Hi, Jeff Frick here. We are on the ground at Cassandra Summit 2014 at the Western St. Francis in San Francisco, California. We're joined now by Clint Smith, General Counsel for Datastacks. He's the guy keeping track of everything. Great show. Yeah. I'm very excited to be here. The company has terrific momentum both on the open source Cassandra user base as well as enterprise customers and we're just coming off raising $106 million of venture capital around at the company. $106 million. Yeah, it's a real war chest to fund our continued growth of the database platform and also opens up a lot of possibilities. One is we've made an investment in a community member, Instacluster, does a hosted Cassandra team out of Australia. That's the type of thing you can do when you have a war chest like we have now. So talk a little bit about that because I don't know that the venture capital game is not easy. Making investments in companies, a lot of them don't pan out, which is why those guys make a lot of money. At the same hand, we talk a little bit off camera that it's really about investing in the community. When you build an ecosystem in a community, good things happen. I wonder if you can talk philosophically about what you guys are doing on that front. Yeah, as an infrastructure software player, the ecosystem is fundamental to your success. I was at MySQL and we saw companies in our ecosystem like Splunk become $5 billion companies today and I remember when Splunk was five guys from Seattle with black t-shirts in our MySQL exhibit hall. So really to be a great infrastructure software company, you need a vibrant dynamic ecosystem and there are a lot of ways we contribute to that ecosystem. Great code, great partnerships and then in some cases we'll make a small investment. Yeah and we'll be at Splunk.com for our third year and they're still wearing the black t-shirts by the way in Vegas in next month. So I wonder if you can just give us kind of an update on data stacks. How big is the company? Obviously just put some money in the bank. We've got kind of this international distributed conference going on here because of this distributed database. So can you give us a quick kind of company update? Sure, we're 350 employees today. We'll be over 400 by the end of this calendar year. In terms of customers, over 500 customers and a meaningful stat for us is 25 out of the Fortune 100 are using us. We're a great solution for the largest enterprises and organizations in the world who have massive data needs to manage. It sounded like in some of the keynotes that some of the key competitors or perceived key competitors are maybe falling by the wayside or a little bit of consolidation and things kind of sorting themselves out? I think the market is sorting out. All of us serve a slightly different market. So we have respect for our colleagues at MongoDB. They have a great database for someone who's a scripting developer who wants to quickly add database functionality to their application. We're all about the enterprise. We're all about Java developers building big scalable apps that are easy to manage. We're focused really on large organizations in the enterprise and that's very different from MongoDB. Yeah, great stuff. Well, Clint, thanks for stopping by. We just grabbed them out of the hall. That's what we like to do. I'm Jeff Frick. We're on the ground at Cassandra Summit 2014. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.


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We'll, we'll leave it up to the gods to decide who gets the quote here, but let's see if he gets his first. Welcome to Jurassic World Alive! What's that? It's been such a long time that you can't even remember or don't even know why I'm making a video? Well, guys, the thing is, if I was to make a video on Jurassic World Alive, all the time, it would be boring. Because it'd be the same thing over and over again, basically. But today, we have something very different. Something special, something amazing, something you'll love. Oh god! Oh, it's always crazy! Oh, oh, you know why that is? That's because they've just, we've just clocked over, yep, we've just clocked over, so we got new stuff to get to. Ooh, attack? Ooh, I need that. Something that I need more. More than I think in this game. Unless you're going for a health tank, or something that's fast, a majority of creatures, you get a little bit of health. You get a little bit of speed. And the rest is like 50 to 19 attack, basically. And oh my god, I so desperately need attack, but we are gonna get in level 30 apex creature excited So I'm looking forward to that. We're also getting another hopefully level 29 unique And maybe putting some boosts onto it as well And then I want to do some more battles because We need to do mobile. I've also switched my team up as well. So a little bit different not too crazy And also I am now deciding that I I'm just taking boosts off certain things Even though I take a hit of half of it It's just what needs to be done or at least with creatures that I'm using so moving them around on the same creature I'm not gonna be taking everything off your taranix for instance. Oh 25 Yes, I'll take that as well as going over the calendar and whatnot But before we go over the calendar and everything like that. Was there anything else that you came around anything? I mean if you're wanting model office or is it's great at the moment because there's loads of mono Not the disease so we look at the team at the moment Yes, some people will be thinking about it's probably a little bit unbalanced, isn't it? You've got a lot of like tanky things and a lot of swap any things if I was to make a perfect team I probably switch out a couple of things. I'd want compi I just want legendary compi at level 30 with crazy speed and that's what I want I'd love that. I don't really care much for its unique hybrid. Oh god. Did I click on something?  Well, I may as well give you a pop. Hey, oh why not so this guy? Not too bad. I like the if I'm faster and I can swap in it and something else is about to die I can quickly, you know when they try to swap out I can do an attack on them and do some damage I think really a great one for that would probably be the Spino constrictor because then you stop them switching I think or something like that But I haven't really used it too much. It's just there to try it out But the biggest one a level 30 Hydros or looks which means we get to do one more boost to it So I think we gain another 600 basically 600 health and as far as attack goes we get a 115 extra attack it does cost a fair bit though, but here we go. Oh Juicy help and the attack goes up and boy How he does it need it because it got all we got nerfed in fact every apex that was used got incredibly nerfed They all got vulnerabilities They all got like stun chances and stuff like that and their attacks mainly got nerfed The biggest ones of course in the last update was had us all looks and Sino or Sarah Magnus I should say we can put another boost onto this creature And we could put another health if we wanted to like I said I took all the speed off because there was no need for speed and we have 1700 speed Unfortunately, I guess I could put more attack on but we're saving attack for something else. Oh, you know what? I'll put speed on why not no one really cares about sorry health. I don't even know what I'm doing anymore But the level 29 we're getting is hopefully this guy now There was an incubator a rare one that I went out Deliberately to get because it had a 33% chance to get Nuzudo in it. However, I got two rides and neither of them a nuzudo is like very correct and Something else that I didn't need But we only need one more pop. We got two of this. So Yeah, we've got we've done it. We got a level 29. Oh Thank God And we'll do another pop of you There there's the 10 there's that 10 Go and test the corner this now. I'm starting to boost test the commoness. Um, I have put What have I put on speed? I have put 70 sorry true to unspeed and I put 12 on health and I am sort of just going for the rest on attack. I think that's just what you've got to do really So here we go. It's not the deer than any of course 10 course is 10 So how much health do we get when we level up we get another? 301 health and as far as that goes an extra 65 health Okay for 20 or 200,000. Oh lord Yeah, getting a level 30. This guy is now gonna be really tough because I need 750 and even having a beer for that. So I did have like 700,000 coin now have 300,000 it's been unfortunate. So with my new team level up. How about we take a look? What's coming up this week? Even though it is a Tuesday and we're already part way through it. Let's have it. It's a Wednesday No, it's Tuesday. Yes, let's go.  I'm Marlon Deloferso's Gen 2. I think out of all those Mono you're gonna want mono for Scorpius Rex. Basically, I would say otherwise Dimetrogon Gen 2 actually has some hybrids and so does Deloferso Gen 2. I don't know about Sugumairis And of course today, well, if you were well, no point talking about Monday really is there But today, of course, you've got the attack the attack boost which you'll need Wednesday to Thursday Which is the res you've got Delofersores, Tojongasaurus and T-Rex Gen 2. T-Rex Gen 2 being good for What's it called? Tannotosaurus? Which is well, we're not gonna show because we're on this and Tojongasaurus good for Dio or some other ones I think it is and of course on the Thursday the health now on the Friday. You got Rajasaur, T-Rex and Sonosaurus now This is interesting. Now Rajasaur is pretty decent But Sonosaurus is now seeing quite a quite a meta because of its counter vulnerability Which means that you know you get hit once you make them vulnerable and then you do your instant attack rampage reduction thing But Sonosaurus is not a good dinosaur to dart So if you are wanting them a majority of DNA you want to go for T-Rex or Raj probably Raj because it's smaller and easier to Dart, but if you've got all those Sonosaurus has got to be your pick now just like last week This is also a good week. This is all about high HP apparently all these guys Saturday has a legendaries. You also get a emote. I think that is or it could just be a name tag So Saturday you got Anko, Trocosaurus or Paramoloc. Paramoloc being good for I can't remember which hybrid it is, but there is a unique. I think that needs Paramoloc I think it's sticky. No, not sticky. I don't know either one of those does need it and Anko Trocos, which is good for Another unique out of those it's up to you No, I'm going to have one I need for them I'll probably go for Paramoloc to look into which one I need and finding the Sunday a Return of a unique because last week it was our Dennis Maximus. If we're going to be honest I don't really see it used much anymore But I say that no I do I do see our Dennis Maximus is mostly health and then it goes for you know It's classic like rampage slowing and then it's shattering whatever But Sunday a return to what was the meta to start with which was you know a Dennis Maximus It is the Dealeratius One we have not seen used for a very long time And one of my first legendaries I ever or Unix I should say I ever maxed a level 30 nice to see it back there. However Don't really need it. Do we it's not very good or at least I don't see any of it Maybe it is good. Maybe people just haven't found a use for it. I don't know. Maybe there's a lot better creatures But yeah, that's what it is for it's up to you I mean of course dotted don't waste the opportunity if I got I mean I dotted on this maximum Even though I've got level 30 only got 98 it was terrible my darts were terrible on it I deal of chyrus or whatever it is probably I'll get more but anyway guys that's the news back to the video Oh, of course, you've got the new raids that are around about here the gliptocerus, which is again I think the ingredient for who hit a wobbly head there the really for this guy is Only something you can get in North America or something like that It's some like that it's the Americas South America North America that kind of area So I can't get this one and I think it does have a unique as well. But with that being said, let's open up Epic incubator how much does this cost if you were to buy outright? 