Say I give you the deep learning book, along with the question, how is convolution equivariant with respect to translation? What would you do to answer this question? Well, one way you can do this is to read the entire book and, assuming you remember everything you've read, try to answer the question. But there's a better way. Since it's a question on convolution, I flip to the chapter on convolution neural networks. Then I find equivalence is one of the properties and read out that page, or at least that part of the page. Which do you think is a faster method? If we read the entire text, like in the first method, answering the question may take us a few weeks. But in the second method, the same can be done within a few minutes. That's a very big difference. Furthermore, our answer while reading the entire book may be more vague as it's based on too much information. What did we do differently here? In the former case, we didn't focus on any part of the book specifically, whereas in the latter case, we focused our attention to the chapter on convolution neural networks and then further focused our attention to the part where the concept of equivalence is explained. This second approach would be the exact thought process many of us humans would take. It's quite intuitive. Given this example scenario, we can now better define attention. Attention mechanisms found in neural networks is somewhat similar to that found in humans. They focus in high resolution on certain parts of the input while the rest of the input is in low resolution or blurred. In this video, I'm going to talk about the attention mechanism applied on image inputs. Let's take a look at visual attention at a higher level. Consider the problem of determining appropriate captions for an input image based on the paper show, tell, and attend. This normally consists of two steps. First is to encode the image in an internal vector representation H using a convolution neural network. And then we decode H into word vectors signifying the captions using a recurrent neural network. The problem with this method is when generating a single word of the caption, the LSTM looks at the entire image representation H every time. This is not very efficient as usually, we generate different words of a caption looking at different and specific parts of an image. To solve this problem, we create n different non-overlapping subregions. Hence, HI would be the internal feature representation used to generate the ith word. It is not necessarily the representation of the ith region of the original image. I'll explain this in a bit. For now, the figure on screen is a high level diagram of attention. When the decoder decides on a caption, for every word it only looks at specific regions of the image, leading to a more accurate description. Now that's good, but how does it exactly decide the region or regions to consider? This is the crux of the attention mechanism. An attention unit considers all subregions and context as its input and it outputs the weighted arithmetic mean of these regions. Arithmetic mean is the inner product of actual values and their probabilities. How are these probabilities and weights determined? They are determined using the context C. Context represents everything the recurrent neural network has output until now. Let's take a closer look at what happens. We have input regions Y from the convolution neural net and the context C from the RNN. These inputs are applied to weights which constitute the learnable parameters of the attention unit. This means the weight vectors update as we get more training data. We apply a TANCH activation so that a very high values tend to have very small differences and be close to 1, and very low values also have very small differences closer to minus 1. This leads to a much smoother choice of regions of interest within each subregion. It is more fine grained so to speak. Note we don't necessarily have to apply a TANCH function. We only need to ensure the regions that we output are relevant to the context. In the simplest form, this similarity can be determined with a simple dot product between the regions Y and the context C. The more similar they are, the higher is the product, hence the output is guaranteed to weight the more relevant region YI higher. The difference of using the simple inner product and TANCH function would be granularity of the output regions of interest. TANCH is more fine grained with less choppy and smoother parts of subregions chosen. Regardless of how they are calculated, these M's are then passed through a softmax function which outputs them as probabilities S. Already we take the inner product of this probability vector S and the subregions Y to get the final output Z of relevant regions of the entire image. Understand the probabilities S correspond to the relevance of the subregions Y given the context C. Now there are two types of attention mechanisms. The first is soft attention and then we have hard attention. The main difference here is that in soft attention, the main relevant region Z consists of different parts of different subregions Y. In hard attention, the main relevant region Z consists of only one of the regions Y. I'll explain them both in detail. The entire mechanism of attention that I described until now is all soft attention. Z has relevant parts of different regions. Soft attention is deterministic. So deterministic what's that? A system is said to be deterministic if the application of an action A on a state S always leads to the same state S prime.  Consider an action A which is moving 5 feet forward. The system is now at a new state with the coordinates 5 0 and still facing forward. No matter how many times you stand at the corner of your room forward facing and walk 5 feet forward you will always end up 5 feet from the door and facing forward. Try it trust me it works. Hence the system is deterministic. Let us apply the same concept to soft attention. Initially we have an image just split into a number of regions Y with an input context C. This is our initial state. On the application of soft attention we end up with a localized image representing the new state S prime. These regions of interest are determined from Z. The ROIs will always be the same regardless of how many times we execute soft attention with the same inputs. This is because we consider all the regions Y anyways to determine Z. Now consider hard attention. Looking at the architecture hard attention is very similar to soft attention. However instead of taking the weighted arithmetic mean of all regions hard attention only considers one region randomly. So hard attention is a stochastic process. Now stochastic. When you hear the word stochastic think about randomness. In such a stochastic process performing an action A on a state S may lead to different states every time. Another example is like in a board game with a dice like snakes and ladders. The initial state is the position of the players. The action is rolling a dice and depending on the role there are multiple possibilities for the next board state. What makes hard attention stochastic is that a region Y I is chosen randomly with a probability S I. This means that the more relevant a region Y I as a whole is relevant to the context then greater is the chance it is chosen for determining the next word of the caption. Using the word captions output until now by the RNN that is H along the current regions of interest in an image determined by the attention mechanism the RNN now tries to predict the next word in the caption. As far as performance is concerned in the paper show attend and tell released by the University of Toronto and University of Montreal in 2016 results vary with the data set. Soften hard attention both performed decently well with hard attention performing slightly better. This is pretty cool right? So where else can we use attention? Attention is not only used for image inputs. For example neural machine translation NMT systems they are used to translate one language to another. Words are fed in a sequence to an encoder one after another and the sentence is terminated by a specific input word or symbol. Once complete the special signal initiates the decoder phase where the translated words are generated. Another cool application would be Microsoft's attention generative adversarial networks or Microsoft's attention GAN that can create images from text through natural language processing. It can perform fine-grained tasks like generating parts of an image from a single word in the description. Another application would be in the paper of teaching machines to read and comprehend. The authors do the same thing I talked about in the beginning of the video. A recurrent neural network takes some text and a question as input and it is made to output an answer. Here's some things to remember. Attention involves focus in high resolution on certain parts of an input while the rest of the input is in low resolution or is blurred. Two types of attention are soft attention and hard attention. Soft attention is deterministic while hard attention is stochastic. Attention can be used for non-image inputs like neural machine translation, attention GANs and answering questions from text. And that's all I have for you now. Hope you guys got some newfound understanding of attention and its applications in this video. I have left a link to the main paper, show, attend, and tell with other papers and blog posts in the description down below. Don't forget to give the video a thumbs up and subscribe for more awesome content. Please subscribe. Please. You did it right, guys.


