This week on the anxious truth. We're talking about social media use mental health and anxiety recovery and we have a special guest to help us with that So let's get cooking Hey, what's up everybody? This is the anxious truth podcast episode number 191191 recorded in January of 2022 if you are new to the podcast I am Drew Lynn Salada. I am creator and host of this fine show the anxious truth is the podcast But we talk about all things anxiety and anxiety recovery So if you're struggling with things like panic attacks panic disorder or gorophobia or any related conditions This is the place for you. I'm really happy you're here. And of course if you are a returning listener or a returning viewer I'm certainly happy that you here. Thank you for coming back every week. I appreciate that before we get on to our discussion This week we're talking about social media social media use and how it impacts mental health and anxiety recovery And I have a special guest to talk about it with that. 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So that out of the way, let's get on to our discussion We're gonna talk about the use of social media and where it kind of fits where there are pitfalls Which got to be careful with as it relates to mental health and anxiety recovery. So let's get on with it right now All right, here we are welcome back peeps For those of you listening to the podcast on audio You got a whole intro if you're watching on YouTube. You're just getting you're getting the no-frails version So to my right is my good friend and wonderful human being Kimberly Quinlan. How's it going KQ? What up? It's great. Thank you for having me. I'm honored to be here again I know it's always so much fun to have you you did we're today We're gonna talk about I have to say this for YouTube because you didn't get the intro today We're gonna talk about social media and like social media in relation to anxiety and anxiety recovery now Kimberly did One of the best 15 minute videos you're ever gonna see on Instagram ever about this last week I was literally fist pumping while I was listening to her and I'm like, all right We have to do a podcast on this so so here we are Let's talk about some of the stuff that you went over in terms of relating like social media use to mental health and recovery It's tremendous points Right. Well, the the the whole video was called the responsible use of social media And so I had been thinking and reflecting a lot on social media and I had been observing my thinking about it social media is being bad for me or Bad in general and then I started to really think about that social media is mutual Right and how we consume social media is what kind of defines whether it's healthy or unhealthy And then we can go from once we once we declare that then we can start to explore How can I be responsible in my consumption of what is on the internet? And when I talk about responsibility I want to be really clear some people think that that sounds like a disciplinary word and I Love the word Responsibility I think it is one of the most compassionate words It helps us to know that we are Responsible for our mental health that it is our job to take care of ourself And that is the most self-compassionate thing you can do and so you can do this with any area of life But please I hope you do it with social media. Yeah, I love that I think the idea of personal responsibility is very there's tremendous power in that Oh, I get to do things I get to have influence in this process. I choose. What do I choose? Yeah, why am I choosing it? Sometimes I think along those lines You know and choosing what how do I want to use social media? What is good for me? I think 10 especially these days people get caught up in the idea that oh, no, no, no like you're scrolling Instagram all day because I follow 78 anxiety accounts. I I have to do that. That's good for me No, not necessarily is it Well, you know, I will speak personally and one of the points that I will make here and I'll make it now is It it not everything is for you Right. Not every post is for you. Not every page is for you And we have to really stop and consider what is for you from me personally I have when I did this and I sort of really watched myself. I realized There are so many social media pages that are focused on mental health saying The same thing and it gets really noisy and it gets really like You you could leave feeling quite overwhelmed and confused because everybody's saying a version of a very similar thing That can be incredibly overwhelming. I personally went through my whole social media account Put a whole bunch of people on mute. I don't I'm not saying I don't want to hear what they have to say But I'm being very intentional about what do I need to hear and what don't I need to hear what's helpful What's effective and going from there has been really helpful Yeah, you muted me, didn't you? I didn't I did not meet you. You are not muted my friend I thought about it. See I thought about it every page I look at and I go no, this is I'm not gonna mute my friend Drew That's too funny. I love that. That's such a good approach Sometimes they were it's so funny because there are days and it's so meta which really My phone is making noise I'll have to make noise Intrusive thought. Yeah, it's totally an intrusive Thought it shouldn't be doing that. Oh, and it's a timer that I said, you know what this timer is.  This is gonna get You can't have the scenes So one of the things that's kind of weird addressing social media use is there have been times when I have said Hey, here's an idea like on instagram and my story is I'll say Why don't you just like unfollow all of us for today? Just for a day and try it and then come back tomorrow if you think you have to and invariably It'll generate like a bunch of responses like oh, that's a great idea. I'm gonna do that like yeah But you didn't unfollow me to tell me that so it's such a weird cycle But I think it's a great idea sometimes to say Yeah, I'm just gonna pare down a little bit or maybe I'm gonna rotate people I'm gonna gonna follow my five favorite accounts this week and then I'll rotate to five different ones next week Because the tidal wave it's a tidal wave Yeah, that's over here. Here is the truth. Here is the truth. I'll be very transparent about my experience is I Have a social media page. I am very invested in growing my page I have learned a lot from professionals in this area and they basically say go for things like lists go for things like symptoms go for things that are spicy And I was listening and going aha. Okay. I'll do those things And then I started to realize I'm doing Exactly what I should do to grow following But this is not in the service of people who are in recovery And I had to own that I had fallen into the trap of algorithm hunting And the thing is and I'm not saying any account is bad Any account I'm not I wouldn't even I can't even come to mind with someone I'm thinking about as I say that But you have to understand that as a consumer and me as a consumer I have to understand that the the clickbait the the lists and all those things They're very validating, but they can form as a form of reassurance which keeps you stuck. It feels helpful It feels beneficial. It feels like you're gaining knowledge and for a lot of people. This is where I say Some posts are really helpful depending on where you are in recovery If you're new to this idea and you're learning about it That can be so helpful to realize like oh, I have Depersonalization like of so many people my best post is on depersonalization and people say I had no idea what that was But then if you're seeing these posts repetitively They do start to be a form of reassurance. And so the one of the main points I made in that video was Really take into account that each post is not specifically for you and question and consider Whether this is keeping you in a cycle of reassurance. Now. I'm not saying that to freak everybody out and feel like oh, no Now I'm like using a social media as a compulsion. I I'm not saying that any of this is going to be bad or devastating It's just something to think about Yeah, I agree and I think a lot of it is how do you really feel when you're done with the doom scroll or That you feel compelled to go back to it every hour I got a scroll for 10 minutes That kind of says something and honestly just to follow up on the point and that look I've been there I remember the business here and to a certain extent and the advice I I know how to get followers if I want them I know how to get likes and comments if I want that but The platforms that we operate on and I'll instagram. We're on together all the time So I'll call it instagram, but they are all the same are not operating based on what's best for you They are operating based on how can drew and kimberley keep your attention is what that's what the platforms are there for We exist for instagram so that we can keep your attention and keep you on the app But that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with helping in your recovery or providing you with valuable information or guidance so That just keep that in mind as you're scrolling scrolling scrolling and liking liking liking there's a reason We keep liking the same messages again and again and again There's folks at instagram. I'm going to go all evil empire like we got them In a way There's a reason why those posts keep you coming back again and again But I also think that you have to recognize that this is not necessarily a tool that's geared toward my recovery this is a tool geared to keep my attention and In the end it means that sometimes as a content creator you create content that I know is going to be like crickets But it's the most valuable content you create I'm sure you can appreciate that I do I really really and I respect you for it, right? I had to make a decision I remember you and I having a phone call and we were saying like I think I was like in the line in and out or something and I and I I think I messaged you and I said kill me if I ever point at things, right? And I'm sure I've done some pointing. