Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Residoxie. My name is David and this is a top 10 Hey today, we're gonna look at the top 10 decks from Illusionist, illusionist.com Now if you don't know about Illusionist, Illusionist was founded on January 1st, 2001 by Brad Christian Now 2001, very pivotal year because David Blaine had just aired his frozen in time special So he had done his frozen in time special. He had actually done three specials by then He'd done Magic Man, Street Magic and frozen in time and we started to see commercials on TV For Illusionist, seriously, like there were commercials on TV Dearing like David Blaine reruns and so you'd see Brad Christian and he was like I'll teach you how to do magic like David Blaine and people were like David Blaine crazy back then and so Brad Christian started to release like his own Street Magic video, Crash Course, a Ninja Inside Magic weapons And then things really took off once Illusionist released their Black Tiger deck and they started making Custom decks and I think that's when Illusionist really just kicked the tires and lit the fires. So Brad's goal Through this whole thing has always been simple. He's wants to create the best online magic Training environment possible with the best possible people who want to learn high-impact tricks who want to learn effective tricks Shocking tricks and Illusionist has grown and grown and grown and their growth has been unprecedented right now today They have about 60,000 fans that interact with their comm They are clearly and easily the largest magic house out there now previously I did a top five for Illusionist. I did a top five my top five videos were kind of dark They're greeny they were they were kind of shaky and I filmed them in my closet So people have been saying do a top 10 and do a top 10. So here are my top 10 Illusionist decks. Are you ready? Let's go coming in at number 10 Arulian. This was designed by Oban Jones Crafted by the United States playing card company. You have an embossed tuck case that's in gold foil You got multi-level embossing fully customized cards. They're smoothly cut Like I said, everything is customized. You got tons of intricate deep detail You're gonna get a double-sided ace of spades king of spades card and a double-backed gaff card I think Arulian takes center stage above anything else in your pocket number nine the absinthe cards These are high quality playing cards. You got green and blue pips on a black card back These cards handle superbly and this deck was only previously available in the past from the prohibition set So if you'd wanted this in the past, that was the only way you could have gotten it And then recently Illusionist has started to release these cards in the single Persele and and this one is my favorite out of that set number eight the LTD This was Peter McKinnon's release and I like them because they're crisp. They're sharp They're understated. They're gorgeous. You got quality cards buttery smooth finish again printed by the United States playing card company all done to Illusionist specifications and this has been released in blue and purple And and white actually and so this is one of my favorite Illusionist decks number seven the 1800s These are ancient and worn and cracked Ripped from history when these first came out. This was on my wish list I'm I think I think my wife actually got me these for my birthday They're available in both red and blue back Okay, and they are actually now available in a reader backs, but I prefer the originals You got quality finish the delivers grunge cracks ancient beauty and yet they're brand new And number six the white ghost the ghost deck when they first came out They kind of marked a new era in playing card elegance. You had this reversed image from the normal deck and It's kind of played off the black tigers that did this to when they first started out and Illusionist kind of did this a Lot they did this reversed image effect But I really love the white the stark white Look you have long-lasting casino grade luxury stock a smooth airflow finish and yeah, these are great cards number five the Carpe noctum from Chris Ramsey I think everybody was waiting for Chris Ramsey's follow-up to memento mori and This deck delivers and boss took case that you got again You got that low poly design that we saw with memento mori earlier It's adorn of this bright flower contrasted against a stark black background. You're gonna get one gaff card You're gonna get a half four of spade half queen of hearts kind of fading into each other But again high-quality playing cards traditionally cut designed for sleight of hand design for magic tricks awesome deck number four the keepers from Adam Wilbur Really high-quality playing cards love this beautiful classic design That you got here. It really kind of blends in with other beautiful Back designs and does kind of look like the bicycle rider back But I think these are great for magic because it's super thin stock superb handling great for sleight of hand great for cardistry Love Adam Wilbur's keepers number three the artifice. Oh, of course We got the artifice in here because I think it's their flagship deck You got prime casino grade stock for control and durability printed from the United States playing card company highest quality control available You got the exclusive performance coding that provides Exceptional handling and you even get a built-in joker reveal that magicians will know how to use number two the Knights by Daniel Madison and Chris Ramsey I super super love this deck Knights are a high-quality playing card Made from the new crushed dock from United States playing card company traditionally cut smooth finish beautifully foiled golden white Matt Custom tech case metallic gold ink designed by Oban Jones designed for magicians designed for gamblers designed for chess players This is a wonderful deck and the back design is a marked deck and coming in at number one the black Tigers, of course, you got to go with the deck that started it all Like I said earlier way back when you know illusionist started this whole reversed image coloring and the people just went crazy for it this dark black Imagery just evokes all these feelings of voodoo witchcraft and it's all burned and blacked into these cards The front of the tech ace is fierce. It's alive Just wow when this deck came out it there was just a lot of energy and a lot of excitement about it on the internet All right, so that is my top 10 of my favorite illusionist decks my top 10. Of course, this is my top 10 It's not your top 10. So if I missed one of your favorites What are one of your favorite decks and just to be clear? I'm gonna do a top 10 of Daniel Madison decks Okay, I will do a top 10 of Daniel Madison decks So that's why I didn't include any Daniel Madison decks in this Video so if you're thinking oh you missed a Daniel Madison Deck don't worry. I'll get to it later But if I didn't cover one of your favorite illusionist decks Tell us what it is in the comment section below so we can check it out. All right. Thanks. Bye


