Hey everyone, today I decided I wanted to test the docks. Now look, I already tore apart the docks and saw the insides and there's some different chiplets and stuff like that and it looked like there was actually a nice controller for the Ethernet jack on this because the big difference between these docks besides the colors and the mat on the inside and glossy on the inside and where the air vents are. We'll get to that in a moment. Beyond all of that, the biggest difference is this one comes with the Ethernet port and this one, this is how you get your wired internet. So here's the problem. I went into this wanting to know is this Ethernet jack better because for those who don't know, this Ethernet jack is limited by the USB speeds. Now everyone feels like it's a USB 3.0 port only in the back of this. The ones on the side here that look like they're USB 3.0 are not that but it turns out the USB port inside this one on the backside is also 2.0. So while this dongle is a 3.1 to Ethernet, it doesn't matter, it won't run at those speeds. That means you're going to be limited in some capacity with a wired connection on here. So the hope was that we would get a full gig 1000 megabytes of speeds on here because we have a localized port that's not using a USB controller. Here's the problem. The results were not anything like I expected and depending on the situation will depend on what you want to use. Yeah, it's complicated. Alright so I'm about to throw up a graph here and this graph is interesting. On this graph, there are two controls at the bottom. You'll see wireless with my iPhone 12 on my local network and you'll also see wired with my desktop. Now to be clear, I do not expect those kind of speeds on these devices because those speeds are unrealistic. Now my internet is capped at 40 megabyte up, it can't go any higher than that, 40 megabytes per second. So that's just something that we have to work within our limitations on. Knowing that that's the top out you can possibly get off and upload. Download speeds though can go up to a full 1000 megabytes or 1 gigabyte. So that's why you see the desktop numbers looking really good, the wireless numbers are even pretty good. I have a fairly good router and I don't have any problems in my house with wireless connectivity with these devices. But the thing is, well those are our controls so we know a theoretical max that we could get my computer with the motherboard and my phone are obviously significantly more expensive devices. So I don't necessarily expect those kind of speeds on the switches although it feels like it should be possible. When you're looking at this chart, a big thing you should be noticing right now is, well, something looks off. So when these two are docked together, right, when they are both in docked wired mode, something happens that I did expect. This system downloads faster. It just straight up downloads faster. Its download speeds were consistently 15 to 20 megabytes per second faster in every single test we did. 30 times took an average 15 to 20 megabytes per second faster every single time with the exact same network settings on everything. So that to me suggested that, yes, it's running at a faster speed. It's still not the speeds that we would like but it's around 60 down which is plenty for online gaming and plenty for downloading. In fact, some people only have 60 down internet anyways so that speed is an acceptable download speed and the one with the dongle didn't do that bad, right? It was around 45 on average. It didn't do bad. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. What I was shocked about wasn't that this one downloads faster and this was confirmed. I downloaded like 20 different games of various sizes and basically the switch OLED was beating out this switch with the dongle by a whopping, you know, 25 to 34.5% every single time. There was some fluctuation in there but it was consistently faster. So switch OLED is the fastest way to download and play games on switch, period. And the wireless speeds, nothing's really notable about the wireless speeds so I'm not going to take a lot of time covering them. Just note that the wireless speeds the upload and download were within margin of error of each other. They basically are using the exact same Wi-Fi chip. So no shocker there. The speeds are the same. But here's the weird thing. When you go look at that chart again, the upload speeds tell a different story. The original switch and its old dock with the dongle, sure, it's not hitting my 40 megabytes per second up but it consistently every single time in all 30 tests it never changed. It's like it capped out at 20. Like the switch and the dongle and everything, there's some sort of cap but no matter what it would always hit 20 on the upload. This one would hit 7. Which is conveniently the exact same speed it has wirelessly. What does that mean? There's no benefit to your upload, right? No benefit to your upload speeds when wired. Now there could be various reasons for this network settings and I went through everything. I messed with every setting I could to try to make this thing run faster. And it just kept going to 7. It kept defaulting to the wireless speeds. So then I had a theory. Alright, there's differences in the docks. Well I mean if this one is getting, you know, 20 megabytes up which is typically enough for online gaming, then this one should also get 20 megabytes up if I just put it in this dock. So I did the unthinkable. Guess what happened? Now this one with the original switch was getting 20 megabytes per second up and this one in this switch was getting 7. What does that tell us? Well, what it tells us is that Switch OLED is using inferior technology inside the actual switch unit. That the docks are not the limiting factor of the internet speeds. That's whatever way they're processing those internet speeds on these two platforms. So this one is way faster at downloads. And when you're down streaming, when you're, you know, going to be watching YouTube or whatever, anything that involves massive downloads. As an example, there are benefits to it in situations where you might have to, you know, like play control. Right? Do a game streaming thing. I tested out game streaming. They kind of felt the same. This one had a bit more latency though. Why did this one have more latency? Well, my uploads are just really slow at only seven megabytes a second. So my inputs are taking longer to get to their server. Now it, you know, it's coming back to me fine. The game's not lagging. Inputs are. So there's more input latency with streamed games wired up than on here. You see what I'm saying now when I said the answer to this is quite complicated because this one's factually faster at downloading, but it's not at uploading. And when you're doing things like playing games online, your download and upload matter because your upload is what leads to other people getting data faster. So when you're playing things like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, people are going to see your moves updating quicker with this setup than this. In fact, it doesn't matter what you put this one in, no matter what doc. This one will consistently, consistently give you better online gaming performance, at least in terms of you uploading your data to another user on their end. So this was not the expected results of this test. I either figured there would be no difference or the increase in download speeds because after all, we saw SwitchForce's video, right? You know, Zach from SwitchForce, he did an internet test comparison and his conclusion was that this was better, but he was only measuring download speeds. He didn't pay attention to the upload. Now, you might get a little bit different results depending on what router and internet provider you have and all that jazz. I'm not going to say that my results are definitive. I can only test with what I have available here, but my conclusion is that this might be the better overall experience. Now, if you're not someone who plays games online and you just care about having a digital library and you don't really do online gaming, then this is better. I think this is a better overall product than this, but I can't ignore it. And I also wonder why. So I was looking up the components that make up the processing to be able to give us faster download and upload speeds. And frankly, they're really not that expensive. Nintendo's just cheaping out. On both of them with the Wi-Fi chips, they're completely cheaped out, but just in general. This one shouldn't be capped at 20 megabytes per second up. I should be able to get 30 plus no problem, but I can't. This one should not be capped at seven, but it is. Nintendo, you need to do better. I understand that Nintendo has obviously been behind and online in a long time, and they've been making some strides. Obviously, Nintendo Switch Online Service coming updates with the N64 and Sega Genesis. And there's more reasons than ever to be excited about the future of Nintendo's online and even have new server infrastructure. But you have to nail one thing correct first. This system needs to be able to upload as fast as it downloads. If it can't, well, it's just negatively impacting everyone's online experience, not just the person who bought this system. And I did, by the way, just wanted to make sure that this was a Nintendo Switch problem, so I plugged it into my Xbox Series S. And yeah, the test on that went just fine. It was getting the same speeds as my desktop. So that's a $300 system. This is a $350 system. Does that make sense to you? Anyways, we have a giveaway going on right now for three copies of Metroid Dread for the month of October. Dreadtober, as we can call it, maybe. So enter all you got to do is be subscribed. I'll let me know your thoughts on these platforms down below and my findings because this is not what I expected. There's no definitive winner of the online. And it's not definitive in because they're the same. This one has upload speed advantages. This one has download speed advantages. Did not see that one coming. All right, folks, I'll catch you in the next video.


Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel if you're new. My name is Bobby. Guys, first and foremost, thank you so much for your feedback and your support after my last religious reaction video. I asked you guys if you want to follow along on my religious search if you want to explore Islam, the Koran, etc with me and you guys said overwhelmingly that you would be interested. So today we're going to react to the Throne of Allah by yet again Mercyful servant. I personally know very little about the Throne of Allah. However, within the Christian apologetics scene, the Throne of Allah is used to attack Islam, to be more precise to attack Tawhid, the oneness of God. Christians say that if Allah is truly one, what's up with the Throne? That is already a multiplicity that defeats the argument of the oneness of Allah. With that, they want to justify the Trinity within the Christian doctrine. I'm very interested to find out about this concept. Let's have a look. In no possible way is this video going to show you anything of the unseen world. Viewer understanding is very important. I wasn't expecting that, but thanks for the disclaimer. As I already said in my Koran video, what I absolutely love is that God is addressed first and foremost. All the praise is given to God first and then we can talk. Even metaphysically speaking, if we're talking about a necessary being that is absolute, obviously, there is nothing that can share this absoluteness. Yet again, God is the only one that has the right to legislate His creatures. Obviously, because He is the origin of creation. There is nobody but Him. It makes absolute sense. He is the ever-living. I swear I didn't watch this video. It is He who created this complex world, the seen and the unseen, the evident and the speculative, the earth and all that is on it and everything that is in it. It is He who sent His messengers and prophets with the common message of strict monotheism, which simply means that there is absolutely no one worthy of worship, no one worthy of our obedience except the Almighty, the One, the Absolute and who has no partners. As I mentioned in previous videos and interviews, this concept of absolutely pure monotheism was the most mind-blowing shocking fact about Islam to me personally, because I didn't expect Islam to be about monotheism. I grew up around Muslims, but I never looked into the doctrine. I never understood that Islam is the purest form of monotheism. The earlier messages which changed the world and the area in which the prophets were sent, those messages we know have changed and even the prophets who brought them, their names are now lost. We just know in general because Allah told us in the Quran That is something that I heard before and I heard people speaking about the Buddha and that the Buddha potentially was a monotheist, a prophet as well. From what I personally gathered about the Buddha is that the Buddha was strictly against idol worship, but nowadays if you go to Asia you see huge golden Buddha statues, so obviously something went wrong. This message you find within the Old Testament as well I have to say as a Christian has been preserved in Islam in a way that it was never preserved before, not because the message was different, because it was the same message, but because of the fact that there would be no other prophets who would come after Muhammad. Man this is so simple, but I never thought about it. I was really questioning why would if Islam preserved the message, but if you look at Muhammad as the last prophet it makes all the sense in the world. Therefore that message now had to be protected. That's so simple. It had to be preserved in a way none of the earlier messages were preserved. I'm honestly yet again mind blown right now. I never thought about this simple explanation. It is a very very strong argument by the way. I will relate this, what you say you have come to know 40 years back and what you call the Big Bang is already mentioned in the book which I read, the glorious Quran. It's mentioned 1400 years ago in Surah Ambiya, chapter number 21, verse number 30 which says, What you're talking about the Big Bang, I try to imagine. The psychonaut and philosopher Terence McKenna said, science operates under one premise, grant us one miracle and we explain the rest, the miracle being the Big Bang. The Big Bang is not a sufficient explanation for anything, it is simply an arbitrary starting point of the universe. It's just a belief. Closer and closer and closer together so it's smaller and smaller and smaller and I've stored a tremendous amount of energy in that spring and when I let it go it bursts out, it bursts out, it bursts out. The creation of the universe which you came to know 40 years back is already mentioned in this book, the glorious Quran, 1400 years ago. Who could have mentioned that in the Quran. So they just will say maybe someone wrote, maybe it's a fluke, maybe it's a guesswork. A human being regardless of who they are or where they are or what they do will have this curiosity they'll want to know why am I here, how did I get here and do I have a purpose and if so what is it? The only one who would really be able to answer that question would be the creator himself. If there is a creator it would be up to him to tell us why we were created and what he expects from us and what this life is really about. Allah has shown the people from the time of Adam until right now has shown the people what he wants from them and it's a very simple thing and that is that worship be for him alone without any partners. In fact we know this life to be a test from Almighty God. That's why we're born and that's why we die because there has to be a beginning and an end for us to be tested on. That's powerful.  Even psychologically speaking if you have God as your only priority everything else will fade in comparison. There is this saying love the creator and not the creation. I truly believe that this is the only way of a healthy life because not worshiping idols goes way way further than just bowing down to statues. Anything in this life can be an idol. You can make money an idol. You can make women an idol. You can make fancy cars an idol and therefore I believe that is a very very powerful message if we direct our focus only on God. Both are brought back and they continue to live in the next life either in good shape or not so good shape depending on how they did on the test. The worship of the God of Abraham that was what was taught by these prophets. The Lord of the Arsene Kursi we're talking about the Lord of the worlds. Alhamdulillah, we're talking about the Lord of the entire universe and beyond. The entire universe and beyond you know we live in this dunya and we are fascinated with this dunya which Allah SWT indeed has created in a beautiful manner. We're fascinated there are over billions of people which live on this dunya at this moment in time. Over six billion people that live on the dunya at this moment in time. This dunya of Allah SWT is so big that there is space in this dunya for billions and billions and billions or more people. But what is this dunya in comparison to what Allah SWT has created out there? This dunya is insignificant. This dunya is meaningless to Allah. It means nothing. It is worthless. So worthless compare it with the sun. The sun is one star. You know more science than me. You'll be able to tell me better. Take this planet earth and you place it inside the sun and you will be able to place 1.3 million earths in the sun. With this point I have to disagree. Quantity doesn't equal significance just because the earth is so much smaller than the sun doesn't mean it is not significant. I truly believe especially if we take the perspective of this life being a test we have to look at it as something significant. Something that God willed with the purpose. 