morning Full disclosure. I'm neither a health professional nor a data scientist. So bear with me. I think it should be entertaining nonetheless So Yes, we sit fjord Dublin studio sits in the dock is enters innovation Center It's a really interesting place as a designer to be based We are 45 designers that sit alongside large teams of data scientists Technologists but also people with deep industry expertise and by and large the projects. We're working on how touch AI or use AI in some shape or form As well as being a place for developing prototypes products and services We're also a venue where clients come in to talk to us about design strategy innovation technology They come into us to work through their innovation agendas around key strategic challenges and Over the last number of years. We've had many clients who come in Often very curious about AI Very often quite concerned about AI But most of the time they're confused about AI What it is what it does? This is a one of our designers used to ganbreeder to generate these dog flares Which I'm quite quite fond of And it's not surprising that people are confused about AI because now it's synonymous with technology Well, these people coming in are deep experts on their industry areas and we work across Everything from life sciences. We do life sciences health care, but also into areas like utilities working with public safety and those types of organizations and the challenge that they face around the confusion is It's both everywhere and nowhere at the moment. So we all know artificial intelligence is in our lives It's on our phones Categorizing people. It's navigating us around the world. It's it's by and large telling us what we should be watching or consuming from a media perspective So AI is ubiquitous But for a lot of the people who come in this isn't this isn't really seen as artificial intelligence Because the AI here is wrapped within products or services that we're using every day and I think John McCarthy already predicted this when he said as soon as it works No one calls it AI anymore and in this case, it's it makes it invisible. So that's confusing and Another thing that's confusing is it's moved it's moving beyond simple prediction and classification AI keeps evolving so a couple of years ago when Autodesk released the dreamcatcher their generative Parametric design tool people were really blown away by this and it's like wow and and since then this has extended into all sorts of different areas Like the idea of generative design for drug discovery for fashion for a whole range of different applications So that's confusing and what's also confusing is AI is now starting to have unintended consequences that people are becoming more and more aware of and I know this audience here will be very familiar With issues around algorithmic bias in relation to gender in relation to race We've also started to see real-world Incidences where over dependence on automation or over reliance on AI has led to incidents like fatalities with autonomous vehicles and It's also started to kind of touches and move into really weird places I don't know how many people have are familiar with what you're seeing here below This is one of thousands of videos that are up on on kids video platforms at the moment That essentially targets the revenue the ad revenue from kids nursery rhymes and kids nursery tropes on it and the Recommendation engines of these platforms have been gamified people have looked at and said oh well actually I can find a way To put my content up this one is just weird, but actually there are many videos up there with with sexual references and graphic references That are not suitable for children So all of this is bringing us to a place where I think Kevin Kelly sums it up quite nicely when he says We're morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate with which we can civilize them And with AI this is where a lot of clients who come in looking for Technology consulting and strategy consulting these concerns are really there So how should people think about AI and I saying people here on purpose This isn't about experts and how experts think about it How should we all think about it particularly if you've got businesses that are coming in that are looking for help with their innovation We can ask an expert. What is AI I'm sitting in front of lots of experts I think if I was asked many of you I would hear it's a technical term an umbrella term for a range of machine learning Techniques and would start to talk about things like random forests and neural nets and this is all technically accurate The difficulty is for Experts and other domains when they come in they find it very difficult to relate these terms to their business challenges or to their everyday lived experiences So as designers working in an innovation center part of our responsibility is to make the technology a lot more accessible and One technique that we've used to this is essentially reframing AI in human terms So when we work on innovation workshops for clients, we don't talk about computer vision or natural language processing We use analogies we talk about how might you solve that business problem problem through seeing but seeing at scale or Through reading but reading enormous volumes or through hearing touch recommendation creation But reframing AI in human terms This isn't to dumb it down It just opens up the opportunities to allow other people to ideate around how it may be used to solve their problems And I'm going to use this framework now just to quickly step you through some work that we've been doing at the dock And we use these as inspirational examples within our ideation workshops as well. So let's look at seeing So computer vision is a hugely powerful technology By and large we've seen it applied in in various different areas. I think in in Quality control. It's got obvious applications in health. We've seen it in terms of radiology as a design agency We work a lot with consumer facing products and actually one of the projects we did was around retail We're traditionally a service design agency. That's where fjords background was So we looked at how can we improve the consumer experience in this case? Using the extra eyes that we carry in our pockets to take things off the thinking list so to make our lived experience easier I'll just play the short video here So computer vision here is just a touch point within an experience a digital experience that can improve a consumer's life We also have things like reading so natural language Processing as a technology is extremely powerful We've seen how this can be applied to things like social media But actually how we've been looking at how do we bring this back to ourselves as design as designers and researchers We spend a lot of time look at doing user research on individuals One client that came to us was an insurance client who wanted to move beyond traditional insurance products Refresh your premium once a day once a year and move into areas of digital health services The difficulty was while they had loads of data on their customers that data was all framed in terms of risk And they didn't really know what the lived experience of those people were you need that in order to build out digital health services So we did what we always did we went out and conducted research But we also use natural language processing to accelerate that process Again, just a quick video here We interviewed 200 senior care providers We analyzed their responses using natural language processing and generated by gram networks that surface the key important themes For example when asked how could your caregiver learning experience be improved? We can see that carers need support and that they want classes, but they have little time for them So they need better options for learning these visualizations provided a reference for discussion with our client around the true user needs So we discover insights, but then we bring those insights directly into the design of digital products or services So hearing digital signal processing we like we Were all a lot more familiar these days with conversational AI, but how can that actually get into work forces? We did some work with a large policing authority around their computer to aid or dispatch or around their emergency dispatch process Quite a difficult challenge for them because you've got a human who's picking up the phone listening to a very stressed other human Who's also often those people are not touch typists. They're not very deeply familiar with the technology So we looked at how can we actually use? Artificial intelligence to allow us to extract the key essential information and speed up the overall process I'll just quickly play a short example here Please emergency Hello, there was an assault in the street. There's a man down. He was attacked by two persons on a motorbike Can you tell me where this has happened? I'm in Green Street. I think he's been stabbed. Please confirm the man is in Green Street. You believe he's been stabbed Yes, yes, the man is in Green Street, and and I think they tried to rob him and he's been stabbed I'm just gonna keep moving on that but what you saw there was the use of natural language processing speech-to-text technology Certain recommendation systems not to replace a human worker here, but to augment them Touch is another interesting one So when we hear about when in public consciousness people here here AI and they think robots now AI is not robots But AI is changing the way in which robots can interact with us moving away from the purely highly dangerous activities where people were segregated from them and actually moving into the area of Collaborative robots or co-botics Working together actually with with I am or the manufacturing research group or outside the team at the dock developed this This experience that allowed people to play around with actually if I work alongside a robot Can I complete these tasks a lot more quickly? Have I more flexibility? Is it easy to train and this has been a really great example of how we can work better with robots in order to achieve achieve our goals Recommendation so Recommender engines are everywhere, you know on social on on our own media platforms It's telling us a lot of the stuff we should consume but actually with IOT and with devices out at the edge providing information back to us We can really extend what we do with recommendation systems a project that we recently finished up at the dock Ran on the title the last mile and this was dealing with the business challenges facing postal services internationally This is a huge issue. Their business model is quite Victorian It's based around sticking a letter to you know the letter box of your of your permanent abode once a day It has no relevance in a world where people want fast flexible parcel delivery So using a combination of demand prediction and route optimization We're allowing postal services to leverage their existing workforces and their infrastructure to help them to compete against Same-day delivery services and what's key here again is this isn't about replacement And it's also not dictating to everybody what they should do one of the key things about getting the workforces to accept This was to provide them with mechanisms to provide feedback to the algorithm So your delivery agents out in the field can pass back information Whether that's about problems with the delivery problems with the