Hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope today We're gonna try something different. I'm not sure who we're gonna channel. By the time I'm done with this video I'll have it in the thumbnail, but right now. I Don't know. Is anybody's guess? Okay, we're gonna surprise. I'm gonna have a surprise guest. Okay All right, so I'm gonna ask my archangels to kind of step in. I work with many archangels a lot They're non-denominational to me. They're very diverse. They expand all cultures all continents all time and all space So they show up in a lot of variety ways right now I see Michael who's a great archangel for protection for truth and connecting to integrity and Also, my good friend archangel Gabriel his jazz hands Cannot be missed. Do not do not miss his jazz hands. Oh, yes Archangel Gabriel's for communication and connection and a great great entertainer Archangel for me. So thanks you guys appreciate here. All right, so who are you gonna surprise me with today? man or woman man Okay, I don't know anything about that one. There's several I See one that just transitioned. I see another one that people have recommended. Thank you Yeah, I see some yeah, I guess they're backstage waiting to be called guys. Don't hold your breath You know, I don't like to channel people right away as soon as they cross over like right after they died We got to let that kind of settle down first. I'm not a hearse chaser. Although from time to time I Will just be so connected that I have to talk to them. So I do it's it's a Artist's choice. How about that? Right? It's my choice my choice. I'm the artist. I'm the channeler, right? Okay, so It's a man US United States but Feels as though he is Connected overseas as well. So maybe not born in the US Oh George Michael Hi, honey, it's nice to see you. Oh my gosh. I wish I had my computer because Someone submitted great questions to ask you and I I just I love your energy But I just never know what to ask because we just kind of sit together and it just feels nice Feels good. Oh, honey, it's nice to see you Yes, I know I know I know it's okay. He's like, oh, it's so okay. It's okay. It's okay. And so why What do we owe your? Guest appearance today He says well, I tell you I have seen you have done some really great work.  I need it. I got a tissue because of your work recently our great work with Charity organizations, which I have done In my work twice within a week's time donated almost five hundred dollars to charities two different charities Thanks to you those of you who purchased your participation in my small group work. Thank you for that in November We did awesome. Actually, it was end of this end of October early November. Thank you you ladies know who you are Thank you. Love you. I Was hoping he says I was hoping that you would Consider doing something for animals. I Have done animals. I have done. I have done a group work group work where I've donated to An animal shelter specifically for cats on behalf of Freddie Mercury. That was last February you guys were gonna have to and I've been thinking about that for February again to bring that back around and do it again In February this year, so we'll see we'll see we'll see how that goes. So yes Did you have others that you were thinking of? Particularly the animals he's saying particularly the animals animal charities Are you thinking like rescues or are you thinking like? Shelters and things he's saying placement and Any organization for the ethical treatment of animals? Okay.  Mr. George Michael from the afterlife? Are you raising some concerns about? laboratory testing and Related maybe to medicine you guys because right now. We're in a huge like matter. You've seen this, right? Right that it's very yes Yes, we know he says yes, we know the rest of us over. Yes, we know we know We know He says it can it can seem like a dark time It can seem like a dark time And then he says but we can't forget those who bring us the most comfort and sometimes it's those it's our animals that do He says it's our animals. He's he's saying for himself.  They were like my children. They were like my family and he says I so appreciated that love. I appreciated that love Many of you will be able to relate to that because you have animals that you love that are like They're complete and I have animals myself. I have dogs. I have four dogs and They are members of the family. They are they are our family and As short of lifespan as they have compared relatively compared to humans They give us so much in that short of minds so much you guys like I have a sweet sweet dog in the afterlife Her name is Molly. We called her I called her me Molly and I would say it. I'd actually sing to her. Oh I can see her I Can see her Now I'm not a pet communicator by trade or anything like that But a spirit is a spirit a soul is a soul and so I certainly I don't specialize in that area you guys But I certainly connect As you well, you can too Thank you George for bringing her in it's so weird to call him George because it just doesn't fit for me I don't want to call him George or a different name that I would use but I can't pronounce it properly And I don't want to be disrespectful to other cultures He says I love you Bridget. I love you. I love you too. It's been a long time But like I said, there was someone one of you So whoever it is that is watching this right now on above-life channel and screaming at your phone if that's where you're watching on It's me. It's me. She's saying I'm sure. Thank you for your I remembered your questions. They're awesome I remember getting them, but I I didn't expect for Mr. George Michael to be making his appearance today, so I'm sorry that I don't have them to ask if I had my computer in here. I would have just looked them up I'm next time. I had to be better prepared for the surprise So do you have that is such a sweet sweet sweet thing especially okay So I just want to one more thing about the animals because during this time when we are Home much more those animals are making helping keep some