So I'm really pleased to introduce our colleague in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shashwe Mo. Shashwe got promoted this year as an associate professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He's done a nice job on his slide here, so I don't have to read my notes. He got his PhD at Yale in 2014, spent a year in Cambridge, the Purdue of the East, right, MIT, and then joined, I had to sneak that in somewhere, right? And then joined us in 2015 as an assistant professor in Aeron Astro. Shashwe works in control and coordination of multi-agent autonomous systems. He develops distributed algorithms for solving large-scale linear equations by multi-agent systems. He works on resilience for consensus-based distributed algorithms, does some inverse optimal control to learn multi-phase objective functions, and is also working on formation control and reinforcement learning for UAVs and other drones. A couple of exciting things that Shashwe's been involved with. He's been on awards that had three Purdue seeds for success, so those are very large awards. He's been part of three of those. Our students elected him as the outstanding faculty mentor. Our graduate students did that in 2019. He teaches a lot of our undergraduate courses in the control area, but also introduced a multi-agent systems and control class in Aeron Astro at the 500 level. He's had over 21 directed study projects with undergraduates and graduate students. He's the advisor or has been the advisor for the Purdue Autonomous Robotics Club. He's the faculty advisor for the First Street Tower Resident Hall. He has really worked on a relationship with Northrop Grumman, has several contracts from Northrop Grumman, is one of the first awards with Rolls-Royce and their Cybersecurity Initiative with Purdue, so that's another tie-in. I've got a lot of stuff here. I'm not gonna read it all Shashwe, because you gotta go to class at 12, but he's also the co-director for the Center of Innovation for Control Optimization and Networks. Everybody knows that is ICON. That's the center he's done in collaboration with controls folks all across campus, strong here in engineering. That's brought in speakers both virtually and physically from all across the country and some around the world. He's also the associate director for the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure. He's on the faculty steering committee for the Autonomous and Connected Systems Initiative. He's a member of IEEE. He's been on organizing committees for different conferences. He's an associate editor for systems and control letters, and I don't know when he sleeps. He's done a lot in the short number of years he's been here, but Shashwe's an outstanding colleague. He's done a lot for engineering for the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, so with that, let me introduce my colleague, Shashwe Moe, associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thank you, thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for the introduction, Harvey and Bill, and it's really an honor to be promoted to associate professor. And time flies, actually, I still feel I'm in 2021. That's why my tenure promotion actually happened in 2021, if not 2020. And my research has been focusing on control for autonomous systems. And you may ask, that's more like my career and also future career. You may ask why we care about autonomous systems. So, actually, autonomous system already existing, you know, in our day life or in future missions, self-driving cars, this very fancy humanoid robot, or the automatic ground vehicles, or the future OCT for exploration of cars. And also for, you know, the cooperative robots and for healthcare, manufacturing, or monitoring a large area. Actually, our morning society has been relying on more and more of these autonomous systems. So, the next question we may ask, well, you know, what are the fundamental challenges for current and future autonomous systems? Those, actually, the challenges are the four types of main challenges that we have identified for current and future autonomous systems, which also serve that motivation of my research. So, because it's autonomous systems, so, first, we want the system to be autonomous, means to achieve some missions without human guidance. So, that's a lot of methods developed there, optimal control, reinforcement learning. But the open challenge there is, you know, for different missions, and no matter your methods based on optimal control or reinforcement learning, they all require mission dependent objective functions. But how to get these objective functions is very challenging. It depends on different missions. So, we have done some work on that. And also adaptive, you know, our work for autonomous, mainly, we developed a fundamentally new inverse optimal control method to learn objective functions. And the state of art is based on KTT conditions under which the result cannot sense and adapt. So, our results, many could solve the IOC based on incomplete data, robot could sense and adapt. And also adaptive, that's actually, we would talk about adaptive, you would appeal or say, oh, machine learning, we have a lot of data and train the data, you know, for, to deal with uncertainties and dynamics. So, our group more like go into the other direction. What if we don't have data? We don't have a lot of data for training. For example, in Mars exploration, we don't have a lot of data. But in control field, the key concept will be called feedback. So, that's more like, you mean how to utilize the online data to serve as a baseline data to train your algorithm or to tune your algorithm. So, we have a ball with the concept of entering the learning from a machine learning community and develop a framework for adaptive autonomy. And later on, we realize that, okay, that actually it's also a method that could solve three large classes of problem, not just adaptive autonomy, but also system ID and also inverse optimization. And also cooperative, that more like, we want the autonomous system to cooperate with the human, so that a direction actually is also direction new to me. When I first studied the human robot teaming, I actually didn't have any funding that, but a good part is that our associate head, Moin Chen, gave me a lot of TAs. And I used that to explore the directions of the new. You already are a department and the TAs are assistant professor, junior faculties, how the priority to get into the TAs. That's actually very helpful for junior faculty. That time, I didn't have a lot of funding. And that enabled me to explore the new topics. And also for the human robot teaming, we actually also developed a fundamental framework for based on control, optimal control and adaptive system to allow a robot to interactively integrate the human input, which are sparse yet great. And also for the first topic is swarming and how to develop the digital control to achieve swarming autonomy. That actually I get to know that from my PhD. And under this, like the four main challenges in this area, we have developed a bunch of nice results based on integration of control with data science, robotics, machine learning and networks. So here is a quick overview about that. Actually only this part is kind of related to my PhD research, this algorithm. But after joining Purdue, Purdue does provide me excellent platform to explore new topics and also collaborate with other researchers. And so we have developed several other direction, new directions. And those have led to a bunch of research publications, basically in top journals and in control about techniques and machine learning and also several large projects I'm very lucky to have. And education mentoring, you know, our research basically cannot be successful without a student. I have graduated two PhD students, one PhD already a faculty, and a post-doc also become a faculty. And of course my group is very diverse and international from all kinds, all countries all over the world. And especially also we're also recruits, female and URIM students. And as just a bit of a thing, I'd like to share my perspective about research and education. I would say my, if there is any success on my research, I think my philosophy is focused on high quality research with impact. So in my group, usually I would suggest them, you know, we would rather spend two or three years to figure out for me is a fundamental problem, a regional problem. You know, we could use three years to get a journal paper in top journals rather than the fast conference publications. I feel sorry for my students, they don't have an auto publication. But no, all their research are, I would say, have to have the quality there, especially on the original research part. And also exploration on new topics. And I said usually my, of course now I have a lot of funding, I could explore more new topics. But at the beginning, what I didn't have a funding is that it's kind of a 70 percent of, you know, for 60 I could still be productive, but 30 percent, and for the new topic, that's mainly based on department TAs. And also fundamental research. I kind of like, you know, no matter theoretical or experimental, to my opinion, don't matter. I think focusing on the fundamental mechanism behind all these existing research, that's the part I'm passionate. And also collaborations, I like collaborations with different expertise. And also for mentoring, I would say, even in my class, I always ask the students, you have to think deep, not just to be happy about, oh, I know this method, I know how to apply that. I always ask them, you know, why those smart people develop this method, this new method.   