You know, when you haven't seen people for a long time, what do you say? How have you been? What have you been working on? What happened since last we met? And there's a lot of common experience in the room, clearly. But I wanted to also use this opportunity because we're only going to be gathering for the first time, or re-gathering for the first time once. And there are a couple of things that are important, I think. Important to me to say, which I want to convey to you. Oh, sorry. Oh, I stole the clicker. Yeah, what you do with the clicker? Here we go. Thank you. There we go. So one of my goals for this session is to offer personal thanks to you and your organizations. A brief acknowledgement of this common experience that I mentioned. I'm going to talk about a few things that are different about the conference. Things that have changed and also some things that you need to know for the next couple of days. And then I'm going to talk a little bit about how things have changed for you. And I have seated this part of the conversation by asking some of my colleagues to speak up. But it's an opportunity for everybody to participate. As I mentioned at the beginning, I want to, I guess, re-establish some new context. Let us all just think about what the new context is. Because I think the notion of a return to normal is a little bit of a naive fantasy that we're going to return to some things that are the same as before and a lot of things that are not. And so we need to take account of much of that. My thank you, first of all, if you go back to March of 2020, we had a big conference, a biggest conference of the year coming up in late March. And around about the 13th or so was when, at least in the state of California, and I'm blanking now on what point federal restrictions and things came in, but the state of California said, okay, there are no, not going to be any meetings taking place indoors. Now, actually backing up a little bit before that, we had seen the growth of COVID creating anxiety amongst our audience. We came out with policies to try to provide some reassurance about what we were doing. We clearly underestimated at the time what the overall impact was, but there was fear amongst everybody in the world at that point, and we were getting a lot of folks canceling for the conference, and we were just sort of looking at this closing window thinking, we hope things don't get so bad that we have to cancel, but to get to that point. In fact, it got to that point around about March the 10th, which is a few days before the government regulatory restrictions. And as soon as we notified the hotel that this was going to happen, we got an invoice literally within 30 minutes for almost a million dollars for the cancellation obligations that we had, and we said, look, this is force majeure, this is an act of God, this is beyond our control. This surely must trigger the clause in our contract. Thankfully, the governor's ruling a couple of days later alleviated that obligation, but as you might imagine, we're not that big of an organization, we certainly couldn't afford to pay a million dollars just in cancellations because on top of that, everybody had given us their money, our sponsors, the attendees, et cetera, had given us their money. And our business model takes that money in, it pays it out, in salaries, it pays it out, in deposits. We had a large amount of money. We had deposited for catering, for audiovisual, for everything. My garage has like 10 boxes of t-shirts that we had all got ordered. So thankfully, we didn't have to pay the cancellation fees because of the governor's things, but then we had a lot of customers who were kind of like, okay, I've paid money to attend a conference, I can't attend, what are you going to do? And we had to appeal to some extent to the goodwill of our customers and say, look, could we handle it this way? We'll give you a credit for some of our digital training. We'll keep the credit that you've already paid to the next opportunity to get together. We said you could apply that anytime until 2023. We came up with some other creative solutions that provided people with value in order to avoid a run on the bank if you like because if we'd had everybody asking us for refunds right at that moment we would have been out of business within a few weeks. Same with our sponsors. We were able, thankfully, to convert them into some digital sponsorships and most chose to leave their money with us. The difference that made, frankly, in the willingness of folks like yourselves to say, okay, we trust you, we'll leave their money with you that enabled us to stay in business, that enabled us to keep our staff going. PPP kicked in a little bit off that and that helped also to keep some staff to keep our staff but without that goodwill from you folks, we'd have been long gone by now. And so I really want to thank you. All of you, obviously, were directly involved in that particular situation but three months later, this event was due to take place here and if you recall back in March of 2020, it was like, okay, everybody's gonna lock down and then we'll get back to business in April-May. That didn't happen. Then it was like, okay, well, the summertime is gonna clear things up and then things will be good. By the fall, we thought we'd be able to get going again. We had another event scheduled for October. That one eventually got removed from the schedule. We had another event in December, same thing again. Then in March the following year and each, you know, we kept looking forward three to six months hoping that things would fix themselves and then here we are, there's another strain a couple of weeks ago that's kind of rocking the boat. I'm grateful that we were able to run this particular event but there's been two years of fits and starts for us that I'm sure has been very frustrating for many of you. Thank you for keeping the faith with us. For those of you who've had money sitting with us for a while, we've had time to rebuild during that process. Our digital business thankfully has not filled the gap that was left by all of those in-person events but it's been very gratifying to me and my staff to have the trust that you've given us and that has enabled us to stay in business, keep people employed and eventually return to work this week. Thank you for that, really. So as I say, how do we... I mean, I've offered you a little bit of my gratitude for that but I mean this in the larger sense and I think, you know, one of the things that everybody seems to have taken the opportunity, if that's the right word, take this disruption to our normal lives to rethink in some sense how they view their own lives and obviously there's a lot of people who are resigning, have resigned from jobs that they didn't particularly like. Thankfully, I'm very happy for those folks. I mean, if you've taken this time to change the direction of your life in a positive way, I think that's fantastic. For me, my personal situation was that my wife, prior to COVID, I had a group of caregivers who look after her. She's confined to bed and so needs some support during the day just to look after her while I'm at work. And I work from home. So with COVID, all those folks had to stay home, couldn't do that. And I became her primary caregiver 24 hours a day. That was a period of a few weeks of profound reflection for me on my life and what was important to me. And I hope at this point, thankfully, I was able to bring back at least half of those folks to assist with Linda's care. But my home life has changed, my personal life has changed. It's also brought about changes to my professional life, which I think are mostly positive. And I'm sure all of you have had, to some extent, similar experiences for yourselves. And I guess I just wanted that moment of reflection on where we've been before we try to just ramp things up again as normal. I don't have any particular, you know, I'm not a mindfulness coach or anything like that. Although I did invite two mindfulness talks to the conference and partly for that reason is I think that this notion of living more in the moment, embracing the present, I think that's a value that's going to stick with me for forever at this point. And however you have chosen to acknowledge this period and help yourself grow, I'm going to wish you the best on that journey because I think it's really significant. Oh, I think I meant to show this image