So I'm just going to share a bit of background about myself and then talk about what I hope to achieve in this session okay, so I'm I've been practicing lean startup for a couple of years now and I'm also part of a couple of different groups where I mentor a few of the company's startups I'm now with Intuit, which is also a much larger company that still works as sort of small team the startups using both design thinking and lean startup and I Want to sort of just share some real practical examples of how I've tried to use lean startup and some challenges that I've faced and I don't want to be someone who is coming in trying to give a lot of gyan because I think there's enough gyan out there So I'm hoping I can share some real examples because I think that's kind of where it's valuable and Encourage more conversations within our community to talk about sort of what's working for you or what's not working for you And how can we learn from each other? And I think to me if I can incubate some thoughts and get people together here talking about it figuring out How in the context of agile and lean things could work together? That'll be great I'm not here to evangelize lean startup. I think there's some strengths here There's certain areas where it hasn't worked for me ultimately. I think these things are horses for courses It's a design thinking customer development. I think you sort of got to choose depending on what you're trying to achieve But here I'll talk a little more specifically with respect to lean startup. How I've applied it and certain things that I've learned so I'm a perpetual entrepreneur, even if I'm a part of a big company an intrapreneur in a big company. I Have been a part of multiple startups in the past. I lived and worked in the Bay Area for a while as part of one startup That we took public we grew it globally I've had a number of different roles been a part of taking different products to the market I've been both an engineering leadership role as it is in product leadership roles and I just love working with small teams to foster innovation and and help Take ideas, you know ground up I've also been a mentor at lean startup machine and That's sort of where I felt like hey It's good to sort of talk about all this but really sort of sharing examples is useful Since we can then really learn a little more from each other I'll also talk about it about me as a senior product manager into it and the context of how I know many of you are from much larger companies And I think a lot of this still applies for you Although the case study that I'm going to share is from a startup that I was a part of earlier So this is a case study that ended up getting really popular to popular at the point where it's almost a little embarrassing in some ways But I had people like Benjamin Southworth and you know Gary toss people who I really really respect sort of reaching on and saying hey, this is how you guys should build product and I think it sort of inspired me to say hey, you know to look to share more with people learn more from others too And I hope that you know


Personal finance practice problem using Excel. Stock price calculation assuming constant dividends and no growth. Prepare to get financially fit by practicing personal finance. Here we are in our Excel worksheet if you don't have access to it that's okay because we'll basically build this from a blank sheet but if you do have access three tabs down below example practice blank example in essence answer key let's look at it now information on the left calculations on the right we're trying to value a common stock possibly to make a decision as to whether the stock is over or undervalued as we compare it to the market price possibly helping us out with decisions such as should we be purchasing or selling the stock we're going to be using a method similar to how we value things like bonds using a time value of money present valuing the future stream of income from the investment however stocks are a little bit more confusing than bonds because bonds are more kind of set in stone as they say with regards to the terms of the bonds meaning you typically have a stream of payments that you'll be receiving interest payments as well as the lump sum at maturity meaning you also have a maturity date with stocks we have two kinds of valuations that we might be receiving one could be the form of dividends and two could be the form of the value of the stock going up and we have no end maturity date so we got to make some assumptions if we want to use the same kind of cash flow type of method and we might make different assumptions or use different methods depending on the type of stock we are valuing if we're valuing a stock that is kind of an established stock they don't need to grow much anymore because they're already established like a utility company or something like that the infrastructure is already set in place we expect them to earn steady earnings into the future and they're just going to be giving out dividends for their earnings because they don't have to put it back in the company at that point that's kind of the easiest valuation we can think of because then we can think of a steady rate of dividends going forward and uh and so that's the first assumption that we'll make and then we might do some other assumptions later okay so second tab has some pre-formatted worksheet so you can work the practice problem with less excel formatting the third tab is a blank tab where we will do the excel formatting if you don't have anything you can open up a new tab and you can start off by just laying down the underlying formatting i would do that by selecting the whole worksheet possibly by hitting the triangle up top right click in the selected area format the cells and then i typically go to currency bracketed and negative or read for negative numbers no decimals or no dollar signed and no decimals i'm not going to hit okay because i already have this i'm just going to close out x and out here then enter your data on the left hand side adding percentages for example when necessary formatting the cells as needed make a skinny c column we also have a table down here but you don't really need to worry about that we might not even use the table down below that's another way we can do the present values but we'll basically be using excel formatting as our primary tool okay so let's do our valuations so remember we're kind of imagining that we've got this $15 that are going to be the annual dividends how do we know it's the annual dividends because we've looked at them in the past and that's what they have been and we're going to assume that the dividends are going to be basically constant going forward so plan to keep this dividend for some time into the future required rate of return for the common stockholder so we're going to say this is our rate of return the discount rate that we're going to be using to determine whether or not it be worthwhile to be investing in the stock we're going to be using the 12 percent in our time value of money calculation and you can think about that as the rate that we might be getting from other similar investments taking into account the risks related with other kinds of investments for example the 12 percent in essence being kind of like our hurdle rate that we would have to be clearing in order to put our money here as opposed to possibly somewhere else now one way we can think about doing this is to kind of map out all the future payments and we'll take a look at that but there's kind of a shortcut calculation a straightforward easy way to do this kind of calculation and then we'll basically do the longer calculations which I think helps us to visualize it better so if I was to calculate the price making these assumptions we're going to say let's go ahead and make the top here black and white home tab font group we're going to make that black and white and then I'm going to say we've got the annual cash dividends we're just going to take this equals the annual cash dividends I'm going to make sell D a little bit wider put my cursor between D and E making it wider we're going to then say in IE 2 equals the $15 and then we're going to have the required rate of return so we're going to say this is the required rate of return return and this is going to be equal to the 12 percent down here and we'll then adjust the percent to make it a percentized sale home tab number group percentify it percentify you best got percentified a record font group underline and then so the price is going to be then equal to the 15 times uh the 12 I'm sorry 15 divided by the 12 it equals the 15 divided by the 12 let's add a couple decimals home tab number group a couple decimals fairly straightforward calculation again remember that what we're doing is assuming that this 15 dividends are basically going out into the future basically kind of indefinitely now let's kind of prove that that works with a longer calculation before we do so we'll do you know the reverse order of this calculation let's make this blue and bordered you're getting ahead of yourself hold on a second home tab font group we're going to put some borders around this thing all borders make it blue with a bucket drop down going down to the more colors if you don't have the blue there already standard there's the blue I use you could use whatever you want you can make whatever color you want as long as you can read it required it doesn't bother your supervisor or anything of return okay so then we're going to make this black and white we're going to say this is going to be home tab font group drop down black and white so we can imagine then if the price were this 125 the and the required rate of return was 12 so if we knew the price then possibly looking at the market price if the market price was 125 and our required rate of return then was 12 home tab font group percent let's put an underline font group in underline we would want the dividends to be annual cash dividends assuming the dividends are are only really increased in value because we're talking about stocks that are have peaked out and their growth and really are just kind of marching along like utility companies or something like that so we're going to say that would mean that we would need a dividend of 125 divided by 12 I'm sorry now it's multiplied 125 times 12 which would give us the 15 I'll add a couple decimals home tab number group couple decimals 15 even let's make that blue and bordered selecting these items here home tab font group bordered bucket drop down and blue now let's make that let's kind of prove that that what that is doing remember like if you if you think about like a bond what we're doing is trying to look at the future cash payments in present valuing them so one way we could do that is I could say let's make a skinny