Okay, it's 9 o'clock. Let's get started. Good morning. Welcome to today's meeting of the Jones Library Board of Trustees. I'm going to ask you to indicate your presence. Lee. Present. Thank you, Farah. Here. Jean. Here. Tammy. Present. Thank you. And Austin is present. Okay. I know of no changes or additions to the agenda. The next item, item number three is the approval of minutes of the meeting of January 22nd. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Move. Is there a second? Second. Thank you very much. Corrections to the minutes. Farah. So I had a few little things like the AMPM and the monthier thing, but maybe that's something I could send Eugene for future reference if that's okay. But the one thing I had was the two main things were item 6B about the buildings and facilities meeting. I think we're meeting in March. We're not meeting this month. 9B, it should read how to act slash respond, not how to action respond. Those were the two big ones. Thank you, Farah. Okay. Other corrections to the minutes of January 22nd. Okay. On the question of approving the minutes, Lee Edwards. Yes, to prove. Farah. Yes. Eugene. Yes. Tammy. Yes. Robert Pam. Yes. And Austin abstain since I wasn't at the meeting. Okay. Next is public comment. We have looks like five people in attendance. Thank you for coming. If anyone would like to make a public comment, if you would raise your virtual hand. Okay. Next item is the president's report. So I want to let you know that we are very close to an agreement, at least having an agreement for you to consider with the Amherst Historical Society. We had very good meeting. We've had some back and forth about the particular details of the agreement. And I think what will happen is we may have to meet between now and our next scheduled meeting to actually review and approve the agreement. The agreement has gone to the town's lawyer. It's been shared with the historical society. And we've got a couple of things that we need to fix. But again, the conversations were, as one would have expected them to be quite constructive in terms of everybody's desire to reach an agreement about this easement. Okay. Any questions about that? And what I hope is that we will, when we have this agreement completed, that is to say, ready for you to look at, we'll meet and review the agreement, the easement. Okay. Next item is the library building committee. The building committee is not met in a while, but a lot of progress is being made. We're in the bidding phase now. It was a walkthrough with general contractors. We are also trying to make some decisions about interim sites. No decisions yet are made, no proposal yet for you all to consider. So that's the report from the building committee. The building committee will be, we have one opening in the building committee for a public member. And interviews will take place pretty soon. So we will hopefully pretty soon have, again, complete membership on the building committee. Anything else, any questions about the building committee? Okay. Next far, buildings and facilities. Do you have any report from buildings and facilities? No, we haven't met since, we haven't met this year yet. But the only thing I do know is that the North Amherst Library had the soft opening. And I don't know when we're having the official opening. Sharon, do we know? No. Maybe sometime in the spring is what Paul was telling me. But we'll probably meet again sometime early March. That's all I know. Yeah. And we do want to just say how fabulous it is that the North Amherst Library is open again from, I haven't been in the building from the outside. It just looks, it just looks fabulous. So this gem of a branch library will continue to serve as it has for a very long time. The residents in particular of North Amherst. So we're really, we're really thrilled. Development committee, Ms. Edwards. The tables in your packet that I'll just read out the results. Right. You also on this continuing on the trend that we've been seeing this year, we're slightly ahead of where we were at the same time last year with a slightly fewer gifts than we had. So we're getting fewer gifts, but the gifts are generally higher. So we're at 88,244 this year versus 81,315 last year, 479 gifts this year, 490 last year. And we're doing our best to figure out what that's about and to find people who have lapsed and see if we can encourage them to come back. And of course, as always, to thank profoundly all those who have so generously given the capital campaign. Again, you have the results. The total for the total at the bottom of the capital campaign is 9,465,919, which was up 40,418 for the month. December we took in almost 240,000. A lot of that was in kind of upside downside to the town council's vote because the vote came late. We probably did not get as much in end of the year contributions as we would have had the vote come earlier. But because the vote did come, it did encourage people to give. And people are starting to fulfill their pledges and in some instances, increase their pledges. So we've also various members of the committee have been working very hard on the historic tax credits and relations with the historic commission, as Austin pointed out. And that has taken a certain amount of time and energy. We are waiting for a large check from our largest institutional donor to come and clear. We understand that that's in the works. And when that happens, we anticipate transferring $800,000 from the capital campaign accounts to the town. So in addition to the 300,000, I understand the library recently transferred from its accounts, from the endowment, from bequests mostly, to the town that will make a million 100,000 of new cash transfers to the town. If you add that to the 500,000 that went over in June of 2022, I believe, that will bring what between the capital campaign and the library has been transferred to the town to a million 600,000. That's my report. Thank you, Lee. Questions for the development committee? OK, thank you, Lee. Thanks for the work. Tammy, anything from personnel planning and policy? We have not met since the last board meeting. We have a meeting scheduled tomorrow morning. I did want to ask Farah if she had any reporting from the Jedi committee. And now we haven't met since our last meeting either, Tammy. And there's been a few surveys coming in since then, so I have nothing to report either. OK. All right, that's it, Austin. Thank you, Tammy. Thank you, Farah. OK, next is the budget committee, Mr. Pam. The budget committee will meet tomorrow, I believe. So I don't have a report on that. However, the basic point about the budget is that the amount that is coming in from the annual appeal is running at roughly the same level as last year, which means that we are likely to be short compared to the budget that we adopted by $60,000 or $70,000. That may or may not make a big difference as long as we are not spending very much because we are basically packing up and moving, and that is not as expensive as some other things could be. It's also been a mild winter so far, so it may balance out. But nonetheless, we still do not have a functioning budget because we don't know where we will be going and we don't know what the cost will be for being there. So it remains something of a black box. Thank you, Bob, questions about the budget? OK, Bob, next is, did you want to say anything about the budget request? Haven't talked about it yet. We will talk about it tomorrow. Right, OK. Next is investment, Mr. Pam. Here there are a couple of things to be said. I have reported in the last couple of meetings that we need to make a decision at this meeting about whether to approve a motion which I will read, which is to continue to invest the Jones Library Incorporated Funds with Vanguard as the investment advisory service is shifted up to Mercer. Let me describe the situation once more. Yes. That's a motion you want to vote on. Yes, the actual words for it as written are to continue to invest the Jones Library Incorporated Funds with Vanguard. As Vanguard transitions, it's institutional outsourced chief investment officer business to Mercer. Bob, just one second. Is there a second to that motion, please? Second. Thank you. OK, Bob. OK. Vanguard decided that it would sell its advisory service business to Mercer, which is a offshoot of Marshall MacLennan, which is a very large business involving the investment in services of various kinds. So they are a major player in the insurance world. They're a major player in a variety of other worlds, including the investment advisory services to for-profit companies. They had decided they wanted to expand more into the nonprofit world, and Vanguard is one of the larger players in that world. So they have made an offer to Vanguard. Vanguard has essentially accepted it, and it will probably close. They had originally plans for February 15. I believe it's now late March or April. The result of that will be that the whole investment advisory services that we have received will be transferred over to Mercer. The basic rules and operations of that business will not change. However, their access to information will come not from Vanguard, but from Mercer, which has similar kinds of services. Our team will not change. They have been offered incentives to stay and to stay for a while. So consequently, what we would expect will be largely the same. Vanguard has separately from this been slowly evolving. It's monthly reporting and quarterly reporting, and that's not likely to change immediately, although who knows what it will look like in a year. I have been thinking about and looking at some of the alternatives for what we are doing, and most of them are substantially more expensive and are not something that I would want to do in a short term move. So my recommendation is that we sign the appropriate papers to allow our current advisory group to continue to provide services. And over this coming year, we should actually take a look at what other alternatives there are. As Mercer at that point will tell us what changes they will be providing. That's my report on that. So there are questions. Yeah, questions about this transition to Mercer. So Bob, can we be a little, so this notion that they're transferring their advisory services, does that mean they're transferring their whole business or they're going to retain some part of their business where they actually manage the investments? What does it mean in terms of Vanguard? Well, what we buy from Vanguard are actual accounts. And what we buy are a variety of investment products from Vanguard. And all of those will not be changed by this transaction included in those products are custody of their products. It is conceivable. Well, it's more than conceivable. It is accurate to say that as a Mercer advisory service, they may well offer and encourage additional investments which might be different. If so, then those investments would have different profiles in terms of costs and they would have different profiles in terms of custody and so on. But if we choose not to change what we are investing in, then none of those things would change. I am told that the actual fees for the advisory services they do not plan to change at this time. Since basically what they are buying is a book of business, it would be silly for them to immediately say, OK, now that we have you as a client, we're going to triple your fees. I know that would not encourage people to say. So I don't expect the fees to change anytime immediately, although I don't know who Mercer is. Well enough to say whether it will be like six months or a year from now. Yeah. And one other thing, Bob, you said that they've incentivized some of their staff to stay. So we would anticipate that at some period of time those people would make transition out and we would then have to deal with other people that Mercer would provide. Well, we are now dealing with our fourth investment advisor as our Vanguard representative. It is my understanding that they encourage the people to stay now and probably have an incentive structure which would encourage them to stay for a while. There are roughly 200 people in the advisory service and I'm told most of them are going over. Good job. OK, other questions about this transition to Mercer? OK, Bob, anything else on investment? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry, my bad. So we're going to vote on the motion to approve the continuation of this relationship as the transition goes on to Mercer. So voting on the motion, yes. Who approve? No, not to approve Lee Edwards. Yes. Barr? Yes. Eugene? Yes. Tammy? Yes. Bob? Yes. Austin votes yes. Thank you. OK, Bob. OK, the one question that I would have is there's paperwork that requires a signature. I'm not yet sure whether it is my signature or your signature. That will be required. OK. OK, anything else from investment? Well, as always, there is a report which is that as of January 31st, the endowment account had a value of $8,814,076.78. And the Woodbury Fund had a value of $726,773.03. So this has been a good couple of months. It is nice to have it rise by basically a million dollars over the last six months. It'd be nice if I could say that that is always going to be the case, but that is not what I get to say. Now, that is where that is. The reports are available if anybody wants to actually read them. They're somewhat detailed. And they give a fairly clear picture of what we're doing in town. Any other questions about investment? OK, thank you. The next item is a report from the Friends of the Jones Library System. And I see Elaine Donahue is there. Hi, Elaine. Hi, I've been listening. Thank you for joining us. Sure. Starting next month, Rich Morse will be the liaison with the trustees. We had toyed with taking turns, but I think a consistent person is a good idea. So I asked him if he would be interested. And he was, but he couldn't make it this month. We're meeting tonight. So we have not had a meeting since the last time I reported. And that was on the fact that we finished selling Edith Byron's paintings and made about $9,000. We are planning on having what Nancy calls a brainstorming session on March 18th, sort of looking at the future of the Friends, what our plans are, things like that. And I think Lee and Kent are going to join us. So yeah, that will be next month. Anybody can join who wants to. And I think, oh, and we did start clearing out the third floor room of our stuff. But it might take a little while, but there's not too much. It's OK. I hope it was a joyous cleaning. It was a very dusty cleaning with lots of sneezing going on. There's a lot of stuff up there. If anybody's interested in bows and ribbons, I think it was from the time of Katie George, when he used to do the Valentine baskets. There are boxes full of really nice ribbons and bows and things like that, which I'm hoping to find a good home for. Great. Thank you. OK, any questions for Elaine, but the Friends? So we can't say it often enough. So let's say it how grateful we are for the work that the Friends do for your dedication to the library. It is absolutely remarkable, and we are very grateful. And we'll look forward to hearing what happens to the ribbons. Yes, thank you. And the rest of the stuff up there. Yeah, thanks. OK, any questions for Elaine? OK, great. Thanks, Elaine. All right, next is the director's report, Sharon. Nothing for me. Thank you. OK, so I think we are done. So it's Bob. Yeah, I have a personal note that I think is required, and that is that my son in Washington DC is expecting to have a baby, and he has requested that his grandparents be available to help, and that has led myself and my wife to think about moving to the Washington DC area. And consequently, I don't know exactly how quickly or when this will happen, but it is likely to occur before my term is over, and probably before the year is over, so I thought I should let you know that. It will be something of a lurch for me, but I am preparing for that. First and most importantly, mausole tough. That is fabulous. Second, word is planned to come to fruition. It would be an enormous loss for the Board of Trustees. You've done amazing work for us in all ways, Bob, and we are incredibly grateful for the work that you do and grateful that you gave us a heads up as the plan matures, and you are clear about when you might transition off the Board. Again, it would be great if you would let us know. And we wish you the best in thinking about that move. The weather will be better there. The library can't be as good, but the weather will be better. Transitions probably require that as this gets firmed up, we may want some people to be getting more active in the things that I've been doing. Yeah, absolutely. And I think the process is if, in fact, this transition comes to fruition, you would submit a letter of resignation and the town would go through a process of appointing a successor who would serve out the remainder of your term. Yes. OK, Yafar. On the plus side, Bob, you can bring your new grandchild to the new library, and they could actually make use of the updated library. Look forward to it. OK, everybody, thank you so much. Stay well. Keep your masks on. Stay well. We'll see you soon. Take care. Bye-bye. Take care. Bye-bye.


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Having introduced the singular, simplicial chain complex for a simplicial complex as a sub complex of, of the singular chain complex of mod k. We shall now go for another simplification, a further simplification. This time we are not going to treat it as a sub complex, but as a quotient complex which is the natural way of doing it. So let this sigma, capital sigma n plus 1 denote the permutation group on n plus 1 letters. To each alpha inside sigma n plus 1, that means a permutation of n plus 1 letters, we will get a simplicial homeomorphism from delta n to delta n. Because any man, any satiric map from vertex set to vertex set is a simplicial map in delta n. In particular, if you have a permutation of vertices that can be extended linearly to mod delta n to mod delta n, which will be automatically a homeomorphism. So that we denote by g alpha. So this element represents an action of sigma n plus 1 on a sin of delta n by merely composing on the right, namely take a lambda which is a simplicial map, take lambda composite g alpha. That means you take first g alpha and then composite with lambda. So that gives you right action of sigma n plus 1 on sigma, on set of all sin of delta n. Because g n's are all simplicial, the composite will be also a simplicial map. That is all that we have to write. Once you have it on simplicial, a simplicial con, simplicial, you know, one single simplex, then you can extend it linearly for all the elements of S n by summation nj lambda j of alpha going to nj lambda j of alpha, summed up. This notation is standard notation in the many literatures about the action, writing it on the top. Similarly it comes from group theory wherein conjugation by an element was simplified by this writing like this. And most often it is the conjugation of the group on itself which is studied, that action is studied very thoroughly. So that must be the motivation for writing like this. So I am following that notation that is all here. A simplicial map delta n to any simplicial complex k is called degenerate and simplex. If the dimension of lambda of delta n is strictly less than n, it is the same thing as saying that the vertex function lambda from vertices of delta n to vertices of k is not injective. If it is an injective and it is a simplicial map, then more delta n would have been embedded as a n simplex, so the dimension would have been the same. So such things are called degenerate and anything which is not degenerate would be non-degenerate, that means when lambda is injective. So let us look at all those elements in Sn of k which are generated by subgroups of certain things namely degenerate simplexes, all degenerate simplexes and also of the form lambda minus the signature of alpha times lambda alpha. So all these elements as well as degenerate elements we are taking together, they may not form a subgroup but take the subgroup generated by them, this abelian group. So they said that you generate a abelian subgroup of that. The idea is that throw away all these things, go model all these things, kill them because the simplest thing that we want to say is if u comma u as a geometric object it will be a single element though it is representing a edge just like a constant loop or just like anything which is contractible loop etc we have taken them away in the homotopy theory. So this is a very obvious thing that we have to do namely all the degenerate simplexes they do not count similarly if you have a lambda and then you interchange the two vertices that should be minus lambda so that is the kind of relation that we want to introduce here. Alpha is a transfer position, signature of alpha is minus 1. So lambda plus the interchanger thing that should be killed which is same thing as lambda will be equal to minus of lambda alpha where alpha is a transfer position. More generally when alpha is any permutation I have to put the signature there. So this is what we want to identify. So I am taking this as a subgroup to generate these subgroups and then throw them away. One by one I could have done but I can do them together and simultaneously namely all degenerate simplexes and all lambda minus this one they will generate a subgroup. That subgroup is S0 of k. Obviously it is a chain subgroup. In other words boundary of this S0 of n will be contained inside S0 of n minus 1 and so on and if we verify that then this will be a sub chain complex. Whenever you have a sub chain complex you can take the quotient and that will give you another chain complex. So this is what we have to verify here boundary of S0 n is contained in the S0 n minus 1. So here for the generators if I show it then the whole thing will follow because lambda, daba is also a linear map. So daba is also a linear map. daba of a plus b is daba a plus daba b. daba of n times a is n times daba a. So it is enough to verify this for generator. First we shall first check that the boundary of a degenerate simplex is inside here. Boundary of degenerate simplex may not be a degenerate simplex. It may be a chain or it may have this kind of elements also. You see that is the whole idea of putting them together. So let us start with a lambda from delta into k such that dimension of lambda n is less than n. Let us call it as m. If this m is actually less than n minus 1 that means there are at most n minus 2 elements out of n plus 1 element that means either 3 elements have gone to the same element or there must be pairs of 2 pairs of elements say u and u2 and u3, u4 like that which have gone to the same element. This is purely synthetic argument. Number of elements from n plus 1 if you have gone to n minus 1 then that is what must have happened. If 3 elements have gone to the same element when you take the boundary what happens you are deleting only 1 at a time and then putting minus sign and then doing that in the boundary formula. In each of them still there will be 2 different elements going to the same element. Therefore it is a sum of degenerate simplex its boundary of that one. So that is the