Mike, good. Yes. Hi everyone. I'm James. I have a little bit of housekeeping myself for those of you who've just arrived There is an interactive portion of this to the latter half If you want to join in on your laptop, please follow those instructions I'll leave them up for a couple for a minute or so still Also, if you are connecting to the Wi-Fi and you want to take part in the interactive session I would suggest strongly that you switch to a mobile hotspot just so that we don't don't all clobber chat.openia.com from the openai.com from the same IP address because we will be rate limited Right Let me know Okay, let me know if anyone still needs this up Okay, cool. Yes, doesn't sorry go Just had that. Yeah, this Docker image doesn't work on the on the M1 silicon on the new Apple chips It is just you can just download the standard WordPress thing and look at the Docker compose file the important bit is that you have amounts for the plugin direct for the WP content directory and Pretty much yeah And out of preference I put my database in a separate container Right anyone else Great Sweet, okay, so and I need Stan yes the mic The name my talk how I learned stop worrying and love my new AI overlords Any chance I get to channel Peter Sellers and the Simpsons at the same time I'm down So my name's James. I'm a software developer. I'm a wannabe maker carpenter Electronic person who sold is incredibly badly I'm a tabletop enthusiast board games role-playing etc. And I am an armchair opinionator Which is pretty much my entire set of credentials for this talk. I? Graduated with a BSC in computer science from the University of Newtown, South Africa Got an MSc and bioinformatics from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa I've done stints as a teacher and a lecturer in programming. I've done some proteomic analysis on mass spec machines I have sold my soul and done health insurance data analysis. I'm sorry and I've also worked on the very early generations of the biosensors to do pulse blood pressure, etc. And watches I Worked for WP engine. I grew up in South Africa and I moved to Ireland about five years ago when I joined WP engine Ah Some disclaimers and just to set some expectations for this talk. I'm not a wordpress developer I have tangentially helped my wife out on occasion with some wordpress Plugins, I do know PHP reasonably well from the 2000s. So I'm a little out of date on the PHP there I'm not an AI expert, but in my defense as part of bioinformatics I did do a lot of machine learning stuff So I have a reasonable idea and a fair grasp of what's going on under the hood as much as anyone does Who isn't actually deeply involved in modern? Large language models. I'm not a business expert. So I'm not going to be able to help you sell your stuff All my opinions are my own and entirely AI generated all hail of new Ava AI overlords So that's who I am I'd like to get a sort of show of hands as talk has sort of pitched it a bunch of different people and a bunch of different a Bunch of different personas in the community So can I get a show of hands who here uses wordpress as a blog as a content generator on a sort of Individual basis or for a small business Okay, so that's sort of about a 30 you yeah that tracks, okay Who here works for an agency marketing users wordpress is that? Okay, and I see some of those hands have been raised twice. Okay, who here develops plugins or works on the core? Okay, right a Third a third a third with a little bit of Venn diagram mixing in the middle that yeah, all right. So this talk is for everyone here, I hope a little bit less so for the agency folks I think but We'll see how we get along Right, so I like an interactive audience feel free to interrupt with questions If that disturbs the recording because we have to pass a mic around let me know, okay. Thanks Ideally don't save him to the end that being said we are on a time limit. So I may pull out the old line Talk to me after the show for that Pre-requisites like I said, please have Docker Installed and ready to go pull those images if you're on an M1 do what you need to do and I Suggest that you get those pulls going if you haven't already whilst I talk at you for the next 10 to 15 minutes Right so My talk broadly is going to cover My opinions and they are mostly my opinions on how AI Specifically generative AI is large language models chat GBT bar, etc are going to be Influencing and changing the WordPress community over the next year to five years So Who here feels nervous? Why is this not in slideshow mode? Oh Sorry Who here feels nervous that AI is coming for their job if you are in the sort of content creator blogging side of things show hands No one Okay, one or two one or two. All right Spoiler you're not wrong To those people who didn't raise their hands, I think we should be okay, so For content creators what we've got is AI is probably not going to again my opinion significantly influence your jobs In the next year or two that might change in the next five years things are moving very quickly in the field But specifically if you're already doing the job if you're already taking money from clients or in an agency And you are generating content on the day on the day today You have probably already used chat GPT to give me a list of 10 things to do in Athens whilst I'm at a conference And I think AI use correctly will increase your productivity the question is is the market going to expand because Everyone can go to chat GPT and generate a list of 10 things to do in Athens and how many of those are we gonna see? so I Mean we saw it in magazines when the internet became a thing You know fluff magazines on travel magazines on planes went away because the internet took over So for me, I think the big question here is Is the market going to expand to meet the supply of Content generation because content generation is going to be massively accelerated And I suspect your jobs you'll know better than me probably will mostly transform into more of a sort of sub-editing or fact-checking role And I I need to stress the fact-checking role I'm sure if you have used chat GPT or any of the other ones you've realized how they can go spectacularly wrong and more importantly confidently spectacularly wrong But with that the competition for eyeballs is only going to get fiercer so I think that quality will out Outpace not outpace outmatch quantity eventually For those of you who are developers who are actually working in the WordPress code base or working on plugins who here feels nervous about AI replacing their jobs No, what one hand two hands three hands. Okay. All right Spoiler alert again. I think people with hands down. You're right because we will learn by the end of this We're okay Oh Sorry, yes. I Wanted to point out this so all of the images I have done are generated with Darley. I've got the prompts at the top there One of the reasons that I'm confident that humans aren't being replaced is that it took me Several dozen attempts to get decent images out of that for what I wanted And for some reason Darley thinks humans on ladders have three arms Right so developers Is AI coming for my job probably not I think is my answer Uh What developer tasks is AI good at? Small specific and solved I mean anyone who's used it already will probably know, you know, I want to transform this markdown table into HTML or vice versa Spot on fantastic a three gigabyte table done in a minute. Fine I want to take that markdown table and integrate it into this other page that you've been working on that I have given you several hints about the content and context of and Now you've just gone and forgotten that context because you start a working on a different problem And I got past the maximum token stream. I like Okay, that's not helpful so where where I found that AI systems large language model systems tend to fall down when You have lots a large amount of context that it needs to juggle and you are juggling on specific bits I'm switching between them and it just kind of it kind of focuses in on the thing that you did most recently and doesn't integrate it Properly with the thing that you did before Again what it's good at boilerplate refactoring Advanced linting. Hey, can you double-check this double-check my code and make sure that it's up to the WordPress coding standards fantastic Let me not say fantastic pretty good Where is it not so great? So I Don't know how many of you get deep into SQL, but there is something that you can do an SQL called ranking So you have a bunch of stuff and you've got a bunch of teams and a bunch of players in the teams And you want to get the top player by goal in the season for the team That used to be a really gnarly difficult query modern SQL I think from about eight onwards has some convenience functions added that make ranking substantially simpler Chat GPT knows about my SQL 8 and up you ask chat GPT It gives you a nice little thing you try to run it on a certain hosting companies thing who doesn't have an up-to-date My SQL and they won't allow you to update my SQL and you get random error Well, not random you get weird my SQL errors you tell chat VP GP about those errors and chat GPT goes I don't know here's the same thing again because chat GPT was never trained on pre my SQL 8 documentation So it doesn't give you the solution and when you tell it I can't use higher than my SQL 5.8 or whatever Even then it goes. I'm sorry. I don't know anything about before my SQL 5.8 Maybe that's improved in the last six months, but that was one of my one of my issues with With it the other thing is new technologies Here's a singer which we will encounter later on chat GPT doesn't know about the latest version of