5,000 books is that there and also yeah, we had an incubator that was 90 quid for $100 whatever you want to call it and it was apex it was like 20 apex DNA You do not need in any circumstances to buy that or at least it maybe was 15,000 Maybe it was a lot. It was 15,000 bucks either way definitely not worth it this one I mean, it's just like they Lydia knows that people are so desperate and so in need You I mean you can have a level 30 dinosaur, but it doesn't have boosts on it They're gonna get very far so they know that and now instead of allowing people to buy Quite often almost every day. It was every day. You could buy boosts. They've taken that they went Okay, fair enough. We realize that we've oversaturated the market and that the player base with boosts We're gonna take them away, but now we're gonna lock them behind a paywall. So now only the people who want to pay to win Can get it, which is a bit of a shame. I'll have a look to see if there are any in my words. No They've also put dots back in the dots were for coin for the longest time for a whole year And now they've put them back as a commodity that cost books Don't know why they did that is not a very good idea. I didn't think keep it as coin. I mean I Get it people weren't moving about much there in some cases you had to stay in your house So you could only use sense and incubators and stuff, but I will say they have changed some things They did not change back the giga sense. I'm very happy about that because you go sense are awesome This game, you know if you want to go out and download dinosaurs you can but let's say you can't Gigasense perfect for you. Yes, you'll only get a certain number of dinosaurs But it's better than nothing and sometimes you'll get some razz and some epics so that being said Let's open up you for a hundred bucks instead of five freakin thousand over codon iguanodon titanabogen to a delta. I'll just say we don't get any boost with this That'd be quite good. Kenris or and the final one the most is and kind of saw not bad I'll take that. Oh, let's watch it out Well, no, I'll tell you open in the three hour. Let's do some battles. See how bad I am. Oh Never mind. Oh, hold on. We need to collect this. Oh, so we got level two and level one The the darts has started to slow down from people As you can see now, we didn't get to you know, the second highest and that's because I think everyone who was needing Draco Rex has got Draco Rex to the hybrid or everyone who's needing model office Or has got the scope is Rex gen 3. Maybe a lot of people were probably just wanting to Unlock it and not max it. I think that's probably the case there That's why we don't have as much and I will admit I don't doubt as much as I used to because I've you know, I got my scope is Rex gen 3 So I don't need mono anymore even though I've got quite a bit So if people ask for I will donate to it and one of these had some dinner that was very necessary Maybe it was this one. No That's it six hundred no Zudo. That's what we needed. I try to say jobs jog on Yes, and that one as well. Oh, we were so close to getting that. Oh, well It is what it is. We've already got model Orion maxed up So may as well just collect all of these and see how far we've got. I mean it is Tuesday So I'm expecting to at least get to the second one or even up to was it the bronze Yeah, there we go almost got to the bronze and I think the battles do we get more of the balls? I'm really not too sure. I haven't been on this too much. Oh, there we go. There we go because I don't know I mean I'm in a bit of a I want to go for other dinosaurs or like the spider constrictor. I've heard that's quite good And it's always been something like it's a snake. Yeah, that's cool I want something different in my team the same time It's kind of hard because you need boosts for it and you know, you know, it's it's cost a lot of coin But here we guys, let's have a look at the five thousand seven hundred seventy cups Let's see if we can do any wins. Shall we get any wins? Oh God, probably not. Oh Arena 12. Oh, what do we got? Let's have a look. Let's have a look. Come on. Some good some good I guess it's not too bad So I still need to juggle the boost around on my Mortem because it's it's all attack and it's not good I was told that starting out with a a Tester Corbinist could be quite risky because a lot of people start with Mortem But from my experience they start with big tanks like our Dennis Maxima So let's not do that. That's what they go for Yeah, I'm speaking of big tanks. Here we go Let's speak of the devil the one that is seeing a big rise in pretty much every battle that I see Schoonasaurus or Dennis Maxima's or going extinct and schoonasaurus is picking up the flap now What sets this guy apart from the rest in fact? I've got this like ready to level up twice and I haven't even got Sonosaurus what if we want to call it at level 20 or whatever I need it just because of the events and stuff We've had recently we got loads of DNA for as well So there you go. He goes for his group decelerating now What is what he might do here is go for his? Well, really? I don't know what he has so what the good thing about this guy is he has a counter that makes you vulnerable But fortunately I am not vulnerable Now what he's gonna do here, I think is Look at that. Look. Oh, it's so satisfying. I'm basically awful, huh? Do you think he could go for instant group or he could go instant visibility? I'm going to go for a safe little hit expecting him to go for sa. Ha ha ha you fool But either way even if you went for The reason why he did that was I could have my devastation which does a lot of damage now It was up to him whether he goes for Invincibility or lowest the attack and obviously he was like the safest choice is invincibility because you know whatever I'm to however now he's probably gonna go for the instant, you know attack. Oh, he doesn't Okay, okay He's really resetting his strat. He's probably gonna go for the decelerating one now. I think Oh, we got a crit there. What's his chances of a crit? It's got to be like 5% 20% That's quite high 20% chance for crit and 30% armor. That's really good and they count Okay, so he does that now. I could I am time to just go for it here. Oh He played it very well. I was thinking what I could do is go for my My digging and I would have done that If I wasn't, you know trying to be a little bit clever, which I was there So unfortunately we don't hit him with the full amount that we could But now we're just gonna go for a digging and get more health now I think we've won this encounter now It's whether or not he wants to swap where he wants to get me low enough that even with a swap out he I'm faster no matter what. I don't think my speed can be reduced Look at the health. Yes. I want him to switch because then I get even more health now He probably could go for an invincibility here Let's say yes, he's probably done it. Yes. I thought so. That's fine. That's fine So he's actually playing very well. He's negated one of my devastations and Also halved the attack of a devastation. Oh, he's got a lot of crits as well We've definitely still won this I'll go for the cleanse. I mean it cleanses myself. So no matter what here will reduce his speed now He will probably go for his instant attack reduction now I'm playing his sort of mind game here.   Okay, so I guess no matter what I would have killed him if I went for my devastation But at least this way there we go. We're doing some now. Does he have invincibility? So I do half sentences all the time because my brain switching Now crew dance too, so he definitely has his invincibility So saw that we're just gonna switch and kill him because you'll go for his invincibility here 100% you'll go for it. So at least we've got some help and You know Duggan dig in half his attack gain more help and then switch out to kill him So we've got health on our tester Now my model Ryan's really quite speedy Unless something's designed to be fast. It can mainly outspeed things like this thing's probably really fast Andrew Sarkas that is an interesting choice So I'm assuming he's probably gonna go for his fierce attack here and do 2,400 so I'm just gonna read. Oh, oh and he gets a crit as well and a lovely gently Now it's dead.  Yes, but I'm rendering takedown I'm immune to it. Well, not immune, but it definitely does only a quarter of what it should do. I think So yeah, he's probably gonna go for a stop. He has his own right.  I might want to save my model right now Even though it's not quick enough to outspeed Andrew Sarkas. It could still get a good hit off Unless I got something quicker notice the coveness. Oh No, I got my hadrosaur looks what am I worried about? He's lost his model right now. So it's two little down He's still probably gonna get one or two chaos here. So let's have a look what we're gonna do here So I am very tempted to swap hadrosa looks do a counter and then swap back to monlorino That's what we're gonna do. Maybe we go. Oh, well, I think I'm able to switch out. Yeah, I think so actually Oh, I don't know how to saw is I don't think how to saw is actually okay. So how much damage is that?  Oh, no, we can never mind He so it doesn't matter. I'm gonna just gonna go for a heal I guess you could go for a cleanse hit. I suppose It's probably a safest bet. No, he doesn't he's happy to take the three and three's nil loss Okay, there we go a three nil victory that I Get he just didn't have anything to take out my my test of coveness He didn't have a mortem or a Thor or anything just go through, you know armor and just KO it So that's a bit unfortunate. Okay. Let's try another one. Shall we here we go? Let's see what we got anything good. Oh, it's almost the same team except for this time said one right now We have Sarah Magnus and instead of Tesco test of coveness. We have The killer bird Is there a safe opener here? I guess we could go for Mortem and then no matter what we can probably switch in and kill Something oh and a dentist maxima now. This would be really good if I had boosted my oh Oh, no, it's actually perfect I thought if I had boosted my my modem the other way around make it's more speedy then I'd be guaranteed to go first however No, he hasn't boosted his our dentist at all. Oh, I guess. Oh didn't get a crit So our dentist has no armor, but 30% crit now. I'd rather trade 20% armor I'm sorry 30% armor and 20% crit then 0% and 30% just you know matching it always progress which is Sarah Oh His model right now might be able to just kill me. Oh, it does. Oh, it does. Oh, yes He's definitely got no speed on it at all. He's got a lot of health Right, okay fair enough now. I guess I could have seen that coming What's a good switcher here, do you think? I'll go for Hadros so I'll go for Hadros. I'm not quicker. So he's probably just gonna do this shield I'm expecting and now his speeds are 126 if I reduce it. What's his resistance to the speed reduction? 