F column here making I'll click on the skinny C so that I can go to the home tab clipboard make a paintbrush painter and make a skinny F out of it and I could use an annuity formula annuity and I could say okay well if I'm going to get $15 out into an infinity and beyond into the future well I could just kind of I know that if it goes way out into the future then that $15 because of time value money is going to be worth less and less and less that's why I can take that infinite series and basically for the most part for practical purposes bringing about down to a defined number here right so I could do something like negative present value shift nine for my present value formula the rate is going to be this 12 percent down here the rate of return we want comma number of periods I don't have a number of periods because it goes on forever so why don't I just use a fairly big number right like even just a hundred would do it I think right because if I'm a hundred years into the future then the $15 I'm going to get a hundred years from now it's pretty small might not have a big impact on my calculation so then I say comma and then the annuity payment calculation is going to be the 15 so we're going to get 15 for a hundred years discounting at the 12 percent what would that series of payments be worth about $125 right home tab number group and you might say well that's not very specific or exact because that you know it goes out into infinity it's worth infinity because it goes on forever but you know those amounts in the future are getting smaller and smaller due to time value money let's prove that another way a couple other ways let's select these two we're going to go to the home tab font group make that border blue let's make a skinny eye column a skinny eye home tab font group like when I got poked in the eye I had a skinny eye for a while because I was squinting we're going to make a skinny eye like that home tab font group and then skinny eye okay so then we're gonna let's let's do it this way first I'm going to put a total here because I'm going to try to total it at the front end and then I'm going to put my periods at the top one two I'm going to select those two periods and I'm going to drag it all the way out to 100 periods out to the right 100 periods out to the right which is too far we don't really need to go that far but that's what we did on our annuity so we'll do it we'll do it just to prove a point we go very far to prove points around here home tab we're going to go to the alignment center it and then let's make it black and white drop down black and white let's make this centered and black and white and then we're going to say that this is going to be the dividends dividends each year $15 a year on out to infinity because it's a utility company or something they're just paying out steady dividends steady dividends steady as she goes so there it is I'm going to say f4 on the keyboard f4 and making a dollar sign before the b in the three you only need a mixed reference but an absolute will work I'm going to take that grab that then with the fill handle and drag it all the way to the right till we get to the 100 and there it is so there's our $15 going back to the start we're going to then have like the price or the present value let's say and the price when we total it the present value each period I'm going to take each of these $15 and bring them back to the current period so $15 one year from now let's do that calculation present value shift nine rate to the left is that 12% I want to make it absolute because I want to copy it to the right it's outside my table I don't want it to move to the right when I go to the right therefore I'm going to say f4 and keyboard dollar sign before the b and eight you only need a mixed reference but an absolute one works comma number of periods I'm going to say up to that's going to be the one I want that to move to the right to be number two when I go to the right and copy it to the right so I'm going to keep that as is comma the payment is up one the 15 I also want that to move to the right when I go to the right so we'll keep that as it is and hold on it's not a payment it's not a payment I was wrong thank you for telling me that we're going to say two commas because it's not an annuity it's a it's a present value of one therefore the future value is 15 and I want that to move to the right when I go to the right we don't even need to close it up I'm just going to hit enter there it is I'm going to grab it on the fill handle and if I did everything right I'll do it just one time to the right this time take it to the right one time and see if it does what I would expect double clicking on it looks correct everything looks in order so now let's grab it again and pull it all the way to the hundred hundred periods out hundred periods out boom and then you get a bunch of zeros down here but I'm going to add some decimals number group decimalizing it decimalized I'll decimalize this one home tab decimalized and now we only usually go to a couple pennies but just to show you can see obviously as we go out that fifteen dollars we're going to get 20 years from now is getting quite small it's a dollar fifty so fifteen dollars out 30 years is is getting fairly small and if I go obviously past we're below a penny of value after 66 years so fifteen dollars 66 years for now we value back at our discount rate at 85 right and if I go all the way out to a hundred years you can see it gets quite small to the point where it's kind of insignificant which is why if I sum this series of payments up if we sum this series of payments up on the right here equals the sum of this series of payments all the way on down we get about 125 so we're going to go home tab number group a couple decimals let's pull that up to the right add up to 15 so we had 1500 dollars over over a hundred years is only worth 125 if we discounted back using that 12 percent which is kind of it's not just inflation that 12 percent that's including the rate of return that we expect to get that's why we would say the price then would be like 125 if we were going to use that as our valuation we would expect the price to be 125 if the price was over that we might say what might be overvalued based on this under that on the market price we might say it's undervalued okay so let's do it let's do this one more time let's make this blue and and bordered and I just want to do that calculation a couple more times one because it's fun and two because you might see it a different way and three because other people might do it a different way and you got to deal with the they're funny minds doing things different but still like correct but like weirdly so I'm the only one that does things correct all the the right way all the time other people have they do things other ways sometimes and I've got to figure out why they did it funny so we're going to go all the way to the right and we sometimes it's easier to make this vertically structured so I'm going to make a skinny sail over here it's harder to put the the headers sometimes but it's easier to do the calculation so for example if I went the periods periods and I can just go from one two and bring that let's let's start but let's do that one two I'm going to bring that down to a hundred right I'm going to bring it down to a hundred again just build in my table this way instead of the other way centering it and there we go and then we can say the dividends dividends are this way notice I'm getting kind of I don't have as much space up top the headers that's where the problem is here but it's usually easier to construct this way equals and I'm just I'll just pick up that 15 right there even though that's kind of cheating I'm going to say f4 on the keyboard dollar sign before the dg and the two enter and then what's nice about this is I can just double click right here and boom it takes it down which I couldn't do if I go to the right so that's kind of a neat thing and then we've got the present value present value same calculation negative pv shift nine rate I got to find that all the way to the left so I'm just going to hold the left arrow until I hit the wall going to the wall boom I almost knocked that two right out of the wall right there because I was had so much speed when I was barreling down I'm going to say f4 on the keyboard dollar sign before the b and the two we're going to say comma number of periods it's going to be that one because we're going to bring it back one year just like we did with this one over here same calculations except in a vertical format comma comma because it's not an annuity but present value of one future values that 15 we're going to bring that 15 back one year that brings it to the 13 or so let's add some decimals home tab find creep let's be more exact than even going to the penny so that we can then just double click this is why it's easier to do vertical double click boom and we could see if I discount that 15 back four years it's at the 950 and you could see of course again it gets quite small as we go down to 100 if I can total it up down here I could total it up down here equals the sum of all that 15s I'm going to copy that to the right and you get that 125 again 125 now you might be familiar with like using a hurdle rate with when you're calculating like capital projects and stuff like that to see so let's let's add one more little twist to this I'm going to put some underlines here home tab underline and let's make this blue and bordered home tab font group you're getting ahead of yourself again stop that wait for yourself I'm tired myself is tired but I don't want to wait for myself home tab alignment center this is going to be blue and bordered okay so let's let's copy like from the skinny to DK and then we'll do one little twist on it we're going to copy that and I'm going to paste that right here because I got the skinny coming with it so I'm going to say boom and then I'm just going to because you might you might be looking at this and figuring well look this series of payments if it's greater than zero that means we cleared the hurdle rate meaning if this is our rate of return 12 percent and I look at my series of future payments if it comes out and you look at normal capital budgeting kind of techniques if it comes out above zero then it would be something that cleared the 100 that that percent the 12 percent and therefore might be something worth investing in and the reason that it's the same thing really is because we have to put the outflow which would be period zero so in other words if I assume that we paid 125 for the stock I'm going to right I'm going to select these three cells right click and insert and move these cells down and then I'm going to format it with well let's copy the stuff at the bottom here and format paint at home