during that little bit of sentimentality. Because being back here, I mean, this is a fabulous image of where we are. Where's my pointer? Is that it? Yeah. You are here. There's the peak. So a few things that have changed for us this week. And I'm just going to... Oh, no, I can't still read it. Obviously, all that vaccination, pre-clearance, et cetera. That was a decision that we tossed and turned about for a long time until it became clear that, yes, this is part of the new normal. I hope that we can gradually drop some of the restrictions, but we're going to take a safety first approach beyond this event to our March event. Our March event, we've said, OK, things aren't going to change. That's our enterprise data world. Things aren't going to change in time for any changing protocols. So March will be the same. Then we're back here in June. This date here in December. For those of you who've been here before, you'll know, well, San Diego is in June. And then in December, we're on the East Coast. But this contract that governed this particular venue got bumped from June of 2020 to December of 2021. Of course, we thought by then everything would be cleared up and we'd be back to full capacity. So we have a bit over 300 people registered for this event. Normally we have about 600. I think under the circumstances, it's probably better that we have a little elbow room that we're not sitting entirely on top of each other. But it's going to take us a while to get back to that original number. That's OK. But a few things. We're going to have some virtual sessions. Now, after we announced the agenda, there were some speakers who said, you know, conditions have changed. That was around when Delta started to emerge. Conditions have changed. My company won't let me travel anymore. Or, you know, the vulnerabilities of people at home. I can't risk that travel. So we mostly told those folks, sorry if you can't be here in person. You know, that's not the meat. We're not running. We're not bringing people to San Diego to see a bunch of virtual talks. But there were a handful where the subject matter we felt was sufficiently unique and important and valuable. So we did enable some of those talks to take place virtually. Most of them are tomorrow. We tried to restrict that to one in every time slot. But 80% of the talks that were previously scheduled are going to take place in person. There are a handful also of folks who just in the last week for similar reasons related to Omicron decided, I can't take the risk. So we've managed to accommodate all of those with one exception, which is April Reeve session tomorrow morning. So that one has been canceled. All the others will take place. Just some will be virtual. Most of the virtual sessions will be downstairs. In tomorrow's keynote, we're actually going to have a couple of virtual panelists here. But the technology that we used for that is a thing called an owl, which looks like an Alexa device that has cameras and the speakers can see the room. It's a wonderful thing. We had two tutorials yesterday using this and it was almost like the speaker was in the room. The level of interaction was great. So hopefully very little will be lost in that transition. Wonderful new technology, too. We have these new projectors that can sit literally three feet from the screen and give you a fully squared image. That's just amazing. Totally unrelated to COVID, obviously. But there are other things that happened, since we met last. There were societal changes. So now we're offering buttons for those who wish to indicate their pronouns, for example. We debated whether we should collect that information in the process of registration. Actually legal advice suggested that we do not do that for the time being, but for anybody who'd like to grab a button, there's a few options there. The one that I'm wearing is actually a social distancing indicator. So red would mean let's keep our distance. Yellow means fist bumps, fine elbows. And if you choose not to wear anything, obviously that's a null answer, doesn't really give you any information. But at least for those who would like to indicate what their distance and preferences are, then we have that option here. I mentioned we added a couple of sessions on mindfulness. Matias yesterday was kind of an enterprise level. If you want to be a mindful manager, and she's going to be around today if you'd like to chat to her tomorrow morning. Session with Lance Silverstone, Zenwood Land. Very popular session. Plan is to have it on the beach, whether cooperating. Otherwise we'll move it indoors. But very popular session with Land that we've been running for some time now. I mentioned earlier the speaker COVID protocols. So for those speakers you can demask, but stay up front please. We were asked yesterday if we're distributing an attendee list. And the answer is no, we're not. If you want to connect to other attendees, please join the app. Basically this is a data privacy issue. So if we need to request for people to opt in to an attendee list, then the attendee list is essentially going to be incomplete. And of less value, we've made the decision not to have the attendee list at all. If you join the app, you'll be able to connect with other attendees. Or post something on a message board, let everybody know that you'd like to meet folks who have a particular interest. You'll see on the food service items that are wrapped. I hope it's pretty obvious why we've done that to enhance both the reality and the perception that it's safe to grab a muffin. We've tried to put things in place. One of the great things about this venue, I think at this point if you're data driven, you realize that most of the conveyance of virus is respiratory. And so ventilation is probably the more significant factor in that. And given where we are, there's a lot of opportunities to get some fresh air through. But we still have lots of things that you can use to protect surfaces. Also, there's a couple of things. If you want a lanyard for your face coverings, there's also little mask extenders and stuff. We've got all that stuff at the registration desk. I'm going to slide behind on all my things here. One thing to mention is that one of the adjustments being in December, the weather is not as reliable. The reason this room is set in rounds and the Roosa room downstairs is so we can do a quick change if rain is predicted. It is predicted at 85% probability today, so we're going to be running lunch in this room and also the Roosa downstairs. That's going to be a little bit inconvenient for Roosa folks because there's a session immediately beforehand and there's also sessions immediately after in both rooms. I'll just ask for your understanding on that and we'll do the best we can. How has data practice changed? This really is probably the most important part of this, but have I really talked that long? The one instruction I give to speakers is, I don't care what time you start, just finish on time. I've left myself with 54 seconds to get through about half my presentation. To all those folks I asked to contribute this morning. My bad. I know I got a little emotional about some parts of what I've been saying here, but I honestly thank you from the bottom of my heart and my colleagues, like I say, we wouldn't be here without you. I hope that whatever journey each of you is on individually, however that has been diverted, improved over the last year and a half, I hope that it continues successfully for you all. Let's try to get back to some normalcy now. We're going to take a break and get back to our track sessions. Please, if you would give yourselves a round of applause and thanks. It's been a pleasure.


I picked this book up at the local used bookstore just recently and man, what a treat. I remember reading Mall World short stories in Asimov magazine back in the early 80s when I was in high school. Well, this book collects them all and if you're wondering what the title Mall World refers to, it's exactly what you think it is. It is a gigantic space station that acts as an endless shopping mall for everybody in the solar system and it is greatly entertaining. An interesting fact, the author, Samtao Sukaretko, whose name I remembered vividly from my high school days because it's such an unusual name, when I googled his name I kept being sent to the famous composer and conductor, S.P. Samtao. Turns out it's the same guy, who knew.


