There's some strange messages coming out of the Bitcoin conference in Miami, and one of the strangest thing that's coming out of it is All about self-custody and why self-custody is something that maybe we should be looking over So what I'm talking about today. There was this video and this is Hoseb Jesus and he is a Proponent of crypto and digital assets Bitcoin. I want you to listen to this clip Some company is gonna come along and they're gonna offer some sort of insurance package. That's what I want I don't want to be responsible for my keys. I wanted to say here's my keys You're responsible and if something happens then guess what I'm coming after you, baby I you're gonna be responsible for my wealth. So interesting, right? What he just said is what a lot of people are gonna be asking for


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Everything is a being. We are surrounded by beings. We are not alone here. When we understand that then Technology takes on an entirely different motivation because it's no longer that we need to Impress our design onto a world that has none No longer that we need to impose our intelligence onto a world that in itself is just kind of a random melee of force and mass But understanding that it already has an intelligence already has the qualities of a self Already has maybe a purpose or even a desire or a dream Then our role becomes no longer mastery and domination Because why not if it's just a bunch of forces out there a bunch of generic particles no longer no longer now it becomes a matter of participation of Co-creation so the first step in doing that is what it's listening Observing what are we called to do? How can we how can we participate in? The dream in the dream of the earth in what wants to be born here. That's a completely different motivation for technology It doesn't mean that we will not use technology because Gaia gave birth to humanity for a reason with all of our gifts We're not a superfluous or wrong or bad species every species has a necessary gift to give toward the maintenance of the health of The whole and toward the evolution and development of the whole and we are no exception So what these these tremendous gifts that we have technology and culture that have allowed us to do so much damage What is their real purpose? That's I don't have an answer for that But I have the question and I want all of us to start asking that question What is our service? What is ours to do in the near term? I think it's obvious in the near term. It is what I said to protect preserve regenerate life on earth After that, I don't know but I know that there's something because I know that we are not Nature's big mistake or the exception to the rule that every species has a part to play


Hey everybody I've been playing some games lately that I'm gonna get to in the next week or so but today I want to do something a little different so I'm thinking of starting a second YouTube channel And I'm probably gonna put this over there, but here you go Don't screw it up You can't read or talk about the country lately without confronting the highly polarized nature of the times in which we're living And while this seems unprecedented, it's not the fundamental argument between conservatives and reformers is at least 2,100 years old and likely far older The fact that one can read accounts of Rome in 150 BC and see the same damn argument Fully formed with all the same positions on both sides Implies that it's probably existed from about 15 seconds after people created politics Most likely the first time 40 cavemen got together 20 of them insisted that whoever killed the elk should keep it because making someone share by force is theft and really It's only fair that someone should keep the fruits of their labor and the other 20 said that's crazy, man We should split the meat because you only caught it because grog made the spear and lug grub tracked it In any way the last time Brack caught a mastodon he shared it with you plus Brack's father is too old to hunt What's he supposed to do starve? Greece Rome England America France the same arguments have animated politics over and over and over Arguments over what the state should and should not do Arguments over how much wealth is appropriate arguments over how much toleration a nation should have for minorities and immigrants in different religions Read the writings of Edmund Burke and Thomas Payne from the 1700s and you will instantly recognize the same Argument often this argument is settled peacefully and sometimes you get Caesar and Pompey tearing the Republic apart The important thing to learn from this reality is as follows Regardless of which side you fall on in this argument. I can promise you one thing is absolutely true You won't win the other side won't win Nobody will ever win to fully understand what we stand to lose It's important to take a moment and really focus on what's at stake in this 30,000 year old argument America isn't perfect by a long shot and we will touch on those things next but first let's appreciate a few things If you live in the first world, you're amongst the richest Safest most free humans in the history of the world if you live in America You live in an almost impossibly wealthy and powerful nation Rome on steroids the US is a continent-sized land of milk and honey a huge country with hundreds of millions of middle-class people On a landmass that sits perfectly in the temperate zone touches two oceans has multiple inland seas The largest navigable river in the world splitting it down the middle before emptying into an ocean The country stretches across nation-sized bread baskets Long seams of precious resources deep dark forests and expansive prairies of rich black soil It contains unimaginable natural beauty and is big enough so that if one was so inclined They could find tons of places to never have to see another living person again Our poorest people are by historical standards pretty decently off We throw out enough food to feed millions of people in the global south because it will be too big a pain in the ass to Bogger dealing with all the unused corn Our dogs get more health care than most humans in Africa The nation is literally impossible to conquer from without the entire world could a lie to invade and conquer and they would fail Our military is as powerful as all of our rivals combined We have several states that were they independent nations themselves would instantly be amongst the wealthiest and most powerful in the world United the country stands as a behemoth and possible to destroy by conventional means Largely able to be completely independent economically if needed Nobody can starve us of oil or fish or grain or beef or porn or Marvel movies or beer or cola or bourbon This was the first nation on earth founded explicitly without title or caste a vast experiment in building a nation Not based on who the people were but what they wanted to be England is for the English France was created for the French Germany is mostly full of Germans and Belgium is a state that was created to draw the Belgians into a shared political destiny America was not created for any race nationality religion or class It was a nation created from its very founding around truth that were self-evident That all are created equal and are endowed by their creators with certain Unalienable rights that among these are life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We live in one of the only nations on earth We're saying I'm an American tells you nothing about how that person looks What God they worship where their parents lived or what their last name sounds like saying on Japanese almost certainly even today Means that that person is ethnically Japanese Saying I'm American can mean that person is Japanese Scotch Irish or the grand kid of Sicilian immigrants. This isn't nothing This isn't something to toss away because you think taxes are too high or because someone on Facebook is a racist It's not something to waste because your neighbor thinks a politician you like is a disaster It is a powerful fragile precious thing America is big and beautiful and full of Americans and that's why I love it this experiment this idea This notion of people but not a people is worth saving And it's through our own actions that we shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth The Mongols will never ride over the hills to put us out of our misery only we can do that so many problems Now that we've established the unbelievable gift that we have been bequeathed by nature and reason It's important.    Why would cops be the one profession?  You might disagree, but I would love to hear your argument, man I need a license to cut your hair and a permit to build a fence and it's illegal for you to hire me to patch a Small leak in your roof it's getting harder for people to practice their religions Most of which are admittedly pretty odd without running a foul of someone or something and people on both sides are trawling the internet to find Outrage fuel to feed the fires of the retweet industrial complex Being wrong or mistaken or ignorant or unorthodox online is becoming a license to pass judgment on a person's worth as a human Problematic statements are not licenses for public shame.  So yeah problems So many problems and because these problems have coalesced into ideological camps where they don't even logically fit Everything seems split. Seriously, man There is no logical reason belief in religious liberty must also come packaged with the belief in the flat tax Those things have nothing to do with one another and in fact could easily go the other way and have in the past That's a whole different essay though. Anyway splitting the country.  