Do-do-do-do Hello day three in the new studio Who wouldn't want to eat a sandwich made up of two pancakes and a And a patty sausage in the middle with eggs and cheese. Where is that coming from? Oh, I thought you were doing the McDonald's da-da-da-da You didn't know any of the words I said after it No, I heard I just wanted to Actually what I wanted is a sausage egg, you know McDonald's okay, so we you know we McDonald's for as a desperation move And Saturday morning after our move You know we're we didn't really have a lot of breakfast options And the groceries were still at the old place because we had moved faster than we expected So I went to Mac I went to Carl's Jr. Actually originally I got there and they're like oh Breakfast ended 15 minutes ago.  There's I just don't like other than the The one is it the quarter pounder where they use non frozen Ground beef or something the rest of it. Just I don't remember which one that is quarter pounder with cheese. Maybe is that right? No, I think quarter pounders also frozen meat, but I don't like the Big Mac I like the quarter pounder with cheese that that was always my favorite growing up It's like why do you have a bun in the middle? Just put a larger to all these patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickled onions on a sesame seed buns Buns. Well, right. See exactly. That's the problem. Yeah, plus it's just like you're adding to your carbs and See, I saw Super Size Me About 10 years ago, and I'm I'm so anti McDonald's after that now I say that sheepishly admitting that I still go to Burger King. I still go to Wendy's But for some reason it really knocked McDonald's out of my head It's for me, it's just as the factor says the quarter pounder is the one with fresh meat Yeah, I like those they're like the only burger I can eat at McDonald's because all of the other ones like within 10 minutes of eating it I get like like not indigestion, but it's just on we regret Yeah, like I just my body literally just tells me you shouldn't have eaten that I feel very gross I don't know how to medically describe it and you just my body just feels like why did you eat that? There's no reason to eat that you could have had anything else the patties the super thin burger patties They they're barely even there like why my bother. I think that's why I always like the quarter pounder Hey, I have a question for you if I have time for it before we go live. Is there a Twitter handle for the show? Yes, daily tech news The character limit on Twitter when you try to I totally understand news Oh, there it is. Hey, yeah, it should pop up the Awesome. Okay. Good Daily tech news All right. Yeah, let's let's start this show in a minute. Shall we? Yes DTNS begins It's not like Superman begins.   I'm talking all-out ruler like Mary Poppins as a nun. Oh The flying nun Mary Poppins crossover crossover like predator versus. Yeah Well, come on. She already played a nine. She was Marina nine eight seven six five four three two one Thanks to everyone who supports daily tech news show directly to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support This is the daily tech news for Wednesday, September 26 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and I'm The show is produced out on the fringes of LA County Roger Chang. Welcome back Roger Chang Sadly for us. Sarah Lane has the day off. She'll be back tomorrow But we are very happy that Richard Gunther host of a home on and co-host of entertainment 2.0 is back How's it going Richard? I am doing well It is going well and I am here in studio in Naples, Maryland. Oh Maryland represent. We don't get Maryland too often. That's awesome Yeah, it's been too long since we had you back on I know CDO was a couple weeks ago But we've we've had some time to digest the news out of there and later on you're gonna tell us a little bit about the Trends regarding custom installation Convergence of the space etc Absolutely at the risk of getting typecast as the smart home guy. Yeah, it could be worse Could be like me the dumb home guy All right, let's start with a few tech things you should know What's up co-founder Brian Acton told Forbes that Facebook's lawyers argued that exploring monetization for WhatsApp didn't Violate an acquisition agreement that said the founders could leave Facebook with all their stock intact if Facebook introduced ads on WhatsApp So Acton lost out on I don't know 850 million or so Acton says during the conversations He had about it. Mark Zuckerberg said this is probably the last time you'll ever talk to me Acton left Facebook in 2017 the other WhatsApp founder Jan Coom left earlier this year and of course a yesterday the Instagram co-founders left So a lot of a lot of Sturman drawing around that going on Nintendo told IGN that it will not delete your saved games immediately on letting your switch online subscription laps Thank goodness Nintendo says if you re-subscribe within six months your saves will still be there You can't access them while you're not subscribed But they'll come back as soon as you renew India's Supreme Court ruled four to one that the country's odd hard database is Constitutional and valid the bench said that the ID program does good things it empowers marginalized members of society They did not find that it violated privacy They found that the defense mechanism against misuse were sufficient However, the court did limit which entities can require the system to be used This doesn't mean which entities could use the system But which entities can say to use our service you have to use your odd higher ID and basically it's just Welfare and income tax filing from the government Anybody else any private entity pretty much according to the court cannot require you to use odd hard Although they could let you if they want to let's talk a little bit more about Oculus Connect going on Facebook announced the Oculus Quest. It's a wireless VR headset shipping this spring for three hundred ninety nine dollars That's the same price as the Oculus Rift, but the Rift tethers you this one does not the quest is the final project Of the prototype you've probably heard referred to before as Santa Cruz It has six degrees of freedom hand motion hand tracking motion detection that Distinguishes it from the Oculus go which only has three degrees of freedom The Oculus Quest has sixteen hundred by fourteen four resolution at per eye 1440 resolution per eye 64 gigabytes of storage built-in speakers It's basically an Oculus go you can stand up and move around with on it also comes with two handheld controllers Very similar to the Rift's touch controllers has an RGB sensor that can stream what's happening outside the visor to you It will not be able to play PC games made for the Rift natively but Mark Zuckerberg said it should have about 50 titles available at launch including robo recall the climb and Moss Oculus product manager Sean Lou announced Oculus go updates to improve the look of the content in the go for you Go users also the ability to let you cast from your Oculus go to mobile devices And eventually TVs and they announced the launch of YouTube VR Supports you can get YouTube on your Oculus go of course the big announcement here is the Oculus quest Richard, how do you feel about this? Untethered is great, right? I don't think anybody just agrees with that No, absolutely. This is one of the big hurdles for these types of devices And I think it's one of the reasons that the lower priced pop your phone in here and play Alternatives have done fairly well if you can get something with the power of Oculus and actually Run that in an untethered fashion. I think that's a big thing and the price point is not so bad either. I've been kind of Disinterested in this space largely because I think that we're not quite there yet in terms of the technology and the pricing and I also have a disadvantage And I think this is something that you struggle with as well where I don't actually have good depth perception So a lot of this stuff is really just lost on me and anything that attempts to simulate a 3d experience Just gives me double vision. So that's kind of terrible. Yeah, I mean that I don't know It doesn't sound like it's quite that bad for me I can I can sense the depth, but it's not as great and I've got an Oculus go and sexy right up there and Enjoy it when I put it on but I never feel compelled to go back and put it on I don't think six degrees of freedom would make a difference to me But if you can afford the extra $200 and you're deciding between the go and the quest I'd absolutely get the quest just because the ability to stand up and move around is In my experience from using the rift and the HTC Vive a much more immersive experience Then just sitting there and being able to turn your head from side to side One of the things that I worry about is that we've seen this technology evolve so much and so quickly Over the past few years. I still worry about investing now if you're just getting into this because it seems like We're not that far from getting a much more lightweight ideal and maybe less Isolating experience for people to enjoy. Yeah, in fact Facebook had their their chief futurist on on stage Talking about how augmented reality and virtual reality are going to merge They are going to continue to converge, but that's not going to happen for several years And and so yeah, if you're an early adopter who likes to play with this stuff go for it Obviously if you want to buy for the long term, you certainly shouldn't have bought the rift or the Vive because they're tethered and now they're not Now and there's an option to convert your Vive I suppose but but for the Oculus you're you're out of luck for the same amount of money You can now get wireless and that wireless is going to get better resolution next and and then it's going to get more of the mixed Reality stuff for augmented reality. So I agree with you. I think that's a that's a very good point Sony says it will allow cross-platform play on fortnight something available on most other platforms Wednesday, sony interactive entertainment president john codara said the first step will be an open beta Beginning today. That's Wednesday for fortnight that will allow for cross-platform gameplay progression and commerce across playstation for android ios nintendo switch xbox one microsoft windows and the mac so I guess we know who has more influence in the world today Epic games or sony because because sony blinked Yeah, this headline could well have just been sony finally shamed into making this open for other platforms Yeah, I I don't Disbelieve sony when they said it was a complex business deal They didn't quite use those words. They tried to obfuscate it more, but they were basically saying look We get to keep all the money When you buy something in the store Through through the playstation So we don't want to lose that if we you know let xbox players come in and play or let you play your sony account on a switch So I don't Want to discount the the complexity of that of trying to preserve that revenue line for them Uh, but obviously it was possible. Uh, and with enough pressure. They have made it work somehow for them Well, it's interesting in that being the top dog You always tend to be a lot more skittish about anything that could potentially whittle away Your uh revenue streams and when you're an up when you're second or third place You got nothing else to lose. So it's like, you know full steam ahead So it's a very interesting case from just a business