Can you hear me? I hear you just fine. Yep. You're a bit quiet though. Okay, I'll turn it up. Okay, I'll get going. Good morning, afternoon and evening to everyone. And it's 930 or there abouts in, in snowy Edmonton, Alberta today. And I'll be speaking about the knowledge mobilization. Note that all the slides that I'm showing you are openly licensed, except that some of the images are available under fair dealing or fair use in Canada and other countries. And at the time we're having now in Alberta, we have a very high number of coronavirus cases and everybody is cocooning and, and staying home as much as much as possible. But as most of you know by now, this is having a huge impact on education. And it's now more than 1.4 billion school closures around the world, and so many are now switching to online learning. And where a former governor general, Michael John, she tells us that education is a weapon of mass construction. And we believe that in the 21st century, that online education is going to facilitate this mass construction. The methodology I've been using for this information is a web search, we did a literature review, a survey of OER experts five Canadian and six international, along with a questionnaire and interviews. We were looking at effective learning and teaching quality awareness and costs. There was, we've looked at effective learning and teaching as a culture change when there is alignment with with the curricula. And non formal alignment and found it's not as important. And the ease of use or appropriateness of the learning content was seen to have some significance. I'm going to go through these quickly because I'm going to assume that everyone understands what we are at this conference. And the idea of assembly, rather than assembling courses, rather than creating them is very important to the whole OER concept. And it's the most innovative aspect of open educational resources. Or you can just take a course package bundle. And this is the part that I believe is lacking in open education resources. Many instructors just want the whole course package in a bundle, and they don't want to mix and max and change, etc. So good for retention, we know that free access to content prior to class that it reduces draw the dropout rate. We know that the quality of the material is not dependent on the type of license, nor the technology that's being used. We know that OER are better than commercial content, and other types of restricted content, because of the accessibility, the possibilities of collaboration, and the ability to improve update etc. One of the most significant problems still in the OER movement is that the knowledge of OER is seriously lacking. Once faculty become familiar with it, they become very supportive of open educational resources. And there is some risk of resistance among administrators. Plus, we all know that there are massive savings for students. Free content is a huge boon economically for students. They don't buy commercial texts in many situations because they can't afford them. Many students fall into this category. We believe that open education resources are necessary, but not sufficient for fulfilling the UNESCO strategic development goal for which is education for all. So, why do we need open educational resources, and two main reasons, digital rights management and digital licenses. We call it digital restrictions management, because content, commercial content has restrictions on it that are really unacceptable in an educational context. They put locks onto the commercial content to limit your ability to make use of the content in different circumstances. They've actually used these locks to go into people's computers and remove commercial content that has been legally acquired. DRM software, digital rights management, these locks that they put into it, is it needs deep permissions into the operating system. And it can stop and has in the past, stop normal operating system functions. It's defective by design. So they actually design a defect into your device through with these applications. Access codes are being used in many universities where students have to pay more in order to access the commercial information. So, with these digital locks, you can't copy paste annotate or highlight you can't use text to speech, which is very important for people who are visually disabled, you can't change the format. You can't move your commercial content from one computer to another. You can't print it out. You can't even move it geographically if you go to a different region. You can't use it after the expiry date. Most commercial content. They come and delete it from your computer after the course. And of course, unlike print material, you can't resell it. But I would argue that our device is our property and that DRM it restricts our freedom to use our property. Our device is our property. It restricts our freedom to use it. And it brings up this question, can we not own and control our own property. That is, this is my iPhone. This is my laptop. And can I not own and control this property. The locks on our devices, even though we're totally innocent of any crimes, they still lock up our devices and restrict how we can use them. Corey doctor put it this way. There's no theory of capitalism that says my private property should be regulated by the state, because there's a copyrighted work inside of it. And as I've seen this, we see this all the time in Canada, where the video is not available in your country. And the commercial content providers have tried to put in application that would actually destroy the device that's using their content, if it's not being used in the way they want you to use it. The number 53. I hope no one here has heard of it is it turns. This is a deep application in your iPhone, and it turns your iPhone into a brick. If you install applications not authorized by Apple. I believe that they got a lot of flack from it and it no longer is no longer there, but we don't know that. So Microsoft had an ebook apocalypse and it shows the dark side of DRM. This is a few years ago when Microsoft took down a huge number of ebooks from people's computers. Who's really losing any obstacle that makes a record harder to listen to is bad news for the artist that made it. So these digital locks, don't help the artist they don't help the creator they don't help the author. They are there for the sole use and restriction by the commercial content vendor. Now, even more nefarious than the digital locks are the legal protections that they give these locks. These digital licenses reinforce all of the restrictions that are on digital locks. And they say that owners have no liability, even if their product doesn't work. This is what you sign when you press on I agree to use their content. This is what you're agreeing to. They have no liability. You've agreed they can invade your computer without permission. Select and use your personal data, not just your personal data related to their application, but any personal data on your computer, and that you have a privilege to use but not own the property, the product. And very important in an educational context you're prohibited to show your content to others. It's very difficult for collaborations among students. And you must accept that you have no rights. So these are the laws that are being put in place in order to support the digital locks. That is, even if you have a right to the content, you cannot break the lock. For any reason, it's illegal. It's basically an idea we're going to own all of your stuff whether you like it or not deal with it. And here's an example of a digital license. I suspect that most of you have never read a digital license. I've read about 40 or 50 of them. And they're very onerous, but this one for microchips say that they can arrive in your into your home announced or unknown announced, and whether to take control over your device, whether you like it or not, whether it's located on your premises or at any time. And this is what you've agreed to when you click on, I agree. So what happens is you could find yourself in this situation in prison because you showed your wife a page from your ebook. This is how bad it is in the United States and in those countries that have been forced to accept American copyright law. So this is the main argument, or the main, how can I put it, physical argument for open textbooks with open textbooks, you can bypass all of these restrictions, we don't need to worry about them. We can copy paste text to speech, change the format printed out, move it geographically, do whatever we want with it, and we retain our privacy and digital rights. I believe that open textbooks open content are essential for e learning implementations. And even here, here's an interesting one where in your I agree a statement you've agreed that it's forbidden for you to use iTunes to create missiles, biological chemical or nuclear weapons. So be aware that you're not allowed to do that and you've agreed that you won't do it. So brings up this question. Do you own what you pay for vendors can now control how when where and with what specific brands of technological assistance audiences are able to access content. They brought a new concept into the world. You buy, but you don't get. We're in a world where you no longer get what you buy.  It's bad in education it's bad in other areas, but I think some of you are old enough to remember the world we used to live in, where you bought something and you got it. But now you buy something but they still own it. Audrey waters put it this way, we all share and rent on the powerful platforms of Silicon Valley billionaires. This is far from a satisfactory alternative. Corey doctor says that it's a return to feudalism, where the Lords owned everything and the surf so nothing. And now it's the companies that own everything. Not aristocrats but still people really do not own anything. This is entered into many different facets of civilization where you can't run your tractor without the software, and they've come in and disabled the software on tractors. So a farmer owns his tractor only owns the physical tractor but it will not work without the software. And this is the same for heart pumps for lights for cars, everything else, you don't own it. And somehow the notion of actually owning the things you buy has become a revolutionary. If you bought it you should own it it's as simple as that, as Kyle Viennes tells us. So, the answer is openness, openness is the skeleton key that unlocks every attempt at vendor control and lock in. And we can thank David Wiley for reminders of that. And I'd like to finish off by putting in a plug for some of the indigenous knowledge efforts that we've been doing in Canada that when we're talking about copyright and openness. We have to honor indigenous belief systems, respect their protocols, and understand that mainstream views may be value laden and prejudicial. So we have to make exceptions for this. What we see has been very successful in putting out indigenous storybooks as open educational resources, and they've done so by working with indigenous communities honoring their protocols, and bringing language revitalization. They're also publishing these OER in the local languages. They're sharing traditional stories, and the fact that they're freely available maximizes their impact and read and reach. Little Cree Books is an example of that where they are putting out these books for students. And another good example is in Masquassa's Cultural College. It's at a major OER initiative. And even having translated the creative commons into the Cree language. So the recommendations, one, based on this research, government funded publications should be made freely available to the public using an open license. Creative commons has been saying this for many years. Educate faculty, staff and administrators on open licensing. Again, create awareness, educate them. Provide faculty in assembling, adapting and reusing OER. Let's have more training. Provide faculty with career incentives and compensation for OER use, which this was referred to by a previous speaker and I fully agree with her. I advise faculty to search for OER first for courses. That is, do not create OER. I repeat that do not create OER. Look for what's available. Assemble courses. Find out what's out there. Do not reinvent the wheel. Use what's out there. Only create when you cannot find anything, anything that will serve your purposes. Make open licenses mandatory in local course creation. Use OER, then awareness will follow. People wonder, how do we make people aware of OER? Well, start using them and publicize your use of them. Let people know that you're using OER, but use them. Support local influencers among staff and students. If you just don't know what to say, you should wrap up in the next minute. I'm wrapping up right now. Every day. Computers are making people easier to use. Everything you know is wrong. I want to finish with these two statements that the Royal Society, the oldest scientific society in the world, says that the restrictions of the Commons by patents copyright and databases is not in the interest of society and unduly hamper scientific and the previous Pope Benedict said on the part of rich countries, there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property. What does this tell us? That both science and God is on our side. Remember, we are on the side of the angels. We can go forward and thank you very much for your attention. I love that conclusion. On the side of angels. Thank you so much, Rory. Really fascinating and always.


