Morning folks. This is day number one full day number one without the weasel with me. If you missed yesterday's video That's okay. You can go back and watch it anytime you like. It's on my channel. You can go subscribe We are here in the USA bringing lumber down to Warrens, Wisconsin And we have a reload go pick up in Gary, Indiana That's gonna take us to Toronto and then from there we're going back home. So we're still trucking and I left diesel at home just because of everything that's going on right now if you know things get worse At least I don't have to worry about him. He's safe at home so it's just me out here and We're taking this opportunity to clean up this truck Little bit here. I was gonna vacuum it up, but apparently My vacuum cleaners dead It didn't charge so we'll have to vacuum later I'm just sweeping everything out right now had to open the windows because it got a little dusty in here It's hard to keep this thing clean with a dog if you're wondering you want to get into trucking and you you want to have a dog with you That's cool. I've had a dog with me like for nine years almost nine years eight and a half years and It feels weird not to have him here But at the same time it's much much much easier to keep your truck clean without a dog in here So that's up to you if it's worth it to have a little bit of a dirty truck and have a dog with you Cool, it's worth it for me But if you like to have a spick and span spotless truck Maybe having a dog along isn't for you unless if you have one of those shedless dogs Those those unicorns that we hear about the dogs that don't shed anything like poodles. You want to have a poodle with you? I'll probably always have a dog once this whole thing's over a diesel will be back in the truck with me until he retires and Who knows one day maybe when he passes on maybe we'll get another dog. I'm I Don't know. I don't want to think that far ahead yet. Let's just think about today. All right Let's get on the road. We're here in Rothsay, Minnesota. We've got to make our way over to Warrens, Wisconsin Before we get going we got to do a good clean on our dashboard here, especially any of these buttons That my hands might touch disinfect everything every day. I do this at the end of the day, too That's what's most important at the end of the day is There we go. There we go. This I don't really touch a lot here, but I'm gonna clean that side I'm gonna clean this side too right away And if you're wondering Yesterday was the big test on this truck after came out of the shop again The engine is running very smooth. It had a valve adjustment overhead adjustment. I think that's what they call it Perne like a sweet little kitten just really nice. So let's cross our fingers and hope that it stays that way Every time I knocked on wood before the truck went back into the shop. So maybe we won't knock on wood this time I don't know. Let's Just hope for the best. I Don't want to go in the shop again for a long time But a nice decline on the on ramp here Help me get up to speed by the time I hit the freeway So I'm pretty heavy. I'm not gonna be totally up to speed To the shop in Langley, British Columbia there and I'll say wow the fuel economy is so much better now, right? Well now that I got the valves adjusted It's doing even better. I'm looking at probably burning $2,000 less fuel every month Which will pay for these all of these repairs in a matter of months right there that's how Big of a difference it can make if your valves are out of adjustment and if you got a bad turbo actuator That batteries that all they're not getting proper voltage through to the computers What other problems have I all fixed fix my water pump new water pump on here Pumps the antifreeze to the engine to keep it cool pretty much there anything and everything you can bolt onto this engine has been replaced now Except for the turbo. Let's hope that lasts a little while yet. We are just Purin along Really happy with the results through this pandemic want to keep driving. I don't want to have problems I mean, I got enough stress in my life right now as do you as do you I'm not saying I'm I have it the worst out. There's a lot of people right now that have it much worse than me Yeah, it's gonna get better It's going to get better Oh, it's time for another little break. The rest areas here in Minnesota have a Guy in there 24 one on 24 hours it from 7 a.m. To 8 p.m. I believe and they said and they disinfect every surface in there every 30 minutes So that's nice. Let's be able to wash my hands My freight behind me here still pulling it on down to Wisconsin My essential lumber I still don't know what I'm picking up in Gary, Indiana, though Apparently it doesn't need a tarp. That's all I know and it's going to Toronto Guess we'll find that out tomorrow Or do I pick it up on Tuesday? I'll have to check my record or my computer here But so far business is usual Everything is fine Haven't noticed any big difference really I Mean once I go through Minneapolis, maybe I'll notice that there's less traffic. I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait and see Kind of hope there's less traffic. It's been a little overcast about other than that. It's been Business is usual It's been a little more quiet in here because diesel is not in here I mean diesel is not a very loud dog, but usually I'm usually talking to him or you know Whenever I stop he's usually excited to go and explore and get out of the truck and now I stop I look back and it's a little quiet We're still having fun and I got to video chat with him before in the morning Looks like he's having a good wheeze occasion back at home Black River Falls, Wisconsin is where we will rest our head tonight as long as we can find a parking spot here A little less than a half hour down the road from where we got to be in 12 hours 11 and a half so we got lots of time We're gonna be able to snag a nice clean sanitary shower It's so quiet in here. It's so empty. I miss the weasel And I miss Britt and I miss all the other dogs Huh, so this is what it's like trucking all by yourself Like I said yesterday, I've only Gone on a trip without one of the dogs Usually it's diesel, but I've only gone on a trip without one of the dogs Like just a couple of times and that was just for a couple of days Just to deliver to a site on the oil fields where I'm not allowed to have dogs But uh Yeah, I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. I'm just uh a little bit extra stressed out. I think because of all the recent Maintenance and stuff. I've been having to endure with this truck and with everything else going on Uh I'm doing all right I mean i'm in the same boat as all you guys. You guys know exactly what i'm talking about This two shall pass they say so uh for now we're gonna keep trucking doing the best we can uh The truck was running pretty smoothly all day like I was really impressed the valve adjustment just smoothed out the engine But towards the end of the day I don't know if my mind was just playing tricks on me or you know if it was the voices in my head or What it was, but I thought I felt It start to shake again It wouldn't go out of adjustment that quickly I just had it adjusted so can't be that Maybe it was just the road beneath the truck I don't know every little bump and jitter now. I'm like, oh, what was that? No more no more i'm done No more no more Shop time. I can't put my truck in the shop every time I go home. There's no profit in that So uh, I parked it for the night here where I'm black river falls I mean the truck's still running good the engine still sounds healthy I got here I still have full power Could have just been the roads that could have been my head Oh So what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna Have a good sleep Try to sleep this all off wake up in the morning deliver this freight We'll head on down to gary indian will hopefully get reloaded tomorrow yet. That'd be really nice If I can get loaded tomorrow afternoon. It's about four and a half hours from here So it's about a half hour to my delivery get there for nine o'clock. Hopefully be out of there by 10 Four hours from there in 10 11 12 1 2 Be there between two and three. Oh, but I got to go around chicago So it's it's going to be later in the afternoon. We'll see if they'll load me And we'll take that up to tronel. It'd be nice if I could get loaded tomorrow. Just keep moving. I just want to Keep on moving it's been a pretty good month. It's been a better month For loads than past months But I want to continue this I need this to keep I need to keep this ball rolling I need to keep this goodness just going on. I need this truck To keep running. I need you To treat me well please But every day I edged closer and closer towards Getting that w 900 I told you already already got a quote from andy All I got to do is wait by my time Get myself in the right position. Hopefully have no more problems with this truck And if all the stars align And the loads keep coming And the world turns itself right side back up And everything works out just fine. I'm going to push myself to get into that truck As soon as possible. I think that's what I'm feeling right now But like I said the voices have been talking to me all day telling me that my truck's about to no fall apart All I all I'm saying is that with a new truck? Yes, you