That is a terrible idea Such a bad idea It's becoming more and more common to hear people talk about a civil war or at least Secession I Suspect the reason this is in the air is because the other civil war we had was strangely neat and tidy by historical standards Because the civil war was a civil war about slavery. It broke down nice and simple geographically The deep south was almost totally agrarian and relied on slavery The north was mostly industrial and did not the border states were a mix and fell on one side of the other based on a bunch of different factors secession made sense in 1860 because it was possible and Obvious the north and south both made nice little mini states that could instantly coalesce into functioning societies more importantly the conflict Itself was tidy the issue at play was expanding slavery into new territories The south wanted the territories to choose for themselves in order to make sure that new senators and congressmen would preserve slavery Indefinitely and they were sending pro-slavery settlers west as fast as possible the north wants it all new states to be free This is no longer the case The ideological split in America is far less neat and simple than it looks on an electoral college map Even deep red states have huge minorities of liberals and even the bluest states have huge minorities of conservatives Alabama is as conservative as a state gets and even there 37% of people voted democratic in the last election. That's more than 840,000 people in Alabama Florida where I live has two Republican senators and voted for Trump The election here wasn't considered close, but that is a crazy way to look at it Trump won 51 point two percent Biden won 47 point nine. That's nearly five point three Million people who voted blue in a supposedly red state Even in the most conservative states the cities all vote democratic and even in the most liberal states the rural areas vote Republican and on politics things are not neat and tidy either people vote one way or the other While holding far more diverse beliefs than the politicians who represent them Texas just banned abortion despite more than half of its citizens believing abortion should remain legal California always votes democratic despite an awful lot of people thinking taxes are too high and not liking the way the schools are run So how would one even accomplish this split? There's only two ways neither of which will work You could divide the nation into a ton of smaller mini states Clustering a few states here and there or you could create a few huge nations Pacifica, Atlantica, Texas, the Deep South, the South Atlantic Federation Actually, we'll just do it by NCAA conference because strangely that would work about as well as anything else Let's assume that this is the most likely solution But you still haven't solved the problem These mini states would instantly decay into the same argument The SEC Republic would be governed by conservatives, but 45 to 49 percent of people would still be unhappy Even in the conservative heartland of the Big 12 all cities would rebel against the government In the Deep South you would have an enraged Ethnic minority that is just as angry as it is now and in the Pac-10 states of César Chávez You'd have a conservative minority that is just as pissed off as it is right now Let's go full crazy and have a 1940s style political cleansing with a full-on trail of tears Four lawn conservatives forced to flee their ancestral lands driving their cramped GMC suburban towards Texas While a gleaming River of Priuses was forced to flee Florida for the Golden Land of the Big East We did it. We finally did it guys. Everyone lives in a nation that they chose We totally extirpated anyone who disagrees with us from the land It's blood and soil and ideological purity from sea to shining sea There's just one problem with this utopian tomorrow where the Pac-10 can teach nothing but critical race theory and the SEC can meet Every river privately owned abolish all taxes and fund government entirely by making a cost 500 bucks to vote in 30 years You will be in the same damn place Because it won't take very long for a bunch of people to change their minds and a bunch of kids to decide that their parents were totally Idiots and it's time for a change ideological bent isn't a race It's a set of ideas and people change their minds and it's also kind of a personality type And as Alex P. Keaton so wisely taught us in the bygone days of parachute pants Liberal people can end up having annoyingly conservative kids who get born again and conservative people end up having gay Anarcho-cynicalist kids who suddenly listen to propaganda and dream of one day starring on Broadway in 40 years Every one of your pure new states would be riven with the same damn arguments if Aristotle was having this argument Your grandkids are going to be having it if Caesar couldn't solve the problem. You can't Stalin basically massacred anyone who is even suspected of maybe Possibly not agreeing politically and it took like 15 seconds after his death for the same factions to form China's a one-party state and in the upper reaches of the CCP There are liberal factions and conservative factions and they are having the same argument right now Right now someone at a central planning committee is having the argument And in exchange for a plan that will not work that by its very nature cannot work What have you lost? You've traded an imperfect union founded on liberty for nothing You've carved up the economic engine of the world for what a Gadsden flag and not having to tolerate that Rachel Maddow was allowed to exist You've ruined the greatest military power in history in exchange for the right to raise the marginal tax rate 8% on those earning over $10,000 a year and then before you know it some annoying little rat would start a new Tucker Carlson show in an apartment in the Upper West side of Manhattan you would go from living in the wealthiest most powerful nation on earth to living in a couple of Germanies a Few Belgians and a couple of Polans each of which hated the other's guts It's entirely possible.  We're a country that vehemently opposed gay rights until all of a sudden for no apparent reason Everyone just kind of said yeah, of course gay rights whoever said anything different It's a nation that should be able to be moved by reading the timeless powerful nearly religious ethics of the Declaration of Independence While simultaneously pointing out that the guy who wrote it also kind of sucked in many ways America is a land big enough beautiful enough Rich enough and founded on principles broad enough to accommodate the argument if Martin Luther King couldn't win the argument Ted Cruz won't and if William F. Buckley couldn't win the argument AOC won't and the simple fact is you're just gonna have to deal with that You'll just have to get over it friend because the country is indivisible Literally and also ideologically. It's written into our very core. The nation was founded on that argument It came to be through pain and Burke It was created through the arguments of Jefferson and Adams the argument is America the country was founded as a place to have that argument as Equals as citizens as patriots The country is very big and it is just and proper that its arguments should be equally big The only thing that can destroy this nation is cowardly deciding that we don't want to have the argument again that we don't Like people were reminding us about racism So we're taking our ball and going home or we're tired of explaining how miserably terrible the health care system is So we're creating a whole new nation the country was founded on truths that are self-evident The role of racism seems very clear to me, but it's not self-evident How high taxes should be might seem clear to you, but it's not self-evident What's self-evident is that all are created equal and are endowed by their creators with certain Unalienable rights that amongst these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness We haven't always lived up to that lofty standard But the pure radiating beauty of the creed it inspires is that it leaves everything else up to us We get to decide everything beyond those basic truths We get to decide through politics through the argument through the freedom to decide for ourselves How we have and have not redeemed that sacred promise The argument is the nation trying to get away from that argument is an abdication of our Responsibility to our ancestors to forge a more perfect union.  See you next time. Thanks for coming Bye