One of the things that I saw was that you help couples with a co-parenting agreement. Is that correct? Yeah. What's the legality behind that and how did you even go about drafting something like that? We found some examples online and then actually work with modern family attorneys that do the actual, we don't do it ourselves. We provide them with a template but we also recommend that they see an attorney to draft the co-parenting agreement which is kind of a lot like a prenup or something like that where you discuss, it can be as broad or basic as what the custody arrangement's going to be. Are we going to live together? Are we going to live close by? Are we going to be 50-50? Who's responsible for what financially? What the health insurance situation is like and it can be as in-depth that if someone has a lot of assets or as wealthy it can be estate planning, it can be life insurance, it can be what happens.  Is it going to go to my brother's kids or like my sister's kids and I've already paid for their college and I haven't paid for college for my own kid and I want to have someone to get this to and I want to have my own child to be able to do this and it involves conversations with the lawyers and accountants and things like, there's a whole community of people that are there to help with that. Because it's a much more involved process than like you mentioned before your average dating app is, you know, you just might hook up or whatever, but this is like, you're committing to the life of a human being over the course of this. So it should be a little bit more complicated, I would think. Yeah, I mean, totally. Especially it's not as ironclad as say a marriage or divorce, like if the co-parents decide not to be friends, you know, you don't have to give that person 50% of whatever you made during that time. But I think the more detail you can put in there and there is a situation that you have to go to court or something like that, in most states, the judge will look at what the intention was and will do make a ruling that's in the best interest of the child. But it's good to have as much documentation out there to show what you guys were intending to do because I've had, and not even my family clients, but just people out there in the world. Because now there's like, we have like probably six competitors out there that are doing something similar, not as well, I would say, but similar, but I've seen stories where, say in Florida, there was a case where a lesbian couple asked their best friend guy who was gay to father their children. And he was assuming they were going to co-parent. They had no paperwork, nothing like that. They got pregnant and he was envisioning like taking the kid to Italy to visit his mother in the summer times and all that. And then like halfway through the pregnancy, they're like, like, wait a minute, like you're not going to be a co-parent. You're just the donor. And he was like, well, that's not what I signed up for. And then he sued them and it took a few years and you know, best friends turned into enemies. And now they're, I think, friends again. But then they resolved it where it was the first case where now there's three parents on the birth certificate. And the birth certificate thing is important. Like in California, too, it matters how you get pregnant. Did you get pregnant at home? Did you get pregnant at the doctor's office? Did you sign a piece of paper? Did you not sign a piece of paper? That can matter if you're responsible for child support or you're just a donor and every state is different. So I think the laws have a long way to actually catch up. California, it's pretty liberal, but some states, you know, they don't recognize like, you know, a lesbian couple in many states still can't be, the two moms can't be on the birth certificate. And so I think there needs to be some kind of federal levels. Yeah. So when you said the first case with three parents on the birth certificate, are we talking like first case ever? I think, well, definitely in Florida and I think nationally. And this was probably like five, six years ago or something like that. And since then, there have been more cases like that in different states. I had a case also in Canada where a couple that was married, they couldn't have kids, wife gave them permission to have a co-parent. They didn't sign any paperwork. They rushed into it as well. Like we recommend people get to know each other, you know, for at least six months, two year or more. Sure. These people waited like a month and they didn't really know each other. She got pregnant and then as she was pregnant, she was like, oh, actually, you know, I don't really want a 50-50 co-parent. Like maybe you can see him like once a month or something like that. And he's like, that's not what I signed up for. Right, right. And then they went to court and I believe they were, I think they got it to like 70, 30 or something like that. I think getting to know the person, developing a trust is that most important thing and just realize who you're, you know, dealing with. Ideally, the best situations is where this person ends up as a close friend of yours. Like, and someone that you trust and you talk to every day and you're both there for the same purpose of doing what's best for your child.


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Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent, and today we're at episode 221 of the Wizard101 Death Walkthrough. Last time, if you haven't checked it out already, we started the Fallen Tige, and today we are hopefully meeting Baba Yaga and finishing off the Tige. We're heading into the Sunken Tower first to destroy the Toyly the Destroyer, um, I don't know, probably how you pronounce his name, I think. Yeah, he's a cheating boss, but we have to do a minion fight first, of course. So, that's fine. I knew they'd send someone. I told them, scorched earth magic could be Tandaria's greatest defense, but they wouldn't listen. Now they see the truth, don't they? And they've seen you to steal my research! Never! I'll reduce it all to cinders! Okay, um, so I'll be back after I've defeated these two scorches. Okay, I am back. We are hopefully killing now, um, I mean, yeah, okay, we're killing. So, Lulu comes in to watch. They don't have much health damage, 2500, so, underestimated. I haven't underestimated how much I can do. Um, with D&I. Whoopsies! But there we go, they did. How fantastic. Good job, yay. They're all so quick to die, so I very much appreciate that. Look at these buttons, they're so cool. So cool. I don't actually think they're buttons, but they look like buttons and they look cool. So, we're gonna say they're buttons because they are. You persist! What is it that you want? My scorched earth charm. Snowbeard put you up to this dinty. That old tree, I knew he'd try to pull something. Very well, I'll just incinerate him. After I incinerate you first. Okay, really cool design, really like it. So, basically for this, I am going to need to restock on the lead sometime really soon. He has cheats. He's a cheater, he's a cheater-cheater-lemonator. Um, tardiness will not be tolerated, so you cannot be late. Otherwise, he will check cast fuel, so I mean, you can be late, it doesn't really matter. 12,000, there's nothing. Okay. If it wasn't cast the blade, global spell, or an aura spell, he will cast a 5, 10, or a 15% version of fire spear, or a fireblade for varying amounts. Ket spells will trigger this. During run one, and every two rounds thereafter, he will summon the scorcher, which he did, obviously. That was kind of cool. That was pretty cool. Unlike the normal scorcher that has extra fears, which doesn't really matter because they're still bad. They literally still have the seven and a half, so it's ridiculous, they're bad. Um, so yeah, let's do a blade and we'll show you what happens. Yay. Um, what else does he have? The round after all of minions have been summoned, one of the minions will cast Brimstone. The round after, the round before, the Toilies summon minion users. Round before, the Toilies summon minion users and power on itself, that will cast mass fire prism, which converts fire to random school of damage, including shadow damage. So it's like actually good. After four rounds, the scorcher minion who's been summoned at all interrupts has fire version of the power, on to Toilie dealing 2,550 health. In other words, all of its health. So yeah, we will probably need to get this guy out ASAP. Luckily we have the blades in order to do that. Um, and I was hoping for a faint, but it is fine. Can we get a faint? No, okay. I don't really want to use TC blades just because we don't have many of them. What's this? Oh yeah, it's a Brimstone that's right. So yeah, that's basically his cheats. He can't, he can't do an e-freak, which is great. And nor can his minions, so it's like really easy. Nothing to worry about really. So yeah, we should be sweet. Hello. Okay, fire dragon, that's cute. That's a bit cute. So two blades and a faint weren't quite built. We probably need another one. So we'll pop up another faint. Hopefully we'll get one, but should hopefully be so we'll draw. We should get it, otherwise we're going to get cleansed. Oh hello. And the late one, which is the, don't see these ones, then still doesn't do much. I mean with a lot of blades, that actually does a lot. Wow. Okay, that was bad. Let's discard both of these because we're not using the deathblades of those. I mean, I'm kind of keen just to hit, but we're going to faint again just in case. Otherwise, we will be able to kill next, I hope. Because we do a lot, so that's good. We do a lot of damage. We'll get full health as well, so we'll be all sweet. All sweet, yeah. Yeah, all sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, man. Oh yeah. Did I pet hill? That's cute. That's nice. Look at that. Fantastic. Fantabulous. Oh, hello, pet. Meteor.  