What's up YouTube? This is John Hammond. I want to showcase a little bit more, make some YouTube videos. I have already released some write-ups for CodeFest 2018, actually in a Medium post, so forgive me for recycling content, but I figured I still wanted to make some video write-ups about it too, whatever keeps the YouTube stuff growing. So here we go, let's just jump in. This challenge, Freebies, is the classic support welcome challenge, so all you really do is go to their Slack channel.  So in the Slack page, in the Slack team, if you go ahead and create an account and log in, it's an invite link they give you, so you can just register an account and log in. In the general channel, you check the pin messages here and then one of the very, very bottom and contains the flag for the Freebies challenge. So that's pretty easy, pretty simple, right? Let's just mark that as a flag, so we can save this challenge, call it complete, submit it if we wanted to, but the game is already done, so that challenge we can knock out pretty easy. The next one I want to get to is Typing Master, which is a pretty similar challenge to what I've seen before with For All Secure. I think they did this in their Enigma CTF on their Hack Center platform, which you can probably track down, but it's kind of a simple service that will test your speed to type a certain letter. Let's just create a simple connect script. Not that we're really going to end up using this because we are going to simply write a get flag script and Python for it, but whatever. Good practice. That's what I'm all about. Give me the g letter however many times followed by another letter however many times and the sum of their ASCII values. The connection will close in 10 seconds, so if we were to even hold down this g character, well, we wouldn't be able to do that. We have to go ahead and automate this process. Let's go ahead and do that. I'm just going to name this get flagged up high because let's be ballsy, whatever. People told me I should start to use just regular user bin Python, not the environment variable, so let's do that. We can check out the connect script just to get the hostname import pretty easy. Let's paste it in there. That way we can have a host variable as a string, a port number here, and we do want to import PON tools.  Let's say s can equal remote, so we can go ahead and connect to it on the host in that port s.close. Check out what we're working with here. Let's just do print s receive, get our terminal and Python get flag. Please provide me with the letters however many times. We can actually determine, okay, since we're wrapping these in single quotes and using a number here, we could probably just scrape that out with regular expressions. I'll do that with import re. Let's say make that thing a prompt, just a variable we can control. Let's do re.findall, a string of any character preferably a word and those single quotes with multiple numerals following it. Then we'll use the prompt right there, the string that we actually want to work with. Then let's print out what we find, what we determine here. It gives us e and these things. This letter will obviously change every time we connect along with the numbers. That's why we wanted to automate this process. Let's go ahead and scrape these into their own individual groups. When we run .findall, we'll be able to access the variables just like that. We can actually just save these as numbers or whatever variable that we want. Then we can say our string can equal an empty string and we'll go ahead and string .append, numbers index zero to get the first result. Let's get the letter multiplied by the integer here that's given and we'll have to cast that to an integer because it does expect it as a string once we use regular expressions to scrape it out. We'll do the same for the other index that we get and then we'll go ahead and end the character values together. We can just take ord, the ordinal value like that letter in the ASCII table plus the same thing with one zero. Then if we were to print out string, we can see as an array the value that we have. A lot of nonsense there. Let's go ahead and put these together with empty string.join and we will want to wrap this number that we get as a string as well. Cool. So we can create our answer to be that and then let's go ahead and send that answer. Then we can print s.receive, check out what we get and they give us the flag here. Cool. Let's go ahead and split this up. Let's get the very last portion and that can be the flag that we retrieve and since this is now our get flag script, we can mark that executable, go ahead and run it one more time, redirect that flag to a static file and mark this challenge as complete. I just banged through that. I hope that wasn't too fast. The code here I think is a little self-explanatory. I do things a little bit more explicitly which may not be good practice but we know the port is always going to be the service that we connect to is always going to be the same each time. Just the letters they provide us and the numbers is different so scraping these with regular expressions works just fine for us putting them together and then sending back that answer. We'll do the thing. It'll solve the problem. Quick shout out to my Patreon supporters. You guys are fantastic. I can't thank you enough. 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And so the maqtam of Imam al-Hussain, his martyrdom, his passion, his suffering, had a deep, redemptive purpose. If this is happening to the grandson of the Prophet ﷺ, to the family of the Prophet ﷺ, if Muslim authorities are massacring people that are beloved to the Messenger of Allah then we all need to check ourselves, right, and change our ways, okay. That's usually what happens when we see someone that we know is better than us, struggling. We should turn inwards and think, you know, what would happen to me, and this should engender a sense of toba, repentance.


Welcome. I welcome you all to this lecture in the course, Samasa in Paninian Grammar. And this is the first course on Samasa. We begin our lecture with the recitation of the Mangala Charana. In this course, we are focused on the Tattpurusha Samasa. Tattpurusha Samasa is one of the major types of samasas in Sanskrit. Avyaibhava, Tattpurusha, Bahubrihi and Dhvandva are the four types of samasas stated in Sanskrit in this particular order in the Grammar of Panini in the text of Ashtadhyayi. We have also noted that Tattpurusha is by far the most productive of the samasas in Sanskrit. The number of sutras composed by Panini to account for various features of the Tattpurusha Samasa are very many in comparison with the sutras composed to describe such similar features of other types of samasas. Be it Samasa Vidhyayaka Sutra, be it Samasanta Prateya Vidhyayaka Sutra or Swara Vidhyayaka Sutra. In all these cases, the sutras composed to describe the Tattpurusha Samasa are more than other types of samasas. This goes to show the importance of the Tattpurusha Samasa in Sanskrit and also in Panini and Grammar. We also said that the Tattpurusha Samasa has got a number of varieties which is not the case with other types of samasas. And we have studied them one by one in this particular course so far. First we studied the Vibhakti Tattpurusha Samasa, very important. And the Vibhaktis are Dvitiya, Vibhakti Tattpurusha, Turitya, Chaturthi, Panjami, Saptami and Shasti in this particular order as is given in the Grammar of Panini in the text of Ashtadhyayi. Then we studied Karma Dharaya Samasa. We also in the course studied the Dvigu Samasa. Following which we studied the Nayatattpurusha, after which we studied the Ekadeshi Tattpurusha, after which we studied the Gati Tattpurusha Samasa, following which we started studying the Upapada Tattpurusha Samasa. And currently we are studying the Upapada Tattpurusha Samasa. The features of the Tattpurusha Samasa can be stated in the form of a simple equation in this particular manner. Where we have X and Y as two independent, two separate elements, independent and separate in terms of meaning conveyed word form as well as the accent. However, these word forms are semantically interrelated. And so the speaker of Sanskrit decides to merge these two forms together and form the output in the form of one entity, XY. The feature of this XY is that Y acts as a head of this particular unit. So XY is one unit and it is one unit in terms of meaning as well as word form as well as accent. So there are three features, Aikarathya, Aikapadya and also Aikasvarya. Now within XY, Y acts as a head. Which means that when XY as one unit is interrelated with any other word in the sentence, this interrelation happens only through Y. X is not related to any other word in the sentence without going through Y. If X is interrelated with any other word in the sentence without going through Y, such a Samasa is treated as an exception and is termed as a Samartha Samasa. We are studying the Upapada Tadpurusha Samasa right now. This Upapada Tadpurusha Samasa is stated by the Sutra Upapadam Ating. And this Sutra has got two padas, Upapadam and Ating. Upapadam is one slash one which means the word designated as