This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by it's a listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Miss Music Teacher, Carvertate, courtesy of Matt, Lauren Lang, courtesy of Matt. Thank you, Matt. And thanks for the year end bonus, Kevin, plus everybody. Welcome new patron, Michael on this episode of DTNS. Apple gave in and will support RCS and gave MagSafe to Android. What's going on here? Is it the spirit of the holidays? Why? Yes, it is. Will Smith is here with some early geek gift ideas to celebrate. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, November 16th, 2023. In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Artichoke, Kurt, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Joining us, the cohost of Brad and Will made a tech pod, not the Brad, but the Will in that sentence. Will Smith, welcome. Hey, everybody, thanks for having me. Thanks for coming back. We appreciate it. And thanks for bringing gifts ideas. Just ideas. It's not I'm not Oprah over here. You know, that's not like a check under your seat, guys. Oh, did you not get everybody in the audience, these gifts that you're about to tell us about? I'm so sorry. You get an OLED steam deck and you can. Instagram announced more than 25 new city themed filters. Why is the Tokyo one only black and white? I don't know. But the company's testing sticker creation from users, photos and videos as well. Let's start with the rest of the quick hits. Microsoft made a bunch of announcements yesterday and also announced a new Windows app for Microsoft business accounts, at least for now, for accessing its operating system on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Windows PCs and web browsers, but no Android support just yet. The app is a modified Windows 365 app, which streams a copy of Windows from a remote PC, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft DevBox and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. All are part of the deal. Microsoft looks to be moving Windows fully to the cloud on the consumer side. I mean, it's just the remote viewer app under a fancy name, but Windows in the iOS app store, like that's just wow. And it's just called the Windows app. Yeah, brave new world. A new report from the Pew Research Center found that 30 percent of US adults say they regularly get news from Facebook with YouTube in close second at 26 percent and 14 percent say they get news from TikTok. That number is the one to pay attention to because it is on the rise. It is the number four slot just behind Instagram and 43 percent of people who use TikTok say they regularly get news from there. That's a big jump from 22 percent in 2020. Fifth place is ex formerly Twitter. More than 50 percent of ex users say they regularly get news on that platform, although only 70 percent of US adults say they knew Twitter had been renamed to ex. Well, Meta's social network threads is now testing tagged topics on the platform to help categorize posts by interest or theme. This is how the hashtag currently works pretty much all over the Internet. But threads isn't including the the pound sign, the hashtag sign when it's used on threads itself. Clickable links will be shown instead. The tagging feature is having a limited test in Australia with more countries able to test soon, says the company, a couple of music items here for you. Apple Music Classical launched eight months ago as part of the standard Apple Music subscription, but you couldn't get it on the iPad until now. Classical version one point one rolling out to the App Store with a new design optimized for that larger iPad display, navigation sidebar and a now playing media controls toolbar. In other musical news, Google DeepMind explained how audio created using its AI Lyria model like tracks made with YouTube's new audio generation features will be watermarked with synth ID so that AI generated origins can be tracked after they're created. DeepMind also said human ears won't hear anything noticeable because of the watermark and it should not compromise the listening experience. Nvidia has an update for its GeForce Now app that offers game syncing with the Microsoft Store, PC Game Pass and Ubisoft Plus. This lets Nvidia's cloud gaming service users stream PC games purchased off the Microsoft Store on GeForce Now. The update will also integrate any linked PC Game Pass and Ubisoft Plus accounts with the GeForce app. I think that's good. Good for GeForce. We're getting a little cloud parity in there and Microsoft wants to look all like we're not anticompetitive. Look, we're hooking into all the things. Yeah, speaking of not looking anticompetitive, Apple announced Thursday it will adopt RCS. RCS is the rich communication service messaging standard. It is the successor to SMS. And if you've heard me go off on this on DTS before, I apologize, I may go off on it again, but it's a standard. Carriers use it. Google uses it. Everybody, but Apple had been using it. Company says the feature will be part of a software update later next year. So it's not coming anytime soon. But we'll offer more interoperability options between iPhone and Android users, because they'll both not just be using SMS, but also RCS. Apple clarified in a statement to 9 to 5 Mac, this will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users. But that's true of SMS. SMS works alongside iMessage. RCS allows things like read receipts, typing indicators, high quality images and videos and real time location data. And it means those videos won't get all squished when you send them between people who are on different platforms. Yeah. Now, Apple is careful to say now, remember iMessage is end to end encrypted. RCS doesn't currently support our iMessage level encryption. And, you know, Apple has historically resisted pressure from anybody who wanted the company to adopt RCS. For the most part, just kind of being like, well, then buy your mom an iPhone if she wants it, you know, so badly. You know, if there's a green bubble problem, which is something that Tim Cook actually said. Like he actually said. Yeah. And now the company now says it will work with mobile industry trade group, GSMA, to further improve the RCS protocol. Will Heck may have frozen over here. Are you surprised by this? It was kind of kind of an interesting move this morning. Yeah, this kind of came out of the blue, right? I like the the word has been we're not going to support RCS forever. Since RCS became a thing on other platforms. And now they know I don't know this pressure from the EU or concerns about threats of, you know, congressional hearings about all the SMS spam you're getting or maybe Tim's, you know, sister-in-law or something got an Android phone and he's tired of getting little tiny videos. But here we are. It's a good thing for like I don't see any downside to this. This seems like a really wonderful move. I feel like the third one is the most likely to drive Apple to do this is he finally got on a group chat with someone on Android. It was like, ah, these tiny low res videos, fine, fine. Let's do our yeah, let's fix it. But you're probably right. It's probably the pressure of investigations in the US and the EU as well. But whatever the reason, I think it is a little bit annoying that Apple is saying they won't support encryption on this or they're being vague about it. They're saying they won't support iMessage level end to end encryption at Google supports end to end encryption on group chats and individual messages on RCS. They have since August. So you can implement it if you don't have to, you can support RCS without it, which is what Apple is making it sound like they're gonna do. But that would be my last request to Apple since they so kindly agreed to my previous request and are now supporting RCS, just supported end to end encrypted as well. Sure, it won't be as locked tight as iMessage, but it'll be good. Not supporting encryption doesn't really back up there. Yo, we're the privacy carrier, the privacy end set particularly well. So we'll see. And it is difficult. I will give you that. Google took a while to implement it and when they first implemented it, they only implemented it on one-to-one chats. They had to do extra work to make it work on group chats, but I think it's worth the work. I mean, I don't have to do the work. So that's easy for me to say, I guess. Yeah, somebody who also doesn't have to go through the work. I'm two thumbs up over here. I think it's a good move on their part. Yeah. Peace in our time, though. I did not have the... I would have maybe put this on my predictions show at the end of the year as like my wild prediction that Apple will support RCS. Well, and your timeline probably would have been correct because this might not happen until the end of 2024. That's right, later next year. Later next year means maybe, yeah, like maybe like Christmas. I think that that implies that they are just now starting to do the work to implement it, that they had not been working on it, which is what they said. They said they weren't working on it. My bet would be that this is a next major release of iOS, not one of the point releases for what, iOS 17 or whatever we're on now. Yeah, so this is September. It might not even be the first release in September. It might even be later, but yeah, you're right. I think that's the earliest we get it. And it'll probably roll out carrier by carrier as well, right, because that's how this works. You have to do some carrier implementation as well. Though carriers all implement it with Google, so that because they've done that work, that could make it easier. That starts to get out of my realm of awareness there. But anyway, all a good thing. And this also is a good thing. G2 spelled QI with a number two is the next version of the wireless charging standard that incorporates magnet charging.  