Silicon Angle Media presents The Cube. Covering Alibaba Cloud's annual conference. Brought to you by Intel. Now, here's John Furrier. I'm John Furrier with Silicon Angle. I'm the based in the United States in Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California. I'm also co-host of The Cube. We go out to the events and extract the signals from the noise. We're here in China. We are here with the business development director of America's for Alibaba Cloud International, Karen Liu. Thanks for taking the time. Sure, absolutely. So it's exciting for us from the US to come to China to hear the Alibaba Cloud story, but I'm blown away by the culture. It's not a B2B tech conference. It's not boring. It's exciting. Talk about the Alibaba Cloud. What's so special about Alibaba Cloud? Sure, Alibaba Cloud is actually the incumbent cloud provider in China. And furthermore, actually, we extend our reach into global market since two years ago. And our strategy for globalize our cloud services is really to bridge up the business communities from overseas to China, from US to China, from US to Asia Pacific, and to connect to the rest of the world as well. So our goal is set up the platform to enable our enterprise customers, our SME, small and medium. And we can utilize that to develop their applications, their vertical solutions to benefit their end users. Alibaba Cloud has become such a long way since 2009. So much has happened. Alibaba Group as a company is not just e-commerce. It's intersecting e-commerce, entertainment and web services, which is the magical form that consumers want. They don't want just a business solution or just do e-commerce. You guys have weaved that formula together. What's special about that formula and why is Alibaba important to the folks in the United States? I think it's all about the ecosystem and what makes the people, the people's community and business community benefit from the services we provided to the world, right? Not just the e-commerce platform we have been running for the past 18 years, but also the entertaining, the map services, location services. The data services like Alibaba Cloud is providing and being able to put all those elements together and benefit people's lives and help to improve users' experience from globally. It's been impressive here in China. Now as you go outside of China in the globalization plan, what's the strategy? What's the tactics? What are you going to do? I think our value is to, as I mentioned earlier, bridge out the business communities, especially to enable the outside world benefit the huge market from mainland China and the rest of the world as well. So I think our key value is to enable the business communities and be able to help them reach out outside the world. And that being said, actually, one of our key globalization strategy is to be able to help SMEs, small and medium companies to benefit the new technologies to the level that they won't be able to get in the past. What's the old technologies? What's some of the statistics or facts, fun facts or Alibaba stats in the US and North America? Your presence there, can you share what the current situation is? Sure. I think things about two years ago when we extend our reach into the US market, we now have more than 2,000 customers from individual to startup, to medium enterprises and to some very large enterprises in the world as well. So people from the communities get to know Alibaba Cloud and get to know Alibaba, not only provide to the e-commerce services, the EWTP platform to the world, we also provide the data technologies, we also provide the technologies to the world that benefit their reach to the world. Everyone talks about data driven, you guys have a very specific data formula, data fueling, not just getting the data from engagement data and user data, but fueling that data in for a user experience. So the question is, as you go outside of China into the US, certainly you have a developer ecosystem, you have a business ecosystem, how do the folks benefit locally in the US? So business, do they have access to China? Is it the services? Is it the technology? Can you share the benefits to the developers and to the businesses? Sure, absolutely. We ran a program called China Connect and that's the program we help the business communities in the US from the ISVs, the independent software vendors from the SaaS providers and developers of communities to be able to develop their applications and software and bring those benefits to China market. And through this process, it's hard to navigate a brand new market, especially in China, without knowing the people, the communities, the culture, the business practices here, right? So we actually provide a platform, a program to help them to get to know the market and help them to lend their business in China through this program and help them of course, expertise their business goals in China. A lot of people want to know what's inside their cloud, it's one of those things where, this mysterious cloud and security is a concern, but partnerships are critical. Talk about what's inside your cloud. Intel's a big partner. What's the Alibaba Intel partnership like? It's a fantastic partnership. We have been established over the past few years and actually Intel is one of our strategic lines in the marketplace. They provide us a lot of from hardware to technology in terms of helping us to establish the platform with the business communities, not only in China, but globally. So we really appreciate Intel's partnership. And moving forward, we're looking for more reciprocal partnership with Intel to be able to form more strategic partnership, to be able to benefit the business communities and people's communities as well. For the folks in the US, I'll say that this is an amazing conference. It's got a million people here. I don't even know the numbers. I'm sure you have the numbers handy, but it's a mix of developers. You have a crowded house here with developers, but you also have some business people. You have key partners. I saw some US companies here. What's the vibe at the event? What's the feeling here? You got a music festival three nights. It's not a boring tech conference. Is that by design? Share the stats. How many people are here? I guess this is the excitement of this conference annually. We actually invite a lot of our customers from US and the rest of the world to join us to share the excitement from China, to share the experience from Alibaba. Just like Jack said, the vision for us is to make people's lives more healthier and happier. The two age strategy from us, it's not just the hardworking, it's also the fun. It's also the excitement for us to share this technology, to share this platform, to enable people to enjoy this technology. The scene I see here, it's interesting. I've seen it Apple in the late 90s when Steve Jobs transformed that company. He had the vision of technology, meaning liberal arts, that became kind of their calling card. You guys have art and science coming together. It's not just scientists and developers. You have artists here, because user experience is super important. Exactly. Is that part of the culture as science and arts comes together? Because Jack is a charismatic leader. He's a cult of personality. Young company. It is. Share the culture. It is. So just like Jack and other executives has been sharing with the community, we want to make sure technology is inclusive elements to everyone in the community, not just for the programmers or developers or the very high-tech companies. It should benefit the entire society. And fun, of course, always as part of it, to make people's life happier and to make users experience more satisfied. You've had a career in international technology industry for a while. You've seen how it's played out in the past. We're in a different world now. It's a global world. The internet has opened up a lot of good things and sometimes not so bad good things. In the US, obviously election and fake news. But as the culture starts connecting, a new kind of normal is evolving. How does Alibaba see themselves in this new world order? I think we see ourselves as an enabler and platform to bring the technology and bring the people and bring the happiness together to benefit everyone in the world, not just the tech sectors or just the e-commerce sectors or just one of the single verticals. We are trying to bring the technologies and the enablement, the platform that everybody can enjoy. That's the core value for us as the inclusive, inclusive technology provider. For the folks in the United States that will see this video, share something that they may not know about Alibaba. That'd be the first time they're getting to see some of the culture and some of the commentary. What should they know about Alibaba as you guys move and become global? They're going to see some services. Is it the services, is it the people with culture? What should they engage with Alibaba Cloud? How should they see Alibaba Cloud? First of all, we are one of the top three cloud providers in the world. If you look at the latest, the government magic country released a couple of weeks ago and that's why globalization is critical for us and we want to be able to reach out to the overseas communities and we want to build up the trust and the confidence with the local business communities like the Raging, we're in the US market for instance. So for us, become the global family is critical for us and this is our vision to bring the values to them as well. That's fantastic. It's a spectacular culture and the ecosystem is just now growing. Open source software is growing exponentially. Global fabric community is developing and there's opportunities for US companies and developers to access China. Talk a little bit more about the potential that entrepreneurs and businesses can have in this global framework. Sure, the beauty of cloud is actually the ecosystem. It's not just one company or one vertical. And for us, for instance, we try to enable the small business especially those startup business by offering them the free resources from our infrastructure at global level. Be able to enable those young people especially to create their own ideas to be innovative and to utilize our resources. Be able to access the technologies like the way the big companies has been invested into. So this is I think as an example for us to commit to this global market. I think for us actually to be part of that family especially in Silicon Valley is critical because of the technologies, because of innovations and because of the mindset in Silicon Valley. So that's why we set up our R&D centers. We set up our front end back office in Silicon Valley as well. Being able to be part of that region and not only to learn the technologies but sense the mindset in that region. I think it's critical for us as well as a Chinese headquartered company but with a global mission. And where in Silicon Valley is your office? We are headquartered in San Mateo, California for US operation. And entrepreneurship is changing in this global. It's exciting. What's the benefit to entrepreneurs? And certainly venture capitalists are highly interested in the China market. They've been in here for a while. Is it coming together? Yes, it is indeed. Actually, not only we funding a lot of the new tech companies, we also being able to help them to find their partners to build up an extended ecosystem in Silicon Valley, in West Coast regions as well as extended from the inner US in Midwest region, Chicago for instance, to New York, Boston areas as well. I noticed on the sponsorship list and partner list in your ecosystem, a logo that is new but is super important in the US is growing like crazy. The cloud native compute foundation is here. And that's the Linux foundation. They're partnering with you. The cloud native developer market is evolving very, very quickly. They're different than the old classic IT developers. And new generations, not IT anymore, it's data is driving it and it's open source. But how do you guys engage with that community? Because clearly, they win with it. Yes, we're actually working with a lot of open source partners like Docker, SAP Pana One and others being able to help them to bring the communities and bring their customers onto our infrastructures and create this kind of platform to help the developer communities to develop their applications. So it's a lot of vertical focus, the solution development paths right now. It's interesting, you mentioned small, you mentioned small, medium-sized enterprises and businesses, but the big enterprises are transforming as well. How did you see Alaba helping them because they're going cloud native, they're going private cloud on premise. You have quantum computing, you have IoT, you have a lot of things. How's the digital transformation message for enterprises and for small businesses don't want to pay the technology tax? I think for large enterprises, the most strategy we have been seeing from the marketplace, one is multi-cloud strategy. People need redundancy. People want to reduce the dependencies for one or two cloud providers. And we work with the other cloud providers in the community to provide interoperabilities to support these multi-cloud strategies. On the other side, a couple of years back, people didn't know what's in the cloud, right? And then people rushed to cloud for everything and now people come back and review the strategies and find out hybrid cloud strategy is more suitable for large enterprises. They have their on-prem architect and infrastructure. Meanwhile, they move some of their applications to cloud. So it's a good combination of on-prem physical infrastructure cloud topology. So we have been seeing the trends for large enterprise clients. For small business, especially for small business, they don't have the upfront huge investment into the infrastructure and we provide them the instant access to the infrastructure, not only from computing, storage, network and the database perspective will put more importantly from security perspective. The Alibaba infrastructure services, I saw part of the display here, very prominent in that equation.  