truck the algorithm should be doing the work around the data That isn't available to them that these human agents the human glue can give back to them and then finally create I already talked about the dreamcatcher project But the whole area of computational creativity is really exploded of the last while for everything from synthetic people True to synthetic fashion so stitchfix using AI to power fashion We've been playing around with Technology with some of our work with food producers so big food production clients that we have in we were looking at How we could help them come up with new product lines that are both Interesting and pleasant and we actually set up a little test kitchen inside and work and created a range of tapas that were inspired by by a knowledge graph The middle row there is a dark dark chocolate bool sitting on a parmesan crisp So it's kind of a chocolate taco. It was actually really really good So this this activity we call the AI creative matrix and like I said we use this Working with clients we use design thinking methods to get them to frame their problem to understand what they need to do And then we use this to get them to very rapidly come up with a range of ideas around it I'm conscious. I'm way over That is just one tool that we use within our tool kit of a program called designed intelligence Which is our systemic approach for trying to unlock the full potential of human and AI for your organization. I Have other stuff, but would you do you want to ask me questions? Or will I step through the last bit? Yeah, I think I'll just ask you one question. I am conscious of time I suppose as a design firm I'm you know within the dock and you have these let's say consumer service companies coming in because you know They're not necessarily going to be experts in AI and that's really why they're coming to extension to the doctor to Get a better understanding of that when you're designing As well as these features and these interactions is as well as the science fiction fear of you know If we break down or you're using human terms you're using human senses see read touch Is there a fear there if you break down those barriers too much that you know, they might be accepted that there's a sense of you know The robots are kind of replacing humans and if you if you break down those barriers too far Is that a design is that interestingly the last couple of slides which unfortunately I ran out of time Is exactly in that space and what we found really useful is to and this is part of the design intelligence program We're moving away from purely the interaction and we're taking a much more systemic approach So a whole area of systems design where we look not just us at the AI and the person interacting with it But actually look at overall systems to understand flows of products or information To understand where the opportunities for the introduction of either automation or AI and systems are but to also understand the upstream and downstream Providers or people who are affected by that change and it's really important to get that understanding of how it fits in the overall system And on top of that we're finding that by and large that's generating alternative Roles alternative jobs or extending roles that are in existence at the moment. So workforce Replacement was definitely I think in the early days how AI was being sold But I think what we're seeing more and more now is that when we talk about these systems sustaining over longer periods of time We need to build a full ecosystem around it We need to allow for that human glue to stay in those systems because systems themselves change and evolve over time Okay, very good. So really a complimentary support to the humans. Very interesting. Thanks. Thank you very much


Hello, Joe fans. Max Hoodrum here. Have you tried new-new Coke? If there's one thing I love, it's Coke. Coke. Coke. You know what I hate, though? Robots. Robots. Computer people and robot people do not get along. They-they-they think there's so much better than us being three-dimensional. If there's one robot I hate the most, it's the Cobra Bat. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Slight malfunction there. The Cobra Bat! Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. I'd like to thank a new patron. Thank you to Charles Wallace for adding your support. I can only continue doing these videos with the support of my friends on Patreon. If you'd like to support the channel, that's a great way to do it. Space. The Final Front Rear. Since the dawn of time, mankind has gazed up at the stars and thought, there's not enough war up there. That problem was finally solved in 1977 by George Lucas. But that wasn't enough war in the stars. In 1993, G.I. Joe and Cobra slipped the surly bombs of Earth and brought their eternal struggle to the stars. And, of course, they had robots. Nothing says fully posable modern army figure like space robots. Yo, Joe. Cobra already had a robot army, the Cobra Bats, the battle android troopers. That's B-A-T. The Star Brigade version of the Cobra Bat added an extra A. That's B-A-A-T, the battle armored android trooper. So, is it pronounced the same or is it bat? Let's take a look at those Star War robots from space. That have no relation to those other Star War robots from space. Or those other Star War robots from space. HCC788 presents the Cobra Bat. This is the Cobra Bat. That's B-A-A-T, the battle armored android trooper from 1993. This figure was available only in 1993. It was discontinued for 1994. This is the only version of the Bat, the B-A-A-T, in any era. It was in the Star Brigade subset that was introduced in 1993. That was a series of space themed GI Joe toys. The Bat was an armor tech figure, which means he had a different construction than the standard GI Joe action figure. You may consider this Bat to be an update of the original Bat, the battle android trooper from 1986. There were two versions of the Cobra Bat in the vintage era, version 1 from 1986 and version 2 from 1991. There were numerous post-vintage versions of the Bat. In addition, in 1992 Overkill, the Bat leader, was introduced as part of the Talking Battle Commander's subset. Is the 1993 Bat a later model of the 1986 Bat? I definitely consider it to be in the same design family, but it has a different construction and a different purpose than the earlier Bat. It is the first version of a new series of androids, not the third version of the earlier series of androids. I feel the same way about Overkill. He's not a Bat, exactly, but he draws from the same technology. If you consider the 1983 Cobra Snake to be an autonomous robot, you could consider the Bat to be a continuation of that technology. The Snake was also a suit of armor that you could put a figure inside, so it really depends on how you want to play with it. When the Snake appeared in the animated series, it was a robot, not an armored suit. Cobra's robotic technology gets more sophisticated in later years, but when Cobra goes to space, they need a radical new design. Thus, we get the battle armored android trooper. It's too bad this isn't a battery powered toy, because it would take double A's. One common feature of earlier Bats is the removable parts. They had hands that could be removed and replaced with other weapons. Even the old Snake armor had that feature, but the 1993 Bat does not. It does have a weapon that can be attached or removed to the forearm, but that's not quite the same thing. Star Brigade was introduced in 1993 as a subset of GI Joe. It was all space themed vehicles. Star Brigade consisted of a number of standard and armor tech figures and a few vehicles. We've already looked at a couple of those vehicles. There were seven armor tech figures in 1993. The armor tech figures were bigger and less articulated than standard figures.  Star Brigade continued to 1994. There were no new armor tech figures in 1994, but there were a few space aliens. Space themed GI Joe toys can be a bit controversial. They represent a hard break from the military theme of GI Joe. Some fans like it, while other fans strongly dislike it. Like it or not though, space themed toys have been in GI Joe for a very long time. The Defiant Shuttle Complex was introduced in 1987. After that, both GI Joe and Cobra had astronauts and space vehicles. Outer space was first integrated into GI Joe in 1966 with the introduction of the Space Capsule and Astronaut. In 1994, that capsule and astronaut were converted to three and three-quarter inch scale and released with the original action team 30th anniversary set. All this is to say, space themes have been in GI Joe for decades. Let's take a look at the Cobra Bat accessories. The Bat, like all other carted Star Brigade figures, included an accessories tree. The accessories were attached to a plastic frame and the purchaser would have to cut them off. In the case of the Bat, it was a yellow plastic tree, so all accessories except for the missile launcher are yellow. This isn't necessarily a bad color for a space toy. For a ground troop, yellow is terrible camouflage. In space though, there are no trees or rocks to hide behind. The yellow accessories are also a callback to the yellow paint on the original 1986 Bat. These yellow accessories are also not original. They are reissued from earlier action figures. Let's start with what we will call submachine gun number one. It sort of looks like a submachine gun. This was originally issued with 1988 Voltaire. It has a magazine, it has a vintage shroud over the barrel, and it has this weird fin thing in the back. The submachine gun will sort of fit in the Bat's hand, but there's a bit of flashing on mine, so it will only fit halfway. Next we look at submachine gun number two. This is again in yellow plastic. It looks a bit like an Uzi, but it is not an exact copy of that real-world weapon. This was originally issued with Snake Eyes version three from 1989. That one was in gray plastic. It has this little hook at the back, but it doesn't really hook to anything. This submachine gun will not fit in the Bat's hand. Next we have the pistol. This is again in yellow plastic like the others, and this was originally issued with the 1988 Iron Grenadiers in red plastic. The laser pistol will not fit in the Cobra Bat's hand. Next we have the laser gun. This laser gun, I have it in the Cobra Bat's hand. It's another one of those yellow accessories. This is a reissue of the laser gun that was included with 1991 Sci-Fi version two. That one was in silver plastic. It has been modified a bit. The grip has been changed because the grip on the original would not fit in the Cobra Bat's hand. One thing they did not modify was this peg on the back. On the original, that peg connected to a black connector hose. But on this reissue, there's nothing to which it connects, but the peg is still there. The laser gun will fit in the Bat's hand pretty well. The next accessory is this knife, of course, because every robot needs a knife. It fits very firmly in the Cobra Bat's hand. I have to kind of struggle to get it out. This knife is a reissue of the one that originally came with the 1988 Hydro Viper. It has a lightning bolt shaped blade. Some sources don't list this accessory, but it definitely came on that accessory's tree. The knife will fit in the Bat's hand if you press it firmly enough. Next, we have the missile launcher. It's the only accessory that is not yellow. It has a slot that slides onto this rail on the underside of the figure's arms. There is a rail on each arm, so it can fit on either arm. The missile launcher is in red plastic. It has some technical detail. It has a black trigger, and it has two yellow missiles. These missiles are both the same, and they're in the same yellow color as those other accessories. This is a spring-loaded missile launcher, so this missile launcher will really fire this missile. To operate it, you just place the missile into the barrel of the launcher with the notch side down. Press it in until it clicks. To demonstrate the missile launcher, let's use our old friend, Dr. Meinbender.  