whole idea here. So once since boundary of lambda is a sum of simplex each obtained by deleting only one vertex vector it follows that boundary of lambda is a sum of degenerate n minus 1 simplex. So this is happens when both the cases if you if you have 3 of them going to same element you delete one of them mainly we do you are deleting one at a time which one you do not know if it happens to be one of the 3 still the other 2 will be going to same element. So it is a degenerate. If 2 pairs of things are going to same elements then when you are deleting one of them from the one of the pair the other pair is still there other pair 2 of them are going to same element. Therefore in either case this should be sum of degenerate simplex the boundary. So that is done. The second case the second case is what m e could n minus 1 itself. That means that means only a pair of elements have been identified and all other things are injectively going different distinct elements. So let us say ith and jth vertices of the same of the say are mapped to the same vertices for some 0 less than i less than j less than less than equal to n we can assume. So in this case boundary of daba consists of a sum of a number of degenerate n minus 1 simplex is wherein when you are dropping some element it is neither ith element nor jth element. Okay so all that in i and jth both f them are going to they are present and they are going to the same element so it is a degenerate. Okay so there will be two terms namely when you drop ith element whatever you get is a non-degenerate simplex. Similarly when you delete jth element that will be also non-degenerate. So we need to check what happens in this case. So this is the interesting case. So what happens is all other terms have been degenerate we can forget about it. What are the two terms remaining here? This is in the expression of boundary of lambda. Okay minus 1 to the i vi hat minus 1 to the j vj hat all other things are there. Is that clear? But vi vi hat and vj hat the images are the same right. So this vj and vi hat is sorry vi it is vi and vj are images are same. So this v0 vj minus 1 is there. This vi is now whatever let us say vi is some u. It is in the j minus 1 place whereas here it is in the ith place. So you have to bring that to an element into the ith element and then see what happens. Pi by transforming by changing the order. When you change that order what you get is this element is equal to minus of that element with the appropriate sign okay. So when you do that performing i plus j minus 1 transpositions you can bring it to this place okay. Then the form if you write the first one as tau the second one will be minus signature of alpha times tau alpha where alpha is the transposition is the permutation required to make the second one look like the first one. So boundary of lambda is always in s0 of k minus 1. The next case is you start with a lambda minus signature of alpha times lambda alpha. What is the boundary of this? This should also belong to s k minus 1 no that also you have to show okay. By writing it as a sum of a number of writing alpha as a product of transpositions okay and then adding and starting adding and deleting several times what you can do is you can bring this to verifying lambda plus alpha lambda less to alpha where alpha is a permutation alpha is a transposition. When alpha is a transposition signature of alpha is minus so this becomes lambda plus lambda put a power off okay. So boundary of this how does it look like? If you if you show that these things are here then an element of this form is sum of such elements finitely sum of so that will be also there. So the case is reduced to the case when alpha is just a transposition okay. So we will leave this to you as an exercise. You have to just write the boundary of alpha in each of them case lambda could be just like here you have to do that this we will leave it to you as an exercise okay. Unless you toil that much you won't know what these symbols are what this what is the meaning of boundary and so on okay. So this part we will leave it as an exercise. Now we can define whatever we are promised here namely a further simplification of the chain complex. So what we do we take this subgroup S naught go module of that from SNK. Remember SNK was all singular simplicial maps okay. Simplicial chains to go module of those which are degenerate or which correspond to under permutation okay lambda minus signature of alpha times lambda power alpha okay go module of that this will become now C dot will become a chain group okay a chain complex SN of K to SN minus 1 of K the same daba induces a homomorphism of degree minus 1 such that daba square is 0 on CK CN of K to CN minus 1 of K. So this is chain complex this chain complex is called the simplicial chain complex of K. The homology groups of this group this chain complex are called simplicial homology groups. So this is the ultimate simplification that we solved. This CK as given is not a sub chain complex of the singular chain complex of mod K it is the quotient of a sub. So this is called a sub quotient it is a quotient of a sub chain complex okay. Nevertheless this is our life this is this brings a lot of simplification in the simplicial in the in the homology of a mod K of a of a simplicial complex. So let us take a closer look at it how things look like okay in the very special case namely K is just delta n itself if you do not understand that we we cannot do much so let us understand what is C of delta n okay. To begin with there is no confusion about the zero chains they should not be but that can be just now as pointed out they are linearly linear combinations of vertices of delta n okay therefore C naught of K is just that for n plus 1 because there are n plus 1 vertices in delta n okay. Whether degenerate or non-degenerate they are all same there is one one point map so one point to one point so it is all injective so there is nothing nothing special about that. Now let us look at the one chains we know that S1 of delta n is center S2 n plus 1 square okay because it is set of all maps from two elements set into n plus 1 element set so that is why it is like this but any simplest given by a non-injective map and two of them are going to same thing they have to be thrown away okay. Non-injective map is a degenerate simplex so it goes into S naught right similarly so at that level already we can only look at the simplexes which are given by injective mapping namely proper edges now u comma v where u and v are distinct that will be an edge because it is a simple shell map okay from delta 1 to k alright even now if u v and v u will be two different things we are counting so this is the next step we want to throw away to v u and u v differ by what by transposition and what is the sign of the transposition signature is minus 1 so u v plus v u will go into the subgroup which is same thing as saying that u v and is equal to minus v u which is how we are bringing the geometry into this namely an edge trace in the other way direction is stated as a minus of that edge minus of the simplex okay so that is the next step that you have to do it just means that now once you have u v you do not have to take v u okay so u v plus v u belong to the same thing this is the one simplex this is a story of S naught this just means that we need not count an edge in delta n we need to count as delta n only once in the other direction we do not count what is the meaning of that given the number of all pairs of u comma v they form a they will form a simplex they will form an edge inside delta n therefore it is the number of choices that we can make out of n plus one we have to make two of them two of them you have to choose so that is n plus one choose two so there are exactly n plus one choose two non degenerate simplex is up to order order means what only one of them we are taking ordered pairs sorry unordered pairs we are taking subsets once you have taken u v there is no chance to take v u so that forms a basis okay so this leaves us with n plus one choose two edges in delta n which will form a basis for 700 it follows that c 1 of delta n is addressed to n plus one choose two the boundary operator is obviously boundary of u v is v minus u okay remember that boundary operator comes here you drop out u you get v when you drop out v you have to put a sign here right so this is this much understanding is there from c 1 to c 0 okay likewise the same argument will give you the q chains delta n will be generated by n plus one choose q plus one such element namely q plus one subsets of n plus one set and it is generated over that freely so this is z power n plus one choose q plus now boundary of of this map c q to c q minus one is given by this formula same boundary map okay q q naught q n minus remember all these when I write q and q I am thinking them as now elements of c q which is a quotient space which is actually equivalence class okay if I change the order here I will have to put a minus sign if I change the order twice it does not matter it is the same element for example u naught u 1 u 2 is equal to minus u 1 u naught u 2 but it is equal to plus u 1 u 2 u naught so that is the meaning of this in this group that is the way we have to think of elements okay in any case this formula comes from directly from the formula for s s itself you have to operate you have to take this and operate the the phase operator on this side then this is how it is and put a minus one extra and take the summation just the entire chain looks like starting with one choose n plus one which is zero simplex says to choose an n plus one choose two one simplex and so on this will be there is only one n plus one there is only one n simplex namely you have to take the entire set okay if you if you change it by a permutation which is odd then it will be a negative generator if it is even permutation it is the same generator one single this is just a set and after that all of them are zero there are no chains left out here is that clear because you cannot choose n plus two subset out of n plus one set those are empty sets so they saw all zero chains zero groups here so this is the biggest simplification which is coming here which was not possible in the case of s s s double s of k also right it was going on infinitely this stops at the n plus one and nth stage itself so this is cn it is z okay then z power n plus one z power n plus one choose two and so on z power n okay if you put one more z here by augmentation this looks perfectly symmetric just like binomial expansion and for that beauty at least it is better to consider the augmented chain complexes and doing combinatorics that is much simpler object than this one so you better put that one more element in the augmentation by extending it by of epsilon with augmentation to z to zero after that okay given a simple shell complex okay cnk is purely an algebraic object there is no continuity no topology nothing you have to discuss okay once the simple shell complex is given which is an abstract algebraic way of combinatorial way of discriminating cnk is purely an algebraic object okay obviously the boundary maps themselves will depend on the incident relations which simplex is sitting where i mean what are the vertices of an edge what are the vertices of a triangle which triangle as which of the edges are there this is only incidence is incidence relation okay so that is the only thing that matters and that is like a combinatorial information that has the full control of topology is what what we we have seen already studying simple shell complex to some extent so it comes again here therefore one may expect that you