Hello, my name is Denise, so about 3 years ago I started to bleed more than usual and then I started to bleed more and more for months, couldn't leave my bed, I had no energy, I was exhausted, tired, I had depression, insomnia, pain. During the time where we weren't able to go to a doctor physically, I could barely even hold my cell phone to talk to the doctors and they were no help anyways. I was like, I have to figure this out myself. I was watching a frequency video on YouTube and David Wong's cheek oil came on the commercial, I think this is it. So I got the cheek oil and within 2 weeks I felt a difference. I felt like energy just filled my body up, I just couldn't believe it. The next day I was able to go outside, I went to my dad's birthday and I got to do things and hang out with friends. I was using this consistently, every single day I was using it just kept feeling like I was getting better and better. I don't know what would happen to me, I don't know where I would be if I didn't find the cheek oil because no one could help me. Now I feel great, I feel really, really good and I'm very, very grateful and thankful for the cheek oil. I would hate to have surgery, is that only mask the problem that doesn't solve the problem? I'm really grateful. Thank you, bye.


Hey friends and welcome back to Norris Cove. Today you guys, I'm getting caught up on my videos. I'm going to do a plan with me for the week. I'm trying to get back into my planning. I do do daily planning every once in a while, but I need to do some weekly planning. This is my A6. I've been using this size since January and I love it. So we're going to plan for the week of May 3rd through the 9th. I have my stickers here. This is just where I keep them and these are like my go-to stickers. So if you'd like to see me playing for the week, then stay tuned. So first thing I like to do is, you know, kind of look at the dates, see what I have coming up this week. So far I'm looking and I don't think I have anything to come out. All of my first-of-the-month bills have already been paid. They've come out, but there are some things that, you know, I like to make note of. I am kind of decluttering, so I'm going to take this cleaning icon. I don't know if I ever put this in my shop. It's kind of small, but these are some little cleaning icons I made kind of for myself. And Monday I have to work, so let me put down like a work sticker or something. So these are by Sweet Cares and they're just some little functional trans trans circles and I'm going to put that there. And Monday I have to be working at 10 a.m. And then I got to work again on Tuesday, which I normally don't, but I'm just trying to take what I can get. And that is 9.30. And then I know I have to be working again on Thursday so far. So I'm going to take another one of these work circles and put down for Thursday. And that is at 10 a.m. And let's see, so we're doing laundry today. I don't. My husband normally does laundry. I folded some, so I shouldn't have to do any again until Saturday. So I'm going to use these little medium dew drops by Sweet Cares on Saturday. And then I'm going to put a little laundry basket next to it. So I'm going to use these little medium dew drops and these are from my shop and they're pretty much kind of like the same color. Plus I just want to get some use from them and I use my oops. And on Tuesday, it's a payday. And I mentioned these cleaning icons and I'm just pretty much going to be organizing this week. I'm going to do that on Tuesday. And then I'm going to take one of these from Sweet Cares. Her and I have some similar items, but I love hers just as much as I love mine. So I like to use some of hers like I would probably never make this shape. So I like to use hers. And then this script sticker here is by Scripps by LLC, my girl Shakisha. And then Monday, it is Money Mondays and these are from my shop. These are the large dew drops in cashmere. I'm going to put budget because we're going to be doing the Money Mondays budget for the week. Film budget. Okay. And like I said, no bills are due this week. I'm going to take this highlighter from Tombow and I'm just going to highlight the week that we're on. And then I also need to order system order some supplies. Again, this sheet again here is from Scripps by LLC. And I'm just going to pick up order supplies. I will highlight everything. So I'm going to try not to use too many of those. So I'm ordering supplies on Monday because I don't even have this listed. But on Wednesday, it is my day off and I need to do a workout. And those day off stickers are from Caffeine and Paper Co. I put workout and this one is by Shakisha over at Scripps by LLC. Monday, I definitely need to work out. So I'm going to put that there. Another one. I love Scripps stickers because I really like to do a lot of layering with my Scripps stickers. And then sometimes I love my handwriting and sometimes I just don't. So that's what we got going on Monday. Normally Monday is pretty busy for me. Usually Tuesday is my rest day from working out, but it just depends on my goal for that week. How bad I messed up over the weekend. I don't think I did too bad this weekend. So let's look. Oh, you guys, I forgot Friday is a work day. So I got to work Friday. I'm going to use this one by Sweet Caress. It is like some little mini squares Friday. And I have to be to work Friday at 9.30. And excuse me, I'm off on Saturdays. So I can put day off and the day off are from caffeine and paper co. And then I need to work out on Saturday. And I'm just going to use my these from Sweet Caress just to put walk. Now I used to have a gym membership, but during the pandemic, I just kind of canceled it. But I kind of want to go back to the gym. So I'm not sure. I just feel not sure Saturday. Oh, also Saturday, I do a live in my Facebook group. So these little icons are from Anika over at Anika's creative closet. I'm trying to let you guys know where I get things from. If I'm not using anything of mine. So that way that you can shop with the shops as well. This is my reminder to do my live in my Facebook. And Sunday normally is a chill day for me.  So I'm going to put down rest day there. Because I typically don't work out on a Sunday, but I'm back on it on Mondays. So put resting. And I'm trying to think, I want to make sure that I got my schedule. What else? So Wednesday, we're back on it with the workout. Let me put a little shoe there. And these are available in my shop. These are shoe icons. I had some others, but I had the name like Nike on them. So I had to like take those down. But maybe I'll bring them back and just give them a different name. I need to work out on a Friday as well. I didn't put a tennis shoe. So let's put a little tennis shoe there. And that's another thing I need to get some tennis shoes. So I'm going to put that in my priorities for the week. I'm not a big tennis shoe fan. But I do whenever I'm into working out running or whatever, I like to have the right shoes. So most of my tennis shoes that I do have, they're either running shoes or workout shoes. And then let's see, because I do rest on Tuesday. Sometimes I'll take a rest on Thursday, but I'm just going to put the tennis shoe here on Thursday, just in case. And also my sister sent me a coupon for the gym. So I'm going to look into the gym. Because I do love the gym.  I do. On Sunday, I'm trying to think of something I'm supposed to do Sunday, but I cannot remember. My niece is getting married in July. And I ordered these boxes. So I'm going to do the gift boxes for the tables. And I've ordered the boxes. And I ordered the bubbles and stuff like that. So I believe the boxes are coming this week. If they do come, then I'll probably go to Richmond on Saturday or Sunday. And me and my sister are going to put those together. I have not, I guess I haven't been doing my self-care. I have, so I'm going to put self-care down on here, on Sunday. Now these are an oops for my shop, but it's just really like the top. So I'm going to take the bottom one, but I'm going to have to cut it because it's going to be cheap.  But it's like the best way I can describe it is like, I don't know. I don't know if I've ever said it here, but I have a little touch of ADHD and I lose focus sometimes. And here we go. Because I wanted to use those, I didn't want anything to go waste. But I can get distracted, you know, and I was very proud of myself for sticking to planning for two years going on three, and then picking up the self-care. But I got a little sidetracked and kind of lost my way and then I kind of enjoyed the break.  You know, like sometimes I really, I enjoy having the shop, but sometimes I just want to be a planner. Okay. Let me see y'all. This is still kind of crooked. Okay. So we're going to do some self-care on Sunday if we don't have to go out of town. This is pretty much it Wednesday. Now I went grocery shopping on Saturday. So I don't know if I should go again. Oh, yeah. I got a meal plan. Even though I've kind of done some things, four meal, I've already done a little bit of meal prep, but I need to make a plan for, my meal prep was kind of for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. It'll probably take me until Tuesday. So I think I'm going to put that here. So I'm going to take this other half of that little strip that I used. And that's what I need to do is make some meal prep stickers. At one point in my shop, I had like the salads and meal prep, you know, script and stuff. I'm going to bring that stuff back. That was going to be crooked. That's why I was over there struggling, honey. Oh, God. Yeah, that's what I think I'm going to do. I'm going to make a note of that. That reminds me too. Let me put this down. Meal prep. And then I need to meal plan over here. So let's see. I'm thinking this is pretty much it. It's looking a little naked, but it's okay if it's naked because I can always fill it in. Plus I do daily planning, but I wanted to have something to kind of get me going for the week. And then if, you know, everything is here and I don't need to add, then I can always come back and just check off here. And I don't have the daily plan. I was telling my Facebook group that I'm going to do about two new releases a month. Three, you know, if need be, I'm going to use this design sticker by Scripts by LNC and Wednesday since it's my day off. I'm going to do a little designing because I just had an idea. So I believe that that is it, you guys. Oh, you know, we talked about the cleaning, but I never, in the organize, but I never use the cleaning stickers. And then because I'm still kind of working on my office, so I'm going to do a little, use another one, tidy my office on Thursday because I'm not that busy on Thursday. And as I remember things, and like I said, if they don't fit on these pages, then that's when I get into my daily planning.  And plus I just like daily planning because daily planning kind of provides me with, gives me that kind of outlet for the day where I can just plan daily. So one more thing, guys. I saw this YouTube sticker. So we need to post some videos for YouTube. So this video should go up today. Today is Sunday. At least I'm going to try to get it up. And then what is it? Monday. Tomorrow we will have the Money Mondays. But you know what? We don't need a Money Mondays because we don't have anything due, except for a booth rent. Matter of fact, and that's what's due on Saturday. Saturday. So I'm just going to put on booth rent because most of them say bill due, and it's not necessarily a bill, but I guess it is. But yeah, so I want me to do a weekly budget because there's nothing due this week. So this is what I used to call a free week. And I am going, let me put that down too. I'm going to be helping my daughter with her rent. So let me put that down. Alrighty. Okay, guys. So this is what we have for the week. I love it. I love the neutrals. I just would live in neutrals. And so let's just pack these back in.  And here that way I can see it. But that is it, you guys. This is my weekly plans and my a six of as always. If you have any questions. If today was your first time watching any of my videos, enjoy today's video and you would love to see more content for myself. Do me a favor, hit that subscribe button. Also hit the notification bell so that you're notified whenever I upload content. And I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