tab clipboard format paint that right there and this is going to be period zero right in period zero I'm going to assume that we have we don't have a dividend but this is a payment that we have this would be a payment negative to show it cash outflow all the dividends are cash inflows right so if I if I say this is going to be equal to that 125 that 125 outflow we could put a little message here this is not a dividend this is an outflow this is let's put a note on it this is uh payment this is payment price that we have for the stock so we pay that I don't need to really present value it I could because it would be at period zero so I could just copy this up and it should be it should be well 125 it's the same okay so then so then if I copy that all the way down I'd say here's really what my cashflow will be this has to copy this has to take into consideration the 125 I'm just going to pull that up to the 125 now we paid or we received 1375 net after the 125 outflow up front copying that across and we get to zero in essence on on here because now we're showing all the all the activity here's my initial cash outflow here's all the inflows we get from the dividends the fact that it's zero doesn't mean that we didn't earn any profit in that case the fact that it's zero means we cleared the hurdle rate which was the 12 percent which is the rate that not interest rate that's not the interest rate that's the rate that we think we can get in a similar kind of investment so that's hopefully that kind of clarifies this 12 percent a little bit and you can and again I hope if you work if you work on other like budgeting projects or capital budget projects and stuff like that then you can you'll be using oftentimes similar techniques and that kind of hurdle rate how what that rate actually means can be a little bit confusing to people oftentimes


I accept this nomination for president of the United States of America." Democrats just hosted the first ever virtual national convention to nominate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for president and VP. The goal of the four-day event was to unify the party's moderates and progressives by focusing on Trump's moral and political failings. For close to four years now he has shown no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. But despite all the talk of change, it was clear that after four years of rising walls, spiraling debt, and rule by executive order, the Democrats are resolved to stay the course and continue expanding the size and scope of the federal government. Biden blasted the Trump administration for its disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic and pledged to institute a national mask mandate, though the rest of his plan was short on specifics. He will tell the truth and trust science. He will make smart plans and manage a good team. And with Joe as president, these classrooms will ring out with laughter and possibility once again. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose decision to return elderly people infected with COVID-19 to nursing homes led to thousands of deaths, was summoned to provide the party's vision for responsible leadership. The Democrats sought to exploit the coronavirus to justify bigger government or what they call bold federal action. We need to do more to address the epidemic of gun violence. They pledged strong gun control measures despite the fact that the gun homicide rate today is half what it was in the early 90s. There is no vaccine for racism. They promised that a Biden-Harris administration would address systemic racial bias and reform the criminal justice system that ironically Biden played a lead role in creating. Kamala Harris is the vice president we need right now committed to our constitution. She's relentless in the pursuit of justice and equity. She fights to end mass incarceration. But the speeches were short on specifics about what a Biden administration would actually do to reverse the impact of laws like the 1994 crime bill, which he defended all the way up until the beginning of his presidential campaign last year. Most cops are good, but the fact is the bad ones have to be identified and prosecuted and out. The party did offer numerous proposals for new government mandates and increased spending on social programs to fight racial and wealth inequality. Joe supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, create 12 weeks of paid family leave, fund universal pre-K plans to increase social security benefits, cancel billions in student loan debt. They also tied social justice issues to Biden's $2 trillion plan to address climate change, which he's selling as a form of economic stimulus, even though the federal debt has already climbed above 100 percent of gross domestic product. When I think about climate change, the word I think of is jobs. Plans to bring back union jobs and manufacturing and create new union jobs and clean energy. Similar to Trump, Biden promises to move jobs back to the U.S., and though former president Bill Clinton attacked Trump's tariffs on China. Joe Biden wants to build an economy better for farmers, tired of being collateral damage in trade wars. Biden hasn't committed to repealing those tariffs if elected. Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. A major theme was Trump's incompetence, divisiveness, and general inability to rise to the challenges he's been confronted with. Convention organizers sought to convince voters that Joe Biden would bring back decency and the pre-Trump normal. This is not normal, and we must never treat it like it is. Tulsi Gabbard, the Democrat's most visible critic of our endless wars, wasn't invited. But Colin Powell, who alongside Biden helped make the case for the Iraq War, was. He argued that a Biden administration would bring back the glory days of America projecting its power around the globe. He'll be a president who knows that America is strong as wind, as he has said. We lead both by the power of our example and the example of our power. Nor do I put up with foreign interference in our most sacred democratic exercise, voting. Hillary Clinton called Trump's concerns about vote by mail fraud a conspiracy theory, and then repeated one of her own, claiming that it wasn't her fault she lost the election. Russia stole it away. Vote for honest elections, so we, not a foreign adversary, choose our president. Look, this can't be another what-a-could-a-should election. Even if you're disaffected with two-party politics as normal, even if you find the major candidate's unacceptable election after election, the 2020 Democratic National Convention was designed to convince you that you can create change at the polls this time, for real, and that voting is not just your right, but your responsibility, just as long as you vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This is not the time to withhold our votes in protest or play games with candidates who have no chance of winning. When we vote, things change. When we vote, things get better. Now history would be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here, tonight.


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Those are your two options But I wish me happy birthday you are signing over your soul Custard cream hmm, maybe Maybe maybe I'll try to make a soul caliber joke, but it didn't work in my head. Is that franchise still around Yeah, a new game is coming out this month or next. Yeah, so Calibri six. Wow Yeah, that's I think that was the first yeah the first one came out in a dream case. Yeah, I remember there was literally a Tidal wave of 3d fighting arena games that came out with oh, yeah, they're all fighting each other. Yeah Tekken oh Actually, it comes out this week 19th So caliber six You know actually okay for my birthday. This is what I want.  No, it seems like it would already I feel like there's so many crossovers already Capcom does not want to do it because they think the moral combat franchise is too violent Mortal combat is connected with DC and Capcom's connected with Marvel. That's what that's what the issue is. No, but they've Haven't they done these no, they haven't yet. Have they Yeah, they've done they've done DC crossover with Mortal Kombat for sure. No, no, I mean like DC and Capcom But I guess it's all marrable. Yeah, but No, but really that's what I want I want to be able to be subzero and fight Ryu or Ken or something it almost had to be like a Like a smash brothers type game where it's like everybody can come together and do that One for anime coming out There's been a couple jump force that's coming out But yeah, it won't have those but the cool mechanic is if you leave the fighting like, you know Mortal Kombat you have a block button like you leave all that in so it would be a different combination of like, you know Skillsets but also like, you know of the characters, but also how to actually play the game. I Know it'd be kind of weird, but I think it would be fun You know what else would be fun if we do the show Oh, no, I keep talking about games that you know, I'm not gonna ever exist. Well, we could do that show Oh, you have a schedule and people waiting. Oh Look at me. Why did you tell me? Organizing something because it's not my birthday Shall we start in 30 seconds would that be good with everyone that would be fine everyone on board with that Sarah Could you read line three? I could Would you know Excellent, I think we all can my birthday dream has Be surprised All right, 15 seconds places everyone So when is your birthday? June end of June. Oh, that's okay. Yeah, you're here. I got time plenty of time. Yeah. All right five four three two one Thanks, everybody who supports daily tech news show directly to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash supports This is the daily tech news for Monday the ides Of whatever this month is October October 15th 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane also Los Angeles. I'm Lamar Wilson and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang I Stuff coming out of adobe Good stuff not the kind of stuff Let's start with a few tech things you should Do that quantum magazine reports that you see Berkley's Ermola Mahadev has solved a problem in quantum computing on how to determine if a quantum computer has followed instructions and Solved problems correctly unlike classical computers You can't really check the steps of a quantum computer after eight years of grad school work Mahadev developed an interactive protocol employing a trapdoor function and learning with errors or LW e To make sure that quantum computers are doing what you want The quantum computer to do LW e is the most likely candidate for a cryptographic function that can't be broken by quantum computers huge Advance it's it's almost impossible to explain, but a huge huge huge