What can you share about the under the hood? What's the technology look like? What's the engine of Alibaba cloud? How mature is it? What's to do? Where's the strategic direction? Say blockchain is important, but now that's changing everything. So there's all these new waves coming. Yes, just like a Gartner Magic Pong Tree indicated two months ago, if you look at the overall qualifications to be a world lead cloud provider, world number four, after AWS, Microsoft, Azure and Google Cloud. But if you look at market share and revenue, world number three. So that being said, we actually provide a very comprehensive technology and the infrastructure to the business communities and people's communities. For instance, from the global footprint perspective, right now we have 14 regions pretty much covered all the major market in the world. And by the end of this year into the beginning of next year, we're going to activate another two to three regions, make it 16 to 17 regions globally and then we can offer the global cloud solutions for the big and small businesses. That's exciting. And Silicon Valley is certainly important, our home base. Are you guys hiring? Is there expanding share a little bit of a public service announcement on what's going on in the Silicon Valley area? You guys hiring, looking for engineers? What kind of people are you looking for? Yes, great question actually. We are hiring and we're looking for talented professionals. Join us from those marketing business development to cloud architect to technical cloud management to marketing for instance. So we want to build up a business that we can truly build up the trust with the local business communities. That's why we hire a lot of local talented young professionals and they help them to be able to fit into the culture, very unique culture of Alibaba and also be able to contribute to this journey, very exciting journey. China has always been big. Everyone in the United States knows the numbers are big here in terms of mobile deployment, I mean app size. So a lot of people in the US look at China and say, wow, we can collaborate with China. It's a very nice distribution system but they got to take care of their needs at home. Exactly. This is a big part of the undercurrent we're hearing. How do you guys help? Well, globalization is always critical for any business, right? Even for some small business, just like Jack Ma said this morning at his speech, even for small business, they need to globalize, they need to reach out to more business communities and more customers. So for us actually, we, because of the huge market in China, because of the AWTP platform we set up globally, because Alibaba cloud infrastructure and our global footprint, we actually be able to help our customers not only access infrastructure from a cloud perspective, but also help them to leverage our ecosystem from different business units and our partnership to be able to help them to expedite their business in China and globally. That's exciting.  Everyone always says, I hear comments like, we have to own the developer community. Not that you could own the developer, or no one wants to be owned, but what they mean is they want to win over the hearts and minds of developers. A lot of competition, and developers want programmable infrastructure. In DevOps world, that's called DevOps. That is really the new normal in developer community. How do you guys attack that developer market? We actually want to enable the developers community, not home or just win over. We want constantly enable them with the new platform, the new business models, the new programs that we can bring them together. So that's our mission, enablement. Congratulations on a spectacular formula. Thank you. And thanks for having us here at theCUBE and SiliconANGLE, and thanks for your time. Thank you so much for the opportunity. Karen Lu here in China, with theCUBE exclusive coverage in China, bringing the stories of the most important trends in tech and Alibaba cloud, really changing the game with their formula of e-commerce, entertainment and entertainment. This is not B2B boring to boring, exciting music festival. 60,000 people are here at this conference, developers in the world watching. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE. Thanks for watching.


Boom, welcome back to the 21 convention 2022 of Orlando, Florida being held over the 16 year anniversary of 21 studios and 21 convention live events Being held also as well in the larger super duper 21 summit event triple event with patriarch and 22 conventions going on as well Our next speaker is a first-time speaker to the 21 convention Well, he spoke for his first time at 21 summit at the patriarch convention just the other day It's kind of a second time speaking for us. I'm really excited to have met our event I found him on YouTube. I think earlier this year early in the year and I kind of know Homo fell in love right away This guy was a savage. This guy was intense this guy was cutthroat in his approach to what he was saying and His tenacity to go after frauds and expose retards in the manosphere and I love that I wish more men had the balls and the boldness that this guy has He's also a Texas patriarch married father husband out in Texas and he has his huge like 48-year ranch Called the gladiator farm retrains men how to be better men Ultimately though, he's fighting against in America and in our culture against the vaginization. That's vagin Vaginization, excuse me the vaginization of men boys and fathers He wants men to be masculine and he's doing a great job of that on his channel. So without further ado I'm proud to announce Paul Caldwell Caldwell to the 21 convention stage Thanks Paul. It's 5 a.m. The morning.  I've got to change that thing. I've got to change that's an annoying ring tone But he said that to himself at least a million times now Once his hand locates the familiar thin rectangle his fingers go an autopilot hitting Whatever button makes a hideous sound go away He starts to think to himself.   Excuse me go freestyle Instead of instead of Reading from that. I'm just gonna go straight from this. I can't see I didn't bring my glasses What I want to talk to you guys today about is discipline or regret This story was this is the first intro. It's the intro to a book that I'm writing and in this story This guy goes through his day the same way over and over again. His alarm goes off The alarm annoys him. He means to reset it to something something more suitable, but he doesn't do it He gets up goes through his day and he inches every he squeezes every minute. He can to stay in his bed Gets in his car Goes down the road 30 minute commute normally takes 40 minute 30 mile commute normally takes him about 40 minutes to get there, but this morning he's flying. There's nobody on the highway So he thinks to himself Man, I'm gonna stop by that 7-eleven and get a coffee. Maybe that hot chicks there in the back of his mind He's thinking maybe I'll have the nuts to say something to her this time But he walks in sees the girl. She smiles at him. It turns into a little boy Mekishly says hello goes and gets his coffee on his way to to work he noticed that the Gaslight was on on his way home the previous night. He meant to put gas in his car But he just didn't feel like doing it. I'll do it in the morning.  He's like, you know, it'll be all right But he doesn't have a gas can and he realizes that he forgot his cell phone on his desk and his haste running out the door So when he finally gets to work the girl that's at the desk don't normally very cordial She has fear in her eyes They normally kick it and she gets bubbly when he comes in but this day There's a more there's a morbid look on her face. She tells them they're waiting for you in the conference room So he goes in and he sees everybody is sitting at this table that he doesn't want to see sitting at one table All the managers and then head of the human resources department with a stack of papers His boss asked him, do you know what we're here for?  He's losing his job. He's losing everything.  He's maxed out his credit cards He's worked so hard to impress dudes that don't even know he's alive. Don't even know he exists He's running this race against Somebody who's not even paying attention to him. And now he has nothing so he drives home walks into his overpriced condo and Realizes I'm losing everything So he goes to his seven thousand dollar Italian leather chair and sits down But today it doesn't greet him like a king like it always does The leather is cold. It's mocking because it's no longer his He sits and he thinks to himself.   He starts to attack it Now that's an extreme that's a very extreme example of how people might deal with stuff But that's a reality that we deal with And when you take a story like that you take Anyone's life you can break it down into two lanes Either they're building with discipline or they're destroying and they're gonna live their life in regret You're building or you're destroying you have discipline or you have regret Now I believe there's four basic pillars That make up what a man is supposed to be that holds up the kingdom of your manhood That's your physicality number one. You have to be healthy And when you look at the things that you do to address your physicality You either live with discipline eating correct the correct foods training correctly and respecting yourself or You will inevitably suffer from the regret of having a diagnosis that could have been prevented by any of those steps before And so many times people especially in my line of work They come in they try to tell me all the reasons why What I'm what we're trying to do isn't gonna work or why it's not gonna work for them They have all these beautiful lies that they've written on paper and say, you know this I tried did this and I did this and I did this But what if you really got to see the truth of what they were doing? They didn't do the things that they needed to do They did the things that they were willing to do and that doesn't require discipline Discipline isn't doing the things that you want to do physically Because I don't want to get up at three o'clock in the morning every day so I can go train at five I don't I don't want to do that. That's not I don't get stoked about that every day and the men that train with me They're not excited about it It's a matter of fact when we get there the first five minutes of our warm-up is Explaining to one another about how bad we didn't want to be here today and then almost hit that snooze button But we're there We go Why? because the result of not going It's gonna make us feel the