everyone and welcome to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida. Today we're going to be doing our plan with me for the week in my A6 and again this planner is from Naya Paper Rea and you should find, maybe find her on Etsy, Instagram, but I cannot wait to get my VDS. So you guys, last week I did a video on the new kit that I had in the shop. Okay, that was fine, but I got to looking at them like it's just too much for me. So I went and planned minimal. And as you can see, I was able to check more things off. It was just a little cleaner for me and I can just find everything that I needed. So right now we're going to stick with these inserts that I've been using, but I haven't itched to transfer and use another insert for weekly. I'm just trying to find the right weekly. And as you can see one last week when I planned minimal, I tried to break this up into categories. I kind of like that, but I just wasn't sure of the categories. So I had left that alone and just I'm just trying to find my correct way that I want to plan, you know, as far as like making it real simple. So today I'm just going to use a simple m&g pen that I got for Amazon. And let me get to the calendar because I have to go through the monthly. If I've never said this before, but what I do is I start here in my inbox. If there's anything in my inbox, I move it. As you can see, there's a few things, but I know those things are not pertinent to what I have to do. Then I move to monthly. Well, here's my task delegation. Here are my goals. Monthly. So I just basically start from the front of my planner and work my way until I get back to weekly. Normally business, all that stuff will be an inbox finances. I may switch to that, but my finances is pretty much in my monthly habits. I feel that out separately. I'm held.  So I know to put that down. So yeah, that's how I plan pretty much. So let's skip. And then I go to the salon section. I forgot that. So I start from the left, the front of the planner. And I just go through to get to weekly. And then if something comes up, I'll just put that. So now I'm just looking at my monthly here. And this is my monthly. And we're going to be on the week of the 23rd through the 29th. Okay, so now I have the dates filled in starting with today. I know I have a doctor's appointment. I'm going to put a routine first. Also, what I found out last week when I was just redoing it is easier for me to write everything down. And then I can go in with, you know, any type of necessary icon or stickers that I want to do. So I have a doctor's appointment. And I thought it was at 10, but it's at 1120. Today is laundry day. We have to fill orders. It's not many. I like to ship them. I'm trying to get them out today. We need to do some designing. Now, I do have a separate planner, which you all probably have never really seen, but this is my business planner. And I just basically, I don't have a weekly in here, but I plan by the day, which I've been doing these past couple of weeks to kind of keep me on track of making systems in my business and schedules. So that's kind of the deal is just kind of helping me here. So I can look and see anything I need to do on my business, even though I want to plan there, I still like to write it here in case there I forget and then I have this on the go with me. Okay. Oh yeah, we need to print, cut calendars, freebies.  This month I've switched it up. So I'm going to read and they can download it and print and cut themselves. But for this month I'm going to, well even last month, well me, I have been putting it in orders. So I put down my afternoon routine. I'm just going to skip down here and put p in routine. Okay. All right, for Tuesday. So I switched my client from today to tomorrow. Remember that. And I need to put a sticker here because I want to draw my eye to it and remind me because normally I'm off on Tuesdays, but I have to work. So I'm going to use just one of my milk stickers and just put that there so that will remind me to do that. So I don't be sitting at home and they're calling me. Normally, like I said, Tuesdays is really, I'm off. And so that's the day that I would dedicate to business. So this is what I'm going to do. Ice milk is my favorite color from my shop.  And then I have these today to do stickers and the small dots. Okay. Also, I'm whipping out my little sticker book here. I pulled out these YouTube stickers from the planner spot. And I made these stickers for myself and business. I just need to put business on the sheet by itself. I'll take those out. And I got these here from Amika. I think I might take those out. I'm going to split those to the side because I don't know if I want it. Even though they're black and white, I'm not sure if I want a lot, a lot, a lot of color. And let's see. I like, I'm going to take these since they are close to the ice milk color for my days off. That is it. I may use the next week sticker. So, okay. Now, what did I put this out for?  Let me put that down. And I pulled this out for business. So now I'm going to take the big dots of ice milk. And the reason I just made the stickers say business is because I know that's business related. It could be North's code. It could be the podcast. As a matter of fact, it's going to podcast. I need to put that down. Please don't do this to me. I was going to say this is my next to last business sticker. This was a oops. So I need to put down podcasts. The podcast is coming back and it's going to be regular. If you've never, matter of fact, we put another sticker here to draw my eye to that because I already have the outline. I just have to film it or record it. Okay, this podcast. And then once I do this podcast, I like to outline for the next. And what I've decided to do is for my podcast is kind of batch record. And that way I'm caught up and that way it doesn't lack because a lot of people enjoy it. And so that way it just doesn't lack and it stays ahead. And so I'm creating a system for myself and a schedule. Okay, we need to film. Actually, I'm filming before I go to the doctor's office. So I'm just gonna put it here because I'm gonna have to record two videos today because I was supposed to do it yesterday, but I had company and then I helped my son out with some stuff for his making a t-shirt all this stuff. So it just took away a little time. But nonetheless, we're gonna get it done. So under that, under film, I had some micro dots in these, but it's okay. We're gonna use these. This is what I'll do. I'm going to get these micro dots that I've ordered from, I'll use these from Maypaper Co. And I'll just use the milk, not I keep saying milk, it's not milk. The flat white, I love her flat white and because it just kind of puts me in the mind of my milk. Okay, so we need to film a plan with me. And we need to film a budget. And I'm also going to be filming on Wednesday. We need to do that Wednesday. So to kind of even that out, I'm just gonna take this big splat here. Let me drop it here. Just trying to kind of fill it out. And I have a film right here. So I'm gonna take that. I love stickers. Now I can plan without stickers, but I just, I don't know. So I'm gonna have some form of sticker. So Thursday, I work. It is afternoon down. So I'm gonna put it here. 6pm. Now things have been slow and I'm just hoping things pick back up. I kind of know the schedule, but to have that lady on Tuesday is new. So I made sure I highlighted that. But then everything else stays the same. So far, I'm not working Saturday. And definitely not Sunday. And then I said I needed to film. And I'm kind of like all over the place. I'm just gonna take a little YouTube sticker here. Okay, so Wednesday I work. We need to do some designing. I need to make some design stickers. And Wednesday we're filming June. Something I've kind of wanted to do for a while. Now, tomorrow is Tuesday. Me and my coworkers are starting to work, work out again and go walking. But I know tomorrow I can't because of the time. Tuesday I may can, but I'll just put down work out because I may have to work out on my own on Wednesday. I need to work Friday. So Thursday is a very good day to work out. I'm really left with no choice because I have a doctor's appointment today and I already know things ain't right. And I need to keep it together. So I put AM routine, I'm just gonna go and put AM routine. And I kind of feel like I don't need to put AM routine. So also what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to add another day to my filming schedule. And like I said, I was supposed to have recorded this video like Saturday. So I'm going to, on Friday, I'm going to try to make time to film another one of these stickers. And then Thursday we have this whole day here. So we're going to do some designing. And let me backtrack here. We have a bill due on the 25th. We have PayPal. So I'm going to use these new stickers here. I realized these were oops after I had kind of like posted them. But I have like two bills. And then here I'm just going to write in cursive to kind of bring my eye to it. We have PayPal. And then the 28th we have another bill due, which is Saturday. I may need to be at work on Saturday, which is my car insurance. And in cursive here, we're just a slant to kind of bring my eye to that. Any other bills do. Oh, I have also on the 28th. Let me see. Go daddies on the 29th here. Luckily, that's not much. And these stickers here is just, I don't know, I had a vision of these like, oh, that'll be cool. And I just tried to remember. I don't know if I was half sleep. And then I remembered when I woke up and I just started designing the way I was. I saw them in my low vision. So that's how they came to be.  