This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to you, Pat, Degracier, Daniels, and Irwin Sturr. Coming up on DTNS is a call to pause AI research reasonable? A law aimed at TikTok could hit end-to-end encryption. And why does Italy hate mammoth meatballs? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I am Scott Johnson. And the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us co-host of Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod is The Will. Will Smith, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me, everybody. I appreciate it. Thank you for being here. Let's start today's festivities with the quick hits. Apple announced its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference, aka WWDC, will be held Monday, June 5th to Friday, June 9th. As it's been the past few years, WWDC 2023 will be a mostly online event open to all developers at no cost. The company is also planning an in-person special event for certain developers and students on June 5th at the Apple Park Campus. Windows central sources say Microsoft began work on a project called Core PC. It's a modular and customizable variant of Windows. It would let Microsoft configure different editions of the operating system with different levels of support for things like legacy Win32 apps, legacy features, compatibility. This would also let Microsoft ship a version of Windows that completely strips out legacy support, which would be ideal for doing things like competing with Chrome OS. Microsoft is also working on a version that is silicon optimized to vertically focus on hardware with an emphasis on AI capabilities. Company reportedly hopes to have Core PC ready sometime in 2024. Google announced a new perspectives carousel that will show insights from a range of journalists, experts, and other relevant voices under top stories in search, for example, showing tweets and sub-stack posts below news articles about the Oscars. This will roll out soon in the US for English language search. The company also announced it will roll out extreme heat alerts in search over the coming months, partnering with the Global Heat Health Information Network. As early as this year, Nokia plans to launch a 4G LTE network on the moon. I'm not joking. They're going to use a Nova Sea lunar lander launched on a SpaceX rocket and establish an LTE connection between the lander and a solar powered rover. This will demonstrate the ability of the network to work, and then it could be used on NASA's Artemis manned moon missions. The hardware still needs to be validated so the launch could be delayed to 2024, but it's going to happen and those missions, which I guess manned is an old fashioned word that are going to have men and women, will be able to have a nice T-Mobile connection. They will be personed. They will be personed. And they will have internet access. Good stuff. The US District Court for the Northern District of California issued a subpoena for information on the user called free speech enthusiast who posted Twitter's source code to GitHub in early January. GitHub removed the code last Friday in response to a DMCA request from Twitter and now has until April 3rd to provide names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, social media profile data, anything, including an IP address for users associated with free speech enthusiast accounts. GitHub was also ordered to provide that same info for any user who downloaded or modified the data. GitHub may challenge the order. And thank you to S. Kelly 2909 in our chat. Crude is the appropriate word, C-R-E-W-E-D. That's what NASA uses. Yes. A crew is on board the mission. Thank you very much, S. Kelly. All right, let's talk a little more about, we got some follow-ups on TikTok. Yeah, we do. So a video and sharing app called Lemon 8, that's L-E-M-O-N and the number 8, has climbed into the top 10 on the US app store's overall rankings this week, described as a lifestyle community app with a similar look to Instagram. Now, don't worry if you haven't heard of it, because Data AI says, this is the first time that Lemon 8 cracked the top 200 in the US since it launched in March of 2020, kind of under the radar until fairly recently. Gizmodo notes that Lemon 8 is listed as owned by a Singapore-based company called Helophilia, but past reports have found that Bite Dance is in fact Lemon 8's parent company. So while a potential TikTok ban may loom, is this a way around it? Yeah, could Bite Dance just promote these other smaller apps that nobody remembered they had? Maybe not. At least not if the restrict act passes. Now, yesterday we mentioned the restrict act as the leading contender to be a bill that could be used to ban TikTok, but we didn't talk as much about it yesterday because we were focused on explaining what was going on with TikTok itself. So it's worth taking the time today since we have this Lemon 8 story to note the breadth of the restrict act. It is very widely applicable. It doesn't mention TikTok specifically. In fact, it gives the US Secretary of Commerce the authority to take any mitigation measure. Now it lays out a bunch of examples, but it also says and any other kind of mitigation measure against any risk by a covered transaction that poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States. So if somebody can make an argument it's a risk to national security, you can mitigate against it, including banning it. If it's a covered transaction, a covered transaction is one in which a foreign adversary or an entity subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign adversary has an interest. Foreign adversaries named in the bill and they could be changed or added to over time, but the ones named in the bill include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela under President Maduro. So for any reason deemed to be a threat to national security, any company which does business in Russia, which is Google, Apple, Microsoft, could conceivably be made to do almost anything with their tech. And of course that applies to China, too, where even more businesses do business. I feel like this makes me nervous, Will, because you could see a route and I know it's not intended to do this, but you could see a route where someone says, yeah, iMessage shouldn't be end to end encrypted and we're going to use the restrict act to stop them from doing that because they do business in China and therefore they have to give us a back door to end an encryption for national security reasons. Yeah, I think that's the big issue with the legislation as far as I understand it is that it's just entirely too open-ended. It concentrates power in the executive branch, which as we've all learned over the last few years, maybe is not a great idea as based on the outcomes of past elections. And it's the open-ended nature and kind of the fact that honestly the problems with TikTok could be solved if we just had an actual data, anti-data collection law like has happened in the EU with GDPR and it kind of happened in California a few years ago. I was looking at the details of this act or this proposed act and the one thing that threw me because my initial response was, hey, if they ban TikTok, they end up banning it and it goes through, a whole bunch of kids are going to learn how to use VPNs for the first time. And I was kind of joking about it. Wow, VPNs get you around anything, but there is language in this thing that is like hardcore anti-VPN. Not necessarily saying VPNs are outlawed, but if you use a VPN and knowingly use it to get attached to this or anything else that they deem a security risk and have banned huge fines. Then you yourself may be a security risk. Yeah, you are subject to gigantic fines, long amounts of time in jail, like a real gnarly look at the underbelly of what it takes to use a VPN if you're trying to get around these rules and that stuff is a little scary, a little too much. I mean, I guess I wonder, we're talking about Lemonade, for example, on the show today. Never heard of it, even though it's been around since 2020. Do a bunch of people who are TikTok users and lovers who, I don't know, in a future, not far away from now, no longer are able to use TikTok, just jump over to Lemonade? And if so, how long does it take for this cycle to repeat itself? Well, yeah, I mean, that's what happened in India, right? They started with a small number of apps, including TikTok, but they ended with more than 200. So, yeah, Lemonade's not going to be a strategy for that. If this ends up banning TikTok, they're going to ban everything else by dances associated with anything else that has a trace to China as well. It's interesting that it Lemonade looks like it's just a company in Singapore, so maybe it could skate by somehow on paperwork? I don't know. We're talking about the fact that they're not really skating by. So, yeah. Yeah, but where's the proof? I think it's a little nebulous, so you could see them doing other things where they have paper companies with relationships, etc. It's going to get like that, and you're going to have other ways to get around those rules. One side note, that app would need a serious overhaul. I've used that app, and Lemonade is not TikTok, even close to it. It is a lot closer to you. No, it's not meant to be, yeah. It's more like Instagram eight years ago, is really what it's like. They don't even have a really good video system in there. It actually sounds like a pretty good app. Maybe. That's a decent point. So, yeah, that's the other thing, because I think people end up going to shorts and reels, and then shorts and reels also scramble a bit because they have a lot of repurposed TikTok accounts. That's exactly what happened in India. There were a few startups that got a little bit of traction, but most everybody went to YouTube and Instagram. Well, earlier this week, Ubisoft pulled out of E3 after Nintendo and Microsoft both said they would not be at the physical show either. You might recall, just last month, Ubisoft was