Let us say you have this original matrix A on this you have used several of these elementary row operations let us say and let us say this is E A hat or A bar I have been using the bar notation confusing A bar right. Now this entire thing can be thought of as a common M. So, if each of these individual chunks are invertible is not the whole M invertible. In fact, we know that if E I are invertible then so is M right. In fact, we can also say that M inverse is exactly equal to what it gets reversed again you can view it as an action. What does it mean to have acted like this? The first to act on A was E 1 then the subsequently it was acted upon by E 2 then E 3 by E 4 and so on. So, if you want to undo you should start with the last misdeed that you have done. If you want to undo your past actions and want to sort of be penitent about it start undoing from your most recent crime the effects of that right. So, that is what you do. So, you first hit it with the last action that you have done right. So, what is this equal to then right. So, this is again a point that is beyond any debate or anything there is no debate about this. So, we are happy with this because now we exactly have a way to go from A to A bar through a matrix M and a way to go from A bar to A through the matrix M inverse which is also another M I mean both are invertible right. So, it turns out that this elementary row operations provide us with a root to get from one system to another equivalent system. But the question still remains what are these so called nice forms that we are shooting for what would it what would make us happy right philosophical question, but we will not address the philosophy in this class like in general what would make us happy no one knows. But yeah in this class at least we know what would make us happy in so far as this form of this equation is concerned. So, we have A x is equal to b any arbitrary structure. Let us give a particular form or shape and say that this is desirable we will see when we actually go about solving it we will see why it is a desirable form. So, we give a particular form a name in fact there is no reason to retain this row reduced form suppose we have been given a matrix A first we have to understand what is this row reduced form and then we go to try and see if there is a way to get from any given A B pair to the row reduced form of this A ok. So, what is the definition of this row reduced form matrix say R which is M cross N is said to be in the row reduced form if the following hold first the first nonzero entry in each row is 1 we will call this the leading one ok. If the first nonzero entry as you go on reading where I am saying reading I understand it from left to right ok. So, I am not referring to languages like Hebrew or Arabic where you read from right to left reading from left to right and we are looking for the first nonzero entry. So, the first nonzero entry has to be 1 yeah. So, if any matrix checks out against the first criteria then we go out checking for the second criteria and verifying whether that is also met if that is met then it is row reduced what is the second criteria other entries in a column containing leading 1 must be 0 ok. If that is a bit too much to parse let me give you an example and maybe along the way I will also cook up some non examples. So, let us say you have a matrix like so 0 0 1 5 7 and 0 1 0 4 2 what should I do 1 ok 1 or let us make this whole zeros yeah no problem 1 0 5 7 6 this is not a row reduced matrix the way I can I mean what would I have had to do or what would I have had to change in this matrix to make it row reduced. See if I look at it the first nonzero entry in each row is 1. So, it checks out against the first condition. However, it is the second condition that is important to us now because we have checked the first condition already. So, what are we going to look for now? Now that we figured out that every nonzero row has a leading 1. Now we are going to focus on the columns containing those leading ones. So, what are the columns containing the leading ones? This is a column containing a leading one this is a column containing a leading one and this is a column containing a leading one. So, now check against the second condition you see the first one every other entry in that column is 0 we are good. Second one also third one this falls the party. So, if I had this as 0 this is a row reduced matrix. So, you have seen in one shot a non-example first and now you see an example of a row reduced matrix any matrix that meets these two conditions is a row reduced matrix. So, this is again a definition whenever I give you a definition you should brace yourself up because some result is coming up that is the reason we are setting it up like that we have defined something as a row reduced matrix. So, what is the result that is coming up? Let us call it another proposition every system of equations a x is equal to b can be transformed to x is equal to b hat where r is in row let us just use a short form r r f r is in row reduced form by what means through elementary row operations on a b pair. What I am saying is of course goes without saying let us say a is m cross n so is r because we are hitting it with only square matrices right. So, I am saying that you give me any system of equations I am going to be always able to convert it in such a way that this r matrix will look something like this probably and you might wonder why it is a nicer form again I am not sure we will have time for that in today's lecture maybe we will see it in the next lecture when we actually go ahead and solve one equation one system of equations why this is a much more desirable form than any arbitrary form of the a matrix that you can have right. But the point is that you will always be able to get from any given a matrix to a row reduced form by just using those three sets of operations that we have described or maybe even two in this case as we shall see. In fact, we will see that just the first two suffice I will not give you again a very formal or a complete proof, but I will just give you kind of a constructive insight into what goes into this operation. So, why is this true what is the idea behind this that takes us from any arbitrary a to a row reduced form first how do you think you are going to get or one as the leading non-zero entry in every row given that you have a matrix a like so let us say some 0 then some star here that is the first non-zero entry here in this row let us say in this row you have 0 0 that is the first non-zero entry here let us say here you have this as the first sorry first non-zero entry here some such structure right some such matrix first idea would be to turn this fellow to a unity what elementary row operation would allow me to do that scaling by by the reciprocal of that first non-zero entry right. So, what we need essentially in this number system of ours is the ability to do divisions which as of now might appear very trivial, but as we shall see maybe in four five lectures from now that we will not always be dealing with systems of equations that are in real numbers, but over more abstract number systems in which case the division is not always obvious. For example, if I ask you to solve for integers you cannot divide two integers and always get another integer right. So, you cannot use this sort of technique to get integral solutions to what we call the Dauphan-Tien equations. So, for now we will assume that we are allowed to scale and still you know real numbers of course unless you are taking 0 you can divide by anything and this is obviously the non-zero entry. So, you can obviously scale it by its reciprocal. So, what do you do basically here is two ways we can go about it we can say ok. First let me look at all non-zero rows look at their first non-zero entries and scale them by their reciprocals do we do that? Do we just hit them with operations of the first kind throughout and then try to meet the second condition like 0 out the entries below that leading one. How do we do this? What is the smart way of doing it? So, it should not be like you use the first kind of operation which is scaling on all the non-zero rows first because you might be wasting your computations right because you might have just scale this and maybe on another row also this particular column happens to have the leading one and because you have made it a leading one you have wasted that because anyway this is going to become a 0. So, later on the leading one corresponding to this row will not be this. So, if you have just gone about scaling all the first non-zero entries above in the rows and acting on just the first scaling type of matrices you might have actually wasted your efforts. So, the way to go about it is first this is the constructive way to do it. So, first you have this A matrix first hit it with one operation of the first kind on the first row then you have to 0 out potentially m minus 1 entries. So, that is basically addition of something times the first row plus that row what something what is that something that something is exactly the one times what will take you to this. So, if this entry is 5 then you take minus 5 times the first row plus this makes sense right.  