know because just purely algebra here it may have very little to say topology however the following results come as a pleasant surprise so what is that surprise these are the two statements here the inclusion map from the full singular simple shell chain complex to the singular chain complex of mod k and model here they are this part is purely topological this is purely purely combinatorial this inclusion map is a chain homotopy equivalent exactly same way the quotient from this smaller thing to ckl this is a chain homotopy equivalent you already know that chain homotopy equivalence is induce isomorphisms on the homology groups combining these two what you get there is a homology of this topological space is isomorphism homology of this object is isomorphism homology of this object so that is the big result that we get so I am going to state that one for pairs of simple shell complexes there are canonical isomorphisms of singular homology h star of s dot mod k model the singular simple shell homology h star of s dot of k l and the simple shell homology h star of ckl so what are they first one is inclusion induced map okay if the h star of s we are we are not writing this s at all we are taking it for granted we are writing h star of k l okay but here I have to write it because this is something different from this one similarly phi star from s star of k to c of k l okay so that gives you i star from p star inverse so you take the inverse of this one and follow by that one from ckl to h star of k l so from here go here and come back here so that is a canonical isomorphism that is the statement we are going to postpone the proofs of these isomorphism theorem here the homology of c dot k l will be referred to as a simple shell homology of the simple shell pair when l is empty it is purely c dot of k okay simple shell homology of k of a simple shell complex okay as such it depends upon the actual simple shell complex that much is obvious but however once we have proved the above theorem it means that it will depend only on the topological space underlying topological space that means if I change the triangle take a simple shell complex take its underlying space I may be able to put another simple shell complex structure on that and then compute the homology there no problem the homology will be the same so that is the it does not depend upon what triangulation you take provided you have a triangulation then it is the same thing it will give you the homology of the underlying topological space okay therefore this freedom is very important this was a very very deep result active very strong result with the the singular chain complex I know was able to attain so the similarity I see here you know there are problems about Riemann integration to solve that you had to invent you know Lebesgue had to invent another integration theory namely Lebesgue it is so called Lebesgue integration theory come out of the Riemann integration then only you could prove the theorem of Riemann integration namely the characterization of of functions which are Riemann integrable in terms of the number of continuous number of points of discontinuities of the function it is similar to that to prove that it is invariant of the underlying you know topological space so you have to invent another homology just reframing the simple homology there was no way in fact some way which was thought by Poincare was wrong here he he had summed up and no way to complete that into a proof okay so we will stop here and continue this study 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Welcome back to JC Saka Show with DJ Nix and me Miriam Masaba. Yes, and today is such an amazing day because we get to celebrate our fathers and we get to honor them on such a day. You know, it's very rare, okay? And not to see achi ya tuwa pa, atileo ishi ya pa, we get to celebrate our fathers daily, daily, every day you wake up. Remember your dad as much as you remember your mama. Treat them equally. Sindio, hey, because both of them kuna bile, they compliment each other when it comes to bringing you up and their roles in your lives. They compliment each other, but wacha tu tongelia yo mo during our inspiration vibe. Yes, and today in studio, we are really honored to have him in studio. Such a blessing maze. Who am I talking about guys? Drumrolls. We have not heard a guest in studio for a long time. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. This is hot. No mama! We have not let DJ Nix to make up brand new. Anyway.  Anyway.  Yes, and it's a brand new. It's the first time after COVID to host our first guest. Yes, it's such a privilege. We are blessed with this opportunity. Anyway, the guest is Mr. Chairman. Rintan Afoko. Actually, he is the most handsome gospel artist in Africa. One of the most humble artists in the whole world. And this is the most inspirational brand new artist. How do you define humility? Humility. Humility is just following the full steps of Jesus. Yes. Jesus is just following Jesus. Jesus is just following the steps of Jesus. Maybe he is just following the steps of Jesus. No, Jesus is just following the steps of Jesus. On a donkey. On a donkey. Yes, not a horse. Can I tell you? Yes. You cannot define humility by putting on bad clothes, by being dirty, by sleeping on a bad mattress, being patrol ourselves. So you cannot define humility by that. I was ordained in heaven. Where? We say..... actually all election ist in heaven. Mi mi na neka wa.... Puti yao kx je yao kwa ketare, mi tuzfua mbinguni. If there are some question there, please relay the question to Chair for me to the Chair Boys ttefanya me, ukeli, onaji weh chiama ni na maanishanga unalida na panya bitu. Ttefanya, ni vit ni steps gani, after uhliskiya ordination niyan ku... Ya, watu dugumbe?  Nini g expedia mama, bilababa. Nain imefi kapa. Sasa mungu ahili nwa ni kwa chairman kwasababu.  Na ni mami kut redo nkurtuna fikiNo Ny후wa hot, menitiần Kolia Curt Ny nhưngumaya Nmiti Uro Nmiti 제품 sounded Isine Ngire Hata Ya, ya. Songz na kama na revelation. Kwa ima mi na ima na sa utiangu. Ire na kini pataku ni kiyosha vi yonboko ha kicheni angu, ama ni kifanya ni ii ni yosha utiangu na deo yoyo. Deo yoyo yoyo. Tila kini, ikiwa na anointi, muna fikirikini talent. So, mi am not talented, I am a product of hard work. Why? When I recorded my first song, nika peleka nga radio station Flani, wa li kataku chesa. Nili kasi rika. The same song ni kwa na peleka na sisa, every week na peleka, mbaka waka kasi rika waka chesa. Naji wama DJ Flani, wa li kwanga apa KBC station ni yuwa na tuwa na Metro FM. Umelo akina keiku. Nili wada tiyangu na songi angu waka kataku chesa. Nili wada tiyangu wada tiyaka waka kasi rika. Waka ni yona wana saba abadi tuwi kuchesia na Sunday. Udi yona. Mbia pa na chesa tena. Naji wama na kuchesia, please. Eni mbaka muna yuwa na naka mbia, ah, please. Naji waka ni yona taka tuwi kuchesia. Sa marig应a naka mwama kunip Layinga. Kaisa na Mbakula. Mwama, k RNAa chesabia. Ni nani yona. Zangumu qwe inayت ni pac yen. Hello. Zika hit. Elafnez ikna zuka rilizi, wa batifaz zngina wana release, tunona wa sigwe. Akina, palika, maile zaia kupiga mawe. Tkona... Kuna wumbre yumbo. Azia di ni actor. She just acted in my song. Mimi, it's not a collaboration. It's not a featuring. Why? Okay, wakamuna sema, wana complained to the an actor wakita doesnwaia mawe. Cho kia walema actor wali kwa. Walingia kuatalanta, Pamella. Pamella wala wa trotu wakwa yu video. Awa siti wami wakoka. Yu kichu kwa actors misi nani wami wakoka ndini kweke. Kama ni kipata mama na uza mboga. Nmombia maze ni acti e. Sii mudzen kwa wami wakoka. Kama waji wakoka skweki. Yin acting. Eiko sababu wili alikuwa basht pali filter. Sababu wakati kama wakutu yon na. Alikuwa meskend. Alikuwa meskend? Asikuwa nimeju wa mimi. Maze unani. Haji sasa. Awa nalikuwa meskend. Maze unani. Awa nalikuwa meskend. Umetema isong sii featuring. Laki nikuwa ta ito liyaka. Ata YouTube mutu waki e na kwa wami wakoka ndini. Apa na producer ndini kwa wami wakaka ndini. Tukutu tukarektify. Iwi o rington stroke asia. Ako na sayi. Ako na yoha. Umetema edit. Edit. Edit. Edit. E? Eli omemi wami waka wami wakoka ndini. Kwa ni yuka chaguwa e kwa wakutu. Na yoha meseji ake. Ama. Inspiration na yoha song. Iwi kwa na kuchuwa bibi e baati. O, sababu yotu aipa li kwa na puwa mao puwa mao. Isifu tu. Laki nisa na kwa na bibi e baati. Baati e tla understand. Nizutu kiakitia kuna matu na akitia nyu mbaka maia mgu. Anaiza kuwija mebi e katali e apa. Bebi e baati e kuseba ni mmyungia ea bibi. Maybe nyu mba zitu na ake. Asia na ni nizuwa tofauti. Mina ishi runa e nisi banana. So kudatofauti. Siko bae. Ani nise matu ni wukuweli. Si ma ringo. So kwa ni ni, so kualifikationu apa kuwanza wukuwa na ineza letata tizda. I just wanted somebody, mwenia na onewa. Ya, sometimes you see like he's going over but. Nizutu niza kuwija. Iya nisa ne. Kama mimi, oto mikuwa kini tu singi wana nia mbi o rington wukuwa na macho kubwa. So mimi nia mbi o macho mikuwa kubwa. Nia nia defanya operasyon nikuwa ndogo. Nani mimi wali kumba bibi o. O, nia nia nia mbi o rington.  You need to be a little bit dark chocolate. Nia nia nia nipaka ni ni. Nini nikuwa mimi ni. Eh, itiza tata wana nisa mimi ni supusana. Nia nia mimi ni mungubana. Nizutu wa. Nizutu wana nizutu wa kura kitu rington na mesema. Ali kuna tafutamu tu ana piguwa mawe. Why did they have to be a lady sababu umesema dana? Nia waka, at the same time, bahati piya ali kuna itwa. Most of my fans are ladies. Okay. Because they, you know, it's... So, let's make it qua actress. Ita kaniza, wuki alantuna mafansuakia wengini. Nima dem tu wana feel, wana preachuaivyo. Lakin wuki pata bibi alantuna, a lot of young boys listen wana muna kama mama mother figure. So, it works just like that. Naniwa. So, mimi mafansuangu wengini ma dem. Nidikuwa nitaka kuongelesha tu. Never the rest, it is neither here nor there. I'm a man singing. Inizu biya, nidikuwa atako constitution niya Kenya, kuna agenda balance. So, nidikuwa mimi nima nome na nimi ima ima, nidikuwa nini nweka wana nometupu. Nidikuwa. Sipasini nweka tu atapiyam zchana, ama. Iza sabili, nituwa geta wana afi kuongelesha. Uli mongelesha e aziat. Kuprichi. Yes, of course. Of course, that's the first thing. Nato tuka omba. We planted, nidikuwa kaziangu mimi siyesu. I do not save people. So, I cannot force you. You have to get saved. I only tell you about Jesus and I tell you this what Jesus done to me.  Yes. Umlid kuwa preyat. Umlid kuwa preyat. Yomba tu daki akwa rediku. Okay. But it was not her. We had like 30 people, 30 actors. Why are you guys singling her? All the others are also important. I thought to really quit this song. Ya, quit it. Last year, around this time. Yes. Atanas, atanas mania liyatikuwa. Yomba, nidikuwa, nidikuwa, nidikuwa, nidikuwa. Anyway, he let me muntukuna tmbe na plaka nivi, looking for a wife. You released a song? We alafuak a release song. Wajan umzali pata bibi. Nikuwa na tafta bibi. Uga pata. Nikuwa, nidikuwa, nikuwa na na Westisle. Nika mani miabandon kazi ya mungu na tafta bibi. Nika, nika, nika suma scripture. Nudemi ya alafu reading the Bible. So, I read this Bible and deka ni ambiya, if you do the work of God, God will do your work. So, I went to do what God has called me to do, which is ministering, talking to God's people, encouraging them, preaching the word of God. So, I went back to do the work of God. I left all my needs, all my desires to God. So, nika chamungua, the only thing I did, nika una instead ya kilasiku ni enza, kuru dia same story, nika una ni tuyongoma, nga uma, suma can be played over and over again. So, I decided to put all my desires, desires angu, ulem dem mani na mtaka binyanaka, qualities ni, ni, ni. Nika ziwa kakwa suma. So, don't blame me if the song came out nice, it's just because we are not into it. Don't blame me if the song sounds sweet. We are talking about your story, Kutafuta Baby, and today being a father's day, kuna wale wa tu, we have seen you, or Palemtanda only guiding people, sana, sana artists. Now, to you, una guide sababu you have been there for so long. So, kuna wale artistia, waneza kuwana kuwangali as a father figure in the ministry's industry. Ata will Paul. Will Paul am like his father, because ni herein tu me mutota me kwa ame enda evi, because I'll will Paul, ni rikuyu te rekauna mesejes teliku mendo mio kwa Facebook. Ni yakin ni yambia matem from Madhara, ni katakwa suwa kuhimba bongo gospo, ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni. Lakin ni yotamsana ujwa, yotama fraudu Facebook hiriku na rangu watu five thousand, hana five thousand nuengi. Itu kwa na nga kuwangali, ya nga mesej's kuasagi ba, ui kingiya tu kuasagi ba nkifungwa evi, una meseji me trrrrrrrrr neo'zia nsaakya metu, Una toroka, hini watwa sikasirike, wakone wini snob. So, will Paul, actually if he's watching, I am very sorry I never answered you on Facebook.  