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with pointing But I think the thing to remember and here's where I would bring to the point is To be honest when I am on social media. I am providing psycho education But think about psycho education in the context of me as a clinician I do a ton of psycho education at the beginning of treatment and then we don't go back We move on to behavior change and so when you're on instagram, you are consuming education But the real good stuff happens in the behavior change, right? And that happens off social media And I love how we you were talking and I and I made the point too is Track your time if you are finding that you're uncomfortable and you're picking up your phone to manage You're going to you're trying to access psycho education And that's actually not a great management tool a really great management tool is behavior change Right or coping strategies or whatever it is that you're learning at that time But but the actual learning the the act of learning isn't isn't a recovery Behavior that I would encourage a lot of yeah, I would agree And I love how you pointed that out like the psycho education part is only Maybe not even half in the beginning It's probably 80 percent of it because you don't you go and not knowing anything But then that percentage gets smaller and smaller and smaller and then the action Actually starts to matter more than anything else And I will tell you as a content creator in all honesty Content that that I create that speaks directly behavioral change because craters algorithmically It's not good. It doesn't get attention. It just not But if I post five reasons that anxiety is scary, I'll get a thousand likes on that in two hours I get that keep that in mind as you're using it I want to go over Well, one thing I want to mention too is I have found that sometimes social media becomes a surrogate For the action and people will think well, I follow all the accounts. I like everything I comment I watch all the videos. So I'm doing recovery Right. Are you? Well, I think it's the same as have being in therapy right is I often have to have Conversations with patients of you coming to therapy isn't actually it's one hour of the week It's actually not going to create a lot of change in your life. So saying you're in therapy Isn't isn't it's important It's so important But the real change is on four o'clock in the afternoon when you do something to face your fear It's the homework you do. It's it's the actual work. And so I agree with you is Following social media accounts, particularly mental health ones doesn't Mean anything about recovery. I wouldn't even I wouldn't even put them in the same category If I consider them as as a way to get information But then the real change is you In that moment facing your discomfort or writing it out That's a microp right there. That's that is really good advice. That's worth the price of admission right there folks, right? So two things I want to pop in on really quickly, I guess and we talked about this people went on the air So kimmer and he kind of knows but you had you talked in a video about not everything is for you I love not everything is for you Because I think what winds up happening is I made the the I made the I the brought that into the meds discussion discussion of medication or not medication and we have this thing that We also use the social media scroll the doom scroll to validate our choice And confirm our recovery choices or confirm that we are where we're supposed to be So in a conversation about using medication to handle anxiety people who don't use it feel compelled to roll in To remind everyone in that conversation that they don't use meds In a conversation and this is just an example I'm not picking on specifically meds a lot of different things in a conversation about not using meds People might be discussing that and people who are on medications will have to roll in and declare There's no shame in using meds when in reality if you look objectively at the conversation that conversation wasn't for you And it doesn't invalidate your choice So sometimes we see things on social media that don't jive with the way we're doing recovery or the way we're taking care of ourselves But maybe it wasn't for you and you're not obligated to jump in and get into the fray To defend your position or validate your position I think that sometimes can be really harmful and I see it a little bit too often I think Well, and I think that the question to maybe ask yourself as you're going on is Why do I feel such an urgency to to defend my decision? right because Not everything is for you and I say it over and over like not everything is for you You know meds can be really helpful for some people. The reason I brought that up is I get asked every single day on social media about medication And I always say Please please please do not ask anyone on social media about medication or medical health That's just a very that's the most compassionate thing you can do because The people you're asking number one aren't professional Number two don't know specifically your genetic makeup your height your weight your pre-existing condition And so even the conversation around medication I usually just I don't shut it down in like a in a way that's shaming. I more want to frame it as Please don't talk about medication on social media Because they don't know the totality of you They don't understand the many many things that are needed to to go into that decision And the people coming in being defensive don't know that person's totality of what makes them up and what's important to them So I think it's the kindest thing. We are we've gone so far in Social media and in the internet expressing our opinion And I want to kind of bring us all in a rain us in a little and remind ourselves Social media and the internet is awesome. You can find any answer to any question But be skilled in the answers the questions you're asking Yeah, right It's be be wise and compassionate in the discussions. You're having identifying first that What was right for you is not right for other people Yeah, and why do I feel so strongly about defending my position or or Rebutting an alternative position and I think social media. You're right has conditioned us the royal us To say, oh, no, no, we have to be right and we need to make sure we're heard We don't always have to be heard.  That I want to go and argue about medications or types of therapy or whatever it doesn't matter Meds was just an example. I wasn't picking on that particular topic. No, I think it's true of so many things It even even again in the mental health space online It could be around a different modality than cbt, right? So someone might say a meditation was so helpful for me And someone would say no meditation made it so much worse for me or whatever it may be and these are healthy discussions I applaud people for having them But where I really wanted to educate was as you're reading and observing or engaging in these conversations Just keep in mind that not everything is for you and not everything is for them. It's very personal It's really it's a really good point. It's a really important point So, I mean, I loved, you know, you did talk about being a critical consumer of information I think it's really important for us to also understand not only can you get any answer to any question You can get any answer that you want For any question That is that is really also and I think very important in this situation because I think that whole thing where like social media becomes a surrogate for the actual reaction of recovery for some people I look it's an easy mistake to make not blaming anybody It's it's much easier to scroll than it is to do your ERP homework much easier. I get that But when you are looking for confirmation of something that says well, this will give me a break or I really want that to work I don't want ERP to work because it's really hard and scary. I want this to work instead If you go looking for confirmation that the other thing will work better. You will in fact find it You can confirm anything on the internet if you look hard enough I know if If I'm in a fight with my husband and I want to make my point I can google it and show him you will a hundred percent make your point There's no doubt in my mind and then when he wants to prove you wrong in return. It'll take him six minutes No, I think I think that okay, so let's sort of so I always try to like bring it back to like real life So in real life often once I've seen a patient for a while they will start to say Okay, so what about this one situation like what do you think and I annoy them by going What do you think I'm gonna say right because I don't want them to be going Constantly requiring me as an authority to tell them I want them to start to inquire for themselves Okay, what are the pros and cons of this behavior? Is it effective? Is it short term beneficial or long term beneficial? And so that they're starting to be able to critically analyze Behaviors because again everybody is different And so that's what I would say to a lot of people is if you're going on to ask a question It's fine to go on for education But I I want you really just to be honest. This is like I said the responsibility piece Be really compassionately honest with yourself like Is this for me just to relieve myself of my urgency here? Would this strengthen that muscle that I'm trying to strengthen of being uncertain and and you know willing Like have some really I love questions ask yourself some really good question That is this effective Do I notice a trend of me doing this? You know when I'm doing this is there a sense of me like You know if then statements like if I just do this well Then I'll have this thing and then things will feel better And so I think that that check in can actually help us to make you will probably find You didn't need instagram at all Right, I love that. Yeah That's good. Like why why do you want to ask that question or why do you want to research this thing, right?  Yeah, it's just the act of being on social media to avoid the discomfort that you feel right now Right, and I I want to say I do it too. Like please please do not do not think I'm coming from any kind of Like mastery over this This is just questions that are fun to ask that sometimes the answer's not fun to hear But it can help help you to be a really You know effective consumer on the internet. I think this even goes I mean well beyond just mental health and recovery too everybody has I don't say everybody it can't But it apparent that it runs rampant at least in the western world now and I find saying I'm walking through my house I said this to somebody just not too long ago today. Like the other day I was walking through my house and I asked myself Why on God's green earth am I walking through my house with my phone in my hand? What what is the purpose of having my phone in my hand going between the dining room and the living room? I don't understand Why do I have this thing in my hand? What is going to happen in this magical rectangle of light that is so important between one room and the other in my house Everybody has these issues. We all have these issues in this age. So these are hard things to confront sometimes I want to ask you one more thing before we sort of wrap up these In a therapeutic environment forget pre-internet, right? There's no internet somebody comes in and they engage you and they're six seven weeks. Whatever into it and they begin to ask Okay, well, what about this modality? What about this alternative treatment? What about this? I mean, I understand that stuff is natural and you should be able to bring that to your therapist or to whoever's your helper I get that isn't the wrong question But you might be able to answer it a certain way or guide them to their own answer The internet makes that question askable every minute of every day all the time So how would you advise one just so I guess it's a personal opinion is clearly this is not therapy We know this these videos are not therapy and Kimberly cannot be your therapist on youtube, but What would you advise a client to do in that situation when the going gets wrong? Are you going to say, you know what? Commit to this for x amount of time You're going to have to leave the other stuff around you can always revisit it if it's this isn't working for you But for now we need to have a focus on this modality for now Is that a thing or it is no I actually I supervise all of my stuff And this was actually a case that we recently went over Is so the way that I do it personally and every clinician is going to show up a little differently But I try not to ever assume that I am the authority on anybody Um except my husband, right? It's a tough room But so I'm going to with a client Is I'm going to first just give them the science right because They're you know, I think it's our job. My job ethically is to provide scientific Gold standard treatment, right? That is my I took an oath to sought to be on the right side of ethics I you know, I I Took an oath that when I show up and if there's a client that I'm not skilled at seeing that I referred them out So I am going to explain to them the science and why and that's an important point Is I made this mistake when I was an intern is I went straight in started doing the tools and I did not explain Why we were doing it and the client fully melted down, right?  