perspective. You take the whole video game aspect out of it It's like, you know, when you're top you it's very much like you want to be the king of the hill And you got to keep trying to knock back everyone else And that that's the interesting thing here is apparently a sony isn't top dog epic is Because because sony did have to adapt something that I don't think they had any intention of adapting Microsoft will let select testers try keyboard and mouse support for the xbox one in the coming weeks Most mouse and keyboards will work Uh, although they have a special partnership with razor to sell some hardware Some of it will work with chroma lighting effects. So that's kind of nifty Developers will have to turn it on per game This is not something where you can plug in the microsoft or the keyboard and mouse and and just go to town on every game Uh, some developers may choose not to support keyboard and mouse for various reasons Competitive reasons possibly just compatibility reasons whatever but developers that do Want to allow it can now microsoft's going to talk more about its partnership with razor During the inside xbox stream on november 10th if if you're interested in that Hardware line, but you should be able to plug in pretty much any keyboard and mouse once this rolls out Yeah, eventually. I mean, I think it'll be interesting to see just how well this works with other Manufacturers devices one of the challenges that microsoft has with this box is that it doesn't have bluetooth on board, right? So you actually have to physically connect the keyboard or have a keyboard that uses their wireless technology And those are few and far between we have talked about this on entertainment 2.0 when it was Part of the insider ring news and I think this is a great move. I just hope that we get broad Device support for it. Yeah. And by broad you mean beyond just usb, right? Like because that's what people want. They want wireless Yeah, and I don't know how they pull that off yet Yeah It definitely will make a lot of players happy who complain about playing cross platform on xbox with pc gamers who have Very expensive high-end gaming mice and keyboards and constantly get their Tushies handed back to them. Yeah, absolutely. And frankly, that's one of their reasons for Wanting a wired connection so that there is zero chance of latency In that connection with your keyboard and your device. Yeah Uh google announced that chrome 70 will add a switch to its UI You can do this right now if you know how but there's going to be a very obvious place in the settings To turn off that feature that automatically logs you into the chrome browser When you log into gmail or youtube or any other google service google I think is not getting enough credit By the the people who are critical of this and i'm not saying that they don't have a right to be critical I think google wanted to prevent one bad thing and caused another bad thing to happen The bad thing they were trying to prevent is when you share a device and i've run into this working on other people's riggs When i'm podcasting you have to remember to log out of chrome and gmail and youtube You know so making it so you log in once you log out once is very important However, not making it my choice is always a bad move Google will also update chrome sync to make it clear what data is being synced with your account and chrome 70 Will also clear cookies on sign out, which before some of the google cookies stuck around after sign out Again to make it easier when you sign back in but they're going to get rid of that now They're going to say forget it now. We'll clear them all in the name of privacy Yeah, so this is google and google is the king of data, right? So I have a hard time believing they didn't have the telemetry from their users to know How many people are actually using this login to chrome feature? I didn't even start using it until Be the kind of mid this year and once you start using it It's amazing because you have completely separate environments with different favorites and different cookies and You know, they don't cross it all It's like you have have isolated sandboxes and that's a wonderful feature When you're trying to manage different things with one browser even in testing. That's a great thing Yeah, but I I don't think they Realize that people don't want to be forced into doing this if they don't have to And the the downside of this announcement is that chrome 70 will still have this setting on by default And again, my guess is the people listening to this show are not the majority the majority of people Don't even know this exists and probably will benefit it because they're not going to do testing So maybe it should be on by default. I guess I can see an argument for that I prefer to just force me to make a choice And make an informed choice and I'm very glad they're giving me the option to turn it off because I'm like you Richard I I don't want that on but I see I do see why they were Seeing a benefit for an average user there Google maps added collaboration tools now that will let you create a list of places and share with your friends So you can vote on a place to go. So if you're choosing a restaurant, you're choosing a bar, etc Movie theater, maybe even uh group members can veto selections and even add their own So depending on your group of friends, this could be a very useful feature or end up with no decision ever being made Uh, I guess it depends, but this seems to be a very popular feature ad. I've seen a lot of people very excited about this today I think this is great. I love things that allow you to collaborate geospatially that's something that Not a lot of platforms have the ability to support and I remember 10 years ago Using google maps to plan out events activities in places that people could go to for my my uh union my wedding trip, which was a destination wedding And even 10 years ago it was great for that sort of stuff So the ability to then allow that group to coordinate and collaborate over that information. I think that's really cool Yeah, if you do remember the dodgeball service, I think it was a pretty app Absolutely. Yeah. I mean that was what it was premised on was like, hey folks If we all want to meet up at the same place, how do we do that? We've got a web service for you and of course those guys went on to to found a four square and swarm And all of that so uh, it has definitely been something people have been wanting to use the internet for for a long time And uh, interesting feature to add to google maps. Hey folks If you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Don't forget to subscribe to daily tech headlines at dailytechheadlines.com If you recall a few years ago, uh, we had richard on and discussed on dts How the high end custom installation smart home and the do it yourself smart home We're starting to show some overlap Today that convergence is more obvious than ever and I remember on that conversation richard We talked about how it in the early days of cnet I did a series that showed smart homes being installed and that was the only option and then when last we talked It was like, hey, but you could now go and buy these systems Not all the systems work with each other But some of them are pretty sophisticated and even some custom features are starting to show up in these systems CDia was a couple weeks ago and we got a lot of announcements in this space. What did we find out? Yeah, so as you indicated cdia is really a An organization that serves the installer market serves that custom high end market But over the years we've seen more and more I I guess I would say infiltration if you will Of diy products and by that I mean for example the ring lock or The nest thermostat or the amazon echo that you can just buy at your local store so part of the reason for that is that those products have an awareness in the public now And you have this situation which is kind of unusual where you had homeowners who are literally spending tens of thousands of dollars for high-end custom systems to be installed in their homes having Envy over their neighbor's $250 nest thermostat, right? Home security systems is one that I recently had to dive back into the market for and I was shocked the simply safes and the rings and and and such So much cheaper than like an ad t or something like that Yeah, absolutely. There are a whole bunch of products out there that allow you to do this stuff yourself or and we're starting to see a little bit of Like a great gray markets the wrong term because that has negative connotations, but a middle ground if you will where customers who have the ability to see these less expensive products and don't need something that's All custom laid out for them or custom designed for them Realize that they can buy the product, but they don't maybe necessarily want to deal with a wiring Or they don't know all the different pieces that they're going to need in their home That wi-fi stuff always confuses me. I just want somebody to do it for me I heard exactly and and so, you know companies even even amazon has a service like this now, but there are companies that are starting to really specialize for that consumer grade Do it for me so that you don't have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars But could instead just spend a little bit of money to get what you want out of this and and get it done steroids, right? right Yeah, yeah, kind of like that. So so, you know, we have that convergence and then the other thing that we have going on which I think is really interesting is this thing where The smaller companies smaller companies is the wrong word, right because I mean, you know, we have We have apple we have amazon amazon. We have google all in smart home now But you have these companies that are catering directly to consumers now Really making a push in that larger space So, you know, you see companies like google and logitech and ring on the show floor now ring You know sure they're they're also a big company, right? but they kind of pioneered the smart doorbell in terms of getting that that major Adoption for it and and consumer awareness So it's interesting to see that sort of integration We're also seeing companies like sonos that have historically really just been a consumer product Come out with new products like the new amp. They announced a couple of weeks ago specifically intended to make life easier for Integrators So that's the one side and then the other side is that these large companies that do this custom install work Like control for like savant have new capabilities That are intended to support some of these products. I saw an amazing remote control from savant that Actually allows you to control your apple tv with siri through their remote I just got the tv os update yesterday And one of the things that tells you and like here's what's new is we now have support for siri use on These high-end custom remotes the exactly the kinds you're talking about in fact. I'm pretty sure savant was listed as an example Yeah, absolutely. They are in that list. So that's a really nice thing to see We also have companies like control for that are just embracing these third-party products they know their customers want them and control four is going even further by leaving consumers with Something of an ift tt t engine. It's not ift tt t But it's it's similar to that where you have the ability to kind of define some workflow So that you don't have to pay for somebody to come out and