But please, there's something I can tell you as your spiritual father. Please go back to the cross, go back to God. Iregadi will Paul an ndesya, ali pata na pesa ya kanissani. Ali kuja kaimba na girori ya kilia, wakristo tu kamu rumia, tu kamu download, tu kamu subscribe, tu kamu watch. Aka pata pesa ka nuwa mazidis, ametroka menda kwa ba. Please will Paul. Kama agusiria satake mamba mungu. A uza mazidis, apene pesa koma children's homes, 22 na kwa pata papalini. Pesa hii pata na ministry. E, kwa isa mungu? Za mungu. All the Christians who are watching today, pesa hini nulia will Paul mazidis, na ametroka skizia na hini ya kwa ba. But mention, talking about will Paul. Na je pa le kwa komen sectiona na sema, weo na itajanga wei di Paul, Bahati, Salasana, for your own popularity. I am popular than them of course. Of course. Bahati am yanza Juzy. Uza mungu aipana iso statistics. Of course I am popular than them. But how canza aji kujibu not even once? They can't because they have to respect, I am their chairman. And the father. I am a chairman. Uzi jibu chairmanu, wio, wio. E, ok. Chairman, weo na mga zbu yun na jibu chairmanu. Na wale, na wale sosa. Kuna mungi na niliwa na kif postivitu Juzy amu, ni ni mula ni. Eskwizi anafanya Bahati kazi yamkono. Ni ni mula ni. Oh, deki jana. I mean, isi mi Juzy na. Bakiti kuna wakati. Nifanya kazi wakini, siya zini baby sita squeeze i. I mean intersema iwi, kuna wakati kwa interview tukaskia. You know, watu wakifanya huduma. Kuna wakati unasi mama na waw. Laki ni kama wakati kama hu, hauja sema ma na eia. Uyomu ni unasema. Pa na, we see what you do. Mi kazi yamkono, I'm about the kingdom. Mi kazi yamkono di yamungu. I'm not saying rington is righteous. I'm not saying rington is the most upright. No, we don't go personal. But we about the work. Kazi yamkono di yamungu. Mimi si say mi kwa ma minimu takatisu kushinda, we will pull. But, sii kenyo we will pull anafanya kwa ni mbake na na no my business. Ioda mwaka in prayer. Pati kenya na tokom do muake, kama li kwa na imba, bwana esu asifiwe, lea me kuja na imba jihawas chana, lazima ni mkosawe. Because, ame tokakwa kazi. Sii sii ma soja wa Christ. Ame tokakwa kazi, yei tu ni kama mi defect. You understand me? Kama baha, ali kwa na imba gizuri, mu toto wa mama, unamuka skumuja, na pata mewa dress, high heels, bra, q-tex, lisi jwia mi paka ni ni kwa ni ni. Really? We kama chi yama no, how would you advise? Let's manage yam. Let's manage yam. Kama chi yama nkosawe. Anajiari bu kufanya, vijana ma boys, wanzi kona they can be women. They can be men. It's not true. God created men to be men.  Women, wow. Dem ways it after de mwenzaka kwa chaliako, ama chali ways it after chali mwenzaka kwa, chali mweshtaka kwa, iti avai dress ame kwa dem, iti can't. Kwa? Nipo ume yusho yama na zima gizuri? Sii tu li kwa tu na ulize, iso ma sualizo, daki ni kwa ume jibu. Ame ume jibu. You just need, kira soko na itaji wa zimu? Iso kwa ya esu, ya apa ya apa, na itaji mutu wazimu kama mimi, mwenyako na pesa, mwenyame barikiwa, nama toka fa. Sii iti ume kena kwa ume yuseme, ya baba ya kia, chikora, ako apa. Ukinana rengi nama mu piya, una yua mungwa na piya nama. Anyway, that aside, that aside because of time we are running out of time, isongyako mu piya ya zoya mawe. What is the inspiration behind it, and what made you write that song, and what is just the inspiration about that song? Tell us more about it. Most of the young people and most of the people who are dreamers when you are going to have dreams, they give up because wame onewa, wame tukano, wame sengenwa, wame mutu wame postki tu jiyake mba usi ya ukweli, so they give up. So basically this song nime itoa kwa encourage, nitu wate mwenyako na doto, na akuna dream, look at Joseph, wakatia ni amuka sumoja, akambia, baba ya ke, nama brothers ya ke, haa, nime dream, nime dream nime onewa, haa ki nini nini wate, mume inama imbele hangu, mi nime no kwa king wenyu, nia wakiyangali angdo, muntutu muntutu the smallest. Wakuma brothers ya ke ukweli za, wame mutu wate muntutu, jiyake muntutu kuku ina miya, jiyate muntutu kwa king, waka ono muntutu, umtutu ila zima tumuze. So what I want to say is, my song is to encourage anybody who has a dream.  I am a product of persistence. Mimi nimi ambewa, jiyake zi imbele hangu ni kamayachura, mi nimi riyambiwa, hata wei nimi agli, nisi jiyake nini, nimi nimi nimi ambewa, lakini nimi kataku give up, sa aia tawato miya zi, wala lukwa nani ambiya, mimi jiyuku imbele hangu, niba kamachura, skrizo nani ambiwa, ka plizu kutu hangu manekst, achini tag, wuna imba poa, wuna jiyu ina fanya nini. Ya understand, nimi oku jiyaku realize, if I gave up, they could not be following me today. So I just want to sing my song ya zoya kupigwa mawe. And basically I remember, nimi yengi watakuchuki abila sababue, wengi watakonea bilama kosa. Mambo yengi watasema, ya kukubu unja moyo, nika waida konea wevu, wevesi wa kwanza, ikisha kumuli kaha, yotouchi yamungu, mawe yengi utapigwa, jiyakazi yamungu, sata wei usifemu, zoya kupigwa mawe, zoya kupigwa mawe.  Ni, jiyu aizivi tuzi nahapendi uliyandika, ama how did the song come about? It's just an inspiration, God just, I just don't know, I can't comprehend. You know me I'm very prayerful, there's a time in Nidkwan 21 days of fasting and prayer. So I think here the time nili pata, revelation, nika pata ii message, nika ii record, nai song nika shingwa, when do I release the song? So when, as you're saying, when the time got to a kati kuna a lot of cyberbullying, impaka unana masikuli artist unasa kutwa songs, za cyberbullying. So I felt, you know what? The message was defined for this moment. So song u luku mei yandika before? Nikuwa nisha yandika. Nikuwa nisha yandika. Okay. Amazing, thank you. I had somewhere that, your father abandoned you when you were very, very little, very young. But I know, I believe you have father figures in your life. So what is the message that you're passing across to them? It's father's day. Even me, I'm a father to so many. I'm a father to so many. Let me answer your story to kato kapodrewa kawirupol. We were talking about being a father. Mekli ya kwanza, biological ama. No, I'm saying, I said I'm a spiritual father to so many. I am a spiritual father to so many. So those people look up to me as maybe ulianza kuhimba kwa sababu uliona ringtona mimba gospelina bamba, mimba pamella, mimba nini. So I just want to speak to them and tell them if you want to, if you look at me as rington, as your spiritual father, music father, there are a couple of things you must know. Mimi, I am about Christ. Yes. Ya ni, I carry my cross every day niki fata yeso. Nasi, mimi, what I know, niki fail, sika hangi chini. When I fall, I have to rise and run again. So I have to encourage two hours to what they want to follow. If whatever you are doing, even if you fail, please do not stay down. Rise up and try again. Kuna kwa tuna penda. You will never know how to ride a bicycle by reading a book.  So atapia, atako, kristo ni same, atako mzikipia ni the same. So nita ga dukwambia toa say, happy father's day, na the father figure you have in your life. Copy the good qualities they have. Like me, I have a lot of good qualities. Copy me, the bad things. Don't copy bad things. Focus on the good things only. The good things only. Yes. Rington, I have a question for you from one of our viewers. Those are friends of J.C. Saco and Aito Hadz at Santos, Semagote, Arrington, Dix, and I wish you all happy father's days. And as Sema, I have a question for Rington. How does the big people in gospel industry help they are coming? Since I haven't seen any top gospel artist in Kenya holding a hand of any upcoming talent. Yes, let me get an answer from Rington. No, it depends how you look at yourself. Me, I've been to thousands and thousands of high schools in Kenya. Niki enakwa fanya ni, kumotiveti ma vidyanak. Namotiveti waluwa nanda kwa ma journalist. Namotiveti waluwa nanda kwa ma doctor. Namotiveti waluwa nanda kwa politicians. Namon, because they are politicians, they are not our mente when they are good politicians. So for me, I am not for musicians. I am not for them. For me, I am for the whole generation. I want to inspire DJs. I want to inspire actors. So, mimi, I think I've done my part and I continue to do it very well. Nimaenda, if there is a musician leo onikenda kufa leo, I'll die happy. Because I am the only musician who has been to like all the schools in Kenya. Nikienda kwa ma vidyanak. I was a street boy.  Yes. You truly inspired me by there on a serious note.  Yes, yes. Kusikam kuna yamtu, siya lasma niku bebe niku meleka studio. No. Kusikam kuna yamtu, onezakwa yu at a point where you were supposed to give up. Nika kuchano, nika kumbia, ok give up or what I make it. I understand it. Yes, I understand. Unambia kitu real, ukweli. Be real with them. Wow. Thank you so much, Frington, for making time to come to J.C.Sako. We are so humble to have you. Yes, please come back again. Yes. Uki toa hiksongingine. Itsong next battle. Aparu. Aparu. Aparu. Anyway, tuta mwacha ki performi ozoia mawe. Now, what else, T.J. next? Yes. Iyo zoia mawe. Iyo ni utatumalizia nayo sababuk na jua twengi wa meingoja. Na kuna, iyo tu na nashanga interview tumerifanya vizuri. Kizungu ikoivi. Lakin ni endapale Instagram.  Nani ni mitu kumalizi ata. Nani uhandolizos, bwether ni kwa ni besakwa. Nani uhandolizos social media pagesako. Apuana. Miya know how to speak English, but I don't know how to write.  So don't, don't blame me. I am trying. I am working so much. Yes. Kusama na jua. Kuangia na jua kuandikand yoshida. But I'll try. I'm trying. Let me tell you. Where I was two years ago is not where I am today. And the way I am today, trust me in the name of Jesus, is not where I'm going to be next year, the same time like today. You might be despising my English today. Amma bweneo na unan. In next year time kama leo, you'll be so shocked na kuwana kusinda orango.  Anyway, amen. Amen to that. Amen to that. Anyway, mention your social media platform as we DGNX. Cuse those songs. Alright. Instagram. Yes. Rington Apoko. Saini me fika 250. Kei follow us. I touch Chairman, na nafa kwa 2 million, nama 3 million, nama 5. Buenina wa puate. Please follow, follow. You cannot love Jesus and you do not love the chairman of gospel. Mi niki zana ya yasum zuli. Follow me. Yes. Instagram. Rington Apoko. Facebook. Rington Alex Apoko. Twitter. Rington Apoko. But follow the chairman. Mi niki ya chairman. Mi niki ya kiyongo zwenu. I have to perform. Yes, sir. Okay, let's do it.