itself That's not surprising But when you're trying to use chat GPT to write a plug-in to contact chat GPT It is a bit of a surprise And then like I said the composing of small solutions into larger systems Tends to get it very confused so Here's my take on it AI is going to transform developers jobs You're gonna need to learn to use AI to increase your productivity to keep up with your teammates and your competitors You need to understand the AI results and learn how to be able to tweak them. You can't just take what it gives you for granted The skills that you're gonna need to develop if you haven't got them already are how to compose separate Specific tasks that chat GPT or another AI system has solved Into a more complicated system and work on those integrations and right now most of those integrations are going to be manual tweaking It's still on you to keep up to date with the latest mice with the latest mice QL Version and all other new technologies and also if you're developing cobalt or some other really old technology then Yeah, you're still on your own and the banks will pay you a huge amount. I'm sure So For those of you that had your hands up originally when I asked if you're nervous has your opinion changed at all Anybody anybody sticking with their guns. It's still nervous that AI is coming for you. No one. Okay. Yay. My job is done So there is a threat from AI though and really that that It's subtle and it's probably At least to me. It took me a while to kind of like process it in my head and figure it out Like I said AI is good at small specific tasks. It's coming for you low for the low hanging fruit first For those of you who are writing content for a living when your boss is going to be asking you for a thousand words By the morning on a trip to Athens and what to do Yeah, sure they can just go and ask AI So that aspect of your job is honestly probably under threat For the developer side when your team lead needs you to make the plug and call to an API that injects the results into a page Chat GPT small specific task Probably easy to do The trick is going to be in knowing what to ask for and I was having this conversation with one of you last night And you need to know where you're going. You need to know what you want the results to be in order to effectively use the tools Sorry, I'm a little too close to the mic and boomie there and Like there's a there's a thing called prompt engineering coming out That's not what I mean prompt engineering is more about the how and like the actual language that you use To to communicate with chat GPT I'm talking more about the actual you need to know the context and the thing that you're trying to do and the result that you're trying to achieve in order to Essentially validate what chat GPT gives back to you So that unfortunately requires experience and it generally means that to get that experience You have to have done the job yourself at least once or twice to kind of know what's meant to happen And it you know that means that you need a deep understanding of the basics So this is why I say that the threat is subtle those of us in this room who already have jobs and who are already working in the field and Already active in the WordPress community The stuff that we do chat AI systems are going to help us do our jobs But for people new to the community for the junior in your job who's coming in fresh graduate from university or something They're the people who are not going to get the learning opportunities Because their tasks is going to be go do this go ask AI chat GPT Bard to do this thing Come back to me with a thousand words or a function that does X and that's not a learning experience anymore So again This is a darling image This is probably the one that I had the most trouble with to be honest I Like I said the number of times I got three armed people climbing up ladders I don't know where that came from But we we need to be careful that we don't pull the ladder up behind us We know we don't want to chop off that bottom rung and raise the barrier to entry to getting into our community So how do we leave the ladder down and how do we help others up? Sorry, I jumped ahead of slide Yeah, we need to start incorporating the idea of using AI tools for educating in our community For doing our jobs whatever those jobs may be and for teaching people Actively when they are using those tools the bits that those tools don't cover for them Provide the learning experience that we had banging our heads against the wall trying to do things And and that's not as simple as don't use an AI tool because people need to learn how to use them We just need to be I think more cognizant and more focused on the idea that we need to get the groundwork the basic concepts across to people who are new and to do that in a way that allows them to leverage AI systems without Using them and relying on them exclusively How we do that that's a discussion. We need to have I don't know Yeah, okay, so I think I've already asked have I made you less nervous Now have I made you more nervous with that? Does anyone have any comments or ideas on this? Like I said, I'm looking for some interactivity here Any other opinions fight me? Nope. Okay Right so now for the practical fun stuff What we're gonna try and do is we're gonna try and use chat GPT to make a plug-in Contacts chat GPT to replace the selected text in the block editor with some chat GPT generated content Taking what the selected text was as a prompt Expectation setting chat GPT is random. There is no guarantee. In fact, I think there's the opposite I guarantee that I'm not gonna get the results that I got when I was preparing for this We may not get to a working plug-in There is a link at the end of this to Google Drive folder where you got the docker compose file from Which has the working solution? I Didn't get there solely with chat GPT And I don't think anyone could no matter how random it got precisely because it doesn't know about the latest version of itself And especially like I put some screencasts up about how far I got with chat GPT But there are multiple gigs and you should probably watch them at five times speed because watching me type and chat GPT scrolls quite boring All the links are at the slide on the end at a slide on a slide at the end Okay, I suppose let's get into it So feel free to follow along on your laptops Chat.openia.com is what you're looking for Sorry, let me enhance Um, what? Right, so I've cleared my chat history If any of you have worked with this before you will know that it learns from what you've done So I don't want to be influenced by the stuff that I've done already I'm gonna start with a new chat that chat is gonna be So I'm gonna give chat GPT a persona to work as so you are a WordPress developer Do my best to assist you. Thank you. Great. Um, I'm I wait here wait I Want to write a plug-in That calls chat GPT to replace Selected text in the block editor Edit or edit or With Chat GPT Generated content Let's see how this does so it's Telling us what to do Yes, requires a good understanding of JavaScript WordPress, etc. So we can have a look at this But let's be honest.  So I'm gonna say I'm Okay JS file, great Okay, I can already spot a couple of problems here, but let it finish Yeah, roughly speaking are you guys getting the same responses so far? For example, how many of you have got a file that doesn't have a separate JavaScript bit split off into a separate file Yeah, one two a couple of you. Yeah, okay Wait till you confuse it later when you ask it to use WordPress coding standards. Sorry. Yes a question. I Think that this is for yes, sorry, this would be for at the moment. I'm on paid So some of you will also not be getting the same responses if you are on free accounts Thanks for the reminder Okay, so what do we got we got a php file that looks about right plug-in In queue my script I See that it's picked my plug-in name is just chat GPT. So I want to change that Fair warning. Yeah, sorry. Yes, go. Oh, okay. Oh, yes, right good point. Huh? Why don't I pick my login up? Oh, well, it is what it is Yeah, I must have oh, right. Sorry. Yes, I paid on my work account and this is my personal account Expensing and all that right so sorry. Yes, this is this is three point five my bad Thank you for picking that up. Um, so It in queue some scripts Registers the API endpoint Yes, okay Chat GPT it gets some text It once a chat GPT API key. Yes, that's looking good. It sends it with an authorization bearer Sends it with a prompt max tokens. Ah, okay. So here's the thing This bit here The DaVinci codex is no longer a model or It's gone that they have replaced it so that URL doesn't work anymore. That was the one bit that I ran into Where you know it was chat GPT doesn't know about the latest you API endpoints for itself So we'll have to update that manually. We'll get there Yep prompts is the input text max tokens 50. Oh, you're cheaping out on me. It used to be a hundred Make the WP remote post. Oh, so the first time I tried this the it didn't use WP remote post it used curl and Only after I asked it to do WP WordPress coding standards did it change it and now it seems to have remembered that at least in my personal account Error checking so that looks pretty good to me the JavaScript is where I tend to get nervous so Data subscribe selected text, you know what? Let's give it a shot so I'm gonna copy that wait. Has it actually told me what to do with this. Yes create a file and It doesn't tell me what to do with this so I should ask oh Wait, it finished up learned doesn't tell me right so I'm pretty sure that there is a plug-in already called chat GPT content generator Which I didn't know the first time