Why use residual connections in transformers? In transformers, you'll notice some connections that skip layers. We have these to address vanishing gradients. In deep neural nets, we update parameter weights by back propagation, so we'll be updating weights depending on the gradient of the activation function. For many common activation functions, activation values are close to zero or near zero, and hence so are their gradients. And if a gradient is zero, there is no parameter updates that happen in the model, and so the model doesn't learn. Residual connections or skip connections allow information to bypass layers and prevent it from diminishing to zero, allowing information flow to be unimpeded. Hence, training really deep neural networks become tractable with residual connections.


Hello, and welcome to the Dave Gage show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Roy showing my Stevenson baseball coach, Dave Gage. Coach, how you had a run at home games last week? Pretty successful. You went three and one, and the bats started to come alive for you guys. So kind of take us through the week and how you guys did. A very good week for us, starting off with Gettysburg. Guys really grinded out the win there at the end, shortened game, but put together some quality of bats there in the last inning to get the victory. This weekend, as you said, we hosted Eastern and Almyra, and swung the bat very well, was very, very proud of our quality of bats, had over 65% quality of bats in both games. So very happy with this weekend's offensive performance. Yeah, and I was saying you got some good pitching as well.  And I was in the pitching, starting to improve a little bit as well. Sure, James Worszynski threw really well on Saturday afternoon, and then Tyler Graham escaped some jams on Sunday and eliminated Almyra. And then our bullpen has done a good job, and we're very, very proud of them right now of what they're doing. They're coming in, doing their job. And so we're happy with that. And our defense is coming along. Saturday was a little down, but Sunday we stepped up and rebounded and made some really nice plays as well on Sunday. Yeah, so obviously, I'm going to start building a little bit of momentum. We've got one non-conference game off of your game today, postponed. We've got one non-conference game tentatively scheduled for tomorrow. And then this weekend you start conference play with Weiner. So start building momentum at the right time as you head into the conference play. I think right from the beginning we talked about our goal is to improve every day. And that's what we've done here in the last two weeks as we've improved. So I'm happy to see that. And now hopefully we do the same thing tomorrow against York. And as you said, we're ready to go against Weiner. And the goal remains the same. Get better every day and make sure that we're playing our best baseball at the end. Hopefully in May. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Coach, well, we wish you the best of luck this weekend. And you're home on Friday afternoon for anybody who wants to come out to Sugarfield. Sure, we'd love to see you. All right, for Coach Dave Gage, I'm Greg Royce. This has been The Dave Gage Show.


We have just finalized on the word we began jana from Exodus 1 and Matthew chapter 2 verse 13 to 17. Jana tuliyona reality is the realm of the spirit will is in a manifest here on earth so before anything happens here on earth it shall already happen in the realm of the spirit. So na fakt ni kwa mba the devil can sense whatever God is about to do when God is about to do something really great here on earth or even in your life like to for instance in your life when God is about to do something great great great in your life kuna vile the enemy senses there's something that is God is about to do yeah hajuangi because he cannot see or he cannot tell what God is going to do but the the celebration and the attispation in the realm of the spirit he can sense that there's something that God is about to do so so because of that atta fanya ti will just create chaos to destroy the destiny or to destroy whatever God is about to do atta create two chaos for instance okangalia yeah if you are really really sensitive when in the things of the spirit if you are really really sensitive you will notice that God is even doing something new in our generation yeah God is doing something new something great in our generation right right right now in our times right now in 2021 kendelema 2022 God is doing something new something great and something new and something really awesome in our time okay you just like the time of Jesus and just like the time of Moses when they were being born yeah Ulyona the enemy the enemy created a lot of chaos because he sensed there is a delivery somewhere amezalewa and there's a redeemer somewhere amezalewa and because his work is just to come kill, steal and destroy destiny he was busy creating chaos massakai in people because he knows this redeemer actually grow up he's going to redeem the people of Israelite and this saviour and this deliverer once they grow up they are going to deliver or redeem the people of God to God himself so he will not allow that to happen by creating chaos and creating all that but because God is an oh powerful God he will not even allow the enemy to go anywhere with this agenda and with this with this assignment he will not allow that so if you are sensitive in our time we will notice that these are the times God is raising up warriors God is raising up good powerful preachers God is raising a powerful man of God even you at your workplace or even at your school God is raising you to be that that student who is powerful will stand out who will be a remnant in that school yeah who will speak the truth and who will be the flag bearer of Christ you are one of them you are a particular what God is doing in our generation you could be feeling it in the spirit and resisting it don't resist it please just pursue it be the part be part of what God is doing right now in our time okay God is raising a new generation to fulfill his purpose to fulfill his mandate and the enemy is aware of it he's not sure who were so he's creating chaos in everyone's life yeah he's creating chaos everywhere by how in our time he's doing it differently you can check out our media there's a lot of graphic content he's trying to distract you you can check out even our friends some of our friends will try to mislead you in doing other things the enemy is creating chaos you can check out there's a lot of alcohol abuse of drugs there's a lot of sexual immorality there's a lot of even bad content graphic content here in our media that is part of the enemy chaos just to to ensure distracting us killing the destiny of men killing and destroying and stealing what God is about to do but he will not prevail in Jesus mighty name because because you can't just don't enter your destiny if God has purposed for you has purposed for you to be that powerful man of God my friend the enemy will distract you proper he will make sure he kills you destroys you or waste your time because he knows he knows once you just know the truth you'll be so powerful and you'll be so powerless he's creating a lot of chaos so just be aware despite him creating a lot of chaos God is preserving his generation in our time God is doing it and he could be wondering how can I be part of it you know how can I be part of these these good things that God is doing the raising up over new generation and new breed for his purpose how can you be part of it it's just easy confessing it in your mouth and believing it in your heart that God that Jesus Christ is your savior


The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody, welcome to Iran Brookshow. Friday, January 5th. First Friday of January, first week of January over. I hope everybody's having a fantastic week, a fantastic year, and looking forward to the weekend. All right, let's jump in. Job numbers came out today. Everybody's watching this carefully. Everybody's still, I think, most economists are still uncertain about the trajectory of the US economy over the next year and what exactly is going to happen. I think a lot of expectations about lowering interest rates, that the Fed would lower interest rates later in the year, it's just an election year. That's typically what the Fed does during election year. Also, there's a lot of the suspense. We're all in suspense of whether we're going to get a recession, a soft landing, a don't feel it at all, just continued economic growth. People are just not sure exactly how this is all going to play out. The rise in interest rates that were experienced in 2022-2023 was really sharp and at least since the 1980s kind of unprecedented. And most economists, and I was one of them, expected that the response of that, given the inflation and given anything else, would be a recession. And that has not happened yet. And a lot of people are looking into 2024 and saying, is there going to be a recession in 2024? What are going to be the challenges? What are going to be the issues that the economy faces? Well, the job numbers came out today for December and those numbers suggest a fairly robust economy. That is, the economy continues to grow. People continue to hire. Job gains were higher than expected. They added 216,000 jobs last month. That brought the total for 2023 to the extent that these government measures are accurate. 2.7 million jobs were created last year. That is pretty robust for an economy that was supposed to slow down, for an economy that was experiencing rising interest rates. These numbers are actually better than the final Trump years. If you take out a COVID, these are higher numbers than, let's say, 2019 in terms of job creation. So you remember in those days when Trump got his job numbers, he was the greatest economy in human history. So the economy continues to create jobs, which is, again, impressive and I think it estimates to the flexibility and the entrepreneurship and the business genius of American entrepreneurs. It really is interesting and pretty amazing. And in addition to that, in addition to the increase in number of jobs, wages grew at an annual rate of 4.1% last month. So from a year earlier, so over 2023, wages grew by over 4%. Now inflation was higher than that or around that level. So on a real basis, that's not huge. But yeah, I mean, CPI was a little below... Yeah, CPI was 3.8 over the year. Wages were 4.1, so a little higher than CPI. So it's not like people are making a lot more money in real terms. But it's still better than anybody expected. And I think this has resulted in people thinking not, as some might fear, that maybe this will cause the Fed to keep interest rates high. But this has caused people to think, well, the economy is going to do okay. And as a consequence, markets were up, although they didn't stay up for very long, I think in response to these numbers. So hot end to put any one set of numbers, but last year's economy was okay. In spite of Biden, in spite of the Fed, in spite of inflation, it wasn't horrific. And in terms of getting a job creation, quite good. And one can only imagine, only imagine, in our wildest dreams, I