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This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listeners. Thanks to every single one of you, like Jim Hart, Logan Larson, Mike Aikens and our brand new boss, Organic Computer. Coming up on DTNS, do you want to chat with non-player characters? How about learning a language from a chatbot? How about learning a language from a non-player character? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 in Greenville, Illinois. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm lovely Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Richard Raffalino. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Shea. Ah, we almost had a no-Californian show today with me out here in Illinois, but Roger, Roger stepped up to represent. Yeah, holding down the fort, as they say. Good job, Roger. The Fort Funston, up in Northern California. All right, let's start with the quick hits. Apple posted a reminder for its upcoming developers conference saying a new era begins. A lot of people made a big deal about how they don't usually say new era. Join us for WWDC 23 on June 5th at 10 a.m. P.T. That's Pacific Time. Apple also published a blog post titled Code New Worlds. A lot of people think that relates to augmented reality. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects the keynote address to be longer than two hours and include several new Macs and information on a mixed reality headset, and that I will be in tears if it goes past three hours. Well, if you ever wanted true wireless earbuds with customizable RGB lighting, Razer has filled that hole in your heart. The company launched the $200 Hammerhead Pro HyperSpeed true wireless earbuds and true to Razer's focus on gamers. These can connect either over your standard old Bluetooth connection or use a USB-C dongle for a lower latency 2.4 GHz connection. The buds also support active noise cancellation and come with a wireless charging case. Lots of products today. Garmin announced a new fitness focused set of wearables, the Epex 2 Pro and Phoenix, spelled FENIX 7 Pro. Both are smartwatches and both feature an LED flashlight, an updated heart rate sensor, weather map overlays, as well as new endurance score and hill score aggregated metrics. The Epex 2 Pro offers a traditional OLED display in three size options rated 31 day battery life, while the Phoenix uses a memory and pixel display that supports solar charging and gives you 38 days of battery. The Phoenix Pro starts at $800, the Epex Pro at $900. Logitech is keeping the product train rolling. They refreshed their popular MX Anywhere 3S mouse. This now features an 8K DPI optical sensor to better work across surfaces.  The mouse will only work with Bluetooth. There's no dongle included in the box and Logitech said they couldn't fit the components for the receiver into a small USB-C unit. The company also updated the MX Keys S keyboard that now offers teleconferencing shortcuts in the function row and includes some backlight customizations. Logitech also released its smart actions feature for its Logi Options Plus app and this lets users automate tasks across programs with a single command basically sophisticated macros. Yeah, I always think I want to travel mouse until I travel with one and then don't want to bother with it. So I was attracted to this until I remembered that about myself. Google ended support for the first gen Chromecast. The OG. The dongle. The thick one. Not the one that looked like a puck. Had a good run. It was originally launched in 2013 for 35 bucks. This means no security or system updates. So use at your own risk, but the device will remain functional as long as it remains functional. Although Google did warn users you may notice a degradation in performance over time. It wasn't like Google rolled out a ton of support for it in recent years anyway. Last received an update in November 2022. It's first at that time in three years. Twitter has a program called Community Notes. If you didn't realize it launched back in 2021 before the current regime. The way it works is volunteer contributors can add context to posts. You may have seen this like community notes say like this may be in question or check this link for more information. Stuff like that. They're trying to combat misinformation. If the notes are voted as helpful they will show up for all Twitter users. It's not just somebody in the community posts a note and everybody sees it. There is a system. And recently they improved that system after an image of an explosion at the US Pentagon building went viral. Community Notes is getting the ability to add information specifically related to an image. In addition, that info will show up next to any matching images on other posts as well. Twitter intends to expand the feature to videos and posts with multiple images at some point. The reason they're expanding this is because they put a regular note on the text of the first image, but then people started posting the image without the original text. It was hard to keep up with it. This way, once they identify an image, they'll be able to track it down and put those Community Notes on more of those kind of posts, which is a good expansion. Scott, did you know Community Notes was functioning like this? Do you keep up with that? Yeah, I do. It's actually my favorite feature of Twitter, especially currently. There's just so much on there that can be misconstrued or especially stuff that's big and goes viral for whatever reason. That Pentagon photo is no exception to that rule. Community Notes just feels like this one really smart thing on Twitter that will just make sure everybody can post whatever they want, have you fun and do your thing. We've got this one little lifeline to accuracy. I really, really, really like it. To hear that they're still working on it, adding things to it, making it more functional, especially in light of the future, we're all facing of AI images that look so real that we have no way of really knowing the difference or whatever it may be, I am very thankful for it. I'm mostly thankful that it runs the whole span. It can be the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, getting something wrong, and he gets Twitter noted, which has happened plenty of times. I've seen it on the far other end of a small user.  I think it's really great. I don't know how it works though, because I've never had anything go that viral and had a Community Notes attached to it, but I'm curious if somebody ever saw that and went, oh, shoot, I was so wrong. I'm going to delete that tweet now. I don't know how that works. Does the thing stay up? Let's poke holes in this a little, because it may not need it to come down. What has happened is they've noticed if there's a note there, it gets shared less, so it slows down the spread. If you're worried about, well, people will misuse this, they'll try to game the system. They did a lot of things to help try to stop the system from being gamed. You have to get highly rated as a community member before your posts are seen by all of Twitter, and also they do a thing where they only show the post, I think, for the images to identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people. Notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. I'm wrong. It's not just about images. That's for everything. They try to discourage groupthink by doing that, to say you're more likely to have this note succeed if you and someone you've disagreed with in the past on whether it's a problem or not agree in this case, which I think is an interesting way of doing it. Yeah, I agree. It reminds me of weirdly Wikipedia. I know it's a very comparable situation, but it's this like, hey, a bunch of people contribute, and this guy corrected some and this person recorrected because that was wrong. And now they've agreed, no, that's you're correct. We've made the turn and we pivoted or whatever. It's got that similar vibe to me. And that's been something I've always, you know, as much as Wikipedia takes heat for not being perfect, I've always appreciated that method. And that seems like it's working here. Wikipedia by way of Reddit a little bit with some of the gaming and voting and stuff like that. But I totally get your point. The one thing I have a question specifically with the images stuff, because this was rolled up because images like the Pentagon photo that was going around like swagpope or something like that, like have a way of like grabbing you and being like this, I don't know, at least right now, like generative images like that still feel novel, right? Whether we know them or not images have a weight to us more than just text. My question is this seems designed to scale for like a Photoshop page where it took time to create that image. Whereas someone else could create five million other Pentagon attack photos or something like that and share that. And this feels like that goes very slowly. I know this is only for the photos that are going viral. But if someone has seen that Pentagon picture and either realize that a fake or not, and then generates a whole bunch of others, it's like, I feel like the system moves is always going to be moving slower than the stuff that goes viral because there is there is almost infinite scale to the ability to generate images. It's not going to be perfect. No, it's a good point. It's not going to be perfect. It's not meant to stop variations. In fact, they even said they're going to air on the side of caution in automatically applying notes because they want to be more precise. But it's better than what they have now. And the idea is to stop the easy copies, not the variations. Like once they've noticed this photo is wrong, what happened with the Pentagon one is they put the note on the original one, but everybody copied that image and posted it, bots copied it and posted it. So it's really only going to be good at stopping that. There are other problems, as you rightly pointed out. All right. Well, the language learning app Memrise has been partnering with OpenAI to use GPT-3 technology in its language learning. Back in December, it added a Membot to its app and website. And now it's launching a Discord integration for everybody. The idea is to force you to converse in real-world scenarios like you would if you lived in a country that speaks the language you're learning. You can find Memrise's app in the Discord app directory and add it to any server. Just go ahead and do it. Once you do that, you can summon it with the command slash learn solo or slash learn together. The difference is everyone can see what you do if you choose the together option, which can be, maybe you don't want to do that right away if you're still learning a language. But Scott, I'm curious, are you going to be using this to bone up on some foreign languages? I really should. My brother and his whole family, they're all fluent Korean speakers. He's from there. And I feel like I've never, since he came here at nine years old and he's in his 50s now, I've never really gotten around to doing that. So maybe this would push me to do that a little bit. I really like this stuff. And I think it's even more interesting that we keep seeing Discord be the place for these bots and add-ons happen. Mid Journey functions that way. Some other things like that. And to me, it just seems like such an interesting happenstance that Discord is the happy place for trying out some of this AI stuff and creating it with slash prompts and having that kind of community aspect built in. I don't think anybody really thought that was going to happen. But language is interesting and our ability to, I guess, learn a second language or a third language to me has always been hindered by the methods that were out there for me to use currently, whether it was learn it on tape or here's a book that'll help you do it or take a class. Those all seem arduous and weird. For some reason, this