Okay, so we'll do it later and we're speaking about vertical, what are we going to do next? Okay, let's hope we actually get to the vertical, I mean, until now it was always, the announcement was always slightly different from what was said, it was always slower than predicted, but anyway, so we had defined the vector written there by formal localization of the space. And then we have defined 0, so it's not compact, so it is then actually defined as by localization, we see some of the components, connected components of the x-propos, but as to mind you, we have an element n, which is the x here, which is the only effect on this thing, and then we can localization formula, formally, this thing was compact, this is what localization tells us, and we set the definition for fixed point locals, here's the point that we should see. Now we want to describe the fixed point locals, we can assume, we can choose e to be equivalent, so that there is a c-star action on e, just means now we are on the fixed point, looks like we're just means that we're fiber-wise action. Remember that, that means we have a weight composition, direct term over some i, this is the action, so this is, we say, we set things up, we also have an economical class, we don't choose the typical action of an economic class, but we have an action of weight 1 on the, so the action, that's if we have an equivalent for morphism from e to e times of ks, then it will be invariant as a c-star, if not only the weight drops, it drops the weight by 1. An equivalent morphism of weight 0, so here the weight of this thing is i, the weight of this thing is j plus 1, so j plus 1 must be equal to i, so and so we can just therefore describe this thing like this, and so from this we can describe what the fixed point is, that's the fixed point, so I should say here just choose the weight to be from 0 to l, I can always rescale, I can always, I can always put myself in this situation because if I multiply the whole action by a power of t, nothing changed, so I choose it like this, so what are the fixed points, so e will be written as sum and it's 1, so the s, direct sum of all of them, some of them match the i part to this part, and like this obviously we'll send this one here, and this one has no other chance than going to 0, I assume we know this, and in addition to this notion of stability, one looks carefully what it means here, and it shows that all these maps, all the maps must be injected, except for the stability is some kind of condition that the kernel has to be in some sense smaller than sheet itself, and one looks out what this means that it gets this, so we have the, well okay, so this in particular, so this has subsheets of some sum and positive rank e, and so we can see therefore that as this maps an objective it means that the rank of e2, e2 must be smaller than what that will be what and so on, so the ranks of these sheets form a partition, obviously each such configuration, but when I fix such a partition, corresponding locals in the modernized cases are on different connected components, so in theory we don't know precisely whether the part corresponding to given position will be for itself or union of connected components, but we can kind of just say informally that these are connected, and nc stars, this shows you over a partition number, but n number c star is the local square, this we have this partition in the ranks, so there's components which interest us, because they are somehow the simplest, which correspond to the two most trivial partitions, so we have, the first we have horizontal partition where everything is just one lump, so just here e2 is zero, maps and the phi is zero, and now the stability condition, as you know, is that somehow things which are inverted under the map, so in particular things which lie in the kernel of phi have to be smaller than we have to satisfy the usual stability condition, so that means if the map e is not, is zero, then f e5 is stable if and only if e is stable as a sheet, so it follows just the modernized states, so this is called the horizontal one, so we have this somehow, this fixed point loci, one of the fixed point loci, it's just the modernized space of stable sheets, but then there are others, the other one, the little super good component is, you know, basically you can write a diagram for partition, you know, so it's like say you make a partition of nc, right, a diagram where we have the length of the individual pieces and then it can be horizontal, means it's just one piece, one or another, and we can have the vertical one, this one, this is the partitioned one, okay, so in this case all the sheets with EI have ranked one, and later when we study it, we want to relate it to the standard space of sheets of rank one, which is the point, so again, I mean, I just like, I think like generating function for the whole thing, there's a lot of which partition function comes to the three factor, which I can write one minus the general classes, as the virtual dimension of the modernized space corresponding to all absolute ones, I wish I could write minus two, if you think of this power dimension, we have this integral over, so this total integral, so this was defined, and so now as we have this connected components of the fixed point locus, and this was done by summing over the connected components, right, this sum of pieces corresponding to this connector corresponding to this lambda, corresponding to partitioned up, as I had described. It was somehow related to the virtual order number of the modernized space sheets that was supposed to be part of the virtual generated function, and in fact, the advantage here should be the part corresponding to the fixed point locus, corresponding to the stream of this is a sign, which is minus one, so that means the integral distribution, so in other words, the contribution, so this means the contribution of this part, so why is that, again, kind of sketch, we had seen, so f is fixed there, so then if one wants to first order the information of this pair, one can perform e, phi is just a homomorphism, and so it's just an element in the vector space, so the form means that, so the tangent space, we have a virtual setting, the expectation is zero, so the obstruction space may be the x1, obviously, and so therefore, the virtual normal lambda, which is the locus, precisely, hypervised, is this space minus the obstructions, so this is therefore just, so I also cheated it because it was trace free homomorphism, so it's trace free, so this is therefore home, on the other hand, we know what the virtual tangent lambda to the modular space of she is, this is x1 minus x2, without the so that means this is equal to, so this is, you know, here I say hypervised, but obviously to make it into a bundle, you place x1 by xip and so on, to make it into a family, but anyway, so then this is will be equal, so in case theory, the virtual tangent bundle are just with, just with hypervised, so m here, we have the dual, and so I showed you that hypervised a normal bundle, the virtual normal bundle is equal to the dual of the tangent bundle of this thing, and so therefore, this gives us that if I integrate this modular space, this thing is just a modular space, which I'm saying, and okay, so now it has to hit, so the way it works out, so you take this, then when you integrate it to, you have this equivalent parameter t, we'll take the coefficient of t to the zero of one over this, this is just, when you work out what this means is, this is just that one over the Euler class of this is the same as the top turn class of minus this element, so obviously the Euler class of minus, minus an element k to the, is one over the class of k theory, and not enough, the Euler class is very similar to the top turn class, and in this particular case, if you work it out, because one actually is interested in taking the coefficient of t to the zero, which is what one integrates is, it's precisely this, so this will be equal to modular space of the tangent bundle, so this will be super precise, but this is how it works out, so therefore, you see at least one can compute easily the contribution of one component in the sense that we know how this relates to things that we know from before. Now, sorry, sorry, I don't know why I got this, I obviously wanted to rise up, obviously it is the whole point of it, I hope it goes on for a few things, obviously I wanted to say that it says it, because that's the model of basic sheets, the basic filing that the other one, so now there's another theorem which maybe I was wrong, most of these, the contributions of most of these six point rules are actually zero, or many of them are zero, mainly this is the following, so statement, so if I look at this integral over the normal one, this will be zero, the partition has a very simple shape, namely, unless the partition, if you write the diagram for it, which is the direction the partition is equal to. In particular, so there is a, it's done by a four section of the partition, so now this implies, in particular, for these ones are, for example, at least the words I want to talk about, so now I want to, maybe I want to briefly introduce, there is a, this conjecture which somehow relates this to the form, which one can also formulate the terms of this, of the partition function, and so I can, let me, just for those who don't know, which one would not use the functions, but not too much, so more or less from the pk, that is the problem of the function, from the conjecture of the plane, the locus c, where the imaginary part is tau, bigger than zero, some of us, which satisfies some nice creation of the conjecture of the transformation, a vcp, and set to zero, so we have a, some sense, this says, essentially, sign two generators, the vt, which is this element, corresponds under section that we do here tau, s, other generators, which is like this, basically, we should have this very property under this term, and in addition, one wants some kind of, actually supposed to have a morphic, but one also has a notion of being holomorphic, infinity means, as it's invariant, so it says here, if we look at it, that it's invariant, and the tau goes to tau plus one, so it has it, we need a development, and the tau is tend to be written as sum for n, a n, n, some perfect number, and now if all of this could be all n for t in integers, but we allow all the positive processes for the morphic infinity, and the modular function is a quotient of two holomorphic, of two molar forms, okay, and so it's clear from the definition that modular