And also all students are different. It's really different. But they are all excellent learners. I really, I would say, appreciate their efforts, once we identify a problem impact and all their interests. And also the research in this area, I would say, in this autonomy, I cannot move forward. It will be difficult to move forward if we don't have collaborations. This is the area, tournament and client system is the area, which really requires different expertise. So on the second month initiative, this idea of forming this center for innovation, control and optimization. So we have, initially we had 25 faculty, but now we have 64 from lab departments. We have established a bunch of research themes, and also we have the education and goal. These are more like highlights we have done for the center. It basically planning for the frontier research, last year of funding, and also the collaboration with the industry. And also the educational goals we have. We have several A&E members support. So my career goal is to advance control theories with optimization network learning to address fundamental challenges in the autonomous system and also to serve research education for university strategic initiative autonomous system. And this is my page of tech. I really have a lot of people to thank, but Erwin told me that I only have 10 slides to present. So I would like to add another four. I would like to add another maybe four slides to thank. You know, a lot of people, maybe they even didn't realize that actually they have a helping a lot. Like mom, I mentioned that he's initiating the idea of forming a center for control. This is maybe one of the many things they have done after joint Purdue, but it really means a lot to not just me, but also the control community and Purdue. And my mentors like Dan, and beside research collaboration, Dan has ensured more and mentor me in many directions, like getting funding, especially bridge a lot of connections between me and the funding agencies, and also teach me how to get funding. To be honest, I'm not a fan of writing proposals, kind of hate writing proposals, and I enjoy much more in doing research than writing proposals, but we cannot get without funding. So, but with Dan, Dan more like a mentor me to how to build reliable, you know, funding resources, which actually see me a lot of time in not writing proposal, I still get a lot of funding. And this method I have eight projects going on, but each they just asked me to write a few pages and more like to trust me and give me funding. And also Martin Corleys, the other mentor, also we have a lot of deep research discussions. But beside that, actually, Martin also, we had a lot of interactions on how to success and the junior faculty, what to do. And it's, it's especially at the first few years when I was under a lot of pressure, and because the transmission from a student to be a faculty. And also other like Arvain, I never thought a social dean could be this easy to be to be approachable. And I sometimes I need some personal advice, email Arvain and Arvain replied very quickly. And, you know, the same as mom and also went to for one year, I don't email Wen Chen just knock your door. And I know this is my problem. The way you really stop working and then talk to me. And of course, you know, all the other things like my department had Bill and Tom and the morning to provide all the support to the to my career and also a special bill for the center operation. And actually all the other colleagues and, you know, George always enjoyed talking with George and very inspiring talk, not just the research and all the other in all the organizing activities and things I can't and also my colleagues in control in Sok, Dongfeng and art and all this. And also my mother and my students. And thank you very much. This is all my presentation. Thank you. So we have some time for questions and answers. And it looks like Marsha is putting instructions up for the remote people. Shashla, when do you have to leave for class? And those are different than 12 o'clock. Okay, so we do have time for some questions and answers. So does someone in the here we go. Thank you, Shashla. I share the great experience. And yeah, so I have two questions. The first one is like, I saw so many, you know, achievements in a such short time.  Yeah, this is the first question. And the second question is like, on your research. So since you both work on the control theory side and the learning side, and you mentioned the human role of collaboration. So traditionally, maybe people think theoretical based methods is more appropriate for the, you know, interaction with the human for robots. But the learning based method, maybe it's a kind of black box, we do not know what's going on, maybe not good for the, you know, human role interaction. Yeah, I want to hear your comments about that. Okay, thank you. The first question, how to balance the time actually, I even didn't thought about that when I was junior faculty, because you don't have time to think about how to balance all this, and also a lot of pressures. But I do have advice more like, for me, I have a habit. The busier I am, usually I will spend more time in running, doing exercise, watching movies, things. It's really a good method for me to release all the pressure and also fresh all the minds. I learned this from my PhD advisor, like Steven Morse. So usually I, when I have a research problem, I was too passionate about the research. I would knock his door, I said, oh, this is my result, that's my result.  So I would suggest you take a break, go to a Canadian National Park, and let it, you know, let your brain automatically working on the research problem. So the same for here, if you have under pressure, then I would say, perhaps you need a key walk, like me and Dan, me and Dan, Dan, we always have a key walk kind of stuff yet. A second about our research, human robot teaming, that's kind of accidentally I run into this area, because when I first started to on the fundamental research, I didn't do any human robot teaming. And I said, you know, I have additional resources from the department when giving me the TAs. And okay, even without funding, let's do some fundamental research. That's inverse optimal control. We have achieved more like several journal papers on that. And then somehow we found, oh, if we look kind of human motion at the optimal control system, you actually, all these methods could be applied for human motion prediction. So it's somehow once I have achieved some nice result on the applications, but it's actually easy if you got the theoretical part. And then start to get more funding. So I would say usually if you have one of the box, about this, then spend 70 maybe on the research with guarantee, maybe 30 with exploration. That's very important to me actually. So I would say, you know, really appreciate the additional resources provided by the department. Anybody else in the audience that has a question for Joshua. So, so happy to be here. First of all, as I know, and Martin knows you recently went back to your workaholic days and solved an important theoretical problem that you were you and your former advisor were struggling with. So what have you learned about your ability to do that? And and have you seen any evidence that you could help your own students now develop the skills and the patience to solve a hard theoretical problem? Yeah, thank you. Thank you. So yeah, that's actually a story I shared with Dan and Martin about that. Several weeks ago, my PhD writer called me and emailed me a one page of note about the question about a problem about a very hardcore theory on consensus that actually he brought the consistent concept to the field. And I become immediately very interesting that as I cannot see. So just more and more slept on the problem. I emailed Dan and Martin and I spent like this calculation papers, which I took from our department to write to for doing the you know, I like and doing all the derivation of that kind of things. It's all the week. I more like slept three m or four a.m. sometimes emailed back. And that is more like I thought I already not that passionate about the hardcore control theory, but turned out not. Another problem is very interesting. I can see the possible fundamental impact. It just become very excited about the problem. Although I will not completely solve this problem, but actually it's a partially solved than I want to prove the result on the timely environment graph. And of course, he's interested in more general results. But from this story, I'm more like a garden dad question is that I found that first not all students are interested in this kind of theoretical fundamental research. And you're in my group, I let students decide and you know what they want to do. And for PhD, they need to be a little bit of deep in control theories. I think it's more like a kind of with our responsibility to teach students to appreciate actually the fundamental and the theoretical research result. I know flying a drone is much more exciting than writing equations, me too actually. And at the beginning of my PhD study, I was oh, why in consensus? Why gossiping? It's just, you know, I want to do the formation control to develop the thermal control for formation. But actually more like, but you know, my advisor said no, you don't want to forget on that. Otherwise, you cannot grant it. They more like force me to think deeper about all the research and also start to appreciate and oh, of course, we always say, oh, everybody has a personal interest, but that kind of our own prejudgment about research. And the current and I think I'm okay to all the research where to go instrumental. You may in my class, I said, if I don't limit you guys course project, if you want to study COVID spreading, do it, you know, go to get some data and using the tool we taught in class, or you're good to learn some new tools by yourself to model the COVID things. But I think, no, into the 30 research kind of why the personal interest the other is maybe I got trained in this way. I realized that actually the whole I got trained and the whole I do my perform my faculty life. It kind of also what we can envision how we impact our students. So when I train my PhD students, the first thing I told them I said first, our group, we don't care about another publication. You may publish a 1000 paper. But if you don't prove you are independent, you have a strong independent research capability, you may not get a PhD for a PhD. It really is a training for your research. And also, you know, how did the research could potentially benefit the society? Without that kind of vision, without that kind of capability, I told them, you know, don't tell me how many papers I don't care about. That's more like I kind of enforced the rule in my group. Great. I think we're on time. So let's all congratulate Joshua one more time. Congratulations Joshua. There was one comment from Dave Cavallieri. He said, nice job. So just so that was the chat.