the first major company to publicly commit to E3, but then announced it will instead hold an Ubisoft forward live event on June 12th in Los Angeles. Now Sega and Tencent have both announced they don't plan to officially participate in E3 either. Organizer ReadPop says the full roster of exhibitors will be announced in the lead-up to the expo. E3 is going to take place June 13th through the 16th and is the event's first physical show at the LA Convention Center in four years, so it's a big deal that they're back in person. It's also changed hosting hands from the Entertainment Software Association to what Sarah just mentioned, ReadPop, which also puts on PAX, EGX, the Star Wars Celebration. So it's safe to say a lot of things about E3 are going to be different this year, but is it really that different that these companies aren't involved? I know everybody's making a big deal about it, but did we forget in four years that companies often hold events outside of big conventions? Microsoft does that at CES, has done it for years. I'm curious how big of a deal this is, really. Scott, what's your read on E3? Well, for me, you kind of described it, and I'll put the blame at Nintendo's feet. They years and years ago decided to stop exhibiting or not necessarily exhibiting, but stopped doing keynotes and sort of joining in on the usual E3 business and started doing directs. And it turns out, in some ways, that was a prophetic move and everybody else is doing that now as well. And I think when they are now being asked, hey, do you want to come spend, literally for these companies, some of the millions of dollars on exhibiting here and doing your sage presentation here, or would you rather control everything about it, do videos of your own, choose your own dates, do your own thing? They're choosing the latter, and I don't think I blame them.  The internet is where you get your word out and you will easily get your word out with one state of play from Sony or Microsoft saying one thing about Starfield or Nintendo doing a direct, the whole world stops, we all listen to the gaming world anyway, and we're not that fussed that we don't have E3 as the one time a year that it happens. Plus you look at Pax, plus you look at the Game Awards, you look at all these other events, GDC kind of takes care of the developers and DICE sort of does that as well. So what are you left with? What are you actually exhibiting there? And I'm not sure they know. This kind of reminds me of when Apple pulled out of Macworld and everyone was like, wow, Macworld, I mean, Macworld RIP, but Macworld continued on for some time. After Apple said, eh, we're just not going to be officially part of this, we're still talking about Apple at the event. And I wonder if E3 still benefits from all of the news and forthcoming announcements from these major players that don't have a booth at E3 but still are going to sort of propel the conversation. I mean, there's two things to remember here about E3, right? E3 has been dying for as long as I can remember now. We've been talking about E3 dying for like 10, 15 years at this point. So it got real small for a little bit, then it got big again and then the coronavirus and everybody was like, why do we even have E3 anymore? So it's been in a perpetual state of flux ever since gaming became a mainstream hobby that everybody participates in. In the 90s, it made sense to have these huge events where millions of people, hundreds of thousands of people came and there were opportunities for the national news people to come and do a package about the hot new trend in video games. We don't need that anymore. Everybody's playing. Everybody's playing, whether it's match threes on your phone or Halo or Destiny or whatever, everybody plays games. So people know about games. We're good. Yeah. And also, what we do want is we want community, right? And that's happening. That's happening maybe in other areas. That's maybe the one place the ESA and E3 missed the boat is not counting on that being the future. I think that's why they hired Read Pop, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's too big for Indies and it's too small for the mainstream, for people that are already established. Nintendo doesn't need anything to get breath through the wild information out. We're all there, lined up ready to go. So it's a weird place to be. I hope that they've shifted to be more consumer-focused like PAX and EGX and that kind of stuff rather than an industry event because I think the space for that as an industry event has kind of gone away. Well, folks, if you like these kinds of conversations, we'd like you to submit ideas for them. What do you want to hear us talk about? Let us know on our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewsShow.Reddit.com. The Future of Life Institute published an open letter asking for a pause in training AI systems that are more powerful than GPT-4. The letter said, quote, powerful AI systems should be developed only once. We are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable, end quote. The letter also called for a voluntary pause but said governments should step in if it's not enacted quickly. The letter goes on to describe the need to develop AI governance systems, including independent review and oversight systems, saying we can now enjoy an AI summer in which we reap the rewards and engineer these systems for the clear benefit of all and give society a chance to adapt. More than a thousand people have signed the letter but keep in mind that anyone is allowed to sign it. You can just type your name in. And apparently, at one point, someone had typed in Altman's name and they had to remove it. But the first names on the list are legit. The first two names are computer scientist Yashua Benjio, who was instrumental in hiring the team that started open AI, by the way. He teaches at the University of Montreal. Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley is the second signatory. The next two names are the ones getting all the attention, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak. Other notable signers include former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang, stability AI's founder and CEO, Emid Mostak, and co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris and Alza Roskin, as well as a couple of engineers from Google and Meta sprinkled in there. However, nobody from open AI, nobody even from Anthropic, which spun out of open AI to build a safer chatbot, has signed the letter. I think the letter is reasonable. I've seen so many people shred it, including folks in our chat room right now. Keep in mind, they aren't saying stop all development on AI. They're saying take six months before you start working on the next version, like GPT-5. And Altman actually told the Wall Street Journal today, we haven't started work on GPT-5. He said you're preaching to the choir. So I don't actually think what's in this letter is that unreasonable. It's saying let's take a pause before we move to the next stage and all agree on guardrails. That would be perfectly reasonable if it wasn't such a one-sided list of people who are not the people developing this. It's not Google. It's not Facebook. It's not open AI. And it's not DeepMind or any of the other developers in here. So it seems like an emotional fight. And that's how people are treating it. When I read the text of it, it doesn't seem as crazy. Do you agree, folks? Let's start with you, Will. I mean, I've spent a fair amount of time using GPT-4. And the big problem with it right now is it's kind of like the early, like the mid-90s, early 2000s internet, right? It's in the extreme mansplaining phase. So it is able to give a believable, really enthusiastic defense of whatever you ask it. It will explain stuff. It will be completely wrong in the important details, both minor and major or everything it describes. And as a result, you can get some really convincing information that is 100% untrue, which is I think one of the dangers here. If people use this like they use search results, they're going to, people are going to have dead. Bad things are going to happen to people. It's going to take people's jobs. It's going to replace it with bad information. And I don't see a downside to taking a pause, except for that, like you said, half of the world isn't going to pause and the other half will. And then that half that pauses is six months or whatever behind it. But again, the other half is saying, like, I don't even know why we need this letter. We paused. We haven't started work on the next version of it anyway. What I don't like is that they're fighting about it. To me, it's like, yeah, you should just all have come together and agreed on it. Why does it have to be this threatening open letter? Well, and I think that that's the thing about this that is implied is that GPT-567, whatever it is, is going to harm us because we don't understand it well enough. Let's stick with GPT-4 and let's really get our heads around it and figure out when the system works, when it doesn't, how it helps us, when it's dangerous, or threatens humanity because that's the overall type thing here. It's like, robots will take over. We're not going to be able to stay on top of it and everything is going to go to, you know, where. So I don't really feel like the letter is in the wrong, but just being eviscerated online by a lot of really smart people saying, it's too late. We're already doing this. Like, what are we talking about? That's the part that really frustrates me. The letter isn't asking us to stop doing what we're already doing. The letter is saying, before you do the next one, before you make it better, before you do GPT-5, which you haven't started working on, let's all agree on the rules of the road to have some systems to oversee things, to make sure that we can tell if it is going off the rails and stop it from doing that. I don't think that's unreasonable. No, it's not unreasonable to ask, but here's where I think the problem is, none of the people actually making this stuff are agreeing with the letter and people who aren't directly involved are the ones telling them to, which smells a lot like eventually you're going to get that sort of thing from governments. You're going to get that from other regulatory bodies. So if it was me and I was in the AI world, I was a founder and a huge investor in open AI or any of these companies, I would want me and everyone like me to come together and figure out your own solution of self-regulation, start figuring out what those issues are, those questions are, those problems are, make that a priority. You've got the money, you can hire the talent, make that a priority before somebody else makes the priority for you. And that way, you will just avoid a ton of these headaches. You make it very independent and transparent. You do it the way they tried to do the ESRB back in the nineties with video games. Talked about it on TMS with Tom a little bit today. You can go listen to that if you want to hear detail. But point is, do you want to control your destiny?  