way we don't want to feel Look a way. We don't want to look and be someone. We don't want to be and So when you look at your physicality You're gonna either take care of yourself with discipline or you will regret not doing that guaranteed It might be because you're fat and everybody's pointing at you or it might be because you're dying and You could have done something about it The second one and it could have been number one But without life without your physicality without Without all of those things Then your spirituality wouldn't really matter a whole lot But the spirituality I believe is is a very pivotal thing for men to approach with discipline Because the things that were supposed to do The moral code that we're supposed to follow and taking care of our spirituality no matter what your whatever religion that you choose to me It doesn't really matter as long as it's one of peace There's disciplines that you have to adhere to the 10 commandments The 10 commandments would solve all of our problems if the if the whole world just followed those 10 simple rules those 10 simple precepts of how humans are supposed to roll Takes discipline It takes discipline to not break those commandments, especially in the culture that we live in today That tells you that whatever lusts desire Wants you have go for it. You deserve it. So it takes discipline But just like with your physicality if you're not disciplined in your faith Then you will you will face attacks That are either meant to guide you back to where you're supposed to be or To destroy you it just depends on if God still has your back But we're foolish to think that We can beat we can beat the realm of spirituality that we can avoid being tested He allowed the devil to test Job a dude that for all intents and purposes was without fault And so if he'll let if he'll let Job be tested If Jesus can be tested What makes us think that we're not gonna be tested?   There's no discipline in doing the very best job Even if they're a trash collector, you should do the best job you can But to do that takes discipline you have to take pride in what you're doing and you have to be disciplined to always show up But if you don't if you don't approach it like that You'll end up losing you'll end up losing your job your business whatever it is that you're not disciplined that you're not following The the path the guidelines that you should have set for yourself The fourth one and it's probably the one of the biggest ones in the hearts of men who come to these conventions who find themselves in The man is fear especially if you deal with any of the red pill shit It's for it's personal. It's your personal relationships So the relationship you have with your family The relationship you have with your significant other The relationship your personal relationships your personal life the things that that you enjoy the things that you hold dear You can't take those things for granted either I'll tell you I'll tell you why what really taught me to look at that in 2017 my brother gotten He got in some pretty big trouble He got busted with 550 pounds of weed And he thought he was gonna get away with it Because he had a lot of money Well, his lawyer told him This time you're not gonna go home And so my brother was but he was busted up about that He thought his money Was gonna be enough to keep him from going back to prison And in fact he was gonna probably serve ten years minimum for what he did Well my baby brother and he had had a fallen out over money over money that my brother Did my little brother neither deserved nor earned at all just entitled He thought because we had he should have And so they didn't talk they didn't talk for a long long time About two weeks before my brother passed away My baby brother and he got into a long text argument My baby brother told him I hate you. I'm not your brother anymore Like he was six Well, my brother passed away now My baby brother will never ever ever Live that down.  I get so many guys that that come into my program that Want me to show them tell them what to do And that's ridiculous One of the one of the things that bothers me the most about some of the people that are in this space and the Manifest space not here is that they take advantage of those guys these lost men who are looking for answers who are looking for guidance and Instead of telling them no what you're thinking what you're believing is is wrong You need to go you need to go you need to check yourself and you need to find out where you didn't do what you were supposed to do Jocko willing talks about extreme ownership And I think that that's goes along that lines your life is your life. It's your responsibility Nobody owes you anything Nobody nobody can tell you what you need to do to make your life what it needs to be I got it.  It's in a book and I offered it to the people in my on my page and the response that I got was really cool But I did it for a very I gave it away free. I did it for a reason This program doesn't tell you what to do There's a lot of programs that tell you what to do the 75 hard program tells you to do Workout twice a day once outside drink a gallon of water read Ten pages of a book and you do that every day and take a selfie put it online Anybody can do that and that's discipline. It takes discipline to do that every day It takes discipline to to show up do that. It's hard. It's hard to do all of that stuff every day But it's a blueprint. It's a blueprint saying do these things and boom. It's magic now It does work if you have no discipline and you take on that that program and you see it through for 75 days You will have discipline But those things may not be what you need to be disciplined in Maybe you already work out Maybe you already drink water Maybe those things maybe you were just adding things to what you already do Because most of the time when people are able to comply with a program like that with no oversight It's because the things that they're being asked to do are relatively easy What I'm asking you to do Let's take those four pillars and look at the foundation of them look at the foundation of your Physical life Are you healthy? Are you sick? Are you building? Are you destroying? Do you have discipline or do you regret? Not doing what you're supposed to do every day What I encourage people to do is Take those pillars take those things and write down all of the things that they could do That would make make that pillar stronger give it a better foundational strength Write it down Write down your personal your spiritual Your professional What are you not doing? See so so many people want a program telling them what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? How do I do this? I Think people would be better served to look at what they need to stop doing what you do every day becomes monotonous Unless you're actively trying to move the needle forward What you're gonna do every day is gonna be pretty much a carbon copy of what you did the day before Now if you do it and it's and it's something that you know You can check all your boxes and you're having you feel like you have discipline because You do these things. I would ask you is it moving the needle forward? Is it moving your life in the direction that you want it to go? So I've never had a problem with discipline But my problem was the things that I was disciplined at were bad It's real good at doing bad stuff consistently And that led me to a place in life that I didn't want to be I didn't want to be the person that I didn't want to be myself And so We're going through We're going through this this the struggle that we're going through in life as a man One of the most fundamental things that I found that you have to do is you have to surround yourself with people who will Hold you to task You've got to surround yourself with people that will be honest with you Tell you the way that they really feel about what it is that you're doing what it is that you're saying who it is that you are we talked last night in depth about the the necessity of men gathering around campfires and Being men and my program at my house or back home in Texas That's a that's it's not even a program in this sense. It's just what we do It's just what we do We get around the fire and we just we just allow ourselves to be men Whatever needs to be addressed whatever needs to be talked about whatever Worries anybody has we let it go we let it go weapons hot No judgment Unless it needs to be judged That is kept That has kept the pistol out of more than a few men's mouths The way that I entered this space the way that I came to this space the way that I Came to learn that the voice that I had maybe resonated Was another there's another incident that happened when I moved to My property my wife had a co-worker that was a Marine And she told me he could really use your help It's like what is what do I what do I have to offer this dude? She said I just think you'd really be good for him whatever Bring mom So she brings this guy Spencer Spencer was a broken man abusive father mother There but absent alcohol drugs all that good stuff and Spencer was a broken man So he came out we hung out we had a lot of fun.  We go man bring them on so the following week two guys two Marines two bad-ass dudes One of them the other guy Derek was a Marsoch Marine The Marsoch guys are top tier bad-asses Marines by themselves are bad-asses. These dudes are different And so we get together and we hang out drink a whole bunch of whiskey and The conversation is typical man stuff. It's it's pretty cool. It's but it's just the same thing talking about our past But Derek's life was a little bit different than mine and Spencer's wave worse See Derek's dad was a military man. He was a Marine as well His mother was a severe drug addict. She had depression really bad And so Derek was always trying to look after his mother while his father was gone And one day he came home and found his mother with her head pretty much painted on the wall and That broke him It broke him to the point where He went on a path in his life He joined the Marines and he had the guy could have went and played soccer He could have played football. He's a specimen of a man. He had all of these scholarship offers And after his mother killed himself.  I don't know if anybody knows what challenge coins are but and In these in special forces and some of the more black operations, they can't give these guys accommodations They can't give them medals and so what they do is they give them challenge coins And so you do an operation instead of them giving you a medal or a trophy They give you a challenge coin and they trade them and collect them and all that you have a couple of them That means you did some cool shit Well, I was helping Derek move and he had these Nike boxes And I grabbed a size 12 Nike box and I grabbed it thinking it was shoes And it was heavy but the bad the box broke and all these cool little Coins fell out didn't know what the hell they were Then you explained to him I looked at him They were you know from Socom, Africa and all they're doing that Punisher school all this cool stuff And not knowing what I was looking at him.    He was as a matter of fact, this is why he was at my house He and this woman had gotten into a spat And I believe they may have been in Louisville, Texas. I don't remember where they were living But they get into a domestic dispute She calls the pop the police on him the police come and he barricades himself in the house He ain't coming out Well They call SWAT They call a SWAT team and they were surrounding this dude's house and the SWAT the the head of the SWAT dude ended up calling his commanding officer His CEO told him, you know the SWAT guy told him. Hey, we got Derek in here. He's hold himself up He said he ain't coming out. We found it. You know you're the chain of command.  What do we do?  I I don't know what he did I don't know what he did, but I know his reaction almost got a lot of people killed And so, you know when he told me about all of those things we sat there and we talked and I he cried Which was floored me like how do you?  This dude's got mother problems His mother broke him and these women that he's dealing with are surrogates for mommy Because as he talked more and more this was these women weren't these weren't Women that he it didn't sound like an intimate relationship. It sounded like he was dating mommy and So I just told him what I thought and you know just say this and man This is this that and the other and we chatted it up drank a little bit more whiskey and the tears turned into us Wrestling around on the ground and having fun.  