Apple contributed its MagSafe power profile, the magnetic power profile from MagSafe to the standard. So you'll be able to buy a G2 charger and use it with either an Apple MagSafe device or an Android device that supports G2 magnetic tech. Or you can buy a case for either one if it has G2 magnetic in it as well, because G2 will also charge G1 compatible devices. So even if they don't have the magnet, it'll still charge them. But if that magnet does a little lock thing where it sticks right to whatever you're sticking it to. The Wireless Power Consortium announced the first Qi version 2.0 devices are nearly through the certification process. That's the news today. And we'll go on sale by the holidays. So you'll be able to buy some of these soon. More than 100 are either in the certification testing or about to go into certification testing. And supposedly the iPhone 15 lineup will be the first Qi2 certified phones. I wonder if that means all of the... Bring it on. Yeah, the MagSafe. Do you think that means the MagSafe accessories will work with the Android phone suddenly? You'll be able to snap an Apple wallet or like one of those rings on the back of your Android phone? Theoretically, at least the Qi wireless charging part of that would work. Now there might be other things that don't work. There might be other aspects of it that make it fall off or something. I don't know about that. But the wireless charging should work because this is the same magnetic power profile. Very cool. And I love this. This is one of my favorite things about the new iPhones. My wife has a magnetic mount for her iPhone in the Audi and you just slap it up there and it stays and it charges and you don't have to think about it. You don't have to press a thing like I do in my car and fit it in and then hope it doesn't fall out. The downside has been, I can't use my Pixel Fold in that charger and I have to come up with another solution if I'm using that one. But not that I'll be able to use the Pixel Fold. I can get a case for it maybe and use it with MagSafe now. Yeah, there's a level of, with the early pads where you just rested the device on the pad before the MagSafe stuff came online, it was a little hinky. Sometimes you'd get up in the morning, you'd grab your phone off, you'd look at it and be like, oh, it didn't charge last night because I set it in the wrong place and then you have to have dead battery phone all day to deal with. So the MagSafe, it seems like a goofy thing. I thought it was a goofy thing until I started using it and just that reassuring little click. Well, that and the fact that it charges my AirPods and my phone, it has made my things I have to have chargers for on my nightstand much, much more manageable now. It's basically just like one USB-C cable and then a MagSafe thing and the thing for my watch which is a quality of life improvement. I'm like, they really need to get the watch on cheese somehow. I understand that there's an engineering issue there but it is the one outlier because even though it's wireless and it's magnetic, it's not cheese. Different wireless, different magnetic. So annoying. Stop it. No, I shouldn't be mad. This is good. This is very good. It was good that Apple contributed this. This is why when you're someone like me who's only in the Apple ecosystem, you're like, oh, well, no, it works for my watch and my AirPods because it's an Apple wireless pad. But it's not cheap. Oh. It's different. Oh, yeah. Well, good for you, Apple today, supporting RCS and G2. Look at Apple playing nicely on the playground with everybody.  Well, I mean, do you think they're getting paid on each of these sold? Is this a light? Did they announce the terms of the deal? Is this like a licensing deal where they get money for every G2 device? They did and I don't think they're, I think it's part of a patent pool. So there is a benefit to doing it, but I don't think it's a monetary benefit. I think it's an indemnity benefit. I'm going off of vague memory now, but that is a very good question. Yeah, I mean, that makes a lot more sense if they were in danger of getting sued for using technology that they may or may not have appropriate patents to use than trading in their magnet stuff for the mix a lot of sense. It's being a good partner as part of the wireless power consortium. Like you get the benefits of patent indemnity from using Qi, so you're helping to improve the standard for yourself and everybody. Well, and more of these pads is better for everyone, right? Not having a no data way to charge your phone is a wonderful thing to have in the world. This encourages more people to make accessories that then work with the iPhone that then means more people are comfortable using the iPhone. Well, folks, that's the fast moving world of Apple being nice. If you wanna stay up on the fast moving world of artificial intelligence, you need to listen to AI named this show. It launched during DTNS experiment week back in August and it's going strong. Each week, Tristan Zutra and Teja Kostodi wade through the hype and the doom saying to try to keep you informed about the latest news in the AI world. You can catch it at aynamedtheshow.com. Well, whether we're ready or not, we're getting into the holiday season everybody and that means that people are starting to think about what to get the geek in your life and that best gift, something that they hadn't seen before or something that they've been longing for, something that is kind of just like a fun outlier. Thankfully, Will, you've done some heavy lifting here and you've got some ideas. So what are we starting with? I think we should start with the screwdriver set. This is the classic geek gift but everybody should have a good screwdriver set and the traditional recommendation is a thing with like 150 bits in it that will let you open up every single device you have in your house. That's not what this set is. This is your workday screwdrivers. These are the ones that you use in your PC. I think you can open iPhones, iOS devices. You can open Nintendo devices because it has the trilob, it has pentalobe, it has Torx bits, Phillips and just standard flat screwdrivers. And it's a really, really usable small screwdriver whether you're working on your eyeglasses or digging around inside your PC case with magnetic tips too, which are incredibly handy. Is it individual screwdrivers for each bit or replaceable bits? So these are individual screwdrivers that's like 15 screwdrivers. Each one has a specific head. The ones with the bits are great but I often find that the thing that holds the bits in places is too thick to fit into the places you need to get the screwdriver head. So that's why I start with this one and then go to the other one if we want to have a more comprehensive set. All right, let's talk coffee. This next one is the next level. So the first one was the iFixit Marlin screwdriver set. I'm gonna say name so people, audio listeners know what we're talking about. The next one is the next level Pulsar Brewer which is a new kind of coffee brewer. It's called a zero bypass coffee brewer. This one was designed by an astrophysicist in collaboration with the next level folks. And they're called zero bypass because it's designed to not allow any water to go past the filter, past the coffee as it goes around the filter into the end drain into your cup.  The neat thing about this is they add a valve on the bottom. So you have this, you have a round tube, there's a cylinder, you put the coffee in, you can let it steep for as long as you want and then you can release the valve to let the coffee drain into your cup. And so you get kind of the best of both worlds of like a brewed coffee, of a French press style brewed coffee that's a percolated coffee like a pour over. And it's I think the closest analog that you all might be familiar with is like at the AeroPress upside down technique. Yeah, it looks kind of like that, doesn't it? Yeah, but you can do a bigger cup. So you can do five, 800 grams of coffee, no problem. Whereas the AeroPress caps out at like 250, I think. Well, and I, for anybody who's sort of like, I don't drink coffee, this works for tea as well. Works for tea, you can do loose tea in it because there's a paper filter in the bottom.  And like it's new enough that people are just starting to kind of figure out exactly how, like the best way is to use this. There's 300 recipes for this online right now. I've been, I mean, it's an exaggeration, there's probably 20, but every barista who's tried it has come up with something different, different twist and, but at the end of the day, you can use it just like you'd use a French press and there's just get a filtered brew at the end that doesn't have all the sediment that comes in at the bottom of a typical wire mesh French press. All right, well, let's talk about if you, for whatever reason, need to get a little bit more light on some small little factors of tinkering around within a PC. So this is my classic, classic recommendation. If you're working at PC or walking your dog after dark, it's really nice to have a good headlamp. You put it on, this one in particular is the Black Diamond Cosmo 350. You can get a $20 version that's about the same as this. It just doesn't do the dimming or spotlight features. I think the $35 is a kind of sweet spot, especially for a gift and it's fantastic because when you're looking in the PC, when you drop a screw in there, something when you're working, trying to get the memory in the slot and it's all dark down there, you can put the light right where you're looking and everybody who works in PCs should really have these. When I started putting in my toolkits, made my life dramatically better. Oh my gosh, precision stuff like what you're mentioning or walking the dog at night, really nice not to have one hand that is holding a flashlight.  And you don't have a lot of leeway here, people. Yes, yes, I'm with you on this. A good headlamp is something I did not know I needed until a couple of years ago and the one that I got is fine but this one looks real nice. These are the batteries last like 15, 20 hours. You don't have one have to think about it. When I go camping it lasts the entire time I'm gone. Usually they're highly recommended. All right, let's talk power strips, Will. Power strips are not a one size fits all situation. So what are your holiday picks? So I really love these Onker power strips. They have decent USB chargers built in. Typically you see a power strip with a USB port and it's like a 500 milliamp port that won't charge a modern phone even. These come up to 60 watt versions. This particular one is the 332 I think which is like six 120 volt plugs and then three USB ports, two A's and a C. This is a 20 watt version so it'll charge a phone. It'll also top up an iPad or your Steam Deck or whatever you want to plug into it.  