functions form a t, which we will later use, and we can also consider modular forms for subtools that I said to z, for instance, we can look at gamma zero, and which would be set for, set to z, such that this c is converging to zero. We can take some kind of behavior under, so now here we have written everything in terms of q, so q is, if you want to write down something like that, the function would be invariant, that's how this tau goes to tau plus one, and now the modularity, there's something that would happen when tau goes to minus one for tau, and so we look at the following, we look at some other partition functions, the island rule partition functions, so that they're really right, so now this could be our times, some root of unity, so it's joint class, so section number, and usually one bit of w, right south as thing, so we just have any combination of things with some overall, so one can show that by definition it's more or less clear that it should depend only on the class modulo r times this, because you know at least with the modularity of sheaves, if you twist change c1 by r strength, it just means oh she is twisted by line one, but the modularity is the same, so we can write out this thing, and then the conjecture, the first way is that, you know, as I said, we write q, it's also on the other half thing, and then if you take z, take this usual one, replace tau by minus one over tau, then this gives us things to one, and so, but there's a tiny, you know, some tiny extra factor, so r minus one over s, and we have a modular factor, so it transforms like a formula for weight one half, as you are thinking, so this would be this conjecture, and it's not here now, but the doubt is that if you look how it's written here, this transformation tau goes to minus one over tau, will somehow exchange the horizontal part of the vertical part, and if I'm believing this conjecture, and the rank is prime number, but one only has to compute one of them, the other one is the theorem, but in addition, obviously one wants to check this conjecture, too. We want to start out by stating here we will see how the structure comes from the geometry of the model, so here you see that first the theorem and then afterwards say, for the first time, just write it, let's assume the theorem is in surface, with the e.g. e to the zero, and say h1, assume the rank is universe power series, c0, the rock series, such that the written in range can be written as follows, but there are some complicated terms, but anyway, minus one into the r minus one into the r, so right here there's some data, okay, so I will have to write down what this is, and then now we have our series, so first we have here, first just ask that is congruent model of r to zero, unless the sum of this class is y by i, I mean delta is equal to one, but zero in r, and so if it is the difference, whether these people or not, you can come on to one after, so we have this, and then statement, right, to take the product, one e to the zero written in range delta i, okay, so we have this very complicated formula, but then, so what we see is that, so if you remember the seven written in range, in any case here, for instance, we assume that there is a, and so remember that seven written in range, maybe at some point in proper definition, there's something written in range, how many quotes there for the in range, but by services, and so if, for instance, s has connected, the only classes for which the seven written in range are not zero, are only in range which associate the number, any class on the second homology, that this number is most of the time zero, for instance, in the case that, that the s has a connected column to third, then they're only these two, and in this case, the seven written in range of zero, c to one, so these are not as mysterious as they seem in algebraic geometry, they are very sensitive, and so this is the description here, so I have here more, let's give you have some fixed policies which I maybe don't explain, but you can see it's some kind of, apart from the fact that I, so you can see also here, you have something for the minus k square, something for the k square, so this is, therefore, there's no statement in this, okay, this is a non-trivial, this is kind of trivial, I can always, I could absorb this term into this, and if I don't know what c0 is, then I also don't know what this is, so this thing is actually not a statement, it's just a normalization, but the term for the power k for s is this one, is a statement, but otherwise, it's some kind of university, state in a very kind of similar to the one we had for the previous two more points, but certainly expressions can be written university in terms of the product form, now we don't have quite the product form, of course we also have this, I was written in variance, but we have kind of, it says that such a thing can be written in the universal way like this, then the only additional non-trivial statement is that this power, so I mean if you remember in the beginning, we had this kind of portability, there was a point where there was a bright sound, something reasonable generating function that once was built with two points, then this has always universal product form in terms of intersection numbers that are in the question, and now we have to still see what s are, delta is equal to delta, delta of q, which also is equal to, this is just p times product one minus q, which is also there, and then we have this theta function, this is the theta function, so theta is, I can write it down simple, so this is sum over all q, over all say vectors v and z to the r, I take q to the inner product of v itself, I have to say what this, I have to say what this inner product is, and so inner product is confined to the r matrix, so maybe when you know this is matrix, diagonal tools before and directly next to the diagonal on both sides, we have minus one, so we take the derivative z to the r, we take this and we get some numbers for this, okay so this is this formula, now I think, so I think I stopped here, I stated this thing, then we have to see what this projector means for this, and then we want to go into the detail, we want to maybe prove this and also see what one can say about this unknown power series c i j, see what is the simple case of this part of the formula, yeah yeah I mean that's one of the things I want to say, we know them until rank five, but they are okay, they will be some functions which we get kind of complicated, so in the in the two cases it's very simple that's the higher the rank, the more complicated, I don't have, we don't have any idea whether what there's a general formula for the arbitrary thing, only it's more, I don't know whether there's anything I haven't seen, but I actually have no idea, there was a prediction I saw which was actually not true, but otherwise I don't, I don't know, tell you that.


The U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently selected its regional lead for ARL Central in Chicago, Illinois. The lab announced its new regional partnership at ARL's Open Campus Open House held last fall. ARL selected Dr. Mark Schaup as ARL Central's regional lead in December. I think I'm very excited about being selected as the regional lead for ARL Central, you know, in particular because it can have such a big impact for the Army Research Lab and for the Army. Schaup said ARL Central is an extension of the lab's Open Campus framework. We started with let's bring the partners into us to work at our labs to work alongside with our reach searchers and our capability, you know, and now we're actually going out to these institutions. So we're going out to our partners. We're going to bring staff scientists, you know, locate them 100 percent of the time right by them. And I think that that's where we're going to get open exchange of ideas. We're going to get rapidly pursuing these technologies, you know, and hopefully bring more innovation to science and technology for the warfighter. The laboratory's central hub is located at the University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and includes additional regional academic institutions to include Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Chicago, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, area laboratories such as Argonne National Laboratory and other Army installations such as Rock Island Arsenal and local industry. A ribbon-cutting event for ARL Central was well attended and held in conjunction with Veterans Day November 10th. It was great to see all of our partners there and represented. It was also great to see Army leadership all the way up to the acting secretary of the Army as well as on the political side.  You know, I'm really excited, as is everybody here, about where we're going with ARL Central and how we're going to go forward with all of these partners. ARL Central is the third laboratory extension that has been opened for the Army. We're really starting to fill in the ecosystem across the country now for all of our extensions. ARL Central is mostly about the work we're going to do in the Internet of Battlefield Things. It's about the work we're going to do in material science at the dynamic compression sector at Argonne Laboratories and perhaps it's about some work we're going to do in quantum information sciences. But it really completes the picture and allows us to extend our reach into the central part of the country. So coupled with ARL West, ARL South, and the soon-to-be-established ARL Northeast, we'll have ARL locations nationally. From Aberdeen Proving Ground, Joyce Conant, ARL-TV.