Well, yes, I do. I have Saturday so far. But this always can change. And it just depends on my my mood. I will definitely want to work out Saturday. You see how simple and quick this is to do besides well, for me, I'm I can't talk about anyone else for me. It's just quicker to do it this way. I've been meaning to make me some white boxes to put here so that I can will put so I can put here. I'm Thursday at all of this time. So I got workout design. There's so much I could do. But I'm going to leave that empty. Let me make let me check my salon schedule and make sure there is nothing that I'm missing or that I didn't put anyone down. Nope, that is correct. All right, next, I'm going to check my trigger list because I feel like I might be missing something. Okay, let me back up here and put email. I have some email stickers. I need to just write it down. I need to email about the new releases. I'm actually need to do that today. Let's see appointment here. But now because I'm sure I'm have another list of doctors I need to call but I just have to do a mistake because I just cannot call these doctors all in one day is overwhelming. And that's how I didn't get it done last time. So that's what I'm doing. Also, we need to the bill isn't due. I'm going to put it down anyway. I need to on Thursday. I need to give some money to G mobile because I didn't pay them last week. And yo, this is it so far. I do want to put now for next week. So let me find my next week stickers. I went right to it. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to just do a little highlight here. And we find a nice color that is similar to what I'm using. Okay, I'm going to use this tumble pin and nine nine zero. And I'm just going to make a quick I like I can never do that correctly. But anyway, then we're going to take next week. And it kind of give me a jumpstart on next week, which I already know will be the first of the month bills. So what I'm going to do, I'm just going to take the end of the make some dots, five dots. So next week, we have credit cards due. And I'm just going to skip to the first in my calendar, which I needed to have done because I need to look at June. But any who, let's look. We know we have credit cards due. I'm gonna put down T mobile, because I have to catch that up. Yes. So next week is the first. So it's a lot of credit cards to do making doctors appointments, make doctor appointments. And I'll leave that open. Okay, you guys. So let's pop this in. But this is what the week is looking like. Very minimal, functional. And I'll be able to actually look at this and get some things done. And so for some of the empty spaces, I'll probably fill those in. So this is the week of the 23rd to the 29th. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If so, do me a favor, hit that subscribe button. Also, hit that notification bell, leave me a message in the comment section if you enjoyed today's video. And if you are new here, thank you all so much for watching. And I will see you in my next video.


Hey guys, this is hydro from x trades back with another weekly video And as usual, we'll start off with the indices. We'll start off with SPY and QQQ Take a look the weekly chart SPY So once again, very very strong end up nothing really changed from last week's analysis We just continue to grind Higher and higher every single week Overall looks very very bullish. We're definitely in a very strong bull market ever since that Ever since November basically of last year. We've been in a very very strong uptrend and Although it looks like we are getting extended the market can still definitely go a lot a lot higher. So You know overall really really good action last week We had a couple days of consolidation and then on Thursday We had a breakout and then on Friday. We got very nice follow through so overall SPY looks really bullish and then Yeah, although we had such a strong uptrend. We were continuing to move up higher. So Continue to be bullish until the trend changes, right? And then QQQ same thing had a very nice bull flag forming and then a very very strong breakout on Thursday And then very nice follow through on Friday. So same exact thing for SPY and QQQ Both indices are very very strong and they're very strong both Her bull or we are in a very strong bull market right now Now, let's also take a look at IWM IWM is also starting to look good here We are we finally did break that 205 level. So the weekly chart looks really really good here And the next target should be 213 Also on IWM, we are making new 52 week highs now. So really good action there Yeah, not much of the same The breadth is definitely improving more and more small cap stocks have been participating. So that's really good And yeah, how much to say we're definitely in a bull market and don't fight don't fight the trend until the trend changes, right? Let's also take a look at ARKK The ARKK is still a little bit weaker, but it looks ready to break out if it can take out that 51.5 Level so ARKK also very very bullish Or it looking very very bullish It looks like it wants to break out of this base and make a big breakout But yeah, overall very good action this week from the market Pretty much everything They're pretty much that entire market is in a very strong uptrend Like the big caps small caps everything's trying to yeah form an uptrend now. So overall a very very bullish action and Yeah, now let's take a look at some individual big cap tech stocks start off with Apple So Apple is one of the weaker ones Apple actually lost out 180 resistance level, which 180 support level which doesn't look great But Apple did have a nice close on Friday It did go all the way down to 177.5 but close to near 180 So that is bullish there But still not the best action on Apple and it's in a downtrend right now until it breaks this trend line Then I would not be looking to go along on Apple Next up, let's take a look at AMD. AMD had a very strong breakout this week This one Had a nice flag forming over here and then On Thursday, I had a very strong gap up and then very strong close took out that 183 level And then on Friday got very nice follow through and all this happened on an increase in volume So overall very very good action on AMD and this looks really really good on the weekly chart as well Um, but yeah, very strong breakup And then uh, yeah next we'll take a look at broadcom Broadcom also had a very strong breakout this week So also had a very strong gap up last week and then this week We could pretty much just consolidate it all week long and then on Friday we had a very strong gap up and very strong close and That's a really big move for big cap name 7.5 7.5 9% on a day, but yeah, really really strong weekly chart as well Um, but yeah, this one I would not be surprised to see this one at 2000 um Yeah, broad comes just in insanely strong name and then it's also in There it's also in a very strong group the semiconductors, but uh, yeah Next up, we'll take a look at Google So google looks like it's still in a downtrend here Until it breaks this upper trend line then Or until breaks this trend line, you don't want to be long or long on google Um, but yeah, google doesn't look the best either right now Next up, we'll take a look at meta meta on the other hand very very strong action this week had a strong gap up and then it consolidated tightly here and then On thirsty it started to like touch that resistance level and then on Friday We got above it and very strong close So overall meta looks really really bullish This one looks ready to start printing up higher again after a few weeks of consolidation It's finally breaking out again. So meta looks really good Microsoft um So microsoft just consolidating here overall good action It filled its gap and yeah, it's just pretty much just consolidating for now. So overall microsoft looks fine here And yeah, it has room back up to the 420 level Netflix um Netflix had a very strong breakout here and then it consolidated and then formed a little Breakout zone here and then capped up and then consolidated and then on Friday got a very nice follow through So overall Netflix is turning up again um It was also consolidating here for a while and now it's trying to Uh, it now looks like it's in a very steady uptrend. So overall Netflix looks really really good here as well Next up Nvidia um Nvidia just keeps going right How much to say for the stock the stock's just insanely strong I had a very nice breakout on Thursday was it was forming a nice flag and then on Friday got very nice follow through So overall Nvidia looks really really strong once again Um, but yeah, not much else to say for Nvidia just an insanely strong stock and then Tesla so tesla looks constructive doesn't look bad. Um, it is struggling with that 205 level But if it can take that level out this one does look pretty good So yeah, if it can it's starting to like form a little flag here. So if it takes out 205 I would say this one looks pretty good for a move back up to like that 210 to 12 area um, but overall tesla actually looks pretty Looks decent short term, but uh, if you look at the bigger picture, it's still in a very very, very Clear dot trend and until clears that trend line Then uh, it has to still In a dot trend, but it does have a lot of room. So potentially if it does really you could see a move all the way up to 235 So good short term potential though Uh, and now let's take a look at some individual Um names start up with airbnb Airbnb had a very nice breakout this week It did form an inside bar and then this week it took that out And the very strong close as well. So yeah, airbnb is looking pretty good touch 160 on friday And uh, yeah, not much else to say airbnb is finally breaking out of this base. So It looks really good and has a lot of potential higher Um, I would say first target would be around that 175 level Yeah Next up, let's take a look at kava So kava It's another recent ipo. This one's acting really well Um, it's making new 52 week highs here. So really good action Um, here everything actually so So it's resistance level it took it out and now it's starting to form a little flag here. So Kava, it looks really really good. I like that volume. I like this volume Overall kava is very very strong. Um, and it's been in a strong trend since december. So this one's another top watch Coin This one's uh, this one had a very nice breakup this monday all crypto names did and now it's just flagging here So this one looks ready to go as well next week So this isn't another a plus setup to watch for next week. It looks really good here Kavana, um, this one had a very strong gap up and it got followed through this week Had a nice breakout on tuesday and then once a thursday just consolidated and on friday It looks like it's reconfirming higher here. So overall looks really really good And this is