So I kind of run them underneath the sofas that they're available.  Yeah, the USB outlet part is really cool. Yeah, I like that. Sarah, people are me in this case, so.  I don't want to have to put my phone down while I'm watching TV, what would I do? It's I'd have to pay attention to whatever's on the television, that's horrible. Indeed, indeed. Okay, so this next pick of yours is actually something that I bought just in the last couple of months and I'm quite blown away by, that's the AirPods Pro 2. So what do you like about them? Yeah, I've been using AirPods, the Pro specifically for a couple of years now and I upgraded my ones to twos last year when I crushed one. The thing that blows me away about the new one is this new feature that's come in with the last version of iOS adds an adaptive transparency mode. So it used to be you could do noise canceling or you could do transparency. And the transparency mode is kind of impressive. The noise canceling is great. The transparency mode is impressive because it actually sounds like you don't have ear plugs in, right? You can hear the world around you, your voice sounds right in your head, all the things that don't usually work within your monitors. The adaptive transparency kind of splits the difference and the noise canceling isn't quite as good but you hear, it filters out the noises you don't want to hear like fan noise and car rumble and stuff like that but you can still hear people around you talking or footsteps or cars. So that you don't, if you're out jogging or something, you don't jump into traffic by accident or something. For safety, yeah. Yeah. Right, right. No, go ahead. Well, no, I'm just about to agree with you. Go, go, you do it, Will. No, they're really lovely. If I take a nap, I put them in the noise canceling mode and just kind of hook it up to the Apple TV in my bedroom and put on music or some TV show that is quiet and works well. And the only time I can't use them really is when I'm sitting in front of my PC just because they don't work particularly well with Windows. I'm quite fond of mine as well. And I was a real holdout because I didn't used to like the look of AirPods. I was like, sticking out of your ear.  I thought that they looked silly. And at some point, I just, I don't know, my job was but the dust. I decided to go AirPods Pro too. And I have had so much fun with these headphones. I mean, they're, they're nice earbuds. And I know that there are other options, you know, people right now are screaming like, no, they're not the only option that you have. And in fact, they're more expensive than certain other options, all true. But these are very nice. And they play really well with Apple products. So if you're in the ecosystem, it's a very nice gift. Agreed. And then the last thing that I like to pair, like, I don't like the, one of the things, I've never really liked the way AirPods fit. The same as you, Sarah, like the old ones, the stick only ones kind of fell out of my ear. The inner ones, inner ones are better. But I don't like the kind of rubber, gaskety earpiece that they put on those. So I bought a pair of like $15 comply foam tips for the AirPods Pro. They snap on and off really easily. You can get them in a, I think they come in multi size packs if you don't know what size foam tip you use or you can get a, you can get just three sets of the same size once you kind of size yourself. And they help with the noise isolation. They help them stay in a little bit better. They're, I find them to be more comfortable, especially if I'm jogging or something like that. So that's a nice upgrade. I added these to my wish list right now while you were talking, because they just look so much better than those silicon ones that they're fine. They don't fall out of my ear or anything, but these just look so much more comfortable.   Sarah, it's good. I see on Amazon, electric blue, lilac, purple, black and pine green. You can't, yeah.  But like, but that part is like in your ears, that's not really a, you know, They still show. A feature, right? Kind of, I guess. Depends how weird your ears are, Will. I mean, As a weird ear person, let me tell you, sometimes it can get rather deep. I have a narrow canal, so it's not, I'm not really a problem for me. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean... We are blessed with narrow canals, Will. Yes, Will. Not everybody has that blessing, but yes, no, this is great for anybody who's interested in AirPods and wants to make them a little bit comfier, really good. Comply foam ear tips. It's also worth mentioning that Comply makes foam tips for basically every set of in-ear buds you can imagine.  So, and they're all about the same price. Fantastic. All right, before we go, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Mike writes in, I've been working in IT for a long time and I provide tech support for countless family friends and friends of friends. I don't think you can underestimate the pressure put on a preteen or a young teen to have an iPhone. I work in an educational institution and I've seen middle schoolers make fun of kids who don't have iPhones. I've seen kids tell other kids they can't be in their group chat because they don't have an iPhone. It's tough out there for young teens and the pressure to fit in and not be different is very strong. Mike says, besides the technical aspects, the fashion aspect like shoes is hard to overcome. Yeah, I don't doubt that it happens out there. I think what Will Saddleburg was trying to say the other day was that there are a lot of reasons for this and maybe it doesn't happen all the time to everybody but good perspective. Thank you for writing in with that. Yeah, exactly. It used to be the case, I suppose that iPhone was the most expensive so it was the coolest one. If you liken it to like Jordan shoes, right? Versus Reebok type thing. But at this point, no, that's not really what we're going with. It's more of just like the, I guess the herd mind. I don't know, Will, what are your thoughts? So I have a 10 year old. We're in the, hey, we need to get my daughter a phone at some point because middle school is coming and schedules get complicated and the watch isn't going to cut it at that point. So I think it's a combination of things. One is that you want to have the thing everybody else has. Two is that if you're cut off of the iMessage group chat, you're going to be cut off from a lot of your social activities. So the kids who don't have the iPhones are missing those group texts. Maybe that'll be better next year. I don't know. We'll see. RCS is going to fix this. All you middle schoolers, don't worry. In a year from now, we're all going to be in more harmony. I hope I see middle schoolers with RCS life on their t-shirts next year, just because they're so excited about the standard. The problem to, you know, I hate to be the downer, but the problem is they're still going to be green bubbles. Hopefully it won't be as painful to be a green bubble, but that stigma is already there and you know how kids are. So yeah, I think it's much more about just being able to like airdrop pictures to your friends and share your playlist and all that stuff. Like that's that's the if you don't have Apple music or you don't know, everybody has to have the same music thing. My daughter has three music services. None of them are paid for, but just so she can get a playlist from her friends. So yeah, I mean, it's like those cool kids who went to St. Louis to the tower records that I couldn't get to all the time. Oh yeah, like, yeah, your record is still cool, Tom. You just got it at a different place. Got it at Pomita in downtown Greenville. There you go. Do they have the limited one that's signed or is it just the old one? Yeah. Oh yeah. Sorry about that. I'll see that's what's going on. All Tom's from Greenville, of course. Well, Will Smith, we're so happy to have you on the show to bring gift guides and thoughts about, you know, young teenagers and all of the rest. Let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work. Yeah, so you can find me at Brent and we'll make a tech pod at tech pod content downtown. But the thing I want to talk about right now is the anacrusis, which is coming out of. It's a game I work on every day. It's we're on steam. We're on Xbox. We're coming out of early access on December 5th. We're very excited. We've been working on. We've done 55 updates as of tomorrow, since January of 2022, when we launched into early access. We built the game with the community. It's a left for dead alike. We, you know, co-op shooter that works with one to eight players, depending on the mode you're playing. And this summer we added versus mode so you can play just like you did with left for dead. You can take control of the special aliens and you and your friends can take turns being cruel to each other in a kind of form of sanctioned griefing. So I like to think of it as so if you like left for dead, we think you'll like the anacrusis. Cool, congratulations, man. I know you've been working on that for a long time. So it's it's it's great to see it finally coming to fruition. We are we are really excited. And I'm really stoked at how the game is like. It's it's we like early access is a thing. It's it's early access is complicated. There's right ways and wrong ways to do it. Everybody has different opinions. But I think like we've built this game with the with the community and our discord and the folks that play the game early on and we're excited about the game early on. And I think we've made something special. So fantastic. Well, patrons, if you like here and will talk about games, stick around. If you are a member of Daily Tech News show, you get the extended show, Good Day Internet. And we're going to talk to Will about valves revamped steam deck, steam deck OLED that's just out finally now. Find out what he thinks. Reminder, you can catch our show live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern. That's 2100 UTC. And you can find out more at daily tech news show dot com slash live. We'll be back tomorrow talking about why Toyota decided to put a stick shift in an EV with Tim Stevens because no one knows better than him. Talk to you that. The show is part of the frog pants network. Get more at frog pants dot com. Time in the club helps you have enjoyed this program.