1.3 million earths in the sun. Allahu Akbar. Allah is the greatest. The sun is one star, one star.  You need, you tell me this. That you need millions and millions of stars to make one galaxy. And then you tell me this. That there are zillions of galaxies out there. Let me tell you on top of this my friend. After this whatever you see above. Whatever you see above. When you raise your head and you look above. Whatever you see above. The zillions and zillions and zillions of galaxies. Let me tell you this is everything there is within the first heaven. Everything there is within the first heaven and Allah. The guy repeats himself a little bit too much for my test. What is the creator of seven heavens? Seven heavens and the distance between the first heaven and the second heaven is five hundred years. You know the distance that can be covered in five hundred years at what speed? Only Allah knows. Only Allah knows but it will take five hundred years to get from the first heaven to the second heaven. Five hundred years from the second to the third, third to the fourth, fourth to the fifth, fifth to the sixth, sixth to the seventh. Every time it will take five hundred years. I don't even think anybody can truly conceptualize what those seven heavens mean. It could be seven dimensions for all we know. You know these seven heavens that we've just talked about. In comparison to the Kursi of Allah they're non-existent. They're meaningless. Rasulullah has given an example in a hadith just to give us a little bit of understanding with regards to the seven heavens in comparison to the Kursi of Allah. Take a ring from your finger. Take it off the small ring that you have and place it. Let's say in a desert, the Sahara Desert. It's the biggest desert in the world. You know that ring that we take off from our fingers and place it in the Sahara Desert? That other thing. In comparison is in between the ring and the Sahara Desert. Nothing. Nothing. The seven heavens is the ring and the Kursi of Allah is the Sahara Desert. After the Kursi of Allah, you have the Arsh of Allah. You have the Arsh of Allah. Again Rasulullah has given as explained so just so that we can understand. Take the ring place it in the desert. This time the ring is the Kursi and the Arsh is the desert. What is the Kursi in comparison to the Arsh of Allah? Nothing. Then you have angels which carry the Arsh of Allah. Their heads are in the seventh heaven and their feet are in the lowest earth. My friends, then you have the Lord of the earth. Vision perceives him not, but he perceives all vision and he is the subtle, the acquainted. This is exactly what I mean when I say that I don't believe that any person truly can fathom God even in the description of the seven heavens and the throne and above. Ultimately the Quran explains it best by saying vision perceives him not. So therefore no matter how big it seems to us, no matter what kind of picture we want to paint, heaven one, 500 more years, 500 more years, the desert, the ring etc etc. Point of the stories that vision perceives him not. I honestly find that one passage out of the Quran so much more powerful than anything that the Imam here had to say. Exactly. Amen. Exactly quantity, size, all of those human conceptualizations are just that human concept and God transcends all of them. This is the being that you and I are messing with. We're not messing with him. There is no sleep within God. It doesn't exist. There is nobody else because time is an illusion. It's only by his grace, otherwise we don't understand anything. There is no fatigue in God. It's a human concept. Fatigue is a lake. There is no lake in God. All right guys and this is it for today's reaction video. Very, very long one. Thank you very much for making it until the end. Always honest reactions from me. The first half of the video I enjoyed very, very much. The second half with Sheikh Ahmad Ali, not so much to be honest. Kind, repetitive and often times for me personally besides the point. Ultimately God cannot be described with human conceptualizations. Either way, let me know in the comment section if you like this type of video and please let me know as well if you want me to continue on sharing my journey with you. If you like this video, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel, all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your support. As always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


Welcome back to my channel. So today I figured I would do just a random vlog for you guys. It is Sunday October 29th Yes, October 29th. I don't have any makeup on because it's Sunday, and I really don't care I'm like wearing the most comfy outfit ever leggings and a t-shirt and I'm rolling with it My parents are at church and I didn't go with them because I've been feeling super uncomfortable The last couple days, and I just don't really want to go sit in like an hour-long thing And I just everything is getting really tight and really uncomfortable. I'm having contractions, but they're not Regular I think I had a bunch of them last night when I was sleeping because I would just like move from being uncomfortable But it wasn't enough to like wake me up and get me out of bed So I'm just gonna just hang around the house today. I think when my parents come back I'm gonna make them take me downtown to walk around for a little bit and just get myself out of the house because I've literally laid in bed for the last three hours and Yeah, so I'm watching pocket bullet primaries vlog from last week I'm really really behind on her stuff, and I feel bad.  None of these are real active zits.  