75% so I don't think it's gonna make a difference even if I reduce the speed I'm not gonna be faster. So yep. I as expected at least this way I can do like two big hits and Get two counters off and then go for Healy It would be very unfortunate if he has something like a Sarah Magnus as well But even then he can't kill me with the switcher Normally he would be able to before an update or the last update a Sarah Magnus could kill me here with that switcher in 2700 a thing is the max it could do. So we'll go for a heal here I mean best you can do is like his shield again or something else because he can't do as big I said he's really thinking about it He's wondering. He's wondering what to do here Obviously doesn't want to fodder off his monolo rhino. So there's this you go restarting and he gets a crit Interesting that's kind of not what I wanted to happen Okay, so we'll go for a rampage here. He's one nil up, which is a bit unfortunate. It puts me on the back foot And he gets a crit for that as well if we're to a 5% chance here. What? Oh fine fine fine. Whatever What eves? You know what I mean? It's like oh god.  He resists it Now I actually I don't even know if this is gonna kill him because he's got a shield up It was very close Oh Okay, Spino constrictor level 30 and boosted. Oh Dear um, so he does have his precise rampage which can kill me So I might I can't risk it.  I'm not even gonna live to see that man No, no boosts on my creature Unfortunately, because I'm still testing it out and I don't really know if it does anything. I've got a good admit so When I switch out it does 2000 and not damage So I think I've just got to do this. I think I've definitely lost this one. I don't there's any way to really Come back. Yeah, I'm gonna take a wound here.  I think that's like like a bad wound as well Oh, no, it's a minimum, but it's still taking effect and Yeah, thordor. Yes. Yes, it's not looking good.  Yes I was like, oh if I go for a stun and Like he attacks me I survive I go for a stun and then I switch out to have us all looks go for a thingy There's no way there's no way. Oh, just a you know, just what we give him one two three four crits there Thank I'll take the loss. Yes. Give give the opponent Four or five crits, whatever it was and also take away the max amount of cups. Thank you. Thank you Okay, final battle. Let's see what we got You know what I'm gonna start with Scorpius Rex, maybe it's not a great opener But normally they start with help tanks. Oh god, they don't and he's perfect kind of amazed immune to bleed and rendering Ah That is not so good How much damage do I do two thousand two hundred four thousand four hundred? I'm just gonna go for Guess I could go for Sarah Magnus, but I'm one is saved I think Sarah Magnus is more valuable to me in this Circumstance because I have two fast switches. I view Taranix.  Why did you do that? I thought he was gonna go for nullifying in case I went for you know my my thingy But he didn't he really didn't know okay So yes, he'll go for his biggest hit here and he'll kill me and and of course he gets a crit Will you stop game? Give me some crits. I need some So we'll go for you Taranix now. What's gonna be good about this is He's only gonna be able to do another five and I do have like twenty five ten percent of it I think that was from five or something ridiculous I'm within a safe range. So I'm not gonna be killed by a swap in from a Sarah So we'll see what happens here. I'm pretty quick still Early Dominus or sorry early Spix or something's not a good counter for me here Right, this is good now. It depends what he does. I think he's probably gonna go for his cloak. Are we Okay, I Mean he's just show me he's got Sarah Mike.  Oh, okay. I was expecting him to go for a Shield like that probably would have been the best situation. Okay, so I mean yeah Yeah, I if I win this it's a miracle and really it is I Shouldn't I shouldn't win this is being. Oh now you do the group. She had you shouldn't have before knowing that I was gonna do a rampage and run and that way you would have Like 50% of the help that you just lost and this wouldn't have killed you. Although it didn't anyway. I suppose Are you wanting to swap out is is that it? Should I do should I go for the The rampage just in case he switches into in Dominus Rex or yeah sure. Yeah, I'll do that Scorpius.  Oh god. Oh damn.  Okay Right, I mean there isn't much I can do now. I've pretty much lost Should we try and psych him out? Ah It doesn't really mean much of a difference because he's he's gonna go for his piercing then he's gonna go for a speed priority And then I'm dead Yeah, we'll just quit this one here.  Oh my god. Oh Yeah, look at our dentist maxima. Yes, we can do this one this one's this one's in the bag kind of not really But we'll see The problem with our dentist actually is that it can go through armor Which is a bit of a problem with tester because that's the one thing it's got going for is its armor It's healing and its shields So he's gonna be able to do a boatload of damage here So what I will do is just heal up heal up just just before the hit because it's about to come And I was gonna do a lot of damage Just do just get as much health as possible just so it doesn't leave me weak enough That's something else that comes in next can do you know switch in and I get my health and can also kill me So we'll go for a big hit here Mm-hmm Let's see how well this does 4,104 now he's gonna oh he doesn't have his stompy stomped back. I forget. Yeah, it's to turn the cool That's too for that isn't it so we get some health here. I think the other ones not though I think that's just a cool that oh it's cool down of two. Oh Okay, not bad not bad So I mean if we if I got lucky and I got a crit on something and maybe to even he would be dead now And I'd be in a good position But at least he's not getting crits because I think he's got a higher chance of getting a crit Here we go. I got some health here Now there's no point him Switching out. I mean, I guess he could I'll go for devastation in case he does switch up, but he didn't And that's all right because really next turn I was gonna go for dig in oh Am I faster? No, okay, that's that's not too bad now What do you think are the chances of a switching to monolo rhino and Getting a stun off. What do you think and what's his attack when he's got his biggest hit? I? Think I'm happy actually following off tester when it's got this much like lower health It's a it's a tough situation So what we'll go for We'll leave it up to the gods to decide who gets the crit here a 30% or a 40% you think me right? But let's see if he gets his first I don't I didn't need that crit. I didn't need that crit You know what? I'll take that I'll take that you gave me a stone on something that has 75% chance to not get a stone or 67% chance I'll take it. I'll take it You can't get through the shield though, of course while he's got high chance I suppose Yeah, we'll do that. Oh come on not two crits in a row since they don't you dare do three crits in a row What's it's at 1,900 let's do this okay, so we do a shield then we'll switch back Yeah, there it is. Oh and another crit If it wasn't enough already Yeah, then we'll switch back to this. Oh my god. We're actually gonna win this No way we actually winning this it's not happening Come on. It can't happen. There it is and then we get ours Oh wait, yes, you know we might we might win this we might win this I think we have one in no way. I think it's the future fool really come on I mean what was gonna happen there? What was gonna happen? Now the thing is I could switch. Yeah, I was thinking he was gonna do it I could switch to model rhino and get a stun off But he could end up not getting stunned and wow Wow, what a roller coaster ride that one was do I get 30? Oh, I got 32 for that brilliant And I'm one cup lower then we started isn't that just exactly what you want from Jurassic World? Well guys, if you enjoyed that video leave a like and until next time. I'll see you cutie beaver babies later


And everyone, welcome to Renautox IP. Today, we'll talk about transparent clocking versus boundary clocking. So let's start with the basic, the PTP. So what's the PTP? It's the Precision Time Protocol, and we'll have two masters inside our network. But I will come back to the master in a few seconds. So the PTP will be sent to devices for synchronization. And also it's used to timestamp the packet from a sender to a receiver. The goal is to re-synchronize inside the receiver as well. So and do clean switch, because you need a reference. It's kind of for blackburst in an SDI mode. In the SDI world, you will have blackburst in network, you have the PTP for 2110. So all this works, I just said there's two masters.  They will be what we call the best selection of Grandmaster. So we'll start with the indented fire. The quality of the master, the priority, and the variance of the clock. And then we can establish which one is the best. If they're both the same, there's also an identification inside the Grandmaster and we'll pick the one that is prioritized between the two. So then when the Grandmaster is selected, so the Grandmaster will start exchanging with the device. So the PTP Grandmaster will send the sync signal to the device. The device will come back and send a delay request. And then the slave device will receive a delay response from the Grandmaster. So there it's used to calculate the time in the network and basically decide, adjust the time inside from the PTP received. So usually it's done eight times per second in ASR16 profile. Profile can change and you can go to 16 times per second, sorry. But this is really in the 2110, it's eight times per second. In the case of the MeteorNet IP product, this can be changed. So type of messages. So messages is changed, like I said, from the Grandmaster to the device itself. And it can be multicast, unicast, or it can be hybrid. Meaning that all the exchange can be in multicast. Exchange can be in unicast from one to one, or it can be hybrid. So the sync it's sent to multiple slaves, and then the master receive a unicast from all these slave device. So let's talk about transparent and boundary clock. That's the reason for this video, right? So transparent clocking means that the Grandmaster will talk to all the devices. So think about a student and teacher approach. The teacher will talk to thousands of students. So you can look at this as a big, big room. And sometimes the message from one to the other, it's kind of like in the noise and it could be delayed when everyone requests the question to the teacher. So the boundary clock, clock aspect, is really interesting. It's instead of having one teacher that talk to all thousand students, you will have one Grandteacher, let me call it this way, that will talk to different teachers and then they will go talk to their class. So instead of being one to a thousand, it will be one to let's say 20 teachers. And the 20 teachers will talk to 20 or let's say 50 students. So then you covered all your students, the interaction is faster and the Grandmaster will communicate the clock to the switch. So how this is done, it's basically the Grandmasters talk to switch, let's say the leaf switch. The leaf switches are their slave to the Grandmaster, but they're master to the device connected to them. So again, slave with the Grandmaster, so Grandmaster communicate with them. The switch itself will be a master to all the devices connected to the switch. So in that case, you will minimize all the delay, communication, like delays of packet because you don't talk to all the Grandmaster, but you talk to your local switch. So the takeaway of this is edge device will talk to a Grandmaster. It's could be the switch or it's could be the Grandmaster itself. If you want to scale up, we do recommend that you use boundary clock. So then you talk, the device will talk to a switch. So I guess the takeaway of this, so boundary clock, clocking will scale way better than the transparent clock. So thanks for watching. Please, if you have any question, feel free to send it to my attention or add a comment in my video. So thanks again for watching. For more information, visit readall.net. Thank you.