Upapada. This is by the Sutra 3192, Tattrapapadam Saptami's Tham. Now because the word Upapadam is stated in one slash one, it is termed as Upasar Janam because of the Sutra Prathama Nirdishtam Samasa Upasar Janam. And then because of the Sutra Upasar Janam Purvam, this word in the Prathama Vibhakti will occupy the initial position of the Samasa. This is known as Purva Nipata. The other word in the Sutra is Ating, which is also one slash one, which means which is not a Ting. Eventually it means which is not a Tinganta, which is not a word ending in a Ting. Words continued are Sup and Sahasupa and also Samarthapada Vidhi. So the meaning of the Sutra is the following. Any Subanta whose Pratipadikas are designated as Upapada is compounded with any other interrelated word which is not a Tinganta. I repeat, any Subanta whose Pratipadikas are designated as Upapada is compounded with any other interrelated word which is not a Tinganta. Now this translation raises certain questions. First amongst them is the following. What is the need of the word ating in the Sutra? What it implies is that what is achieved by this particular negation? The question arises because when we make not a Tinganta, a condition for this Sutra to apply, the only other available option through this negation is that of a Subanta. Because we have Subtingantam Padam as the definition of Padha, so when Tinganta is negated what remains as a Padha is only a Subanta. Now this is available to us, we know anyway because of the continuation of the words Sup and Sahasupa. So then what is the need of the word ating? What is achieved by this particular negation? And in spite of these questions we know that Panini continues with the word ating. So we are forced then to think that in this particular Sutra, the basic condition of Sup and Sahasupa does not apply. Rather, Sup and Sah will only apply in this particular Sutra. So the skeleton of this particular Samasa would be as follows. The first element of the Samasa is a Subanta ending in Su and the second member is not a Subanta. It does not end in Su. But now a Ting gives us a purpose and that purpose is that the second member of the Samasa has Krith suffix. So there are two types of suffixes which are added after a verbal root. One is Krith and the other one is Ting. Now when a Ting is a negation, the purpose of this negation is to bring above the Samasa with respect to Krith. So the output of the Samasa is a Pratipadika plus Su, this is the Purvapada, plus Dhatu plus Krith. This is the second part of the compound. And so Supadhatu Pratipadika will apply and will delete the Su in the Purvapada. So the compound output would be the Pratipadika of the Purvapada plus the Dhatu plus Krith which is the second part of the compound. Now we are studying some more Sutras in the section 321 to 101. We have noted that 3284 is the Sutra Bhute from which the suffixes stated will be governed by the Adhikara Bhute. What it means is that the suffixes stated hereafter from 3286 onwards up to 3211, they will indicate the sense of Kartad by default, but they will also additionally convey the meaning of past tense. Now in this Sutra Karmani Hanaha which is 3286, there are two padas, Karmani as well as Hanaha. Karmani is 7 slash 1 which means when the Upapada is related to the action denoted by the verbal root as an object or karma. Hanaha is 5 slash 1 which means immediately after the verbal root Hanha to kill. Words continued are Dhatoh from 3191 which means immediately after the verbal root, pratyayaha 311, tattrapapadam saptami stham 3192, krithating 3193. So the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix nini is added in the sense of karta and also past tense to the verbal root Hanha when Upapada is related to the action denoted by the verbal root Hanha as karma. I repeat the suffix nini is added in the sense of karta and also past tense to the verbal root Hanha when the Upapada is related to the action denoted by the verbal root Hanha as karma. So we have pitruvayam ahan, one who killed the pitruvya, the uncle, the brother of the father. And so we have pitruvya plus am plus hanha plus nini as the alaokika vigraha. Now the samasa saudhnya takes place. So the pratyapadika saudhnya takes place and then supadhato pratyapadika yoho applies and we have pitruvya plus zero plus hanha plus in. And so this anha marker in the suffix nini is deleted but it causes the her getting substituted by gha first and also anha in hanha getting substituted by a. So we have pitruvya plus zero plus ghaan plus in and then because of the suffix nini anha in hanha is substituted by t. So we have pitruvya plus zero plus ghat plus in and so finally we get the derived output pitruvya ghat in which means the same as pitruvya ahan. Now the vartika statement here says that this word stands for an element of censure. Kutsita grahanam karta vyaam. Pitruvya ghatin is not just a factual statement but there also but there is also a sense of censure involved in the process of compounding. Pitruvya ghatin. The next sutra is drasehe kwanip 3294. In this sutra there are two padhas, drasehe as well as kwanip. Drasehe is 5 slash 1 which means immediately after the verbal root drusha meaning to see. Kwanip is 1 slash 1 of kwanip and kwanip means the suffix 1. K is the marker and p is also the marker. The words continued are dhatoho from 3191 which means immediately after a verbal root. Pratyayaha. Pratyayaha continues from 311. Tattrapapadam sattamistham also continues from 3192. Krithating is also present from 3193. So the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix kwanip is added in the sense of karta and also past tense to the verbal root drusha when upapada is related to the action denoted by the verbal root as karma. I repeat the suffix kwanip is added in the sense of karta and also past tense to the verbal root drusha when the upapada is related to the action denoted by the verbal root drusha as karma. So when the meaning to be conveyed is one who saw the other world. Paralokam apashyat. One who saw the other world. So in this sense, paralokam apashyat is the lawkika vigraha and the lawkika vigraha would be paraloka plus am plus drusha plus kwanip. Now the samasa saudhna takes place and so the pratipadika saudhna also takes place. So supadhatup pratipadika yoho will apply and so we have paraloka plus zero plus drusha plus one. And then we join them together and we get the form paraloka drusha one. Meaning paralokam apashyat. One who saw the other world. Then we go to the next sutra. Saptam-yam janer daha. 3, 2, 97. Sutra is saptam-yam janer daha. There are three padas in the sutra. Saptam-yam which is seven slash one, janer and daha. Saptam-yam is seven slash one. Meaning word ending in seventh case is the upapada. Janer is five slash one of jani, referring to the verbal root janer, meaning to be born. So janer means immediately after the verbal root janer to be born. Daha is one slash one of dha and dha is a marker. So the suffix is a. This dha marker triggers the deletion of an in jan. Words continued are dhatoho, 3191, immediately after the verbal root. Pratyayaha from 311. Tattrapapadam saptamisthamis present, 3192. Kridhating is also present, 3193. So the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix dha is added in the sense of karta and past tense to the verbal root janer when upapada ends in the seventh case. I repeat, the suffix dha is added in the sense of karta and also past tense to the verbal root janer when upapada ends in the seventh case. So here we have mandurayam jataha. And mandura plus nyi plus janer plus dha. This is the erlaukika vigraha. And so samasa saudhnya takes place. So the prathipadika saudhnya takes place. So supodhata prathipadika yoho applies. And where we have mandura plus 0 plus janer plus er. And then mandura is shortened to mandura. Mandura plus 0 plus janer plus er. And then the an in janer is deleted. So we have mandura plus 0 plus j plus er. And the finally derived output is mandura j. Which means the same thing as mandurayam jataha. Mandura j. The next sutra is panchamyam ajatau. 