Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Rumpeljantz, the boss man at Zelda Informer, and we're back! It's been about a month since we've done a regular episode. I did do a little tribute to Satoru, Iowata. You can watch over here. That's all great and dandy, but today we're kind of coming back with something fresh, something hot, something I've been near and dear to me for quite a while, and I just haven't talked to it, talked to it, to it, boss man, to it. It's not it, it's a, ah, anyways. We're gonna be talking about the Song of Storms Paradox and what I think really happened, what the origin is, all that great stuff. Also stay tuned for the end. We're gonna do a little bonus. I'm gonna show you my new crib. Yeah, that's basically what I'm gonna do, show you my crib that I've been working on in the last month, and why I haven't been doing boss man episodes. So, yeah. Cool, stay tuned. We also have a special bonus at the end and announcement, but you had to stay to the end to see it. So let's get right into it. The Song of Storms Paradox. Here we go.  So let me read you the exact quotes. I got them right here. So it says, what? You've got an Ocarina? What the heck? That reminds me of that time. Seven years ago, back then a mean kid came here and played a strange song. It messed up this windmill, and I'll never forget this song. He goes on to say, Gurr, I'll never forget what happened on that day seven years ago. It's all the Ocarina kid's fault. So what he's suggesting is that you, when you were a child in the game, taught him that song, except you didn't know that song when you were a child. So there's the paradox. There's no origin for this, and there's actually a name for this paradox called the Bootstrap Paradox, and it confuses me to this day. So I always wondered, where did this song come from? So it, I really didn't figure this out until Majora's Mask 3D came out, and this is my bad because it's been in, it was in the original game back in 2000. It turns out that according to Majora's Mask, which is a canon Zelda game, that flat, one of the Composer brothers, the other one's name is Sharp, actually created this song. So here's what Fletz had to say on his plaque, his little gravestone. It said, Sharp sold his soul to the devil and was the one who locked me in here. You who do not fear the dead, learn well the song that is inscribed behind me. And if you ever meet my brother, I'd like you to inform him, the 1000 years, I'd like you to inform him, former of the 1000 years of raindrops summoned by my song are my tears. The thunder that strikes are my anger. So I might have fumbled up the court a little bit there. If you see on here towards the bottom it was getting really hard to read. But reality is, is that Flaq composed this song in Termina to kind of go against his brother and always remind his brother, Sharp, of what he did to him. So with the tears and the thunder and all that stuff. So it would seem that Flaq composed it. So there you go, Flaq created it. That's the origin of the Song of Storms, end of the story. Except it doesn't really explain the paradox, because Link, when Link is in Termina and he relearns the Song of Storms, it is presented to him as he is remembering the Song of Storms. Because almost all of the music in Majora's Mask is from Ocarina of Time. So this Link, who is young Link who was sent back by Zelda and traveled into Termina, already knows these songs. He just doesn't remember them. So even though he found out the origin of the Song of Storms, he himself already knew that song. And that's still very interesting. And it makes sense that this Link knows that song because he was adult Link that got sent back to be in a child after completing the adult timeline by Zelda, by Princess Zelda at the end of Ocarina of Time. That was the big thing. This is where we always knew there was a timeline split because of that action by Princess Zelda. It still doesn't explain how the song made its way into Ocarina of Time from Link at all. Now there are some theories out there about how the goddesses must have sent Link back after Majora's Mask, back to just before the Master Sword was pulled and had him teach the song to the, to the windmill man. I was about to say Guru Guru, but that's his name in Majora's Mask. He has no name in Ocarina of Time. So he taught him that song and then some events happened and that Majora's Mask was ripped out of that timeline and blah blah blah.  None of it really makes a whole lot of sense because it involves all this extra time travel, mumbo, jumbo, and I don't buy it at all. I do believe that Majora's Mask explains the origins of the Song of Storms, but it doesn't explain how the Song of Storms made its way into Hyrule from Link himself. And I don't know that it can be explained. I mean how can young Link, who doesn't know the song, teach it to the windmill man and then the windmill man teaches it to adult Link? It just, it doesn't make sense. There's no way that I can make sense of this and it's really bugged me for years and I don't know. I just felt like talking more to him because Majora's Mask 3D came out and it really made me rethink the whole Song of Storms Paradox. So what do you think? What do you think the origins of the Song are? Is it not from the Majora's Mask? How do you think Link got the Song from the World of Termina into the World of Hyrule and kind of fumbled up that whole paradox? Or hey, did the Song, is it just the Bootstrap Paradox? Did it just come from nothing? It never existed and there's no explanation. It's just a video game and we're overthinking things. That's entirely possible, but yeah, that's it. That's the Bootstrap Paradox. I didn't mean to Bootstrap Paradox. The Song of Storms Paradox. Yeah, short suite to the point.  