change when that light bulb comes on because you know What it turns out you don't the lifestyle in your house is a little bit different than it was when they first created your program So you can go and customize that stuff for yourself without having to spend extra money. That's a great thing um The other day we just saw an article in ce pro which is a magazine that caters to the pro space With how there's now a driver available by a third party that allows crestron another high-end proprietary system To work with smart things. So this is a trend. I think we're going to continue to see and I think it's very interesting And and I think that it's ultimately going to make many more products available at both ends of the spectrum So it you know We used to think of custom installation meant I've got enough money To pay somebody to come in and rewire my house and make it all work And and diy was i'm going to go down to the best buy And i'm going to buy some stuff and sit down for the afternoon and figure out how to make it all work And and richard, I think you've done a great job of explaining how those lines are blurring Are we still going to see this ecosystem more? This is what I want to finish on is Okay, and now I've got more options than ever based on my budget I can find a solution and some of it can even involve somebody coming to help me install it and it won't break the bank But how do I pick what? What nation I want to live in in my smart home? Is it is it still? Once i'm in i'm going to be stuck there for a while Yeah, we still have this problem. I guess I would call it where Big companies are kind of trying to carve out their own space here And this is true even with google and amazon and so on and so My advice to anybody that wants to get into this is if you're looking at best buy or amazon or some Retailer and you want to buy some products buy products that say that they work with multiple ecosystems If you have ios devices make sure it works with homekit if you have amazon echoes or google home devices Make sure that it works with those as well And there are many companies that are putting out products Specifically to touch all of those major control areas. Yeah, ios sonos is one of them Where they want to come they want to work with multiple systems Roku even recently announced they're adding google assistant support, which is an interesting play And I didn't really think of it as an interesting play into the smart home market, but it really is Absolutely, it is entertainments becoming a much bigger part of smart home technology particularly as you have stuff like A skill that you can use to say control your dvr or whatever from your cable service Well, thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit keep ideas like this coming We love these evergreen topics Even if there is not so much evergreen but but just sort of A chance to step back from the day-to-day press release grind and sort of get some perspective on a space like this Thank you, richard for that Submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit.com and facebook.com Slash groups slash daily tech news show. Let's check in with chris christensen who has some news about trip advisor This is chris christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute There's some big changes going on at trip advisor full disclosure I worked there as an employee for a year and a half and as a contractor for another three years Because they are changing the site to be a social network Now they've always had some integrations with facebook But the idea is that you can follow people on trip advisor Probably the best description what they're trying to become is the facebook for travel Where you come home from a trip and post all your pictures and your reviews and such there and get followed by your friends I'm not sure that facebook is not the facebook for travel But i'm in the beta program and we'll see how it works out If anyone can pull that off it seems like it's probably trip advisor who is the most trafficked travel site in the world I'm chris christensen from amateur traveler Yeah, he took the words right out of my mouth. I'm like is it facebook the facebook for travel, but I I do see the the allure for them trip advisor is kind of already doing that A lot of times when I look up things on trip advisor It's just people asking each other questions and talking about their recent trips and and whatnot. So maybe it'll just make that smoother And it's my go-to if I have any travel questions Yeah, as long as they don't make it harder to find the answers then then i'm all for it All right, let's check in with the mailbag. Uh, rohan from boston long time listener of dts wrote in and said after listening to show 3372 and the plethora of amazon echo announcements. I can think of only one word iot It's actually an acronym, but we're not going to be picky with this. I think amazon is With this I think amazon is able to crack the iot market Which google has been unable to do even though google started trying it first rohan. Thanks Moral of the story companies should not try to get into a market announcing the name of the science field like iot ml Airvr company should launch products which use these concepts these words iot ml aivr should be used in internal meetings Not an end user announcements amazon's on the right track and google needs to learn this from them says rohan What do you think you're here here here? No, I think that's dead on I I think though that rohan may be perhaps conflating the information that we get as tech heads and that we hear in announcements at things like i o Versus what they're actually promoting to consumers if you buy a google home, they're not talking about iot and ml and ai but The what you read in the press is and and I think that we But the bottom line is don't use industry jargon When you're talking to consumers the best way to get consumer adoption is to speak to them in language that they understand yeah And while we're bringing up the amazon announcements I was one of the people who looked at the amazon auto and was like why wouldn't I just do all this stuff with my phone? but You've you've explained this to me in an email explain the the appeal of the amazon auto because I think I get it now I really think this device is a game changer. They invite they introduced a whole bunch of stuff but right now if you want some sort of automation or some sort of Assistant in the car You have to use your phone as you were talking about but that isn't always all that convenient and sometimes You don't have the ability to talk to it automatically without having to press a button or maybe even pick up your phone And you don't want to do that So this puts microphones in your vehicle works the way it would at home gives you access to Thousands and thousands of skills to play games to get information for navigation All these things that are harder to just pull up Instantaneously on your phone particularly Particularly if you're not looking at it and then you have that whole home automation tie-in where you can say i'm home And open the garage door or hey lady turn off the lights as you're driving away so I think I really think this is a Trojan horse and a big win to get for $50 A major piece of technology into a car that would otherwise cost a whole lot more if you were getting something installed Yeah, and and I think what I was hung up on is but I shouldn't need this And I don't think this is the kind of product that will last forever It now reminds me of the d-link air that I used to use on my del latitude It's an 802 11b wireless LAN adapter I totally have one of those in my closet. You don't need this product anymore Because wi-fi is built in and an amazon auto is the same thing eventually This won't be a device. You'll need to bridge the gap one hopes But but you have explained why it's it's very helpful right now. So thank you for that And what do you have more of old cars or new cars on the road right now? Yeah, no exactly Specifically my 2002 Prius Hey, thank you, richard for joining us. I really love getting your insight. Let's let's not make it so long until next time All right, that sounds like a good idea if people want to find more about what you got going on. Where should they go? So I write and podcast at the digital media zone. It's the digital media zone dot com And the main show that I typically promote is home on that's my diy smart home show And I am also going to be at the smart kitchen summit next week So I'm going to put in a plug for Mike's kitchen tech show because that is a lot of fun And I am going to be one of the discussion moderators there again this year Don't forget folks if you use code d tns you get a discount if you want to attend that's october 8th The 9th in seattle the smart kitchen summit smart kitchen summit dot com Thanks to everybody who supports us on patreon It's it's so much better to support us directly and we are up over last month right now But we want to see how far up we can get so keep the backing coming at patreon.com slash d tns And don't forget i'll be at a conference this weekend in los angeles september 30th on sunday at 1 p.m I'll be doing a workshop on preparing content for your podcast at outlier cs. 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Imagine detail The pixels the polygons See all right. What should we call this show roger? We have um The epic play on sony The epic play on sony. Yeah, no that works. That's gants. I like it There's also ocular spectacular Oculous is within six degrees of the heaven bacon. Do we have any on on the main topic? Let's see Uh Don't diy dime d. I am me e Do it for me D i f m D i so it's don't diy d. I am e Do it for me Dime d it for me Hmm. It's all the way at the bottom Do what does di me stand for? D i me Do it for me di me don't diy di me Oh Yeah, there actually is an industry initialism for this di fm. Yeah, somebody you somebody used uh that di fm is greater than di y Yeah, that was good do it for me Just build it into the house that I buy Well, and that's a big thing that is going to happen. So today obviously, I don't know if you well Yeah, I think in fact you post did you post on twitter about this time the amazon is getting into houses into No, it wasn't me amazon is investing in a builder and So you know, I mean you just know that those homes are going to come with ring doorbells Mm-hmm. And and he you know cameras that are part of the amazon ecosystem ring alarm system Echoes all over. Yeah. Yeah, I just wanted so when they build these homes. It's easy to replace Those devices right in the same way you can replace a wall switch like yeah, I have to say I'm Having just moved. I am pleased with how easy It is to rip, you know to I pulled the nest out of my old house And it was super simple and I put they had a like really simple honeywell that had been in there when I moved in I put that back on the wall and It was uh It was a lot easier than you would think to do that um on the other hand the nest cameras that I have The home away assist isn't working It keeps turning itself back on while I'm still home And I think There's some kind of gps Location information that's stuck in a cache Where it's saying well your phone is definitely not at home because you don't You know what I mean, right? I haven't I haven't tracked down exactly how to how to clear that so That's interesting. Have have you changed and I know this is This is really giving google a lot of credit for integration I don't know if they've gone this far yet, but have you changed your home location for google yet? Yes, I have. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's a good question though I just want new homes with conduit so I can run cat 5 cat 6 or whatever. Yeah, seriously calling this by the way Oh, uh, uh, I I I like the uh the epic plan sony or the The um Do it for me D if di fm is greater than di y. Yeah, let's let's do the epic play because um Uh, you know di fm greater than di y kind of counts against my whole show. So let's not go there As clever as it may be Like no no don't don't do that We can put a question mark at the end with the application the answer is no No, I've uh, I've taken good advantage of of uh of di y solutions for smart home stuff during this move. Um And man so much stuff is so much easier to set up To you know tear down and reset back up than it used to be Oh, it was a huge huge hassle initially when this stuff came out And that's I think that's one of the things the companies have learned even companies with products already in the market that Now when you try and Set devices like those up. They've tried to streamline that um What would I call that I it kind of a handshake process Or provisioning process because they know that that's so hard for consumers Again for tech ads, it's like, oh, yeah, so what I have to get this number. I have to type it in I have to put my wi-fi. It's like no, you know, and and really You know, this is something that apple got right from the beginning with home kit And whether home kit is successful or not yet It's put pressure on a lot of the other manufacturers and I think that's good no, um I have a uh a honeywell That was in this new house when we moved in that is wi-fi capable I haven't hooked it up though Because I want to pull it out and put my nest on but that the part of me is like, well, maybe I should try it But it's so old Which is yeah Like Something that's wi-fi connected is is old But you know, I looked up the features for it and the features are you can you can set the temperature From an app like okay right, I mean and maybe you can Set your program on it. But yeah, you can do the schedule It's not going to be automatic You won't learn from you like the nest or the echo beer or any of those other cool ones The question becomes is that app stale now? Are they still maintaining it? Is this something that's going to work with other devices hang up? I was like, well, hold on a minute Like who's who's updating this and and how secure I don't want somebody coming in hacking my thermostat Yeah, exactly I should have got a nest. I just got a cheapo honey. Well I I actually got the ecobee Oh, hey amos Hey How are you and did you pop in right after the show ended as promised? This is awesome. I get to see you even though we're not recording tonight like we should be So you guys tell tell the folks how you guys know each other We actually Was out loud Meet up in uh south by southwest there to meet you tom Years ago That's nine years ago now something like that. I don't know Oh nine 10 whatever. Yeah We stayed in touch on twitter for years after that then when I moved to texas. I was like He he chastised me for being so close to south by not going And the next year was like, you know what? I got to go just to just to shut him up And then I've been every year since then we we always hang out when we're when i'm down there That's awesome. And you guys are doing a show together And we do a show together Let's talk about thrones a show where we recap Peers of episodes of game of thrones and uh, Richard's never seen it before so we get his rough takes on what's going on And me and jenny josephson previous producer of this very podcast We've seen it and read most of it and uh, we kind of have the inside line on it and we try to try to keep Try to keep richard up to speed on the things that he missed and he gives us news perspective on things We didn't really consider and it's That's great. I love that. He's being really polite about that. It's it's more like They're trying to be nice about how little i'm actually catching as i'm watching the show Now i know i know jenny's read the books have you Um, i've read uh, i'm on the fourth book So i've read up to the first couple chapters of the fourth book Which means we were we're now passing Passing my book knowledge in the show because we're we recorded through the middle of the fourth season And uh, we have the first about three seasons released. In fact, I was working on that before Before I took a break to watch the show released in the next episode That's cool. So cool. Um, and roger, uh, I I thought I was completely stupid because I was looking on the internet On how to replace my pots cables with cat 5 when I moved in the house only to find a video by friend of the show i as actar Who said Cables and at the at the main base and see if they're already cat 5 I look in there and they're already cat 5 So I've switched over my entire house from pots to cat 5 Yeah, oftentimes It was pretty wired. Oh, no, I was just saying I looked under my house and his house was built 1936 So And no no cat 5. There's actually one cat 5 and it's running along the dirt It snakes around the plumbing and it goes from one end of the house Uh to another end of the house that I don't use for the show. So it's kind of like man What I need is a long extension pole so I can Because this guy over to lived here before drilled little access holes in the floorboards I just need something so I can dip the line and then reach across like, you know, 500 feet Grab it Underneath. Yeah, I um the basement in this house was it was finished by the previous owner who was a subcontractor himself And there were there was no cable down here and there. Well, there's one cable in in the room I'm in now. So I had to get a cable ethernet adapter. Um, I can't work those all bailing Go yeah, I go from the garage where everything centralized down to here through the cable So all my ethernet down here is through that cable line because we don't have cable where cord cutters And then I had to run had to drill into the wall to run an ethernet back to the switch That's the four port switch. It's behind the tv in the living room down here for the xbox the apple tv and The playstation because I try to keep everything's wired as possible even though i'm on a net gear orb system So I've got pretty good wi-fi everywhere. They just need to run like two or three inch A diameter like just conduit through the house when it's brand new so Some new technology that you need to get wired You can just you know Tie it to like the old one and run it through instead of trying to snake it drill holes I'm dealing with that right now because i'm installing the security cameras through the exterior of the house We've got nest cameras inside i'm putting a samsung system outside But I want to have the dvr inside and there's no ports for me to go through For the the vnc cable. So i'm having to drill holes through the the exterior walls to get those and That's why wireless is so popular Yeah, I don't have to drill It's true But you gotta go power to it. So I want to give ebarch The you know, we have the smartest audience in the world award for the moment He just saved me some some research that i've been intending to do And found this in the nest documentation The nest app will automatically set your home's location when you first create an account Sometimes it can be off by a bit and affect home away assist accuracy and timing to fix this issue You can manually set your home's location in the nest app So that's what I just did. I just went in and changed the the the location We'll see if that works. Thank you. All right. That's great. Yeah. No, I know this is this is awesome You just ebarch just saved me a ton of time by finding that I really appreciate it I love when the audience can answer your questions. Yes practically live even and hopefully Maybe somebody else out there was having the same issue or something similar We had we had a non programmable thermostat in the garage for the garage heater because we're you know, I'm in Alaska So you got to keep the garage warm I can send you my garage. It's really The the thermostat that was in the that was in the house was programmables in a honeywell old school programmable one The one in the in the garage was like one of those little real stat like, you know Just kind of turn and hope you're getting somewhere where oh, yeah Wow, where you want it So when I installed the ecobee I took the honeywell and put that one in the garage now I can actually dial in exactly, you know, where it needs to be And uh, the eco eco be with the little sensors throughout the house. It's everything else nice and toasty. So We don't have air conditioning up here. So, you know, just open the window That's the one thing I'm ebarch is is like I hope that helps. He's like I'm still having issues on my end even with the correct address. Hey, man Uh, at least narrows it down. It gets me, you know, I would have spent time finding that and trying that So now I'm already ahead. I appreciate I am kind of disappointed that the nest address for home and the google Knowledge of where your home is aren't the same. I do hope at some point that they Pull those together. Yeah, of course that then it gets into privacy issues, right? Where they're like these days I think people are really cautious about integrating that because they're like, oh But what if people get mad that we did that we have to make sure we do it with permission and all of that So just was its own alphabet company Previously and it's only recently in the past year or so Part of google again. Yeah, right and and that's probably true I've got a lot of consumers who own nest Don't necessarily think of it as a part of google nest necessarily Oh Well, if you want to hear more puns Stay tuned on the live audio stream. That's right folks Uh, we're we're wrapping up the video for now But stick around if you're on discord or listening to good day internet, uh, there's more to come


Finally, how do we train this? Well, what we're going to do is take all of the sentences in our training set and randomly remove 15%. Why 15%? Because it works better than 10% or 20%. Okay? So we have our special start of sentence tokens, CLS. I went to the delete it and bought a deleted a build period and then the separator tokens. And what that's the input, which we will then go at end code in our usual fashion and give attention weights. The output will be then, well, I don't care about everything except the mask, predict the mask value store and predict the masked value court. So you're trying to do on your loss function is to minimize to maximize the log of the probability you assign to the word that actually was the correct masked word. Note this requires no recurrence. Note that this in terms of predicting this word store is going to use an encoding of the whole piece here and right with a self attention and encoding of what we've predicted on the rest of the piece here.  And we'll then use one big gradient descent method, but it can all work fast and in parallel. And the fact that we have positional encoding, let's us know that the word before this missing one, the mask one was in fact the and the word after it was and knows where things are. And it knows that milk is pretty far away from this one, but much closer to that one. And note that milk is relevant to being at store and milk is even more relevant to being a court. So the location matters.