3298. This sutra has got two padhas, panchamyam and ajatau. Panchamyam is 7 slash 1. And ajatau is also 7 slash 1. So panchamyam means word ending in the fifth triplet. And that is the upapada. And ajatau is 7 slash 1. Which means not the generic property. Words continued are dhatoho from 3191. Meaning immediately after the verbal root. Pratyayaha 311. Tattrapapadam saptami sthami is present from 3192. Krdating is present from 3193. Janer is continued from the previous sutra. Janer is 5 slash 1. Meaning immediately after the verbal root jana to be born. Daha is also continued from the previous sutra. This is 1 slash 1 of dh. Which is having the marker dh. And so this suffix a which has got the marker dh. Triggers the deletion of an in jana. So now the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix dh is added in the sense of karta. And also past tense to the verbal root jana. When upapada ends in the fifth case. And which does not denote a generic property. I repeat the suffix dh is added in the sense of karta. And also past tense to the verbal root jana. When upapada ends in the fifth case. And which does not denote a generic property. Now following this when we have the meaning to be conveyed. Namely one who is born from the intellect. One who is born from the intellect. Then we have buddhe jataha. As the laukika vigraha. And the laukika vigraha would be buddhi plus nasi. Plus jana plus dh. And then the samasa saudhnya takes place. And the pratipudika saudhnya also takes place. So supodhatup pratipudika yoho applies. And so the sup is deleted. So we have buddhi plus zero. Plus jana plus dh. Jana plus er. And then finally because of the marker dh. Anna in jana is also deleted. So we have buddhi plus zero. Plus jah plus er. And the finally desired compound output is buddhi jah. Buddhi jah. Which means the same thing as buddhe jataha. Similarly when the meaning to be conveyed is one which is born out of sorrow. Dukhat jataha. And the compound output would be dukkha jaha. And one who is born out of impression when this meaning is to be conveyed. Samskara jataha. This will be the laukika vigraha. And the compound derived is samskara jaha. Now we go to the next sutra. Upasarge ca saudhnya yam. This is 3299. Upasarge ca saudhnya yam. This sutra has got three padhas. Upasarge seven slash one. Which means when the proverb is the upapada. Chha and also saudhnya yam. Chha means and. And saudhnya yam is seven slash one. Meaning that when the technical term is designated by the compound. Words continued are dhato ho 3191. Which means immediately after a verbal root. Pratyayaha 311. Tattrapapadam saptam istham is present from 3192. Kritha thing is present from 3193. Janaer is continued from the previous sutra. Janaer is five slash one. Which means immediately after the verbal root jana to be born. Daha is also continued from the previous sutra. Daha is one slash one of dh. Or is the suffix with the marker dh. This marker dh triggers the deletion of an in jana. So the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix dh is added in the sense of karta. And past tense to the verbal root jana. When upapada is an upasarge. And when the compound designates a term. I repeat the suffix dh is added in the sense of karta. And also past tense to the verbal root jana. When the upapada is an upasarge. And the compound designates a term. So when the meaning to be conveyed is one who is born. Prajataha. The compound output is praja. So the same procedure stated earlier. And so we get praja as the compound output. And the feminine form would be praja. One who is born. Then we have the final sutra in this particular section. Which is aneshu apitrishyate. This sutra has got three padas. Aneshu, api and drishyate. Aneshu is seven slash three. When any other word is the upapada. That is the meaning. Api means also. Drishyate means is seen. Words continued are dhatoho from 3191. Which means immediately after a verbal root. Pratyayaha from 311. Tattrapapadam, saptamistham and krithating. They are present from 3192 and 93 respectively. Janeer and Daha. They are also continued from the previous sutras. And so janei is five slash one. Which means immediately after the verbal root jana to be born. And Daha is one slash one of dh. The suffix is a with the marker dh. And this marker dh triggers the deletion of an in jan. So the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix dh is added in the sense of karta. And also past tense to the verbal root jan. When the upapada is any word. And even if the compound does not designate a term. I repeat. The suffix dh is added in the sense of karta. And past tense to the verbal root jan. When upapada is any word. And even if the compound does not designate a term. So we have na jataha as the laukika vigraha. And the finally derived compound output would be a jaha. Following the procedure stated earlier. When the laukika vigraha is dvihi jataha. Somebody who is born twice. And the compound output would be dvihi jaha. Following the same procedure outlined earlier. Anu jataha. When this is the laukika vigraha. The compound output would be anu jaha. This suffix is also added after any other verbal root. With any other upapada also. So for example, if pare tak kata. Is the laukika vigraha. The compound output will be generated in the form of pare kha. And then the feminine form would be pare kha. To summarize. The suffixes in this section mean different karakas. By default the agent or the karta. But sometimes also the most effective means namely the karana. There are suffixes which get added after all verbal roots. Thereby increasing the accommodating strength of the grammar as a system. Enabling the accounting of the new forms generated in the course of time. In the grammar of panini. Panini uses very rarely the verb in the sutras. The one used in this section denotes the action of seeing. Thereby highlighting the basic act of observation. Needed for a grammarian to formulate rules. These are the texts referred to. Thank you very much.


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Hi everybody, we're back in San Jose at GTC24, just unpacking the AI era. It's just still pretty packed here, maybe not as so much as it was the other day, but it's good to be here. John Mayo is here. He is the VP of alliances at Vast Data. Thanks so much for taking some time. Thanks, Joe, for you guys. Huge show, it's good to be back. Actually, I don't think I've been to a GTC since I joined Vast four and a half years ago. Well, yeah, because 2019 was the last one. Right. And they've certainly outgrown 2019. It's been phenomenal. Yeah, it's pretty good. You guys got a good presence here. And we were just at a luncheon that you guys held. Thank you for analysts. That was good. And you had one of the leaders from Genesis Cloud there kind of explaining their model. But you guys sort of quietly sort of in plain sight, but hidden in plain sight, if you will, have really carved out a really prominent position with some of these alternative clouds. I wonder if you could explain for the audience, like why do people need a different cloud for AI? Why can't the sort of conventional clouds that we all know and love kind of support the workloads, the way you guys envision it? Yeah, so I mean, last year, 2023 was really a banner breakout year for Vast data, especially in these kind of specialized AI clouds, like you mentioned, right? Genesis Cloud being one of them. We have great partnerships with CoreWe, with Lambda Labs, Core42, right, and many, many more. I think there's been an opportunity in the market for these specialized clouds because everyone started in the hyperscaler clouds, but there are some needs where we're talking now thousands and tens of thousands of GPUs sometime for some of these very, very large models that are being trained today that just need a lot more horsepower, right? Need a lot more, both on the data side, but also on the compute side, obviously. So there's been a kind of a emergence of these type of vendors, and we've been working hand in hand with many of them, designing new architectures to enable this type of infrastructure. So Jeff Denworth said something at the launch. I showed up late, so I kind of didn't catch the whole thing, but he said, look, the traditional cloud guys, they will thick provision a GPU cluster. And I'm like, hmm, wait a minute. That doesn't sound cost effective. What does that mean, and how are these alternative clouds different? What does the customer get? So I think a lot of the specialized cloud providers are providing dedicated bare metal. They're not typically heavily shared infrastructure. Whether they virtualize or not is kind of not the point. There's kind of been lots of technology advancements to give you max peak performance of GPUs in lots of different ways. But I think the biggest difference is that it's really a purpose built. I mean, you were at the keynote, I'm sure, on Monday. Networking's a huge part of it, right? So the considerations at going to building these AI supercomputers, you have to look at it as you're literally building a supercomputer for some of these new workloads. So every single facet of the data center from physical layouts to how you do network design to how you segment compute and storage networking, all of those things are big factors in making sure these jobs run well and run as fast as possible. So it sounds like these companies are just, they're thinking from the ground up, they're purpose built data centers for AI. As opposed to kind of general purpose. Yeah, yeah, they're definitely not general purpose clouds, but it's been pretty fun because we've been working with CoreWeave, for example, and it's allowed us to really innovate. Like we just made an announcement a couple of weeks ago where we've been partnering with NVIDIA on the Bluefield DPU technology. So it's their kind of accelerated networking card plus compute all in one technology. And we've been working with partners like CoreWeave to build a system that's more secure, more scalable, more efficient from a power consumption perspective. So when you're running at this scale, some of these AI cloud providers, like it matters a lot, right?  