So, this would hopefully allow you to get at least one particular leading one and every entry below that leading one now gets to 0. So, this only takes care of the first. Now, you do that for the second row. So, you keep repeating this. So, you have m operations and you keep repeating this for as many non-zero rows as are there. Assuming that you do not have trivial equations and after all these operations they have survived you might have to do this m number of times once for each row or if some of them have already nullified themselves then your efforts will be a little reduced, but this already you see it has the makings of an algorithm you can code it you do not need any observation or any physical understanding of what is going on or you know guessing what numbers what is the smart choice of numbers and all this can be coded by a computer right. So, you have m this m operations take care of the first and you might have to do m squared such matrices, but eventually you will get there and each of these individually invertible, but what will happen after you have gotten to this point is this really the final form that we are looking for is this where we stop right it turns out we can do one better because you see we have not used the third tool that we have developed or spoken about which is the exchanging. So, what we have just seen is row reduced form now we are going to see a refinement to that form. So, at least this proposition I hope is clear given any system of equations a x is equal to b at least real numbers you can always get to the row reduced form right this is this gives us some hope this gives us some promise that things can be simplified and made to look nice, but we will go one better now we will say row reduced echelon form and in fact in MATLAB there is a command RREF you can just try it right. So, this is RREF right row reduced echelon form. So, again it warrants a definition. So, what is the definition of a row reduced echelon form a matrix right matrix R what should I call it R tilde is said to be in row reduced echelon form do you know what echelon means the upper echelons of the society you know some sort of a hierarchy that you construct layers and so on and so forth. So, echelons you know often using literary sense the upper echelons he is among the highest echelons of writers or artists or whatever. So, row reduced echelon form clearly then we have to get some spatial hierarchy in this matrix that should sort of ring a bell. So, what is it a matrix R tilde is said to be in the row reduced echelon form if first it is R tilde. So, I am not going to redefine that because I already know what is a row reduced matrix. So, it already meets the condition for a row reduced matrix, but so every row reduced echelon form matrix is it this no yeah is it this I mean is it row reduced how does this work is every row reduced matrix row reduced echelon form or is every row reduced echelon form row reduced. So, you have to understand what includes what right what the more the conditions you impose this is going to be fundamental to our understanding. See later on we will understand structures such as rings integral domains fields and so on and so forth and we will see that you will add on more properties it is like an admission test or some qualification criteria or some selection right. So, first you clear your 10th standard, but there are lots of people who clear the 10th standard, but never go on to complete their 12th.  So, if you are selecting certain criteria saying I only want people who have cleared a graduation level then already those who have cleared just the 10th standard are ruled out by that qualification criteria right. So, they are not qualified qualification is nothing about your knowledge qualification is about selection some selection criteria that you put in place. So, when you are imposing this it means this must be true right. So, it must be contained within the set of row reduced matrices already, but apart from that it must also have some specific features. So, not every row reduced matrix will qualify to be called as a matrix in the row reduced echelon form. What is the additional criteria or what are the additional criteria? First every row of all zeros must be below non-zero rows. You can already see where it fails that test this example there is a row of all zeros. So, by rights it should have been below every other non-zero row, but there is a non-zero row sitting below this which prevents this from being row reduced echelon form ok. So, let us flip them 1 0 0 7 6 I will remember that 1 0 0 7 6 and then you have 0 0 0 0 0 and so far based on what we have defined here it seems we are doing ok, but hang on there is one more criteria to go which might look a little more involved, but it really is not that difficult to grasp. What is it? Is this a part of the board visible? It is I think I can see, but is it visible to everyone at the back? Good. Suppose, k 1 k 2 k r are the positions of the leading ones in the r non-zero rows. So, in this case the total number of rows is 4, but the number of non-zero rows is 3. So, r will be 3 all right. So, in this case r is clearly equal to 3 from that notation here just trying to connect that. So, that you do not feel like we are just using too many notations ok. Suppose, k 1 k 2 k 3 till k r are the positions of the leading ones in the r non-zero rows what do I mean by position? If you are reading from the left this position is 3 k 1 is 3 k 2 is 2 k 3 is 1 all right. What we need here is then k 1 is less than strictly less than k 2 less than k 3 and k r that is the echelon ok along with the this one of course. So, the echelon means the zeros have already been brought to the bottom of the heap. Yeah, you do not count your 0 you have no value anyway. So, bottom of the heap and then the leading ones what happens? This is not in the row reduced echelon form because the leading one here k 1 is 3 k 2 is 2 and k 3 is 1 which is at exactly opposite of this. In fact, it might have been any jumbled order also it still would not have been like so. So, if I want to do this what do I have to do? The third kind of operation there is right. So, what is the big picture what is the take home message from all this the last point we will make in today's lecture? What is the result that we had gotten after the definition of the row reduced form? That every matrix A can be massaged through these elementary row operations into a row reduced form. Now, I will go one step ahead and say that every matrix A no matter in what form you give it to me I shall be able to massage it to not just the row reduced form, but the row reduced echelon form through just those elementary row operations and nothing more or less. So, it turns out that these elementary row operations are the perfect construction that I need at my disposal to get to a so called nice looking form. And just to give you a clear idea of what a nice looking form for this would be it would be 1 0 0 7 6 0 1 0 4 2 0 0 1 5 7 and 0 0 0 0 0. But to get from here if you have already seen and you already agree with me that any matrix can be gotten to this form then to get from here to here is just a swapping just exchanging rows first you exchange this first with this and then you exchange this I mean maybe this with this yeah here you do not need to touch the second one you can just swap the first and the third right and you can get to the row reduced echelon form. So, therefore the final result that I am going to put on the board and then bring it to an end here today is this every matrix A which is m cross n can be reduced to R R E F through elementary I could have just written E R O elementary row operations. In fact this also has a name I could have shortened it a bit yeah when two matrices are related by elementary row operations we call them as row equivalent yeah. So, just remember that term so you have seen equivalence of systems of equations and this row equivalent is the equivalence of matrices correspondingly corresponding to those equations right. So, you have A X is equal to B you can get from A to R or you can get to get from A to R till day or R yeah this is what we call R till day this is let us say R yeah. So, every matrix you can do this with is the next lecture we shall see what is the benefit of getting to this row reduced echelon form why does this help us in quickly solving or readily seeing what the solution of R X or R till day X is equal to B hat or B till day is going to look like we can just classify them and just sort of characterize all possible solutions of this system of equations and also say when the solution will not exist straight away and it does not matter whether it is a square system or rectangular system we can always talk about it in the general sense when n is not equal to m as well. Thank you.


