a headache today, so that's different. So probably I'm coming, whatever he's got, he's shared it. So, you know, and of the two kids' households, one of them is also sick. So, and it happens to be daughter, son-in-law, and baby junior. And daughter and baby junior are both sick. Yay. Son-in-law also has symptoms similar to me, no fever, but a scratchy coffee throat. So yeah, I think we're postponing Thanksgiving, probably for a week, but we'll see. And yeah, Bob is napping on the couch right now. I expect him to be there most of the day. I've just gone ahead and just braided my hair. I've done nothing else to it. And yes, I literally, that's all the hair I have. I know it looks puffier, but I really don't have that much hair. Anyway, I'm gonna sit and work on my latest Afghan and yeah, you just gotta roll with a punch as life gives you sometimes, right? Okay, I'll be back when I'll short walk to the mailbox and go get the mail. Mr. Bob is not doing super well. He's got a fever and he's doing a little better than he was first thing this morning, but yeah. Anyway, anyway, I'm making progress on my current Afghan I'm working on. It's a combination of double crochet and front post back post double crochet. And it's all done in a square from the center out. And I'm using red heart ombre. So I'll put a picture here somewhere with however far I've gotten at the moment. All right, let me get the mail. I'll be back. So Bob finally shared all of his germs with me. And my cough and scratchy throat turned into a fever. And yeah, I'm laying on the sofa. I am doing some crocheting when I'm feeling up to it. But yeah, this is Thanksgiving day. It's just the two of us. The one of the other three households is also sick, although they're I think feeling better than we are. They're also a lot younger. So um yeah, so happy Thanksgiving. We're going to be postponing with the kids for probably about a week. So yeah, woohoo. I'll be back. Hey guys, it is um after 3 30 p.m. on Friday the 24th. As you can hear in my voice, Bob and I are still sick. He's had a pretty significant fever for a few days now. So we're headed to the after hours clinic in a bit. And we're going to both get checked out because whatever he's got, I've got I'm not as sick as he is. But I mean, yeah, anyway, the kids brought us over one care package earlier. The kids, Jenny and Brian, they brought us over some snacks and some meds. And then if we need prescriptions picked up, the other kids just messaged me and said, let us know, because we'll go get them. So yeah, meanwhile, Mr. has taken a nap before we go see a doctor, I guess. This isn't how I expected my weekend to go at all. We're supposed to be putting up Christmas trees right now. Yeah, that's not happening. I'll be back. Hey you guys, we're leaving the urgent care. Guess who has the vid? Yeah, Mr. Bob caught it somewhere and shared with me. Well, maybe I got it from you. I doubt it.  You know, I just under four cents. Anyway, we're on the tail end. We didn't have a fever when we went in, despite the fact that we really haven't taken any medicine most of the day, not since this morning. So that's a good sign. And unless we pop into another temperature, we're done with our quarantine, which we did anyway. But and if we're around other people this next week, we have to wear a mask after that. We're clear unless we get more sick. So anyway, yay. I can no longer say I've never had it. I'll be back. Still on the couch because we've got the vid. So, you know, we got the vid. We got the vid. So when we still thought we just had a cold, we did go out to a couple places, but we weren't really feeling good.  I guess it's a good thing we did that. Anyway, his quarantine is up today. Mine is up tomorrow because we're about a day apart. But if we go out in public, we still have to wear masks. If we feel up to it, we might go for a drive tomorrow. We'll see. We'll see. I understand from friends who've had the vid that the fatigue and congestion, which you can probably hear, lasts a while after the fever and stuff goes away. Yay. Yeah, that's the worst part of the the congestion and just the fatigue and the fatigue. Oh my God. I'm just we're exhausted. I'm just sitting here crocheting on my Afghan. We can't even get off the couch. No, we're stuck to it.  I tell you all that and it's kind of a joke, but this is ridiculous. I'm just so tired. I am working on this Afghan. I have gotten aspect couple people about it. I'm going to print type up the pattern that I've done for this. It is one I made up up here for patrons as supporters. It's not expensive. It's only a couple bucks a month. So the link is down in the video description if you want things like copies of patterns like this. I don't write them often, but yeah. Um, so I guess, yeah, I've got crocheting I can do and all of that stuff. I'm not super hungry and Bob's had problems with an upset stomach and I haven't told him this before now today, but I've had problems with my stomach just not wanting me to eat anything on and off today. I think he kind of knew that, but yeah. Yeah.  