Hi, lovers. So just like you, I've been having my cup out for the past 24 hours trying to catch the tea that's been spilling everywhere with this old Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian. Situation, that's gone down. In essence, he has been caught on multiple occasions with different women and it's all coming to pass right now in the media. We don't know what Khloe's side is yet or how she's feeling. We do know that she's probably focused on creating life, which she's about to do probably any day now at this point. Nonetheless though, I wanted to take this opportunity as a chance to make it a teachable moment like I usually do with any kind of social media gossip or celebrity gossip that happens. So I'm going to give a list of do's and do nots when it comes to dealing with serial cheaters. First and foremost, this do and do not is for us. It's for the regular folk who are watching this whole thing unfold. Do take this as an opportunity to start discussions. Do take this as a chance to reflect on your own relationships, maybe to reflect with your partner about what infidelity means to you. It's a chance to say, hey, did you hear this story? What do you think? What do you think about us? So focus really more on this than doing this.  What's been really irking me over the past 24 is seeing all the comments of like, well, if that's how you got them, that's how you're going to lose them, you know, in reference to the fact that he got together with Chloe allegedly while he was with someone else who was also pregnant at the time. That all being said, null and void, let's please not act as if this is the reason that he cheated or that she deserves this type of scenario. News flash to everyone, if you are over the age of 18 at this point, you probably have cheated, have been cheated on or someone that you really know and care about has experienced the former or the latter. What does that tell you? It tells you that there is no specific reason why this happens. It happens to perfect people and imperfect people. It happens to hashtag couple goals. It happens to hashtag damn, they're still together. It just happens. So every single time we have an instance in the media that comes about and we all get out our shiny red fingernails to point the finger at someone, we lose a broader message here. We have to start having a broader discussion rather than a narrow discussion as to why infidelity exists. And so many different variations of relationships. Rolling right along, this one goes out to the person who has been cheated on, their circle of friends. In this particular instance with Chloe Kardashian, the entire media who is taking up her side or just trying to dive into her business right now, do try to find all the information necessary. Do ask all the questions that you want to know. Do be as nosy and as brazen as necessary for you. Number one, you have to collect all the data to ensure that your sexual health wasn't compromised. And to know what steps you should take next to protect yourself. And number two, getting all the facts information possible will hopefully help you to make a logical decision. Now I say the word hopefully because we have to acknowledge the fact that people who are in love are addicted. And especially if you are in a serial cheating situation you're probably emotionally manipulated in some ways as well too. Leaving is extremely difficult. Making the rational decision is extremely difficult. So getting all the information possible may help you, but it also may be something that you store up for later down the line when you do have another instance perhaps. And just knowing the more that you know, the better you can take care of yourself and hopefully the better decision that you can make. Here's the do not. Do not contact the other women. Do not try to drag the other women. Do not expose the other women we're seeing right now in the media, all of the Instagrams of these girls and their personal information and where they're working. And I'm just like, okay. What does it have to do with anything? As someone who has been through a serial cheating relationship I must have caught, I don't even know how many people that with my partner who I was with for many, many years. And I had just been so blinded and manipulated and addicted that I had just lost all common sense. I'm not gonna make an excuse for myself. But nonetheless, at a certain point it was time for me to stop finding out who these women were, but I didn't. And looking back, there wasn't one single interesting piece of information that I gathered by contacting or investigating these other women. They were Y factors in this scenario. Y factors mean they were variables that were interchangeable. The X was always going to be there which is thankfully now my X. He was always gonna be that same person. He was always gonna act the same way. And whether it was the girl he met at Popeyes or the girl that he met at a subway station it didn't change the fact that he was going to be on the prowl and these were just individuals. Now here's the thing as well too we have to acknowledge. People are attracted to people who are in relationships. We know it's not a great thing, it's a taboo thing. There's a psychological reason for that. Number one, someone who is in a relationship has a very seductive quality about them and that is irreverence. It's nonchalance. When they walk into a room they don't have that pressure that they have to leave with someone because they know they have someone they're gonna go back to at the end of the night. So they're more free, they're more fluid, they're more themselves, they're likely to say things they wouldn't on normal say. They're not afraid of rejection. They're not afraid of being their self because there's no real risk if they in fact don't win over your attention or your affection. That quality is very seductive. So when someone who is with someone walks into a room they carry a confidence that everyone single or not definitely notices. Number two, someone who's in a relationship exhibits the qualities that we are looking for ultimately in a partner.  Someone who is in essence is either girlfriend material or boyfriend material. Even though clearly they aren't the best fit we rationalize and say well their partner probably is doing X, Y and Z wrong but this person is a good person because look at them. They're smiling, they're confident, they're charismatic. They're awesome. Clearly their other person is the problem. I could take this material and do something really great with it because they are fantastic and they are showing me all the things I'm looking for in a mate. So those are the reasons that this is going to happen over and over again and it doesn't matter what these people's faces are or their reasons are and it doesn't actually, who cares? Who really cares? Focus on the person that you are with, the person who betrayed you. Focus on their story, their reasoning and the rest can really just fade to black. This is a hard one but I must suggest this. Again for the person who has been cheated on when you are initially trying to deal with the pain and have that first conversation, that confrontation to say what the hell is going on, do not make it aggressive. As much as you possibly can, do not make it a conversation that is about your hurt, your pain or your anger because you don't end up giving the person opportunity to be honest. You want to make this conversation as inviting as possible because the heart of what you want to ask why did you do this to me or how could you do this to me? It's who are you? I had this idea of who you were. I created a relationship style around that information but now that life has happened we clearly see this isn't who you are. This isn't who you're capable of being. So I don't want to put any judgment on you. I don't want to put any pressure on you. I just want to ask this question and get a straight answer for once. Who are you and what are you capable of doing and not doing within a romantic partnership? Because that person may just not be cut out from anogamy. There's so much pressure that we get from society and from our individual relationship to try to conform but some people as we see over time just cannot do it. And it's better that those individuals actually have a chance to say you know what? Here's who I am. Is that who you want me to be? And if not, maybe we aren't meant to be together. So I know this is going to be tough to do but try and make that conversation inviting versus condemning. And my last piece of advice for anyone who is dealing with a serial cheater and the emotional fallout that comes as a result of that kind of betrayal, do be kind to yourself. Do give yourself empathy, space, love, respect. Do not try to blame yourself for this. You may really be tempted to do that because when you can take on some of the blame you can try to hope for a better future. If you can just say to yourself, well you know what, maybe if I just loved harder or I was more attentive or I sent more nude photos or whatever that person is saying the reason why they had to step out.  The problem here isn't the fact that you did anything wrong. The problem is that person's form of problem solving is problematic. If their best way to cope with the fact that you aren't perfect is to put your health at risk and to put your reputation at risk, that's the issue enough. Whatever you did before that or after that actually doesn't really matter. It's kind of like when you get into an argument with someone, you can be all the way in the right.  You are in the wrong and no one cares about your side of the story. And I think the same thing when it comes to someone who betrays the fundaments of a relationship of a agreed upon relationship, the second in that you step outside of the boundaries or two of you have drawn together, you are wrong and I don't care what happened inside the box. I'm concerned about that breach, that hole that you punched in the wall right there. So anyways, those are my dos and do nots for dealing with serial cheating in a relationship. I would love to hear from you guys right now as we have this moment to reflect and have a great discussion. Not anyone's expense, but maybe including that individual as well too. What are some of the dos and do nots that you would put that I left out when it comes to dealing with serial cheaters? I get it girl.