And that genie's out of the bottle for sure. But I think we can, I don't know, we can make sure that genie's well-dressed and behaves itself. But doesn't that just introduce the whole sort of like, will you, Scott and I and Tom and Will all agree that this is the best way to proceed forward? What about all the other people who have access to the same tools who don't agree? So, I mean, I think the thing that is confusing and difficult about this topic for me personally is that it's advancing so fast right now that it's hard to keep up with what it's good and bad at, right? And if it continues increasing in this pace, like what was the gap between GPT-3 and GPT-4? It was like six months or something, right? Yeah, it was incredibly short and very quick. Less than a month. Oh no, no, it was much longer than that. But it was a gap between the introduction of chat GPT and GPT-4. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. I'm honestly, I'm more concerned, I'm less concerned about OpenAI because we can see what they're doing, they're posting their stuff publicly, we can all log in and try it out and see how it works and what it's good at. The thing that scares me is what the companies that aren't sharing their work and aren't showing their work are doing. And are we, is OpenAI the cutting edge or are they lagging behind everybody else? And we don't really, nobody's in the place to know because nobody shares their information. Well, and that's what this letter is calling for. I think the only problem with this letter is that it's not consensus building. It's got Elon Musk who, depending on who you believe, got kicked out of OpenAI because he wanted to take over and they didn't want him to. That's what business insiders sources say or semaphores sources say that too. So it feels like it's a fight that's being picked over something that everyone should agree on. To me, it's uncontroversial to say, hey, GPT-4, man, it's moving really fast. This is really weird. We don't even know what all the fallout of that is yet. Maybe we should come up with a framework for safely moving into GPT-5 rather than doing what we did with technology all through the 2000s and 2010s, which was just for try stuff and then see how it affected the world. I think that's a reasonable statement. It's just maybe not the right messengers to bring it. Well, I don't know how hungry everybody is on this panel. Pretty hungry. Well, good, Tom. You may or may not like this next story, then. An Australia company called Val says it has used a combination of woolly mammoth DNA and African elephant DNA to create a lab-grown woolly mammoth meatball. Now, you might say, how does it taste? No one knows. Certain safety measures have to be in place before any of us can taste it. And if Italy has its way, we won't taste it ever. Italy's Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney, is among those who have backed a bill in the country that would ban lab-produced meat and other foods like lab-produced fish, synthetic milk, stuff that you sometimes see on counters, depending on where you live, presumably also would ban woolly mammoth meatballs in order to protect the Italian agriculture industry. If the bill passes, breaking the ban could mean fines of up to 60,000 euros. Ooh. I mean, did they have to choose? Did they have to call it a meatball? Because I think that fired up the Italians, you know? Well, actually, we are putting these stories together. The Italians aren't targeting the meatball. The Italians are basically saying, listen, we do food. This is what we do. The Italians are saying anti-lab-grown meats. Yeah, meatball or otherwise. Okay, but can I be the first to say I would totally eat this meatball? No problem, let's go. I'm ready. Are you sure? This is a protein that has not existed in nature for millennia. Yeah, I would eat it. Yeah, me and Sarah have been. I'm a little, honestly, I'm a little stopped by the elephant DNA. I don't know if I feel like it's... You're more worried about the elephant. To build a taste for elephant flesh when they're so endangered. But it's lab-grown, Will. It's lab-grown. Tastes like elephant. No elephants were harmed in the making of this meatball. Once Musk gets the first taste of his lab-grown elephant meatball, he's going to be like, I want to see if it tastes like the real thing, Sarah. And that's how it all ends. It's bad news for the elephants. Also, Italy's fight to lose a battle because Europe's going to pass a legislation that says you can do lab-grown meat because they're going to be pressured to do so for animal cruelty reasons, and then Italy's going to have to go along. So, you know... Well, and also the carbon footprint of lab-grown meat should theoretically be a lot lower than growing your... It's quite likely that it could be. And if it is, then there's another point in its favor. I too am very curious what the mammoth meatball tastes like, but that's a press stunt. They're never going to make these meatballs for people to eat.  We're doing lab-grown chicken nuggets. Bring on the woolly meatball. The woolly mammoth meatball is going to end up in a museum in the Netherlands, by the way. That's not... I'm not joking. That's actually what it's... Nobody's going to eat it. It's just going to be preserved for science. We made it. My prediction is that stuff's going to taste exactly like venison. It's going to be like deer meat. Oh, that's too gamey for me. Well, I'm telling you, these mastodon balls... Y'all can have my point. Not a mastodon. Not a mastodon, sorry. We've been through this. Yeah, we've been through this. Not a megalodon. None of that. All right. Not a big megalodon meatball. Not a big dinosaur shark either. All right, let's check out the mail bag. Let's do it. So, Mattia had some thoughts on text-to-speech tools, which we talk about on the show regularly, and who they can help. Mattia says text-to-speech tools are not just helpful for classic screen readers' users. Those with lower no vision, but they're also helpful for people with dyslexia or those learning to read a new language. An AI-powered tool that can do dynamic reading based on the context, like a professional audiobook reader, would be great. Text-to-speech devices are monotone. They pose difficulties if you have some level of attention deficit disorder, say, or are dealing with a very dry subject. This is a great point. Thank you, Mattia. This is relating to the idea of having AI create audiobooks that we talked about earlier this week. A nice point. Thank you, Mattia, for writing in. And thank you, Will Smith, for being here. Before we get out of here, let folks know what you're up to these days. We're just over at the tech pod, techpod.content.town, Brad and I post a podcast every week. I think last week was the mail bag. The week before that, we talked about a whole technology. Look, we talked about the MS-DOS icon from Windows 95 for a long time. I'm just going to say, you've just touched the hearts of many people in the Dictionist audience. Yeah. Remember that? That's awesome. Why did it look like that? Who knows? Well, Will, so glad to have you on the show today. Also, thanks to you, Scott Johnson, for being with us. Let folks know where they can keep up with you. Sure. I always love being on with Will because it gets me excited about video games. And if you're excited about video games, then you might like my show, Core, which airs on Thursdays. We go deep into the big issues of the day and the little games we're playing and everything in between. It's a big, long show that just talks about your favorite hobby. So if you're into that, go check it out. Core, wherever you get your podcast, or you can find us at frogpants.com slash core. Well, thanks to both of you for being with us. Also, a very special thanks to Who Is David? We don't know, but we sure love having you as one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. Thank you for all the years of support. Who is David? Who is David? David's our best friend. David's our boss. That's right. That's who David is. David is also a patron and so gets to stick around for the extended show, Good Day Internet. This is not only a tease to Good Day Internet, it's also a bit of a content warning because we're going to extend that lab-grown meat question to the idea of human. 