got those big payments to deal with right? That's why you get yourself financially prepared first That aside at least then you have warranty Warranty on everything for a while Then at least you have a couple of stress-free years. Hopefully I mean new trucks break all the time too I mean you can buy a brand new truck and that thing can be in the shop every weekend too It's a roll of the dice It's a risk being out. It is what we call trucking There is no guarantees and every day is a roll of the dice. You just throw the dice out there hope for the best Oh, see what happens See what happens That's trucking You got to love what you do you got to love this to do it for a long time and I I do love I love it, but it really bothers me when things keep going wrong. But what what can I say? I mean I could be a doctor and I'm sure doctors hate it when things keep going wrong for them too I mean, but at least when things go wrong for me people aren't dying So, I mean my bad day is probably a lot better than their bad days That's got to be stressful dealing with people's lives, especially right now Shout out to all you healthcare workers out there. I I didn't mean to bring that up I forgot that this whole virus thing. I didn't I wasn't referencing Referencing the virus but a shout out to you on the front lines all you nurses and doctors out there You guys must be stressed to the limit and beyond right now So you're probably rolling your eyes at me talking about my stress. So I apologize I'll shut up because you guys You guys are in it a lot worse than me right now in the in the game of the stresses I've been talking for long enough here. Oh Hope you guys are well. Hope you guys are healthy. Stay safe And tune in tomorrow. We're going to continue on here. We're going to deliver some freight We're going to pick up some freight. We're going to keep on trucking because that's what we got to do


er mwyn i, yw Mike? Dydw i gael 2017 ym Mhacol os diwrnodd. Rwy'r hyn ar y ddod i'n mynd i ddweud, o'i ddennyddio'n amddangos ni'n feddwl i chi. Roedd hanes hwn o'r cyflawni? Mae o'r cyflawni ar gyfer Mac lingodd, Daniel Clark, Bella Abrams, Malcolm Ryan, Fiona Harvey. Poes hwn roi mewn cyflawni ar y y pertyn. So we've had two proxy votes submitted prior to the AGM, and one for Metlingard, in an individual capacity, and one representing the University of West London. So we've got two proxy votes and Martin Weller will be voting for them on their behalf. Thank you. So to move on to the approved أ الش mansion from the last general meeting, first of all I'm looking for two people to act as tellers to count votes for us during the two volunteers. Any volunteers for tellers? James wrth sy'n cymdeinol, James? Can I have another teller volunteer? You're going to have to count the votes. Thank you, Julie. Thanks, Julie. So there are, you should have copies of the minutes last meeting in your packs, if not, they are available online. So I'd like to ask for a proposer and a seconder to record these as a faithful account of the last meeting. Ym grindd iawn, maer wasiynau i'r rhai ac yw'r cyfrifawr? Cezo'n fawr yn dechydig? Mae'r rhaid i'r fawr hwn? Mae'r hwn yn cael'i fawr hwn yn cael'i gweithio'r fawr. Mae'r rhaid i'r fawr hwn yn cael'i gweithio'r gweithio, mae'r rhaid i'r fawr hwn yn cael'i gweithio grwy economistiaeth, mynd i ddech chi'n mynd i ddim o ym glas, mae'n ymwneud yma, Mae'n gwybod ei wneud. Felly yna'r ffordd yma'r ffordd, mae'n cwrthog i'ch drosbyn gwrthog, a mae'n gwybod i'r prifsgwrs iawn i'r prysgol ac yn rhoi'r ymddiadau sy'n ddysgu'r bobl yma i'r cyfnod i chi'r prysgol yn y rhaid o'r ffordd. Mae'r brifsgwr ar y ddweud yn ei ddau, mae'n grwp eistedd yn ôl. Mae'r ddweud yn gwybod i'r ddweud, ac mae'n ddweud yn ymgynghwyl. Roedd ymylch bod ni'n gweithio gennymau a'r roedd cyfnod agorethau o'u hyfforddiol y blwysig yn ddiogwlad. Mae'n dwylo bod hyn a'ch gweithio i fod yn fwy iddynt. So byddwn i'r hyn yn gweinio, Dw'n gweinydd,你要wch chi'n rhoi'r gweithio gyda'u cyfnod ond y lleydd? Ddweud ar rwy'n gofod. We've been really pleased with the way that has gone particularly in terms of our finances. Our aims were to make sure that the organisation was sustainable through its core activities, that's by our income through our membership, through CMAUL certification and through conferences, and we've done that. So I think that puts us in a very positive position for the future and makes us very stable and most importantly it ensures that we're independent, We are not depending on any external funding to do our core business so that as an organisation that is really important for us and hopefully for you as our members as well you can take confidence for that. I think again over the last couple of years as Daniel has highlighted in his report it's been quite stable for us financially in terms of operating costs so that's been really good. This year if you do look at the figures you'll notice there is a very small deficit but we're absolutely fine with that in terms of our overall operating budget it's very small, it's well within the tolerances of what the organisation can deal with. So overall we are very pleased with how the organisation is running in terms of the changes it's gone through and becoming a CIO and I think we've got a very stable foundation for the future. I also need to report from our external auditor as you'll see in the report that they have accounted that our accounts are timely and fair and there were no matters arising from that and the audit is complete. I'm just going to double check with Maryn, is there anything that I've missed there now? I think so if anyone has any questions I'm not happy to take them but Maryn can take that but if there are any concerns then please raise them now. Okay brilliant so I think in that case I would just like to propose then that the AGM recommend that the annual report and accounts be approved by the meeting today so if we could have someone to... James second that? Yes we are Corey are we good so can I ask for votes for the motion that the annual report and accounts be approved? So yeah two hands if you've got two votes and Martin Weller do you count as proxy votes as well? I count three times. Have you counted on the stage and behind the stage? No. I'm three votes. How many votes? 31 and you've counted the two proxy votes? No 33. 33, they're voting four. Okay votes against and any abstentions? So that motion is passed, thank you. The next item is to appoint an auditor for the 2017-2018 accounts. So I'll propose this from the chair that David Cadwaladr and Co imitated account. So chest it and be appointed as auditors again. I'd like a seconder for that motion. You don't need to vote in that. Unless anybody wishes to put it to a full vote and take the approval. Okay that's approval. Thank you. I'll give it to Marin for a verbal report on the past year and the honour we live in that year. Thank you Marin. Thank you Martin and welcome to everyone. It is a real special year I think to be reporting to the association. The first thing I wanted to start with and I wanted to mention in particular is how much the new strategy is really shaped what we've been doing as an association. I think the annual report is a great example of us actually making the most of our strategy both the visual thinkery and obviously the ideas behind it and the membership behind it. And how we've put action to our words in making that happen and putting that into practice. So I think that is a really important milestone for the association. Next year in February will be my 10th year since I started working for ALT and my 6th year as chief executor. And I think I've never seen the organisation more vibrant and bigger than it has been this year. So it's a really good time for us. But obviously there are still real challenges even when you do have such an engaged community. And one of the challenges this year that I do want to point out has been our journal Research and Learning Technology. So many of you will know what's happened with the journal that our publisher co-action publishing was sold to Taylor and Francis over Christmas. And that we were very unhappy with that change and we didn't want to go back to the kind of commercial open access model. We wanted to stick where our journal's home and heart is which is fully open access and within a smaller publishing community. And I think in correlation with our members and in consultation with the board and under the leadership of Neil Morris, who chairs our editorial board, we have moved the journal into our own ownership in partnership with Open academia. And the journal has now been operating again for two months. And it has already published eight articles and it's starting to be, I think, taken off life support and starting to be able to breathe on its own. You all know how hard we work to make impact widen for research. Our journal is one of the longest established and the open access model has drastically increased its readership. So being not operational for months at a time was, I think, a really big issue that the association has faced this year. And we've worked incredibly hard to make it happen. But no one's worked harder than the editors of the journal and I do want to specifically mention them because I think they have made a huge contribution. And I think starting with Gail Wilson, who is in Australia and I'm