We are very glad to have all of you here and we welcome you to DevConf 8 We are part of the organizing team afterwards. We are going to ask Everyone who has been involved in the organizing team to come up here He's Damian Viano. I'm Margarita Materola. He's Martin Ferrari Well first I'd like to tell you a bit about how DevConf 8 was born In 2004 Four of the Argentinian guys who went to Brazil for the first time Marcella, Luciano, Maxi and me the four of us were the only users and now have become deviant developers And When we went to DevConf 4 it was like a life-changing Event for all of us afterwards we We became very much involved in deviant and we never missed a DevConf Then next year in 2005 Martin here also came to DevConf 5 and also Sebastian over there and well up to This morning actually I thought that I was the one that had had the idea of having DevConf 8 but then I went and dug up the email and It turns out it was Martin so all these months I've been feeling very guilty about having had DevConf the idea of having DevConf 18 Argentina, but It's actually all his fault Now she puts all the blame on me So then in DevConf 6 We were even more Argentinian people involved in deviant and we started thinking more seriously about doing DevConf 18 Argentina and Well, we started dreaming of where it would be how it would be like and well, finally We came to the decision in which we went also with Venezuela and well Argentina was finally chosen and well since the ending of 2006 we've been working for this and Well at the beginning it seemed like yeah 2008. It's a long time away We have a lot of time to prepare but well the time became became Closer and closer and well, we have to realize that no you don't profit for the deviant So now Martin is going to tell you a bit more about what has been like for the past six months or so Well For all of you who are thinking about hosting a DevConf in your country think twice or more the past six months or so We were working since One year one year and a half, but the past six months and being well our lives Spent in the DevConf, which is quite fine. We enjoyed it. They were also very stressed Especially when four months before the event we had to switch the venue. This was not the whole original hotel So we have to come with the man In April and find some other place and start from zero because all the work we had done previously was wasted We had to do everything from start So this were quite interesting times Finding a network connection in this place is not easy Making a hotel understand the needs of 250 gigs is not easy. I can't tell you But well, I think things are going pretty smooth by now. I hope that we have a pretty good outcome And I hope it ends nicely and without any trouble And that's it We would like to thank All the people who helped us from the beginnings Some that have all the way along some that have at the beginning so they help out the latest months When the work was much more We'd like to thank all the teams that are usually working with DevConf Our video team which is doing this amazing broadcasting The Orga team that is every year Working to make this happen The people that find sponsors and of course our local team which has done an incredible job for this So if you want to join us here to so everybody Sees you Please come here Sebastian and Maxie There's also the people working over there Also the Orga team Yes Responsors they an HP computer by Nokia Yeah, HP Nokia Linux magazine Google Canonicals and trollteach Intel Giaolio inti Banco Creakup group almost Decide by Mark hosting univention hands.com credit in colabora green quadrant context shift timbra as a currency latin wheat Qv9 my SQL pulsar consulting and neuro work and also the Help that has been given us by the people from via libre who have been helping us a lot with all the money stuff No some announcements. Yes The church announcements Well, we are Continuing the tradition start I think in the comfort. We will have a day trip on Wednesday We will depart from here at 11 We will go we go into a ranch in the countryside About ten kilometers from here Where you will enjoy a day in the open which is quite quite scary Without Wi-Fi nor internet connection, of course, so don't bring the computer. It will be useful and useful So after a nice day in the open you will come back and then we will have a party This party will be special because we are celebrating the 15th anniversary of Debian a couple of days before but whatever And then we will have traditional food and music from Argentina So, you know our traditions and I hope that everybody will dance again Yes, important as the trip is not fully sponsored by Debian because money is running out quite fast You have to remind that the deadline for signing up and paying for the trip is tonight, please So enjoy your Debian and I hope you will remember this


The New Jersey Air National Guard conducted its first Agile Combat Employment Exercise between Key West Florida and Muniz Air National Guard Base, Carolina, Puerto Rico, from January 18th to the 24th. ACE is a proactive and reactive operational scheme of maneuver executed within threat timelines to increase survivability while generating combat power throughout the integrated deterrence continuum. The exercise included training on KC-135 hot refueling, which is ground refueling the tanker while an engine is still running. This allows the KC-135 to speedily return to the skies, ready to offload fuel to its next receiver. ACE consists of five core elements, posture, command and control, movement and maneuver, protection and sustainment. The Air Force plans to train multi-capable airmen, who are skilled outside their specialty and can assist in ACE combat operations. Reporting from Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, I'm Senior Airman Maria Rella.


They should harness every opportunity that they get, every interaction that they make. Networks are what support people and networks are what build leaders. A leader who tells you they don't have networks and people who mentor them is not a leader who is actually making an impact. So yeah, to really tap into the networks, mentors and the people that they meet to ensure that they build that community who can support them through their careers.


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about the poem Prayer Before Birth by Lewis McNeese. Now I'll explain the meaning related to this poem as it appears in part three of the Pearson and Excel International GCSE anthology. Do bear in mind that in contrast to parts one of the anthology which featured only none fiction texts and part two which was mixed of fiction short stories and poems, part three of this anthology exclusively features poems alone. So in this video I'll highlight key language and literary devices using this poem and you'll learn how to analyze it so let's get started. Now what I'll do is I'll read through few stanzas every so often stopping to highlight key literature techniques that you should be aware of. So let's begin. I'm not yet born Ohemi.  I am not yet born Consolmi. I fear that the human race may with tall walls war me with strong drugs dope me with wise lies lure me on black rags rack me in blood baths roll me. I am not yet born provide me with water to dandel me grass to grow for me trees to talk to me sky to sing to me birds and a white light in the back of my mind to guide me. Now this opening few stanzas are really really interesting because we start learning that the speaker actually is an unborn fetus. Now the title itself is interesting so again it emphasizes that this speaker is actually not born and it's written as a dramatic monologue presented almost as a powerful incantation and prayer by this fetus before they are born the one to find a world that's better than what it currently is. Now the opening declarative sentence in the first stanza I am not yet born shows the speakers an unborn fetus and they are currently in the mother's womb. Then this is your hair and this is a pause almost to emphasize that this is a prayer because they're there after state oh hear me.  Moreover the fetus states or the rat or the stoat now the polycynidin hair lists all of these horrible ghoulish creatures that really walk the surface of the earth and of course what this shows is that the speaker is really fearful of these negative creatures. Moreover there's a jambon here which speeds up the pace of this poem and this incantation becomes even more frenzy as it's going on and on top of that there's this mention of the clubfooted ghoul and again this is a demon it refers to the evil of the world. Moreover the second and third line of the first stanza let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the clubfooted ghoul come near me. Now what this complex sentence does is actually it's an interesting command to God it's asking and praying to God please make sure all of these evil creatures don't come and in many ways corrupt me. Now the following stanza I'm not yet born is a repetition of the first declarative sentence and this is repeated once more by the third verse I am not yet born and this repetition is almost like a refrain. It's emphasising to us that this is an unborn child and they really don't want to face these evils of the world that we have to live with. Now in the second verse I'm not yet born consul me and this verb seems to be asking God for comfort to deal with such a difficult world. Now in line five the speaker states I fear that the human race move with tall walls will me and the abstract noun fear shows that the speaker is really terrified of humanity's evil and their potential to do really lots of damage to others. Moreover this is further emphasised with the reference to the human race and what this shows is that the speaker even before being born has a unique awareness that we as a species as human beings as a human race have a great capacity for evil and they're fearful of this. Moreover the reference to tall walls will me this repetition of walls shows that in some ways the fetus is unborn child wants a barrier between these terrible human beings that do so much evil versus them so they don't get corrupted by these terrible actions. They're also afraid that the human race with strong drugs can dope them and again this is a litteration showing all the corrupt elements that they're aware of in the world. Furthermore there's this reference to wise lies law me and this is in some ways almost oxymoron not direct oxymoron however these are opposite terms and there's a sense of dissonance here it shows just how deceptive people can be.  