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Good afternoon and welcome back to this next session. In this session what I want to discuss with you is the general framework of science and engineering education that obtains in the country has also my own opinion on what we ought to do to improve the general quality of education. This is a talk that I have been recently giving at many places. So I apologize in advance to some of the participating teachers if they have already seen some version of this talk earlier. I only hope that this repetition will not be boring but instead will prove useful to re-emphasize certain points that I wish to make. The overview of this session is first the science, engineering and technology education. The second, what are the issues in conventional education? There are many I will discuss only a few and how exactly can we use the modern technology to address some of these at least. I will then try to reiterate what most of us already know namely what do our students want and what do they need. In this context I will discuss the professional pyramid that our students will be climbing in their lives and therefore it will help us to understand what we should adopt as teaching methodologies to enable them to climb up this pyramid better. That is what I would like to mention when I discuss what can we teachers do and how. I will conclude this talk with some unsolicited advice. As you know all of us teachers specialize in giving that and I specialize it in it to a greater extent. First let us talk about a few terms which we almost always take for granted. Science everyone presumably understands what science is. Scientific thinking, science education has been at the basic grounding of all our professional education subsequently. Engineering and technology is also understood but it is understood mostly in the mundane perspective of what engineers and technologists do. I would like to remind all participating teachers that the root words for the terms engineering and technology are actually ingenuity and technique. Genuity means creativity and technique in Greek means art. It is interesting to understand that while engineering and technology is considered a very mundane activity by most of us its origin primarily is in creativity and art. We must therefore keep this in mind. The ingenuity are important in any engineering and technology which itself is based in turn on the basic scientific principles. Applied science and engineering is generally understood to the use of engineering to the use of science principles to design and build equipment, appliances, gadgets what have you which directly and indirectly can be used in larger systems and these larger systems in turn enhance comfort and convenience and increase effectiveness and efficiency. So any professional engineering education whether engineering education, applied science education or management education must keep this in mind. The purpose of this education is to train people to build such gadgets, such methodologies, such appliances and such systems which increase comfort and convenience of the people and more importantly which increase effectiveness and efficiency. What it means is that while we make people's life more comfortable we must do so in an affordable way such that the technology and engineering that we do can be utilized by more and more human beings around the globe. When we consider engineering it will be useful to remember that nature has the best engineering. Consider evolution of life forms itself from amoeba, a single cell life form to a human being supposedly the most evolved life form. What do we observe here? We observe architecture and structure. We observe ability to store energy and convert energy. We eat food. There are chemical reactions that take place which then actually permit our muscles to act that is how we achieve locomation. There is a huge amount of mechanical activity that is possible by the life forms. All of this happens through proper energy conversion and proper structural principles, engineering principles which are used here. What about signaling and messaging? While we talk about computers and computer programming is indeed the theme of this particular workshop it is important to understand that signaling and messaging that happens in life forms is of extraordinary nature. Consider the human life form.  We know that the muscles are instructed by the brain to withdraw the hand. But how do the muscles know that they have to act? Huge messaging chain actually takes place when my fingers touch some fire. A whole lot of messages pass through the brain. The brain acts on those messages and in turn initiates messages to control the muscular movement. All of this happens automatically and intrinsically. There is a large amount of information processing that happens inside human brains. Consider human eyes or for that matter eyes of any life species. The amount of information that eyes are able to collect through millions of cells that the eyes have and the collection of this information, the correlation of this information, the consolidation of this information which happens in the brain is unparalleled. No computers have come anywhere close to handle that kind of information in that way of parallel processing which the life forms can do. Of course, the fundamental objective of the life forms is growth and self-preservation. And of course, mutation which involves innovation and replication. Any engineering that we do is clearly unable to address these two issues right now. Why do I state all this? I state all of this to emphasize that while we study our engineering from books and while we concentrate on experiments with available gadgets and appliances and equipments and tools, it is perhaps important to look at the nature and understand the engineering that nature has evolved over millions of years. Consider the problem of nitrogen fixation for example. When we produce any nitrogen based commodity, let's say ammonia, whatever. The chemical reactions that we design require huge amount of energy and they work at higher temperatures and pressures. On the other hand, simple plants, the way they fix nitrogen, the way they absorb nitrogen and convert it into compounds from the Mother Earth that they take their food from, they do so at normal temperatures and pressures. We have not understood how exactly this mechanism works. Take a firefly for example. The amount of humiles that the firefly is able to generate so that a firefly is visible in the night as a beautiful flying creature. If we were to produce the same lumens in our own engineering way, the heat that we will generate will kill the firefly but it does not happen. The firefly is alive and it still generates those many lumens. Such engineering wonders are abound everywhere and it is useful to keep that in mind. What about engineering education then? Well, I submit that life forms are natural engineers.  They take almost a month to build it. They collect twigs, they collect leaves, they collect all kinds of trash which we would discard and slowly but surely a beautiful nest emerges. Surely the preservation of species is the under-like motivation because the birds wish to put their eggs inside that nest. But if you look at any nest, you will find that it is structurally adequate to support its own weight. You will find that it is architecturally quite beautiful. You will find that the security is immense. No snake can enter that small nest to eat the eggs. You will find that all this engineering is done by those two birds without ever going to any engineering college. Who then teaches these birds engineering? Well, we presume that the engineering skills are passed genetically. Indeed, such skills would be passed genetically to human beings as well. Unfortunately, human species are different because the knowledge has grown so rapidly and this is what distinguishes human species from other species that genetics does not have time to collect that knowledge and pass it on genetically to the next generation as yet. I do not know maybe 10,000 years later, the son or daughter of an engineer will automatically be an engineer. But till such time, the knowledge has to be passed externally. The skills have to be passed externally and that is the reason why, whether it is birds or animals, we do not find any mechanism for external knowledge passing. But humanity being different, human beings have created a separate institution for such external knowledge passing, for such handling of external knowledge. That institution is called a teacher. There are no other species which have teachers, at least not known to us, but human beings have teachers. Why did we create these teachers? We created teachers to act as the fulcrum of handling this external knowledge passing mechanism. What is this institution supposed to do? The institution called a teacher is supposed to capture, store, and disseminate the accumulated knowledge. It is supposed to analyze, correlate, and in fact generate new knowledge through research. It is also supposed to codify and standardize the available knowledge. These are the things that the humanity charged the institution called teacher with, saying, Mr. Teacher, you shall do all of this for us so that our children, as they grow up, can benefit from the accumulated knowledge. Why are you? The humanity can benefit by the extension of the knowledge that you do through research. That is indeed the purpose of the institution called a teacher. In order to support teachers in their endeavor to handle such knowledge, we created support structures. In the earlier days, in India, they were called ashrams. Today they are called universities and colleges. My institute is one of such structures. Your own colleges and the remote centers are such structures. Unfortunately, the nomenclature got confusing somewhere down the line. So for example, the structure which is supposed to support me in doing all of this is called an institution, Indian Institute of Technology. Each of your colleges and university are recognized as an institution. And we, the teachers, are termed as employees of these institutions. Sadly, this nomenclature has had a very bad effect on us as a community of teachers. We have forgotten that we are the institutions. And these are the structures which are supposed to support us in our endeavor to handle knowledge. Instead, we consider ourselves to be paid employees of these institutions. And therefore, limit our activities just as a paid employee will limit the activity in any other commercial organization. I would submit that we must remove this kind of thought from our mind. We must recognize ourselves as what we are, what we have been charged by the humanity to do, and recognize that we are institutions in ourselves. And the so-called institutions are nothing but support structures to permit us to do this task very effectively or as effectively as is possible. My colleague, administrators of the universities and colleges may not agree with this viewpoint. But I submit that every individual teacher in his or her heart and mind must genuinely believe that he or she is the institution charged with the responsibility of acquiring new knowledge, spreading that knowledge, and disseminating that knowledge to each and every human being who seeks that knowledge. In conclusion then, the purpose of a professional education would be to prepare a person for real world, generate understanding of existing knowledge, kindle the spirit of inquiry. This is absolutely, absolutely important. In fact, one point which I have always made is that the current system of syllabus-based examination, a syllabus-based education, and examination-oriented studies has somewhere reduced the spirit of inquiry that we are able to create within our students. It is absolutely vital, as I shall illustrate with some example later on, that the spirit of inquiry is at the grassroots of any educational process. Equally importantly is enabling the problem solving ability. After all, the purpose of education is not merely to ensure that students acquire as much knowledge as exists already. That would be learning by road, which is what is happening. Again, sadly, due to the examination system that we have. However, the purpose of education to prepare our students for the real world means that they will have to solve real world problems. Real world problems are not defined in our syllabus, because every time new problems crop up, a syllabus at most reflects what has happened in the past. Whereas students are going to face the future and therefore the only way to prepare them to face the real world will be to tell them that whatever the syllabus has taught you is only the background. You have to use all of that to solve new problems that you will have to face. That is the reason why problem solving approach is considered vital in any good professional education. Here are some of the problems that we have. I will discuss just one problem of the large class size. When you go back and teach your courses, let us take the subject of computer programming. It will not be uncommon for many of you to handle class sizes ranging from say 50 students to even 400 students. I taught the first course in programming last semester in IIT Bombay. I had 830 students. The classes were conducted in our convocation hall, which thankfully has a capacity of 1200 students. So I can keep on going for a few more years.  