So that should be fun. We put in, I put in 16-hour days every single day for like three and a half weeks on this house. I basically woke up, came here, worked, went back to bed, didn't see my kids much, didn't do a lot of sight work. You guys should know I haven't been around the site. You haven't seen me posting or commenting or any of that fun stuff until like the last week when I came back. And yeah, so I'm going to take you on a tour of the home, show you my new setup for doing work at Zaldid former. And yeah, so I will catch you guys on the other side of the showing. All right, everybody, this is the boss man, the Tandy Ruffle Jans, showing you a humble abode. What you're looking at now is my big backyard. So when we moved in, the grass or should I say the weeds here, we're about three feet tall in my backyard. This is one massive field. So as you can see, it is no longer one massive field. It could maybe use a lawn mowing today, but otherwise it's in pretty good condition compared to when we moved in. It takes about three hours to mow my lawn here, so that's no fun. What you see over here is what is going to eventually be a playground for my kids. What did this used to be?  Me and my best buddy pulled out about 30 pounds of metal out of the ground. Yeah, it was not fun. So yeah, obviously I haven't covered up because we're trying not to let plants and weeds grow back in it. And eventually when I have enough money, which I'm not even close, I need another, I think I estimated it out at about $2,000 to actually finish the playground. Yeah, we're going to put rubber pellets and do a lot of cool stuff and make it nice and fun and safe for my kids. Eventually, eventually. Yeah, this is the back of the house. Obviously we still have a bush problem there with the steps. I haven't taken care of that yet. I haven't done much here. I've power washed the back here a little bit. I haven't gotten to the back corner, which you'll see one of the problems when we moved in. Over here, you'll see the mold. And this is a common problem we have with this house. You'll see some mold on the side in here. Now thankfully this mold will come off when I finish power washing. I just haven't had the opportunity to get to it yet. There was also some damage in the siding here. Let's see if you can see some of it. It's not too bad here, but if we walk around to the front, you can see a bit more of it. You look up there, you see that hole? That's a woodpecker hole. There's another woodpecker hole here. And there was woodpecker holes all over the siding. We patched most of it. I have not power washed this side yet, because I wanted to let that patching dry. Now you can see some of the patches down there.  We haven't obviously pulled everything onto the ground yet, but we'll get to that.  Nothing really too special to look at. Just a pretty standard looking home, at least standard looking home for Northwestern Wisconsin. On my front yard, you know, I've got a nice maple tree here, pine tree, a couple birch trees over there. Yep, we live right on the corner, so that's always fun. My car, if you guys ever wonder what I drove, it's my car. So yeah, moving on to the tour. I'm not going to take you into my garage because it's a big garage, but it's pretty messy. We trimmed down these bushes too. They were tall and all over the place. We made them more manageable, but let's go through the front door watch. I'm probably locked out because it's probably locked. Of course, the front door is locked. That's okay, we'll finish walking around the house. I'll see if this door's unlocked. Maybe I'll give you a quick look at the inside. Yeah, okay, so this is the inside of the garage. Most of the stuff you see in here is actually not ours. A friend Casey's, a friend of my girlfriend named Casey is storing some stuff here. Most of our stuff's in our house, so yeah, we're just waiting for some garbage there.  It should be here this week. Walk around. On the other side, we got some ladders that we need to take care of and put away. This side was power washed. It didn't really go over as well as I want. I plan to replace all the siding on the house. I guess they have a giant color line thing back here. A lot of people don't like living by these because they have fears about, you know, the extra electricity and what it does to people. I don't care. It doesn't bother me much. This door is actually broken. You can see it down on the bottom. You can see it. I zoom in right there. That was broken when we got here. Right now there is a chair preventing people from coming in, but I mean, if you push hard enough, you can get through. This is the deck. Didn't really show you guys a big view of it, but it needs a lot of work. I'm not really proud of it yet. That's probably going to be next summer's project. So now we move on to the inside of the house. This is the living room, our whole living room. I'm going to talk about the dining room. I'm losing my mind. To give you an idea, when we usually come in, we come in from the garage. So this is what it looks like, the dining room, and then the kitchen over here. We bought a brand new fridge and a brand new stove to go with this place because the fridge it had was broken and the stove it had didn't work. It still has the old, old, old dishwasher. It does work. The sink still needs to be a little bit cleaned. See some leftovers from us having lunch today. Our microwave. No big deal. This cabinet was actually further over this way, and this over here was up top up here. However, the fridge, we wanted to get a big fridge. So you can kind of see the fridge extends past where the cabinet was. So we had to move everything over and I just haven't reinstalled