I tried this and when I did it tried to tell me that there was an update for my plug-in locally So I'm gonna say I Want to call my Plug-in smart Mouthed Robot from getting Simpsons into the title. I'm getting Futurama into into the workshop Okay, so now So that's the odd thing there. It seems to have Not picked up the change for our JavaScript file. Okay cut and paste time Is that big enough no probably not hang on is that big enough for folks to read? Let's go have a look at the Here it is Robot plug-in very URL That looks about right. Okay, is everyone following along, you know why I'm replacing this piece of scripts because I changed the plug-in name Great All right Let us see how we are doing All right, I should have done this before but I've downloaded everything Right. What are you listening on? Oh wait? Static Docker compose file. Sorry the first time I tried this I tried to make the Docker compose file using chat GPT 2 and it also Kept changing the the port 8000 so We hit Local host 8000 we get a fresh WordPress install We get a fresh WordPress install. That's Good Don't judge me very weak. Why are you not giving me install word? Oh confirm the use there we go Judge me fine Am I doing for time? Okay? We'll see how far we get. All right. So if we hop over to plugins It hasn't picked our cut picked up our plug-in Wait, that is because I haven't saved the plug-in No, that's because I put the plug-in in the wrong place my bad I'm just making a plug-in directory and I'm gonna move all my smart mouth robot stuff To WP content plugins robot And I'm gonna do a refresh boom Okay, so first obvious thing it did not update the name of the plug-in Sorry, if it's not obvious you are not obliged to use them personal preference. I'm a masochist Never tell that to any max person Yeah, that'll do Yes, okay, we're gonna activate that and We are gonna go and create a new post and see how it has done something for us Add a new post. I'm not actually seeing this working. That's not a surprise So let me go back to the code and see how it expects this to work What's it hooking into? So data WP data, sorry, let me highlight the line here WP data select Core editor get selected block attributes content. Yes But it seems so oh, it's subscribing Okay, somebody who is more familiar with WordPress in the block editor This is a new one. I haven't seen this particular Generation from chat GPT before WP data dot subscribe. Does anyone know what that's gonna do? Nope. Yes, okay Okay, but it won't trigger when I actually select text Yeah, okay. All right, so then I'm gonna try this again I Would like the plug-in to Create okay, I'm jumping ahead here just in the interests of time post meta Button that the user can click to initiate the Text replacement and scroll down Almond. Yes meta box. Okay. This is starting to look more familiar So what's it saying? Create a post meta box use you can click. Okay, that's what I asked you to do Here's an updated version Yeah, it's in queuing a style now. That's new Didn't ask for that but thanks in queue block editor assets. Yeah. All right API endpoint make the call register. Rest root. Yes That's mostly unchanged So this is all PHP though It has added a meta box, right can you update the JavaScript to Trigger on the click of the post meta button Okay, at least it's It deals with auto corrupt. So what do we got now? Okay, we got a function to handle a button click and We have a on click The button call the function right This is going to WP data select call get the attributes content. Yeah, okay I'm going Okay, you're welcome to take what you've got copied in and try it out locally I know this isn't gonna do what I wanted to do So I'm just gonna jump ahead the reason that I know it's not gonna do what I wanted to do is Because it's not gonna actually get the selected text. It's going to get it's gonna expand itself to get all the text in the block Where text is selected at least that's what it did previously So I'm gonna ask can you Can you Ten minutes. Okay. All right. Ah, okay. All right. Um, good to know All right Selected text trim. Yes, this is looking better This is new to me, but I'll take it All right, I'm just gonna copy this and pop it into and where was the last PHP section This may break or at least this may look weird without the CSS. We'll figure it out. Okay, right That error message is going past way too quickly Right, okay, I don't know what has gone wrong here Back to the code Kill the style I'm happy to take pair programming advice here if you spot the error, please let me know I would if I could see the error message But actually yeah, why not Sorry, I do I have an API key and a text file that I will add We haven't even got to the point where we can initiate the click though Like as I said like the point of this was not to get to a working plug-in The point of this was to show how hard it is to get to a working plug-in That's my story and I'm sticking to it Okay No How am I for time? five minutes, okay, ah Sorry, we didn't get as far as I would have liked I'm gonna call I'm gonna call it here. I do have a working example on the Google Drive That is linked in the slides which I will get back to now So One I hope that this is for those of you who haven't done this before I hope it gives you an idea of the workflow of using chat GPT we have reports that chat GPT for is better So maybe chat GPT for when installed in the robot chasing you it will actually catch up to you There's the link You should have the slides available on the website to download where that link is clickable And you don't need to type that horrible monster out There's also a screenshot a screencast two and a half hours long of how I generated the docker file And I will upload a screencast of my initial fights with this But it's more than two hours long and several gigabytes So I have not uploaded it over the how to hotel Wi-Fi or this Wi-Fi I'll put that up when I get back to the office on Monday I have a couple of other things for those of you who actually want to learn more about the the image of Large language models. I can highly recommend Steven more from chat GPT write-up link link there bite bite goes Deep dive video is very good as well For those of you who just want to like get some cool ideas about how to use chat GPT Chances are that they were listicles generated by chat GPT themselves But hell's world has like I think it's 21 ways to use chat GPT And then for those people who are concerned about AI and the general threats to humanity I highly recommend the alignment newsletter podcast It really dives into the It really does a deep dive into the alignment problem for those of you who know what that is who don't know what that is That's we train AB that that is the problem that AI's don't necessarily solve the problem We think we're training them to solve because we don't really Fundamentally have an understanding of how they learn and so there is this whole sort of meta field of AI research about how do we inspect AI models to understand how they work and how do we Validate prove work with and constrain AI's to work within various boundary ethical boundaries legal boundaries, etc really It's meaty. It's a lot to chew on there, but I highly recommend it Thank you very much It's been fun Thank you


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Welcome back. It's still the breakfast time to look at what the people say Today, of course an analysis guest JD Johnson is standing by JD Johnson. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for a time All right Okay, indeed mercy is here as well messy good morning to you good morning coffee and good morning JD Johnson Thank you for joining us All right, so we set up the conversation with I would take a look at the Guardian newspaper That would be the first point of call for us voices true. Buhari's Broadcast on the return of old 200 naira nodes. I cannot wait to share Jiddies thoughts on this one Buhari new cash policy Negotiate weapon against insecurity and corruption and vote buying old naira notes available for circulation mere 222 billion 2.65 trillion are to be destroyed Seculation of 200 naira notes wouldn't move the needle You find out who's saying all of that but I'll be amela Buhari's directive a one-term Disregard for the rule of law Ghandu J. Alleges plot to squirtle election and stall interium government broadcast is contemptuous of Supreme Court's order and you find compelled APC leaders to release hooded naira notes PDP tells Buhari And banks loses five billion to assault on facilities 17 brands cheese have been touched Telecoms distanced cells from failed financial transactions Buhari's speech will have their Consequences for the 2023 poll. That's what the CDD ones count on to the 2023 elections navigating tension shocked violence prone campaigns and We'll just stick this and move away from that. Don't postpone election bow to pressure. See as all ones. I neck WH all ones as my bug And pox spread across Africa. That's another one human rights community polls Poor trips or tips to noble to win presidential election Just before then the CUN PP identifies attackers of Gochiniers resident. That's the much we can take this morning on the Guardian All right, let's move over from the Guardian to the nation newspaper With the following headlines Naira Buhari under attack for flouting Supreme Court ruling. I Think there should be a Supreme Court order speaker arrow five Senior lawyers others fault president's decision on 200 old Naira notes as an affront Naira Buhari under attack for flouting Supreme Court ruling, okay A window of settlement between G5 article close as we can give that interview I think yesterday survey project suitable to win