We have this bathroom It's really dirty right now but we have this big bathroom and in this drawer is where I keep all my like makeup and stuff and So I'm gonna transfer just my everyday what I need makeup into a Makeup bag so that I can just grab it and I can use it daily if I'm here And then I can just grab it and go when the time comes But I think I'm actually gonna put it in this bag because this is what I always use for makeup when I travel I think I got this at Target. It's got like one side netting. Here's a spot for brushes It's a small zipper pouch and then like another one So I'll probably put this in here and Then that way I can just grab it and use it like I said and then when it's time Just pick this up and grab it so I So I packed my makeup bag. I'm gonna quickly show you guys what's in it So in this side, I put all of the makeup that I'm gonna bring which really isn't a lot so I have my Kat Von D locket foundation, which I always mix with the cover girl three in one I have my two-faced setting powder. I have a Milani blush I have the tart tape and shape concealer and then the tart lit Eyeshadow palette and then I also shoved my beauty blender in here this NYX Eyebrow thing and then my blush brush I just shoved that in there and then in this middle pouch I just have my tweezers my eyelash Brush because I don't need mascara and I have a chapstick and then in here I just have a blush another like blending brush brush a powder brush And then this foundation brush if I need it and then a couple of eye brushes and my mirror I don't intend on like putting makeup on for the entire thing I'm really just bringing it so that I can make myself feel beautiful like the second day when we're taking photos when we're Going home just things like that because I might want to and why not it's not really taking up a bunch of space So I have that packed. I really want to get a new pair of Birkenstocks Because the pair that I have is like the Madden girl ones and they're falling apart like I'll show you So these are the shoes that I have and the like front comes off the Middles like coming apart. These are the Madden girls. I think I got them I think I got them at Ross like last year and I think I'm gonna invest in a pair of real Birkenstocks It's still pretty warm out and I'm thinking that since it's going into winter They might be on sale. Who knows if not whatever, but I know that they will last forever So it's an investment like I've told you guys before I invest more money in shoes and purses because a they always look good no matter how Chumpy or skinny you are feeling that day and most the time they never go out of style So I'm gonna just splurge and get myself some Birkenstocks And I think there's a local retailer downtown Prescott that sells them because Jennifer and I went looking at famous footwear We went to Dillard's And we went to journeys and they didn't have them But I think they'd have they have some downtown Prescott, so we're gonna go check and see we're gonna go eat lunch at our one of our favorite restaurants and Then I think my mom and I are gonna walk around downtown for a bit We'll probably drop my dad off and then walk around downtown for a bit, but it is a beautiful day up here in Prescott today and It's like I don't know I want to say 75 degrees and sunny So we just went and had lunch at the El Gato as well in downtown Prescott If you guys are from Arizona, and you've never been up here You need to come up here, especially right now because it's so beautiful and El Gato is on Goodwin Street So I got my favorite chocolate-covered gummy bears I'm a happy camper Ice cream I got my shoes. I think I'll show you guys my shoes when we get out of the car And now we're going to Sprouts. We're gonna pick up a couple pumpkins because we're gonna carve pumpkins tonight With my sister and my nephew Okay guys, so I'm gonna show you my favorite street in Prescott It's called Mount Vernon Street and all the Houses are decorated for Halloween, so we're gonna drive up it and show you guys what it looks like Today the 2nd of November and still no baby We are 39 weeks and Mr. Cash is not coming on his own yet. I have another appointment tomorrow To check for any progress, but it seems like he's probably not gonna come On his own at least I don't think so my due date is obviously a week from yesterday and She won't let me go a week over So I believe that if he's not here by the 8th, then she will schedule an induction just kind of like a waiting game We've been walking we've been taking Raspberry Leaf tea we've been doing pineapple We've been trying all the other things and Nothing's really moving along. I mean, I'm getting contractions, but they don't really hurt a couple of them do but they don't really hurt So I don't know we're gonna go eat some lunch Somewhere I don't know where yet Can't make up her mind ever Well, I just don't have the decision-making gene right now There's no such thing as a decision-making gene. Yeah, you're making that up in and out burger. Hmm. I love in and out burger Is that where they went In an upper do I know burger you have any not burger all the time, huh? He's leaving the flight staff. So yeah, mr. Cash.  Yes. You can't even see to see yourself. Hello down there Yeah, I'm feeling large I don't I don't feel like I'm that big. It's just belly, but you're not in charge Oh Alexander so cute. So yeah, that's what we're doing. We're on baby watch and So far, what are you doing? making a rule I Attempted to roll egg rolls and mine. We're all cracking so I put Scott on them Hey correct up. We're also making wontons Mom's right Coconut oil Have to eat that one. Oh, man Good morning guys, it's Friday November 3rd and this morning. Let's see. It's like 8 30 this morning I think my rod water broke, but I don't know I felt a gush. I stood up Went to feed my dogs felt a gush followed by a trickle followed by a puddle on the floor Not a big one. So I don't really know I called the doctor and she said to just go ahead and go to the hospital Have them check me out if anything Then I'm already there. If nothing, then I see her at three o'clock today. So we're just packing up our stuff and we're gonna head on out No, but I did text him Scott is not here currently he went to Phoenix yesterday last night rather because he's at work. So he does know that there's a chance. So I told him Don't be too busy Like a half hour ago Yeah, as soon as I told you so we're just packing up and we're gonna Head to the hospital and see what's going on No, baby, no water breakage Just some routine leakage So we're gonna go and get some breakfast and go to my friend Ruby's house and I'm gonna get her yoga ball and see if I can bounce on that also no dilation no Anything so you know holding a baby might get your hormones going to that could be a thing We don't know so Ruby's baby. Anyway, no baby yet baby watch is still on


Hang on just a sec, let me share my screen. So in Discovery we've been looking at language identification as a way to do cross-wiki searching. In particular, you know, if we have a query that doesn't do well in terms of number of results that it generates, fewer than three, what we've been going with, then we want to look and see if it happens to be in another language. We have looked at some of the data and this happens relatively frequently. And then we want to, you know, we have a tool called TextCat which does the language detection. And then we can use that to search another wiki, you know, if we determine that the query is in French and they're on the English Wikipedia, we can get the user results from the French Wikipedia and present those if there are any. We wanted to make a tool so people could mess around with TextCat and do the language detection and see what's happening and try it out for themselves without necessarily trying to find a particular query that, you know, doesn't get any results in one wiki but is in another language and so on. And so the link is in the etherpad. I'm going to be using a local copy which is a little bit snappier than the ones in Tools. But basically you can go in and you can choose the languages that you want to consider. There's a default set here. And then you type in a query. And then it gives you results. In this case it's unambiguously English according to TextCat. The scores are relative to each other. They're