is now time for member's statements. I recognize the member from Ottawa Centre. Thank you, Speaker. Earlier this week, a text message from a Russian soldier to his mother who was intercepted. The soldier wrote, we were told we would be greeted with open arms, but they call us fascists. His mother replied, are you still out for military drills? And the son replied, the only thing I want right now is to kill myself. Mom, I'm in Ukraine. This is a real war. I'm scared. We're firing at everyone, including civilians. Speaker, this is the inhumanity of a war that is killing people as I say these words. This war, this invasion of Ukraine, was started by a maniac determined to fight to the last drop of somebody else's blood, including this soldier's blood. We've seen this kind of madness before, and we have the power in this world to say no to it. Here in Ontario, we are not powerless. We can take action. I asked folks in Ottawa to join me this Sunday at 2 p.m. in front of the Russian Embassy, peacefully assembling with the Ukrainian community to demand that Russia end its invasion of Ukraine. Your voice matters. 19 years ago, people all over the world rose up to a looming invasion of Iraq. Canadians, tens of thousands of us, motivated our government not to send troops to that war, which we now know is based on false pretenses. So join us this Sunday. Stand up. Stand with the people of Ukraine. March and rally for peace. Member statements. I recognize a member from Mark Unionville. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today, I'm happy to share about the 2022 Lunar New Year events that I host in February. This virtual celebration welcomed over 250 attendees from across Mark Unionville and Ontario, including our Premier and many of our caucus colleagues, and we celebrated with local performances from the community. Madam Speaker, Lunar New Year brings friends and families together to welcome the new year and all the good fortune it will bring. It brings towards Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and many other communities to celebrate the first new moon of the Lunar Calendar. My writing has the highest concentration of Chinese Canadians in Ontario, and this event highlighted the contributions they make to our community. With such a diverse writing, the actions of this government to promote anti-racism have helped residents feel saver in this province. Mark Unionville's Lunar New Year event was a celebration of the diversity of culture of Ontario and why it is important to fight racism and hate in all forms. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member statements. The Member for Kitchener Centre. Speaker, older adults need more than a plan. They need a vision. I learned that just the other day. I have a podcast that allows me to speak to people from my Writing of Kitchener Centre called People in My Hood, a Philosophical Podcast. And a few Fridays ago, I was speaking to Marcia Smelly and John Lord, who said to me, as much as they see the investments and changes for older adults, not just in the Writing of Kitchener Centre but across the province, what they feel is missing is a vision. What's missing from the work that's happening for older adults is an opportunity to ensure that they can thrive, ensure that they can make choices and be supported no matter what it is that they want to do. And that actually reminded me of my mommy. My mom graduated from York University after completing her first Bachelor of Arts at the tender age of 79, but I say 36 because I like Christmas dinner. And when my mom graduated, I remember how excited she was to realize that there were people that would help her as an older adult achieve the educational successes that she had always dreamed of, but she had to wait for us to be out of the house in order to be able to access. Older adults need to have spaces and places where they can do more, where they can access anything that they want, make their dreams come true and be treated with love, care and compassion that they so deserve. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Markham Thornhill. Thank you. Thank you. The world including Ontario has been experiencing change like we have an experience in decade. According to the recent survey, more than a half of Canadians say they can afford the cost of living. Affordability has become an issue for many families. Inflation rate went up to 5% for the first time in 30 years. Just yesterday, the bank at Canada raised its benchmark interest rate to 0.5% to help combat inflation. The survey goes on to state that Canadian household budget are becoming skewed as a price of food, gasoline and energy crisis. Mr. Speaker, my constituency office in Markham Thornhill often receive cold surrounding the affordability of living. Dreaming of roof over the decades has become a challenge in many people, especially for the younger generation. However, our government have been taking action and using Ontario financial firepower to support the people and businesses in the province, include increasing the minimum wage to $15, eliminating the license plate sticker renewal fee and refund the millions of drivers for fee payments in March 2020, cutting the cost of taking transit with the free ride to and from court transit, $75 million additional funding to support for the electricity cost to live for eligible residents and farm and small businesses. Along with the numerous other initiatives, Mr. Speaker, government spending increased by $16.7 billion compared to last year. This represents the single largest year over year increase in programs spending on record. These initiatives by our government have been welcoming news to all residents of Ontario. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Member Statements, the Member for Humber River Black Creek. Thank you, Speaker. There is an affordability crisis in Ontario. The cost of everything is through the roof and it's still going up. But even worse, there are individuals, businesses, heck, entire industries who are taking advantage of consumers. We get tricked into buying things we don't need. We get shoddy service or products that we can't return. We're paying for things that have doubled and tripled inexplicably overnight. They're gouging us and reaping major rewards without penalty, but we have nowhere to turn because there is no real consumer protection in Ontario. You call the consumer hotline like over 30,000 did, nothing happens. You go to the ministry, they tell you to get a lawyer. The delegated authorities that exist are more interested in protecting those that they are meant to police. The new Democrats of Ontario have a solution. Bill 77, the Ontario Consumer Watchdog Act, real consumer protection in the form of a consumer protection watchdog who will sniff out consumer abuse and will have the teeth to take real action.  