hoping Gail, if you're watching, or I'm hoping you're sleeping, but at any rate if you're watching this later, we give you a big thank you and also Fiona Smart, who's not with us today. And we also want to say thank you to Leslie and to Amanda and to Peter and also to one of our editors who stepped down earlier this year, Peter Reid, who, I'm sorry, Carlos, who was at the University of Lita, is at the University of Lita to step down but did a huge amount of work for us. Without our editors, the journal couldn't function and I think we're now looking forward to, in conjunction with the editorial board and other organisations to work in partnership to really build a very sustainable future. Becoming independent with the journal is one of the key achievements, I think, for the association this year. So I hope we'll see great things from our publishing arm. And also I think the alt-C blog is going from strength to strength. And on behalf of Anne Hall, who is the editor for the entire editor team, I meant to say a big thank you to two editors who are coming to the end of their term. And that is Howard Scott and Stella Ibubisi. And I really hope that their contributions will help make the blog go from strength to strength but we also want to say thank you for all the work that they have done. We've actually had more than 20 expressions of interest to join the editorial team for the blog going forwards and I think that is a real achievement for Anne and her team. So Anne can't be with us in person, but Anne, if you're watching, thank you very much for all your hard work on behalf of everyone here. We really appreciate it. And I think the blog will be ringing with reviews and posts following the conference. And there's one more group of people who I want to say a thank you to and those are people who are partly in the room but also watching from all around the country. And that is my own staff team, which is this year very small indeed as we're here at the conference. And I want to give a big shout out to Tom Palmer, who's sitting over there and looking at sign-in sheets. So thank you very much Tom for all the hard work you do. It was leading Seamold and membership, I think, in an example of regression. And also hiding behind the speakers, Armar and Huxey, who as my deputy helps us shape the organisation and leads on innovation and technology and all things conference delivery. But also I want to mention those members of staff who can't be here face-to-face and in-person, our wonderful events manager, Jane Marsh, who mastermind at the conference and can't be here due to ill health. And also our finance officer, Jane Frankel, who's been instrumental in getting our financial situation so operating so smoothly. And last but definitely not least, I want to give a big shout out to Christina Peterson, who runs our communications and looks after our administration. So I think I'm very fortunate indeed to have colleagues who are so committed to the work of the Association, who will work tirelessly in conjunction with members of really, really appreciate their contribution. But now the most fun part for me at any rate is that Martin Waller and I will in a moment get to make an award that we've been looking forward to quite a few weeks now. I did want to make a few personal remarks before I head over to Martin to talk a little more about our honoree and give his observations. But I think when I started working in learning technology I quickly found that there were a lot of role models to follow and very amazing women that I got to work with both in terms of people within health and within the sector. But I think few people have been so inspirational for me personally who have really shown the way how you can walk the walk and talk the talk and put your values into practice. So for me in particular as an individual this is a very meaningful award but the work that we're celebrating today goes beyond what we've done in learning technology and beyond what we've done as an association it crosses all sectors and really helps the most disadvantaged in those without a voice, learners and teachers who wouldn't have someone else to champion them. So I think with that I'm going to hand over to Martin Waller to give his observations and then announce the award. OK, thank you. So I've known, I have to keep it a surprise, you won't guess who it is. So I've known this person for about ten years I think through blogging and stuff back in the early days of Age of Logs. I think what I admire most about her and there's lots of things is that I'm like a lot of us in ed tech who talk quite a good game but don't do much. She's going to really get stuff done and I think that's really exemplary and across a wide range of really interesting topics and she's been a real inspiration to a lot of us. She's also a really nice person which I think is her. It goes a long way. So the award this year goes to Josie Fraser. I'm going to say something but I've been told to keep it really, really brief so I will do it before I warn. I am so overwhelmed and honoured to get this award. It literally means I don't have to do anything ever again now. I can just give up. I am obviously disappointed that there's no tiara. But one day that will happen, I'm sure, for me. I spent the first five years of my career basically telling people technology is coming. It's going to change everything about your world. It's going to change everything about how we work, learn, play, meet our partners, everything about everything. And then I spent the last five years of my career saying you know what that happened and we weren't ready for it now, everything's changed. We've not sorted it out. So it is kind of my own fault that I'm now working at Central Government and my job is to try and sort that out. And the reason why I think I've been so successful in my career is very much down to the community and the association of ALT. Because ALT's been here for me since I started as a baby ed tech and I was in an interview pretending I knew what VLE was and has seen me right through to now. And the community has been an amazingly warm, generous, inspiring one to belong to. I love being able to spend time with everybody here and get to see everybody. So I'm really pleased to be here in person today. Thank you very much. Thank you. So the next item is elections to trust these vacancies. And we're doing okay for time so I think we've got time for them to come up. So a few words and to choose themselves. So to announce the results of the election of a vice chair of the association who will become chair in September 2018 and the president in September 2019. And Nicola Whitten was elected and a poet. So congratulations Nicola, are you there? Okay. I will also announce the others. So we've also elected two individuals to serve for three years as trustees of the ALT from September 2017 and that's Elizabeth Charles and Peter Bryant. So congratulations. I won't say many words. Just a very quick thank you to everybody who voted. And I'm really, really looking forward to working with everybody particularly Sheila, Myron, Martin, the other trustees. And I think the first thing to work on would be to try and get tiaras for all trustees and honorary life members. It's okay, it's on your list. Thank you. Offering me a microphone is a really dangerous thing. Thank you very much to everyone who voted for me. I think it's really important that the voice of the whole sector is represented through this association. It's a really powerful thing to have that. It's a really powerful thing that we do hear anyway which is share all of this stuff amongst each other and make it available to everyone else. And if we can continue doing that, that would be a really excellent thing. So thank you. I too wish to thank everybody who voted for me and I'm really looking forward to contributing on this one. So thank you very much. Congratulations. I look forward to working with you. Welcome. So that closes the meeting. But before we do so, I'd like to thank some trustees who are coming to the end of their term. Fiona Harvey should have been here today but couldn't make it. So it should have been her chair in this meeting. She would have done a much better job than I'm doing. So thanks very much to Fiona who finishes her term as president this year. Thanks also to Malcolm Ryan. I know Matt Lingard, I think he's watching online. Hi Matt. And I think Alistair Clarke is here, is he? Do you want to come up, Alistair? We have gifts. So thank you very much to all those who are coming. I just wanted to add another note of thanks to all of you for coming. As you can see, we've managed to organise such an exciting conference programme that not that many members could come here. But it is very valued that you are here and that you're participating in our AGM. Thank you. Hopefully Alistair will leave us with some of his words after his six-year term. I'll say very little but thank you very much and this is just great because I could write my novel. And you're all going to be in it. We close the meeting. We do close the meeting formally but I just actually spotted one of our journal editors in the audience and we did bring a present along so we will award that in a moment and say thank you. So thanks for coming everyone. See you at the gala dinner. Definitely. See you this evening. Thanks everyone.