Thank you for joining us at the GitLab cultural open house, and I have the pleasure today of Women's leadership panel. My name is Tracy Robinson Williams, and I'm a senior product leader here at GitLab With us today. We have an esteemed panel. I'm very excited to introduce We have Christy Leno who is the vice president of user experience We have Dava Satcher who is our senior manager of engineering Brittany Rodie who is senior manager of total rewards and Erica Flowers who's the manager of digital production I'm calling. I'm talking to you from our Washington, D.C. Remote office, which is of course my home but I'd also like to have each of these ladies talk to you a little bit about how long they've been here and Where they're based as well and a little bit of an introduction. Can you start us off Christy? Yeah, hi So I'm located in San Antonio, Texas And I've been with GitLab for about a year and a half and it's been a very exciting year and a half I've grown the UX department from 12 people to over 60 in the last You know 12 plus months. So been an exciting journey And Darva Hello, I'm Darva Satcher. I am a native of Oakland, California But I presently reside in Atlanta, Georgia I started at GitLab June of 2019 and I started as an engineering manager here for the create knowledge and create editor teams and Right now I'm in transitioning into a senior manager for development role. Okay, wonderful. Thank you, Brittany Hi everyone, I'm Brittany Rodie. I've been at GitLab for just over four years So we were a very different company when I first joined I think there was about 50 to 60 people at the time. So being able to see this company grow and expand It's up to 1300 has been really excited and challenging I've been part of total awards since the function was created at the company and so enjoying also scaling that organization as well I'm located in DC as well Alright, and Erica Yes, I am Erica Flowers. I Managed a digital production team. So that's all things audio video visual and all that fun stuff and I have been at GitLab for Just under three years now and we're closing out a great team here Well, thank you very much for those introductions and let's get started with our questions So I want to pose the first one to Brittany and to Darva Can you tell us about the opportunities around mentorship that are available here at GitLab? Informally for myself, I actually reached out and asked if a handful of people would be willing to mentor me so when I started to Move into a leadership role first into management and moving the senior management It's you know, I wanted to be able to talk with a peer who was at a similar level to me that I you know I'm aspiring to be at and so having someone within the people group to come to kind of just run different managerial situations past and talk through different Ways to respond ways to react and how to improve myself as a manager since that was a new skill that I was building and then Also asking one of our executives to be sort of an executive sponsor and mentor for me to understand Different parts of the organization than just the people group, which is where I've historically spent my career So having sort of that broad-based understanding and knowledge being able to think about Situations in different ways has been really helpful for me to be able to grow and develop You know and I encourage team members at GitLab to do the same I was actually inspired to do this through our CEO shadow program Where I you know heard people talking about mentorship got to see a lot of different parts of the organization And so then I just raised my hand and asked, you know, my mentors were, you know Very happy to speak with me on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and it's been a wonderful experience since then Follow-up on that. Brittany, you are awesome. I didn't realize you just became a man Go, Brittany So I participated in three formal mentoring programs here at GitLab So I've had a different role in each program. The first one is a program we did with Plato HQ And it was setting up engineering managers with outside senior management. So these are mentors outside of GitLab It's been a really great experience I can go outside the company and get a different perspective on how to handle different issues I'm able to go to my mentor and explain to him. These are my weaknesses Can you help me now be a cheerleader help me move on to the next level and through the process I have been able to go through the process of promotion And I think that my mentor has really been helpful in that respect for me I've also participated in developing a mentoring program with them MIT minorities and tech Organization that program is a little bit more formal We have 20 mentees that are in the minorities and tech program that are paired with leaders at GitLab They work together for a period of three months and they get personal one-on-one development But also work on a project that's impactful to GitLab I think this has been wildly successful because you're growing team members and you're growing the product and you're making better Process so really excited about that the third program. I was involved with is the engineering internship program So that's when GitLab reaches out to University students outside of the company and we mentor them and we teach them skills about career Agile development Get lab working in a remote environment and this was a really successful program We had four participants and 50% of them were women and I will say 42% of the MIT mentees Were women so those are three areas that GitLab has been really engaged in and the final area I was not participant of but that was the women in sales mentoring ship program And that program is when you have an individual mentor with someone in leadership And then they have monthly coaching panels where they discuss various topics and Topics related to women so transitioning your career work like balance things like that So I'll end it by saying that GitLab is truly invested in mentoring and the representative team members and Just women in general Thank you for sharing that there's just some fascinating experiences that tell me you've had Brittany and and Darva Darva, can you tell us a little bit about? How GitLab is demonstrating a commitment to supporting gender diversity? Yeah, this one is interesting because I know this is the women's panel, but we truly do support all Diversity gender and non-gender right? So I'm gonna speak to the women gender in particular The first thing that I learned here was I had to change my vocabulary. I'm notorious for saying guys I grew up in that generation. I don't say So at GitLab we have a list of misused words and words that you know, you should avoid And I really appreciate the fact that I'm learning and growing and just the way I speak and and I feel that's very supportive for women Another thing that was mentioned in the previous session was the women's slack channel This is a great safe space for us We talk about the latest articles that are being published related to women in industry or challenges we have to COVID And also if we have questions and we just need advice in a traditional company Where you're walking into the office, you're usually not going to have a lot of well in my position Engineering they're not a lot of women peers but at GitLab I feel like there are tons of women They're from all over the world and every you know department you have marketing sales engineering So I feel like I'm very supportive just by going to that channel And the the other thing that I wanted to mention is in the previous session there There's a women's team MRG that's a team member resource group Which is also a group dedicated to supporting and growing and developing women at GitLab And the final thing that I love about GitLab is the parental leave policy. I'm a mom If you are having I think your first child you get the first 16 weeks 100% pay Okay, that's new for me I know in other countries, maybe they have it a little better, but that is fantastic And also they focus on pay equity, which is also very near and dear to my heart So I think GitLab does an excellent job supporting women Sequent children as well. So first child is in any other ones that you have as well And the other thing that you know, I think is important about our parental leave policy Is that it's not just for women, but it's also for it's a parental leave policy for both genders As well as with any type of event that led to a child coming into your life Which is amazing because when I had children that wasn't even a thought So I'm excited to work for a company that that that supports this Thanks for bringing those things up Christie, can we start with you this time? Can you tell us how the experience here at GitLab has been different than your experience at other companies? And then maybe Brittany and if there's time Erica jump jump into Um, so I'll say I've worked in tech for 20 years So a very very long time And I've been really pleased to have a good experience overall, but GitLab is really an exceptional experience Um, it's a place where I really feel like my voice is heard um I think the fact that we work so asynchronously is a big part of that And then also the fact that uh, we're virtual. I think in a lot of ways it adds to that One of the things that stands out to me is that at every meeting at GitLab We have an agenda, which is nice just because meetings are much more pleasant when you have an agenda But in addition to that it's a real level leveler. Um, it's a really democratized way of making sure that everyone's voice is heard because We update the agenda in real time So as we're having a conversation If you have something to add you put your name in the agenda You put a high level view of what it is you want to add and then you're next in line And you get to speak and people make sure that you really do get to have your voice heard Which is incredibly empowering and it makes sure that even folks who Um have a tendency not to feel as confident speaking up will speak up Um, I also will say that I've had allies at GitLab where you know, and look it happens inadvertently where you go to speak and you And it's something that you are an expert on and someone speaks over you and I've had allies stop People and say wait a minute Christie's the expert on this. You need to let her speak Which I think is a really Unique experience that I've really appreciated Thanks, Christie Brittany. Yeah, and I think the the piece that's interesting for me is out of all of those meetings or out of anything that we do The radical transparency of posting that in the handbook so that other companies can also Have learnings or be able to review how GitLab works so that if you were to apply to GitLab If you were to perhaps transition to a different role at the company You have the ability to see not only what the you know Like policies look like the how they're actually processed step by step within the handbook For myself moving from a more traditional human resources environment Which transparency does not typically go hand in hand with a lot of you know people or human resources functions and other companies and so it's been really refreshing for me to see how Changing that can be to the way that we work getting different insights diversity of thought and being able to take all of that into consideration before we implement anything New is really helpful as part of any change management process that other companies might not happen in the same way So it's interesting to see kind of that difference The other thing is just being able to work remotely and you know, it's exciting seeing this become more and more common I'm super passionate about remote work because I wouldn't be able to have a career if I wasn't working remotely my significant other we move Well, I've moved four times in four years. So To different states and so, you know that creates a bit of a gap in your resume if you're Popping from co-located jobs every single time and so being able to have that continuity in a professional career And balance kids and dogs and you know everything else that kind of goes on in your life Is is wonderful and and very different from other companies I've worked at Erica, how does this play into collaboration in your opinion? Um, I think it's it's great to have folks Engaged especially when you're in all remote environment. Sometimes people are in a bubble And no one really knows what's happening in anyone else's world and there's this feeling of isolation But um with GitLab and the way we do things even though we're all remote, you know, I mean, I've I've fostered More relationships in an all remote job than I have And some, you know traditional roles because of all the collaborative work that we do together as an organization and cost-functional Over like different departments or organizations. So I think that's, you know A huge benefit of the way that we do remote work Well, you mentioned the interesting situation we're all in right now and you know, so balancing your Your job and personal life has become very difficult During COVID-19, right?  