actually cost functions which means that the lower score is better. And they vary wildly depending on the length of the string that you're trying to identify the language of. And so we normalize them here for the demo purposes. Anyway, the demo itself is relatively easy to use. You can select the different languages that you want to consider. So if we turn off English here we can run it again and then if it's not in English it looks more like French and a little bit like German. We have a number of models that are available. We have models that are made specifically for detecting languages using text of queries because the language that people use in queries is different from just normal text. We also have some models that are based on wiki text which is more formal. We have a little initial set of languages here but there are a lot more that people can use and play around with. There are more for the wiki text language models than there are for the query models because the query language models are harder to generate because it requires some manual review and work to filter out queries that are actually in the language that you're trying to model. For the wiki text we just pull lots of text off of the wiki in question. And then in addition once you've actually run the query you can just click and you can see the results that would be on that particular wiki. So there's French and then there's German. We know that this is actually, let me get rid of these, it's actually in English. This is not a particularly useful query but another thing that we have that I really like is that we have the ability, we have some demos built in that sort of walk you through the features and the limitations of TextCat and it goes through, it selects languages, it runs queries. This is a Europanto which is a weird sort of made up language. It's just a mix of any European language that you'd like so it's really, it's just random words in different languages. And then the demo walks you through that and you can learn more about how a TextCat works and try some different variations there. I'm just going through this really quickly to sort of demonstrate how the walk through itself works. And we're hoping to get, this will allow people to mess around with TextCat, try it out for themselves and give us more feedback about how we can use this language detection in improving search results. Cool. That's it. Cool. Hey everybody. I'm going to show you something that we have planned for the Wikipedia.org portal page. This is going to be fun. The entire screen sharing, you guys can see my screen. I'm going to assume that's a yes. Yep. Okay. But okay, what's different here? First you might notice we took away the slogans below each of the links over here around the globe and pair that with what we got right now. Yep. No slogan. One slogan over here. Now why do we do that? Well, this is the first part of our effort to get more translations, get the page translated at all. So what we're going to do is that we're going to try to detect the user's browser language client side and then rearrange these links around the globe to reflect the user's preferred language of their browser. So right now I just had the default setup here. I just have English, but if I go into let's say Chrome settings and I don't know, let's try. Kazakh is cool. So let's say we just add, nobody really does this in real life I know, but people around the world, they download browsers in different languages. So the first language would be already set up for them and we reload the page then. Oh, we got a link here. And now we have the Kazakh Wikipedia as the first link over there. So this also works for if people go crazy, go nuts and have like multiple languages set up. Let's move to the top just so we can see the logo if it has one. Oh, yep. There we go. Looking pretty good. And yeah, right now we pulled these translations from the Wikipedia's official subtitle page, but we will get them into Translate Wiki so that the community can translate and offer slightly more appropriate translations if they're needed. So yeah, that's what we have planned for the portal page for now. Oh yeah. Thanks, John. Dimitri. Hey there, everyone. So this is a 10% toy project I've been working on. This is a web app, which is a bit of a departure for me. I've been pretty entrenched in the native app world. I feel like it's time I caught up a little bit on web development. Anyway, one thing that I'm interested in is digital preservation. And part of that means being able to read and process file formats that may have gone obsolete, or if you have a file that was created by some software that's no longer maintained, things like that. So what this does is it provides a framework to read files, local files on the user's PC, and break down the format of the file and do whatever we want with it. So I'll show some examples of what I mean. So this supports drag and drop via HTML5, so I can take a file from my desktop and drag it onto here. So I'll drag a JPEG file to begin. I dropped it on here. And the first thing you see is it displays the actual graphical contents of the file, and then some vital information about the file, Wikipedia link to the file format of JPEG. But then you get this detailed breakdown of the actual file format, which in the case of a JPEG file includes the XIF metadata. This is all done locally using JavaScript. We have the camera make and camera model, and both of these are automatically wiki linked. So if you click on this, you get the Wikipedia page for that model. All of the attributes in the metadata, when you get to the thumbnail, the thumbnail is processed as its own image, and the JPEG structure of the thumbnail is recursively passed into the JPEG format module, so you get the structure of the thumbnail itself. So that's kind of what I'm talking about. So this supports things like raw camera formats. I have a raw file from my camera here. I'll drop that here. And because raw formats are usually TIFF formatted, this uses pretty much the same processing as the XIF data from a JPEG file. So you get the thumbnail and all kinds of metadata along with that. So let's see, we can drop an mp3 file onto here. That's an mp3 file, and you get the album art of it from metadata. And there's ID3 information. You get the album name and the artist name. All of these are also wiki linked automatically. And of course, there's a JPEG structure done recursively of the thumbnail image. So what about file formats that are obsolete? So like for example, in the older days of UNIX, there was a graphics format called PPM, Portable Pixel Map. Not used at all anymore, but I have a few examples of PPM files. So it's like a drop on here. This is a PPM file, and this can process it. So this builds a bitmap from the file and loads it into this canvas element, HTML5. So this way, you're able to load old graphics formats in the browser, even though the browser doesn't support it. Another obsolete format is PCX from older days of DOS in the 90s. There's a PCX file, things like files that are not obsolete, but still not supported by the browser. For example, in medical imaging, they use a format called DICOM. And I think I have an example DICOM file here. There you go, it's from an MRI image, and we've got some