How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in sports cards next tonight? We are going to be working on prism football for you six box half case pick your team style break number 43 Let me let you know the teams that you do have in the break. This is a pick your team style break Thank you as always everyone.  Thank you everyone. Good luck here. See what we can find for you guys Should be a blast So let's do it. Good luck everyone And for some low color and low number color here by the ends See how we can do Seth Williams kind of gain well Uh purple cracked ice to 225 Pete Warner Kid reporter first pack. That's how you know it's gonna be fired. That's how you know it's gonna be. That is like that Absolutely nasty. Yeah, that's the dead giveaway I think Cleo Herbert Quinnipay orange to 249 Jalen Hertz Silver tie law Patriots That is the dead giveaway. There's a Brock Lesnar base in there and that's a Patty Mahomes as well Uh, Greg Russo, Jayman Davis, blue cracked ice to 99 Alvin Kamar Silver Jonathan Abram Red wave Jack Youngblood to 149 Patrick Mahomes brilliance Jabril Cox, Cal Trask Now we get green scope Felipe Franks to 75 and a silver Eric Metcalf for the Browns Shuba Hubbard base Demetric Felton hyper CJ Henderson To 175 and a hype Chase Claypool Yo, what's up chris? Um I would say it's a little bit closer to hobby more so than retail randy, but it's kind of a tough one I think it's called sometimes h2 refers to hobby hybrid No huddle is a pretty similar variation to that So it's tough, man Ian book to kind of classify it and it is a either gross mottos to 199 silver Eric Stokes great question It's a little bit more comparable to a hobby product. I think it features an auto and multiple color cards Yeah, like I said more comparable to hybrid product. Yep Uh, base rookie Cornell Pollinger dopes to 249 Patrick Mahomes nice And fireworks Jonathan Taylor because you get there's like the Exclusive colors. Yeah, like I think blue purple pink red Yep green, and I don't know what the one one is. Yeah, they're all the discos and stuff The internal sante Samuel. You got a gold rpa here Greg Newsome to 199 And it is a gold rpa in book for the saints. There you go saints Nice hit there. We'll mag that for your saints beautiful number two of ten Awesome card saints There you go that we'll get mags Very nice Tyson Campbell gold anthony bar There you go vikings one of ten an emergent Zach wilson I mean, I would say huge, but it's very nice It's really nice for someone in a pyt saints for shod bateman to 199 cow use check silver auto Matthew Stafford That's pretty sick. There you go rams Nice Yeah, gold for days indeed On a gold train right now. What a box first box two gold cards That's good stuff That's awesome. What a start man. 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For gold cards already because he loses was in uh, he was in chat last night when I was doing personals And heather this morning my girlfriend was like She was like you butchered somebody's name last straight nixon Did you 25 tony romeau and darren waller fireworks? I'm like, I don't think so She's like you like is it ulysses and I'm like, I don't think it is. I think it's like because it's not spelled out that way That's pretty I had to ask you. Thank you elusis Uh, that is a base just in fields Oh woosoo caramoa james white to 199 on the blue wave and silver marshal fault Elusis is a city in Greece. Okay, that makes more sense. Gotcha. Nice. That's pretty cool Tutu at well frank darby to 225 terry mclauren and silver justin simmonds josh palmer tommy tremble sippy cup to 75 for the browns And a roger craig purple power auto for the niners number to 25 Last team bought I believe nice one You go to 25 very cool. Let's continue everyone. 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We're getting close to a thousand And you go collins baser to 249 Nice tray lands. There you go niners last team bought rate to 249 Rookie there 97 of 249 king grads 49ers Silver brian talkings. That's what I'm talking about man. That'll get megged This is what I'm talking about last team mojo No problem. Uh, nausea Harris there base rookie prior to myself starting to break over here I was the only person running and breaking on leighton gaming vante maddox to 99 and emergent devante smith Um, and it was kind of just a move that really helped out the company In a wide variety of ways to have him also on the gaming side Eli Mitchell base turkey Tray landspace turkey. There you go niners Ryan fits patrick there to 149 and a silver tylin wallace Yeah, not the best It was bad. Yeah It was sadly bad Left to right was not good So yeah, brad does break still three nights a week Um over there. So definitely just swing in and say what's up even if you're not that interested in Pokemon or metazoo or flesh and blood or magic cards We do offer all of those just go say what's up to brad if you used to uh Seeing him and breaking with him and stuff Zach wilson base rookie. I'm sure he'd love to see uh Uh daio odi yinbo that is a green scope nick bolton to 75 and a silver Shraik want smith for the saints Auto their saints Jordan brooks at that time that is to 25 that is the navy digital camo nice beautiful Stefan digs brilliance Give me all your nick boltons Yeah, you uh, lucius is a huge chief sky Love any time a nick boltons bull during person. I see I see probably spooky bashing Uh simi foco that is a hearty nickerson that time to 175 And josh palmer that time nice one purple power rookie auto number to 49 Nice one there That's quite the audible. I was gonna say that is quite the audible It's quite the audible quite the audible Respect it though man Here you go.  How's it going man? Yeah, that's fair I definitely feel that Yeah, I mean sometimes the call is just the closest place. Yep There's been many of times I've been like oh, I can't wait to get this and I'm like yeah, never minds. I'm in the car. I'm like Yeah, it's usually right. Just launch a thing of pasta in there. Yeah, pan. There you go. Trevor Lawrence base turkey jags Uh to 249 miles jack in a silver age a green Yeah, I hear you though one of my struggle meals recently It's been like like my day before I get groceries. Yep. It's been garlic bread and rice Eli Mitchell, that's hilarious. Trey Lance. Can't believe you said that live James Robinson to 75 And a silver Devin Singletary So good. I'm like It's like there's no protein to it at all, but it's so enjoyable. Yeah, I hear you I'm Christian Barmore. What'd you hit Sean? Dwayne Eskridge there A nice base rookie Kenny Galladay there to 125 and a break Trey Lance I've got alpha boxes first sets of fab welcome to r8 arcane rising crucible. Are those still worth holding or with selling? Um That's tough man. I mean, when did you buy those sin Victor? I'll ask that first Patrick Jones. Greg Newsome there to 249 Silver obj Yo, nice Sean But it has a lot a few years ago. So I'm assuming you didn't buy them for much at all Um, if that's the case, I would probably just cash in They might go down a little bit and then kind of back up, but I don't really know when they'll go back up It's going to take like one banger fab set to bring some love to the og stuff again, which might happen soon. Who knows Uh, Barry Sanders to 149 fireworks Joe burrow Um, but with that being said, yeah, I mean you're still a pretty big on those then for sure Like WTR alpha is just getting more and more scarce. So that's maybe the one to hold on to You can find a way to get even and keep the WTR alpha. That'd be nice Vince young to 199 and silver Trey McKinney go keep going Here is Tony Felipe Franks cracked ice to 225 Ryan Tannehill and Trey so many merchants Yeah, you did well sin Victor, that's for sure you did very very well Even just keep going Yeah, arc is a little bit more sketchy Sean, but I still see why you say to hold it for sure Empty Because arc is probably like a better set than WTR, but WTR is first. So Zach Wilson based rookie Uh, Dio, that's a Tyree kill there to 149 red wave Many merchant kid areas Tony I hear you sin Victor. Well, yeah, it was uh The time that you bought that the market is nowhere near where it was Um today and even like a month ago in two months ago Oh Justin fields blue wave till 199 phone Yeah, that's what I mean. The WTR alpha is worth about that much. Yep You recently sold one on the website for 3,500 Jesus Nice fields there And that is a red wave auto to 149 semi fahoko Cowboys Flesh and blood Yeah, yeah, we recently did a pretty big personal box of it for someone Joe try on pasture jones jaylin ramsey to 199 and a davante smith break Let's keep going We're smith marset erich stokes on the hyper packers. There you go Silver robbie anderson josh palmer tommy trembled landon collins that time. That's the 249 fireworks trailance Yeah, fact shon. That's facts kid areas tony their giants Uh fleet bay francs cracked ice for shon gary to 99 and silver greg russo 520 you didn't do as good on the tails of aria first and it's probably still worth something similar But um everything else you really crushed it on You're a tail of aria. Oh Thanks, spread Shreya lands base and he like Mitchell base terrell davis. That's pretty sick to 15 Eagle broncos nice silver fred Warner christian barbara dwayne escorch base for hyper dj shark And silver bow Jackson with a nasty mark on it Uh raiders will send an empty box for that if you want to get it replaced that would be the way to do so With the empty box and wrapper Sorry guys, you guys can blame sam for that one. Yeah, my bad guys. My bad It's on me. You guys saw what happened there. Yeah, I'm a little too excited Got a little too upset when brad left Carlos boogie bashing simmy fahoko. It's the 199 dallas goddard. Uh sequan barkley brilliant I know I know it's infected. I know I know it is what it is Don't worry. I won't let them do it again There's new some of monra sainte-brownroakey Uh rachon evans to 225 silver auto diante johnson stealers There you go stealers Hey guys, remember, of course, if you've been enjoying the stream tonight to be sure that you have already left a like on the stream Thank you so much for doing that ahead of time You really do appreciate it. Be sure you're subscribed on the youtube end as well Kyle pits that time Atlanta devin mccordy to 75 and oh justin fields new recruits new recruits cracked ice to 99 34 of 99 that's a gorgeous bears card Okay, continuing here jamie newman trevor loren space rookie orange train nixon to 249 And silver all out elvin chimera Two to go everyone not yet. Oh, yeah, right after this. We've got side tracks. Yeah I'll pull those up now. We were talking to brad and stuff like that. But yeah, I'll check them after the break Yeah, we're usually we usually get a couple minutes ahead on prison So i'll give him a look after this Uh, quarry littleton to 249 christian mccaffrey brilliance Dude that vader is so sick. You just have to imagine man vader sketch. Holy cow Keep going everyone eric stokes micah parson's on the base working hyper to 175 greg newson browns and jamie newman to 25 forest camo auto Nice one there Yeah, awesome.   