And so it's been pretty fun. How are they able to, I mean, the hyperscalers have so much cash, they got cheap cost of money. They're lining up to buy GPUs we heard on Monday, they all signed up for Blackwell, they're ready to go, they all got shout outs. How do these guys compete from a CapEx standpoint? Are they just like get amazing VC funding or they have all kinds of backers is strategic? How are they able to compete? I'm not a finance guy.  And I think there's also some of it is private money, some of it is government money, right? A lot of nations now are looking at building sovereign clouds for AI specifically, right? And that's going to stay within their borders. And a lot of times it's funded by government money. So I think there's money coming from private sector, also from governments and all over, and there's probably more creative ways of financing that I don't quite understand. Well, but it makes sense what you're saying because these governments, they have to protect their own interests, they have local laws, they don't want people breaking the laws, but at the same time, if it's really hard to comply, they want to make it easier. So that makes a lot of sense. Okay, let's get to the vast like, what's your role in these alternative data centers? So you guys are obviously providing file systems, they're doing a lot of like amazing HPC and HPC and AI are colliding. Give us the rundown there. Yeah, so I mean, historically we've been, people could think of us as a high performance scale out file and object storage system. And we do that very well. We've built our amazing business over the last four years on that kind of foundation. But starting last year, we started to introduce and roll out and start to ship new capabilities. And I don't know if it's been clear to everybody, we talked about the vision, but we introduced new capabilities like the vast database and people have always wondered what, why are you getting into that space? And I think as AI's kind of come onto the scene, people are starting to understand that you need those kinds of structured semantics in order to take unstructured data, images, videos, et cetera, be able to put some structure and be able to feed that into these large GPU clusters to unlock the true insight, right? So we're, the reason why we've had so much success recently is that we're starting to introduce new kind of up the stack data services necessary at solving a lot of these large complex AI and data pipelines end to end, right? So it's not just about how quickly can you read and write the IO performance of systems. That's obviously table stakes, but how can you simplify the data management? How do you accelerate the data preparation and the other stages that happen within a very complex AI pipeline? Yeah, we had, we had Renan and Jeff on our breaking analysis program. We were talking about the next data platform. And there were some of the, you know, some of the attributes that you think about, you mentioned some, but you're talking about petabyte scale. You're also talking about all different data types, different query types. And, you know, today, today's data platforms really aren't built for that. They're largely built for analytics, which is great, but that, they weren't built for AI.  Okay, but what you'll work for them is a lot of data in there. But again, I think, if I understand it correctly and listening to Renan and Jeff, you guys saw this coming.  And then boom, the market hits and it just comes your way. We definitely, if anybody told you this, we definitely didn't predict when this would happen, but you can kind of see it on the horizon. I also think that the time, you know, as far as, you know, why we're different and why we think we have a unique advantage is we started a little bit late and we built everything from the ground up, like from infrastructure up, that was optimized for where we are today, right in this AI era. So we're not building and kind of stacking on top of legacy infrastructure approaches. We've custom built literally from the hardware on up from day one, and it's put us in a very good position to win. You know, you saw, it's interesting you say that, John, because you saw like pre-cloud, you know, companies that were formed in, let's say 2006, 2007 timeframe, or even before, even, you know, 2009 before the cloud was a thing, before the classification of business, they had to pivot. And some of them did quite successfully, but versus, you know, again, take like a snowflake that was really born in the cloud, you know, born cloud native, and they were able to excel and reach escape velocity. So the fact that you were a little late, right, was actually advantageous in terms of compressing the time to AI, if I can use that concept. No, I think we've not only been able to do that for the traditional on-prem data center, but we're also moving the other direction into the hyperscaler clouds to help solve these problems there for customers as well, so. Okay, so you're helping those guys move into the AI era as well, as you were saying. Right, right, right. And so, so that's going to be an interesting collision down the road. You get the rabbits out front, grabbing some early market share, you know, gaining some traction, and probably gaining a lot of innovation. What about the ecosystems that are forming around those sort of AI clouds? What are you seeing there? I think there's obviously a big focus on software partnerships right now. NVIDIA's got a very broad range of software solutions. There's a lot of emphasis this week, especially on the inferencing side, right? So inferencing, I believe, is a big focus for this year. It's where, you know, a lot of people right now have bragging rights around training, but inferencing's where the economy's actually going to, you know, you're going to see that explode, right? So it's where the monetization effects are going to happen. So there's a whole entire ecosystem of software. There's a lot of focus on NIMS, the announcements with NVIDIA. We're partnering with a lot of different ecosystem players that are helping operationalize a lot of inference workloads as well. So yeah, I think increasingly it's going to be around how do you help, you know, from a full bicycle management of inferencing, you know, train models, getting those deployed through the monetization of those is going to be a big part of the ecosystem. What's the partnership with NIMS? Can you explain that and we can unpack that a little bit? I mean, so NIMS is an entire solution where you want to be able to use existing data to be able to fine tune, you know, a lot of these foundational models are becoming really, really, really smart, really good. But if you want to apply kind of domain specific relevance from your business, from organization, you have to feed it with some business specific content, right, information. So those are frameworks that are emerging to help make that simpler, right, to go tap into the enterprise and the, you know, the stroves of data that they have in their environments make that more tailored for their business, not even to the organization, but it could be even at a departmental level within a large organization. So you're saying that I can basically point that infrastructure at the data that's inside of a vast object store, and essentially create my own sort of LLM, if you will, but that's very domain specific. So this would be applied, whether it's financial services, I could see use cases in healthcare, I mean virtually any industry. I think so, I mean, they gave some examples of it, but yeah, absolutely. Taking, you know, I was talking with a large system integrator the other day, but they are by definite information environment from how they handle contracts to how they develop knowledge, right? They're like, that is their secret sauce. So being able to capture that content that's been stored in archive forever, feeding that into fine tune and improve these is going to be very, very powerful. So this show, I think the show actually will mark a milestone because there was no GTC, you know, really after COVID, this was the first one after COVID, pretty amazing actually.  And now it's 2024, people aren't saying that anymore. But I think this conference, I'd love to get your thoughts, your sort of final question, really marks a new milestone in the AI era. It touches virtually every industry.   And it really is, I think, marking a new era for our industry. I, you know, the cliche, you know, I think it was used by Jensen last year, right? It was like the iPhone moment has arrived. And I think it's so true. I mean, the funny, so anecdotally, right? I haven't actually spoken with or met with a university or a research center this entire week, right? It's with like private or, you know, private sector enterprises that are trying to figure out how to infuse their business with AI and possibly either save costs or make more money or increase productivity, whatever it would be. So that is a clear inflection points happening in the industry. And it's pretty exciting to see. All right, John, thanks so much for coming on the trip. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it. All right, keep it right there. We'll be back for more action from San Jose, Dave Vellante and John Furrier from GTC24, you're watching theCUBE.