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Hey guys, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today I am making something you've all been asking for. It's an Instant Pot Dessert. So I'm Kristin, I am the second oldest from SixSisterStuff.com and today I am making Instant Pot Apple Dumpcake. So I'm sorry, a lot of you have been asking for desserts. My only problem is when I make desserts, I usually eat all of them. So I try and not make as many desserts but I was kind of in a snacky mood so I wanted to make something delicious. So this one is so easy to make, you throw everything in, you cook it and you're done. And in case you didn't know, I'm sharing with you every Monday a new Instant Pot recipe. So be sure to subscribe to our channel and push the little bell so you can get all the notifications every time I'm posting something new. All right guys, let's go to the Instant Pot and make this amazing Apple Dumpcake. So I didn't forget about those who love slow cookers. I'm going to put a link in the description with the slow cooker recipe. So first I'm going to start with a little pan that will fit right inside my Instant Pot. You can use a springform pan, you can use a glass bowl even if you wanted to. So then I'm going to add a 20 ounce can of apple pie filling and you're going to dump it just right into the bottom of your pan. After that you're going to spread it around the best you can. Then on top of that you're going to add two cups of yellow cake mix. You can also add white cake mix or even a spice cake mix would be delicious. Then just pat it all around. Now you don't want to soak it into the apple but you're going to press it down pretty even. So when we put the butter on top it won't spread all in one corner. Okay so I have four tablespoons of butter here that I'm going to spread around the best that I can. You don't want to be mixing it in your cake mix. It will cook I promise. You're just going to spread it. So now I'm going to add one cup of water inside of my Instant Pot. And if you notice my little trivet thing I don't want my bowl to sit right into the water. So it's going to sit right on top of that. And that is all you have to do. So now you're just going to take the lid put it on make sure that it's on ceiling and not venting. There we go. Ceiling. And you're going to cook it on manual for 25 minutes. Once it's done you're going to push it over to venting because we're going to do a quick release with this one. Then when it's all done releasing its pressure you can take the lid off and it smells amazing. Once the steam kind of goes away then you can pull it right out. Now I love to make this right as we're eating dinner and so it's all ready to go. When dinner is done I love to add a little bit of ice cream on top or you can add whatever you like to put on your apple dump cake also known as apple cobbler. I hope you loved this Instant Pot dessert. I will be making a cheesecake in the next few weeks. All right guys don't forget subscribe and I'll see you next Monday.


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I'm so glad that you're here I'm going to be today Showing you a technique that I do all of the time on my eyes And it might be something a little bit different than what you're normally used to seeing We're only gonna use three color eyeshadows And as you saw in the thumbnail each eye is different So what I wanted to do is definitely show you how to do it with two different colors or two different sets of colors So I'm going to be using the I like girl pro artistry palette today I love these palettes This was in the video that I just did with my favorite fall palettes of the year 2020 So I love using these they're rich and creamy and buttery and I just think that they're just next level And so I wanted to make sure that I brought you two different looks from this so that you can see And I'm excited to be able to teach you how simple this look is and if you're new here Please subscribe hit the like button and the bell notification so that you can be notified of the future videos that I'm having Thanks so much everybody for being here, especially those that have been with me for such a long time We're almost to 50,000. I'm super excited about that. Let's get into the three eye shadow technique So you can see how easy this is right now. So to prep for this look I'm gonna start by putting my wet and wild Eyebrow highlighter in my waterline. This just makes my look look brighter and more wide away And even though I'm gonna do two different looks. I do this on each look because I actually like my waterline to look a little bit brighter All right, so using this palette only we're not gonna go into any other palettes We're gonna pick out two colors that we can do as The light and the dark and I'm gonna start by picking out a peach color right here This color right here and this dark brown over here. So this is gonna be a warm toned look So I'm gonna start out with just using the peach on the eyelid I'm gonna put my finger down in there and then I'm going to take some max fix plus You can take any primer water you have or any setting spray that you normally use spray your finger Let it dry a tiny bit and then go into the eye and just put it across the eyelid the eyelid only And you're gonna want to do that to about two-thirds of the outer eye Kind of just raise your eyebrows and let that kind of sit for a second while you move on to the darker color All right for that darker color that brown I'm gonna use two different shadow brushes this little tiny one is to set down product and this one is to buff it out So I'm gonna go into that dark brown and I'm gonna load that brush not a ton But you know get a pretty good amount on there And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come right here into this outer third part And I'm gonna lay that color down in there so that the majority is right there So when you bring that out, you're just laying all of that excess color in there Bring that color down to the about the length of the tail right there So that you have it a really good amount in there and you're laying quite a bit down So you see I brought it just a little bit above my crease not very much It's still the majority of it in the crease and right there on the outer third of the eyelid then take a fluffy blending brush Mine is the million goss that I got in a beautylish box one year I've had it forever and I'm just going to go down into that medium brown color So we've done three colors the light peach the dark brown and now the medium brown And then what you're gonna do is you're gonna lay that color down on top of the crease of The dark brown color and you're gonna bring that out Towards the tail you're doing with that color is you're actually buffing out the brown and what I love about this is that hardly Takes any effort whatsoever. So I am doing stippling motions. I'm not doing back and forth motions Buffing just tapping bouncing, whatever you want to call it this whole area right here And I'm just pushing that dark color around so that I can get it blended like crazy And what I do because of the shape of my eyes is I pull color clear out to the tail of my eyebrow But right in here I just kind of round it just a little bit to match the shape of my eye Which is what you can do to so don't go all the way in with this color Even though it's a transition color that way you're not gonna get a bunch of darkness over there And you can darken it up more by putting more color in there And that's what I'll do right now is I'll put a little bit more color down right there And then I'm gonna grab the dense shader brush that's going to help me buff out the dark color again But keep the intensity of the dark color because this is a stiffer brush and it's a little bit more dense too All right, so that is quite light. It's really pretty. I like it a lot You can darken this up if you want to let's go ahead and darken it up a little bit We're gonna take that dark brown color again on that brush, and we're gonna just work it in and make it a bit darker And then go in with the blending brush one more time into that color and just blend The brown color the dark brown color with your transition color Makes it really easy to do Make sure you follow the natural arch of your eyebrow with this or the natural arch of your eye and then pull it Outwards it really does help to kind of lift it and pull it up. All right for this eye. I'm gonna use a Rimmel automatic liner I'm not gonna use a liner on the other eye But for this one, I'm gonna show you what you can do with a liner so you want to just put like a quarter of the way over and pack down some of that eyeliner color and Once you do that you can take a pencil brush minus from color pop and go into any of these colors that you want If you want it to be lighter you can go into the lightest color you use I'm gonna go into this darkest color that we used because I want it to be just a little bit darker And then I'm gonna just put it right on top of where I put that up that coal liner And I'm going to start pulling it in and buffing it out Now to complete the look take a paddle brush Like a concealer brush go back into