It's Sean.  That's okay. Yeah, dude. I it's ridiculous. Oh, what's going on?  They're always like come back Come back come back come back every time on sports center too So true At least the Yankees this year Trace servant base jaylin camp uh to 225 hunter renfro into 90 90 merge and cracked ice michael carter for the jets I still think you can do okay on that synvicta Even um paying more. I still think you can definitely do okay on that For montry stevensson levi and a mac jones purple cracked ice 191 of 225 boom Congrats patriots Very very nice mac attack There he is to 225 silver dairies lettered lockdown Like I said, wtr alpha is pretty dang expensive jaylin davis ambrie thomas allen lasard purple to 125 Uh fireworks matthew stafford marie roger's kyle trask bass Jaylin camp that time that's number to 60 in a silvery ziculelliance And a solid break. Let's continue it guys jabriel cox chuba hovered bass James white to 175 hyper emerge in davis mills bass But yeah, glad to see that the uh people are enjoying that Sean rex ryan jacob harris It's the 225 marlin humphrey and a silver kenneth gainwell It's a w synvicta shocking that one up in the w cone Yeah, nice synvicta. Here we go It is man it is and if flesh and blood ever becomes a top tcg those will be the boxes to have I think it will eventually I mean the it's already up there. Yeah playability side of it is already at pretty much like the highest level out of any tcg Just the collectability has to pick up just a little bit The playability is way up there though. I feel like you just got what's stuff like that except uh, it's like a time thing, you know That's what I mean like one good set can set it to a different level for sure Yeah, the paper packs are awesome. So big uh synvicta They're awesome Here we go. Some people just worry about them for like long-term storage. That's really about it But beyond that. Yep, they're really nice michael carter urtis jones Uh Cameron jordan there. That's the 199 and joe burrow hype Dude, I literally cannot stop looking at that vader synvicta. That's cool dude You're gonna love it. Caleb pat firemute base Seth williams there on the purple It's the 125 silver zeke all out What would you put that in like, uh, I don't know what would you put a folded booklet? Jamar chase base Uh, that is a hype or a hyper excuse me darren waller Break justin herbergs. I'm sorry You got any way to sell screw. Yeah, that's probably the way to go. That would definitely be it. That would definitely be it To amy brown there. It's orange chris evans to 249 silver. It might call stuff. Yeah, send that to wire out for sure, dude Yeah, we just broke one the other day shon W2 are awesome. Yeah dead spits patrick Jamal williams there to 199 and a fireworks jaylen waddle Yeah, that's that's true Maybe that'd be decent or a command strip or something. Caleb farley base to 249 anthony first. Here's silver. Khalil herbergs It's all gross by the way to go though Julian darden shaz sarox to 99 deuce mccallister emergent justin fields Elijah more jake funk to 99 kenny uwangu vikings and cornell powell red wave auto for the chiefs to 149 There you go chiefs Trevino is hot man mac jones base peat murder It's a purple dante father jr to 125 and brilliance kyle marie It's it's always that Continuing everyone Greg newson zeven collins Another brian sippy cup. That's to 249 on the orange and a silver letter floyd I will only refer to him as that. Yes Fair enough. Yes fair enough. It used to it now Monty rice rondo more base for he nice amon green to 60 Oak Creek high school coaching legend um silver kyle mac Anyone in the comments or the chat has any idea what that means. Please let me know So I mean, that's a wisconsin high school. Yeah, my uncle used to coach there and then he coaches there as well davis mills baser he shy smith Uh to forest bachner to 149 and oh fence young Sensational signatures auto to 75 Blue cracked ice for the titans That's nice Great little clothes there There you go. Nothing to random guys. You just have any points random to do Or excuse me nothing to random just have their uh recap to do certain to random What's random? Just the recap my apologies You know what i'm talking about son. Nice. Yeah, my uncle used to coach with him for a good amount of years All right, here we go vince young. I do believe you son. I know you live in wisconsin Uh cornell powell antonio gates jamie newman Uh, justin fields diante johnson semi fahoko josh palmer trey quant smith Rashaud bateman. That's a gold roger craig Jalen camp gold and matthew stafford silver Auto that's with autos guys. We also had a gold brilliance christian mccaffrey We had the ian book gold rpa Yeah, probably something like that's in victor so many people have ripped them Trey lance to 249 on the orange Not the best centering but other than that great card Justin fields that is a blue wave to 199 for the bears And we had a mac jones as well to 225 for the patriots Thanks again everyone really do appreciate it. We'll have all of these well protected up and sent right out to you Thank you again so much for joining


Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. My name's Adam Payne. I'm County Administrator and co-host of this program with Chairman Mike Van der Steen. Veterans Day is gonna be here November 11th, so the timing of this program is real nice because not only is that gonna be here soon or when this program is airing, but Charlene Cobb, our Veteran Service Officers, with us today and she's now with Sheboygan County. I understand three years this month, this month October. We're taping this mid-October right now. So Charlene, it's a pleasure to have you with us. Well, thank you. Pleasure to be here. Three years. Did it go by quickly or? Extremely quickly. Has it been excruciatingly slow? Oh, no, not my office. Well, it's a pleasure to have you. Charlene's been our Veteran Service Officer for, again, the last three years. Been doing a wonderful job and a very important responsibility in the county's smallest office. As you know, we have 20 departments ranging from Health and Human Services to the Sheriff's Department to some of our smallest departments, the smallest being the Veteran Service Office. Small perhaps in size, but not in responsibility. Please start a little bit, Charlene, telling us about yourself and the mission of the Veteran Service Office. Well, about myself, one of the requirements to be a county Veteran Service Officer is I have to have served in the United States military. So I'm retired Navy. I spent 21 years as an air traffic controller in the Navy. And I think that really helps with my job because I spent a lot of years reading rules and regulations with air traffic control, keeping planes safe. And that translates well into reading the federal rules and regulations that I have to deal with and read helping our veterans with the benefits because they're dealing with the bureaucracy as well. The office is the smallest one in Sheboygan County, but I agree with you, Adam, that I think it's one of the most important in our county. And it brings in a lot of money to our county for people to be spending in the stores and businesses here in the county. This last year, I believe we brought in over $10 million in benefits, federal benefits. Federal benefits that you help pass on to local veterans. Correct. So I helped our local veterans to receive benefits from our federal government. And in turn, the federal government compensated them and provided monetary benefits to them. Like I said, over $10 million of revenue coming into the county to be spent on homes, cars, food, clothes, electronics, whatever. And benefits they've obviously earned thanks to their sacrifice. How many veterans approximately do we have in Sheboygan County and what types of programs do you help them with? Well, according to the federal VA rule stats, they say we have about 9,000 veterans. I think their figures are on the low side. I would say we're up into double digits for veterans. And my office, not only do we help the active duty in the retired or no longer serving veterans, but we also help their family members. So it's very important for our listeners to realize that even if they aren't personally a veteran, if their parents were veterans from World War II or Korea, Vietnam, there may be benefits available for their aging parents from the Veterans Administration as well as with our current veterans that we have a lot of education benefits can be transferred to their children under certain circumstances or to their spouse. So we actually help spouses and children and get benefits for either a veteran of family member or that they're eligible for themselves just by being a family member of a veteran, a wartime veteran. And what kind of programs are we talking about? What type of assistant could a veteran receive or a loved one of a veteran receive if they contact you? They range from healthcare benefits. Most of the time with our healthcare benefits, that's a federal program, and that's for the veteran themselves. There's certain circumstances if the veteran is retired that those benefits also carry to their spouse or dependent children. Education benefits, there's both state and federal education benefits. Home loans, home improvement loans, personal loans, retraining grants if somebody is laid off or their job is downsized or outsourced, they may be eligible to utilize state benefits and get some reeducation to be able to get a new job. We provide assistance for needy veterans, dental grants, help them get hearing aids for our older ones that have a loss of hearing. So there's a wide variety. Our disabled veterans in the county may be eligible for a park pass that would allow them to go to one of our state parks and not have to pay the nominal fee for getting into the park. So earlier we were not really joking, seriously, your department is the smallest, the airport department I think is a similar number of staff, but you have that pride of being the smallest department in Sheboygan County. You just mentioned we have somewhere between nine and 10,000 veterans. Not only are you there to support them, but they're family members. So you must have an immense staff. Just how many staff do you have in Sheboygan County? I have myself and my secretary in my office. So we are extremely busy in there and we take a lot of phone calls and people that just walk in and mail that we get, we get stacks of mail that we go through, paperwork that's come in or requests for information. Which is again remarkable and obviously you have to be a very knowledgeable person to be in that position. Your assistant I know has become very knowledgeable over time. Of course we all have learning curves. And then from time to time, don't you also bring in a limited term employee or a project specialist? I'm very fortunate with working in the veterans office that it's a benefit that our veterans have while they're going to school and