of us very sane And and so lots of love to the animals and lots of love to the animal lovers out there in fact if you're watching this video and you are an animal lover and you want to honor one of your Dear dear animal friends go ahead and put their names in the comments below Okay, go ahead and do that like I would put my Mimo Molly in the comments below to honor her memory And I might put my doggies now diamond we color Dimee sometimes or Mindy and Louie his technical name is Louie Louie and Riley our red lab and And Riley I have a great, you know, I have a great story about that About how Molly ended up helping us get Riley and how part of Molly's essence is with Riley and her body So that she can continue to watch over my children because that's what Molly did She was this big beautiful silver wymer anner and she was gentle and she was earth energy And she was mother energy and she was totally conditional Unconditional divine love. That's what she was.  I'll spare you for that But if I ever do that share about my pet about Molly helping us with Riley If I ever do a story time with that, I'll sing you I'll sing it to you and then you can laugh at me That's okay. We'll be laughing together. You got to be silly and got to be willing to be silly He says it's true. They bring out the best in you. They let you so George is saying this George Michael is saying this animals Help you they let you let your guard down They let you trust they let you open your heart. He says they don't hurt you like like people can oh That that hits home that cuts right through the heart you guys. So you feel that Sounds like you're speaking from experience. I am says I am you know when your human life there was some There was some uncertainty or some question about the loyalty of your most recent Partner I Don't know how to explain the connection to him because it doesn't really feel like you're together But I think you kind of were so I don't know if I was on again off again on again off again on again off again but I feel like he I think that many people would feel like he rode your coattails and That he I know that there's some stuff because I feel some buzz about it So I don't know if I saw things about this a long like a while ago. You guys not recently. I'm recording this in November November 9th, 2020 by the way timestamp that and I Remember though that there's some stuff about like if he was didn't do right by you or if he was like rude to your family Or whatever it was after your death or something or he wanted more he wanted something or being feeling entitled to something But it doesn't feel like you were married.  So you need to watch the other ones with him I should have probably said that in the beginning but to give some background because now we're just talking casually, you know, but It seems to me that the That you died of heart something with your heart like heart failure or something with your heart and there was speculation about like drugs or depression or all that It feels like you literally died of a broken heart like And I know you were really close to your mom and I know in the afterlife you're with your mom Can you talk about that a little bit about that why we would feel or your fans would feel like you Were sad when you died or had this like feeling of being broken Can you talk about that just a little bit to to give us some encouragement either from the past life perspective? What you know now or actually when you were alive and living the last few months of your life He's saying to me I was it's true. I was on medication and he said it did affect my weight. He's saying that to me Did that bother you? He says that he says At the risk of sounding vain yes, it bothered me of course it bothered me More so because he says but more because my body I don't totally get this He's like showing me that his body was uncomfortable like when you sit down It doesn't feel right and like your hips can be sore and your knees especially the knee that right knee Yes, he's like giving me because I had this same experience when I had gained some weight a while back My knee and my right knee would just bug me and so now literally he just pointed to my knee inside It's like it puts his pressure on your joints and it's really it's just uncomfortable You just don't feel good because you feel like you're trying everything is like an effort You know and did you know that you had a heart issue so that your heart was a problem? He says I feel I think the connection to the heart the physical he says you're talking about the human heart the physical heart part With the weight gain he said and the stress it it feels as though the heart could be damaged Not not as healthy. He says not as healthy as it could be not as healthy as it could be He's making me feel like the medication caused his death or medication some kind of medicine caused his death So But it was helped along by other things side effects of stuff you guys that's kind of how it feels like side effects interesting so Can you talk about the broken heart feeling?  She kept me grounded But isn't it true though that you had a hard time like with your sexuality and not being able to really be yourself?  He says is afraid of disappointing your parents, you know Disappointing your family. You don't want to let anyone down.  I just I knew that I loved to sing and I loved to perform and I wanted to be Just doing that, you know, he's saying 24-7 doing that It's hard to Be on stage and be giving your all this is I'm I'm not using his exact words But this is he's telling me the story and I'm retelling it to you is what's happening right now I'm feeling it through the heart chakra. That's called Claire sentience for you guys Just so you know and it's it's when you're an empath and you can feel that energy and Claire sentience This is one of the psychic gifts or ways to channel our connect When you're on stage, she's showing me when you're on stage a lot of yellow energy Which is solar pexis or spirit chakra, which means you're in your purpose. You're living your purpose It's hard to do that fully when you're holding a part of yourself back. You're trying to Give it your all and be all out there But then you know you're holding back and he says it doesn't it doesn't make sense like it doesn't it doesn't work out Well trying to do that trying to be out there, but then holding back and be out there holding back He says it results in some really kind of impulsive. He says kind of he literally touches his face he's like touching his face kind of Impulsive decisions.  