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Hello everybody, my name is David Stewart. I'm here today to talk about this inclusion topic that I've titled inclusion and open source allies outlaws and dinosaurs So let's begin First of all, let me tell you who I am I've actually been in the open source world in terms of a full-time occupation since 2007. I've really appreciated the opportunity to be involved with very popular open source projects I've actually had the chance to launch a few and a few are actually still doing very well Even though I'm not actively involved with them, which I consider to be tremendously Exciting and I've been in the industry a number of years as well just in a variety of different roles. So and Maybe it's sort of obvious maybe not I would consider myself to be a member of the majority because when I look around at open source conferences, I usually see a lot of folks that sort of look like me white men and Oftentimes, I think that would be pretty easy to see that we're part of the majority. So that's who I am and When we talk often about this area of inclusion, how do you include people who are not in the majority as part of your Your projects and it's part of the work that you're doing I hear the word allies used a lot and I think that's a opportunity to You know say, yeah, I'm really supportive of people who are not in the majority However, I often think that's better if somebody who's not in the majority says that you are an ally as opposed to sort of Nominating yourself. So I think it's important to hear from somebody. Hey, do you think I'm an ally for somebody who's not a majority? But if I'm hoping if you're here and you consider yourself an ally or you've been called one I hope there's something, you know useful here for you to apply in open source projects and work. I Think it's also True that some people are in the majority and they haven't really thought of this issue of how do I do a better job at Including people who are not in the majority and maybe they consider themselves to be sort of outsiders in this whole area of Inclusion and how can they do a better job and become more supportive? So maybe you're on a Journey in terms of learning about open source By the way, this photo is a Chap name dick little who was a member of the James Younger gang in American history, but he had a great Portrait as an outlaw. So maybe that's what you consider yourself to be and Frankly, there are people in open source projects who are not necessarily conscious of How they are speaking? They don't really seem to have maybe much of an interest in being allies Maybe in some cases they seem to opposed to that whole idea. I've had the Challenge sometimes of folks that I I get to work with who are Either unconscious or not, you know kind of opposing this whole idea of being more intentional about being inclusive So I think maybe if you have maybe you consider yourself to be in that group You know, if so, I hope there's some things that we have to say today that will be helpful as well Now as I introduce myself, I do consider myself to be part of the majority and What does that mean in terms of? You know, why do we think it's important to understand who the majority is and when I think about How a lot of people grew up? The kind of ethos that we use is often to say well You know majority rules if somebody is if we're trying to decide as a group where to go to lunch Maybe if the majority agrees with a particular direction, well, that's the direction we're going if we have a sense of a crowd I Think sometimes we talk about the wisdom of crowds I think sometimes I observe kind of a different behavior sometimes when I see a crowd maybe on a Narrow path coming towards me and often I I see people not sort of yielding The path when I see there's a group there often instead of the wisdom of crowds what I often see is it's kind of the the foolishness of crowds and So I think the whole idea of majority rules can really blind you to a lot of Tremendous value that can come from people who are not in the majority And I think this is kind of a challenge that we have and as I think about myself I think well, what do I have to say on this topic? After all as I said I identify myself as a white dude and so I've not been discriminated against because I'm a white dude in the areas of open source projects And so why do I think I have anything to say on the subject? This troubled me quite a lot actually in terms of my journey on this subject. I was at one point nominated for leading a group that we were Setting up at my company to help leaders become more inclusive. I was nominated as somebody who had Behaviors that were considered inclusive and I I asked the woman who nominated me. She was a senior manager who was who was Knew me and see me work and I asked her why do you why did you nominate me? And she said well, I've just seen in you behaviors Which are the kinds of things that leaders should have and in this area of inclusion and it really surprised me and I kept I guess in my journey thinking about this and thinking about well I guess it was unconscious, but I guess I better do a better job in terms of the kinds of things I'm intentionally doing to help people who are not the majority and When I I had at one point a boss who was you know an African American He was a vice president my company and one of the things I I said Well, why do I think I have anything to say? Why should I be involved in the subject when I? I'm not in the minority and he said well, and he brought up the the case of this particular guy Who is if you don't recognize him his name is John F. Kennedy He was a president of the United States in the 60s from a very Influential and powerful family. They were a very rich family and He was in a part of our history in the United States, which there were all there was a tremendous amount of unrest On the subject of people who were black feeling like they were not getting Enough power within society. They felt like they were being discriminated against in a lot of very specific ways Kennedy Responded to this by actually being involved and he had a reputation for having more care about Civil rights is where we use that term and so he had that great reputation What was interesting to me though when I read about the history of Kennedy is Even though he was You know powerful. He had this great reputation for being a very strong advocate for civil rights It was actually his successor the next resident this guy Lyndon Baines Johnson somebody were we referred to in history as LBJ Here is somebody who actually not only had a priority to address civil rights issues his actual Leadership helped laws being put into effect and so what's again surprising is is a lot of these civil rights laws Winner to effect from as led by LBJ even though he was from a Texas He was from a state in the United States, Texas Which was not considered to be a very good place where people had very good civil rights so he not only Was a great civil rights leader, but he also came from a place where his power Derived from being in the majority and so I think this is a great example of saying Well, what can I do if I'm not a member of you know, if I'm if I'm a member of the majority Let me give you one other really good example If you don't recognize him This is Guido van Rossum who is known as the benevolent dictator for life for Python for many years and he was the originator of Python and Was interesting for me to listen to him Particularly the first time I heard him give a keynote at PyCon. He was It was great because in his keynote. He said hey, I'm gonna alternate questions in my keynote from the audience and I want to have alternate between a woman and a man and that was very interesting to To watch him do that and how he promoted a group called Pyle 80s, which was a he wore a Pyle 80s shirt at the conference and I heard him a number of times really have the goal of I want to see core developers who are women and This is something which I think was a goal. He that was finally Accomplished there finally are core developers in Python who are women, but it really took his active involvement and encouraging people to mentor women so they could become core developers and I once had dinner with Guido and I asked him, you know, it seems like you're as I observe you Your Priorities appear to me to be to make sure Python language remains Pythonic and I think also to make sure women have great opportunities In the Python community and I see these these seem to be your priorities I said, well, I yeah, I guess those are so here's somebody again a great example of a Somebody with power in an open-source community and what he did with his power was is tremendously impactful Now along those lines a question certainly Well, what can I do if you no matter whether you consider yourself to be, you know an ally or an outlaw or maybe you think of yourself as a dinosaur? I think this is an opportunity to think about some things that you can actually do in open-source community work to help In the whole area of inclusion giving a voice to people who maybe don't have a voice By the way, this is a photo of me on a bridge in a particularly national park And that bridge was incredibly shaky and you know moving all around. I thought it was kind of appropriate Because sometimes it may feel uncomfortable to be in this space Maybe you feel like it's a little bit like that bridge that's sort of wobbling around a lot and and what specifically can you do? And so I have a few suggestions You know one of the things that you can really do to help in this area of inclusion and is to listen and a couple of Specific things I want to talk about one is you know, I come from a culture corporate culture where it's very common for People have very strong opinions and you know talk over each other and feeling like you can't really get your opinions across unless you're You know you're interrupting and and that you know kind of behavior and and I find when I catch myself doing that it's like Disturbing to me because it's like this is not what I aspire to do in terms of Dealing with people. So just the act of listening by the way I was one of the teams I one of the most recent teams that I hired From scratch. I was really so pleased with the team that it was really great people but we had a balance of genders and people from different underrepresented underrepresented minority groups people who are black Hispanic etc and But one thing I noticed at one time in a meeting where there was a problem We were trying to solve it in the open-source project. We were working on and I remember one of the the women engineers gave an idea for how to solve the problem and Honestly today, I don't even remember what the specific issue was a problem We were trying to solve but what I remember is I didn't actually really care about the solution I'd whichever way we go But one of the things I noticed is after she gave her idea There were various of the guys who were starting to you know talk down of that idea. No, it's not a good idea They don't you know these reasons or whatever, but as I observed I saw wow This is playing out exactly as people say it does which is a woman will often give an idea Because she is a woman And I think it's unconscious, but the idea is often talked down And in fact some of the guys kind of talking down our idea consider themselves to be you know really Supporting women and and trying to have better inclusion kinds of skills So it was really surprising to me to see this and so even though by the way what I did even though Like I said, I didn't really care which solution we chose What I decided you speak up in the situation and actually say something about the idea and what I says You know, I think actually this is maybe a really good idea let's let's talk a little bit more about it and I I think you can be cool about that sort of thing and not and Bear somebody like saying oh you guys are only saying it, but you don't like it because she's a woman I don't think that kind of thing is as constructive Although sometimes you might want to point this out to people so that they can you know be