utilizing federal education benefits that they can apply for what they call work study. It's a win-win for both the veteran and for the office that they are able to work in. The federal government pays their salary. They come and work in my office for several hours during the week. And the only thing that I have to do is be aware that their primary mission is to be utilizing their education benefits and going to school. So the hours that they work in my office have to be around the hours that they have to go to school. And by being a part of the work study program, it's not the same as a regular employer where the regular employer could expect them to be there every single day from eight to noon or from one to four. My office, we have to be a little on the flexible side with there's a test coming up or there's this project due or that project due that they're required to spend time in a lab or whatever their case might be that I work their work hours with me around their school hours. But it's beneficial in that I do have somebody in the office to help answer phones, to help hand out paperwork, to do some of the filing, some of the things that could kind of push to the back burner on a normal basis. Now, our viewers might be wondering, well, a staff of two for all these veterans and right now we're seeing more and more coming back as we were talking about off the air from Iraq and Afghanistan and these are people in need who need that service. Number one, they need to be patient and certainly if you're a veteran and you've served in the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines, you've probably gotten used to standing in line from time to time so hopefully folks are gonna be patient with you. Hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait. That's the military motto. My dad's a veteran and I know that was one of his pet peeves is all the times you hurry up and wait but in addition to the Shaboygan County's veteran service office, then we have the VA. There might be some folks out there wondering, well, what's the difference? Are they redundant to one another? What's the difference between your office and the VA office and where do they go? Where do they start? And there's three different separate entities and they are separate entities. They don't have, they work together but they don't have anything to do with one another and that's the Federal Veterans Administration which is located in Milwaukee. And then you get with the federal VA, there's two separate parts of the federal VA. There's the medical center world and then there's the regional office and they sit next door to one another and they have the same first name but they don't talk to one another most of the time. But that's the federal entity. Then we have the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, they have their own programs that they manage and control and run. They're located in Madison and they don't have anything to do with the federal programs. Sometimes a state program will run in conjunction or kind of supplement a federal program but their state programs, each state is allowed to choose and do their own so you start looking on websites between us and Wyoming, Nebraska and totally different for the benefits that are available through the state. The federal would be the same regardless of what state you lived in but the state benefits are different. And then my office, it's mandated by state law but I'm a county employee. So our listeners, you all pay my salary, thank you very much. And I am very proud to be the Shabuigan County Veterans Service Officer and I thank all of our residents here in Shabuigan County. I think we do a phenomenal job of recognizing and supporting and taking care of the veterans that we have here in the county with a lot of different programs that we have available here. And you do a phenomenal job. I agree with you 100%. The importance of taking care of our veterans and I think a lot of people think of veterans as, well, those older men and women from World War II or Korea or now Vietnam, my dad's in his 70s, he's a Vietnam veteran and we have so many new veterans now coming from Iraq, from Afghanistan. And how is that impacting your office? How is that impacting the community? It's a huge impact. One of the things that has come out of this current conflict, this war is extremely different from the other wars that we have fought with this country. The main thing is, is that because of the technology that we have available to us and the skill of our medical personnel, some of our soldiers that would never have made it off the battlefield in a previous conflict is being triaged and given out of the battlefield and to some of the best medical facilities in the entire world. And their lives are being saved, which is great because they're coming home to their families and to the people that love them. But on the other side of that, they're coming home with serious illnesses and injuries that require a lot of care. And the VA is working really hard to provide assistance to family members because we're finding that a lot of these veterans, they don't end up in nursing homes. They come home to families, parents and spouses and siblings that are caring for their loved one and becoming a full-time job to care for someone. And we've seen the TV shows of the extreme makeovers where Ty Pennington and his group will come in and redo somebody's house to make it handicapped accessible so that the veteran that has the serious injury from war has a place to live and be able to stay at home with their families. But I think it's a responsibility that we have to realize as citizens that we need to take care of these veterans and their families and provide for them, provide the care that they need. Last question before I turn it over to Mike, I've always really appreciated the veteran service office mission statement to serve those who served. It's one of the few mission statements I can remember of all the departments because it's just so short and to the point to serve those who served. In just the three years you've been here, how many veterans do you think you've served? And what kind of impact do you think that's having? It must be a very gratifying position to be in to help folks like that when they come to you and need to get resettled or get pointed in the right direction for some program or some type of benefit. It's the absolute best job in the world, bar none. I tell people that all the time. I think I work harder at this job than I ever have in my entire life and I love it more. It absolutely is. And my counterparts across the state, we all feel the same way, that it's the absolute best job to have in the world to be able to help other veterans. And as far as how many I've helped, literally thousands. We take on an average about 20 phone calls per day and we'll have anywares from five to 10 people that just walk in as well as the four or five that we schedule for appointments and my appointments routinely take an hour or more and sometimes can take as much as two, two and a half hours depending on the complexity of what it is that we're having, you know, the file and do and as far as being gratifying, there are hundreds of stories. Not long ago had a phone call from the spouse of a veteran, they were risking, they were close to losing their home and had, because of his injuries, was not able to work and we had filed for benefits through the federal government and they were down to having only a few weeks left and they'd have been out of their home and they got the paperwork back from the VA that their claim had been approved and because of the length of time it took to process that claim, they were getting a back pay check all the way back to when they had initially filed their claim, so the money they received was enough to make their loan current with the bank and save their house as well as payback family members that had been helping them out with utility bills and things like that and she was literally in tears on the phone calling just saying you just don't know what this means to receive this check in the mail and know that we're gonna get to keep our house and we hear, you know, there's stories like that that we hear all the time. Very good, thank you, Charlene. Charlene, every year we celebrate federal holidays like Memorial Day, now many families will look at this as a time to get together with the family and to have a day off of work but they may not think about the real significance of a holiday like that. Why is it important to have public events like Memorial Day, Veterans Day which is coming up and also Pearl Harbor Day? I think it's very important as a British statesman Edmund Burke said, those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. And so I think we need to pass on the heritage, pass on the sacrifices that our veterans and their families have made. Less than 1% of the American population currently serves in the United States military and so they have no idea what's involved when somebody goes off to war and how devastating that is not only for them to be leaving their family but their families to be sitting here waiting. And so by us doing programs on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, it's an opportunity to spotlight the sacrifices that our servicemen and women make in support of our country. Now our World War II population of veterans is declining rapidly. How can people ensure that the sacrifices of these and other veterans are not forgotten and remembered at Veterans Day time? And I would say get involved. Not only with the events that come along, Memorial Day, the parades, Veterans Day, the programs that are around the communities but in the communities just to get involved in other projects, cleaning up a park, volunteering at schools. Anything that's community oriented that makes a better place, a neighborhood watch program, things like that. After all, those of us that have served in the military, that's what we want is we want communities that are wonderful places to live to be able to raise our families. So I would say, if you wanna honor your servicemen and women from this country, get involved in your communities. Make a difference where you're actually living. Now you told us before we went on the air a little bit about the quirk and the calendar this year. Why don't you tell the rest of the public about that? Oh, okay. The Veterans Day is always celebrated on November 11th and the armistice according to history was signed at 11-11 on November 11th and this year because it's 2011, we have 11-11-11 at 11-11. So most of the communities will be doing programs that will start right around 11 o'clock so that they're actually in the middle of their program at 11-11 on the 11th of November, 2011. That's great, it's real fitting to see that coming up and drawing a little extra attention to Veterans Day coming up this year. Are there, I understand there's different types of memberships, could you please explain a little bit about the requirements