It's a picture of a letter And so I blow the letter up and I read it And it was a letter that he wrote to his kids The day Spencer Called him and told him a bro. We need to go to this dude's place. I think it'd be good for you Derek had made up his mind that he was done His kids were taken away from him His his respect as a Marine was being attacked. He was being destroyed He was done And so he wrote a letter to his children and he apologized for all of the things that he had put them through All the things that he wouldn't gonna be able to do for and with them And he was he said goodbye to his kids Even talking about that right now kind of fucks me up Why? Because Spencer coming out was cool, but that wasn't my friend It was my wife's co-worker and I was bored. I Wasn't being I wasn't trying to be a good dude My wife thought that that would be a good idea So I did it.  Oh man.  It was hard but I'd recently Chastised someone for lying to one of our friends because he wanted to go do something else Instead of just telling me bro.    I gave my buddy and so I didn't cancel I Didn't cancel I Sucked it up.  That's huge It's massive We're living in a time right now.  Where are they? This is getting worse and worse and worse and we keep going through the same steps and people It's not my problem. It's not it's that's over there. It's not me Right now we need to have discipline in what we know is right Because if we do that as men if we take care of our physicality then we can fight if We take care of our spirituality.    That's like, oh, that's the that's the bell. I'm done cool tap Muhammad Ali said he didn't count reps until it started to hurt That inner bitch.  I'm tired. I'm tired. Let's stop That's when it started That right there is how we should attack the things that are important to us You don't stop when you're tired you stop when you're done That's the way you do things whatever it is that you're supposed to do whatever discipline that you're not doing in your life The way you feel about that is bullshit Whatever you tell yourself to keep you from attacking those things is a lie It's a lie You don't have time you don't have it you don't whatever it is you say it's a lie Because if you truly wanted to do a thing You would take time and you would ring the opportunity out of it You know that to be true If nothing else You'll lie to the one thing so you can go do the thing you want to do you will find a way to get that thing done I believe if we don't do something quickly in this country If the men in this country don't take their rightful place on the throne of their world We're gonna be in big trouble in this country. We're already there We're already there. There's already Boys and girls that are having their Private parts chopped off Where are the men I?  Why is he the only one we hear about? I'm not saying other men aren't doing it, but here's the deal. This is this is what I'm saying Why is it just those men's problem? Why should we as men sit back and go? Oh, that's his kid not my problem or I don't have kids not my problem already Raised my kids not my problem It is our problem It is all of our problems because you young men and you dudes that are already old with me now We're gonna get older and these kids are gonna be the ones that are making the decisions for us These kids that are being destroyed right now are gonna be the ones that are taking care of us Do you want some kid that's been confused about what is Ding Dong is for taking care of you? What kind of psych psychological damage are we being allowed to be done to these kids to our culture?  I didn't meet him until this weekend But I promise you with every fiber of my soul.  They're wrong But I would hope that he would do the same for me See that's what men do Men who have a common a common thread you don't have to be the same religion You don't have to be the same color. You don't have to be the same anything as long as you have a fundamental base of values You can lock arms with those men and and fight anything You can go forward and overcome anything, but we've got all these divisions. There's all these different things Oh, you that person's black. He's a this that you know, that's a Muslim. I Recently saw a video of a Muslim father Doing what American fathers should have done You can tell by the guy's accent. He's not from here But they're trying to ruin his kid and this dude has the balls He was charging these people.   It's accepted Everybody else is doing it And so if everybody else is partying Running through women Doing all these things and you go along you get the result that that yields Whose fault is that? It's a dare fault because they told you to do it extreme ownership Well, we have to do in this space as we have to take the things that we learn and we have to use them Some of you men speak here Some of you men are just attendees, but you're all men on the same basic mission We wouldn't be talking about these things if we weren't fighting the same fight The number one thing you guys need to do with this information is utilize it. I Sat down and talk with the guy who told me about all of his programs as every program He's got every he's got everything that he possibly could possibly use I mean, it's he's got his diet dialed it. I mean, he's got he's got the things to dial his diet in He's got it already. It's like a guy that shadow boxing but scared to get in the ring a Lot of people do that a Lot of people buy program after program after program follow this guy follow that guy. Oh, what is it?  You just sit there.  That's the way it goes It's that simple I got about two minutes left if anybody has a question be happy to answer. We're good


We lost Champa! We lost Champa! And I guess, free Brienne, too. But Champa! When we get back to the channel, the tournament of power continues, and, uh, yeah, the stakes remain ever so high. It doesn't get easier or harder to say goodbye to people, especially considering their, like, just, like, their existence has just gone. But I will hold out about the promise about wishing each other's universes back, at least between ours and Champa's. But, uh, I guess Vegeta's gonna fight this- the discount superhero? Still don't know how he's still in this, but, uh, let's hop in. Double-like on this one, too. Alright, Vegeta. Take out the trash, baby! Cato Pesra. I keep forgetting his name, I'm sorry. I don't mean to underestimate him, either, but, like, from what we've seen, Vegeta's so far above him. What was the B-Force at battle mode? Oh, my gosh! Oh, no, another mode change! Ultimate mode! Oh, that's kind of a- a clean color scheme. Okay, that- That can't be right. Vegeta doesn't care about his explanation, either. Indecent fiend. Vegeta and, uh, Seventeen have that in common. Nice! Good hit! Wait, that actually kinda looks cool. He's actually beam clashing! I mean, Vegeta's also still base form, so it would take literally all of this with a grain of salt, bro. But now he's Super Saiyan. Aw. Poor Cato Pesra. He's still in! What just happened? What just happened? Did he trip? It can't be Frost, cause Frost is out. He was the hit-and-run guy. Wait, no! No! Vegeta! No, yeah, it's someone just, like, sneaking around. A slithery little snake. Dude, somebody's just edge guarding. It's goddamn Super Smash Bros. Maybe it's Dispo, cause it's so fast. Yeah, cause I was gonna- even the- even the spectators didn't see it. Bro, who is doing this? Oh my gosh, brother! To save the least! Oh no, it's not Dispo. This is a Pride Troopers, so it's none of them. Who else is in? I mean, Frieza's still in, but I don't think he would knock out Universe 7 people for funsies. It has to be a fighter we don't know about. Are they literally invisible? So even the spectator- oh wait! It's the mouse! It's the- hey, the mouse is no universe! An invisible man. Is- it's possible? How do you fight that which is invisible? It's literally just an invisible man! Crowan just cannot stop getting just bodied. You have to have some technique to just, like, A.O.E. attack.  Piccolo should rip an arm off and spray the blood everywhere and try to get it on the invi- He's just nuking the whole arena. I did say A.O.E. attack. Like, the blood plan, you know what I mean? It's genius. Oh my gosh, man. Did he get him? He's just- yeah, he does have the gas. Nope, they're still in. What? Oh no, this is going to be a moment where I should know O.G. Dragon Ball lore. Okay, I said arm and yeah. If he actually just went and ripped one of Piccolo's arms off and started spraying the blood everywhere, I would be accused of pre-watching, genuinely. Gami Salas? That's the name of the invisible man? This is a new OST, no? It kind of goes hard. Oh! Oh, he looks like a gecko. A lizard, like an invisible one. Yeah, I think it is a gecko. That just implements him with the environment. Wait, so how did Gohan do that, though? Oh my gosh. Oh, he's easy to take care of if you can see him. Oh my gosh, his name is that strong. He's just sneaky. So what did Gohan do to even- Nope, nope, there he goes. He's already out! That's it! And Catella, what was all that trash talk for, man? Oh.  Do it, Shansa! Shansa? What? What is that? He's like a child! Is he law? Did he just use room? Regamo? Some in from an alternate reality. And we're going to take our revenge. What? He just respawned people! I thought the 9th universe was destroyed. It's like their memories. It's like those two episodes with Goku and Krillin where they fought like their fears. Bro, what is this ability? That's insane. It's kind of broken, too, no? And there's no way they're as strong as the, like, original versions of them, though. And how do you escape? I'm guessing you have to kill the Caster to escape. Even Winnie the Pooh. Oh, Goku's trapped in this, too. That was just going on in Piccolo. Wait, this is so broken. Hahaha. I like this, though, bringing back old enemies. Oh, they were here not that long ago. Oh, too. Caster controls these illusions so the other one can use them as cover to attack. Attack through them? How would you control, like, 6 at the same time? The dude! He's so adorable, too. Shonka. Oh. There is no way. Were you even trying? He looks like a child. Sounds like Bart Simpson. Oh, my gosh, that's it? Bro, there's no way that's it! They build this whole thing up! Wait, what's the other energy, though? Another invisible man? Another Keiko. No! I mean, just use whatever method Gohan used. I feel like he's doing it for a reason. No, it's a bait. It's a bait. This little rat is riding. I'm kind of worried now. We're getting, like, overly confident. What's happening? Wait, why is he standing so close to the edge? Piccolo, stop trolling, bro. No! No! Go on! Somebody! What? That's it? Piccolo's out? There's no way. There's no way this is how Piccolo goes out. There's no way! What? How is that possible? Da mom? Da mom. This is who Piccolo lost to.  I'm mad about that one. Piccolo got sort of a moment, like, in the last couple, but, dude, to go out like that... There's no way. Oh, my gosh, I was about to be pissed if 17 went out like that, too. How do you fight that which you cannot hit or see? How is this a bit, like, allowed? I feel like whenever it hits, it manifests, and that's the only time you can hit back. Like, you can hit it right then, but then as soon as it stops attacking, that's my best guess. Alright, 17. I mean, 17's already blown me away in this whole tournament. Really raised the bar. He's just taking the hits. Who's predicting where it would be? Oh, he actually hit it. Oh. Is it tiny? Oh, my gosh, a little bug! So it was just so small, you couldn't see him? I feel like you would have seen him, though, no? Oh, my gosh. Piccolo lost to a bug! That's actually kind of funny, though.  