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The mutual broadcasting system presents The Mysterious Traveller, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and starring tonight three of radio's most distinguished actors, Scott Tennyson, Frank Barron, and Agnus Young, and Killer, come home. This is The Mysterious Traveller, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will thrill you a little and cheer you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable, if you can. For tonight, we have a different kind of story. We're traveling into a remote section of the Kentucky Mountains, where the ties of kinship are stronger than the law, to join two escaping conflicts. It's the story I call, Killer Come Home. In a lonely section of the mountains, two men crouch in the brush. Far in the distance, they can hear the siren of the state penitentiary from which they've just escaped that evening. Listen to Whale and Willie. They're sure anxious to get us back here. We're not getting us, Missouri. We're not going back. She'll hope you're right, Harry. That showed Martin, oh, just where we are going. We're heading for Deep Valley. Deep Valley? Where's that? Cross four ridges, and you come to it. It's just about lost, back in the hills. What's that for us? My old home. My mom and my brother, Tom. And he'll hide us out. You sure of that? Blood sticker in the law in these parts. Not that brother Tom and me ever got along good, but he'll hide us out, or else. Or else what, Harry? Or else more... Listen. What is it?  A car? Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I can hear it now, too. That's an old jalopy. Duck down. Let it go by. Nothing of the sort. We're going to stop it. Stop it? You crazy? Every one of these old hillbillies have to have a shotgun beside him. You leave this to me. Okay, Harry. You're calling the cards. Now, uh, I'll talk to him. You slip up from behind. Use a rock. I got one right here. All right, then come on. Stop that car, huh? What do you want? Uh, I'm a deputy sheriff. Uh, there's a prisoner escaped from Stone Mountain. We're, uh, searching all cars. Huh? You have to speak up, mister. I said we're searching all cars for an escaped convict. Escaped convict? I haven't seen him. Now, step aside. My old woman's been stretching me since sundown. Well, that's too bad, Pop. We've got other plans for you. Huh? I didn't catch what you said. See if you can catch this. All right, Missouri. No, no, don't. Ah, good work. That takes care of him. What are we going to do with him now? Take any money he's got and tumble him into the bushes. And then we'll ride the rest of the way to Deep Valley to pay a surprise visit to my old maw. And dear brother Tom. How is she? Well, she's suddenly Tom. That's all it's ailin' her. Anything fretting her? Anything on her mind? She's pining to see Harry, Erick. Yeah? Yeah, my brother. Five years younger. Kind of pet-a-mose. Every year about this time she gets a notion he'll be coming home for a visit. Makes her upset. Well, then that's why she's not eatin' or sleepin'. Would help her a lot if your brother Harry could pay her a visit? Yeah, well, I... I expect that ain't possible. No? Dead? Not exactly. Locked up. Oh. Stone Mountain Penitentiary. Robbery. Been in there four years. Hmm. You more don't know? No, I kept it from her.  Well, I expect you're right, Tom. Shock like that might finish her off. Yeah. See, Harry takin' one off to the city ten years ago. Got in with a gang of some kind, got into trouble with the law. Only time he'd come back here to see Ma was when he had to hide out for a while. Oh, I see. Well, tried to keep her from fretting, Tom. But there is another thing. Yeah, Doc? She shouldn't be stayin' in this cabin and neither should you. She should be down to town where she can get looked after better. Besides, the way the river is undercuttin' the banks, this cabin's gonna topple right into it someday. Yeah. Big Rocky's eatin' this way fast, all right. But Ma won't move. Not in fountain. She sees Harry again. Well, try and persuade her, Tom. All right, I'll try. But ain't much use. If she's a fear, does she move? Harry'll come back here for a visit and not be able to find it. Tom? Tom? Now, I better go on in. All right, Tom. Night. But try to persuade her to move out before this cabin falls in the river. Yeah, I'll try, Doc. Good night. Good night. Tom, boy, where be? I'm comin'. Here I am, Ma. Open the window, son. I've a hankering to hear the big Rocky River rushin' by down there in the gorge. Sure, Ma. The river's loud tonight. Comin' closer, closer. Ain't it, Tom? Yeah, too close. When I was a pup, there's four acres of cornfield, tricks does not dare gorge. Now it's hardly room for the hillotaters. Been tryin' to get us ever since your pa built this cabin. Old River has. Eatin' away toward us year by year. But he's never got us. And he never will. Well, if we don't move, Ma'll now listen. Doc Hawkins is right. He's right. He's right. We got to move from here, down to town. All right. We'll move, Tom. But only after Harry comes. If we was to move, he might not find us. He might not know where to look. But, Ma'll... My mind's made up, Tom. Harry's comin' soon. I know he is. Then we'll move. Yeah, but supposin' he don't. Now, last letter he wrote, he's mighty busy. Supposin' he don't come for quite a spell. He'll come. He's on his way now. Now, Ma'll... Don't try to tell me no, son. Somethin' inside me tells me when Harry's comin' to see me. And I never been wrong yet. Right this minute, my boy's on his way home to see his Ma'll. Try the starter again, Missouri. Maybe the motor'll catch now, huh? It ain't no use, Harry. His old tea kettle just done stopped percolatin'. Well, it brought us 50 miles. Deep valley is just over the next ridge. We can hike it. What we're gonna do with this jalopy? Looks like a deep ravine here beside us. We can push her in.  Not by daylight. We don't head any place. It's most sun up now. We'll camp here in the brush till it's good and dark tonight. And then we sneak up to the cabin. I don't like to see a country, Harry. All these hills and valleys this mighty fine country to die in. Well, it's good country for hidein' out from the law in, too. No worry, Missouri. We're gonna make it. And with the help of Brother Tom and Ma'll. Tom. Oh, oh yeah, Ma'll. I guess I was dozing off right here in my chair. Turn down the lamp, son. Smoke in bed. Oh, sure. There. Won't have to clean that lamp, Tim, tomorrow. Well, it's nine o'clock. Past time for you to be in bed. Just a minute, Ma'll, Tom. Foggy out tonight, isn't it? I can smell the fog in the air. Yeah, foggy and dark. Won't be moon up for most nine hours, huh? What was that, Tom? Sounded like a rock slide. I can hear it playing now, Tom. Old river's undercuttin' the cliffs, bein' it. Yeah. Big rocks fall about half a mile up the gorge there. Now listen to me. We got to move. We plumb got to. River might undercut us any time and dump us a hundred feet down there in that gorge. I said we'd move as soon as Harry's come. Yeah, but he might not come in time. No. He's comin' here tonight. Comin' here tonight. Ma'll, what are you sayin'? He can't be comin' here. He is, I tell ya. Glory be my poor Harry's comin' to see his old Ma at last. I can feel his thoughts reachin' out to me through the dark. Findin' me, tellin' me he's on his way. But Ma'll... Don't argue for it, Tom. It's so. Ain't I always told you true, other times Harry came? Yeah, I reckon you did. You always know before he got here. But now this time you're wrong. You just got to be. I've never been wrong yet about Harry's comin', Tom. It's like somethin' callin' out inside of me. It's tellin' me he's comin' closer every minute. Well, if he's comin' you'd best get rested for him now. You can sleep till he gets here. In a minute, son. Maybe this time Harry'll stay. Maybe he won't go off again the way he always has before. Maybe. Restless, Harry was. Restless like the river. Hungry for far places and bright lights. For the city. For city waves and city clothes. City talk. I... I reckon he was. But maybe this time he'll stay. Maybe he's had enough for travelin'. Now we'll see when he gets here. Just time now for you to be gettin' your rest.  I'll help you to your room. Listen to that, Harry. There's a bloodhound. All right, Missouri, so it's a bloodhound. Well, I closed in on us. Their guest would come this valley. They got the trolls out of the bloodhounds. Look at first. Yeah, looks that way. We're done for, Harry. It does somehow. It seemed to me you were pinning an awful lot on your brother town. Maybe we won't even reach the cabin. Missouri, I forgot to tell you something. We have reached it. Huh? I have reached it? Yeah. You mean that cabin hold hour we've been watchin' in the last 15 minutes? Yeah, that's my home, Missouri. We're there. Why didn't you tell me? I like surprises. I wanted to make sure there wasn't any strangers inside. We ain't seen nobody but the old lady there and the heavy set fellas sittin' in the kitchen. Long time, yeah. And there they go. Tom's helping her. Probably she's goin' to bed now. All right, Missouri, we can slip in now. Come on along. Here's a path. What's that river here? That's a big rocky. Runs through a gorge back of the cabin. She's fast, but you can float a boat down her. Now we go in. Oh, man, it feels good to be inside. Keep your voice down. Keep your voice down. We take Tom by surprise. What are you doing there? I'm just pouring him coffee here at this pot. Ain't very hot, but, man, it sure tastes good. Well, uh, pour me some. Come on. All right, sure. There you are. Went down good. Oh, 24 hours since we've eaten. Listen, listen. That bloodhound's closer. Quick, wipe that cup. We'll duck into the storage lane too. Oh, why do we have to hide from your brother? We don't, but I hear somebody coming up the path. Come on. All right, then. Quick, let's get ourselves here. This way. Come on. Come on. That's your blind. Expect you know why I'm here, Tom. No, I can't say I do, Sheriff. What's happened? You mean you ain't here? Here's what? We got no radio box here, no telephone either. How'd I hear anything? Well, maybe somebody stopped by to tell you. Tell me what? Where's your brother, Harry? Harry? He escaped yesterday from Stone Mountain. Escaped from the penitentiary? Him and another fellow named Missouri. I figured he might head for home. That's why I've been here in Bloodhound. I got men both up and down the trail, in case he tries for here. I got the cabin watch from down below too. Just wanted to tell you. He wouldn't come here, Sheriff.  