presidential poll 19,365 respondents in 36 states FCT involved, right? Make them disobeyed they go. I think they were part of also how devil survey So disobeyed and I don't know why article is not getting his as well You know, maybe you and I should have a poor messy He better stand still for team we can see my mouth girl came out to see him Or you all will vote equity justice marking details a pc candidate that's all the headlines on the front page of the nation Well, move away from the nation and we have the punch newspaper now one thing you need to know is that the punch over time describes President Muhammad Buhari as a major general retired That's how the punch, you know addresses the president and for, you know Certain reasons that they have said the thing that the president is still a dictator That's their position. But on that front page, you you find better days are coming soon despair disappointment after the president addresses the nation President legalizes 1,000 Naira 500 and clash with supreme court likely Governors state Buhari and conceded citizens to spend all nodes governors and state dare Buhari And all the citizens to spend the notes and mostly You know after the president had her broadcast yesterday, then, you know, everybody had his Asking resin to go ahead and spend that naira scarcity wasn't at banks atm's Nigerians buy naira with naira So just after the presidential broadcast up until this morning I'm not even sure that the atm's are, you know, giving out cash, right? Including 200 naira notes and Some people are asking was that even really thought out was it really planned? Naira redesigned plotters caught all elections install interim government That is what erufa is quoted to say. I mean, it's also the same thing that you have with fanny coyote This statement and some people are already calling for He's a rest their ride is there, but I'm not sure I can take that Please hand over illegal ams ammunition to nas Nigeria's oil output increases by 31 million barrels or OPEC is quoted to say Man says job Loses There's a likely possibility of losing job according to economic crisis That's what you find this morning on the punch newspaper Let's move on to the next paper. This time we have Daily trust as that's the final paper before our guest comes in Naira redesigned Buhari out to truncate democracy ganduji President counters supreme court insists on ban of old 500 1,900 sisters to reactions to His speech Nigerians yesterday broadcast Nigerians recount losses Nationwide broadcast contempt of court lawyers They remain legal tender and kaduna aero five Some of the headlines or the riders rather to that particular headline More from daily trust for o4 106 security personnel 404,106 security personnel for elections i gp G5 we k4 closes reconciliation with a tiku forced abortion report and h Rc. That's a Nigerian Human Rights Commission panel grills military rescues women others and Unbundling railway Will not lead to job losses minister u.s. Return 954,000 Dollars alamacea loot to Nigeria um Seven northern states or neko two billion register Some of the stories there another one. This is quite sad Pregnant woman dies in kanu over payment alert delay second time i'm hearing something like that This week Jenny johnson the naira is the hot topic on the front pages of the papers this morning I want us to look at what some of the lawyers are saying about the president's address and His directive Vis-a-vis the supreme court Decision or rather supreme court order After the last hearing But before you go to that and Yeah, before you go to that Please give us the thoughts on the fact that people are going through stress like this pregnant woman who has died In kanu hospital because of a payment alert delay That's what I was about interjecting you to start with Because we have to humanize this thing This woman is just a sample of many that has happened. It's just one that has been reported There are many cases that have not been reported People that are disconnected from the media people that are disconnected from the power centers and the state capitals and the rest of it This is what humanized the story it's this Is just unbelievable Because of payment alert and if if you have ever gone to the hospital with the work Would we operate our spiritual system the medical system in Nigeria? Usually the require payment first even government or speech you the require payment first before patients are treated It's unfortunate that I found ourselves in this situation and it's unfortunate that Those who have elected at various level are not are not are not bothered. They are not concerned They are not concerned at all. All they are all concerned about is about election What will happen to this family or many many many families that have Had their loved ones taking away from them as a result of their inability to assess their own money To make payments for medical treatment. It's unfortunately made it so of this woman Rest in perfect peace and many many others like that and give me god grant Every family that have suffered untold hardship as a result of this policy The own loss of the other at the fortitude to be at the loss of the loved ones. It's unfortunate, but That is the reality. It's just a reflection. These people whether he has a red speaker Or the senate president. We are not you know anything from the senate president Or the god knows they are just as far away from reality Okay, so so the other You know Attached headlines to this situation What some people are saying lawyers are saying, you know criticizing the president saying is this will be what the court has Has ordered and then air will fly The air will fly telling you We have said it over and over time Is that at Nigerians with much more interested in work by the ministry The minister of justice and the attorney general for tradition is based on interpretation The women the the truth governors went to court and the attorney general Is you the statement granted? I told Those that care to listen that and not to show that government is going to obey this Particular order to the latter that they stuck to their gun because if whatever interpretation That the attorney general gives to the president That's what is stuck with and what they've done is to look at technicalities and pre-technicalities outright the The president did not stop Completely the old Naira notes. You saw what they did they limited it to 200 Naira notes So there is a loophole in every decision of the courts There are loopholes and the alakuna Which you could exploit and they studied that order and they saw a loophole Which they were exploit because the president outrightly did not say the old currencies are no longer tender What they did was to be economical with it that 500 and 1000 and not acceptable The central bank will collect that and they will collect that at designated places You could see the way they were playing around the technicalities and that 200 Naira Will be made available and is still a leg is still illegal tender And that the banks you make that available. So in what way will you see the president has slotted supreme court? They played around it. They understood the loophole and they played around it And i've seen many even lawyers senior advocates and then Complained about this not looking at the technicality in which the president exploited As far as i'm concerned. He's just played around the supreme court There was no substantive declaration by supreme court let it start to go until remain So there is still an opportunity for for for the presidency or Or the cpn to stick play around whatever decisions they are making even though that is contrary to public opinion That is contrary to the expectation of the people but legal interpretations legal decision is different from public opinion However in democracy it is required of those that are popular mandate To listen to the popular demands of the people and we have seen this over the last seven years of this administration And we the media also played a role in pandering to Some of some of the abuses that this president administration Are infractions that they have Committed over time with respect to rule of law. We recalled that the president Some years back went to the national conference of national of the nijambah association and he said oh That you know what? National interest is bigger than the rule of law that There's nothing like good of law when it comes to national interest and people are applauding people are saying all of that It's it's and you know you really punch where the punch took a position long time ago that they will give They will address the president with his military try to which is his title in any case It was a former military head of state and i i have advocated that Nigeria is not a democracy Like the fact that you operate a civilian is it the conduct election does not make you to be a democracy Election is just one of the criteria for you to have a democracy independent judicial free and fair election fundamental human rights respect for For supremacy of the law on the plane by constitutionalism those are the indices of democracy And if you use those indices to evaluate and measure democracy You are giving to it that means a civilian administration because we just add a transition from a military government to a civilian administration Because the tendencies the lack of respect for constitution The lack of respect for public will the lack of respect for public opinion is still evident and apparent In in in in our polity the lack of respect for basic institution. You see the judiciary is still operating All right, not providing check Yes before you come in this is just a very quick question