Now in the third verse in line nine there's a reference to water grass trees and then the following line sky birds. Now this is a semantic field of nature and what this does is it sets an idyllic image and it creates hope. Moreover the speaker references trees to talk to me sky to sing to me and this personification emphasises this idyllic language. It emphasises this idea that nature can be quite rejuvenative and they want to be close to nature when they're born. Moreover the reference to the white light in many ways this connotes purity and godliness and what the speaker wants to do is be closer to God they want to be closer not only to God but also all the elements of nature that are seen as pure but the speaker. Now this third stanza is really really interesting because what this does is it creates a general idyllic image and it shows the speaker's wish for an idyllic childhood filled with nature and purity. So let's carry on. I'm not yet born. Forgive me for the sins that in me the world shall commit my words when they speak me my thoughts when they think me my trees and engendered by traitors beyond me my life when they murdered by means of my hands my death when they lived me I am not yet born.  Now the following stanzas in contrast to the previous one which has lots of idyllic imagery are really really dark. Now in this stanza the reference to I am not yet born is again repeated and then there's a zero here and then the following line again this is zero after my word sins in me the world shall commit and again what is showing is that this incantation is continuing it's slowing down the pace and of course this is in contrast to the genre that used which speeds up the pace of the poem. Also the speaker states forgive me and what this shows is that they feel that they will also be capable of lots of great sins and they are capable of committing grave crimes so that actually asking for forgiveness from God in advance. Moreover, there's the use of enjambon as I've mentioned and what this does is it speeds up the pace of the poem. Furthermore, the forgiveness is asked for the sins that in me the world shall commit and this religious language the reference to sin forgiveness makes it seem more and more like a prayer to God. Now the sins in me that the world shall commit what this shows is that the speaker has a really really pessimistic view of human nature and all the cruel things that humans are capable of. Now 914 the speaker states when they speak me my thoughts when they think me and this is interesting because it's non standard English and what this does is it obviously shows how humans all are very intertwined. So even if the fetus doesn't necessarily feel like maybe they might commit sins their actions are still indirectly affected by other evil people's actions. So when they speak me my thoughts when they think me when other people think bad thoughts they too think bad thoughts because they are part of the same human race. Moreover, there's a repetition and constant reference back to the first person pronoun me and my and what this shows us is that the speaker takes responsibility for playing a part in the destruction that humanity reeks and havoc that humanity wreaks on the world. Now in line 15 there's a reference to treason and traitors and what this shows is a betrayal that we're all inherently capable of. Moreover, there's the reference to the murder by means of my hands and the speaker really is showing hair that they believe that humanity will influence them to do evil.  Now in the following verse there's a reference to rehearse me and this is interesting because it's almost this idea that they want to be able to rehearse life like a play before they're born whilst they're still a foetus they want God to help them rehearse the perfect life and this is an indirect illusion by the writer by the poet to Shakespeare's play as you like it where one of the characters called Jacques states all the world's a stage and again this is a metaphor for how life is almost like a play and we each are characters within this play of life. Now in line 19 this metaphor is extended in the parts I must play in the cues I must take and this extended metaphor shows that we humans are actors in God's play of life. Moreover in line 20 there's a reference to old men bureaucrats men mountains and further on in this verse there's a reference to lovers so the reference to beggars and these are all different characters who are casted and this these different characters play a role in the human play of life.  So let's continue. I am not yet born Ohemi let not the man whose beast or who thinks his god come near me. I'm not yet born. O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cognitive machine a thing with one face a thing and against all those who would dissipate my entirety would blow me like thistle down hither and thither or hither and thither like water held in the hands would spill me let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me otherwise kill me now these final stanzas are really really intriguing because here in line 25 there's this repetition of line one this anaphoric reference. I'm not yet born Ohemi and this anaphoric reference to the prayer repeats the opening demand to God for some kind of salvation from the corruption that's inherent within the world. Now in 926 there's this reference to beast but also to God and there's this contrast this juxtaposition between the lowest beings a beast but also the highest of beings God. Now what the speaker is stating is let not the man who's beast or who thinks he's God come near me now this reference shows that they fear that both good and evil can be very negative influences on them and of course evil is represented in the beast but also good is represented in God and both of these the speakers actually afraid of now in the following verse there's this reference to those who would freeze my humanity and this is just a direct reference to tyrants who force people to do evil now this was this poem itself was actually written soon after the second world war and of course contextually speaking it was Hitler that started the second world war so this is perhaps an indirect contextual reference to those who freeze other people's humanity Hitler frees good people's humanity. Moreover the reference to those who would dragoon me into lethal automaton dragoon is somebody who's a member of a cavalry regiment so these soldiers who are a member of a regiment and essentially what the speaker doesn't want to do is to be to have the humanity numbed out of them when they are part of an army or any type of regiment. Furthermore they talk about how many people especially soldiers are made into lethal automaton lethal robots and they don't want to be a mindless killer with no identity again do you remember that Hitler in many ways a lot of the people that served under him were very brainwashed and they became almost like robots lethal killing machines and they lost this humanity so the speaker really doesn't want to have anybody such as Hitler or any kind of tyrant to influence them excessively to the point where they cause harm and evil to others.  Also this cogging machine is seen as a thing with one face a thing and the repetition here of thing shows how dehumanizing things can become in a dictatorship and how people can become very dehumanized to being human towards other people to being caring and kind towards other people and essentially the speaker is afraid that they themselves might become dehumanized and corrupted by really terrible tyrants and leaders like Hitler. Now in 934 they reference how they don't want to be blown like this all down. Now this simile is interesting because it references the light fluffy down that's attached to thistle seeds and what happens to these elements of down that are attached to thistle seeds is that they easily fly away so this simile emphasizes that the narrator doesn't want to become one of those people who lack a backbone and this is further emphasized that people who lack a backbone are blown hither and thither or hither and thither and this repetition shows the mindlessness and the purposelessness of people who have no backbone and they're pushed here and there and they do whatever that they're told rather than thinking for themselves and making sure that they have some kind of humanity in their actions. Moreover in line 36 it's a reference to like water and this simile emphasizes fragile individuality. Now this second to last stanza is interesting because it shows the narrator's fear at being negatively influenced by a terrible government a terrible dictatorship and of course this has happened time in memorial lots of different leaders have come and gone who have influenced whole groups of people whole nations to commit evil atrocities. Hitler is not the first person certainly and sadly will not be the last person so this second to last stanza is the longest because it shows the fetuses fear at how people can be quite cruel and evil particularly if they are influenced by terrible regimes. Now in the final stanza let them not make me a stone now the litteration here is quite powerful it's very very forceful and it's a fetus's way of begging God to not be made and to not be turned into an inhumane person.  