I think when when the pandemic, you know for for myself it started in, you know, kind of mid-march when Things started to become a little bit different and my daughter was home with me 100 of the time because her school was completely shut down she's too so she is Right at the rational reasoning step being able to understand why we have to do different things at a certain time She's also very entertaining. So it makes up for all of the lack of reasoning But it can be difficult to balance I I have to, you know Do this work and meet these, you know results that I had promised to my team and to my company that I would do In this new forum and so finding a new schedule and also not reverting back to a more traditional setting of I am now a mother who's expected to keep my house my children and my job all Running at, you know, the top of my game. That's not it's not an expectation that I wanted to set for myself My partner and I You know set up certain ways in which we could mitigate some of that But that was a bit of a fear in the beginning is we have women have come so far And having everything shut down not having the help that you typically would have with schools being open Your partner being able to have a flexible schedule Maybe family members that you see on a regular basis that can help you Really did scare me at first, you know, I think things have started to level out and we've come into a new routine or a new normal but also keeping Up with productivity and how am I going to keep up with productivity? I was really fortunate that the ceo shadow program that I had referenced earlier ended just about a month before the pandemic hit and so I had learned a lot about productivity and efficiency and sort of reinvigorating is a lot of those learnings that we talk about At an executive level and I was able to bring that into How i'm going to be productive in this new normal with a two-year-old having her in a meeting and also You know the acceptance from my team when I'd randomly be speaking and she'd start screaming behind me And I just knew and everyone would laugh and we'd move on to the next thing It wasn't a topic of conversation So I think all of those factors combined me setting new expectations acceptance from you know the company and from your peers on what you can and can't do and being really Communicative and collaborative and and how we make that happen going forward Help to make it a bit of a better situation Okay, that that sounds great Erica, do you have any advice that you might be able to offer in this type of situation? Yeah, I think one of the biggest things that folks can do in this situation is to give themselves some grace You know and make sure that you are you know taking time out for your friends for your family and for yourself and self care Um, there's a lot of people out there who are like Oh, this COVID-19 time has been so great for me because I've been able to slow down and You know have my zen moments and all that which is great for those people But for some people like myself um in digital production Everything has pivoted straight to video right so it has caused this major ramp up And I think our events team can also feel that pain as well in terms of having to change the way they do things So, you know don't feel that pressure to you know feel like this is just this amazing, you know Zenny moment because for everyone it's a pandemic, right? So it's stressful, but you know that whole time of self-care and all those things you have to Create that time for yourself and create hard boundaries and you know For work and all other parts of your life to make sure that you are taking care of yourself But you can take care of your family and be there for your friends and the family and everyone else so I think um Don't feel the pressure to Feel what everyone else is feeling and do what everyone else is doing You know reflect on what your needs are and your family's needs are and and go towards that That's excellent advice erica. Thank you for sharing that um as as women in leadership you you face some unique challenges Can you provide some advice on to other women about what to do as they pursue leadership positions in their own careers Chrissy, can you can you start us out? um So I'll start by saying imposter syndrome is a real thing. Um, and I'll be vulnerable and admit that I have imposter syndrome um Men and women experience it depending on who they are but as women we're more inclined to experience it So some of my advice would be around Don't assume that you're less qualified than your peers. Uh, because chances are you're not You have a lot of really amazing skills to offer um, and then also don't assume that when you are looking at an open role that every Qualification that's listed on that role is an absolute requirement because I can tell you as someone who has hired Many many many people in my career. That's not the case. Um, You know, we're talking about our ideal candidate and we're aware that You know what ultimately ends up being our best candidate may not hit 100 of those qualifications And they're still awesome and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. So don't hold yourself back um Another piece of advice I have is to help other women along the way Um, you know, we always want the best person in a position. I'm not going to hire someone because they are a woman Um, you know, we we always want to make sure that we're hiring fairly and that we're hiring the best person Uh, that being said as women in leadership We have an opportunity to give other women a hand up and to make sure that biases That might have come into the process We can make sure that those stay out and that we are offering women the same opportunities that men get Um, and then lastly, I'll just say speak up. Your voice is important It deserves to be heard just as much as anyone else's A lot of that comes down to just confidence that yeah, you have something valuable to add So go ahead and add it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry after the fact about whether what you said was Right or perfect. Just get in there. Get your voice heard. It's important and it encourages other women to do the same thing When they see you do that Thank you for being vulnerable with that christie because I think that a lot of us have that same sort of feeling um Erica your thoughts Um, I you know would echo uh, some of the points that christie has made I think you know, it could be difficult for folks who have a hard time reconciling that you are an authority Um or an expert in a certain area or subject Especially when you're in a field that's traditionally male heavy I'm working in tech and I'm also working in production. Which is also very male heavy, so um Then you also have to add to that There's all these cool apps and ways that people can create their own videos and graphics and all these things So everyone thinks that they are a pro at production now, right? Which is great, but you know, you have to exert, you know, your authority and your expertise and make sure that you know While you don't feel the burden of having to know everything make sure that you highlight your expertise and You know, don't also because I think sometimes this happens and I've had you know If I have experiences where you know folks will tell me Particularly males that I don't need to exert myself or voice my experience or expertise in the field, but There's no reason to stay mum about what you know I mean other folks are free to you know Talk about how great they are at everything and what they've done So you should feel free to to do that yourself. Um, just you know, don't be egotistical about it Be do it in a non-english physical manner that illustrates also your openness collaboration You always want to be open to collaborate, but you also need to make it known that you know, hey I got this right And then also I would say, you know, sometimes it's just as simple as letting your work speak for itself and do time you know folks kind of figure out like Maybe she does know what she's talking about right and so You know just let your work speak for itself But also speak up and don't hesitate to make suggestions and voice your opinion Um, it is difficult not to second guess yourself and you know, I've done that sometimes and then it's like Someone else to say the same thing that I I already thought like two weeks ago or wanted to say it But didn't say it because I was like, you know, so, you know speak up and don't second guess yourself because No one, you know, no one's perfect. No one's gonna get everything right. So still be yourself up Choice words. Thank you And d'arva, can you wrap that question up for us, please? Yes, very quickly. Um, so There was a time that I would say to myself They're not many people who look like me in this room In this organization and this career And what I want to say is don't worry about it Someone has to be the first woman Someone has to show the next generation of leaders what they can become and all of the men my male peers that I've had When it comes right down to it, we're all focused on credit Collaboration results efficiency diversity inclusion belonging iteration and transparency We connect on those levels Point I forget that I'm the only one in the room More similarities than differences And I think that's one of the most awesome things about GitLab is the inclusivity to bring that back About everyone belongs here And we all have our part to play because we can all contribute. So thank you all Unfortunately, we're out of time. We could talk forever with this stellar group of women that I admire so much So thank you all for participating In this panel and for sharing your very vulnerable and candid moments with us So thanks for joining and thank you ladies