The individual interaction in such courses happens through laboratories and tutorial sessions. In IIT system, we have teaching assistants who are our postgraduate students and doctoral students. In most other colleges, this task of handling laboratories and tutorials has to be done by the teachers themselves all by the technical support staff that they might have. This limits the amount of interaction that they can have. The fundamental problem, however, facing a teacher, teaching a large class, is that how do I decide the pace of my course? Do I move very rapidly, covering some elementary concepts and going quickly to the advanced concepts? Do I move very slowly? Well, because I have to address students who are at different level of perception, who are at different level of habits of hard working that becomes a difficult problem. I faced this problem when I was a young teacher some 40 years ago. I discussed with my senior colleagues and I was advised that I should use a common pace. I then drew the following diagram. I put all the students as points on a two-dimensional spatial map. One axis represented hard working ability of the student. Another axis represented the grasp of the student. Please understand that while the grasp is naturally correlated to the intrinsic intellectual ability of the student, it does not depend only on that. It also depends upon the level of preparation that student has had in the past. So if the student is well prepared in the background, the grasp will be faster. It also depends upon the motivation level of the student, the concentration level of the student, et cetera. However, it is a fact that different students will have different abilities of hard work and different abilities of grasp. When I plot these students like this, I get a graph where the students would be scattered all across the space. Then I said if I am forcing a common pace as suggested for my lectures, the common pace will address the average of this particular class. This is the average. When I do this graph for the first time, I remember a very senior colleague, Professor Sen Gupta, had advised me on this average pace. I went to him and said, sir, I have a problem with the average pace. He asked me, what is the problem? I said there is no student at that point. So am I teaching nobody in the class? He said this was a very funny question. And I said, no, it is not very funny because if you look at this particular thing, this particular graph, there are so many students. And when I decide on an average pace, I agree with you that my observation may be hypothetical that there is no particular student at that point, but there are students around it. But observe what will happen. The result will be that everybody will move towards that average pace. While this may help people at the lower end to move towards this average, people at the higher end will actually move downwards. People who are capable of doing much more hard work will stop working very hard. People who are capable of grasping much more will stop applying their mind. And they will all wear to the average. Is that what is expected of teaching? I submitted that clue that is not so. I do this line. And I said my objective must be that I bring out the best in every student. No matter how poor that student is in the grasp, no matter how little hard work that student does, I must encourage that student to do more hard work. I must encourage that student to develop gras further. And I must move all the students in the class successfully across this line to the top. This is what would drive every student to bring out the best in oneself. I submit, my friends, that this must be the objective of every teacher. Every student must be on the radar of the teacher. The weaker students who will need additional help can be provided help through extra classes, through additional interaction. The better students, the better performing students can be provided additional incentive by giving them harder problems, by challenging their minds to do something better. This is how one is able to bring out the best in any student. I submit that that should be the objective of all of us teachers and the educational process. I will comment on research and education. Sadly, research and education are considered to completely independent aspects, to the extent that people do not consider research alongside education at all. In fact, many teachers believe that when they study for their degree, they are doing education. And only when they do PhD, they are doing research. It is in this context that I would like to examine, what is PhD? My contention is that PhD is not a degree. At least it is not just a degree. If it is not just a degree, then what is it? Here is my opinion on that. I consider PhD to be a mindset. What is the mindset? A mindset is the way I think when I do my PhD. And the way I think when I'm not doing a PhD. The difference is that the mindset that evolves is what I call a PhD. What is that mindset about? That mindset is about getting a broad perspective of the problem that I'm solving at the research level. The mindset is about spirit of inquiry, because I'm looking at a problem which has not been solved earlier. And therefore, I must have very intrinsic spirit of inquiry to look at what are the possible ways in solving this problem. I must have critical analysis. The ability to do critical analysis develops as one does PhD. And without such critical analysis, you will not be able to say which particular alternative that you are looking at is better than the other alternative. Which particular alternative is workable? Which particular alternative may be thrown out, because it's not workable. So critical analysis is absolutely essential. Succeeded articulation, something that we Indians are traditionally weak in. The written articulation of one's ideas is fundamentally important. Without such an articulation, we will not be able to share whatever we have thought of, whatever we are working on with our colleagues and with the general public. That is the reason why there is so much importance given to writing good papers and publishing them in technical journals. It is not just the act of publishing a paper, but it is the act of proper articulation which is important. And which the mindset process evolving towards PhD should teach us. This is something that I would like to emphasize is important for all of us. But when you do a PhD, you develop that art of succinct articulation. Discussions. Your mind is now ready to discuss things with you. You are no more aloof because you are very keen to find out what others think about your ideas. These discussions help you to crystallize your own idea as well. It helps you to communicate your ideas to others. It helps you to learn from others. It helps you to propagate your ideas to others. Metaculous hard work. No shortcut to that when you are doing PhD. You can't be sloppy, do an experiment, record something on a piece of paper, and lose that paper next day. You have to record all your observations carefully. You have to analyze them carefully. You have to be very, very meticulous in whatever you do. And you have to be very hardworking because there is no substitute for hard work.  Regal and discipline. No substitute for that. Your mathematics cannot be sloppy. I will recall one particular instance here. When traditionally, when we have three numerical quantities, a, b, and c, and we want to state that they are unequal, we simply say a not equal to b, not equal to c. There is one book which I saw about 25 years ago which said a not equal to b, not equal to c, not equal to a. That is rigorous. Because a not equal to b, not equal to c, there is not guarantee that c is not equal to a. If we are talking about three unequal quantities, the last one is more rigorous. This is a small example, but it should tell us how rigorous we have to be in whatever we discuss, we analyze, we write, we articulate. That kind of discipline has to be developed. Perseverance. While doing PhD, we will fail many times. Some of the alternatives which we believe will work completely and open up a new channel of knowledge suddenly fail because of some small thing that we have neglected somewhere. We can't give up. We have to start all over again. Think of some other alternative. If a given alternative is proving hard because some additional experiments are to be done, we have to do that. Perseverance is therefore extremely important in developing that mindset for PhD. Synthesis. Ability to analyze is no more good enough. You are advancing knowledge. You have to synthesize various ideas that you have from various places. Design new things. Maybe fabricate new things if you are working in hardcore engineering. Maybe write new programs. Maybe develop new software. Maybe do simulation. You have to do a lot of synthesis activities which are generally not demanded of you in your earlier educational process. That is what developing PhD mindset does to you. Problem solving, very fundamental. You will keep facing large number of problems and you'll have to keep solving those problems and those problems would not have been covered with any syllabus that you have studied earlier. That becomes an important part of your mindset. Innovation. You can't use the existing ways of doing things. You have to innovate things. And there are umpteen examples of such innovation that you find amongst almost all these students who have been pursuing PhD that they will have to actually take recourse to overcome any difficulty that they meet. In fact, innovation is what the entire humanity is looking for whenever people are supposedly doing research and advancing the state of knowledge for humanity. Extending human knowledge is the expectation of such a mindset. And of course, extending one's own knowledge is an equally important expectation. Well, so far what I have described is what can be tentatively called as the PhD mindset. When you achieve all of this, your guide someday says, okay, write your thesis and submit it. We believe that because we have done so much work, we have now written the thesis and we are getting a degree. Our guide generally believes that we have achieved this mindset and therefore incidentally we are writing this thesis. So friends, PhD is all about such mindset. But now I have an important question to all of you. Is this mindset not the objective of education at all levels? What is so great about PhD that only while doing PhD, all these things should be achieved in your mind. Should they not be achieved in your conventional education? Do we not expect a primary school student to understand the basic mathematical tables, the fundamental logical reasoning, the basic art of articulation? Do we not expect a standard student to be able to write correctly and well in his or her own language, a description of any event or any scientific principle? Is that not part of the expectation of that mindset? To a 11th or 12th standard student, do we not expect a mindset which is full of analytical capabilities, correct understanding of mathematical rigor if that student is a student of maths and science? Do we not expect our graduating students who get a BE or MSC or BSC degree to be able to solve problems, to be able to innovate, to be able to synthesize, to be able to persevere, to be able not to give up, to be able to solve difficult problems? All of that mindset I submit is required as a necessary achievement at every educational level. So whether it is primary school