Well guys, it's Christmas Eve and back here in the shop working on the Duramex, not because I have to, but because I want to get you guys some awesome content and because it's JRC54's fault. He's the one who conned me into having to replace my glow plugs because I said I would. And I did say that I would on the last video, so this is kind of a continuation of that video. We're going to be doing glow plugs today in the old Duramex, and we're going to be replacing the fuel filter, get you guys a little bit of know-how on how to do that. Stay tuned. Step one, have a lifted truck. If you don't have a lifted truck, then you're going to have to take your front wheels off to get the inner fender liner out. Not so much fun, but you know what, I have a lifted truck, so I don't have to do that.  We've got about 10 little clips that we're going to have our little pry tool for, and we have about three 10 millimeter nuts inside the fender well too. Get it out. Then there's also going to be a couple of push bin speed sensors that have their wiring wired in here behind there. Make sure you pry those out too. There we are. Now that we have our inner fender drop, Magic Presto, we have access to all of our glow plugs in here. Pretty fancy, right? So at this point, some of you guys are definitely going to want to be spraying in some PB Blaster, because not everybody's truck is like mine. It was a California truck that has under 100,000 miles. So we're going to give these things a little preliminary spray down, and then we're going to be taking the wires off of these. There's an 8 millimeter nut holding the wire to each one of these glow plugs. So 8 millimeter to take those nuts off. There we go. Literally just cracked them all loose, and like I said, I'm lucky enough in my situation on these to where they're so crust free that I can just spin these nuts off my hand right now. And then the glow plug wire hangs out right there. So next, to get the physical glow plugs out, you are going to need a 12 millimeter socket, a little extension will help you to break the glow plugs loose. I got this guys, I'm professional. Just kind of broke free now, and spin them all out by hand. Like I said, I'm not replacing these because any of them are broke, but because I like to do things before they happen to go bad on me and with this thing hitting 100,000 miles, it probably never been replaced, and it's a good time to right now. So here's our glow plug, got a little bit of white hot tip residue on it. So they don't look horrible, but we're going to get all these out, and we're going to get our new ones here in just a second. So now I've got a really quick test here for you guys. I got a couple of glow plugs, one of which I know that is bad. So we're going to take a standard jump box, we're going to put our ground cable just on the case outside of the glow plug, and then our positive is going to touch right here in the end. You can see your glow plug tip, heat up nice and glowing hot, that glow plug is a good glow plug. Then, this one, this one, no heat o' up-oh. So it don't work, jump, glow plug. That's how you guys can test them pretty easily, just got to get them out. Now the new ones that we've got going in today are our AC Delcos, the part number on that one is going to be, get a little focus here, ACD, they're just 9Gs, AC Delcos. And then there's the GM part number as well. These things out of the case. There is our standard glow plug. Now what we're also going to be doing is we're going to make sure to add a little bit of anti-seize to the threads here before we get them put in. That is going to keep them from having any seizure issues if they ever need changed out ever again. So we're going to dab a little bit on there, get them put back in the block. There we are. Now that we've got them all put in there by hand, we need to torque them down. Torque spec on these is going to be 13 foot-pounds. Don't over-torque them guys, there we are. All torqued down to 13 foot-pounds. Thanks to our nice snap-on, 3-eighths drive tech angle wrench. This thing is a great buy. If you guys don't have one, I'd recommend getting one especially for doing all these little jobs that require exact torque. Need to torque things down right. Next while we're in here, we're going to be removing our fuel filter and changing that out. So we've got a big pair of channel locks, disconnected our whiff sensor, water and fuel sensor, and I like to take that one out while this is still in the vehicle just because it comes out easier when someone's holding the filter for me and I don't have to put the filter in a bite, a bite, a bite bench, a vice bench on the vice to hold it to get it out later. And you're going to make a little mess. Yep, just like that. Now for our filter removal, just got a regular large oil filter wrench. Give her about two turns, should be loose enough to come out. Just like oil filters guys, these things don't have to come out super, if you put on super tight to seal everything, they should seal nicely on there. So there's our fuel filter, going to put our new one, same AC Delco back up on there. And like I said, for reinstallation, we do have an AC Delco part number TP's 3018. New part, same part, also comes with two O-rings, the large ones for the top of your fuel filter, and the smaller one there is to replace your O-ring on the whiff sensor. Connect our whiff sensor, look at that, guys we are all done with this side. Now we're going to go over to the other side. So on this side, everything is not quite so wide open. Now don't let it, you know guys, get you down. These wiring harnesses, they just kind of lift out of the way, and then you can see mostly what we're doing here, we've got one glow plug there, one glow plug is going to be there in the back, then there's a third one, there behind the steering column, and then the fourth one is going to be right over here behind the intercooler pipe. That one you should be able to get to with a couple of swivels and or a wrench. The one behind the steering shaft there, that one's a different story. That one you're going to need to take the intermediate shaft of the steering shaft loose, which is that bolt right there, that one right there, you have to take that one off, and then you're going to slide your steering shaft down to get access to that number two glow plug right there. Really not that bad, just one extra thing you got to take off guys, not that bad at all. Now before all you hot rods get to put in those inner fenders back in, you got to remember you got to bleed this brake system. We still want to check for fluid leaks in the fuel system. So here at our top little fuel area, there is a bleeder valve, fly heads screwdriver, we're going to break that loose, break that loose, and for you know guys like me that don't have a lift pump, now we get to push the button. This is going to pull a vacuum up in the top of the system and pull some of the fuel into that fuel filter and fill it up. So now that we've got fuel coming out of our bleeder there pretty nicely, we have bled all of our fuel, and now we need to tighten back up a little set screw. Tighten that back up, and now we're going to start it and check to see if we have any leaks. Did I tell you what or did I tell you what? That really wasn't that hard of an installation. Now I know you guys with rust are going to have a little bit more in the way of issues, but just think ahead guys, take some penetrant oil, be spraying these things down ahead of the time, you know a couple days in advance so you get some heat cycles going through, get that penetrant oil working to break those things loose so you don't have broken off glow plugs in your heads. That's never fun for anybody. Well that's about all I have for you guys today. If you like the gear that I'm wearing right now, this comes from Allstance Mafia and a group called 7. They're over on Instagram, I will be sure to put a link to them down in the description below. They've got some pretty cool gear and they feature some really cool trucks like my Duramax over there. They got some pretty cool stuff, go and check them out. I really appreciate what everybody has been doing for me on the channel. 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of this season, how big of it for the passing game to really lead the way in the first half today? For me personally, I was just trying to make a play. Each and every time the ball came to me. You know, we try to just keep going and work guys down at the end of the game. We got up to early league, so, you know, unfortunately, Derrick can't break a long run, like we would normally see. But he definitely has carried the team. He's going to continue to do that. Sorry. AJ, you've obviously had a tough start to the season between the hamstring thing or the food poisoning. To have a performance like this against a team like that, just what did that mean for you? I mean nothing. I tell myself I haven't did nothing. I got to keep getting better, keep working. I'm on to the next. AJ, was it Friday then that sort of like that was the Thursday night or something where it broke for you? Yeah, it was when I was on Friday. It got a lot better for me. How much food did you get into yourself in the last couple of days? Not a lot, not a lot. A lot of fluids, though. What's AJ, I guess, going over Buffalo then again today? I mean, from a confidence standpoint, how much does this help you show, hey, this is what we're capable of and kind of set the bar for what you want to do? For the team, huge win against two great opponents. You know, it definitely going to give us momentum going into the division game next week. So, yeah. First half about his complete performance this team has had quite a while? I think we did really well on all three phases today.  You know, they stopped him a lot. They got some really good players over there. And to hold him to three, it tells you everything. You didn't know they had a really good day on defense. So, we can maybe especially for you and Ryan today, do you think you're good? I don't know. First of all, Ryan literally dropped it in the bucket. You know, hats off to him. You know, that's a great throw for him. He always does a good job giving me the ball on target. Like I said, he couldn't put it in a better place the first one. You play 50% of the snaps today just from kind of play to play, how were you retaining fluids and just, you know, retaining the energy that it needs to participate? I was fine. I was fine. You know, some players you get fatigue, but you know, for the majority of the game, I was fine. You know, I've been definitely moving in the right direction. You know, on Friday that you wanted the momentum that you guys found in the passing game on Monday to keep going. Did you feel like that happened? And what sort of the, I guess, the flow right now in the passing game? We definitely used the momentum. It's just that approach, a mentality we brought into this game. We started off pretty good and we kept going and defense backed us up. So, are you lobbying rainbow or anybody pretty quickly after the default that you caught that was originally Oh, for sure. I looked directly at him. He told me to relax.  Did you feel good during the week that this team had put Monday night behind it and was ready? I can't, to be honest, I don't know. I came on Friday. So that was my first time seeing the guys on Friday. So, but on Friday, I definitely felt like we had the right mindset going into the game, you know, so. How much weight did you end up losing? Did you get it all back? And just from a body health standpoint, just how difficult was to get yourself in a position to better do what you did today? I lost a couple of pounds, so I'm still trying to get it back. But it definitely was tough, you know, not practicing on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. Just trying to just get my win out, get my win up, prepare for the game. So it definitely was tough. I'm headed in the right direction. If you guys are there or close to there to pick your poison offense that we talked about in the off-season? I don't like to, I don't want to say, you know, but I definitely think we move in the right direction, you know, this is one game. This is, we didn't win the Super Bowl today. So we're not going to get big headed about one win. Even though you didn't win the Super Bowl today, it's still back-to-back wins over top teams in the conference. Do you feel like this is kind of like an opportunity to put the league on notice about what you guys are capable of? The league's going to do its thing.  But I mean, for us, it's a week to week. It's a week to week league, and it's tough, you know. So we've got to come in and we've got to go to work every week. So no matter what the game plan is, like nobody knows who's going to win when you go out there. You can have the perfect game plan and it can all go wrong. So like I said, it's a week to week league, and we're going to try to stay focused and worry about next week against the coach. So are you impressed by your own defense and hold the Chiefs down to their career? Most definitely, because those guys, they've got some really good guys over there, you know. To hold them to three, you know, flying around, making tacos, doing whatever, pigs, farmers. Of course, I'm very impressed. You guys were up 7-0 in the first half. He had a third and nine on your own four, and you got that screen to Jeremy. How big of a moment was that in the structure of this game? Seems like Jeremy always come up on third down with a screen.   Now that Derek's throwing touchdown passes, is he a stronger MVP candidate, right? I'm gonna always say Derek for MVP. He got a touchdown on his belt, passing touchdown. So yeah, for sure, for sure. You got to account for that. You gonna stick with the mashed potatoes, rice and bread? Do I have to go in forward, too? I'm gonna try not to, I'm gonna try. You know, I got to eat. You know, I like to eat, so, we'll see. Edge, it's the injuries for this team. I know, I guess, how impressive is it to you that you guys are continuing to have these injuries and plugging in guys and getting it done? The injuries are part of the game, but it's a next man up mentality in this league and for us, you know, so we got guys who's stepping in and stepping up big time for us, you know, plugging in and we're gonna try to keep going, so.