thinking about this more realizing Oh, maybe I need to listen a little bit more a little bit more carefully as to the things that are going on and observe these behaviors and others so The first suggestion I'd have is to listen Another really powerful thing in my own journey has been when I have had people who would have the authority from me to to speak back to me things they observe in my behavior, which may be considered to be hurtful or You know not being you know conscious of what I'm doing right and so This has been super powerful in my my own Life is what I've empowered some days that look can you as you hear me talk Can you please tell me if you hear me saying something and I'm embarrassed I don't even want to repeat some of the things that he said to me because I just get a little embarrassed with how I'm not necessarily You know thinking Clearly about some things that I say things unconsciously sometimes things that are you know funny. I'm trying to be humorous and it doesn't really You know it can be considered hurtful So I think it's a super power to and you know empower somebody say look Can you share with me anything you see me saying or doing or writing they would consider to be you know hurtful to somebody who's not the majority and this is something by the way, I think is is I Hope that they can do it in a way. That's not public. That doesn't publicly embarrass me But there's this is incredibly powerful because we may have the best intentions of the world and another example as I was leading a group of Managers at my company who are trying to learn how to be more inclusive and include people and the who are not in the majority And one of the guys was sharing experience and talked about an engineer that worked for him that in and even though she's a girl I just you know and so-and-so and You know it kind of caught me off-guard because in the United States when you refer to a woman as a girl It's often, you know viewed pretty negatively because it's it's like well You don't consider me to be a mature person by calling me a girl, right and I Used the opportunity to talk to this particular manager and I said And I just said you know Are you open to some coaching? It's one of the first things I hear you open to some feedback on that and I want to ask for permission for that sort of thing to give feedback on somebody if They are not aware of these things and I said You know this can be you know viewed as being insulting. He's so beside himself He just didn't know his unconscious part of it was where in the culture he came from which is India This is not considered to be an insult. I'm just an observation of gender. So and and in the next, you know meeting of people Together he was so apologetic. He said I just wanted to say I'm really sorry about this I did not you know want to imply that I was insulting about this engineer case for gender so I think empowering people and when you're when you have Feedback to give that maybe someone hasn't empowered you That becomes a little bit more tricky and I think if I You know observe something which are behaviors which are can be considered insensitive or insulting something of that sort It's a responsibility now I feel like I have just to speak out about it and it's try to say something about the subject and What I try to do by the way is I try and ask if My coaching is appreciated in this situation. I remember one of the best examples I saw this was a conference. I was sitting in it was that an inclusion conference and so there are a couple hundred people in this ballroom and We had just talked about the example of if you have a group of people and you see men Talking down a particular idea that was given by a woman just the example.  He says and he says to her. Do you mind if I would give you some coaching on that? And she said yeah, and he said when you talk about you know in this sort of way when I hear when I hear Men acting like adolescents oftentimes when you say something like that men will Considered it to be Pretty insulting and not achieve what you were looking for in terms of of a response and she took it really well I loved that not only his boldness to step out and give feedback on the subject But ask permission and to be cool about it as opposed to I guess Blind-sighting somebody or giving them feedback that you know, it'll be uncomfortable by the way likely it will be uncomfortable and so Asking you know speak out of it ask, you know some way for permission to to give that coaching and Finally, I think it's important to look at hey If you're learning something about inclusion, maybe something you've heard from this talk or some of the other terrific Inclusion talks here at the conference Try and share what you're learning to others it may be in a in a group situation or a one-on-one situation maybe in situations where You're you're sitting socially with other people maybe in the majority or maybe not. I think this is Tremendously powerful because one of the things I'll try and do when I attend a conference and I maybe I'm reading a book or Learning some things I try and share this with others to try and get their You know attention and focus on it as well And I think again This is a great way in an open-source situation particular in a project I think that you can share some of the wisdom that you're learning and help the entire open-source community that you deal with to grow and to Be better at this whole area So in summary I think listening to others really listening and trying to understand what's going on Empowering people to give you feedback Try and talk about the kinds of things that you're learning and and speaking out when the situation is appropriate to do I have a couple of resources here one of the conference One of the conferences I'm really supportive of by the way there's a conference called the better man conference That really helps has helped me to to learn new things. So I Like what the founder and the group is trying to do so Encourage you to check that one out and then as I said Guido is a terrific Example setter in the area of open-source. In fact, he's got a One of his keynotes of Python in 2015's on YouTube that you can go Google that one and you know roughly 13 minutes I'm on the feet on the video he talks about His goals about what he wants to do to try and encourage more women who are core developers and and Some of his behaviors that I think are great to emulate. So anyway, I hope that these are are helpful for you Thank you very much, and I hope that You'd give me You know any questions or feedback? I'm empowering you to give me feedback as well here And if there are things that I can do to be better in this area as well, I would really appreciate hearing it Thank you very much


A very special lady in black dot known for her love and generosity has been recognized with a statewide award. We'll get to know her tonight as the community came out to celebrate her achievements. Brenda Mack has the story. I have received so much more than I've given, definitely. She loves and she laughs, and yet she's even more known for when she gives. She's Jyn Slindi. When I think about her and think about all the things she does, it brings tears to my eyes. You can almost never find Jyn alone. She's always visiting someone. I've always loved old people for some reason. They have the most interesting past. Now standing strong at 86, Jyn has always known where her heart belongs. Having fun, that's what we were doing. Since this place first opened back in 1970, Jyn, who is still in high school, has started volunteering by serving lunches. I used to take them for their birthdays to my house. I used to pick them up, take them to church. A simple woman. I guess I'm just common and ordinary, and so they're comfortable. So loved by the community. I knew you could count on Jyn. She was always there. She's there supporting, getting things going, helping, assisting. She's there for helping with everything. That Jyn has been selected as one of two volunteers of the year in Minnesota. She said you won. I thought, wow, you know, that's pretty special. And her friends say no one else is more than worthy of this honor. Just hoping that people look at her and take and see what she does and follows and her footsteps, and they can learn so much from her. Well, that was success. Very nice. Very nice. In Black Duck, Brenda Mack, Lakeland News. And Jyn is also a leader. She was the first female member at the Black Duck Chamber of Commerce and the first woman on the City Council there. She will receive her award at the annual Care Providers of Minnesota Conference in November. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television. Thank you.


Three two one kablam. Here we go Let's just go straight for Straight for I because we like eyes and then we're gonna charge up this way just as I normally do Hi Do you want to fight me because I will fight you? It'll be great We're actually doing quite well. We're really dominating this board. This is good. Hey, they captured moon, which is fine That's where I was Don't really care. They can have it. They can have it. I'm fine with that. I need some pips though There's a fight. There's a pip down there. How do I get down there? I don't know Lovely help it son. You got this. You're fine. You've got help. You've got some help You'll be fine ten nine eight seven six five four three two one boom lovely minus a hundred redilis It's redilis guys, it's redilis when you get rid of your list so sad never fear Brent is here Ho ho you hate when redilis happens. I know when you're trying to be cool and then redilis happens smh my head nuked by Get out of here. Get out of here life fairy healing. Nah, we're not about that life Um spiral is open You should probably charge spiral if we've got three people We have one free And they have what one free now they have two free we have one free Not the greatest right. He's dead love to see it Love to see it Right and our lightning up stead unfortunately. It's up to me and the rat Me and the rat we can do it. I believe I believe in us Could have probably done a trap, but whatever. I'm not a team player. I wanted to get this off. Okay, sweet We just need actually I think he's dead next honestly. Honestly. I think he's dead man Zero nice very good great damage, bro. Great damage. Where'd you get at the damage store? by Get rekt son Nice 40 points. Love to say it. Let's get some pips. Just kidding. We only got one Rip will yank that Yum-yum yum-yum pipi because spiral is cool and very very cool Love to get it now. We need to stay ahead basically. This is what we need to do. We just need to stay ahead and Basically take control of the board. I'll hide down here. He'll never know I'm here See look. He didn't even notice me. Yeah, that's right. You run away. You run away Cali Yeah, Cali you can't see me You can't see me. I'm not here She didn't even know I was here. That's called sneak This is this is the best bit about beastman when you're winning and you can just wait and you don't have to panic You know, you let them make the first move because they're losing. They're not doing any any Help to themselves by just taking these so we can capture them again. So yeah, okay. Let's capture moon real fast Okay, there we go points Points is mine. I'm surprised. They haven't tried spiral. I'm really surprised by that honestly Really really surprised by that means we must be doing a good job holding it Somehow even though nobody's there Guess they just don't want to try man This is how I get all of my event points You just run around and flip them after they flip them especially if you're winning because there's no real Problem with that. They're going to I next. Oh No, we're going to I oh That's not good We need to really just start winning some fights honestly here. I am Love to see me Yeah, we're just doing this. We're just doing that. We're gonna smash him with that real fast just for fun just for fun easy clap 52 52 Poor we were in such a good lead and now we're not we're tied very sad This is one of the things about Beast Moon we can things change so quickly So quickly all of a sudden you could be in the lead and then you're not in the lead anymore. Can I clutch up here? I don't know about that one. I don't know about that one. My hand's not the greatest I'm gonna just I just cut that next round Hopefully I can get some zero Pips bells Like beetle that would be cool. Sometimes it is obvious other times.  Oh, well, I'm dead. That was bad. That was bad. We're gonna lose this again I have to say Pip Wisps and this are just not the greatest.  I haven't gone for spiral like did they just forget that that existed or something Like I'm just kind of confused like I'm really confused man Hopefully these guys can all win their fights. That would be cool I'm out of cards. Oh my gosh. How can you be out of cards? I don't think I've ever been out of cards in Beast Moon ever I'm holding this. I don't care what they say. I'm holding this. We got to hold this We got to hold this they can take I but they got to hold this. Oh nice Come on Ellie.  We just need to keep the pressure on now. We're gonna win We're gonna win. We're gonna win against all odds. We're gonna win fight Fight fight fight fight fight 3v2 v2 should be okay If we just yep gg nice work. Wow Whoa, that was good. That was a close fight. That was super close I thought we were losing it like three different points there. Holy moly