advance. I can't understand it Well, it's basically to be able to know that a quantum computer is doing what it's supposed to which is very difficult And a difficult problem that has now apparently been solved Something else that needs to be solved there a ps4 problem several ps4 users are reporting their consoles are being break by malicious chat message Sony is aware of the problem in developing a system update to resolve it Users can set messages to private to avoid accidentally receiving the corrupted chat message So it was something with Sony Oh, it reminds me that thing that happened with iMessage where you'd send one particular character and it could crash people stuff So yeah, it sounds like that Axios has sources that say Apple acquired a startup called a sci AS AII which uses artificial intelligence to identify and Recommend musical artists to labels and managers the source told Axios that Apple wants to use it to sign talent to Apple music That's something Spotify does. I don't know if they use AI, but they do sign independent musicians to Spotify So it sounds like Apple would like to ramp that up as well All right, let's talk a little bit more about some other stuff starting with a monitor now Now monitors don't get us as excited as they used to but I don't know this one seems pretty excited Lamar It does uh, so del announced the u 49 19 dw ultra sharp 49 inch curved monitor with 50 120 by 1440 resolution and the ability to show two computer screens at once side by side and handle mouse and keyboard input for both The 49 inch curved monitor will be available starting at 16 99 on october 26 so first of all 40 these monitors are just getting crazy big i i think 49 inches is You're sitting like inches from it. It's too much so much light blazing in your in your eyes, but whatever We'll all be blind in a few years anyway, um, but But but what I I really like this monitor I like the concept of it. Uh, if you're a gamer not so much 60 frame not 60 frames, uh, what what is what is it? The 60 hertz refresh rate It mentions it doesn't have g-sync or free sync technology, but if you're a person who's like Looks at the stockbroker type person or editor A video I I could see value of having that huge screen there or or um, I was thinking of a streamer But but then the gaming thing is not so part but streamer, you know Just have one monitor split the two so they can game on one and watch chat on the other Yeah, but a lot of them use two monitors for that now, but absolutely. I I have 127 inch monitor That I you I flipped back and forth between two computers with I love this I could just put one of the 49 inch monitor and just have both computers up at the same time I could also use more real estate. I've been wanting to upgrade to a bigger monitor for a while anyway 1700 bucks man. What do you I was gonna say? What do you think of the price? Yeah, that's uh Yeah, pretty cost prohibitive, but I'm with you tom I I'm on a windows machine right now that I'm mirror to a nice External monitor 49 inches sounds crazy big Yeah, but but if I could have my macbook and my windows laptop somehow Worked out, you know during the show I could I could do a lot more at the same time and and that would be pretty cool Tcl has licensed the palm name to a california startup run by two former samsung vice presidents Their first product is called the palm. It's a small phone It's meant to be used when you don't want or need to carry your big phone credit card sized device It's a 3.3 inch lcd display with 445 ppi running android 8.1 with a custom interface and google assistant as well Shares a phone number with your existing phone so you can't buy on its own It's a companion phone cost 350 dollars available in november from verizon I don't want another phone Well, I know that the the return of palm or at least the name palm Uh, that was exciting. Yeah, it's I was a palm fan I liked the handspring visor and I had a palm E series it has a special place in my heart too, but The bigger story here. I think is this trend of people wanting a smaller second device to because They don't want the distraction of their full phone So they want like there's a lot of these like oh make this your second phone And this one is marketing itself as you can have that second phone and heap the same phone number In fact, you have to it's the only way we're going to sell it to you I just you know as somebody who's you know, I You know, I have a somewhat large iPhone, but it fits into small purses. It it works Fits into most jacket pockets of mine. I just don't feel like I need that Even smaller phone for those other times where this phone is just too much. I mean I can run with this It's not like that heavy or that big Yeah, I guess is that is this uh, society is trying to you know their time We want to get away from our phone. We want to get away from the email get away from uh, you know the web You know, it's almost like going on a diet of the internet I just don't know how sustainable that is given the society where we're in is you know Or just put your phone and do not disturb I'm not sure another device is needed and if it is needed. Hello. Smart smart watches with lte They exist Yeah, I wonder how many people with smart watches would would ever want something like this because it kind of works the same way Doesn't it and these two samsung exactly the same way worked in the wearables department at samsung Like they're definitely taking that watch aesthetic and saying. Hey, maybe maybe it could work for people who don't want to wear it as a phone Because yeah, I feel like there's a little overlap although you can do a little bit more with this thing I mean, I know it's only a 3.3 inch lcd screen But that's pretty much the same ppi as the iphone 10s like it's it's a nice looking Screen 350 bucks for a second phone that you want to be less capable though That's a lot of money going into a lot of money It's like two sets of keys. You're just gonna not have the right one Really, really need it. So maybe we're the wrong people email us feedback at daily technician.com if you're like, no, no, no I love this idea. Let me tell you why tell us why we love to know mit announced a one billion dollar initiative to establish a new college of computing to train people in how to apply Machine learning to their discipline like biology chemistry physics even politics history and linguistics Of the 50 faculty in the new college Half will be hired As computer scientists and the other half will be appointed jointly with the other mit department So they'll be interdisciplinary hires in a press statement mit president l rafael reef said the college will equip students to think critically about the human impact Of their work So they're going to try to teach people the ethics of using this stuff as well Stephen a schwarzman ceo of the private equity firm blackstone has contributed 350 million So they're a third of the way to the billion they need and therefore the college Will be the schwarzman college. They'll be naming it after him because of that donation. That's nice um, I I think the nice thing about this is that Although it's separate with with the ai they're saying hey if you are by biology major great But here is some here is another thing you can use for you know to help you in your ballot, you know in in your field So it's not in isolation. It's to complement all the other You know biology chemistry physics politics. It doesn't matter, you know ai can Be beneficial in each one of those. I think I like that angle versus a whole separate major just for ai Yeah, because I they are already teaching ai in the computer science department at mit I didn't look into find out what but that that's something that that's been going on They have a lot of machine learning stuff coming out of there So what what this is doing is saying Instead of you having to be dedicated to computer science Maybe you want to learn machine learning as a tool in which case? Let's help you get really good at it and use it ethically In a different discipline rather than just pure research on machine learning and like you say lemar I I'm I'm not really doing others than repeating what you said It's a good interdisciplinary approach to things that that will help widen the responsible use of machine learning Absolutely. Yeah Go on So amazon filed a patent that would enable his voice assistant to the tech changes in a user's voice and identify if someone has a code It could then suggest remedies like chicken soup the patent Sorry, the patent says the technology you have a cold lemar. Would you like a recipe for chicken soup? I know it's like that doesn't help with clothes. Anyway Moving on the the patent says the technology could also detect emotional states sleeping crying Where the user is located age gender and accent The data would be used to target ads as well. Well, of course it would it's it's amazon So look look, I mean reading this article everybody's thinking the same thing Really like are you first are you going to cough into your amazon echo? Probably that's weird. That's going to be spreading germs on there towards the echo Yeah, yeah, so obviously this will have to be an always on always listening for anything type of device I don't think so. I think so and and granted this is just a patent So we actually have no idea how they would actually put it in practice But if I'm reading it right when you spoke to The echo is when it would analyze so when you're saying, you know, turn on the lights It would be like, oh, I heard a cough there, right? And it could it could it could measure your breathing patterns in in small snippets like that and still be able to analyze stuff Which is I think one of the things that that makes it patentable is that it's a different approach to that Yeah, I I I'd love to see this in practice or hear it in practice because sure everyone is you know, you should have been in a mood Maybe you have a cold. Yeah, maybe you're tired.  