Hello everyone, my name is Karan and I work as a data scientist at Red Hat. Through this video, I want to share some ideas on how you can apply machine learning to Kubernetes data and extract actionable insights. So in the next 20 minutes, we'll talk about, well first, a preamble on what monitoring in production might look like and why we felt the need for data science. Then I'll talk about the type of data that we use and the ML methods that we've explored. Then I'll show the results and impact that we have had so far and finally I'll show how you can get involved and contribute to this project. Okay, so let's start with a little bit of background. So like many of you might already know, in a typical Kubernetes deployment, there's several components involved. For example, you'll have your QBPS server, your HCD, and your worker nodes and even on one abstraction level above that, you have multiple operators or multiple applications on your cluster. So naturally at that level of complexity and interdependency, like whenever one component has any issues, there's a good chance that that would propagate forward to other components. So then as a developer, how do you get to the root of the problem? How do you debug the cluster? And that, I think, is one of the main reasons why someone might have monitoring setup. So tools like Prometheus basically collect usage data from your cluster and store it so that whenever you have any problems, you can refer to the data and debug it. So that works great when you have a couple of clusters, but as a company, you're gonna have hundreds, if not thousands of clusters in your fleet. So it might not be feasible to go through each and every single piece of data to diagnose the situation. So then how do you diagnose issues at scale? So that was, so one idea we had there was, you know what? Maybe we can start with creating simplifying rules. For example, if you see these two or three things happening together, then that means that the problem is this particular problem. Like for example, if you see that the authentication and network are down and the number of nodes is less than three or something, then that condition refers to this particular known problem, problem X. So these kind of rules can help you simplify your debugging process exponentially. But of course, the catch here is how do you actually find these rules? Right? Because there's thousands of clusters and tens of metrics coming from each cluster. So there's at least hundreds of thousands of possible combinations. So this was one of the main reasons why we turned to data science. And our main reason for using machine learning is to comb through this ton of data that we have collected and try to find if there's any meaningful, if any, there's any recurring patterns observed in the data that can refer to the any underlying problems. So doing this will obviously help us save some engineering resources. And also more importantly, doing this is a proactive way to identify and address issues. So that's what we're trying to achieve in our project. So in any data science project, the first part is obviously the data. So in this analysis, the data that we used was operational and health metrics, which were collected from customers' clusters using services like telemetry, insights, and must gather. So these are just some of the services that Red Hat provides and you can opt into them. And they'll collect information like how many nodes are there in a cluster, how much memory you have, how many CPU cores, etc. And internally at Red Hat, we have a CCX team that works together with the data hub team and essentially consolidates data coming from all of these different sources into one place and gives one umbrella term to each piece of the data coming from these different sources. And that umbrella term is symptom. So symptom basically refers to anything, any problem with the cluster. So for example, if there's a Prometheus metric that looks like this, which tells you what are the conditions of the operators deployed on your cluster. So what the CCX pipeline would do is parse through this metric and store it as this symptom. So a symptom will get saved as essentially one string that essentially stores all the main parts of the original data source. For example, this particular string, it shows you that it's a failing operator with the operator name, condition, the message associated with the condition, etc. So what you've done is essentially distilled all the main bits from the original source and saved it as one piece of string. Another example of a symptom might be that the insights operator running on your cluster realizes that, hey, there's not enough nodes in the control plane. So that information gets parsed and gets stored as this symptom ID. So again, it shows you that it's a rule type of symptom and that some specific rule is being broken. So if you put all of this together, we get our main data set. So this is a data set that we work with in our analysis. And in this data set, what it is is just one table of that lists what cluster is showing what symptoms. So this is our starting point for the project. And the first thing that we do is change the way that data is being stored right now. So instead of having multiple rows for the same cluster and having only one column, we pivot it so that we have just one row per each cluster. And we have multiple columns where each column is the name of a symptom. And a zero or a one in a cell indicates whether or not this particular cluster showed that particular symptom or not. Okay, so now that we have our data in a numerical tabular format, we are now ready to answer the million dollar question, which is, how do you actually find patterns in the data? So for that, for this particular task, we looked into the field of frequent pattern mining, which is an area of study in data mining, and it is exactly what it sounds like. So I think it's best understood with the help of an example. So let's say there's a transaction table available, which shows what are the grocery items that some customers have purchased from the grocery store. So what frequent pattern mining does is it'll go through this table and try to extract what are the items that are purchased together most frequently. So it might go through this table and find out something like this, that milk and bread are purchased together very often and beer and diapers are purchased together very often. So our use case is also kind of similar to this, right? Instead of having grocery items, we have symptoms and we want to find what are the symptoms that occur together most frequently. So that's what we use in our analysis, and specifically the two main methods that we explored were a priori and FP growth. Okay, so now that we have our method and we have our data set, are we good to go? Can we just go ahead and apply it to our fleet? Well, let's pause for a moment and think about what might happen if we do that. Okay, so let's say in your organization, you have 20 clusters. Four of them are from customer X, who's running one kind of workload, and the most frequent symptoms there are A, B, and C. And 16 of the clusters are from customer Y, who's running a different kind of workload where the most frequently seen symptoms are D and E. So what might happen if you apply our algorithms to the entire data set as one unit, as one whole piece? Well, if you guessed it, you guessed it right, you won't be able to surface all of the patterns. In this case, you'll be only able to see D and E just because there's more clusters from customer Y as compared to customer X. So the thing is, we don't want to find just all the frequently occurring patterns. We want to find frequently occurring pattern within some narrower domain. So then what do we do? Well, we go back and split our fleet into somewhat meaningful groups and then apply clustering, I'm sorry, frequent pattern mining. So the approach that we now take is, well, first, roughly bucket the clusters into groups such that within each group, you have Kubernetes clusters that behave somewhat similarly. In data science terms, this is essentially applying clustering. And then once you have this grouping, then you apply pattern mining on each of these groups separately. So let's walk through these steps one by one. Okay, so for clustering, if you remember our data set from a couple of slides ago, this is what it looked like, where we had several columns, maybe even thousand columns. So the thing is, most in general, clustering algorithms will not perform very well when you have such high amount of dimensionality, such high amount of columns. So the first thing we do is to reduce the dimensions by applying some dimensionality reduction method like UMAP or PCA. And once we have our representation in lower dimensions, then we go ahead and apply clustering. So after the first step, the dimension reduction step, we got a representation that looks somewhat like this. So on your screen in the picture you see, that's a snippet from the representation that the algorithm learned, where each point on here is essentially signifying a Kubernetes cluster. So this point in the middle, for example, that is cluster ID 2336, which is showing these three symptoms in particular. Okay, so already we started to see some interesting things. And one of the things that we observed was that during this step, during the dimensionality reduction step, the clusters got mapped in such a way that clusters that were behaving similarly got mapped close to each other relatively. So for example, all the green dots right here, these are the Kubernetes clusters that we knew that had some kind of SDN issue associated. And as you can see, they all get mapped in a similar region, in the close enough region. So now we have somewhat confidence that now if you were to apply clustering, we'll get somewhat meaningful results out of it, somewhat meaningful groups. So we did exactly that. And we applied clustering and specifically we use DB scan. And the results out of the clustering algorithm was that we get these groups of Kubernetes clusters. And now we finally go ahead and apply pattern mining to each of them separately. So from the first group, you might get one particular pattern. And from the second group, you'll also get a pattern. So this way, you're able to surface both the patterns that are relevant to you or relevant to your customers. And we actually go one step beyond and we try to refine these results even further. So one of the things that we observed was that some of the patterns that were surfaced through these algorithms, these were patterns that were occurring everywhere, no matter what, like they weren't really super informative, or they weren't really representative of any underlying issues. So what I mean is, let's say, for example, there was a pattern RST that occurred 90% of the time in one group, and otherwise only 2% of the time. And there was another pattern BC that occurs 40% of time all over the place all the time. So which one do you think is more likely to be a candidate for a rule? Which one is a better candidate? So our thinking was that RST should be a better candidate just because it is kind of specific to this group of clusters. And therefore, it's more likely that that particular pattern represents some underlying problem. So we took this idea and converted into mathematical form. And so what we do is essentially we list our results when we present them to the SME, and we prioritize by the difference in percent occurrence across groups. So for example, if this is what you extracted from one of the groups, group zero, let's say, then in this case, the pattern ABC occurs 85% of the time in it, but only 10% of the time outside of it. Whereas the pattern ABF occurs 95% of the time in this group, but also it occurs 92% of the time no matter what. So what we'll do is we'll not show that result or at least bump it down and show ABC and DE as the more probable candidates for rule defining. So we go ahead and apply this procedure to every group created by the clustering algorithm. And at the end of this whole process, what you've done is we have basically extracted all of the symptoms that would be relevant to us. And also we have gotten this rough grouping of clusters that are affected by these patterns. So there you have it. That's our process from start to finish. And we are now able to surface the symptom patterns that occur very frequently and are likely to be characteristic of some problem. So so far we've been talking in terms of toy examples like ABCD, but now let's talk about some of the real results that we have had so far. So we applied our analysis on customer clusters. And from one of the groups, this is the results that we got like these are the suggested symptoms that we were able to extract. And one thing we noticed was that a lot of the symptoms were symptoms that are already being used by engineers to define an existing rule. A similar thing happened when we extracted symptoms from another group. And it was that most of the symptoms or a lot of the symptoms were already being used by engineers in defining the rules. So we thought, you know what, let's provide the results from some of these other groups that we are seeing and show them to engineers. And let's see if that corresponds to some problem and if that can be made into a rule. So we went ahead and worked with a team called OT18 internally. And they used our analysis and using it, they were able to find six new rules and they were able to add it to their dictionary. So because of these results we've seen so far, we think this is very valuable to SMEs, to engineers. And this is definitely a promising avenue for exploration. So that being said, how do you contribute and get involved? Obviously, we have made all the source code available in open source, but we cannot open source data, which is customer sensitive. So we have created entire environments where you can play around with our notebooks and run the code.  So you can go to this particular link on the slide and select OpenShift Anomaly Detection. And if you are a Red Hatter and if you do have access to some customer data, then you can visit Jupyter Hub and select Anomaly Detection internal.  And once you've opened the notebook, just click run all cells. So ideally with four or five clicks, you should be able to get up and running and you should be able to run all of our code and see the results. Okay, so once you're familiarized with the code, I would highly, highly, highly encourage you to open issues and PRs on the repo. If you're a subject matter expert, if you're an SME, then you can tell us whether the patterns that we're suggesting are the useful for your use case. Do you find them helpful for defining rules or not? You can also tell us if there's any specific domain knowledge insight that you have that might be helpful for us to improve our process. And also if you're a data scientist, you can help us with improving in so many processes, in so many places. For example, learning the lower dimension representation. That's for now we just did one hot encoding and dimension reduction. But maybe there's obviously there's a lot of different ways of doing it. There's different ways of refining results. For example, using TF IDF. So obviously there's a lot of things to do and areas that can be definitely improved upon. So please feel free to open issues, submit PRs, go crazy. And I think that is all I wanted to say for this talk. If you do have any unanswered questions, if you do have any concerns, please feel free to slide into my DMs. All my information is up there. And if you want to email the entire team, then the team email is also listed on there. Thank you very much for listening.