definitely one that you want to keep your eye on really nice weekly chart as well So Next up let's take a look at j m i a this one is like the amazon of africa So this one has a lot of potential really good volume Had a nice flag here and then had a massive massive breakout on big volume And looks pretty good on the weekly chart as well Definitely breaking that downtrend. So this is definitely another name You want to keep your eye on lots of potential. This one's a fast mover. So Yeah, this is another good name to watch lly This is another name that has been in a steady uptrend all year long insane rally from uh 2021 and this one just keeps going higher and higher But yeah, right now it's just consolidating here had a nice breakout on friday But it is just consolidating between these two levels. So It looks to be taking out that 780 level, but let's see what happens next week very strong gap up on friday and so Yeah, overall looks really really good. It didn't form like a downtrend on here And then on friday gap up and had a very strong close. So this one looks like it has room to hit 800 next week Next up, let's take a look at palantir Palantir is another one that looks pretty decent here. Um This one was viable as Yeah, this one was viable on tuesday as it got through that 24 level and then yeah, pretty much just uh went all the way up to 25 25.5 again, which was previous resistance and then rejected but this one looks pretty good and Honestly, if it can form some sort of flag here and really really nice weekly chart Palantir as well Next target would be around that 27.5 level. So this is another one that you definitely want to keep your eye on huge volume Yeah, this one's definitely a name that institutions like as well And then we'll also take a look at smci So as I said before semi-conductors have been very strong and smci had uh Pretty quiet week Compared to like how I used to for the last couple weeks pretty quiet week But it did have a very strong gap up or it is gaping up very strong friday after hours Because it is going to be included in the s&p. So um, yeah, this one This one could gap and go on monday. So Definitely keep an eye out on this one as well And then last but not least tsm. This is another another semi-conductor name And this one also had a very strong breakout on friday Had very clear resistance level at 131 level and then it pretty much Gapped on friday and then took that out and then made new 52 week highs But not the best close but um, so yeah, definitely some resistance around that 135 level But this one still looks really really good. And it's another top watch for me um Also in a very strong uptrend But yeah, that's pretty much all I have for this week Semi-conductors are definitely the names that you want to be paying attention to they are the strongest name Very strongest sector right now. And then crypto would also be another Theme to focus on and then software as well And uh, yeah, also if you guys are interested in one-on-one mentoring feel free to DM me on discord But um, yeah, that's pretty much all I have for you guys for this weekend Um, thank you guys for tuning in There's a reason why x trades is currently the fastest growing application on the market for sharing financial ideas With over 2.5 million dollars paid in the last two years to contributors Users are flocking to see what trades the top traders on the leaderboard are sharing in real time If you're looking to grow your reputation as a trader on the internet or discuss your trading ideas with other reputable investors Click the link below and get connected with the trading mentor today completely free of charge


And Roy has got this thing called I detect and when I first saw that I said I detect what you know Like you're going down the road on a family vacation with my little eye. I spy Not quite so I detect is a method for doing lie detection that does not involve that Strap around the waist and the squiggly lines exactly right You know polygraph was invented back in the 20s and 1920s and 1927 actually and it went along really well for about 50 years then in 1991 some guys in Utah Fact the same fellows that have developed I detect Computerized the polygraph. So since 1991 there hasn't been any advance until now These guys were out on a hiking trip going mountain climbing actually and they're their theoretical psychologist over at the University of Utah and They theorized that you could tell if someone was lying by monitoring what the pupils of their eyes were doing and It turns out their research was true It was accurate because the brain is in gear much more cognitive effort to tell a lie because you're constructing a story Versus telling the truth where you're just recalling an event. So they theorized that this would work It did work and a 12 years ago. They started working on this process now It's developed into a into a product called I detect and it's as accurate as a polygraph now But when you use it in concert with a polygraph the accuracy rate goes up to about 97% confidence Wow That's pretty strong and either one is like 85% I think that's right. That's right together 97% Yep, holy cow. Yeah, so is this being used at present by law enforcement. Let me tell you guys are some of the first in the country to even hear about this. Oh This is this is brand new stuff as a matter of fact it was premiered in the United States back in December actually the first Police organization to use this was the is the Utah Salt Lake City Department to the police department they fit people that are applying for jobs are getting promotions or transfers and This was shown for the first time in Washington, DC We were up there in December and showed it to the intelligence community and to the to the national federal law enforcement folks And they went gaga Hillary Clinton's were ex-uncle Hillary was nowhere around. She was nowhere But you know, it's it's amazing how with this technology some of the problems some of the major problems that were facing counterintelligence wise Or counter-terrorism wise could be solved and and that's why they're such excitement about this in DC now Is because the State Department realizes that we could sit down 10,000 mind you 10,000 Syrian refugees give them a 30 minute true false test while they sit in front of the computer and we monitor their eyes and Within 30 minutes for each one we could tell you if they're a terrorist or if they have terrorist ties Wow, that's great. You you talk about cost-effective. How cost-effective could something like this be it? Well, let me tell you a polygraph Generally throughout the country can range anywhere from four hundred and fifty dollars to eleven hundred dollars Our eye-detect test worst-case scenario sells for about a hundred and sixty bucks. Wow It's for test test right and here's the here's the really interesting part I think is that a polygraph will take about two hours to two and a half hours and we do those at the investigative agency and it Has its place believing but this eye-detect test takes about 30 to 40 minutes and the results come back within five minutes In a printed report. Oh So the next big question is how does this compare cost-wise for the equipment to let's say the polygraph if a If an organization buys a hundred tests or more that we give them the equipment Really yep Man, yeah, it's incredible. Yeah, it really is And you know there's there's a thing that we do and we did today for example we showed this to the law enforcement folks today and We did what's called a blind number test or stem test as known as in the polygraph world where we asked some of the people That were tending today to pick a number between two and nine and to write it down Put it in their pocket and then to take a 10-minute eye-detect test answering true false questions and We told them at the end of that test what the number was that they picked and if we got it wrong They got the brand-new hundred dollar bill that was sitting next to the computer Wow, and I still have my hundred dollar bill. That's that's incredible So it is incredible. Is this being used anywhere else in the country or anywhere else in the world? I should just being introduced now. We're we're some of the partners with Converis Which is the company that has been licensed by the University of Utah to bring this out to the marketplace and We actually are some of the yeah, you guys are some of the first people in the country to hear about this It's been used in Central and South America for the last two years They didn't have some of the blockades of legislation to put up with there that we have in the United States Imagine that So it's been on the ground and in use there as a matter of fact the federal lease in Mexico I have a huge problem with corruption and infiltration of cartel members and no and they are they are gearing up to do 50,000 of these eye-detect tests In the next year, you know worried that they're the Mexican drug cartels are gonna come wipe out the Lafayette office No senior Man, I don't know about this and it's interesting to see I've got this the brochure here John in front of me and on the back it lists, you know the technology and it lists the companies Including global data fusion here in the oil center. I think that's terrific. That's true. Thanks. Yeah, I'm absolutely We're excited. We're very very excited about this. I think it's a real game changer So if somebody in the law enforcement community or anybody wants to do some sort of security testing How do they get ahold of you? Do they do the Coolidge Coolidge Boulevard? Just to look up global data fusion online there's a whole explanation of what eye-detect is in one of our tabs and We'll be happy to go and talk to them and demonstrate the demonstrate the technology Cool any closing comments before we have to wrap up for Todd stones, you know, you know Some of the verticals that we're looking at right now are a law enforcement Of course the airport management folks because the real issue in the airport You know the people that work on the ground near the airplanes we can test those and tell you if they're up to Also the horse the State Department to all the intelligence community folks Even the world doping association. We have a test for water and we can tell you if an athlete's been doping Have you tested this in there in Colorado? No, I just wonder what the ice kids Great well, thanks for being with us. I appreciate you turning us on to this This is really really some great things and if you guys would like even off mic sometimes I'll give you a demo and we'll do the blind number test. No, senior. I would love Well, John, let me know let me know when you do it. Yeah, come in. Come and we'll do that Maybe we could do that and video it. That'd be great. Well, let's do it. Okay. Thank you I'll give you a hundred bucks if I don't get your number Well, as long as you don't ask certain parameters of questions, I'll be glad to do it. Oh, no, absolutely, right? Thanks, Ed Roy. Thank you