You might figure you'd help him. Was I an escaped killer? No, I was a folk to get help. Killer? Well, Harry's no killer. He went to penitentiary for robber. He's a killer now. Him and this Missouri, they stopped a car yesterday. Stole it. Bashed in the driver's head. Murdered? Harry done murdered? Don't know what else you'd call it. You found a car over in the next valley. So we figure Harry can't be too far away. Maybe that's why Moe said... Yeah? I'm not feeling that they're a driver. Now that you know, you figure on to help with him if he gets here? I... I guess not, Sheriff. For anything else, I won't say. I don't know. But killing... Oh, sir, I don't hold with killing. If he shows up, I'll keep him for you, Sheriff. I reckon I can get back outside. Have a cup of coffee before you go, or got some here. Next time, maybe later. Gotta go now. I'll be stopping in again later. Bloodhound. For Harry. Harry out there in the dark. Bloodhound on his trail. Moe mustn't know. She mustn't never know. Coffee. Yeah, I guess I'll have a cup myself. Same? Funny. I said you can come out of the lean too now. You might as well come out, Harry. I know you're there. We'll come out. Done here, and she's loaded. The empty coffee pot, give us away, huh? That's right. I know that I hadn't emptied it. Then it come to me somebody must have slipped inside while I was in there with Moe. Well, uh... I was coming out anyway, and just didn't want the sheriff to see me. Yeah. Your friend can come out too now. Go on out, Missouri. Tom knows you're here. All right, Harry. What kind of greeting is this? A loaded gun pointed at our noses. You said you could count on your brother. Sure, I can count on him. Can I, Tom? Expect you heard what I told the sheriff. That still stands. He's trying to stand. Oh, no, he isn't. You're staying right where you are, Harry. The sheriff gets back. Without saying hello to my dear old mother, she'll be disappointed. She's sleeping. Sound. You'll never know you're here. Uh, I have an idea that she'll wake up. Why should she wake up? We're quiet. But we're not going to be quiet, brother Tom. When the sheriff comes back, we're going to make a real loud racket. But then she'll hear you. She'll know you're here. She'll know everything. Harry, that killer. I wouldn't know about that. But I'm sure going to yell. Oh, no, no, you couldn't. You'd be killing your own mall man. Nobody could be that low. I tell you, she'll learn everything.  Prison has changed, you Harry.  All right. So it's changed me. No matter what happens. Now, uh, you're going to let us, uh, go out that window or not. That window. That's what I said. The door's being watched. We heard the sheriff say something. Maybe they're watching the back too, Harry. No, no, not a chance. It's only about 100 feet to the cliffs above the river. But there's a path down to the water and a boat anchor down there. Once we get to that boat, we can drift right out of this state. Tom, is that boat still there? Yeah. Boat's still there. Tied up further down, though. We'll find it. Well, how about it? Going to let us get out that window the way I used to go when Pop was on the rampage after me? Or do you want me to wake up more so I can tell her goodbye before the sheriff drags us off to be hanged? All right. No. No, I can't let you do it. Law's a law. Sheriff's coming up a path now. You two just stand still. Tom, I'm warning you. Be quiet. Come on in, Sheriff. Come in quick. What is it, Tom? You sound good. Well, I'll be. It's Harry and the other guy. Yeah, it's him. He was hiding out. Put away your pistol. I got him a rifle trained on him. Yeah, let me get these handcuffs unlocked. I'll cuff him together and call my men. We'll take him away. This is the kind of help your brother's given us. And you talk so big, Harry.  We ain't taken yet. Sheriff. Just one thing. Yeah, Tom? My mom's never to know. You hear? She must never know about Harry. He'd hit a killer to learn he's a jailbird and a murderer. Yeah, I reckon it would. All right. I've passed my promise on it. But I haven't made any promise. Or more. Harry. More. Harry, you can't.  Well, I'm not leaving without saying goodbye to her. That's all. Just goodbye. More. More. Where are you? Hey. She's here. It's me all right, Moore. I've come to see you. I know you were coming, son. Come in here. Bring me out to the light where your mom can look at you. I'll be right in as soon as I've said hello to Tom. Well, Tom, now she knows I'm here. I can't go without a little visit with her. You can. You will. Come on now. Put out your hands. How about it, Tom? Want me to tell Moore I can't stay because I've got a date with the sheriff? Harry, son, what's keeping you?  Come bring me out to the light. I said put out your hands, Harry. I'm not taking any nonsense. No, Sheriff. Wait. Tom, I know you don't want to upset them all, but these two are killers. Sorry, gentlemen. Calm down. I got it. Quiet. Don't get in my way. Hold his hands. Quiet. I'll tell you a little more. Tom, I'll shoot you. I'll pick them up. I'll have my pistol in a minute. Better not, Tom. Better not. No matter who you hit, it will sure upset Moore. Tom, shoot. Shoot them. Break them up. Tom, Tom. What's keeping Harry? Think fast, Tom. Another second somebody will get shot. But pass me your promise to let us both go safe out that window and nobody will be hurt. All right, Harry, you got my promise. Tom!  I got your cover now. Tom, you can't do this. It's already done.  You'll regret this, Tom. You'll regret it sad and heavy. Take his gun, Harry. I got it. Now both of you step aside. That's it. Sheriff, I got to do this. I got to do a certain against the law now. The law, don't forget that. Tom, Tom, where's Harry? Where's my boy Harry? He's coming directly, Ma. Sheriff, I got to tie you up in the lean-to.  You got to leave her with an easy mind. Now go and bring her out here. So that's where you've been, Harry. Out in California, raising the orange. Yeah, ma, oranges. A whole thousand acres of orange trees with the hills on one side and the sea on the other. And the orange blossoms filling the air with perfume like when the gates of heaven are open. Must be pretty. I should like to see it, Harry. You're going too, Ma.  Soon, Harry. You'll send for me soon. Just a week or two, Ma. And then you'll be able to sit out on your own porch and, well, pick oranges right off the tree. Not much longer. We've got to wait. I'm half an hour already. Ma's almost asleep.  Tell me more about it, Harry. More about California. Oh, it's a grand place, Ma. It's got mountains standing tall like the Gloria God. And then there's the ocean, the Pacific. I've never seen an ocean. This is the biggest ocean there is, Ma. And the bluest. And the sand on the beach is the whitest. And the waves come in. Big blue waves that have traveled all the way from China. And they bring a breeze with them that smells of tea and spice and ginger and cinnamon. And all you have to do, Ma, is sit there in the sunshine and soak up strength and watch the ocean on one side and the mountains on the other. With the birds singing and the flowers blossoming. All right, Tom. I've done what you said. I've talked her to sleep. All right. You can go on now. It's about time, too. I've been hearing them bloodhounds all the last half hour. Don't you worry about them. We're going to float right past them, down the river, 50 miles before morning. You better be getting to almost the moon. Here's the sheriff's flashlight. You've got to keep the sheriff here until we're safe past South Fork, understand? I'm here. You're beyond kitsch.  Yeah, she's up. All right, Missouri, you first. Just ease through and drop, huh? It's only about six feet. Anything you say, Harry. Harry, don't do it.  I'll get you the best lawyer in the state.  Go on, Missouri. Push yourself up. Show off a dog, huh, Jack? Can't see a thing. Hell, that's what we want.  All right. I'm going. That's my turn. Come on, Brother Tom. I'll see ya. In California. They're gone. They're gone. I'm afraid I can set you loose now. Let me get it to them knots. You let them escape, Tom. That's going to go bad for you. Done what I had to do. All right, you're free. I reckon they'll be on catching. Tom, you're not delaying me anymore. I don't aim to. But look at that wind. I'm going down at the ground. Shine my light, Tom. Great David Crockett. Tom, I had to do it here. There weren't no other way. I couldn't let them escape, but I couldn't let them kill my Ma, either. So that's it. The river's undercut right up to the foundations of the house. No ground at all outside the window. Just a straight drop. 100 feet to the rocks. You have just heard the mysterious thunder. For the title role played by Maurice Franklin. Others in the cast were Scott Tennyson, Frank Barron, Agnes Young, and Bill Smith. All characters in the story were fictitious and any resemblance to actual characters was purely coincidental. Original music played by Al Finnelli. Grace and Enlo speaking, this is the mutual broadcasting system.


The God's glory acts in all its due. Gradually, we stand at the gates of a new nation, and we see its lights shining bright. The nation of God's promises, a nation of opportunities, of equity and justice, a secure and prosperous nation, a nation of laws and righteousness. Even if what we see today seems bleak and dark, we are confident that God, who owns the heavenly earth, will fulfill his promises concerning this later. And indeed, he says in Joshua 21 verse 45, Joshua 21 verse 45, he says, not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass. And we pronounce concerning this nation that not a word will fail regarding any good thing which the Lord has spoken to Nigeria. All will come to pass in Jesus' name. Finally, to every citizen of this nation and every family that is represented here, we declare that in the name of Jesus, your best days are yet to come. Every promise that God has made to you will come to pass in Jesus' mighty name. Happy 62nd anniversary.