to join a Veterans Organization? And there are a variety of requirements and a lot of the Veterans Organizations have a specific purpose. So you'll have the AMVETs, which is short for American Veterans. The eligibility for that organization, all you have to do is have served in the military any place, anywhere, any time and you're eligible for that organization. For the American Legion, you have to have served during a wartime period, not necessarily in a war zone but during specific periods of history. So during peacetime, members weren't eligible to join the American Legion. And then for ones like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, you actually have to have a qualifying ribbon indicating that you were in a particular war zone as well as during a war period to be eligible for it. And then we have ones like the Marine Corps League and the Fleet Reserve Association that are unique to a specific service that makes you eligible to join. So there's a variety of requirements. A good way to check it out is to go online to the various organizations to see what their eligibility requirements are. Talk to your friends and neighbors that are also members of these organizations or they can come and ask me in my office where kind of information's central for Sheboygan County. Well, thanks for explaining the ins and outs of these different organizations and how they can find out about them and get connected with some of their fellow veterans and participate in the activities. With that, I'll turn it back over to Adam. So as you plan for the remainder of this year and looking down the road, what are some of the goals or aspirations you have for the Veterans Service Office? To get more people. Actually, just to be able to help all of the veterans that come through our doors to provide a good service to them, point them in the right direction. We don't have a lot of programs that we actually do here in Sheboygan County. We're just sort of information central to guide them into the appropriate areas of whether it's a federal program or a state program that they're eligible for. And to really do some good, this is a great program here to get the word out to just have people coming in to see me and check to see what eligibility they may have for programs. And that includes family members as well as the actual veterans themselves. I had someone just the other day is a widow of a veteran. And had come in looking for information about something else. And as I was looking at the file, realized that her husband was 100% disabled when he passed away like 10 years ago. So I asked, I said, do you own your own home? And she said, yes. I said, have you applied for your property tax credit? And she went, what's that? Well, that answer obviously indicates that no, she hasn't. Individuals that are 100% disabled with the federal government, with the federal veterans administration, if they own their own home, Wisconsin, that's a benefit of Wisconsin, is they can get a refund of their property taxes on their primary residence. So the same thing. Now it's bringing state dollars back into the county because that they pay their property tax and then they apply for the refund. And it comes from the state government back to our veteran to be able to spend for other stuff. Is it 100% of their property tax that they get refunded? Correct. Wow, that's very significant. Yes it is. Very significant, I'll be darned. On their primary residence. The veteran has to be 100% disabled, but for individuals that have passed away, if they were 100% disabled at the time of their death, then their spouse, as long as the spouse has not remarried, is eligible to request the refund of their property tax. That's one of those benefits that carries over to a family member. As you know, Jim Riesenberg was the veteran service officer prior to you for a number of years. I can't recall anymore. I think it was like 21. Yeah, I thought I was gonna say over 20 years. And I know that the demands on his time were significant as well. You've brought more technological savvy to the office and have tried to streamline some things there, which we all need to be emphasizing more. But as I hear you give that little snapshot of veterans coming in and having to fill out those applications and it can take an hour and a half to really dive into what their needs are and correctly fill out the forms. That just takes a lot of people time. It's not something you're gonna just refer them to a website and hope they get through it all right.  And you said more staff, more help. And though in county government, we're in this mode right now of streamlining and reducing expenses and trying to take fiscal pressures off property taxpayers as a whole. At the same time, there are real needs and areas that ultimately you do have to make adjustments. Law enforcement's a big one. Our sheriff's department certainly hasn't gotten any smaller over time and the veteran service office has really had two individuals for years now. I mean, I think 25 years or so, at some point, particularly with the current conflicts and if they continue or something else escalates, we may have to add staff. And the reason I point this out to the time I am here is because sometimes you just, you have to invest in areas to make sure that the help is there to get the job done. Now, with all that said, if I'm a veteran or a family member and I call your office, and I know the demands are high on your staff time, but if I call the office, what's the average weight to make an appointment? Oh, the average weight to make an appointment is probably about two or three weeks. Okay. And again, if you're going to make an appointment with a doctor's office or for a dentist appointment, it can be two or three months. So some of our viewers might be saying, well, that doesn't sound too bad. And I don't think there's been a huge upcry out there, but if it's a widow or a spouse of a disabled veteran who is about to lose their home, they may not be able to wait two or three weeks. Do you have some priority pecking order that you can put in place in emergency situations? And we do. I mean, I will work really hard, even if it means working through a lunch period or having somebody come in right at the end of the day where I don't get out of my office then until 5.36 o'clock because I've taken them, you know, squeezed them in because of a need that they have. The thing is, is most of the time we're having to submit that paperwork to the federal VA and then we still end up waiting. Just the turnaround time for the federal level. What we need to do is I try and get those through my office as fast as possible because that determines their eligibility date. So when they get that back payment as to how far it goes back, the longer it takes us to get all the paperwork and get it submitted, then the less money they get. So the quicker we get that in, then the earlier their eligibility date is if it's approved that the VA will go back to. But we do make a concerted effort that if it's something that we know is an emergency and the VA will also, if they're very good with homeless veterans working on getting them into some sort of a treatment program if that's needed and just working extra hours, extra time to make sure that happens to take care of our veterans. Well, Charlene, I just wanna say thank you because you've done an excellent job and you're a short three-year tenure and if there's a theme to this program today, it's that if you're a veteran or a family member or loved one of a veteran, the sooner you contact our Sheboygan County Veterans Service Office, the better because Charlene and her staff or one employee can help you guide you to certain programs and services that may improve the quality of your life and that's what the department's all about to serve those who serve. So Charlene, thank you for being with us today on behalf of the Sheboygan County Board, Chairman Mike van der Steen. We appreciate you joining us once again this month. Next month, we're gonna have Tom Eggebrecht here from the Health and Human Services Department, another very important department in Sheboygan County. Until then, thanks for joining us.


T. F. N. N. Headline news update. Good afternoon folks, Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach floor to this year, 1 p.m. update. And currently you have a slightly mixed bag out here that makes coming from the Dow, which is up 16 points. Otherwise, all the other U.S. indices trading in the downside, the S&P up 32 points at seven tenths per cent. One and six tenths for the NASDAQ 100, 233. Russell is up eight tenths, 16 points. The semis are down really 2% or 59 points. Train is up 47 points. You've got gold down $9. Silver's up 37 cents. Light's recruited us up a buck. 105.24 is the print there. Let's go spend a little bit of time with our nine panel market update chart. We begin by taking a look at the ESMini up our left-hand side. So we know the bottom of its daily profile is a resistance level. Price has tried to deal with that for the last four trading sessions and it has been unable to. Today's high is 44.55. The bottom of that daily profile is 44.53. So that's a key resistance level. Now price can regain that. Then that suggests they move higher but that's not the message right now. The spotball analytics, that's the center panel. Is trading below its 50-day expense moving average. So it suggests a sideways to higher move inside the S&P 500. The NQ also struggling at the bottom of its daily profile. That's at the 1412 level. And today's high was, I'm looking at today. Yeah, today, oh, I'm sorry, the 14802. 14. Steve's got to get it straight out here. That's the center that is trading into at the 14276 level. Nonetheless, price is, not sure where we're going to go with the NQ. I know we're going to go with that. We're going to take a look at that during the Trader's End Show. With regard to the US Dollar Index, yesterday generated a bearish signal which was a rose meant to Mindicator top. You got a new profile that is attempting to form. And if price can close above yesterday's high inside the US Dollar, that'll negate that topping signal that high is 100.51. Gold pulls back, tests the, it's above the top of its daily profile been above that for four days. That is suggested to move up to 2022. Silver, even though it's pulling back, it's above the top of its daily profiles. It suggests to move to 2695. Lights recruit closed above the top of its daily profile yesterday trading above it again today. That suggests higher price for lights. We include natural gas continued negated on Monday negated its TD9 count up. Suggested it wants to stay at higher. The 30 year treasury is trading below the bottom of support. The support being its daily profile. And then close the below that says, and that is 140.201. That says, old prices. Folks, they've been for the Trader's End Show to start through Thursday. Have a terrific one. Now look forward to seeing you again on Monday, one o'clock sharp. Take care.