The Ontario Consumer Watchdog Act will be debated in the house next Tuesday, March 8th. I'm calling on everyone in the house to support our bill so that Ontario consumers finally get the respect and protection we deserve. It's long overdue. Let's get it done. Understatements, the member for Chatham-Kent Leamington. Thank you very much, Speaker. Serving as the MPP for Chatham-Kent Leamington now for over 10 and a half years has been many rewarding moments, but perhaps none more rewarding is this. It all started back when I was in opposition. The need for a new children's treatment center in my community was brought to my attention. Even though the purpose and usage of the center in CK had functioned for over 70 years, it became obvious that the current facility had outgrown its ability to properly serve the families and children in my community. The number of children currently in need has climbed to over 3,500 per year, aged from birth to 21 years. But who says perseverance doesn't pay off? I never gave up believing in, advocating for, and pressing for much needed government funding. And then it happened. The government approved partial funding for the estimated $28 million new build complex. The 55,000 square foot facility when completed will shorten waitlist times, improve overall accessibility, and provide increased space for specialized therapy programs. The state of the art facility will support families and children through an integrated model of centralized services. And recently, over $840,000 was given this year to help meet the growing demand for these services in my community. The funding will go along the way in providing services from hearing and speech therapy to autism services, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy. In closing, I believe that every child deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential. So congratulations to the management team, staff, and the Children's Treatment Center Foundation. For all you've done to help make dreams come true. Thank you very much. Member Statements. The member for Scarborough Rouge Park. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I rise to give a special shout out to all the seniors in my riding of Scarborough Rouge Park. I want to take this time to recognize how active seniors have been throughout the pandemic in looking after each other and keeping themselves involved in our communities. I had the opportunity to meet with seniors in action, a senior group organized by seniors, for seniors that creates new opportunities for them to stay both active, physically and mentally. Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity to talk and meet and talk with two members, Lydia Quasada and Alicia Swervo. Two active members of seniors in action. And they said throughout the pandemic, these seniors have regularly at 8 a.m. to go on a walk. Mr. Speaker, this is what inspires me. I also had the opportunity to meet with seniors from Frontline Care Community Center, where they engage with each other virtually through innovative programs organized by the Frontline Care Community Center. I must also mention Mr. Ramalingam, a senior leader at 1315 Nielsen Road Building, who has been a champion in helping seniors in his building by engaging with my office and other not-for-profit organizations to bring hot meals and groceries to all the seniors throughout these tough times. And also a big shout out to Mr. Sivalloganathan, Ruchpak Tamil Senior Association, for his leadership throughout the pandemic. Mr. Speaker, I must say engaging with seniors always makes my heart full. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Member Svetlana for York. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm excited to announce that on January 6th, my daughter Aisha gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Shea. Yes, my first time being a grandfather and having a grandchild pushes our time horizon further into the future. First Nations communities teach us that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world and healthy relationships, seven generations into the future. And in thinking about future generations, I think about the housing crisis, the cost of education, but the biggest crisis of all is the climate crisis. And I'm proud of the NDP's commitment to protecting our environment through a just transition to a green economy, by baking new public sector buildings carbon neutral by 2030, by retrofitting existing buildings to the world's most ambitious retrofit program, by providing subsidies for electric vehicle charging stations and by creating a million green economy jobs through the Green New Deal. Ontario has the capacity to transition to a green economy. Last December, I attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for an electric ferry at Billy Bishop Airport, a groundbreaking ceremony for a tall timber building on George Brown campus and the launch of a three-wheeled electric vehicle that's being built and designed in Ontario. We need to nurture this green tech capacity to transition to a green economy. Our future generations are depending on us. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Aurora, Oak Ridge's Richmond Hill. Well, thank you very much. Thank you and good morning to all my colleagues. Speaker, last year I was honored to introduce Bill 271 alongside my good friend and colleague, the member for Carlton. Our bill, which would officially proclaim the month of March as Persian Heritage Month. Speaker, this bill received unanimous consent in the House, so I want to thank all my colleagues on both sides of the House for supporting this bill. This is significant for the Persian community, Speaker, because it officially celebrates our culture and heritage right here in our province. It was an honor to bring this bill forward to recognize the important contributions Persian Ontarians have and continue to make in our province. The nearly 200,000 Persian Ontarians make the largest concentration of Persian people in the entire community right here in our province. And since 1970, Speaker, Persians have played an important role shaping the economic, political, social and cultural landscape of our province. Persian culture and history is among very few others around the world, Mr. Speaker, to have thousands of years of history and tradition. And Persian people have been at the center of countless empires, trade routes and cultures for centuries. The resilience and unwavering commitment to helping others is what makes this community so special, Speaker. And as we celebrate Persian Heritage Month, I want to encourage everyone here in the legislature and those watching at home to learn and engage more with our culture and learn about the history. I'd like to thank the entire Persian community for all they have done for the province and for the support that they have provided us and particularly the last two years, Mr. Speaker. They have made this province a better place for all of us and I'm excited to watch this community grow and achieve great things. Thank you very much, Speaker. I don't know if we're on Mahe March, Mahe Khubbi, Parehame Vashay. Thank you. Member Stevens, the member for Davenport. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In this very moment, the Ontario Medical Association estimates about 21 million backlogged healthcare services, including life-saving surgeries, doctors visits, diagnostic tests. And while almost a million people continue to live with pain and anxiety and uncertainty, this government is refusing to adequately fund hospitals and community clinics. Ontarians have been driven into fear, fear of not getting needed healthcare services on time, fear of hospitals and clinics not having the capacity and staffing levels to address the backlog, fear of not being able to protect the health and well-being of our loved ones, fear for their very own survival. Maria, a constituent in my riding of Davenport, shared her fears with me. She wrote to me that she is afraid because our healthcare system has been underfunded for generations and it's about to break. Maria comes from a family of nurses and she worries about the dangerous staffing levels and our healthcare system's lack of capacity to address even our immediate needs. We have to do better. Catching up on the backlog is going to take years. The Financial Accountability Office estimates three and a half years to clear the surgery backlog and over three years to clear the diagnostic procedures backlog. And this is assuming that hospitals operate above pre-pandemic levels. We need funding urgently. So I'm calling on this government. Please listen to the advice of the Financial Accountability Office and provide the $1.3 billion needed to clear the backlog patient services now for Maria and so many others like her. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is that the last statement? That's the last one.