Oh, hello. This is going to do a bit. This is actually going to do a bit. Yep, that did a lot of it. A lot of it. A lot of it. 2011. That is so ages ago. Get on my 2018 level health. Jays. What is this? Convert fire to life damage. Oh, cute. If only that would actually work. If only I didn't have the same amount of resistance to every school. Oh, well. What's this? Oh, they're killing themselves now. That's cute. Oh, that's fun. That's going to do a lot. No, it isn't. Just kidding. Good job. I mean, here we go. Yay. Ka-chow, ka-chow.  Hopefully it kills the minions. We've got two blades. Yeah, maybe. Okay, cool. Did I kill the boss? Yeah, I did. Okay, cool. No, I didn't. Whoops. Misread the damage. Uh-oh. Oh no, he's going to summon Mawar. Do we have another power shadow pip? Because that would be nice. Why do we get that? Okay, good job. He fizzled death, unlucky. Can we get a shed? That would be great. How much health does he have? 1,000? Nothing. I mean, we'll do whatever. Give him a blade. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter. We need another blade. Just fine. Sometimes that happens. I miscalculate all of it. But he's dead either way, so it's fine. Unless he does like a fifa far until like a fifa far and does like good stuff. But I don't actually know if he can use a fifa far. Destroyed his page because I thought he was dead, but it doesn't really matter. Crit is fine, whatever. Crit is more like whatever at this point. I don't really care. It doesn't do much because we're fine on health. Shed. But we got our lucky dear knight, so that's fine. He's dead. Bye. I would choose to start to send us if we must. Okay, chill. Chill, please. He got no chill. Boom. Hello. Dear knight, more like woohoo. He's dead, knight. Bye.  He just doesn't want to die. He's probably got like, what, three health? Oh, now the minion's here. Gosh, darn it. Damn it. Now I have to like deal with the minion. That is just not cool. 128. Okay, game. I see how it is. We'll faint the minion. Luckily, once the minions are, I mean, the boss is dead, we will be fine because the minion will be super easy. Fortunately, that was our only dear knight. Kind of annoyed that he summoned there. And I didn't get the chance to kill him. Needed another blade. Good job. Oh well, this is fine. Uh, it's fine. He's only got one minion, so I mean, it's not the end of the world. Now at the end of the world, let us go for um, let's just pass until I've got enough webs for a bloody lulu. I'm going to be waiting on a shader pip forever for, I'm going to guarantee that this is going to take forever for me to get a shader pip and I'm going to die. I just know that's what's going to happen. This game hates me.  Okay, that's fine. That's fine, don't kill yourself then. Geez. Um, does he go away? Maybe he'll go away. Pretend to give pips to someone else, that isn't him. Uh, we got shad, which is good, so couple rounds we can kill, finally. This battle just took a turn for longer, just because I forgot that it's cheap. Oh, convert to death. Whoa, that was a smart idea because I'm dead. Um, okay, let's just pass. Oh, you think you're so good with your convert to death? How much is it going to do? Nothing still.   Yikes. Um, okay, well, probably not, but dead, definitely.  Otherwise we would have, oh, we may be at full health still. It wouldn't problem. It blocked.  RIP. RIP, not full health. Oh well, it doesn't really matter. Okay, good job. Well, let us head back over to snow bed finally. Oh my gosh, that took way longer than I thought it would. Um, and we will hopefully find Bubba. Bubba, Baba Yaga? Baba Yaga? Baba Yaga? Where is Baba Yaga? Snow beard? Hello. You have the scorched earth to understand, but you have saved us. And now I shall fulfill my end of our bargain. There, the bowels are parted, you may enter the veiled veil. Proceed with caution, soft skin. The wick she's far more fearsome than the toly." Okay, so basically saying that the witch jimps- An eerie silence permeates this part of the forest. It's as if all the wildlife were holding its breath. Okay, Mallory. Hello. First time we meet Mallory. Yay, she's gonna be helping us- Oh, hey there! I think maybe you took a wrong turn somewhere.  Where are you trying to get to? Wow, you're actually looking for the old witch? Sorry, that's just weird. Usually people try to avoid her. Well, you found her house all right, but the witch isn't home. She's probably in her garden, but I wouldn't disturb her. She's not very nice. Like some of the snowmen around here. They're downright mean. Not all of them, of course, but I'd steer clear of the mean ones.  You want to see the witch? It's your choice. Our garden is right down the path over there. Okay, Mallory. We're gonna go and look at the garden. Because we're not. So that is Baba Yagasas's got the eye that's looking really cool. But we're not going there yet yet. We're meeting her in here first. So another basically another wee little boss, cheaty boss fight. Kind of like this similar to before it's got a mob and then a cheat, which is I'll explain when I'm at the cheating boss essentially, which is Baba. Baba Yaga. The statue garden is snow covered in silent. The witch is nowhere in sight. There are only snowmen as still as the statues that loom overhead. Oh wait, I know it's a minion. So we will equip the minion deck. Oh, hi. Okay, so I'll be back once I've defeated these evil snowmen's. Okay, I am back. We are just killing now. Not too difficult. They actually have quite a lot of health, which is great. They have 4,400, I think. So yeah, I double bladed them and reloaded them. They had 100 health left. So I had to DNA, which is fine. It's fine. So yeah, easy peasy. Lemon's squeezy. I really like how they have wee little hats on. It's kind of funny to keep them warm, but not warm, because obviously they're snowmen. Why do snowmen need to be warm? Is this full health 5173? It sure is. Uh, let's just switch over to the stick. Probably a good idea. Um, let's see. What can she do? Oh gosh. Well now, isn't this something? Do my eyes deceive me? Or has a wizard from Ravenwood wandered into my garden? This is not a wizard garden though. It's a statue garden, and my statues don't take kindly to tourists. Neither do I. Okay, um, so. She cheats. You can't be late, otherwise she will interrupt the jewel and polymorph the tardy wizard into an egg. Okay, um, I don't understand that one. Uh, she may, uh, if a wizard casts a positive ward, such as a shield, like a tower shield or something, um, she will, she may cheat cast shatter at the wizard. Around three, let's take the bull by the horns. She will cast a sun version of deadly Minotaur on a random wizard, which will be me, dealing 500, no, 50 and 445 death damage. The Minotaur statue is summoned on the first spot. Um, sixth round. Uh, Baba Yaga will cast a version of Medusa at a random wizard, which deals death, not death, storm damage. The Gorgon statue is summoned to the second spot. Tenth round, she will cast a sun version of Iruku Axe Breaker, which deals a 700, uh, ice damage and the worm statue is summoned on the third spot.  Um, so yeah, I assume we're just going to kind of go hopefully quick if we get our faints and our blades real quick. I'm going to take out one of the Lulu's just to consolidate the deck a bit. Um, try and go at least before the of sixth round, hopefully kill before sixth round. So in like round five kill would be great. That would be fantastic, I think. Um, okay. Don't have a Shad, which is not the end of the world. I do need a Shad. Um, 28,000, okay. Whoo, okay. This is going to be a challenge. She's got a lot of health. I'm going to have to blade up massively. This is going to have to be a massive hit. Um, okay. It didn't, she can also stun. I forgot that, I forgot that she can also stun. Um, mm-hmm. I'm stunned, but sometimes, you know, that may not work one day and you'll be like, oh, just as well, I cast that spell, even though I thought it was stunned. 80, okay. I should have put a PS1 on. I didn't know that one. She can also Earthquake, so that's always cute. Um, definitely going to have to get some feints on. ACP, okay. I might need other people. That would be a bit annoying. She is actually tougher than it looks on paper. Um, mm-hmm. Well, there's the first minion, which is fine. I don't think they have much health. Oh, let me check. Oh, but here will be death money. 