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Hey, this is Rob from the YouTube channel Rob Motive coming at you from the sunny state of Texas, USA And you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs Gotta pull this down to pee forever falls and back down to America. There's some stuff in it that somebody needs I'm their man. I'm bringing this trailer down to Minnesota. I'm bringing it back empty dropping it in the yard Hooking on to a flatbed bringing that empty flatbed over to Brunk Hill the south of Winnipeg or Southwest of Winnipeg Dropping that there grabbing a loaded one tying it down Going out to Alberta with it. I got a reload coming back. I think that's the plan Before we go too far. Whoa Flying Jay's got a coffee in there for me. I bet you anything I didn't call ahead, but I'm trusting that they'll have coffee ready for me a little bit of bean to cup Mmm weird pulling a box, but it's a trucks handling it very well It's actually because it's like a brick wall headed through the wind, right? Just pushing wind all the way down there like a big like a brick wall a big sail going against wind But Since it's a very light load and the wind isn't really a problem today. I'm not really noticing any issues The load we got waiting for us after this is a flatbed load though Josh find a gear find a gear Josh supposed to be professional Josh It's supposed to be professional. How long you've been driving Josh. What are you new? your rookie I Know even I have trouble finding gear sometimes It's always this one though. It's it's that one full tanks up, but I guess I could fuel now I mean I'm here right then. I don't have to fuel on the way up Amaze will fuel now I guess no no no they're waiting to unload me there. No not wasting any time Fuel on the way up pulling through here. Just grabbing a coffee not wasting any time That guy's waiting down there and thief forever that want to unload me today yet, and I don't want to keep him waiting I'm sure they can understand that I should at least get a coffee Very important very important Must might even say it's the importantest thing much importanter than other things All right. All right.  She hasn't been pulling too hard If the truck's been pulling really hard then when I first stop I let the truck idle for five five ten minutes just to let the turbo and everything cool down a little bit before I just shut it straight off I've heard that that's good for it from good reliable sources There we go shoes on let's let this know I'm going to grab coffee. I am not on Duty this is a private. This is a private thing. It's a private affair Not that kind of affair Silly people Oh, I need my key forgot to bring my spare key. I'll just have to bring my fob with me You know whatever I'll spring the whole key with me I don't have to leave the truck running now when I'm out of it because I don't have diesel with me today Don't look at my sleeper. It's not ready yet I haven't set it up yet. Diesel's gonna be a part-time trucker. So he's staying home with Britt and with all his brothers He's gonna have a good time while we're out here on the road I'll have him in here more often than not probably at least 50% of the time But he's an old guy already and I think it's only fair to him to you know These are his golden years and it's only fair to him to you know, not hog him to myself and be greedy with him He also wants to spend time with the rest of his family. This is gonna be a pretty late day We're in Carlstad, Minnesota got about another half hour down the road at the river quickly unload these few things I think I got like five skids in the trailer. They're pretty big ones. They take up most of it like the whole trailer, but Get those off the trailer and Head back drop this trailer grab a flat bed by the time I get to my reload That'd be pretty late and hopefully it won't take too long to tie it down I'd like to get a little ways down the road today We'll do what we got to do, man This is where these This mat tracks businesses that's smart car on tracks remember that thing The Hummer The nice little town I have a couple of viewers that are from this town So if you're watching right now, hi, I'm waving at you. I'm sure where you are, but I Know you live here somewhere This is gonna be a long day Parking this empty trailer here in the empty line up and then I've got to grab an empty flat bed run over to broncule, Manitoba Drop that empty hook onto a loaded trailer there tie it down and that's one of those loads that Took me four hours last time And we're gonna tie that down then We'll find somewhere to sleep. It's gonna take a little while Gonna throw her in that spot there and And No wasting time I'll get out of here Here's my new trailer. I'm bringing this over to broncule. They're gonna have a loaded one just like it ready for me to tie it down Oh joy, these don't have the sliding ratchets either. That's fun. Those trailers are always super fun So here's my tarps they worry with this trailer because that's the one I Took with me before just threw these on here while I went and hooked on to this so that they were out of the way But now we're gonna throw them back on the trailer Just gonna put them on there like this for now. That's the end tarp That's an end tarp for probably at least 50 pounds each maybe 80 50 80 pounds each Oh Climb up here arrange them put the center one in the center the end tarps on the end makes sense, right? These come with me everywhere I Pay for these so My money goes into them. I take them with me. I take care of them Ratchets on that side. Okay Let's grab a small strap Nice and short one this one's nice nice and short It's gonna be dark by the time we get there Let me tie down this load in the dark Yeah That's one of my favorite things to do especially in this season when the mosquitoes will eat you alive Absolutely who wouldn't want to be eaten alive by mosquitoes. I mean that's a good time That is a manitoba pastime Yeah, the sun's gone down already and my trailer is about oh probably an hour away from here yet And it's 10 o'clock now The sky looks bright, but remember it's summertime in Canada. It's 10 o'clock at night right now So we're gonna tie those down here Put this in here and rush over there. Good thing. I have lots of energy. I got a good sleep last night I'm gonna tie that low down. Hopefully it won't be as bad as last time this last time. Oh, you remember that one We took to Alberta had everything sort of just Sort of balancing on top of each other Right remember that. Oh, it's another one of those babies. Whoo. Oh We're gonna have fun Into the night we will be strapping strapping Into the night We'll be tying down Cuz that's what we love to do My songs are not the greatest I understand But they make sense Falls falls tarps trailer hooked up lights working free trip done We're out of here Into the night we will be strapping Into the dark of the night We will be tying down Oh, I left myself on driving that whole time. That's wonderful. Why don't we just waste those hours away?   Shoes are allowed on this Mat here, but that stayed inside over there All right, no diesel in here to laugh at my jokes. So Oh, there's a lot of pressure on you guys to laugh at my jokes. All right. Let's see. Let's give her Let's dim this. Why are you so bright in my face? Okay, I don't even see it in my mirror over there. This trailer's got a lot of chicken lights on it Truckers, why do they call them chicken lights? I don't know. No idea. Ask the chickens No idea the marker lights all the extra market marker lights that aren't necessary Like the ones under my headlights and the ones along the side of my cab The ones that I don't have to have but I have because they're nice. Those are chicken lights You can't even see all the way to the end here all of this yet and then there's a Part right at the back there. You can't see it's all In the in the shadows right now. It's had to tarp it in the back. So Hey But the weird thing is they left me a tarp here one of our tarps so I use that tarp to tarp it And I'll just bring that one back to the yard when I'm done. So I didn't even have to use my tarps Bonus everything looks good I'm gonna pull her out of here below check do a strap check I ain't here people. I'm trying. I'm not a musician. I'm a trucker According to one in the morning. I'm outside in a t-shirt and shorts in Manitoba Summertime is great Absolutely fantastic


Hey everyone and thanks for joining me for today's webinar machine learning overview for product managers So just before we begin some background about myself So I'm tal. I'm a machine learning product manager at booking.com I'm an industrial engineer and I have a little bit more than eight years of experience in product and analytical roles Here booking a focus on content intelligence machine learning products are both in the domains of computer vision and natural language processing techniques What are we going to talk about today? First we're going to discuss what is machine learning? What are the different types of model to work with? Afterwards we'll understand once we understand the overview of machine learning. We can deep dive into some real-world machine learning applications We will also discuss when not to use machine learning and what is it that we need to take into account When working with machine learning in terms of resources and other aspects So what is machine learning? As you can see on the left machine learning is a subdomain of artificial intelligence Machine learning enables system to learn and improve from experience without being explicitly told to So what is the difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence or what are the type of applications that are artificial intelligence But not machine learning so basically Artificial intelligence is any technique which enables computers to mimic human behavior So for example, if you take hundreds of doctors And each spend hundreds of hours detailing correlation between symptoms and disease and then you pick it up into a machine Then this is artificial intelligence. It mimics human behavior But it's not machine learning Machine learning actually gets the data and the answers and it provides the rules as opposed to classical programming When you get the rules and the data and then you provide the answers. So in this doctor's example the data are the diseases and the rules are the correlation between the connection between diseases and the diagnosis and Basically machine learning is able to understand And define those patterns without being explicitly told to Yeah, so artificial intelligence seems to have taken off around 1950s while 1950 while machine learning wasn't that commonly used before late 1990 or a bit before And just to understand the hype around artificial intelligence in general I think this graph actually explains. It's really well The predicted revenues from artificial intelligence around 2025 are $126 billion and you see the growth rate here As it seems very very significant and another interesting thing for example Is seeing machine learning term used in in Google search engine This is an image from Google Trends seeing the hype around machine learning going forward from 2014 and on So what are the different types of machine learning models or algorithms? There are four Main types of machine learning supervised unsupervised Supravised and reinforcement learning and will deep dive into each and every one of them So supervised models are the ones that use label datasets to train Models to classify or to predict outcome security. There are two types regression regression and classification classification models are the one to classify data points within a given data set and Regression are a set of statistical processes to estimate the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent So the example a good example of supervised learning is supervised model Seems to be you can see it here the training data here is labeled We already know what are the data the data points that are apples and what are the data points that are bananas and We feed it into the model and based on that the model will be able to Classify this unseen and unlabeled data the green banana You can see here and to classify it as banana based on the training data So this is supervised models Unsupervised models are basically one that doesn't have this supervision. It doesn't have this label data That has in their supervised models So different kinds of unsupervised models are came is PCA principal component analysis hierarchical clustering anomaly detection and more Same supervised models are basically the one to use both labels and unlabeled data It is a small amount of label data and large amount of unlabeled data To provide the benefits of both basically The need here most of the time when using some supervised model Is to avoid the challenges of finding of finding