Okay, thank you. So, we have a new one. It's going to be called the OPAC Development Experience, by Eric. And this is also Robert, who is currently with us as well. And before we begin, I just want to let you start hanging out there for a few more seconds, for you to endure. And now we can move on to today's agenda. Just turn it off the table. Okay, we are going to start here very still. So, in this agenda, we are going to talk about the one-ist development experience. And we are going to look at three different kinds of categories of tools related to development experience. We are going to look at the commercial problem, building, testing. And then when I ask you, you can put it all together into one beginning workload that you can apply in your day-to-day work on the OPAC. But before we begin, I'm Eric. I work at CERCEL in the hotspot in Amsterdam. This is it. As my colleagues know, I tend to work a little bit for the vertical ways, particularly with some other between the structures. I also have to make sure that the test systems works cool too, such as catering, getting all these corners. You can find it on the ARC channel on either CERCEL.net under my OPAC username. She has it. So, let's get on with the development experience. What is it? I want to start off by defining the other term, actually. The two experiences. The beginning of the user experience is the person, the motion, the activities, what people can actually do from the system for service. Now, the thing is that developers, we are users too. We have to use a lot of tools, to work with worker control, with field systems, testing systems, with frameworks, IEDs, about services. And the development experience is the experience of using all the development tools for a project. Now, if we apply this to OpenADK, we'll see that we actually have quite a few tools that we may use of when working on OpenADK. We have EZS tools, for example, 8G or material. The various plugins that OpenADK provides to the VCS tools, such as Vabran, Daphon, GateCheck. We have the field system itself, mainly consisting of Configure and Make. We have the testing tools and system. We have G2A, the test harness and the driver. We have Google tests, for those of you who are working in HotBot.  We can use the tested V and V unit to run with that. The IED support, not only generating project files for those field files, but also the IEDs themselves, such as Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, E-Max, the other bin. And also a bunch of services that we use, the JBS, the bug system. You upload your web apps to CR and you communicate. We make requests on IOC and maybe something else. And all of these files together are from the developer experience. Now, the good thing about being a developer is that you know a lot of these tools.  We can change a lot of these tools and thereby enhance our day-to-day life and our developer experience. And in this talk, we're going to have a look at the three first categories. We're going to see a look at the GCS tools, and we're going to look at the build system and the testing systems. So that's getting into this So OpenADK uses Mercurial or 8B for short as the version control system. And the big thing that happened in the last year with regards to the developer experience here was in 1996. From some of the data needed for us in the single repository, which consisted of eight. So OpenADK, the project for a new German sort of coherent repository was edited at three of the repositories, eight of them. We wanted to work with both OpenADK and it was a bit of an issue there, but the great news is that in 2006, OpenADK was editing from eight into one repository. If you want to work on the latest mainline, you can have a single HG code command and get the GADK, GADK source code. The values here are multiple. As you can see on the slide, it's easy to get started. It's easier to wrap your head around how the repository is laid out. You get a ton of commits. If I make a change to multiple and I make a change to the GADK, I can now commit to this one atomic commit previously done in different repositories, so we had to correlate changes, but now it's one commit going into the project. We also have one hash for one year commit describing the entire state of the project during the entire time, which is great if you want to describe like, yeah, I'm working on a change here that applies to this commit.  You can see this guy, eight different hashes or eight different commits. We're going to say what you work at 5.2. Now, more only as we've got work on our side, Mercurial Hub Suite has done tremendous work in 2017. Mercurial is approximately releasing every three months new features in the new HG releases and the latest one 4.5 is just around the corner. So a few things that I think really stand out in 2017 is that the story around editing local commits and history is much better now than Mercurial. You have commands now such as amend, unamend, uncommit, split, split, we base and shell. Also in a safe way, change of history is a little bit nice to work with before we push it off up-speed. The interface has improved. We are getting some extensions moving into core material. We see that the pager extension is the UI of HG8. The core extension is also available in UI of course I think. Show has been introduced and you play in for getting a better overview of the work. Graph log for getting a better look at history. And the performance has also been greatly improved. And as we go through working on OVNK I can highly recommend the FS monitor extension which uses watchman and therefore get final notifications when things are changed. So if you're on command such as HG status they will execute much, much faster. Now just to grow it up here this is actually my HGRC my configuration file that I use when working with it. This is my computer 4.5. I put my OVNK user name in there I turn on the page in it and cover it the settings so I get a better output and I set the wiring in my terminal. I even have a bunch of extensions some of these are experimental some are more stable but to me they're all vital to my workflow at least. If you want to get more into the detailed details of this you can come and talk to me afterwards. So with that, once you have the source code and what you're going to do with it yes you want to build it. So that's what we want to film in a bit. Since around September 2016 the so-called new build system has been in place. And it's used for OVNK so nowadays you just type that computer and it will build the product. The great thing here is that Confidium is actually very helpful if you're missing something at the terminal somewhere it will help you out in a good way. For example here I removed the C++ from my Devian system so Confidium would tell me I could not find a suitable C++ but since it knows that I'm running Devian it suggests that maybe you should go ahead and get this build center package and find it. The documentation has been improved for the building and you will now find it in the doc directory in the OVNK repository. Now one thing that's always been a little bit problematic for those of you working on the latest mainline version of Devian K completely new features, bug fixes has been finding a proper boot Devian K so if you want to build the OVNK you should require a dedicated image to bootstrap the build process and for example the building of the Devian K9 you need a Devian K8 distribution and it can be a little bit more to find a suitable boot Devian K when you're working. For example the Devian K8 repository currently requires Devian K9 it might soon require Devian K10 and it shares a lot of Linux institutions to do not package that recent Devian Ks and the work dedicated to the proprietary. Now the great news here as Mark announced is that upstream build by the builds of OVNK under the decal to inspire the available you can find the builds at jdk.jov.next at 9 for OVNK 9 builds and this makes for excellent boot GDKs for your build process. So we actually try this out so now we're going to build from scratch on Devian 9 desktop and middle system thanks to the consolidation a single HD code we see the internet extreme we use Wget to get a boot GDK a GPL license, find a build of OVNK and we use that as a boot GDK when we're working here and then we try to make images so in five steps I have a completely properly built image and you know hopefully if you're doing this on our build you're going to miss a few packages but again configures here to help you and will guide you so you just repeat a few times and then you're good you're going to have a properly built OVNK image locally off your machine there has been a lot of developer experience improvements in the build system there's been a lot of improvements overall to the main files and the build system but there are a few developer experience improvements here, for example there's the body symbols and they're longer shipped by default so if you're working on hotspots and you get a little crash when you work on your picture you can now much more easily the body can be made the font config library is no longer bundled without the update I know that this is good news for the packages out there for different distributions you can now provide even more easily after a font config package the compiler errors are repeated at the end of the build output you no longer have to scroll multiple pages of output to find out one little test compilation error that causes the build to go over another good feature is you were mainly working on your own tools you were