Oh, my gosh! Somebody call pest control. We got a bug to handle. Okay, I'm gonna be honest. If anybody else loses this bug knowing the secret now, I'm gonna be mad. I'd never even thought about it like that. You can't even squish him. Dude, how do you knock a bug out without killing him? Like, what if one of those energy blasts hits him? And how does he do that much damage with such a small body? I guess the energy. So break his kneecaps! Oh, yeah, just destroy more of the indestructible arena. Yep, nope, I thought about that, too. This poor bug, bro. What is happening? Oh, my... No fair, bro. Is this Kitella's last fighter? I think it is. Look how he trapped him. He can't usually do that because fighters are usually normal size. Kicking him out! The disrespect! I think that is Kitella's last. This universe is done! What a throw. Oh, my gosh. Another universe falls! The red is gone! Bro, beers, don't rub it in. Oh, my gosh. They do not care. I thought he was actually about to start attacking people. Dang, bro. Three universes in two episodes are gone! The seventh is just still on a roll. We trade Piccolo for it, but still. Third, seventh, there's only three. There's the robots, the pride troopers, and us. That's it! Twelve minutes left. Bro! My goodness, man. We are really barreling towards the end, though. I mean, I don't know why I thought there were more fighters left because we've lost so many universes, but three is not what I expected. Now, like, I feel like every fight, everything going forward is going to be just max hype, because now all that can get eliminated are the few enemies remaining, like seven or eight of them, between the two universes, or our fighters. Like, it hurts so much when we lose just one, like Piccolo. So we have the androids. We have Gohan, Goku, Vegeta. We still have the numbers, but I feel like they've saved the robots for the end for a specific reason, like, they're really gonna pop off, and because, sort of, they're a different type of enemy. And we know how strong Jiren is. Like, at this point, I'm pretty sure Goku is the only one... Oh, wait, we have Frieza, too. I don't know, Frieza's really strong. We have a really good shot. Jiren, I think, is the main opponent right now, next to probably Toppo. But, again, the robots are such a wildcard, man. I really have no idea with them. But I mean, hey, we have the most people. We have the most to lose here. Going forward, we are the most vulnerable because the Universe 7 will definitely be targeted. There's no reason for the other teams not to, because if they don't eliminate any of Universe 7, they lose because they have the most people right now. And how many do we have left in Super? After this, we have 12 left, man! That's been it for me. I hope you enjoyed my reaction. Drop a like on this one, and I'll catch you next time. Peace, peace.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. I would like to continue solving certain problems related to exponential functions. It's not maybe so much solving problems as rather just analyzing how this function behaves in certain cases. So without further ado, I have two different problems. Actually, it's three, but the second and the third are very much related. And all of them are about steepness of exponential function. Let's talk about steepness a little bit more. We did discuss this in the previous lecture, but I would like to spend some more time. How can we determine steepness as precisely as possible? Now, if you have one function and another function which are very close in this particular point, actually they have one common five point and basically they are tangential in certain way. How to determine that this function is less steep than this function in this particular case? Well, the typical approach in this particular problem is just have a tangential line. Tangential line is actually determining the steepness. How steep tangential line is, that's exactly how steep the line is. So although this line seems to be less steep than this one, because they share the same tangent, we are talking about the same steepness in this particular case. Maybe a little further, steepness would be different, would be this or this. So in this particular point, steepness is different. But in this, where these two lines are touching each other, that's basically the steepness. That's where the steepness is the same. So steepness of the function is determined at any particular point by the tangential line. Now, we don't really know how to approach tangential lines for any kind of a curve. This is a subject of analysis in mathematics, derivatives and stuff like this. It's all related to limit theory. However, we can approximate tangential lines and therefore steepness by using a very simple approach. If you have some kind of a line, the steepness of which we would like to determine, what we can do to approximate this steepness, let's say in this particular point. We can step a little bit further from this point, let's say to the right, and have the core basically, that's what it is. Difference between increment of the function divided by the difference in increment of the argument. So how far the function grows if argument grows. So if this particular distance is relatively small, then this chord which connects these two points would probably be very close to tangential line, at least with the smooth curve. And basically having this particular ratio would give us an approximation for steepness of this particular tangential line. So I will be using this approach to analyze steepness of the exponential function in some points. So I'm going to take two points and compare what's the increment of the function as I go from one point to another relative to increment of the argument. Okay, that's the preliminary kind of introduction to whatever I'm going to talk about. Now let's consider a function and we all know that the graph looks like this. So it looks like the steepness is increasing as my argument, a greater than one, as my argument grows. How to prove it? How can I state with certainty that this steepness is increasing? Here is how. Let's just take two different, let's take three different points. This would be a natural number and this will be the next natural number and plus one and this will be the previous and minus one. And let's compare how my function increments as I go from here to here and from here to here. If for any n, I will prove that increment from n to n plus one of the function value is always greater than the increment from n minus one to n. It means that the steepness of our function is always increasing with every next natural number n because the difference between the arguments is one. So x2 minus x1 is always one. This is x2, this is x1 or this is x2 and this is x1. So the denominator is always one so I don't have to really take it into account. That's easier. So now I have to compare only the difference between increments of the function. So I'm going to prove that this piece which is a to the n plus one minus a to the n. This is n to the n plus one and this is a to the nth. I would like to prove that this is a to the nth minus a to the n minus one. So I would like to prove that a to the n plus one minus a to the n is greater than a to the n minus a to the n minus one. Now if I will be able to prove this, then what follows is that this increment is greater than this which means the function grows faster and faster and faster as we go to infinity. And that's basically the most important qualitative information or characteristic of the exponential function with base greater than one which I would like to convey. So many words for such a simple proof actually. The proof is very trivial here. Let's bring everything to the left. It would be a to the n plus one minus two to the a to the n plus a to the n minus one. I have to prove that this is greater than zero. I will factor out n minus one a to the n minus one degree. What I will have here a to the second degree rate. If I'm multiplying a to the n minus one times a to the second degree, my exponents are supposed to be added together. So n minus one plus two will be n plus one. Now in this particular case I will have minus two a. This is the first power and this is n minus one. So if I'm going to multiply a to the minus and a to the n minus one times a to the first degree, I will have a to the power of n and minus one plus one. So that's what I will have. And here I will have one. Now this is obviously true because a is greater than one base is a minus one square.  So this is positive, this is positive, so this is positive. And transformations are reversible. That's why this follows from this, this follows from this, and this is true. So this is why this is true. Therefore I have proven that as I go further towards increasing numerical value of the argument, at least if I will go by natural numbers, by integer numbers and increment them, then the steepness grows. Now does it mean that it grows for rational numbers, which are in between these natural numbers or irrational? Yes, because if you remember I did prove that the function is monotonic. So it's monotonically increasing and that's why we have always the same kind of inequality. Okay, now it's actually, what I have actually done, I've proved this theorem about increasing steepness for natural numbers which are to the right of zero. How about to the left of zero? Well, it's exactly the same thing because what is to the left of zero if you will get let's say three points here? It will be minus n minus one minus n and minus n plus one, right? Where n again is a natural number. So let's prove exactly the same inequality that a to the minus n minus one minus a to the minus n. So it's the difference between this value of the function and this one. It's greater than between the value of the function at point minus n minus n plus one. Now how can I prove this? Again, bring everything to the left, a to the n and I will just replace negative exponent with an inverted positive one. This a to the power of minus n minus one is one over a to the power of n minus one by definition. Minus two a to the n, I inverted a to the minus n as one over a to the n and plus one over a to the n plus one. I have to prove that this is greater than zero. How can I do it? Well, if I will factor out a to the power of n plus one, I will have a square here. Indeed, if you will put a square multiplied by a to the power of minus n minus n plus one in parenthesis, you will get minus n minus one plus two, which is a to the power of n minus one. Minus two a, a times a to the power of minus n plus one would be a to the power of minus n plus one. And again, this is positive and this is the same a minus one square. So everything is reversible, so this is proven as well. Again, my theorem is exactly the same. The function is exceedingly steep. As we move from left to right, we always have greater and greater increment of the function on the same unit increment of the argument. Okay, I spent a lot of time explaining this, but the proof as you saw was very easy. Now it will be a slightly different situation. The proof will be a little bit more complex and here is what I would like to talk about. Now we have different functions which have this kind of a property. This kind of a loop if you wish. Some of them are less steep, some of them are more steep. So this is two to the power of x and this is three to the power of x. Now here is my point. Steepness is different in this point. Point x is equal to zero. What's interesting is that if you draw a congenital line to this function, this is a bisector, a 45 degrees angle. So this tangential line would go below 45 angles on a positive number. And tangential line to y is equal to three to the power of x will be above. So the steepness which we have determined as the ratio between increment of the function versus increment of the argument. Now this steepness is equal to one for angle bisector, right? Because whenever you have increment of the function, you will have the same increment of the argument. Because this is 45 degrees, this is 45 degrees. So for angle bisector at 45 degrees the steepness is equal to one. Now for two to the power of x, the steepness at point zero would be less than one and for three to the power of x would be greater than one at point zero. So this is my statement that two to the power of x is below angle bisector at 45 degrees and three to the power of x is above. Okay, now let's try to prove. Here I would do a little bit more precise variation of the steepness. So what I would do is, before I was using increments of one, like n, n plus one, n plus two, etc. Here I will use a small increment. Let's say I will have an increment one over n. Now the greater n I will take, the closer this particular point will be to zero and that's why closer this increment would be to the increment of the tangential line. So if I will use this