And and I hadn't done enough education and enough of the explanation of the science So I'm going to explain the science I'm going to ask and prompt them a lot of questions like what about that is You know really magnetically pulling you in and we might even explore if there is a trend happening Oh, that one seems to have really quick results, right? Like oh the hypnotherapy. I heard it's two sessions So I'd be done and okay Do you find that there's a trend where you're engaging in behaviors to get fear to go away really quick? And we might may be curious about that at the end of the day if they're adamant about trying it I don't stop them. I don't because For them and this is true for me. It's true for all humans is I think sometimes we need to see The same pattern play out before we are motivated to make change Right, we have we things have to not work a certain amount of times Before we go wait a second, right? Like if my son's playing a game on the carpet And something doesn't work. He'll do it again And he will do it again little point work and but at some point he's going to go. Okay This is not effective something is wrong. I may have to ask for help And so I think sometimes we do need to let them learn by repetition But I I can't stuff anybody and as a clinician my job is not to Ever pressure somebody into doing something I don't want to do Yeah or dictate that but yeah, you know the the internet social media Makes it infinitely askable all the time. Is there a better way? Is there a better way? Is there a better you can ask that every minute of the day and find a better way every minute of the day So that's another thing to be mindful of like am I continually looking for a better way every day? Again back to the economy of attention. It's an attention economy I know you've heard those sort of things before like yeah If you if you're going to seek out a social media source that is a different modality of treatment or a different way to approach an anxiety problem They have a vested interest algorithmically to convince you that you should listen to them Whether it's appropriate or not Yeah, keep that in mind right keep that in mind. So I think you have to also look for the people I think who are going to not insist that you All right, if you don't just if you disagree with me, there's the unfollow button go ahead. I'm not for you. It's okay Yeah Yeah, I've had clients who have brought things like that up I read on the internet or there's this one program online that was really cheap and said that they would give me a hundred percent guarantee And sometimes when I just talk through and go yeah, it makes total sense that that those types of products would be seen so Magnetic right and sometimes when we just sit in like yeah, it makes total sense that you know, that Sounds good Often they don't Purchase those products and go to those they just needed to be validated right they just needed to be like Yeah, you know, I if there were solutions quick solutions to problems I you know, like that makes total sense. They just kind of wanted to air it out Yeah, it makes sense That's a conversation you can have with your therapist or a trusted advisor or a friend or a partner in life Who whatever it is it's hard to have that discussion on the internet So just be aware of having This was so great anytime we get to chat. I'm a happy guy. So you haven't you want to add to this at the end No, I think um keep track of your time is one thing I would mention in terms of just I would actually encourage you to jot down when you pick up your phone People track for a day or two.  Um, I'm not saying that it's only your job and that you're alone but Try to really play around with the idea that this is my opportunity. It's my my option. It's my choice Even though that at the beginning is like, oh, I don't like the sound of that It actually can be really empowering because then you've actually like, oh, yeah, it is my choice I have more agency than I thought I did. So I would just play around with really Taking responsibility for the things in your life and whether they're effective or not It can change the game in my opinion Yeah, I'll put a cap on that and I'll use Kimberly as an example because her content is tremendous That's that thing that says, well, I'm going to ask for recovery in the comment section on instagram Your responsibility is to go beyond that nobody can tell you recovery in the comment section anywhere on instagram or otherwise But you have in front of you a resource that has put out years of free psycho education. That's incredibly valuable So be responsible and say I will go and avail myself of this resource that has been handed to me as opposed to Please just just hand me what I want right now Yeah, what do they think the most powerful ways you can use social media is to say Hey, this looks like a really interesting post instead of going into the post to try and see if this will be my recovery Let me explore what else this person has and invest time and ingest some information because there's Good stuff there. There really is. So, yeah, thank you. You too. You too. I still have such respect for all the content you create Oh, thank you. You're very sweet. Uh, anyway, how can people find you? You can You can follow me on instagram at your anxiety toolkit. You can listen to my free podcast at your anxiety toolkit Or you can get a ton of free resources or courses at cbt school.com I highly recommend it. Those courses are tremendous. I can say that firsthand. Yeah, so I appreciate you coming as always Thank you for having me. All right. See you guys next time if you're listening I'll come back and wrap this up if you're watching. We're done. See you all next time Alrighty then we are back in the studio, which is the same desk. I was sitting at not five minutes ago talking with kimberley That is episode 191 in the books I hope you enjoyed it special. Thanks to my friend kim quinland for coming by again you could find her at Your anxiety toolkit on instagram and her website at cbt school.com You should go check it out support her work too because it's excellent and she's just a good human being And that is it. 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Hello, hello, everybody. Andrew Majeski here with Dental Well Tutoring. So the exciting news is the new Dental Academy Board exam prep app is is is now up and running, which is super exciting. It took me a while because I mean I consider myself pretty good with computers, but to build an app I have no idea what I'm doing. So I did have to work with about three or four different people to help me do this, but now it is all set and ready to go. So this is what the app looks like. There's many different topics. So I'm just going to kind of show you guys what the questions look like to inside of the topics as you're probably curious about that. So I'm just going to take you guys to another screen here. So this is what the questions are the topics are. And let's just go into pharmacology like just as an example here. So these are what the questions look like. So you will see the questions on the app and then you can pick which which answer you think is the proper answer. And then and then that way you can keep track too of the ones you had correct and then which ones you did not have correct. So some of the questions aren't the most difficult, but they're not easy either. But then some are really really hard. So this is the the perfect app to kind of test everything for you. And this app is good for the Canadian exams and the US Dental Hygiene ones. They are good for dental assisting too, but I would have to say that some of these questions would be a little bit too hard for you. But if you're a dental assisting student and you do well on these questions, then you know that you'll do amazing on the exam, right? Because the excuse me because we obviously want you guys to pass, right? So as you guys can see, so for oral pathology, there is 74 questions and it looks like it's been attempted. The quiz has been attempted 111 times. So this is the most popular one. I will probably be adding some more questions to that because this took me a while to input all of these questions. So now that I've done that, I will be uploading new questions probably every Thursday. So you guys will be having a lot more, which is exciting, right? And then let's just go into into clinical. So clinical has the most questions because the clinical topic has things like if you're talking about instrumentation, if you're going through those types of things. So it does involve a lot of different topics too. Things you would see in clinic and things that you have to know. So as you guys can see, we talk about a mix of different things. I know we talked about instrumentation towards the end a little bit more, but there's tons here. The images that I have, they are showing up small here, but on your cell phones, they're quite large. So just in case you're thinking, I don't know what that is, what's because it would be hard to see. But yeah, you guys, we are all set. I will leave the link for you guys to look at that if you want on the bottom. It's on sale for only $29. That's it. And then you will have access to all of these questions. Like typically a mock exam costs about $30. And that's maybe 25 questions, maybe 60 questions, depending on where you're getting the mock exam. But for this full app, you get literally over hundreds of questions for the same price. So that's pretty cool. And you can look at it on your cell phones from if you're just sitting somewhere, if you're in clinic waiting for your turn even, if you're studying before class. I don't know anything, but it does make it so much easier. So let me know if you guys have any questions. Oh, and I did forget to mention too that even with the questions and the answers, if you click something else, if you click on the button here, the upper right hand side, you can actually hear me and see me talk about every single question. So let's just take oral pathology.  And then I do actually talk and tell you guys why, let's say this is the most correct answer and why these ones are not. So it's not only you going through questions, but you will also hear me talk now. And that can take time. So per mock exam, like quiz, I do like upload them into separate sections. So it's about like a 20 minute video each time. So you don't have to listen to me talking for the full hour. So I do like to make them into things that are a little bit smaller too. And I do have an example of that. I did upload a video on I think oral pathology even a couple weeks ago where I do talk about some of the questions. So if you want to know how that works, I believe I did upload it about two weeks ago. I'll see if I can find that for you guys and I can leave the link for you on the bottom too. But if you guys have any questions, please just let me know and I'll see you guys in the next one.