basically scripting on your own is that all compiler commands are available in .commandline files for each source code files that means that you're going to look at the exact command that was used to produce for example .o file you can find that in either .commandline file with the same name as the source file and finally that not the least at all the run test project was introduced and this is actually a bit more deeper in terms of my work though a lot as this was introduced so run test is a new top domain project for the run that test and it is used to execute all the different kind of progression tests we have in OK&K run that test then you set the test variable to whatever kind of test you want to execute you can set it to a single test file you can set it to a test group like a gathering test you can set it to a directory containing multiple test files it supports all the test frameworks we make use of in OK&K particularly the gathering and global test and you can run was actually anything you provided in the run looks like test for example here we are going to run the tier one test a tier of test really good for sound testing as we try to make run that test test equals tier one now if you do this a lot there are also a short hand station for running as sweep of tests you can just type make run-test-tier one and in the other example here on the bottom of the slide you want to run all the easy tests of what K-DRAG is in directory and so then we just set the test variable to test of what K-DRAG is and run-test will find all the K-DRAG tests in this directory and execute them correctly now correct-tier is important because run-test it's not that easy to run all the tests in a proper way and run-test will do this for you it will ignore tests that are in problem list of GSD because those tests might have an error or there might be something going on they might be unstable but it will pay you a fine and they are at least in the problem list of GSD and they will be properly ignored for example if you execute all the tests in the directory you will not run those that you ignore it always uses spader numbers so if the test fails a few actions will begin maybe you will get a core file those will be run it always uses a fresh clean directory and running all the tests is important if you run K-DRAG tests it uses multiple cores it doesn't want you to speed up the execution or run all the tests alright that's the correct GDM flag which tests appropriately but it doesn't work as I am used to say in the afternoon you can pass options under the test runner and or test framework on the slide here it will pass the repeat equals minus 1 option to the test runner and you can also pass more specific GDM options to the GDM if you have that need there is extensive documentation available under the docs that testing.ed and if you want to use this feature it is very important that you pass that GDM to configure because one test needs to know where to find a GDM image so you can find a GDM binary and use it as a test format for executing your test now this last bit we will use in the next section about testing because getting a hold of a proper GDM image hasn't always been the easiest and if you want to use this you also feature runners to pass a proper GDM image to pass that with GDM to configure now building GDM used to be a little problematic Java help depends on GDM only available in the ancient subversion of the GDM another dependency of GDM actually requires a proprietary library the third one the dependencies for GDM you will not properly specify which version should I use which one should I get from the third one the dependencies if you didn't actually find out the version you would realize that they were a bit outdated and not only are they directly compatible with each other you won't find getting a correctly built GDM version the good news is that all this has been fixed so nowadays you only need to clone the GDM repository since you need to ensure that you have a GDM image on your workstation I'm running that now so I just can't get installed or communicate the 8-digit and then I use the new build-all script and I pass it to the directory of the GDM image and I will automatically get a properly built GDM image the script will download verify and build require third-party tools if there's something needed from OpenAT those will be downloaded from the HID.OpenAT verify that it's being downloaded correctly build it and also if we have there are multiple third-party yards that we depend on download it from Naver Central and also verify that it checks out that we got the right bits down to the computer and the great news here is is that if you use build-all to build GDM you will get an image that is very suitable for passing to the actual GDM to configure so now not only can you build from scratch on that day and night thanks to the new build-all script for GDM you can actually build and run tests in very few commands from scratch on that day and night so you get the source code as a real HID code command CD to the directory and when you build a computer make sure that you pass that a detailed license of the GDM and also pass that to the recently built GDM image and now when you run make run-test tier 1 no longer will you get a proper OpenAT image as a result of all the tier 1 and 7 tests on that will be an image to do at least get some kind of verification that takes you to build together but there has been more going on in the last year thanks to the consolidation effort when we consolidated all these different repositories we could take the opportunity to fix a little issue we had because when we are writing the GDM tests we make use of helpers or sorts that are available in the test library but one possible to provide GDM tests and the GDM was also one of them to provide GDM tests so we had to get copies of this test library in two different repositories now that the repositories have been consolidated we could take the opportunity to merge those test libraries into one and here you get the sorts you get tools for handling processes you get staffing helpers etc and if you want to get started and maybe buy a little GDM test you can find information you need I know that there are quite a few hotspot developers in here and those of you who mainly write the Zbustas in your native video working on hotspot a group of tests has been available for quite some time providing unit tests in Zbustas for hotspot so on the slide here we have a very small unit test for hotspot we start off it's a regular HTTP file and as for hotspots then we assume the necessary headers and then there's a small difference where we include unit tests for HTTP and we use a macro called testVM to set up our test and these little tests will just ensure that a newly created instance of the G1 analytics files is actually initialized correctly if you want to get started the Google Test Optimum documentation applies deeply well to open a gate test and providing that there are a few minor details that differs particularly around the test macros so we have to define it a little bit to suit our needs if you use the test macro you would say that my test will run fine without even having an initialized JVM this is great if you do require an initialized JVM for a test to execute you can use the testVM macro but you would rather share a JVM to make the test execute faster if you need an isolated separate JVM and if you want to check if the JVM actually fixes with an assert you can use the testVM macro to write such a negative test and remember always make the unit test as it is the last in-cube in your TPU test this has to do with some macros running to many reasons so let's now see if we can put all the information together it's a one hopefully coherent work though so if you want to fix a valuable work in a feature just start off by doing this and if you want to get the source code down you might want to create a branch for the issue you want to work on so you create a new branch with material you run a configure and here it's pretty at least I find it efficient to name there's a support for build profiles in the build system so you can have multiple build directories for a single repository it's quite appropriate to name them after the branch you're working on and just doing random build all the time so here I'm going to name my build profile in the same name as the HD branch and the issue I'm working on of course I'm going to pass my jQuery image to dash dash with jQuery I'm going to pass it off to my downloaded APM to the binary build of my ADK as the boot ADK I'm going to do some hacking I'm going to write some tests of course I'm going to write tests for the new features and I'm going to run those tests locally and here I can now use make and I need to provide to make which configuration which build profile I need to run to pass the contributing variable set it to my computer to my branch name and I'm going to run the tier 1 and tier 2 tests to do some sound testing and checking now as Mark announced we do have a release sort of submit repository as you can now to your HD configuration file for this repository and it pops to both the submit repository and the sandbox repository so to do some final testing remember as Mark says we do trust that you're using these services so if you use one as much testing you can look at it but for the final testing when you want to do multiple platforms you can push your branch to the submit repository and then if you want to share the code with other developers to get some feedback you can push it to the sandbox repository so it can be easily used by other developers and of course if you finally want to get upstream you can do an e-mail so you can be discussed on the main list and finding that through so we're looking towards the next tier in the pipe one is one feature that I think is pretty cool which is a new make command called compile commands so those are the ones we see as faster a lot more recent years might go of the CMake build system that conveniently creates a compile command so it gives you some file for it this file contains for every native disability file you will contain the exact code online that was run and executed to compile that file which can then be hooked into a load tooling if this