Now the final line is otherwise kill me and this is a really shocking request because essentially in other words this is a request for an abortion if the narrator is saying the fetus this unborn fetus is saying if they are turned into someone who does these things someone who becomes a mindlessly thought automaton they'd rather be killed now so it's a request for an abortion if the prayer is not answered as life is otherwise meaningless if they become yet another terrible human being in this planet. Moreover this final stanza is interesting because it's the shortest stanza so it's a contrast between the longest stanza which comes before it versus the shortest one and it's very abrupt in the ending and really shocking and of course what this does is it really triggers us as readers to think. So that's all if you found this video useful do note that we have an in-depth extensive course covering all the texts and poems in parts one two and three of the Pearson International at Excel GCSE anthology. So make sure you do check it out and sign up for the course for explanations on all these texts and poems as well as model answers but also make sure you visit our website which is www.firstread tutors.com where you can find plenty of English revision worksheets model answers and online courses covering all the major English syllabuses including at Excel, AQA and IGCSE. Thank you so much for listening.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The morning markets kickoff with your host Tommy O'Brien. Friday morning everybody. Happy New Year's Eve weekend. Last day of 2023 you got to do any tax selling out there. My dad was getting some great questions on his program last night. He was talking about it. Tax is a very important part of what you take home at the end of the day. Today's the last day, man. We come back. It's been quite a year for equities, quite a year that we've had a resurgence in notes and bonds as in higher price, lower yield. We're going to talk about some of the action as we wrap it up. We'll talk about some of the themes that we've had for 2023 as we wrap up the last trading day. This weekend we're closed on Monday for New Year's, of course, folks. Be safe out there, all right? Everybody likes to party. We all like to have a little fun, hopefully. Be safe out there. No drunk driving. Nothing wrong with a few cocktails, especially on New Year's Eve. But make sure you get home safe and remember, folks, it's not always about you. It's not always about getting home, not getting a ticket. It's making sure that you can hurt somebody else. You can hurt yourself, the people in your car. Life is too beautiful. Get home safe, man. We'll see you back here on Tuesday. But we got one more trading day. We got 23 minutes until the opening bell and let's kick it off. S&Ps. We got slightly red territory across the board right now. All things considered, $48.29, quite a price tag in the S&Ps as we finish the year, basically, at record territory. S&Ps off by two this morning at $48.29, NASDAQ 100, or off by two points as well, $17,089. How about the Dow? $38,000 is where we end. Well, we'll see. $38,019, we're negative by 10 points right now. We'll see if we hang on to that in the futures. And the Russell, negative by three. Bitcoin, quite a year for Bitcoin as well. Bitcoin right now, up $320 at $43,430. You jump over to Crude, one of the big stories this year. $71.99, quite a price tag for the price of Crude as we wrap up 2023. Gold, another story. It's like no matter where you look, man, remarkable action. And it's because, what? We're in an interesting cycle right now. We haven't been in one of these cycles, right? Where we are coming off higher interest rates for an extended period of time that's been tightening the economy. So what does that do? What does a Fed hiking policy agenda do to the markets? Well, it impacts everything. Man, you're talking about interest rates, drive currencies, which drive commodities. Interest rates drive the cost of capital, which impacts obviously the price of equities and the future value of those cash flows, et cetera. So with that and the movement we've had in yields, which has had an impact, of course on the dollar index, which has impacted something like gold tremendously. And what happens if we get a pullback even below where we're at in the dollar index, right? Where does gold go to? Check out that gold report if you haven't, folks. Great time to sign up for the gold report. My dad's outstanding newsletter. $101.36, the dollar, up by 14 pennies right now. You jump to notes and bonds, could say the story of the year. A little bit of a reprieve. We're negative by eight ticks right now in the tenure at 112.20. You jump over to the daily, quite an acceleration. One of the more remarkable things is we're finishing the year basically where we kicked it off, right? Look at this. So what week opens it? So technically, is this the daily I'm looking at? This is the daily. Let's zoom in. What's the first day? The first day was January 3rd. We opened at 112.18. Look at that. The tenure opened at 112.18. January 3rd, 2023. We're trading at 112.20. Two ticks. Two ticks. If you were somehow able to sell volatility 12 months out last year and you withstood the volatility that you had throughout the year, you ended up right where you kicked things off as we are sitting at a price point within a couple of ticks. Absolutely remarkable when you look at the move that we've had to be within a couple of ticks of where you kicked off the year. Now that is correlating to a yield of about 3.89%. I think we're at almost 3.82 yesterday. So a little bit of an uptick well off of the 5% handle we had on the tenure when you were trading at 105.10. We're sitting right at about the 618 retracement of the entire pullback from May. And yeah, we'll see where we go as the market pricing in potentially a cut. March 20th. Put it on your calendar, folks. It's my 44th birthday. And that's when the Fed may be cut in March 20th. Can't forget that one. All right. What else we got? Let's jump around to some of the fang stocks as we kick off the last trading year. Let's put these things on a year. Going back 365 days. You didn't have many pullbacks this year. Amazon almost doubles from 80 to 153, okay? This is just going back this year, right? Google goes from a similar 85 to 140. Apple actually slightly underperforms versus some of the other big tech companies. You're trading at 124 to 193 percentage-wise, not in line with some of the likes that we just talked about. Google shares 85 to 140. Now, that one we covered, Microsoft shares from 220 to 375, they're pushing all-time highs. NVIDIA, quite a story for them this year. Trading at 495, make it 497 in the pre-market. NVIDIA has only got to go $8 to close it at an all-time high. And that would be for the year they've had. Why not, right? Meta, another bang-out year, man, from 115 to 358 Zuckerberg. He wipes out everything in terms of those losses. And they thought he was just going to lose all their money. Advertising was going to dry up because of the Apple policies for privacy. They were sinking money into virtual reality, Meta and AI, and just the Metaverse in general, which is why they are now Meta. But don't sell the Zuckster, man. He got it done, he reverted, and advertising has held up pretty well for that company. We're within $30 of all-time highs from Meta shares as they are one of the best-performing stocks of the year. You know what else is one of the best-performing stocks of the year? Not that one. ANF, Abercrombie and Fitch, man. Okay?  If you picked out Abercrombie and Fitch, surging from $22 to $90, well, geez, man. I don't know how you did it, but extra kudos for you and a resurgence for that equity from $14 to $90, right? Absolutely remarkable. I was reading about this one on Bloomberg this morning. Let's pull that article over. We kick it off with an Abercrombie and Fitch story. How about that, man? Abercrombie, 300% surge in 2023. Yeah. Even beat sizzling hot NVIDIA. Top-performing stock in the S&P 1500 index. How about that, man? The top-performing stock among the S&P 1500. They beat out NVIDIA. Yeah. The S&P retail select industry index only up about 21% this year, but boy, they really turned it around. They cleared their extra inventory. That was a big problem focused on its target audience, young millennial and Gen Z shoppers heading back to work, school, and socialize, and they capitalized, man. Yeah. Some investors taking profits, I would say so. Yeah. You got analysts boosting fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share expectations by more than 30%. Momentum can continue is one of the quotes, though, yeah, going to be tougher to deliver upside against already high expectations. Remember this quote, folks, with everything going on on some of those high flyers. It's going to be tougher to deliver upside against already high expectations. There are high expectations almost everywhere in this market right now. Where we're going with yields, high expectations, right? 