large scale or large amount of label data Because sometimes we just don't have enough of it Reinforcement learning the most interesting type of models In my opinion are the ones that able to take actions and learn through trial and error much like teaching your dog How to play with the ball? You give him a reward that reads if he does something good, or you don't treat him at all and this is the punishment So this is reinforcement learning basically And there are two approaches for reinforcement learning model based and model free Model based are the one that I use planning In order to conduct the model as opposed to simpler model free method that are explicitly trial and error techniques So now let's discuss some machine learning applications There are so many applications that we'll discuss a few of them in the upcoming slides So the first one actually utilize reinforcement learning techniques that we just discussed Optimizing hero image main image in notice.com inexperienced company The technology here is to use multi arm bandit, which is a reinforcement learning to click technique To explore what is the best image to surface across their search results and in funnel products And by using multi arm bandit They were able to drop the bounce rate and to improve some main business KPIs So it's an interesting example of how to use machine learning to boost conversion rate and to improve business KPIs Another interesting example is a Google Maps traffic prediction So basically Google were able to improve their ETA prediction significantly by using graph neural networks So it was an interesting. It's an interesting use case of using neural networks, you know in real life And by the way in the near future Google plans to further advance more of their AI applications By implementing voice assistant and creating augmented reality maps in real time. So so that's cool Another machine learning application is image classification for search relevance. So basically The capability as you can see on the left is to understand within an image What is it that we see in the image for example here We know when we see that the womb were boots and a dress and we can use it to take it for the search engine takes from image classification can increase the number of product attributes and therefore increase their discoverability in the search engine By the way, there is a similar Application and eBay that they released the shop the celebrity look where you can get a Celebrity image with a given set of clothes and based on this image you can shop the exact look on eBay So this this is a nice application of image classification techniques There are similar images for image search used by Pinterest and by many other applications And it's basically done by embedding the image getting a vector representation of the image And the comparing it to vector representations of other given set of images and based on that to understand What are the similarity of images? So in this example, it's used for visual search and for other it's used in other various of machine learning application Another interesting example is messages highlights by slack. So slack uses machine learning and NLP To move more relevant messages to the top Basically slack claims that a user is bugged more than 70 times a day With messages on slack and they want to help the user to focus a bit more So they surface the most relevant or highlighted messages In the product using NLP techniques So then we can ask ourselves is ML is machine learning is the solution for everything So the short and the long answer is no There are several things that machine learning can't provide you and it's important to be familiar with the limitation of machine learning So when not to use ML when not to use machine learning a male ML fails to deliver its value mainly when the problem can be solved by rule-based coding So when you can solve The problem with less complex solution don't go with machine learning For example, if you have an e-commerce site and you want to avoid listing illegal goods like guns or adults products and You already have a list of keywords For those products that you don't want to use that you don't want a surface online Then you don't need to develop a classification model to predict Which kind of goods should or shouldn't be listed. You can just use the keyword based solution Yeah, another reason not to use machine learning and when you just don't have enough data or label data So for example, if you want to detect fake reviews But you don't really know from previous from history. What are those fake reviews? To indicate and based on that predict a future fake reviews, then you can't really use machine learning Because you don't have the label data Or it's Lee or at least it's a bit more challenging to use machine learning for that Another reason not to use machine learning is where is when you have Non-stationary data When your data is just not a predictor for the future. For example, we saw it very well in COVID times When for example predicting stock returns in the presence of COVID-19 is a bit problematic Because your history data Let's say from 2002 is not a predicted predictable Data sets for the future because the current situation Covid situation is a bit different and not something that we saw in the past Another reason why not to use machine learning is when you need 100% accuracy So if it's a life or death situation, you might need to combine both machine learning Application and maybe human interaction in order to ensure 100% accuracy Another Final reason not to use machine learning is when you need high level of explain ability if your product product requires explainability Understand and make and help other and others understand why the machine learning took its decision the way took then machine learning is You have a challenge there Because while we may understand the underlying mechanics behind the model It's still not very clear how the models reach their decision There are some techniques like feature importance and correlation metrics that can help us understand But it's still not very but not very clear how machine learning Product and produce The decision so it really depends on the product Um, so just before we continue I want to review the machine learning life cycle just to understand while working with machine learning To understand what are the life cycle? What are the different steps required to kick off machine learning product? So the first phase is data collection Then you need to pre-process the data and clean it obviously without data You don't have a model. So we need to collect the right data and then clean it Data cleaning and pre-processing seem to be small steps But actually these are very important and long Steps along the process and without the proper cleaning You might not get the machine learning results you desire Then you have the feature engineering you basically need to engineer Your data in order to maximize the prediction accuracy You engineer the data sets in a way that you think will be most useful for the model to Provide its prediction So for example data engineering example could be if you have Daily temperature data in New York Engineering the data Could be for example, taking the maximum temperature on a weekly basis and feed it into the model You engineer the data in a way that you think that will be most useful for the model and for the use case the specific use case That you're working on Then you have the model training and validation. So here is the domain expertise of the machine learning scientist the data scientist And then you have the model testing deployment and maintenance and improvements Rounds. So this is the overall machine learning lifecycle in short And just before we start I want to review what is it that we need to take into account in terms in terms of resources and other aspects So the first thing is production requirements Latencies latency issues some projects require batch prediction some doesn't need it You need to take into account. What is your Requirements on production and then see if your machine learning infrastructure can support it For example scaling up could be problematic if a model works on a small environment. It doesn't mean That it will work anywhere and everywhere on on larger scale and you need to check it before To check that you have the right infrastructure in order to be able to scale up in an in an healthy manner This is the first aspect the second one is you need to think if you want to build from scratch or Take off the shelf models So there are so many third parties offerings like Google vision API and AWS and there are so many Of the shelf product that you can use So you need to think with with the team and according to the use case Whether the model should be built from scratch or using an off-the-shelf model There are also pre-trained models So you don't even need to train your model by yourself but of course it depends on the use case and sometimes if you have a very specific use use case a very Custom-made need then you might need to build from scratch Or to combine some several third parties of the shelf capabilities The third thing I think it's important to to know is what team is required So basically you need to build a team you need data engineers and data scientists and an analyst sometime To understand and the evaluation of the model and of course you need back-end and front-end if needed depends on your application Another thing to take into account is that things can change over time So you need more than monitoring because the fact that the model is performing well now Doesn't mean it before it will perform well In a year from now or two years from now So you need to continuously monitor your model and maybe even retrain it once in a while to make sure that it's up to date And the last thing is the cost. So basically there are infrastructure costs for the planning model cloud compute data storage Integration cost data pipelines development everything around cause it can be pretty costly to to Product machine learning based product So you just need to take into account and be familiar with the cost before going into a machine learning products development So just to to wrap it up and machine learning is a powerful tool It's up to us machine learning product managers and and everyone else that involves To make sure that it solves real world problem and have a clear problem hypothesis and success metrics And and only then understand if machine learning is indeed distribution for us Yeah, so the main and the key takeaways from this talk are what are the machine learning model types that We reviewed supervised unsupervised reinforcements learning semi supervised We discussed machine learning applications example if it's a ETA prediction or image classification, for example We also talked about when not to use machine learning when you just don't have the data for example Or if the data is non-stationary And lastly the required resources you need to take into account So thank you for a time. I hope you found it useful and please feel free to reach out if you have any questions So additional thoughts. Thanks