Can we do a fit check? Cause this is what I've seen on TikTok. And I see every single person do a fit check. But the issue is, when I'm scrolling around TikTok and it's like, what I'm wearing today? Cush, cush, cush. They're all wearing the exact same thing. Yeah, true. What's up with that? Well, I do a fit check. If 99.9% of you on TikTok wear the same thing.  So this is straight. This is straight from like the 90s, okay? Vintage. Is that alpaca? This is alpaca whole. All right, I got a 3SBT, the 3SB heavy joggers or the heavy shorts, and the 2K fucking, I just looked these up, bro. Guess what these cost right now? What? $1,500. Really? Swear to God. Good thing yours are fake. Good thing I bought it for $200. Yeah, that's why we were rocking the huck off. I bought it for $200. We don't do this often. We're gonna go, you know, vlog style, but we got a little bit of an announcement and a little bit of an unboxing, as you guys may or may not see. We're getting involved, man. I just looked it up 10 years I've been on YouTube and I've taken like one, one and a half, two sponsorships ever. One was Reebok, worth them for like six, seven years.  And Reebok took care of me, man. I wore Iversons all grown up. It was a beautiful, beautiful partnership. Went our super ways. The one and a half I say or the half is Barbara Brigade, because they're like family.  And this is my third sponsorship partnership in 10 years. And I don't wanna throw shade, but most of these Instagram girls and dudes, good dudes too, that you follow, they get a new sponsorship every six weeks.  So hopefully you guys understand that I do put thought into it. I have a lot of communication with my team, a lot of communication with myself and the companies before I decided to work with them. And this one was kind of a no-brainer for me just cause you know I drink energy drinks. Everyone asked my favorite pre-workout, I always ask the supplements I take. I drink coffee and energy drinks. 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All those dancing girls must have the best kairos in the world. That's all I'm saying. No, they're not. Somebody's readjusting their back. Yeah. Whoa. Whoa. I did not mean that in a bad way. That's a good thing. Kyle calls him his weekend personas called the chiropractor. I'm the KY. I'm the KY. Kyro. Kyropractor. Yeah, I'm the Kyropractor. But only on Friday nights when I'm back. I'm the Kylo, Kylopractor. What's up, man? Your back needs some adjusting? Right here. Like, I want to be here. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be here. You just want the internal girth?  I'm not grabbing that.  Oh, my God. Those are adductors. Mine just happened to be the size of an anaconda.  We in here? Yes, sir. Decent day, fam. I hate to say it like we back, but 6.35 for a single. My body weight last week probably averaged 2.14, but the lowest 2.13. That's down from 2.35 in December. Down from 2.50 December 2020. And the biggest pull that I've probably pulled in three or four years. The last time I competed, I pulled 6.33 at Barbara Brigade Deadlift Only Meat. And that was 2017-18. I missed 6.61. And I don't know if I've pulled bigger since. Obviously we've had a lot of things going on. 50% of facts, the podcast, right? We've reached 200 episodes. I've been busy there. Kaizen training on my coaching. We've been busy there. Opening this gym and starting a good company apparel. That took a little bit of energy out of me. But now with the help of the fam, Kyle, Seabass, Jim, I've been able to train a little bit. And it feels pretty good, man. So 6.35 for a single, maybe a nine. You know, probably not a 10, maybe a nine. RPE nine. Shout out to C4Mint. First partnership in five years. COVID just crushed everybody. But it definitely crushed me. Mentally, I was cool. Cause I liked being at home and chilling. But business-wise, it put a beating on fitness, man. It put a beating on my motivation if we're being straight honest. It beat me down to the ground. It gave me a right hook combo, wop, wop. And I was just not feeling it. But we're starting to find a flow, man. Barbara Brigade talk shows back on. TikToks booming. YouTube's banging. Thanks to y'all. If you want to give this thing a thumbs up, be sure to comment below. C4 3SB is the code. If you want to go to c4energy.com, grab anything there, you're going to get the biggest discount you can through the squad. And we're getting it, man. 5.55, I think back down set of four. Next poll day is another three days. I'll hit some reps around 4.65 to 4.95. And we're ballin'. We're movin', man. Thanks so much as always, guys. New video every single Tuesday. We might try to sneak in two videos a week soon. If you guys show us some love, give it likes, subscribe. Be sure to comment below if you want to see two videos a week. And we're off. Appreciate y'all.


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The auditor uses the most efficient sample size and quantifies sampling risk so when we think about statistical sampling as opposed to non statistical sampling we're thinking about a more formal type of sample selection and the more formal sample selection using statistics using statistical mathematical analysis can give us a more formal approach and give us more exact types of calculations than a non statistical method non statistical sampling auditor does not use statistical techniques to determine sample size select the sample items or measure sampling risk and of the two you might be saying well why would we do one or the other in other words why wouldn't we use statistical sampling when it seems to be the more accurate way to go of course part of the part of that is going to be cost effectiveness and complexity with statistical sampling the advantages of statistical sampling are it can design an efficient sample so we can design an efficient sample and therefore and when we think about the sample size what we want to do is to create a population as small as possible that we can do the least work as as we need in other way if you are thinking about pulling people to get their opinion or the population's opinion on something you would like to pull as few people as possible in order to get an accurate opinion and that's what statistical sampling is better at doing is better at giving us a very efficient sample size whereas if we were just to basically not use statistical sampling we would have to select a sample size that seems reasonable without being as efficient and therefore probably be overestimating the sample size probably leaning towards that side of things and therefore possibly doing more testing as a result of not being as accurate on the sample can measure the sufficiency of evidence obtained once we have the evidence we can we can know we don't have to just say hey look the evidence says this we could have at more accurate type of statistical measures as to how accurate the sample can be using statistical measures as opposed to saying well this is just what our sample says with regards to this assertion and we're just going to apply it out we can give more specific types of calculations can quantify sampling risk so we can actually quantify the sampling risk instead of us doing as we would do with non statistical which would basically say we're going to set the risk at these levels and then and then basically do our sample and see if that's going to correlate in this case we can actually quantify put a number to the sampling risk disadvantage of statistical sampling so you might say well why wouldn't we do the statistical sampling then well cost more to train auditors in the techniques statistics isn't the most easy thing to do obviously and there's a lot of just like when you think about statistics being applied to different types of samples and pulling and all the kind of things that can the problems that can be in statistical sampling we got to be aware of those types of things as well when we apply statistical sampling to whatever type of sample we are testing for cost more to design and conduct sampling application so obviously to design a statistical sample we're going to have a more formal study we're going to be more exact and precise there's got to be a cost benefit analysis anytime we have something such as that there's a lack of consistent application across audit teams so different audit teams could have different applications rather than us having just basically a set of general rules if we have non statistical sampling we might just basically have a set of rules which would actually be possibly more formalized across different teams to statistical sampling techniques we have attribute sampling we have monetary unit sampling we have classical variables sampling now we'll go into these in more depth starting with the attribute sampling so attribute sampling used to estimate the proportion of a population that possesses a specified characteristic test of controls are the most common use of attributes sampling so we're going to often use it to test the controls and remember the two things we're going to be testing oftentimes with sample sizes test of controls and substantive type testing examples the businesses controls require that all checks have two independent signatures so that's going to be one of the controls that we have the auditors can plan a test of that control using the attribute sampling so attribute sampling sampling then can be applied to see whether that control is indeed in place then we have monetary sampling another type of statistical sampling unit sampling uses attribute sampling theory to estimate the dollar amount of misstatement for a class of transactions or an account balance so now we're going to use similar theory looking for the dollar amount however often used over the classical variable sampling because it has a number of advantages over the classical variable sampling and then we'll take a look at the classical variable sampling auditors sometimes use classical variables sampling to estimate the dollar value of a class of transactions or account balance it is more often used to determine whether an account is materially misstated


In this demonstration, we're going to configure monitoring using Azure Monitor for an Azure Stack HCI cluster. So the first thing we do is we start in the Azure console. And what we're going to do is create a log analytics workspace. So we go to create a resource and we type log analytics and then we select log analytics workspace. This is going to store all of our log data and we're going to use it for analysis of that data. So we select our subscription. We're going to create a new resource group. We call it ASHCI monitor. Click okay. Give the analytics workspace a name, tow in traders, HCI monitor. Click review and create. It goes and creates that log analytics workspace. When the deployments are complete, we click go to resource and what we need to do is we need to go into the advanced settings and find out the workspace ID and the key to get access to that workspace ID. So we go to agents management and we can see here we've got no windows computers connected. So we get the workspace ID and we paste that across to notepad because we're going to use this in a command a little later. The other thing we need is the primary key. So we copy that and we paste that. And for those that are clever, I will be removing these before these are published. Okay, so let me show you the general process of installing this agent. I go to files and file sharing in windows admin center. I connect to each node. I create a folder on each node. I could call it MMA agent in this particular case. I go into the MMA agent folder and then I upload the agent I have downloaded from the internet to this particular folder. So what this is doing is that this is putting this particular binary on the Azure Stack HCI node. There's a variety of different ways that you can do this, but this is how I've chosen to show you here. I then log on to the Azure Stack HCI node. It gives me the S config menu. I jumped down to the command line. On node four, I go to the MMA agent directory. I then extract the agent files. And once I do that, I can run a setup.exe command and specify the workspace ID and then the workspace key. And that will install the agent without worrying about going through the GUI and pasting those bits of information in for me. So I run that command. It runs. Now it's a good idea to actually then run the setup anyway and then just have it go through and check that the installation's worked. So in this case, I've just said go and repair it even though it doesn't really need a repair. It just makes sure that the service is running. I finish. And then I run the agent control panel.exe file. And what that allows me to do when I run it, is it allows me to go across to Azure Log Analytics and verify that it actually has installed and connected correctly to that log analytics workspace.  And what it does is it detects the agent, detects where it's connected and then I click setup. And what it's going to do then is configure which telemetry is sent up to Azure.  So in the background there, I've deployed the agent on the four other cluster nodes and I can verify that I have four Windows computers connected in this case the Windows computers or Azure Stack HCI nodes. I can then go to the agent's configuration and I can see that the log name that's being uploaded to Azure is the Microsoft Windows dash health slash operational log and that's giving me error warning and information items. What I can then do is I can come down and look at the solutions that are available for this particular set of log data. For example, I can click on service map and that will show me the services that are running on a particular node and how they work with the network. So we can see here that I've got node one and node two. I click on node one, it'll load the map data and it's a little hard to see. So I click on zoom in and I can see there that I have all of the ports and the services that are associated with those ports. So that's one of the bits of information I can pull using log analytics. I can go to the workspace summary and from the workspace summary page, I can click on logs and it'll give me a whole lot of tools to go and query that log data. For example, request count trend, operations performance, page views trend, the slowest page is obviously if it's hosting a web application. Now, these are as USTAC HCI nodes and we're interested in their virtual machine performance. So we go down to virtual machines and that will give us a whole lot of log data and queries that we can run against virtual machines. So for example, we can look at here what data has been collected around virtual machines. It'll go in query that data and we can see that there's a lot of performance counter data and performance counter items where telemetry is being uploaded from those as USTAC HCI nodes to this log analytics workspace where we can perform analysis later on. Anyway, in this particular demo, I showed you how to install the log analytics agent, set up a workspace, configure the log analytics agent and then what you can do with that log analytics data once an USTAC HCI cluster is connected to Azure monitor.