are you today? Alright this is for you all in my Facebook group or one of my sister groups only. The videos will including this one be on YouTube but they will probably be unlisted and the only way to get the link is to be a member one of the groups. Alright so what is this all about? So I've been documenting my year in a journal since about 2014 officially. These are those journals. Now when I first started doing it I was using the small delusions journal which are these two and let's see and I was dating them. That's 2015 this one must be 2014 and I was doing and still kind of do part our journal, part smashbook, part photo album documenting my year in bits and pieces, some journaling where I can squeeze it in, things that I find, things that come across my desk or my life. In the first two years I was really good about dating the pages. In my current version of doing these I haven't been dating but I'll show you why. You know there's a million different ways that you could do this and you know different just different things, different events. We went out to dinner, we went on vacation. I have a habit now of just picking up little bits and pieces pretty much everywhere that I go and there's you know there's pockets everywhere with things tucked inside of them. There's there's tip-ins and you know flip-outs and these are really cool. They're like picture slides. I don't even know if they're gonna show up on camera. I don't know maybe if I put them on something white. Nope. Let's see. Oh you can kind of see it's a bird. Anyway you can get them like strips like this. They're like bookmarks at Hearst Castle but I just I pick up little bits and pieces everywhere we go and then I carry this around with me traveling and I put things in it as I'm going. You can hear with the creaking that this could use a little bit more wax. There was something I meant to tip in and I just never did but so it's just kind of sitting in there which is fine. So this is 2014 and this was the first year I really did this and I got the idea for doing it from a number of different places. There's a lot of different people out there teaching classes and showing you how to do this kind of journaling or something regarding documenting your life like the documented life. None of them quite do it the same way I do. Everybody does it a little bit differently but my idea is for us to start a group-wide program that involves us sharing different ideas. I really have to wax this one. Sorry I'm distracted by the fact that some of these pages need waxing desperately so I'll be doing that as soon as I shut the camera off. Then involve us sharing how we're doing this, how we're going to do this and sharing pages that you feel comfortable sharing and ideas for what to collect and how to stick it in and that sort of thing. I really want us to encourage each other to use our journals for more than just creating pretty pictures. Let's combine the idea of doing a scrapbook with doing a smashbook with doing in our journal and why can't we put it all together in one place. That's 2014. This is the next year. This is 2015 and in this one there were some things I wanted in the journal that wouldn't fit and so these journals have a pocket in them so I put them there. These are my little daily sketchbooks where I do it literally do a little quick sketch every day. Some of them turn out well, some of them don't and I started it in 2015 at the end of the year so I wanted to keep those in this journal that documents the rest of that year and there really wasn't any place in here to put them so I put them in this pocket that's in the front of the journal and again this year starts off very similarly to the last one. You know I've put receipts in pockets, created the pockets out of things that I had or tea bags or a favorite thing to make a pocket out of. This one as you can tell by how much less creaking it's doing has a lot more wax on it so I need to wax the 2014 journal. I have a little small photo printer that I take with me when I go out of town and do different events and I print the pictures with it and I stick them in here and this has made it through you know a number of, both of these have a number of you know plane rides and boat trips and different things. They do very well.  I love to do pages memorializing people who I know who have passed. I started it in this one with my grandmother and that's what prompted me to start the whole idea of journaling my life and with my grandmother's passing in the beginning of 2014. This is a page dedicated to her. There's a couple pages in here dedicated to her and this is another friend of ours who passed in 2015, someone else. They wait a few that passed close together and this is just a nice way to document that event and different important events. What I discovered by doing this was I was able to document important events that were happening. I'm notoriously bad in my family for remembering birthdays. I am notoriously bad about that and this is a way that's helped me remember those things and document those things and keep track of those things and have a permanent memory of them. This is 2015. My problem with the delusions journal is the same thing that I love about it, which is how fat it is by the end of the year and the end of the journal. As you can tell, you're starting to work on pages that look like this and so you end up having to do this with your journal, which is okay for working on it and looking through it, but when you're talking about taking it with you on trips so you can journal while you're away from home, carrying this like that in your backpack is that's kind of a pain. So this year, when the documented life started and they said that they were going to work in a binder, I thought that was a brilliant idea and I already had these little binders from Michaels and a couple of them and I went out and picked a couple more up of them up because I realized I could just do a few months in one binder and then move to a new binder and that's what I've done. So this one is January, February, and March. I made my own inserts using copies of my own artwork. I've put little pockets into the journal, into these journals where I could and in the pockets are more of my little daily sketch notebooks for that month. I have sections for each month so I don't have to worry so much about dating the pages because I know everything that's in this section has to do with January. So this whole section has to do with January of this year and I made sure to include a calendar page in these so that I could write down different important things that happened in that month in this year and that for me that was really important. So I did switch it up a bit and I'm really loving journaling this way. This is a scrap of paper that I did on some live broadcast I think and I just used it and stuck it in there. Programs from different events. There's another just random scrap of paper. Some candy that my daughter brought me back from Spain. I think that was Spain or from something. Different events that we went and like where we went out to dinner. We went walking, went hiking. Pictures that I took here's February. I made I had some of these pages with little pockets in them so I ordered prints from Instagram and they come on these little squares and I have a whole bunch of them so I thought I would use them in here in these little pockets and document some of my favorite memes. Some that I've created some from others in different artwork and things. I've had companies send me things to try on camera and some of them send me little notes so I put them in here. Why not? I have discovered that I still have a habit of putting a lot of things in my journal and as you'll see when I flip this one up they get really fat. There's still all kinds of you know I make pockets out of a candy wrapper and stick the this is from my husband. This was the Valentine's Day card and the note from him is inside. Different things. Here's another sketchbook. Now we're getting into March. This is the month when we did our little art retreat in Las Vegas with Cindy Eider, Michelle Mitchell and and Williamson and we did a lot of fun things and this was where the journal started to get really full and I made a pocket here out of an envelope and then this was something that our room key card came in and I got an extra little folder and I used it as like a mini album and I documented different things that we did on the different pages and journaled on it, put pictures on it and I did both sides and the nice young man at the counter even gave me an extra key card to like use to you know for gluing and still in here. I didn't have the heart to take it out. This is our favorite, our favorite flyer. I mean you know who doesn't love a good boomerang. So anyway, no we didn't go see the show we just like the flyer. So I saved you know little bits of everything. You know the tag from my suitcase, the luggage tag, the wrapper from the sushi that we got the first night that we were there. This was off of a flyer or magazine or something I forget now. This is Aaron, Imperfect Impulses.  This is pictures of our tattoos. We got all about the three of us got tattooed while we were there. This is a label from a bottle of wine that we shared. Just different fun things. Takeout menus and labels from things that we bought and notes and here's some more of the printstagram cards. Some that have my artwork on them and some that have memes on them.  I stuck that on there. We went to Viva Las Vegas Stamps and there's another fun postcard. We saw Mr. Here is our the calendar for that month and different fun things that you know I documented the important things up to me that month which was the trip to Las Vegas my brother-in-law's wedding and my mother-in-law's birthday. There's another picture of us with Aaron a closer shot. There's us in the hotel room. There's the four of us hanging out in the car. Here's a tag I did with different things from that week and what we did that week and it was a really tiring week for me because we flew in I flew back a day early before everybody else and flew into Sacramento to go to my brother-in-law's wedding before I could ever come home and I was let's just say I was tired. My bags got inspected so of course I saved all of that because you know that's what you do right and things for my brother-in-law's wedding so I've been doing this this year for 2016 and I'm going to continue now. This one only has two months. I am noticing just like with the other journals that I save a lot of things or can and my journals sometimes some months have more stuff going on get really really fat because I just am saving all kinds of things and taping them in and it really I love the chunky look it's hard to take around with you so for 2016 I'll be doing something a little bit different but maybe you all have a way that you are going to do it too maybe it's completely different than what I'm doing maybe you're following a program really closely like documented life yeah whatever it is I would love it if you decided to share with me in the Facebook groups what you're doing and on not on a daily or weekly basis just like once a month do a flip of what you've done this is our trip to Alaska share creating a page share your ideas whatever it is that would be great I think it would be fabulous and it would it's I think it would be wonderful to encourage everyone to do with something a little bit more with their art journaling and documenting their year and recording their year I don't know what we're going to call it yet so if you all have any ideas let me know I have some ideas of what I'm going to do for the 2017 setup they're not completely fleshed out yet but when they are I will be letting you all know this is just sort of a flip and a share of my current year's journal and prior years I would love it if anyone who wants to share in participating in our whatever we end up calling it program here that we do in the Facebook groups to let me know message me and let me know admins of all the groups are welcome to be some of the first ones to join in that would be fun and let's see what we come up with and even if you don't participate documenting your life and documenting your year keeping you know journaling your year whatever you want to call it I think is a fabulous idea and if you do nothing else think about going over to the documented life and joining them and doing their their version whatever their new version is going to be but this is a lot of fun and I find that this is easier to take with me on vacation because it's thinner but it's still too big so I have some ideas of how I'm going to do 2017 that will make it even easier to take around and travel with it but also to store it so as soon as I have those fleshed out and I'm ready to set up for 2017 there'll be a new video look for that towards the end of this year probably like in October November ish in the meantime anybody who wants to join me in this sort of video challenge again it would be right now my thought is that we would do it in the Facebook groups only and that we would load the videos to YouTube but have them unlisted of course we can change our mind on that but I would love this is sort of an all a call out to people who want to help me share the love of documenting our lives and our year yeah all right that's it for today don't forget the most important thing