and i mean i think there's been talk about because you've talked about the Uh, the fact that the supreme court said the status quo ante should be maintained And there's this talk about also people have pointed out the fact that in cases of political nature Um, the supreme court or the courts rather than nigeria have been expected not to give orders on Uh, our expatriate applications or to grant expat expati applications. What about that? Well, you know, we also need to categorize that this is you could resolve through political solution And we advocated that last week friday there was the council of state What was the what was the advice of the council of state to the president the president's talk to is gone It was contrary to what the council of state advised And then in fact not contrary. It was a modified application. What we have seen Is people exploiting the loophole in the system and they are exploiting it to their advantage for their own selfish interest Not to the interest of in nigeria. I don't have access to cash. Do you have access to cash? Nobody has access to cash And there was a story the banks you you spoke about I told people if you make transaction through your phone You use the usd code if it if it fails They remove six naira 70 cobalt sometimes it's ten naira now if you have one million failed Transaction who pays for it ten naira times one million how much is that Ten naira times 20 million nigerians using their electronic transfer who is paying for it With your money and your inability to assess your money. You are even having a Technological failure in terms of people don't have infrastructure backup to ensure that you have cashless policy You are paying on both ends. You don't have access to your money one They are making deductions of the telco charges too and the banks are also making their own 20 naira deductions So we so the policy inside of solving problem is putting pains and they fail to see reality because they they have I have said it Do you have you ever collected the new naira notes? On the counter the old one the new the meat. Okay. Let me let me put it in better perspective Have you ever collected mint? Naira notes the old one in the on counter before I've ever seen such women No Where do you get it? You see that parties it comes out to the back door the same system still applies to this new one That's why they are not paying it across the counter people have the center bank governor said They've released us to a amount of money Where is this money if we have this money in circulation? We'll not be complained as we are complaining But nobody can lay hold of the money because there is a racket That says currency and they drive on that is at most they've not dealt with that particular problem And then you are creating new problems. It's unfortunate. Okay. I like us to you know delve into the issue of Aerofi and his thoughts about the naira redesigned policy as a plan to scuttle the elections and install Interium government you also probably would have seen you know the broadcast that he had shortly after The presidential broadcast yesterday asking residents of kaduna state to go ahead and spend the naira not just limited to 200 But you know across 500 1000 and what have you I like you to share your thoughts on this Especially when there's also another school of thought that believes that The policy is meant to cop corruption and also in in another way to help You know the issue of vote buying stop it to the barest minimum Election it is just one component part of our lives Ready story of that woman election will come back By by by the end of May a march nine election will have come and gone But the damages you have done with this policy will still stay with us. For example, those that have lost their loved ones with system We just can't do that said it was meant to be scuttle both can't do jay and then And the governor of kaduna state made A pronouncement contrary pronouncement to what the president said Well, um to allow the extent if we actually are practicing federal system of government Which is we are beginning to see the beauty of federal system of government We have the future government then you have the state government now the state government have controlled over their state With respect to what they think you're obtaining their state. So if they are providing A platform or an avenue to ensure that they will compensate their citizens either by mopping up this currency And using their own state resources to to support or to To subsidize the citizen. There's nothing there's nothing bad about it But what I do not take to is the is the is the confrontation Is the confrontational approach and then what we have also said for the onset is that apc is not the political party I'm sorry to say this because this policy is coming from a political party That you think that it will have been able to harmonize their thought One did not be able to put in place or what is called their national their national and The board of their board of trustees, which you have all these major stakeholders in the party talking about the policies of party We're just the platform that was created in 2013 to raise super and once they've raised super We've seen that even from the same party people from the same party are speaking at brilliant forces You have these cordon tunes coming from the party with respect to with respect to policy policy people because there's no There's no structure structure within the party system to bring about Those that have been elected into public office for them to harmonize their thought and to come out with the current policy And if they found out to the president too long and I've said it It is wrong for you in the democracy to call the president Your father you can't question your father. So for many many years they've called the president And in Africa you don't question and I said it and I said it on here and I'm saying it again The president is not my father. It's it's my servant is elected to serve me The president is elected to serve the people but in a situation whereby you have people pandering to Somebody that has been elected to be a public servant and giving him the title of a father But it's so hard But Gide just before we cross it down I'd like to ask you do you believe that this policy is meant to you know truncate the 232 elections and install an interim government Well, you can you can you can come up with different types of theories because one Based on what has been made in the public to me You had what the INEC chairman said that they don't have access to form Now INEC would require a lot of logistics if I don't have access to fund if I don't have access to fund How would they mobilize? their resources for the election both resources human and And physical so and material How would they mobilize such such resources? And then you had what the CSU said that INEC should not at any point in time postpone the election We have our cases whereby people have raised the red flag that they are attempts to postpone the election So once we postpone the election, what happens? Once we postpone the election, this is february the end of this administration The end of the tenor for this administration is may 29 So if you don't have election in february if you don't have election in march, what happens? And by constitution if there are crises constitutionally you can extend the tenor Of a of an administration by six months All you just need to do is to declare a state of emergency and once you declare a state of emergency You can extend the tenor of this administration by six months. It is a constitutional provision There's been provision for special funds for you know, INEC I mean the cbn has said that If INEC wants fund there can't be out of funds because they're going to make You know a certain provision for INEC to have funds for logistics So is that still the problem? And if we talk about postponement of the election, didn't we witness postponement of the elections in terms of shifting it for a week in 2019? It was for six weeks. I was it was you know, there was a council of state meeting to that effect There was a council of state meeting to that effect And then the council of state was called and at the end of the council of state To a spoon we are the council of state last week that is you didn't come under on sedition the It was said that the election would be as far as I'm concerned considering the the the detention the test situation that we have presently It could be it could be it could not be advisable for the election of the postponement I cannot show you messy If we postpone the election it will create crisis We have seen that there are a lot of there a lot of even within the ruling party. There are There are divergent groups having different you see you've seen You seen governors accusing people in the presidency Governors the two of the governors that made broadcast Two of the governors that went to court to challenge this policy Were those that raised the issue with respect to this truncating of the election not truncating of this election And there were attempts by some elements within the presidency to ensure that their party Lose the election. So as far as I am concerned this issues Were were not raised by you and at these issues were raised by major players and actors within the within the policy. So as the You need to give a talk to what they are saying with respect to the respect to Attempt by some elements to truncate and the don't forget that the last time we had A military head of state elected as the president. There were attempts to elongate the standard with the thought term So you cannot you can and then the constitution we are using The