Hey everybody, Dr. O here and in this video I just want to talk about how much water we should drink. So obviously you see water here, there's not medical advice, there's lots of recommendations out there. Should we drink eight glasses of water a day? Should we drink half our body weight in ounces? I'll kind of give you my spin on it but this eight glasses of water a day is one of those things that's been said so many times that everyone believes it but it never was actually stated anywhere. It's one of those things that was referenced and then referenced again and referenced again and we just believe things and that happens a lot sadly in science and a lot of other areas as well. The research was done in the 50s it showed we need a certain amount of fluid and take including other fluids and including food, the fluid we get from our food but still I don't have a problem with this eight glasses of a day of water but I don't think it's as scientific as people would assume. Saying half your body weight in ounces at least that's better, at least take size and consideration. If you weigh 120 pounds me and you should not drink the same amount of water so I do like that better because at least it takes size into consideration. If you want to know how many cups of these you should drink you should look at a cup of this. This is my kind of go to answer and I think that urine is a very good measure of hydration so the color of the urine and the amount of urine you're producing are the key indicators to me that you're hydrated or not. I always like to say if you want to know something just ask your body. Your body will tell you based on how often you urinate and the color of your urine if you're hydrated or not. Here we see a chart that shows that what urine looks like if you're hydrated versus dehydrated so if your urine is a nice pale straw pale yellow color then that means that you're hydrated. If it's crystal clear you're over hydrated and drinking too much water and I've been there I used to drink way too much water it was just kind of a nervous tick while I was a student I was just drinking and drinking but so up near the top there if you have that pale straw pale yellow colored urine that's a very good sign that you're hydrated obviously so at least looking at your urine takes other things at a consideration right are you consuming diuretics are you in a real human environment where you're sweating a lot like to tell a roofer in Texas and someone that works inside all day like me that we both need eight glasses of water a day just doesn't make sense are you exercising or not these are all things where your hydration status can be measured to me in somewhat directly by looking at your urine so the color of your urine is very important number two though is like how much urine should we make how often you urinate so it isn't just the color because maybe it is because you're consuming diuretics like alcohol or something else but if you have that nice pale yellow pale straw colored urine and you're urinating every two to four hours so to me if you're urinating every three hours now not counting when you're going to bed but you should certainly have to go right when you wake up if you're urinating every three hours and you urine is pale yellow then your body is telling you that you're hydrated if you're urinating every five hours and it's in its dark yellow or almost brown that means your body is holding onto all of the water than it can which is why it's producing as little urine as possible and if it's and if it's crystal clear you have so much water flowing to your body your body's not even trying to hold on to it and getting rid of it so here we see normal urine production is one to two liters per day I think that's a very sound number if you're consuming more or if you're producing more than two and a half liters a day of urine as you can see here excessive water intake can be a cause consumption of alcohol and caffeine or we're also worried about diabetes here diabetes mellitus being because the high blood sugar is pushing is pulling water out of your body as it leaves and diabetes and syphidis is a condition where you don't have enough anti-diuretic hormone so we can cover all that later but if you're producing too much urine excessive water intake might be the first thing to consider unless you have one of these disease states now caffeine is kind of tricky when you first start consuming caffeine is pretty sensitive pretty powerful diuretic but your body appears to get used to it I've seen that WebMD Mayo Clinic all sorts of places say that once you get used to a certain amount of caffeine it does not have the same diuretic effect not saying it doesn't have any but doesn't have the same diuretic effect that had when you first started consuming it but on the other side if you're if you're consuming 300 or producing sorry don't be consuming urine if you're producing 300 to 500 milliliters a day of urine that's called oliguria and you're not producing enough that means you're dehydrated or else some other serious condition and then anuria not producing any urine really you would consider kidney failure all right so just to quickly review how much water should you drink you should drink enough water so that your urine is pale straw pale yellow and you're yearning every three hours I think that I think that's the best advice that I can give you but it's not medical advice all right I hope this helps have a wonderful day be blessed


I'm Karen Bennett. I work with IEEE and the ISO standards, trying to get, you know, better technical depth into some of the standards that are getting produced out there. Myself, I have an open source background. I was part of the founding group that started up Red Hat. So, you know, from the early, early days, it's amazing to me to come back to this community because it has grown so much. But in the last sort of 10, 12 years, my primary job has been building AI applications and Metaverse. I mean, it was before it was called Metaverse. It was really just 3D games and immersed in, you know, your goggle type things. But now there's an actual term for it. But about a year ago, I approached Linux Foundation because I could see that they were doing something called S-bombs. I mean, hopefully, I don't know how many people have done any S-bombs for their software. But it is an interesting way to document code. So, with IEEE and some other governments, we heard a number of keynotes and talks. The government are looking for some way of evidence that you've done the due diligence to know that your software works as intended. The whole phenomena associated with chat GDP. And unfortunately, I missed the talk this morning. But this, I called it a little bit of the Wild Wild West out there because people are throwing stuff into production that haven't been tested at all. Like, and it just worries me. And from a standards point of view, there's no standards that I could go to open AI and say you're not following X, Y and Z. So a lot of catch up is going on. And so why I wanted to do Metaverse. To me, this is an up and coming or it's been around for a while. As I say, it used to be called different things. But it is an opportunity for maybe standards and regulations and getting people to talk about the issues before it gets to production. I mean, there are a number of things in production right now, but that's not to say that they can't improve by doing an S-bomb. So again, can I just get a show of hands of who's familiar with S-bombs? Yes, no, nobody. Okay, so I'll go a bit deeper into that then. Okay, so I'm sure all of you have built a Metaverse. I mean, this is the dictionary that's out there, the IEEE dictionary glossary definition. It really is bringing the digital world and the physical world together within software. I worked on a project for those in Canada. Maybe they know there's a toy for kids called Webkins, which actually it's over 10, 20 years, it's been in the market. But what it does is allows the kid to play games with whatever toy that it purchased. So it has that interconnection between the physical world and the digital world, which