Just wasn't sharp, you know, I just felt like, you know, I wasn't didn't feel like I was throwing the ball through the catcher Just felt like I was kind of getting in there philosophy didn't seem like it was that good. So You know, I just told us on the way and go back out there the next time out. What do you attribute that to I don't know Just you know, I think it's just one of those days You know, I couldn't get the cutter in you know the slider was just kind of like flipping out of my hand So it was a tough day Is that been a recurring thing in these last four or five stars They need the one good start in Seattle, but Aaron thought it was kind of a pattern of inconsistent cutter. Yes The cottage has not been there like it like it was You know early in the season just one of those things, you know, it's just keep working at it and hopefully get it back Sessions and video will vary normal remedies. Yeah Are you feeling okay physically the knee okay at this point? Yeah, I feel good, you know, it's just a matter of me You know making that pitch work for me and and against some soft contact again No, I've experienced, you know losing my cutter during the middle of the season But you know, so, you know, it's not like I you know can go out there and panic It was just kind of try to make pictures what I got and make sure the cutter gets better It hasn't gone as well the last, you know Three weeks or so at this point of the season is that is that tough to go through? I think it's tough to go through any time of the season You know, you want to be playing well right now. Obviously you want to be pitching better But you know, we got more games to play just keep coming out playing hard and trying to win the series


Okay, Laurent Picard is from Google. And yeah, let's take it away. Okay. So can you start your screen sharing? Yes, all done. So hello, everyone. Thanks for having me today. I'm going to hide my own window. Okay, quick introduction. So my name is Laurent Picard as you can tell I'm French. I'm actually based in Paris. And my background, I am an e-book pioneer. So I've been working in the e-book industry for 17 years, 20 years ago. And for three years now, I'm focusing on cloud technologies with Google Cloud. Okay, unfortunately, I cannot see you and ask you questions. I very much like to start with this quote from our clock because it really shows the feeling I have whenever there's something new done with machine learning. And still after a couple of years, I feel magic, honestly. But this is just technology and your scratch a little bit. This is just technology. And we can all understand what's behind it or have a pretty good idea. And my goal today is to maybe scratch a little bit behind some stuff you haven't seen. I have my own definition of machine learning. That's a weird one. For me, machine learning is solving solutions where you have data, right? You have data and you want to understand what's in your data. You want to extract information out of your data. So this is my personal definition, but it's an incorrect one. The real definition is that machine learning is a part of AI. And within machine learning, you have deep learning. So most of the stuff I'm going to show you today is actually deep learning. But for simplicity, for the sake of simplicity, I will be mentioning machine learning most of the time. So how does deep learning work? So first, the expert started to work on the field 40 years ago. Last year, they actually got the adventuring price award for that. It's like the Nobel Prize for computer science. And they thought at the time, OK, let's try to mimic the way we think our brain works with neural networks for that they needed many examples. And the magic here is that they managed to solve problems. And we don't know exactly why or we don't have the answer, the systemic answer to solve these problems. But machine learning is now solving these problems where we couldn't solve them before. Why does it work today? So first of all, we are inheriting from centuries of science and in particular algorithms a lot from coming from mathematics and physics. For a couple of decades, we now have everything we need for big data. We're able to store data. We're able to consult a lot of data now thanks to computers. And for most now, for let's say a few years or one decade, now technology and especially cloud technologies give us the computing power to do everything. Of course, personal computers, laptops now have an amazing computing power. But cloud technologies now allow you to go to the next step and do stuff in hours or days where it would take weeks before. To give you an idea, so I'm going to talk generally about machine learning possibilities. But to give you an idea about how much important that is at Google, so those are the numbers of projects. So it's a couple of years back which have a machine learning model in their projects. And you've seen some of them as results. So for instance, in Gmail, when you start to type a sentence, you have a suggestion to end the sentence. In Android, in the late version of Android, there is a local customized machine learning model learning from your habits and optimizing the battery life. And in Google Photos, maybe you've tried that. If you say, OK, this is my kid on one picture, it will find a match of your kid on all other pictures. But even 10 years back or two, so it's very amazing technology. There are three ways today that you can benefit from machine learning. Of course, if you are an expert, then you know a lot about it. You're dealing with neural networks. And I hope you will learn a few or see a few things of interest for you in this talk. But if you're spending most of your time developing solutions, then maybe you don't have the expertise to deal with machine learning. But it doesn't matter. You can maybe use existing machine learning models. They are available through APIs. They are ready to use models. And in between now, since a couple of years, there are auto-email techniques. So it's filling a big gap. You still don't need expertise. But you can automatically build customized models for your own needs. And the purpose of this talk today is to give you a quick overview of everything you can do with these two types of technologies. So first, the machine learning APIs. So if you remember my own definition of machine learning, it's solving solutions from data. And data here can be text, pictures, videos, or speech. Then you need models. And from that, you can extract information. And sometime, the result you want is your input transform, transcribe into something else. Right. Now, let me start with the vision model. So I really love this kind of model because in the 90s, I was a student. So we were not talking about machine learning at the time. But I was trying with other students to solve the problem of understanding what's in a picture, understanding the content of a picture to automatically detect stuff. And at the time, we were just trying to detect edges. And it just failed miserably because we could do it on a few pictures. And then as soon as we would bring something new, then it would fail. It would not work anymore. Machine learning is the solution now. Provide a picture to a machine learning vision model. First of all, it's able to give you labels to describe the picture, what's in the picture in general. So here, this is a picture about Hobbiton. So Hobbiton is the place in New Zealand where the Lord of the Rings movies were shot. And this picture, so this is on the right, the JSON stream that I get from the API. And it tells me that at 95% of confidence, it's about nature and so on. So that's correct. More precisely, so if I take the same picture, but this time I zoomed in a little bit, I flipped it and cropped it, then a vision model is also able to match this picture with an existing one, a public one on the web. And here, it's able to tell me that most likely this picture is about this place. And I even get the GPS location for it. More precisely, here, it must be a picture of the cast in a restaurant still in New Zealand. It can try to detect entities. So it's called object detection. So detect entities, but precisely with a bounding box in pictures. And here, the results I get are that there are many persons. So this one is a person, right? But there are pens here and even dots. So it can be very precise. Even more precise, it can detect faces in general, faces. So here it's a 3D rendition. And what I get is the crop box for the face, large one or a close one. But I get also the location of the different features, like the eyes, the nose, the mouth, and so on. I get the position of the head in three dimensions. And also, a vision model can be taught to detect emotions. So here, there are a few generic emotions. And what it detects is that, likely, this face is angry. And this is Golom, Golom is always angry, right? Let's move on. So now, still on vision, optical character recognition. So OCR. This is a problem that is now fully solved thanks to machine learning. If I take this screenshot, the vision model is able to tell me that there are three main blocks. And then inside them, there are sentences, or lines, or rows, if you prefer, and then words, and then symbols. It here doesn't make any mistakes. It's really perfect. So it's just a problem. Even if I apply some perspective effect, so if you take a picture on a table or on a wall and so on, it still works really great. So let's say it's a solved problem. But the next step now for OCR is actually handwriting detection. And it starts to work really great already. So it's the same principle. So here, this is a handwriting from Tolkien. And so it's not perfect. It's not as good as for typewriting. But here, it's detecting the lot of the rings. So ideally, it would detect the first one here and the second one here. But then it works pretty well. And it's just making one big mistake here, shadows. So it's detecting a V instead of the Ws, something that could be maybe auto-corrected with natural language processing. But it does very little mistakes here. There's the bottom of the F is detected as something else. So it's almost perfect. It's really, really good. The limit of that, of course, is if we are not able ourselves to read back something that is unwritten, then a machine learning model won't be either. And the limit might be doctor prescriptions. Sometimes they are not