particular increment of the argument, one nth and I will prove that regardless of n, my ratio which represents the steepness is less than one for two to the power of x. For any n, it means however big, which means however close these points are, that actually will prove that even in a limit case, when these points are infinitely close to each other, I still will have the same inequality and still my tangential line would be less steep than 45 degrees angle. So the steepness would be less than one. So I will use one nth as my check point and I will basically then prove this theorem for any n, which means that the points can be however close and my evaluation would be however precise. So what does it mean for two to the power of x? Well, let's think about it. This value versus this value. So y2 minus y1 divided by x2 minus x1. So y2 would be two to the power of one n, one over n, and y1 would be two to the power of zero at this point. So this is basically the increment of the function. Now what's the increment of the argument? Well, one n, one over n minus zero. And I would like to prove that this is less than one. And I'm going to prove it for any n, regardless of n. Well, okay, let's do it. First of all, we can simplify it. Two to the power of zero is one. So it would be two to the power of one over n minus one. And I will multiply, now this is one over n. So I will multiply both sides of the inequality by one over n. So I will have to prove this. This is invariant transformation. So this is what we have to prove. Okay, let me make it even better. I will put one on the right side. So it would be two to the power of one n should be less than one plus one over n. And now what is two to the power of one over n? It's nth root of two. So I will raise both sides to the nth degree, nth power of n. I will have two on the left and one plus one tenths to the nth degree on the right. So this is the final inequality which I would like to prove. And this is completely equivalent to this one because I did not make any non-invariant transformation. All transformations are invariant from here to here to here to here. So I'm going to prove this. Okay, now what's interesting is that if we know something important, it's very easy to prove. And what is this important thing? Some time ago when I was lecturing about mathematical induction, I introduced the binomial formula which was derived by Newton first. So I'm going to use it. Now for those who don't remember, I do suggest you to go to the corresponding lecture on induction. It's in mass concepts chapter of this course. And just refresh your memory. Anyway, I'm just going to use it here. Now it's a to the power of n plus n divided by one a to the power of n minus one b. So I will increase the number of multipliers here and the power is being reduced by one on every new member for a and increased by one on every new member for b. Now the common element of this particular case, let's say element is n multiplied by n minus one, etc. n minus k plus one divided by one times two, etc. times k, right? Should be k multipliers on the top starting from n down, on the bottom starting from one up, k multipliers. And the number of multipliers represents the same as powers, n minus k for a and b. And the last member would be n, n minus one, blah, blah, blah, up to one from one to up to n b. Well actually I can put a to the zero and b to the n. The same way as here I can put for commonality b to the power of zero. So this is my binomial formula. Again, derived by Newton and you can refresh your memory by looking at the lecture. I'm going to use it for this particular expression and it's quite obvious that right now if I will drop all the members of this particular formula, which are all positive by the way, except the first two, so I will leave in this formula only the first two members which is one to the power of n. So we don't need this, we don't need this. So one plus one over n to the power of n equals. So a is one, b is one over n and n is n. Now one to the power of n which is one, b to the power of zero plus n which is the exponent times a which is one to the power of n minus one which is one and times b. Plus doesn't matter what, I already have two. You see this is one plus one which is two. So without this tail I have two. With this tail I will have greater than two. That's it. So if you know the formula it's very easy to derive this particular inequality. Okay, so we have proven that two to the power of x lies below 45 degrees angle at a point zero. Now let's talk about three to the power of x. I will prove that it will be above. Now very similarly, y2 minus y1 divided by x2 minus x1 if y is equal to three to the power of x. Now my x1 is equal to zero, x2 is equal to one over n, right? So that's my graph. This is zero, this is one over n. This is my 45 degrees and I am claiming that, well, I have to draw it not through point zero, obviously, but to the point one. So I'm claiming that it goes this way, above this particular line. Alright, so y2 minus y1 would be at the point where x is equal to one, one ends. It would be three to the power of one over n. This point is x1 is zero, so it would be three to the power of zero divided by one over n minus minus zero. And I would like to prove that in this particular case it would be greater than one. Okay, so this is inequality which I would like to prove and I will do exactly the same as before. So this is one, this is zero, right? So it's three to the power of one over n minus one should be greater than one ends or three to the power of one ends should be greater than one plus one ends or if I will raise both into the power of n, it would be three should be greater than one plus one over n to the ends degree. So that's what I'm going to do. That's what I'm going to prove using the same binomial formula. So let me just write it down on the left. One plus one over n to the ends degree should be less than three. I reversed it, right? It would be three greater than this. I wrote it as one plus one ends over n to the power of n less than three. Okay, how can I prove that using exactly the same formula? Now it's a little bit more difficult. However, not impossible. Let me do it this way. So a is one and b is one nth. So let me rewrite it in the following fashion. One plus one n to the ends degree is equal and I will use this formula. So wherever I have a, I can just completely drop it because a is equal to one and this is multiplied everywhere. So I will use only b which is one ends. Now in this particular case, it would be b to the power of zero which is one. Then I will have n divided by one times, drop the a, b is one ends, plus n, n minus one divided by one times two, drop the a, it would be one over n squared, plus, etc. What's my common member? Common member is n, n minus one, etc. n minus k plus one divided by one times two, etc. k, drop a one over n to the power of k, plus, etc. Forget about the last one. Now from here, it's quite obvious now that this is one, this is one. Now this is greater than, this is greater than one over two. I mean, let's, sorry, it's less. Why? Here is why. This is n times n minus one in the numerator and denominator is greater, it's n times n. So n times n minus one will always be less than n squared. And two remains as it is. Now, as far as my common member is less than, I will do exactly the same separately for numerator and denominator. Now, numerator n times n minus one, etc., etc., divided by n to the power of k. This is less than one because numerator is less than denominator in this case. And these I will replace as two times two, etc., times two. So I will decrease this part, denominator, since I decreased denominator from one times two times three times four times k, I put only one times two times two times two times two. So my denominator is diminished by this because every multiplier is now either the same or smaller. And, not even that, I'm increasing this particular fraction by replacing this piece with one. So I'm increasing this fraction by twice actually, by decreasing the denominator and increasing whatever is left of it. So when I'm replacing n times n minus one, etc., divided by n to the power of k, this is the same number of multipliers as here. k different numbers here and k here. These numbers are smaller than these numbers, right? This is n which is the same, next one n minus one and this is n. So every one of them on the top is smaller than this one. So if I will replace it with one, I'm only increasing the whole element. And I'm also increasing by replacing whole numbers in the denominator with twos. So this will be my common number. And what actually I am ending up with? I'm ending up with two, plus one, two, one second, plus one quarter, plus one eighths, right? It's number, it's two multiplied by itself, plus, etc., plus, etc. Now, obviously from progressives, from progressions which are addressed in another lecture, this is obviously less than one, so it's less than two plus one, which is equal to three. Well, this is actually quite easy to, even if you don't know progressions, it's quite easy to see because what is this? Let's draw a square, one half of the square, which is this, plus one quarter of the square, which is this, plus one eighths of the square, which is this, plus one sixteenths, which is this, etc. So we are gradually filling up whatever it is, but no more than the whole square. So even if you don't know progressions, they are addressed a little bit further maybe down in the course, but you can definitely see that this piece is less than one, so the whole thing is less than three. So I'm using certain pieces of knowledge which might be a little bit more advanced, however, they are addressed in the lecture, so you're welcome to refresh your memory or learn it separately. So the binomial formula of Newton and some of the progression are used in this particular case, but if you have it in your repertoire, the whole thing is actually simple, because all I did is I just reduced each number, each member of this sequence to get whatever I need. So that basically completes the proof that the graph of three to the power of x is above four to five degrees. And here is just one small side comment about this. Let's just consider again the graph. Okay, this is point one, zero one, x, y. So this is 45 degrees angle. So one of my functions which is, well actually I can make it a little longer here, one of my functions which is three to the power of x goes this way, it's above, and another function, they have many different colors, goes below this, like this. This is two to the power of x. I also know, and I did prove it before, that the greater the base, the steeper at every point, the steeper the curve of the exponential function. So if I will increase the base from two to three, somewhere between two and three, there is a number where my tangential line is exactly 45 degrees. I mean that's kind of intuitively understandable statement. So if two to the power of x has a tangential line which is below 45 degrees, and three to the power of x is above 45 degrees, it should be something in between which is exactly equal. And actually it does exist. And that's one of the, well, reasonable definition for a new number, which in mathematics is designated by a letter e, which is irrational number, and approximately it's 2.71, but this is just an approximation, it's an internet number of decimal digits. So the number e plays extremely important role in the analysis. Strangely, however strangely it sounds, this irrational number is probably one of the most important numbers in analysis. It's like pi in geometry, which is the ratio between the circumference of the circle and diameter. It's irrational number pi, and we're probably used to think that nice numbers like 1, 2, 3 are the most important. Actually, no. In geometry, pi is probably the most important number, and in analysis e is probably the most important number, and those are irrational. Anyway, that's it for today. I do encourage you to try to reconstruct the proof again. By yourself, if you can't just listen to the lecture again, it's very important for you to understand how these things are logically derived from some previous knowledge which you might have, which is the binomials and progressions. And it's interesting what's the origin of this particular number, why is it so important? That's it. Thank you very much and good luck.