everything and I'm waiting because our water line for the ice maker hasn't been installed yet. So we'll get to that. If you come this way and see a few things we haven't finished putting away yet, this is the living room. The upstairs living room. Not much in it. Just a couch. My 40 inch TV. PlayStation 3, which we basically use just to watch movies. I don't even own a PlayStation 3 game right now. So yeah, we literally, like you see a DVD about there and some movies and books over here, we literally just watch TV on it. There's our coat closet that does not have a door. This is a common theme with almost every closet we have in this house because all the doors were broken. That's the front door. All right. One thing I want to note is that when we came into this house, everything was moldy. So when you walk into the living room and you look at the wall, there was mold everywhere and this entire house got demolded and it took two weeks to demold the whole house. That was one of the biggest delays just getting in here and we did all the repainting. So when you look at the ceiling and if you see any problems with the lines and all that stuff, probably because we got lazy and tired of doing it. So you come down here. This is the hallway.  This door right here, as you see just opened, is my daughter, Melody. This is her room. Can I show people your room, sweetie? Okay. So she has a little, her room got painted pink.  And as you can see again, missing closet doors, but you know, we made the best of it. So that's her room. Bathroom. We installed a new vanity. So that's kind of a big deal for us. We always wanted to have a really nice vanity in our main bathroom and now we do. The light fixtures were over here. We moved in. Not a fan of them, but they get the job done for now. The toilet. This is actually a new toilet seat, but it's one of those cheapies.  I haven't been cleaned up and obviously everything is repainted in here. This excites me. I've never had one on my own, a laundry shoe. So that's always cool. As we come down here on the left, despite the peace and stuff, this was all here when we moved in. We just haven't removed them. This is actually my son's room and he's sleeping right now. Oh, no, he's awake. Let's open that up. This is my son's room. There he is waking up. It's blue. This is the crib because we have a new baby coming by the end of August. Yeah. So you see, this is just kind of a basic setup. No, again, no closet doors are broken. Yup. And you have sully. Yup. This is the master bedroom where me and my girlfriend sleep. Bed's not made, so it's a pretty big mess. So this is a brand new mattress. We got this for $300. It was $1,000 off on Amazon. It's a really nice mattress. Um, and we have the sweet mirror closet doors, the only closet doors that actually work in the whole house. Got a big fan. My son is down here holding that for real life.  No big deal. There's a little half shower and everything. So let's take you guys down to the basement here. This is where the magic happens. Hey, this is where I do all of my Zelda Informer work and I have things set up. I have my man cave, my office, all that great stuff. So coming through the garage and you get steps to go down and go around. And then you have, this is the storage area here on the left, up in special in here, from the lights on. Just got our electric panel. Um, fun note. This is actually illegal. I did not wire this, but it is what it is. This is just a storage room. We come out here, kind of our laundry room. It's a little messy down here. Uh, giant storage cabinet. This is here when we moved in. I think we have just kids games in here right now. Yeah, we do. You can't see them. Um, washroom dryer. They both work kind of. We want to replace them eventually, but we're broke. All right. So this, this is, um, hasn't been fully cleaned yet. As you can see on the bar table, but this is the man cave. You got my brewers, my Milwaukee box over there. Give me the packers here. Um, and what you'll see back here is this giant green wall. So that is a green screen. Um, I decided to paint the walls of green screen because this room not only doubles as a man cave and where I'm going to watch all my games, it doubles as where I'm going to be doing all my live streams for some of the informer. And instead of setting up my green screen every single time, it was easier just to make the whole wall green. Um, and to make, and conveniently, I'm a Green Bay Packer fan. So green and yellow green and then there's yellow over there. So it's actually kind of convenient. Obviously right here, this is my big 60 inch TV while I do all my gaming. If you, fun little fact, I just sold my Xbox one the other day to pay bills. So I literally only have a Wii U under there and then a charging station for Xbox ones controllers. Um, that doesn't do me any good. So I have my Wii U. I have my capture card under there. Right now the capture card is actually plugged into the Wii U. So it powers itself so you can display the Wii U on the big screen. Um, hold on sweetie. Um, over here, you just have the game pad and some extra cords. Um, and then this is kind of my, my gaming shelf, not really much on it because I honestly had to get rid of a lot of my gaming collection during this move. Um, there's a lot of stuff that needed to be bought for this house. You see, I still got Splatoon here. There's some Smash Bros brand new copy there. I'm going to be using for the Smash tournament next week and some Zelda stuff up there and my Majora's Mask 3D box back there. I do not know where my Majora's Mask 3D 3DS is right now. So that doesn't make me happy. See, this is the bar. It's got a little Brewer's duct tape on it because I just felt like doing that. All