constitution we are using the 1999 constitution which was modified by the 12 wise men led by justice niki tobi Was meant to perpetuate abacha in power It was there was a position that was in the product of 1995 constituents assembly So there are many loopholes and lacuna which you could exploit within that constitution to ensure that you have the elongation of tenor So don't rule it out. Merci. Don't don't just rule it out because the question you ask is Why why now? Why is it now that you are doing this policy? We have to go, please. I'm sorry about that. Um, but but uh Ghandu J says Buhari is out to truncate democracy a front page of daily trust And one wonders if um a monetary policy a monetary policy on its own is enough to truncate democracy Um, we'll see what happens as we go on. Uh, thank you very much for your time, sir And the same government is planning sensor after the election this year And then the politicians who have been themselves also doing things to truncate democracy in their corner And now shouting that the president wants to truncate democracy simply by saying let's have this money It may not be working But now they become uh defenders of democracy overnight If I for democracy before election, they are now fighting for democracy now. They are trying to protect themselves Eventually I like that you're also exploring all of this The presence out to truncate democracy Just a monetary policy. Okay. I mean, I think there are many ways to do that You know without using a monetary policy gd. Yeah, we have to go. Thank you so much for your time Merci Well, that's the size of it. Thank you so much. Uh, we have been speaking with gd johnson who's been Sharing his thoughts on some of the issues right here on the papers We'll definitely come through on monday with more interesting headlines on national dealings or things being equal We take a break when we return uh kofi. We're diving into our first conversation Yes, indeed. We'll look at exactly what's going on with the um defense research and development bureau act of 2022. Please stay with us


Last year, a family friend passed away from complications of diabetes at age 55. His wife afterwards discovered a whole pile of untaken medicine hidden in the corner of his bedroom. Then everyone finally realized why his diabetes had gotten worse so quickly. He had not been taking his medicine. Research shows that 50% for all people with chronic disease like diabetes don't take their medication as prescribed. Medication non-compliance causes 200,000 deaths each year from the EU. There are various reasons for this, but the one major reason is the fear of side effects. Many diabetes medicines have severe side effects. That's also why scientists are constantly looking for better alternatives. I myself have been working with a group of active natural compounds extracted from the medicinal plant stevia. Some of these compounds are nicely sweet and have been used as food sweeteners. Maybe you know Coca-Cola stevia, but however, we found that at certain concentrations, these compounds also possess anti-diabetic effects. We know that diabetes is characterized by high blood sugar and insulin hormone that can reduce blood sugar. But here is a question. For diabetic patients, which one is worse, high blood sugar or low blood sugar? Surprisingly, low blood sugar is the most dangerous and common side effects of current diabetes medications. It may cause heart disease, nerve damage, or even death. When we tested stevia compounds, we used insulin-producing eye-lights that we isolated from mouse pancreas. We made them into diabetes models and healthy models. Then we treated them with our compounds. The results? Well, in diabetes models, stevia compounds significantly increased insulin release, very effective. More importantly, in healthy models, stevia compounds had no detectable effects. This is actually fascinating because it indicates when healthy, when blood sugar is normal, even patients accidentally taking more stevia will not over-stimulate insulin secretion, thereby preventing low blood sugar. So, stevia compounds have the potential to prevent low blood sugar. It's still early stage of the research, but I believe this study will lead to a safe therapy for diabetic patients. Maybe we can even utilize their effects and sweetness together. Then diabetic patients taking candy can finally be doctor-recommended. Wouldn't that be sweet? Thank you.


While I definitely didn't think we would be waking up today talking about Switch Pro again, I just did a couple days ago and I figured that might be it for a couple weeks, but what are their smoke thirst fire and it looks like we can expect the Nintendo Switch Pro or whatever it ends up being called a new model of Nintendo Switch to come out middle of 2020. Now what did I tell you guys before were my expectations if a Switch Pro or a new model Switch did come this year that it would launch this summer while the middle of 2020 is summer. So if this turns out to be right, I guess check for me on my predictions. But the report actually comes from Digitimes which is a Taiwanese company. They do have a kind of loose track record when it comes to their reports, specifically with Nintendo. Although Nintendo does do some manufacturing now in their area, so they're probably a little bit more in tune than usual. But Digitimes has gotten a number of things correct in the past when it comes to manufacturing processes with Switch units, so that is something they do seem to be connected on. Other things that they have reported on before, they haven't always had their own internal sources for, so it can get a little muddle, but there is like an English version of the side, a Taiwanese version of the side, I think a Japanese version of the side as well. But we found out about it thanks to Takahashi Matsuzuki. Now the reason why this guy matters is because he's actually the primary reporter on this kind of stuff for the Wall Street Journal and he works out of Japan. And he reported in August 2019 that Nintendo has ideas for further updates to the Switch lineup after the Switch Lite and the Revive Switch come to market to prolong the life cycle. And then all of a sudden he quoted the Digitimes thing. Nintendo's reportedly planning to release a mid-2020 new model of Switch. But if you go over here, this is the article in question and it says, Nintendo is reportedly planning to release a mid-2020 new model of Switch. Will begin volume production at the end of first quarter 2020 according to sources from the related upstream supply chain. So they have sources from the supply chain somewhere that are saying, hey look, it's going into mass production soon for a release in mid-2020. By the way, we're kind of in the middle of the first quarter of 2020. Notice they did not say fiscal 2020 because fiscal that would that could push things different because Nintendo runs the Japanese fiscal calendar, which would mean the first quarter of the fiscal year for them wouldn't begin until April. So yeah, that's that's obviously not what they're talking about. You're talking about the first quarter of the actual year, which is January, February, March. So by the end of March, basically by the time Animal Crossing comes out, there will be a mass production of a new model of Switch going in place to be sold this summer. Now, it does say the article you're trying to open requires a news database subscription and I was going to subscribe to read it. But I have seen snippets of it behind the scenes. I cannot show you those snippets because again, I don't want you know, I didn't pay to see those snippets. So it kind of feels wrong for me to take something that I wasn't supposed to see and then put it out to you with all these exact quotes. So instead, we're going to go to Dr. Cercantoto. You guys remember Dr. Cercantoto? He's the one that we talked about before who predicted that the switch would come out this year. I know he predicted it last year as well, SwitchPro. But he says to further add on this article requires a subscription digit times claims that the new switch will come with a magnesium alloy body instead of plastic. Another claim is that the device will come with a better CPU than he obviously knows the digit times has a little bit of a mixed track record. Now this is interesting too, because this gives us more details. So not only is it going in the mass production sometime in the next three months and releasing this summer, it's going to be a more durable switch potentially magnesium alloy body. I find to be interesting because magnesium alloy, by the way, is really good at heat dissipation for starters. But if you look at the switch and I happen to have one right here that's already broken down. It kind of comes in layers. So when you open it up, you get the plastic back plate. Now this isn't, you know, it's not showing up very well because it's green. But this is a replacement back plate. But it's still the original back plate is plastic underneath that is usually a metal cover, which I have misplaced right now. But there's a metal back plate that goes on top of this and it goes on top of things like the heat sink right here and the heat pipes and all that. So there's a back plate that goes on. And you take that off and this is what you're what you're left with.  