teaching, whether it is secondary school teaching, whether it is college teaching, whether it is postgraduate teaching, all of us indirectly are equivalent to those PhD guides who try to imbibe this kind of mindset in a research scholar. All of us are required to do the same thing amongst our primary school students, secondary school students and more importantly, our college students. We are looking at effective teaching to our college undergraduate students because this course, this subject is taught at the undergraduate level. But please remember that your objective as teachers will be exactly the same as the objective of a PhD guide, namely to achieve this extraordinary mindset in every student of yours so that that student becomes a better problem solver, that student becomes a better articulator, that student becomes a better analyst, that student becomes a better designer. That objective has to be there. It is therefore my submission that please do not separate out research and education. Perhaps one of the reasons why most of the universities in the world insist on great researchers being teachers is because they understand that researchers who have achieved this mindset perhaps would be better able to convey that mindset and to create that mindset in their students. However, according to me, that is not necessary. Even a primary school teacher who understand the importance of these things can actually help create such a mindset in a primary school student. Our limited objective friends therefore is to treat this workshop not merely as a mechanism to enhance our knowledge of how to teach, see programming more effectively but to enhance our own mindset to a level where we are able to tell our students that you are going to be the great problem solvers of the future through the art of computer programming that we are learning here. Our endeavor would be to tell our undergraduate first year students that you are no less than a PhD student as far as this basic understanding is concerned, you must achieve this mindset and that must be our objective. This indeed is the objective of the professional career as well when our students go out in the market and when they climb the professional ladder they have to constantly continue to enhance this mindset. You will find actually that most professionals do this automatically. You will find actually that there are professionals in the industry not only in India but everywhere in the world who have actually achieved that mindset. Though they don't hold any formal PhD degree you will find them to be better than many PhD holders in this respect. So this must be remembered. There are professionals who do not have a formal PhD degree yet they have a mindset. Sadly, there are people who have a formal PhD degree but not this mindset. I would submit that all of us teachers must endeavor to acquire this mindset first in ourselves and then endeavor to create this mindset in all of our students that we teach. So what comes in the way? Why do students find themselves unable to achieve this mindset? This is because their attention is focused only on one thing which is the attitude and this attitude is formed by another thing which they are constantly chasing a rat race. This is the rat race for Marx. You and I will be unable to do anything to prevent people from participating in this rat race. This rat race has become the defining factor of the modern society because students get jobs based on the marks that they score. Students get interview calls based on the marks that they score. Students get recognition based on the marks that they score. And this happens right from the first standard. It is therefore unfortunate but true that students are all set to participate in the rat race for Marx. But it is important for us teachers to understand what does this rat race do? This rat race creates a few winners and many losers. The few winners who get admission to better colleges or who get better jobs become overconfident. And many times this overconfidence borders on arrogance. I have seen many arrogant mindset getting into IIT system because they believe they are at the top of the world because they have got high scores in what we call the joint entrance exam. We recognize that that is nonsense. They have got high scores because they were better prepared because they were lucky. Out of four lakh people they could solve the problems in those three hours. That does not mean much. Although it is important that we must recognize their ability and a confidence to able to solve such problems is well placed. However, an overconfidence of any kind in anybody is useless. Particularly when it borders on arrogance it is absolutely detrimental to the students own career. This must be pointed out by us. However, that is not the bigger problem. The bigger problem of large number of losers who develop diffidence and this diffidence could be very detrimental because this diffidence may become despondence. Notice that in your own college when several students fail in the first year in some course such as applied mechanics or computer programming. Please remember most of these students who come to you as engineering or science college students they have done exceedingly well in their schools. They have never failed in their lives. The failure is extremely difficult to digest. They become almost despondent. That is why you see that if a student does not do well in the earlier years subsequent years that student finds it extremely difficult to recover. Although from a fundamental point of view as a talent or as an ability that student does not perhaps lack as much from others as the marks make out. But this is what happens and this is the result of the rat race.   Our objective in life as teachers is to produce great human beings and therefore we must keep convincing our students do not lose hope if you lose marks do not get arrogant if you score too many marks just go ahead with the calm confidence and deal with the issues that will create the kind of mindset that we believe you ought to have when you pursue your career later. In this respect I am reminded of the child's attitude. When a child is faced with a problem how does a child solve it? Let me mention a peculiar problem which has become quite a favorite of mine. Learning a foreign language is considered intellectually difficult activity by grown ups. People who learn German or French spend two or three years doing elementary course and intermediate course and advanced course. I remember several friends of mine who used to go to Maxwell or Bowen to spend six months to learn better German. At the end of three years of such courses, books, studies, examinations, certificates they are able to converse in German a bit slowly. They can understand written German not necessarily the spoken German but they understand that language German, French, Arabic and we call them intelligent people. They are able to learn foreign languages. Yet we don't share the same enthusiasm and praise all human children who learn a foreign language between the age of three years and six years that foreign language is called the mother tongue of a child. Every human child learns that language without going to any school or college without passing any exams without participating in any rat race no books, no degrees, no certificates. How does a child do that? I believe that every human child has these three fundamental factors embedded into the mind and heart as the child takes birth. Curiosity, boldness and perseverance. A child is immensely curious about everything that it sees around it. A child is bold enough to ask any questions including funny questions. A child is never discouraged by the elders to ask questions. In fact, even if you discourage the child will keep asking questions. Look at what we do as teachers or our students when they come to classes. If a student asks too many questions say please don't disturb the class.  What we are doing is suppressing the boldness of the child. Not only that, when we submit when we suppress the boldness of a student we also suppress the curiosity. And please remember curiosity is the fundamental resource through which a human being learns. The moment the curiosity stops learning also will stop. So curiosity and boldness is to be preserved and enhance if possible.   A child will come back 11, 15 times and do that naughty thing. Whether it is breaking a glass whether it is climbing upon TV whatever, whatever, whatever. Child never gives up. And yet look at what we do when we become students in a regular classroom. In the first few years we are perhaps enthusiastic in looking at various problems and attempting to solve hard problems. Just like a child does. When a child does not understand a new word that she hears the child keeps analyzing, keeps repeating. The child never gives up unless it has understood the meaning of that word and unless it has used it. Whereas when we ask the children or our students to solve some sums sometimes they try but if they don't succeed they give up. In the initial days in the school they give up maybe after three or four attempts. By the time they come to our colleges they have learned to give up after maybe one or two attempts at most. And by the time they graduate they have learned to give up even without trying. That is the great contribution our educational system is able to do today. Unfortunate. And I submit my friends that it is in the hands of our teachers to ensure that they do not lose these beautiful capabilities which they have inherited as human species. Curiosity, boldness and perseverance. Please ensure that your students are encouraged to keep thinking about these natural abilities and keep enhancing them rather than losing them. Academicians in my opinion must develop excitement and passion. And here is what I will refer back to the observation that many of us teachers are perhaps not here as teachers as the final ambition to join academic career in the long run. Perhaps some of us are looking at this career as a short term event. I would submit that whether I am a teacher for one month, one year, one semester or one decade or one life I must ensure that I do my job with excitement and passion because whatever I do in my life unless there is excitement and unless there is passion I may not be able to bring out the best in me. Please remember what we expect in our students to bring out best in them must be true for ourselves. We must endeavor to bring out the best in ourselves and which cannot be done without excitement and passion. It cannot be done without humility and ethics.  Humility is important for all human beings but a teacher must be more humble than others because a teacher is also a role model to most of the students. The way the teacher behaves is often copied just like young children copy from their parents our students tend to copy subconsciously from us teachers. It is therefore very important that in our behavior we maintain humility and we maintain ethics at all costs. We must empower the learner to climb the piece of success. I define the piece of success as a peak on a mountain which is climbed through the path of examinations which is climbed through the path of knowledge which actually should be at the root but people when they pass examinations and face the real world they suddenly realize that they do not have adequate knowledge and they have to learn that knowledge additional knowledge on the field. It is not uncommon for me to see many of our past students coming back from industry and spending time in our library far more than the time that they ever spent when they were students on the campus and that is because they recognize that knowledge is the ultimately important thing in solving problems. When they solve problems and use that knowledge they become successful. That is the next path. Success can be measured as material wealth that one generates. Success is also measured as the professional competencies that one develops and the professional positions that one achieves. So an engineer when he or she goes through the professional pyramid becomes a work manager or vice president or whatever that's a successful achievement. However the last step towards the pinnacle is not just the success but it is the impact that a human being lives on this society and that is why you will find that humanity has always honored people who are conventionally called religious or social leaders far more than the professional leaders and