From Miami Beach, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Veeamon 2019, brought to you by Veeam. Hi everybody, welcome back to Miami. I'm Dave Vellante, and this is day two of Veeamon 2019. We're here at the Fontainebleau Hotel in beautiful sunny Miami. A lot of swanky people, a lot of big boats, parties going on last night. Of course it's Veeamon, so you know there's a lot of fun. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. Alan Stern is here, he's the technical solutions architect at Cisco, really what that means is he's an evangelist, theCUBE along with Alan, good to see you again. Great to see you again, Dave. Thanks for coming on. So yeah, this is quite a venue. As always, Veeam, a lot of action going on, a lot of customers here, 2,000 plus people. So let's get into it. Cisco, we're going to be at Cisco Live in a couple of weeks. We're really excited about that. It's going to be a great show in San Diego. Absolutely. Another awesome venue. We were in Barcelona early this year to do Cisco, so we love the circuit, it's a great customer show. I want to start with something that we talked about in Barcelona, which is Cisco really, as it evolves into the multi-cloud world, is making the case that its networks are more secure, higher performance, and more cost effective than anybody out there. And it's in a good position to do that. Now we're going to talk deep about infrastructure, but I want to start there and just get your take on that sort of overall challenge to Cisco. Well it's not really a challenge, it's an opportunity for us, because we look at the cloud as this great opportunity. You still have to have networking within your cloud provider. You've still got to do all the things you do on your on-prem data center. You just have to do it in somebody else's data center. And what we've done is we wanted to simplify that operation. So the way you deploy Cisco ACI on-prem, you deploy it the same way in the cloud provider. You're using the same interface, and yeah on the back end we're doing different things because we're interfacing with their networking APIs. But to the end user, they don't have to know each cloud provider's interface, they just have to know Cisco. And they know that it'll be configured correctly. And if we think about what happens with a lot of the threats and attacks that occur in networks, what's one of the easiest ways to get attacked? It's a misconfigured network, a firewall port that's left open. But if you're doing it the same way every time, regardless of where you're doing it, that makes it a lot easier and reduces the chance that you're going to make a mistake. Yeah, and you guys can do the deep packet inspection. You've got a lot of experience around that. You're driving a lot of analytics and obviously machine intelligence is going to come into play. And so, but I want to go back to what you just said. So give me the example. So you guys have announced a multi-cloud strategy to support. Basically, you're essentially describing what we talk about on theCUBE all the time is bringing the cloud experience to your data wherever it is. So whether it's on-prem, in the public cloud, supporting hybrid. So you're saying, for example, if you've got a customer who's running on AWS and heavily using AWS primitives and APIs, you make that transparent to the user. Is that correct? Absolutely. And so, it sounds like magic, but it's a lot of hard work, I'm sure. A lot of software. It is a lot of hard work from a lot of really smart people inside of Cisco that we have some amazing developers. Now, your sweet spot is the infrastructure side of the business. So UCS and obviously the partnership with Veeam, which we'll get into. But what's your swim lane? So my swim lane really is our software-defined storage partners and our data protection partners. And when I started on this role a few years ago, they seemed very much separate. And now what we're seeing is they're coming very much together because what are customers looking to do? Get away from tape. What do they need? Large amounts of storage because we've seen this explosion of data. We talked about it last year. And we're seeing terms like yottabyte and bronabyte. And I remember when I first saw bronabyte, I was like, is this something, somebody watched too many episodes of the Flintstones? But no, it's a real term. A yottabyte is a thousand exabytes and a bronabyte is a thousand yottabytes. So data is growing at multiple orders of magnitude on a regular basis and we've got to store it differently than we have in the past. You know, somebody sent me a stat. And you just reminded me of it, Alan, a couple months ago. And I got to go back and research it. But if anybody out there knows the stat, it was astounding to me. It said by like 2025 or 2022, there's going to be more bytes of data created or stored than there are stars in the universe. Now, that just blew my mind. And we could do the math and figure that out. But I got to go back and check out the link. But to your point, the growth curve, it's non-linear. You know, it used to be Moore's law and now their curve is reshaping. So when everybody talks about digital transformation, what they're really talking about is making their business digital, which is all about data. And you're talking about getting away from tape. You can't have a digital business that runs on tape. You can save tape for the deep archive and stick it in the iron mountain or whatever. But you can't recover. They keep your business running 24 seven. So to your point about those worlds coming together, that really underscores it. So what's your role in supporting digital business strategies and keeping businesses up and doing fast recovery and your partnership with Veeam? So we provide great platforms for folks like Veeam and the object storage vendors. So Veeam now has fantastic integration with the S3 interface that many of these object providers allow. Cisco has very deep platforms. You know, we've got a 4U box that can hold 768 terabytes of data. And if you think about how much data that is, you know, two of these units, it's a petabyte and a half of data. I mean, that's a fantastic amount of data. It's online. It's available to them. If they need to restore it, they can do it quickly because each of those nodes has 160 gigabits per second of network connectivity. But more importantly, if they want to use some of this data, it's available to them right on the platform. They don't have to pull back the tape, restore it from tape, and hope they got the right one. It's about data management, really. Yeah, you're talking about all these bytes and Yotta bytes and Hexa bytes and the growth of storage. Are you seeing a really big wave, a trend toward the petabyte data center? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it used to be petabytes where the purview of only the Fortune 500 maybe, and now we're seeing it really across the board as companies, you know, we're digital hoarders. I look at my laptop. I've got emails from 10 years ago. I've got pictures of everything from forever. Companies are no different because they're looking at data and saying, I've got this data. I'm not sure if it's valuable today, but it may be worth something tomorrow. Let me hold on to it. But their ability to access it and use it, that's going to be the critical piece because it's like an oversized storage unit.  You're not really sure what's in there. And if you have to find that one little widget that's in there, forget it. As the tools get better to go find the data within the BitBucket, I mean, that's where the real value is coming. So why don't we go a little journey down memory lane and talk about the Cisco strategy and how it's evolved. I remember when you started with UCS and I was like, well, I was getting into servers and kind of didn't really understand it until I dug into it. And you guys obviously were trying to change the game with converged infrastructure and you had some partnerships to do that. But I remember one of my first questions was, you had like a zillion VMs that you could run on this block. And I said, how do you protect that? And they're really, at the time, it was like 2009, it was like, well, we could kind of bolt on and that's the way backup was back then. Fast forward to 2019, it seems like data protection is much more of an integrated component of people's digital strategy. So I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit and how your strategy has evolved. Yeah, and it absolutely is because we're not just talking about data protection anymore. If you look at the capabilities of folks like Veeam, it's really about data management. It's not just, hey, back it up, put it over in the vault and forget about it, never use it again. It's back it up, put it in the vault. And if you need it, I can bring it back really quickly. I can use it to test data with. I can use it to scan for malware so I'm not reintroducing an infection after I've cleaned it out. So a lot of ways to use it and then Cisco's providing the platforms to do that. The days of the old monolithic storage arrays, they're still going to be here, but the world for them is shrinking because you think about what do they do? They're the last bastion of vertically integrated systems. We saw storage, the mainframe still here, but the world for it shrunk as we had x86 systems with the operating system of choice. So we're seeing the same thing happening with storage. Customers are just, they want to be able to use all this data that's out there. And in my career I've observed it's always been about recovery. Like when something goes wrong, how do you recover? That's always the killer question, right? And so, but now it's even more complicated because Veeam's messaging this week has been fast