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That's the one thing just to keep in mind as we come out of this because optimism is very high right now. The AI craze, the next article we're going to talk about from the journal, this one from the journal as well. We'll take a look at what did Wall Street get right about the markets this year? Not much. Remember that headline as we go into 2024, what's supposed to happen? The Fed's supposed to begin cutting. Inflation is under control. They're going to begin cutting in March. They're going to cut by a point, a point and a half this year. Another point, point and a half next year. The economy is flourishing. AI is going to deliver earnings that we have never seen. Now, that's what the market thinks right now and it may be right. But remember how wrong it can be, okay? And I'm not saying it can be wrong. It will be wrong. I'm not because I think this market has some legs at least over the next three or six months. We've talked about some of the A to B, C to D formations that you have going on on some of those big fang stocks, NASDAQ 100. We still have room to go. Maybe those fang stocks are the ones that carry us a little bit higher. We get into the March and the June realm of things. We'll see where the consumer is because things are tight right now, man. And that is the worry that I see going forward. Okay. I don't see inflation raging back up. Crude is at a very friendly price right now at $71. That's one of the things that could surge higher. That's not going to worry the Fed as much though because they don't worry about energy and food as much, right? They worry about the core component because energy, they don't have as much control over that could press the consumer though. So remember that as we sit at about $70, that there are geopolitical risks that could drive crude higher and that could cause some worries for the consumer. There could be some lag there with consumers feeling the punch of higher prices that are not going down. They're just going to be going up by two to three percent going forward after going up, what, 25% over the last three years? Maybe even more depending on what you're talking about. So remember that as we go forward, okay? The market's been wrong many times and I'm not screaming hell is coming, but just remember that and how quickly. I mean, look at the yields where they were when Silicon Valley banks failed in March of this year. We were at 3.7 on the tenure folks. We went all the way to five after a slight reprieve, okay? Things change very quickly. To say the least, it has been quite a year. The NASDAQ comp is up 44%. The S&P's up almost 25%. The Dow is up 15%. But remember, you had much steeper cuts, right? The Dow's at all-time highs, man, okay? So even though it's a smaller number, the Dow is at all-time highs above that number. That high in 2022 when we kicked it off, we're 1,200 points almost above that price level. Of course, the S&P's, what, we're only 20 points above that price level. NASDAQ comp, what are we? About 300 points above that price level. So even though we've had a softer year in the Dow percentage-wise, you didn't have the pullback. Okay, you had the pullback in the NASDAQ 100 when you went from almost 17,000 down to a low of 10,484 and just like that, we're back above 17,000. But you got A to B, C to Ds, man, the NASDAQ 100. We talked about this one. You're going from about 11,000 to 16,000. You're pulling back to about 14. That brings you to about 19,000, folks, which is about what? 11% to a 12% acceleration that you might get higher in the NASDAQ 100. That would take place over a period of about the next five, six months. And yeah, maybe then. What happens in June, okay? Don't expect that dramatic pullback as we come in the beginning of the year. Things are good. Inflation numbers have been great. The Fed is probably cutting. It's time for them to cut, man. You know, and the numbers, we're not at five or 6% inflation anymore, okay? We're probably at 3%. Two and a half to three and a half, to be fair. Maybe when you're the two and a half side, it's tough to tell, because things get volatile on a monthly basis. You go year over year, and you're taking in very stale data, going back 10, 11, 12 months, okay? Shorter term. It's very tough on a 30-day basis. You got volatility in those numbers. So we're at a number far below 5.5% though. So the Fed is at one of the more restrictive rate policies that they've been at for some time. And I imagine that much cut is coming. So very hard to imagine a lot of weakness coming into that part of things. But the market has got ahead of itself in the same way. Remember, the market has got ahead of itself as it rightfully does, okay? That's not wrong that it gets ahead of itself. It prices in future action going for the daily here. But remember that everything that's priced in for the market thinking, when you look at articles, like what did Wall Street get wrong? Well, they better get this right, or you're gonna see some volatility in yields and they've been wrong before. And so it's very easy to think we're out of the woods here. But just like that, we had banks failing and the consumer could show a little weakness, man. That credit card balance is rising, right? Savings, not where they were. And people just gradually adjusting to the fact that we are dealing with these higher prices going forward and eventually they're gonna be the new norm, which is potentially gonna put a little bit of a stress on the American consumer, even though you can't hold that consumer down. Okay, we talked a little bit of oil, right? How that could throw a little bit of a wrenching thing. Remember, man, gas prices are very affordable right now. I think there's a lot of room for that to go up versus down. And the US is trying to persuade shippers to sail the Red Sea despite all the attacks going on. Yeah, of course they're engaged. This is an interesting one. Can you imagine being on the other side of that? Shippers wait to see if safe passage is provided, is how they're saying it. But the military is trying to reassure shipping companies that a multinational force is making it safe to sail through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, even though attacks show no sign of stopping. Well, I imagine if they can actually stop them, people will start sailing through that area again. But boy, private companies with citizens just trying to make a living. Yeah, if it turns out they can maintain safe passage, they'll come back. But right now, they really can't be sure. I would agree. I mean, put yourself on the other side of that, right? When you're an executive responsible for employees' lives, and I don't know. Yeah, and we talked about this, I think it was yesterday, that at least half of the container ships that regularly transit the Red Sea and the Suez Canal are avoiding that route now because of the threat. Yeah, that seems like a no-brainer to a certain degree. All right, what else we got? Yeah, I mean, just think a big picture, right? This was one of the major themes in 2023, talking about from the journal, what's coming in 2024 that's gonna change your life? Generative AI, not a surprise there, it's gonna remain here. So if you haven't checked out Chachi BT folks, check it out. Become familiar with these things because they are going to take over society to a certain degree. Just like we had calculators, just like we had the computer and we had emails, right? If you don't understand it and you can't utilize it, you'll be at a disadvantage because it is going to increase productivity to the nth degree. And the more you understand it, the more it can help you in that regard. Yeah, they talk about EVs in here. We talked about Xiaomi, thanks Dan for that one, right? Yeah, Xiaomi. That company, introducing their EV from China yesterday. And boy, that one looked like something good, man, but you got a bunch coming down the line. Elon, he's been cutting prices pretty dramatic fashion this year. The stock's held up pretty well. All things considered. And with that in mind, we'll jump to this one as we tease it coming into the open. It's been a good year for the richest of the rich, as they say, the rich get richer, right? 1.5 trillion, they're just doing fine folks, don't you worry. Stay tuned folks, we're coming back for the last opening bell of 2023. TFNN has just launched their new trading room, the Tiger's Den, hosted at Discord. TFNN has been educating traders for more than 20 years with live programming hosted by a variety of professional traders during market hours. 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As in you break out of that channel line, I mean, Bud Rolfs love you, Bud Misha, trades up to that line. That could just be a consistent testing of that line before trading lower. Be careful of that Tesla one, man. You see that's right off of the lows of 100. You touch that area on May 8th. That also correlating, you know, some nice parallel action here in terms of the channel line you had. They line up pretty well from the highs of early 2023 and the same highs of July of this year. And as you can see, pretty parallel lines, a pretty well-defined channel line taking the highs and the lows of this year. And what do you do? Break through that with force on their last earnings. You come up to that level. And yeah, we will see. But guess what? Not just yet, Elon Musk. I mean, it's amazing how far ahead he is of some of these people, man. I mean, he's 100 billion over Balmer, which puts you where Balmer was in April of this year. Right? So this chart is talking about the world's richest. Elon Musk, he's back above that. And look where they kicked it off. It was Bernardo Arnault, right? He was there, but they have not had the year that the tech companies have had. And you got Musk starting the year off at about 130 or 140. He's up to 232 billion. You got Bezos right on the heels of Arnault now. He started the year off at what? Probably 110, 120. Amazons haven't quite the year. They kicked it off at about 80 bucks. He's chased them down neck and neck for second place. Rounding out the top five, the Microsoft duo, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer sitting at 140 and 130, respectively, quite a year for the richest of the rich, man, as they keep going. Yeah, for what it's worth. All right, you can't hold this NASDAQ down, man. Last day at 2023, look at this. We got a little bit of a pop on the open NASDAQ. Makes it into positive territory. Let's see how the fang stocks are kicking things off. Apple shares were positive by 60 cents right now. Microsoft shares, positive by 88 cents right now. You jump over to Google. A little bit of a dip lower coming into the opening bell. Google off about 16 pennies. We check out NVIDIA. Oh, there you go. NVIDIA is going for it, man. They got five bucks. They got six and a half hours to do it, and they got five bucks for all-time highs, almost six bucks right now in NVIDIA. We talked about Abercrombie and Fitch quite a year for them. Do we see any selling in the last day? I don't think so, not quite yet. Not in the winners, man. Maybe they're waiting for January. What's it? January 2nd is the first trading day, I believe in this area. It's January 2nd, the first day. They might be waiting for those sales to make sure they get hit with that tax bill in 2024. We will see. Some of the other equities, they had some big years, man. Uber, they trade lower pre-market. Maybe something was going on there. I'm not sure. But we get a little bit of a pop. Uber off about 38 pennies. Quite a year for them, right? From 25 to 62, and you are pushing basically all-time highs that you were at. Yeah, back in the beginning of 2021. Just remarkable some of these equities. Salesforce, another one they had quite a year. Still well off the highs of 311, but you start the year off at 140. You're pushing 265 right now. We jump around to some of the other equities. Nike, not so much. Nike, the high at 179.  