Well, hey, this is Alex. And I have another one of my deliveries from the People's Republic of China. This is a set of Clom, another set of Clom Walkpix, which, well, I think you'll find them interesting. So first of all, we start with a case. It's actually made of, well, it's probably pleather, but it's double layer. It's pretty supple and feels pretty strong. So over the other set, major improvement. It's got a snap that feels pretty solid. So also made in China. And here are the picks. I liked it because they were all hooks. And I like hooks, and I'm always collecting hooks. So there we go. So it comes with this little thing. It's got a little velcro closure. And very cleverly, that holds these two tensors that it comes with, which are a questionable utility. But I don't know. They're a little thick, but sometimes this kind of shape is nice. They are pretty heavy. If you think of you trimmed them down, they'd be kind of like one of those music wire picks. There are tensors that some of the guys have made. But just the feature that's cool is that this little piece of velcro keeps them from falling down inside the pocket. So here are the picks. Standard kind of profiles.  These three kind of look the same. Maybe they need a little adjustment or something. I haven't really used these very much. I think I've used this one. But what they've done is they've taken a piece of bar stock, a round bar, that is approximately, it's a little hard to get a good purchase on here, but it's 0.17 inches or it's like about 4 and 3 quarter mil, something on that order. Round stock. And they have milled it down very nicely. The edges are all very shiny. It's been ground. There are no burrs really. I would polish the little bit of this curve right here a little bit, but other than that, I mean, these are some of the best finished picks I've ever seen out of the box. I've done absolutely nothing to these. The handles are pretty nice. They're a hard rubber sort of material, not really sticky, almost no give to it. You get very good feedback. The metal feels like it goes all the way down to the end, and the little black bits are like a plastic. So if you have it in your hand and you're pressing that up against the palm of your hand this way or this way, you get really good feedback. And of course, this shaft is solid, steel, and pretty thick. So if you've got your finger on or thumb or whatever on the shaft, you get amazing feedback from these. So that's really cool. Up to this point, total win, right? And pretty cheap too, I think, maybe $20 for this set. Maybe less, I can't remember. Here's the problem I have. So these are pretty thick. So at the end, this particular one is 0.91 mil or 0.35. Now that's on the outside for thickness, in my opinion. Some locks that also get in a lot of locks. That's just way too thick. And then if we slide this up, as we go up the shaft, it gets thicker and thicker and thicker. So by the time you're in the depth of a key, that obviously one uses for a dimple lock, but that's a reasonable approximation of a 5-pin lock. You're at 0.40 inches or just over a millimeter. And you're having trouble getting up into that keyway at that point. Just to give you another example, here's a pin tumbler, a regular pin tumbler lock. So it's about full depth there. And just for giggles, just quickly make that edge there. So that's about the same thickness, about a millimeter, at the very top. So you're probably not going to weasel this in through the wards and be able to get a full depth set with these. That said, I don't know, maybe a little bit of filing or a little bit of polishing. And we can get these down to something more reasonable. And a couple of these are a little thinner. I'm looking at them more carefully. So this one is 0.62 mil or 024. Now that's right in the range of a Peterson government, I think, which is 024, 025 inches. So about 0.6 mil. So I don't know. I think these hold promise. Instruction is good. The steel is good. Don't like the handle.  And most of all, I think it gives us a hint that a good way to make a pick, particularly if you want a really good, heavy handle, would be to take something like this, a carbon steel or stainless steel rod. This is just a little over 1 quarter inch. You can buy a 1 quarter inch rod at your hardware store, certainly at Loser Home Depot in the US. And grind it down, file it down to whatever shape you like, and get, you know, it is limiting their amount of depth unless you bend it. But get a pretty nice, heavy pick. These have a lot of heft to them. And I think they're kind of neat. And they're color coded, as you can see. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to the color codes, but you've got, you know, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven distinct colors. So easy to find the one you want on your bench if you're when you're out picking. So anyhow, I'm going to give this, you know, a pretty decent rating. Quality construction, really good, a ton better than the other clumps we looked at. The steel is pretty good. It feels pretty good, so, you know, pretty hefty. I mean, I'm pressing down really hard. That's hardly moving. Let's try this other one that was a little thinner. Even that is, I mean, it's a little bendy this way, but in the upward or downward direction, almost no bend. And I have beat on one of these a little bit and didn't really hurt it. So, you know, for me, being a heavy-handed kind of guy, that's a good thing, but so I would expect them to be pretty durable. I'm happy with this purchase. I'll let you know if I have any problems with it, but I'm happy with that. So take a look at that. I think you can get this on whatever is called DHK or, you know, the various Chinese retailers or whatever, distributors sell it and it's pretty inexpensive. So check it out. Maybe it's something you want to try out. Anyway, thanks for watching. This is Alex. Have fun and as always, keep it legal. Cheers.