even able themselves to read them. And also, it's able to detect entities and to match them up with something close to it found on the web. So on this example, I took a picture from a sponge that I had never seen before. So it's a very rare picture of Tolkien. Once again, I zoomed in. I cropped the picture, changed the colors. So there's not any single pixel in common with the original one. But yet, the visual model is able to detect this picture to tell me that it's coming from this Spanish newspaper. But more than that, it's able to match with the text on this web page and tell me that, most likely, this picture is about Tolkien. And what I get here, so GR Tolkien, I get an entity ID. So this ID, let's me work with a single ID. And I will deal with Tolkien this way, wherever I'm working with these APIs. OK, can be used. So just a few lines. So this is a Python client library that is available as open source on GitHub. And it's a wrapper around the API. So what you have to do is just always create a client, provide a content, so an image here. So I have two pictures called the feature you're interested in. So face detection, for instance. And then you have the results right away. And you can deal with the results. OK, so we've seen what you can do with pictures as of today. You can extrapolate to imagine what you can do with videos, because videos are pictures with a time dimension, right? So maybe the easiest is to show you an example. If you can understand what is in a video, then you can index it. And so this video has gone through the video intelligence model. And I get labels. And it tells me what's in the video and where. So here at the beginning, I have a spiral galaxy. The world is made with. A bit later, I have humans. And in so doing here, I have a polar bear. So you see, you'll fix the results. And then you can really understand what you have in your data, in your input data. So let's move on. Just one code sample. So if you're interested to check out how it's done, I have written a tutorial. So it's a code lab here. And actually, to generate this or to get this information that there is an insect here in a larger video. Once again, it's always the same principle. You create a client. You indicate that you're interested in object tracking. And you call annotate video. And then you get the results. If your video is a couple of, if your video's duration is a couple minutes, then after one minute, about you will have the results. So it's, of course, not real time because it's a long processing. It's a harder processing to read all the frames from the video and understand what's in it. But you can actually track objects. So it's even better than on pictures. You can follow the objects in your videos. So next, text. So it's a very big field in computer science. It's called NLP, Natural Language Processing. I guess we all learned that if we went to a computer school. It's a really big field. And latest advancements came from machine learning again. So you provide text. And the Natural Language model is able to analyze the text and give you results. So on this sentence, it will tell me first that it's in English. It's able to give me the precise syntax of the sentence with all the different relationships. Intuition is detected. Lemmas, I know that relates to the verb to be and so on. Like in pictures, it's able to detect entities. And here I have three different classes, three different types of entities. In red, I have persons. Tolkien is a person. And by the way, if you notice here, I have an ID. And it's exactly the same ID than that for the picture before. So I can really deal with Tolkien here on text and on pictures or videos. And also, one cool thing, the Natural Language model understands the context. So here, if Tolkien was actually not GR Tolkien, but Christopher Tolkien the son, then we get Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien with a different ID. Of course, the unique ID for the son. Then British here relates to the equation. And the three books here, here, here are each detected as works of art, which is perfectly correct. OK, you can also ask for classification. OK, I have a book. I have a chapter. I have a paragraph. I have a sentence. You can ask for content classification. And in this case, it tells me that this sentence should be classified under books and literature with a confidence of 97% which is perfect. And finally, like in pictures, you can try to get a sentiment analysis. Try to understand whether we're talking positively or negatively in the text you provide. So to try that out, what I did is I retrieved two articles, two reviews about the Hobbit, one from the New York Times, last century, the last century, and one from Goodreads. It's a social book made for. The first one is very positive. The second one, as you can tell, is very negative. And the results I get are, for instance, for each sentence, I get a score between minus 1 and plus and it does work. These sentences come from the New York Times. This one, too, it's a neutral one. Most of the sentences, of course, are neutral. The these sentences come from Pauline's review. We really hated the book. So some companies, for instance, are using that to understand how people, our users, are talking about their products on Twitter, or on the web, and so on. So they are actually parsing, retrieving content, and using the natural language sentiment analysis for that. Sorry, some companies are using that on emails. On all the emails they receive to understand how happy or unhappy their customers are, can be pretty useful. Again, to use that in Python, you create a client. You provide the content, the document, can be text or HTML. And you call analyze sentiment, and then you have the result very, very quickly. In the same vein, translation. So I won't get into details. I can share something with you. So in 2016, I was still working on eBooks, and I was using Google Translate. And someday something happened. The results were a lot better. And what happened, actually, I got the answer since then, is that historically, Google Translate was using a phrase-based model, so mostly a statistical model. And in 2016, Google Translate switched to a pure machine learning model. And this is why, at the time, and since then, it just kept improving, we suddenly got a big bump in quality. OK. So here, I just need two lines to use it. I create a client I call translator, and I have a translation right away. It works from and to over one Android languages. So that's thousands of different combinations. And finally, regarding machine learning APIs, speech. So speech as an input, you talk, and you get your speech transcribed into text. So this is also a problem that is now solved thanks to machine learning. If you're able to understand the speech that is in your data, then it means you can index it. So for instance, if I have a new audio file, then I can get the position of every word in all my sentences. And to use it also very easy, you create a client, you call recognize. Sorry, yeah, you call recognize. And then you have the text coming from your audio. So this is, again, another tutorial I've written. You will find all the slides, they are public, so you will get the link at the end. It's also on my profile on Europe Item. If you want to try that. So what I tried in this one, I recorded myself speaking French poetry aloud, a very famous one from La Fontaine. And just asked for, so I'm helping here a little bit, telling that I know beforehand that it's French. Asking for automatic punctuation, but this is a new feature that is very, very important. It will give you the caps. It will give you commas and so on. And here I'm also asking for the word time offsets so that I can index my different words, OK? Now the opposite, text to speech. You provide text and then you get a speech out of that. 20 years ago, I used a text to speech engine in the first European e-book reader we made. It was a big failure. So I did work quite a few weeks on it. I was very proud of the result, but the result at the time was that you pressed the play button to get the book to be read aloud. And the result you got was, at least in Wonderland and so on. I am a robot talking to you. So now this is finished. This is also a solve problem, thanks to machine learning. At Google, this is coming from a technology called WaveNet. It's been developed by DeepMind. Maybe you know DeepMind because they've beaten the World Champion. More recently, they are beating gamers, young people who are champions at StarCraft. So DeepMind is trying to solve problem by starting from scratch and building from scratch machine learning model. And here it's really amazing. Let me get you to hear these examples. So one is the original recording. And the other one is actually the speech synthesized with the same sentence. She earned a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University. She earned a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University. It is really hard to tell the difference. So if you want to know this one, the one on the right is the original recording. I try to listen to them very loud and so on. It is a very, very natural result. Maybe it's the best model so far from everything I've shown to you. I have to admit, even though I love the vision model, because it's solving the problem I was trying to solve, this one is honestly really amazing because it's hard to tell the difference. WaveNet are the voices you can hear in Google Homes, in Google Assistants. And let's, by the way, try something all together. OK. So I don't know if you noticed, but on Google Search, you can actually do a search with your voice. So let's try that out. What is the temperature in Paris? It's 27 degrees in Paris right now. It's giving you results in real time, even though it might be wrong at some time when I started to pronounce temperature. On purpose, I use my French accent and it's been able to understand me. So let's try something else now. I'm going to go to the French version. OK. Quelle est la température à l'ordre? Oh, sorry. Let me try again. I didn't. Here's a matching video. Quelle est la température à l'ordre? Oh, I know. I forgot. I told you, I know what I did wrong. I told you I'm going to go on the French website, but I'm actually still on the English one. So here, now I switch to the French one. Sorry about that. Voici quelques informations à propos de la French. Marseille, 1975. Pierre-Michel, jeune magistrate venu de Messe avec femme et enfant et nommé juge du grand banditisme. Selon Futurations, chez l'humain, une température interne de 37 degrés Celsius est communément admise. Il fait actuellement 23 degrés à Londres. I want to show you the opposite. So I am asking a French, a Christian in French, but with an English accent. And so I messed up a little bit because I started to speak at the wrong time. But what you could see is that you're getting results in real time and you are getting the expected result. It's able to understand me, even though I'm really making it hard to be understood. So what does it mean? It means that the speech to take the engine as understood, as been trained and as understood, how to make, as understood the essence of our language and as understood the characteristics, the specifics of a speech to be able to understand the different words. Okay. So we've seen everything you can do with existing models or there are of course more features, many options could take a day to cover them all. If you want to generate text, again I've made this tutorial to generate. So it does take this to generate these three sentences in three different languages. What you need to do is to create a client again. You need to call synthesize speech and you need to provide some parameters like the language. You want to generate that. The name of the voice. So there are different WaveNate voices if you want a human-like sounding voice and