has been sort of inefficiently standardized for single test tools to use to find out what defines a particular source file this means that we can get much better integration with tools such as C9 tools in the C9 suite and also C querying to get some condition for our C++ and please join us in all this work what can be improved in all these develop experience tools what can it fix if something is working well please provide feedback too without the help of things that are actually working please and this does not require any super GVM skills or I need to be some language the cycle of some sort start hacking on the tool tools maybe the version of the tool tools if you are working with MAKE files that will be greatly efficient to do or just write a test or two to see if things are holding together and get into that and keep in touch with us I just said no, no in the game channel no IRC, no optical masks and just introduce yourself or tell us if something is working so thank you very much if you 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Tyon Ng-Chan is a Hamilton-based writer, researcher, and media artist. She's worked in experimental cinema, photography, poetry, and processes of mapping. And her current projects explore object-oriented storytelling. And she is a founding member of the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit, which she's going to talk about, I think, a little bit, right? Yeah, a little bit. And which is an artist research collective that creates performative walking events. And she also teaches in the Department of Media Art at York University. So, Tyon. Thank you. Hi, everyone. These have been really great panels. Thank you for organizing. It's been like just a day of learning. So, yeah. So, we're talking about research creation. What heck is research creation? Most of you know what that is with them? It's a funding category. It's a funding category. Yeah, totally a funding category. Broadly, a lot of the effort has been put into sort of like defining, right? Like what is research creation? How is it used? What are the methodologies? So, personally, what I do is my technique is basically making place out of non-place, right? So, very... Yeah, there we go. Thanks. So, non-place is the idea that more and more of the world has no distinguishing features that make it a place, right? And these are like malls, strip malls, the highway, transit, airports. And so, how do we make place, right? Which is often, you know, stories, memories, narrative, experience, right? These are all place-making things. So, what I do with the Hamilton Prambulatory Unit, or HPU, as we call ourselves if you don't want to say the super long name, is we give walking events and mapping events. So, a lot of our things are participatory and relational, right? So, we use all these methodologies. So, a lot of this is where the research comes in, right? So, we're bringing in a lot of theories and literature from social science. It's very interdisciplinary. So, we have social science, geography, cartography, ethnography, auto-ethnography. What else is up there? Psycho-geography, right? Is, you know, basically just using the body as a sensing tool to move through space, documenting these things, and then, of course, having to share our results, right? So, this is all part of the research elements when we're working in a university, right? We're researching, and how do we do that in creative methods? So, the actual research is creative. It's performative workshops which make relations, that's part of the art part of it, is making relationships to place as well as between people. And there's a lot of, like, mobile media apps as well that help you do this. So, some of these are like Drift, Dervive, Serendipider, Indeterminate Hikes. These are all, some of them don't exist anymore, because as we know, part of the research process is based on grants, and once the grant ends, what happens, right? The work disappears. So, documentation is like a really necessary part of this. But a lot of these apps are helping you to move through space and get lost, right? Because how can we get lost these days? Everybody has GPS on their phones and maps. So, getting lost is like a large part of this. So, what we do as HPU is we help you move through space and sense the space around us. And this can be in form of our strata walk, which is one of our methodologies. And that is looking at all the different layers that make up place. And the layers can be infinite. It can be anything, right? These are some of our suggestions, like sign strata. So, as you move through, you look through texts, and you identify what texts, systems, those texts belong to. For instance, street signs, graffiti can be like interventionist or poetic text, colonial text. I love that on UBC here, you have many different languages on the signs, and that's like highlighting, you know, the different social aspects and historical aspects of place. You know, architectural strata, inanimate strata, electrical strata, like where does the electricity come from? Shiny strata, you know, what are the shiny things? Attraction strata, which refers back to the situationists who walked, you know, according to what repels and attracts you. Audio strata, tactile strata, you know, so these can go on. We have more. Story strata, right? What kind of stories can be told about a place? Cinematic strata, right? So, what images are overlaid on a place that we can find through movies? Rhythm strata, that's a nod to only the fevs, rhythm analysis, so what kinds of rhythms can you find in a place? So, this is like a framework of how do you approach placemaking, which is like a large part of our research. And so, these are some of the maps that have come up through some of the walks that we have held as the HPU. For instance, this is the animal strata. So, looking at all the animals. So, as we're walking around in a group, generally each person has a different strata because it's really hard to focus, right, on more than two strata at a time, really. This is graffiti strata. So, somebody went and documented all the graffiti that they saw on this block around the AGH, that's the Art Gallery of Hamilton, where we had this walk. This is a color, I think, color strata. This is leaves tree strata. There's another one. Trees are very popular. And this is, I think it's Wi-Fi strata, you know, so when you look on your phone and you see all the different Wi-FIs that pop up, and so somebody had actually mapped those on this trip. So, this is the research part, and this is part of the dissemination. So, I work very interdisciplinary, right? So, I am in cinema, media arts. I also do, you know, these relational walks, which are kind of performative. And also, some of my work is in visual arts. So, the gallery space, the white box. And so, some of this research goes into an interactive video sculptural installation that I did. And this is the table that you can see. This is at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, part of the show called Hamilton Now Object. And this is what it looks like up close. So, and this is another one, another iteration at Waterloo. And I think this is in Windsor, right? So, it's site-specific, everywhere that it's shown. You know, I have to reconfigure the map and the sculptural elements. The sculptural elements are made out of plaster poured into food object containers. So, it's on this kitchen table, so it invokes like the mundane and the everyday. And does this autoplay? Click on it? Click on it with what? Click ahead. Oh, there you go. So, basically, this is one of the dissemination methodologies of this research, which is it's interactive as you see. And it's the idea of what is a city when you first approach it? It's a blank space, right? There's nothing because we don't know anything about it. And then the first layer that we find is generally Google Maps, right? So, when we interact with the table, this is the Google Map layer. But there's different layers, and the higher you go, the more personal the layers become. So, there's another second layer, which is images of the place. And then the third layer incorporates some of these stratum maps that we're done as part of the workshop. And you have to go really far up like this to access that layer and it incorporates all the different stratum maps from the participants. And I think that's my time. I've gone a little bit over. But this is also some of the publications because I feel that if you don't write about it, if you don't disseminate it and document it, it might as well not have existed, right? Because it doesn't impact things unless you write and document about it. So, these are some of the documentation of some of the stratum mapping methodologies and other methodologies that we've worked with as HPU and my own personal work as well. That's it. Okay. I'd love to introduce... Do you want me to stay here? Yeah, hop up. Pick your favorite stool. Dr. Claudia Krebs, if you would join us on the days. She's a professor of teaching in the UBC Department of Cellular and Physical Sciences. She teaches gross anatomy and neuroanatomy and she's also a scholar in medical education research in particular the use of technology in the classroom. And she works to make the biology of the brain more accessible to students and people around the world and is the celebrated creator of some incredibly cool viral videos, something like that, that explain neuroanatomy. She also created the hollow brain, which is an AR teaching tool for neuroanatomy and instruction. So, welcome, Claudia. And then Conrad. Conrad's lie. He can make a 3D model of anything you can think of. So, Conrad, do you want to come up to the stage, too? Oh, it's a different guy. I was like, it's the guy on the hat. It was like, do you have representation? I am so sorry. I was like, it's that guy. It's the guy with the hat towards the back and there's like five of you. So, thanks. Thanks, guys, for the hat. Hey, Conrad. How's it going? I'm Justine. It's super nice to meet you. Who's that guy? Get out of here. He's a 3D artist and texture specialist. And you have a master in digital media from UBC, right? Here. Whatever. I'm just kidding, you know. So, we created a stage on here. I really am not a school fan, but I'm going to