Along the whole day, we had a number of questions and I tried strictly to avoid statements. Well, I believe that now is the time that everyone here present should say whatever they have in mind and start to think about what could be done with this if we are allowed. Yes. So, essentially the question is imagine that I am an entrepreneur or venture capitalist and say, well, part of the computing sounds interesting. Should I apply to what? Which industry? Should I go to gaming? Should I go to genetics? Should I go to financial modeling? Where is the selling point? Because either we are the aim of the mini-conf has been always putting together different areas, academia, industry, community, but towards where? So, let's start with... I don't like telling people where to spend their money, but I might make an observation that it's in fact the gaming, the PC gaming that drove GPU development, which is now sort of coming full circle. And as someone mentioned before, you can rent EC2 instances with GPUs and you can buy for you. Sure, sure. So, yeah, I'm actually going to dodge that question, but I just think it's quite interesting that something that you think of as disposable and consumer and kind of light entertainment has actually spawned a revolution or the makings of a revolution in high performance computing. So, it's a bit of a counter-intuitive outcome, I think. So, boy, what should I do with my money? I was hoping. So, entertainment has been driving the technology for a long time. Used to be in the late 80s, people would brag about getting new machine and their spreadsheet went faster, but mostly it's been the guys playing the molding. Scientific computing is another example, but another example of entertainment more recently has actually been sports. I'm not sure what they do for this part of the world, where I come from and they put a ten yard line, a virtual ten yard line that appears on the television for football, which is how far they have to advance to get another chance to go through things again. And there's also some, there's been some talk about being able to use light-fueled cameras, where you have multiple cameras that collect enough light from enough angles to be able to produce what the absolute direction of light is anywhere in the volume, which could then be used to get a view of the soccer match right on the field looking at something. And that's going to require a huge amount of computation. It's something that the machines are getting cheap enough that you can imagine doing it. And sports is a branch of entertainment where the economics are for professional sports beyond belief. So still it's all about economics and entertainment? Well, you said you want money, I suggest you follow money. I mean that's... Right now in the sports they will sell you a space on the football field and they'll project your ad on top of it after the fact, post as it were, so there's money in that. So Wayne, what do you can tell us about this? I will have a question about the future. I mean a lot of people in this room enjoy parallel programming, so I see because it's hard, but I think the average programmer, the business developer, is going to see parallelism as a burden. It's an extra thing they have to do on top of to simply getting the program cracked and out the door on time. It's something they haven't had to do in the past, they've relied on simply processes getting faster and their program runs faster. So I see it as an added burden, so the unknown to me is what is the mainstream business developer going to have to do in 10 years time? To what extent will they be thinking parallel? There's always going to be a hardcore group that are very happy and need to do the hardcore parallels in development, but to what extent is it going to impact the mainstream developer? That's a question I'd like to pose rather than answer. But the mainstream programmer wouldn't be worried right now? Why wait until 10 years time? The reason I say 10 years is that there may potentially be a transition period where initially now they need to be worried or they need to do something because there is no other feasible alternative, but perhaps 10 or 20 years I'm not sure what the period is, but perhaps in the longer term we'll look back on this as being a transition period where later on arguably the average programmer doesn't have to, for every single, you know, the majority of the program they develop, they may not have to consider parallelism. Really already changed? I mean, Paul has been talking about the history of the last couple of decades, so why wait again? So what I would suggest you do, what I would ask you do, go to a medium-sized company and look at the data center, count the number of CPUs, they're already parallel. They may be using single CPU techniques and wiring together through TCP IP or any number of things, but except for the very tiniest data centers, they are parallel. And these guys working on the data centers have been learning with you or how have you done it? Oh, they make their own mistakes and learn their own lessons, I'm sure. So there's a bunch of different subclasses. Databases have been parallel for decades. Whether application servers are inherently parallel and nobody even thinks twice about it. In fact, all the transaction-based stuff is inherently parallel and nobody's thought