What's next? I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech and we think of Coronaville. We think of the Coronaville trolley, if you will. Only nobody knows where it goes. Okay. We have Cynthia Sinclair and she's the host of Finding Respect in the Chaos, which is still a very relevant discussion. Absolutely. Stephanie Dalton. Stephanie Stoll Dalton. May I? Okay. And she's the host of What's New in the State, the State of the State of Hawaii. It's very valuable. And Winston, he goes by Winston, like Beyonce, you know, but he's really Winston Welch. And he is the host of What's Your Showed Name, Winston. Out and About. Out and About. Thank you very much. And so we, you know, we have a number of hosts here and we put our big horse power together every Thursday and 11 so we can discuss this the State of Coronaville. And the title of our show is something along the lines of here we are in a second wave right on schedule. So Winston, are we in a second wave or is it just my imagination? You know, maybe it's time that we stop thinking beyond waves that we just think that this is a pandemic. It's continuing and it will, it will go like this all over the place depending on what our policies are. You know, but it looks like if we're going to talk about waves, we're in the second wave because it's hitting hard and it's hitting fast. And it's hitting young people. I saw Texas, third of the people in the hospital were between 20 and 29. So this is an equal opportunity disease. And, you know, Florida is getting hit hard, as they said, you know, a lot of these states where they've restricted, we're going to be seeing a lot more here shortly. But what that means and how it plays out is all part of the story. Well, let's see if we can find the connected dots on this. So Stephanie, why? I love one word questions. Why? Well, yes, that's that's the perfect word to ask over and over again, which I do. And in thinking about it, I continue to look to the the release of tension about being closeted. Certainly the people are young. They see that their group until we have this latest data is not as affected as other groups. And so I think that they convinced themselves that they were scot-free and could get out there and horse around and juke them up and have a great time with no consequences. Why do they think that? You know, just talking with you now, it seems quite irrational to have to make that connection. Why? Why did they think that? Why do so many people think that? Well, if you look at the data, if you're young and and not black and not aged and not diabetic, not sick, you're okay so far. That's what it's showing as far as I've looked at it. I'm sure that closer. Winston just mentioned that the people in Texas are in their 20s. I think that is informative and that we need to look to the children too, because with all of this release, they're overdoing it on top of it. So they're out there really making up for lost time now and getting out from under that burden. But the button is still with us. We have to respect it. Okay, Stephanie, why? Why do they feel that way? Is it a matter of being emancipated from their homes? Is it a matter of feeling cooped up and feeling that now they can? But why do they feel that way? Well, they also want their agency back. They don't want the government telling them what to do. So it seems to me there's a large theme here of I want to do what I want to do regardless of this threat. And so I'm going to handle it my way in my judgment. Nobody's telling me what to do. And of course they're more under this chaos of no national leadership and nobody out there doing what most present. That's the point Cynthia. Cynthia, I thought you would tell us about that. Well, I'll tell you, you've got to think too that the young people just standard human development knowledge is one of the things that's involved. Because we all know it's pretty common knowledge that between the ages of about 16 and 30, they say in every human development book, it's that nothing can hurt me. You think you're impervious to any kind of harm. So it's not just that we're getting the message from our politicians that you can just, well, not all of them, just mostly our president saying that you're okay without a mask. You don't need a mask. You don't need any of this. Everybody's worried for no reason. It's just a hoax. And down in the South because of the way the misinformation is peddled down there, they don't bother to peddle it as much to us up here because we know better and they know it's not going to work. So they target who they send that misinformation to. And so I think that's part of it too. Well, if we had a president who stood there in the Rose Garden or wherever he stands and said, look, we're going to reopen now, but there's a certain amount of risk. Dr. Fauci just told us there's a certain amount of risk. So we're going to have to work together on this. It's going to have to go hand in glove. You're going to have to be careful. And you can't go to things and participate in activities that are likely to get you infected. And that compromise, that sacrifice is the price we all pay to reopen the economy. So how about a little sacrifice? Do you think these kids, these people would get it?  That, for example, they would say, I'm not going to go to the Tulsa rally and have 19,000 people breathing on each other. Thoughts about that? Well, I just heard from the mayor of Tulsa today this morning. She was talking, or the, I'm sorry, it was the county commissioner. And he was talking about how most of the Tulsa officials, Oklahoma officials said, don't come because Oklahoma is right in the middle of a huge spike in cases right now. So they asked him not to come, not just to change the date from when he's the first one that he had scheduled anniversary, but to actually ask him not to come at all. And so it's going to be a big deal for Oklahoma after this tomorrow. Well, I heard him on the tube. Maybe he'll mind about that, but the chances are very small. I heard him on the tube yesterday saying, oh, I think it's great. I think all these people are going to have fun. It can be my best rally. We'll all have fun. And I wouldn't give it up for the world. So he probably going to come and they're probably going to come.  I'll tell you what I think it is, is that I'm sorry, but they're going to get sick. And there's going to be, if there's a huge spike in Oklahoma now and other states, this is going to accelerate that really nauseatingly high. And this, the press will cover. The press, every press will catch this. We'll know in two weeks' time whether I'm right. But if there's a big spike, a huge big spike at the end of two weeks' time, that is going to affect the, you know what, on November 3rd. Winston, what do you think? Will it? I think it's sad that we have to be at that point where we would get that. But you know, as we're looking around the country, it's like Ohio opened up a month and a half ago. They haven't seen huge spikes, whereas other places have, but you're seeing actually different pictures of how people are getting and gathering together. And hot off the press, Donald Trump just said in a Wall Street Journal interview, less than half an hour ago, that Americans, some Americans were coronavirus masks to signal disapproval of him. So you think about that message. So if you're a sane person who has been told by the World Health Organization, which he is discredited, or by the CDC, or by the FDA, or your doctor, hey, where, or your governor, or your mayor, or anybody else, your boss, where I'm asked, now this is suddenly a signal of disapproving of Donald Trump. But he has people that actually believe that. So if you're, you love him, then you don't wear your mask.  It's insane. Well, the message is clear. If you love him, you don't wear the mask. And if you go to the 19,000 Nectacular in Tulsa, you love him. So that what he's really saying is, if you come to my rally, don't wear a mask. He's really asking for a complete and utter disaster. Well, this politicization of wearing a mask, it's not, it's just nonsensical, but there's so much that we have witnessed that is nonsensical here where we are willfully just not looking at science. And that's what we basically have to go off of. And as we're seeing different things here, as resurgence come in, in Beijing, or as we're seeing certain ways that people are acting or not acting and how that's affecting the virus and resurgence is, we have to pay attention to the actual data rather than injecting ourselves with leech or not wearing masks or whatever comes out of people that don't have anything. There's interesting things that are coming out.  