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All right. Good afternoon. So up next we have Mr. Brooke McLean. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Air Force Enlisted Village. Mr. McLean, like I said, is the Chief Executive Officer for the Air Force Enlisted Village. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the largest senior living community in Northwest Florida. The mission of the Air Force Enlisted Village is to provide a home to widows of retired airmen, mothers of active duty service members and retired military couples. Prior to being selected to his current position, Mr. McLean served in the United States Air Force for 30 years and served in many locations including Hawaii, Florida, Kuwait, England, Germany, Korea, Arkansas, Colorado and California. He also served as a senior enlisted leader in numerous organizations, culminating in his position as the Command Chief Master Sergeant for Pacific Air Forces. Without further ado, Mr. McLean. All right. Thank you. All right. Well, congratulations Chiefs. I know this is a big day for you, day one. I'm sure you're probably all ready to get out of here. I know that there's somebody else that's going to brief behind me that you may be looking forward to. However, I want to just take a couple minutes and give you a quick overview of the Air Force Enlisted Village. Some of you may not have heard of us before. That's okay. Hopefully after this you'll have a better sense of who we are and what we do and why it's important for you as Chiefs and why it's important for our Air Force to support and be involved with the Air Force Enlisted Village. So over the years we have done this a number of different times and people have heard this briefing a lot of times. What they do when they come to the Air Force Enlisted Village is they drive around, they look at it and the first thing they say is, I had no idea it looked like this. So we picked up a clue. We said, let's make a video. So we got a video that's going to show you a drone that flies around the campus. And Chief Green's still laughing because he saw this not too long ago and afterwards he said, Brooke, he says, where are all the people in the video? So I got it. There's no people in the video. But trust me, we got 500 people that live there. I got 500 supervisors that help me every day to make sure that we take care of this place. So let's go ahead and roll the video and then I'll come back and give you a briefing. So we're a 501C3 non-profit Air Force Charity. There's only four Air Force Charities that are official in the eyes of the Air Force and that's us, the LeMay Foundation, Loose Guys of Texas, which is our counterpart organization out in San Antonio and the Air Force Aid Society. So those are the big four. I'm going to run through the slide deck here and let you take a look. I've been doing this for about 60 years now. I took over for Chief Binnaker when he passed away about four years ago. As a matter of fact, it was four years ago this month that he passed away. He was our CEO for 15 years prior to me coming over and before he passed away. Incredible legacy. He did so much for our organization and so much for our Air Force, of course. But I'll tell you, as we go through here, you're going to see some things where his fingerprints are all over the work that we do. Our primary mission is taking care of a widow of an Air Force retired enlisted member. Back in the day, 50 years ago, we stood up and our title was a mouthful. It was the Air Force Enlisted Men's Widows Home. It truly was set up to take care of widows of enlisted members only. We did that for a number of years. We transitioned. We've opened up a little bit. We've expanded our mission a little bit and we're looking at making some more expansions in the future. But we go back, always go back, to taking care of the widow of our retired Air Force enlisted member. That's our number one priority. So we're in pretty good location. Tucked in right between Eglin Air Force Base and Herbert Field down in Fort Walton Beach. So if you get a chance to come down and visit us, please do so. This is an amazing campus. It's a great charity, a great cause, a great thing to be involved with. So we welcome visitors whenever you get a chance to come over. We picked Fort Walton Beach specifically and it wasn't because of the weather. It wasn't because it was really close to Destin and really nice and stuff. When we stood up to the organization, we looked around the United States and we wanted to go to a place that was really strong military community. Fort Walton Beach was that place and it's not just a strong military community. It's a strong Air Force community. All over the place down there, you see airman symbols and the connectedness that we have is just incredible. So we're very fortunate to have that location. So this is just a top view. You can see it a little bit here. 125 acres. We've got 350 independent living units and we've got 66 assisted living units. Now many of you probably haven't had any experience with people getting old in your life. Some of you may have. Some of you may have dealt with aging parents or aging grandparents and you see as they get a little bit older, maybe you don't want to deal with gutters, leaky roofs, yard maintenance, those kind of things. When you get to that point, you want to move in some place to be taken care of. That's what independent living is.  You drive your own car. You do your own thing. You cook your own meals. When you get a little farther along and you need a little bit more assistance, then you go into assisted living. That's where we have the Hawthorne House and that's where typically people need assistance with medications and some meals. So those are the levels of care that we provide. Boil it all down. Our mission is to provide a home. Chief Binnaker provided the mom rule to us. We ask ourselves these three questions as our golden rule of how we interact with one another, especially with our residents. Would you do it to your mom? Would you do it for your mom? Would your mom approve? So assuming that you like your mom, if you answer yes to these three questions, you're probably going to be in pretty good shape. It's provided a great guidepost for us and it's become a value statement for us really about how we take care of our residents. So I said we take care of widows. That's our number one priority. A great mission. We have about 70% of the residents of the 500 that we have there are widows. So even though we've changed, we've adapted, we've added in some couples and some other things, we still stay with that primary mission. We also have moms. We have special category to take care of moms of active duty members. Typically this comes from Eglin or Herbert, where mom has come back and lives with the active duty member and then mom, excuse me, the active duty member gets PCS orders and needs to leave and goes someplace where mom can't go, like Turkey or Korea or Japan. So at that point mom can come over and stay with us. And we have about 20 of those that fall in that special category. We also have active duty spouse allowance and that typically is us being flexible as far as if there's a fire, a flood, a fatality, anything happens to an active duty member or their family, we try to help. We have 350 independent living units. At any given time we have apartments that are in some type of turnover and we have a couple guest apartments. So we're able to help. We look forward to doing that and we try to reach out and work very closely with commanders and the chiefs of the installations. Unfortunately what we typically find though is that it really is very localized. It's only down in Herbert and Eglin that people really use us. But we are open to anybody that needs assistance. Not long ago Chief Wright was out on a visit out at Shepherd and he ran across someone that was in this exact situation. The master sergeant was supposed to be going to Turkey. Mom lived with her and they didn't know what they were going to do with mom. And so we started working with her. It turned out that the master sergeant got her orders changed so she didn't have to but we were there and we were going to be that resource for her if she needed it. And then we also have couples. This is Mr. Clarence Darje and his wife. They were in residence with us for a long time. He was kind of a crusty old guy. He would tell you that demographically based on the actuary tables women outlive men. Sorry guys that's the fact. If you go look the actuary tables the women are going to outlive men. Clarence Darje would tell you that the men died because they wanted to. We get some real personalities down there. So by the numbers this slide will build out as we go along. We're one of a kind organization. There is not another enlisted village. No army, no Navy, no Marine Corps enlisted village. We're the only one in the nation that does the mission that we do. You can see some of the numbers as it built out. We've been around for a long time. We have about 500 residents now. We had one lady that lived with us. She passed away about a year ago. She was 104 when she passed away. She lived with us for 41 years. So she moved in with us in 1976 and then just passed away about a year ago. Remarkable lady. We have grown over the years. We have changed. We have adapted. We have morphed. You can see the numbers here. Village 5 was our new units that we opened up about three years ago. We have a new construction project that's ongoing. You'll see some pictures of that in just a second. That's Village 6. That's adding 63 new units. And the reason why we're doing that is because America is getting older. If you look around and you look at the demographics, you look at the baby boomers who were born 1946 to 1964. That baby boomer generation is starting to move up in the years. And so they're now starting to get to the point to where they want to go into a retirement community. There is an incredible amount of people that are turning 65 every year. There's 9 million people. Now I said that wrong. There's 3 million people a year that are turning 65. Hang on. I've got my numbers backed up. 9 million people a year. I knew it. I had it right the first time. Which equates to, I completely lost my math. Math in public is not going to work for me today. Let's just say that there's a lot of people turning 65 every year. So these ladies all lived in all of our communities. We've had a number of different locations over the year. We had Teresa Village, which is our first property. And then we had a couple others. And they all lived in the different communities over the years. So the lady in the back is Ms. Faustine Dean. She lived in Teresa Village. She lived in Bob Hope Village. She lived over in Hawthorne House. Eventually she started living over in our memory care, memory support wing. She had Alzheimer's. So she wasn't thinking real clearly towards the end of her life. But she had had an incredible life. She grew up really poor in South Carolina. Smoked cigarettes until the day she died. Couldn't get her to quit that. We tried really hard. Loved Dr. Pepper. It was one of her passions. So she woke up one night about 3 o'clock in the morning. She didn't really know where she was. We have telephones. We have the emergency buzzers. We have pendants that residents wear. Well, she woke up at about 3 o'clock in the morning and decided that she wanted a Dr. Pepper. But she wasn't thinking real clear. So she reaches over and she picks up the phone and she dials 911 to order Dr. Pepper. Which is kind of sort of funny. But what's really nice about it is about 30 minutes later the sheriff showed up with a Dr. Pepper for her. And I love that because that really shows how much our community understands us. The fact that Fort Walton Beach in Okaloosa County the police understand what it is that we do and they help us and support us is just incredible. So this is just a demographic snapshot. This is the Hawthorne House. Red is all widows. There's a couple very busy widowers that live there as well.  