right, yeah. So that's, that's the one part of the man. Obviously I got the Green Bay Packers Drape. I'm a big Packers fan. This is the play room. As you can see, it's yellow. We have the same carpeting in the whole house, just this nice brown stuff. And this is a majority of my kids toys. They have some up in the room and some outside. Got a little Olaf up there. My kids love Frozen. Now, I'm worn anew before we step in here. It's got a little messy because I have been working and haven't really cleaned it, but this is my office where I do all my work for ZeldaInformer.com, where I'll be editing this video. My to-do whiteboard. It's basically mandatory when you're doing any sort of online work. It's a way to keep things organized. That's a picture of me and my little sister when we were little kids. So yeah, believe it or not, I used to be cute at one point. Otherwise, this is my workstation. Got my two 24-inch monitors there. Well, one's actually a 20-inch, not 24, but I like to dream. And some storage units with some stuff and some garbage and water bottles from the day. More storage. And then there's a closet with a broken closet door I haven't taken care of. And some extra stuff and an extra router up here. A Blu-ray player and I think this is an extra modem. No, this is an extra modem. And this was... Oh, this is a Direct TV internet box because some of the old Direct TV cable boxes did not have wireless internet. So that's like a wireless internet box. And I kept it because you can use it in conjunction with the Blu-ray DVD player and watch Netflix and all that great stuff. So if we want to put Netflix in another room, I have a way to do it. And so this is the computer, which doesn't look like I'm taking good care of because there's some garbage here. But this is the computer, the Alienware 15, early 2015 edition. It's got my i7 processor with my 970M and my 16 gigs of RAM, my SSD, all that great stuff. I want to do all my work on it as an old informer. I'll see it's got cool lights on it, but that's not why I got it. It cost me about $1,500. Pretty cool. I still want a full desktop rig. I can't afford it. I might never be able to afford it. Who knows? Maybe I'll do a fundraiser or fundraising live streaming at one point to try to fund my new desktop rig I want to get. Just to prove everything works. So my mechanical keyboard, just got it at Walmart. It is a nice one. It's a razor, but yeah, so you can see some fun stuff there. So yeah, that's it. That is my humble abode. That is how I'll be rocking Zelda Informer from now on. Obviously I'll be spending a lot of my time in the basement, but it's a pretty nice house, pretty big. Gotta look at my wall cling. We'll just end it on the wall cling because that wall cling is awesome and it has survived two different moves and I really need to get some more of them. Alright, I will catch you guys later. Thank you for checking out this episode of The Boss Man. Welcome back. So that was my home. I hope you enjoyed the view. It's lots of crazy things that happened. So one thing I wanted to mention and I'm enough to this now is that we are going to be starting up Super Smash Brothers Wii U online tournament. This tournament is going to feature two different bracket sections. There's going to be the brackets that deal with items being turned on, which are my personal favorite brackets, and then there are going to be brackets that have items turned off for those that feel that serious smashing can only be done without items on. Am I here to debate who's right and who's wrong on that? But we're going to cater to both audiences at the same time. So depending on how many people sign up for this tournament, we'll determine how many different brackets we need. We are still sorting out the details because the Smash Bracket stuff just came out recently. So we need a little bit more time to organize it and get it all set up. There is going to be a prize for both bracket sides. I haven't sorted out what that prize is going to be. It could be a Master Sword Shield or a Master Sword Shield. I'm sorry. A High Movement Shield or it could be the Master Sword replica. It might also be a Zelda Bathrobe. You might see me rocking one in a few weeks. We'll see. But it could be the Zelda Bathrobe. It could be wall cling-ons. It could be lots of crazy things. So yeah, we haven't determined what the prize pool is yet. There's not going to be an entry fee. So the prize is going to be coming out of our pocket. If you guys really want to have bigger prizes in the future, we can obviously discuss entry fees after this first tournament. But yeah, so yeah, and staff are going to be allowed to be in the tournament. So you might be facing off against some of your favorite staff. Maybe you'll get to be the one who eliminates me. Or let's be honest, I'm winning the whole thing anyways. So you also not even show up. So next week, we will have an announcement on that. You look forward to it on ZeldaInformer.com. I'll also remind people in the boss man to sign up for it. And yeah, otherwise, leave a comment below about this episode. Let me know what you thought. What your thoughts are about the Song of Storms Paradox? Where do you think the origins come from? How you think Link got it from Termina into Hyrule? Or if you don't think it came from Termina, what's your explanation for how Link was able to teach a song that he didn't know at the time to someone that he learned the song from? If that makes any sense in your brain. Also, if you have any ideas for future episodes, let me know below. Maybe there's a theory you want me to cover. Maybe you just have some questions. Maybe you want me to talk more about Triforce Heroes or ZeldaEU.  Let me know down below. See ya. Peace.