That's an interesting one. Whereas you've got, I said that, so those types of things, that's based on science. Whereas the young people, Stephanie, as we were saying earlier, that they are going into the hospital, but they may not be becoming dying from the disease, but they may be getting more affected by it. Other information that they may not, some of them will die Winston, but others will be sick on a long term basis. And it probably also depends on how good your insurance is and how afraid you are going to go to the hospital and how much you trust the doctors. The other things that I read was that in China, they just had a recent study that came out that said while people were getting, where they had tested positive or antibodies, they had been exposed to this disease three months ago, four months ago. At this point, they're testing that they're not even showing up antibodies anymore, which may explain why people are getting sick and then getting over it and then getting sick again. So we're learning all kinds of things. We need to just trust in data. We need to trust in science. We need to see what's really happening on the ground everywhere and not rely on a political statement that if you wear a mask. What do you mean by trust? Trust is a word that can be elusive. My reaction to that is we have to have somebody cool, rational, trusting in science, talk to us. We don't see Fauci enough and Fauci has no power. He can be relieved. And the task force is essentially gone. What happened to Pence? He was supposed to be the chair. There is nothing happening in the White House about this disease. Just this wild expectation of a reopening and suggesting to people that they not wear a mask and be free of the bonds of lockdown. It's really crazy. So my question to you and Stephanie, and taking into account the footage we have seen recently of Trump where he can't walk down a ramp. I don't know if you've seen that. And the footage where he needs to reach out and hold people's arms in order to navigate in a hotel ballroom or whatever. The footage we've seen where he is trying to drink water from a glass needs two hands to lift the glass to his lips. Are we talking about some kind of disease process here? The fact that he can't think of words. The fact that he gets confused in the middle of his long-winded two and a half hour discussions in the Rose Garden. The fact that his position seems to change like the breeze. Are we talking about somebody who is maybe sick? Well, I believe I've heard many commentators address that. That things are happening to him due to his chronology. And he's not even much playing golf anymore. But he is having some difficulties due to at certainly age. But also his, well, he doesn't seem to exercise much. He doesn't do the gym. He's not really getting the doctor's information that is, you know, informative for where he is in his life. But I think that we haven't paid enough attention to that. And certainly after what they did to Hillary Clinton on this matter, I don't know why the media is holding back on it. We really ought to have some answers to what are these issues that he's suffering. And certainly his mental capacity has been discussed as well, that it's diminishing. Or it is what it is. And always it has been. I don't know. But there's some of those unanswered questions that nobody is attending to. And it goes back to your, to the point of the media being nimble and getting off of the major main case that everybody's talking about. And look at some of these ancillary issues that are going to feed into. So I don't understand whether or not doing a better job of that. And then the other point I wanted to make is I, contrary to my belief that most everybody looked at CNN, evidently, I am completely wrong.  And most everybody's of these, of people who are in the belief in Trump are only looking at Hannity and Tucker. And so I've started looking at Tucker again and Hannity. He's hard to look at. But they are not putting out any information. And so that's why I ever brought this up to other people's because at least CNN does chop out the information, a chart here, a chart there. And to me, it doesn't seem like proselytizing. But I think my conclusion is more information on CNN for the average person than anything they're getting out of these other programs, which are not informative, in fact, deny and don't mention, and skip over and focus on other totally irrelevant topics. So I think- Well, Cynthia, taking all this into account, the problems with coronavirus, he has not really resolved them. You get talk, you get misleading information, or no information, or sort of like third party information that comes from far away. We don't know how credible it is, and it is not widely disseminated anyway. So we really don't know. We don't know about therapeutics. We don't know about vaccines. And you'll have to assume that if there was a serious therapeutic and a serious vaccine, it would be all over the place, including Hannity. So that's a problem. And at some level of their consciousness, aren't people in this country aware that we have not really tackled the problem? That it is, it's burning through America. And speaking of burning, the demonstrations three weeks ago and so more recently have not helped coronavirus. In fact, they probably exacerbated it. Every gathering exacerbates it. And then you have Trump, which is beginning to show maybe some fissures in his capacity, physical and mental. How are we doing on the road to November? How are these things affecting? I know that as Stephanie said, we don't know what the other side thinks because we don't watch the other side that carefully. But how is the country feeling about these things? There's been polls recently indicating that Biden is way ahead. And I have to think that the hot news, the agenda points that are due rigor on all the channels, which should be at least on MSNBC and CNN, that they are not running in favor of Trump. How are the people feeling? What does it look like? Well, look at the line outside the convention hall in Tulsa. They were already camped out for a week and people are coming in from out of state. How about that for bumping up the spike? I'm talking, but Cynthia, I'm talking about the country in general, not just Tulsa. Well, from what I hear, when I talk to people that have lived all over in a bunch of different states, and I spent a lot of time in Alabama, and most of the people and people that I thought were very intelligent, not racist people still are such hard for Republicans that they want to overlook the horrible levels of unfitness that we're dealing with with this president. They just overlook them. They're getting their judges, they're getting what they want, and so they don't care. Hmm. And that just, it absolutely just amazes me when I hear these very intelligent people. You know, I understand ignorant people that don't know any better, that are so susceptible to that kind of misinformation that they get from Hannity and Tucker and those guys. And when I watch Fox News, I'm just irate. How can you tell people these lies? It's just not right. Right now, at this level, before we even see the spikes that are going to come from this Tulsa rally, 21 states are seeing an 80% increase in cases right now. Florida saw its highest spike to date, 3,000 people in one day. So, you know, you talked about Ohio not having too much trouble. I think that's because Ohio is being very careful about their opening. They're being very careful about which, you know, they really follow the actual guidelines that were put out there about opening which companies you open first, how you go about safely doing this. And I think they're a good model to follow, to be honest, because they've been so strict. Ohio, remember, was one of the very first states to close down. So they didn't get a huge spike to begin with. It all seems like chaos. So Winston, how are our federal agencies doing? I mean, the CDC, to me, it seems to have lost credibility, the NIH, the same thing. All the individuals that Trump appointed to try to address the coronavirus, they seem to be inert. Am I missing something? Is anybody at the federal level doing anything valuable here? Or has he dropped it all off on the states? And among the states, it seems like there's a huge lack of consistency. Chaos, what do you think? We did get the CDC broke its silence last week, told us to wash our hands, right? We're not getting a lot of information out of there. Which is sad. The CDC is a venerable institution that we should rely on for hard, fast science that is, should be among the most respected institutions, just sacrosanct. And it's been silly. We saw also, at the Nephouchis, sadly, came out basically and saying, yeah, I wanted to keep the masks for the healthcare workers, which I got. Like as soon as he said, you don't need to wear a mask on this, I thought, yeah, that means go out and buy a mask. It was my feeling at the time. But if he had, in his, in fairness, if he had said, we're saving the N95 masks for healthcare workers, because we really need these, they would have been stripped off the shelves in seconds.  