The internet says that the future want to do the media the want to do the metavers What will the metavers incorporate into the applications of the metavers? Ok so the applications of the metavers One that is most marketed there are work spaces We already have virtual meetings, we already have things like Zoom calls and Google Meet. So what if we could incorporate virtual reality in a 3D space? So that's one application. So at work basically Facebook has Facebook Horizon? Facebook Horizon Workrooms. Facebook Workrooms. Facebook Workrooms. Yes, it's called that. Meta is already investing in spaces like those where people can have 3D representations of themselves, have pictures, have brainstorms, present ideas in a 3D space. So you can have a conversation about how a kak would look like. So instead of just having the normal flat design, it can be presented in the Metaverse as a 3D version of itself. So you can see the whole visualisation of the product here. Okay. What other place will it be applied? Another place which is very optimistic about is in schools and education. Because we said about things like the classrooms, about how we all learned, I learned about how a cell would look like, but it is often represented on a flat surface. So what if a student wants to see how a cell would look like in real life, in real life and the different chemical processes, biological processes that are going on in the cell. Being a massive tool that masses consciousness around a 3D space, we can define the different chemical processes on visualisation. So you can see how the cell membrane would move if something like an anomaly hits it. So we can visualise things like those. On engineering, not only the flat surface, but also the 3D versions of the components can be visualised in the space. And you can have direction by a person who is even in the moon. You can be talking about. So it's a whole massive technology that can be applied in schools. Okay. So another one. Still in education, I'm thinking of how firefighters are usually taught. So that would save them from, because if they do it in a physical location, they spend a lot because there's a lot of damage done. So now when they do it in the Metaverse, it's more of a simulation. Not just the physical act of moving into burning buildings and maybe risking your life. Maybe there are some aspects of the training that do not need the exposure to harm in that manner. Okay. Alright, continue. So the next application that's also very exciting is sharing of space. Let's say in the studio right now, instead of people just watching us, they could get into a version of the Metaverse that you are a member of or subscribe to. And they can actually be with us as if we are in the same space. So we can have our audience that is online. Come on board, just in the studio. Yes. And they feel like they are here. And we can interact with them in that space. And it's really exciting for people like artists who are trying to maybe organize events, maybe a small intimate session. But you live in Nairobi and you have a big fan base in Brazil. So instead of moving there, they could move into your Metaverse space. They come to you instead. Yes. And the event is held virtually. Virtually. Yes. And we've had some virtual concerts recently by Fortnight Games. We had Aliana Grandave, Travis Collet performing. Yes. So how was that? So it's something that has been going on for a minute, but maybe they did not explain it in the Metaverse context. But the technology has always been there. The concept of holding virtual events has always been there, but being fully immersive and having the social aspect of it makes it come to the Metaverse conversation. And it's really exciting for upcoming artists who not necessarily have the funding, the type of resources that maybe these big music companies have. So it will open up many opportunities. Alright. Some other applications? So another application is virtual land, virtual real estate. So that's in the real estate. So since you're talking about the likes of Travis Scott and Aliana Grande, there's also a famous proponent of the Metaverse. That's also Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton. Yes. They both land. They're actually investing, building virtual spaces that is really exciting for people who would like to design spaces. And if you would want to have a virtual land or virtual house, you can go to the Metaverse and live there in your avatar state. Yes. So Snoop Dogg bought his land and then he's calling it Snoop. Snoop verse or something. Yes. Now, are these the spaces that people will be buying in the Metaverse for them to host staff? You can buy a land and then they do virtual tours or something? Yes. So you can, from where I said, it's not yet said. Things are very kind of primordial right now at its infancy. But I see a place like the Snoop verse. I think he might be having some artwork in the digital space. Now that brings the conversation about NFT. But he might be having a virtual tour of his space. And people might pay. I would pay. I'd pay to see how Snoop Dogg's imagination and life could be if you mix realities. And we had someone buying land next to Snoop Dogg in December last year. So an NFT collector spent $450,000 for the privilege of becoming Snoop Dogg's next donor neighbor in the Metaverse by buying a digital plot of land in his virtual world. So it's that expensive to buy and land in the virtual space? It's with all the hype and all the craze about this whole blockchain technology, about cryptocurrency, about NFT, about digital land. Of course prices are out of this world. Literally prices are out of this world. I'm imagining that this is cheap because now it's not yet been realized. So people are just still new to the idea? Yes. So this we can call it a fair price? It can be fair price. It can also be symptoms of a bubble. So you can, like most of these cryptocurrencies that are hyped up, then it falls drastically. And people lose their money in that way. You can't say it's an investment as it is, but if you are really risk of us and you are willing to try new technologies, get in while it's still new years. Okay. So how does NFT come into play in the Metaverse? So start by explaining what the NFT is first? NFT as it is is a non-fungible token. So that's a technical word of... I'd simplify it to a digital code that can be traced back to a specific owner. So it's very hard to replicate that exact piece. So it's unique? It's extremely unique to the identity of the owner. So a person can get all art that can be digitized in NFT format. So that can be music, that can be a photo, that can be a 3D representation of any model, any idea, a house, a river, things like those. So you can actually buy a 3D version of a house and since you can also buy a piece of digital land, you can have a house and everything. So maybe wall art and skins, I don't know if you know skins, if you play things like Fortnite, different clothes you can also get in NFT format. So since it is something that can't be, as it is now, can't be replicated, it's only unique to you and you own it. Okay, so can we compare it to the physical world? Yes. So we can compare it to maybe an art piece like that of Yonado Da Vinci, the famous painting. The famous painting, yes. Yes of Mona Lisa. Yes. So that one is unique. The original piece, so it can't be replicated, if it's replicated still, there's only one. Yes. So that's the same thing with the NFTs. So if I have maybe my music and I have digitized it, it's in the digital format, so when I buy it from the original owner of the song, so I get an NFT. It can be sold, the piece of art or the music as you've put it can be, if it's digitized, it can be sold in itself as art. So it can be sold as an NFT. That can be traced to the original owner. That also breaks down the industry trope about how these big music companies might shorthand artists and things like that. So an independent artist can sell their music as an NFT and get money off it. So there is a Canadian artist, I don't know if he's a rapper or a singer, it's Tori Lanez. He released some music some time ago and within maybe what an hour he'd made like a million dollars. So right now it's like a hundred million, it's a very short span. So that is through NFT. Yes, he released it as an NFT. Yes, it was think a dollar, so he made some coin off it. Alright, so back to the applications, what are some of the areas that you've not mentioned? I think I've mentioned the most significant ones. So if a person can also want to invest in the metaverse, one that's more conventional, more approachable is investing in companies like meta. Investing in companies, meta also Facebook, investing in companies that are taking the metaverse conversation seriously. So you can bet that the internet is going in that direction. So people like Apple are also looking into the version of the metaverse. There are people like Microsoft, they are... Epic. Yes, also funny enough you've mentioned their online games. So that's also a version of the metaverse. So now we've talked about all the glitters and glam of the metaverse. So what are some of the negative aspects of the metaverse that we should look out for? Like a lot of technology, you should approach it with the cautious optimism. Approach it with the look that it's going to be... It has the potential of going south real quick. But since you have faith in humanity, it will be used as a tool for good. But one thing that I'm really considering to be a very... I wouldn't say negative. Okay, let's just call it negative. This identity lifestyle that the black mirrors we have in our pockets, in our bags, on our walls, the cell phones, the smartphones, the computers, the laptops, the televisions that we have around. So imagine a wall that is totally a massive. We can go potentially, we can go weeks on end without even leaving that house. Interacting with people. Yes, and I feel that will really, really disconnect us from what is really real. So we lose track of what is important because we need to make real connections. Yes, we might forget that our friends are people who we meet and we talk like you and I here. It's something that we sometimes have for granted in this social media space. And on privacy, how secure is it? So from...during Facebook's metamorphosis to Meta, they say that they are designing safety at its center, safety and privacy. So people who are using the Facebook, the Meta version of the Metaverse will have an added layer of safety that is fundamental, that is at the building blocks of the whole environment. So I would say that's what they said. But since we are cautiously optimistic, we are also cautious in the cautious optimistic side, right? So these big companies are the ones that designed the social media platforms. Yes, we have had trouble. And we have trouble with the social media networks. So maybe we'd have to rethink of how we'd have to engage with this type of technology. And we do not know where it would lead us. Nobody knew where Facebook would go. So as we come to a close, someone said, a critic said, just because you can't does it mean you should. So what do you make of this? Give us your opinion on the Metaverse. As I said, we approach new technology in cautious optimism. Yes, let us just embrace new technology, but remember that we are human at the end of it. So you've chosen to be in the middle ground. Yes. So thank you very much Stanley for your time and explain to us about the Metaverse. Thank you for having me. So can I say thank you? Yes. Can I also congratulate my sister who's just finished from 4? Yes. This is your camera. You can give your shout out. Hello Joy. So congratulations on finishing your phone 4 and we are really proud of you. Thank you. All right. So that has been Stanley Onyango, an information manager talking to us about the Metaverse. I hope that has helped your knowledge on the Metaverse, which is the future. Many companies, many tech companies are already working on this Metaverse. The hashtag is still one in the morning. The question we have asked you today on Facebook