Anyway, don't have Christmas decorations up. Didn't do Thanksgiving.  What are you going to do? It's in the freezer. It's in the freezer. We might end up having it for a Christmas dinner. We'll see. Anyway, that's it for the moment.  It's about six o'clock as you just heard. Mister is trying to cook us some food. And as you can hear from my voice, yes, we're still sick. We've ended our five days of quarantine, not seeing anybody today. Tomorrow we still have to be cautious for another five days where if we see people, we have to have a mask on. But I can tell besides the congestion, which is easing by the way, my throat feels better and that I'm still sick. I noticed last night that brushing my teeth. Oh my God, the toothpaste tastes terrible. And not the toothpaste tastes great, but I normally don't hate the taste of mint, but oh my God. And then the mouthwash was worse. It tastes like rusty metal. Other things taste okay, but our stomach is a little bit unsettled. I'm not nauseous exactly, but food just doesn't sound good. So we're kind of making ourselves eat. But anyway, it's just been a long day of the same old thing on the sofa. Although we talked about if we feel good, let's go for a drive. We don't have to see anybody. We can just be in the car. We didn't do that. We're just, yeah, but I've been working on the Afghan projects that I'm doing for Bob. I've started the last color around the edging. It's the only thing I feel like doing. So I'm kind of glad I at least feel like doing that. I will probably post something later on social media. Maybe, maybe I won't post it until I put something back on there. But if you're watching this and you do follow me on social media, you know that I've been doing daily drawing pics almost every day for a very long time, multiple years. And in the past week, you haven't seen hardly any because I've been sick. I haven't touched this in quite a while. So maybe this week, if I do start feeling better, which I'm supposed to, I have no fever, haven't had a fever since Friday, I can catch up on that and prep the December journal because I haven't done that either. I was going to do that this last week, but you know, Christmas decorations aren't up, Christmas cards aren't ready, kids didn't come over, none of it. Because you know, we have the vid, so yeah. I know. He had, he had to share. He loves me so much he had to share. All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Okay, you guys. Yes, I'm upstairs in the art room. I can't say I'm going to get anything done, but yes, I didn't make it up the stairs. Still sick, still with the vid. No fever still since Friday. Congestion is easing, throat's feeling better. Extreme fatigue is the thing. Like it's so hard to just even make it up the stairs. And we were warned by a couple of people, including the doctor, about periodic bouts of dizziness being out of breath as part of the weakness. That's really a thing. I also have periodic bouts of clamminess, even though I have no fever. And no appetite. I've lost five pounds. So anyway, I'm going to plug my tablet in and let it charge. Turn on some YouTube, I guess. And the only thing I have the energy to do is crochet on that blanket, I think. I need to edit the vlog. I need to do a lot of things, but I don't have the energy. And I don't know if they're going to get done in time. There might be no vlog this coming week. I might have to post something. Anyway, all right, I'll be back. Yeah, I'm back downstairs. I was going to sort of push myself to get video edited today and catch up on my drawings and stuff. But I just don't have the energy, you guys. If you've had the vid, then you know, like the extreme fatigue and stuff that comes with it. It's a thing. It's a real thing. And not being hungry. It's just, yeah, anyway. So we're laying down on the couch. Bob's upstairs in his office working, as well as he can. He's feeling the same as I am. So anyway, yeah, thanks. I'll be for sharing your germs. Appreciate it. All right, I'll be back. Five minutes of energy. So I started working on sorting all the bits and pieces for the Italy albums for my sister and my dad. I'm out of energy now. And I printed one picture of Junior off for the Christmas tree. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, now I'm pooped. All right, I'll be back. I'll say we have the best neighbors. So the husband, Nate, heard from his wife, Kat, that we have COVID. And they've had it, so they don't know what it feels like.  They're the sweetest people on the planet. Anyway, I need to go lay down now. Again, damn it. I left my water somewhere.  