Just you just do it even though You know, it's not the best choice for you. Are you talking about drugs medicine drugs alcohol. What are you talking about? It's like checkbox all the above and particularly drugs like I don't know if he utilized or abused drugs But it feels like there's some kind of a drug thing involved here Not deep intense drugs, but enough like it could be an ecstasy. It could be Maybe a cocaine. I'm not sure it doesn't really feel like that though. It doesn't feel like the white powder. It could be like just like a like marijuana or something which I mean, that's like whatever and But it doesn't seem like heroin or anything I don't think so I can't quite tell he's not showing me everything like I feel like Yeah, there's some impulsive stuff that I've done like I might have tried drugs or I might have done this or my drug Something about being with a model was he with the model did he date somebody that was a model and he says for show like to keep up you have to keep up the It's like I want to say keep up appearances, but he's not saying it that way. He's saying you have to keep up the persona the The mark he said it's for marketing. It's the marketing image. It's the brand and And you get really he said it gets really confusing with who am I? as a person and who am I as a The performer that the public person that everybody gets an ownership of you know I've heard that before in other channeling sessions about that this difference between Who am I as a person versus who am I as a public? icon Person performer entertainer where everybody feels like they own you or they they they pay for a ticket to a concert Or they buy an album and they own you they get a part of you in that I've heard that before from Several other people especially musicians. I've heard that he says boy. It's true It's he says I'm not I'm not trying to make excuses up or anything like that I just you asked about the heart and he says it's it's very personal to him You guys very private very personal He's saying I didn't want to disrespect my family I'm seeing a lot of overlap with Freddie Mercury and his family and George Michael and his family But the connection or the bond between George and his mother is really really really strong very important Yeah, he says yeah, she's like my healer in the afterlife too. You know, she's my healer And there are dogs all around him. I think he's trying to prove a point like he's trying to get me to commit Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Okay, so like to prevent animal cruelty or things like that I'll think about it. I'll think about something that I could do to To help honor that request of why you came forward Is there anything else in particular that we should talk about or that you'd like to share? he's showing me something about fine find a little love or get the love where you can get it and Many shows me the animals like again very loyal a very trustworthy very truthful very honest And I'm getting this feeling again of like referring to his most recent Lover boyfriend. I don't know what you call him because it boyfriend doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel right to call him that I know you guys were living together. I think you were anyway. I think so Are they I think so it feels like they were but and again It feels like not even the same like different levels or on again off again and all that stuff It doesn't feel like that person that he was in a relationship with was faithful That's what it feels like that that person that he's in a was in a relationship with near the end of his life At the end of his life was not faithful as how it feels. That's what it feels allegedly, okay And I feel like he's writing your coattails I do not like this person and I think the people around you were kind of Cold not very warm on him either because he was kind of riding your coattails like I don't think he was a Love of your life kind of a thing Had did you have one? That's a person very personal question you guys, isn't it? George Michael, did you have a love of your life except for any ally that he shows me as an image of his mom That's the only true relationship. I've ever really had With a person he says the person he's showing me his mom and his sister in the afterlife Family this is family for him All right Did you smoke because all of a sudden I see smoke and like affecting my vocal cords or something like not having my voice Not change and not be quite right Looks like smoking All right. Well, we're gonna wrap this one up. Hey, I'm Bridget from above life channel We've been chatting with a surprise guest to me surprise to you won't be because you'll see it on that Thumbnail George Michael from the afterlife and if you are a George Michael fan make sure you don't leave above life channel until you check out that playlist Because you will find more Conversations with George in the afterlife. So thanks so much for being here. Thanks for surprising me. That's wonderful It's like that's the only way I could come in Bridget. That's the only he's like That's the only way I knew I could get you to talk to me Because I I'm sorry. I have to tell that these guys this I Just he just feels so sweet and so loving and all I would do is just sit here and be quiet and feel his energy And that's it. That's not great for YouTube. That's not great for a bubblive channel Like we need to have dialogue discussion and conversation But he's almost it's not that you're shy You're just really feely like you just give information through the heart