recovery. They announced a bunch of stuff that you could recover directly from backup. Don't have to go to a replicated set of data. And so the compression, the time to recover has really compressed. So have you seen that? How are you guys responding to that? Both technically and just from a business standpoint? It's a great question. I mean, you and I have enough gray hair to remember the days of planned downtime. That's gone. So now it's, how do we build a platform? They're going to enable the software side of the recovery, but if the platform isn't capable of keeping up with the software, then you've got a disconnect. So you've got to have disk systems, disk subsets, systems that are capable of keeping up. You've got to have networking. You've got to have a completely integrated system that not only do we look at it and go, okay, well this software should work here. We know that it does. And we do Cisco validated designs with folks like Veeam to make sure that the customers don't have to turn all the different nerd knobs to make sure they're going to get the optimal performance because at the end of the day they don't have time for that. That's not their area of expertise. And we want to make sure that they've got the always on enterprise. So I love to talk about the horses on the track or the competitive landscape. And I especially want to explore a little bit with you Allen, the multi-cloud. You know, some people don't like that term. I think it's fine. Hybrid to me is different than multi-cloud. I've argued that multi-cloud has largely been a system of multi-vendor where people just line a business, shadow IT and then all of a sudden you have these multiple clouds and sasses. But increasingly now organizations are saying, okay, CIOs, get a handle on this mess. Okay, so multi-cloud strategies are starting to come into play. Cisco announced in February, I believe, at Cisco Live Barcelona a big push into multi-cloud. You certainly see Dell EMC talking about it. Google announced, you know, certainly Microsoft is there. You guys have partnerships. You were on stage. David Gekler was at Google next, Cloud Next. So it's Red Hat, IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. So you have all these interesting, you know, cooperation and people, companies going after this multi-cloud. So question, how do you see the multi-cloud opportunity? What's Cisco's strategy with regard to that? Obviously you're coming at it from a standpoint of network and infrastructure strength. But I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit and sort of summarize the opportunity and what your strategy is. Sure, so I want to go back to a quote, a famous quote by John Chambers. He said, we were plumbers for the network. And being a plumber is an honorable profession. And I think while we've certainly expanded beyond that, we still do that. Whether, you know, you're talking about multi-cloud strategies, well, you've still got to connect to all of these different clouds, whether it's infrastructure or as a service, you've still got to connect to it so that it works efficiently for your enterprise. We want to make sure that we enable that technology that we're giving the customers what they need from that technology. And there's still room for on-prem. It's not like any of this is going away. It's select whatever feature is best for that particular customer. So, you know, if there's an as-a-service provider that does customer CRM better than anybody else, by all means, go use them. And we'll help you connect to them, help you secure it. And with partners, we may help you back up. If it's email, without saying who it is, we know who it is. But you've still got to back that up. Where are you going to back it up? How are you going to have the networking? How are you going to have security? So Cisco provides all of that enabling technology to make sure that you've got the enterprise that's secure, and you can connect to all of them so it operates seamlessly for you as your multi-virtualized enterprise. Well, and so Cisco's always been a, you know, a partner-friendly organization. You've stressed optionality. Every one of those companies I mentioned is a partner of yours as well.  At the end of the day, it's the customer's going to decide. Right. So if I understand you correctly, just from a control plane standpoint, you've got software technology that your customers can use. If a customer wants to use a VMware control plane, you'll play there or some other, you know, third party. That's the strategy, correct? And then, but at the same time, you're investing in your own IP to build the best control plane and other, I guess, you know, network capabilities, data plane infrastructure as possible. Yeah, we want to, we're going to leverage, you know, their infrastructure because in some ways they're ubiquitous, but there's things that they don't do. You know, network analytics. We do that better than anybody else with, you know, products like Tetration, also perform some security functions. We have StealthWatch, you know, at the branch, you want to make sure that the farthest things aren't happening on your network that without you knowing it. So we want to enable that visibility and allow the customers to take action. So it's not just enabling the technologies, it's protecting the technologies as well. So I think a lot of it is things that these other infrastructure providers aren't doing or they're not doing well. We can do well because of our history, because of our continued investment in all of these areas. You know, Cisco, we have a lot of money to spend on R&D and we spend it well. Two other areas I want to, absolutely. You have great engineers and also you do, you do acquisitions pretty well. But two other areas I want to cover that we haven't touched upon that much. Hyper-converged, you know, you guys kind of started the converged infrastructure, or at least the modern era. And then hyper-converged comes in, you've got to play there. And I want to talk about the edge, but let's start with HCI. So HCI, we've got a fantastic platform in Cisco HyperFlex. We've continued to evolve it. You know, we have spinning disk, we have all flash, we have NVMe, we've got hybrid. So whatever the customer's performance needs are, we're there with them. As we look at it, this is about simplifying and collapsing the infrastructure. That's what converged infrastructure did. We went out, partnered with some leading companies in the storage space at the time, and said, how do we make this easier for customers to consume? We reel it into the data center, they turn it on, they move their workloads to it. Well, now we've seen this cost model and technology shift towards hyper-converged, where it's x86 servers running the storage and the compute together, and you wheel it in, you move your workloads to it, and you grow it in very nice, easy to consume increments, and it just works. And that's coupled with our management plan. And I can never overemphasize that. When you look at how we manage HyperFlex, how it plugs into our new InterSight product, which is a cloud offering to let you manage the infrastructure anywhere, InterSight will help you deploy the hyper-converged infrastructure. So we continue to focus on making this easy to consume. So now that leads me to your tagline, the Anywhere Data Center, which I want to ask you about the Edge IoT. I know it's not your area of expertise, but I love what the DevNet group has done with infrastructure as code. I see all these CCIEs getting retrained, and coming up with really some amazing use cases. I mean, I saw one at Cisco Live in Barcelona, basically an Edge case in a police vehicle, with some Cisco HCI infrastructure. It was unreal. And just collecting data at the Edge, which is critical. But so what's your strategy with the Edge? What do you see as the opportunity there? So the hard part is always defining the Edge. Is the Edge the branch? Is it my home office? Is it a telephone pole? The windmill? And the answer is yes, yes, and yes, right? Absolutely. So at some of the Edge, we've got the Cisco Hyperflex Edge twice, which is a two-node Hyperflex cluster. We've got small servers that fit into our routers for collecting Edge data there. So really the idea is meet the data where it is, and to the degree that we can, let's help process it there, because you can't always bring all the data back. Yeah, and what I like about Cisco's strategy, just to sort of set the context here, is many infrastructure providers I would observe are trying to take a top-down approach to say, okay, we've got this box, we're going to go put it on the Edge. And you guys do that too, but what I really like about your approach is that your box is programmable. So I can develop applications at the Edge. I can do that with a cloud provider if I want to. I can do that directly using Cisco APIs. And so I think that gives you guys an advantage, and obviously your networking estate helps as well. Alan, great to have you back in theCUBE. Thanks so much, and I'll give you the last word on Veeam on 2019. You know, it's a great show. We love being here. Veeam is a fantastic partner. We're doing some really innovative things, and it's just, it's wonderful to be here. I'm almost speechless. Yeah, so theCUBE is here all day today. We've got keynotes now coming up, so we're going to come back after those keynotes. Of course, Veeam has its big customer party tonight. Veeam parties are renowned. Always a lot of fun, always great food, and always some kind of interesting twist. So Alan, thanks again for coming to theCUBE. Great to see you. Always a pleasure, thanks. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back right after this short break. I'm Dave Vellante. You're watching theCUBE from Veeam on 2019.