I mean, he's been marginalized. We don't hear a lot about him. I can't remember the last time we saw Deborah Burks, but she may, there may be, it's just overshadowed by all of the other news that's happened in our country. So it might be out there. I don't know. Maybe if, maybe he's going to come out with a COVID handbag line, and maybe we'll get more news that way. I really don't know what to expect from the federal government here. But we can just look at our state, and we can say our state is doing it right. Hawaii is doing it right as best as we can. We need really strict controls if we're going to be getting people coming in here. New Zealand was COVID free. They let two ladies in from England. Now they got COVID again. A state, New Mexico, about the size of Hawaii, they've had 452 deaths in the state, the size of Hawaii. We've had about 20, not to trivialize any deaths, but very different cases where we can have control. And that speaks loudly to where we do have control. It's in our companies.  And they're saying right now they'll ban people if they don't wear the mask in the future. They need to land the plane and arrest people and say, just as if you weren't sitting down when the pilot said you need to sit down, it's a ban for life. I'm sorry you have to wear your mask for two hours while you're going from Tulsa back to Birmingham, Alabama, but you got to do it. So we're seeing the responses that are correct at the state, at the city, at the county, at the corporate levels. That's where the leadership is. That's where the information is coming from. And that's what we have to rely on in this as I've been saying for a while now. Well, something that Winston, something that Cynthia touched on is the press. These days we don't have the executive, I mean as a rational entity. We don't have the Congress, they're inert. The courts are being fed with inappropriate appointments populated by the hundreds now. The branches of government, federal government are really non-functional. Whatever, you know, however much you believe in the democratic leadership in the house, the three branches are non-functional. And they say that the fourth branch is really the press. The press is the one that can save us. But you know what, I'm not sure the press is saving us. What do you think about that? I mind you, we're in a pandemic. We're in a dire crisis, a set of crises. Is the press doing a good job at saving us, recognizing that they and maybe they alone have the power to do that? Well, they're part of the solution, just like our health commissioners, just like our mayors. I saw Gavin Newsom came out today and said, if you're going in a store, you need to wear a mask. End of story. This is not a political thing. It doesn't mean you support me or don't support me. What about the press? The press is part of it. But with the press, the press is now a loose term. If you want real information in this country, you've got to search for it. And there are certainly ones that are more credible than others. We should look towards our, I will call it, mainstream media. I will not say that Fox is in there, like Stephanie was saying. If you watch Fox, you get a completely different version of what the reality is out there. And they're talking about your freedom to not wear a mask, rather than the reasons why you do need to wear a mask. That might not be a specific example, but it's an idea that shows you get a wide variety of sources, go with the strictest that you can find that makes sense and do your own research. If you want information about anything. Well, you're talking about you though. What about the press? What is the press governing and acting as responsibly as it needs to act in the time of crisis? Stephanie, today finally, Facebook shut down some of Trump's ads. They said those ads would not, would be pulled off because they were hate ads. That's really something because Facebook was not going the direction Twitter was going last week by putting blue notes on some of his remarkable and hate comments. This time, Facebook pulled it off. So they have joined the crowd, so to speak, with Twitter. My question to you is really the same. I mean, what can they do? What should they do? And are they meeting their obligation to us as the fourth branch of government? So this fourth estate, would you agree with me? I'm no expert on this, but the time, and I think the Washington Post and the owner, Bezos, has taken a lot of hits from Trump. They just have been stomping on. We have the whole list of his lies. We have all the check facts and all of that. So I mean, I think that those two models are stepping up to the plate. They could do it better. One of the things they know that there's the press and then there's the larger media, but a show like Rachel Maddow's, I don't know why she hasn't received any prize yet, but because she is a model also of stepping aside and looking at the background and seeing what's going on that's illustrative of the worst of this issue that she wants to make you understand. So she has a little bigger picture to offer. I mean, different formats, right? But if we, maybe somebody, is anybody writing a book about this or doing? Only Sean Bolton. I'm not kidding. Only Bolton. But the thing is that the press let us down during the 16 campaign. They just were so happy with their ratings.  So we need to know who's doing it. That's such a good question. Who's doing it in the most serviceable way for them? Because we can only turn to them and not all of them, only some of them. And there are not that many well-funded national network type newscasts that speak to this and query, are they doing a good job? But we're out of time. I'm sorry to say. So it's time to wrap up. Okay. So Cynthia, what is your wrap up today? And what is your prediction for what's going to happen in the next week on Coronaville? Okay. Well, Trump disbanded basically the coronavirus task force. And that's, we won't see them anymore. He has declared success. One, it's over. We won. And that's what he has put forth for us. So we have to follow like Stephanie and Winston have both said, and I think we all agree on, is that we need to search out for ourselves what the real deal is. So if we are in a sometimes that's hard, you know, for example, the numbers in the meatbacking plants have all been secreted. And when you, when you consider that, then you wonder about what else has been secreted by this administration and his friends. That means the people who don't wear masks, those are the friends. Let's go to, let's go to Winston. Winston, what is your summary and prediction? More cases. Wash your hands, wear your mask, do your part, even if brothers aren't, and lucky we live in Hawaii where people do their part and we collectively respect each other. You're going out much Winston? I'm going out all the time now. And we, because we have, yeah, I go out all the time and I am not afraid to go out. But I am very thankful that we live in a state. Let me, speaking for all of us Winston, it's been wonderful knowing you and you should enjoy your freedom. I have a long life in front of me Jay and it's going to be continuing to do what I believe in you. We have all enjoyed every single time we've met together, speaking for all of us from the heart. Okay, Stephanie, you get to go last. Well, eyes on the prize. We got the vote, we got to get the vote out. That's all that counts at this point. Hallelujah, DACA. I mean, we've really got some good things happening which are, which are inspiring and energizing. So let's use it to look at what it is we have to do as responsible citizens and to protect our democracy. We're, we're on the cliff. We've got to get back from the cliff edge. So I wanted to ask, I don't know if there's time Jay, but what is it, you mentioned earlier that the judges are being voted in, conservative judges by the Senate. Is there anything you can tersely say that it's going to be the impact of that over the rest of our life? It's huge. These are, these are way right wing judges, often unqualified judges, even found so by the American Bar Association, who are going to serve for life and who are going to be handing down rulings that favor Trump and favor the right wing for life. And there are hundreds of them that have been appointed and immediately, quietly confirmed query is the press doing enough on that. Anyway, one thing is clear, we're doing enough. And we're going to continue to do enough. And there's so much material here. It's like a, it's like a water faucet. And we'll, we'll meet next week and gosh, who knows what we'll, what we'll have to discuss on coronavirus. Thank you very much. Cynthia, Stephanie, Winston, I love you guys.