was sort of a first step into what people are starting to call Metaverse. I also have a couple of kids and their gamers. So I can see that Metaverse and this whole physical world and buying things is a phenomenon that is going to be for our next generation. Okay, so software bill of materials. Really all it is is a document that documents certain fields associated with your software. So it's been in existence. It started out, I think Kate was saying who's running that group from Linux Foundation that it is, it started out with what they called traditional software. Now with when IEEE came to the table with we wanted to get some things into the S-bombs structure associated with AI and data sets. Because for those of you if you've built any AI applications, the key is the data and it's how it gets trained. So understanding the data that you have, as well as the software, is a crucial component of documents in an AI application. And it started out with traditional software. Linux Foundation have been targeting cyber security and I think everybody in the world, at least in this community of people, log 4j. So it really is you need to understand all your dependencies. And when a cyber or security attack is made on an open source component, it quickly can figure out whether your source code has the potential of having that same risk is one of the benefits of documenting a software bill of materials. The other is licensing.  I did a talk two days ago about so if you go and do a software bill of materials for chat GDP, you will quickly see so much of that information is not known to the public of how it was built. I mean they do document the licensing, but unfortunately Microsoft owns all the rights to anything you do with that code if you read the the T's and C's of the license. But it really is unless they document these things, how are you going to know? It looks like a cool technology. They say, hey, come use our API. You don't really know all the repercussions that's happening. So again, the reason software bills of materials are strongly being encouraged by the standards groups. It allows us, so as I build a standard, which right now I'm with a group of people that are building one for empathetic type technologies. So if you use facial recognition or biometrics, what do you need to document so that if I'm going to buy your software, I can have a good conscience that I've got a good piece of work. And that's really ultimately what the SBOM is for is to be able to do that. Can it be expanded to do more things? For sure. But they're not quite there right now. It's really just the basics get documented, associated with your code. Again, I just threw this in, but statistics for metaverse, it's a growing field. And again, if my kids are any representation of the future, it will be really important. I mean, I right now see it and have been developing software games, which I think is my next slide. I would have said, you know, right now the killer app is games, but I just did a project for a real estate company here in Canada to be able to use drones to, you know, take all pictures of your house you want to sell. And then we're using virtual reality to sell it to people that may or may not be able to go see it. So like foreign investors, or I'm going to be moving to Vancouver, I currently live in Toronto, I can see the experience of the house with actually physically not having to be there. And I think all of us can see the opportunity within education and healthcare as well. I mean, I worked a few years back on a remote hospital, so the ability and all the tools and devices that you could do so that I could be a doctor in Toronto, but I'm actually looking at a remote patient, maybe up in the Yukon or something. So it's got a huge opportunity in some of these spaces. So it's going to grow. But to me, what I have seen with a lot of technologies, the proprietary solutions out there don't want us open source people knowing too much about what they're building. I would like to try and get that at least a little bit changed by getting these S-bombs for Metaverse. So before I get into that, the other thing that I can see, and I saw it with AI. So when I started out in the AI space, I was doing an AI platform. Ultimately, Microsoft bought it, which is good. I guess it was a startup that went successful. But I could see that there's no real standards out there. So the team that I had, we were building the models and using card data to be able to self-driving cars. Again, for the last couple years, I've done a lot of consulting in reviewing when an AI incident happens like Tesla, like Uber, where they actually kill somebody because of their self-driving cars. And when you go do a deep dive to figure out why, it's scary actually. The Uber one was they didn't train their AI model on any diverse data. It was all sort of white males of a certain age bracket. And so when the AI, the self-driving car, was going down the road, it hit a woman and actually killed her. But it thought it was a building when we went and looked at all the logs to figure out why it had done the actions that it had. So with Metaverse, with AI, sorry, there was a ton of standards out there. Again, when I came to IEEE, I think there was 1,200 standards on AI. That to me as a developer is way, I'm not going to read that. So what we're trying to do with the Metaverse is we've created what we call a Congress, but it's in Linux terms. It really is a steering committee. So it's a set of people that are going to drive what gets documented in the standards. And so currently right now, one of the things that we have, we have working groups that are comprised of a number of people around the world, and they come in and we define the terminology. So one of the things when I joined the SBOM group, I could see that the tools people were trying to define terms in their glossary associated with state bill of materials in a different word. And I was like, why are we doing this? Somebody's already done this before you. And so I was able to share with them because those documents are public. Terminology documents within IEEE are available to anybody. But the problem with IEEE, and I will try and to fix it, but I still got time or I need to do a lot of work, is we refer to a lot of these documents like working group 2048. And there's no way you would have a clue what that is. And it's very hard. They have done a number of changes to the IEEE website. But finding the information that you need is probably one of the number one problems with associating with, you know, a standards group. After terminology is set, not saying that it's set in stone, because as you develop the standards, more terms come up. But they go about doing recommendation and practice guides. And so they have a number of recommended practice guides for VR and AR right now. Again, by the 2048.1 is how most people within IEEE refer to it. They've just created in the last month or two, two working groups that are going to start to build the rules associated with metadata. So like how, or metaverse, sorry, how, you know, you would document bias, how you would calibrate the goggles. These types of things will go into a standard that hopefully people will read. And when you're building an app of that nature, you'll you know, go get certified by that. I personally was in building software for 20 plus years. And I had never looked at a standard in my life. So there's that gray area, unless it's going to bring value to the developers or the organizations. You know, why would I go look at some of these standards? The only thing that having been in that universe now for a couple or four years, there's a lot of expertise that go into building these standards. And so you can see, you know, that expertise by reading and you can also see how you might get through an audit because I think at least in the US, we all know that the auditors are coming for a lot of this software to figure out if it's safe. Within IEEE, we refer to safe as both cybersecurity types safe, as well as ethically safe, because there's a lot of software starting to come out on the market that, you know, might