Once again, Meinbender is saved by the back wall, so let's see if we can take him out with our final missile. Let's take aim and fire. Dr. Meinbender is still standing. He survives this time. The final accessory we're going to look at is this yellow figure stand. This is a standard yellow figure stand. It has a peg to fit in the holes on the bottom of the action figure's feet. This figure does not need a figure stand. He has wide, flat feet, and he stands very well without it. Since the Cobra Bat doesn't need a figure stand, you could give this to another figure, which is handy because G.I. Joe figures did not come with figure stands before the 1990s. Let's take a look at the articulation of the Cobra Bat. He had the articulation that was standard for armor tech figures, but not for regular G.I. Joe figures. So he could turn his head from left to right. He could swivel at the shoulder all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow, so he could bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the wrist so he could swivel his hands, but the hands will not swivel all the way around because they are blocked by this guard that goes over the back of the hand. He has no articulation at the waist. He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees, and that's it. Let's take a look at the sculpted design and color of the Cobra Bat starting with his head. On his head, he has a black helmet with three prongs on top. He has some protrusions at the jawline. He has a deep red faceplate. The torso is all one piece. It looks like it might be two pieces with the white on the bottom, but that's all one piece.  He has some technical detail and some panel lines on the chest. He has a circle in the center of his chest like Iron Man. Minimal detail on the back, but there is a hole in the back, perhaps for a backpack, but he doesn't include a backpack. Also, this is not a screw hole like on a standard G-Ajo figure, so you can't unscrew this figure and take it apart. The lower part of this torso piece from the belt line down is in white plastic. This all looks fine. It looks very robot-like, which it's supposed to.  His forearms have black on the inside and around the wrists and around the elbows. And on the outside of the forearms, he has white armor. And on that armor, on the piece that goes over the back of his hand, he has blunted spikes on both sides. That's pretty cool. He has those rails on the underside of his forearms for attaching the missile launcher. He has black hands that are in the form of fists so he can hold the accessories. This right arm was used on another figure. It was used on the Star Brigade Armor Tech Destro version 4. That's the same arm, but in different colors. The legs are mostly black. He has some technical detail in white on the right upper leg. There is not a similar detail on the left leg. The lower legs are also mostly black, but he has some white armor that wraps around the back and the sides. And he has white feet. He has two toes on each feet. He has hooves. Those legs were also reused on Destro version 4. That's the same legs in different colors. I don't have a lot of love for these armor tech figures. They are clunky and poorly articulated compared to standard GI Joe figures. But in the case of the bat, it works better than others. It's supposed to be a robot, so this superhuman shape makes a bit more sense. If you can accept that Cobra could build the original 1986 bat, they could definitely build this. Let's take a look at the Cobra Bat's file card. The file card was printed with a hot pink background, which unfortunately was the standard color of Star Brigade file cards. There's a single portrait of the Cobra Bat here, and there's some text on other Star Brigade file cards, as on with a lot of other 90s file cards. There was a list of features on a diagram that is not on the Cobra Bat's file card, which is surprising. This is a robot you would think maybe they would want to put some tech specs. His codename is Cobra Bat with two A's. That's B-A-A-T, which stands for Battle Armored Android Trooper. There's a quote here that says, take a bulldozer, strap a few missile launchers and assault rifles to it, and you've got yourself a bat. This paragraph says, bats, the original battle android troopers, were totally artificial robotic troopers with primitive logic circuits. They could absorb enormous amounts of battle damage and still continue their missions, as long as their trigger finger circuits were intact. Now the new bats have been redesigned with less intelligence than before, because their circuits have been modified for weapons and assault capabilities only. Battle destruction and elimination of GI Joe forces were the only orders programmed into the circuitry of these walking space tanks. The bats are so brainless and trigger happy that they can become confused during space battles and fire at anything that moves, including other bats. The file card seems to suggest this is a continuation of the original bat line. The original bat was already not very bright. Why would you make it dumber? The hardware is an upgrade, but the software is a downgrade. Looking at how this version of the Cobra Bat was used in GI Joe media, it had no animated appearances to my knowledge. Some online references just include this figure as a version of the original bat, so it doesn't have its own entry. In the GI Joe comic book series published by Marvel Comics, Star Brigade did appear in a few issues, but I have not found an appearance of this design of the bat. In the Star Brigade comic book appearances, there was a robot army. There were robot troopers, but they were not bats. Looking at the bat overall, it is clunky, it is bulky, it is poorly articulated, and it's fine. I don't have a lot of love for armor tech figures. I rather famously ranted against Robo Joe. This is one instance where the armor tech body kind of makes sense. This is a robot. It can be any shape. It can be bulky and broad-shouldered. It can have visible mechanical joints. This body doesn't make sense for Hawk or Destro, but for a battle-armored android trooper, it works. Even though it's supposed to be a space robot, there's no reason it needs to operate in space. It would be more effective on the ground. It's a massively upscaled version of the original bat. Like the file card says, it's a bulldozer with weapons. If androids are just too science fiction for you, there's nothing I can say about this one that's going to make you like it, and I wouldn't try. The color and overall design are simple but effective. I would like to see more detail. I would like to see more paint applications. I would like to see more color variety on the figure. That's kind of done with the accessories rather than on the figure itself. The accessories suffer from the same deficiency as a lot of 90s accessories. They came on an accessories tree, so they're all the same color, except for the missile launcher. They're also reissued from earlier action figures, so there's almost nothing new here. It's another low-effort 90s affair. In this case, yellow isn't the worst color choice. It kind of reminds you of the yellow on that original 1986 Cobra Bat figure, and that's definitely what you want to do. Remind people of a better action figure. That was my review of the Star Brigade Cobra Bat. I hope you enjoyed it, and thank you again to Charles Wallace for adding your support. I could not continue doing these videos without the support of my friends on Patreon. If you'd like to support the channel, that's a great way to do it. And you can get your name in videos. You see all the names scrolling on the screen right now? Your name could be there. That's all I have for you this week. I have not taken a break since I started doing videos again, so I think I may be due for a little break, but I will see you soon with another vintage GI Joe toy review. Until then, remember, only GI Joe is GI Joe.


Lethal Company is a game that has taken the internet by storm. If you've never played the game, you for sure have seen your favorite youtubers play it, your friends play it, if you have those, or have seen funny videos all over social media of people biding the dust in excruciating ways. And while everyone seems to be thrilled with the game itself, which I mean, hey, justifiably, it's a great game, I'm also really fascinated by the game's origins and how it came to be. Lethal Company has become the highest rated steam game of 2023, passing titles such as Baldur's Gate 3 and the Resident Evil 4 remake. Lethal Company has also outsold Activision's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 on Steam. And as of right now, this game has over 150,000 players actively playing the game, but also reaching a peak of 184,000. All this chaos and hype and pounds of money generated in content creation was created by one person who's 21 years old. So join me, Dr. Skipper, on this expedition of how one person outsold a company of human slaves. Also subscribe, please, I need this. Lethal Company isn't made by a massive studio, or even a small indie team at that. In the same vein as Cruelty Squad, or even Five Nights at Freddy's, this game has one single developer that got some help from friends for voice lines and game testing. And before I glaze and explain why you should play Lethal Company, first, um, what is Lethal Company? I first found the game by seeing clips on Twitter, and then eventually I saw the game pop up in my friends list, so I looked it up and saw that it was only $10, which is like two light ice-gold needles from Dutch Bros, so I gave it a try. Lethal Company is a game where you roleplay as the average Amazon employee, putting your life on the line for big business to get scraps in return. I'm not even joking, either, that's quite literally the game. You go to abandoned planets to pick up loose items so that you could sell it to a company. Where their collector is a tentacle monster, they get annoyed when you ring its bell. And you have to meet a quota of items in three days, and if you don't, Jeff Bezos himself ejects you into space.  But what's also generated are monsters. This game isn't just an Amazon simulator, it's Amazon Simulator if the homeowner had a very aggressive dog, or cat, or child. Just like how the game has randomized trash and map layouts, the game also has randomized monsters. And depending on what planet you go to, the monsters can be stronger and scarier, but they're always gonna be random. The creatures you encounter are heavily inspired by SCPs. There's an enemy called the Coilhead that's directly inspired from the most popular SCP, that being SCP-173. It even follows the same rules. If you look at it, it doesn't move, and if you stop looking at it, it snaps your neck. The other monsters can range in many different ways of horror.  