I have only been playing one game since this game was released and I am talking about the Rise of the Ronin and now out on PS5. This is an open world RPG with action combat set in Japan in the 1850s. It is a game by Team Ninja and a review code was provided by PlayStation. So let's go over everything about this game starting with what is it like. Well I have to say that it feels like an Assassin's Creed game with its sneak mechanics and all of the objectives that you get presented to you on the map of the world which is an open world you can literally go anywhere you want straight after the intro tutorial sequence of the game and it can also slightly be compared to Ghost of Tsushima with the entire old Japan Samurai setting and it's the whole thing. You get a horse pretty early on. You can fast travel to every banner that you have previously unlocked and later you get a glider and every single game has a glider now after Breath of the Wild. Right gotta have them okay. So customization was really good. I'm loving how my character looks okay. Looks so freaking badass and you can also further customize your clothing when you get to that long house of yours where you can do all sorts of stuff. Oh and I am playing this game on easy. Now briefly about the story and the setting now I said it was set in a city part of today's Tokyo which is called Yokohama which you can actually go on google maps and see what kind of area is taking place which is so mind-blowing this is in the 1800s and there are fields everywhere and Tokyo today well look on google maps that's kind of incredible on its own but anyways the story is that your character is brought up learning how to fight alongside your twin blade brother of the game you can also be a sister and some stuff happens that has the two of you separated and now you're looking for your twin blade. Some characters that you meet along the way in the story are more interestingly written than others like especially I like this guy that you meet in a cave early on in the game and later you meet like an inventor and geishas and other political figures and since this is a part of Tokyo in the 1800s like I said politics with the western world is a huge deal and it's one of the major parts of the entire main story. Now side quests storylines are as simple as they get very few lines of dialogue for the most part often leading to be a fetch quest or a kill quest I feel like there are not a lot of story so this game is probably good for the people that are not very into stories story but however I want to say that combat is one of Rise of the Ronin's strongest sides there are plenty of weapon types for you to play around with from katanas to oxtail blades to actual guns combat feels so good once it clicks and once you master doing counter sparks which I'm really good at right now you also get to learn different stances for each weapon type bringing even more depth to the combat as a whole personally I like being an assassin playing this as if it was an assassin's creed game and I like jumping down on the enemies from the rooftops sneaking up behind them assassinating them all that stuff feels really good and even like slinging them towards me with this hook shop thing from the rooftops so good however the enemy AI is by far the dumbest AI I have ever encountered in any video game we are talking more stupid than the bandits of Skyrim they are totally deaf some of them don't even hear me blasting off their friends's head that's right next to them and also it just takes a few seconds for them to forget that they ever saw me you know running from battle and they're like ah nothing happened and then I sneak in and kill them and it's wonderful so I mean like the AI there's just no one home now the guns they feel really nice I like sniping from a distance both with bow and arrow and these guns they're good and my favorite weapon type are the paired swords a bit of dual wielding and a bit of sniping you can actually play this game sort of like a shooter if you really want it to I mean now when it comes to presentation there are different graphics modes to choose from I am playing on the prioritized frames per second and I think the game looks overall very good I saw some other reviews of this game criticizing the graphics a lot saying that it looks terrible looks like a ps3 game low res textures and I mean like some parts look better than others as it is in most games like for example there are noticeable pop pins in the background when you are like for example gliding or riding on your horse and that is very noticeable and some of the facial animations in this game gave me total oblivion vibes some were good some were bad but I am enjoying the details that the developers chose to put into this world and into this game and making it feel more believable like how it feels to walk the streets of Yokohama and it just feels like I am there with all of the sound effects and the music and the wind in my hair and all of that and you have all of these beautiful rice fields the rivers and it's also like a mix of Japanese and western cultures in Yokohama and that is interesting to see it's such an interesting time period to choose to put in a video game which is like a time period but I feel like we haven't explored enough it's just an exciting time era to have a video game represent and it feels very real every single sound effect is incredibly satisfying too like when you are discovering a banner such a satisfying sound effect voice acting is in English which I appreciate and that is good stuff now when it comes to my verdict of rise of the ronin I am enjoying my time I'm very much enjoying my time if this wasn't review coded to me I would have bought this game full price and I would not be sorry I would not feel sorry about that because I'm having a genuinely surprisingly great time with this game it's almost like an Assassin's Creed game which I love you know I love those except for Valhalla which was too big I'm talking more like Origins Odyssey whatever and also in my play through I'm trying to get 100% on every single section of the map that sweet little 100% you know collecting all of the cats all of the shrines all of the stuff you know all of the fugitives and also grinding up the reputation with everyone increasing friendship level with people that's also a thing I'm trying to complete all of the gliding and horseback and archery challenges that are also in the game sort of like small mini games and also I am enjoying having the autoloot on which is in the options in the settings of the game you can turn on autoloot which makes me automatically pick up every material that I write over and that is also satisfying I am loving the combat it feels so good with the rumble in my controller it feels like I'm fighting with a katana and the sounds that the swords make when they clash beautiful stuff I'm also trying to collect all of the 100 cats in the game and I'm trying to pet all of the dogs also I gotta do that what I'm trying to say is that there are plenty of things to do in this game and there's even mission-based multiplayer so I've been playing a tiny bit multiplayer with random people like matchmaking so that's also a tiny little thing a lot of loot but also in the setting you can choose to automatically disassemble or automatically sell certain tiers of loot because there's a lot of loot a lot and of course you know me I'm trying to go for that platinum trophy I want to get to the point where I'm saying that I have 100% completed Rise of the Ronin but it's not today but I'm getting there I wanted to tell you guys that this game is one that I recommend I recommend this game I'm giving it eight out of ten very enjoyable I am enjoying my time and I feel like it is like a reality escape by how believable the world is you know I'm playing with a headset on and basically I am in this world and it feels great some of the downsides like I said there are poppins in the graphics you can definitely feel that also like in a game of this genre where there are tons of things to do maybe at some point you will feel like what you're doing is feeling a bit repetitive that is something that belongs to the genre depends on you I personally like it combat feels good uh good customization was good it was a good game now if this review was helpful for you I would love you to hit like on this video and maybe subscribe like maybe and also feel free to follow me on my instagram or twitter I'm never gonna call twitter acts also side note I am going to soon be playing dragon stogma 2 but I was totally into being a ronin right now soon gonna play a dragon stogma 2 looking forward to that one as well now thank you so much for watching and I will see you later


It seems as though some of you have some fair requests. Specifically, the request that I'm thinking of has to do with delay conditioning procedures. Normally, we include examples in our videos. You're right, and this time we just kind of did a verbal example of how it works, but we failed you. You called us out on it, so we've succeeded in responding. We've succeeded in our reply. We've succeeded, we hope, in teaching you about delay-based conditioning. So here you go, folks. Here's an example of delay-based conditioning. There's actually two, because in true psych or fashion, we're going to use this as a teaching example, a genuine teaching example. And we're going to start out by conditioning me. Then we're going to start out by conditioning you. So here we go. Hope you have fun. We'll start off with a video that prompted the whole thing first. It's a quick one. It's a Penny Packers, but we won't do the intro. We'll just do a little bit of the intro because you know you got to just do the advertising thing. All right, folks. There you go. See you in a minute. Now we're on even more classical conditioning. So delay conditioning is simple. It's better than trace conditioning. Why? Because you turn the CS on. Again, CS. So you're going to turn that CS on. Take a look up here. But before that CS turns off, you're going to turn the US on. And that talk about predictability. That's going to make things predictable as all get out. I'm telling you. All right. So that CS comes on. The US comes on. Then they both turn off. They don't have to turn off at the exact same time. Really roughly it works. Anyway, you got a little bit of a gap from the time that the CS turns on. And then the US turns on. That's the delay. So delay conditioning, most effective of the classical conditioning procedures. The second most effective is probably trace conditioning. But I'd have to refer to the literature. And as we've already established from other videos, sometimes I screw that up. But I don't think I screwed this one up. So please pay nothing for this video because it was a great one. It's the last time you go car shopping before we do videos. It's supposed to last.