Hey guys, I just thought I'd check in really quick. Yeah, so I'm upstairs in the art room for the like five minutes. I can manage it while I'm recovering from the vid. Bob and I, for reference, have the I don't want to impose disease. So we tend to not ask for help for anything. Yeah, so I made the decision to ask if one of the kids could go pick up a few groceries for us, because that was even something we didn't want to do. But we're really feeling like number one, we don't want to leave and expose anybody. We have a few days before we're allowed to do that. We're still not feeling good and COVID fatigue is definitely a thing. Bob's not even wanting to go to his masonic meeting because he doesn't want to take a chance. So I message the kids and daughter is going to go get us a few things that we're running out of. And then we don't have to worry about it. We do need somebody to go to Costco for us too, but it can wait another day or so. And yeah, anyway, I ate some lunch, even though it tasted funny, because yeah, that's also a real thing. And I don't know how much longer I'm going to last up here in our room, I might end up going back downstairs on the couch. So all right, I'll be back. Okay, while we still are not feeling 100%, we are allowed to leave the house if we wear a mask. So we are going to go get some groceries, because we are almost completely out of some things or completely out of things. The daughter ran out for us last night and got honey and a couple things, but Junior is, but he's got a cold. So he's sick. We haven't seen him in two weeks.  We haven't seen him. There'll be two weeks on Thursday. Yeah, so. Tomorrow, yeah. Anyway, so we're going to go and venture out. We're not happy about having to wear a mask, but if we're going to do this, it's best to do it in the evening, because it's the one time of the day right now that we have any amount of energy. So we're going to go do that. We don't need a lot, but yeah, we're going to go get it done and I'll be back. Hey guys. So as of last night, we're out of quarantine from the vid and feeling better, but the fatigue and vertigo, it's a thing, man. Things are starting to not taste weird anymore, but that was a thing too. We did manage to get all the Christmas decorations up today for the most part. Do they look good or does it look like Santa threw up in my yard? Well, I don't know. Anyway, we'll see. Bob is vacuuming. Well, he's still feeling good and then we might go try to run a couple of errands. I'm not sure. It'll depend on how we're feeling, but so far, so better. So not 100%, but definitely better. I won't wish this thing on anybody. All right, I'll be back. Right in the car. We are in the car. Yeah. Your car. My car. Yeah. We've been driving Taz when we do go out and we've had to only go out in an emergency and be masked up until like last night. And so this is the first time we've been out in the car and aren't worried about wearing a mask. We still have a couple of symptoms. We're getting past, but we're not sick anymore. But anyway, I already told you all that. We're going to go try to get a couple of errands done that we haven't been able to really do since this whole thing started. So it's been at least two weeks, probably three since I checked the PO box. So we're going to go do that. By the way, if you want to send me happy mail, I love happy mail, but y'all never send me anything. I do have a PO box.  Address is in the video description. Anyway, we're going to go do that. We're going to go try to look for some stolen. Our favorite German Bavarian Deli closed business permanently this last year. I'm guessing the owners retired or passed away and they couldn't find anybody to take over because they were significantly older, which is sad because it was such a cute little place here in town. There are a couple more like in downtown Portland. I won't go there by myself. He has to go with me. I also was thinking and I haven't said this to him yet. So we'll stay here on camera that we could go, no, not to Germany, to Mount Angel, where we have the Oktoberfest. I bet you they have a German market over there because the whole town is like Bavarian German themed. So that might be a good like road day road trip. We'll see. Anyway, we're going to get some stuff done. I'll be back guys. So one of the things we've been wanting to do as I said is find a new German jelly and market German jelly German deli and market, especially over the holidays. We like to have some traditional food for my husband's side of the family. And I think we found it out of ice sausage and delicatessen in Portland. I will link what I can find on them down below. I know they have a Yelp page, but yeah, really nice people, super helpful. They have a very good stock of stuff and what they don't have, they can probably make for you or get for you. We're really in downtown Portland, just in case you can get that. So we're going to head towards home now make one more stop and then go home and have dinner. But that was a good stop. I'll be back. All right, guys, we've been so sick. I don't even know if I close the vlog last week. I have no idea. Maybe I did. I don't know. Nope. COVID brain is a thing just FYI, at least in my opinion. Anyway, it's been an interesting couple of weeks. I wish the last of the after effects of having the vid would go away, but nothing in life that's worthwhile happens quickly, I guess. So yeah. Anyway, we made it through. It's all good.  