I I didn't understand what you said So it's like you want these various emotional states that that we all have to be recognizable At the same time if I am literally crying and trying to play a song, you know, I don't I don't want my assistant to be like Here are some mental health websites, you know Would you like some other sad songs from the amazon music library? Right, I'm not sure I want to be reminded that that's happening because I already know or maybe I do Maybe that maybe this becomes more of a friend who who is going to offer chicken soup when when I feel ill Which which I don't know. I don't know. We have against chicken soup, but it always helps It's great. I'm just saying scientifically. It doesn't do anything for it. What's yeah, but it's nice and comforting What's interesting is the part of gender and accent So does that suddenly mean that if you have say a british accent it's going to start throwing You know, british-english-scotish ads at you Uh, well, it's okay So so we're getting to the point of this being a patent story a patent has a Definite different point than a press release or a product design A patent says I figured out some technology Here are all the conceivable things I can think of using it for which always makes it sound scarier Then an actual product announcement because you need to patent widely We have no idea when amazon comes out with this thing what they're going to do with it Will they use the accent to just make it understand you better or will they use it to target ads towards you? That's it's a fair question. But we really don't know Yeah, we we don't know what they're going to do with it until they do it and that that's when it's time to criticize Uh, but but they they could do anything with this Which is why they need to go to mit and learn the ethics machine Exactly. Yeah, we we want uh star trek as a society But when it actually comes to us, we then you know get scared of it. So, you know, we're we're we're very interesting as a people Something else that might be scary is a whale whales are very large mammals majestic really they live in the ocean but It's also slang for somebody who is a large holder of bitcoin Somebody or some entity it is known as a whale the worry with whales is that they can influence the market a lot Either by selling off coins in large numbers or potentially teaming up with other whales to control more than 50% of the coins in existence That would undermine the stability of a system that is supposed to rely on no one entity having a majority of the coins So people are a little bit worried about this chain analysis has published a study of the 32 largest coin wallets Showing that actually they tend to stabilize the market rather than the alternative One third of whales are active traders. They tend to trade against the herd meaning that they're trading kind of on down markets rather than uh Reactionary markets which slows down price changes and the rest of the whales either don't trade or don't affect the market because they're miners They were early adopters or in some cases have lost their wallet key and can't really even be involved Yeah, a handful of the largest whales that they studied of these 32 just hadn't traded since 2011 So it's presumed that they just don't have the key They would have done something I'm learning. I've been like in the last week learning a lot more about stocks and things I've actually you know jumped into market Uh, just just a tech just to kind of get my feet wet at this late late age of mine Uh, but uh, yeah, I was I was wondering so like Well, how would these whales be different from like a carl icon? Who owns a bunch of stocks and can influence the market? You know, like I'm just curious like what's the what's the scarier? Why is this scarier than well, there's who can Yeah, there's two different things you can be scared of one is mining resources That's a little bit different than being a whale and having all the big wallets But if you have a big wallet you likely also might you might have big mining resources as well And mining resources is where if you get more than 50 percent the system breaks down That's different than just having a lot of the coins But I think the difference is still the same, which is if you have the majority of the coins You you can know that there are only a certain amount of coins out there Whereas you can control a company by getting 50 percent of its stock, but you can't conceivably control all the companies There's just too many of them. Okay Is that I know I know that you explained it perfectly I'm curious if an actual financial professional could could assess Assess that evaluation, but I feel like that's one of the differences. You've got a closed system versus an open system I also found it interesting and it was a really great breakdown that chain analysis did that You know, you know, a lot of people tend to think of like, whoa, bitcoin You know, there's a lot of there's a lot of dark net trading happening and people who are trying to You know Launder money or you know do other things that are illegal and and and and she analysis found that that segment is is smaller than the people who simply just cannot Access their bitcoin because they've lost track of where it is in in whatever wallet they had at one The largest number of wallet the the biggest wallets are traders or miners Yeah, and then there's the people who've lost their keys and then there's the dark web down there below that somewhere Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines.com All right adobe max going on We're going to run through some of the announcements here real quick photoshop cc for ipad Unlike previous mobile apps from adobe can do everything the desktop version can do So all the effects real-time edits of a multi-layer psd file The user interface displays the full toolbar and layer management interface Now they have tweaked it to work better on a tablet, but everything is there Edits will sync through creative cloud to the desktop version of photoshop as well So you can end on the tablet pick up on the desktop vice versa Photoshop cc 1.0 for ipad will debut with fewer features than were previewed today So you're not going to get everything all at once, but adobe says they'll all arrive eventually And if you're interested you can sign up for updates at the adobe website They're not putting it out today adobe also demonstrated project arrow for building augmented reality experiences in private beta For release in 2019. So it's it's basically adobe's ar Program and project gemini, which is a standalone app for painting and drawing on an ipad particularly also in private beta Here's the one you can actually get though adobe announced several other new products including premier rush cc For desktop and ios with an android version to follow in 2019 Premier rush is a video editor that takes a lot of the pieces of illustrator and after effects and photoshop And premier and puts them in one editor optimized for social So youtube of course, but also snapchat instagram facebook twitter and vimeo you can export To all of those the app is included in creative cloud plans starting at ten dollars a month Although you can't use it for free you can only export Up to three videos in the free tier before you have to start paying for creative cloud and lemar. I know you tried this out today I did I was uh, I was very excited about this because uh, you know, just the prospect of having a A new editor Disclaimer, I've been we're not disclaimer like it's legal, but I I said since 2011. I've been using a final cut 10 Uh, uh, since it came out. So that's just been my editor of choice But I I like a lot of the things that adobe Uh is doing and and you know, of course when I went into this this definitely feels like that iMovie ish Yeah, but you mentioned a lot of other things it's it's jumping dropping in a little illustrator dropping in a little Uh After effects and and things that are kind of just ready to go And I think what uh, as I was trying this I tried an ios first and uh going through the tutorial It was smooth dead simple way smoother than iMovie I always have trouble with iMovie and ios and and I was just I was able to go through and make a movie Really quick and Formatted and I could choose about I can say with to my camera roll or I can send it directly to youtube instagram You mentioned snapchat and there's another one adobe owns behance. I believe I'm not sure that how that's pronounced I like What it is I I think for The beginning Intermediate youtuber who is or social media person who was coming along I mean, this is a great suite of features because the number one question we get as creators is You know, what what is what software do you use? What what you know, what's your editing app and I'm scared sometimes to tell people You know final cut 10 because it's it could be just like premier is it could be overwhelming There's sometimes there's too much in there for the average person who just does vlogs And so I I think it's a good one. I will say the desktop trial that I downloaded for the mac That color wheel of death kept happening. I I couldn't get through the whole tutorial Maybe I had a bad copy or whatever, but the ios was flawless I tried on my phone and I think there's some promise here. I think 10 bucks a month though is going to be a It's going to be a tough sale. I mean, I paid 300 bucks for my Final cut back in 2011 and that's all I've paid So I'm paying 30 bucks a month for premiere pro right now I do some very light video editing for another podcast have such a good day that that I produce It's not a complicated edit But the reason that I use premiere pro is because if for any reason someone else has to jump into the project That's what everybody else is using and that's just sort of the way it goes. However when I export It's like, you know, I just sort of like export for youtube 1080p And you know, it seems like the best thing to do I would rather pay $10 a month to do what's probably going to be covered with premiere rush So this is you know advantageous to me, especially if Somehow I can get the file sizes down a little bit because I always feel like I I could probably save some You know some size when I'm exporting these huge files, but I don't really know what I'm doing enough to to to to um To do a lot of that troubleshooting on my own and Yeah, I mean, I don't know about snapchat, but a lot of people I think would would would Yeah, and the kind of vertical video thing with instagram as well Yeah, I think this is gonna be crazy huge for those who finally like me I don't know if I can ever do it, but I would love to be able to take my my ipad to be my main thing one day I don't know when that could happen. I would see the processors are good enough, right? So I'm like, you know, and you know, they're gonna come out with a new one This year, uh, so the processing power is there But to be able to edit on the fly started my desktop take with me on my my ipad and keep going or on my phone I I think there's something there for the on-the-go influencer entrepreneur You know to kind of get away from that computer because besides editing. I don't need my laptop. Well to do this talk to you all Hi But other than that, I don't you know, I don't use it for for that much more than just Web stuff. Yeah for the the $10 individual plan gets you premiere rush 100 gigabytes of cloud storage adobe fonts adobe portfolio and adobe spark That's it. So if you need anything else besides that, you're gonna have to be paying a lot and that was why I wanted to look that up because If you're paying $120 a year and you get a bunch of Uh adobe stuff involved like, you know, maybe