50% resists to death. Okay, that's not too bad. That's not too bad. I can deal with that. Unfortunately, we've got a plague on us or whatever. Um, okay. Okay, we should be fine. Not too worried. Not too worried. Um, okay. We can't cleanse off the plague, or is it plague or virulent? Could not be 40. Mm-hmm, it's 40. Uh, no, no, no, no, no. This is not cool. Okay, we're going to just cut that. We're going to go for this blade. Um, we need to get a couple of more blades, a couple more feints, because we've got a minus on us. He's got like triple death shields.  Okay. This is going to be much more tougher than I thought. I should have put my PS1 down. That would have been great. Ooh, okay. We're going to die here. We're not going to be able to do this on the first time. That's for sure. Her casting animation is so cool, though. Like, really cool. Um, luckily we get this. Okay, that's good. That's another blade. I mean, I suppose it doesn't really matter if we're, um, kind of gone. Just as well we have a stun shield as well. That would have stunned us, I think. Yeah, it would have stunned us for two rounds. Oh my gosh. Okay. I think we can do this. Wait, she resisted to death? I didn't even check that. Oh my god. I might have to flee and restart. I kind of want to do this by myself, but I don't think I'm going to be able to. Can't believe she... You know what? We'll try. We'll hope for a miracle that something happens and we can kill. I don't think we're going to be... I mean, it's only 50%, which is half, which is still a lot.  I was about to say.  Be my guest.  That would be great, in fact. Um, hello. Nope, we're stunned again. Okay, yay. Good job, crit. Okay, yeah, I... Okay, if I hit next... Okay, we got this, which is nice. If I faint and then hit... Oh no, they've got so many pips, we're dead. They got so much health as well.  Okay, um, I'll be back in just a bit because I know we're not going to be able to do this. She's going to do something crazy. Like, Tivus or something. Nope, Stormwind. Okay, just constantly getting stunned. Um, I'll be back in just a bit with a kind of better team and people and stuff. So, I'll be back in just a sec. Okay, I am back. I didn't actually think we would be killing, um, but we killed. You're more formidable than you happen often. So, you want the old witch's counsel, do you? Those I could spare a few minutes. Meet me back at my house and we can talk. Might not like... Um, here is the vanilla ice. Very important thing that you get so you don't have to do that stressful thing again. Jeez. Um, what do we get? Because apparently you can get some really good jewels. Nothing, okay. Apparently you can get some really good jewels from here and people farm it a bit. Don't know, but apparently. Um, yeah, that wasn't too bad. Luckily we had a healer and a balance. So, they just kind of bladed me and I hit and didn't even pack prisms or put peers on or whatever. So, it was good. Um, that crit as well, which I'll, um, let's not talk about that one. Um, so yeah, I'm actually really surprised that we killed. I wasn't actually speaking to it. Completely missed it. Um, we're so close to level up.  We're gonna level up before the end of the episode. That is for sure. Four is great. Diamonds, yes, please. Um, let's go talk to Baba Baba Baba Baba Yaga, Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga. I think we're gonna level up. I think we go into the next area as well next, which will be cool. I say next a bit too much. Where are we? Where is she here? Hi. Well now, here we are. I'd say welcome to my humble home. But as you already know, you're really not welcome. This is my daughter, Mallory. Mallory, this young wizard came all the way from Ravenwood. We actually met outside. What? Don't look at me that way. I've been taught not to trust strangers. I tried to warn you at least. Well, wizard, you've gone to all this trouble to find me. What do you want? Hmm, yes. Bart will be sick, that is worrisome. Bart will be as ancient, older than the spiral, even older than the first world. Never heard of such a being falling ill, not in Polaris. Wait, isn't the aurorical old like that? Didn't you say you saw troubling signs in the sky? You said you were worried about her. Her temple isn't too far. Maybe the wizard should go and check on her. Or maybe she would know something at least. Such a smart girl. Doesn't know when to be discreet, but smart. Yes, there were signs the aurorical is in distress. It might be related. Getting to the Sunless Shrine won't be easy, but that's your problem. Go out the back and Mallory can show you which way to go. Okay, so we're going to end off here next time. We'll go into the River of the Frozen Tears. Next area, next episode. I don't know how far we're going to go. There's a couple, there's a cheating boss. Yeah, I don't know. But this is the next area, River of the Frozen Tears. We're like plowing through this area, geez. So yeah, kind of a very barren sort of wasteland. I think Omen is up here, I think, or there. I don't actually know, but I'm pretty sure Omen is in this area. He's a skeleton key boss that drops a deck, which is good. So yeah, next episode we will start by talking to Mallory. We will do the River of the Frozen Tears. 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Hello there, my beautiful, lovely internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. This is not how I planned the setup for the video, but as soon as I sat down, the puppies deemed that it's cuddle time and who am I to disappoint. It is a snowy, you know, the cozy, staying-a-hoodie kind of day here in Colorado and I'm feeling controversial. So right off the bat, I might not say the politically correct thing in this video and if that's the case, I hope you'll educate me. I am thoroughly open to having my opinion changed on this but there's something that I see going on in my community sometimes that doesn't sit right with me. I'm trying to have a serious talk and that is the way in which we address ableism. So there I was scrolling through TikTok the other day and I came across a video that upset me but maybe not for the reason that you would think. Apparently there is something called the deaf-blind mute challenge going around where three friends will like try to bake a cake or something. One won't be allowed to hear anything, one has a blindfold, can't see anything and the other friend can't say anything. It's kind of like this just like funny, you know, TikTok trend. Potentially problematic but we'll come back to that. This video was pointing out the fact that this is a very ableist trend. Like you are taking people's life experiences of being a blind person or being a deaf person and turning into a TikTok challenge and entertainment and not doing a good job of showcasing maybe how we should be talking about these topics. That perspective I can totally understand but the problem was the way that this was pointed out. This creator in particular was talking down to anyone who would be making this challenge was saying like that's ableist you shouldn't do that in a tone of understandable judgment and anger. To my knowledge this is not a creator who talks about disability normally, they were just like pointing out here's a problem. I really didn't sit right with me because it hit on something that I have been wanting to talk about for a long time but I have been scared to. I don't want to offend anyone in my community. I don't want to say the wrong thing but I'm gonna say the thing that I'm thinking and then be open to learning. Is ableism a problem? Oh yeah, absolutely. It's everywhere. But is the way that we are addressing and talking about it actually helpful for change? Personally, I don't think so. But before we dive into the meat of this video a quick word from our sponsor. A huge thank you to our returning sponsor Blue Land. As you may know, I recently moved meaning I did a lot of cleaning of the old place and the new one. And Blue Land which is what I used to clean came in fantastically handy. So I've actually used the cleaning products away before. They sponsored me. They're all about effective, affordable and plant friendly ingredients. 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So being a member of the disabled community, having experienced a little bit of this, but honestly, I've been lucky not much. I see it as a major issue. I want to open people's eyes to what living with a disability is actually like. That's a huge reason that I have this channel, that I make the short videos and the TikToks that I do. I want to sort of be an entry point for someone to be able to ask questions to see me as a person who is missing a leg. That's an aspect of my life. And like, let's talk about it. Let's make things less uncomfortable. Really big end of that. I am all for reducing and maybe one day eliminating ableism from our societies as culture moves forward. But so very often when I hear conversations when someone is calling out something as ableist, the way that it is presented is often very off-putting, sometimes hostile, and certainly there are instances where that's okay, but I don't believe that that is where change actually happens.  