And you're the only one who can see her. There's also big spiders that eat up indigenerate. But then there's creatures outside, like giants and dogs, that make sure even getting back to the ship is a challenge. And then you got a jack in the box. The game's premise is simple, but what makes Lethal Company so fun is its design of co-op play. Lethal Company isn't a game that cures cancer, but the best graphics and game design. It's made by one person after all. And the game knows that, so instead of trying to be groundbreaking, it's instead made to be incredibly fun to play with friends. Lethal Company is successful because it's easy to understand its objective and it's fun to play while not costing an arm and a leg to buy, which was the intention of the developer being very cautious to nail down the objective. This isn't the first time an indie co-op game exploded. And the last time we saw it in full force was from two other games, Phasmophobia and Among Us.  It was successful because it was a simple party game. It was made to cause drama and start arguments amongst friends who played the game. It required communication, which made it engaging. It was simple, but had a fun repetitive game loop. And Phasmophobia had a similar lightning in a bottle success. It was a game that released around Halloween where you had to find out what Ghost was haunting whatever location you chose to play at, and the only way to communicate was through proximity chat and radios. But the reason the game was fun was because it was scary, and when you have four clueless people experiencing new stuff at the same time, it makes for a thrilling and more importantly funny time. Lethal Company hits the mark on what it takes to go viral. It has a simplistic art style with character designs that are easy to market, and a fun repetitive game loop that relies on in-game communication through proximity chat and radios. And it being only $10 makes it very accessible, thus making it very successful. So now that we know what Lethal Company is, who made the game? Well, this game was made by Zeekers. As I mentioned earlier, this person is 21 years old, and when looking at their social media presence in history, it's easy to tell. Just by looking at their digital footprint, you could track their history and inspirations for the game. And something that stood out to me was how much of a normal person Zeekers appears to be. When looking at their Twitter, you could find discussions about video games, dramas, or recent events alongside updates to them progressing in game design. And when looking at his YouTube channel, you could see his old Roblox and Minecraft videos that he made when he was a kid, like so many of us did when we were kids. But if you glance at the videos, you start to notice that these videos were building blocks that led him to make video games today. Zeekers at on Twitter is at Zeekers Roblox. When you open Lethal Company, the credit is also to at Zeekers Roblox. So when you put two and two together, this dude used to be a Roblox map designer before learning Unity. On August 31, 2012, you see a public video on Zeekers' YouTube channel named Dark Mansion, where he is making a horror map in Roblox at the age of 10. At age 10, I was playing Black House 2 and Gary's Podwell, this kid was grinding. Zeekers continued to make Roblox maps for years in his youth, alongside watching the Death Star blow up in 2017, uh, sick. Then in 2019, Zeekers made his first Steam game titled Welcome to the Dark Place, but it never got successfully greenlit so it never released. Then in 2020, he released a game named It Steals on itch.io. This is also his first game ever made on Unity. Zeekers followed the game up with Drive Home and another game named Dead Cedar, where Zeekers would upload trailers and reactions to his games. None of these were home runs in comparison to what would come next. On July 8, 2022, Zeekers would upload a teaser for a game he was now working on called Lethal Company. For the following year, Zeekers would continue to develop the game while also leaving notes in his Discord server and on Twitter and his Patreon about the game's progress. Lethal Company was inspired by a critique that Zeekers had for Phasmophobia, which was its proximity chat. Eventually on February 17, 2023, Zeekers would also add a walkie-talkie item to Lethal Company that only took him five hours to make. Later, he also learned how to add rain and music, which is also seen by a Twitter update on June 26. Then Zeekers would run into a problem with Lethal Company due to a drama with the game's engine. In 2015, Zeekers would begin to learn the Unity engine so that he could make games outside of Roblox, which is seen by his post on October 9. Then two years later in 2017, Zeekers would continue to learn the Unity engine. Eventually, his games were all made in Unity, but in September this year, the Unity engine had a controversy. The controversy was that if any game made with the Unity engine passed a certain installation and revenue threshold that the developer would start to get charged a fee for every time the game was downloaded. Zeekers would respond to this drama on September 16, 2023. After the statement, Zeekers would also post his progress on learning the Epic game's Unreal engine. Even with Roblox, Zeekers would progress to Finish Lethal Company on the Unity engine. A year later, he released the official trailer on August 1st this year to then release the game on October 23rd. I bring up the history of Zeekers because he's no one special. I mean he's special in his own way, but me and him are the same age and I see so many types of similar traits. As a kid, I pirated editing softwares and taught myself how to edit videos, and this kid was making Roblox maps and taught himself how to use game engines. This single dude outsold Activision and made a more popular game than a ton of big-wig AAA game studios. All because he used to make scary maps on Roblox. I have a video on my channel about online animation that documented how powerful the internet can be, and that video just keeps aging like fine wine.    The internet allows you to do so much, and gatekeeping isn't like it was back then. You don't need a degree or connections to make a video game. The best way to make video games is to learn and make video games. To be successful takes hard work, I'm not saying it doesn't, but nothing is really holding you back. Like Zeekers, you can learn in Roblox and free programs to then make something that everybody plays. That's why I'm making this video.  It's fun to see an underdog win, especially when it's deserved. I guess we'll never know. And with the newfound success, Zeekers could put that money in recent fame into his next projects. Lethal Company is gonna fade out like both Among Us and Phasmophobia. It's inevitable. But I believe Zeekers knows this. It's the circle of life. But for now, while it's hot and new, get your friends and try Lethal Company. I've had a blast playing it and have reconnected with friends I haven't talked to in a long time. Also support Zeekers on Patreon to fund his future games. I'm Dr. Skipper, new video on MW3 soon. Subscribe, play Lethal Company. Goodbye.


This is an overview video of the different types of plate tectonic boundaries. Please watch the more in-depth videos for a more detailed examination of these boundaries. We're going to use Google Earth to help us explore the different types of boundaries. There are three major types of boundaries. Divergent, Convergent, and Transform. Divergent boundaries are areas where new plate is being created. These happen along long volcano-type mountains. Not traditional, not volcanoes in the traditional sense that you're used to, but areas where you have the slow oozing of volcanism that's creating new oceanic plate. These are long ridges. We'll look at Google Earth in a second to see where these ridges are happening. That is where new plate is being created, plates are moving apart from each other. These are divergent boundaries. At Convergent boundaries, where you have ocean plate, you'll have subduction. This is where the ocean plate sinks into the mantle beneath another plate, which could be another type of ocean plate or a continental plate. When it sinks, it creates earthquakes along its trace as it sinks into the mantle. It also creates arcs of volcanoes as a result of the subduction. Let's take a closer look at Google Earth to see where this is happening on our planet. On Google Earth here, I have layers that show earthquakes and then a layer that shows the different plate boundaries. We can zoom in to the middle of the Atlantic and look at the plate boundary that goes right down the middle of the Atlantic. This is a divergent boundary, the mid-Atlantic ridge. This is where a new ocean plate is being made on either side of the boundary. If we look at the pattern of earthquakes, it follows very tightly in line with the divergent boundary. It lines up perfectly, all shallow earthquakes along this boundary. This is where decompression melting is happening and new ocean plate is being generated. If we look at the age of the seafloor around the mid-ocean ridge, we can see that the youngest plate in red follows right near the ridge and it gets older on either side as you move away from that ridge. Convergent boundaries, plates are being destroyed. These are most easily found by looking for a deep ocean trench. We'll look at the pattern of earthquakes in a second. Notice, here's the Aleutian Islands and right off the coast of the Aleutian Islands, there's a much deeper part of the ocean, which is a trench. We see this all around the Pacific in different parts. Here's the Mariana's islands and the Mariana's trench just off the coast of those. So there are many places where we have these deep ocean trenches and these mark subduction zones. We can look at the earthquakes associated with those trenches and see that right near the trench, the earthquakes were very shallow and they get deeper as you move further inland of the overriding plate. So the orange earthquakes are the shallowest and the redder the deepest in this picture and the plate is subducting to the north. This is where plate is being destroyed or reintroduced into the mantle. As this Pacific plate here is subducted, it makes volcanoes because you have flux melting where water from the subducted plate is mixing with the mantle and causing melting of the mantle above it. And in turn it creates a number of volcanoes represented here by triangles all along here. Another example where this is happening is the west coast of South America. You can see the pattern of earthquakes very clearly where you have shallow earthquakes near the trench and as you go further inland as the subducting plate dives deeper into the mantle, you have much deeper earthquakes. These subduction zones are where some of the largest earthquakes on earth happen and also where some of the most explosive volcanoes are created. Please watch the other videos for more detail on convergent and divergent boundaries. Transform boundaries for the sake of this video are just areas where there is accommodation for movement between the different plates. There are definitely earthquakes generated along these transform boundaries but no volcanoes because there is no subduction occurring and no decompression melting occurring. We'll talk about transform boundaries in more detail in the other videos. Thank you and I hope you learned some important information from this video.