With the introduction of MQA, the concept of time smearing was put in the spotlight. Judging on the questions I get, the concept of time smearing is somewhat difficult to grasp. Let's try to shine some light in the darkness. Let's first see what causes time smearing. Essentially it is due to the slowness of the electronic circuits or mechanics. The latter is perhaps the easiest to understand. When a signal is applied to a speaker, it does need some time to get in motion. But once the kinetic energy in the speaker has built up, it is even harder to stop it from moving when the signal is removed. In essence, the speaker moves over a longer time and since the energy is spread over a longer period, the amplitude must be lower. Let's make it even more real world. We all know the blessing of the speed bumps that are laid down to have you reduce speed. Often the top is made of tarmac and if no maintenance is done, the bump will get lower and spread over a longer piece of road, due to the heavy traffic passing over it. You will notice it in your car since the upward movement is less steep and less high. This is a good analogy for what happens with the sound when it passes mechanics or a circuit that is slow. Analog filters as used in tone controls, loudspeakers and digital recording, to name a few applications, all cause time smearing. And with analog filters this cause natural time smearing as you expect by the slowness of a circuit. With digital filters this is not always the case and in digital audio filters are used that cause time smearing that is ahead of the signal. Or actually seems to be ahead of the signal, in reality the signal is delayed due to the propagation time of the filter. But let's not go there. It's important though to know that the steeper the filter the more time smearing. If filters cause time smearing, then why use them you might think. Well that's because of what electronic engineer Harry Nyquist has discovered. If you limit the bandwidth of a signal, you can then fully describe that signal in numbers, if you measure or sample it twice as often as the highest frequency. He managed to prove this based on previously established statements. This is called a theorem and is thus purely theoretical. But this theorem still stands today and has never been proven wrong. Since it dictates that the bandwidth has to be limited to half the sampling frequency, we need to use filters to achieve this and very steep filters at that. So the time smearing will be severe and this is next to jitter why digital audio can sound, well, digital. Time smearing in general is hard to recognize as such. I can hear it on the right hand of a grand piano, the tonality of the bass, a blacker background and more lively feel, more transparency and overall more musicality. But now I ended up in high end lingo and that is hard to relate to if you are not following the subculture over a longer time. But it is impossible to play music over Youtube with the objective of letting you hear the difference. So I have tried to simulate time smearing. It's not exactly what it is and some bad luck the loosely encoding and leveling of Youtube might ruin it to some degree too. But let's see if I can get the message across. The first sample is a bass drum. First you hear the original 8 times then the time smearing simulation and then the original again and so on. Again this is an approximation of what time smearing might cause, nothing more. But it's better than nothing. Then I prepared some keyboard. Here the odd ones are the originals and the even ones are the simulation. I don't know to what degree you have heard the difference and whether it gives you the feel of what to look for in normal music. Perhaps the best is to use in-ear monitors since then there is no acoustics that might master the phenomenon. Don't get me wrong, in a proper stereo setup you will certainly be able to hear the difference between music that is played back with lower time smearing and the time smearing we know from digital audio. Again, judging on the questions I see on the web, I also need to talk about what MQA does and doesn't. Everyone focuses on the possibility to have compact hi-res files but to me this is the less interesting part than the time smearing correction it can apply. This happens both at a mastering in a studio and when playing back. But for playback you do need a digital to analog converter that is fully MQA enabled or an MQA rendering enabled digital to analog converter combined to software that does the decoding. If you just use the decoding software you can get hi-res music from compact files that might sound better than a CD due to the advanced mastering. But it does not compensate for the time smearing caused by the digital to analog converter. Watch my video where to get MQA files and how to play them for more information. See the comments for the link. So using audio player software that can decode MQA files is great. But it is then sent through to a non-MQA digital to analog converter chances are the filtering there might cause time smearing again. If a digital to analog converter is MQA enabled, it is analyzed for the time smearing it causes and a special module that corrects this is added. Whether you will hear the improvements depends on how well your stereo is set up and perhaps also on how sensitive you are to the phenomenon. I have also been asked whether time smearing and jitter are the same, they are not. Jitter is a time variance of the bitstream and even the smallest timing error can result in distortion. That might lead to a harsh sound, lack of sibilance control, less tonality in the lows, poor stereo image and so on. Watch my video connecting your DAC number 2, how digital can go wrong for more information on jitter. Again, see the comments for the link. I want to thank the people that asked these questions, for it makes my life easier. Otherwise I have to dream up subjects. Now, if you have asked me a question and I haven't responded in an answer or a video, it might be there were more questions that I could handle, that I need to investigate the question or that I need inspiration for an understandable answer. Still, it might pay to subscribe to this channel or follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. If you liked this video, please consider supporting the channel through Patreon or Paypal. Any financial support is much appreciated. The links are in the comments. Help me to help even more people enjoy music at home by telling your friends on the web about this channel. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.