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Okay, okay, okay, welcome back everybody to another stream. Hopefully you guys are doing great Yeah Doing stream yesterday, so we got a lot to catch up on too. So let's get started. It's not waste any time Start was the weekend weekend was a pretty nice pre-telling on where things was gonna go Where Monday will start was gonna open and This is one thing what I like about watching the weekend, especially when you get nice walls like this So if we know So if we know that we have the wall at 20k and we know this wall at 19 There's your 20k wall 19k and I mentioned this before but the weekend there's something called weekend wall So this is typically the range of the weekend plays into so And they usually pretty thick and telling and you you should be able to Tell them apart from everything else. They should be pretty present If it's something where you're struggling to tell where they are that means you're probably not looking at a weekend wall So probably zoom out and it's only something that really can be spot in the spot But so you have to be looking at the spot order book in order to Spot them So that's something that you have to and then that's the reason again one of the reasons why I look at both spot and futures order book Binance has a pretty nice one as you can see 20k here 18k they still up But considering that during the weekend we had and the Saturday Sunday We did have them present from 20 to 18. That just makes the life easy that says 19 19 is 19k is Here 19k is 50% But I just treats 19k as 50% So we've heard George Fibonacci's and there'll be sort of Fibonacci's that are just stranded in two points on a typical chart So they'll be invisible to most people but for us, it's just our plain and simple. Here's 20k. Here's 19k Fibonacci there's There's 19k here.  This is where we have the most amount of spot selling. So we see that Happen again But we also see absorption happening here. So we can see that there's There are people buying at this discounted rate and they're saying, okay, we want to defend this rate And they kept defending it during the whole week. So that's a point where you could have accumulated that's pretty nice sort of simple thing and Uh, I think we talked about Friday being a down day for those who are present on Friday I don't know if that was streamed on book map. No, I don't know. It wasn't streamed on book map I think someone messed up was a sort of scheduling and Or they didn't put up the thing in time and I don't know what happened. You know what stuff happens Oh, we're here today. That's all that matters So we have that option coming in and the bias held throughout monday and even confirmed itself on monday's uh, london Uh, if we sort of look at uh the chart here And we can see that here as you can see So we held that sort of uh bias that we're looking for the Last week's range we sort of cap off last week range for targeting 75 as the first stop and you can see how You could have recumulated a short position and dragged it dragged it down here And take also taking profit at this week and added back out here if you're sort of zooming in out sort of three minutes And saying, okay, there we go There's there's your taps there's your taps here add back here and it starts going in your way And 50 percent start taking off at 50 percent And we can draw we can wall up on here So we can draw it from here to here. Let's sort of get that The points so it's 20k And it was 18 It feels like i'm drawing that down. No, it is correct I just felt like i was drawing that down uh too far But there's your 19k as you can see that area here and i think i need to Pull this back Let's go, i think it's 200 bars back 150 Just go all the way back One there we go So the weekend we come here tag 50 percent We can see that here absorption happening at that 50 percent mark That absorption kicking in alongside having the weekend wall from here to here So that Showcases to us that we want to hold this And the confirmation on monday coming in On the london session here as you can see London sort of opening up early and it's just trading above the sort of daily imbalance And we've talked about the daily imbalance before nothing sort of new But for those who are new and don't know what it is. It's just the one a.m. Can The one-hour candle from new york midnight And again, that should be another reason why you should keep your charts on midnight Uh, not charts on midnight. Jesus. You can't keep your charts at midnight charts on est Because uh new york time is probably the most important Time zone. I know that's sort of uh self-absorbed if you're a new yorker But it's just because that's where the uh exchange is all located plain and simple It might not be the case with binance, but that's where most of the traders and most of the uh Big money is located. So it makes sense and in terms of having Central bank there and everything there it makes sense to be on their clock rather than being on whatever clock you're on So the one-hour sort of midnight refresh. So that's your sort of true day Sort of test here. You can see how they come to it start kissing it come back up Uh touch on the internal and just fly off the gray handle and move into consolidation So this is where things get spicy Ah sort of I should know they do get spicy. What am I talking about? So spiciness aside and again, this doesn't look too pretty. Uh a lot of spotty-ness and Probably need to mess around with the cut off here Uh When you drop down this I think if I add more That makes it too smooth You know, let's let's drop it entirely. Let's make it totally ugly Uh, so we like the ugliness Uh, so again same thing that happened and this is why uh, I'm not same thing but you can see on on uh At least on futures not too much of the thing. Uh Uh too visible in terms of Sort of a pattern that you can see a pattern of events that's uh visible and thing and drag this back In terms of spotting and identifying that You need to go back further. Why is this not loaded back further? That's so weird Uh As you can see here, this is just looks like haywire But on spot if you go back and look at the same section You can just see the large sort of absorption that is happening here and the sort of uh bottom Bottom half of it is coming into more support again This is why you want to contrast and look at both of the order books So you can see that The little tip and Little tip goes a long way. Just ask your Finish that You can finish that in your head. I'm sorry mature Uh, I promise myself. I was not going to make any more short jokes but I've already failed. I failed you Must commit so doku Okay, uh, back to the charts. Let's go stop getting distracted. It's all your fault All your guys fault, uh, but initially enough, uh, we're sort of creating a nice little flag here I mean we're sort of if we're sort of trading in terms of retail wise Let's see what retail what turning to do they see this as a cut They see, okay, you know, what is the cup we're looking for a handle So we're looking for consolidation either way. They'll start buying the break at any point So we know we have stops here. They're just above around Uh 20k we already have our wall present here. We're outside of a weekend So we know that we can we can we can hit those we can hit that 20k We can hit that 20k it was easy Uh, because on the weekends weekend walls are never meant to be broken. That's why I like I call them weekend walls They're the defended points and if they get hit Uh, well if they go surpass and sometimes they may absorb at the weekend wall but they'll never sort of go below it in terms of Well, too they won't stray too far away from it if they do Then uh, the market is wrong period Market is wrong. Okay. I'm never wrong the market is wrong Uh, no, but yeah, the market will be wrong. So that's why you wait for it if they're sort of saying If they set up a weekend wall, that means they'll hit bound to hit one of them during the week They've hit 19k. They'll probably hit 20k. We'll see if they spike it and take out the previous uh weeks high That would be sort of really important to see But and it'll sort of also go a long way in terms of it, uh in terms of catching out retail traders Uh, at least to me at least to my mind, uh, just watching this and and, uh Understanding what retail understands and how to sort of exploit it. It's it's sort of okay There's your consolidation. There's your cup There's your handle or small cup however they they call it. I don't know. I don't care But we all we know all we know need to know is and all we need to care about is where they uh, Where it will break Be exploited and where we can exploit them to trade the other way So we're guessing that we might hit into the 20k to take out these highs here Introduce more liquidity from the people who buy their cupboard handle here, and then we start pulling our weight down That'll be the most interesting sort of bet. Uh, let's see if we can suss anything out and I don't need to move this Move this slide up back until it's Ah, it's just as best as it's gonna be So we don't see anything on the futures. Uh, everything looks pretty close together They're pushing it up. It looks like they're dragging it up and literally cheating on the top side They have strength on the buy side here. Looks like it's uh, Been aggressive long so far Which is always interesting. You can see the build up on monday's been super aggressive and this is again They're just uh cementing the idea that we need to pull it pull it back um So that's something that you want to look out for Uh, we do have that wall uh that we can wall that are still up still present It looks like they've added to it and they can be walls around it There's something to watch out for the stops that have been hit here You can see they have those initial walls here to add as a stop gap At that 1900 and just above at 2k. So we're watching we're waiting for this area here Once we hit into this area, we'll sort of see something, you know say something Uh, my jokes are so bad Uh, no, we'll see something and then they'll hit hit into that and we'll likely absorb and then it'll be a cascade of uh Probably new buyers and that's what we want to see we've got a lot of buyers here Which is super super interesting especially on spot. I mean that came in earlier here So we got a lot of buyers put a lot of people uh biting into this fish. What's up? What's up? Uh, so that's something that you want to see to pull down So if you hit 20k I'm I'm saying that that's an ideal place for sure. Uh, from from the looks of it. You should have already been on along from the uh From monday, uh, because I did most people don't like trading weekends Uh, and I I've told people not to trade, uh, just to wait for monday to see the confirmation and confirmation so If i'm telling you guys wait for monday and I say, uh, yeah By by saturday that doesn't work like that You hit the monday. I mean it's it's basically it's sparring uh, the difference is just about 50 sort of points But looks like they're trying to make a break for it now, but we'll see that We'll raise them, uh Did you see anchor? I don't I don't uh, I want to open a short Come 20% okay. I'll have a look at anchor next Uh But yeah, you should have already been along, uh, so you're anticipating 20k Was it was a short if it sort of stopped you out, uh, you're sort of, uh Riding the rest of your lungs out and it's it's gonna be if it's a loss. It's a loss. That's how I treat it That's why it's so powerful, uh to hedge and hedge your position for those who who don't already know you can It's an option. It's just one button you click on binance or any other exchange that allows you to, uh Have both position open at the same time And it is it is a life-saving But there are obviously some rules.  