My immediate reaction is not to be like, oh wow, you know, I never thought about it that way.  And I am now inspired to change. Generally speaking, if you come at someone with hostility, especially about something that they may be unaware of, like a lot of people don't know that that challenge just definitely has ableist tones to it. If we come at these conversations with like finger pointing, like you did something wrong, specifically when that person is probably unaware of the fact that they were crossing any boundaries or lines, that shuts down motivation and desire to change and generally makes people really on the defense. It becomes a story about, yeah, I was just doing, I just was having fun with my friends.  Instead of perhaps with compassion and patience, which we will circle back to in just a moment, pointing out to someone, hey, I saw that video, for example, and as someone who is part or cares about the disabled community, I feel like it might not be in great taste and here's why. Here's what ableism is. Here are the things it reinforces. Here's why I think it's not a good idea to maybe continue making videos like that. Can we have a conversation about that? You are inviting someone in, you're not assuming their intent, you're not expecting them to know something that they never been taught before. I can think of quite a few instances in my life where people have done this for me, where I've said or I did something that crossed lines, that I didn't know were crossing lines and they graciously pointed it out, invited me into a conversation and I had the opportunity to learn something, to change a little bit, to have my eyes open to something I was previously unaware of, but I've also had people come to me in hostility, pointing fingers, I hate pointing fingers, I hate even doing it at the camera to you because nobody likes that. It doesn't evoke a good reaction generally speaking. A very important caveat to all of this, as a disabled person, should I be required to nicely, compassionately, graciously, patiently, explain to someone why them saying that they would kill themselves in a heartbeat if they ever lost a leg, you know, is not a great thing to say or hear. Do I have an obligation to be like, hey, heard your comment, totally understand where you're coming from, I used to feel that way myself, but here's the thing, now that I am disabled, hearing things like that really feel like you're invalidating my entire life, like you're saying that I shouldn't continue existing, I shouldn't continue living or that other disabled people shouldn't because their lives wouldn't even be worth it because you would end it if it happened to you. That's how it comes across, I know it wasn't meant that way, but like, can we talk about that?  Should I be required to educate and sit with someone? No, absolutely not. However, one of the viciously unfair things about life is that when a group of people is being oppressed, looked down on, minimized, you name it, so often they are the people who have to do the hard work. That isn't fair, but I do feel like it is a reality of life. And at least for me personally, if we're gonna get on public platforms, trying to implement long-term societal change in how people who are disabled are seen, the most effective way to do that is not through anger and finger-pointing and telling someone they fucked up. How dare they? It is so much faster and more effective to speak to someone not assuming their intention, ask if you can have a conversation, ask questions, point things out, still treat them like they're a human being too. Because I know at least for me, I've never really wanted to change when someone told me that I was awful. Because for me personally, if someone's assuming my intent and then telling me why I'm a bad person for that intent that was assumed that might be incorrect, that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't really wanna come to your party. I think it is extraordinarily unfair that so often when you are in the group of people that is being kicked, someone's asking you to be nice about it. And there are many situations in which I do not think that that is the best response. Anger, frustration, all of that is entirely justified and I'm not trying to downplay that, but I am saying that if we are going to take to public platforms to call things out, I feel like it would be vastly more beneficial if we did so treating other people like they're still human too, like they probably didn't mean to mess something up, presenting them like with an opportunity to change and have a conversation, rather than only speaking in a way that tends to alienate people. At least I can say that that is what I try to do. That's the approach that I take. I've found it to be effective. Have I stuck with that 100% of the time? No, no, no. There's certainly some times when people have said things that were, you know, that just like hit a nerve in me. And additionally, one other thing I want to point out is that I have seen quite a few videos over the past year or so of creators who at least don't talk about being disabled, whether or not they are, I can't tell you, but they'll take a stand for the disabled community as someone who is most likely not a member of that community from what they're saying and they'll point fingers and tell other people that they're doing it wrong because they figured it out, right? Like they figured out how not to be ableist and now it's their job to show everybody that too. But unfortunately, so often that comes across as virtue signaling. It honestly feels like someone is just trying to congratulate themselves for doing a better job at not being ableist than someone else.   Stop oppressing the disabled without taking any time to actually listen to the community, to talk to people who are disabled, to maybe even more deeply examine the issues that they are talking about on a very surface level. I've seen this happen in comment sections before, even of my own videos, where someone is asking a question, not in a particularly offensive way, and then is just jumped on by people being like, how dare you ask that? That's so ableist and maybe it is, right? But the person certainly didn't intend it that way.  The next time they think about asking a question, they're probably not gonna do it. They're probably not gonna get an answer and whatever stereotype they had in their head or assumption is just gonna stay there because it's not safe to have that conversation because they just got their hand slap last time, so why would they open it up again? And honestly, if you are not a part of a community that you are trying to speak for, unless you have really done your homework and educated yourself, quite often you might not know what you're talking about and so when you tell other people that they're ableist to sit down and shut up, you're hurting disabled people, I would personally argue that oftentimes, what that accomplishes is whoever that message is for never wants to ask a question again, never wants to comment again on a video, never wants to look into it because they got burnt. And as I have said all of this, I'm not sure if it's the right approach. I can just say that from my experience, it really rubs me the wrong way when we use our public platforms and our public voices if we want to implement change, if that is the goal we are going towards. I'm not talking about if you're just a person everyday interactions, but to implement change. I really think that if we were kinder about it, I think we would see more lasting change and the changing of actual mindsets and ways of thinking if we approach this like a conversation and invited people into it rather than only pointing fingers and alienating. So with that being said, do you think I'm wrong here? I certainly 100% think that anger and frustration and the expression of that are very important in my community and elsewhere by no means am I saying not to feel or not to express those things, but the assumption of intent that someone is meaning to be ableist without knowing, I personally feel like does damage to implementing lasting change. What do you think? I am very nervous to release this video because I feel like I've said 12 different things that I've been told not to say, but this is just how I try to approach things in my own life for myself. And I think it works, but what do I know? Let me know what you think in the comment section down below. 