So I guess we did a decent job. I, you know, that's not bad, I guess. Anyway, it's not bad. It's not bad. So if you have questions, comments or concerns, leave them down below. We will be back to normal videos hopefully soon. I do have some stuff I want to film. Hopefully we can get to it. I am fighting the fatigue and vertigo, but you know, it is what it is. So we'll make it work. Anyway, thank you for sticking with me. If you want to support the free content, join my Patreon. I do have one. They get regular posts for me every month. They have ready access to conversations to me. Not only in Facebook Messenger, now there's one over in Patreon. So not that I've paid much attention to it because I've been sick with the bid, but you know, it is over there. I'm working on some crochet projects, working on some cotton yarn. I've got stuff coming. Yeah, there's lots of stuff. The brain's on overload as usual. So I must be getting better. Anyway, support the free content. I'd appreciate it. Did I go off on a tangent? Of course I did. Anyway, the most important thing is to I hope you all had a happy holiday. If you celebrate Thanksgiving or something else, I hope you had a good one. We have Christmas and winter holidays for folks coming up. You may not celebrate Christmas, but you might celebrate Hanukkah or something else. I wish you all a happy one coming up. Celebrate and spend time with your family and your friends and your loved ones. The most important thing is stay safe and safe, healthy. Wash your hands. Stay home if you're not feeling well.  They just really don't. So anyway, that's it for right now.  I'll see you later. 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Welcome back to our lecture series, Math 4230, abstract algebra two for students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'll be your professor today, Dr. Andrew Missildine. So to let you remember where we are in this lecture series, so over the last several lectures, we've been developing the notions that we need from linear algebra in preparation to talk about field theory. So we've developed that for an arbitrary vector space, we've developed the idea that there's a well-defined notion of dimension that you have a basis. Basis always have the same size, the same cardinal, I should say, that is the dimension. That independent sets can always be expanded into bases, that spanning sets can always be pruned into bases, and so we have this well-developed theory of dimension and bases of a vector space. Importantly, if you have a field and you have some ring that extends that field, particularly if it's a field itself, then you can view that ring as a vector space over the subfield, and that's why we really were interested in developing this idea of dimension and vector spaces in the previous lectures here. So we've also seen that earlier in this lecture series, we've also talked about polynomials and factorization. We've discovered that factoring a polynomial over a UFD, call it D, is the same as factoring over its fraction field. So frack of D. If your polynomial, if its coefficients come from UFD, or if it comes over the fraction field, it really doesn't make much of a bit of a difference either. That's really a consequence of Gauss's lima there. So this allows us to move from unique factorization domains to fraction fields, and so we're very interested in the ring f of joint x, like so. Well, f of joint x is a ring that extends f, and so it's going to be an infinite dimensional, it's gonna be an infinite dimensional vector space, and so we're gonna start pushing all these things together. We're bringing together factorizations, particularly for polynomials. We have these vector spaces, and so now we are ripe, ready to start our formal discussion of field theory. But typically when one talks about field theory, the word field is not actually the one that's used. Typically we refer to something as Gaoua theory. Now some people are much more conservative when they talk about Gaoua theory, like it's only Gaoua theory when we start talking about the Gaoua group. Or some people are like, oh, it's only Gaoua theory when we talk about field extensions, which