All right, I think this is a good time of being cool because our next presenter I think Who's ever heard of club penguin? Well, I couldn't get that type of excitement. All right, so he had that company He sold it to Disney and he is a new company called fresh grade now He's gonna come up here, but this is what we're gonna do. He doesn't know this is gonna happen So I got my DJ and who thinks we can convince him to dance when he's on stage Yeah, Lane to dance here. Come on up here Lane Thank you Wow That was not how I expected to start here today, but You know, I've already embarrassed myself so it can only go uphill from here, right?  It's awesome All right Why I'm I'm so happy to be here.  I really am so I For those of you who don't know me. I've always I've loved building things. It's just what I do It makes me happier than almost anything else and in fact from as young as I can remember I'd love the act of creating something new out of like just raw parts and pieces In fact as a child when all my friends were running around with nerf guns, how do you guys like nerf guns? How many shot a sibling recently with a nerf gun? There you go. I Was the youngest of four my older brother used me as target practice all the time so instead I had to build myself a rubber band gun which Had bullets a little bit harder than the rubber nerf ones and I would usually get into trouble because Because I would you know increase it continue to increase the velocity with each build with with each with each revolution In fact when I was young my friends were all waiting around to turn 16 So they could get their first car and I decided that I would go around a garage sales and collect parts and pieces and build a go-kart In fact, that's actually what led to my first business Very fancy name very creative lanes lawns I Actually printed up flyers went door-to-door and for five dollars a lawn.  I would push around my lawnmower from like lawn to lawn And it would be obviously take a certain amount of time after school I'd basically mow lawns until it was dark and then and then I'd go home But when I got the go-kart I went to a neighbor friend of mine who is a welder and I said hey if I if I give You like three months of free lawn mowing will you weld me a trailer for my go-kart? And so he did so 12 years old I end up like literally driving around the neighborhood on this little go-kart with a trailer with a lawnmower and all this other stuff Behind it, and I look goofy, and I don't really care because I tripled my sales And I was making like 200 bucks 200 bucks a month, which was a lot better than the $10 a week that I was earning from my from my allowance But I guess you know That pretty much kind of sums up my childhood building things and and sometimes getting into trouble in fact other teachers here today I heard there's there's some teachers That's awesome. We got the whooped teachers to you that's rad So I gotta say I wouldn't have made it through school without my ability to build and create things You know I was not a great student. I'm sure that if they had been doing some of the testing that they do today I would have been on like 14 different forms of Ritalin like I was I was high energy to say the least and So you know when every other kid would be like working on their final exam on like say something like the Western movement I would ask my teacher if I could just recreate a miniature Western town And I'd put in like sound effects and lights and other things I would always ask like can I make a can I make a film or video and usually that have to be some sort of a Nod sorry teachers earmuffs some sort of a nod to maybe like poking a little bit of fun at the class or poking fun at the teacher a little bit but but thankfully the novelty of Creating something or building something that wasn't just another report for them to read Usually they'd say yes, and frankly that was the only reason that I would pass the class because I wasn't great at taking tests And I wasn't great at memorizing But my favorite project of my entire childhood Had to be my treehouse. Have any of you guys ever built a treehouse? Awesome So every day during the summer is my best friend and I literally every single day But wake up I'd drive my go-kart to his house and we would hang out and work on the treehouse His dad showed us how to use power tools, which was awesome Safety first and there was always plenty of scrap wood lying around so we literally could just let our Imaginations and our creativity take hold and so what started is like a simple platform Just like up up on up in the tree is pretty high It's about 15 20 feet in the tree and a rope ladder after a few months had turned into something pretty special In fact by the time we were done it had grown to be three and a half levels. There was a secret entrance There's trap doors. We built a security system a full lighting system There's a zipline that would that we could exit quickly and go race across his lawn But we kept slamming into the fence that it was attached to and we were about to knock over the fence So we built an arrestor hook like like what they have on aircraft carriers to catch airplanes We literally built an arrestor hook across his jungle gym to catch us In fact by the time this thing was done We had a working elevator using like pulleys and counterweighted bricks and thankfully Me and my best friend weighed almost the same amount So I was one brick heavier than he was and you'd literally like Unhook this thing and it would whisk you up like up into the tree house. It was awesome And the irony was that at school. I was barely passing math and physics But in my backyard, I was literally putting my life in jeopardy with those very subjects And you know the funny thing about that tree house is that we didn't even spend that much time enjoying it Or playing around up there if we were up there We were building something we were adding on to it somehow until we finally declared it done And then I think when we when we did we just like gave it to his little sister Who was thrilled and he was hoping, you know, wouldn't know how to use the elevator properly You see we weren't chasing the finished product. We were finding joy in the process of building it It wasn't about just having the coolest tree house or showing off to our friends It was about the fun and the creativity we poured into it And so 20 years later, I found myself building a new project that was very similar to that tree house It had multiple levels secret rooms games secret agents zip lines a pirate ship and And a lot of penguins in fact over 300 million of them from around the world We're journeying alongside us on this crazy journey helping to create this world called Club Penguin In fact, in fact, it was folks it was folks like yourself Who were long for that journey that made it such a blast? The same joy that I felt building this tree house as a kid now came out every single day that I'd go to the office And we got to work alongside talented artists and engineers and this amazing community of players like yourselves to bring this virtual world to life Now obviously this project was a little bit more complicated than my tree house But it tapped into that same sense of joy That same love that I had for creating and building something special We were able to create the biggest most complicated world that our imaginations and the imaginations of our players could possibly dream of You know and thankfully it ended up being successful But the truth is we never chased that that was never our ultimate goal We just had so much fun building it for us success wasn't wasn't the goal for us It just happened to be a byproduct of doing something that we love to do and something that brought us joy So what does this have to do with you? What's the point? Well? How many of you have heard you can raise your hands? How many of you have heard or been or been challenged to find your passion? Figure out figure out your passion. Yeah I'm sure we've all heard it at some point Hell I used to give that advice all the time. I mean heck. I just got banned by the way. I just I should have said heck. I'm sorry I Just got a 24-hour ban The trouble with that advice Sometimes other than sounding a bit daunting although I believe in it But it can sound a bit daunting and it also sometimes assumes that we we have just kind of one passion or one thing in life One gift to give to the world that that that we that we need to go on some sort of magical quest or or so Jerm in order to find it find it And if we haven't found it yet, then we need to spend some more time looking for it it, you know that thing that one thing I don't know about you, but that can be overwhelming And it could be a little bit a little bit scary. So instead of telling you to find your passion this morning I just want to simplify it a bit. I Just want to encourage you to do things that bring you joy Now that doesn't mean like filling your day with just fun There's a difference between goofing off and having fun, which is which is fine And there's difference in that though and creating joy When an athlete like Karina spends hours in the gym training and sweating and working to hone their skills That's not all fun But it does allow her to perform so well in her sport that she can represent her country get a gold medal and Clearly has a lot of joy. Am I right? Let's give Karina a big round. That's She just exudes joy and you know, it's not just here like we were backstage earlier. She's the exact same back there Where no one's looking she's like, hey, I was going so I'm like, whoa, that's that's a lot for this time in the morning It's intense. It's awesome. She's awesome But she told us about that extra 15 minutes that extra 15 minutes today And and and showed us what an exact amazing example of joy. She is you know a musician How many of you are musicians? Awesome, awesome. I try to be a musician. I appreciate it But you know musician will spend hours rehearsing the same song over and over again in private in order to find joy and performing It for others we all know that we tend to spend significantly more time working on those things that bring us joy and in most cases time equates to becoming excellent at something and We're gonna talk about