We had one lady that was 94. She was dating another resident. He was 92 and they called her a cougar because she was dating a young guy. Similar demographic over in the independent living side. This is where you see more of the couples that are living there. And we see this trend starting to grow. There's more and more couples that want to move in with us. We started construction on our new campus or excuse me our new facility about three months ago. That's the 63 new units. And that's because we can't move the couples in that want to live with us. We have a wait list of about 300 couples that want to move in with us. There's about 60 of them that are ready to move right away. We decided as a board and Alan is one of our board members and Chief Wright is one of our board members. We decided that we needed to move out and we needed to build more to be able to take care of more people. So we're really excited about it. There's a lot going on with it. I mentioned earlier that Bob Hope Village is the name of one of our communities. Bob Hope was a good friends with a gentleman that's on the left in this photo, Colonel Bob Gates. Wing Commander Herbert back in the day had been Mr. Hope's USO pilot. So Bob Hope came down into the community, came and did fundraisers for us for the longest time, really helped our organization start off and get to where it is today. Unfortunately, when I go out and I brief him in leadership schools and I talk about this, a lot of them will raise a hand and say who's Bob Hope? So that's just kind of the way that goes. So we were very fortunate to have the connection that we have had with him. So let's talk money real quick. We have about $11 million a year budget. A lot of that comes from donations from you. Either through the Air Force Assistance Fund, which is coming up very soon. So that's a foot stomper. Air Force Assistance Fund is coming up soon. The other thing is we get donations from the private orgs like AFSA and top three, first sergeants, chiefs groups. They make donations. Spouses clubs make donations to us, which is very fortunate. We also do a number of other different fundraising efforts throughout the year. But the money that comes into us helps support the overall operation. The Air Force Assistance Fund money that comes in is fenced and that can only go to the direct support of retired Air Force enlisted widow. So that money can't be used on anything else. So we watch that very closely. We spent about $900,000 last year in direct support to widows. So we spend a lot of money and we help a lot of people, which is a great thing. So here's another foot stomper. CFC is not the Air Force Assistance Fund. I'm getting that look from you because we know this. But trust me, there's a lot of people that don't know this. In the fall, you get the Big Fat Charity Book with 3,000 charities. In the spring, you get the Air Force Assistance Fund. You get four charities to choose from. So we're in the one with only four. So please help us to let people know what the difference of those are. There's great charities in both of them. And I encourage you to do some type of giving, regardless of who you give your money to. And I'll talk just a little bit more about that in a second. So this was a fall day last year. You probably can't see it very well, but Chief Wright, Mrs. Goldfein, and Manny Panaro are kneeling down in the front. We had been working some hurricane relief support for Hurricane Michael down at Tyndall. We started off just this little operation and thought, well, we'll gather some supplies and we'll try to help. We ended up after a couple days with a huge room full of supplies, water, diapers, hygiene items, food. So we loaded up our first truck and we went down like two days after the hurricane went in. And I'll tell you, I know some of you probably were at Tyndall or have been down there and helped out. It was mind-blowing to go in there and to see what that looked like. It was like a zombie land with people driving around without windshields in their car. They were just in... They were in a daze. I mean, it was incredible. We came back from that and we said, okay, we got to do more. So we started collecting more. We started getting more donations that came in. We ended up with about $450,000 worth of cash and supplies that were donated. And we would load those up, not in GOVs, but in people's private trucks and in their private trailers, and they would launch out every morning and drive down. We'd unload the room and then the end of the day, that room would be full again and they'd come back the next day and we'd do it again. And it was amazing to see the airmen that would come out because we would end up with probably 30 airmen every morning that would come out and volunteer their time before they went to work to help us load out. And then they would come back the next day and they said, this is something that we get involved with. This is something where we can give back. It's really amazing time for them and for us as well. You know what? Let me go back. This is a funny story. The lady on the left is Alicia. Alicia, you may have seen, she's nominated as military spouse of the year for one of the companies. I can't remember which one it is. She started off, she was on Facebook with some friends right after the storm, and she said, hey, she said, I will take donations and I will make sure that they get down to Tyndall. This is the spouse's network that was coming together. So the key spouses that she was in touch with, they had like three or four people that were in this group. She said, you send it to me, I'll make sure it gets down there. So day one she gets about 30 packages. She goes, oh, okay, that's pretty good. And then somebody goes out and puts an Amazon registry together that's a Tyndall support group. And then they do an Amazon registry and a target registry and then a Walmart registry. And so the next day, the post office called her and says, she said, well, just deliver it to my house. She lives in Crestview, which is about 20 minutes away from us. They said, ma'am, we have 900 packages that have showed up. We have nine pallets of mail that we need to provide to you. So she reached out. She saw what we were doing. She said, I need your help.  And so for about the next month, we would get 50 to 60 packages a day that would come in from these different registries. We'd open the boxes, import all the stuff, repack the boxes. Based on what was being requested from the people down at Tyndall and Panama City and some of the surrounding communities, we would specifically load out the needs that they had. So it was really just a remarkable time. Heartwarming for everybody that was involved with it. And for the airmen, like I said, the airmen that got to go down and they would ride shotgun and go help unload, they would come back and you could see in their eyes that they had been changed by the work that they were doing. So I talked real quick about Village 6. This is what it's going to look like. It'll be a beautiful campus. These are artist's renditions of what it will look like on the interior. They're going to be two-bedroom, two-bath, open, HGTV approved. They'll be nice. And I mentioned earlier, we started off and we've changed. We've grown over the years. For the longest time, we as an Air Force patted ourselves on the back and said, we're the only service that has a retired community that takes care of and listed. And I go to church with this big sergeant major, a retired dude that came up to me one day. He goes, how come I can't move into your community? I said, because we don't let the army in. We only do Air Force. And he said, well, why not? He said, you guys should change that. So I went back, I started talking with the board and more and more that resonated with me and as I looked across and because we're in a unique position, we started off, we bought 125 acres of land from the Air Force. We built the community. We're able to provide a unique service that would be almost impossible for somebody to duplicate at this point because we've been doing it for so long and we're so good at it. So we thought, well, let's just, let's just change it. Let's try to create another community. Let's take advantage of what we already know how to do. So the board says, we're going to look to do joint service community. Let's figure out how to do this. So we started off, we were calling it Victory Village. It's going to be 80 acres of land. It's going to provide services for all uniform retirees. Maybe some officers, we're not sure about that. We'll have to see how much we can charge them for that. It helps our community. Retirees, if you don't know, retirees are huge economic engines.  