We've talked about the rise of infrastructure as code and the need to secure it. IAC is, for all intents and purposes, code. Like other code, it needs to be scanned, and like other code, both static and dynamic methods can be applied. Yanni Lederstorf, within Denny, is going to show you how to level up your security of cloud-native applications at scale while achieving continuous compliance. His secret is using dynamic methods. His session will help you chart a roadmap to advance your IAC security automation journey. Welcome, Yanni. Hello, everybody. My name is Yanni Lederstorf. I'm the CEO and founder of Denny. Today, we're going to talk about secure GitOps workflow for continuous compliance. This presentation assumes you're familiar with infrastructure as code, like Terraform and CloudFormation. You're familiar with the concept of using it within CIACD. For example, the GitLab pipelines, as well as doing security for infrastructure as code, specifically like using Chekhov, TFSec, and a variety of different static analysis tools. So we're going to take that a step further on the presentation today. So my name is Yanni Lederstorf, CEO and founder of a startup called Denny. We specialize in security automation. We have two products. One is in security infrastructure. The other one is very focused on infrastructure as code security. The product is called Cloudrail. And you can find me at these two handles. So if you'd like to reach out after this presentation, feel free to. Always happy to take the conversation forward. So let's start with looking at static analysis for infrastructure as code for a moment. So as you probably know, infrastructure as code is used to build cloud environments. Teams all over the world are now using it to design, define, and actually deploy the cloud environments that they use. And they wrap it in CI CD. So for example, they use GitLab pipelines in order to run their infrastructure as code and actually deploy it. So whether it's Terraform plan and apply, CloudFormation deploy or anything else, or create stack or anything else is obviously done through that. And then the step after that is, of course, adding static analysis. So tools like Chekhov and TFSEC who are also in this conference. Those tools, what they do is they analyze your code and look for potential security misconfigurations.  So those are the kinds of things that those tools will find for you and they integrate into GitLab. The trouble with those tools and the trouble with static analysis in general is that it has a lot of false positives. It's very, very noisy and it's very annoying for developers. For those of you who are familiar with SAS in the application security space, SAS is considered kind of the first generation of static code analysis or code analysis in general because it was basic and it found a lot of things, but most things that it found were not that useful and developers didn't like it. And so what we're seeing is actually an infrastructure as code security, the same thing happens. Static analysis generates too much noise and is very frustrating for developers to interact with. In addition, there are a lot of issues you can't see if you only look at the static analysis or you only look at the code. For example, you can't find configuration drift if you look at the code. You need to look at the live environment as well. Configuration drift is when you're defining a resource and code, but then in the actual live environment, it's different because somebody went in and made a change. So you can't see that in static analysis. Also, there are a lot of IEM issues you cannot see through static analysis because it actually depends on how the environment is constructed and how the workloads are actually executing. And so there are a lot of IEM issues that are missed in static analysis. And then lastly, it's what we call kind of data protection challenges. But essentially, if you look at just a portion of code, you can't really fully understand how that code is impacted by resources and the environment. So for example, let's say you're setting up an RDS database, you can't fully understand how the environment may expose that database by just looking at the code that sets up the database because that code will not include maybe some EC2 instance or Lambda functions or something else in the environment. And by the way, I keep giving AWS examples, but of course the same thing applies to Azure, GCP and the others as well. So basically static analysis is very noisy and it misses the vast majority of the really, really interesting things you'd want to do. So we decided to take it a step forward. And instead of just doing static analysis, we also drive dynamic analysis, which in turn allows for much more specific policy enforcement. So what is dynamic analysis, actually? Dynamic analysis basically means that you don't look at just a code. You look at the code and the live environment. So that concept existed in AppSec. It's called DAST and sometimes RASP. And it exists here in infrastructure as code security. And the idea is that you look at your Terraform code, let's say, or confirmation or anything else. Then you look at the actual live environment. So the actual cloud account and what is configured there. And you cross the two together. You actually merge them. So if you have a resource in your code that references by ID, some resource in the cloud, you actually connect the dots. And you say, okay, so this EC2 is going to be deployed in a subnet. The subnet is configured elsewhere and the subnet has, let's say, the public IP address allocation flag enabled. And so you can only see that if you connect the dots there. In addition, this actually allows you to connect the dots between multiple code repositories. So let's say you've got a few Terraform workspaces and you've got a bunch of cloud formation stacks. And they don't know each other only through IDs, but they don't actually know each other at the code level. By actually doing dynamic analysis, you can connect all of that together and say, okay, this Terraform piece is building some piece of my infrastructure. And then this cloud formation is building, let's say a compute resource. We're deploying a workload that is using this infrastructure. And then of course this gets even more complicated with Helm charts referencing infrastructure that was built by other languages. So in order to bring all of this together and actually be able to do a really consistent and coherent security and compliance analysis, you have to use dynamic analysis, which we're obviously big proponents of. So let's talk about a few examples of where dynamic analysis can actually help you. The first one is around privilege escalation. What we often see is that IEM policies and roles are defined in one set of code. And then the actual usage of those roles is defined elsewhere. So if we think about this example here, maybe I defined this specific role here on the screen in, let's say Terraform, and then I'm using it in another piece of Terraform. And so if I just look at the role itself, I might not fully understand how it's being used. So doing dynamic analysis connects the dots and actually allows you to understand whether there's gonna be some privilege escalation. For example, maybe there's a Lambda function that is using this role. And the role is also granting the execution of a Lambda function, what's called invokefunk, but also setting a role on a Lambda function. And so now the Lambda function can actually escalate its own permissions because the policy allowed it, the role allowed it, and it was assigned to this Lambda function, and now this Lambda function can escalate its permissions. So those kinds of things, you can only understand if you're doing true dynamic analysis and understanding how things are connected to one another. Another example could be related to drift. So let's say you have the user, and the user is part of a group, and the group has some kind of IEM policy attached to it. And now somebody goes into the console itself and actually attaches another policy to that group. Most infrastructures code languages will not be aware of that. So even though you define the user, and let's say Terraform and the group in Terraform, and even the policy attachment for the group in Terraform, but then somebody goes and attaches another policy to that group, Terraform is unaware of that. Same thing with cloud formation. And so by not analyzing the code with the live environment, you can't spot something like that. And these kinds of drifts are actually very serious from a security perspective, but they're also serious from an operational perspective because it means somebody circumvent your process and you're unaware of that. And so a dynamic analysis tool is actually capable of finding that. Another example I'm gonna give you here is around protecting S3 buckets. So S3 buckets are normally defined by one set of code, whereas the compute resources are defined in another set of code, just like the examples we've given earlier. And so the compute resources may be in some kind of VPC and they're communicating with the S3 bucket. Now, in a normal setup, the compute resources will go to the S3 bucket and will actually access the data through the internet. And you might not want that, you might not want your private resources needing to actually go to the internet and then pull S3 bucket data from there. You may want to keep your subnets private and not give them any access to the internet and so you would want the S3 traffic to go internally. AWS invented something called VPC Endpoints for that and it's one of the things that tools like CloudRail can find through dynamic analysis. And so even though your buckets are defined in one place, your subnets and your resources are defined elsewhere, dynamic analysis can connect the dots. And then lastly, a very interesting example is actually the impact between resources that are exposing one another. So let's say I've deployed an RDS database and I've deployed it to a subnet and I did not allocate an IP address for it. In that case, it's technically not public or not publicly accessible. But what happens if I have other resources in that same subnet? So let's say I have an EC2 resource that is public and it's sitting in the same subnet and by default there's access from the EC2 over to the RDS database. That means that a hacker can hack the EC2 instance and from there actually get to the RDS database. Again, it's one of the things that you find through dynamic analysis and not any other way. And so as an example, and here we're at the GitLab conference, you can use in Danny CloudRail all product that does dynamic analysis together with GitLab. And the integration is very, very simple.  The output is in GitLab's SAS format. So even though we do dynamic analysis, it is called SAS the format itself. And you can actually see the security issues in the environment directly. So you can actually see what were the issues, where they are in code, et cetera, and handle them. And so you can use CloudRail with GitLab to find the most sensitive and the most interesting issues. By leveraging dynamic analysis. So if we wrap up the conversation here, the idea is very simple. You start with infrastructure as code, you wrap it with CICD, GitLab, and operating it through merge requests. You start with static analysis for security, then you advance to dynamic analysis. And that allows you to do policy enforcement and actually always keep your cloud environment in compliance, which is the goal that all of us have from a security perspective. That's it, thank you very much. Hopefully this was interesting. Again, I'm available on Twitter and LinkedIn. Just hit me up with a message. I'd love to take these conversations forward. Thank you very much and have a good day. Enjoy the conference.