you have different options. So here I was only this, I can generate three Wave files. You can try that in this tutorial. Okay. So next a big gap that is filling many, many needs auto email techniques. So let me show you this example you will understand better. If I take these two pictures, which are different, right? And give them to the vision model. It will give me almost the same results. Sky cloud, sky cloud, because two speakers are actually clouds in the sky. But if I want to build a forecasting service, for instance, I need to be able to understand the shape of the clouds. I need to know that it's a Cyrus here and I'll talk a little bit here. And then I'm stuck because the only info I have is that it's a cloud, it's a cloud in the sky. So auto email here can help you still without any expertise in machine learning. So the difference compared to the API, the API is that you need to work a little bit more. You need to build, you need to provide your own data set. You need to provide training data. You need to look for examples and give that to the auto email pipeline. Once you have the data set, you can launch a training. It's fully automated. And generally you will need a couple of iterations to understand how well your data set is doing. And then once you're happy, you can deploy and serve. And then you come back to the previous case where you have your own, this time your own private API that you can use in all of your solutions. So it's still work online here. If you want something that can work offline, then you can try, you can train a model that we call an edge model because you will be able to deploy it on the edge somewhere else. So it's a smaller model, not as efficient as the cloud model, but maybe it can work and fulfill your needs. So once you have trained your edge model, you can export it and you can get it to run in a container. You can get it to run on your smartphone or even in a web browser with TensorFlow.js. Okay, so it's very useful for instance because in factories on production lines, for many reasons, very often you don't have internet connectivity or you don't want you to have it. So you need something that works offline. Even for web browser solutions, of course you need to download the model first, but then you can work offline and have something that works in your browser tab with a local model. Okay, so once you have built your data set, so here if I want to make a difference, I need to label them. So I have a cumulus, cumulus, cumulus number and so on. So you label your pictures. There it's a classification problem. You want to make the difference between different pictures. You don't need millions of pictures like for the big machine learning models we've seen before. Here you just need a couple of hundreds of pictures per label, ideally 1,000, but with just a couple of hundreds, it starts to work really great. And once you have done your data set, you can launch a training. So here this is a one compute our training. Here are three compute our training and then you get a sense of how well it is doing because your data set, 80% of your data set is used for our training, 10% to evaluate the best architecture and the final 10% the other 10% are used to evaluate how well it is doing. Okay, for classification, you can use the confusion matrix to have an idea about how well it is doing. So here, for instance, it's doing great with cumulus numbers and cumuluses. But doing really bad with the alto cumulus, almost 50% of the time it is confusing it with something else. So there are two reasons here. It's first, we have less samples of alto cumuluses and second, they all look alike. So making data set is going to be an art, I think. You really need to understand that you want to build a balanced data set and you want to try to remove as much as possible the bias that could be in your data set because you're going to get 10 minutes left to get results out of the mobile and if you interpret the result as a causality, actually it may not be causality and this is the issue that we can have with the bias. Okay, so it could be something interesting for another talk. Once you have trained your mobile, then you can use it in an API. You can provide it with new pictures it has never seen before. So here, this is my own private picture. I was in Poland that day and it's telling me that there's a cumulus in this picture at 97th person, really great. Okay, so if you remember my definition, we need, we have data and we want information. So auto ML techniques as of today work already on text pictures, videos and also structured data. And this time you need to choose the features that you want to detect. So for instance, you want to do custom classification. Maybe you want to detect custom objects in your pictures on videos, as of today you can do custom classification. There are beta features also for custom object tracking and so on. You can build your own models on text with custom natural language features. You can do your own custom translation and you can do custom predictions on the... It's a new field, I would say since two years now it's just the beginning, but it's going to be very useful because you don't need any expertise to build a model. So I've done a demo that we are going to be able to try all live. If you are on YouTube, there is a delay. So maybe when you hear that it will be too late and I don't know how much the delay is on YouTube live. So what I've done is a small demo where you're going to be able to upload selfies. And in the first spot, I'm going to call the Vision API and try to detect generic emotions. But also I'd like to know, I don't see you. I'd like to know if someone is sleeping, someone is yawning or someone is having fun. So I've built with my teammates and with attendees from previous conferences, I've been my own private custom model that is able to, I hope, able to detect automatically these situations. Okay, the way it works is the following. So from your smartphone you're going to be able to upload a selfie, it will automatically trigger a Python function, which we'll call the Vision API and maybe the AutoML Vision, my own API if needed. And then we'll do something here, thanks to the analysis, we'll start the result here and you will see it on your smartphone. Here, this is a serverless small application. It's actually my administration back in for the demo. And here on the screen, you will see the result from the administration planner. Okay, so let's try that out. So I invite you to open the camera on your smartphone. Okay, it's starting, sorry for the delay. Okay, so you can either flash the QR code here or you can enter in your browser, this URL, bit.ly slash smart EP 20, bit.ly slash smart EP for your Python 20, smart EP 20. Okay, so if you go there, you will reach this page and I'm going to, we still have about five minutes. I'm going to go to step one, okay, bit.ly slash smart EP 20. So it will ask you for authorization to use your webcam. So here, this is the generic vision model that is going to be used. You can try to upload a selfie and try to trigger a detection for one of these emotions. So let's try that. Yeah, my network must be a bit slow, I'm sorry. Seems to be okay, but it's in the cloud. So maybe you'll get faster results on your side. I have no feedback, so I don't know if it's working for you. Oops, should have gotten the results already. Maybe I forgot to pray the demo gods before. Maybe that's why. Okay, so let me try again. Sorry about it, I hope it works on your side. Okay, so I had an issue before. Yeah, so it does detect surprise with a high level of confidence. Let's try another one. And maybe you've seen, as I have the position of the nose, the mouth, the eyes, everything, I can actually add a mustache to everyone. So let's try this last one. Okay, joy with tight confidence. Okay, let's now switch, you can try a few times if you want. Let's switch to the auto email part. So here, if you refresh the page or if you click next, you should be on the same one, but with my own private model. And this time try to trigger, try to stick out your tongue to your own or to sleep. Okay, okay, it found that I'm yawning. That's right, another one. This time to make the difference between the generic API and my auto email API, the mustache will have the French flag colors. That's my date. Yeah, it does work. So you could tell that I'm cheating and I'm actually cheating because I built this model with pictures of me, pictures of my teammate and of other previous attendees. So of course, it's normal that it works, but we're going to check whether it works for you too. Wow, wow, wow, many people. So Marc-André, okay. So happy people. So that was with the generic API. Still surprise people. So that's me here. Here maybe it wasn't surprise, I wanted to trigger. It's in between surprise and sadness. Here it's between surprise and joy. Here are two sad people, yeah. Here, hangry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. And my auto email model. So let's try if I have, yeah, yeah. So more pictures are coming. You all have your tongue out, great. Tired people, oops, sorry, tired people. Yes, so you see it. I did input people yawning with or without their, hand, it works, and people sleeping. Yeah, it works too. And finally, if you remember, it's able to detect objects with a precise location. So here I have the people, all the attendees with glasses and it seems to work great, okay. So couple of minutes. So you see it's really easy to use to do. One note, there are two ways to measure how well your model is performing. And for that, you have to understand the notion of true and false positives, of positives and negatives and whether they are true or false. There are four different cases. If you're focusing on quality, then the precision is the metric you're interested in. If you are using a search engine, then you will use the recall metric. And here you want to minimize the number of false negatives, you want more results. I will let you have a look at this. If you want to a little bit understand how to email works, at least at Google, there's one specific feature. If you want to do more machine learning, then you can use frameworks. One of them is TensorFlow. So it's an open source, maybe the most popular one on GitHub. By far, under the one is PyTorch that I hear a lot from experts. So what have we seen? We've seen that there are three ways you can use that. With the APIs, you just need a couple of hours. With a tool email, you need days and weeks or months if you want to become an expert. The difficulty, there's absolutely no difficulty with the APIs. With the tool email, you need to build a dataset and for that, you need a couple of days. Okay, a few links if you're interested to check out some solutions. Here, this is an online comic coming from Google AI. You will find lots of the terms. So it's a nice refresh if you want to understand a bit better. If you want to get the slides for this talk, they are here. You're very much welcome to send me a feedback too. So thanks a lot for having me today. My goal is was to give you this overview of what you can do as a developer and you don't have to be an expert to do everything you've seen. So I hope you learn a few things and also I hope it gave you a few ideas. Thanks a lot for having me today and have fun. Have a great year of item, thank you. Okay, thank you very much, Laurent. That was a very interesting talk, lots of topics, lots of things covered. We do have a number of questions but the time is already up. So I would say that we basically take them to the talk channel that I posted in the chat. And then you can answer them there. It would also be a good idea to maybe post the links that you have here in the slides in the talk channel so that they stay up and then are easily reachable. Sure, I will do so immediately. Right, so let me give you your applause. Well deserved.