I'm Dave Vellante, wikibon.org, and we're here with Andre Kemp, who's to my left. Andre's with VMware. Andre, good to see you again. Yeah, it's great to be here, it's fantastic. And Richard Probst, who's a VP at SAP. Richard, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Dave, good to see you. And Bernard Shilski, from EMC. Good to see you again. Now, Andre and Bernard, we were on theCUBE last week at SAP Sapphire, which was a great event. Richard, I presume you were there. Yeah, great show. In force. So why don't we break that down? Richard, what were you guys trying to accomplish at Sapphire, and do you think you succeeded at that? Well, there were several big messages, but the number one message out of Sapphire was run like never before. So it's really time to put your foot on the gas and really go, and that SAP is there to help our customers do that with our partners. And then behind that message, there's certainly stuff we wanted to talk to people about, HANA, the in-memory database, our cloud strategy, and really all the product that we're delivering right now. You know, I thought, Andre, it was an interesting juxtaposition, you had the compare, for instance, EMC world with Sapphire. I mean, this is a technology show. Sapphire is a business show, but there was a lot of technology at Sapphire. I mean, we heard a lot about HANA, right? We heard a lot about MOVAL, which is technology. It's cool technology, but it's consumer. We heard a lot about personalization, but so what's your takeaway from Sapphire? Well, I think the takeaway is that, as Richard was saying, run anywhere, run anything, and specifically from a virtualization standpoint. I think one of the key things that was coming out of there was that you can actually take your largest SAP system, use technology from EMC, such as VBlock and HANA, also from EMC as well, virtualize that on the VMware platform quite successfully. It doesn't matter if you're running Oracle, SQL, whatever database as well, completely 100% virtualized. Yeah, we're going to talk about that. And Bernard, now we're here in your backyard here, EMC world. You guys started all with cloud, meets big data, about a year and a half ago or so. And you heard a little bit from SAP about big data. Big data, we call it big, fast data, but you guys, that's really major themes, transformation. What's the vibe at EMC world for you, and what's your angle on all this? Yeah, it's been amazing. I mean, coming here from Sapphire to EMC world, is really where SAP meets the infrastructure. So going back to maybe putting that on you, my takeaway from Sapphire was the key one is, oh, SAP is going to be a database vendor. And naturally as a database vendor, there's so much closer to the infrastructure, which is where we are. So I think the vibe here also is we are going in line. If you look at the way we name things, I mean, SAP calls it big data, we've been calling it big data. It's really going across one line. The way we market it, the way that we put the value proposition out, and it's really going back to the MOU and the joint cooperation that we're doing, it is really that SAP has embraced the role, like embracing cloud, putting the applications on there, making mobility real, on putting data on accessibility, where and so forth. This is where we as the EMC and SAP are teaming up. It's about time, it's the right time, it's a lot of fun, I have to assure you, and it's all for the good of the customer. So that really makes me feel good. And actually, yes, it's very technical. It's two great shows all around customers, which is the main thing. So I feel very okay with Sapphire. I feel the same great way here in EMC world. Yeah, there's an interesting dynamic going on. And so we at theCUBE, we love to handicap the horses on the racetrack, right? So, you know, Joe Tucci was talking this morning about the waves of IT. Now he's always talked about the waves of IT in the context of when new waves come along, you get new winners and new losers. And that's always happened in this business. And I think it's going to happen again this time, but there's something different, and that's the following. The IT business, the enterprise business, is largely an oligopoly now. You've got a few large whales, maybe four, five, six, that really control the chessboard. That's true. And now you've got two companies, EMC and SAP, that are the small of the big. Now, I've made a prediction that EMC and VMware will be the next $100 billion market cap company. But then there's this little company that's going to mess up my prediction, which is SAP.  So it's a really interesting dynamic where, you know, these companies, these large companies, they have a lot of cash. They've got a huge customer base. They're not going anywhere overnight. I mean, they're very strong. They're close to their customers. So now you see a really interesting dynamic with EMC and, of course, VMware aligning with SAP to solve some of these customer problems around cloud, around data, data in memory, or in your guys' case, big data, certainly EMC and VMware starting to make big data plays. So my question to you, Richard, is what's your take on the partnership between SAP and EMC and VMware? Is it, you know, a lot of people think it's the enemy of my enemy as my friend, but it feels like it's a little bit more than that. Maybe give us some color on that. I think it's a lot more than that, David. And you know, I think that Tutu was absolutely right. There are waves, but if you go down to the beach and you watch the waves come in, there's a gap between waves. You know, it's not waves all the time. There's a wave and a gap and a wave and a gap. And we're going through a time of change right now. So for a long time, customers have been kind of consolidating, figuring out what they've got, getting their costs under control, getting their operation under control. But now the customers are ready to really burst out and grow again. And it's time to solve problems that they couldn't solve before. Problems that you have to solve with big data, with cloud, with mobile. They're trying to figure out how do I get ahead, how do I get the competitive advantage and solve these new problems and get on the front of this wave, right? Get on the crest of this wave and really ride it. Now you're right that SAP is not as big as some of the other massive players in this industry. We hope that we're big enough to have changed the world and small enough to move quickly. And if you get that balance just right, you can really make a lot of stuff happen. But we for sure can't do it by ourselves. So we have to work with great companies like VMware and EMC to really deliver on what the customers are asking for. This partnership is a very strong partnership and we're really happy to be working together. And Bill on just what he just said, the key words are relevance. I mean, it's being irrelevant to the business at hand. And that's, I think with all three companies, SAP, VMware and EMC, are actually bringing up to the business and saying, you're now going to transform the way I'm going to go to market and do business and actually impact the bottom line. Seriously impact the bottom line. Well, it's interesting to do it. And it starts at the top with Tucci, with McDermott, with Schnabe, my co-host John Furrier did a little social cam with Tucci last night and Joe is not Mr. Social Media. John's got the camera. And what he mentioned McDermott and Joe lit up. Oh yeah, we know those guys. We know those guys really well. It goes down into the field. So again, the dynamic that I see is when you get two large companies with big install bases who know what they're doing, a lot of cash, a lot of good execution ethos, some really interesting things can happen. The other thing about Sapphire that I noticed, I mean, you think of SAP, you think of, you know, big, lot of function obviously in the core applications, but it's big, it's complicated, it's hard to change. What you heard from SAP last week at Sapphire was flexibility, speed, personalization, mobility, all the hot trends cloud. Absolutely. And Lars was sort of the centerpiece with success factors as a big part of the cloud strategy. So you see that coming together and now Andre, virtualization is the underpinning of that simplification effort. And you were talking at the top of the show or at the top of the segment about how people are virtualizing these mission critical applications and that's becoming real, isn't it? Absolutely. And I think the role of the database is really going to go the way that Dodo here real quick. When I mean real quick IT terms in three to four years, I mean the way that you have these traditional relationship databases to where you have these monolithic type of landscapes. I mean SAP knows that in order to bring that agility and mobility, it's going to have to have a way to quickly move that data around. And that's where Hannah's going to be as the game changer, right? We're already seeing it from the BW side of the house, the business intelligence, we're outside of the house, wait till they bring that into the OLTP side of the house. Then it's it, game over. Why would you need to actually have a legacy that they're actually starting to use that term now? A legacy database architecture and that kind of mobility is just critical and of course, virtualization will be able to take advantage of that up and down the stack. Yeah, obviously we're seeing more traction with Hannah. It was a pretty new concept, you know, last year at Sapphire, he had some proof points. One of the C, I guess the Executive Chairman of McLaren said, quote, we are blown away by the capabilities of Hannah. I thought that was a good, it was a decent testimonial. But McLaren has always been really smart about collecting data. They collect data from every point in the car and every inch of the lap, they're pulling down that data. But the point is, it's not about gathering together petabytes and petabytes and data, it's about figuring out what the real meaning is, about finding the needle in the haystack and really digging out where the value is in that data. And to do that, you've got to combine big data with fast data. So you've got to get in memory. You've got to be able to run queries thousands or hundreds of thousands of times faster. McLaren's early at seeing the value of this and so are some other customers. But the truth is, this thing's taking off like wildfire. The fastest product we've ever brought to market did 160 million its first year, which was half a year. So- Euro. Yes. Right, right, yes, that's Euro. Euros in a half a year and just is going on from there. So we're seeing wonderful uptake. The early adopter customers are already figuring out how to take value from it. And everybody else is saying, this is too good to pass up, I got to get on this quickly. They're right, they're absolutely right. This is changing the- I mean, it is early, but that's a good number. That's sizable, it's meaningful. There's a lot of proof points you can pull from that. And SAP's messaging was very strong around it. You can see the commitment. I mean, if you're an SAP customer and you're not thinking about how to enable mobile and HANA, then you're just not paying attention. Well, then we should be talking. Let's put it that way. All right, right. So fair enough. Now, having said that, let's see. I guess it was Snabe who said, imagine a world where all data's in memory and you don't have to have a traditional disk-based database. So Bernard, I have to ask you again, you're EMC, you're all about supporting those traditional disk-based databases. So what does that mean for you? So first of all, I mean, you know that we are in the, more in the storage software business. So we're attaching classical disks, we're attaching flash and everything. It's about to be able to replicate data. So it's- You have to sell a lot of hardware. Come on, guys. Oh, yeah, sure. Good margins. But it's also a lot of software. So I think, when was the disk invented? Like, I think it was by IBM in 56, okay? And in 56 it was invented because main memory wasn't sufficient, okay? So yes, a lot of stuff fits in memory, but I mean, there is an exponential data growth almost 30 or 50 times. And if I asked any of you guys, do you ever believe that all of the data that's being collected will ever reside only in memory? I'd be hard-pressed to believe that you say, like, yes, sure. For operationalizing the data, putting it in memory, yes, good idea. But there's always more data to be looked at. I mean, look at what large chemical companies are doing with Isilon. They're putting like 10 petabytes and more on a single file system that they then mine. I mean, even with compression, you cannot put that in memory. So I think EMC offers a wide choice of solutions in any ranges. So we are supporting the HANA appliance. We're bringing disaster tolerance to HANA and all the good stuff that's needed in a base based on disk, based on flash, or be it if we kind of replicate from flashcards directly or even main memory. So all doable with our technology. So I'm looking at this very positively. It's like a kind of a running gag. You can't make fun of EMC as the disc company, but I think those guys who think EMC is just a disc company haven't paid attention the last five to 10 years because we evolved clearly beyond that.  