the peach color lift some up lay that paddle brush down and towards your inner eye there and Just make that inner corner kind of stand out with the color and it's really pretty when you do that All right now you have this side done you have the peach the brown and the transition color That was the lighter brown really easy this time we're gonna go different We're gonna take the matte color right here and our darkest color is gonna be this color right here Which is this blue this deep into blue trust me This is gonna be fine, and then we'll take another color after we do that So the first thing I'm gonna do again is I'm gonna put my finger into that light light color I'm gonna load my finger up with it, and I'm gonna spray my finger again with my max fix plus once I do that I'm gonna put that on the lid When you use a mat with this with the fix plus it does take a little bit more to build up So you might have to put a couple little coats on here I'm gonna dip my finger in and I put a couple little coats on there I'm cleaning off that little packing brush with my towel here So we don't have any of that brown in it and I'm gonna go down into that deep blue color, and I'm just gonna load it Now when you work with shimmers instead of mats You're gonna have more color payoff keep that in mind when you're using these colors You're gonna have more vibrant color immediately So be careful about not putting too much on there at once So use a light hand and just go into that one third of the eye like we did on the other one So I'm barely touching that and it's just building that I look up like crazy It's beautiful, but I don't want it to get away from me, and I'm just using very small Dabbing stippling motions with this. I'm gonna use that same transition color because I think it's gonna be really good on here So just pick that up again on that fluffy brush that you had and then go right directly on top of that outer color And build that up and blend it in you're just wanting all of it to mill together This is gonna be beautiful when you really work with it.  So this is gonna be much more muted than this eye It's not gonna be as vibrant. It's gonna be just brushed out and really light there I cleaned off my little paddle brush or my little concealer brush And I'm gonna go into that light color that we used and I'm gonna do that inner corner the same way I did the other eye, but this time we're just using matte instead of the bright metallic Okay, so I gave you two different looks there We have a very colorful look and then we have a very muted look here This one is cool and this one is one of the next steps that I'm gonna do I'm gonna do off camera because it's very time-consuming But this is my pen liner from NYX epic ink liner very fine and Very micro on that one and then I'm gonna curl my eyelashes right after that And then I'm gonna do my mascara And I do have a tutorial on that that I will list below on all these steps So that you can see it But I'm gonna go off of camera right now and do all of those so that you can see the finished look on both eyes Okay, so there's the final look on each eye. I love what mascara and liners do it just helps to open your eye up so much But how easy was that three colors on each eye? You can do that with any three colors in the palette that you like try it with different colors I could have really easily gone into the green and done the greens for a very green look on there Just anything that you can think of will really do this Well, if you feel like you can't use on the eyelid those bright colors just find a brighter matte color like I did But honestly the spray trick with the max fix plus primer water setting setting spray across the lid It really does helped with those crink crinkly eyelids that we get so I hope that you did enjoy this Please give it a thumbs up if you did. Thanks so much for tuning in today. I hope that everybody is staying safe Stay sanitized stay healthy. I will see you all in my very next video. Love you guys Bye-bye


We've been following these guys, and all of a sudden They started swinging at me. Nice to meet you. Great to meet you. Great to meet you in person. Thank you. We've been following you guys when you guys started up, and obviously when EMC snatched you up, we were at EMC World, and we had Pat Gelsinger on the Cube, and I asked him specifically about some acquisitions, and he said there's some things coming, and then I find out that Pat really likes the deal, and yesterday he was on, and so Pat Gelsinger's almost his one year, so I was only teasing you about selling out. You literally did sell to EMC, but we were following you with some of the open source side as well, and we were on the analyst call, and I brought that up, and you addressed it, so first question, talk about Green Plum. What happened? What evolved for the folks out there? Your company sold to EMC. Take us through that quick story, and we'll get into it. Yeah, I'll give you the, obviously the condensed version here. Green Plum was founded almost 10 years ago, actually, by Luke Lonergan and Scott Yarra, and the whole premise of the company was to their credit was that data warehousing and analytics was going to explode over time, and that the predominant view of how data warehousing was done at that time was around Teradata, and then at that time, Natisa was coming on board as well, but it was this integrated proprietary hardware platform with software to solve a specific, you know, what I would say is a niche problem of data warehousing, and a lot of times the CIO would be upset about that box coming into their environment, because it was a proprietary box didn't fit into their architecture of what they were trying to do. And so the simple premise was, if you believe this is going to be a big market and not stay smaller or niche-oriented, that history will prove that a software only play is the right direction. And so that's the premise of the company. Now, the challenge with that is building a world-class MPP database engine is non-trivial, right? And so there's just no shortcuts to hiring great people and getting kind of the world's best talent assembled in a room to go tackle that. And get some proprietary technology and do all that great stuff. Yeah, and so we took Postgres as the underlying database from the open source question at the beginning, and kind of ripped out the innards, if you will, to make it work in this MPP scale-out architecture way. And so that's what Greenblum's about. And so we came to market in 2006. And I guess the controversial decision, I hired in in 2006, my background was son. I had spent 19 years at son. And so the controversial decision we made, normally at a startup, you start small and then grow your way into the market. And we felt this market was going to explode quickly and that we had to take on, and our software was built for the world's largest data warehouse analytic environments. And so we went after the largest enterprise environments in the globe, and as a startup, that's a- Big challenge. That's a challenge and that's a tricky proposition. Now the lucky break we got, as we say, and this is a bit ironic, was that son microsystems, under the leadership of Jonathan at the time, had a box coming out called Thumper that Andy Bechtelstein had designed, and was looking for more applications and solutions that they could build on top of that. And so he got introduced to Greenblum at the time, and to their credit, they quickly embraced Greenblum as part of their data warehousing strategy. And so that was the break we needed because that gives you credibility to show up in larger enterprise clients and have a bigger vendor behind you. And so that's how we went to market in 2006, going after these enterprise class customers. And so the last three years have been focused on building that customer base and proving our technology and their environment. How much was EMC paid for you guys? Was that disclosed? That was not disclosed. You want to disclose it in the queue? I don't want to disclose it. I'll let Pat or Joe or someone do that. One of my clients, I would say we were undervalued. Of course. One of my clients described their problem in the data warehousing business intelligence problem, and they used the metaphor of a snake swallowing a basketball. And it sounds like that's the business that you guys are really in is helping address that challenge. Yeah, and I would characterize it a little bit differently, but I think the analogy somewhat holds. I mean, I think what's coming at every enterprise around the globe is the notion that data is critical to their future. And not just taking extracts of data. If you look at everything around the room here, everyone interacting with the internet, every one of those interactions contains some data that's probably useful to the business. And so historically, data warehousing has been about extracting the data and doing an extract or a summarization of that data, and then looking for insights in more of a batch-oriented way. We think that world's changing dramatically. It's like looking back in the rearview mirror. Yeah, it's looking in the rearview of the mirror for trends and analysis. And so we