Whoa, whoa, whoa, come on, it's early, man. Nice to do this stuff so early.  How much power does that car have? Exactly 500. You didn't go up to 600? Nope, with stock engine, nope. I have another car, I have an R32 tune, but the problem with it is, it has to be on stock tires, not street tires. Because street tires make it go over PI cap. And I'm like, mmm. I kind of laid off you because I saw you going into the wall. Yeah. That's Settable Tuner. Oh, oh, oh. We almost died. I'm not used to this game anymore.  Yeah, trust me, I'm going to be that way as soon as I build my computer next month and I'll be running a Settel mostly all the time. And I'll be probably doing stuff with VDC. Still haven't decided if I'm going to be running an Oculus or three monitors. How bad? You're good. Piff it on that second part. Oh, other than your entry, wasn't that bad? Pretty good, you know. Oh my, hello. Who do you mean? Good morning, actually. I know, I know. Don't do their start. My entry was a little bit long. I was like, I'm going to hit those tires really hard. You're pretty much making the same mistake as I did. I felt something behind me and my dog is chewing on my wheelbase. Wait, what?  I'm like, what are you doing?  Don't chew on the wheelbase. I also need to test my USDA car too, so. Again, no problem. Crap. Saved it. I'm trying to do it in third person and it's so freaking weird. Why are you doing it in third person? I don't know. Because it's different? Because it's different again, yeah.  Other than pushing me into the last turn.  I see this.  Oh my goodness, that's my water bottle. Can I not yours? She just pulled my water bottle. Oh, it's horrible. It was a- Hey, doggy. Hey, doggo. I don't feel it with my strength. Yeah, he's like, I have my water bottle next to my setup and I forgot she likes to chew on empty water bottles and it's full and she flipped it over and was trying to take the top off. I'm like, oh no, that'd be bad. Take my bottle water top off and it goes everywhere. She would regret that decision when she got wet. Oh, that was a nice run. Yeah, but I scraped the wall through the long sweeper. So, is that just a stock body with a rock and bunny wing? Yep. It looks so small compared to this car. It looks so small compared to this GTR. Dude, you broke my freaking tail light. Oh, you didn't need it. I'm sure you'll break mine. What a bit. Look at how good this car feels. Yeah, I haven't driven that car in a long time. Oh, I solved it. Clutch problems.  My tires weren't warm enough and I slid a little bit too far. This car is very dependent on tire temperature. Like, if they're too cold, it slides out too far. So, I kind of need to fix that. Yeah, I haven't noticed that. All right, now we're good. Now we should be good. See, much better. Dude, I can't believe that I was on a door with the stock engine. Wait, how much power does that have? Five. Five hundred horsepower and you're running a five hundred horsepower for SSR, or ESDA? Yep. Well, I'm only running seven, seven fifty? This car isn't as high as it can be. I like the seven fifty mark on this car. It feels nice. Mm hmm. Oh, we're getting there. I'd write what I like. I like this car, though. This car throws a lot of angle trying to break my tail light. You're welcome. See, I'm getting pretty, pretty consistently good at my lead runs now, too, in this car, anyways. Oh, yeah. I haven't played with you a lot of time, but I can see the difference. It's a lot smoother, too.  Oh, yeah, still on nine hundred. Yeah, you are actually really smooth, getting more even smoother. But my my angles on entry are getting quicker. Mm hmm. Which was my downside. You hit the wall. Yep. A little, a little mischief.


Gross looks like it might be a good day to do some inside work and I've been meaning to get to this video anyways so let's get to it. Okay so this is one of those videos I've been meaning to do for years like literally years but I think probably since I started this YouTube channel I've been meaning to get to this one but I never really knew how to do it because I didn't really have the technology to do a whiteboard and to do like face-to-face it didn't have I didn't well maybe the technology was there but to be honest I didn't know how to do it. I got there now I can do both and so what we're gonna do in this one is we're gonna talk about the left-hand rule for coils and talk about how we can determine our north and our south polarity for a coil but also how we can work backwards and reverse engineer that and we can use the north and south to determine the polarity of the coil itself. Now this is not to be confused with the magnetic field left-hand rule which is this one here where this is the way that current is flowing and this is the direction of your magnetic field in fact maybe I'll do a video up on that after this one right now we're gonna talk about the left hand rule for magnetic coils not to be confused with Faraday's left hand rule like this the new gang sign that I did a video on a few weeks ago. This is a completely different one this is all to do with basically electromagnets so let's get busy and talk about it. Now what we've got it's important to understand here I'm talking about the left-hand rule because I'm dealing with electron current flow for all of you people who keep saying that I've got it backwards you're dealing with conventional current flow you're saying that current flows from positive negative there's something else out there just so you know called electron current flow negative to positive which is why I use the left hand if you follow conventional current flow go ahead and use your right hand but just make sure that you haven't understanding why you're using what electron current flow here when we're talking about it in electrical theory we're going with current flows from negative to positive okay now here's my hand my electron current flow is my left hand when I talk about this left hand rule my thumb always points north that's easy enough to do that's pointing north no matter where my thumb points that would be north that would be north that would be north no matter where my thumb points to it's always going to be north okay my fingers however are the way that the current wraps around now current flows from negative to positive meaning current flows from like my knuckle over to my my fingers are now I'm just going to just my ISO here seems to be I can't adjust my ISO so I guess I'm just going back here like this can't do it on the fly now what does this all mean I'm going to go us send us into the whiteboard to talk a little bit about it now I have had some people complain that they prefer it when I just have the whiteboard on some people some people like this new format for this one I'm going to have to jump in and out of the whiteboard because I need my left hand all right so that that's why we're going to go back into the whiteboard you people who like to see more whiteboard I hear you okay I'm coming back to that I promise but this one we need this hand here okay so I'm going to go into the whiteboard here if I'm in the whiteboard and I draw like a core so let's say I've got a nice core drawn here and then I've got let's say I'm going to change my color up here I've got a coil wrapped around this core so I've got this coil wrapped around here and let's say that I've got my polarities figured out this is negative this is positive when I deal with this the negative is always going to be your reference so when I look at this drawing here what I've got is my negative is going over top so if we look at this the negative is going over top the way I look at it using the left hand rule is I see the back of my hand whenever the negative which is my reference point goes over top that means I see the back of my hand because my hand is wrapping over top of the coil that means that this one here this here is going to be north because that's the way my finger points this one here is going to be south okay now let's change that up let me show you what I mean I'm going to erase this and this erase this and this now on this one if I go the opposite direction say this is negative now and this is positive you can see that the coil wraps underneath because again negative is always our reference point on this we follow electron current flow it's going underneath when I do that it's like I'm looking at the palm of my hand because it's wrapping underneath something use this a pen or whatever as a core it's wrapping underneath so I'm looking at the bottom of my hand if it went over top I see the back of my hand okay that to me tells me that my north pole is now this direction and my south pole is that direction that's how we do and how we do how we determine the north and the south pole based off of polarities okay so if if you need to please hit pause on the video rewind it back and watch it again right instead of me just repeating the same thing I just said but watch for that just hit pause until you get your head wrapped around it because right now what I want to do is give you the north and the south pole and show you how we can determine polarities okay watch this now you have to understand the first part for this to work so rewind if you have to come on back I'll be waiting for you okay let's get rid of these polarities let's take this here and I'm going to give this a let's say this is north and this is south if I'm looking at this coil the only way that the north and the south works is if my hand is like this okay my thumb has to point to the north that means I'm looking at the palm of my hand unless your hand is some sort of different type of hand that I don't have you're looking at the palm of your hand which means that your current is going to go underneath you're going to look for the wrap that is going underneath and that's going to be your negative point so let's take a look here if I look at this drawing here the point whoops I just erased something didn't mean to the point that is underneath is right here because I was looking at the palm of my hand that tells me that this here is going to be negative and this here is going to be positive let's flip it around and show you what I mean just to make it finish this up and wrap it up nicely now here we go let's make this south and this north if I do that I'm putting my hand on