guess, what would happen if we actually had capitalism in this country with American spirit and entrepreneurs going at 100% or right now, they're going maybe at 30%, I don't know, and look how well it's doing. And this is, by the way, why the U.S. is not going to have a melee. I mean, things are just not bad enough. We're going to continue to argue about how much of a mixed economy we should have. You know, how much of a mixed economy we should have, because the reality is the mixed economy hasn't produced bad enough results yet. The mixed economy that we have in the United States is kind of okay. It's for most people. And the projection of what could be, the projection of what should be, the projection of what the potential that exists is, it's too, people are not willing to be radical for some imagined potential, for some thing that maybe, people are willing to be radical when things are nuts, like they're on Argentina, and inflation is at 140%, although it's going to be much higher in the next few months, and everything is going to hell. The United States is chugging along slowly. I've been talking about this for over 10 years now, since the financial crisis. We're just going to have this boring stagnation. It's not even stagnation because we're growing, we're just going slowly in real terms. And sometimes we're inflation, sometimes we don't, sometimes we have, you know, other kind of distortions and perversions in our economy. And actually that's happening all the time. But overall, people are doing okay. And of course, next year's election, or this year's election, God, it's already that year, it's already this year's election. I think at the end of the day, this year's elections will be determined by, in the third quarter of the year, going into the fourth quarter when the election happens, how are Americans feeling about the economy? If the economy seems to be robust to people, and they feel confident in their job and things are going well, and maybe inflation's come down, so they're enough feeling at the grocery store, then Biden has a shot. If inflation is going to come back, if people are worried, if this job creation is a mirage and companies are going to start laying off here any minute now and we head into a recession, then whoever's running against Biden, like the Trump, is going to win. I mean, basically I think this election will be determined because nobody likes Biden, nobody likes Biden. And like 25% of the population likes Trump, but nobody else does. Nobody, there's not a majority for either one of these candidates. So they're going to win with the least negatives. And a lot of that will be determined by how people feel emotionally about their position in life, about the economy at that given point in time. So for now, it looks positive for Biden. However, people feel very negatively about the economy in spite of the positive numbers. This has been the trend all year long. All right, well, I'm sure we'll keep returning to the economy because there's so much there, and it's an ongoing issue. It's always an issue. Oscar Pistorius is a South African athlete, the one who doesn't have legs, has kind of prosthetics, instead of his, I think, from his knee down or from his calf down, and was an athlete that competed in the, what do they call it, Olympics, right? The Olympics for disabled people, disabled Olympics. And he was a runner and did quite well, was quite an inspiration, until he was accused and convicted of killing his girlfriend. Anyway, for some reason, he was sent to some 15 years in jail for murder. You'd think murder conviction would carry a bigger penalty than 15 years, but he only got 15 years in South Africa. And he is just today, basically being released on parole after serving seven years. I guess in South Africa, that's all you need to serve in order to get paroled for murder. Paralympics, thank you. Paralympics was the name I was looking for. That's pretty weird to me. I don't get that.  There's something very, very corrupt about that and wrong about that and perverse in terms of the incentives, perverse in terms of the justice of it.  And did he intend to kill her? Didn't he intend to kill her? He shot somebody through the door. What else could he intend to do? And he was angry, so he was a crime of passion, I guess. Still 15 years? I just don't get that. So, sorry, he should go back to jail. He should serve at least, if he's going to serve 15 years, he should serve them all in jail. He's going to spend the next few years with his family. He's under parole, so it's pretty strict, what he can do and what he can do while he's out. But the whole thing I think is just, it's just unfortunate and sad and, yeah, I mean, a miscarriage in some sense, a miscarriage of justice. So, I really do think people should serve longer sentences for murder. Even if it's a crime of passion, if it's in the moment or whatever, even if it's not completely self-meditated, murder is murder. All right. It's a lot to talk about in the context of the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay's resignation. We've talked a little bit about this, but I'm inspired today by TGIF. TGIF is the Friday publication of the Free Press. This is Barry Weiss's project called the Free Press. I'm going to use it extensively today. So, before you accuse me of plagiarism, I'm admitting that I'm going to read to you passages out of TGIF. Generally, TGIF is written by Nellie Bowles, who is married to Barry Weiss. And Nellie is a really good writer. And so I highly recommend TGIF. She's really funny. She presents the news in an entertaining way. It's really, really good. Somebody says, you're on people in the US commit murder and serve less than that quite often. I think that's wrong if that's true. I mean, I believe you, but it just seems off to me.   You're not an accident. That's it.  And I just don't see...  Violent rape? Your life basically should be over, right? They're just crimes of violence. There's just no coming back from. Again, it depends on the extent of the violence, how strong it is, but anyway. Highly recommend the Free Press, Barry Weiss' publication. In particular, I love their Friday summary of the news. It's funny. It's entertaining. And it's usually right on... I don't agree with everything they write, but that it's usually right on it. Anyway, they've dedicated a lot of space here to Claudine Gay's resignation that happened this week. Earlier this week, we've talked about it already, but it's worth kind of summarizing and emphasizing certain points. She has written... Gay has written an op-ed for The New York Times, where she's trying to justify her actions. She never apologizes for anything. Her plagiarism is just a witch hunt. And the whole thing with the testimony in front of the House committee, she fell into a prosecutional trap. And the trap, she fell into it innocently. And of course, she says in the op-ed, I'm against violence against Jews. Of course, I'm against a genocidal chance. And I would have protected Jews. Of course, this is a president of a university who did not say anything after October 7th, did not condemn what Hamas had done. She was very quick to condemn the killing of George Floyd, or Harvard was anyway. She wasn't the president at the time. And support for BLS.  In particular, she was very slow in responding, in really weak and slow in responding to the 30 plus 33, I think it was, student organizations, that on October 8th already expressed support for Hamas, what they did on October 7th. But she's innocent. And of course, she is not in support of Jewish genocide. And of course, she would defend Jewish students. And of course, all of this is a witch hunt against her, basically motivated by racial animus. Right. She is just the first black to be president of the university. She's the second woman, I think that's right, to be president of the university. And that's why they went after. It's all racism and sexism. Now, what she doesn't tell you is the extent of a plagiarism, which has been well documented in the press and you can find it all over the place. But this woman basically copy pasted whole paragraphs, even her acknowledgements, there's a section of acknowledgement that's a copy paste job. Now, I wouldn't fire anybody for that, but that shows you how absurd what she did. Over half of her publications have substantial plagiarism in it. Now, suddenly, plagiarism is not a big deal. Suddenly, plagiarism is just what's it called? This is associate press, one of our, you know, deliverers of news. They had this headline. Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges, plagiarism. It's a weapon. Really?   We're talking about a whole paragraphs verbatim with no reference. You know, there's an accusation of plagiarism against, oh, what's his name, the hedge fund guy who went after Harvard. His wife is now accused of plagiarism. What is her plagiarism? There's a paragraph there, which she references the source of verbatim, but she forgot in the publication to put quote marks around it. But she, she references where she got the text exactly from. Not something Claudine Gay does when she plagiarists. And now Bill Ackerman, Ackerman's wife. And now it's the same thing.  What Claudine Gay did is inexcusable in terms of the plagiarism. It is unprofessional. It is a travesty from, from an academic to do something like this. She should have lost her job. Now here she lost her job as president. She maintains a $900,000 a year salary. Let me say that again, $900,000 a year salary. Just so you know where your tuition payments and your tax money to pay for student loans, all that money ultimately goes. Oh, those of you who are giving money to, to endowments to your mamata, $900,000. She will continue as a faculty member, a faculty member who half of her publications on which she got tenure plagiarized have a significant plagiarism in there. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nate Silver, Nate Silver, I think he tweeted this, he says, pretty worried. And this is Nate Silver, who's a leftist, sent a left, right? Nate Silver writes, pretty worried about this new chrono weapon that can force you to go back as many as 27 years in time and commit plagiarism. Conservative weapon against colleges, plagiarism. You either commit plagiarism or you don't. And plagiarism has been a sin in academia, if you will. Forever. It's not new. It wasn't discovered in order to apply to Claudine Gaye. It's been applied to many, many people over many, many years. And it certainly applies to students. And it certainly applied to students at Harvard where she was president. Tzvika, thank you, $100. Wow, that's amazing. That's a sticker for Tzvika, Silvanos, thank you. And Roosevelt, thank you. Thank you to all the stickers. Really, really appreciate that. Still about, yep. All right, let's see. And then Ibrahim Kendi.  