believe that you have to take much more of an internet-scale, agile kind of approach to data warehousing. That's the big change that's going to happen. And what's underneath that change is that the advent of commodity hardware, if you think about multicore technology, the storage technology that EMC and others bring to the equation, and then the advancement of interconnect and ethernet, so 10 gig ethernet, et cetera, those things have been advancing at a tremendous pace over the last 20 years. And yet data warehousing and analytics is still viewed as this big batch environment. And so what we believe is that this scale out being very agile from an analytics perspective will be the way that businesses start to do business. This won't just be about a data warehouse technology. This will be about how do I plug in to the existing infrastructure, and that's why it's timely here with obviously VMware and what's going on, to leverage a virtualized stack to allow data warehousing workloads to drive business value to customers. We had a guy from Excel Partners, big VC, invested in a company called Cloudera. That does a lot of Hadoop, commercializing Hadoop. Big clusters of commodity hardware you mentioned. You got the big data argument. We just had Fusion IO, they talk about fast, big data. What's your vision around this whole movement? I mean, you're right, Facebook is throwing off more data. People's gestural data, whatever you want to call it. I mean, it's being used. Dallas Cowboys are using data from real time data around promotions, concessions. So this business policy around data, it's very valuable. So talk about the Hadoop kind of world, big cluster farms. We were talking on a session earlier about power is going to be a big issue. It's going to be massive clusters. You need agility and speed, low latency data transfer. So where does that open source community fit in and where does the big EMCs kind of fit into that? Well, it's like any of these big movements along the way. So first off, we believe in it. We embrace it. In fact, we did a MapReduce interface into our engine. We know Mike Wilson, the Cloudera guys are pretty well. Great guy.  So we don't think there's one answer to the question around big data, right? There's still going to be lots of SQL access. Top of the first inning there? Totally, totally top of the first inning. And I don't think it'll stop at MapReduce and Hadoop. There'll be other constructs as well. And so from our perspective, we're providing an engine for that to run on. And then it's about provisioning and how do you start to get collaboration across that data? So we are embracing that. You're excited about that? We're very excited about that. And I think it fits in perfectly to where enterprises are going to go with their big data problem. Can we talk a little bit about the whole VMware play? Because I mean, a lot of the clients that I talk to say things like, we're not going to share this infrastructure. We need all the horsepower we can get.  Yeah, so there's two, two, and that's a really good question. There's two points going on here. So one, the point about sharing infrastructure, so it's the same infrastructure that you can use for multiple applications. So we believe that world exists and will continue to exist. If you think about my premise, that people are going to look for access to all types of data. And by the way, at the beginning of the day, they may not know what they're looking for, right? And so that evolves. So you've got to have that kind of agility. Secondly, you're right, in a lot of cases, when you're looking at workloads for data analytics, you want as much power as you can throw at it. So we're not talking about turning that off. We're talking about having a way to provision that automatically and have some user management around that. If you want to, if you've got a big problem you need to solve from an analytics perspective, you may want to throw 1,000 cores at it and 100 terabytes. But you also may want to scale that back tomorrow. Yes, right? And so when we talk about virtualized worlds, we're talking about being able to have that knob that you can turn to get that infrastructure and get that data quickly. And then give the power to the user some management around that. Obviously security, authentication, all those things matter. And then having the kind of the business management over the top of that, of getting the right resources to the right users. Okay, so this is, you're feeling that, based on what you just said, that will resonate with application heads, right? Because you're going to make their lives a lot better, more resources faster. Yeah, it's a funny world because in data warehousing, if you talk to most enterprises from a user community perspective, they'll say, it's really hard. I'm not happy with my CIO. I'm not happy how I get access to my data infrastructure. I say, I want a 100 terabyte data mart. And three months later, I may have it, right? And so what we're providing now is a bridge to the IT organization through partnerships like with VMware that you create these virtualized environments that people have access to. And now all of a sudden the business users are much happier, right? They've never had that capability. And also give them that knob that they can turn up the power and the performance that they need and the access to the data sources that they need. That's the other problem we're solving for is how do you do data integration? Right, better across the enterprises. We've got a couple minutes left. I know you got one question. I got one final question. Looking forward, I mean, you have a lot of history with Sun, you're at a cutting edge company with Green Plub, you're now with EMC, the leader in storage virtualization, number one, as Dave wrote about. What's the future look like? Give us your view, I mean, given what you know in your experience and kind of what cloud enables, how big is it going to be and what are some of the things that you might see? And not even related to the data business or your business, it could be, but what are the things will the world be seeing? I mean, Apple has a big announcement going on today. Apple's the epitome of edge robustness, the user experience, and the expected user experience now. So talk about from your personal perspective what you see unfolding. Yeah, I think what's going to happen is, so we think data will become core, to how applications get delivered, et cetera, both in your business life and in your personal life. And I think our job is to provide access to those data and engine that allows you to scale and provide those services in meaningful ways that we just can't envision today. If you think about all the things that are coming at people, about who you are and how you're interacting with these systems, I think just being that enabler from a technology perspective is going to be a huge trend. And I think it's fundamentally going to shift the way people think about their interaction with infrastructure. I think Paul talked about it the right way, right? That the fundamental shift that's going on around virtualized infrastructure is going to be critical and touch every aspect of our life. I think the other point that maybe is a little less visible is not only about moving infrastructure closer to data, if you will. It's also about connecting people to this new world, right? So how do people collaborate? People-centric model. People-centric model, totally, around who are the rock stars, insights, enterprises getting insights into their business? And how do they share that with the executives of the organization? Or how do I share that into my personal life, et cetera? Now, obviously to the earlier question, security, authentication, those things really matter. There's some minimums that need to be achieved. They have to be there, right? But that speaks to why you have to have this common infrastructure, like VMware is talking about. That speaks to the whole VMware proposition. Exactly, exactly. So you can think of us as really the killer app on top of that infrastructure, connecting data across different processes. Dataware has always been this weird, like, back room operation, like, what's going on back there, slow, archiving. And that's really what we're talking about. We're talking about bringing data to the forefront, to the masses, to the users. That's a agility message, too. It's the agility message. But it's also, as I mentioned, the power user to the executives, to the consumers, right? Making that work in a very seamless way. And this speaks to why, I think EMC, to give my boss a little credit here, to Pat and Joe, I think he had the foresight to see where this was headed and thought Greenplan was the right asset to put inside of EMC. Well, we want to congratulate you on the acquisition, your team, well done. You guys have been working hard. Now, of course, you've got more work to do. You got to start hiring people and ramping up. So good luck with that. Thank you. CEO of Greenplum, we've got Sanjay Mershandani, CIO of EMC coming up next. He's my customer now. Yeah, that's right. Okay, we'll be right back. Okay, thanks, guys. Thanks. Thanks. Enjoyed it. Thanks.