You don't have a lot of kids in school, typically. You don't put a lot of demands on your local community services. So people love retirees. So our local cities in our county love this idea. We've got great support from them. One of the things that we're looking at is right here. This wounded warriors. We have looked around and nobody is really looking at caring for wounded warriors as they age. Think of the 30-year-old Staff Sergeant, Air Force or Army that was wounded in 2005. So now 14 years later, they're dealing with their traumatic injuries still. They're still struggling. They're getting up there in age and nobody is studying what aging is going to look like for a wounded warrior. Because I don't think anybody really knows. We certainly don't know, but what we know is we know how to take care of people. We know how to provide transportation. We know how to provide security. We know how to provide housing. And we know that Eglin Air Force Base and a VA clinic and a place called the Invisible Wounds Center are right about three miles away from where we are. So we envision having wounded warriors that are part of our victory village community. So this is where it will be. This is our current campus. That's 125 acres. That's the 80 acres of land that we're going to get from Eglin. This is just an architect's rendition of what it might look like. We're moving out on this. Last year in the NDAA, it was approved for the 80 acres to transfer from Eglin to us. They want us to pay for it. We would prefer to get it for free. So we've gone back to ask if they will amend that language so that we can get that. We're moving out on the fundraising, the fundraising, looking at different ways that we can adapt the community because we see it really being a platform for different ideas. Who knows what we might be able to do with the land that's there. There's a number of different marketing and partnership things that we could do. But it's all going to revolve around taking care of enlisted members, retired enlisted members, wounded warriors. So I got about three minutes left before I get kicked off, maybe a little bit longer than that. I wanted just to give you a couple closing thoughts. And I might get a little bit preachy, so you have to forgive me on this as I go through. A couple weeks ago, a pastor at church talked about a mission trip that he had gone on to Africa. He'd been on many different mission trips to Africa. This one in particular was going to a pastor's conference. So they were coming together with pastors from their different regions of Africa. They were going to teach, they were going to edify, they were going to educate, they were going to build up. And one of the things that they decided that they needed to talk about during this pastor's conference was why it was important for the pastors not to hit and beat their wives. Now you may be going, I didn't think we'd really need to brief that too much at a pastor's conference. But the culture in Africa is very different than our culture. And what is accepted there is not accepted here. So the pastors there took the challenge on to highlight the cultural blind spots that the people were dealing with. So it's fair to ask, what cultural blind spots are we not dealing with in ours? And there's quite a few. But I'll just highlight a couple of them. First one is money. We as a nation are incredibly wealthy. We have opportunities. We have a somewhat dysfunctional, mostly supportive government operation that helps support people. We have opportunities. We have resources. We really have the opportunity to be able to set people up and to succeed. You think about Airman Basin going down a bomb run over at Lackland this Friday. Friday morning, they're going to graduate. They're going to go across there. They're going to come on, stay on active duty. They're going to earn, as an E-1, a whopping $1,500 a month. $1,500 a month puts you in the top 10% of wage earners in the world. As an E-1 with no skills, just making it through basic training. You are in the top 10% of wage earners. And that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. I think our challenge is where we spend that money and what we do with it. Because we're blessed to be able to have the resources that we do. And I think in a lot of cases, we just kind of push it off, and we don't pay attention to where it goes. We worry about cars. We worry about houses. We worry about things that are maybe not as important as they should be. And that's okay. I mean, I get it. I got a nice car. I want a nice house. We all want that. But it doesn't mean that that's all that your focus needs to be. Philanthropy should be a big part of everything that we do, because it gives back and it supports people and it helps our entire culture. So that's one of the blind spots. Second blind spot is how we take care of the elderly. Our nation does a very poor job of taking care of old people. You look around at some of the other nations that are around some of the other cultures. They hold their elderly in high esteem. They give them honor. They give them praise. They lift them up and support them. We make fun of them. We say, ah, they can't operate an iPhone. Ha! They drive too slow. They don't hear very well. It's really sad when you think about it. I mean, these people have invested their lives. They're our parents. They're our grandparents. And I see it every day over in the Hawthorne House, our assisted living facility. We have people that live, the caregivers for them are thousands of miles away often. It'll take days to get there if they're needed. Forget a weekend trip. That'll never happen. Then you have people that are 10 miles away and they don't come visit either. So it's sad that our culture accepts that. And you think about what we need to do and how we need to move forward on that. We have people that are in our community that sacrificed, served in a time that we can't understand. You know, we are all in a time or you are all in a time on active duty to where people support you.  There was a time when that didn't happen. And so they lived a much different life than what we have. And so I think we owe them the support that they deserve for the sacrifices they made. So as I said, I'm going to get a little preachy. So you have to just forgive me on that one. But I do just want to take an opportunity to invite you to visit us if you ever get a chance. We have lots of social media that's out there. We're on Facebook. Tons of YouTube videos. There's lots of really funny, entertaining videos which are not what the briefing that you just had is. But there's lots of good things that are out there. You can hit us up if you have any questions. I typically forget to mention that we're open to Guard and Reserve. So I will make sure that I say that as well. So Guard and Reserve retirees are eligible to live with us. And again, we're making provisions to be able to open it up and do more for more people. So with that, I think I'm almost on time, maybe a couple minutes early. I might have time for like one or two questions as long as we're not hard. Well, I'm going to take the opportunity to get off the stage before somebody asks me that hard question. I want to say thank you very much. Congratulations again from your Air Force Enlisted Village. If you get an opportunity to come visit us, please do so. We're very passionate about what we do. The care that we provide for the residents down there. I'll tell you, your heart will be warm if you come down and spend a little bit of time and talk with some of our residents. We have great volunteers that come from all over the southeast to come and work with us and to support us and we're very grateful for that. So again, thank you very much for your time. I hope you have a great day and congratulations again. Thank you.


So you're thinking about getting a 3D printer or you just got one. Well, what are the must have tools or essential tools that you need to get started in 3D printing? Today we're going to find out. My name is Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. So I get a lot of questions from people that are interested in 3D printing or they want to get their very first 3D printer and they have no idea what else they're going to need. So when I got my very first 3D printer, which is a Creality Ender 3, I had no idea what else I was going to need with it. I didn't know about tools. I didn't know what it came with. All I know is that my friend Steve had one and I really wanted one too. Luckily I had him to lean back on if I had any questions and he could kind of help me through this in the very beginning. But I'm here today to show you it's not that bad. You don't really need a ton of stuff and some of the stuff actually comes with most of the printers.  So let's get into it. These are my favorite 3D printing essentials for beginners. So I'm going to start with things that usually come with the printers. Now the first thing and the most recommended thing on my list would be a pair of side cutters. Now these are Crealities side cutters. They come with every Creality machine, virtually every Creality machine. These things are awesome. They're going to be used for cutting your filament. They're going to be used for helping take supports off, cutting zip ties, pretty much anything you can think of. You can use these for when it comes to helping you cut something or maybe helping with supports, that kind of thing. These things are awesome. It's a side cutters and you definitely need one of those. The next thing are your wrenches. Now these wrenches come with the Creality machines. They'll include everything you need to adjust everything from your eccentric nuts all the way down to the nozzle. Now this is a little nozzle wrench here. The next thing they include is usually a little flathead screwdriver like this. I suggest a little upgrade to this and I'll point that out a little bit later but this is what comes with a lot of kits is a little screwdriver like this. The next thing would be your Allen wrenches in all different sizes that you'll need for the printer. Most printers come with Allen wrenches that are needed and that is something like this right here. This actually is a bonus. This is a nozzle wrench. Now most of them don't come with this but I had one that came with a printer so I thought I would show it. This just allows you to get up there and get your nozzles out. It's actually a pretty cool little tool. It doesn't come with every printer but I did get one of those once and I like that a lot. One of the most asked questions that I get is what is this thing? It comes with the printer. Now this is a needle. It's actually an acupuncture needle and it's