I mean, you know, and all kinds of stuff that nobody quite understands and knows and they produced really nothing anyway. He is convinced that the ouster of Gaye is all the work of a racist mob, racist mob, right? Now note that this racist mob also went after the president of the University of Pennsylvania. And the University of Pennsylvania president resigned way before Claudine Gaye. And the University of Pennsylvania president didn't commit plagiarism. She was forced to resign just for her response to the October 7th and a response to the hearing in front of Congress. That was enough to get her basically fired. Claudine Gaye, that wouldn't have got her fired, it appears. What got her fired is that plus a heavy dose of plagiarism. Now note that in a kind of rational world in which media was actually doing its work, the plagiarism would have actually come from the media. That is, the media would have discovered it and brought it to the fore. That's what the media does, right? It's supposed to do. Search and find corruption in the background. So the media, the media is defending Claudine Gaye. The media is the one that claims that plagiarism is a right-wing conspiracy. The real hero here, the person who actually did the work who actually figured all this out and revealed the truth about Claudine Gaye. It's not a media person per se, but somebody who works for the Manhattan Institute, an intellectual works for the Manhattan Institute Institute and has a Twitter account, Chris Rufo. Chris Rufo is the guy who actually did this and publicized it and made a big deal and really pushed us. Rufo, as Rufo puts it, quote, the funniest outcome of the Claudine Gaye saga is all the academics coming out in defense of plagiarism and all of the journalists coming out against journalism. Tell with facts, tell with digging, tell with discovering what's really going on. Tell with plagiarism. What matters is that Gaye was black and a woman and the president of Harvard, and that supersedes everything, right?   The oppressed are allowed to support other oppressed, Hamas. It's no surprise that the president of University of Pennsylvania was fired. She's white, and therefore, by definition, an oppressor. Oh, not huge oppressor, right?  Now, if she was Gaye, I mean, Gaye Gaye, then, I mean, there's no way she could have been fired, right? Because she would have been at the most oppressed, you could be, I guess, or maybe trans would have been even better than that.  We've been talking about this a lot, right? We've been, you know, talking about this idea that if you're part of the intersectional oppressed category, then you can pretty much do anything, including murder, rape, pillage, torture, and you can get away with it. And if you're part of the oppressor class, it doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter how much you grovel, you're always guilty. You're always guilty, even if you're the one being repillaged and murdered. You're always the guilty one. Matt Egan on CNN said, quote, we should note, this is often the TGIF from fp.com, we should note that Claudine Gaye has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She's been accused of sort of more like copying other people's writings without attribution. Sort of copying other people's ideas without attribution. What is that? And that's sort of, that's, we don't consider that a crime. You know, that's not a bad thing. You tell that to students. You tell that to other academics who actually do this honestly and do they work properly. It's just, the left is falling over one another in order to find ways to justify her, to justify her behavior and to excuse it. Now, what is the ultimate excuse for why Gaye lost her job? Well, the ultimate excuse, of course, has to be at the end, because it's the ultimate excuse for all evils and wrongs that happen in the world. And it's the ultimate excuse that both left and right really share. The ultimate excuse is that Gaye lost her job because of the Jews. I mean, it always boils down to the Jews are behind it all. The Jews are perverting, distorting, destroying our world and creating injustice. This is how Cornell West puts it, right? Quote. You know, they never say it out, they never say it. This is just, it's always kind of implied. We'll see other examples in a minute. Cornell West says, the same figures and forces enabling the ethnic cleansing and genocidal attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, Achaemen, Blum, Summers and others, push out the first black woman president of Harvard. Achaemen, Blum, Summers, all Jews, unsurprising. It's the Jews, guys. They're the problem that we face in this world.  And it's not just Cornell West. Tchaikovsky chose to go on a long rant earlier this week against whom? Some leftist crazy? Oh no, no, no, no. Against Ben Shapiro, who happens to be of course an Orthodox Jew. Here's part of the rant. Quote, the people on the right who have spent the last two months every single day focused on a conflict in a foreign country as our own country becomes dangerously unstable. He then lists various American issues. Again, this is from TGAF. He lists various American issues like drugs that he says Ben and these types have never cared about. Never cared about Ben Shapiro, really. And then he says, quote, they don't care about the country at all. And that's kind of their prerogative. But I do because I have no choice because I'm from here. My family's been here hundreds of years. God, this is so sickening. I plan to stay here. I'm shocked by how little they care about the country, including the person you mentioned, Ben Shapiro. And I can't imagine how someone like that could get an audience of people who claim to care about America because he doesn't, obviously, unquote. Now, that is pure anti-Semitic trope. Ben Shapiro is Jewish. Ben Shapiro is pro-Israel and it's talked a lot about Hamas. Ben Shapiro is also a conservative. We've talked about America over and over and over again on a show forever. But he's a Jew. He was a Yomica. He cares about Israel. And therefore, the trope goes, and this is something that Trump has also mentioned, they care more about Israel than they do about America. Indeed, it's not just that they care more. They don't care about America. Tucker Carlson tells us. And this is Tucker. Remember Tucker, the snob with the dollar store? This is Tucker, the racist snob. My family's been here hundreds of years. I don't have anywhere to go. Disgusting. You see, but Scott will defend anybody on the right. It doesn't matter how anti-Semitic, how vile, how disgusting, how horrible he is. Scott will find a bright spot.  And this is, you know, Tucker, of course, is descending into, I don't know, conspiracy theory, hell, and into anti-Semitic. And I think, ultimately, he'll become kind of a white supremacist type. But, you know, it's just, it really is horrific. What I just read you is truly horrific. And we're talking about Ben Shapiro. And I disagree with Ben Shapiro on a lot of things. But to claim Ben Shapiro doesn't care about America, really? But it's not just Tucker Carlson. One of the most admired investors in Silicon Valley, I've admired him.  Anyway, Paul Graham, who I've admired. And here's what he writes in on Twitter. Just again, I find this just hard, hard to just imagine. He says he shows the UN vote, a UN vote against Israel. We're pretty much every country in the world votes against Israel except the United States and maybe a few others. And the United States votes for Israel, and a few other countries vote for Israel, but almost everybody votes against Israel. So this is in relation to a United Nations vote, United Nations. Quote, this UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion. Is it because only America is smart enough to understand the Israeli point of view? Or because America's most powerful lobby has dragged us onto the wrong side of history? The answer to that is obvious. It's pretty unbelievable. The United States is pro-Israel because of the Jewish lobby. Again, another trope that keeps coming up, keeps being brought up. Paul Graham, for whatever reason, has been disgusting since October 7th. His anti-Israel is just being horrific. And of course, when you think about the United Nations, the answer should be, the answer should be we're just smart, better, more moral than most countries over there. Most of those countries are horrific countries, horrible. Just despicable. But it doesn't end there. Another tweet came from Dr. Rupa Maria, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco, a doctor, Professor of Medicine. Quote, the presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity. Zionism is supremacist, racist ideology. And we see Zionist doctors justifying the genocide of Palestinians. How does their outlook position impact priorities in US medicine? I mean, sadly, the reality today is that anti-Semitism is rampant in America. And among many of America's elites, both left and right. And it is pretty horrific from Al Sharpton to Tucker Carlson to Paul Graham to, I don't know, Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco. It's truly disgusting, despicable. I knew this existed in America.  To see this mainstreamed, to see this among mainstream professors, whether it's Cornell West or whether it's somebody at the University, you know, Professor of Medicine or big, unbelievably popular and successful media personalities like Tucker Carlson. I don't know, words escaped me in how horrific this really is and how bad it really is in America, in America, of all the places you expected in Europe. All right, just another story about insanity. I don't know, just like, I guess this will just frame your weekend in a positive mood or something. Spain, Spain, another European country is getting rid of nuclear power. It's phasing it out because that's gone so well for Germany. It's gone so well for Germany. Spain has decided that by 2035, it will have no nuclear power plants. Indeed, the shutdown will start in 2027. The shutdown in and of itself will cost over 20 billion dollars funded by the operators of the plants, supposedly. And, you know, they're going to increase significant investment. I mean, this is Spain, not the richest country in Europe, not the most successful economy in Europe. They're going to heavily invest in solar and wind power. Now, in Spain's defense as compared to Germany, the sun does shine in Spain. It doesn't in Germany. Germany's investment in solar power is comical. Spain's, you know, semi reasonable. At least they'll get some electricity during the day, because the sun does shine quite a bit. In the parts of Spain, it shines a lot. Wind, I don't know, but my guess is there's always places that are windy. But just shutting down the nuclear power plants, the safest, cleanest form of energy available, is going to cost them 20 billion. I don't know how much they're going to have to invest in solar and wind. Unreliables, as Alex Epstein calls them. But, I mean, this is this is the insanity of Europe, and this is a big part of why the rate is rising in Europe, and the rate is getting stronger in Europe, because the left is just crazy, just crazy. Jeremy Morton reminds me of the rain in Spain that falls mainly in the plains. Which means that in the non-planes, it doesn't fall much rain, so there's a lot of sunshine. If you don't know, that is from My Fair Lady, one of the great musicals and just a fantastic the story that became Alien by Shaw. Is it by Shaw? I think it's by Shaw. A great play. Super entertaining. My Fair Lady is a wonderful, wonderful movie. And play. I've seen it on stage. Musical. All right. Go