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America's number one adventurer K7 form a United States secret agent who operated in 22 countries on land on sea and in the air Brings you a story of today We take you to K7's headquarters This is secret agent K7 speaking send in special agent B9 for assignment Special agent B9 reporting for duty Agent B9, I've called you to take over one of the most unusual cases. I have ever encountered Several agents of a nation unfriendly to the one employing both of us in this matter have been seized while traveling under this country's passports The passports are not counterfeits Records here prove them to be genuine although issued fraudulently I don't need to tell you that their use by enemy agents even though they are fraudulent as a serious bearing on foreign relations Somewhere in this city. There is a clever master spy. He has friends who are consular representatives perhaps others Track him down here are the records the case is yours Agent B9 and his assistant Rita Drake studied the evidence already collected Among it were four passports taken from spies arrested in recent months these B9 studied with special care That's it seems hopeless Rita. I Can't seem to find anything that will give us our first lead These passports are all alike. They were even issued by the same clerk. Well, perhaps if we questioned him No, no, no, no that wouldn't do could easily claim that he issued hundreds each month The nine here's something I noticed. Yes, it probably isn't very important But I was looking at the pictures on the passports with the magnifying glass. Yes We'll see for yourself. There's a little bump on the edge of each picture. What's that? You see what I mean. Oh, I don't on this picture. The bump is near the bottom. You see there. Oh, yes Yes, I see and on the second one. It's on the top edge You're right Rita those little bumps wouldn't even be noticed except under a magnifying glass The same bump is on the other two where in the middle of this And on the side of the last Of course, it couldn't mean anything. It means more than you realize Rita Those little bumps along the edges of the paper were caused by the photographer's paper cutter There's probably a nick in the blade When the photographer finishes a picture he trims it to the correct size with a paper cutter Don't you see every time the knife comes down a nick somewhere along its blade caused that small unevenness Yes, but are those enough to give us a lead if we're lucky Rita tomorrow you are going to spend the day having passport photographs made of yourself I want you to go to every photographer in the city if necessary We're going to find out which photographer took those four pictures on the fraudulent passport The next morning agent v9 went to the Bureau of vital statistics and made a record of all who had applied for birth certificates in recent months While he was thus engaged Rita visited one photographer shop after another Yes, mademoiselle, I'd like to have a passport picture taken Passport photo of course just stepped this way sit here. It will only take him Had my picture taken 18 times benign after I left each shop I examined the picture with a magnifying glass Here's the picture taken by the last chopper visited. Oh, let me see it Yes, yes, there is a little bump Rita. You've traced the photographer How many people work in his shop? Do you remember? Oh, yes, he was alone I remember because I had to wait while he went into his dark room and developed the picture. I see good I'm going to let him take my picture and while he's in his dark room. I'm going to install a dictaphone The next afternoon a large car stopped in front of the photographer shop Agent B9 and Rita watched it from a vacant store next door a woman got out and entered the photographer Just a minute. I was developing a print in my dark room Katarina they did not recognize you the light Did you photograph the blueprints of the harbour defenses that were brought you yesterday? They are ready on small films When they reach headquarters, they can be enlarged good now. I have another job for you I've brought you four photographs headquarters wants them copied for passports another passport job Yes, a man from the consulate will call for these in about an hour have them ready The passports are to be issued this afternoon. I will see that they get there deliver the passport photographs and blueprints to Adolf We meet as usual at my apartment tonight Peter is sailing tomorrow morning. He will deliver the passports and films to headquarters 9 o'clock as usual. I will be there Katarina There's our woman Rita pack the dictaphone setup get it into a taxi and take it back into my laboratory I'm going to follow her and find out where she lives That night be nine and Rita concealed themselves in the hallway outside Katharina Vargas apartment they saw two men leave the elevator and enter her room One was the photographer be nine waited about 20 minutes later The elevator opened and a third man carrying a briefcase got out. This looks like our man Rita He's carrying a briefcase. I'm going to take a chance and arrest him All right, put up your hands for what is the meaning of this means you are under arrest Get his briefcase reader. I'll search him for you can't do this to me your hands up All right put them down. He hasn't a gun reader to keep him covered. I Want to see what he's carrying in that briefcase turn around and face the wall Can you get the case open be nine? Yes, I think so Yes Here are the passports you and the plans to your contact him I belong with your concerted these passports are fraudulent the people in whose name they were issued are dead Put your hands behind you. Oh No, don't put handcuffs on me. No, I say All right, Rita Bring the elevator up and take this man down to the car. You know what to do I'm going to take this briefcase and call on Katharina Vargas Wait for me downstairs. Be careful Yes, who are you? I have brought the passports and plans Adolf could not come tonight. I see come in So Adolf sent you how is it I've never seen you before I have just been transferred here Give me the briefcase. Yes, you will find everything there come into my sitting room The others are in there. Thank you a gentleman This man says that Adolf sent this man instead of coming himself So he has the papers and passports. Yes. What is your name? Eisen by the cell Michael Eisen he lies. I have seen him before in another country.   She has been arrested a Passport photographer and a clerk on the consular staff have also been seized and have confessed This group under Katharina Vargas conducted a spy ring in addition to their passport activities These military plans which I leave with you were seized in their homes and on their persons The case is closed Members of the ring responsible for the issuance of fraudulent passports have been convicted and are now in prison Special agents must maintain constant vigilance For spies and international crooks have fertile imaginations and are constantly seeking new means of creating trouble Listen for my next story This is K7 speaking


Hi again, it's Matt and now we're talking a little more about strategic reasoning and in particular let's go through and analyze the Keynes beauty contest game now and Talk a little bit about the Nash equilibria of this game So remember what the structure of this game was each player named an integer between one and a hundred So you've got a population of players. They're all naming integers The person who names the integer closest to two-thirds of the average Integer named by people Wins other people don't get anything ties are broken uniformly at random okay, so again, what are other players going to do you have to reason through that and Then what should I do in response? So these are the key ingredients of a Nash equilibrium and the Nash equilibrium is everybody's choosing their optimal response the one That's going to give them the maximum chance of winning in this game To what the other players are doing that's going to be a Nash equilibrium Okay, so let's take a look So how are we going to reason about this suppose that I think that the average? Play the average integer named in this game is going to be some number x So I you know including my own integer. I think this is going to be the average well. What has to be true about my Reply to that my reply should be two-thirds of x right? I should be naming the integer closest to two-thirds of whatever I believe the average is going to be So my optimal strategy should be saying naming an integer closest to two-thirds of x So here we're just working through heuristically. We'll get to formal definitions and analysis in a little bit But let's just go through the basic reasoning now Okay, so I should be trying to name two-thirds of what I think the average is going to be Well x has to be less than a hundred right there's no way that the average guess can be more than a hundred So the optimal strategy of any player should be no more than 67, right? So if I think that everybody's rational I so if I believe that's true, then I think that nobody should be naming an integer bigger than 67 Okay, so what what does that mean? Well, that means that I can't think that the average is any higher than 67, right? So the if the average x is no bigger than 67 Then I should be naming no more than two-thirds of 67, right? Now you can begin to see where this is going so That means that if I think everybody else understands the game and understands that nobody should be naming a number bigger There's 67 and nobody should be naming numbers bigger than two-thirds of 67 We keep going on this so nobody should be naming anything more than two-thirds of Two-thirds of 67 now obviously when you just keep looking Everybody's going to want to be a little bit lower than everybody else's guess so wherever the average is you should be lower than that What's the only? Number of what everybody