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Hello everyone, and welcome to theCUBE's live coverage of Teradata Possible. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host and analyst, Rob Streche. We're here in Florida. This is a three sort of session conference that Teradata hosts. There's been one in London, one in Singapore, and this is the final one of the year here in Orlando. Rob, what are you expecting? This is a really exciting place to be. Yeah, I think, again, what's going to be really exciting is to see a lot of the customers that are going to be joining us, a lot of the other analysts that we're bringing on as well, and a lot of the executives that are going to be able to talk about what is the next role of AI, what they're doing with data lakes, what they're doing with Data Lake House and Data Warehouse all under one real platform. And I think that we're going to get a really big exposure to what people thought of Teradata was not where they are today. And I think that's exciting. The innovation that we're going to get to see is really exciting. So you did a preview where you spoke with Teradata's CMO, Jacqueline Woods, who's a really impressive and cool person, and I encourage everyone at home to check out Rob's preview of the event. We're going to have her on later today. But she talked about how this conference really, the idea for the conference came out of coming of COVID and helping companies, companies realizing they need to reimagine, retool the way that their teams interact, the way that, frankly, everyone gets their job done. And so I'd love to hear you talk a little bit more about what you heard from Jacqueline and what you make of it from an analyst's point of view. Yeah, I think what I'm excited to hear more about is how do you simplify data teams? How do you simplify the jobs of the data scientists? And I think that really a lot of what Teradata is aimed at is really bringing that knowledge that they have for making bulletproof systems for almost like 30 years at this point to this data lake, data warehouse, where it's been more of a, hey, here we go with open source. But there's also a lot that they're going to be talking about simplifying open source and open source communication between them being a commercial product and the open source you can use with them. And I think that's exciting because that bridges the gap with developers. And I think that's a big piece. I'm interested to hear what your thoughts are later on as we go through these discussions because I think it will change how people work in these events and how they're really tied together from a data team perspective as well. That's my jam, so I'm excited to get into that. But we all know at these conferences there's what happens on the main stage and in these sessions, but really why people come is for the hallway conversation. So who is attending here? I know that you've got some analysts buddies, but there's plenty of customers, plenty of Teradata executives, of course. What, who's here and what is the chatter about? So I think what's interesting is the others that are out there in this space have so much marketing and so much hype. And I think there's been a real, hey, we're here to see why Teradata is still important. And I think those hallway conversations range like you said from customers to financial analysts all the way to people who are here with Teradata themselves. And there's actually a lot of excitement about how they're really innovating. And I think that's really the main theme that people have come for is to understand the innovation and how Teradata takes that forward. Well, I mean, a lot of it, I mean, obviously marketing is a huge part of this. And you talked to Jacqueline Woods and we're going to have her on later today. But the tagline here is fueling the future. And you see fuel, that word fuel all over the place. And I mean, sometimes you're just looking at marketing, come on, but I mean, but it actually does really feel like this is where we're going. This is the fuel of what is going to take us forward.  I hate that term as well, but it is the fuel of all of these systems, all of AI, all of being able to do analytics, being able to build recommendations engines for your, you know, your e-commerce site, being able to better service your customers. And I think that a lot of the innovation, and I think we'll have Hillary Ashton on, who's their Chief Product Officer later on today too. And I'm really excited to hear how they bring that all together as well. Yeah, well, you mentioned AI. And AI is of course dominating our national conversations, of course dominating conversations here. We're going to hear a lot about the potential, but also the peril, because I think that while there is so much excitement, and while executives by and large research shows that they are very excited and bullish about the future that AI will have on their products and services, on their workforces, there's also a lot of concern and even fear about data privacy, data security, compliance. What do you think we're going to hear more about today? I think how you make AI accessible. I think it's accessibility. It's how you make it easier for the developers. It's how you really bring this all together and how you know that my data team can execute on this. There was some post put out about, you know, Chief AI Officers and another CXO role. I'm like, my head is going to explode. I mean, we have Chief Data Officers, Chief AI Officers, Chief This, Chief That. I'm like, okay, we have a lot of Chiefs and not enough people actually doing the work. And I think this is going to be an interesting turning point if you can make that a lot easier so that you don't, you can bring the skill sets up and up skill people through the tooling. I think that's what I'm excited to hear about this week as well is Teradata has been there trying to make it simple for years. How do they now take that to the next level with this new set of business objectives that their clients are having? Right, I mean, and that's what point that Jacqueline Woods made when she spoke to you last week is that this has really exploded in the public imagination now, but you know, for the last seven or eight months, but we've been working on this for years and this is our wheelhouse people.  Generative AI and how it's applied is definitely new. Large language models and how fast they are is new, but really where are you going to use it and what's the ROI, you can capture out of that. And I think some of the discussions we get to have this week or today is really going to be around, how do you get the ROI out of that Teradata system? What is the business case? What's the use cases that people are solving for and how is that innovation really helping them? So return on investment, this is something that keeps executives up at night all for millennia, but what is, what do you think that's going to become of that? Because I mean, AI is real, it's here, but it's also nebulous. So how do you think executives should be thinking about the return on investment? I think they have to, you know, business case back, customer back, and really understand what are they building it for? You know, why are you building AI? Because AI, for AI's sake, is just dumb. And like, I hate to say it so bluntly, but going and building yourself a large language model and think you're going to compete against ChatGPT or one of these, or Bard or one of these others, that's absolutely insane. And I think that what you need to be focused on is, hey, do I need to upskill? And I think we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, is hey, I've built this for my CFO organization so that when I bring on new accountants, they understand our terminology, they can ask questions in self-service so that they can get up to speed on what it means to be an accountant in the CFO's office at company acts versus how long it takes them to get up. I think that's a perfect business case where you can upskill and build out your training that may take somebody's learning curve from three months down to three weeks or something like that of coming into a new organization. So I'm really excited about that type of stuff. And it could really help anyone at any stage of their career too. Because I mean, what you just painted was something that could really help someone who's new to the organization maybe early in their career, but it could also help the more seasoned veteran workers too. Yeah, and I think again, you look at it from HR to financials to customer success or customer service, there's a lot of different places that you can go with this to make it applicable. And I think that's where, again, making it easy to go and do these, not so large language models or SLM segmented language models so that you have them very specific to your company's data internally to you so it's not bleeding out into the models and retraining models but that you're the security around it and being sure that it's segmented for that actual business case. But then of course we get back into the security and the compliance issues that are the big concerns. Yeah, I mean that's top of mind and I think we'll dig in there definitely today with some of the guests that we have on. So much to unpack and dig into. I'm excited for the day, Rob. I am too, this is going to be a lot of fun. I'm Rebecca Knight, stay tuned for more of theCUBE's live coverage of Teradata Possible.


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A voice assistant at its core is designed to answer consumers' questions or to be utilized to do an action for a user. A voice assistant utilizes natural language processing to answer the questions that a consumer has. You ask the device a question that query goes up into the cloud essentially and in seconds the natural language processing figures out the structure that sentence sends it back to you and tells the device what to say back to you. It also utilizes databases of information like skills or actions to fulfill consumer journey. The more interactions that these devices have, the more information they gain, the more they learn, they will learn from their mistakes. We can also help them learn from their mistakes by programming negatives in the back end. Language variations and accents will make it difficult for a voice assistant to understand what a query means. Someone from the UK might call sneakers trainers and if the voice assistant doesn't understand that a trainer is a sneaker, it's not going to answer that question correctly. Not all voice assistants work the same. Amazon with its core in e-commerce and then you also have Google who has 20 years of search experience. They're going to attack answers to questions and the utility in different ways. Microsoft's Cortana, Microsoft is investing a lot of money in chatbots at this point. You also have Facebook entering the ecosystem with a voice device. They're a little late to the game but with as many users as they have, not someone that we can ignore. What's next for voice is, in my opinion, the evolution of augmented reality and the different applications that that could possibly have for users, overlaying directions over the camera on your phone when you ask your assistant on your phone for directions to lead you to that place instead of just having your head down looking at a map, you could actually hold your phone forward. There are a lot of applications that we could use in the future to really help self-care. There are a lot of things that make me excited about the future of voice assistance and voice search.


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