Good afternoon, everyone. This is Melissa with the stockswish.com and welcome. Welcome to a market update. Boy, the queues and the spies have been chop, chop, choppy the last few days and someone asked me about today and I really have an explanation except for the fact that it's been bad weather and the last two days maybe people aren't making it into work to trade but that really I don't think is the reason. I think the market is just slow and resting and is sideways silly and choppy. My call for the market today was I thought we come in slightly. Well, we did a little bit and then we didn't go anywhere and yesterday I thought we'd rally bigger than this. We just closed very neutral. So the long and short of it is that the market is still holding the bullishness and it's either gonna blow higher this week or it's gonna pull in. Right now it's doing nothing. This is very, very very sideways. Very sideways here. I'm looking at this.   Let me just look here and see. Yeah, the market's gonna move somewhere in here this week with their data that's out the rest of the week. But right now it is very, very sideways. So if you're looking to do plays here and needing help from the market this week you're not getting it. You're not getting it to the downside. You're not getting it to the bullish side. And actually I like to do shorts. That's what I do mostly. This is helping shorts, this type of sideways activity. It's not good for longs with this type of activity here for the market. It's better the downside. Some things are having some nice pull-ins that are a bit extended with this type of sideways action the last two days. But the market is holding the bullishness and I thought it would come in a little bit more than this today. The spies actually came down and retested the low. The queues did not here. I acted like it was going to but didn't. It's not over yet today. It's only one o'clock in the afternoon. Three more hours of trading. So we'll see where we close. But I don't think we break really over this high from yesterday. We might retest or break the low. But I think the market's going to close looking very similar to this. So we'll have to look and watch and see what the market does the remainder of the week. But one thing's for certain, we're not going to stay like this the next three days of trading. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Some action will take place here in the market. It could happen in a gap. The market's either going to gap up and run and make the big move higher or it's going to come in a bit. And the pulling could come in about here-ish, around 80, 5.50 or possibly even 85. But if the market wants to run higher and break over this area of 86.50, it could just go right up and shoot right up to 87. So I'll have to see where we open tomorrow. Some big names reporting tomorrow morning, Costco, Joy, and some things tonight. So this is Melissa with the stockswish.com. If you'd like more information on the upcoming gap course, it's this weekend, December 14th, 15th, and a special bonus day for the last class of the year, December 16th. If you'd like more information, email me at melissa at the stockswish.com if you'd like to sign up for the class. Hope everyone is having a wonderful, safe, snowy day. Talk to you soon.


Bex, you're fired, Jess, thanks for coming up. This is something Tracy here at Art of Asics suggested and it's a great tip. Have an artist find a way to take notes and do things like math. You know, you find a great formula and you say holy smokes, it was 72 degrees in my studio. I mixed like, you know, like three drops of like a resident tint into my whatever and it worked perfectly. So if you find something great, write notes, it's really helpful. You can go back to it. Lots of big artists around history have done it. You see their notebooks. So get a book, keep it in your studio and we'll see you next week with this, with the great new theme song, Creator Jessica.


What surfaced first in my brain was the word anxiety as in anxiety about what I would want to talk about And then I don't know why exactly but I started ruminating over the phrase separation anxiety that familiar concept I think to all of us and And then I was ruminating about really more like freaking out about Brexit More generally over time Donald Trump And realizing that what seems to be going on is is the opposite of separation anxiety, but it's more like closeness anxiety or maybe integration But the idea that we're so uncomfortable with people who are different from us Being close to us that we have to do something to push them away And that that just needs to be surfacing everywhere Right now, so I'll talk a bit about the campus context And so what I was just saying about the intersections, you know that this is happening across all kinds of intergroup relations gender identity and sexuality race religion nationality a Positions of power professor versus student all of these kinds of power dynamics Seem to come back to this tremendous anxiety that that we have in our cultures around closest and And so what that leads to is Instead of separation anxiety, I reversed it in my To anxiety separation so in response to closeness anxiety we anxiously Separate from people, right? It's an anxiety driven pushing away of people and so on That translates primarily into two Fixes the one the lesser one is the Barely ubiquitous no contact order, which means that if you have a problem with somebody else Or they've harmed you in some way will set up a no contact order so that even though you're in the same Community and often in very same spaces like the same dining hall or gym or even class You're not allowed to talk to each other or communicate in any way And then of course there's suspension and expulsion and other pushing away So that's what we do and what I want to talk about is By way of example is a kind of before and after experience that I had Way back when when we started our sort of justice program at Skidmore College in fact I'm in this is like 15 years ago, so I can't I I don't have time to tell you the full stories And I can't tell you the full story because they're so long ago. I don't really remember all the At that time I was Working pretty closely and learning from the good people of Vermont. Many of them are here in this room studying there restored newly rolled out restorative justice program and And while I was doing that there was a bit of an uproar on our campus about our judicial process disciplinary process Disatisfaction students had with it. So I got enlisted into a committee to look at our process and consider alternatives So the timing was fortuitous because I could say Let's do what Vermont does and people said what's that? I said here it is and they said okay So we started our program Just on an essentially on that basis And so what I had a chance to experience at that time was a case Right before we started our restorative justice process and then a case just after And they were nearly identical So the contrast is Is pronounced in in both of these cases they began with Drunk male student as often campus misconduct begins and both of these cases that male student had lost their key to get back into their dorm residence hall and And both chose the same solution which was to climb in through a first floor window of somebody else's room So they could get back in Not necessarily knowing whose room that was and in both of those cases. This is two in the morning or so was a single female student In the first case asleep in her bed woken up by this intruder who's just climbed male intruders Just climbed into her window So in this first case We went through a disciplinary hearing to address this kind of breaking and entering situation And and the armed party had no real role to play except that like in a criminal justice process of being a witness to the crime And giving only testimony for a short portion of what happened and leaving and never hearing The guy's perspective or understanding of what what was behind his decision to do that And then he was Justly punished found in violation The policy and given a set of sanctions like again, I can't remember all of them the one that Stands out in my memory was this no contact order. He's not allowed to get in touch with her in any way they can't communicate and And then the fallout from that that the one major lasting impact of that was that she remained Fearful, so that's that closeness anxiety perpetuated and he Remained or experienced became resentful a particularly resentful of her for getting him into trouble In other words, hey, this was no big deal. I was just trying to get to my room I didn't have any mountain Why is everybody making a big deal about this? So she her anxiety goes up because she knows he's meant it through the grapevine And he's mad at her right, so just an all-around Technically successful case with very very Unsuccessful outcomes. We have nearly the same case a year later when we start our restorative justice program and And in this case guy comes through the window justice the young woman has come back into a room after taking a shower So she has a towel wrapped around her. He's coming in one way. She's coming in the other the impact kind of barrels over her to get out the door And when she screams he's he screams he goes through so there's physical contact in this one So it's in some ways even worse And So we did the thing that we do in sort of justice and I love the line of her Lauren Aaronson repeating She's I think she's out of the room at this particular moment, but you can have her on the back for this good line She says in sort of justice we do a radical thing. We let people talk to each other And that's what we did We let them talk to each other and we created a space in which this young woman could talk about how frightened she was and He could talk about what was behind his decision-making in the moment. There was some mutual reinsurance around safety and so forth and And there were three in 22nd intervals Key moments that came out of this before I closed three discussions that happened that I think were important one was An exploration of why her fear was not an overreaction, which was the starting place for both of these guys And and that by having this conversation rather than suspending him from residential living or something like that We were able to explore that topic Which meant the larger topic around rape culture I had the sexual assault and out of that the two of them actually wanted to collaborate on a residence hall Education program around the prevalence of campus sexual assault So they wanted to work together on that the second was the question why Why do we have to be so drunk Why is it that students feel like they must get so drunk to have fun? And so we posed the challenge to him Could you organize a so an alcohol-free social event on campus that you and your friends would actually want to go to? And that was a really creative challenge Which he wanted to take up because it was intriguing it was almost inconceivable So so we could we could have a conversation about campus drinking and simplifications And then the third discussion that we had was Why is it so easy to climb into first floor? And that raised the question of institutional or community responsibility that goes beyond the individual responsibility that particular And that there is more involved in us when we start to talk about this systemic or structural implications of our systems within which students mothers operate and And so then there was a plan that was made to actually make it harder to climb into first floor windows So there was some structural literally structural change that came out of this so what all this is to say is that Changing campus climate and culture it doesn't happen through one individual case But what happens is you start to engage in questions and discussions and activities that Over time start to really address the larger issues instead of just driving people apart