figure. Let's hope that the socialists lose the next election in Spain, not to the far right, but maybe to a center-right party that then reverses this. Indeed, the conservative opposition has argued that they had pledged to reverse the planned phase out, but the socialists committed to it. Committed to it in Spain, where it rains mainly in the plains. All right. Let us go to your super chat. Remember, you can use the super chat to ask questions and $20 or more get priority. Let me also remind everybody that I will be in Denver a week from today. I'm doing a private event in the morning and then in the evening, you're all welcome. If you are interested in attending, you can find the link to where to register on uranbrookshow.com, right on the front page next week on Friday. I will be in Denver. It'll be an inspirational talk. I hope we can get a few of you. It'll be great to hang out. Great to meet you. It does cost $30, but view that as a super chat. You get to ask me questions that to talk for free. So you pay up front, you get to ask as many questions as you want for free. All right. Adam, what else do I want to tell you? Yes, I have to remind you that the Ironman Institute is a sponsor of the show and that the Ironman Institute is encouraging people to sign up for Ocon and that Ocon will be in June in Anaheim, California. A fantastic location, great weather, right next to Disneyland and it'll be an amazing program. I will be there, but so will a lot of some of the top speakers. I really, really hope you attend and again, opportunity to hang out, opportunity to meet, but more importantly to meet other fans of the show, other objectivists, other objectivist intellectuals. It's a great time. It's a great place, particularly in this crazy and sane world we live in right now. I don't know. There's so many crazies out there. There's so many irrational people out there in so many different ways irrational that Ocon is a pleasure because you get to spend a week with basically people who are committed to rationality and some of them are rationalists, but committed to rationality. I mean, you're not going to like everybody. Not everybody's going to be a friend. Not everybody's integrated these ideas well, but most have and there'll be a bunch of good people there and they're 500 people there. So if you don't like 450, it means you like 50. 50 is a lot. So come lots of opportunities. You can sign up. It's ironman.org slash start here slash start here where all the kind of things we're promoting in the Iran book show occur. You can still sign up for the Austin conference, for the Amsterdam conference and so on. Look forward to seeing you at Ocon, but first come to Colorado. Adam, in coming into here from Ivan, that despite how bad a country looks politically, there is the possibility of a quick reversal from despair when you importantly have the right type of principled and influential leadership. I think that's right, but of course, it had to get really, really bad. People had to get completely discouraged with the existing political leadership with the political elite completely. And there had to be an alternative because in America, the alternative to the existing political elite is Donald Trump.  And I don't see anybody on the periphery. So maybe, maybe the time will come. Maybe the country needs to get desperate enough. But yes, it is heartening to see that a country can be as in horrific a state as Argentina is today. And still there's a way out. And as Ivan said, Ivan, they can be rich 20, 30 years from now. He could be placing now on a path towards being rich. Remember, Argentina still has immense natural resources, including, by the way, a lot of shale oil, a lot of fracking ability. And you're going to see a lot of investment and stuff like that. So we will see. That's inspiring. The fact that you can come out of the abyss and project a positive future in spite of how bad things are. And Sama, happy new year, Dr. Book. I've said to students that if people cheat, plagiarize in the nuclear industry, people may die. Yep. Get caught cheating and you lose your career chances. Yep. Pure and simple. No tolerance here. Yeah. And I think that's Claudine Gay is absolutely that's it. I mean, and it's not again, it's not a sentence here, it's not one paper. It's this was a systematic systematic through academic papers. Bradley, given our corrupt altruistic culture, how critical is the environment environment you choose a well intentioned man going into politics or media is more at risk compared to business or step or step? Elon is very redeemable, but Obama is toast. Yeah, I mean, I think it is crucial.  You have one life. You've got to, you should choose a career or life path. You associate a place where you can apply your reason and rationality, where you can be you, where you can be moral, where you can be a good guy and not get penalized for it. And politics is a very corrupt place today. And it's very difficult to play that political game. Unless you're going to be a real disruptor, unless your whole point is to go in to disrupt, like me, like Michael says, who is a real life else with Tui and Peter Keating? I don't think there is a real life else with Tui partially because I don't think you can be as aware, a self aware as two years. But I think there are a lot of intellectuals who have that general attitude without being as explicit as he is about it. Paul Krugman, for example, I think a lot of a lot of these intellectuals, I mean, Taka Carson is also a Tui type, right? I mean, look, he's out for power. He's out, you know, to have a loyal, a fawning base and he doesn't care what he has to say and he doesn't care what he has to hold and how he says it. So I think Taka on the right, Paul Krugman, there are lots of them on the left, but many of our intellectuals. And since Peter Keating, it's hard to tell because you'd have to know people. But I'd say a lot of people, you know, you'd have to find them and know them. But the kind of people who just want to fit in, the kind of people who choose their values based on other people, you know, you probably know people like that personally, maybe, maybe you don't.  Claudine Gay is a kind of an Ellsworth Tui. A lot of academics, a lot of academics are Peter Keating types.  They're very Peter Keating-like, right? In that what they want is to get along. What they want is to fit in. What they want is to not shake the boat. The values are chosen by others. Andrew Traygo, why do you think Biden is polling so low despite decent economic results? I think because inflation is very difficult and for people to cope with and very disruptive to people's lives. Inflation is a really nasty phenomenon. And it hurts the middle class. And I think the poor people most, they experience it in the grocery store. And even though their wages are climbing, they don't quite experience that way. They still see themselves spending more and more and more stuff. If you keep track of your spending on groceries, as I did for many years, if you keep track on your monthly spending and watch it and be careful on how you spend your money, then inflation just throws you a curveball. And suddenly, everything is more expensive significantly. I think that's a big part of it. I also think it's just, you know, our intellectuals just feeding negativity constantly. And generally, we live in a culture that's very, very negative, very, very fearful, very, very negative. And so I think that's a big part of it. I think for some people, the immigration issue is a big deal, but I really think for most people, immigration is far away. It doesn't affect them. And again, to the extent that they feel affected by it, it's the fault of the intellectuals, telling them it's a disaster. Let me, I'll do a longer segment on this, but let's think about this. Under Obama, we experienced what was then called a border crisis, right? Illegal immigrants were rampaging across that border and coming into this country and doing who knows what, and Donald Trump swore to stop that. And to some extent, he controlled it, but to a large extent, illegal immigration continued to be large numbers because he didn't build the wall, didn't finish building the wall. And it was just a crisis. And then of course, now there's this massive crisis at our southern border, a massive immigration crisis. You'd think that with a decade, really 20 something years, really since, you know, since the 1990s, we have had a crisis on our southern border. And what exactly has happened? Like a crisis usually means, I don't know, something bad happens. So all these illegal immigrants have come into the United States over the last 30 years. And what's the negative impact they've had? Almost none. None, actually. And indeed, most of it's positive. They've done jobs, nobody else wants to do. They've lowered the cost of construction and picking strawberries and all kinds of other things. What exactly is the crisis? Let's say two million people cross illegally into the United States every year during the Biden administration. Let's say that's the reality. Yeah, I mean, New York is having a hard time because they promise to pay them welfare and they won't let them work. Right. And that's because they're semi-legal. But let's say they were truly illegals and therefore they work. What's the crisis? What bad is happening in the country? I mean, this crisis actually is maybe fueling economic growth. Maybe the fact that so many illegals are coming into the country means we've got people doing jobs that otherwise would not be done, which is fueling economic growth. A wage is going down because they're competing away jobs of Americans. No, it turns out wage is going up. What's the crisis? Is crime going through the roof because of illegal immigrants? No.  Primarily it went up during the COVID years, but that was primarily crime committed by Americans. Almost none of it was committed by illegal immigrants. So what is the crisis? Now, if Israel opened its border to Gaza, we know what the crisis would be. Death, destruction, mayhem, rape, pillage, all of that. But what is the crisis in America? An uptick in homelessness? Not because of illegal immigrants. Homelessness, problem has nothing to do with illegal immigration. It's got everything to do with lack of housing, zoning laws, and you could argue problems with mental health and addiction. And most of the country, most of the United States, 90 plus percent of the U.S., doesn't have a homeless crisis. Almost all the homeless crisis is in the West Coast, not all of it, but almost all of it. Over 50% of the crisis is a California slash West Coast crisis. So what is the immigration crisis?  I mean, put aside whether you should import as if people are goods and put aside whether people should come into the country or shouldn't come into the country. Put that aside. Forget about that. I'm just asking existentially, factually, in reality, what is the bad stuff that has happened because two million people have come into this country under the Biden administration illegally. And many, many more than two million before that. Like even during Trump, there was cities overrun. What city is overrun? Which city is overrun by immigrants? It's unlivable. I travel a lot. I haven't seen an unlivable city in America. Yeah, again, New York and Chicago are having problems, but that's because we offer them welfare. I mean, in spite of the law, we don't let them work. But that's not illegal immigrants.  