the good parts of growing up in a digital economy in a global in a global global environment like we do today But one of the challenges of that is excellence is More important than ever because you're not just competing with that person down the street or down the block right in many industries you're competing with people from around the world and so Investing the time and the effort and the energy to do something that brings you joy to become excellent something is critical Now I understand don't get me wrong. I understand at this age and stage of life Much of your day is dictated by what others expect and want you to do. I understand that But in the coming years you're going to be faced with increasing choices How are you going to spend your time? How are you going to invest your efforts? And you're going to want to make sure that you're investing them well My my last year of university. We were required to write several pages titled creating a five-year plan That's at least how I write it in my head when I saw it creating a five-year plan Uh, and so I sat down and I struggled for hours to figure out what I was going to write What was my five-year plan going to be? And you know, I was struggling because I think deep down inside. I was fundamentally Disagreeing with the question. I didn't I didn't like the premise of it really because at the end of the day I felt like how can I perfectly plan the the next five years of life, right? Life is an adventure and I didn't want my life to be so predictable That I would know exactly what direction it would take and in exactly where it might go five years from now And so I mustered the courage to to instead of answering the question. I just explained that in my paper And I explained how life is an unpredictable adventure and if we try to overplan it We may actually miss out on some better opportunities than we could have imagined Now I was hoping my courage would be well received by my professor And possibly inspire him to think deeper about why he was asking me to do this project Unfortunately, he uh, he just gave me an f True story I failed my last paper, uh But but ultimately I I didn't care because I believed and I still believe to the core of my being That we couldn't possibly that I couldn't possibly predict Where my joy was going to take me Because you know, it's going to change as we evolve as we go through life Right, we're going to be different. We're going to be different 20 years from now than we are today We're going to be different five years from now than we are today So as you navigate life, it's important to do kind of these inner checks from time to time make sure you're asking yourself the right questions Right, why are you choosing to get one degree over another? Why would you stay in a job or a company?  Why do you limit what's possible?  Right, we're at the bc tech summit. I'm talking about joy and building stuff tree houses Well, I assume that you're here because you have some sort of an interest in technology And so allow me to explain, you know, we tend to think of technology sometimes as like hardware and software, right bits and bytes But to me it's way more powerful than that technology is all about access and scale Think about that. It's about access and scale It allows you and it will allow you in the coming years to have opportunities to succeed doing what you love That previous generations could only dream of You know, I've seen firsthand how technology has allowed people to do things that both bring them joy and make them incredibly successful along the way Right, we've seen technology like etsy allow people to turn their design joys from a hobby into a massive business I've seen technology like unity that allows people who find joy in gaming to create and sell their own games Technology like amazon that's allowed the small corner market that that's always created these really unique things just for their space To expand and sell their products to the world I've seen technology like youtube turn an aspiring musician into a superstar unfortunately Happen to be just in beaver, but But but it worked and good for him And you know, I've seen technology like scratch Introduce my 10 year old daughter to the joy of coding I've seen technology like uber and lyft allow my retired father-in-law to find joy in driving others around when he's feeling a bit isolated or a bit lonely And I experienced firsthand how technology called html and flash Allowed us to create this amazing world called club penguin that brought joy not only to us but to but to hundreds of millions from around the world Right if you think technology is just about bits and bytes zeros and ones I encourage you while you're here while there's some amazing exhibits Right hollow lens. That's awesome. You got to go check that stuff out But while you're here try to broaden that perspective try to try to widen that perspective spend some time here Digging into all the ways that technology can enable you to build a career out of what brings you joy The tech community needs you we need artists and writers designers programmers engineers accountants marketers Managers every skillset you can imagine. So if you're sitting here and you're like man, I don't know if I don't know if coding is for me That's okay. I'm speaking at a tech conference and I can barely code Thankfully, I have some very talented friends who are able to uh, who are able to do that and thankfully We even need a few treehouse builders along the way and so I'll close with this we're so We're so fortunate to live in one of the best countries in the world I don't know if you saw the rankings lately. Canada is the second best country in the world Behind who who cares that's that's who we're behind would Number one is who cares number two is Canada And you know bc is one of the most tech friendly places than almost any other place on the planet This conference is proof of that Right. Look at this conference. Where else in the world would you see a tech conference like this hosted by the government? That's pretty amazing. That's not normal guys So do you know I just want you to think about how incredible that is for a second. Please Don't squander this amazing place that we live don't squander this opportunity You have to be educated in one of the best school systems in the world Please don't squander your time here at this tech conference Dig in learn explore challenge yourself You know at the end of the day and you'll know this but I'm gonna say it anyway We only get one life to live So let's try to live it as fully as we possibly can Thank you very much


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another WW 30 minute meal. Tonight we are going Mexican. We are having an absolutely delicious satisfying filling and point friendly Mexican dish that is from our countertop to our table on our plates in 30 minutes or less. In fact, tonight was a little bit less. So if you wanna see what 30 minute meal I have in store for you, just stay tuned. For tonight's 30 minute meal, we are making a one pan taco rice dinner. So not only is this cooked in one pan, which is great, it is also from right here to your plate in 30 minutes or less. We're actually gonna shoot for 25 per the recipe instruction. So let me show you what's in our dinner. Simple, easy, quick. You're first going to need some taco seasoning of your choice, rice. I'm gonna be doing jasmine rice, salsa. I have the La Victoria Mild Organic Salsa. Some water, light shredded cheese. I'm using the Trader Joe's. You could really use any light shredded cheese. And lastly, a pound of 96-4 extra lean ground beef. So let's get started on tonight's 30 minute meal. The first step for our dinner tonight is we need to go ahead and cook down our extra lean ground beef. We wanna get this to the point that it is almost all the way browned before we add in our next ingredient. So give yourself five or so minutes to get your ground beef nice and cooked through. Once your hamburger is cooked through, we're gonna go ahead and add in our water. So I have one cup of water and then also our taco seasoning. So you'll wanna do to your liking. I try to do about a packet of taco seasoning. So we're gonna give this a good stir. Just get this nice and mixed together and then we'll be ready to add in our rice. Pop the lid on this and let that rice cook all the way through. After your mixture has come to a boil, we're gonna go ahead and add in one cup of uncooked rice. We're gonna get this stirred together, make sure all of your rice is under the liquid. Pop a lid on it, reduce your heat and we're gonna let this cook down for about eight to 10 minutes or just until our rice is cooked completely through. And by the way, right now it's been seven minutes. This is looking delicious. Once your rice is cooked through, we're gonna go ahead and add in our salsa. Now you can do as much as you want. The recipe calls for a cup. I'm just going to add it until it has the consistency that I want where I get a little bit of that bite of the salsa with every bite. So I'm gonna get that mixed in and then the last step is to go ahead and add in our cheese. So let's get our salsa mixed in. We'll add our cheese and we are done, my friends. And it has been just about 20 minutes. And the last step is our cheese. So I wanted to show you, I did one half of a cup of light shredded cheese and then I did one half of a cup of fat free cheese. I forgot to show you guys that in the beginning. So you want one cup of cheese total.  So let me get everything mixed in really well. I'll get this served up, give you the smart points. All right, so here is my completed dinner. So I have a small plate, it's my cute little Halloween plate. This recipe only makes four servings. So you get a lot for the smart points. I went ahead and topped mine with a little bit of the non-fat Greek yogurt in place of sour cream because it's zero smart points. So this entire plate of food or one fourth of the recipe is only eight smart points. If you wanted to cut down the smart points, you could make this with 99% ground turkey instead and that will decrease your points. But we wanted some ground beef. So that's what I made mine with. So this is my eight smart point dinner. Thank you for joining me on another episode in my WW 30 minute meals. I hope you enjoyed seeing tonight's dinner. It was delicious, absolutely delicious. And we had it on our plate in less than 30 minutes. It is absolutely perfect for a busy weeknight, busy weekend or just when you wanna hurry up and get dinner on the table because you have better things to do than cooking dinner. So I hope you enjoyed tonight's recipe. It is linked down in the description box along with all of my discount codes, my Facebook group link, my happy mail, you name it. It's in the description box. So thank you again so much for watching. If you're new, make sure that you hit that little subscribe button and hit that bell so you're notified every time I upload a new video. Please thumbs up this one and comment down below. Let me know what you thought of tonight's 30 minute meal recipe and if you're gonna try it for your family. And I'll see you guys all in my next video. Bye.