greetings and welcome to the introduction to astronomy. In this video we are going to look at the moon landings and more specifically talk a little bit about the idea or the idea that the moon landings were a hoax. So that is what some people believe and as you may expect being an astronomer it is not something that I believe but I do think it is important to go through and look at some of their arguments and some of the evidence to show that we really did land on the moon six times back in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. So as we go ahead and get started here first of all as I've mentioned we had six missions that landed on the moon those were the Apollo missions using the Saturn five rocket scene launching here and in a rocket like this the vast majority of this is all fuel so that is the fuel that is needed to lift something out of the Earth's gravitational well and get it into space and in this case on to the moon. Now the Apollo missions there were six of them that were successful and that landed on the moon and they are shown here the landing sites at least for Apollo 11 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. They landed at various places between July of 1969 and December of 1972 and they explored those six portions of the moon there were 18 astronauts three permission 12 of them would have landed on the moon and walked on the surface the other six would have been the commander command module pilots who stayed in orbit around the moon so there were a number of 12 astronauts who walked on the surface of the moon over these three and a half years. Now even today having seen this and having some of this we know that there are still some doubts by some people as to whether these landings actually occurred. So we have some images here taken showing the astronauts the lunar lander itself the flag over here and then of course some instruments but some people do still doubt this and we want to look at some of the evidence that says that yes we really did land on the moon so what are some of the some of the direct evidence well first of all direct observations of the astronauts we have a number of astronauts who've been to the moon and they have they have their direct experience oh as long as we believe them we know that we landed on the moon we also have moon rocks that have been returned to earth so an example here is one of the moon rocks that is shown and has been been studied we've returned many hundreds of pounds of moon rocks to be studied here on earth and it is one of the few objects in the solar system that we actually have samples of to be able to study directly. Now of course this could is this to convince someone of this if someone believes this is a conspiracy or hoax how does the average person know that this is a moon rock and not something else not just an ordinary earth rock or different type of earth rock so that is something that requires specific study and does require accepting what NASA tells us about them we can also see the landing sites from things like the lunar reconnaissance orbiter that is now in orbit around the moon and here we can see one of the Apollo landing sites the lunar module right there some of the cameras some of the different equipment that was left behind is still visible today and you can also in some cases see the tracks that the astronauts may have taken so as they traveled across the lunar surface we would see the paths where they churned up the lunar soil and we can see that as well now could this be faked and this is what people will argue I mean this is not going to convince anybody because if you do not believe that NASA took people to the moon then you're unlikely to believe their observations from their orbiting spacecraft orbiting the moon or even if they truly have that so could this all be faked so let's look at some of the evidence that we're going to see because things like this if you don't believe NASA then and it's all a hoax then things like these are all going to be not going to convince anybody who believes that this is a conspiracy or a hoax so let's look at some of the evidence for this so what do some of the people who claim this is a hoax say well one is why are there no stars in the sky it's a dark we should be able to see stars here because the moon has no atmosphere it's not illuminated during the day so unlike earth where the sky is brightened because of the atmosphere on the moon it is dark and you should be able to see the stars and were you on the moon and looked up you would be able to see stars there however they would not be recorded in the camera images and that's just because of the contrast you would have very faint stars in the sky as compared to a very relatively bright lunar surface so it's like trying to get images that have something very bright so a bright beach image or a bright snow image and then trying to get detail on something dark if you want to get the stars in the image you would have to vastly overexpose the lunar surface if you take an image like this one where you're able to see the lunar surface then you're not going to be able to see the stars and there are some images such as this one here where we do see the stars this was taken by an ultraviolet telescope on the moon set up by one of the Apollo missions and we can see the earth there and we can see a number of stars and if we calculate what stars these were what their positions are it is completely consistent with them being taken from the surface of the moon and showing all of this so we do have some images it's just you can't get all of them together and as you notice here the earth itself is pretty well overexposed in order to pick up some of these fainter stars so that is one example another is the flag the flag on the moon looks like it's waving so why would the flag be waving in the lack of atmosphere on the moon well it could have been moving there's no reason it wouldn't have moved as they were setting it up but once it stayed in one position then it would remain in that position because there are no other forces to act upon it it did not extend completely the rod up here which holds it did not extend completely which is why it will appear a little bit wrinkled but we can also look if we look at our next image here where we see this how can we tell that this is actually consistent well we have a couple different images and these are two different images taken and then put together and we can see the astronaut is in two different images different positions however the flag is exactly the same in both cases were the flag moving we would not have exactly the same ripples in these two different images and that's showing that the flag has not changed its positioning between the time these two images were taken so the fact that the flag is appears to be rippled is not that it is actually moving it is just a matter of how the retaining rod holding it failed to extend and giving it sort of a more realistic type view but it would change as any flag here if you took two pictures of a flag on the earth they would never be exactly the same now as we continue to look how about the prop numbers on the moon rocks sometimes that is claimed here and what we're going to look at is one specific rock here and that is this one and if we zoom in on that one a picture another picture taken of it appears to have a prop number a prop letter the letter c on it and we go to the next image here that's that same rock that we looked at in the previous image that's the one over here and we see it again we see the letter c apparently on it and what is that is that a prop number that it was numbered as to its positioning or something as to where it should have been or what we believe is more likely it since it is not present on the original image is that it is just probably a piece of hair or something that got caught in the scanning and appeared then appears so it is not an actual letter c written on the rock and because if that were the case we would have seen it in the previous image as well and in the previous image although not zoomed in as well here although you can pull up this image you will not see any kind of sign of that and you should see that a sign of that a letter towards this side of the rock and that is completely not visible in the original image so not any prop numbers there on the rocks next where is the camera where is the camera in an image like this here we can see the image of the astronaut and there in the four there in the reflection is the astronaut taking the image and he's not holding up a camera well as you might imagine in a bulky spacesuit like this the astronaut is not going to be able to hold the camera and they needed their arms free for their emissions so the cameras were actually embedded right into the spacesuit so the astronaut is taking the image that's correct but his hand is on his chest which is where the camera was embedded and that was what is allowed to take the image of this so where is the camera well it's actually been embedded into the spacesuit so that the astronauts did not have to carry them around and then finally how about objects being illuminated one of the other thoughts is that on the on the moon there is the sun is illuminating everything so you have only the sun illuminating so everything opposite the sun should be completely in shadow so why is part of the lunar rover why is half of the astronaut or any other object that we see here still illuminated now you can see that there are definitely shadows being cast on this side of the astronaut it's much brighter with the sun coming in from this direction and this side is much fainter now what they say would be true if the sun were the only source of illumination however there are other sources of illumination as well the earth being one of them so where is the earth in the sky sunlight strikes the earth and then bounces to the moon we know that so the earth would be giving some illumination not near as much as the sun but just as here on the on the um earth you can go out on a full moon and see things relatively well by the light of the full moon you get some illumination from the moon you do get some illumination from the earth as well now that would also be much brighter because the earth reflects more light than the moon does and it is also larger so it has a larger surface area the moon appears larger uh the sorry the earth appears larger in the sky when you're on the moon then the moon does here on the earth you can also get reflection from the ground so just as things can be illuminated from the ground on the earth when you have something very bright and reflective sand or snow you can do the same thing here so the ground being illuminated by this by the sun where does that light go well some of it can reflect off the lunar lander off the astronaut off any of the instruments there to be able to give them some light not and they were not and that's why they are not completely dark so those were a few of the pieces of evidence and some of the photographic evidence that i wanted to discuss obviously i can't discuss everything in the time i have here but i did want to mention a few other things before i finish up and some of the other thoughts that i wanted to look at is how about the reflectors on the moon the astronauts place some instruments there which can be detected from earth so we can shine lasers to them bounce them off this and would be able to detect them here on earth so we know that the astronauts did place these instruments there radio transmissions are another big one how do we have radio transmissions well what does this mean if we think about this this is back in the late 1960s early 1970s and the radio transmissions were coming from the moon now of course everyone's going to say that nasa is just faking that but that would have involved other countries being involved in the conspiracy as well including the soviet union now the soviet union and the united states were of course in the middle of a cold war at the time and would the soviet union would have been easily able to tell if these signals were coming from orbit or were coming from satellites you could very easily triangulate the location and they would have known if these were not coming from the moon so it's hard to believe that at that point in time specifically that the soviet union would have let the united states get away with faking the moon landings um why is there no communications delay well there actually is if you go to the original uh tapes there should be about a two second delay because of the time it takes a signal to get to the moon and back radio signals travel at the speed of light so it would take a couple seconds so if uh the mission control were to ask a question you might hear a couple of second delay before you get a response in many