Refugee status stuff. What is the problem? And that's what nobody can articulate. I mean, even here, people who are against immigration can't articulate. What is the problem? Is crime going up because of illegals? No. Is employment down in America? Few jobs being created because of illegals? No. Is GDP, is government deficits? Yes, I agree that New York and Chicago are having a hard time in some cities, some towns and places in Texas having a hard time because they're promised welfare to asylum seekers and they won't let asylum seekers work. But if they let them work, what would be the problem? What is the problem that would be created? There is no problem.   The more we can oh my God, we're being invaded. I mean, if we were invaded, wouldn't there be lots of people dead? Wouldn't be a lot of people murdered? Wouldn't be they be ransacking and cities and towns all over the place? And yet it's not happening. It's just weird, right? Really weird. JJ Gigby says, is Tucker Carlson a Charles Lindbergh type? No, because he doesn't have the achievements that Charles Lindbergh had. So Charles Lindbergh was a real anti-Semite, but in a fascist. But he was also somebody who achieved a lot. And therefore Tucker Carlson is a media personality. He caters to his audience and always has. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't strike me that he's lower than Charles Lindbergh. What do you think are the chances of another war in Lebanon following the growing tensions in all the Israel? I don't think there will be a war in Lebanon. And I think the reason is that Nasrallah and Iran don't want a war in Lebanon. They do not want to take on the Israel. They're not ready. They will lose. Lebanon is a country on the brink of collapse. There is no real country in Lebanon. I mean, there is a country, but it's dysfunctional completely. And most of the Lebanese people, I'd say an overwhelming majority of the Lebanese people, don't want a war with Israel. And Hezbollah is not very popular right now, and it would be a lot less popular if it got into a war with Israel. So, and then Iran doesn't actually want a confrontation with the U.S. and Israel. What Iran wants is the Biden administration to kind of deal with them. What Iran wants is the sanctions lifted. What Iran wants is the Biden administration to give them more billions of dollars. That's what Iran wants. They don't want a war. They know they'll lose the war. They can't win a war.  But what they want is a peace deal. What they want is a deal with America. And, you know, Hamas, in a sense, and they were coming in close to that, Biden was ready to sell out. And October 7th happened. But that's what they want. So both Iran and I think Hezbollah don't want a war in the North. So I don't think it will happen. It could, ultimately, they could be pushed to the point where they feel like they have no choice. But I think, again, because of the situation in Lebanon and because of Iran, the Iranian regime being relatively weak and not really wanting a war, I don't think they will be willing. I think they'll try to avoid one as much as they can to put it differently. Matthew says, a stream overlay would improve the show and make it more appealing to new viewers. I'll look into software and email you unless that's Christians up. No, please look into software and email me. I don't know exactly what that would look like. But yeah, we could definitely play around. I'm open to playing around with different stuff and testing it and seeing if it works. Andrew, I was taken aback by the lines in Hitler's speech explicitly denigrating the individual in favor of the collective. His evil could not have manifested in a country of independent men. And he knew it. Yeah, I think that's right. I'm surprised that you were taken aback by it because God, that's the whole foundation of Hitler's rising is the denigration of the individual. There's the same communism does exactly the same thing. They have to do it. They have to denigrate the individual. They have to denigrate the individual mind and elevate the collective. That is the whole basis. And that's why when you see American politicians doing it, when you see American politicians talking positively in collectivistic terms, that's why it's so scary because you would never think that in America that could happen. And that's why racism, you know, racism, anti-Semitism are so despicable in America more than in any other country because this is a land of individualism. All right, everybody. Thank you. Thank you to all the superchatters. We made our goal. I appreciate that. Always do. Tomorrow, tomorrow, 2 p.m. east coast time, we have our AMA. We have our panel of $25 and above a month supporters on Patreon or PayPal or subscribe stuff. So please join us for that. 2 p.m. east coast time tomorrow. I'll see you all then. Have a great weekend. Bye, everybody.


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Thank you, George, for inviting me to come here today. I added the word, new, because that's important to me, because I'm a new user of it. So I'm currently working elsewhere, but I've been, for the past two years, working at Imperial College, building that microsimulation. My background is motor racing. I spent most of my past two decades racing cars around the world. And so I have a different mindset when it comes to academia, because I need to think about global optimization results. Optimizing local things is not always feasible for us, because we need to race. There's always the next race. And the times are very short between each race. And we never race the same car. So for me, it's more important development speed. And when you try to develop at speed, you don't have time to do a lot of optimization and concentrate on local problems and make sure that your CPU is running red. So I'm going to go through my experience here, how I got on by using EasyBuild for the first time to get something actually deployed to a HPC here at Imperial. So the outline of my talk is that I'm going to give you an introduction to it. How GPS is. And then I will reveal the two parallel, one doing the process by hand, which is usually where how you start. And then my transition trees will then how that has gone. And the final part is have we actually accomplished that? Are we done with that transition? So first, have GPS or global health policy simulation. It's a micro simulation tool being developed by the Center for Health Economics in Imperial College. And they are in France as part of this top project. It's a European-wide project to tackle childhood obesity. So the simulation simulates country-wide population, so a fraction of the country's population. And we are interested on lifestyle, behavior change, and metabolic risk factors that how that one leads to chronic disease in late life. So we simulate several scenarios and test the effectiveness of policies, high-level policies for government. And that includes something like nutrition labels.  So that is one of the policies that you need to evaluate and see how that will affect your population. Others, which will affect you when you go to the shop, the sugar tax, anything that has sugar, you'll pay more for that or less. So this simulation is done for high-level policymaking. And so in terms of computation, the biggest limitation is how many people can use simulators. So it's an individual kind of actor-based simulation. So we need to simulate very large populations and they interact over time. By time, we talk about 30 years or even more 50 years because you want to see people go to school, get old, and see what's happened when they get old and what the outcome of the health is going to be. And that is what you try to balance if it's worth doing this intervention at this stage. So I'm going to now move to the software, which is open source. It's a cross-border form piece of software. It's written in C++. And there are other more limiting points is that we are not focusing specifically on high-performance computing. Our software needs to run on a desktop cloud. High-performance computing is a specific use case that we need to be able to do so that we can run larger populations and scale our software. The development chain is CMake. I don't have problems with CMake. I've been using CMake for many years. And one of the pain points for every software in the developing C++ world is dependence, resolution, compatibility, and be able to actually assemble your dependencies, build everything. So we've been using package managers to do that in recent years. There are a number of them. I chose VC Pak as a developer in Microsoft. But there is also Ninja, sorry, not a more Python-based as well. And the project is hosting GitHub. And we use GitHub for pretty much every integration test and so on. Here's the link if you want more information about it. I've been thinking of source code, whatever you wanna do. It's all available. There is well-documented and get involved if you think it's something that you like to do. So I will start how I started working in the Imperial HPC. That was before EasyBuild being introduced and wasn't introduced later for me. So the first thing you have to do is you go to the HPC, try to see what was available there. And to my surprise, the compilers were very old. So I had to start by requesting a happy day ticket and that ticket took quite a considerable amount of time to come back.  