metadata from that. Let's see, recently someone came up with a graphics format called BPG. That's supposed to be better compression than JPEG, still not supported by the browser. But we can load a BPG file, and there it is. So anyway, this is all done on the client side. And the way this is working is when you drop a file here, it begins by reading the first few bytes of the file. And based on that, it can guess the format of the file from the signature bytes in the beginning. And when it knows the format, it loads the correct JavaScript module for reading that format and passes it through that module. And the output of the format module includes this kind of detailed breakdown at the bottom and any kind of graphical representation that we can load into a Canvas element. And so this could have applications in not only preservation, but something like steganography or forensics, you know, if someone hides a message in the metadata of some file format, this can reveal it. And I tried to make this extensible, meaning that make it easy for someone to create a new format module, and it's just like that to be able to support some file format right there in the browser. And that's it. Hi, Steven. Hey, everyone. I'm Steven. I'm an Android developer. Hopefully, everyone can see my screen, are they? So back in the day, there was a program called eSpeak, and there still is a program called eSpeak. It's about 10 years old, and it's written in Z-code, and it does text-to-speech for you. So I'm going to unplug my headphone jack for just a moment and apologize if there's about five seconds of echo, but I'm going to try to set it. Potatoes. Potatoes. So that's the kind of – I hope folks were able to hear that. That's the kind of thing that eSpeak does. It takes a word like potatoes and says it out loud. eSpeak also has support for IPA, the international phonetic alphabet, but it takes kind of an odd ASCII-5 format, not the conventional eSpeak format that you'd see on Wikipedia pages. The other problem is, as I mentioned, eSpeak is written in C. Well, there was a project called M-scripten that takes C-code and converts it to JavaScript code, and folks who play around with this sort of thing have done that with Quake, for example, the video game Quake. There is also an eSpeak variant that is kind of in development. I have a local copy that I had to make some changes to. Probably I'm just not using it right. But the long story short is that you can actually run eSpeak in your browser, or if you're using a web view like the Android app does, you can run it in app. So I started working on providing text-to-speech for IPA, the international phonetic alphabet pronunciations, and I wanted to demo a couple of those. It's still very early in development. I did a little work on this recently at a team get-together, and I'm hoping to do some more work on it in the future to make it the mapping more robust and just the overall development commit-worthy. So here's a few demos of that. I hope folks can kind of see I've got a window into my Android device looking at Barack Obama, and if I click on the little IPA icon here, so audio doesn't come through unfortunately on this program I'm using, but I'm going to crank my phone way up. Let's hear that again. So I'm going to tap the little IPA icon again. Hopefully folks could hear that. Otherwise this demo was going to be really boring. So if it didn't come across, there was text-to-speech performed to say Barack Hussein Obama. I'm going to do a few more examples, and this next example is good because it demonstrates something that doesn't work on here. One of the mappings for doing that conventional IPA to this ASCII-fied version isn't quite working. So when I tap on this, I don't think you can hear it, but there's like a subtle gasp. The eSpeak just doesn't understand what I sent it out, so I have to kind of fix that mapping. The second pronunciation I think works for this page. Honolulu. Honolulu. I'll do one more. So I guess places in Hawaii are good for this sort of thing. I'll do. Hopefully that was correct. If not, then I'll have to work on the translation logic or maybe fix a few pages. Anyway, I hope that this will be coming soon. Thanks, everyone. Thanks. Baha? Hello. Let me share my screen. Can you guys see it? Yes. Okay, great. So today I'm going to talk to you about my experimentation time project. It's a little plug-in for the program called Lyphria. Lyphria is a Linux feed reader. I think it works on Windows too, but I don't know. What it is, it's basically an aggregator of RSS and Atom feeds that lets you read feeds offline when you're not connected. It's like offline version of Google Reader, which is not functional anymore. And I made a plug-in for this program that uses another program called OnCloud. OnCloud is a combination of different well-known programs such as Dropbox, Google Calendars, Google Contacts, and everything that is personal to you. You can set this up on your local environment, on your server, and you can have all your data for yourself, and you won't be sharing this information with anyone else. And this program has an app called NewsApp, and this is actually the RSS reader for OnCloud, so you can save your RSSs into OnCloud and read them in the browser like this. Here you can see I created some feeds here. I have GNOME folder, Wiki folder, and I'm tracking some news about the Barack Obama article, which I got from this link. This is the Wikipedia link that gives me the history of edits for the Obama article. So the problem with this NewsApp is that you have to be online every time you want to read some news, but sometimes that's not the case. So I plugged this NewsApp into the LifeRia offline app, and now I'm able to read articles offline. So let me show you how this works. This is the LifeRia app, and as you can see, there are some default feeds that you can click on and read. Now we're going to add OnCloud. Oh, by the way, if you have seen it, I have set up this app on my local host, so I'm going to add this URL to LifeRia. So we're going to create a new source. It's called OnCloud News, and username, password, and the URL. So it started getting the data, same folders, GNOME, Wiki folder, Obama article is here. It's Obama feed, I mean, there you go. I think it's missing from something, because these don't look great. Let me restart this one second, OnCloud. Yeah, something's wrong. I was testing something else, but anyway, so for OnCloud, right now, you can see that there are no starred items, and here you can start some of them, like three items, you go back and refresh. You see three starred items, so it syncs back with the OnCloud app, and same thing with red items, like OnCloud here is bold-faced, which means it's not red yet, so I'm going to click on it, make it red, so I've read it, it disappeared, so I'm going to go back here and refresh it, and you can see it's not bold anymore, so it's red. There are many improvements that I need to make. The code base doesn't look good, but it's a good start, and I think this will allow me and others to read articles offline. So that's my demo. Thanks, Baha. Does anybody else have a download that I'd like to share? Okay, I think that is it for today. Thanks, everybody, for your demo. Have a nice day. Thanks, Sam.