Hey everyone, I'm Ryan Samozzi from CalCP, and we're here at the Tatting Center to reveal some exciting new news for the Health Opportunity Fund. I'm here with ACC Senator Nikhil, the transfer advocate for the office of the president, Saniha and Neil. So Neil, what exactly is the Health Opportunity Fund? Just to begin with, to add some clarity to those that might not be super important. So the Health Opportunity Fund is this incredible program that started several years ago. Essentially what it allows you to do is wave up to $110 using your Cal1 from healthcare expenditures at Tang. To qualify you just have to be a Pell or Dream recipient, so it's specifically for our low-income and undocumented students, first-generation students. We basically received the funding to increase the total pool of money, like Neil was saying, that the Health Opportunity Fund has. So basically per student, so now Pell and Dream recipients will be able to access up to $200, whereas in the past they've been able to access up to $110. And increasing the total pool of money in the fund will also allow more students to be able to access the Health Opportunity Fund, and by extension the critical services they need at Tang. As I was researching to write the grant proposal, I saw a lot of like, worrisome data about how like, the most marginalized students on campus are the ones who need this funding the most.  So I really kept that in mind as I was writing for this grant. So I think it's important to uplift and empower the students who are often ignored the most on campus, and also to me it shows the power of students working for students. So we can get a lot done if we just put in like our work. We did put in a lot of hard work, but something anyone could do if you see a problem on campus and you might do something about it, like this is what we're here for. And plus health care is a human right because no one should have to decide between emergency health care and food and basic necessities like that. For me working at ASUC, I think this is symbolic of the work that the ASUC can and should be doing to support students on campus and specifically marginalized students. So a lot of these different super beneficial programs that are just like, they're there. That's actually a start at ASUC, and to this day a lot of us are still working super hard. And it's a good reminder that there are those of us who really do care. A lot of exciting new changes in news about the health opportunity. So please come and check it out. ASUC is working really hard and we're all really excited about that. I'm Ryan Salmonso with CalTV reporting out.


Thank you so much Robert for sharing. I know that it takes a lot of boldness to do that but before we pray for you because I want all of us to pray for his blessing as he's going to turn to a next chapter in Moses Lake can you just tell us before you came to church what was your experience being here and how did it impact you? When I first came here okay thank you I was having trouble with that. When I first came here I was struggling in like a deep depression and dealing with anxiety issues and all that and I'm still struggling but this weight definitely I know understand what it means about this weight being lifted and I love that sermon that Pastor Vladimir gave about the yoke and the oxen because I felt like I was just dragging so much stuff with me and now through the relationships that I've made with people of the church and keeping faithful in the Bible and the Word and all this it's just truly just through my mind wide open and now I I don't have to like live in constant anxiety and worrying about what's going to happen because I know that as long as I trust him he's going to take care of the rest and so amen thank you so much Robert for sharing


Hey there, Chad Bonds. You're here for High University Libraries. BizMiner is a great resource for looking to start a new business as it gives you financial ratios to benchmark your company against. It also gives you information to analyze the competitive market in your area. So this video is going to show you how to find the information that you need in BizMiner. So here you go. So this is what a competitive market analysis looks like for the restaurant industry, in this case, Parkersburg or actually Wood County, West Virginia. So you see it covers general business, industry market size, market volume, market analysis, business valuation, all this kind of stuff. So this video is going to show you how to find this particular report and other reports like it in BizMiner. So when you get to BizMiner, you can do a couple of things. You can search for industry right here, or you can just click on Industry Search, which actually allows you to do an industry drill down here. In this case, I'm looking for restaurant information, which will be under the Accommodation and Food Services section here. And then we can go in and look for full service restaurants. In this case, in my example, I'm going to use full service restaurants here. And I'm going to click on Show Industry Reports there. I can also drill down, but be forewarned, the more data you have, the better off you are. So the more granular you get in a particular small area, you may get some kind of sketchy data there. So the more data you have to work with, the better. So I'm going to click Show Industry Reports. And here's where we can go in and look for a variety of information. For example, if we wanted to, to get industry financial profiles, I'm going to select a sales class. So for example, if we know that our company is going to be making between $500 and $1 million, we can do that, click Access Now. And this basically was going to give us some financial ratios to benchmark our company, either our existing company or our future company, against. You can see I've got this in my most recent reports here. If I want to, I can click on HTML or PDF. It'll generate a nice report here for us. And here is basically the industry financial averages for those restaurants in this particular sales class overall in the U.S. now. So it's kind of a good way to look to compare your company overall against other companies in the same industry in the overall U.S. There are all kinds of reports you can get in addition to financial ratios. You can get, for example, these state metro market or these industry market snapshot reports, which will give you things like startup and failure rates and things like that. One of my favorite reports in here for the purpose of looking at a restaurant or starting a new restaurant is this competitive market analyzer. So if we click Create Now here and go down and see, I'm going to select our state and I'm going to do West Virginia. And then I'm going to choose, in this case, we're looking at Parkersburg, so I'm going to do West Virginia. Then do Next. This is going to allow me to go in and kind of select what I want to benchmark my company against. And I'm just going to do all sales classes here. We could go down and get smaller, but you can see there are going to be a lot less firms to look at as your data gets smaller. So I'm going to do the larger all sales classes there. Click Next. I'm just going to do Industry Wide. Click Next. And then I can review that. I'm just going to click Access Now here. And it's going to go in and give me my report that I can look at here. So I can actually go in and click... So in my list here I have this competitive market analyzer, which is what I'm looking at there. If I click the HTML, it's going to go out and generate my list for me. So this report has all kinds of really useful information here, general business and consumer environment, all this kind of stuff. Economic sector concentrations, personal income breakdown, competitive market concentrations, vitality, talking particularly about the industry, how big the industry is compared to the national average, things like that. So it might be a good way to kind of benchmark your area against other or the national average to figure out if your area is indeed viable for a new restaurant or a new independent business. Hope for this video helped you with your research. If you need more help, look for the contact link on the business blog. I'd be glad to help you any way I can. Take care and best of luck with your research.