So I coined a phrase after my experience on the ground in handling people in Assam, that the day I put on uniform, I've lost my religion and I've lost my caste. I'm neutral. Everybody is the same for me. Nobody can tell me in a crowd that I'm siding with one particular part and going against the other part. I'm neutral. I have no caste, I have no religion. So what is the problem then? It's all happened because a man from Kerala opted for Assam and landed in a state where, very frankly, there is not very much of caste. Most of the tribals have no caste. All the tribals have no caste. And this stood me in very great stead. And now I'll jump 20 odd, 30 years. I had a lot of adventures in Assam operating in Nagaland, Manipur. Then I was IG operations against the alpha for two years. Mr. Chari, who happened to be DGBSF, met me casually somewhere and said, drum on, I'm looking for somebody to go to Kashmir, will you go? I said, yes, sir, why not? He said, carefully, it's not a simple thing. Don't take any foolish decision. I said, it's all right. So I landed in Kashmir. And that was the most difficult and most valuable experience for me for two years. I'm sorry I'm going to speak a little frankly. I'm not naming anybody. When I went to Kashmir in 1993, the situation was extremely bad, much, much worse than what it is today in Kashmir. There were 40 battalions of B.S.F. devide all over the state. Can you imagine 500, 600 men on the ground in each battalion into 40? Srinagar city had 13 battalions of B.S.F. You literally tripped over them when you go from one mahala to the next mahala. And I'm going to say something which people will not like, but which I have repeated again and again. There was an unwritten order, don't take anybody alive. I was amazed and I was shocked that this was going on. And can you imagine 40 battalions doing it? And the army is there also besides. And they also had the same thing. Now I'll share something more with you. What does this criminal procedure court say? If you arrest a person, within 24 hours, he has to be taken in judicial custody. He may get bail, he may come out. And if he's given you to you in custody for three days, five days, after that again he will go back to judicial custody, we'll go to jail. Ladies and gentlemen, when I landed in Srinagar in 1993, the army was operating, the BSA was operating.  Now how does the army and the paramilitary force pick up people? There's an Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which is operated in that particular area for a particular period. This says that the army or the paramilitary force can arrest somebody, but must hand them over to the nearest police station with the least possible delay. This is the general words. Nothing, no figures, no time, nothing, put there. I would like, for example, if you are in some deep forest and you have to walk three days. So it says, with the least possible delay, you should hand them over to the police. I'm sorry, both the army and the BSA were arresting people, keeping them in custody, and releasing them on their own after 15 days, 20 days. I was horrified to find that nobody had objected to this. The whole lot of IS officers and IPS officers are sitting there. What about the judiciary? The judges are there, magistrates are there, and you are keeping people in your custody for 20 days, 30 days, and then releasing them. There's no procedure. You have to hand them over to a police station. So I went to the governor. President's rule, you report to him directly. I explained all this to him, and I said, I'm going to take very strong action on all these things. First thing is that everybody, you have to tell the army to do what they do, but I will ensure that from our side, we will do this. 24 hours in our custody, after that, we hand over to the police station. Took time, about 15 days, 20 days, one month, and finally, it was sorted out. Now, if you operate like this in an area, why wouldn't the people go against you? You throw the law books into the waste paper basket and carry on.  What happens? Excesses are committed. And it's covered up, which is worse, so that 93, for me, was a very sharing experience. It took about three months, but three months, things were sorted out, and after that, I could breathe freely and sleep peacefully at night. This is what we have to ensure everywhere. Now, I'm going to tell you something again, which also you are now going to like very much. See, I told you I went to a Sam, and the greatest gift that they gave me was that I lost my caste and I lost my religion there. My caste and my religion was a personal thing which I practiced at home. I have been reporting and writing about this issue of the Adivasis in the Chhattisgarh reserve forest for years now. And it all started with that terrible ambush in which 67 CRPF personnel were killed somewhere in Chhattisgarh site. And I was asked to go and do the inquiry. I went there, right inside, deep inside the forest, camped there for three days, studied the whole thing, and made a report and gave it to the government. Until today, none of the recommendations given that the law should be followed is being followed today. The same things are being repeated. The other day, there was again an ambush somewhere there, and I wrote about it again, spoke about it again, and I found generally that why are you speaking like this all the time? For the last several years, in every lecture I have given on this problem, I have said that the root cause should be identified, and that should be rectified. What is the root cause of this whole problem? The root cause is the fifth schedule of the Constitution of India. I am quoting verbatim from it. It says that it is the governor of the state who will administer the scheduled areas of a state. The scheduled areas are all the reserve forests of the state, which means that the deputy commissioner and the chief minister will not administer it. It is the governor who will administer it directly. And how? He will administer this scheduled areas by appointing a tribes advisory council from the tribes who are living in that scheduled area. What does it mean? What is the tribes advisory council? It's a panchayat. So the governor should appoint a panchayat, and that panchayat will administer that area. If mining is to be done there, it's a panchayat who will float the tenders and give it to a mining company, and the profits of that mining will go to that panchayat and to the tribes who are living in that area.  I have been telling that this is the root cause of the problem, and I rectified it. And amazingly for me, you will find that some people from the audience will tell me, look, look, they have ambushed and killed 20 CRPF personnel. I say, why did you first of all have this ambush? What's the reason for it? Why did you have to have CRPF there? You have not followed the law of the land. You have not followed the constitution of the land. The root cause is that you don't want to do anything for your tribal. He's right down down below there, and you put your jackboots over him. And that's the end, when I'm reminded, I went to Assam and I lost my caste and I lost my religion there. I'm a neutral man. And when I come there and talk, the tribal knows that here is a man who's come who treats me as an equal. I recently have written about this and spoken about this subject two, three times. Same story has been repeated. Don't talk of the fifth schedule. Look at them. They have ambushed and killed 60 CRPF personnel. They have ambushed and killed 20 CRPF personnel.  Otherwise, how could they have been killed? They've got weapons. They've got numbers. They get ambushed. Whose fault is it? This is their own failure. And what about the root cause? Why are you not enforcing the fifth schedule? You won't do it, because you don't want that tribal down below to get anything. I speak very frankly. I don't know really what was the objective of asking me to talk, but I thought I'll share my ideas with you. Yes, yes, they're all absolutely on from the ground. See, in any law and order situation, when you are deployed in the particular area, the first thing you have to ensure is to see that the laws of the land are enforced. And it is seen to be enforced and the public know that it is being enforced. Once you do that, the public will be with you. When I went to Kashmir, the general rumor was a Hindu has again come as the IGBSF and he will side with the Hindus and he'll be against us Muslims. Slowly, slowly, when I started interrogating people enforcing, seeing that the laws of the land are being enforced, it changed. Now, there's a standard thing which we do in police in the state, in any law and order situation, whenever there is an insurgency or something. So many people are arrested, locked up. We are not able to find out who they are, who are their parents, where do they come from? Ordinary people have access to a police station. They'll go to a police station on top. In Kashmir, the situation is such that Kashmiris were scared to go to a police station because in every police station, there were one or two companies on force sitting there. LMG is fixed outside the police station. Naturally, because the militants were firing at the police station. So I found that my telling the BSF officers to open their units for entry to the public is not going to work. So I had to go around to meet all the head men in Srinagar city and all the other towns that I visited. I met about 30, 40, 50 head men everywhere and said that if somebody is picked up from your village or anywhere, or from all of your town, come straight to the IG's office. I will meet you and I'll find out. When my staff said that I'm going to do this, they said, no, no, no, sir, you can do it in the police. You can't do it in the BSF.  You can't go by standard rules and procedures. I'm going to do it. Now, BSF never had any women. So I had requested the CRPF to send women police because the people who come to meet somebody invariably are ladies, not the men. The men don't come. The ladies who come. So I had to get one platoon of CRPF, lady CRPF put in front of the BSF gate and I started receiving people and talking, finding out. When they found that there was an, it is not an outlet, it is an inlet. Somebody is listening and after two days I'm getting back my son or my brother. It had such an effect on the contents as in the module itself in Kashmir. This thing of allowing public to come and meet you and seeing that their boys are there inside a camp. They are there, you can go and meet them. They have not been tortured, they have not been beaten up. Half my problems are solved with that. And after that it was all straight downhill for one year. This is all I have to tell you. Thank you very much.