of course we are gonna talk about that right now. Some people are much more liberal, that is in terms of extensions, field extensions falls under Gaoua theory. Some people like Gaoua theory and field theory are synonyms of each other. That's the terminology we're gonna use, of course, in this lecture series. Now, another thing to make mention about polynomial factorizations, remember earlier we said that a polynomial has a linear factor if and only if it has a root. When you compare the factorizations of the UFD and the unique factorization domain, and the UFD with its field of fractions, that's the word I was looking for, the factorization is the same by Gauss's level. But if you get a larger field, it turns out the factorization could change, perhaps because you introduced a root. Like if you take the polynomial f of x equals x squared plus one, you can view this as a polynomial over q of joint x. It's irreducible in that setting because as it is a quadratic polynomial, all the way it could reduce is if it has a linear factor and the factors, linear factors only exist if you have a root. The roots are plus or minus i, rational numbers don't have that. But we could look at a larger field, like we could extend q into the complex number c, in which case then f of x can factor as x minus i and x plus i for which this factorization over the complex numbers has no equivalent over the rational numbers. So extending the field can change the factorization and that's very much why we're interested in the notion of an extension field. Let's define formally what we mean then of course by an extension field. It's a very obvious definition, but let's say it anyways, if you have a field f, we say that another field e is an extension field of f if f is contained inside of it. That's it, that's what an extension field is. We call f f for a field and e because it's an extension, it's also conveniently next to f in the alphabet, which is a follow in a convention we often use, adjacent letters when we describe similar things. And so an extension field e just means it's a larger field that contains the smaller field. Sometimes instead of an extension field, you could say that e is an extension of f, things like that, that's what an extension field is. Now, like I was mentioning earlier, since e is a field containing the subfield f, that means e is an f vector space. Since e is an f vector space, it has a basis as an f vector space and that basis has a cardinal and it's well-defined. That would then be the dimension of e as an f vector space. And this is gonna be denoted as e colon f, the so-called degree of this extension. Now, if you look at that notation, e colon f, that looks a lot like the index of a subgroup inside of a group. That, the similarity of notation is intentional right here. We actually want to look at that because when we start introducing Galois groups, we will see there's a relationship between the degree of an extension field and the index of corresponding groups. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. So if this dimension is a finite number, that is if e is a finite dimensional f vector space, we say that e is a finite extension of f. Otherwise, if e is an infinite dimensional f vector space, we say that e is an infinite extension of f. All right? Commonly when one talks about a field extension, so f extends, e extends f is what I meant to say. This is often denoted as e bracket, not bracket, e slash f in that situation. Now again, when you look at that, it's like e slash f. If I had written something like g slash n, you would think of like a quotient group g mod n or maybe a ring equivalent. That's not what we mean for fields. It looks like it could be like a quotient ring or something like that. But remember that for a quotient ring to be well-defined, you can only mod out by an ideal. And in a field, the only ideals are the whole ring, which if you mod it out, you get the zero ring. Or the zero ring, which if you mod out, you just get back what you started with. So you don't talk about quotient rings with fields. So even though the notation looks like a quotient ring, there's no ambiguity there whatsoever. And why do we make it look like a quotient ring then? Cause actually it's meant to resemble a quotient group. Like we said earlier, this kind of looks like the index of a group. This also looks like a quotient group. Now remember that the order of a quotient group is actually equal to the index. And so there's an analogy that's gonna happen that we won't see for a while. Some people actually write, they'll take e, e extend f, and they actually put cardinality around here as shorthand for the degree. That's not notation I personally use that often, but be aware that is sometimes used by other authors, other mathematicians, because they're taking, they're