do it for everyone. Hey, how's it going? So, we're talking about the research creation process. What comes first? Like a walk through research or trying to solve a problem? What do you think, Claudia? I think the first thing is trying to solve a problem. If you don't have a problem, you need to solve them. What are you doing? Right? Yeah. And so, in my group, which is The Hive, which is our sort of biomedical visualization and communication space, we go from a problem and then look at possible technological solutions to address that, especially for education. So, as you mentioned, I teach neuroanatomy. And there's this phenomenon worldwide called neurophobia, so that's the sort of unexplainable fear of the brain or the fear of learning about the brain. And it is sort of a pandemic among all medical students. And so, how do you approach that? So, what Kendra was talking about, like nobody being literate about the climate crisis, it really resonated with me because we live in a complete science communication crisis. And so, I saw it in the classroom with students kind of blocking all information about the brain, and the only solution to overcome that at first was just sort of partnering with artists to find an approach, so we started with video, and then branching out into emerging technologies to find more engagement with our students so that we can really see what will work to get them to acquire the knowledge and then use it. And then we take the next step, which is, so you've created something cool, like maybe the hollow brain, and the question is, well, does it work? Does anybody learn with this? Or is it just kind of cool? And I guess the same thing for other projects would be you did this wonderful thing, but does anybody change their carbon behavior now? Right? So, you always want to close that loop. What has the impact been in so that we studied that? Fascinating. Thank you. Conrad, solving a problem or a walk through the research? For me, for the past two years, it's been like all research. Okay. I've had to essentially work as a one-man CGI pipeline in the previous company I worked for. So, just like finding inspiration in learning about and mastering the technology that is constantly evolving with patches and new additions and keeping track of that stuff. So, researching that and then getting to a level of understanding with it to be able to map a path towards using it creatively and finding the problem that that tool and that specific tool, a specific thing can help, you know, speak to those problems. And that's sort of what I explored doing my undergraduate degree at Emily Carr when I was approaching these technologies semi-naively and just trying to figure out what I could do with something that was so complex from a technological standpoint. Cool. Diane? So walking, yeah. We definitely walk through the research. But it's kind of an iterative, co-constitutive problem in that we start in a place with walking, we analyze the place but from there, you know, sets of problems always emerge and then we think about how do we address that. And the problems tend to be around what we call the spatial imaginary.  And this is a lot of our research as well. How do you construct a spatial imaginary that has political power or political will? Right? And part of this is, you know, how do we change how people think about place? A lot of our work right now is with decolonization. How do we decolonize place? How do we indigenize place? And a lot of this is having to do with mapping. Right? So that goes, it's a very circular kind of problem. So, Claudia, like a signature, obviously, aspect of the discipline of medicine is fundamental research, research-based and evidence-based work. What evidence or research did you use to realize that, ah, VR, AR is the right tool for me to use to approach neuroanatomy instruction? Well, it's interesting because I think the field for how to explore that is changing. And a lot of my colleagues sort of in the biomedical field, they're very used to sort of a two cohort crossover, double-blind, controlled, whatever kind of study. And that doesn't really work for this type of research. So we do more behavioral research by looking at how do people interact with it, do the number of interactions, influence how they do on a test, and those types of things. So we borrow a lot from psychology. We borrow a methodology from the arts, et cetera. And really from software design processes. So we do a lot of user interface and user experience testing, which goes into the research on how to design these things. And then for the impact on learning, it's a lot of things because there's, well, did you do better on the test? So that's an easy one to do. So you just kind of either compare your intervention cohort with like the 50 years that came before and look at, have you made a difference? Or you do the two cohort study or those types of things. But oftentimes you don't see a big effect because my students, being medical students, they're highly selected, they're really bright. I always say you put them in a dark room with a bunch of books, they'll figure it out. They will learn despite of what we do. So kind of finding big differences is often difficult. So then there's the question of, well, do you like the brain better now? When you see a patient with a neurological deficit, do you run for the hills and kind of just scream, neurologist, please, somebody help, I can't deal with this. Or do you now have an approach? And can you now do the first screening so that we can then move on to the next method or the next level of health care? So it's really, I guess, multifactorial how you approach that research. And it's interesting because in order to get published in my field, you very much need to have your two cohort crossover, whatever. If you don't have a p-value, then it's already failed. And so kind of changing the culture there, that the research approaches in this environment can be a little bit different. It's sort of an evolving conversation. I can imagine that it could be a lively and spirited faculty to faculty or even journal. It's between journals and reviewers. You have no p-value in the cycle, OK? But we made a brain. Conrad, can you talk about something where iterative research, one-man pipeline, what was something where you're like, well, my background has failed me and I have not achieved the goal that I wanted, but have you been able to recycle any of those experiences and further work that you've done? It's just been success all the way. No, it hasn't. Because when it comes to... The past two years of my work have been simulating architectural environments and there's just so many variables that go towards producing a photo-realistic result that you're often confronted time and time again with something that just looks wrong to us and then you have to figure out why. And so why does the carpet look like a piece of cardboard when it's supposed to be a carpet or something, right? Or when you're animating something and simulating animation, the uncanny value. We're so easy, we're so good at detecting inaccuracies and these things. So iteration is a big thing, being able to do it quickly. It's a really big thing. Working in real time with game engines and in VR and these kinds of tools can help you make iterations a lot more rapidly and sort of understand those problems that can occur. Yeah. What was probably the biggest failure I had? I think I was trying to simulate just like a cup of coffee and it just ended up looking like Jell-O. I mean, kind of yummy, right? Like coffee Jell-O? Steaming Jell-O. So I had to look, I had to research the diffraction of the disease of coffee and why the fall-offs of how to get it to look more realistic. But, yeah. Tyen, you have such a wonderfully research and theory-informed practice with the Hamilton Paramilitary Unit. Does that fly, like within the discipline, with the Cinnamon Media Arts? Are people open to that or is it more like intuitive, on the set, kind of work and experience or is it somewhere on a continuum? Actually, we work a lot outside of academia, like in art gallery spaces or artist-run center spaces. And we don't get, you know, we don't get so theory-heavy in those scenarios. This is more like when I'm at a conference. So it's like a different context. At a conference, I'll pull up Lefeb and, you know, just tell him, go, yeah, these are some of the theorists we're working with. In general, though, we will not be so theory-heavy. Are there questions for our panel? Yes. So the question I have is, as part of research creation, what are some of the ways that you're actually recording and sharing your research creation? In your own field and then beyond your field. Can I look at the guy with the ball cap? Yeah. I just saw on a blog that, you know, has been collecting dust for a little while, but just my own personal repository of notes. And my research, you know, has predominantly just been laser-focused in understanding the hardware and the platforms on which to produce creative works with others. But in terms of, like, theoretical and conceptual research, I don't often document it. I just kind of let it sit in my head and see where it leads me. What kind of projects can come out of it by just kind of metagnatically existing in my head? That's just... I don't use Instagram, social media much. It's just kind of my own personal blog and diaries and stuff. We have to keep a bit of an institutional memory because we have a big multidisciplinary team with turnover, students and everything. So we need to have a method of documenting our successes and our failures so that we don't repeat the failures. Hopefully we do, but, you know, we try our best not to. So everything between sort of our GitHub repository to just documenting in a Word document how to, you know, what the process is and then best practices and whatnot. And then for the academic side, well, we publish it in academic journals when the reviewers accept that we have no feedback. I'm looking at you, reviewer number two.  