cases this would be edited out when these are shown just because it would allow us things to move a little quicker when you can take off that couple seconds every single time that adds up to a significant amount of time and allows a better flow but the original tapes do show a delay uh there's also arguments that the astronauts could not have made it because of radiation the van allen radiation belts that the astronauts would have passed through would be very intense radiation and could be very damaging however the shielding of the astronauts uh and their spacecraft would be sufficient to be able to cover them for the time they traveled through these belts um in the longest case it probably took them an hour or so to get through one of the belts and that the shielding of the spacecraft would be sufficient to have kept their radiation doses to a typical ordinary level here on earth over that short of time yes you don't want to just live in the radiation belts that would eventually would be damaging but the time it took them to travel through them that would not have been significant and then finally the last thing I wanted to look at was how about gravity on the moon so we know that the moon has less massive than the earth and therefore has less gravity so here we have a clip from the Apollo 15 mission showing an astronaut with a hammer and a feather in his right hand is the hammer in his left hand is the feather so he's going to drop these two here in just a little bit and we will watch them fall and I want you to note two things first of all you note that they fall at the same rate now a hammer and a feather dropped here on earth will not fall at the same rate that will only happen in a vacuum where there is no air resistance to hold up the hammer and you'll also note that they fall at this at a much slower rate than they would here on earth so if you can imagine dropping a hammer here on earth it would fall very quickly and here it kind of falls relatively slow that's because of the lower gravity about one sixth of the earth's gravity on the moon so we notice that those two things happen and those would be difficult to reproduce in the in the in a studio here on earth how could we get a complete vacuum in order for that feather to fall just as fast as a hammer and we'd also have to simulate that things were falling at a much slower rate so two very difficult things to do especially when this was done live on tv so just a few things to think about in terms of this so let's go ahead and finish up as we do with our summary and what we looked at and I mentioned between 1969 and 1972 we had 12 astronauts who walked on the moon although to this day there are some who still believe that this never happened and to really to doubt these requires a complete disbelief in everything nasa and not just nasa but other space agencies has done so we have demonstrations not only from nasa but from other countries who have been able to find with their spacecraft evidence of the lunar landings the difficulty is of course we cannot see them from earth so when we look at these we can't see the lunar lander with even the most powerful telescope here on earth that's just not possible the resolution is insufficient to see something that small but spacecraft from nasa and from other countries have been able to do these from lunar orbit so as long as you accept what nasa has done in being able to put astronauts into orbit then it is perfectly reasonable and based on the evidence that yes we did send astronauts to the moon back about 50 years ago so that concludes this lecture on the moon landings we'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy so until then have a great day everyone and i will see you in class


Welcome, this is Melissa Armo, the stock swishing and reviewing Walmart. This definitely was the gap of the week and had a long discussion about this in the trading room yesterday. This is an option trade. If you're in it, you're in it. It looks amazing because quite frankly, it is gonna take off like a rocket when it hits probably over 100. Over 100 and over the high from yesterday. The earnings was last night. This was the day trade in the trading room yesterday. And it looks amazing here. I mean, I can't say one bad thing about this Walmart. So the high of yesterday was 121. The market is attempting to hold and it is holding, wow. So Walmart is higher. For the people that stuck with it, if you took it, depending on what price you took it yesterday, as far as the option, you might've been down yesterday, but this is going to work. So sometimes they work the day that I call them. Sometimes they take one or two days. So this is one that you knew into the close and it was gonna take more than the one day, but I felt extremely confident with this. The day trade did work yesterday. And we'll see really where this goes. Again, previous highs of Walmart is 110. And I honestly, honestly believe that this is going to make new highs sooner rather than later. And this is rallying, even though the market is rallying today, this I think would be rallying anyways, but it did gap down with the market today. That's the reason it gap down. It held very well. It looks like it rallied right out of the gate. So Walmart is the gap of the week. It's a bullish gap, which is unusual, but it definitely is the gap of this week for the long-term trades. Let's put it that way. Macy's was the gap of the week for the shorts for the day trades, but this for long-term trades, Walmart really, I just can't say enough about this. So good luck to everyone that's in the trade and we'll see where it goes.


Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We go 5 days a week. We go 10 hours a day. We go 24 hours a day on the internet at TFNN.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about. Whatever you focus on grows. Hope all events are great day, safe day. It's making a great night, folks. Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that's not the love that will make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside of you. That is the love that will make the difference. Mug it wise. Let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries down 10, Nasdaq up 57, S&Ps up 13 and a half. Gold contract down $4.70. Try the 360 at $14.11 an ounce. Silver off 8 cents. $15.20 an ounce. Light sweet crude. Flat $59.21 a barrel. Notes and bonds. You get the 10-year note. Up 8 ticks. $127.27. The 30-year bond. Up 19 at $155.18. King dollar. King dollar up 12.6. Trading $95.7.40. The euro is at $113.00 to $1.00 US dollar. The yen is at $107.00. And the pound is trading at $126.00 to $1.00 US dollar. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. I want to know what's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Okay, so, spy out here. Anemic volume on the way up. Bottom line, though, you're in an ABC structure on the way up. I expect you're going to finish this ABC structure. When you take a look at the spy, what we have with the spy out here, we did 38 million shares. Anemic volume. You're 291.52. The last high of last week was 296. This ABC structure is 303. So, it's quite a... That's a lot of points. We'll see how it shakes out. You come into the end of the month. You're coming into July 4th holiday. We're coming into the G20. Somehow, I suspect that's going to finish off. Now, that being said, what you have here is this.  Then, you are going to go right back downtown. NDX100. Same setup inside the NDX. What we have with the NDX right now, you went higher today. 18 million shares. That is absolutely anemic. You're coming into the 33 million. Same type of setup, though. The NDX wants to get up into that high. Let me see. At the end, well, the Q is 185 as you be. It's a big one, man. Yeah, you get 16 bucks, which gets you the 181.196. That would be cool. That's still 10 bucks higher. That's a number. No doubt about it. Gold contract. What do we have here? Gold. This is where we're going to get some big action, folks. The gold contract, the note and bonds, and the dollar. Gold, notes and bonds are in ABC structures in the way up. Dolls, ABC structure in the way down. We're going to take a look at this gold contract out here today. You've done 323,000 contracts. You're down 340. It rejected 1401. You closed at 1412. Nice setup, man. I like this setup coming into the weekend, because if we get an ABC structure up, it's a monster, man. It's 1442 as you be, and 1323 is your A. You were talking about $119, which would get you into 1520 bucks, and we're at 1412 right now. Bottom line, if we go take a look at the GDX, what you're going to see inside the GDX out here, same type of setup. GDX pullback today with 41 million shares. You're going into 101 million, and the GDX is just getting ready to make that run to 31. Right now, the GDX is at 25. If it launches the 31, then you're going to see this baby at all-time highs at 66. The 31 is laying out here from the highs of August of 2016. That was the last huge run that we had. If you win that run, you know that these equities are up a couple hundred percent. They started in January. It was a one-way move. We started in January at $12.40, and you ended up in August at $31, huge move. This one here, as you can see, we started at 20. Bottom line is that if we took the same correlation, which is kind of cool, 12 to 30, 12, yes, 24, well, let's say two and a half. That would get really interesting, because you do two and a half, you end up with somewhere about 50 bucks. We'll see where the baby shakes out, but it does want higher price. Notes and bonds also want higher price lower yield. What we did out here in the note market today, we did reject lower price. You had light of all, and we did 1.27 million contracts. You got to a price point of 1.2712. You were coming into 1.9 million contracts, so you can see you didn't have any sellers. You rejected lower price. You finished at the high of the day. They still want higher price. Right now, the yield is 2.007, 2.012, actually, and king dollar. What do we have with king dollar? King dollar out here, folks. Bottom line, setting up a nice ABC structure on the way down, having a really tough time holding price whatsoever. And if we take a look at this, what you're going to see inside king dollar is that we got to a price point today of 95.920. You did 10,500 contracts. You closed at 95.750, which is under the highs of the last two days, and you had lighter volume. Your B point on this is the low that was established on Tuesday, which is 95.365. It's a two penny A to B equals C to D, and if that's what we get, that means you're going to come down to the 93.920. And if we put this on a continuous contract, you're going to see that the 94 level is your next level on the way down. And if we break this 94 level, then what you're going to see out here, the 94 level, by the way, is where we've been consolidating all the way back since October. You break that 94 level, bottom line, well, yeah, 93.395 to be exact. You break that level, and then game on into 88. So you're talking about a very large number. If in fact we break that, what we have done is this. You have definitely, the dollar index has broken the trend that started at 88. So when you take a look at the trend line and how we broke, and we broke with conviction, that's saying, guess what? That the 88 is game and is game on this run. So when you start putting it all together, meaning you put the Fed fund futures rate as to where interest rates are going, where bonds and notes are going, it's going to be a lot easier for gold and metals in general to go higher. Why? Because interest rates look like they're going back to zero once again. Right now, the Fed fund futures rate is at 2.25 to 2.50. One cut, next cut, is coming 100% probability July 31st. Your next probability is September 18th, and that's a 65% probability.  That means we're down to that 1.75. Coming right back, folks.