that is because people like Mahatma Gandhi or Jesus Christ or Gautam Buddha leave a far greater impact on human society than ordinary professionals do. It does not mean that ordinary professionals must convert them into a Mahatma or a Gautam Buddha. What it means is that all of us as human beings must be sensitive to the fact that while we are climbing this pinnacle of success we must also contribute and that contribution must leave some visible impact on some part of the society around us because that is the society in which we are growing. Knowledge and personality, vision and values are to be imbibed in our students as well as in ourselves. I submit to you a brief action agenda as to what teachers can do to achieve these. First, be compassionate and considerate. We are not regulators although as teachers we have to execute some regulatory function. We are facilitators and facilitators of human beings, not role numbers. Therefore it is important that we are compassionate and considerate to our students. Some simple things. There are occasions when in an examination some students come up 15 minutes late or half an hour late or one hour late. There are some systems somewhere which say if you are 10 minutes late you will not be admitted to the examination. There must be compelling reasons why a student comes late. A student never comes late by design. In IIT system we teachers have the flexibility of saying no matter how late you are, come and take the exam. Please ensure that wherever such flexibility exists for your students, provide them with that flexibility. They will not only admire you but they will learn better. Punish the mistake but not the person. Very, very important. Lead by example. I can't ask my students to work for 12 hours a day unless I am myself able to work for 14 hours a day. It's exactly the same thing as it happens in army leadership, in business leadership or in educational leadership. We have to lead by example. There is no shortcut to that. Develop showmanship, not like acting in films but please remember that when we teach there are large number of students all observing us. Our body language, our mannerism, our way of emphasizing things all matters a lot and some kind of showmanship is important to be developed. We must respect for deadlines. If a submission is due on a certain date we must develop that respect for that date amongst all of our students. We must innovate constantly. There are ampteen examples of innovations I can keep on citing those and it will require hours of discussion but I will tell you a couple of things which I found in my Bharat Yatra. The one small place in Ulisa I don't remember whether it was Nest in Behrampur or some other place. I met a teacher, I was visiting the labs very nicely made labs by the way in that small undergraduate college and I was asking the teachers what else do they do? So one teacher sheepishly said that he runs a special lab on Sundays. So what do you do on Sundays? He's an electronics teacher and he says they take up a large design problem and they analyze the circuit, they design the circuit, they build the circuit. Every Sunday two, three hours students and the teacher meet in that lab and at the end of that semester they actually develop a tested working circuit. I say it's amazing. Do all students come? The teacher said no sir. Only some 10, 15 students come. I have 60 students in my class. I said no matter. These 15 students are going to make a difference to the world. They are going to make changes because they are thinking outside the syllabus. They are thinking of solving some hard problem. Something that we constantly and naturally do in a IIT system is being attempted at such small places by teachers like you. Why can't we take these as role models? The only sad thing was that teacher sheepishly said sir you are the first one telling me that I am doing something useful. My colleagues all say paga leh syllabus ka bhar ka palata hai. The unfortunate fact is many of us because we have stayed in the educational system of universities for so long we ourselves have become bound by syllabus by an exam system. It is important for us to break those shackles. Open up and say that the system demand that we do this, this, this but we on our own can do this, this, this. Don't forget that there are Saturdays, there are Sundays, there are evenings and there are nights. And if you take one step forward you'll always find 10, 15, 20 students of whichever college you are in who will contribute with equal or greater enthusiasm in whatever endeavors you do. Such are the endeavors which may become role models in your own colleges and in surrounding colleges. I believe that should be an objective that you should keep in mind. I repeat that you must treat ethics as important because without that you cannot go forward in life. Read, think and write is a message that I would like to give all of you.  This again is a national weakness. I submit that you must develop the ability to articulate in written form both for your own sake and for the sake of your students. The notes that you write that text of the questions that you write must be written at least in correct English. It must be understandable by people. Many people say English is not my native language. I will challenge you to write correct Oria or correct Telugu or correct Marathi and I'm sure that if you make mistakes in writing correct English you'll also make mistakes in writing correct Marathi or correct Telugu. That is because you have not paid sufficient attention and you have not disciplined your mind sufficiently to ensure that your written articulation is perfect. If you spend time to think and develop that ability believe me it will help you not only in becoming a better teacher but a far better professional yourselves. Do this as a regular habit is my advice. Integrate education and research. As I have said earlier these two cannot be seen as two separate compartments. They are not. Education and research are two sides of the same coin and a coin cannot be seen perpetually only from one side. It has to be seen from both sides. Set up special discussion clubs. Invite students to attend solving hard problems that have never been solved. Remember always that solving 10 simple problems as I've asked in your examination system might give your students great pleasure and a lot of marks but may not increase their ability. In IIT we believe that solving attempting to solve 10 very difficult problems and not getting a single solution right helps us much better. We had a professor who had once set a question which nobody could solve and when some students went to him saying oh you could not solve it I thought you would. When they asked what is the solution the teacher said I don't know. It is part of an unsolved research problem but I thought this batch is so clever that that batch will be able to solve this problem. Let Professor K. C. Bucherji I was a witness to this conversation. In most other places the teacher would be dubbed as a teacher who sets questions outside the syllabus. There would probably be a strike. In IIT that evening that bunch of students went back to the hostel and celebrated and when their seniors asked him why are you celebrating? They were celebrating with a milkshake in hostel. A milkshake party is given in hostels when the hostel wins an inter-hostel tournament or some big event happens. When seniors asked them why are you celebrating? They said great Professor K. C. Bucherji thinks that we can solve unsolved research problems. Now that my dear friends is the mindset. Believe me your students can have the same mindset. Many of you would have the same mindset. What is important is to encourage such people to come together and have that mindset. Rank journals and conferences as teachers participate in these conferences as teachers submit your papers to journals aim your paper at the next higher level. Please remember what I said just as your students must be encouraged to achieve that PhD level mindset you all must do the same thing. It does not matter whether you are registered formally for a PhD or not. With a BA degree just with the knowledge and with the perseverance you can actually crack some hard research problem and publish your material in any journal or present it in any conference. Do not underrate that activity because research is an equal important component of educational process. Finally if we want our lives to be like the beautiful dew drops this picture was sent to me by a teacher colleague in Delhi when Professor Wag in MGM college. These dew drops I believe you can see that they look so very nice on this. I have an interpretation of the word dew suggested to be by my friend and ex-student Rakesh Mathur when he was giving a talk here. According to me the D stands for dreaming big because our dreams limit our achievements. So we must dream big. We must teach our students to dream big. We must teach our students to enjoy life. E is for enjoying life. Life is so precious. Every moment of life is so precious. You see it never comes back. A moment gone is gone and therefore we must enjoy every moment of our life and we must therefore have fun in every activity. Fun cannot be there only in sports or in cultural events. Fun must be there in studying. Fun must be there in solving problems. Fun must be there in heated animated discussion. Fun must be there in everything. So dream big, enjoy life and the W is for working hard for there is no substitute for hard work. If you wish to create history you have to work hard. Give this message to the students that if they want their lives to be as beautiful as the dew drops, in fact it applies to all of us. I have taken this as the fundamental spirit driving my own life. If I want my life as a teacher to be as beautiful as the dew drops, if I want my students' lives to be as beautiful as these dew drops, then I must inculcate in them the habit of dreaming big, the habit of enjoying life and the habit of working hard and in the true IIT style, I must tell my students that any two out of these three is not an option. So they must solve all three problems. That is a compulsory requirement. Whatever you may do to change your university system, you may succeed or you may not succeed but at least in this endeavor, do tell your students that these three are compulsory activities. Any two out of the three is not permitted. I will not waste your time. I personally believe in this. I personally believe that you are capable of not only making your students' lives as beautiful as dew drops but your own life in the process if you believe in these things. The last unsolicited advice I would give to close this session is to get out of that diffidence mindset. Believe me, we teachers also suffer from diffidence of a different kind. I suffer from diffidence when I see great colleagues of mine having far greater achievements in their own field of research and teaching and I say, oh my God, am I not good enough? But I don't let that diffidence come in my way of saying I will try harder, I will try innovatively, I will do something else and I will become better. Get out of this diffidence and the whole world is there to make our mark on. Our mark as a teacher has to be left indelibly on the minds and hearts of our students because we are charged, remember, as an institution by humanity to create the next generation of great human beings. The next paragraph is not mine. I have stolen it from the saying of a great person. In our mood towards becoming a developed nation to provide an honorable and comfortable life to Indians and to live as equals. These words were used by honorable Dr. Abdul Kalam. What I am very proud of is probably for the first time he used these words when he had come to IIT Bombay decades ago and when he was addressing us. And he said this is what we, he of course subsequently put it in his vision 2020 and many of the books. This is his vision and you will all agree that this is a vision that we all share as Indians. We want to live as equals. We want to develop ourselves and we want to say we will also live as comfortably and as otherably as anybody else. But in order to do that we need people who think differently and therefore we need to emphasize that our students do something different. My request to you my dear friends is that as teachers be the change agent, contribute to quality education and help build the builders of such a nation for all of us. Thank you so much.