Yeah, I know. That guy. That guy. Yeah, we try and do all of it, right? We have a website where we have all our events, but we have a blog too that is a little bit dusty because it's so much admin work, right? It's a long-time job. Yeah, it's to document everything and you have to write it up. So we just don't get around to it. So I looked at our website the other day and I was like, oh, we were in Tokyo last year and we don't have that on. Yeah, it's a big deal. So it's tough. It's tough. It's money. It's like resource. And as you were saying, sometimes you have the grant to support someone to do that documentation and work with you while you're just speaking off the top of my head here. No context. So you sometimes you do have those people that can do those helpful documentation roles while you're, you know, I think wearing, like we're going back to hats, but wearing all the hats at once is a lot of pressure to be sort of in the creation intuitive mode but at the same time being like, I'm going to write all of this down so that I can share it for the ages. And also, what's a great idea? What's a garbage idea?  Yeah. That kind of thing. It is helpful. Helpful to have all the notes. I know.  Right.  We document, we try to document all of our maps, you know, now they're like in a folder somewhere on my desk. Like, okay, I have to like scan them sometimes. So again, the backlog of documentation. Yeah. Yeah. And then the publication, right? Which also takes a lot of time. So I'm working on something now, like an essay that we did on a walk that we did in 2018, right? It's only going through the review process and that like second review process now. So it's hard to be up to date when the process is taking so long. So true. Yeah. Yeah. There are other questions? What, what do you think, I mean, we've talked a lot about failures, but what do you think is like your signature success that you're hoping to build upon for the next project? Like what are you, what's in the pipeline for a research that right now, research creation right now? I thought you were going to say, what's your signature failure? Yeah. My signature failure. God, my real staker is up here. Jesus. Now, what are you hopeful about? What's next, like what's, what's in the mix in terms of research creation at the moment? We're trying to create something for remote access to education. So what we are dealing with here in British Columbia is a really big province with people who want to receive medical or health professional education in all corners of the province. But if you're not in Vancouver, you don't have access to some physical things. Right. Like you don't have access to an anatomy lab or to the pathology collection at ETH. And so what we're doing now is digitizing that in terms of 3D photogrammetry scans and creating an environment where you can access that from anywhere. And so now also we have that as a working prototype and now the next step is to create a fully sort of immersive teaching environment there so that you can go into this place and study those specimens and you know, have a virtual professor kind of ask you questions and then you'll have to start answering them and interacting with it so that you can simulate the physical lab space but you can do it in a remote area. So we're hoping to get that going by the fall because we're in a little bit of pressure midwifery education is going to be offering sort of a rural cohort who can do their education in their remote communities without having to come to Vancouver so hopefully we'll be able to offer them. Are you ready to do that? Yeah. No pressure, it's just the next generation. No big deal. No big deal. It's fine, it's fine. What about you? I'm working right now with my friend Debbie Wong who owns an opera company. She was very interested in exploring sort of new media the cross-section of like VR and opera and so we're working on a little prototype that explores that and doing motion capture for the performances of the opera singers and mapping those to digital characters and creating a version of Barfius in that way and we've explored using VR technology in a lot of different ways so doing the storyboarding for the prototype I used VR to paint the storyboards and yeah but there's so many things to learn there too especially regarding the development of convincing and performance light assets for a mobile VR platform which is very challenging to approach using like the Oculus Quest for example or the Oculus Go these are accessible VR headsets because VR technology is still so you need a substantial investment to get into it in a deep way and it's very inaccessible in some ways so how can we approach creatively driving a viable opera which is already a niche but VR is like a turbo niche so it's interesting I'm not sure how far we'll go with it but it's been really fun so moving forward so a lot of our work is like these relational workshops that create an audience and this experience together and so what I want to do next is get into dome VR because the VR experience is such a solitary experience we used to get headset on so we're like what if we make it a dome and we can actually have VR experiences as groups and what would that be to have this whole bringing the audience back into the VR and that coalesces with our place and space research because often a dome is transporting you into another place so we can use a lot of 360 in that as well but I don't have a workflow for that yet that's the next step a bunch of projectors and I don't know what else some spherical cameras maybe it's happening right here I think I saw a question in the back was there still one, Jacob? I guess in that question so being the person from the north I'll say digital divide like how in this question of low bandwidth or talking about remote places I mean the monthly bandwidth allowance is burnt through in a sort of quick run through the PS4 download process it's a very different reality of what's usable and what's fast and what's good enough and also what you can assume a user has let alone owns but has used before and how much in this crossover from gaming which I understand why economically they don't think about like 30,000 people in the Yukon is not a market but how is that being thought about when you're developing like kind of high bandwidth or questions of fidelity you raised a sort of fidelity question and is there an interest in low fidelity for high distribution trade-offs? Yeah I think absolutely you have to make certain compromises and concessions in that way to reach out a larger audience for sure and preparing to do that is very vital to succeeding and doing right so knowing exactly just as a detail what is the polygon budget for an Oculus Quest how many Oculus Quest exist in Canada and then seeing where you can go from there The other thing is really an investment in infrastructure and that's I think beyond what we as the creators can do but for example when the medical program at UBC expanded to the northern medical program and the island medical program initially infrastructure actual fiber optic pathways were put in the ground between Vancouver and Prince George so that we could have real-time video conferencing at the cohort in Prince George that was a government investment in infrastructure because there was a need for that and I think if we are able to offer high quality education in the virtual or technology enhanced environment and there's a political will for it then those same fiber optic lines can be brought all the way up into the Yukon to for example educate midwives in the Yukon so that people who are giving birth in the Yukon can actually do that there right I mean there's yeah and especially for talking about things like indigenous communities and all of that the barriers for coming to Vancouver for health education are much higher if we can keep people in their home communities and give them the same quality of education this is I mean it's a political decision at that point are you going to invest in that So like I'm curious like is discovering where the political will lies there's a lot of looking and prodding and figuring out where the government or the Canada council or whatever is interested in putting funds as always I mean to go back to the climate crisis are you going to invest in more pipelines and tar sands development or are you going to invest in a future of a knowledge society and support that type of infrastructure I mean these are the people we elect right that we have to so activism is so important to poke and prod where we get where that infrastructure goes yeah and you might succeed in your poke you gotta do it poke away poke away well thank you to our panel thank you so much I think Aisha is going to do a quick quick pic quick pic well they're taking a photo I'm going to take all of them I've got the the lectern mic, the handheld mic and and a lava just in case they can't hear me in the back here we are yeah not done yet we wanted to say thank you again to the folks here at UBC for hosting us Patrick in particular Patrick Grazotti that is we're lousy with Patrick's here which is just wonderful yeah and especially to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support for the digital strategy fund the line is to have these conversations where we can rack up all the things that we don't know and all the things that are challenges we are going to transition the space a little bit open it up from this presentational format say goodbye to our friends at a distance we have a few different demonstrations that we've put out here and have the makers in the room to be able to have those conversations as well and like I said before we'll also be able to include some of that on the documentation of the event so this will eventually get archived through HowlRound it will get archived through the toaster website as well and then for all we'll have a set of links to all the projects so there's anything that you heard about today that you didn't see enough of or you'd like to see more of then you'll have the ability to do that toasterlive.com slash atelier has a archive an ongoing archive of the entire two-year cycle of this project so you can also find all the things from Toronto there a couple of those projects came up today yeah before we break to that are there any general questions then we will say thank you and goodbye to those at home and thank you to our group here for coming thanks everybody okay we're gonna yeah here in the room there's that are gonna get set up with