Look at RSA, look at all the stuff. I mean, we've got a choice for kind of every problem. So I think it's an easy statement to make and it puts a smile on my face, but it doesn't put any fear in my brain or anything. And petabytes of RAM are still pretty expensive. It is pretty expensive. Let me say this. I mean, we've been talking engineering level like phase change memory, okay? Like five years ago, we said like, oh, it's coming light of this year. Are we talking today? And it's again, engineering sound. It's like four years from now and so forth. We're going to see both. So, and we're prepared, that's a short story. We had Bill McDermott on a couple of cubes back and John asked him about, yeah, anytime he asks McDermott about Oracle, he gets his alpha up and it's good. And I basically said, look, we're not a hardware company.  You know, Exadata had a lot of initial buzz. David Floyer on Wikibon just wrote a piece just sort of questioning some of the value propositions of Exadata. I think it's a pretty narrow one. They got a lot of momentum, the billion dollar backlog starting to get eaten into. And now you're seeing things like HANA, EMC's reasserting itself. Now it's a game of leapfrog in the technology business, which we love, right? Yeah, but there's a real differentiated strategy here. We're not picking one, frankly, failing hardware company and putting all of our chips on that. And I say that with a little bit of angst because I used to work for Sun, I worked for Sun for 10 years, very sorry to see where they've gone to. But the fact is they were starting to lose their luster. Spark is dead. And Oracle picked them up. Steve Mills, that's a Steve Mills quote, not a Dave Vellante quote. Spark is dead. No way would SAP do this. Instead, what we do is we partner with the best. And there's more than one best, which is the great thing for customers. There's competition. Our partners are out trying to beat each other up and our customers just win as a result of that. So we love that. We love to work with motivated, brilliant, creative partners. And yeah, there's a competitive market out there but this is the way the world works best. I mean, we like to be challenged. I mean, Gelsinger said that this morning with the LinkedIn example, and yeah, we're sure. I mean, we can do it. We show it every day. Yeah, I think actually, to be quite frank, Oracle is doing a disservice to their customers quite frankly.  I think it's now that's the time, specifically when you're looking at transforming your data center and you're going to have to change your platform most likely from big iron Unix base to X86. That is now, now is the time to have the serious discussion of what is my database platform choice. Well, so let's talk about that because you're talking about virtualizing SAP. A lot of times when you're virtualizing SAP, you're virtualizing Oracle along with it. And there's SAP embracing VMware and virtualization, generally, Oracle doesn't embrace anything other than OVM. Customers, many customers don't want OVM. So Oracle has this sort of specter of services threat hanging over them. We've written on Wikibon, look, damn the torpedoes, you should go and virtualize Oracle and we've done major studies on these and generally speaking, there's strategies that you can take to minimize your risk but I'm wondering what you're seeing in the field with regard to that threat of no service and it does scare away some customers. How do you deal with that? Yeah, so absolutely. I would say that that's probably the best piece of written propaganda that I've ever seen from an ISV company, ever. I mean, it's written to instill fear, uncertainty and doubt.  It is absolutely written to, so whoever wrote it probably got like a bit of a shock in fact. I think Larry wrote that. He might have wrote it himself correctly. But the fact of the matter is that when we talk to customers specifically, we can say without a doubt that there has not been one customer that has had to rebuild a physical server in order to get troubleshooting, in order to get support. One, we do not support, it doesn't mean certification and that's the word that Oracle likes to use. Nobody certifies anybody. Support is completely different from certification. Oracle runs on operating systems, right? That's what is the support, crux of the matter. We support operating systems where there go, you can run your Oracle quite nicely without having to worry about getting support and you can easily get support through SAP or we'll call Oracle Direct. We even took it even further. We said, okay, we're gonna put a stake in the sand. We will provide you Oracle support. All across the application set. We have three Oracle masters on staff. So customers with their existing VMware support contract can call and say, I have an Oracle problem, whatever it may be, EBS or just regular, relational database specific and put in a request and we will give you that support if you're gonna get drama from Oracle. So we've actually put our stake in and said, look, we can provide the same or even better support than Oracle can. Yeah, well, it's again, it's an interesting dynamic and I mean, I know, remember the old main frame days with IBM had you locked in and somebody put the Amdahl coffee cup on and they'd get a $2 million discount. This sort of similar strides. I know CIOs that have said, hey, I'm doing a DB2 pilot product and it saved me millions. Now the problem is, you go to pharma, for example, there's no DB2 in pharma. Right now you got HANA coming along. It's a new concept. It's an alternative. It's not Hadoop because Hadoop's a whole different animal. We can talk about that a little bit, but so Richard, that to me is an interesting wedge potentially that's going to help customers a lot because customers are stressing out about this. Their Oracle customers biggest complaint is, I have Oracle negotiations. It's a full-time job. I got to treat it like a project. So can you guys be an alternative, an emerging alternative? Is data that lever that you can use? I mean, Larry has made some pretty incendiary statements like SAP getting a database business is like me playing Colby one-on-one. How do you respond to that? Yeah, so I mean, Larry loves to be quotable and he does a great job of it. But the truth is- We love it too. I mean, I have to say. It makes good press. It sounds out of fun. It also asks him not to do it, but- But what's the reality here? The reality is the world is changing, the industry is changing and the reason is because the technology is going crazy. So I'm a technologist. I love watching this stuff happen. Moore's law keeps going, the crank keeps turning, memory keeps coming down, cores keep getting faster, and you can do things now that you couldn't do before. All of the stuff that was built in databases, buffer management, heck, the difference between OLAP and OLTP. All of this was invented in the 80s and 90s as workarounds because the machines weren't fast enough to actually run databases. The way they were originally conceived by IBM going back to CAD and date and the original vision, but the machines just weren't up to that original vision. So you had to do things like copy the data. Oh, and then copy the data again, and then copy the data again and now run some aggregates on it. It's all workarounds and it's all pointless now because now Moore's law has caught up. You can do this stuff in memory, real time, instant results. We've got queries. We've seen our customers run queries. They know how long that query runs. They run it every single week. And now on HANA, it runs 100,000 times faster. So industries change when you get something that's 100 times faster, but when you get something that's 100,000 times faster, there's no stopping that. In memory is the answer. And I think that, and Hasso actually, the portions of his talk that I could follow were actually quite interesting, where he talked about, look, there's not a lot we can do for OLTP performance. Maybe we can turn some knobs and get that up two or three acts and he talked about aggregates and he talked about the reasons why. But to my earlier point, data is the wild card now. And the type of the massive amounts of unstructured data is really that lever that you can use to change the game if it's literally 100,000 times faster. If it's 100 times faster, it's going to change things, as you said. And that to me is what's most interesting here. People talk about the three Vs of big data, the volume, the velocity, and the variety. There's a fourth, which is value. And that's to me what HANA brings, is being able to unlock that value. Which we're saying, what does it actually mean? You need to sift through that big data quickly. And the fastest way to do it is to put it in memory. And you can't put it all in memory all at once because very few people can afford petabytes of memory. So you need both. You need the big data and you need the fast in memory access to the data that you're working with right now. Need them to work together. And this is why SAP loves to be working with EMC, with VMware, to help our customers get everything that they need. The solution that works as a whole. So what are the specifics of the relationship? How does it all work? How do you guys go to market together? Do you actually make sales calls together? Well, I would say that there's really four parts of the relationship, if I may. So there's about first products. And we're working to bring our products together. So from SAP Landscape Virtualization Manager, working with vSphere, we're already looking at how could we integrate it perhaps with vCloud Director, working with EMC to integrate it directly at the storage level. So getting the products to work together. Secondly, support. So none of this finger pointed. Getting our support folks to be talking to each other and making sure that the customer doesn't have to keep picking up the phone but just gets served right away. Which makes them into third, services. We're bringing services together, integrated, coordinated between the three companies to help the customer move forward. And then the fourth thing is, what's the roadmap? They don't want to see a point in time. They want to see that we've got longer term plans that we're working together. We've got next generation and next generation and next generation behind that, already in development. And so the three companies are working very closely together on a new, next generation way of managing complex systems on the cloud. Yeah, and you know, we saw the VCE coalition, sort of as the harbinger to relationships like this. You guys must have learned a lot from that, I'm sure. We got a break. This is great. I really appreciate you guys coming on again. And Richard, you know, great summary. Good luck with the partnership. Thank you. Thank you. And the rest of the event here. This is SiliconANGLE's continuous coverage of EMC world. We'll be right back to wrap the day and set up the next two days. Keep it right here at SiliconANGLE.tv. This is Dave Vellante and we'll be right back.