top because my hand has got a fault my thumb has got to point to that north follow along with me you'll get this which means I'm looking at the back of my hand which means it's going over top of something right it's going over top if it's going over top that is the negative the negative lead that goes over the lead that goes over top is my negative lead so let's take a look at the drawing again this is the one that goes over top because I'm looking at the back of my hand that means that this now is going to be my negative and this is going to be my positive and there you have it that is exactly how you use the left hand rule for coils to determine first off your north and your south pole thumbs always north and then this is always the direction of current direction of current we're using left hand rule which means we're going negative to positive we can also use that rule to determine north and south or sorry to determine polarities if we have north and south that's it that's gonna be a quick and easy one for this week I apologize that I didn't get one out the past couple weeks some of you know that I've been working on my masters in learning and technology and I ramped up I was just at the point where I had to do what's called a oral defense I did it I passed it I am now a master just I've got my masters which I'm very very excited about and I've got some other big things up coming up so I'll mention those talk about those in the future you didn't watch this vlog or this video to hear about my future or to hear about me getting my masters you wanted some good solid information boom there you go if you have any questions at all please feel free to reach out to me and put a comment up down below I try to get to them I don't always get to them right away but I will get to them eventually we'll see you next week I'm done my masters so you're gonna see more videos see you soon


You guys are in for an amazing video at least I think so. So before you guys watch this is a competition and collaboration between myself, the Toasty Bros, Tech Bank, Tech Always, and Budget Tech. We all had one month starting with a 660ti graphics card to take that card and flip it and see how much money we could make or how many upgrades we could make in one month time. The challenge started on September 13th and ended on October 13th.  The content should speak for itself and I encourage all of you guys to check out everyone's video to see who you think did the best. So thank you guys so much for watching this video and enjoy. So here we have it. 660ti. So first day already able to liquidize the card. I'm gonna have around $55 something like that in cash. Gonna go head over to the post office now. Gonna go make some money. Okay so after all the fees from eBay I have $64.51 and now after the shipping cost because I paid for the postage through eBay's website I have $55.25 to work with so now is where the challenge actually starts. Okay so not even 10 minutes after selling the card and dropping it off at the post office. I'm going through Craigslist here and I actually see an EVGA 950 for $50. So I'm gonna email that guy right now. EVGA GTX 950 graphics card. Yes the GPU is still available. Oh his name's Chris too. So I'm excited. I'm about to head over to this guy's house. $50 for a 950. So I'm pretty stoked about that. I think there's a little bit of flipping potential there. Maybe like 10 or 20 bucks. You know kind of not that much but at this point we're kind of just really trying to get started and get off the ground. Right now I have the $55.25. It is on hold from eBay in my PayPal account. So right now I'm spending the $50 in cash that I have out of my pocket. I hope that you guys will you know forgive me for not waiting till I had the cash but with flipping you really do have to move quick because anything that's a really good deal is going to get purchased typically on the same day. I got lucky and this post has been sitting up for a while but no one's grabbed the card and hopefully I can flip this 950 for a little bit more than what I'm getting it for. Okay so we are here. Yep yep that's sweet. Okay well I'm gonna put the camera back in the car but you know we're here apartment complex so hopefully the car works. I mean if it doesn't I know where he lives. All right here we are EVGA G4 GTX 950. So I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make at least $20 on this. I'm gonna go ahead and post on eBay the second I get back home. I'm gonna post it all around the local selling services as well and day one I'm off to a pretty strong start. I'm looking forward to where it goes from here. I'm not gonna you know count my eggs before they hatch but I'm pretty sure I've made a little bit of money back on this but I'll let you guys know when that happens. On day four of the competition and I finally got someone to reach out about the 950 and they're actually really quick about buying it so 950 available. Yes it is. We are doing 70 bucks. All right here we go. Hi Daryl right? Okay what was it we got a total of $75.25 so my new max budget is that and I got to figure out what I can get on the low for $75 and see what I can flip. Maybe there's someone out there selling a really cheap system for $75 that I could try to flip for $100 but we'll see that would that would involve a lot of luck. So last we left off I had the $75.25. I finally got a response from someone who I've been harassing basically to respond to me because they've had something post on offer up and the listing is an AMD pink case with motherboard memory and power supply. The reason I'm going with this computer is because they listed for 60 I negotiated it to 50 and it's only missing the hard drive and just from the pictures from when I look inside it looks like an old AM3 build. I think it could work. It could definitely work and if it does this is going to be a huge payout because if I can get a hard drive for like five dollars get like a cheapo graphics card for like twenty dollars then I'm looking at a full system that can game that I can sell for over a hundred bucks a hundred fifty maybe maybe I could double my money with this it's it's possible highly unlikely very risky but it's possible. All right just got the computer 50 bucks no let's check this thing out uh I don't know can we check this thing out there's like no light out here but that's uh eight gigabytes of DDR3 right there you get this uh thermal take power supply as long as this thing works I just got to go get a hard drive now and it'll be good. I don't know if I've said this before but I'm pretty sure I can get one for five dollars pretty sure just some old HDD hopefully something western digital because those hold up pretty decently if I can get a full system for 75 bucks go on I'll be impressed with myself we got an insane set of deals coming up today right now I'm going to go get a 500 I'll show you the screenshots I'm going to get a 500 gigabyte western digital drive so I'm hoping this drive works and there won't be too many issues but the graphics card we got a GTX 750 2 gigabyte variant from PNY and I could not be happier with that card for twenty dollars so both of those for a total of twenty five dollars after I have those two parts collected I've got 25 cents left and uh I should if everything works I haven't tested it yet but I'll have a working computer and it should be able to play some games okay that was uh a really weird transaction because I'm a skitchy as hell this is great it was five bucks I have the western digital drive here now now I gotta head over and get the graphics card so uh moving on sick look at this thing I'm here here on the floor with the windows 10 usb stick I'm gonna hit the switch on the power supply and I'm so sick oh my god this is so sick I am so excited to benchmark this not even more than 12 hours later we sold the computer 100 20 40 60 80 200 I had to do a little bit of my actual job so I couldn't you know have the camera and make the sale at the same time okay so after a few hours of thinking it over I figured since this is a youtube video uh I'm going to do it for the content and I'm actually going to try to build another computer with the 200 but this time I'm not going to be doing the same thing I'm not going to go for the same you know find the bare minimum and throw it together I'm actually going to try and build a computer that needs ddr4 ram I have no clue if that's possible with the $200 I really don't think it is but I just found a deal that might help make it possible I got a deal right here on offer up I'll show you the screenshot $35 for eight gigabytes of ddr4 now it's not quality ram it's pacific sun memory I've heard of it before it's like one of those really cheap off brands but even brand new I'm pretty sure it sells for like at least 60 bucks but uh it's a start well this sucks I just wasted probably the last 35 minutes standing around yeah the guy never showed up okay so something I should have recorded yesterday which I didn't uh is that guy who completely just stood me up reached out to me like two minutes after I got back home saying hey my bad didn't see your message so we ended up going back get in the ram and he actually sold me a pretty decent drive for 10 bucks I could have been more patient I could have waited and maybe've gotten one for five dollars like I did the first time which it will might bite me in the ass later but now what we're doing is we actually are getting a 660 ti's boy it's the car we started with it's a pny variant though we're going to a park right now we're gonna get it for 25 dollars 660 ti blower style fan by pny and to end today I actually scored a really good deal on a motherboard and power supply combo I'm getting the two of them for 50 bucks I actually don't have the offer up in front of me I remember what the motherboard is I don't remember what the power supply is but I can promise you both of them are quality products sorry for the iPhone quality I didn't want to bring my camera now I'm really glad I didn't I'm in a really bad area in Las Vegas um it's like by a casino that's like right next to a highway um which is hella ghetto but I got the part I needed um again I'm really sorry for the quality let me turn this on it's not an EVGA supernova I was really hoping it was uh the people was buying from