And the important bit is that when we eventually are able to build that software, we tend to store somewhere in the file system and then let people know where it is and stuff running from there. And incredibly, these tends to be most of the way that people actually work because install the software, you need to go through the chain of tickets. I got a new version, need to install again. And so as a research group, we tend to actually share the binaries and the data, complete independent of the HPC deployment system and then run the experiments, analyze results and so on. You know, well, the steps here and hopefully it's accepted for publication or not. So trying to reproduce that environment is almost impossible because I've done myself, even I probably don't know how to do it again because it's over time and I start doing one step or another step and this is what is built supposedly is here to do is to actually solve that problem so that we can actually be reproducible. And that's a major, major addition and a solution for academia, especially, but not only for academia, we also need the reproducibility at the industry. Industry today is very keen to be able to repeat to reproduce your results is not unique for academia. This is the global requirement that we be reproducible that we can repeat ourselves and other people can check the results. So they moved to EasyBuild. Thanks for this, for George actually introduced to EasyBuild and was looking for volunteers to provide a project. And I volunteered myself and that is the story began. So I start by setting up EasyBuild on my machine as a developer and the first step was the integration with GitHub is a long list of steps and you better make sure that you don't miss them but be patient, you get there. EasyConfig was another journey. The first encounter is, it looks similar to what you'd say a CI script for GitHub but what actually makes difficult for me was the dependencies and having to find all the EasyConfig for everything that I was using. And if you don't find those then you need to get your hands dirty and do yourself and make sure that you get everything in place or there is config that you need in place before you can actually have your own EasyConfig accepted and actually published. The good news there is after lots of trying I must say I wouldn't done by myself it wasn't for the support that I received. So when George and his team, they started by creating this script which was the first thing that caught my attention that all right, let's remove the package manager and you see make a new chain. Wow, that's now is gonna be interesting. And then we start the journey of building up all these dependencies. And I personally found that quite intimidating because most of the dependencies that I was using wasn't there. So we had to actually do quite a lot ourselves. The good news is after all that work is done then now we have, we can install the application on my local space and there are three different stacks here at Imperial there is the development and then production. So while you software, you use configs on PR you're not allowed to go to production. So there is a link between software being accepted in config and then you'll be allowed to go to production until then it is local or is it development stacks. And now I don't need to keep sending mails to you that they all can go to the command line and check what's the latest version that I have there. And all that is this layer that's been removed. The same process will continue to happen with running experiments and trying results and so on. But this time there is a big difference. You can reproduce that result, the installers and so on. So that's for me is the biggest contribution for from easy to do. And I thank you all for that. And I know it's open source, it's a hard work being there for quite some years. But in the end that is what actually makes the difference. And I wouldn't, today if I need to do another kind of similar work, I would start with this build at my starting point because it removes, it's not perfect, but it's much, much better than the previous option we had. So now I'm going to go to the question if we are there right now. And unfortunately, we're not there and presumably, you know we're not there because there are things that can be improved. There's always things that can be improved including our own lives. So my first problem I had with easy build is that it doesn't integrate into the development. There is config somewhere, my code is somewhere, two different post control. And it's not part of my continuous integration. Yeah, I don't test ease config as I go developing my tool. So at some point when I actually say, here's a release of my tool, then I go jump over and I need to create ease config and then get things approved and hopefully go again. So that is something that I don't know how easy it is to do it but if we could integrate easy building to CI builds and so that it can be tested as part of the development cycle, not separate from your development cycle. All the issue I found might be unique for Imperial is that easy build optimized for the HPC hardware but the question is which hardware? Because I noticed those flags being added to my GCC. And then the next thing you'll know is that Imperial doesn't have a single piece of hardware that has several kinds of hardware. And if I optimize too much for a specific architecture and try to run on the next one, on the different one, then I might be up for a surprise and that there is a way I can specify that I can say, well, I only want to use these hardware, type of hardware on my experiment but that might lead to a very inefficient environment because I'm now, if everyone starts to choose the same CPUs because of the latest one, then you might end up with longer wait times for your jobs to complete and you're going to have a lot of idle nodes which no one is trying to use. And it's not a solution. If you look at Imperial, these are the Qs and then you have the CPU times of each one of them. Now just choosing the Q is a, there's another big grid which you need to navigate which size of memory, number of nodes and duration of your jobs. But as soon as you hit that Q, now you have several types of hardware available. And if optimized to one, then I might hit the other nodes as part of that. So in the case of health GPS, we are not trying to be too optimized to the level of the hardware because we must be able to run on a desktop, on a cloud computer and when you go to the cloud, you have no idea which hardware which is run there. You just have the account and you say, I want to run this and just go to some data center that will choose which VM you want to actually run unless you pay for the specific VM I want to run on this one. So I'm more interested in generality, have a piece of code that can run everywhere without getting too close to the hardware because that gives me a lot more flexibility than being completely attached to a specific machine. And as you know, HPC is getting upgraded. And you might spend a lot of time tuning, tuning and tuning for a specific architecture. And next year, this come along, it's all right, we are upgrading the HPC and now all these new CPUs coming along and now your code is no longer good for the next generation of CPU. So I might be going against the wave here, but from my point of view, I prefer that the software be generic that can actually scale across different environments than actually be too focused on a specific architecture and CPU. The next thing that we love to do in open source is that we like to try different compilers. And compiler version, my code should compile with GCC as old as I can go, but also do the next one, the new version. And so it's quite a common practice for us to create pipeline to try to compile your code with a new CPU, sorry, a new compiler. As soon as a new version of GCC comes along, then we say, let's try to see if my code is still compiled with that one. And sometimes the compilers are improving to such a level that just moving the same piece of code from one compiler version to the next one, you're already getting performance on that. An easy build is not, doesn't help me a lot on this transition to try out a new compiler. I need to go back and redo all my dependencies now with the new compiler. So the initial cycle that I just gone through my initial development, I need to repeat that one again with a new compiler or a different compiler. So the bottom line message that I have for the easy build developers is that we still have a very steep learning curve to start with easy build. And my suggestion as a new user is that we should try to lower that entry point because that is very important for any software to live for a long time. And I do hope that easy build will stay around for a very long time because it solves a very important problem. And that's probably the biggest message I would like you to take away. It's for easy build to be here in 20 or 10 years, 20 years time, you need new users. Without new users, we can't go forwards. No open source project will survive if there is no new users. That's all for me. Any questions for Israel? Yeah. We'll just- Do you want to actually? Sorry? So bombing for a different architecture is a time of moving and that is just your page is probably long to do that. So that's very, very easy to do. Maybe we do that on room all the time because compile all the time or once for a different target. So we cannot use minus 10 part to make this data. And I don't really understand your remarkable. It is true if you defend from dependency that comes from easy build and if you have your own step of easy build which comes in terms of also which we have on room I have to review for different compilers like every four months. And I build for four different compilers. And typically this is just because we have a room for dependencies and compilers just changing a single line that could even use the setting structure in these compilers. Generate new video compilers for my new compilers and my- But my point is that I don't- Can you repeat the comments first? Yeah. So the question is why I need to, I'm not able to do the cross compilation cross compiler with easy build that is possible to do. My point is that I don't wanna do that.  I shouldn't go that far. You have to cross when you have to cross compile. You are on one node type but you want to compile for the minimal node type that you will point minus N part maybe and have minus N mark if it's a visit for some of those core settings. Generate. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I want it to be generic. Generate before that's really, you know, there's no, then you're really that's very easy to do. There is support for this and it's in the documentation as well. Yeah. Easy build has a way to build generically that work anywhere. So there is a caveat there and I think it's an important one. So today that's feasible because you have mostly Intel CPUs and so many in CPUs. But ARM is coming and ARM is gonna be very hard to ignore and say two years from now with the Nvidia based CPUs coming people will not be able to ignore ARM and say, oh, we won't use it because it's not the X86 it's gonna cause trouble. It's a similar story to the GPUs. People that at least we did, we actively said, we'll wait on the GPUs, right? Because it's gonna create more demand for software, gonna create more support requests. We didn't have the time for it so we actively waited.  So at some point this will be true for ARM as well. And then it's a very different story because you cannot take one binary and run it everywhere anymore. You need at least two, right? ARM one and the next X86. Yeah, we. And that make it get worse. I think that that is true. And GPUs have that problem on the beginning, right? Moving your piece of code from one GPU to another GPU it's usually required quite major rewriting. You think we didn't sync those vendors? Yeah, but that- It's easy to create both the architecture Yeah, and you're the anti-example, right? On Lumi, the software that works on video GPUs is- No, it's enough between GPUs that the same as ARM and X86. It is. But within the single GPU family, we didn't get- You can do FAT binary. But within the AMD family, it's actually easy to do the single binary. Make sure that you're near optimal for all different GPUs that you may encounter. Yeah, well- Yeah, maybe X2 essentially. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's version 2, yeah. So, yeah. So, Bart is saying there is some kind of standardization in X86 where they define different levels. V1, V2, V3, V4. Where V4 is, I think, Vx5, V6, V6, V6, V6, V6, V6, V6, V6. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, I think, if X512, V3, as ADX2. So, if Easyboot could be aware of those, it could be a lot easier to build generic binaries. Work, let's say, on recent but not hardware. Yeah. Comment on that what we are doing at the Imperial is we said, okay. Zendipridge, Ivapridge is basically the same instruction set. Haswell-Boardwell is basically the same instruction set. So, basically, we are only building Haswell-Broadwell, Sandy Bridge, Ivory Bridge works like a charm until you find a piece of software who is using on the Haswell-Broadwell line. Something one of them is supporting, the other one is not. And of course, if you are building it on the one where it is supported and try to run it on the other one, you get a sec fault. So yes, we were thinking along these lines basically what that was saying with the V1, V2 and whatever. We were thinking along these lines with a heart there. Unfortunately, at one point it didn't work. Yeah. Yeah, I think most, let's say, support teams or Shizamins are doing this because they know how important it is for performance as well. But from a user's perspective, it's very different. We see this in our users as well, in the tickets that we're getting. But people don't actually know why it matters or why. I mean, we have an issue where our logon nodes are now AMD Rome, so it doesn't support 8XX12. And people run into illegal instruction errors because they're running software that was built for our Skylake node. And it's very easy to accidentally run into that. And all you get is like illegal instruction. And I said, they said, I did something illegal and they opened a ticket. So they don't really understand, first of all, what's going on and why it happened, why it's important, why it is like this. It's not we trying to be annoying. It's trying to help them and give them faster software. And then it's actually... Yeah. It's not older. AMD Rome is newer than Skylake. But the architect, it's just incompatible architectures. And if you go into ARM, it's even worse because nothing will work. Yeah, and if you have the latest instruction set, there's very good extensions that see views can choose independently from... Yeah, that mess is way bigger. Yeah, if nothing works in some cases better. Is there a question or comment in the back as well? As for the trying to view compiler versions, there is a fine two-chain version option. Yeah. Yeah, so Easyboot does have some support for trying different two-chain versions quite easily with the try two-chain version option, which sometimes work, not always, but it does give you a push in the right direction. But you would need to have all your dependencies already also failed for the other one. Yeah, if you enable robot, Easyboot will do it recursively. Okay. I haven't used that feature. Mostly works not always. Yeah, mostly works not always. And it's maybe not very well documented. But that could be a reason why you're not aware of it. Okay. Anything online, Simon? Before we wrap it up. You've lost the power. I can take a quick check. Yeah, it looks like it's mostly comments, not really questions. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I was just going to give you one example of GPUs that I had on one of my previous work is that we had any video GPUs we developed quite a lot of software for any video. But then AMD came as a sponsor. So first thing you do get rid of all the any video because now you have to use AMD GPUs. And that was a very heavy rewrite. I think that's a bit of the, let's say the damage that will be done with coming from 10 years of only Intel and that's changing very rapidly and GPUs are only going to make that worse. Yeah, I want to say there's an easy answer there. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Thank you very much.


What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today. I'm going to be ranking every spider-man movie Let's get right into this So as you guys know, I am a huge fan of Marvel and I'm a huge fan of spider-man So I decided to finally go and rank every spider-man movie from the first one in 2002 up until the last one in 2019 there is a total of Seven movies solo for spider-man as of right now and there is one coming out in 2021 and that's why I wanted to make this video now Ranking all of the previous movies prior to the next one that comes out in 2021 Up first is the first spider-man that came out in 2002. This one includes Norman Osborn Which turns into the green lantern This is the one that for most people is their favorite spider-man movie just because back at the time It was one of the best movies that came out that year in my opinion The whole superhero franchise in my opinion was just kick-starting and it was a really great movie the one thing I will say with watching this movie now in the current year is That some of the things that happen in the movie are really corny and just completely out of it But the action and the spider-man itself looks phenomenal They really did a great job and they had a really good person cast as the original spider-man in that movie So for this movie here, I'm gonna rank it 7 out of 10. I absolutely loved this movie Next is going to be spider-man 2 which came out in 2004 and all the events in spider-man 2 take place Two years after the first movie in this movie We see finally dr. Octopus and we also see Harry Osborn Blaming spider-man for his father's death So you have a whole bunch of stuff happening in this movie, of course It seems like Harry Osborn is eventually going to become the new green goblin But that does not happen in this movie and of course spider-man defeating dr. Octopus having him in this movie was Phenomenal so I'm gonna rank this movie a 7.5 out of 10 just because I felt like having two villains or one that is coming to be a new villain in the franchise Was very awesome to see and this movie did have a lot of action and all the corny aspects of the movie We're no longer in it. Next is going to be the iconic spider-man 3 which came out in 2007 and this movie Harry is finally the new green Goblin there is an escaped convict that eventually turns into the Sandman I guess he gets trapped in this chamber. I'm not really sure of what it's called I cannot remember but Peter also learns that the convict the person that is now Sandman is the person who actually killed Ben in the first Movie the mysterious black alien bonds with Peter for a short little while and then later bonds with Eddie Brock To become Venom so this movie had three main villains. It had the new green Goblin It had Sandman and it had Venom this movie here was very iconic Everything that happened in the movie was awesome Having three big villains in the movie at the same time was awesome to see because we just don't see that Other than in the Avengers movies anymore So this movie here. I'm gonna rank it 8.5 out of 10 the next spider-man doesn't happen until 2012 and that is the amazing spider-man now. I'll be honest with you just weeks ago I watched the amazing spider-man and the amazing spider-man 2 in preparation for this video Prior to that I did not watch these movies because they were not something that interests me at the time in this movie here Peter is in high school and is bit and gets his abilities of spider-man However, the only thing I will say that I do not like about this version of spider-man Is he does not genetically have the web slinging abilities? He literally has to create a device to be able to strap to each of his wrists to be able to shoot webs So it's not coming out of himself. It's coming out of the device. He creates which to me I was not a fan of and in this movie his relationship is with Gwen Stacy and not MJ in the first movie he faces Kurt Connors dr. Kurt Connors which turned into the lizard this movie here was very cool to see a new version and a new Take on the iconic spider-man However, I was not a complete fan of it and I wasn't really sold on it So I'm only gonna rank it 6 out of 10 next is the amazing spider-man 2 and this is the last of the amazing Spider-man series and we see Peter graduate from high school and he faces Electro which was accidentally created in oscorp Electro takes a whole new look It's not like the original look and it to me looks terrible with the blue and he's bald and to me It does not even feel or look like Electro. It looks like a terrible knock-off version. At least that's my opinion We see that Harry Osborne is in fact dying his father died of a disease He wasn't killed and his father was not green goblin in this movie But because he is dying he becomes the green goblin only at the end of the movie And you only see him very shortly at the end and he looks hideous as the green goblin as a result of beating both Electro and the green goblin when Stacy ended up dying, which was very emotional And to me it just had no point in the series to have when Stacy die after defeating both the green goblin and Electro to me. It was just very corny and I just didn't vibe with it It just to me was not the greatest of things that they could have done in the movie Especially to end the franchise there and I'm only gonna rank it at 6.5 out of 10 Next is going to be the return of spider-man in spider-man homecoming which was in 2017 now in spider-man homecoming it takes place after the events of civil war and The construction worker and his crew are trying to clean up the mess and then the government comes in shuts them down Basically taking the job away from them and they end up running into hard times and eventually start to do a lot of criminal activity And he becomes the leader of this group becomes the vulture Which I thought was an amazing take on it in this take of spider-man spider-man is still in high school Except he does not have a device on his arm shooting the web slinging which is what was in the amazing spider-man movies It's actually he's been bit and he can actually have all the abilities and he can shoot webs right out of his skin So I think this is the most realistic current version of spider-man. They could have done. I absolutely loved homecoming I'm gonna rank it 8 out of 10 and the last movie came out only in 2019 and that was spider-man far from home in this movie here You see at the start of the movie. It seems like Mysterio is a good guy and helps teaming with spider-man to take down a villain But in reality he tricked Nick fury and spider-man into Kim Into spider-man giving him a Device from Tony Stark because this movie takes place after the death of Tony Stark in endgame So we get to see the first movie after Iron Man's death So Tony Stark gave spider-man a huge device something that could very be weaponized and He ended up giving that to Mysterio not knowing Mysterio was in fact a bad guy and a former employee of Tony Stark Spider-man eventually learns that Mysterio is a bad guy and has to take him down But it's so crazy the stuff that happens once Mysterio has this device that it almost seems like he's going to be unbeatable But spider-man ends up outwitting him and defeating him in the end So this movie here was phenomenal. I absolutely loved this spider-man movie and out of all the spider-man movies This was by far my favorite one. I'm gonna rank it a solid nine out of ten So I'm really excited to see what Tom Holland does moving forward as the current spider-man And I know there is a new movie coming out in 2021 and I'm really excited to see not only what is going to happen in this movie But to see what villain or villains are going to be part of this movie Something tells me that right now it's rumored that Venom 2 is in the works and that spider-man may be featured in it So maybe with the next spider-man movie that comes out in 2021, which is untitled as of right now May include Venom in it and I would be 100% on board if it did So comment down below What is your favorite spider-man movie out of all the spider-man solo movies that have been made?  So if you guys enjoyed, please take care. Peace