some access to photoshop and stuff like that then right maybe it's worth it I'm not sure if fonts portfolio and spark Are enough to justify But maybe and especially if you if like you sarah if you're spending 30 bucks a month and you're like, I'm not sure I need all of that This this could be a great option Exactly Yeah, the last thing I want to say that there are some creators I've talked to uh who use premiere who find it and they use it for years that they like it But they find it awfully buggy because they can you know, they could just keep pushing out updates There was one update that happened a few months ago. My friend said that uh He couldn't save like it was a it was a book that permitted you from saving what one of the cornerstone things of a Of editing software. So that's the one hesitation I have with adobe products Is you know, I will hope you know things even like I ran into a problem today With it being buggy, so I'm hoping there's some stability that can make it worth it for you paying that subscription for each month And it's an ongoing conversation about subscription software, but it is The way it is the way everything is going now and buying something for download and use without paying for it An ongoing basis is becoming the rarity. It's becoming the thing companies do to keep their base happy But if you want to make sure you've got bugs squashed fast You're always up to date and secure. You want to be updating all the time anyway So if you pay a little you're not only just updating all the time But you're also getting new features as they come along. So I don't know It's it's just a new way of doing things. I guess. Yeah Good announcements though. Yeah. Yeah I'm looking forward to it. I will definitely uh be giving at least uh rush aid a spin Talk about it on a uh a show at a later date Hey, thanks everybody who participates in our sub reddit submit stories and vote on others at daily tech news show Dot reddit.com. Thank you in advance. You make our show better every single day Also, thanks to those who hang out on our facebook group facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show All right, let's check in with amateur traveler chris christensen who has some thoughts on expedia's expansion into voice assistant integration This is chris christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute At the skift tech forum in june the cto of expedia. Tony donahue Said that voice is their future Even though the current technologies are brittle They've rolled out an interface with google assistant where you can say things like book me a hotel in antigua Guatemala or what should I pack for austin I'm still a little skeptical about this because there's a lot that I want to put into that decision about what hotel to book Some you may be able to put into preferences like my favorite business hotel versus my favorite leisure hotels But how about where that hotel is located? Do they have an airport shuttle? Are they near public transportation? And also because the answer of what should I pack for austin is pretty much the same as what should I pack for Antigua. Guatemala, and I don't know if it's significant that Tony donahue has since left expedia I'm chris christensen from amateur traveler All right. Thank you chris. Let's check out the mail bag. What's in there sarah scott wrote in and This is about our conversation with shannon morse last friday about uh duplicated videos being not good on youtube anymore tom questioned scott says tom questioned What the youtube partner changes would do to aggregator channels scott says? I don't know how popular or common those are could make the argument that the aggregation is the content that They're adding to duplicated videos. That's especially easy if the aggregator is chopping up videos and splicing together However, it's a question if youtube will bite on that argument I think by the letter of the rule aggregators are out Especially if youtube thinks their algorithm is the only aggregator you need Yeah, the more I think about it the more my guess is if you're Mashing things up in other words if you're like doing a highlight reel Like hey, I found all these great clips check out all these channels YouTube might let that go because you're adding value by By providing context and providing an overview if you're just copying on a video entirely and putting it up And that's all that's on that channel. I think that's what yeah, yeah, that's it's uh diminished value Yeah, la martin. Is that a problem that you run in too much? Oh, we can't hear you that that is a problem. We're running into right now. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Hello. Yes I thought you were just thinking really hard No, that is a problem I deal with every day Uh, someone messaged me and says that one of my videos have been copied it It's got to a point where I just you know if I get the message I'll act on it Um, so but it'd be nice of youtube Well as as they're going to have this program where they can go through and do that because it's not people adding commentary I don't care about that people taking my complete video and uploading on these random channels I get them taken down instantly when I when I reported it, but it's a losing battle You know, it's just constantly happening. So I don't know. I got mixed feelings about this one Well lamar when you aren't um trying to squash duplicate videos on youtube But where can people find out what uh, what your what your wonderful work is? That is original and unique to you. How do they find though? You save that one really well So, yeah, uh, I'm on youtube youtube.com slash lamar wilson I do unboxings and I consider it to be fun My latest one should be interesting to a lot of this audience. I I bought a voice activated trash can And um, yeah, I was I braved the 200 plus dollars to to try this out. It's pretty hilarious And and it's it works great. I think I think is a I think is a great product I think it's ridiculous. No one should buy it because for the for the price But you like stuff like that check out my channel on youtube and of course i'm on twitter instagram all that with the same name Thank you. 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It's all on board. It's not spying. There's no cameras Trash and then so it's so it just you just tell it to open Do you tell it to close? No, it'll close on his own once it does the sensory text that you're not there So really good for kids or a pet who jumps in You know kind of look at my clothes all the way 200 bucks though And then you can say it's completely ridiculous. You can say open and what else? No, that's it open can Oh, that's it. Oh, we have to say can okay. Yes. I mean my my current trash can um Was a hundred dollars at bedbath and beyond. Yeah, that's where I got it.   It works. It works as advertised, but it was $100 I bought a simple human trash can at Creighton or bedbath and beyond recently that was not a hundred dollars Well, there are different sizes. All right one that you bought is smaller than this This one has recycling on one and trash any other too. So it's a little bit more expensive I have one of those simple human I spent 50 bucks. I remember it because it's like this is the most I've ever spent for a garbage can What am I doing? But it's very simple. There's no foot nothing. It just has like a lid on it that's weighted so You know, it's like you just like in the restaurant You push it through one side and it just closes you can put on either side Great thing is it's super simple design and it lasts and it does what it's supposed to Which is keep the smells in the trash can and not in the kitchen, right? And for 50 bucks I mean, I I remember when I I don't know. I've had this trash can for a few different apartments But at some point it was like I was moving somewhere and I just needed a new trash can or something And I remember being like I can't believe I just spent a hundred dollars I said the same it works great. It's the best trash can I've ever had But that's how much it was I just have this wicker Yeah, well, you know, it's what I do Like I said, I don't recommend it anybody. It's what I do I you know, I give my money back on on the video. So, you know, but it's I just it was just crazy It's just a crazy thing that you could talk to your trash can Yeah, I kind of love that it I wish it could do more But then I don't know what more would need to do honestly. So I think you know, that's not Connected to the internet. It's like no, it's just motion or voice. Yeah And I bet that gets cheaper. I think that's one of the pitfalls for a lot of Intelligent whatever toaster Drash can is people want to make it too intelligent more so than it really needs to be And so you just get a very complicated device and because it's so complicated Tends to be a little less reliable at doing the one thing you need it to do Yeah, like I'm interested in a Alexa microwave. I don't know if I'm gonna get it I'm just I'm because I don't need it But like I'm just interested in and that concept because I I think that's pure laziness right there You're right there at the microwave like why not just but it's like 40 dollars. So and I'm actually doing soon Yes, I think it's 40 dollars I'm moving soon and I've had microwaves that were just part of the kitchen for a long time And so I don't have a stand alone microwave What's the name of the show Well, the top one I like is damot jim. I'm a doctor not just a digital assistant Um, but there's also long that's a long time There's also the other the other Star Trek references. Please state the nature of your medical emergency Voyager same length almost but okay, uh, and then What was the other one? Do you have a cold cough cough? Okay, so none about adobe none about adobe. Yeah. Yeah, no rush puns. I'm really surprised Adobe rushes your tablet rushes for the tablet a rush to edit a rush to edit So what am I calling a rush to edit makes more sense because the rush is not just for otawas Yeah, well rush is I mean in video or movie production. It's whatever you shot that day that you send in right Back when it was I was wondering why they called it rush. So now title uh Uh, what do we say lemar adobe rush? I said rush to edit adobe rushes to edit. Yeah cool Oh, you get that adobe in there metadata So anyway, yeah, I think I'm gonna buy that smart microwave and I'll let you guys know how Smart it actually is. Well, good luck on your move. We will you still be in in our uh, vicinity? Yes, okay. Um, just just just a just a new Vessel gotcha It was it was really funny. I was there uh yesterday just checking on some stuff that was supposed to be done You know just making sure things were fixed that were supposed to be fixed And when I the people who lived there before had curtains and so they took the curtains with them and so blinds