All right, welcome back. Hopefully you had a good time talking with each other. And so what we want you to do now is send in your response to our question, which was, one, should they invest in expanding their existing kitchen in Sacramento? Or two, should they create a new kitchen somewhere else? And if you choose option two, the question is where? How many and where? So use this time now to enter that in what your choices are. And in the meanwhile, I'll answer a question that someone entered in earlier, Joanne, added this. I wanted to know about how do you add risk management considerations into network design? Really, how do you add in uncertainty, whether it's uncertainty of demand, of supply, any of this kind of stuff? It's hard. There's different mathematical techniques. You can use the cast the optimization. That requires you to solve a much larger problem. You're solving different state spaces essentially, what you think the possible value should be of the uncertainty. A cheaper way to do this is something I showed in SC2X is where you optimally solve a number of iterations, where you randomize whatever it is that you think is uncertain, the demand.  I did a random sampling with demand. And then where would the optimal DCs be in each one of these cases?  Are there some that only make sense occasionally? And you can build in more robust design that way. The other way, because I think what you were hinting at is how do you handle unexpected disasters? If you're getting kind of into a dual, I always want to have two for dual, like dual sourcing, I always want to have two facilities. One is a backup of the other. That's something else you can think of or having extra capacity. So you always design things to be running at 85%, for example. So you can always surge up. You rarely want to design a warehouse to meet just your existing demand, right?  So there's some different strategies you can do to either buffer against uncertainty or try to find the most robust solution under uncertainty, whether it's uncertainty of supply, process, or demand. So let me just answer that. So now have we gotten any responses back? Room one. Okay, what are they saying? It says expanding kitchen is not enough. We need to open additional kitchen. Bakersfield is preferred choice and trade-offs. Additional cost versus level of service. Okay. So the question is what is level of service here? I'm guessing level of service is time to deliver. And so if you could expand, what room was that room? That was room one. Yeah, what do you mean by level of service? Because as you should know by now, level of service is a many-splendid thing. It means different things to different people. Like yes, in this case, it means speed of delivery. But it'd be interesting to see for that. And then after the cost, I'd be curious to understand what specific additional costs are you anticipating? Yeah, so that was one. So room one said expand and they picked Bakersfield. This is from Breakout 2. Increase efficiencies in current kitchen. Open a new kitchen subject to running an optimization model but from the map that looks like Bakersfield. Trade-offs are positive and negative. Positive are increased service levels. Assuming that you open multiple kitchens it looks like. Reduction in delivery costs potentially. Negative trade-offs are higher capital investment costs, right? Right, new kitchen. Delivery costs and set-up costs. Although they're suggesting that there'd be a reduction in delivery costs, which makes sense, yeah, because you're just doing local deliveries. You don't have that long conveyance. Now one thing that isn't being considered here, and to be honest, a lot of companies don't do this. We actually had Chris Sultemar, who's the ex-SVP of Walmart's logistic and supply chain organization. We have a case that we wrote with him that's looking at this to set up. Where should they set up a new DC for their fresh food? And a lot of it dealt with the WOD, which is the weighted average distance to the stores, right? Which makes sense. It's like facility location using the Weber model. Same thing that we did. But then we asked them, do you ever look at the inbound costs? Because I don't think you guys look at the inbound costs, because the inbound costs will now go up if you have two kitchens. Because I'm delivering to two locations, two separate locations, which means instead of one truckload, it's two half truckloads, for example. So whenever you move multiple DCs for this case or multiple kitchens, yes, your outbound transportation goes down, your inbound goes up. Now by how much, you'd have to figure that out. Usually the last mile delivery, whether that's really last mile or last 50 miles, is more expensive than the inbound. Outbound is typically always expensive than outbound because I can consolidate my inbound. Both by creating two kitchens, I'm breaking up that consolidation. I'm actually breaking my demand in half. So your inbound transportation might go up. Well, your inbound, the cost of the procurement is going to go up also, because for the provider, and assuming that even if you use the same provider, they're delivering to do different locations. Right. The assumption would be that you would source from local facilities, which means you're not getting as much of a volume discount, if you will. Yeah, that's right. Because we argue in here that you tend to buy from smaller non-industrial farms.  The nice thing about here, if you've never been to California, this is where, I don't know what the percentage is. 50% of all fruits and vegetables in the US come from right in that region that we outlined. The Southern California region is just incredibly fertile. The San Joaquin Valley is spoiled, all the California consumers, because everything they get there is fresh. Yeah. But this is consistent with the comment, I think that the room one came back and they said that they were talking about time to serve. It said it's a critical matter in food delivery. Right. Yeah, that's fair. So you've got time, you know, so the faster you get it in, right, the more shelf life you have, because that's really a clock starts ticking as soon as you pull the tomato off or anything like that, especially if you're dealing with higher end stuff. If you're dealing with industrial tomatoes, they are, some of these industrial designed fruits and vegetables, they're engineered to last a long time. For here, you're dealing with freshness, so you're right. You have a short time window and every day longer it takes to get to your kitchen wherever is a day you lose of shelf life. And for here, since we're preparing the meals, I agree that the last mile is most important as far as time wise. I agree. Any last things you wanna say about the case? Well, you know, I think that makes a lot of sense. In many cases, it comes down to what the consumer is willing to pay for. So if the consumer is willing