twice about it for a long time. But I think what it is, is that not so much that parallelism is new, it's not, but that the change in economics of parallel machines means that things that you wouldn't even think about doing in parallel in the past suddenly aside from a little problem with software, are inherently reasonable to do. Well, we had a funny morning about quantum computing and a lot of interesting things, because I've been, I've always thought, okay, we can do a lot of things that are faster, cheaper, but what about starting to think about new things? Things that we haven't thought ever before that now are feasible either because they are less expensive or simple because they are feasible. So lens. I'm sorry. Quick synopsis, we've seen like most things that we see in this environment, we've seen it in the mainframe world for 20 years. We ran out of processor in single-processor environments, multi-processors came in, locking structures came in. All these discussions I see in this world now about race conditions and overlays and things like this, the techniques aren't new. It's just a matter of getting people to think about it rather than thinking, my program works, I'll whack it on a quad core, three instances of it start up and we get an overlay. Hello. I mean, it's not rocket science. Please, pass it to me. So now we are on beauty. I'm probably, I do small stuff for businesses. So actually, Define small stuff. So conversions from one type of Excel format to another for inter-business communications, basically the garbage level programming. It's only small stuff, it has to be written and it's required. I will tell you now, a lot of the times if I end up using Java, I do not have a choice.  This is that simple. Businesses turn around and ask you for a Java program. At this point, whether you wanted to go single-threaded or not, it is already out the question. The world has changed. You don't have businesses walking up and asking you for BB programs that you can write at a single-threaded piece of junk anymore. They walk up and ask you, we want something portable, we want something usable. And as soon as they start asking you for languages that have that minimal requirement of threading, it's over for the programmer. The concepts of being single-threaded are no more to me. Okay. The world changed, but it seems that some people still hasn't noticed because we heard today that certain things are not parallelized. But as languages change and they get less territory and less jobs, they'll simply be weeded out the market. That's the simple fact of it. The world is changing. The ones who haven't caught up are going to be dead. Okay. We have a mic in the back. We have a mic in the front. So your turn. Yeah, I think learning more than one language is essential. And learning a functional programming language helps you definitely to think in a different way. And I'm convinced that functional programming languages help us understand programming multicore CPUs in a different way. It makes it way so much easier. But I also fear that functional programming languages probably are not mainstream and will never be. Even though it would be a nice world. But I think learning about those concepts, how to write functional programming languages really helps you improving your non-functional programming in a big way and helps you getting around a lot of gadgets that you have in non-functional programming. Yeah, you can ask. So let's say I wanted to learn a functional language. I know you're an Erlang fan. So would you pick Erlang as your first functional language to learn? Or would you pick something else? Obviously, sometimes you get on the web and then you look at some Haskell code and you're like, what the hell? Who wrote this? I can't even read it. It's just soup. So what would you recommend as kind of a first functional language to learn? Okay, I am coming and going. But I would appreciate if that make stars who work too. Okay? Yes. Yeah, I would totally recommend Erlang. Not for the reason that I love the language, but for the reason that it is once you get over the initial hurdle, which you can really literally get over in a day or two, you're at a language that is really easy to read and really easy to understand. Erlang has a very, very clean syntax and Erlang has a very easy and dense way to express problems. And it is very easy to write or to read Erlang code and understand Erlang code and that ultimately helps you write Erlang code. So after about probably a week of tinkering around with Erlang, I promise you you'll be able to write an Erlang program that is substantial enough that you can call it a program and it works well enough that you can run it in production. So it is a language that's easy to get into and it's a language that gives you a good feedback in an early stage already. Please. Okay. So, yes? Sorry, in the same vein, I'd be useful to learn another architecture as well, especially in multi-core programming. You've got different data dependencies, different adieness, things like that, but especially the data dependencies at least. Memory ordering in different architectures are quite important. So if you're programming for ARM instead of your Intel. And what is IBM doing about Erlang? What's IBM doing about Erlang? I'm sure there's, you know, there's over 300,000 people in IBM and if I were able to tell what all of them were doing, they would be very lazy. I'm sure that somebody, there's a bunch of people in IBM doing some of the Erlang. I'm not one of them and I don't know of them. So, okay. It's a good book to learn Erlang and to get into it. It's a very gentle introduction to the basic concepts and then goes off into writing really large-scale applications. I'm not the author. I'm not affiliated. Erlang and OTP in action. Okay. So I, before closing, I want to please all of you, the presence, join me and say thank you to all the people, the volunteers that support us with it. They have done a fantastic job from, oh, yes, yes. The presentations onto the shuttle. Oh, yes. Yes. So if you send it to me, you send everything that I will either on the present or on the website. Thank Nick Kloss for organising the conference. Thank you very much.