not be a good, could do harm to humans. Unfortunately, in IEEE, we tend to call people humans. And then you get the digital type representation of code. But the humans themselves, like again, ChatGDP is a great example, but it nudges you to do things that you don't really want or would if you knew what it was doing. It can nudge you like I participated in a pilot with Amazon. And it really was showing how much data they had on my online buying behaviors. And you know, you can have recommendation engines, and we've seen that where it will give you ads, etc. But this actually would put at my front door a product, and then I would decide whether I wanted it or give it back. And it had no reference to anything I had ever done a search on. And they did a trial of sending me five products. I actually purchased four of them. So they were, they knew enough about me and ways to nudge me to actually buy something that I wasn't even on my radar to buy. But that is the type of thing that harm can happen. You know, I was just chatting with some folks before this with ChatGDP. There's a lot of good number of questions going into ChatGDP these days about, you know, I'm feeling blue or I want to commit suicide or, and if you do that on a Google search, it gives you help. ChatGDP does not, it actually tells you the best way to kill yourself. So it's like that is actually harmful. And we need to be able to figure out these types of things. If it's doing that as part of, you know, maybe an SBOM or there's another document that I Tripoli is going to start pushing and that's an impact statement. So really the impact for those from Europe, they have, especially in the area of facial recognition, it's considered a high risk technology or use. And so how do you know when a piece of software is high risk versus low risk that somehow needs to be communicated to us humans. So that's the I Tripoli. I would encourage you if you have any interest in metaverse. The teams are very diverse. For a lot of years, it tended to be hardware engineers, you know, lawyers, DevOps type people. It has morphed quite a bit into more software related things. But psychology as well, people that understand sort of the human brain and how it works. So it to me, it's been a great experience because I get to see other sides of a product versus just the code that gets developed at the end. But why I put in an abstract is I got a notice saying Linux Foundation was creating an open metaverse foundation. And I was like, oh, my God, here we go again. We're all not going to collaborate together. So first of all, the key is awareness. So we now both know we have an effort going on and we need to somehow collaborate and figure out there are other groups out there. In fact, metaverse standard forum, if you go there, they'll tell you all the different standards that are getting written about metaverse. So again, understanding the landscape is crucial. But we need to feed these information from these standards groups into the tools that open source developers build. So again, the metaverse is a very complicated, similar to AI sort of architecture. So you have, in the games that I wrote, it used blockchain to be able to do the purchasing, the crypto, currency type exchanges, etc. You have the AR and the VR sort of experience idea. You have AI in that organism that you're going to be building. You have different ways of having a relationship with between the physical and the digital world. So there's all these different things going on. But when I went, you know, was looking at this architect, I was like, oh my God, Sbom has started to organize their stuff. So as part of this conference, it got for SPDX 3.0, which is sort of the language to build Sbom's. It's starting to organize itself in a way that makes sense with how AI and metaverse type or architectures are built. And so again, what comes to mind with 3.0, we now have what we call an AI profile and a dataset profile. And with an Sbom, you have fields that are mandatory. And then there's fields that are optional that we're going to try and encourage suppliers to fill in, because then it gives the consumer or another development group insight into what that software is all about. It gives, you know, the licenses. So with AI, one of the things as well is, you know, I'm in the biomedical group, but it uses hardware. And there are things that need to be documented somewhere about the hardware you use with AI. So with self-driving cars, you have Lido's hardware, you know, with one of the things we're doing with one of the car manufacturers, we actually monitor the heart rate and the facial expressions and the eye movement of the passengers to know, you know, is the car going too fast, too slow, you know, to give us insight into how we should address. So all of these hardware needs to be calibrated in a certain way and have thresholds that are well understood if you're building an AI application. So again, it's an optional field, but we started to bring in, you know, devices, IoT devices, but with Metaverse, it's a natural that there would be a package that you would fill in your AR, AR, and VR type hardware that you're using and bring it in and document it. For now, I suspect it will be an optional component, but over longer terms, as people get more familiar with this, you know, we can change what is mandatory and what's not. So, and then, of course, avatars in the Metaverse world is another area, sort of, how did you create them? Well, I have a couple of slides of ideas of the different fields that Metaverse developers should start to think about that they need to document associated with their code. But you can see that now that they've done the restructuring of the 3.0 release of SPDX, it's more sizable chunks before it was like this huge core.  But now if I'm building, you know, an AI app of some sort, but I don't actually, I'm not going to release a product because, again, LLMs or large language models that are out there, you don't really have to release the dataset that works with it. You could just release the model. However, I will say that with any model that goes out, you have to explain how you trained it. So, there will be some aspect of the dataset that will have to go with that. But as we in open source, all of these components now or S-bombs, they can live by themselves. It's not this mass package. And if I decide, you know, I want to build something that uses, you know, I helped one of the banks build a model in Canada to be able to predict who's right for a mortgage. I could change the dataset on that model. I don't have to package it up and then it stays static forever and ever. Like that is the uniqueness about these metaverse and AI apps. They're not so static anymore, like traditional software. There isn't a very formal release of it. It's just plop, it's out there. And all of these things are going to have to come into play when you're documenting this. But again, why would you document this? There's no value. Well, I'm telling you right now, being a chat GDP in particular, I'm sure all the LLMs are in this camp, uses a particular Python library, which very similar to log 4j, somebody hacked into. Now every model out there that uses this library needs to be corrected. It needs a fix or it needs to be investigated to see if it needs a fix. So again, how are we as developers going to know that? Yeah, we can do sort of searches and scans. But as these apps get huge, it's going to be harder and harder. So having these S-bombs that do this. As well, I was able to convince the S-bomb people to put in a field about standards. So again, in the space that I'm in right now, when I build a piece of software, you know, it's probably of good interest to whoever's going to use it, that I'm compliant with one of the auto safety regulation transportation standards so that you can know that that risk has been taken out of the code base for your use. So as I say, these are the core, there's core, there's a build now profile within SPDX. There's a security one that talks, it's going to tie your vulnerabilities to the packages a little bit more tightly. There's an AI and