taking the analog between field extensions and group quotients to the extreme, which when we get deeper into Galois theory, it's gonna be quite natural why one might do that. Let's get a very simple example of a field extension right now. Let's take the rational numbers and we can extend it to the rational numbers, join the square root of two. And this is a field extension of degree two, I claim. And how do I know that? Well, that's because the set q adjoin square root of two, every element in that set can be written as a plus b times the square root of two where a and b are arbitrary rational numbers. And so clearly this is the span of the numbers one and the square root of two, like so. It's not too difficult to see that the set one comma the square root of two is an independent set as a rational, viewing them inside of rational vector spaces here. Because if it were literally dependent, that would actually force that the square root of two was a rational number, but even Euclid knew that the square root of two is not a rational number. That's a classic, very elementary proof there, just using divisibility of things. So this is an independent set, which then shows that the dimension of this field extension, the degree, is at least two because it's at least a two-dimensional vector space. But it then turns out since this is also a spanning set, it's gotta be a basis so we get the degree right here. Why is this a basis for this? Because after all, what is this set? Q adjoin the square root of two is defined to be the smallest field that contains the rational field and the square root of two. We'll actually give a more formal definition of it in just a second when we prove Kronecker's theorem. But just so you're aware, and just so you're aware, I mean, we'll prove Kronecker's theorem in the next video, not this one. So take a look for that one in just a second. But after we've proven Kronecker's theorem, it'll be a lot more obvious why this field is the same thing as this. Because this field on the left, Q adjoin the square root of two is the smallest field that contains Q and the square root of two. Now, clearly this does contain Q because you could just take A to be anything B to be zero. That gives you all the rational numbers. You also could take, you get the square root of two because you could set B to be one and A to be zero. And this is in fact a field, okay? How do I know it's a field? Well, clearly it's closed under addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The fact that it's, you have quotients is basically the following observation. If you take one over A plus B times the square root of two, if you multiply this by its conjugate, notice what's gonna happen here.  Like so, you end up with an A right here, minus B over A squared minus two B squared, and there is a slight argument that has to be made that A squared minus two B squared is never zero. I mean, after all, can a perfect square ever equal a perfect squared times two? This is basically now coming into Euclid's proof that the square root of two is irrational. So A squared minus two B squared where A and B are rational numbers can never, ever, ever be zero. So this thing is okay. This would belong to Q enjoying the square root of two. And so basically, because this is a vector space, let me show you the argument here. Because this is a vector space, there has to be a dimension that dimension can't be one because if the dimension was one, that would mean that Q enjoying the square root of two is equal to the rational numbers, but we know the square root of two is not rational. So it's gotta be larger than that. Like we said earlier, it's gotta be at least two, okay? But since things of this form do form a field because they have multiplicative inverses, this is a field that contains Q in the square root of two and so that's what this field has to be, the smallest such field, dimension two is the smallest it could be because you can't do dimension one, right? So there's some important arguments that are happening in that situation there. So this is in fact a field extension of degree two. I wanna give us another example before we end this video with our definition of field extensions. If you take Q as a subfield of R, we argued actually in the previous lecture here that as a vector space, R is a continuum dimensional vector space. That is the dimension of R as a rational vector space is equal to the continuum. That's this statement right here. So we can get lots of variety here. We can get these finite extensions, we can get infinite extensions, where to this case, the extension is in fact countable. And so the whole point of studying linear algebra in the previous lectures of this lecture series was so that we could utilize linear algebra to study field extensions, much like we did in this short video.