Hey, what is up? My name is Rubidium. Got something a little bit special for you today. We made a short film. Remember when we were at the lab there was all that craziness and there were these green vials. I remember the fire, the explosions, broken glass everywhere. Well, there were these green vials. Something that the madman was working on. They were glowing, almost breathing. I think they were alive. Stick around to the end of the episode to see the rest of that. The reason I went to all the trouble of writing, directing, and editing a short film is that I wanted to talk about two-person dialogue. How to shoot it, how to make it look good, how to make it work for you. So two-person dialogue makes up a huge portion of most films. I would say 70 or 80 percent of the typical feature film is two people talking in amongst all the action and car chases and explosions. It's information, it's exchange, it's character and story are revealed through dialogue. As a filmmaker, you spend a lot of time getting this kind of shot. Now, the kind of gold standard of two-person dialogue is to do an OTS on the single, meaning you have one person's face and in the foreground, you have just a little piece of the other person's shoulder. This gives depth to the shot because not only do you have background, but you have foreground. So your subject is sort of sandwiched between two other planes. It just adds a lot of dimension and adds a lot of polish to your final product. But there's an issue with this. The difficulty is that people never sort of stand or sit exactly where they are when they talk. The relationship between the two people in conversation changes radically as people sit or stand or move in or move out. And this creates all sorts of issues. The best way that I've found to solve this problem is to use a slider to have your camera mounted on a slider behind the second person. And it gives you the freedom to adjust your shot slightly as the actor acts and the distance between the two actors change. So let's jump to set and see what we got up to. We have the two actors staged at a kitchen table. I picked this location because I thought it had different type of background, books for JD and the depth of the living room for Rainer. We have a six by six half grid tape, a gaffer tape to the outside of the window with a big fresnel and super panel punching in to illuminate to basically give us this key. And I'm going to capture it from JD's side first. Then we're going to probably cheat the table over so we have more room behind JD to shoot Rainer's single. When she leans forward to make a point, she then blocks out JD's frame. So as the guy in the tripod, I would kind of have to be like either move the tripod over in mid shot, which doesn't work. Or sometimes you find yourself kind of like pulling the person in the frame back to try and get them out of your shot. The only real alternative with this is to have the camera hand held say on my shoulder or in my hand be allowing for her movement by just moving back and forth. But that adds unless you're really stable, you don't want to be doing this all day because you're going to add movement to your shot that you may not necessarily want. Rather than doing it that way, we're going to get rid of the tripod, bring in a slider and see what that gives us. Now I have the camera on a slider setup. It's the move over slider from Benro. It's carbon fiber. It comes with in a kit two flat packed tripods. It also has a flywheel, which adds inertia to your shot and makes the move and the slide smoother. So I'll roll on this again on the C200 till then. So now I can be on James, Rainer can move in and I can just slide across here very innocuously in a way that doesn't interrupt the flow. And then when she leans back, I can slowly drift across and take my OTS again. So I had each actor do about three or four takes of each side. There's a choice you have to make when you're shooting dialogue like this, either the person is quite choreographed and they do exactly the same thing each time. So that you as the operator can predict each move or you let them do whatever they want and do each take different and then try and find matching takes in post, which is riskier, but gives the actor more freedom and should give you a better performance. There's no right way and no wrong way. One one way just gives more emphasis to the final image and the flow of the cut. And the other way gives more emphasis to the performance and each director has to choose what they think is the priority. Now we're doing our master. So we have somebody cut to I originally had it locked off, but I realized that with the slider on the kitchen bench here, I can slide back and forth and sort of like get a little bit more dynamicism in the master. If I move the lights out and and light it in a slightly different way. So that's what we're going to do. Try try a moving master and be that have the camera move moves motivated by who's talking and where the where the attention is. These actors that we worked with absolute pros rena Guthrie and JD Brown, they were able to give really great performances that were subtly different each time and they were alive and fresh and really engaged. But they were similar enough that I was able to sort of work with them and kind of anticipate their movements forward and backwards. So there was lots of shots that I could use or couldn't use. But the reason I got them to do multiple takes was so that I was sure that I had at least one good take of each move. Once we had all the footage, I brought it into DaVinci Resolve, graded it with the crimson engine lots that I like to use that I developed for the C 200. And I sort of did a few little tweaks on their faces. I put a couple of power windows on sort of lighting in post. I put a couple of vignettes on to bring the background down. Once it was done with the footage and the grade, I outputted from Resolve into Premiere, which is where I put together my edit. And like I said before, it was a real joy to work with this footage. There was plenty of versions of every moment and it just sort of flowed. It's an awesome situation to be in to have good choices. You know, often when you're editing, you really have to edit around all the mistakes. So you have to find the one or two takes that you can get away with and that don't jar the audience. When you shoot like this on a slider and you're not having to cut around camera shake or bumps, then you have a lot more choice to pick the best take and not just the take that works. Hi Tom. Do you have a second? Sure. A second. Can I sit down? By all means. Remember when we were at the lab, there was all that craziness and there were these green vials. I remember the fire, the explosions, broken glass everywhere. People were shooting at us and we were running for our lives. I didn't exactly have time to take inventory. Well, there were these green vials. Something that the madman was working on. They were glowing, almost breathing. I think they were alive. Okay. They were alive. But they're gone. Everything burned. Yes, about that. Did the police ask you afterwards if you took something from the lab? I do remember. They were thorough in their search. Very concerned, as I recall. Fear of contamination. Yes, I do remember that. And? What? You asked me if I remember the samples and about how the police asked me about them. No, that's good. I'm really glad we got all that figured out. Why would you ask me about something if you didn't have something else to add? Yes, I do. The police asked me about the same thing. I lied. I hope you guys enjoyed that. I hope we showed how, by using a slider in your two-person dialogue scenes, you can get more control, more fluidity, hopefully making for better shots that up to better scenes and then, at the end of the day, a better film. Thanks very much for watching. I hope to do a bunch more of these time and resources permitting. Leave your comments below if you liked what we did. Hit the notification button so you get more videos from us. And we'll see you next time.


Miku North residents no longer have to travel outside of their constituency to access primary health services. The construction of a new wellness center is now completed. The project has been more than 25 years in the making. On July 14, 2022, the Miku Wellness Center was officially opened and now serves Miku North residents and environs. In addition to expressing his gratitude towards the medical workers operating out of the Miku Wellness Center, Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre gave assurances of his administration's commitment to improving public health administration and infrastructure in St. Lucia. St. Lucia is not the worst for healthcare. Could be better. There could be a lot of improvement, but St. Lucia is not the worst for healthcare. Considering the price, the cost of healthcare in St. Lucia is not the best, but it's not the worst. So we have to have a sense of gratitude to the health personnel and the people who work in our services. But that doesn't mean that they must be complacent. That doesn't mean that they must not have the highest level of customer care. Cognizant of the challenges affecting healthcare delivery, Hon. Pierre disclosed discussions with Minister for Health, Hon. Moses Jababtees, to remedy the issues at both the local and national levels are advancing. The problem most of the time is communication. We do not speak to people. And that is why when we go into government, I said to the Minister of Health, we must try to employ some client welfare officers who talk to people. People just want to be spoken to. People just want to be told what is wrong and what is right. And if there is one issue that some people have with medical people is they do not communicate enough with their patients. They don't explain to their patients really what's happening. If they don't explain to them, they don't say to them why something is happening. And I'm sure if there's a little more communication, people should speak more with the medical people. And I know they're very stressed. I know they're underpaid. I know they're overworked. I am aware of that. But I'm saying if we speak a little more, many other problems, many of the complaints will be alleviated. The government of St. Lucia secured funding to construct the MECO Wellness Centre from the World Bank. The facility is also climate resilient and is able to withstand the ferocity of major hurricanes and storms. A climate smart rainwater harvesting system is also incorporated in the designs to further augment the building's water storage capacity. From the office of the Prime Minister, Rihanny Isidore.