This is my review for Supernatural season 14 episode 20 the season finale There's a lot to unload here Some of you may be wondering why I delayed this review for so long Well, cuz I was watching endgame on terms of this episode and I'm comparing this purely to the season finale of 12 and 13 It's better to a point after Jack breaks out of the cage does a little cool show and then leaves The brothers are having a morality battle basically of what to do with Jack Sam is on the side of trying to save him in some way Whereas Dean is in his typical Anglunaguma mode all the while Castiel is also trying to find some way to try and prevent The death of Jack Jack is basically soulless, but he's trying to find some morality to it There's a bit in one point in the episode where he makes the world stop lying, which was funny I admit I like that part, but then it dragged on a little too long mainly with the guy who kept on saying I hate everyone by the seventh time of him saying that I was getting a little bit Stressed and I feel that is the comeuppance of this episode In a nutshell has cool ideas and hasn't genius ideas almost But then it drags too long then The worst Deus ex machanite almost and this shows history Chuck shows up because there's this reference earlier that Castiel was trying to talk to God and he used the theme of Bob He is there purely for Andrew Dabb to try and blame all of the horrible writing over the last few years Even some of the horrible writing in the years prior on Chuck. They threw Everything Kripke has set up everything Carver continued into 11 They threw it into the shitter to try and basically abstract the blame From their own horrible writing apparently Chuck has literally been playing with Dean and Sam this whole time It wasn't destiny. It wasn't him just Projecting this story wasn't him wanting to see these brothers just defy what was expected.    How? Fucking high was Andrew dad when he wrote this like I'll admit It sets up an interesting finale to the show I actually like this idea that the world is basically at its end how it got there is dumb It is dumb But it does lead up to a pretty cool idea of what the end will be but again talking about stuff that holds too long It's a pretty cool shot of all the zombies walking in around Castiel and Sam and the camera pans over the three And then it shows the zombies again and the camera pans over the three And it shows the zombies again, and it pans over the three then Sam and Dean get weapons Which are these iron little thingies out of this fence the camera pans over them again Shows the zombies again camera pans over them one more time and then they get crowd munched I have a feeling it's because they didn't want to cut the song early, which it's a great song to use but Just do audio editing guys like a simple audio edit could have fixed that this episode is an up-and-down Journey the whole time. It's good in a lot of points.   This is like what a fourth apocalypse. Oh my god I'm kind of indifferent about this episode in terms of how it really adds up But it's a better finale than the last two. I'm gonna give this season finale a four out of seven Now we can finally start working towards the series finale. Thanks again for watching all of my reviews I know it pissed a bunch of y'all off But I noticed that a few of you started to come around to my way of thinking about the show and that's cool You are totally entitled to your own opinion and whatever you think of this show I'm going to be watching it all the way to the end. So all of y'all who said who don't like it Just stop watching it. It's not gonna happen. I'm in this to the end game So yeah, if you guys want to check out any of my reviews of this season I'll make sure to have a playlist. It is available. I'll make sure to link that and then of course I will be doing a video talking about Andrew Dav and just the whole mentality of supernatural the last one I have been working on that so that will be coming soon. Anyways guys. I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you enjoyed the series of reviews I hope you enjoyed my very very angry rambling. This is honestly the worst season of this entire show, but We'll see how it ends up when I do a final. I that's that's my thought just when I tally it all up. Anyways, that's all for me I'll see you guys next time Thanks for watching the video. It's been a while But I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, but we are still asking for your support. You know Nits You can't get more money unless you offer questionable favors Yeah, unless of course those favors involved the ladies guy by support. 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Live from Las Vegas, extracting the signal from the noise. It's the Cube, covering IBM Insight 2015. Brought to you by IBM. Now your host, George Gilbert and Paul Gillin. Welcome back, this is Paul Gillin. We're live here at the IBM Insight Conference in Las Vegas. 2015, we're coming to the end of our second day. One of the things I love about doing the Cube and particularly conferences like this is we get really interesting people. People who just come out of completely different backgrounds like our interview with the Weather Channel earlier and certainly our next guest, Jason Silva, meets that definition of somebody who is not the conventional trade show kind of speaker. Jason's a media artist, futurist, philosopher, keynote speaker and TV personality, creator of the short film series, Shots of Awe. And also a host of National Geographic Brain Games, Emmy nominated program that I was unfamiliar with until I began doing a little research for this interview and now I'm going to become hooked. Jason, thanks for joining us today. Thank you guys for having me, how's it going? Good. You are speaking on the topic of digital transcendence here at this conference, what is that? Well, I've become very interested in why we're living in an age of technological disruption, why the world seems to be changing so fast, why we're feeling in all these industries like the rug is being pulled from underneath our feet. And this led me down a rabbit hole into thinking about technology in the future, how technology is changing. I stumbled upon Ray Kurzweil's ideas, Moore's law, exponential change. And what I realized is that most people didn't really quite wrap their heads around what is meant by exponential change, which is the underlying bedrock of why we're living in disruptive times. And I learned very quickly that because technology evolves at an exponential rate, but our brains think linearly, we find ourselves confounded. One of the examples that Ray Kurzweil gives is if you take 30 linear steps, which is how we think about change linearly, you get to 30. If you take 30 exponential steps, again, the same amount of steps. But they're longer steps. Well, and they compound on each other, you get to a billion by step 30. So again, linear steps, 30 of them get you to 30. 30 exponential steps gets you to a billion. The example I gave you earlier, that exponential trajectory is the reason why the smartphone in your pocket today that you take for granted is actually a million times cheaper, a million times smaller, and a thousand times more powerful than what used to be $60 million, half a building in size 40 years ago. So when I say digital transcendence, I say, how does it change what it means to be human when the supercomputers of yesterday and everybody's hands? How does it change our space of possibility when a young kid in Africa with a smartphone has better comms tech than the US president had 25 years ago? That's digital transcendence, transcendence. It changes the world. It changes the space of possibilities. It changes what becomes possible. Okay, so give us some concrete examples. We've heard about remittance payments from relatively sort of well off countries, let's say in the Middle East, workers sending money back to their families. We hear things about weather forecasts and advice about when and how to plant crops. Take us to that sort of desert outpost and gives the sense for how life has changed. Well, life has changed, for example. I mean, there's places in Africa that don't have running water but have internet access.  All the world's knowledge and information is available at Google search away. So this democratizes education, this democratizes communications, it democratizes. I mean, there's my mom, she's a teacher at the International School of Kenya. They do mobile payments there in a way that's far more advanced than in the United States. People use their cell phones to do business. I remember there was a Bill Clinton cover story in Time Magazine called A Case for Optimism in which he cited a 2010 United Nations Development Study that found that the cell phone was perhaps the greatest invention in history to pull people out of poverty. Most people don't think about that when they think about technology. They think about, oh, the inevitable consequences over damaging the planet and certainly there's room for concern in all those areas. But when you think that a technological device has done more to pull hundreds of millions of people out of poverty than something else, I think that's something to think about. And just to suffice, what I'm interested in ultimately is to get people to question their dogmas when they think of change and disruption and just try to look at it through a positive lens. I'm just trying to get you inspired. I'm an artist with a curiosity for how we co-evolve with our technology. It's not an academic. It's inspiring the idea Bill Gates 20 years ago coined the term information at your fingertips and it sounded crazy and now we're there. You're absolutely right. But the flip side of that, I guess another view of that is that this kind of empowerment actually gives the haves more and the have-nots less of more. I think the benefit that they get out of having that technology is less because they still don't have running water and they still have disease. But those of us who are well off and who know how to use these tools or comfortable these tools, we actually vault ahead in an even faster rate. Well, look, I think that's a great question and they ask Ray Kurzweil the same thing all the time. They're like, you know, you're professing this future technological singularity and these kids in Africa with smartphones are so empowered but they might still not have running water in some of their villages. How do we address that? And his answer is actually makes perfect sense. He says, look, the world has changed on the back of information technology but the physical world of pipes and other things, that's physical, that's the meat space. That doesn't move at the exponential speed but it turns out that these things are now becoming information technologies also and are subject to the same exponential breakthroughs. So for example, you talk about healthcare, you talk about being able to treat people with illnesses and diseases in these real parts of the world. Biology is now becoming an information technology. Biotechnology means mastering the information processes of biology. We're doing the rate, the speed of development of gene sequencing now is three times faster than exponential. The X-Prize Foundation had a prize recently to create a tricorder, an iPhone-sized device that could diagnose you better than 10 board-certified doctors. We're talking lab on a chip technology, something this size that you could pee on, that you could take blood out and it could diagnose you. I mean, this point, what this implies is that in the next 25 years, healthcare will be democratized and transformed the way that information technology transformed the computer industry. In the physical world, nanotechnology. Nanotechnology allows us to pattern atoms the way we patterned ones and zeros in the digital revolution. So all of a sudden, the material world becomes programmable as well. I'm not a nanotechnologist, but reading Eric Drexler's engines of creation and just taking that in for a second, like that we could make an information file, software that writes its own hardware. I mean, that's insane. Self-assembling. Yes. Tell us a little about the idea that technology evolves, but technology helps us evolve too. Like in a codependent way. Yeah, well, Kevin Kelly is one of my heroes. He's the co-founder of Wired Magazine and a brilliant philosophical futurist. And one of the things that he says is that we have always been cyborgs in the notion that everything that we've designed that we've created is creating us back. And this symbiotic relationship between man and tool goes to our very physiology. Give us an example. Okay, yes. We created Stone Tools over 100,000 years ago. After we started using Stone Tools, our jaws physically shrank, like our jaws shrank. When we discovered fire, we could cook our foods. Fire acted as an external stomach that predigested our food that made every meal more energy dense, more efficient. So instead of foraging all day for raw foods to barely get by, we could have in one sitting enough nutrients to free up cognitive real estate that led to the development of art, culture, and all these other things that we do when we're not fighting to eat. And he's written a wonderful essay about it, but essentially cooking made us human. I mean, there's been books written about it. So when people say technology is unnatural, they don't look at the long view when they don't realize that to be human is actually to be transhuman. Like, we are the tool making animal. That's what we are. In fact, and not to get too philosophical, but the very last sentence of Singularity is Near, which is Kurzweil's book, says that our ability to create virtual models in our heads, that is our imaginations, virtual realities in our heads, pre-design things before we make them, right? To imagine, combined with our modest looking thumbs, was sufficient to usher in the secondary force of evolution called technology. And it will continue until the entire universe is at our fingertips. On the National Geographic Brain Game show that you host, you exercise people's minds in ways that's uncomfortable to them. Give them scenarios that force them to think differently. What have you learned about the human mind in the process of conducting all of these experiments over the last four years? Yeah, yeah, well, it's interesting. Yeah, with Brain Games we do set up these experiments to try to highlight or reveal shortcomings in your perceptual apparatus, to show you the ways in which you fill in the blanks.  