didn't know what they had but I ended up getting a fully modular no semi modular rose will power supply it's 80 plus bronze 650 watts I hope it works oh my god so another thing I don't think I clarified yesterday night sorry I was just kind of in a rush a little bit scared with everything that was going on is that I also didn't get the motherboard that the person said they had because it said it was an aces prime z170 on the front you know for 25 bucks that would have been insane but um they didn't have it they didn't even know what they had so you know that kind of sucked so I'm I'm back to not square one but I'm I'm pretty far back again because I don't have a processor and a motherboard but then today happened and someone posted an i38100 for $60 I took a shot in the dark I messaged this guy I said hey can I get the processor for $40 which it does come with an intel stock heat fan by the way he messaged back five minutes ago saying you know what fine I'll do $40 so I'll show you guys a screenshot I'm starting to take the screenshots with timecode so you guys it's more believable that I'm getting the prices I'm getting them at you know today and I'm not faking stuff from that I've done in the past oh hell yeah check this thing out so one extra little bit of good news actually is I'm on new egg right now about to buy the motherboard we're getting an asrock h310m for $45.03 and I forgot I had a shoprunner account which is free to sign up for it knocked off the shipping charge so our grand total is actually just $45.03 let's go oh my hands aren't big enough so I've definitely been going through a little bit of a drought here I haven't been able to find any cases anywhere on the local market and I really don't want to settle for one of those cheap $20 free shipping cases on ebay so right now I'm debating whether or not I should be patient and keep waiting or if I just should go ahead and cave and get one of those cases you guys are not going to believe this so oh jeez so someone finally posted a case that was micro atx with the glass panel and I've been messaging him today and I asked him hey can I get it for 20 and I'll show you on the screen right now screenshot of what it is it's an in-win case and he's listening for 50 and he's like I can't do that that's too low so I said you know sure I understand um I waited like four hours I just really expected not to hear anything back because this case goes for like a hundred dollars new and he said if you show up tonight it's yours for 20 so uh I'm gonna go get that right now and yeah so I was really tired last night I couldn't get to this build but woke up I think it's like eight o'clock in the morning right now so I'm gonna build this thing and let's get it going this thing kind of looks like dookie but thankfully this front window is tinted I'll give you a quick quick a quick peek inside oh god the biggest concern here obviously is does this thing work and I have no idea yet so what we're gonna do now is take it over to the testing area and cross our fingers and uh and see what happens yeah I'm not seeing anything this sucks well I'm gonna troubleshoot this thing a little bit and then I'll see if I can get it to work based on what I can see on the screen right now the computer is working I bought a bad power supply um so while I'm glad that everything else in this computer works miraculously I knew it was all too good to be true I knew something um had to be bad here so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna message the person I bought the power supply from is there any way you can refund me I'm hoping that I'm not out $25 here because if I can't get my $25 back I'm fully confident I can buy another power supply but if I can't and these people just ghost me then um I'm kind of screwed okay so the update is is that the woman who sold me the fried power supply said that let me get back to you I'm working right now unfortunately I can't wait that long because there was another deal that popped up today for a power supply for $20 so what I'm gonna do which is probably a little bit of breaking the rules here is I'm gonna get the power supply from this guy for 20 bucks and then I'm gonna go get my money back from this woman later so yes right now I do only have 22 cents in the budget but I'm hoping that you will be able to overlook this just a little bit I could be patient I could wait for another deal to come up but to be honest I don't know if another one is going to come up I got the power supply hopefully this one works yeah I guess the next thing to do is bench it try to get Fortnite on here really quickly as well as some other tests and hopefully this thing's more powerful than the first one okay so this thing definitely performs a lot better than the last computer my only concern now is I mean now that we've proven this modded BIOS is actually insane it's like how do we prove this to people that are actually going to be buying the computer if they see 660ti their first instinct is oh old six generation car was a do well it can do over 60 fps consistently on high settings with high anti-aliasing on for fortnite so it's been a few days and I'm actually having a very tough times on the computer I'm not even getting any nipples so because this has proven to be so difficult something that I'm going to try doing is flipping my 660ti and then trying to get a better graphics card a newer one and hope that that will attract new buyers so what I've done is I've listed the 660ti or I did yesterday on hardware swap on reddit and someone is buying it for $50 shipped so it's going to cost me $10 to ship it I already did the price the price calculator for the shipping label and I am buying locally a 1050 for $40 I appreciate it man awesome we'll do thank you thank you gigabyte 1050 so yeah got the 1050 now ship the 660ti let's throw this thing in the system hopefully this increases my chances of selling and to wrap up the day I actually have some good news I posted the powers fly that the woman sold to me that doesn't work I'm not going to go into how that story resolved itself because it didn't she's basically being scummy and not going to return my money to me but it did come with modular cables and someone is willing to buy it off me for $20 which is what I got the other power supply that replaced this one so technically I am still within the money that I used and have been earning from the starting flipping uh the total flipping amount so we're back on track now I just have to sell the computer it has been a pretty disappointing week uh I did finally sell the computer I had it listed for $400 I thought I could at least get 350 and the best offer I actually got locally was 300 but I turned it down I regret that now because I forgot I had the computer listed on ebay uh it had a buy it now price of 400 and a starting bid of 275 and someone actually last second bid uh 4275 plus shipping so unfortunately I had to ship the guy the computer I I know I could have canceled the transaction if I really wanted to but I figured there's one week left to the competition let's just get rid of this thing so aside from that disappointing flip I actually put in a lot of work today finally uh now that I had cash to move and I actually bought this bad boy down here uh which we will be testing here in a second I know I didn't videotape that transaction um but I will just give you the rundown I got this computer for $90 long story short I saw it on offer up and I saw pictures of the graphics card inside this computer and someone was trying to sell for $45 I asked him hey is this thing still available and he said ah someone's actually on the way so I knew that this is one of those miracle finds that could really pay off and I told him basically listen I'll pay you double so I'm gonna test this thing now see what we got and uh see what we can flip it for because you know a $90 computer easy to flip okay so two days later and with about five days left in the competition we finally flipped the computer this bad boy is going for $200 which is a little bit more than double our money which is great and we got the 200 and cash you'll see uh can we count this not that we've counted anything else but 20 40 60 80 100 20 40 60 80 200 with that we now have $380 plus some change and uh I know what I want to buy and uh I'll try to keep that a little bit of a surprise it's good awesome Adam thank you very much appreciate it we'll do all right have a rest of the night so there you have it the 660 ti for $55 turned into a $300 GTX 1080 with $80 to spare some of you might be wondering you know why I chose to go with the 1080 well I thought it would be a cute gesture to go from a cheaper older graphics card to a more expensive more top of the line graphics card um and all in I think I got five days left so in 25 days didn't even take me the full month but after everything that you've seen in this video and I know it must have been a long one if I you know didn't break it up into a segments uh I hope you guys learned a lot from this whole buying selling flipping experience um a lot of what I know and do on you know a daily weekly basis for the youtube channel you have seen in this video a lot of my strategies I love what I know is possible what isn't possible I throw it I threw into this so if you guys are smart and you paid attention you should be able to recreate this for yourself and uh I hope that you guys enjoyed this entire process I know this is definitely the longest time I've ever taken uh to make a video but it was a lot of fun and uh you know at the end of the day I'm walking away with 80 extra bucks and a brand new 1080 so if you like this video I'll throw this in there you know throw me a subscription you know I'll like the video if you liked it and you know if you didn't you know dislike it but I make content like this all the time and I I want to do with these videos is show you guys you know that you can make some money you can game pc gaming for cheap and you can you know just build computers for whatever you need for cheap so I'm trying to show you guys what you can do don't spend more money than you have to no one ever wants to do that so yeah a very extended outro thank you guys so much for watching and as always have a great day


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