there's a dataset one and a hardware. So that's already there. So from a metaverse point of view, maybe there'll be some tweaks that we need to make. But I think these are the three core areas that as we move forward and hopefully some of you join in with us. So the whole, you know, extended reality type profile will have to be there, as well as the UI aspects is crucial for metaverse. And then blockchains is another area. I mean myself, I use blockchains more with financial apps in the past, not so much metaverse. So again, thinking about what fields would we put in? By the way, this is not, this is Karen's ideas. We're going to create a working group. Hopefully it will be metaverse, will be added to a working group associated with it to figure out exactly what we need to put into the SPDX and it will probably kick off next month or so. So, you know, expect to see from Linux Foundation the ability to join in, but I would strongly encourage you. But again, these are the types of fields that, you know, we could add to the S-bomb, in particular around blockchain that would be relevant to another person or another developer wanting to pick up your software and or for government regulation or whatever they're called auditors to be able to figure out what's in your application. So these are some ideas for the blockchain. Here are some of the ones for the ER or the extended reality.  You would also talk about the engine. Hopefully, you know, it's hopefully more and more of this becomes open source. Some of these packages, because a lot of them right now are proprietary solutions. You would also like the rendering pipeline, you would talk and put some information in there. And then lastly, the tracking technology that you used associated with your extended reality. With the user interface, again, I think this is a huge opportunity that we start to identify the relationship between the human and the digital human. And this would be the area that you would probably put a lot of information or have information about how your avatars are created in this space or, you know, which platform type tools did you use or, you know, the different types of accessibility aspects that you used in your thing, because these things are not currently in the SBOM core. So again, hopefully that gives you a feel. They're really raw right now and will need to be perfected. But the reason, as I say, I just don't want to see the mess that we had with AI, where if you go look for best practices, I think everybody that has ever written an AI application has their own, like Google has one, Microsoft has one, like IEEE has one, like which one as a developer do I go and, you know, adhere to? They're all got some similar things. But again, with a standards type group, you really would like one way of doing it so that your tools can be built. I mean, we heard a couple of keynote speaks, but the goal, the next phase is to get automated tools out there to do a lot of this. So that too much of it's being done by a developer or a human going, you know, this is what I had to do to do a build or with an AI. These are the tools I had to use to pre-process the data. We need to somehow be able to pull all this information out of, you know, with AI in particular, Google has done a great job of documenting model cards. So I don't know if folks out there are familiar with them, but a lot of the information can be pulled if an AI app has a model card.  Or we heard a number of keynotes about actually building S-bombs out of the CD pipeline or the build process, like you mark, this is a step that should go into the S-bombs. So the goal right now is to try and get that as automated as possible. As I say, I think what I sort of just in the final words is we really do need to get a collaborative groups going. And in the past, standards groups and open source development haven't really worked together on a, you know, day to day type basis, just so like I think I mentioned, but I am a red, I was part of the foundation or founding members of Red Hat. So I can see the importance of the open source, but I can also see at the production level, there needs to be a way to audit some of this code and, you know, follow standards if there's a standard, especially as it goes global, because not everybody has the same laws out there. So it's getting harder and harder to build software that is global. As I participate with the Chinese AI standards groups, and they have a lot of different ideas than we do have in the North America. So somehow that all has to get rounded up in, you know, how to build software for the global groups. But again, my heart is with tools. I started my career in the tools group at IBM and Red Hat, but tools are key for this metaverse and being able to understand the complexity of these things. I think folks, I just listed a few sort of metaverse apps out there. A lot of them are not open source yet. So it would be great, very much like the LLMs, you know, maybe two months ago, there was some weak open source ones. Now, like the presentations I saw a couple minutes ago, Bloom is a perfect LLM, as well as GPT-4, I think it's dash J or something. These are competitive open source models now. So, you know, as an open source community, let's start using them and making them even better.  And with black boxes, you know, it's very hard to know whether there's problems in the software, there's security breaches. It's all about transparency and making that known. And then, as I say, if you wanted to help, there's two places I would love for some of you to join us. But on the SPDX group, they beat every week. You don't have to come every week, but being part of that community and putting your ideas forth, especially in the metaverse, because the developers in SPDX are typically tools developers and, you know, hardcore operating system type tools. Having domain experience about AI and metaverse is what, you know, will add to the value of how these things get done. And then on the IEEE, you can either contact myself, or there are so many working groups there. You now, thanks to a lot of prodding, you can get standards for free, at least around metaverse and AI. So hopefully that opening up of standards, because, you know, who wants to pay like $2,000 to get a standard? I sure wouldn't. And I never did in my career. But now that they're open, I can see sort of their terminology, their ideas. I will highly recommend ISO and IEEE have created a new development lifecycle process for AI, and it's being added to for metaverse. So there are different steps that you need to be aware, like training, you know, there needs to be a development phase about training your model with data. And how do you, you know, I was talking to one of the developers, any AI day or any data out there is what I refer to as dirty, and it has to be clean. Do not think you can take something raw, like you just can't. Your models will give you predictions that, you know, are not valid. So there are different things that you have to consider when you're building these types of apps. And, you know, so far, I haven't seen, like I follow SEI as well, Institute, but I haven't seen as in-depth development process for people that are building these types of apps. So I would encourage you to go look. And then thank you for listening to me. And I'll open it to questions. No questions? So I'm going to take all your names in here.  I'm just kidding. I mean, it's great that people are wanting to learn S-bombs and how they're used because, you know, I was just chatting with some folks beforehand. About a year ago is the first time I heard what an S-bomb was. And I was like, oh my God, how come I, you know, I'm in this world and nobody is talking about it. One of the Linux Foundation under open SSF projects is actually getting S-bombs everywhere. So it's, I suspect, going to be a more common term that people start to use. And again, the U.S. government in particular, and I'm currently working with the EU government, they're going to require for procurement of software, they're going to require an S-bomb. So folks, you know, having an automatic way to generate this is the only way I would do it as a developer. I'm not going to sit there and hand-fill them in or, because one of the problems with AI and Metaverse, well, especially AI, because the data changes. So if you don't have an automatic way that's generating these S-bombs, there's not really a release cycle unless your code doesn't work for a big reason. And then they might pull it back and then put out a new release. But it just changes the app as well as the data is constantly changing. So it's this idea that you have to be monitoring and creating new S-bombs on a trigger of some point is going to have to come.  