And to me, with the heat shield and everything, what when I hear they're going to do a magnesium alloy body, that sounds like they're doing a metal switch, not just for heat dissipation reasons. They're making a more durable switch, they're making one that doesn't have the issues where as some of you guys have seen like the vents up here, melt away, or the screw holes crack and stuff like that under the heat, magnesium alloy is not going to have that happen. That's not even going to be a problem. Most plastics don't have that problem. But it can be a problem with plastic. It will not be a problem with magnesium alloy. It's going to be a more premium feel to the system. And you know, that's something that I guess none of us are really considered when we were talking about switch pro and the potential to switch pro, we talked about how yeah, it could be sleeker, it could be this, we don't really talk about how it could be more durable. So it's interesting that one of the first details to come out, one of the first details that seems to be relating to switch pro specifically, is that it's going to have a much more well put together body and it's going to be a metal body. It doesn't mean that this back plate itself isn't going to be plastic still or something, but the framework of the body of the system is going to be a magnesium alloy, which is good news for durability. Obviously good news for heat dissipation, although I don't think they're going to dissipate heat straight into your hands. I think there'll be another, you know, another one of those heat plates and stuff like that kind of separating everything. That being said, it'll have a better CPU. That's very vague. We don't know, you know, I've seen the article in question, it doesn't really detail what's better about it. Is it more core counts? Is it clock higher? Is it an updated CPU? Like which CPU is it? Is it the same one that's in the switch running at higher clock speeds, or is it a new version of the CPU? Obviously, we don't see any information on if it's going to have better GPU performance. We do know it uses an APU, so the CPU and GPU are on the same chip, so it would make sense if the CPU is a little better, the GPU would be as well, but they're not reporting that. They can only report on the information they have from the sources they have. So this to me I think is just very fascinating, because we've been talking to SwitchPro for two and a half years, and I honestly, there was a point last year I thought that maybe, you know, it's just all bull crap, and it's not going to happen. You know, we got that revised switch, which, you know, only has better battery life, but it does it by changing some stuff on the chip and all that for better power consumption, but I was a little skeptical that SwitchPro might actually exist, and now here we have, at the beginning of 2020, not only we had Dr. Circuit Total who has a track record with things being like, hey look, I really think it's coming this year, and then all of a sudden, boom, two days later, Digit Times comes out and they're like, hey, it's going to the mass production, it's coming mid-2020, well here's a couple details we actually know about the system, better CPU, whatever, that means. It would be nice to hear if it has more RAM, I don't, like, I don't, my mind is just running in circles right now over what I want SwitchPro to be versus what it's going to be, and if we take these details, you know, in the context, I don't remember, this might not be the first details we've had on SwitchPro, because Nintendo has a publicly signed contract with Ixo displays, and Ixo displays are a display technology with lower power consumption that can do, you know, high frame rates and high resolution, better than the LCD tech they're using now, but they're not in any current Switch, they're not in the light, they're not in the revised Switch or the OG Switch, so that potentially could have been technology that's going into this as well, so that might be another technological detail we have where they could save on battery consumption with better screen technology, and that screen technology is popular technology used in a lot of high-end smartphones, so it's not like it's technology that's just old and Nintendo's just now getting into it, because it's cheap, like with LCD, no, this is actual good technology, and it's going to be a little pricey, and when you're starting to go from a plastic body to a magnesium alloy body, that's going to be more expensive as well, a better CPU is going to be more expensive, everything about the system screaming, hey, don't expect this in the launch at $299, now I know Dr. CircuitToto said it will launch at $399, so $100 more, which I think is a fair price in general, if you look at how Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro kind of handle things, they were $100 more at launch, so I guess it makes a lot of sense to be $100 more, I don't know what the market's going to be for a pro Switch, that's $100 more, $299 is like a kind of a sweet point for Nintendo, basically $250 to $300 is Nintendo's primary space to live in with pricing, although obviously the Wii U is a failure, but the more expensive $350 Wii U is the one that took off, not the cheaper one, so I'm very curious to see how the pricing works on this, obviously they can't approach $500, they can't start looking at price points where the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are going to live, that's just not some place Nintendo wants to be, but again let's just quickly recap here, um first off Takahashi Matsuzuki who has a lot of very, he's a really well-credited industry insider analyst reporter for the Wall Street Journal, brought up Digitime specifically to back his own claims up that Nintendo has new hardware coming, Digitimes in their article, and this is just the English version of it they have, they're a Taiwanese company with connections, saying that they're going into mass production in the first three months of this year, by the end of the first three months of this year, mass production for a mid 2020, so a summer release of a new model of Switch that has a faster CPU and is made with a magnesium alloy body instead of the plastic that we've become accustomed to with Switch, so that's the details that we have for now, in addition to potentially the Exo Display technology in the past, in addition to Nintendo hiring people specifically for seemingly technology that's not out yet, this is exciting times, this is exciting times to be a gamer right now, think about it, we have the new Xbox coming, we have the new Playstation coming, potentially a new Switch coming now, granted it's not going to be one of those next generation Switches, at least I don't think so, I don't know, Nintendo could be crazy and cell phoning the hell out of this and welcome to Switch too really early and it's fully backwards compatible, I have no idea, all I know is it's probably coming at this point, where there's smoke there's fire and we've had a little bit of a dustiness smoke for a couple years of rumors and reports, this is not like your traditional rumor or report, this isn't a oh it's going to come, oh we think it's going to be this, we think it's going to be that, this is a oh by the way it's being manufactured like now, like right now they're making these things to sell this summer, that's not a report to take lightly, anyways, here's what we know if you're excited for this, if you're not excited, I love tech, so I'm almost always excited for new technology and it's a good year for me to maybe get into a new Switch, we'll see what happens, but thank you guys so much for tuning in, I am Nate Jantz, if you liked this video drop a like, leave a comment down below, subscribe for more content, oh man this wasn't what I wanted to talk about today, but boy am I excited to talk about it, because new tech always, always gets my, my, my skins are crawling a little bit, I always get excited over new technology, so I'm ready, let's go, Switch Pro 2020, peace out everyone.


Hello all and welcome to this session. Today the question is if x is equal to log 1 over 5, y is equal to log 2 over 5 and z is equal to 2 log root 2 then find the value of x minus y plus z. Now before starting the question we all should know about some laws of logarithms where the first one is log m into n to the base a is equal to log m to the base a plus log n to the base a and the second one is log m over n to the base a is equal to log m to the base a minus log n to the base a and the third one is log n to the base a is equal to n log m to the base a. Now these formulas of logarithms will work out as a key idea for solving out this question and now we will start with the solution. In the question it is given x is equal to log 1 over 5, y is equal to log 2 over 5 and z is equal to 2 log root 2 and we have to find the value of x minus y plus z. Now putting the values of x, y and z there we get x minus y plus z is equal to log 1 over 5 minus log 2 over 5 plus 2 log root 2. Now for solving this we will be using the second formula which is given in the key idea and that is log m over n to the base a is equal to log m to the base a minus log m to the base a. So this will be equal to log 1 over 5 divided by 2 over 5 plus here for this we will be using the third law which is given in the key idea and that is log m over n to the base a is equal to n log m to the base a. So by using that law it will become log root 2 square. Now on solving this will become log 1 over 2 plus log root 2 square will become log 2. Now for solving this we will be using the first law which is given in the key idea and that is log m into n to the base a is equal to log n to the base a plus log n to the base a. Therefore this will become log 1 over 2 into 2. Now this will become equal to log here 2 into will be cancelled so it will be log 1. Now this will be equal to 0 because the value of log 1 is equal to 0. Hence the value of x minus y plus z is equal to 0. This is the solution for this question. That's all for the session. Hope you all have enjoyed the session.