Yeah It could definitely be a short going off of daily metrics. You can see the daily resistance is here Nick's break is at uh 0.3787 That is a really high jump. I doubt they'll pump it to that. Uh, you know, I should I shouldn't spit It makes sense I shouldn't put my foot in my mouth. Uh I don't know about a four-hour wall showing up But your daily sort of metric is here as you can see it's a it's a jump up.  Let's let's get some microscope Sorry need to make to stop making these jokes and this is just so hard There's got to be hard to Oh See my human is uh, I don't I wouldn't call it human Uh, but It's just coping making this this coping copium Uh, so interesting sort of thing here. Let's sort of what this loaded now. I mean we've rose uh once already massive rise We're sort of pushing into here, but you can see these uh antsy sort of I think longs here Which is which is nice and I think might some of these might be short Uh, so and it's a sort of hard to discern without sort of looking at having history was in bookman, but Uh, definitely I think wait for it to sort of trick and and and flip out because this I don't think right now is Is a short and all lower time frame So it may sort of appear As a good show. I don't think they'll let this ride Uh, too well, I think they'll spike it once if bitcoin is looking to go to any guy I think they sort of play with that flow a bit and sort of wait for these stops to get here Up here from the early shortest at the bottom on this on this level here on this sort of uh, sort of makeshift sort of ledge That we've got and we soon as we break that people are antsy to short So wait for those guys to get liquidated if it's sort of internally early on here, uh, so be it Uh, and I think waiting is is a better bet Definitely might see some higher prices if we're going to look at the candlestick patterns I'm looking to make again. Just seeing some red fall off But most of the closes are showing absorption around this area here So and this is just an experience. So you like looking at the closes this you can tell Just tell tell signs that this area is accumulation. Uh, I know or re-accumulation To be specific just seeing the closes here and just seeing how the wicks just break So definitely if you're wanting to show I would wait Uh, and it might sort of seem counterintuitive. I mean We're already this low, but it's just sort of I mean, even if we go down or probably just spike it here You can short at the same point here and either do that or you wait for it to climb up Get get rid of these stops here or trade within this point here trade back to 0.03347 If it can trade into here and pull itself back down And I think that's sort of what you're looking for And obviously using sort of bitcoin as a sort of guide and you can see the volume is present on that sort of green wick And this is why volume is just so it's just king You can just see okay, even though this is an entirety of that is a long week You can see most of the volume got stopped at that 0.03347 So it's pay it's important to pay attention to it But it not That's uh, while we're here while we add the discretionary charts. Let's look at bitcoin A lot of blinds a lot of lines a lot of white lines just how I like them Why why? I'm I'm sorry, uh, okay Coming back into here Uh, we can see We're showing signs we're showing signs, uh, of slowing down. We can see that trap liquidity here By the same time it just doesn't feel like something they'll give up on too early If they sort of come up and and just say and give up here, I'll be solely disappointed I think more liquidity would be, uh, would be present at these points here, but Hey, who am I to sort of, uh, judge the people who make the markets? And just a small cog In the grand scheme Things have a look at that Hell yeah Same things showing that just supporting the bottoms at the same time you can see it's heavy buys heavy buys But at the same time it's uh, I mean normally I would say it's it's it's a willing and able short here, but It's something sort of I mean it's a Tuesday. We play our weekly ranges, uh Wednesday's sort of ideal sort of range sort of say we want to go down Not range ideal day. We want to say we want to go down So if Wednesday's sort of an ideal day, let's play a scenario out in our head So Monday Tuesday came up. We'll sort of draw, uh, let's just get rid of everything Is anything important here? No, nothing important Let's sort of remove all the drawings and start from scratch new week, new me But this is our low coming from, I don't know Monday's low Monday's low would be here This is Monday's low. This is sort of Tuesday's current high Monday's high being here. We can sort of drag that current current day higher out here We've already taken sort of Monday's high sort of ranges if we're just trading sort of day to day Sort of 50% comes in here If you're looking at it Looking at it now uh This sort of can sort of play middlely Take out sort of liquidity here then pull itself up We're still waiting on the entire week range from Monday and Tuesday again People like to just play Monday, but I like waiting for Tuesday to be finished So currently Tuesday sits up here, but it's tentative at best Uh and the reason why you draw these out because you have a sort of set distance You give sort of stop hunts and you can give stop hunts up into a sort of 500 sort of points Or 50 pips as it's translated into For our sort of demonstration 50 being here But you can sort of draw that out from this point to this point And you can see that we have a really sort of Really sort of large sort of overhead that we can play with and he does stretch out all the way to 2.2150 Just for a Monday sort of range So we already can see some signs that we may want to take higher prices to take higher liquidity But we'll see what uh what What sort of life entails because again, it's not always going to be as pretty pretty And that's true to life as you want it Always sort of encroaching down Now I'm just trying to see can we make arguments for any sort of Cases the way we're trading it. I think we can but at the same time it's just It's sort of going on it with sort of Expectations that we want to be sort of Meddling and as you can see this entire thing's already sort of heavy long unless we run this entire thing It doesn't sort of make sense to sort of try and counter this At 50 unless you're trying to take the very sort of late late people out because most of the volume would be Tied up here because these guys would have been taken out to some extent at this range here And looking at things uh, so this would be the highest liquidity point. So they would need to go below here to Which would be at this range and I'd say yeah, yeah, it would be around 19 Around this sort of area. They would need to go to Push in which does fit towards that sort of argument that if we end up meddling, uh We'll middle around 1900 sort of trade into here and sort of resume sort of Wednesday As an up sort of day and to hit out the further liquidity point It does sort of create a nice sort of Nice little And handle so maybe that is what we end up doing but again, it's just scenarios that we play in our heads Say I think it's just that sort of thing But we do have overhead for the uh The entirety of the day. So we look for that and just say, you know, what there's there's possibility and then And it's very feasible that we do carry this sort of momentum Up ahead About an hour a half hour to kill it's sort of Let's sort of think what we can do Kill some time So current news, uh, have you got any sort of a major sort of news that's affecting today? Fed speaker 530 looks like it's after hours Uh, so that'll probably affect our hours uh Uh 30 a UTC minus four. Okay. That's already common gone Uh current sort of news just manufactured month a month doesn't look really sort of important Tomorrow looks really important for uh, UK. UK has been abysmal currently Uh, it's just uh been terrible with less trust. Uh, I don't know if you guys know. It's just it's just She's so bad So bad.   Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Forget about Tories, man Oh, no, we don't want a Tory leader ever again Oh, that's how bad she is. She's she's making people convert To change sides, man. I still can't believe they they voted for her What are they thinking, man? This is why this is why UK and london's like low key racists. They just didn't want a brown man in the office And I'm joking. This is Plot subtle joke Uh, but here's another sort of demonstration on why as you can see here This is the entirety of the weekend future stays really close to price We can't see the 20k or the 18k wall Present here, but if we did go come closer, you'd you'd definitely see it Uh, and again the same thing here. You can't see the telltale signs of absorption from these sellers Hey, hey So you won't be able to see those sellers. You won't be able to see the walls. This is why you need to look at as well Look at sport or the book and then just be happy was that I mainly look at finance finances trustworthy I trust it was the sources was its order book at the very least I know most people trade there. That's why uh, again, if we're sort of, uh Perspecting, uh, Respecting, uh downwards move. I will sort of see a break. Uh, below this, uh, Below this point here 19, uh, it's sort of really late sort of say Uh, it would be really late sort of say, yeah We'll be expecting something to happen Based off this and you know what more i'm looking at this more looks like it wants to come it wants to come itself down Uh, just doesn't make sense pull itself down Uh, we have your daily bounce here. We have sort of If we look at this from a daily just just a daily perspective. This is our sort of asia consolidation here Uh, and we can layer color this yellow Oh Yeah, it's just fine enough for the demonstration We've got our stophands coming here. I've got our two tops. We've got a large sort of order Ending around here sort of our sort of volume walls short, right? Yeah Just starting to feel like it might come itself. Uh, come Uh, come down, uh on itself Jesus, I just can't I can't do English now, can I? Uh, and and just take out these stops as you can see See the stops here just doesn't sort of sit right. I think maybe sort of the sort of Waiting itself out. It's sort of uh It's sort of optimistic without sort of taking out liquidity. Uh, but Again, it's just it's just one of the things it just may uh Maybe just a weird it's just a weird day. It's sort of one of those days If we if we pull down this early Because we are starting to see that Go back in Just focus on this area here. You can see The current area we're trading at a lot of sort of trap longs and if you zoom in further Just an insane amount of longs just piling up and most of it Is getting increasingly bigger and you can see just the taking out short liquidations and They're sort of showing sort of uh off the size and you can see how The buys can change even though that Even though we have the overhead to move to 20k. It's just one of the things where it may be an early Early sort of uh fiddle, but I would weigh out for 10 a.m Like we always do see what 10 a.m brings if we start pulling down early and taking this out Then we can sort of pull it back But the way things are moving right now. I doubt they will have uh too much gas in the tanks to sort of uh Push it too far out because we've already uh stopped on the outside as long as you trade in here sort of a short Uh, hopefully it explodes out and we can short higher That's sort of uh wishing Yeah, that's sort of being wish uh wishy wishy wishy Words don't exist in my head Words are an abstract concept They allude me Yeah, they're still running away. So that I mean That's that's always that's always nice and favored for the wrong side Short side as they see they just increasingly just fishing They've took out they took out the stops and liquidations here now. They're just fishing We can see if they come in for an exhaustion bar later on But for now it's sort of just building up just sort of fall down sort of thing because I mean Even though like we have that sort of uh One of the scenarios us going to 20k it's getting just sort of uh a higher sort of short target And it just doesn't look that far away. I mean unless we sort of zoom in like this It's just it's just just just take it. Okay. Just be greedy for your hand there Just get a little bit snapped but Again, uh sort of if again if you can get an earlier short it might be one of those things where you have to get an earlier short uh just sort of Build it because look now things to consolidate you just consolidate very tightly and you can see how respectful uh london's uh was was the entirety of that and Just came in and just kissed the bottom of this just without Without moving and and without sort of disturbing too much I don't know. It just makes this uh harder. It's just it's just this sort of a harder area to sort of trade I would I would say uh More so because a lot of things can happen here.  That's why yeah, that's that's the right word meandering Uh, and I think when we meander It's sort of telling that something large is happening And if we look at tomorrow tomorrow is just loaded So if we just go into consolidation, I won't be mad. I'll rather uh It goes into consolidation and all of this news just hits and we start moving uh Like a bullet It's probably one of the things that uh might end up driving it. We'll see what it does If this sort of holds and just becomes our weekly this becomes our sort of targeted range for a stop on and stops become present around uh around 20, uh 2200 around there and Then we place stops around then we sort of pray for it to come down We sort of look at that and just say, okay, you know it's spiking to push down It's sort of building up ahead of time, uh, and and this is why I want it to go up today And then I'm just fitballing ideas and if we go up today We're sort of building up longs. We're building up false sense for these reports Because we already have a consensus that uh price will sort of fall out And we see these higher sort of inflation rates So we know that price is going lower if we have these consensus And once things hit consensus and break forecast we can sort of drop price Jump 10 percent inflation. God damn Man can don's only got 6.8 Previous was seven so canada It looks like early news to 2 a.m. Like london will hit Probably slam everything down Or I should know you'll slam it down. List trust is terrible. I think the worst worst prime minister we've had Like at least in my lifetime Is she the worst in my lifetime? Yeah, definitely the worst in my lifetime No burst on No, it again, it just goes back. Burst run since it's just funnier The he's bad, but he's just funny bad Well, whereas list trust is just evil Just just a load of bollocks. That's what she is I'm trying to see for timings for you guys tomorrow Yeah, just looks like a delayed sort of evening and just after hours Most things just look after hours other than sort of the other world like UK sort of will affect here sparingly and will mostly affect the footsie uh Canada who really cares about that made up place anyway Joking I'm joking off Uh eight out eight 30 again eight days when we start streaming nice place Nice weird news release expected to happen Do a 10 30 from another sort of bombarbon of news and it's just Uh, this guy speaking or one one o'clock again just run in the mid uh midday Does make which doesn't make sense into our timing. That's why we usually expect things to happen anyway So so nothing sort of should be curved wally tomorrow and we will see what happens In a further deal tomorrow But the most part Not expecting too much out of today Uh Anything anything high is just wishful, uh, and it will be wishful for a better shore Uh If it goes on and I think just this build up here Easy could just collapse and I think that's what they might do Uh, especially if we're already if we're already trading like this already So just wait for them to take some high out highs out Put some stops in or even just wait for a nice nice little internal sort of range at a lot of time frame Let's say come in three minutes or one minute Whatever time frame is just a nice little internal sort of nice little Step up put it down Hit into sort of 1400 or even lower but I think they hold the uh sort of uh weekly Structure and the weakening tackle to at least at least for today Uh for the most part does doesn't look uh Doesn't look too interesting for most things and I think uh that's sort of Probably the best bet uh sort of say today is going to be a Decent day where we don't get too much happening and tomorrow couldn't because we're bombarded with the news we get a lot happening Let's look at yes now since uh we're about We're about ready to sort of call it Uh, you can see you're coming into sort of the hour uh four hours sort of zone here As well as an hourly sort of zone here in terms of resistance Just looks like a nice little stop hunt So it could definitely just stop in and just pull itself back in Does look like uh, it's something that you want to be shorting uh for Yes, nice simple sort of a day four years and uh nothing sort of uh two out of the ordinary and nothing suspicious I mean suspicious Uh a lot of trap volume coming in pre-markets We'll see if they run these out here But mostly it just looks like a nice little uh stop hunt m Unish uh on the uh higher trade here to put it down So it does make sense that we are attending upwards in the pre-markets which will induce sort of traders on open to uh trade long And uh we can definitely sort of pull it back down Looking at daily, uh, you can see how we held this sort of butterfly knife and No way to the other way to describe this This looks like it's playing with you But again volume is present here. You can see that volume That's here this sort of point here where we sort of trading currently Uh next sort of point is higher So that's sort of where you'd worry and just say we'll make a run for it and we'll make a run for it higher But on the lower timeframes it does look like uh, we're sort of presented with a nice little Stop hunt m so we can definitely sort of say it's lower before it goes higher But looking at this sort of area here There's a volume that definitely could see that drop down Oh and how far the drop downs is yet to be seen Uh first target will probably be 17 37 20 And next will be 36 90 So if we're sort of going down the earth and and bitcoin sort of stalls bitcoin will snap back with it So sort of nice to say that it is it is something that you want to show Uh, I think it's nice only short See if we can catch in this sort of internal and just sort of move into consolidation Uh, we'll see what happens, but generally sort of Sort of bit wishy on today Drop it ideal ideal scenario Uh drop it like this, uh, or better still you take out your highs here Start expanding higher and drop down That's just sort of two short scenarios if we're going long we were going long like this Uh, we're sort of doing this then dropping it down That's sort of your long scenario And that's sort of just playing everything that I can think about in my head Uh paying close attention to again the daily balance which uh highs and lows There we go. Let's change this to a different color Think Sometimes lines, there we go There we go, uh 19 Uh 600 and 19 535 It looks like we're retesting that now. So we might springboard. We'll see up higher, but Generally considering yes that place where we want to be short Uh, we'll see that potential up down, uh, I think we need to bring it down. Yeah Yeah, again, uh, you can't always be 200% certain Uh, but I think 70% 70% of it is definitely looking like it wants to go down We'll see if we trade trade that way. We'll see if we trade that way But again, it's sort of we'll get our confirmation breakout of 19 535 If you sort of come to that and sort of trade here Definitely look for it to pull up. Uh, so that's something that you want to watch out for Even if you drop down slightly lower It just takes out the New York range. So that's something that If on open we start doing this it's sort of a long scenario there Uh, but if you sort of continue out and start springboarding continue our sort of uh step up We'll sort of see that sort of long Futures heavy long at this point again just Zoom in just focus on the current sort of day In terms of what we're sort of building again. You saw those longs Saw that fishing instant come down. You can see that We we have a lot of people already shorting this area here And we want to see those shorts because that will again show us that price will want to drive up higher And it will just take those liquidations and and drive the price higher uh And sort of this is where you see potential springboarding Especially if we get that right amount of short springboard and just liquidate them I got up higher. So that's sort of that other 30% that's saying no not really lower today higher And everything will sort of be confirmed in terms of time wise at 10 a.m new york So that's why you wait. You don't trade 9 30.  