So the simplest way to get it done is where I'm headed. So a couple of items I noticed. You've combined a Freudian slip with Chet GDP, probably because you're in standards. In terms of ethical safety with IEEE in the use of open source, what are your feelings about autonomous weapons that are built in Metaverse systems?  So I have a lot of feelings about that. I mean, I forget what companies stepped away from the big autonomous weapons contract that the US government had. But I actually took on a contract to help test a drone that was using AI to actually kill terrorists. And things like with AI apps, you're so dependent on the data that goes in. And I was hearing things, I mean, it's only between you guys and me. But I was hearing things from some of the kernels and generals. I would say, well, you know, this has the risk of killing the wrong person. Like when we did the audit of the code, and they were like, Oh, a few casualties is okay. Like it was very flippant to me.  But they, you know, they're getting better at being able to test. But AI, right now, it's extremely hard to know whether you're getting the right prediction. And I also did an audit on the one firm that scraped the internet of all our faces that were on LinkedIn Microsoft. No, did Microsoft do it? No, that wasn't actually Microsoft did it and then said, guys, maybe this shouldn't be legal, what we're doing. After we did it. But there was somebody that did it and then sold it to the law enforcement to be able to track. I can't think about it here. Well, who was it? Palantir. Yeah, the same company I just met. It's also a Peter Thiel company, also the main investor of open AI. You'll actually find that most of the people who are in charge of ethics are compromised in every possible way. Yeah, so I, I can see that it's needed. Sending troops over to wherever to kill a terrorist is less risky for them if they use drones. But they're not following a test and accuracy validation. They're following Pareto principles. Correct. And that's why to me, I did that contract before I joined IEEE. Um, so there, I can even give you stories because I, I work with, I worked and then I guess I still do with three of the five core manufacturing cars for automated cars. And what got me to go to, to standards group was I could see, you know, like Mercedes Benz, they had their developers made one set of decisions on who gets killed. And then, you know, GM and Ford had totally different rules. And I was like, Oh my God, as a pedestrian, I'm going to have to know what car make is this and what are they going to do? And, and I was like, there has to be standards for this. But the US government or governments in general, I'm going to tell you it's not just the US. There's lots out there using drones and AI, but they need rules and they need a valid way of testing their code. Because I don't know if you're a data scientist, but I managed scientists for a lot of years, but telling me the precision is like 80% or whatever. Like, what does that mean? Like, even I actually did an interview of the folks that open AI. And they told me that their stuff was 10% accurate. And I'm like, what? Yeah, yeah. Well, people also don't realize that Obama was behind the change to our amendments that allowed you to be killed by a drone without having a court trial.  The sad thing is I'm the head of cybernetics at the machine perception cognitive robotics laboratory in Florida. And they basically added weapons on top of open source systems. And so this is the state where we're at now.  So, you know, I'm a big believer in some of this stuff. It's going to get better. The irony is that this metaverse environment can be used to better help these systems kill those people. Yes, yes, yes, yes, you're right. No, I'm just saying that the irony of as we improve metaverse systems, those exact same systems, first of all, the irony is that we have a missing set of standards for metaverses. So, for instance, the room that we're in is not defined in a metaverse. But if you were to pass it to that gentleman, he would take the DWG files and the 2D floor and the elevations and create an actual building information modeling of this room. So the natural transition of that is then that gets fed into autonomous weapon systems so that they can map the room and know where everything is and what would allow them to better track these people and better interact and corner them. It would be these metaverse systems themselves. Yeah, I'm going to grab you to come work on the standards group with me. Who's the chairperson for the standards group? There's like multiple for the metaverse one. Yes. Yeah, currently right now, it's the president of IEEE. He did his PhD in metaverse, but he's looking for somebody else to take over. Yeah, I'd love to talk. I can introduce, but I think the next speaker is coming on, right?


So, I don't usually, I almost never watch State of the Union addresses, I find them boring and stupid and uninformative and, you know, a few times I think for Obama and then maybe once for Trump, I tweeted the State of the Union address kind of as I was listening, I was tweeting about it, so that was kind of fun, I got a complaint about everything they were saying, but I had no intention of watching last night. I mean, Biden is a boring speaker and again, State of the Union is boring, uninteresting and they mean nothing and they indicate nothing. Boy, was I wrong. God, I mean, I've only watched a few clips, but based on the few clips that I saw, that was a rockus entertaining event.  It was, it was quite something and I have to say, based on just at least in one exchange, it is clear that Biden got the upper hand on the Republicans.  So there's a section in the speech where he says, where he says, yeah, and my, the Republicans here who want to phase out or something like that, phase out Social Security and Medicaid and the Republicans also say, no, no, we don't want to do that, you crazy, we don't want to do that, that's a lie, you're lying, what are you saying?  And they're saying, no, no, we don't want to do that. And he says, OK, so can we agree, can we agree that whatever we negotiate in the future, I mean, I'm paraphrasing you obviously, whatever negotiations we have in the future that no cuts to Social Security and Medicare and all the Democrats stand up and giving standing ovations and then Republicans realize that they better stand up too because otherwise they'll be perceived as not supporting no cuts to Social Security and Medicaid. So almost all the Republicans stand up and giving a standing ovation. Busted, right, Rob?  They couldn't appear to the American people as appearing to be God. Perfect, perfect. So, yes, so everything about the speech was terrible in terms of the content. But I did find him getting and cornering the Republicans quite entertaining and very effective. The best I've seen Biden ever, maybe his best moment ever, certainly in the speech, was when he got them. But, yes, he promised the usual, we'll tax billionaires, we'll cap drug companies, we'll go after prescription drugs, we'll do price controls, you know, we'll redistribute wealth, we'll fix the world, we'll, you know, and we'll give government more and more and more power and we'll raise taxes on the wealthy. And of course, we won't touch Social Security and Medicare. And everybody will get the fair share, right? Ike says he called himself a capitalist during the speech. That doesn't surprise me. Elizabeth Warren calls herself a capitalist. So, nobody's against capitalism. I mean, maybe Bernie is, but nobody's against capitalism because nobody will define capitalism. And the people who actually support capitalism or claim to support capitalism won't define it. And Republicans don't want to define it because they don't want to pretend that Social Security and Medicare are inconsistent with capitalism. They want to be pro-capitalist and pro-Social Security and Medicaid. So, if Republicans won't define capitalism, then why isn't Joe Biden a capitalist? He's just a little bit to the left of Republicans on economic policy. If they're capitalist, he's a capitalist, too.   