Hi, she was seven. Okay, so I want to talk to y'all today about knowing yourself and How it plays an important part of the type of person you end up with in a relationship So many people do not know who they are. Do not know what they want in life Do not know what kind of future they want. They just walk around with nothing in Their mind of where they want to be in five years They just walk around and So they're sending out this vibration of I'll take whatever Comes to me. I'll take whatever comes to me because I don't have a plan. I don't have a list I don't have any goals about where I want to be in five years. So I'm game for anything. Okay So this is the vibration you're sending out and this is why certain type of guys or type of women come into your life because You're not sending out a specific You know Need or want or a manifestation of the type of person you want to be with You know, or if you do it's very vague and it's not enough to get with actually, you know, what you need so Knowing who you are and knowing what you want is very important Even if you realize it or not If if if you take a woman who doesn't know what she wants in her life or you know knows where she wants to be in five years And then you take a woman who has a plan who knows where she wants to be in five years Who knows what she wants to be the type of man she wants to be with how many children She wants to have what's she gonna name them what's how the town she wants to live on and all that you take that type of woman versus the woman who doesn't even plan for the next day And you will see the type of men that are that that they attract will be told to totally different types of guys The woman with the plane is gonna only attract men who can Actually be a part of that plan help her with that plan or Be actually, you know Part of the plan itself now the woman with no plan She's gonna attract anybody a stragglers.  You know why because they don't have a set mind of what they want in life either So when you meet people, this is a very important question to ask Where do you see yourself in five years? And if their answer is well, I don't think that for you. Oh, I don't know. Maybe Listen to key words, maybe I don't know. I don't think listen to those words key words. I don't know.  If she's ghost bam, bam, bam, bam, bam down a list That is a good sign Because she's already focused. She's already thought about it. She's already visualized that she has goals set in place She's already researched or whatever she just went down a list for and it's already in action is coming to her Okay, so key words will going to eventually plan goals stability Education listen to all these words, you know Where do you see yourself in five years? Well, I see myself in a position able to purchase a house to start a family to be This far in my career to go to school to this this is that you know if they can name off a list of stuff that's actually thought about and not pulling stuff out the sky and Looking around thinking about it, you know, they're there already mentally and once you are there mentally It's coming to you physically already. It's on the way So and also listen to the person that talks more Then they actually have to show That's a key sign. Okay, we have talkers now If you get some if you get someone who likes to talk about themselves Talk talk talk talk talk. Don't ask you about yourself Has all these plans and goals and and they're gonna do distances and that and you look around and don't see any evidence of Anything so far. He's a talker or she's a talker And when they when they talk too much and they're over compensating for what they don't have yet When a person has a plan in place and they're already taking steps towards it They don't need to really talk about it too much. Okay, so that's another hint So yet know what you want because you're gonna attract people who know what they want and when two people know what they want There's no confusion. There's no You know Arguing about well, I thought you wanted this or I thought you wanted that or I thought you said this There's nothing like that because you've already made the plan. It's already in motion So keep that in mind when you when you meet people, okay?  So ladies you got to get this look thing out your out your head, I know a lot of young women go for looks Looks will not get you in men's looks do not get them anywhere past a certain age You know why because once a man reaches a certain age. He's looked at by his Financial stability and that's just truth.  He's attractive, but walk on by So you got to remember ladies when you when you're planning for the future You can't use cute as a factor, especially with men You got to use brains. They got to have brains a plan and they have to become stable Because after the age of 40 They get no respect for what they look like. It's just like what can you do? What can you produce? Let me see your Let me see your portfolio. What have you invested? What have you saved? Can you buy a house? Do you have good credit? Do you have a college fund set up for your children this this and that this becomes the attraction, okay? Not oh, he's so cute. Oh Look at him that old 40 year old guy. He's so cute. No doesn't find him or after after your mid 30s It's over guys. So you got to get it together And for women, you know the same thing But see women got tricks though. They can look young for a long time. They can pile on the makeup pile on the wigs And stuff like that and go for older men But there there's gonna come a time where even the older men are each their woman's gonna become older and Even older men aren't gonna want her. So she has to you know, settle down with somebody She has to figure out what she wants the type of man. She wants what's important to her And stuff like that. So usually you'll see ladies try to settle down if they want kids before the age of 30 Or you know The woman doesn't want kids already has kids and it hasn't settled down She'll try to settle down by the age of 40 45 Okay, because she knows, you know, I don't want to spend the rest of my life alone My kids are grown. It's time to you know, find this person So especially when you're older you need to find somebody with a plan, you know When you're young and free like if you're if you're under 25 Just go have fun. After the age of 25, you got to start thinking. Okay After 25 if you're still dating that um, well, I don't know. We'll see kind of guy You're going backwards so remember that babies don't go backwards and I always say this if if the man you're deciding to be with You know long-term cannot provide you With the lifestyle that you are raised in or better. What are you really saying to yourself? You know What are you really saying to yourself? I don't deserve I don't even deserve the lifestyle I was raised in because I'm going to settle for this guy That doesn't have his stuff together and you know But maybe I can help out and I know there's a lot of people That do have to have to income families and that's fine, but remember As long as he has potential as long as he's going upward and not dragging you down That's that's good. Okay. Now everybody's rich. We know that so as long as he's going up And not backwards if if nothing is going to pull you back by being with him then by all means be with him You know if you're not going to have to suffer the consequences later for being with someone Who's not where they should be in life yet Who has past mistakes and stuff on their records and stuff they can't get over and you know They can't get hired anywhere because they done this this and that that's only going to drag you down So you want to avoid that? Okay, you want to avoid that for your future and your future generations? You don't you don't want to latch on to that You want to let that go and say this is not what's best for my life. This is not going to push me ahead This is not going to be good for my kids There's nothing going to come from this that's going to benefit me in the least bit. Okay, so We have to use our brains and our hearts to make these decisions, okay A lot of times when women are in love or in a relationship They they forget to use this and men too. They forget to use this, you know, they don't look five years into the future They're looking at today and right now and that's fine. It's fun to live in the moment But once you get to a certain age, you got to start planning for your future generations So they can have their chance to live in their moment Without, you know suffering. Okay, so I'm gonna leave it at that I'll say If you have any questions or comments Leave me down below and I'll see y'all later. Bye


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel, Daniel Rosel here. One of my favorite places to eat in Jerusalem is this place called Nadi. It's located at the bottom of Hillel Street, which is one of the main streets in Jerusalem's city center. Where we're sitting here, it's located just after where they're building the Museum of Tolerance. And to the left of me here, just about 200 meters, is the old city of Jerusalem, so there's tourists coming up from the old city. If you're looking for a really, really good salad in Jerusalem, I'm trying to eat for low-fat food. This would be probably my top recommendation. This is their salad. What I've gone for here, there's some bulgur, there's some quinoa, there's some tomatoes of course, and some feta cheese, and it's amazing. This place also does a really cool concept. It's called half salad, half sandwich, so you get half a sandwich and half a salad. And they reuse amazing, amazing fresh ingredients. They also have a wine and drink menu, so I've gone for some refreshing, cool, white Israeli wine. This is of course one of the first coolish days of the season as we're approaching the holiday of Sukkotir. And yeah, Nadi's just amazing. She brings a lot, if you go for the full breakfast menu, which they keep the full breakfast all day, but they have a whole more extensive breakfast menu going for one o'clock. They'll bring you all the food in Meze, so you have baba ganoush, matbukha, hummus, tahina, tuna, all the classic Israeli breakfast foods in a huge, huge plate, and it's absolutely amazing. This is my opinion. All the salads I've had here are just the best salads I've had in the city, and I love the atmosphere. So I've been looking for some fresh, healthy food, very close to the old city in Jerusalem. Definitely check out Cafe Nadi.