You give it. You give the market 30 minutes of breath Uh, then you start then you start making a move I mean sometimes you can jump the gun early because some days where you see, uh Where you see something like this where inside it just shows Unless you want to catch the break here It's sort of just Uh, that's like the best sound I can make for it Uh But that's again that sort of has to be decided on the next candle. So your springboard, uh If you're sort of going up we'll go up, uh, we'll go up on the next candle If we sort of continue to middle and and also if we're sort of preparing something longer We'll sort of mellow out take out the low and then pull it up It's just just from looking at How the candles have been trading this all it is all this candle did was go down close off this candle Make sure there was no inefficiencies and When candles do that, especially with the amount of sort of was this sort of shorts here And it was this sort of structure. It has a tendency and it and it can Uh go up and that's something that you don't want to take lightly Oh, there's not too much to say other than that I know today has just been me just going around in circles. It's like, uh, is it up? Is it down? Come on. Tell me But it's sort of Could be decided at this sort of stage and it's just sort I think it would be boring for me to sit here for any longer and just say So any sort of coins you want me to look at before we sort of wrap it up in terms of show off some levels Because I mean if you want to look at some levels You can look at them Adam, uh, slowly making some way up at that 12 level. We sort of uh pre-mark that 12 level for a while Came up already. Uh, and it is sort of in that same territory where it's it's can sort of, uh, sort of catch itself here Anchor. Sure. Sure They can catch yourself here and pull it up That's something you want to see Uh, that's something, uh, you might want to wait out for we'll see if that can pull it so far by doubt. I doubt it If it drops further, then we'll see uh, we'll see a further breakdown where I mean You'll see something like this where on the hour is sort of go down retest higher retest at this range here So you'll see that drop you see that area here. Then we see that drop further That that's sort of the breaks you're looking for you're looking for retest at the most part And we got that sort of level marked out and for I don't know why some plain white Valera core mistake Nice little four hour zone here And you can see how these just trade to these lines to some magnet lines essentially Uh, and and that's just so nice to sort of pay attention to and and have after yourself I think we've already done it in here, but we're sort of Inker If I Yeah anchor sort of pulling itself down again same thing It's sort of building up a bottom where it's trapping out shorts here So I would wait for retest at that sort of number here We might get a sort of second sort of coming like Jesus Ah, I'm so bad. Uh, but again, yeah, it's just looking at sort of this area here. It's just It's just plain and sort of uh easy to see that it just doesn't want to come down just yet And if it does come down, it'll be very surprising, uh, at least from, uh, a structural standpoint ETH, we haven't looked at ETH, that's interesting. So let's go on ETH I mean, but mostly ETH is just same as bitcoin The most part Uh, we see ETH traded here. It's now sort of middling around this sort of range here And this is sort of the area and you can see how this just the center of mass just being in here And the trap volumes and when people saw that break, they'd show it this The ins and you got punish is just lovely to see. It's just pure art It's just, uh, pure art I'll mark this from here to here sort of 50% of that sort of current sort of range Move it back a bit. There we go Uh, we're sort of coming to that now and we can see on lower time frames, uh, how we sort of would mark it Game same thing just looks like it can easy All itself looks a lot weaker than bitcoin. Yeah, definitely. Definitely Definitely looks weaker than bitcoin. You can see that it's already made its way higher than where bitcoin's made the initial level Definitely making that drop here So maybe we get that spike We get that, uh, impulse we get that injection into the markets to then drop the drop it further down Into sort of this area here back at sort of, uh, 1280 We'll see that if all the house style that would be nice for a baby. Oh I mean if you can go into a lot of sort of time frames you can start looking at things and uh, looking at where well Yeah, again, it's just just it's just trading Yeah, you're right in terms of how it's trading a lot weaker than bitcoin You can see it's already trading into sort of this cluster could could easily fall off, uh Seeing that again these highs that we've already sort of traded towards and sort of re-accumulated more shorts out That's something that you want to look at you can see that, uh, initial sort of volume sort of a hump That that's sort of a curved curve of volume Reaccumulated at that area here Same thing and you can see if we start doing that here, which we are sort of doing that already Could definitely fall off and sort of first up with 30 1310 Then we go 1285 And a bit lower we'll see in one time for the one time Yeah, you see how whereas ethereum hit around here bitcoin is sort of stammering here. So it's sort of bit more sort of Tighter But still within sort of the lines. I know I know there's a lot of ranges to play but it's just range bounds You can see it's jumping from one range to another So we definitely look at there's definitely a lot of places where you can get caught up So for instance go get caught up here Push itself up or drop itself further take out the stop So we'll see if it traps below here comes comes back up then pulls itself up Or it just falls right through and just says, you know what I've had enough of you guys We're going to I've had enough No more No more tokei Look at Solana. It's looking at its price. Those look interesting Back into sort of the middle range and where it broke it would be a happy and Well, sort of anticipating maybe a retest for higher prices, but it's just sort of disappointment really And I think this is really why let's just remove this just distracting at this point Uh, it's just trading into sort of this area again just to speak but similar to sort of where bitcoin Cut itself off early. It's all cut yourself off early and just didn't allow itself to sort of complete itself a bit higher But that's neither it's fault of its own. Uh, it's just the condition of the market We'll see how deep it goes if you can create an adam and steve Uh, probably we might get that adam and steve Uh I don't know. It's just a pattern. I think people call it It's not up to me to name things. It's just What retail people think and see Yeah, this should be interesting. Uh, definitely sort of mulling short bias We'll see, uh, how things end up working out as you can see that bar completely fell on itself, which is great Uh, now we're sort of looking at things in terms of trading here as soon as it, uh, we open we should expect some buys buy up But should start looking towards controlled sort of, um Controls sort of, uh controlling this area into sort of coercing longs Then into a drop if we're sort of expecting that sort of low prices, but Considering that if we go into actually we need to look First, see it's still seeing spot buyers here in the futures We should be seeing shorts and we're not really getting that sort of short to sort of say We want to uh, we want to continue up higher just starting to look very sort of tapped out into that area Thing that I'll wrap up today, uh, if I'm being honest, uh, Just don't really have too much skill in that.  However, you guys Do it, have it Go on your kazoos I don't know. Whatever you guys are into, uh, have breakfast Get refreshed sort of trade markets. Look at the 930, trade the 10 Uh, and again on 930, uh, you have someone else, uh, to take over from me and look at the stock side of things So you get to see, uh For crypto, uh for bookmark And again, uh, crypto for stocks really closely. I know people say oh, it's debugging. Oh, this Oh, you know, just okay. It's it's pretty basically, uh, he likes to be, uh Uh, almost one-to-one and if it's not one-to-one it will soon, uh, it likes to snap itself back. Uh Like a rubber band And like a rubber band it hurts when it snaps back And the people it hurts are the people who are not in the know The retail traders, aha Uh, yeah, again, that's enough for me talking. You guys got someone taking Taking me over, uh, in 45 minutes so you guys can take 45 minutes off Rest your heads run through potential scenarios in your heads.  That's so good That's nice to hear man. That's nice to hear spicy. That's nice to hear You made it Made it to the rich But thank you guys so much for coming. Uh, I know it's a chore sometimes to listen to me But uh, it means a lot to show up showing up chatting for a bit Hopefully you guys trade safe today and hopefully you guys have a game plan ready And you guys are know, uh, know what to trade and how to trade today And I'll catch you guys tomorrow other than that. Peace