seems better. And I don't know why. I think it's just because it's cool and it's on the edge of tech. Maybe that's why, but I'm more interested now than ever. This is for somebody who already knows a little bit, I think, but it's also meant to help you feel like you're in the country that you're in. So I tried it with Korean, which I'm trying to learn. And I quickly realized I don't have Hangul set up on this laptop. So I switched to my phone where I do. Then I quickly realized I'm really slow at typing in Hangul. So having a different alphabet, that would be true for Russian, Japanese, Thai, so many languages, I think adds a little difficulty level. So I went and I tried it with Spanish. And with the Spanish, it worked great. I did a hotel check-in scenario. And it was lovely to just feel like, okay, I'm just going to say what I know. And that worked. I was like, hello, my name is Tom. I'm checking in. Where is the room? And everything was very smooth. And it really was a confidence builder. I like that. Yeah. And as someone who has attempted to start to learn, I've done the Duolingo for a week or two or something like that and kind of fallen off that, one of the problems with that or in high school language classes is that if you don't have someone to converse with, it just all slides off the brain. And having this at your fingertips already integrated where it's like, all right, I'm going to be in Discord for DTNS or another project or something like that. It's like, oh, I wonder, just having that so available in a place that you're always going to be checking like that seems like it would be super valuable for someone that has made a couple of steps but wants to keep that knife a little sharp when they don't have other resources to do that. Yeah. Because it pushes you to think about words that you might not think about otherwise and call them up on the spot, which anytime I've actually been traveling and been in another country, I've chickened out a lot of times trying to say stuff because I'm like, ah, I can't remember suddenly. So this is a little like a safe space for that because you're typing, right? It's like a half step. You don't have to actually have performance anxiety when you're practicing. Well, it's interesting though that Monica Chin from The Verge was trying it out and she was saying like sometimes it can go from like real informal to very stiff manners, you know, in different languages where that's like, I mean, all languages make that very apparent in some context or another. I wonder though, if this takes off as like a popular way to learn languages, if we will see this feedback in where we where we like have this this kind of mishmash of of styles, like whatever the the GPT effect of language learning, right? Obviously, these models will get better. But I wonder if there will be a feedback effect to that of you could be like, oh, I could tell you learned it on membot.  Well, yeah, especially because more most languages, English is unusual in that respect, have a formal version that you're supposed to speak at certain times and to certain people. And an informal version that you're supposed to speak in certain situations. And it may be that Chatbots just don't know the difference. So they just kind of flail back and forth between. It's radically egalitarian. Actually, that's how you tell that's how you tell the membot. Listen, learner is because they just wildly flail between informal and informal. This is one of those I would love to jump 20 25 years in the future and just see because by then we will have who knows what AI large language model integration happens in schools and education in general. I'd be really curious, has everybody got a new version of Spanish they speak? And does everyone notice it or do you not care anymore because it's so prominent? That's fascinating. I would love to. I don't have that time machine yet, but I'm working on it. Oh, please hurry up. The other thing they mentioned real quick is that they see this as cooking. When you when you learn to cook, you don't say like, well, I'm really studying the theory still and the structure of chemistry and the no, you just start cooking and you make mistakes and then you learn, you burn a few things and you go from there. They're like, we want language learning to be more like that, let you do actual practice, make mistakes and learn from those. Right. Folks, if you would like to try out the membot while it's free because eventually they're going to charge for it, we've got it active in our discord for a daily tech news show. You can join the conversation there by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS. Oh, non-player characters, NPCs, they're essential. You got to find out how many hogs you need to go kill in World of Warcraft by talking to one. They dole out other important information. They lend a little depth to the world with their backstories and their lore, but they can be a little predictable. You may get an option or two to choose from when you're talking to them, but they're not exactly free form. You just click to advance their predetermined script. Large language models promise to free the NPCs from those restraints. Maybe that's not a good thing. If you're one of those people who's like, just give me the quest. I don't want to talk to you. But at Computex, NVIDIA showed off the ability to talk in natural language to NPCs. The demo showed off the Avatar Cloud Engine or Ace for Games. Ace includes NVIDIA's NEMO LLM deployment tools, so all their large language model tools, Reva speech-to-text and text-to-speech, and can run locally, if you wanted to play it that way, or in the cloud. They worked with a company called Convey to do the AI part of this, so you want to judge this partly on Convey and partly on NVIDIA, but let's listen to a bit of the demo and then, Scott, you tell me what you think of this. All right. Hey, Jen, how are you? Unfortunately, not so good. How come? I am worried about the crime around here. It's gotten bad lately. My ramen shop got caught in the crossfire. Can I help? If you want to do something about this, I have heard rumors that the powerful crime lord, Kuman Ioki, is causing all sorts of chaos in the city. Please feel ten pigs for Kuman Ioki. I'll talk to him. So it goes on from there, but it's a little stiff sounding, but if you didn't catch that, the first voice was just a person. That was not recorded. That was a person talking to it. The more my ramen shop has crime, that was the AI responding to what the person said. Yeah. I'll tell you this. I think I've said this on the show maybe multiple times. My great golden calf of AI has been from the beginning when hearing about all this new technology was when are we going to see this in video games as part of NPC interaction, story interaction, this sort of stuff. That's really fascinating to me. And putting aside the long conversation we can have about writers and who writes what and when they should write it and that sort of thing. This is a really impressive demo at a very base level. It's saying, look, a player can interact directly with these non-player characters, and those conversations can be more dynamic and more meaningful. The way it works now in your typical RPG will use something like Baldur's Gate as an example.  You can be rude, you can be nice, and then they'll respond in different ways depending on how you responded. That's great, except that's always been a finite process. There's only so many things the NPC is going to say to you and so many responses you're going to be able to say, and there's enough of them that it feels immense, but it really isn't that immense. Again, I say it's finite. In this case, the potential anyway is for you to talk to this dude at the sushi bar and even go off on tangents. Now, the game designers are going to probably want to hone that in and keep a fence around things a little bit, and I think they can get creative with how they do that so it doesn't feel as fenced in. I think though, there's really no limit to how far and how cool this could get. The only thing I would say about this early demo is there's not a lot of conjunctions being used or other natural methods of speaking in these sentences. He did say it's at the beginning, but then he stopped. Which is again, could be a character thing and that's fine. I mean, design a character like that. You'd want data to talk that way and other characters like that or robotic sort of characters, but if you really want dynamic stuff with accents and a belligerent troll in a tavern or something, they're going to have to go a little bit further with that stuff, but the only other thing I would say is I think, at least I feel in my guts that most players, it could be wrong about this, so please write in about this, but I think most players do not want to talk to their games. This has been proved out through other texts and other means. Like when it came to the Xbox Kinect, there were a lot of games that were like, well, just talk to the game and it'll answer. People hated that. They just want to take a controller and they want to scroll down to an option. I think that's still a big possibility here, because it doesn't mean, just because you're choosing from text solutions, it doesn't mean that those aren't also cool and dynamically generated. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. You could still type to the game or even have dynamically generated stuff from a chatbot, but I wonder how much of that resistance do you think is because it hasn't been good, that they talking to a game was never as good as it is now. It's never been very good. This could change that. That's true. I just think we have a natural inclination to not want... There's a very uncomfortable feeling of, what do I even say to this thing that isn't real and I know it isn't real? That is maybe a generational thing where a whole other generation of people will figure that out and it'll be fine. Yeah, I'm sorry about the crime. I just want to show you Ronan with extra chashu, thanks. What it really does though is it means that they can not... I don't want to use the term control the narrative, but that is kind of what it is. If they limit what you can say back, that could be a creative way for them to say, look how dynamic and strange this conversation is, but also we need you on this track of the story that we're trying to tell in this game. There's going to be a lot of that discussion in devs, in meeting rooms this week or beyond when it comes to this demo because at the end of the day, it can't just be everything, whatever it can be, but compelling gameplay and what we understand about game theory needs some structure and how will they maintain that structure without it flying off the handle because I asked the guy how his cat's doing it before you know it. It's six hours of cat conversations. On the other end of that, the writing and then constructing the game mechanic of that is one thing, but also what this demo clearly shows is that voice acting is a huge part of selling the reality of that game and that's honestly the visuals of that demo. It's in Unreal Engine 5, it looks fantastic and the voices, it's kind of flattened a little robotic, but what I actually think is exciting is the idea that voice actors can come in, they can do a core set of samples, you could then be able to auto generate a speech based on that and one that would allow you theoretically to maybe move out DLC where you don't have to bring in the actors and have that recording and stuff like that would maybe speed development time there, but also provide passive income for those actors depending on how that's structured of being like, yeah, I'm the Fallout 8 voice guy for this mayor of this town and I get a little check every once in a while. I actually think that could be a boon for voice actors. Obviously it all depends on, yeah. It depends on a lot of things, but I've been talking to