Matt Hancock's resignation was not the result of any decision by Boris Johnson. In fact, the Prime Minister had encouraged him to stay, and the initial defences of Matt Hancock have left the government open to accusations that they do believe there is one rule for them and one rule for everyone else. You might think that in most jobs, if you've broken the rules that you yourself have set, you'd be fired. Not so if you are in Boris Johnson's cabinet. You get to decide yourself whether or not you will leave. Now, the argument that the government does seem to believe there is one rule for everyone else and one rule for them was put powerfully by Trevor Phillips on Sky. He was speaking to Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis. So, Lewis, I wouldn't normally do something like this, but I want to put a private personal question, I guess, in a way to you. Over the past two days, every cabinet minister, including you, has come out to essentially defend the Prime Minister and Matt Hancock. The pictures that we saw were of an encounter on May the 6th. On May the 11th, my family buried my daughter, who had died not of COVID, but during the lockdown. 300 of our family and friends turned up online, but most of them were not allowed to be at the graveside, even though it was in the open air because of the rule of 30 because of the instruction by Mr Hancock. Now, the next time one of you tells me what to do in my private life, explain to me why I shouldn't just tell you where to get off. Well, I absolutely accept and understand the frustration, even the anger that people have having been through the situations they've been through. Look, as you say to other people across the country, I've lost friends, his funerals, I've not been able to go to over the last period. That is such a tragic situation for any of us to be in. And that's, I have to say, why it's so important, all of us do what we can to keep ourselves, our families, our friends, our wider community safe. It's also why that what Matt did was wrong. He acknowledged that's why he apologised immediately for his baby and acknowledged what he did was wrong. And it's also why he's taken the decision that his position was untenable and distract him from the wider work that we've all got to do to move forward in the pandemic and out of the pandemic. There's no getting away from that. And I think that's why Matt ultimately made the decision he did. As I say, I think in doing that, he's put his family and indeed all of us across the UK first, because he wants to focus as the PM does, as we all do, to be on getting out of this pandemic in the best possible way and as quickly as we can. That was a really extraordinary clip. I mean, Trevor Phillips there had put forward a really upsetting, really moving story. He's saying very recently, it was his daughter's funeral. By the way, she passed away from anorexia that was after struggling for two decades with an eating disorder. I don't know exactly whether or not Trevor Phillips relates that to the lockdown, but I think the fact he mentioned that was during lockdown seems that he potentially he does. And Brandon Lewis didn't even recognise that. He didn't say my condolences. He didn't recognise that this incredibly sad story had just been revealed to him and he didn't show any solidarity. He just gave this completely boilerplate answer, which is to say, Oh, I understand why some people are annoyed. I understand why some people are angry. I've also missed funerals. Like it was such an incredibly inappropriate answer from someone who clearly has no emotional intelligence. One more thing to mention about that clip is it ended the boilerplate answer ended with that Matt Hancock has put his family first by resigning and leaving his wife and kids to live with his mistress, which is slightly odd. Ash, I want to know what you make of that interview, but also what it says about Boris Johnson that he was he was ready to defend Matt Hancock. So if Boris Johnson had had his way, this would have just been Dominic Cummings, Barnard Castle, Mark II, Matt Hancock did what any good man would do, which is snog his mistress in his office and then leave his wife and kids. I mean, look, I think you had it bang on when you identified the fundamental lack of empathy and humanity in Brandon Lewis's response. Because when somebody is telling you, I lost my daughter during this pandemic, the response cannot be while I've also lost friends. These two things are not equivalents, a parent burying their child and you not attending the funeral of a friend are just completely different orders of magnitude, just different kinds of grief, you just can't, you just can't do that. The decent way to address that question is go, my condolences, I'm so sorry. That pain that you feel has been echoed across the country. And that's why Matt Hancock staying in place was untenable, right? That's it. That's all that needs to be said because that's what the truth is. I think sometimes the media training of politicians by like, give an answer, give as much detail as possible and it'll make you look authoritative and like, you're not ducking it. It's just actually reeks in some some settings. It's just, you know, disingenuous and slimy and inhumane. And that's how Brandon Lewis comes across there. But moving on to, well, why is it Boris Johnson didn't sack Hancock right away? Because really, it should be a no brainer that if you as a powerful politician are having an affair with somebody who is receiving public money, that you should sack that person. But if you yourself have done that as a politician, like Boris Johnson has, how are you going to sack anybody else for it really should be like, oh, well, what can you say? You can say nothing. So I think that was the first problem, which is how can Boris Johnson sack somebody for doing exactly what he's done in the past? He can't. The second thing is the instinct with this government is no resignations, no sacking unless or until you've done something to upset me or my now wife personally, or if you're a useful guy and a patsy. And I think at this point, Matt Hancock didn't really fit either of those two models. The problem is that the story just looked like it was going to go on and on.  Then after that, people are going to be looking into what are the circumstances of her having been hired in the first place? What kind of access did she have to high level confidential meetings with civil servants or in Downing Street? What kind of say did she have over decisions within the Department of Health and what kind of influence did she have where she or her clients, the clients of the lobbying firm which she is a director, stood to benefit? So it's something which I think was just not going to be contained. It wasn't a case of this is a scandal, it will happen, it will blow up, you sit tight, you weather it, I think it was going to roll on and on and on. And I think once that became clear, it was obvious to Boris Johnson that he couldn't spend the political capital on this. And also perhaps he didn't like Matt Hancock enough to do so, right?  So yeah, that's why I think he didn't and why he eventually did. I mean, there was clearly a thing with Dominic Cummings whereby I suppose Dominic Cummings didn't want to go, but also Boris Johnson seemed to think he was completely dependent on him, that he couldn't really function in government without his chief advisor because Boris Johnson doesn't actually like doing any work and it seems he didn't feel the same way about Matt Hancock. What does seem to be clear though is that a cynic in these situations would say, yes, Matt Hancock resigned, but he's only resigned so that he can return to frontline politics in three months time. This isn't really going to be a real consequence for the guy. This is media management and he can come in into an unequally senior role in the near future, even though he's done something which so many people in the public find so offensive, as Trevor Phillips put there. You don't need to be a cynic to think that because actually Boris Johnson has been fairly explicit that that is what is going to happen in this particular circumstance. So in the letter Boris Johnson sent to Matt Hancock accepting his resignation, he included the following. You should leave office very proud of what you have achieved, not just in tackling the pandemic, but even before COVID-19. You should be immensely proud of your service. I am grateful for your support and believe that your contribution to public service is far from over. So that's really strange, isn't it, Ash? I mean, Boris Johnson is explicitly saying, yeah, okay, yeah, you can resign now, fine, go for it. I'll just appoint you in six months time. Well, yeah, that is the, it's not even subtext, is it? It's just text. It's very explicit, yeah. It's just regular, regular text. Yeah, no, I think that that's what's in there.  You can come back. That's what I want. And Matt Hancock isn't an astonishingly talented politician, all right? You don't look at him and you go, well, there goes a big beast. He's somebody who has always had, I think, this aura of pathetic thirst around him. That was just the thing which I would think when I saw him on TV. I was like, even before this stuff about Gina Collardangelo came out, you're just like, that man is starving. But I think that, you know, excellence and diligence aren't things that Boris Johnson looks for in a cabinet minister. I think it's personal loyalty and a willingness to take the flag when Boris Johnson doesn't want to sully his own optimistic image. And that's why we'd often see Matt Hancock, you know, breaking the bad news and Boris Johnson going, hey, don't take this one. To lots of tricky press conferences that Matt Hancock was kind of shunted in front of the cameras for. You have to reward that kind of loyalty or lack of dignity, whatever way you want to put it. Those are probably the two key talents of Matt Hancock in the job, wasn't it? I mean, from Boris Johnson's perspective, which was he was willing to take the flag for him, go out in front of the cameras and take whatever criticisms the media were throwing at that point in time and also lie on his behalf. If you're Boris Johnson, it's really handy to have ministers who have no moral qualms or whatsoever about saying things that everyone categorically can see are untrue. Because if that's what you need, Matt Hancock will do it. He is your guy.