My name is Dr. Connor McGinn. I'm an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at Trinity College. As a kid I enjoyed kind of transformer cartoons and a lot of machines kind of got my interest at that stage. And I think from an early age I knew I wanted to be an engineer. As I started to study engineering I learned a little bit more about robotics and I kind of saw how robots can combine kind of machines which I really enjoyed with AI and machine learning and these kind of things. And I was really excited by the possibilities of what might happen if you put these things together. Then I also kind of noticed that robotics can really help solve some big problems we face in the world. So I guess all of these things together sort of confirmed it for me that this was what I wanted to do with my life. The core mission of our research group is to build technology that can empower people. We see a responsibility there to be able to use our understanding of science, to be able to create things that can help people and make their lives better. We see robots as a quite unique way of doing that. This is a technology that I don't think we've seen before. With a robot it's like a computer which just kind of sits there and we have to go and approach it. It's somewhat passive. A robot is able to move around, it's able to actually act in the world. Am I able to combine, you know, to take computers and to be able to extend them, combine them with physical machines to be able to develop new approaches in sensing, to be able to understand the world around it and then to be able to take that information and do things that are useful from it. This is an exciting thing that we've never really seen before. And really what our group is trying to do is to understand, you know, with that power of what you're going to use it for. We spend a lot of time, for that reason, working very closely with the people we think that technology can help, trying to get them involved in the design process so that what we create reflects, you know, the needs that they actually have and they feel as opposed to unfortunately quite often what happens is where we come up with some cool science and then we try to figure out how we can apply it. The main project that we've been working on over the last over the years is, as you mentioned, Stevie. Stevie is what we call a social assistive robot. It's a robot that can move around, it's got arms, it's got a head, it's able to interact through social interaction as opposed to using a kind of a tablet or remote control. We think this is potentially going to be very useful for many different types of problems. You know, because it's somewhat shaped like a person and it has some of the features that people have, it's very adaptable. So whether that's, you know, being able to do things physically, that might be to go and get an object. It might be to open a door or control something. These are applications we see happening down the line. But maybe in the shorter term it's able to do things that have more of a social function so it can remind you to take medication perhaps. One of the areas we've seen, you know, a huge amount of positive feedback is in its ability to play games and try to keep people entertained quite often. The older demographic that we test this technology with, they can be quite lonely and quite bored. So being able to provide that kind of social simulation is something that we think has huge potential. It's very difficult to know when you design a robot if people are going to like it or not. When we build robots to do tasks, it's not that difficult. If we want to have a robot, we want to develop a robot that can pick something up. There's lots of mats we can use and there's lots of techniques we can use to figure out exactly what sort of motors we should use, what sort of materials we should use. These are kind of logical decisions we can make. When it comes to more subjective things like if people are going to like the robot, it's going to be fun, how they're going to perceive it. Is it going to be threatening? Is it going to be something that they trust? These are much harder things to design for. For us, the way in which we try and get past this is by trying to involve the users in the design process. So we run workshops, we run focus groups, we show them some of the things we're working on, we get the feedback on it. Through taking an iterative approach over time, what we create, we help reflects what people want in the technology. With the new machine that we've built, it's taken us nearly two years to develop it. We've probably gotten feedback from more than 2,000 people in total if we were to count. As a team, we work very closely with each other, we're very interdisciplinary. Ultimately, what happens is that we've managed to develop the technical aspects of it. So this new robot has got far more sensors, the computing is there to be able to do really sophisticated things, to be able to utilize the state-of-the-art machine learning and AI. At the same time, we feel that the aesthetic of the robot, how it appears, how it expresses itself, this really addresses the more subjective aspects of the applications we're going after. Equally, we think the applications it's doing, we're deploying it to do, addresses needs that are quite underserved by either existing technology or existing resources within retirement communities, which is kind of our key market. I think everyone who's working on robotics in the university is a dreamer somewhere. So certainly, I have a vision of what the future might look like. I think in the best case scenario, we'll be able to use robots and AI to solve some pretty fundamental problems we face. With a robot like Stevie, we see a rapidly aging population. We see very few people, well, relatively speaking, we see very few people of a working age who are going to be able to look after people who are living longer. When those people get older, their healthcare needs increase. We see this as being a huge healthcare challenge. If we don't do something about it, something, I think, quite, if we don't do something radically different from what we're currently doing, we're going to have healthcare systems across the world just buckle at the demand. So things like this, I think, are really good applications of robots. Other applications where I think robotics is really exciting that I can see radical changes would be in areas like where people maybe are paralysed. We can see exoskeleton technology that's able to maybe help them walk again. This is exciting technology that the potential of is pretty profound. On the other hand, I think that if we're not careful, if the right sort of steps are taken to prevent the misuse of the technology, we see kind of weaponry which can be lethal because of this technology. We can see the potential for mass unemployment as a result of automation that is purely driven by capital means. And I think there's responsibility on researchers and also on people who run companies to make sure that what they're building is a world that they want to see and that's something that makes people money. And I think that if we're not realistic about what these things are doing, if we're not knowledgeable and reflecting on what the consequences of actions are, then that's problematic. So what I try and do and what I think our team tries to do is to kind of be the change that we want to see and to focus on the development of the technology that makes a positive difference while being quite vocally and proactive in speaking out against the misuse of the technology. It's really exciting at the moment and I remember when I was kind of starting out in the area when I was starting out to learn about AI and to learn about robotics. I of course was looking around to see who was doing things here and compared to other places in Europe and the world, there wasn't much going on and to see how much things have changed in a relatively short period of time. People are saying that Dublin is now the AI capital of Europe. They're comparing it to Silicon Valley in terms of the activity that's going on here in the space. It makes it an incredibly exciting place to be. It's incredible to be able to see what has grown to be a very active community. There's multiple times a month now, there's meetups and there's events where you can go and network with people, professionals in the area with students, with academics who are really interesting to work in the science. I think that as we project forward over the next couple of years and we see more and more companies start to come out and do interesting things, the opportunity to collaborate will really start to become apparent. When you see the kind of things that are, Dublin has gone for it, we're a very social species, we live very close together. Our universities are in close proximity. These are things that I think many bigger countries that might have, at least in theory, better universities, better everything. They struggle to be able to work together. We consider what this kind of future of interdisciplinary AI, machine learning, robotics, what this sort of looks like, being able to have the right people in the right place at the right time is a critical ingredient and it seems to me that Dublin just might be that place. We spend so much time in the university here, we're engaged in conversations with each other, whether it's with students, whether it's with colleagues, whether it's conferences, whether the researchers, we really get the opportunity to engage with the general public. What I'm excited about doing at Predict is being able to share some of the research that we're doing here. Not only that, but being able to share some of the exciting results that we're getting from deploying these robots in real-world environments. Quite often we see fancy YouTube videos of robots doing interesting things, but rarely do we see them interacting with people, especially people in real environments. I think that what we hope to show and predict will be some evidence that what we're building works and what we're building has a real impact. I think that when we get around to that time we'll have some results that are going to open people's eyes to the technology stuff that maybe they thought was a little bit further down the line is actually maybe a little bit closer to hand. I think we'll be able to talk and demonstrate how real use cases of social robots and be able to show that what we're not doing is replacing people's jobs. What we're not doing is often perceived to be trying to purely reduce costs. What we're doing is we're building a technology that's able to extend the capabilities of people. This is a force multiplier. This enables people to do more with less. I think if ever there was a need and a time for a technology that could do this in the healthcare space, now is it.