can be naming and consistently choosing the best response they have to what the average guess is The unique Nash equilibrium of this game is for every player to announce one Okay, well, that's yeah, so so we're driven all the way down to to announcing one and that's a unique Nash equilibrium And what happens now we all announce one? We all tie and somebody wins at random if if I tried to deviate from that if I tried to announce a higher integer I'd just be higher than the average guess, so I wouldn't be a two-thirds of the mean So this is going to be a stable point Okay, so let's see what what actually happens when people play this So so part of this reasoning is you're trying to form expectations of what other players are doing and you need to make sure that those Expectations actually match reality, so let's have a peek at some plays of this game So these this is a plot here where we're actually giving you the results of the online course of when it was taught last year we had players play this game and So these are the results and here from 2012 we have more than 10,000 people actually Participate in this particular game. What do we see so down here on this we have integers going from zero to a hundred and then over here we have the frequency so how many people named a given integer so The 50 right here is the the mode so we get the mode of 50 The most often named integer was 50 1600 people named 50 Well, obviously they hadn't gone through all the reasoning and it takes a while to sort of figure out what the the equilibrium of this game is What's the mean here so the mean was 34 so actually there's some interesting things you say some people naming a hundred a number that could never really win right so It's not clear exactly what? Well, it could end up winning if everybody named a hundred then you could end up in a tie there, but then you would be better off Naming 67 instead so So when we end up looking through this what we end up with is some people Naming high numbers, but very few people then we end up with some interesting spikes a bunch of people just named 50 not clear exactly what the reasoning is on 50 interestingly If you think that a bunch of people are going to do that you might want to name two-thirds of 50 Okay, well, there's a big spike here at 33 Where a bunch of people believed that other people were going to name 50 if we keep going So here if we keep going and looking at this what do we see then we see another spike at two-thirds of 33 So some people said okay, well, maybe a bunch of people are going to think that the average is going to be 50 They're going to name 33. I'm going to go one better than that. I'm going to name something around 22 23 You know what the winner in this game was the winner was actually 23 so two-thirds of the average guess here was about 23 The mean was 34 and so one of these people randomly would end up being the winner of this game Okay, there's actually a spike of people who went all the way to the Nash equilibrium And it's interesting here because the Nash equilibrium works if you really Believe that everybody else is going to name the integer one then that's your best response But in situations where a bunch of people don't necessarily understand the game and haven't reasoned through it Then you actually would be better off naming a higher number So Nash equilibrium is a stable point if everybody figures it out and everybody abides by it Then that's the best thing you can do But it might be that some of the players aren't necessarily figuring out exactly what goes on Okay, now suppose you start with this game and They're not necessarily playing the Nash equilibrium, but now we haven't played it again Right, so they get to do this play it again, and then see what happens. Well now these people should realize that they over Estimated right there's a bunch of people here who are naming numbers too high They should be moving their announcements to lower numbers, right? They should be moving down and If if I anticipate that everybody's going to adjust and move downwards, I should move my announcement downwards as well So let's have a peek at what happens So here's is a subset of players actually from from one of the classes. I did on campus where They got this is a second play of the game So after the first play then we have them play again Now you can begin to see that things, you know the 50s have disappeared all the numbers up here have disappeared People have moved down and in fact a lot more people are moving towards the equilibrium Once you get to the second part the second chance So if you've played this game you begin to see the logic of it you play it again And now we're getting closer to Nash equilibrium So Nash equilibrium does is a better predictor here if from experienced players who have played this game understood it and Interacting with the same population you can begin to see things unraveling and moving back towards all announcing one Okay, so Nash equilibrium basic ideas a consistent list of actions So each player is maximizing his or her payoffs given the actions of the other players Should be self consistent and it's stable The nice parts about this each players action is maximizing what they can get given the other players Nobody has an incentive to deviate from their action if an equilibrium profile is is played Someone who does have an incentive to deviate from a profile of actions to do not form an equilibrium So these are the basic ideas and we'll be looking at Nash equilibrium in much more detail So in terms of of making predictions, you know, why should we expect Nash equilibrium to be played? Well, I think there's sort of an interesting logic here And this logic actually goes back to some of the original discussion by Nash When we want to make a prediction of what's going on in the game We want something which if players really understood things it would be consistent and the interesting thing is We should Expect non equilibria not to be stable in the sense that if players understood it and see what happens in a non Equilibrium they should move away from that and we saw exactly that in the second round of The beauty contest game then people start moving down towards the Nash equilibrium So it's not necessarily true that we always expect equilibrium to be played but we should expect non equilibria to vanish over time and There there'll be various dynamics and other kinds of settings where there will be strong pushes towards equilibrium over time But they might have to be learned and they might have to evolve and and so forth As this course goes on we'll talk more and more about some of the dynamics and things to push towards Nash equilibrium


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic White! The Doxy! My name's David, and this is the 13 Decks of Halloween! That's right, we're gonna do 13 days, 13 deck reviews of the spookiest decks in my collection. Actually, there's plenty of decks in my collection that would qualify as a spooky or Halloween-themed deck, but these are just 13 that I grabbed, kind of at random, kind of not, that we're gonna show to you for the next 13 days, so get ready, here we go. We're gonna look at the Requiem deck from Lorenzo and Gaggy Odie. This deck came out in two colors, it was a Kickstarter release, it was an autumn color and a winter color, which was kind of more whites and more light blues. These decks were printed from the United States playing card company, and they are also themed The Chronicles of Lost Love. The reason why we're including this deck in our 13 Decks of Halloween, pretty obvious, it's just this really cool, cult-like ram skull on the front, of course you have the word Requiem, which is a song for the dead. Everything's original, the quartz, the pips, the indices, the inside lining of the tuck case, the faces of the cards are done in this really cool, like blood red color, and it makes for a really cool haunting addition to your Halloween-themed decks. Alright, so that is the end of this quick deck review for the Requiem deck. If you'd like to learn more or see more, you can click the link below in the description to our original Requiem review. Tune in tomorrow, we're going to look at the Whispering Imp deck from Chris Chalko. Thanks, bye.


This paper proposed a new approach for predicting the remaining useful life of supercapacitors using the Harris-Hawk optimization algorithm, HHOA, and long short-term memory recurrent neural networks, LSTMRNNs. The HHOA was used to optimize the initial learning rate of the LSTMRNNs and the number of hidden layer units, resulting in improved stability and reliability of the system. The root mean square error, RMSC, between the predicted result and the observed result was reduced from 0.0207, 0.026, and 0.0341 with the HHOALSTMRNN model compared to traditional LSTM and GRU models. This shows that the HHOAALSTMRNN model has higher accuracy and robustness than other models. This article was authored by Ningma, Huishanin, and Kai Wang.


Try to remember some of the basics of CQC. FlexFuel is just another name for ethanol, right? That's wrong! You can tune for a set percentage of ethanol without having FlexFuel, but if that percentage changes, then you have to change the tune. FlexFuel makes it happen automatically, and considering that E85 from the pump can vary by as much as 15%, and most people don't always use ethanol, FlexFuel means you can use one tune all the time, no matter how much corn juice is or isn't in the car. This is an ethanol content sensor. It measures the exact percentage of ethanol in the fuel. This is a Cobb FlexFuel module for a Subaru. It takes a signal from this and communicates with this. When you install all these in the car, a pro tuner can use custom FlexFuel tables in the tuning software to make a special tune. That tune can react in real time to the amount of ethanol in the fuel, so the tune adjusts itself as you drive. It's like friggin' magic.