to pay for basically the second kitchen, which would get them a fresher product, but at a higher cost because you'd have a higher procuring cost, although your transportation cost would be a little bit lower. Well, the outbound certainly, inbound unclear. Outbound, yeah, inbound different, you're right about that. But also labor, you know, you doubling your labor, it's not like it's going to be exactly half and half because it doesn't split that way. So you don't have economies of scale in the process and have it one kitchen, right? Or the consistency, that's another question. Oh, that's a good one. That might be a concern. So, but again, in the end, it's likely to cost more for the consumer. And then the question is, is the market thick enough for the consumer, consumers willing to make that commitment to support the business to be economically feasible? Right, okay. All right, so hopefully you enjoyed the case. You guys had good discussion. I mean, this is a trade-off that every company is making. Do I centralize or decentralize? That's essentially what we did. Do I centralize my kitchen or do I start creating satellite kitchens? I know that Blue Apron had, I want to say two, and they opened up this mega third kitchen, I think. And that's what's kind of saddling them with a lot of costs right now. And so it's a challenge. It's a tough industry right now. All right, so this wraps up SC2X. Let me just take a minute to talk about to give you a reminder of your final exam and talk about the next course if you want to continue with this. SC3X kind of picks up with all the issues that Jim and I were just talking about is where things break down a little bit, things get a little more complex. And so we talk about how you operate in this complex environment because every supply chain really has a lot of complexity. And so we talk about something called system dynamics. And this is how a system operates. How are the dynamics within a system, the different players within the system? We'll talk about feedback loops. We'll talk about causal loop diagrams. We'll talk about stock and flow. It's a nice way to map the interactions in a complex system because a lot of times there are unintended consequences. So one of those is something we talked about when sales are marketing, for example, which I always paint as the bad guy, but they're not. They want to introduce a new product. There are unintended consequences. Adding a new skew increases your inventory. It increases the amount you need for managing that inventory. The transportation, it has ramifications all the way down the supply chain that are not always considered in the decision. So we'll talk to you about that and talk about different ways you can incorporate this. We'll also talk about exogenous factors, exogenous things that affect the supply chains. Everything else we've talked about so far has been within your control, your transportation, your inventory level, your warehousing. Now we'll talk about what happens if you're shipping across a border because when you have global supply chains, things are different. And so a lot of times the tax ramifications dwarf and you hear cost ramifications. So we'll talk about that. Dr. Bruce Arnson will spend two weeks discussing the ins and outs of global supply chain management. And then Professor Yossi Sheffi will come in and talk about disruptions. That's another exogenous factor. You cannot control earthquakes. You cannot control some of these natural events or man-made events. The question is how do you minimize the effect? How do you protect yourself against that for your firm? And we'll talk about other exogenous factors in turn. There's a lot of regulations coming online where you need to track and trace certain products for provenance. You need to report certain things. There's a lot of interesting stuff coming out that directly impacts supply chains. So that's what we do in SC3X. It's all about making it real. We start talking about the real issues you're gonna face and how they fit with all the models, the great models that we taught. And it was kind of dovetailed together. My last reminder is that your final exam opens up starting tomorrow, November 29th at 1500 UTC. Remember, you have one week to finish it. Has to be done by December 6th, 1500 UTC. And once you start, you have four hours. Four hours to complete it. So good luck on the final. I'm sure you guys will do well. And I look forward to seeing you guys in the future. Yeah, thanks very much. Bye bye.


Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. And I need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen. Since I've been to Disney Springs and today I decided to just take a little stroll around the Springs and check out some of the cool shops, see some merchandise, maybe get some food and just take in all the ambience. So let's go do this. And I suppose a first stop would definitely be the wonderful world of Disney. Ooh, look at that, stitches spitting up a storm. Wow, I tell you the AC is blasting in here. It's a hot day out today, so it kind of feels good. One thing I really like about the new world of Disney is the fact that everything is kind of in its own section, like this is the mug section, mugs. So we're going to take a look at some of the cool fancy nifty mugs they got going on here and see if there's any that might entice us to buy them. Wow, I like this mug. It looks a little cartoonish, but you can see it, Epcot, Monorail, Expedition Everest, The Tree of Life, Hollywood Studios Tower of Terror, and Magic Kingdom Cinderella Castle, a little space mountain over there too. I like it. Oh, is this supposed to depict Soren? Wow, fancy. I don't know how much they are, they're not marked. Oh yeah, $14.99. Look at this. Now that is a proper size coffee cup. Oh yeah, that is pretty awesome. The Baymax one too, and if you look on the inside of the Baymax one, it actually tells you how you're feeling. Look at that. Huh, I like it. These kind of mugs are always cool too. Look at Jeannie, because then when you hold it up to take a sip, it looks like your bottom half is that. Like a dive into the clothing section. And look at it in here. It's very pink. Must be more in the ladies section. Yeah, that's what it looks like. Look at this. I remember when this was a hot commodity here, couldn't get it anywhere. And now they got leggings too. Fancy. Look at these fancy little ponchos. Oh, they're not ponchos, but I like it. Wow. That's pretty cool. $50. Oh. They got a little marble section over here too. That's pretty awesome. Got some Avengers hats. Ooh, I don't like that material though. Some just classic marbles and some kind of Halloween costume. Strange. I do like this coffee mug though. It's like Thor's hammer. That's pretty awesome. $20. They have a really cool Toy Story 4 section that I really like actually. So we're going to take a look at some of the cool stuff they got over there. Look at this. Look at the little forky up here. They don't even need to go to Hollywood Studios to meet him. He can just come right here. That is so awesome. Duke Kaboom, the greatest stunt man of all time. We got a little Buzz Lightyear. Oh. All right. Look at that. I'll tell you what. They're really going all out about Bull Peep on Toy Story 4. They have action figures, t-shirts, costumes, hats, craziness. They even have the action staff. That's funny. They call it Bull Peep action staff. From Toy Story 4 to Star Wars, they have another great section. Where you at? Look at that. That is awesome. It looks like we're bringing Flannel back. Pretty fancy. Oh. Crushed over a billion. How much is that? $65 for Flannel? Wow. They also got some fancy Star Wars bags here too.  