my, this is not a name drop, but Liam, I'm Ryan and I've been friends for years and he and I talk about these issues all the time, like what do voice actors do in the face of this sort of thing and I think that that's the right answer. The idea of taking, let's say Liam and when we need him for a dynamic exchange that happens in World of Warcraft as he plays various characters in there and so we'll take one of his characters and we'll say, all right, do all this dialogue and we'll train the AI to do it. The answer is that sounds awesome. That sounds great. It's also less work for him, by the way, but if there's passive income in there and these contracts are set up in such a way to take care of these voice actors, this might be a really great path toward that equity that we're all a little bit worried about. Yeah, I don't know how we do that for visual artists. That's still a big question in my mind. That's still the most murky end of this spectrum for AI for me, but I think that's a really great idea and you'd have the best of all worlds. You'd have dynamic Liam O'Brien voicing a ton of content and at the same time, real Liam O'Brien is actually being compensated for his work and that's a gap right now. That's where the fight should be. I feel like a lot of people and probably because they're not actually involved in the fight are like, I don't know, this sounds like a bad idea. It might ruin X, whereas this is actually time savers and we shouldn't look at every time saver and every efficiency included and every quality razor as not worth it because it could change things. What we need to do is look for solutions like Rich just mentioned and say like, hey, let's fight for that. Let's not fight against the technology. Let's fight for using the technology in a good way that is good for everybody. Yep. All right. Well, Scott and Tom, have you ever played Tetris and thought, I wish this was a nerve racking in a less geometrically satisfying way. Anybody? Okay. Well, then even if you have it, you might still want to check out Cetris. This is a new game on itch.io from developer MS Alivo. The game initially looks like regular old Tetris. When you start it up, you see the familiar falling block ships coming down from the top, but when they hit the bottom instead of tidy rows that are satisfying to clear, they turn into pixelated sand. You clear rows by connecting contiguous lines of the same color across the screen. So they don't have to be in straight lines. They just have to go across the screen. It's available on a pay what you want model on Windows and Linux. Shout out to Linux. I'm playing this. I just want to say, I think it's rad. And it's really not, what's great about it is the shapes don't matter anymore. Only in one way. They matter in volume of sand predictability. Yes. When you've got a teap or an L piece coming down, you no longer care about rotating it left, right, or if it's the right or left version of that piece. You just want to make sure that when you lay it down, that big L bump at the bottom kind of has a little extra sand and the physics pull it this way where you're missing some brown sand and the blue sands in the way. Like it sounds a little weird. I think it's brilliant and amazing. And I love it. It's certainly pretty. I'll give you that. The physics are amazing. It looks, I haven't tried it, so maybe I'll change my tune if I try it. But yeah, it looks like a pain. Yeah, it's good, though. It's real good. And keep in mind, like, I think your brain would work well for this. I think you're pretty good at predictive visual stuff, like you see a thing and go, I think that's probably would hold two gallons or whatever. That's the trick with this game is just going, well, that piece isn't enough sand for the volume I need to fill this gap. And so you'll use it somewhere else, which is a weird thing to do with a game that looks like Tetris. Like it is totally different. Yeah, I don't know how they came up with this idea. It's super brilliant. Wow. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Yeah. So yesterday, Adam wrote in, he was asking about setting up commercial EV chargers, like he was like, I have this spot. I think it would be really good. How do I do this? I have no idea. Well, Bodhi wrote in responding to the email. He says, if Adam wanted to partner with an existing EV charging network, then contacting ChargePoint, EVGo or Blink would be a good option, utilizing their network. But he says, if he wants to own and operate the chargers themselves, then Sholes has an e-mobility division. It would be a good place to start. He says they don't make L3 chargers, but they do consult with how to do it and they have partners with manufacturers as well. He also says some states offer incentives for installing new charging station and there might be some federal money as well to look into. And Bodhi actually did an interview at CES with Sholes and Outel Energy, which is an L3 charger manufacturer. And we'll have links to that in the show notes as well. Oh, Bodhi from the Kilowatt podcast. If you don't know him, been a guest on the show many times. We should get him back one of these days soon. But thank you for writing in Bodhi. And we forwarded this to Adam as well. So between Chris and Bodhi and the rest of y'all in the audience, Adam's going to get some help. So I'm sure he appreciates it and we appreciate it too. Nice. All right. Well, a big thank you to Scott. You had to think about whether you wanted to thank Scott. I was like, you know what? The generative AI stuff. You know what? It was good, Scott. Okay, fine. All right, fine. Okay. I appreciate the thanks. Where can people check out more of your great stuff online, Scott? For more great Scottisms. Well, this stuff with NVIDIA's tech and a bunch of other stuff are going to come up for sure on a show I do called CORE. We do it on usually Thursdays, but this week Diablo 4's early access starts tomorrow. So we are pushing the show to Friday because we want to have lots and lots of Diablo content. If that sounds interesting to you, plus all the other stuff going on in the game space, then do check out the show. I think you'd really enjoy it. I'm not just saying that. I think we have something special with CORE. So go check it out. That's at frogpants.com. Or just search for CORE on all the podcast apps. They all have it. We'd love to have you there. Excellent. Real quick, before we get out of here, I want to thank Greenville Smart Center, GreenvilleSmart.com. If you're traveling through Southern Illinois, it's in conjunction with Greenville University, a little innovator, entrepreneur space, and they were kind enough to lend me their podcast studio here. So go check it out. It's my hometown, so I'm a little proud that there's something cool like this going on here. But go to GreenvilleSmart.com and check that out as well. Now, patrons, don't go anywhere. You're getting the extended show, Good Day Internet. We're going to talk about XDA developers Tim Contesano's argument that Sony should bring back the Xperia Play phone. Bring it back. It's time. Yes, the time is now. And the time that you can catch us live every single Monday through Friday with DTNS is 4pm Eastern, 2100 UTC. And if that wasn't clear, you can find out more at DailyTechNewShow.com. We'll be back tomorrow with the man that planned the canal, Justin Robert Young. See you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com.


Season 4! Welcome boys to season 4! Let me give you a quick rundown of the rules if you're new. In wheel of 2k I start with a trash team. Amethysts at every position and I'll use the wheel of 2k to add to that team. Each wheel of 2k season is a 12 game season and whatever record I end with will be the challenge I have to complete. Now on top of that there are two special players in my lineup and the first player is our team captain. This is one guaranteed stud to carry our team and it's probably no shocker this season. Victor Webinyama. I know it's not exactly creative but I've never had as much fun as I had when I recorded my Victor Webinyama video. I don't know if you guys saw it or not but wow it was absolutely nuts. The 7 foot 5 power forward from France invincible Victor Webinyama. Not only did I actually pull him in a pack but he has 99 in every stat and did I mention that he's 7 foot 5. Now for those of you who watched my season 2 where Yao Ming was my team captain I kind of made some fatal mistakes. I basically camped in the paint since Yao was so tall and I never got good at anything else so I promise you as much as I might abuse Webinyama this will not be a repeat of the Yao season. So with team captain Victor Webinyama there's still one more player we haven't discussed and that player is our power-up player. When our power-up player gets 10 in any stat they're upgraded to the next best version of their car and this season my power-up player is Russell Westbrook. Let me tell you why I did this. Victor Webinyama embodies everything that is cheesy about NBA 2K. I cannot say the same about Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook is 6 foot 3 which hilariously is short in 2K. In spite of this though Russell Westbrook still has an incredible invincible card. So at some point this season hopefully I've gone off with Russell Westbrook hard enough to have earned the invincible on the right. The road is not so simple though there is a lot that stands between Lakers Russell Westbrook and Prime Triple Double OKC Russell Westbrook. First I've got to get up to Emerald then Emerald to Amethyst Amethyst to Pink Diamond Pink Diamond to Galaxy Opal and Galaxy Opal to Dark Matter but once I've done that I'll get Russell Westbrook. Now keep in mind this is 10 in any stat so if I drop 10 points and 10 assists in one game that's two upgrades and the rest of the squad of course is just amethysts. I went with Jimmy Butler Chris Bosch into Kembe Mutombo and off the bench is Kate Cunningham, Karis Leverg, Paul George, Blake Griffin, Will Chamberlain and at the 11th, 12th and 13th man I put three of my favorite amethyst just in case I decide I want them. In every season in Wiela 2K we have a spectacular franchise. In this season to honor Victor Webinyama or the San Antonio Slurs. Yeah a lot of my opponents probably won't even notice they'll just kind of like see San Antonio Spurs but me and the boys will know we're not just the Spurs we're the Slurs. I've got the dope city edition Spurs Unis as my home uniform my away uniform is the 81-89 classics and my alt is the 81-89 all white classics. We've got the pink and light blue court I cannot wait to get that court and our home Unis it's gonna look so sick.  Am I right you guys? So welcome boys to season 4 the last thing before we hop into the game and spin the wheel is of course the cheat sheet. Last season I landed on a 24-hour live stream. This season let's take a look. If I win zero games out of my 12 I'll streak at the Super Bowl to be honest I will win a game. I might not be the best 2K player but I'll win a game. 1-on-11 I'll wax my entire body I'll give you guys a POV I know you dirty bastards would love that. 2-in-10 I'll shave my head alive. Look at this beautiful hair man. People pay good money to get my natural hair. 3-in-9 I'll get a permanent tattoo you guys get to pick it.  You get it. 4-in-8 I will bump the exes group chat. I don't know if you guys remember like two years ago wheeling 2K I had to make a group chat with all of my ex-girlfriends. I still have the group chat it just obviously isn't active.  At 5-in-7 I'll do a truth or smoke with L I am religiously addicted to marijuana I can't stop I want any excuse I'm hoping for 5-in-7. 6-in-6 I'll reveal my search history to all of you and trust me it's juicy I don't use incognito okay I'm an adult I don't got anybody to hide from. The archive has never been clean. 7-in-5 record the beer mile this has been honest in season one I low key want to land on this.