Whenever it comes to fashion, it seems that all black is the way to go if you want to play it safe. I mean, it's definitely a fundamental to the outfit creation process, but I don't think it's actually that good. Grayscale is where it's at, and this is the beauty of grayscale in fashion and how it can help you create better outfits. So first off, let's talk about the grayscale spectrum and how it's fundamental to creating your favorite colors. Anyways, the grayscale spectrum is the absence of color. Just take any photo and you drop the saturation slider and you have yourself the grayscale spectrum. Some white, dark and light gray, black of course, and yes, I did shoot this picture myself. Like I said earlier, your favorite colors are created through the grayscale spectrum. You take any color, you add white to it, it's going to move it more towards pastel. And then if you add black to it, it's going to make it more dark. Think of forest green instead of primary green, and adding gray makes an in-betweener. Like olive or clay colors, I think dusty is probably a better term to explain it. Dusty purple, dusty blue. And so yes, the grayscale spectrum is technically monochrome. The proper term is actually achromatic, but I won't be addressing that today. But now you know the two terms. So here's what you're going to do now.   That's always my go-to, but feel free to mix it up. This is the base that'll work for any outfit. And as you can see, this fit alone is already a vibe. Slap on any colored accessories or jackets of choice, and the grayscale canvas just allows a color to speak for itself. I personally think it's even better than an all-black canvas. Like think of Rihanna's anti-album cover. Its base is rooted in the grayscale spectrum, but the two pops of red and gold are striking and make the album aesthetically pleasing. Sometimes mixing a bunch of colors doesn't bode well unless you really know what you're doing, and sometimes all black with a pop color may not look as good either. This fits I'm wearing completely all black with a colored beanie versus a grayscale fit with the same exact beanie. And tell me which one you prefer. Exactly. All black isn't as solid as you think. Now every black garment that you own will always be a different shade, therefore they will all technically be in the grayscale spectrum just leaning more towards the black side. But what I'm encouraging y'all to do is to add a little bit of contrast.  Maybe for a solo fit pic, but the second you stand next to a taller person you're just gonna look short. And I also hear that you should NOT wear white sneakers with black pants and I'm astounded by that. Contrast is not a bad thing and some of the coolest fits are created with black and white. And also some of the most popular sneakers are created with contrast. Anyways, that was a little ramble right there, but let's just say you do want to start off with an all black clean slate.   And as you can see there's endless possibilities. With the grayscale spectrum gray next to black already adds some contrast. It shows intent.  I mean all black does have its time and place, I'm not denying it, but the grayscale spectrum, chef's kiss. Let's showcase some outfits starting with a strictly grayscale outfit. No colored pieces, no colored accessories or jewelry, a truly desaturated outfit. This will showcase your understanding of proportions. And it's probably the easiest because most of y'all got sad boy wardrobes anyways and you don't have to think about any color. You'll want to focus on different cuts and silhouettes. For example, you'll see me wear a white button up instead of a white t-shirts to provide texture and layering versatility. Anyways, we have a pair of wide fit black cargo pants from Fried Rice. These are those cargo pants that came with straps, but I've removed them and I cuffed them to showcase the high top chucks. I've always loved the look of that and moving up instead of a slate gray top, we are gonna roll with the Jill's Saundra button up with a mandarin collar. That's a lack of a collar that stays flush against your neck. It's a unique piece, looks nice without being too, too formal.  And the only gray pieces on the fits are the beanie that I got from Amazon. This titanium ring from a brand called Arxium. It's a really dope piece, check out that brand. They even have Cloud's Buster Sword. And then this wool blend shirt from H&M's premium selection. This is a casual fit, I think most people can rock. There's no crazy trendy pieces. This outfit is built off of staples. And yeah, like I said, this is a fit you can get creative with. There's no color, just focus on cuts and silhouettes. And aha, take a look at this now. All you have to do now is throw on a colored bag, colored headwear or frames. And wow, see how nice it looks? See, I totally get it if you don't like colored tops or colored pants. So if that's you, stick with your grayscale base and spend your money on colored accessories. Colored accessories are much cheaper than let's just say a colored shirt or colored pants if you look for the right piece. And