had to be installed And I the blinds were there. I was like, wait a second. You can't like raise or lower them That's I can't have slats that are just there all the time. I want to be able to like Wrong, I think it should be 33 88, right? Yeah, it was 33 89 in the blog post Oh Is that right 33? I know you're right. It is that no, I have the you're right. No, you're right. All right. Thank you No, I Good catch. That's a lot of episodes. Um, I know what I'm doing and it's really annoying I know what you're doing too and I've done it before which is why I don't want to say anything more because it's annoying No, it's because I look at the it's hard to fix your brain I fixed it. I know I when I created a new show I in the in the dog Yeah, I put the episode number, but when you create the next one you iterate again All right So let me ask you this uh lemar are you now that you've used um Was it was it uh rush that you were using or just um rush. Yeah, again very briefly, but yes Would you consider just using it full time and ditching everything else? Consider yes, uh Practically knowing I use I used some FX factory plugins for echo reduction and some other stuff. So Uh probably not but like if my videos migrated to a more vlog type format over I was traveling and doing more absolutely Uh, I would yeah, but right right now just I have a I have a few things again I'm not I'm not even that good if I don't could I've been using it for seven years But I'm not I don't I don't even know half of the stuff that I'm supposed to do in there So something simpler would be great if my workflow didn't slow down right now. I think just from Because I'm so used to using one thing that my workflow would significantly slow down to like I used to Where everything is Yeah, but uh, yeah to edit on a tablet Oh, man. Yeah, or my phone to finish it up and then send it to youtube. That'd be great Especially when you do those skateboarding and surfing videos to your dream catcher, you know, you know how I do on a weekend Yeah, exactly. I'll do it. We all do that Yeah I mean, it's kind of weird, but I actually kind of like the adobe subscription because Yeah, they eventually like, you know, like gpu support for uh, the mercury playback engine Stuff they fix and after effects. So it was a plus I've been considering especially since I have I just I don't have a setup right now because I'm redoing this room yet again Um, but I have a 18 core Desktop that's just sitting around not doing anything But I'm I don't you know, I'm so again, I'm I'm in my box. I'm very it's not even an apple thing It's just that I've been using something for seven years. Um, and I and you know, I've been using that one software to edit And so I would ideally should be moving over to premiere or to adobe so it could be universal Uh, I just haven't It's hard to get got such habits and you're like, I know I can do this really fast and if I change That's the one it is. Yeah, even if you know, it's going to be faster. Eventually. It's just making that Yeah, although I know Editors they're much more talented than I am. Um, they all kind of say the same thing is after about a week Once you get your hot keys memorized They did the programs do the same things.  It was really old, but I was I was just really used to it um, but But premiere is for for this kind of simple stuff that I'm doing Uh, you know a little cross dissolve here and there. I did some music, you know, you know A few different layers of this that maybe a little text It I caught on pretty quick. That's pretty much what I do Like like my videos are not like some kc nice step productions. They're there, you know, it's me Let me sitting at a table Uh, yeah, I mean like and sometimes I do one one taking a lot of things. So like I don't need that's why that's why rush Kind of looks a little appealing.  Uh, I didn't notice there was a ability to go in there I'm kind of Precision cut which I was worried they wouldn't have in there Uh, so yeah, give it give it. I don't a few months. I don't know beginning of the year Is it don't be rough Does uh, your Alexa needs a dyno step roger. I noticed that um, I don't have a voice assistant I only have a wife and children that Really get your kids trained while they're in some ways even better than a voice assistant Check the lights. I hope so So is that the goal? Is that the goal is to have like many many little servants around the house? I don't like to think of them as servants more as Yeah, but they're storing everything Their privacy penalties are horrible Yeah, they'll tell you in a moment.  Yeah, she it's 30 bucks a month. I mean it's 20 bucks cheaper. Yeah, that's that's still significant Yeah, I I wish I could still use mine from from my I still have my id but I feel I don't want to do that I I feel really really weird Um, the other thing I was gonna mention that I didn't get a chance to say in the show I use a pixelmator pro Which is like, uh, it's the mac compliment to photoshop and it does it has a iPad and and iphone same type of things syncing. So, you know, it but there's a couple It's just again. I'm not super proficient. I just make thumbnails, right? But there's just a couple things In there that is done differently enough to irritate me. Wish I had my photoshop back So I don't know. I I I've been thinking about the whole adobe thing Because you're right sarah, like Everybody uses it like who you know in the pros and in general There are some that you do final cut, but you I mean I've done Where it's like, uh, you're done Email me all the files you used or like fdp up all the the sort Well, actually I didn't need to because they already had the source files. Just email them the the project Uh file and that way they can you know do whatever to it when they need it Yeah, and that's I started running into that all the time where it was like, oh, just send me the premiere file And yeah, and then I you know, we'll figure out where all the source material is on a you know, a hard drive or something where I was like So so be be masters mentioned that everybody should use pro tools that well, yeah, everybody Uses them because that's all we have but like Like with this this could change the game for some significant people. Uh, like I don't think I need You know the full version of of what are you for what I do Uh, just like sarah doesn't need that we use it, but I don't you I don't use 20 30 percent of final cuts potential I just don't well and even even audio based Software same thing. I use logic for a variety of projects Um for for daily tech that's pretty advanced That's my recording software. I don't know. That's just what I bought when I bought it And I've spent a lot of time kind of trying to figure it out But it is way more advanced than what what I use it for currently. I don't even make music, right? It's mostly for musicians, but it works fine for podcasts But the other day I had to record a podcast.  Oh my gosh. I just didn't put it in my backpack And so, you know on site it was like, okay, well, we're not gonna buy logic again, but you got grudge bands Okay, let's try that. Well, you know, we'll figure something out and it's like the interface is exactly the same And for whatever reason I'm just using the more complicated program because Back in the day, I was like, well, just buy the, you know, the cooler one That way you know you'll have everything you need just in case Right, but it's like it literally looks like the exact same program everything about because I just haven't opened garage band in a while and Yeah, worked fine, but I mean there was a little bit of figuring a few things out as far as inputs, but I felt like, huh, if I really would have thought about this I could have just had used to use garage band this whole time Because I didn't need all the bells and whistles of the more complicated program And I don't know when I will even though they're there. I'm not, you know, going to be composing Orchestra anytime soon. You're not gonna be doing the next EDM hit We're just there just so many and and there's a lot of stuff that just takes up a lot of computer space like many many gigs of You know audio effects where it's like, I mean for podcasting I I never want my voice to be If you know, I think that's like robots or no, of course not and uh, and you don't want to hear that either No, but you might if you stick around for audio video folks. You don't get to check around for audio Goodbye video


My name is Chris Ben-Piri. I'm a university lecturer at Chinau University of Technology. I'm actually an ecologist and aquatic ecologist. I previously worked for the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, but it's been 10 years or so ago, for 3 years. There's an ecologist, the wildlife, aquatic fisheries. I got involved in the last NBSAP formulation. I was basically looking at broadly, largely aquatic biodiversity, although I did obviously strain to the other fields. The biodiversity mainstream is not taking involved, basically getting all stakeholders as many as possible together in a workshop and trying to get input from them. What are the issues, what are the challenges, what are the constraints? What can we do with regards to biodiversity? That was basically what we did within a workshop scenario. The results of the biodiversity stock taking was, it was broadly that with regards to Zimbabwe, in terms of our policies, we are alright. In terms of if you look at our policies, with your policies, there is an aspect of environment custodianship, environment custodianship in biodiversity conservation management. The issue is implementation because largely I think the lack of resources is what our major challenges. So even in terms of our major current development plan, which is Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Social Economic Transformation, biodiversity is mentioned or environmental management is mentioned or conservation and the challenge we are having as a people is implementation, how to get from the books, from the papers on to the ground. We've got that Syria challenge in terms of resources. So that was the major outcome from there. I think over the next year I think we need to get together again as a group. We've been talking as a group and say to get together as a group and come up with a program that just identifies what we can do at the level of institutions. At the moment it's the institutions that are basically custodians of this. At the level what can be done beginning of interactions among themselves, the process of getting together and talking because one of the aspect we found was this a bit silo mentality. People working in different areas without strong coordination and strong linkages. That's what we are targeting at the moment. I think it's not very ambitious but I think it's a start to take us somewhere in the long run.