Look at that face. Oh, here's your one. Who's a Yoda? Who is it? Well, if a Yoda bag isn't good enough, they got Yoda ears. Who even knew? Another cool thing that I like is the way that they showcase the graphic tees here. They have them on like big screens, and it's actually really cool looking. Look at how they have these set up. I like it a lot. My other ride is a monorail. That is right now at the character warehouse. Same thing with that single rider. That's a little sketchy, don't you think? I think there were $7.99 and they're selling for $24.99 here. I think my friend Jackie's got that shirt right there. Look at this fancy floor. Unlock the fun. Ooh, I like these shirts. They're like retro Walt Disney World. Just like the shirt that my friend Jackie has, but this one's like a green one. And I like these. They're like baseball tees. I think they call them. How much are these? $34.99. Well, that's a little steep too. What can I say? T-shirts are expensive. Life is rough. I decided to exit the world of Disney because there is a lot of stuff I want to buy in there, and right now I'm kind of on a tight budget. So the temptation was getting to me, so I was like, let me go outside. Let's explore elsewhere in Disney Springs. I also want to show you guys one of my favorite little bathroom spots here at Disney Springs. Right behind Garadelli, there's this little door on the side here that actually has a little bathroom. Well, it's Garadelli's bathroom.  Oh man, as soon as you walk in, wow, it smells so good in here. And look, they even got the doors brown like chocolate. Well, things aren't making sense. I left the world of Disney because there was getting to the point where I wanted to buy a lot of things, and I ended up at the 28 of Maine, which is one of my favorite places to shop, and I am not disappointed because they got some cool fancy stuff. I like these cool shirts right here. Look at this. And they say Walt Disney World, right down the sleeve, and they have it in a bunch of different colors. That's crazy. 39.99, that's not bad. That's actually not that bad. Look at these cool shirts. Look at that. Believe. Have I gone mad? I like it. Ah, look at this. I just got this hat at the character warehouse for $7 yesterday. It is $28. Wow. I like this cool Rosencrown shirt too. It's your round. Raise a pint. Good time. Scottish egg. Great friends, sticky toffee pudding, Rosencrown. That is pretty awesome. They have a bunch of different ones like that one. Oh, and they have Jack Lindsey's hanger bar t-shirt. That's pretty awesome. That's cool. They always have amazing t-shirts in there that you don't see inside the parks. That's why I always like to stop in there. So now we're going to head back down Disney Springs because we're at the far, far end and then see what we see as we walk about. Oh, I like when they're doing this actually. You notice at the Lego store, they say part in our dust and they have like these little construction workers because they're getting ready to erect a new Lego statue. I think that's awesome. Wow. Well I traveled back to the fancy section of Disney Springs. That's what I relate this to is a very fancy upscale, I don't know. There's just something about it. They got stores that I don't even know how to pronounce the name of, Nahuku, Locotan, Zara, but forget about all the fancy named stores. I want to show you where it's really cool to hang out and relax. Right here at the Disney Springs guest services. They got rocking chairs out front, oh yes. And they got free water on the inside. Oh yes, free water and it's not those little cone cups either. Oh, and I missed. Nom nom nom nom. Then you can take your water and go out and hang out and look at the springs. Look at it. That water is so crystal clear. I would like to go for a swim please.  And poor Disney, they keep a good job keeping it clean. So they must have a great team on that. Great job. Good job. I do got to say one thing though. Disney Springs definitely has some of the best fountains on property. So I guess that's going to do it for me. Like I said I just had a little fun hanging out, walking around Disney Springs and looking at some pretty fountains. So I hope you enjoyed this video, love to light your layer and we'll see you next time. Bye.


Hello everybody and welcome back to the Ethan journal video in today's video We're gonna be taking a look at a really cool program that I found over on github called diffusion B now AI image generation It's a really big thing nowadays. You there's services like crayon and then It's the other one those open AI has their dolly to version thing now And then there's also mid journey on discord Which I was a paying subscriber for for two months So I put 20 bucks into their service because I thought it was pretty cool idea and I got some really really amazing Images out of that and I got really good at doing that But it kind of occurred to me $10 a month is a lot of money to be spending on an AI image generation software So I figured is there a way that I can do basically what mid-journey and all those other services do but do it on my own computer and don't have to pay a monthly fee for it and In my research I was able to find out about a service called diffusion B Now this is a github project created by a group of people as far as I know and Basically what they've done is they've created the same text prompt to image generation But it's fully optimized and made specifically for M1 and M2 max Which means essentially if you have an M1 computer like I have an M1 Mac mini This is gonna work perfectly on those devices. So without further ado, let's head over to the diffusion B software So here we are in diffusion B as you can see it's really simple and all you get here is an enter your prompt here And then you have your advanced options. You can choose like what you want your image Resolution to be how many steps you wanted to take your guidance scale Which I'm still trying to figure out what all this stuff means, but then you also down here stable fusion stable diffusion Requires a lot of RAM 16 gigabytes is recommended. So a