you can wear it over and over again without question, therefore getting more bang for your buck. And so now I think you see where we're going. We're going to start to incorporate a little bit more color. So up next is this classic colder weather outfit. I've done this two ways depending on what you're feeling for the day, depending on the weather also. But here are my staples and probably my most worn pieces during the colder months. The Randy Lusian Cropped Tech Cargos. For those of y'all that are into tech wear, these are basically the Aquanon P30s, just a lot more affordable. I wasn't too sure if I would like the drop crotch look. But now that I got this piece, I'm definitely going to pick up the Aquanon P30s eventually and I'll pass these pants along to family. Not to deny that this piece is still pretty solid for the price. You get a built in adjustable belt that drop crotch look. Removable cuffs for the cropped look and of course a DWR coating making these water repellent. I love the aggressive tapering on this. It starts off really wide and tapers nicely. The other staples are this Slate Gray oversized talentless hoodie and the Jill Saunders Uniclo padded coat, which is also water repellent and super warm. So this would technically count as a tech fit. Those are the staples and footwear wise, it's either a pair of Doc Marins or the Oliver Cabell white leather sneaker. Both pair really well with this fit and stays in that grayscale look. And then I'll slap on any colored accessories.  This one specifically is from a cold wall and I think it's pretty nice. Definitely a little bit pricey, though. So we're going to stay in that grayscale spectrum for the main pieces and accent it with colored accessories. And it's funny, this outfit was actually inspired by this keyboard right here. It just shows that you can get inspired by anything. This keyboard rolls with black, dark gray, light gray and has just a little tiny pop of color. I don't have an orange bag, so I just do on a yellow bag, but you get where I'm going. So yeah, this is a good date outfits or for going out. Y'all saw me on Instagram at this art exhibit, it was pretty dope. And the coats, I'm telling you, I'm going to make a whole entire video about coats, but a coat just makes it so easy to come up with a good fit. And finally, we have a more simplistic fits, but we're really going to embrace color in this one just with that grayscale base. So this time our base consists of the same Oliver Cabell white leather sneakers and the same talentless hoodie. But this time we are going to add some patchwork trousers from the brand Rosen. Y'all know I really love this brand. This one is from the standard Rosen, which focuses on simplicity and avant garde cuts. What I love about this is this comes from their bizarre collection, which up cycles leftover fabrics into a unique piece. And I believe this was a one of a kind piece, but you can get the same piece yourself. It's called the Play-Doh trousers, just all black. This one has your classic soft trouser feel mixed with this patch of gray and it looks pretty sick. And so now we can add some colored pieces. And this time we'll be using a little more color blocking techniques. The jacket is one of my favorite denim jackets I own. This is the collaboration between Levi's and White Mound Nearing from 2020. You see a mix of different shades of blue and olive, which if you guys didn't know, olive is actually green with gray added to it. Making the jacket alone fall under the analogous colors or colors right next to each other on the color wheel. It's why the Windows XP wallpaper is so iconic that blue and green. Anyways, because the jacket is mainly blue, opposite of blue on the color wheel is orange. So I threw on this orange beanie that I got from Amazon and now we are following complimentary color blocking. Then we got some other accessories as well, some jewelry and all that. And like I said, many, many times in this video, the gray scale base allows for these colors to pop. And that's just the beauty of gray scale. Colors just look so good.  I mean, it still looks decent. However, I'm definitely picking the gray scale base every time because almost nobody truly wears all black. There's always some accents of color or some contrast. You have to think about layers, texture. And even then, sometimes it doesn't look great. If you look at almost any products, there's always some sort of contrast of white pop of color. Like just take a look at this lens. If this lens was entirely all black, it just wouldn't look as good. And they even presented it with a gray lens cap. For your average person, I think it's easier to roll with gray scale versus learning about layering, textures, proportions, and all that, that takes time and experience. So there you have it. You've got a lot of options. And this allows you to focus on the basics first.  If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure you give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel and follow me on the other socials, my other channels. And until then, stay fly, deuces.