and where was he arrested and what lies ahead of the retained leader of the indigenous people of Biafra in Nambu Kano for refining out from his representative. The gunmen attack Kano State Government of the Lahi Gangu days of convoy a day after the killing of a Zafra state lawmaker. And Kano State Sharia police the Hizvah bans the use of mannequins to display clothes in batiks of market. Glad to have you join us on the breakfast on Plos TV Africa. I am Annette Felix. And I am Usaugi Ogmawa. Welcome to the month of July. Happy new month. I think that works and we hope that it's going to be a very interesting one on the breakfast and of course in your lives at home. Indeed and we know that the mannequin is trending today and not because of the beautiful clothes on them but because in Kano State the Hizvah you know is basically saying that mannequins in Kano is is basically banned. And the Hizvah commander in Kano basically says that using mannequins you know promotes immorality and it just makes me ask questions you know lots of questions about what they perceive as immorality and how exactly they would think about it that way because it mentioned how this goes against all the Sharia laws. It goes against Islam and that anybody who's found it's a mannequin or using mannequin to display their their outfit would be arrested and the Kano State has been divided into five basically. So I mean this is this is what it is in Kano State at the moment. It makes you wonder if this basically is the priority in the state or just how big of an issue is you know morality and the use of mannequins in Kano. Well this is you know just another example of you know moments when grown-ups and you know society refuses to take or you know let people take responsibility for their actions and instead blames you know very very irrelevant things you know it's pretty much similar with you know when when we have conversations on sexual assault you know in in concerts you know and instead of the conversation to be to let young men in the society know that they need to be able to have better self-control and there's no excuse whatsoever why you shouldn't be able to have self-control regardless of what a woman is wearing or regardless or whatever you know stupid story that they used to defend it. They always was you know they shy away from that conversation and instead focus more attention on oh you know why would she wear that oh why is she coming out to a concert at night where there's you know going to be young men and things like that. So it's another you know example this but this one is even more silly and also it's it's worrisome for me because well not just for me for a lot of people that have been responded is because it seems like Hisba is turning into and so when I saw someone comment and say Hisba is turning into you know a very very very sachet low-key group let me not call them you know the names that they call them that basically is going to start pushing out its own ideologies on society based on what it what it is that they wake up with you know in the morning they might wake up tomorrow morning and say that well they're not very comfortable with women driving in Cano and they will get there and start to try to enforce a ban on women driving in Cano and that's that's really where it's going because for the longest time they've continued to make their own laws make their own rules and just be reckless arrest people for reasons that are completely unconstitutional. Bandicin of Pierre, arrest people who sell Pierre. I saw a story yesterday where a guy was arrested because he refused to pray after you know the same Hisba cut his hair or some some story like that and so they've they've turned into a completely almost lawless society trying to enforce their own laws on the people and so whoever it is that wakes up in the morning the Hisba chairman of or you know whoever is in charge of Hisba in that state might wake up or in that community might wake up in the morning and decide well you know I I'm very very uncomfortable with Maggie these days I think we need to ban you know Maggie I'm very very uncomfortable with the you know type of onions that they sell these days how come this only promotes immorality we need to ban it and that's where it's getting to someone actually said it's getting you know they're starting to push a very similar ideology with the Boko Haram you know who simply don't like Western education and so they decided that they you know we're going to be fighting against Western education some of all of that and that's where it's going because a mannequin is simply to display clothes to display wears and if you and your society cannot see it as simply just a plastic you know whatever creation to display beautiful fashion to display clothes then you have a problem how do you even get ideas by looking at a mannequin plastic really how do you get ideas that's that's really where we are with it I think it just exposes the perversion in my opinion if you're banning the use of mannequins in Kano it just exposes the perversion of the people who started the law people who are trying to enforce the law rather than the general public because you need to check yourself in your mind yes and that's why I I've started by saying that they basically are starting to get to a place where they refuse to take responsibility for their thoughts and for their actions and for the lack of self-control that they have but instead they force new laws and new rules on society forgetting that that the Kano state is not just a muslim state they are christians who also live in Kano who do business aside stats I mean check the news and find out this is just fact right people who commit rapes in that place you hear an islamic cleric rapes two-year-old so are you saying that he wasn't islam enough so obviously not but it's it's important you know and I said this I think I said this two days ago that people in northern Nigeria need to start to act and talk and speak against some of all these things before it gets too late before because it's going to get to a stage where it is now beyond control it's going to get to a stage where there's now a lot of young men who feel entitled to make laws in society who feel entitled to decide that well we don't like the way that this thing happens here or we don't like the way that you know this person's rights have been you know the person enjoys his his own human rights and we would fight against it and if they don't start to speak and control those things now it's going to get late very very soon and we will have another problem on our hands the Nigerian government itself being silent mean quiet the state government themselves being silent when these things are happening is is shocking for me that no state governor in the whole of northern Nigeria has been able to say this this thing you're saying please relax you know understand you know Sharia laws understand you know Islam and you know some of other things they're saying but relax please we still live in a same society where these things should not be a problem and you cannot wake up in the morning and decide on your own that this thing will no longer be used in my state you need to relax I think I think when when we look at the impact of this law it seems like from a purely religious angle but you know what in fact this I have on people's businesses because people who basically sell wares who sell you know all their you know attire for you know I don't know what they're calling out Jalabiya I believe you know they need to display these things people need to see just how a great fit it would be and you're saying that people should not promote their businesses using mannequins so she just hang them I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't see the fitting of an outfit if it's not a mannequin would I or do I have to go try on every outfit before I decide if I want to make a purchase so I think on the long one this is just going to affect people's businesses and that really shouldn't be the aim of whatever this law is shame on shame on whoever it is and you know whoever they are who woke up that morning and decided that that's going to be a new law