What's up everybody I'm TheBangooz, you are awesome and it's time for another Call to Arms, a series where I complained about the problems with Paragon under the guise of suggesting ways for Metabuff and Omega to fix it. Today I want to talk about stuns. As my friend Joyceinator has pointed out, stuns in Amoba are absolutely necessary to the game and serve to enhance the experience of all players. Stuns offer a way to outplay your opponents by setting up kills, interrupting abilities, or saving an ally. One of the things that separates good players from the rest is knowing who could stun and then playing around that. It's rewarding for a support player to anticipate an incoming Gideon ultimate and have that stun ready for it, but it's equally rewarding for a good Gideon to observe the fight, wait for that stun to be used elsewhere, then come over the top with a devastating black hole. However, there is a right way to do stuns, then there is Epic's way. I have a few problems with how Epic implemented stuns into the game, and yes, while I did use Decker for the thumbnail I'm not talking about how her stun just didn't work sometimes. That was a gameplay bug, not a choice in implementation. I do hope that Stasis Bomb gets fixed, but that really isn't the point of all this. The problems I'm talking about are how the stun durations didn't always match the time to kill, how Epic went about trying to fix the problem, and my biggest complaint, the way stuns interacted with certain ultimate abilities. Let's start with stun durations. This wasn't always a problem with the game, however, when they made the switch from Legacy to Monolith, they decreased the time to kill without also decreasing the duration of stuns. They ended up playing around with this a bit, but I felt they kept extremely long duration stuns in a game that was getting faster and faster for far too long. This really seemed like an oversight on their part. It makes sense to have a 2 second stun if it takes an ADC like 2.5 to 3.5 seconds to kill someone, but to keep that duration at 2 seconds when it takes Twin Blast like 1.5 to 2.5 seconds to kill just doesn't seem right. Also being able to chain multiple stuns when one person meant that they would lose all control of their hero for like 8 to 10 seconds, which was long enough to keep it up perpetually if you had the right composition. That's more of a hypothetical complaint. If you keep someone's stun for 10 seconds and can't get done what you're trying to do, then that's kinda on you. Now Epic knew that there was a problem with stuns in their game and they tried to fix it, but they did it the wrong way. You've already heard me complain about this several times now, but they would often try to fix the meta by laying on a hashtag every 3 weeks. They would attempt to release heroes like Yin or Terror to counter things when they got out of hand. This is little more than a Band-Aid. Heroes like that are fun to play and I'm glad they were in the game. Outwitting someone by going immune for a second with Seryth was great, but I would rather have those heroes AND have the problems fixed. I want to remember Yin as the powerful and unique ADC that she was, not as the one they tried to fix Rampage rocks with. But how do you fix the stuns? Looking through their frequently asked questions for core, it says that they plan to introduce diminishing returns on crowd control. I think that is a huge step in the right direction. Using a system of diminishing returns will still allow people to display their team skill by chaining crowd control without making the person targeted feel completely helpless.  Let's use Richter, Aurora, and Countess for example. All three had some sort of wind up animation before any damage was applied with their ultimate. Richter had a short hunch forward prior to releasing the chesticles. Aurora had her sexy spin before applying frost and Countess would of course scream in your face and force you to turn towards her. Now if you interrupted Countess before she dealt damage, her ultimate would go on a hard cooldown as if it had been used. If you interrupted Aurora during the spin, her ultimate would go on a very short, soft cooldown. There is reasoning behind this, even if you didn't deal damage with Countess's ultimate, you still applied an effect to the enemy whereas Aurora's spin did nothing until it ended. I would be somewhat fine with that but if you interrupted Richt's skewer when he hunched forward, it went on full cooldown. Why?  It was an inconsistency that applied to a few heroes. Let's hope that Metabuff and Obeda apply their game theories equally to all characters. I also hope that if they use soft cooldowns, they are longer than what Paragon had. It sucks when you have the foresight and skill to launch a stasis bomb over everyone to interrupt a more engaged ult, only to watch her walk away a few feet and just do it again. The soft cooldown was often shorter than the organic cooldown of a stun.  I also don't think it's particularly rewarding for the person playing someone like Aurora or Moira Gash. If you ult whenever you want, eat a stun and just do it again, then it feels like your character is powerful, but it doesn't make you the player feel like you did anything particularly smart to outplay your opponents. Stuns within a MOBA should be able to serve multiple purposes. In a late game match of Paragon, it really seemed like they were only there to set up kills and they were too good at doing that. Yes, there are examples of how you could use your stuns to save allies throughout a match, but it seemed to me that the overall focus Epic had on stuns was for offensive use. That's about all I have for now. If you have anything to say on the topic, please feel free to cut loose in the comments below. If you liked the video, hit that like button and subscribe if you haven't already. I'm out of here.


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