good thing. I have a lot of RAM on my Mac mini So let's head in over here into the diffusion B and let's enter in a prompt. So let's see I'm gonna do a cabin on an island in the middle of a during night Grammarly is probably gonna crack me on this but that's good because I wanted to make it look good and Probably during the night so a cabin on an island in the middle of a lake during the night Let's click generate and this does take a while even though I have an M1 Mac mini with 16 gigs of RAM it does take a lot of performance and I don't even know if this recording is gonna do well. So goodbye All right, so I am not able to record. I just realized this and I probably should have thought about this earlier But I'm unable to record Well, this is doing it because as you can see with screenshot on screen This thing pretty much uses all the resources that my computer has to handle even though it's the maxed out M1 Mac mini it doesn't go any better than what we got So you can see we get a little bit of a preview of what the image looks like and wow That turned out really well So at 512 pixels by 512 pixels. It's not the highest resolution, but It turned out really nice a cabin a cabin on an island in the middle of a lake during the night That looks really good now You can really you can tell that there's artifacting and certain things that make it look like it was AI generated But truly that looks really good. So I'm gonna quickly save the image here and I'm gonna save it as cabin in Lake At the end of this video guys I will be uploading all of these images to my website at rhyman labs that link down in the description so you guys can check out these images and Check it out for yourself. Now. I am Hopefully in the future going to be trying to either take this engine or find a different engine and try to host on my own server Or even getting mid-journey on a discord server of my own and trying to figure out a way that I can get you guys like Free access to one of these things But that's gonna be far in the future because again, I'm not monetized on YouTube and I Can't really afford to do that at this time. So sometime in the future I'm really looking forward to Taking another one of these AI image generation things and if you guys don't have a Mac But I somehow figure out a way like maybe I go to Mac Stadium And I buy a monthly plan someday and I get this software to run on a Mac and I can figure out a way to Embed it into a website And figure out a way for you guys to get images. I think that'd be pretty cool So that's something for the future if you really if you want to see that come to life Be sure to subscribe and like and also support me on patreon which is also linked on description So let's head back over here, and let's try creating another image. So let's think Let's see. I'm gonna do hmm. What's a good idea like I Always have like these really cool ideas like I'm gonna do here. I'm here. I'm gonna do this a Tiny Cabin home in The middle of a forest during the night No, I'll do during the day for this one. See if we get a bit of a variety on this during the day And that did not work out. See I love Grammarly and I love tech generation, but Sometimes it does glitch out as you see there. So a tiny cabin home in the middle of a forest during the day with a with a With solar All right, let's try this and I mean again I'm gonna need to stop my recording this time Because this tech generation software does not like other programs running at the time It's dying. It takes pretty much everything my computer has so see you guys on the other side. All right it's been two minutes and Probably three minutes at this point. I don't know so this the image generation is done and I'm warning you It does not look as good as our first one did Ta-da Look at this amazing image Great job Great job. So I mean the bottom one here. I don't this is too. This is one image But clearly it thought it needed to generate two Tiny cabin the middle of a forest during the day with solar panels the roof Yeah, it's weird because it generated two images, but it's still one image. I don't know what happened This is weird, but Ta-da, we have a tiny house in the middle of the forest solar panels on the roof I mean the trees look amazing like it looks realistic But the house itself does not look like I was planning for again could be just because it didn't involve Maybe I didn't put enough detail into it. I don't know but let's try another prompt. I will save this one here quick So let's save this. I'm gonna call it a tiny forest Save that quick and now we can go in here and generate something Now I probably could start increasing a few of these other things But truthfully, I don't know if that's gonna cause more performance issues Maybe I'll just upscale it just a little bit like I'll go 640 by 640 now We have a little bit higher resolution maybe it's gonna take a little bit longer. What's the max we can do 768 by 768 will be the max that we can do but let's not let's not go that far yet. Let's go here. Let's see Think what's another thing we could do Hmm, let's see. I'm gonna design a Futureistic city That did not look good future Come on anything spell futuristic city with with from a See how do I wear this cuz I want it what am I my idea for this one is I want to do like a futuristic city But looking down at it so like from like a satellite point of view could I do like future six city from a Satellite point of view From satellite point of view Lots of buildings and a solar farm in the distance I Gonna try this I bet it's just gonna be a full-blown monstrosity But who knows this is the most one of the more complex versions of this that I've done so let's click generate and Figure out if this is gonna work. I'll see you guys on the other side Okay, everybody it has been see probably about an hour and a half since I left that to go in its way And I think we ran into a problem So because we upscaled the resolution on that version which I was hoping it would do fine with it really did not do Fine with upscaling the resolution it essentially took an hour and a half and then the app crashed So I tried putting it up again I tried putting the same prompt in and trying to get it still failed and I really don't think we're ever gonna get a High resolution than that that could just be because I have an M1 And I'm not planning on upgrading anytime soon But my dad's work does give him a MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro processor So in the future, maybe I'll try it on that laptop and see if doesn't think better But I think that's how I'm gonna wrap it up for this video I will be getting those images uploaded to my website soon But stay tuned in the description or might even put in the comments Later on once they get those uploaded, but thank you guys all for watching Have a great rest of your day. Be sure to like and subscribe and see y'all next time. Bye. Bye