because it really just tells me that a lot of those people in those groups have zero self-control over themselves and they try to impose that lack of self-control on the people so terrible and basically his name he's the commander general of his but in Cano's state his name is Sheikh Harun Ibn Sina he announced this on Wednesday saying the use of mannequins for ad-hut purposes contravenes Islamic injunctions let's know what you think on our social media platforms is at plus TV Africa on Facebook and Instagram still staying with Cano the convoy of Governor Abdulahi Ganderjee was attacked by gunmen yesterday and three security personnel were injured reports say the convoy was returning from Zamfara state where Ganderjee had joined other APC governors to welcome the governor of Zamfara state to his party the Cano state commissioner for information Mohammed Gaba says Governor Ganderjee wasn't traveling in the convoy when the attack took place okay so still in Cano states talking about security and this comes just after a lawmaker in Cano state was reported to have been killed by tourists around the Shemeh Funtua Road in Katzina state so we've had attacks on different governors in the north and now it's the governor of Cano state here but what I find interesting is when a pressman reached out to the police PR in Cano state they denied any knowledge of it they said we don't have any idea we were not informed about any attack on the governor and they referred them to the Zamfara state police you know they contacted the Zamfara state police and they said they have no idea what happened because the Cano state governor had joined other governors to welcome Governor Bello Betawali of Zamfara who had joined who was just defected from the PDP to the all progressives congress so the Zamfara state police PR said they have no idea what happened and referred them to the Katzina state governor so it makes you want to ask what really are the facts of this matter was there really an attack if all the police spokespersons are denying knowledge of such attack but then we also hear news about people in the convoy so setting varying degrees of injuries oh well it's expected you know and it's it's a regular normal practice for Nigerian police to first of all deny you know some of all these things and then eventually when you know it's now public notice then they put out a you know an actual statement so there is that you know it's also mentioned that the governor wasn't in the convoy at the time that this attack took place but you know what what I find funny is the fact that a governor decides to change parties and you know you see governors from different states traveling to go welcome him into a party so he woke up you know whatever whenever that you know decision came over him and decide I'm going to change party and so all of you are traveling now to welcome him into a party something as irrelevant as that is putting Nigerian governors on the road with their convoys and every single time that those convoys have to move it cost them you know taxpayers money so they move with those 10, 12, 15 vehicles to a different state to go welcome a governor and it's the same thing when you know somebody decides that their daughter wants to get married you see Nigerian governors leave their duty posts that they leave states that they're meant to govern and travel all the way private jets are going to be landing in different states you know just for somebody's son's wedding so that's you know the the first point you know that I will make with how irrelevant some of all these trips are and then second is the fact that there is you know been loads of conversations on things that that shouldn't really be their concerns but the the biggest challenge that they have which is security they've refused to actually focus and speak about these things and they act like all is well and all is fine so the same you know the country where you as a governor can't even travel freely without being sure of your safety is the same country where you of course are what you're traveling to welcome another you know governor into a party not like you can boldly say that that party has done exceptionally well because your life is in danger you know because you've simply gone to welcome that governor and so we spoke about Namdi County yesterday and the fact that there's a lot of people who were celebrating oh he has been you know he has been rearrested forgetting that the main problem that they face in their states is not necessarily in Namdi County the main problem they face in their states is security and a lot of them cannot travel freely a lot of them cannot go to their farms or their villages or to their hometowns freely believing that they will make it there and come back home safely and that should really be their problem it shouldn't be anything else but the fact that their states aren't safe most of all those states those communities those villages aren't safe a lot of people hundreds dozens thousands of people have been chased out of their hometowns you know by bandits and by terrorists and whoever whoever else and it still is an ongoing problem I think it was Zamfara state lawmaker who was killed the state house of assembly member who was killed that doesn't happen you know in just randomly you know he didn't die you know in a car accident you know he was attacked by gun by gunmen he was killed his son was kidnapped and I think his driver also was also kidnapped and that is still you know a challenge in that part of in in that state these are problems that they can see that happen to them every day but it doesn't seem to be a big enough problem for residents in that state for people in that state to say oh we've had enough you know something must be done they don't seem to see it as a as a big enough challenge for them but there's other things of course that happen that create more public outcry like mannequins his bad doesn't you know decide you know of course I know it's not their role but if they don't wake up in morning and say man we really need to do what must be done to ensure that our states are safe and ensure that whoever is in charge of security both at the federal level and at state level and the local government level takes responsibility for the lives and security of the people of this state those things aren't challenges it is a mannequin they can even ban phones and say you know with phones you can have access to content that is on Islamic so I wouldn't be surprised if I hear tomorrow that they're banning smartphones you just need to have that well 33 if it is not if it is not checked it will get there you know and slowly you know with each new day and each new law and each new thing that is banned you know we're going all the way back to the 16th century and we spoke not long ago about Saudi Arabia you know now freeing up your the anniversary I think of a Saudi Arabia allowing women to drive we're going back to a place in northern Nigeria where his bar is taking you know those people back to 1970 and back to 1960 because some of these things that they mentioned and they decide to ban and they arrest people for are things that probably happen in the 40s or in the 50s and that's where they're going but Saudi Arabia that they all go for to a mecca for pilgrimage for pilgrimage is moving forward advancing it's advancing with their own idea and their own understanding of Islam but these people choose to remain backward and that's one of the challenges with putting people in power that aren't necessarily educated enough to understand growth and understand you know the idea of moving forward and development you know they will bring you back to where they are they will bring you back to where they were I wouldn't be surprised if if this his bar commander is well educated I wouldn't be surprised I will I wouldn't because what's that saying about you can take the the village out of a manor you can take that there's a proverb about like you know in that light so I won't actually be surprised if he is educated but he just shows you the extent of what fanatism can do to a person um let's take a break here and we'll return to join Mr Zickel EO talk for Off The Press