He's going to reduce the deficit. He is going to build America back. He's heavily investing in infrastructure. We're bringing chip manufacturing back home. I could have told you a month ago what he was going to say. I mean, the big thing he probably emphasized yesterday was jobs, jobs, jobs. Because the numbers came out a few days before, you know, and owned by America. And if you take his speech and compare it to Trump's speech, is it that different? In style, obviously. But in terms of content by America, that was both. Hate China, that's both. Jobs, jobs, jobs, that's both. Yeah, Biden's more boring. Although yesterday, I mean, because of the Republicans.  I think it was about Obamacare and yelled out liar. And he was fine that he was, you know, and he was ridiculed and it was a big deal out of it. Yesterday, the Republicans hit you up to the speech constantly. They yelled out all kinds of things. Not one of them is going to be ridiculed. No, not one of them is.  The content was never there. I for one, I'm going to add my vote to the many votes out there who who who argue that this should be abandoned. As Andrew says, standing ovation from both sides, not only on saving on not touching Medicare and Social Security, but standing ovation on both sides and blaming big tech for whatever troubles we have. Unbelievable. So yes, we are more and more and more of a status nation is less and less and less and less and less and less. Anybody advocating for actually for actually any any kind of freedom, particularly not well, any kind of freedom, any kind of. Because blaming big tech is also an attack on their free speech. So it's it's it's basically less freedom is the one thing that unites Republicans and Democrats. We want less freedom. We just wanted different measures and different places in different to different extents and different areas. But basically, we're all united about less freedom. And they used to be a segment within the Republican Party that advocated for freedom. But that seemed to that seemed to shrink and shrink and shrink. I mean, there's even the freedom caucus in the house and they've stopped being for freedom. All delivery at state of the union addresses is boring and awful. You know, yelling is never appropriate in the middle of somebody else's speech. You know, if you if you have a pretense of dignity and there is no dignity anymore in our politics, we like the British House of Commons or like the Israeli Knesset or whatever that that old American dignity in the House of Representatives respect for a president. That's gone. It's finished. Yeah, it ended. I think it ended with Obama and now it's completely buried.  They're the worst offenders now. Worst offenders now. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Now you have your LeBron James and your Kevin Durantz and guys that can do many things really well, but they're really the unicorns in the league. There's 10 to 15 of those guys. Everybody else does one thing well. We got Hall of Famers and some of the best players who ever played a game came off the bench or didn't play. That don't mean you ain't good. Those guys in the NBA that don't play, does that mean they're not good? They got to the NBA because they were sorry. They're just playing a role. If you don't want to roll, play tennis or play golf. Because then you can do what you want to do and then you got nobody else to blame because there's only an individual sport. If that's what you want to do, play tennis or play golf. But if you want to play a team sport, there's going to be things that you can't, you got to give up to get what you want. But just know in the NBA that's approximately 450 of the best basketball players on the planet. You realize there's only about 10 or 15 of them that do multiple things really, really well. Everybody else in the NBA is what's called a role player. They have one, maybe two skill sets that they perform at a world-class level and that's why they get paid an increasingly insane amount of money to do those one or two things. On any given team, everybody got to know their role from the jump. And if it changes, it changes. But then you talk about that as well. But if you don't know your role, it's different. It's difficult. There's a handful of shooters that I could name right now. Someone like a Kyle Korver or a JJ Redick, a player like that, those guys were making $10, $12, $15 million a year. And I say this respectfully, this is in no way said to diminish them. Those guys got paid $15 million a year and those two guys could do one thing for the basketball court. Shoot the basketball court. One thing. We can talk IQ as much as we want. But at the end of the day, motherfuckers got to play a role in the NBA. It's too much for a team that can do what they want to do. And 13 other motherfuckers, they got to play a role that can do what they want to do. Everybody else got to roll.  And it's just that simple. If you can get one rebound every four minutes, you guys know how long an NBA game is? 48 minutes. If you get one rebound every four minutes, how many rebounds would you have in that game? 12. You get 12 rebounds a game. They sign you to a max contract. And today's day in age, a max contract is over $100 million. Someone will pay you, not necessarily y'all, but someone will pay you $100 million if you can get one rebound at least every four minutes. Now talk about focus. Yeah, that really puts an in perspective. And you stay within that. And if you start within that, maybe that next year might get a little bit more. But it was like a gradual build. Yeah, for sure. Because it was like, if you do your role and he does his role and he does his role, we have a chance to win. And that's all that matters. This doesn't mean you're bad at things or other things. But what are the one or two things that you can contribute and focus on for the betterment of the entire game? There is a time and a place to look at appropriate and applicable weaknesses that need to be improved. But the vast majority of our focus needs to be on the things that we already do well. Can you do something well and make it world-class? Because if each and every one of you can do something that adds something world-class to this team, then you'll absolutely be able to continue to head towards that north star.


the question inevitably comes up, whether it's asked or not, well, how did I get cancer? Why me, right? And actually what's interesting as a scientist and as a doctor, I can tell you, I've long been interested in a related question that is sort of the opposite end of that, which is, how come we don't get cancer more often? How come everybody doesn't get cancer, all right? And that's basically what researchers do, right? Like we ask that question, it seems so obvious, and yet hasn't been answered. And by asking then, saying, how do we get at that? So why don't we get cancer more often? Well, the secret actually is hardwired in our body. So when we're born, we are hardwired with what it takes to live a what's called normal lifespan as healthy as possible. We don't get infected that much. We, our blood flow works pretty well. We don't develop visible cancers. And when we're actually exposed to the toxins in the environment, right? Like who's not exposed to off-gassing from carpets and rugs, petrol fumes at the gas station, barbecue grill, you know, when you're out there. I mean, all those things are harmful.  All the chemicals that are used in modern society are insults to our system.


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