You don't get to have a naked interface with reality. You get limited information from your brain and then you fill in the blanks. You look for patterns and you render a kind of movie in real time, an approximation, an inference of the world. And that rendering is mediated by culture, it's mediated by language, it's mediated by the clothing you wear and even the weather. Certain clothing can change the way you see the world. The language you speak can actually structure your world view. So what you come to realize is that we're a story. We're a autobiographical software that's taking cues from the world and trying to find coherence, but we don't know the world directly. And so hopefully by highlighting this on Brain Games, we're giving people a sort of feeling of curiosity and wonderment where they stop taking things for granted and they realize the ambiguity of their knowledge of the world. We may be stepping off the... The topic at hand? The topic, but it's... Is there a topic at hand? It's just really interesting because there's a process of socialization that goes on from the time you're born where the people around you, starting with your parents, help you or guide you into seeing the world as they see it, which is to apply those same filters and mental models. And look, but tell us, we're bringing it back to technology. The fact that all that perspective now gets put into this internet repository, this worldwide web repository, what impact does that have on unifying how others see the world or in giving us richer perspectives to step into that we hadn't before? Well, it's great. I mean, my career started really because I started making digital video content. I make short form media about big ideas that I distribute for free on platforms like Facebook and YouTube. And we've had over 80 million views now to our channel through all these different platforms. So here, I can be limited to a particular place in space and a particular place in time, but I'm interfacing and reaching other minds and distilling comprehensive insights about the state of the world and having conversations with other people across the planet. So I like to think that that expands their brains, but it also means that there can be a lot of garbage, 10,000 hours of video uploaded every day to YouTube. And so we're suffering bandwidth anxiety. How do we know what to pay attention to? How do we curate our information diets? How do we not become overwhelmed by the signals competing for our attention? I mean, there's a reason why attention is the new oil. Attention is the new limited resource. I don't know, it's both. It extends and amputates. Should that be a cause for anxiety or should we just get comfortable being overwhelmed? I think we need to upgrade our brains eventually, I mean, we're due for more RAM for sure. But I think that what we're going to do in the meantime is we're going to start offloading a lot of decisions as to what we read and what we look at to algorithms. There's a wonderful essay recently called Anticipatory Design, The Age of Anticipatory Design. You know, today you open Netflix, there's 10,000 million options. I get overwhelmed and I watch nothing. But it's the FOMO, no matter what I pick, I'm missing out on something else. I'm being made acutely aware that I can't possibly have it all. Where technology creates problems, are you saying technology then needs to come along and solve those problems? Yes, look, technology, we've sort of surpassed our own cognitive bandwidth. We've given ourselves more possibilities than we can ever possibly quantify and measure to make decisions about those possibilities. And so eventually we're going to ask the technology to probably make a lot of these choices for us. And that scares a lot of people, but I think it'll be an interesting debate.  And curation doesn't have to be by hand, it can be learned, you know. I try to practice the kind of intellectual discernment and filtering of all the media that's coming at me, but sometimes I do get overwhelmed. And sometimes I just have to say, you know what? Like I'm turning my phone off, you know? I've gotten some interesting articles to read, switch it to airplane mode and just read what I have rather than keep browsing. That's an interesting point. One of the reactions against this kind of transcendental change you talk about is that some people simply shut down. They want to go back and they want to live in the cabin in the woods, or they want to, in the case of teaching creationism as a science in school, which has been reintroduced in some states, they want to actually go back to an earlier, simpler time. Is that just a natural human reaction? Is that to be expected when technology changes? No, look, I think when people are overwhelmed, they recoil, you know? Some people thrive when they're overwhelmed. But most of us, if the overwhelming intensity of the media assault, of the transformation, feels scary to our bottom line, if we feel like we can't keep up, if we feel trampled by it, then we recoil. But what's important for people to understand is that there have been other onslaughts of technological transformation.  But Play-Doh, at the time, is rumored to have been very against this tool because he said our brains would atrophy if we were writing things down. So in his mind, this was just not good for us. So, I always tell people to check out Stephen Johnson's book, Everything Bad is Good for You, which he looks at all these fears that we've had about the radio, telephone, video games, and showing all the ways in which these things actually have cognitive benefits in the end. So it's made me an optimist, but look, in the end it's a matter of opinion.  One topic that's gotten quite a bit of media coverage lately has been robotics, and even Steve Wozniak has weighed in on this, and whether our artificial intelligence systems will eventually be smarter than us, and then we'll have the students based scenario where they decide we're not needed anymore. What's your take on that? How should we think about that? You know, I think when we say, when we talk about intelligence and artificial intelligence and so on and so forth, again it's sort of an error of language. I think what matters is intelligence. It doesn't matter what substrate it runs on, and it doesn't matter if some of it is biological and some of it is non-biological. So I don't think so much that it's the AI that's going to wake up and conspire against us. I think there's going to be a cognitive merger of sorts. We're going to incorporate non-biological intelligence into our cognitive machinery, and maybe, right now most of it runs on our wetware, but certainly some of my thinking happens through the mediation with my smartphone. Maybe eventually more of it will be running on the non-biological hardware rather than in the biological hardware, but it'll be thousands of baby steps. We won't really think, wow, we became the AIs until we're on the other side of that line and we look back and we're like, remember when we had to like do all that stuff on like wagons and horses, and now we fly through the air? You know, it's kind of going to be like that. Before we know it, we'll just be mostly digital. But one gets the impression that, you know, we've been going through these sort of transitions and the evolutions. The very first demonstration, despite everyone giving Alan Kay credit for the Graphical User Interface at Xerox PARC, the very first demonstration was done by a guy named Douglas Engelbart at IBM. Oh, I know. And it looks like a Graphical User Interface. He had a mouse, direct manipulation. And you know what else nobody talks about is how many of those engineers were doing psychedelic drugs when they were solving engineering problems. It's a book by John Markoff called What the Door Mouse Said is the History of the Counterculture and the Cyberculture in Silicon Valley. Because think about what these technologies have become. They have fulfilled, they have literalized the psychedelic dream of expanding our minds, of freeing our minds beyond their limitations. Marshall McLuhan said computers are the new LSD. Most of us don't think about that because this stuff has become so mainstream, but this was disruptive in the 1960s. Bicycle for the mind, as Steve Jobs said. But the key decision or the key assumption that Engelbart made was one group of people, or I think most people went down the path of, let's figure out how we can replace the mind as a tool of productivity. And he went down the path less trod of how can we augment it. And we're- That's spot on. That seems to be the discussion all over again, 50 years later. Yeah, well I just wanted to see the Steve Jobs film, the Danny Boyle new one. And there was a wonderful flashback scene where they have Steve Jobs talking to John Scully back in the day. And the anecdote that he used in the film, I don't know if this really happened, but he said the most efficient animal in the animal kingdom is the condor. The least efficient animal in the animal kingdom is the human being.  So if the computer is the bicycle for the mind, then it takes potentially our thinking and makes us gods. So look ahead a little bit. We have, we no longer have to look things up. We no longer have to memorize things. Their information is at our fingertips. One school of thought would say well the mind atrophies because we don't need to remember things anymore. I take it that's not your point of view. How does the mind evolve? Now that we have this capability, how do you see humans evolving over the next generation? I mean, look, I've always been a fan of, what's his name? The guy that, Abraham Maslow, hierarchy of needs. And he talked about how we have these kind of basic biological needs that we have to meet before we can get to more creative places of self-actualization. So we gotta eat, right? We gotta get laid. We have to reproduce. We have to have shelter food. We have to have then maybe esteem. And there's this ladder of needs. And as we fulfill the more basic animalistic needs, we get the more creative needs. At the top of the chain is the desire for meaning. You know, when you're starving, the meaning of life is food. When you are wealthy and educated and you're fed, the meaning of life becomes cosmic. You're searching for it, right? And today we're experiencing a little bit of existential dread because people have more of what they need than any other time in human history. People are still hungry for meaning. So I think that's how it changes. We dovetail more and more of the things that machines are better at through the machines. And we free our brains to focus on far more creative things that we don't get to play with today because we don't have the space or the time or the context to do so. You look at disruption and everybody's focused on, you know, not being Ubered out of business these days. What do you think the ultimate, how disruptible is our economy right now? Is every business essentially in play? Some would say yes.  The truth is, yeah, I mean, things are going to change very fast, but there's going to be certain things that slow the rate of change, namely, you know, we don't want to disrupt an industry where 100,000 people are going to lose their job overnight, so that might slow the disruption, but the disruption's coming. I mean, I think it was, I read something recently said 100,000 years ago, not 100,000, 100 years ago, 90% of the jobs in this country were farming. Today, they're less than 1%. And when that happens over a generation, it's less disruptive because, okay, so you were a farmer and then your kid goes and does something else. When it's happening while you're still in your prime, you're like, what the hell, I just studied and I'm just getting good at this and now it's all messed up. So it's not the scope of change with the velocity that makes the difference. It's telescoping, yeah, yeah. Changing times, changing times, but. Last question. Oh, I was just going to say, Jason, we covered a lot of territory from We did. Pre-classical Greek, you know, down to the, all the way to the future. Right. One common thing, or one comment that came up about, you know, we don't need to remember things now. Remember in pre-classical Greece, literature was memorized, you know, the great, the Homeric poets, you know, those were big books to memorize. I know, I know.  We exercise different faculties. That's what I think too. You know, so on that note. On that note, we're out of time. We could go on with this for a long time. Jason Silva is a filmmaker of futures, the epiphany addict. You can look up shots of awe on YouTube, three minute videos that will change your world. You can look up National Geographic's Brain Games, which is just very cool.  Jason, thanks very much for being with us today. Thank you. Thank you. Paul Gillan from theCUBE. We're live, Las Vegas. We'll see you for our next guest in a minute.