We just made these four full wall decor pieces using our Glowforge and our DTF printer and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a build-in or make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week we're making some alphabet soup, a little DTF on MDF, PDQ, 1, 2, 3, ABC. This does an awful. All of that is correct, although it didn't sound like that was nothing but a word jumbo. But yes, we're doing some home decor items this week. So normally we do our front porch, front porch welcome signs and door rounds. But this week we're going to do some home decor signs and we're going to bring them inside and we're just going to use our DTF printer and then we're going to use our Glowforge and I'm really excited about this project. I think they're going to be really cute. And then I'm sure I'm going to want some for Christmas and spring. Oh yeah. I have so many ideas. It's a whole reason I bought the printer. Yes, it is why we bought the printer. Yes. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed some quarter inch MDF. People always ask us, what kind of MDF do you use? We use the light stuff. The dark stuff seems to be a little more dense. It's harder to cut through and it's a lot more smoky. Yeah and sometimes you can only find the dark stuff but keep your eye out for the light colored MDF. This is a great example to show you guys. It's like gold. And then of course we need our DTF film for our direct to film transfers. We also needed some Starbomb thick super glue and some accelerator. So we have to work fast. And of course we need our paints. Step two, we're going to cut our box. We're going to take that quarter inch MDF over to the Glowforge and cut it out. But first we're going to stop by makercase.com. This is where we go to make all of our frames and boxes. We're going to make a 10 inch by 10 inch by one and a quarter inch deep box. We're going to export it as a SVG, import it right into our Glowforge app. Before we cut our board, we're going to paint and mask our board. We're going to go ahead and paint our board white because it's easier to paint black over white. We're going to mask it. We're going to cut and score some lines and we'll be able to remove only the tape we want with the black areas and then we'll be able to paint over that. We'll show you how that looks in a moment. And to make our coats in the Glowforge, I'm going to use a thick draft board settings. Three, we're going to make our prints. Kid put together our image and illustrator. And then I exported the background as a PNG for the printer. I separated the words and accents out and exported those as an SVG for the Glowforge. Our settings in our RIP software, we used 65% color, 200% white. And then for our white settings, we used 100% white behind every pixel. And remember, you'll want to print these with your image mirrored because you're going to add glue on the back, flip it over and adhere it to the board. We're going to press our prints.  We're going to press each one of them for 10 seconds at 300 degrees. 10 seconds is such a small number, it throws me every time. Ooh, look how smoothly that peels. Step five, now we have mega accents. We're going to take the quarter inch MDF back over to the Glowforge one more time, and we're going to cut out our words and accents that we exported as an SVG. And then we're going to take our DTF backers, put them back in the Glowforge, and we're going to add score marks so we know where these words and accents go on our backers. We're going to use the board that we cut it out of earlier. We're going to put the board in there. This way we know it's straight, and we're going to use the cardboard score settings. I just want to score it lightly. This way we'll have perfect letter placement when we go ahead and put the letters down. Six, now we paint. We're going to paint our sides, accents, and words. Not using this brush though, it's too big. Remember we talked about the masking on the sides. So we've got a cool little lattice pattern here that we're going to paint over. So we're going to remove the masking for the sections that I want painted black. We'll leave the masking on the areas that we want to remain white. We'll paint it and then peel the whole thing up, revealing our lattice pattern.  She left all of the words in the frame that we used to cut out the words. And she's trying to use a roller to get in there. She's living, living dangerously. No, I'm just a skilled painter. The trick with painting inside the frames is you want to make sure you keep tape on the back so that the words stay level with the top of the frame. The harder you have to press the roller, the more likely you're going to get paint oozing into the sides. You want to keep a fairly dry roller and you want to keep the cut pieces level with the frame piece. Seven, time to assemble it. We're going to use that star bond thick and the accelerator to glue together the sides. Then we're going to add the top. Then we'll glue on all of the words and the accents to make it pop. And now for this MDF, when you add the accelerator, it'll look like it's drying before he ever gets to place the piece down on the frame. But don't worry, it still works. And it's going to hold that frame right where you set it. You get about two seconds of working time. But after that, it's good to go. You can pick it up and move it and not have to wait for that glue to dry for 30 seconds to a minute. And two seconds is no lie. One of them was slightly wonky. And I tried to pound it into place, no lie. What do you think? Pretty easy, huh? Looking pretty cool. I think my favorite one is the flowers or the leaves. The leaves, yes. He was big on the leaves. My favorite is the Argyle pattern here with the little glasses and the bow tie. It's so hipster looking. I think it's very cute. And I think that pattern down the side really set it off. I mean, bam, bam. I don't know. We're thinking about offering these at the farmer's market, but we're also thinking about offering these as a kit. Yeah. Now, I'm thinking that I DTF it before it goes out in the kit. No. No, I think that we can send the DTF transfer so that you can try DTFing and see DTFing is now a verb. You can try and add to transfer yourself so you can see how this DTF works. These things are great. That's my favorite part. My favorite part is that it's like 10 seconds, instant gratification. I peel it off. It's looking cool. Yeah. Still, yeah. I don't want to share that with anybody. All right. Big thanks to all of our patrons. We love you guys. I'll put this file up for you guys here in a couple of minutes. But I really enjoy talking to you guys. I love using you guys as testers for my files. Like the other day, I sent some files out that I hadn't tested yet. But I was hoping that you guys might. And you did. And you gave me a lot of feedback. And I enjoy that. I love that. I fixed it up, made the file way better. Well, we're about out of time. So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show, we will see you next week or we'll do it building and make it again. Oh, and join us on Tuesdays, where we do test cut Tuesdays. This is where I don't use the patrons as a guinea pig. I am my own guinea pig. And Tuesdays, that's our fun interactive time. So if you have questions or I don't know, just want to come chat with us. Just want to see what we're up to. Yeah, come see what's up. Tell us what the temperature is in your area. I love hearing that.


Good morning from the tiny house festival as you can see it is winding down. It is Monday got a case of the Mondays These guys are still doing the bus rays. I just want to let you guys know When you get into the van life or the bus life you meet other van life bus life people and This is what you do at nine in the morning. You try and do My brake lights So we fished this down through here to pull some Some cables off of this one some wires and we are gonna fix this today. Thanks to bus life adventure and school We love and I'm just gonna watch them. You know how much we're making an hour right now High-fives dude. That's it Next step we are gonna pull this wire and when I say we I mean these guys right here Pull this up and we're gonna pull this through and then connect this brake light to this brake light and then presto Success now we're trying to squeeze everything back in I Snap connected these down here. We've got these up here and those are all joined We got to have this part touch that for it like to work so moment of truth This light is on its wire to that does the brake work. Oh Thanks so much dude The bus life so friendly so helpful so knowledgeable and most of us are self-taught the cool part so I'm gonna just button this back up get that going Yes, finally have brake lights. All right next up. We got Ellen DeGener bus This is a international with the t44e. It is also the 7.3 liter just like I have We've got some cool tiles on the roof here if you can see some of the detail those are fun A nice little kitchen area here fridge little futon driver's cockpit over there and In the back the living spaces I'm guessing this is still under construction because this looks a nice like a nice place to store some clothes And a nice place to maybe go in number two There are a couple vans in here. What is the name of this on instagram? Uh, our vans name is irie our handles irie to aurora Perfect, and this is some kind of Westphalia She's an 85 volts wagon Westie. Uh-huh Cool. I like this. Here's a little fridge situation here. These are awesome the angles and the domedics great Fridges, this is very cozy. All right. You guys are full-time in here. Yeah, we are Time for a year and a half Dude year and a half. That's so rad Cool. Love it. Thanks for the tour. So this vans name is zero for uh Zero plan and the van Instagram handle my name is Kevin and I've been full-time it for Five months with my girlfriend Stephanie sick and we're from central, Canada. Nice pegman. It's over. Cool. What's the model this van? It's a 1984 Dodge Ram van was converted by a Company from Alberta called by the rose campers And all this was like this when we got it. Nothing was converted. Uh, except for like led lights. Yep and also like a Uh electric pump right here And that's about it. Cool. Yeah, nice space very cozy electric heat means you got power from somewhere Well, we got power from shore right now. We're actually plugged in gotcha. Yeah. Yeah, cool See, this is something you can actually fit inside of a parking space. Yes I know. Yeah, so yeah boondocking in like parking in cities are no problem. Cool. It's not too big. Yeah. Yeah This is what our bus Corral looks like. It's not perfect, but it'll do the trick. We're just gonna take a final drone shot with the crew There's van livers and the bus livers by found me so You say yes, you know you can have the bus And uh the first bolt I took out of the seat was this so it's worthless, but You know it became schooly loud and Here's all our friends right here.  Let's take pictures I guess Above somewhere. All right, I'm gonna call it a day for today. It was pretty exciting stuff earlier The impromptu proposal. Um, I'm gonna run some errands Uh have to run and return. I'm gonna return the gimbal that I mentioned. I bought. I think I mentioned it Is not it was the crane v2 and I wanted the crane too. Super confusing Uh, and I don't know how much I'll use it. Actually, it's It's like 550 bucks. Um, so I also want to do the front calipers before I head out So I'm gonna try and do that at some point I need to fix this little thing Here and then I'm gonna grab two more leds for the brake lights So matchy matchies and nice and bright and safe soon to be Oops enemy. Uh, thanks for watching. I'll see you guys tomorrow