kind of hard to see. Let's see if I can show it like that. That's an acupuncture needle. It has a little spring on this side. It's a needle here and what that's used for is getting clogs out of your nozzle. So that is the perfect size to go into your nozzle. You want to keep the end of it in here. It will poke you. But this is the perfect size for getting clogs out of your nozzle heated up. Push this up in there a couple times and a lot of times it'll free out what's in the nozzle causing that clog. So very useful tool and it comes with a lot of them. Now that we've seen some things that come with most of the printers. Let's jump into some other things that I suggest you have. Now I almost forgot the spatula. Now this comes with virtually every printer that I have. There's only one that I've seen that didn't come with this. This is a spatula. You're definitely going to need this to help get stuff off the bed. Just be very careful. You don't want to cut yourself. It is kind of sharp. But the thing is I forgot to mention this in the previous video but the spatula very important. Wow. But the spatula very important and it most of the time will come with your printer. The next thing I recommend is something to clean your bed with. I like to use a 99% isopropyl alcohol. This stuff is great. You can find it on Amazon. There'll be a link in the description for most of the stuff I show today but I really like this. I like the spray bottle part that you can get for them and you just spray it on your bed once it's heated up. Wipe it down with a paper towel. That's something else you can use as a paper towel or a microfiber and clean your bed off with this. Now if you have a removable bed you can use soap and water in a sink. You can use Windex. There's a lot of different things you could use but I really prefer the 99% isopropyl alcohol.  It can be a little one like this. It can be a larger one with a longer nose. Whatever you want but I really like the needle nose pliers. If you have one laying around awesome it's not something you might need right away but you probably will find this useful going forward. A good set of needle nose pliers. So we talked about Allen wrenches earlier. This is an upgrade you could get. I really like the T handle Allen wrenches. I'll put this link in the description below like I said but I really really like T handles. You don't have to have this right away but this will be a great upgrade in the future when you need to get into places. It's a lot easier than trying to use a little Allen wrench that comes with a kit. A lot of times I put this on there and I spin it with my fingers like this and make things much faster to take in and out. But I really like this set. There's many different sets out there but it's something to consider as you go forward in your 3D printing journey. Something else to consider as you go forward is maybe a bit driver set like this. This has all the different bits from Allen to Star to Flathead to Phillips. Everything you're going to need and these kits are very cheap.  But a set like this will definitely help you in the future. It can definitely make it easier with the screwdriver style instead of the little tiny screwdriver that comes with the kit. But it's really cool to have all these different bits and you never know when you're going to need them. Now something else you might want to have is a multi-head screwdriver like this one. This is really cool because you can pop it open. You have Phillips and Phillips and this is a bigger size and that's a smaller size. And then each one can flip and turn into a Flathead as well on each side. So you really have great versatility in one tool. I like that it's the bigger size if you really need to get into those bigger bolts and screws. And this thing will actually save you some space too because it has the four different size bits in there. A bonus feature if you take the bit out and you look each side also has a socket on it. So you can actually use this as a driver as well. You don't have to have your bit end in there. You can actually put this right over the top of a nut and use this as long as that nut is the same size. The next one is just a Sharpie. This comes in handy when you want to write settings on spools of filament. When you need to mark filament for maybe getting e-steps later on. Overall the Sharpie comes in handy quite often and it's a pretty good bet that most people have one of these just laying around already anyway. Next is just a glue stick. It could be Elmer's. It could be pretty much anything. This one just happened to come with that Creality CR200B that you saw in the other shot of the video there. They set this glue stick along for the bed. Now I don't particularly use glue sticks a lot but a lot of people do and they find glue stick very useful. So something you might need in the future you can always grab this from Walmart or pretty much anywhere. The dollar store is a great place to find glue sticks but something you guys might need in the future is just a basic glue stick. Now this is kind of a bonus tool here. This is a nozzle cleaner and as you can see I use it quite a bit. This actually comes from the guys over at Maker's Mashup. Maker's Mashup.com I'll put the link in the description below. You can print this and then you put the little pad in here otherwise I believe they sell them for pretty cheap as well. But this side right here slides right through the nozzle as you can kind of see there and in the back side you can do the same thing you can kind of scrub your nozzle. So this is a nozzle cleaner. It helps keep all the gunk off your nozzle and off that sock. You can use multiple different things for this. I like this version because it's non-metal. There's nothing conductive about this and so you don't have to worry about hitting wires and anything like that. Also it's just very easy to slip under there and kind of give it a couple wipes and then keep moving. So check out Maker's Mashup if you want to find that tool. I believe they have this where you can print it as well. If not you can definitely buy it from those guys over there. And as you can see I use this a ton. Another thing you might want to get is a caliper like this one. Now this one is a now this one is kind of an inexpensive caliper but it works. It does millimeters inches etc. You can turn it on and off. You can zero it. It has everything that I need to dial in and calibrate a 3D printer. You'll use this on calibration cubes. You'll use this to calibrate E-steps and a bunch of different things and these are actually not that expensive and they work very well. If you don't get this right away that's not a big deal. This is something you can get. This is a bonus we'll call it. This is something you might want to get in the future but you don't need it right away when you get your first 3D printer. Now something that's super important to 3D printing is filament. This is PLA from Fullamint and I really like Fullamint matte colors. If you want to check those out there's a link in the description. But something that you'll need when you first start 3D printing is to order some good filament to get yourself started. Now there are a ton of different brands. There's a ton of different colors and all different ones out there. My suggestion is to start with PLA. That is the simplest filament to start with and then work your way up from there but grab yourself a couple rolls of filament. Make sure that when you first start maybe you just use the sample roll that comes with your printer or just grab a really cheap roll and then burn through that to learn and then jump into something like maybe this matte blue from Fullamint which you'll absolutely love when you start printing but don't forget your filament that's very important to 3D printing. The last thing that I can say that you will absolutely need with 3D printing is nothing right here because you can't see it. I can't give it to you. You can't buy it. It is patience. It takes a lot of patience to get these machines working and to get them working well. Once you do the reward is totally worth it when you get your very first awesome 3D print but I tell you what it's going to take a little bit of time and a lot of patience to get there so if you look at this empty table right here fill it up with your patience and get ready for a wild ride because that's what 3D printing is. 3D printing is truly an amazing hobby but it does take a lot of time. It takes a lot of effort and patience to get where you're perfectly comfortable with using your printer every day. So we just went through some of the tools that I think are essential for when you get your very first 3D printer or when you're beginning in 3D printing. We talked about some things that come with the printers. We talked about some maybe upgrade parts things that I really like here. We talked about cleaning supplies and measuring supplies and I tell you what this should really give you a great foot to stand on when you start your 3D printing journey. If you're watching this and you think I missed something drop it in the comments below. Let's get a great dialogue going for anyone watching in the future about what you think would be awesome for starters in 3D printing. Just let me know in the comments. Well I hope you guys learned something and as always keep printing. Hey everybody I hope you guys liked the video. If you did give me that thumbs up. Hit that subscribe button right here if you haven't already and the little bell if you want to get notified anytime we put a new great video out or when we go live on Monday night for hot makes. You guys rock.


This is the Late Round Podcast with your host JJ Zacharyse. The Patriots still haven't run an offensive play while trailing, and Sonya Michelle is the RB46 through the first four games of the season. For the millionth time, yes, we should be worried about Sonya Michelle. It's not that he won't score touchdowns, and I actually like him this weekend. But he's not seeing any volume through the air, and the Patriots are seeing the ideal game script for Sonya Michelle. But even still, he's not performing. Now it's probably tough to sell him right now, so you just got to cross your fingers and hope that his receiving usage changes. Or that New England takes a step forward offensively, and his touchdown upside is just undeniable. He's just not the type of player that I typically like rostering in fantasy football. I hate running backs who don't see receiving there.