Footlocker having some problems, man. Kicks off the year at 40. You make it down to 18. Be careful of Footlocker, man. Okay, be careful of Footlocker. Another one to be careful of, Coles. Be careful of Coles. These equities are catching a little bit of a pop, man, but boy, there is strength everywhere. The consumer has been remarkably resilient, okay? Even when you go into some of the areas of retail, what were we just talking about with Abercrombie and Fitch? I think the retail, one of the retail indexes they were talking about, up about 21% this year, right? These equities are struggling in an environment where they should have been doing okay to put it lightly. When you see stuff like Coles, Footlocker, Nike, they're experiencing their own deals. You jump over to Target shares.  Okay, that's where Coles lacks. I know I'm paying a premium price when I go into Target, man. You better know it just by looking at the price tags. If you have any awareness of what's going on with Target, Publix, whatever supermarket you're shopping at, then you compare it to Walmart, it is a different world, folks, the amount they charge, but the user experience is up to par. I'm aware of it, right? I buy certain things in there that maybe I'm aware that I'm price shopping, but if you're going into Target and you're buying every single thing in there and you're buying like groceries in their section, boy, you are overpaying, but it's a user experience and people love Target, okay? Coles does not have that and Coles is expensive and that's the thing. You gotta have one with the other. You can't be a little expensive and not have the customer loyalty and that's what Target does have. So they got some ways to go to get back to where they were at 268, but longer term, they're gonna be okay. Walmart shares, they had quite a year, man. Walmart's always gonna be okay, especially in this environment where consumers are saving 157.71. They were up to all-time highs recently of 169.94 for Walmart shares. We jump around to some of the banks. I was talking about JP Morgan, man. Pushing all-time highs at 170.24.  Not the case with the other banks though. You look at Citi, all right?  You're finishing slightly positive for the year. Bank of America, what are they flat for the year? At 34, you kicked off the year at about 34. Wells Fargo, they're gonna finish positive by about, and not bad percentage-wise.  You're pushing 49, but you see the difference in these charts, right? JP Morgan, remarkable strength off the lows they had a year of go in October of 100. You're pushing 170 for that company. Yeah, you talk about it, man. Affirm, another one that had quite a year, but still well off the highs. Yeah, this thing's got momentum in, and they are gonna be a player for years to come. I mean, imagine being the company that gets to finance people who are purchasing items in Walmart that can't afford that purchase the day they're making it. Unfortunately, many people, okay? The socioeconomic roles of the shoppers in Walmart, unfortunately are people that will be ripe to maybe finance those purchases, because they don't have the ability to pay for it all today. Quite a business relationship to get into that. What I do wonder is, I mean, Walmart's such a company, man. Why am I, you know, and maybe if somebody's got this in the den, help me out, okay? Because I understand smaller companies, you know, you don't want to get into that game, okay? What I found it interesting is that Walmart couldn't do this themselves. And I understand that's not their business. That's how businesses conduct their business, right? That they're subleasing that out to a contractor. That is their business that they run perfectly, but they're obviously giving up some of the profits and they could probably facilitate that risk themselves when you look at the fact, as we pull up Walmart shares, that you're talking about a company that's what? $424 billion market cap, okay? A firm, for context, is a $15 billion market cap company, but a firm just doubled their market cap in the last like eight weeks or so. We'll talk more about this when we get backstage. TFNN has just launched their new trading room, the Tiger's Den, hosted at Discord. TFNN has been educating traders for more than 20 years with live programming hosted by a variety of professional traders during market hours. 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I got my thinkorswim platform, just reverting a little bit over a break there for some reason I had to be started, just getting into everything. All right, we got it back up there. And yeah, great point from our man, Dan in the tent. Dan in the dent, talking about, you know, testing that out for Walmart, potentially with a firm. Yeah, you know, obviously always nice to do something on someone else to make sure it works before you plow that type of money in it. The last point I was making there is that a firm is a $15 billion company right now, but when that was coming out, right, their last earnings, you were at 17, okay? So you literally just went up 200% since November. So they were only about a $5 billion company is where they were. $10 billion in market cap has been added since their last earnings on November 3rd. They inked that deal. I think that deal came out November 24th. So that's something they were probably thinking of already. But yeah, I'm surprised that Walmart just doesn't give people the option without going into it. I feel like it's almost a no-brainer. Yeah, the default results, right? Managing credit risk. That's where it comes from, okay? That's what they're handing off to a firm nonetheless. For what it's worth, a firm, they're in a good spot, man. And yeah, they may have some volatility. I wonder what the details of that Walmart deal are going forward. But even if it's not Walmart, you're gonna see them showing up in a lot more places and we already do. Not sure that's the best thing for society if we all end up financing everything, even the most shorter-term items, right? The meme out there was a Domino's Pizza that you could put onto a firm plan. Not sure that that was the case going on here. I think that was even overseas. But nonetheless, try not to finance Domino's Pizza if you can avoid that. All right, we jumped to what else we got going on. Yeah, Tiger Global. So Coleman, he's back in charge of the venture unit after they've had some problems. Now, what's remarkable here is you have Scott Schleifer. I think it is Schleifer. So he steps down as the head of Tiger Global Management's private investments, okay? And this is what happens when you get a little bit of a turmoil, man, but boy, they stepped in at the wrong time. So Chase is jumping back in and what was so interesting, right? So they got all this capital just like the banks did. They deployed almost $20 billion that they raised near the height of the venture capital boom, leading to a 33% right down last year, an additional 6% this year. That obviously had some of those investors questioning what was going on. Now, Schleifer, if I'm saying his name right, is only 46, okay? He's gonna remain a partner. Part of the reason they're talking about it, and who knows the truth, but the truth is always somewhere in between, as most say, Florida life, man. Yeah, now Tiger's got a requirement that employees work from its New York headquarters, okay? Coleman said the decision of Schleifers to step to a different role, his fellow billionaire, wanted to remain with his family in Florida. They don't tax personal income. Yeah, what's wrong with that, right? Now, the move diminishes the role of an executive who helped build a franchise that scored big wins with stakes in ByteDance and JD.com and still boasts, this is the part I wanted to get to, a net internal rate of return of 20% over 20 years. Call that the 2020, man. Ooh, the 2020 club. But he's stepping down. You have a couple tough years, man. The investors revolt, imagine that, right? That's the thing. What have you done for me lately is the phrase, right? What have you done for me lately? 