Hey there, lovers and friends! I'm sitting here with Tim DeLaGhetto.  So I wanted Tim here today to give the kind of advice and sometimes I feel I don't really get to give people. You know when you have those thoughts that like, I know what the issue is, but saying what the issue is. You don't want to hurt their feelings. Right. But sometimes it's what they need to hear. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Have you ever had someone give you that kind of advice before? Um, I mean, yes. Yes. Rick. Women love to say things like, I'm not that type of girl. If you know damn well, your vagina is on the top of the fridge next to the chips and anybody with a step ladder can get it.  You know what I'm saying? Like, if you know that, just follow it. Okay, so this is a video that I'm doing as Tim because I really feel, to be honest with you, I remember I called you on my full screen show. Remember the word, confidence, that you made up? I do feel like you are a really great role model for men in terms of sex-loving relationships. And on top of that, you just got engaged. I did. See you're doing something right? Thanks.  Without further ado, yesterday on my Instagram and my Twitter, I asked you guys for questions, and then I asked you for your phone number. What's your phone number? Is that a song? No. Okay, I met a guy on a dating app and we met. The chemistry was undeniable. He came over, we had sex.  He blurts nonstop, but hasn't asked me out on an actual date. This one? Sure. Hey, this is Shannon. I'm recording you and I'm with Tim. Are you okay with those two factors? That is totally fine. Hi. What if she said yes to recording, but no to you? She's like, no to Tim. I'd be like, all right, ends call. If we haven't gone on an actual date, we'll go to Hangout, we'll hangout, and then we'll end up just in bed together. But I actually want an actual date. Well, here's an important question.  I mean, I feel like it's either he just doesn't feel like paying for dates or he's just trying to smash, that's it.  Like we smashed that day. And then it was like, and the thing about it is when you say homegirl means you guys were friends first. We're friends. Well, I mean, we weren't even friends. You know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? It was like after we hooked up that first time, it was like, okay, I know I get hit this person up to just smash and like and now and now is it. You know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like some time. Did you have other people that you went on dates with? No. Did you have compartmentalized where it was like, oh, I have one girl for phone conversations, one girl for sex? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I definitely like, yeah, yeah. This was like when I was just kind of doing my thing and I did have people that I would like hang out with and then her it was just I would hit up when I just wanted some sex. You know what I'm saying? Like that's just what it was and and yeah, we never hung out ever. It was like, I would just hit her up when I was like late at night and would you and just have and you wanted to see her because he does that like constantly. He said late at night though, that kind of sounds like a booty call girl.  If so, do you have compartmentalized relationships right now where like he's your sex partner, but you have people for different things or are you putting all your eggs in this basket? No, no, no, no, no, no, I have compartmentalized, yeah, I go out with like someone and I'll talk to someone and it's just. Is the sex amazing with this dude? Yeah, girl, yeah. I mean, what's what's the problem? It sounds like you guys are not compatible for like a long term partnership. And I think that's a pretty important part. If you are somebody who does get energy from going out and that means something to you and they're not willing to conform to it because you're not even asking to go to high priced restaurants, but you're saying on the flip side, you have people who you do go out with.   What happens to the relationship with him because I know he gets a lot of attention from females and I'm very, you know, able to, you know, relationship with someone like that. It drives me crazy. It's a really honest thing to say. And I repeat appreciate that, but like, you would never say that at a job. You know what I mean?  You just wouldn't because like we recognize the fact that is not that is not like an attribute that helps you anywhere else in life. But in relationships, I'm just attacking you. But in relationships, people think it's so okay to say, I'm just really jealous or I'm really territorial. That's not cool. Yeah, that's I would say territorial. I've always dated super hot girls and and I know dudes are going to want to holler and they do, but but I feel like I'm dope too. So I don't really care. You've got to be down for the competition. Yeah, exactly. You got to believe in yourself. But I also don't do a mirror. I always tell people this. I'm like, yo, a good relationship is is not about who somebody is, how somebody makes you feel. And what I love that you did now is you were honest because people could say they want someone who's tall, dark and handsome. But if you know somebody who's tall makes you feel short and dumpy and somebody who's handsome makes you feel very territorial and insecure than like, yeah, tall, dark and handsome wouldn't work for you. But on the flip side, I do want you to like strive for better because I don't think anyone should say like I only like to be around people where I feel the competition is low because I don't think that I can compete if they have more options than just me. You like you said you don't really want a relationship with him.  And like she knows he gets a lot of pussy, right? Or a lot of female attention.  Like that that feels good. You know what I'm saying? So like, of course, that might be something you're curious about.  I mean, why even make it complicated? You know what I'm saying?  You got to be clear just because somebody is a bomb-ass janitor and they're really good and you like them doesn't mean you promote them to CEO. And so you've got to be really clear in the position that he is you want this individual in and not overthrow that because you're like, but I really like him or because that janitor is making you second guess yourself a little bit, which that sense of I'm not good enough can do really crazy things to people. So all in all, I don't know. I feel like you should keep your options open. You keep dating and make it clear to him. You should make it so clear to him. That's like, I'm going out on dates with other people because you were unwilling to step up. And then yeah. And if he's not stepping up, despite the fact that you said that, he's not going to step up. And that's his prerogative because maybe he is just a hermit cheap dude, which I'm not criticizing because I'm a cheap person as well to just be happy with the day. That's Tim's very happy. Very happy. Ain't no need to make it complicated. Thank you so much. All right, take care. Love you guys. Love you too. Love you. Do you really feel like that she just wants to do? No, she likes him. Yeah. Why did you say that? That's to keep it real.  So I was like, if you're happy with the dick, don't complicate things. But I think that's probably the biggest issue because naturally when you have sex with somebody, you get more attached to them. Yeah. You have the dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin cocktail.  That's why I was telling her to keep it to establish for herself that this is just a booty call, you know what I'm saying? Because, like, there's no point in her getting her feelings wrapped up in this, like, because that's that's definitely what it was. Yeah. It was just a booty call.    And she was talking about how all we bonded so much, the chemistry was undeniable. Right, right, right. I mean, it's like the thing about it is, man, look, you can have a good conversation with somebody and have it be a booty call. But I mean, that's where it gets dangerous. You know what I'm saying? Because it's like, I've always said, friends with benefits situation can only work if A, that's the only benefit. Yeah, exactly.  I feel like they have to be kind of ugly. If the friends with benefits have like. Beauties in the beholder. I know.  Yeah. So a benefit situation needs to be someone who's like, kind of funny looking or kind of annoying. You know what I'm saying? So you don't get completely wrapped up in it, you know? It's very difficult not to. My current relationship started out with friends and benefits and I identified at the time that intellectually we weren't firing at the same trajectory which made it like, OK, cool. Like, I know what I would want this person for.  There you go. Shit. Whew. OK. All right. Yes, chat-a-runga. Now we can do the outro. Chant the wrong suit. OK. What's chat-a-runga? Is that a thing?  Thank you so much to Tim for being my guest in this one. You didn't disappoint. That was great. Other than that, you held back on the last one. You held back the real. Oh, we got it in there, she'll watch it. Yeah. If you guys want more dating advice, I strongly suggest that you do two things. Well, one thing, actually, really, you go to fullscreen.com and I can download the app. You can watch three episodes of my show for, like, absolute free, no obligation. You can watch the whole season. You get a one week free trial. But yes, you do have to input your information because if you do want to stay, they do want to charge you. But this part right here is, like, really, really important. Like, it's, this kind of support means the world to me. Get a little choked up right now. OK, hold on.  After you do that, you have to go and watch Tim's show, which is also on fullscreen. Also on fullscreen, I feel like there's, if there's a handful of your episodes up for free, there's a handful of my episodes up for free. And you know, we're always, I don't know which episodes give what advice, but we definitely got something about friend zones and something about booty calls in there somewhere. And you do the same thing. You have, like, videos, too. Yeah, people submit little video questions. I love the video that I watch where the dude actually walked out. Oh, yeah. That was so awkward. But I think that's important sometimes, because the advice people give behind your back is the advice you need to hear to your face. Facts. And so today, we gave that to you guys. If you liked it, I hope you did. That's all. I don't like to do that whole, like, like, subscribe, share thing. I don't think it matters. Y'all know what to do. Click the notification bell. I mean, if I'm going to pick one thing, do that. Due to popular demand, I am now podcasting daily on Anchor FM. Now that is a place you guys can go to ask questions. You actually leave voice notes. And then I answer your questions. So go to anchor dot FM slash Shambhuma to sign up and to have your daily questions answered.  Yeah, I get a girl. Oh, yeah, the girl. Get a girl.