Good morning everybody and welcome to the Wallach Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be a Christmas school day in the life. If you are like, what the heck is Christmas school? Head over here and you can see all the details of our Christmas school plans for the 2020 Christmas season. Now today's day in the life is in collaboration with Abby. So after you have finished watching this video, pop on over to her channel and watch her day in life because you're not gonna want to miss it. So it is a Friday and Fridays during Christmas schooling mean that there are at least three things that are gonna be happening. Those three things are our morning basket, game-playing and a movie night. Those are the only three things I know for sure that you're gonna see because we are super relaxed on Friday. So come along and let's see what we get into. Emily, you want to go ahead and get the Advent book out and we'll start with our Advent? Yes, ma'am. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this? Esther 414. There once was a girl named Esther and she was an orphan. She had no father and no mother, but Esther had cousin Mordecai to love her. Esther was beautiful more than that. Her heart was beautiful. All right, so go ahead and put number 18 on the tree. Family had 13 grave songs marking 13 children who had died. It gave Charles an idea for a story called Great Expectations and it would be published in the all year round after a tale of two cities. The story begins in a graveyard. A poor young orphan Pip runs into an escaped convict there and years later, Pip is given the chance to become a gentleman and join polite society. After Great Expectations, Charles went on more reading tours with so many broken relationships in his life. He took great comfort from audiences who loved him for his work. What you doing? I'm wrapping gifts. Maybe a little elf. Yes, ma'am. Please, please. Ready to make some cookies? Yes, ma'am. OK, so here's our peanut butter cookie mix. You hold the bag while I cut it open. I didn't call. I did it. Hang on. All right, there you go. Go ahead and dump that one in the hole. Looks yummy. All right. And we're actually going to make a double batch. So let's go ahead and do this one. Oh, it smells so good. Yeah. All right. You can cut this one open. I'll hold it for you. A little bit for the right there. Good job. All right. Go ahead and dump that one in. It goes off the whole bowl. Just a tiny bit left. OK. All right. And then I went ahead and pre-measured the oil in the water so we didn't have to pour that and then two eggs. So that's all. Let's make sure that it needs. So we already preheated the oven to 375, right? Yes, ma'am. And then we're going to take the cookie mix, the oil in the water. So I already got the oil in the water measured out for us. So we're going to pour that in then the eggs. And then we get to make the cookie. All right. I'm going to mix just a little while you do the egg. How about that? Yes, ma'am. Try not to get any egg in the cookies. It's OK. The oil isn't too bad. Yep. I'll have a towel. It's all right. All right. You ready? Yes, ma'am. OK. So this is a cookie scoop. Here you go. Just get you a scoop full. Like that? Yeah. Make sure it's full. Kind of dragging it up the side. And then squeeze it. To get it out. Yep. There you go. Everybody's got a game? Yes, ma'am. All right. Emily, tell us what you picked. All right. What did you pick, babe? I picked lumps, which is a dice game. And I like dice games. Then I pick Santa's Slay Ride. Spread joy around the world. And you beat it. I got three, so I'm definitely not going to do it. Nope. Mama goes first. All right. So I go first and my game gets played first. The Santa's Slay Ride, here we come. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. That's a two.  Yeah, while we're sitting over here. Milk and cookies lose a turn. Oh, you were in Paris, babe. Oh, say hi to Paris for me. Daddy's ring is not too bad. So we'll let him play with it, OK? OK. All right. You want me to shuffle? This is my favorite game. Santa. I get it. Oh, are you sure? Cookie. I get it. When apples. Candy. Snowman. Santa. Santa. Cookie. So Kevin is grilling out for dinner. And Emily is outside playing somewhere because the weather is just so nice here today. And while he's grilling and she is playing, I'm going to sit here in my comfy chair and read a book. So we just finished up our delicious dinner that Kevin cooked for us. And we are all going to go ahead and get comfy and cuddle up together for our movie night. We are going to be reading and watching the first home alone with a big old bucket of popcorn. It was three nights before Christmas. And the McAllister family was getting ready to leave for vacation. Everyone was busy packing. Everyone except Kevin, who was busy getting into trouble, goes straight to bed. His mother demanded that's enough trouble for one day. Lying in bed, Kevin could hear voices and laughter coming from downstairs. Everyone was having fun without him. I hope I never see my family again, said Kevin. I wish I was home alone.


It's like, I'll have my coffee at a certain, it's not necessarily the certain time every day. It's not really time-based. It's just like, I do have, I have certain things worked into my routine or like meditation practice. But... Meditation's big. My degree was in biomedical sciences and when I was doing that, I did a lot of research into meditation. I was trying very much at that period of my life to fix my brain with all the mental health difficulties that I have to deal with. I'd been going through psychotherapy routes since I was 14 to know result really. And so I kind of, I was looking for ways to sort of improve myself and one of the ways that I wanted to do that was meditation. And it actually does like have physical changes on your brain. Like, I think they did like a research study on monks and like compared their brains to the brains of people who don't meditate as much. They meditate like two or three hours a day or something. And they showed like growth in certain areas of the brain, just from doing meditation over and over each day for like years. I think it was to do with like the prefrontal cortex maybe. Maybe reduction of the amygdala which is the prefrontal cortex is what we consider to be like the center of our higher intelligence and brain or decision making. Whereas the amygdala is kind of this monkey mind kind of emotional brain that just keeps us safe and makes us feel the anxiety and the fear and things like that, which is important for survival. But it's not so good in our modern time. And so meditation, it's definitely like proven to be effective for a lot of people. That's awesome. I can agree with that and attest to that. But I do- What's your schedule like? Well, I do specific, it's not necessary. I mean, I do meditations as well using an app that I really like called Moon X. But also, I do Gwangnyeo every day, which is part of my Buddhist practice with SGI and- I'm not familiar with those terms. Okay, so SGI is an organization that began in Japan under this year in. And let's see if I can give you a little background on it. It's based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese Monk Nishiren. It's distinctive for its focus on the Lodhisutra as the ultimate Buddhist scripture. Our central practice is chanting the mantra Nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo, which loosely translates to I devote myself to the Lodhisutra, or I devote myself to the mystic law of cause and effect, basically through sound or through vibration. And by chanting the mantra, we believe that we can tap into our inherent Buddha nature in our own lives and discover our highest potential. So- I'm just having a look at the website. It says that the word Gwangnyeo literally means to exert oneself in practice. One Gwangnyeo is a short ceremony which enables us to celebrate our inherent Buddha-hood. I love that word. And offer prayers of gratitude and determination for whatever is relevant to us at any particular time. Yes. So can you read Japanese or do you have like a- Yeah, so I have my book and it is in Japanese, but it also has the English translation in the beginning. So we actually chant in Japanese every day from two chapters of the Lodhisutra, the second, and the 16th chapters. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, so we do Gwangnyeo, but I also just chant Nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo if I feel I need to during the day.  I feel more peaceful and more grounded when I do my chanting, and it usually just takes about five to 10 minutes a day. So it's not a huge time commitment, but the effects that it has on my life I felt substantially. Awesome. If I just give it a little bit of a background for my experience with religion, my parents or my mom describes herself as Christian, kind of more towards like the agnostic kind of side of things, whereas my dad is like a diehard atheist. And I've been to church a few times in my life. I had a Catholic friend who I went to the church with them once.  And so I told my dad after swimming practice one time that I'd been to this church, and they told me that he's evil. And he wasn't very happy about that. So he explained to me about what religion is and how just because someone tells you that something is a certain way, it doesn't always mean it, and everyone has their own kind of different beliefs, ways of interpreting the world, his being kind of the more atheistic kind. I did have quite a big interest in Buddhism when I was younger. I think it's more about the teachings of it, like non-attachment. Like not being as attached to things in your life, and so not experiencing the pain when something bad happens with it, or you don't have that thing in your life anymore. That was kind of one of the things that I saw, and it was also, you know, I kind of, I suppose I very much like the aesthetic of it, and the focus around peace and serenity and kind of meditation and things like that. So I did a bit of research into it, kind of into, I did a philosophy, an ethics course at my school, learned a bit more about kind of the roots of Buddhism. But I think mostly for a lot of my life, I've been fairly secular with things, you know, I don't believe that there is an afterlife, I don't believe that there is a supernatural being.  So that's me. I would really like to know obviously from your side, because I remember you saying that you grew up in quite a religious kind of conservative environment. And I definitely admire you for not having a religious doctrine too, because I think, well, we'll get into this in a second, but I have very strong views, I guess, because of my upbringing about religion and kind of its role in people's lives and things like that. So


So, welcome to the next chord, the diminished seventh chord. It's used for a lot of things. The way I tend to use it very often is to use it as a connecting chord which can actually take itself to a lot of other chords which are dominant in nature and then those dominant chords can go to different scales. So it's like a chord which has four notes and each of those four notes can be adjusted to take you to four different scales, you know. So let's just explore all of this with E diminished seventh, how do we build it, root, minor third, another minor third or the tritone as we popularly call and essentially another minor third. So that's three stacks of minor thirds. Little spooky if you think about it, if you just play it as it is on its own a very nice sound, you know. In fact, if you go chromatically you can get some very interesting flavours, right. So that's one application, I guess. I don't use it that way, you know, in my music. The way I use this is now, you could look at this as the starting chord, then you could drop any one of these fingers by one semitone or one half step, let's say I drop my the first note to what chord does it form, it forms a dominant seventh, this is E flat dom seventh, right. So you go and where does E flat want to take us to? It's a dominant of A flat major or A flat minor. So it's an incredible chord right there, isn't it? It's one diminished seventh taking you to its dominant seventh, a step apart, taking you to major or minor. So this way you have four ways of using the diminished chord. You could go, we took this down, you could also take the middle one. What happened there? G became F sharp. This is like an F sharp dominant seventh, it resolves perfectly to B major, that's another scale, right. So far you have this one chord which is taking you scale one, scale two, scale three, scale four, four scales. So to do that or minor, the other thing now would be the third note, B flat, bring that down, A seventh going to D, okay so, okay. And the fourth way of resolving, what chord is that? That's C seventh, E diminished seventh, drop the top note, I think I like this the most. So that's the diminished seventh chord, again I use it to kind of pass from one to the next to the next or from this directly to the tonic but well you could also use it as it is, you know. Just move chromatically down or chromatically up and you get this very kind of old school horror movie kind of sound, so you could use it as it is or you could use it to compose music as a passing chord, let's move on.


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