In this video, we are going to talk about the strength of a base. So by now you know what a base is, right? A base is simply anything that can pick up H plus ions. Now what exactly is this H plus? Well, an H plus is simply a hydrogen atom and we know that hydrogen has one proton and one electron in it. And now if I remove this electron, I'll be left with my H plus ion, right?  So an H plus is simply a proton. Now protons are very, very reactive. In fact, protons are so reactive that they actually do not freely exist in nature. You don't find free protons. So protons do not actually exist independently in nature, independently. So a base never picks up a free proton. A more realistic scenario is actually of a base picking up a proton from an acid. We know that acids are H plus donors, right? So acids have what we call an acidic hydrogen that they can give up in the form of H plus. So a base never reacts with a free proton but it instead abstracts a proton from an acid. Now it turns out that this ability of a base to abstract a proton from an acid is actually different for different bases. For example, some bases like the amide ion, amide is NH2 minus as well as the hydroxide ion. It turns out that bases like the amide and the hydroxide, such bases can easily abstract a proton from an acid. So these are what we call strong bases. So these are our strong bases. While on the other hand things like ammonia or water or even something like say aniline, it turns out that these bases are actually not that good at abstracting a proton from an acid. So these are relatively poor or relatively weak bases. So the strength of a base is nothing but the ability of a base to pick up a proton and protons are nothing but H plus. So the strength of a base is the ability of a base to pick up an H plus from an acid. Now you might be asking how do we know that these bases the amide and the hydroxide are better at abstracting a proton compared to ammonia, water or aniline. In other words, how exactly do we measure the strength of different bases? So how do we measure the strength of a particular base? Let's see. Now how easily a base abstracts a proton from an acid also depends upon the strength of the acid. For example, HI out here is in fact a strong acid. The hydrogen iodine bond is relatively weak and easy to break. So a base can easily abstract a proton from HI compared to something like say HF. HF is in fact a weak acid. The hydrogen fluorine bond is actually very strong and difficult to break. So even if I have a very strong base, it will still be difficult to abstract this hydrogen in the form of H plus from HF. So if you want to compare the relative strength of different bases, we first need to keep the acid from which the base is abstracting the proton to be constant, right? Now because chemical reactions are generally carried out in water, so the relative strength of different bases is actually calculated with respect to water. So what we do is we take some water and to this water we add different bases and the base that can most easily abstract the proton from water will be our strongest base, right? Now how exactly do we measure this? How do we measure how easily the base abstracts the proton from water? Now when we add a base to water, the base can abstract this hydrogen in the form of H plus to form BH and OH minus. Since the hydrogen is being lost in the form of H plus, so both the electrons that are present out here will be our oxygen atom. So we are going to get OH minus. Now if you look carefully, you realize that this OH minus also has a lone pair of electrons. So even this OH minus can act as a base and it can in fact abstract this hydrogen of BH and in this way we will get back our original reactants. So whenever we add a base to water, there is actually a reversible reaction that is going on. Now if this reaction is more in the forward direction, then we can say that the base is actually good at picking up the proton from water. So the strength of the base will be higher. However, if this reaction is more in the backward direction, that is if it doesn't move much in the forward direction, then this means that the base is not so good at picking up the proton from water. So it's a relatively poor or a relatively weak base, right? Now the extent of any reversible reaction can actually be calculated by calculating the equilibrium constant K of the reaction. Now we know that for a reversible reaction, the equilibrium constant K is actually the concentration of the products by the concentration of the reactants. So for this reaction, the equilibrium constant K will be the concentration of BH multiplied by the concentration of OH minus divided by the concentration of B minus into concentration of water at equilibrium. Now for a dilute solution, the concentration of water is almost constant and we actually assume it to be equal to 1. So the equilibrium constant for this reaction is generally written in this way without including water and we call it the base dissociation constant Kb. Now we can actually carry out experiments with different bases and calculate their Kb values at equilibrium. Now if this reaction is more in the forward direction, so if this reaction moves forward, then in that case the concentration of the products that we get will be high while the amount of reactant that will be left will be low, right? So in this case the value of Kb that we get will come out to be high. Now on the other hand if this reaction doesn't move much forward, so if this reaction doesn't move much forward, so if it's in the backward direction, then in that case the amount of products that we get will be low while the concentration of the reactants that will be left will be high, right? So in this scenario the value of Kb that we get will turn out to be low. So we can now go ahead and say that a base whose Kb value is high is a stronger base as it moves more in the forward direction. So if the Kb value is high, the strength of the base will be high while a base whose Kb value turns out to be low doesn't move much in the forward direction. So its strength will be low and it is going to be a relatively poor base, right? Let us now take a look at the Kb values of a few bases. So we have our hydroxide ion out here that has a Kb of 1. Now this is a really nice number, right? So what happens is that if I add hydroxide to water and if this hydroxide abstracts the proton from water then what will I get? Well I will get water and I will be left with another hydroxide ion, right? So now as you can see in this reversible reaction both forward as well as the backward reaction are identical to each other, right? So it's not like one of the reaction is going to be favored over the other, both of them are equally likely to happen. So the concentration of the products and the concentration of the reactants will always be equal, right? So the ratio of the concentration of the products by the concentration of the reactants which is nothing but the equilibrium constant K will come out to be equal to 1. Let's take a look at some other base. So we have Amide out here and Amide has a Kb value of 1 into 10 to the power 21. So the Kb of Amide is clearly much much greater compared to the hydroxide ion. So this means that this reaction, the reaction of Amide in water to give ammonia and hydroxide since this Kb is much much greater than 1. So this means that in this case the forward reaction is much more favored compared to the backward reaction, right? In fact this Kb value is so high that if we do our calculations we will find out that for all practical purposes this reaction is almost 100% in the forward direction. Let's now take a look at some of the bases on this side of the table. So we have Amide out here and Amide has a Kb of 1.8 into 10 to the power minus of 5, okay? I can see water, water has a Kb of 1 into 10 to the power minus of 14. Similarly C6H5NH2, C6H5NH2 is basically aniline, aniline has a Kb of 7.4 into 10 to the power minus of 10. Now which of these three do you think is the strongest base? Well ammonia has a Kb of almost 10 to the power minus of 5, right? While aniline is at almost 10 to the power minus of 10 while water is at 10 to the power minus of 14. So clearly ammonia has the highest Kb of these three. So ammonia clearly is the strongest base. However if you check the value of Kb of ammonia you can see that it's 10 to the power minus of 5. So this is clearly less than 1. So this means that if we add ammonia in water, so if we add ammonia in water because the Kb is less than 1. So this means that in this case the reaction is more backward than forward, right? So therefore bases that have a Kb value much, much greater than 1 like these bases. These are what we call the strong bases. While bases whose Kb values are much less than 1 these are more in the backward direction. So these are relatively weak bases.


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