20% over 20 years, and it looks like he's probably getting pushed out so that Chase could come back and write the ship that they, yeah, steered a little bit off right there at a 33% right down, and it might be worse than that, right? Because these are a lot of small private companies. The valuation of those companies, debatable is probably a good word in terms of where that goes, yeah. All right, yeah, they talked about JP Morgan, Wealth and Asset Management Division. They had about $2 billion invested with them. They are among those who were frustrated, yeah. Now after the recent markdowns, they're sitting on almost a 20% paper loss, nonetheless. All right, what else do we have going on for 2023, man? How about the year in sports and the year in name, image and likeness? Yeah, this college athletics, football, basketball, everything getting shaped and it's not gonna stop, man. The portal, right? The portal has become quite the portal. Teenage millionaires rocking the sports world. Here's the deal, folks. They should be teenage millionaires, okay? They should. That's the thing I was like, ah, this is a business. People are making money off of these people, meaning the players in that sport and it is absolutely not right that they have been getting abused in terms of, and you say, oh, they get a free education. Listen, that's great. But if the schools make it $100 million because they get the biggest, they get the next little Braun James that goes to their school and they make $100 million off of it, is it really fair that that player, their name, image and likeness coming to that school, is just getting a $30,000 scholarship, $50,000 scholarship, okay? These players, a lot of them are young men. Okay? There's young women out there making millions as well as they should be, okay? But a lot of them are young men. They're not boys. They're teenagers who are 18 years old who can sign up and go fight a war overseas. And meanwhile, they're told at 18 years old, possessing a skill that private universities, some of them, right? Public universities is as well, use that skill that player has to profit. And then they tell the player, but they can't share those profits because that would be wrong, okay? That has changed, at least so. And yeah, they are making millions as they should, man. Okay, as they should. And the NCAA, billion dollars in revenue and that's in 2019, those numbers. But this is a good thing, folks. I've always wondered how that could take place. You know, how? Because think about it in football. It's even worse in football, okay? You talk about a right to work. I don't know how this hasn't been politicized more with the rage of right to work, states, et cetera. If you're an 18-year-old man, let's say you have a child. I now have a child. Things get a little bit more real when somebody else is dependent on you, your income, your livelihood, okay?  You have kids. Happens all the time, all right? And the NFL tells you that they do not employ 18-year-olds, period. Stop, end of story, okay? Now, there's nuances that go on in here, okay? But I mean, what's the rule in the NFL? I think you gotta spend two years in college. I'll pull up the rule at the next break. But I'm always amazed at how they lock. So what do they do?  And the only place that you can play that's competitive is a place that refuses to pay anybody, which is the college game. Never understood how that could take place when you're talking about men who are 18-years-old, 19, women who are 18-19, okay? Don't understand how the biggest leagues out there, all right? If they can play, they can play. In the NBA, it's a better example because it happens all the time. You have the select few, like the LeBrons, that can come out. And the argument against that, folks, right, is that you have all these young kids making bad decisions, they come out too early, totally true, 100%. 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Google recently announced another update of its AI called BARD. Not lots of people use it, but whoever uses it is saying that it's much better than chat to be teased. I'm very curious, so here is my reaction, the first time trying out BARD. Some part of it is really good, some part is quite interesting, so I'm gonna show you what it looks like. In this video, I'm gonna analyze different kind of use cases, user experience, and also business model of BARD. Stay until the end of this video and check out the latest use cases, and let me know if you agree with me or not. Hi guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee, a direct product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people lend their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startups, and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you're interested in product management course, go to PMXCelerator.io to learn more. In this channel, I cover tech trends and product management knowledge. Like and subscribe, turn the bell button, so you'll be notified every time I tell a new video every Tuesday. The first use case I searched on BARD is actually the search result accuracy. I started introducing very easy use cases, such as finding the top Cuban restaurant in Miami, and actually BARD gave me really good answers, and also gave me lots of good pictures. So now let's switch to BARD. So I locked into BARD, and the first thing I put in is, both the top Cuban restaurant in Miami. It gave me several good options, really good ones, and it is very true. Actually, the saddest restaurant, it is the best Miami restaurant for Cuban. And to be frank, it's also a little bit tourist attractions. I'm not surprised this is the number one, and all other ones is very great, all the top ones. And I asked, what is the most popular dishes on Old Havana's Cuban bar and restaurants? And it gave me several good recipes, but the picture was incorrect. That's a little bit unhappy. But the best part is, it can link to TripAdvisor and show me all the details of different kind of like dishes by that restaurant. So I'm pretty happy about it. And then I asked, so what's the most expensive cocktail on Old Havana's menu? And it gave me very good answers, saying that, well, this is called El Presidente. Did I pronounce correctly? And this costs $25. Whoever know how to pronounce it, teach me please. And yeah, the best part is also giving me pictures with back link. This is like the most about bar. When I asked chat GBT the same questions, it gave me similar restaurants. The top restaurant is the same, but Old Havana, it doesn't exist on the list anymore. And the biggest problem is it doesn't give me a back link or pictures to those restaurants. So that's something I don't think is as good. My biggest complaint about chat GBT is that chat GBT only have old data and doesn't have the latest information about people, about small businesses. And so therefore I asked this question, do you know who is Dr. Nancy Lee? Which is me and actually gave me good result. And they found me very quickly. Please Dr. Nancy Lee, I'm one of the top three choices. And of course I choose Dr. Nancy Lee, a founder of TMX surgery, this one. And then I asked it to give them a full bio. Yeah, the third one is when looking for giving the full bio, give me a really good file of please Dr. Nancy Lee. And majority of this is correct and also very well written. And I'm considering using this as my personal bio in all the speaking engagements. And they talking about like Dr. Nancy Lee, founder, partner manager, accelerator training program for aspiring partner managers, also keynote speaker at the frequent contributor to publications such as Forbes and TechCrunch, and graduate of Stanford at University of Pennsylvania Water and School. This is not me. And this is only thing that's incorrect. But most of things are right, including my personal journey such as New York U.S. with $800 and then became one of the youngest director product for transformation companies. And this is exactly like the correct, this is crazy. Heidi and also talk about PMA's highly rated partner manager training program as part of my bio and help thousands of people in PMA job offer atop Tech companies. It's great. Also give a summary accomplishment PMA, founders help thousands of people then job atop Tech company, spoke at conferences and feature Forbes, TechCrunch. I definitely like it and give it like awesome. But when I asked the same question to ChatchBT as you couldn't tell me because the training data was cut off by September 2021. That's actually my biggest complaint about ChatchBT, not able to bring the latest information. And so when I read those bio was super, super impressed. The reason is, wow, this is even better than how I write it myself. Amazing. You should check it out by putting your name as well. See what Bard can tell about you and how much it is true. Comment down below. I love to learn. Now on the third use cases at test out with Bard, it's actually asked is partner manager XR better than part of school? Because to be frank, if you ask ChatchBT, ChatchBT doesn't even know where's partner manager XR because the data was cut off two years ago. But Bard had really good comprehensive answer and I love it. Is partner manager XR better than part of school? The first time ever I asked Bard and give me this, it's like mind blowing, mind blowing, mind blowing. First of all, talk about pros and cons for both schools, PMXXR, smaller class size, more popular, more personal attention from instructors, more hands-on experience, more from the technical aspect for the management. And this is all super correct. Now, how do they know my class size? How do they even know you're part of my own student? This is amazing. Just exactly correct. Yes, it's more small class size and dimension more expensive. I'm not as well-known, not as many alumni. So now I agree with the other two more expensive. I disagree because for different tiers and actually our lowest tier, double the value and half the price of part of school because we offer way more in terms of job referrals and also unlimited three times three monthly services. So therefore, I disagree with this. It's probably comparing chicken to eggs, but everything else is very spot on and very impressed. Now, talking about part of school, talking about larger class size, less personalized attention, less hands-on experience, more folks are not as much on technical aspect for the management. And then also talk about all the differences put in the table. This is amazing and then you can export the Excel sheet. Is this, this, this, this blown my mind? You should actually check it out yourself through any kind of comparison and I guarantee you it's going to blow your mind. So this is just like mind blown in terms of the contacts and accuracy of the information. And again, majority of the information is correct by barred. And I believe one of the reasons it was correct was because it has more personalized information. They