It was not a linear path to land here. I entered college thinking that I would do physics education in a hands-on museum and it turned out that some of the math required was not quite what I was prepared for and I made a transition to anthropology and archaeology through a very fun liberal arts curriculum at a very small public institution here in Florida called New College. I went down that path fully. I thought that I would pursue an academic career. I got my masters and PhD. I had a very fun time learning a very different set of technology doing archaeology over in Ireland and in order to I felt best prepare myself to be the type of professor that I wanted to be I went out and I did work in the field so I worked for a private contractor and then I worked for the federal government. One of the things that I noticed among the faculty that I had when I was a student was that they were all lifetime academics. They didn't have applied experience and as a student who was also working in an applied area I knew that most graduates in anthropology go into applied work so it was really important to me to get some of that experience. As it turns out I was not prepared to make some of the sacrifices that people often have to make to go fully down that academic path and as I went on some faculty interviews and started to have that realization I really reflected on what it was that made me want to be an academic and it wasn't as much about the research or about the publishing as it was about the teaching. I really missed teaching. When I was in graduate school at Syracuse University I had was really really fortunate to be able to participate both in the future professor program and the preparing future faculty programs and at that time a technology enabled classroom meant that we had a computer in it and that we were making the transition from overheads to projectors but that was where we were. We would do classroom visits for faculty and teaching assistants with the HSCAM quarters so they could see themselves teaching but that's where we were and that's really where I was introduced to the idea of thinking about teaching and reflecting on teaching and even some of the articulation of technology and higher ed. So when I was in this position of realizing that maybe the academic path wasn't for me I started to look around and think about what I could do to support teaching in higher ed that wasn't the academic route and I wound up in instructional design and from there I really got to learn more about the IT landscape and how IT really supports pedagogy now it's such a deep way across higher ed and and that's how I've landed here. So I hope that our team is able to bring to faculty and staff some of the the same core ideas that they want their students to walk away with. We want them to reflect on their experience in teaching we want them to want to grow and learn about their experience as teachers. We make a lot of recommendations as instructional designers that faculty are not always ready or maybe don't have time to implement but we hope that by planting that seed we spark a little bit of curiosity a little bit of interest and maybe they'll come back and they'll be ready so we see that oftentimes with accessibility so if somebody has never encountered any kind of training or resources around what it means what digital accessibility means if we expect them to then make a fully online course 100 accessible they may get overwhelmed so can we start to scaffold some of that information into the instructional design process or the support process can we introduce you know heading structure and why meaningful text and hyperlinks is important and then from there move on and the same thing with everything from course design and user paths to assessment strategies um adopting technologies that we hope are not creating barriers for students not not artificially placing obstacles in their path but are very intentionally selected and incorporated in a meaningful way to develop skills and knowledge that'll help the student either in the rest of their curriculum or in their job search or their careers after after graduation. We're trying really hard to incorporate really explicit conversations with faculty about diversity and inclusion and how to make sure whether it is through technology selection or the language that they use and their syllabus. We've got faculty who have to use specific course policies that are provided by the the institution but or institutional policies but they can add to that they can provide a human component to that and their own interpretation whether it's of the academic integrity policy or accessibility resources I think it helps for faculty to take a really personal approach and try to make sure they're humanizing themselves and their course in in such a strange time so that's uh diversity and inclusion is a key focus for us. What I've seen time and time again is the organizations that do the best job of using technology to help them teach and learn and do research are the ones where there's some strong IT leadership in the organization on campus and that's organization that is not just focused just on keeping the bits flowing but understanding how we can help the school leverage things. This award ceremony opened up to us oh maybe I don't know eight nine years ago or so and we grabbed it right away because I'm a big I'm a big fan of role models and have people kind of say well how did they get the award and take a look and they get them to have the conversation to think through who's getting the award and why and there's always a great story behind many of these recipients. I just think it's critically important to reach out and and help organizations like this help the industry and this is the this organization we can work here and have the biggest impact on the industry anywhere we're on board we're supporting why because it's getting the award winners out there getting that to happen and and you know I've been around a long time I'm sure I'll be around 30 years from now but I'll stick around a few more years but I more worry about the longer-term picture of the industry healthy so things that promote that are always good for the industry they're good for the industry as a small boutique firm like ours they're good for us too


Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is the rubber chicken bone. As always, adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is vinegar, a chicken bone, a cup, or a jar. So for the setup, you're going to take your chicken bone and let it dry out for a couple of days before you do this experiment.  You can hear it's kind of hard there and then to prepare it for the experiment, you're going to fill up the jar or the cup. A jar you just have a lid so it'd be more where it's not going to tip over. But if you have a good spot, you can put it in a cupboard or somewhere, let it sit for seven days. And then when it comes out and done, make sure you completely dry it off because it's going to squeeze out extra vinegar if you don't completely dry it out. So the science behind this experiment is vinegar is considered an acid, right? So it's a mild acid, but it's strong enough to dissolve away calcium, which is in the bone. So that's why you need seven days because it takes a little while to do that. But once the calcium is dissolved, there's nothing to keep the bone hard. So there's left is just a soft tissue. Now you know why your mom's always trying to get you to drink milk. It's the calcium in the milk that goes into your bones that makes your bone stronger. That's why you're nice and strong and they can't bend. Also remember, don't take a vinegar bath for multiple days. So just to show you how soft the bone is, I'm just taking a regular steak knife and I'm very easily can cut right through the bone. You can still see the inner side of the bone, but it's nice and flexible and it bends. So I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, remember to click thumbs up and to subscribe. Thanks for watching. Okay, that video seems really interesting. Oh, and that video too. Subscribe button down below and