As a student, Annie knew that she had access to a lot of research resources, such as databases. But she hadn't really thought about the fact that this gave her a lot of information privilege. After all, any information that someone might need is probably available through Google or a public library, right? She didn't realize that for some people, even getting access to Google or visiting a library is a significant challenge. As an NKU student, Annie had access to a robust amount of information. For example, the scholarly journal article that she found through a database in the library is not available to individuals who are not students or faculty at the university, unless they can afford to pay for the article. Annie learned that there were many different factors that contribute to this lack of information access. Sometimes the factors were political or legal, such as copyright laws, that restrict how people can share information. Sometimes the factors were economical, such as the inability to purchase a computer, pay for internet access, or buy needed textbooks. Sometimes the problem was that people did not have information literacy or digital literacy. But as they lack the education, skills, or experience necessary to be able to locate the information that they need, make sense of it, and use the information effectively. Annie learned that lack of access to information harms people in many ways. It deprives them of needed financial, medical, legal, and educational information. Without the necessary information, individuals struggle to perform tasks such as locating and applying for open jobs, obtaining support resources, making decisions in local elections, and even completing education. Having awareness of the challenges associated with information access, Annie recognizes her own information privilege, while being better equipped to work with others who may not have equal access.


Number one, I love this one, calories in, calories out.  It makes such tremendous sense but it's absolutely completely wrong. So how did all of this get started? Well it got started when a calorimeter was invented and a calorimeter was designed to find out how many kilojoules of, of kilocalories or kilojoules of energy any particular food contained. So what they basically did is they built a chamber and they simplistically lit the food on fire and they measured how much heat was produced as that food disintegrated into ash and that was the number of calories that that food contained. Sounds simple enough. Unfortunately inside of your intestines is not a calorimeter and what no one knew particularly until the advent of the human microbiome project where we understood that there was four to five pounds of hungry bacteria living in our intestines at any one time and that those bacteria would eat a lot of the foods that we ate and depending on the type of food that we were eating that those bacteria would gobble up a lot of those calories or as I've written about in my books we now know that a lot of these bacteria, obesogenic bacteria actually make more of these calories easier for you to absorb so that the whole idea that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie with the advent of modern learning has nothing to do with the calories in calories out so it's a it's a useless weight loss strategy sure you can go on an extremely calorie restricted diet and you will lose weight guarantee it but number one you haven't learned how to eat number two you haven't fed the gut buddies that are going to keep you lean and number three that's one of the reasons all of these delivery services for where you know I lost 30 pounds on X system or I lost 50 pounds doing this none of these people sustain that weight as you know with the biggest loser yes these people lost huge amounts of weight but a year later they had all returned actually not only to their original weight but actually rebounded above the other similar advice is eat less move more now this is just a variation of calories in calories out if you eat less but you exercise more than that's the secret unfortunately we know from looking at hunter-gatherers that the calorie expenditure by a hudza tribesman who may write walk 20 miles a day is exactly the calorie expenditure of an office worker who's sitting at the desk all day so the whole idea of eat less move more which is promulgated for the last 40 years doesn't work nor does it correlate with any scientific study on weight loss now what does work well quite frankly intermittent fasting studies show that there are incredible benefits to time-restricted eating versus a 12-hour eating window I've written in the last two books now three upcoming of the famous Italian cyclist study and just real briefly because you've heard me say it before you take two groups of cyclists you put them on a training table where they have to eat the same food for three months one group eats in a 12-hour eating window the other group eats in a compressed 7-hour eating window they have to get all their calories in in that time period they have identical performance on the exercise program the group that ate in the 12-hour eating window had no weight loss the group that ate in the 7-hour eating window even though they ate the exact same number of calories lost weight the group that had this 12-hour eating window had no change in their insulin like growth factor one which is a really good marker for longevity the group that ate in the 7-hour eating window had lowered levels of insulin like growth factor one this has been confirmed at the NIH at the National Institutes of Aging in rat studies compressing the time window has the most benefits in terms of not only weight loss but allowing you to have more calories than you normally would starve yourself number two eat multiple small meals I see people online claiming that multiple small meals a day is good for you first of all this is the opposite of what you should be doing there is no evidence from hunter-gatherer societies that hunter-gatherers eat multiple small meals throughout the day most hunter-gatherers don't eat until around 11 or noon and then they don't eat again until their main meal of the day which was dinner and that's when they brought everything they gathered or caught back to camp and cooked it or ate it so there's no evidence that hunter-gatherers are out having a granola bar while they're out gathering food or a fruit smoothie these foods did not exist and there's no evidence that we were designed to work that way also feeding studies in humans like the one I just talked to in rodents like at the NIH show that the multiple small meals actually make you gain weight rather than lose weight the other problem is that digestion in itself in absorbing food is bad for the wall of your gut and the gut needs time to repair it so so the more down time you have for your gut to repair itself the better your health and the more chance you're actually going to have for losing weight now this includes not eating before bed the more I can get you to stay at least three hours away from your last meal before you go to bed the better your deep sleep the better your sleep the better your brain is washed the brain has a brain washing cycle and I know you can't always do that but the more you shorten your last meal a day try to eat at five try to eat at six seven at the maximum and then you'll have plenty of time to clean your brain out alright number three eat more protein eat less fat there was a period of time where this was profoundly popular the second Adkins diet was a high protein not as much fat diet unfortunately I knew Dr. Adkins he died at age 72 as an obese man one of the things he didn't know was that we have no storage system for protein we do not waste energy so we convert that protein into sugar it's called gluconeogenesis so we then have a storage system for sugar it's called fat and multiple studies that I reference in all my books show that a high protein diet actually increases your risk of diabetes increases your risk of pre diabetes insulin resistance metabolic syndrome and kidney damage not exactly what I'm looking for in a long-term strategy now of course we all need protein in our diet but I agree with Dr. Walter Longo who's the head of longevity at USC that our protein requirements are vastly overrated and I spell it out he spells it out in all his books protein is not the miracle food that you need to use now not all protein has to come from animals vegetables nuts are rich sources of protein and you don't have to get your protein by eating animals in the new book gut check which will be out in January you'll see another reason why certain animal products may not be offering you the health benefits that you think you're getting but we'll save that for later number four eating more fruit will help you lose weight now many people think they should load up on fruit on a diet because fruit is loaded with fructose and fructose doesn't have any effect on your insulin and it doesn't make you a diabetic sorry about that Dr. Lustig from University of California in San Francisco Dr. Johnson from the University of Colorado have completely destroyed that myth fructose is the most obesogenic food there is fructose is the cause of fatty liver disease which is rampant in this country fructose is the driver of insulin resistance fructose is the driver of metabolic syndrome and if you want to kill off your mitochondria like I've shown in the last two books fructose is the best way to kill mitochondria and kidneys that I know of multiple times I have patients who decide to go on a high fructose diet high fruit diet they're eating fruit they're eating fruit smoothies their uric acid becomes elevated their insulin becomes elevated they become pre-diabetic their kidney function falls and they go what the heck I read this book about how good fruit is for you we see it every day in my clinics please give fruit the boom number five if you want to lose weight you got to get rid of fat you got to ditch the fat in your diet now this is a holdover from the 70s and 80s when all fat was bad in fact there are multiple fats that are incredibly good for your health you have to know which ones to eat avocados people eating an avocado a day have been shown to lose weight as compared to not eating the same calories with an avocado olive oil multiple studies show that olive oil promotes weight loss omega 3 fats like short chain omega 3 fats in flaxseed oil in perilla oil help you lose weight long chain omega 3 fats like in fish oil or algae oils help you lose weight flaxseed oil or ground-up flaxseeds are another great way to get short chain omega 3 fats in your diet and believe it or not fats from whole fat dairy contain a compound which I write about called carbon 15 that actually is now known to be an essential fatty acid it's so important that I even manufacture my own product C 15 to get carbon 15 fat into your diet in the form of a little gel cap it's that important in fact studies have shown that people who use full fat dairy actually have much better health than people who use low fat diet more amazing episodes just like this one watch now those weight loss drugs work by suppressing your appetite by stopping gastric emptying so that you always feel full and all by the way at least 40 to 45 percent of the weight loss those drugs make no mistake they do produce weight loss is from muscle loss