know our Gmail, they know our search history, whatever we watch on YouTube. That's why it's more accurate, more personalized compared with chat GBT. The second category I'll test out is a user experience. Actually, the biggest aspect of consumers like us who use it on a day-to-day basis, user experience is one of the most important thing. The number one lacking aspect of barred is it doesn't save my chat history. I accidentally closed the browser and the login again. All my chat history was gone and I had to regenerate again. Well, that's one of the things they can improve. And the second user experience actually is very beautiful. In terms of giving you the links to any menus and if you search restaurant and give you the picture of things they're looking for. If you ask for a picture to display any picture, it can give you a picture as well. So it is very powerful. I definitely give a much higher rating of user experience compared with chat GBT because I asked the same thing with chat GBT. It just said I cannot do it. You can just search those pictures by yourself and then go back to Google again. So it's a loop. The third category I like to talk about is the distribution channel and also business model. And as someone who specialized in plus strategy, I'm very interesting. I understand how can we drive more users to use certain type of product. And even if currently if you ask Bart, how many users how many daily users that Bart has right now, they won't tell you is that it's not public information. However, if you ask Bart was a daily user of chat GBT, we tell you it has 6 million daily user as if April this year. I think Bart definitely hasn't reached that level yet was because Google haven't advertised. It hasn't pushed it. And now here's how I predict how Google is going to design the gold market strategy for Bart. First of all, let's think about it. Google has access to all the distribution channel, which is the user will have maps and Gmail, YouTube, everything and search engine on Google. Whenever it's ready to push Bart to everybody and on topic browser, it going to have a bars in a why don't you search the same result on Bart and immediately going to convert millions user to Google Bart right away. So it will be significantly higher than 6 million. Daily actually users and the second type of business model Google like to go. I believe it's going to be as and pay sponsorship. For example, right now you can see all the links of Yelp and Trip advisor on all the restaurant menu. I guess search what if it gave the option to Yelp saying that well, you can choose to put your links in one my search result or I can also advertise Trip advisors, which one would you like to bet for this opportunities and it's very likely all those companies going to have those AI Bart integration and put all their front pages to be displayed on top of Google Bart. And that will become even more dangerous because Google will control the optimization result they can display to other people and then whoever pay for the search result is going to tweak what do we think is the best outcome should be another aspect. Chatchity is more generic is more authentic because it's not influenced by any ads at this moment. We're just at the very beginning of using Google AI and I believe it's going to be very powerful. So therefore as a consumer is our responsibility to decide where to give your personal data and in the future I believe that there shouldn't be only one AI engine to control all the data. There should be multiple AI companies that utilize the data in a different way. So therefore as a consumer is more important we decide how to give our data to who and whether we will be compensated by giving our data away. So comment down below do you agree with me and make sure to search yourself search any interesting topic on the bar and comment down below. I will learn about it as well. If you're in the process learning your next PM job offer in top tier companies you should go to our website to get free referrals put your resume in the hands of hybrid managers. I'm going to link in the description of this video provide free job referrals for all of you guys. 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This time we're going to be looking at branch target buffers. In the previous videos we saw a few different methods of doing branch prediction, figuring out whether or not we want to take a branch. These are nice because they give us a good chance of knowing whether or not we're going to take a branch before we've actually calculated it. But in order to fetch the next instruction we need to have the target address available to us in cycle one. That's the stage that we update the program counter, so we need to have the data available then. Unfortunately our hardware is set up in such a way that the instructions are decoded and branch target addresses are all calculated in the second stage. We're going to need to move that back to doing it in the first stage. And the way we're going to do that is by using a branch target buffer. So a branch target buffer is really just a table that's indexed by the current program counter, but which contains branch target addresses. Specifically it contains branch target addresses that we want to take. There's an alternative though, we could instead include the target instruction. This is actually kind of cool because in some cases, for example if you have a jump instruction, you can actually complete your instruction in zero cycles. So our program counter comes in, we see that this is an unconditional branch or a jump instruction. We just pull out that target instruction and go run that immediately. We don't send the jump instruction off to the hardware to be processed. We send the instruction that the jump instruction is pointing at as the instruction to be processed. Branch target buffer is actually pretty simple. We'll walk through the stages of our architecture and see what happens to the branch target buffer in each of these depending on what's happening with our instructions. So the first thing that we always do is we just fetch our instruction out. We're going to pass the program counter to the branch target buffer so that we can determine whether or not this is a branch and if we should take it. If we find a matching entry in the branch target buffer, then we know this is a branch instruction and we believe it's going to be taken. So we take the address out of the branch target buffer and we use that to query the instruction memory. If it turns out that we do actually take this branch, then we're just going to continue as normal. We did the right thing. This was the correct path to take. But if it turns out we weren't supposed to take that branch, then we need to flush the mispredicted instructions. We're going to delete that entry from the branch target buffer. Then we'll go back and restart from the correct instruction, the one that we should have taken. On the other hand, if we don't have an entry in the branch target buffer, then our process is a little different. In this case, we believe we don't have a branch that we're going to take, so we just fetch the next instruction the way we normally would. As long as it doesn't turn out that this was actually a branch that we were supposed to have taken, then we just continue like normal. This could be a branch instruction that we don't take, but it's more likely that it's just some random instruction that doesn't have anything to do with branching at all. On the other hand, if we discover that this was in fact a taken branch, then we want to add the instruction address and the branch target address to that branch target buffer. Then we will flush out all the mispredicted instructions and restart at the correct instruction. This way, the next time we get to this instruction, we'll have the program counter and the target address in the branch target buffer, and we can pull them out and use them. Branch target buffers only contain the target address for branches that are predicted to be taken. In this case, we're really just doing that based on the performance of the branch last time. These are very different from branch prediction buffers where we're trying to determine whether or not a branch will be taken before we process it. In this case, we're just writing down everything we know about a branch. Our branch prediction buffers can keep track of all of the branches in our code. The way they do this is the branch prediction buffer will map multiple instruction addresses to one branch predictor. In general, this is fine because we don't have a whole lot of branches in our code, so there isn't a whole lot of chance that we're going to have some conflicts there. It turns out even if you do have some conflicts, they're often not going to be major, and the branch predictor will still work pretty well, even if there is some conflict between two branches trying to use the same predictor. With a branch target buffer on the other hand, you don't want to do this. Imagine if you have a buffer where, say, eight different addresses correspond to one line in our branch target buffer. Then, any time you got to any one of those eight instructions, you would think it's a branch and you're going to take it automatically, regardless of whether it's even a branch at all. So our branch target buffers can only keep track of a limited number of branch instructions. In a more complicated algorithm, we could choose when we want to take a given target address out of our branch target buffer and replace it with a new one. We could, say, keep around the most recently used ones, for example. But either way, we're going to have a limited number of entries in our branch target buffer. So our branch target buffers are not going to be mutually exclusive with branch prediction buffers. We'll be able to have a branch prediction system working alongside a branch target buffer. And in general, we want to use both of those systems to maximize our performance.