What am I doing out here? It is freezing. We're gonna get this 5k on the books essentially guys. I have not raced a 5k in 10 years Maybe 11 years. This is not my distance. My distance is 50 k's. I've raced 350 k's this year So yeah, it's gonna be fast. It's gonna hurt. I've got the Nike vapor flies 4% flying It's on my feet and it looks like there's about 2,000 runners here by the way, it's the USAT I didn't really know this when I registered. It's the USATF 5k road championships for Colorado So yeah, there's probably gonna be some guys that can run sub 15 minutes. I don't know I don't know. I'm just gonna go out have fun remember running is fun and See what we can do. So let's go warm up and then commence this Oh the pain the hurtlocker there the lactate threshold is what we're gonna be doing today All right, got to get that turnover going got to get that turnover going feeling pretty good feeling pretty good Hand warmers and fast guys here. All right Was jazz about Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You almost got it. Gordon. 100 yards, man. He's kind of cranking us. Are you kidding me? That's what it's all about, man. Put one foot for the other. Quickly. Yeah. Here they come. Bring them on in, everybody. There, Gordon. This is more of a pro division. These guys are all in the after. Third place. I feel something tear coming in. That last 100 meters. You got 40 years on the course. Oh, so close. So close. Some runners. It goes away. Good work, man. What's your name? John. John Seth. Good to meet you. I was good. Yeah. Oh, man. Okay, down to the end. It was really fun. Oh, man. Yeah, just like three guys. I knew you guys were right behind me. I was like, oh, man. You had the heart to go, man. I know. Right? About mile one. That was good. I, frankly, was better than I expected. I thought there'd be some dudes that were. I thought it'd be like top five, maybe. So I feel good. Oh, man. So I, you know my injury right now? Yeah. I felt something in that last 100 meters. That goes up the course? I don't know. I think I just was pushing so hard. I felt something. Yeah. So, yeah. You were leading the most of the race. I know. Last 100 meters. Yeah, hard. I know. Next time, right? For sure. What's your name? My name is Madat. Madat Heat, a vlog viewer. Yeah. Finally, good to meet you. Good to meet you. Yeah. And you were in the back country, right? Yeah. Good for you. Thank you so much. Awesome. We'll keep watching. You did it. Yeah, you finished it, though. Yeah. That's what matters. For sure, yeah. Cool. Well, good to meet you. Thanks for staying alone. And we'll see you at other races. For sure. All right, cool. All right, bye. Good luck in your 10K. Thank you so much. Yeah, all right. Here we go. Here we go. She would have done that in 120. We're popular. Stand loud. These guys watch. You guys do the 5K. It was a run. It was a run. You got five. All right. Joe's getting it. What you eating there, Seth? He's got an apple. All right, guys, we're relaxing. And the family is sleeping, taking a nap on this cold, wet, wintery day. It's nice to just be home after a hard race. But we are rejecting, we're rejecting our naps, aren't we? Yeah, we are. Yeah, we are. Okay, real quick. Quite a few of you are asking about my running socks, and I'm going to make a series of videos on running socks at some point. There's a huge difference in different types of running socks. A lot of people think, well, it's just a sock. No, there's a huge market out there for different running socks. So I'm just going to tell you one company that I love, and it's these guys, these green ones here. It's called Stance. Yes, it's down in the description if you're interested in getting them from Amazon. And essentially, they're so comfortable, yet I think they wick away moisture pretty well. Anyway, I'm going to make a video on these socks soon, but it's called Stance down below in the description, and I love them. And I love them. Okay, guys, what else? Oh yeah, I remember. I remember. Down here, down here. In case you did not see yesterday's vlog, essentially, I got these Brooks Levitate twos, and yes, the upper is incredible. It is incredible.  But I am not completely disowning Brooks. I haven't worn Brooks very much at all. Okay, I just want to put that out there. There are some people who watch these videos that love Brooks. And if you have a moment and you're a Brooks fan, let me know why and which shoe you love to run in. Again, at this point, I'm not too excited about this guy through the midsole, but anyway, let me know down in the comments why you love Brooks and which brand you lean towards. So I'd be curious. I'd be curious. Okay, this is yesterday's vlog. Go check it out. Upper right hand corner. All right, we're just relaxing and staying warm. And yes, a little holiday cheer. We made it. We survived. We did it. A 5K. Okay, but first of all, I need to mention this. This t-shirt from the race today is the most comfortable race shirt that I have ever received. It is amazing. It's a blend. It's not just all synthetic, like polyester or dry fit material, and it's obviously not just cotton. It's a blend. I love it. Thank you to the race director, whoever made the decision on these t-shirts, do it again next year. Do it again next year. Okay. Tip of the day number one. Tip of the day number one. Save your bib number. I always save my bib number. Get yourself a permanent marker and write on the back of the bib number the dates of the race, the location, the distance, and your time. This makes, so I, you know, everyone gets a finisher medal. I got one today, but I frankly, I don't really care. I don't really keep them around. Like I don't even, I don't even know where mine all are right now. My kids have them. They're all over the place. But this, this is more important to me because it's more of a documentation of how I did. And yes, over time, you can go back and look at all your bib numbers and how you did. So anyway, that's my tip of the day. Number one. All right. Now remember a couple of days ago, you guys voted as to why you watch running videos on YouTube. Well, third place was race recap videos, race blogs. That's what today is.  It's freezing. The rain is coming down just slightly. It's like, it's, it's cold. It's very chilly for Colorado, especially. I move right into third place at 800 meters. I'm in about second to third place. First place is probably about 10 meters ahead of me. I'm not quite 10 meters ahead of me. He's like right there. The lead bikes are, you know, just ahead of him at the 1K mark. I felt good and I asked myself, wait a minute, this seems a little too easy. This pace in the vapor flies. I just said, all right, let's go. If nobody else is going to go, I'm going to go. So at the 1K mark, I took off and not like I didn't drop the hammer, but I mean, I sped up for sure and it was slightly, slightly downhill. So I knew like, okay, now if I'm going to go and kind of take a risk, now's a good time to do it, to use the downhill to my advantage. Well, I move into first place and essentially I think second and third place ended up being about probably about 10 to 15 meters behind me, maybe 20 at the most at one point. So from the 1K mark to the 5K mark, I was in first place today. So I held the lead for, you know, a majority of the race with at about the two mile mark, you saw me drop the GoPro, apologize about that. Sorry, I dropped you guys. Sorry about that. I historically have always known that I struggle in the final sprint. I've always struggled in high school and college like I just don't have that top line, crazy sprinting speed, especially at the end of a race when you're tired, like I always struggle a little bit. So my strategy is always to begin my kick to the finish a little bit early, a little bit early. So I get past the two mile mark, two and a half miles approaching the three mile mark. So we got like 100 meters to go and essentially something happened. And I'm not remember, remember one of my favorite words on this vlog is I'm not sugarcoat. I'm not going to sugarcoat anything for you guys. I planted my left foot, which has the planter fasciitis and something happened in my arch. I feel okay now. I may have strained, pulled. I don't think I tore anything, but it was very, very serious. Keep in mind, I'm still in first place with like 100 meters to go plant. Like I was, I was, we turned a corner and I planted and pushed and I felt it some times in the running world, it's called like planter fasciitis release. So it's kind of that release of the tension. Maybe I don't know exactly what happened and I won't really know until tomorrow morning when I wake up to see how it feels. I did a cool down so I could still like jog after the race, but it was really serious. I went from like five minute pace to probably six minute pace, that last 100 meters. So I got past the last 100 meters by two guys. Like I basically couldn't push forward and even as I do that motion standing here right now, I can feel a little twinge. So that's the situation and I'm going to leave it at that. And the keyword of the day is 5k, of course. And the question of the day, what was the last 5k that you raced? Okay, think back, pause a minute because I had, I had to really think. For me, it was, I think 2008, 2008. So we're talking 10 years ago was my last 5k. That's crazy. And I'm, I'm a little shocked that it's been 10 years, but it's good. I also, this is another tip of the day. If you're a marathon runner or an ultra runner, I think mentally, it's really nice to just come back in distance. So instead of always going after half in full marathons every now and then, every now and then, do like a 5k or a 10k or even a one-miler, just like something that's still fun and you're competing, but it's not as hard on your body and it's over like that. Like this, today's race was, you know, 16 minutes essentially. Like that's crazy. That's crazy. And so mentally it was just, it was like, it was like going to an amusement park as compared to, well, I don't know what the comparison is. And so that's my second tip of the day. Okay. So answering the question of the day, your last 5k race, think about it. And how did it go? How do you, how did it go for you last, but not least the vaporfly update? How is it holding up after I just checked Strava and by the way, let's connect down below on Strava. I just checked and this shoe now has 37 miles in it. So not too many miles, but the upper great midsole. I would even put in the great category, a little bit of compression through the midsole foam, but then my main, you know, I guess observation and not even a concern really, but through the midfoot on the outsole, on the bottom of the shoe, it's definitely breaking down a little bit. So anyway, just something to keep in mind. I'd be curious if any other people have the vaporfly, what's happening on your outsole. So overall, it performed splendidly, splendidly. I felt great in it today, other than when I pushed off like, oh, yeah, yeah, really no complaints, no complaints at this point. And very, very, very, very good. With that said, thanks for being here. Thanks for watching the race and the race blog and the race analysis. And hopefully you learned something today and or gleaned a little motivation for your next race. Maybe it's a turkey trot. I don't know. Keep me posted to keep me posted and a shout out to everyone that came up and said hello after the race. I appreciate it. Just look for that green hat. Look for that green hat. All right. Don't be afraid to say hello. That's it, folks. Seek beauty, work hard. Love each other. Oh, crazy. And I'll keep you posted on my foot, my PF. It's interesting. Interesting. You guys are picking up on that word from me.  All right. Kind of like this guy.