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Hello and welcome to this session on the 2020 open source jobs report and the implications in the age of COVID. My name is Clyde C. Posad and I'm the head of training and certification for the Linux Foundation. The certification and training group for the Linux Foundation's goal is to ensure that everybody has access to high quality affordable vendor neutral training programs on the key open source technologies that are increasingly at the center of all types of computing and in particular cloud computing as many of you know because you are part of cloud native forum here. So what I'm going to do over the next few minutes is share some of the insights that came out of the report that is hot off the press. It was just released a few weeks ago with the research conducted over the late part of the summer and we will go through what those key findings are and some of the implications on folks who are working in technology or those who want to be working in technology. So let's have a look here at what the key findings were DevOps. So one of the things that we have been surprised by is the rapid ascent of DevOps and interest in DevOps and it actually has been accelerated by the shift to the cloud that we have seen as a result of the COVID pandemic with many more companies looking to push loads to the cloud in part for cost reasons and part for tactical reasons and the difficulty of getting to raise floor private data centers. So perhaps not too surprising that almost two thirds of companies are hiring more in the area of DevOps just to really transition from the old world of siloed you know development QA prod into a more collaborative culture of DevOps and the workflows that entails. So this idea of complimenting your skills by understanding pipeline continuous integration continuous deployment there obviously a very wide variety of tool sets that is available is going to be something that is a very useful compliment to your career that you would want to be adding on it's really an area where companies are doing a lot of hiring. So next up is cloud obviously for cloud native con cube con environment clear majority right so 70 plus percent of companies hiring more clients with cloud skills again not surprising in a model where a lot of loads are being continued to be shifted to the cloud and particularly where the portability Kubernetes based systems is allowing for companies to move their loads into the public cloud with confidence that they're not going to have vendor lock in and so obviously this is a stack of skills right so when we say cloud skills we interpret that as meaning you know some base level of Linux skills because fast majority of the public cloud runs Linux as its OS and then Kubernetes as the orchestration layer for managing all those containers and so the clear indication that the value placed by employers on cloud skills is going to continue to increase and makes candidates much more attractive to potential employers. I think one of the questions that was at top of mind for us at the Linux Foundation and our partners at edX when we did this most recent jobs report was trying to get a finger on the pulse of what does this all mean in the age of COVID and how has that impacted you know we have a general sense of how that has impacted the economy as a whole but what specifically has been the impact in the tech sector and then hiring for IT professionals and I think it was a pleasant surprise to see that more and a few of companies far from cutting back are actually hiring more IT professionals over the coming months so I think that's a really good sign perhaps not surprising given the data on the earlier slides right that more people are moving to the cloud more demand for cloud talent but it definitely turns out to be one of the bright spots in the economy in the hiring side of the economy is this continued focus on pulling in more skills in IT in an overall environment where there's perhaps you know print sectors where those trends are going in the other direction so definitely a good time to be in the IT sector a lot of resilience so if we talk a little bit slightly and think about how do we develop talent because one of the challenges that's been long-standing has been the ability to recruit talent and develop talent and the shift that we've been seeing for several years now but it was really pronounced this year in the 2020 jobs report is the move to online training so fully 80 percent of companies are now providing online training courses I suspect many if not most of you watching this today have probably taken one or more online training technical courses in the past year or so and that trend does appear to be here to stay right that companies are focusing more on this as a really convenient footprint for developing delivering training to employees and the convenience factor of not having to pull people out for synchronous education where everybody is out at the same time you let people work at their own pace through these online self-study materials and that's also the way the vast majority of the training that we at the next foundation training provide is self-paced online e-learning somewhat related to that we have seen this continued rise in the desirability of certifications cc a couple of stats here from both perspectives the top one is from the perspective of hiring managers a majority for the first time over the years we have been conducting this research for the first time a majority of hiring managers are actively giving preference to certified candidates and the flip side of that you see two thirds of individuals are planning actually to take an exam this year again probably not surprising for this audience the kubernetes exams cka and ckd ckad have been particularly popular for exactly the reason of candidates wanting to demonstrate their skills and hiring managers wanting to see those skills hopefully everybody in this audience knows that the kubernetes exam cka and ckad are performance-based exams so it's not multiple choice you actually have live scenarios that as a candidate you are responsible for conducting those tasks and having them graded so it is very much a knowledge of skills-based assessment of your competence on kubernetes and I think the general shift towards having more performance-based exams is a part of this trend of the rise in the desirability of certifications so let's talk next about the big picture of where are we with open source talent this has been a topic that our researchers focused on pretty consistently since we started doing the survey and the continues to move in the same direction the 93% of hiring managers reporting difficulty you know I'm sure those of you who are on LinkedIn in the cloud space probably are getting a significant amount of requests coming in there's a lot of poaching going on because there's just not enough open source talent the demand is continuing to go up you see 81% of hiring companies making it a priority to hire more talent in this area probably not surprising for those of you on this call but it is an area where we at the Linux foundation view it as an important part of our mission right how do we create more on-ramps to open source talent and more ways that are affordable convenient and high quality for people to get the type of training and demonstrate the kinds of skills that employers are going to be looking for because there is still a lot of demand out there for open source talent and more demand than there is a supply of skills which is problematic and so trying to bring more people in really is a key aspect of trying to make this successful related to that is we're seeing more and more companies realizing that you can't just hire externally to address this gap so upscaling really is part of your recruitment strategy looking at your existing employees and figuring out how do we get them this upgraded skill set they need in an age where we're moving more loads particularly particularly to the cloud so over half of employees here 57 percent of employers are investing in upscaling their workforce trying to find trying to build that talent pool right linking back to the prior slide on just how much of a shortage there is and this also ties into the stack we saw earlier about 80 percent of companies providing online training right just a bigger emphasis on creating pathways to develop talent and you know one of the things that is interesting you know it's not always the you know sexiest element is just how important Linux continues to be as a must-have skill set you know vast majority of cloud instances you know 98 percent of AWS instances run on Linux so if you're talking about skills in the cloud world there is a sort of eat your veggies aspect right where having Linux as a core table-stakes skills is an important part of what it's going to take to to be successful and then let's just look at a couple other things diversity remains a challenge vast vast majority of employers 88 percent trying to make more efforts around increasing the diversity of their workforce interestingly only 70 percent of employees agree that they are seeing that increase so definitely more work to be done there and then finally just a quick plug there is a virtual training boot for the Linux foundation and encourage everybody to stop by that booth and ask questions so thanks again for joining the session if you have questions stop by the booth visit the website and good luck with your continued career cloud journeys