and through the way you feel That's how he communicates is through the way he feels So if you are a fan of George Michael or you want to channel and connect with George Michael heart space use your heart That means empath energy. That means sensitive people. That means Claricentians that means feel what are you feeling? So as a result of my conversation with them You might want to even go back and watch this video again Get out your own notebook and feel what you feel before I say stuff like when I'm pausing feel what you're feeling from him and That's your message. That's your connection. That's your practice Okay, especially if you're a fan, this will be easier for you to feel his the feeling Okay, and then write down what you get because that's that's the point That's part of the point of a bubblive channel to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope and to encourage you to live your life It's your life after all it's yours. It's yours So live it and just live it. Thanks for watching. Thanks George for being here. I was so lucky that you surprised me


Okay folks Larry Pesavino for TFNN mid-afternoon update. We've got stocks. Some of them are a little bit lower like the Dow Jones and the S&P. The Russell's down just a little bit. In fact they're all down just a little bit. I just realized that it's the first time we've had back-to-back down days on Monday and Tuesday since Hector's a pup and that dog's 13 years old. Anyway that's what we're looking at here today folks. I posted a chart up here of crude oil. This is a big inflation indicator and as you can see we're trading at $72.84. The low today was $72.17. The multiple ABCD patterns that we pointed out came in at $72.22 and the market rallied $1,800 folks and it's given back $1,200 of it. So this is not good action for crude oil today. So you know the one thing about that is when you make it double what you risk, you've at least locked in some profit, but if we get below this level of $72, you can see there's nothing but the dark skies, well good skies for us, down around $70.38 which would be the 78% level of the may low of last year. So those are just a few of the things. Remember this is a daily chart. Remember this is just a couple years ago we had the war when it was trading. Let's just get this weekly up here to show folks how things can change and doesn't really make any difference. There's the war right here. There's the war. We went from 90 to 135 and if you remember our good friends from some place in New York. I don't remember. It's got a big G and a big S on the front of the building there and on Wall Street or Wall and Broad. But anyway, you'll see this is what we've had to look at and look where we are folks. Now we've gone from 135 down to 72. But here's what's important here with the crude oil. If you look at this without getting rid of some of these other lines that we have on here, if we take a look from the high that we made back here in March of 2022, you'll see that the rally back that we had was just a tad above the 382, a little below the 50%. This is not bullish action folks. This certainly isn't. So we could easily make, well, you're not going to make a case for oil down here again, but you could easily say that we could go down in below 65 without any trouble at all because going back to when oil got to $5 when they had that dude from Singapore trapped and it went negative, you'll see here that that would come in at around $3.53 bucks. So we'll see. Hey, we're going to take a break here and talk to some people here to have to call in for some really good advice and we'll send them to a place where they can get it, believe it or not.


I'm sorry to be starting our first item of business on such a sad note, but members will be aware that we were all deeply touched over the summer by the sad death of our former good friend and colleague Sir Alex Ferguson, who is Presiding Officer of this Parliament from 2007 to 2011. The Parliament will have the opportunity to debate a full motion of condolence later this month when his family will be able to join members in paying a fitting tribute to Sir Alex, but I wonder, given that this is our first sitting since his death, would members and all members in the public gallery please join me in holding a minute's silence for Sir Alex Ferguson. I'm sure that members will wish to add their note of commemoration in the book, which is currently in the garden lobby in Sir Alex's name.


Hi, hello. My name is Olivia Hartwig. I use they, them pronouns. I am the owner and operator of Otwig Co. Ceramics and Harkins Dice. My ceramics here on the table, I've been doing for about 10 years. I went to school for it, and it was my career pre-pandemic. Pandemic put a little bit of an end to that, and that's how I got into dice making. So I've been coming here to the market, selling ceramics and dice for about three years now, and it's just a wonderful time. It's one of my favorite markets to be outside, to get to know the community, to meet a lot of tourists, and just sort of connect with the other vendors. It's really special. So a special thank you to VCA and Burlington for hosting this every year. And yeah, we hope to see you out. My name is Scott Hammond, and I run Fox and Raven Studio. I'm from Newport, Vermont. And I like to come to the BT EVO Market in the summer, and this is my first time here for the holiday market. But all of the artwork here is, is mine. I do a lot of Vermont focused artwork, focusing on some of the cities. I do a lot of nature and fantasy based art too. So I have lots of prints available. And I also have some original pieces here, mostly pen and ink work. I like to focus on online work in detail. And I just like celebrating the beauty of our state of Vermont. And, and I love expressing my artwork in kind of fantasy and nature themes. Hi, my name is Paula, and I am the owner of Melly House Wattique. As you can see here, I am a black on women business owned. And all of my products are provided by BIPOC on women owned on businesses as well. So as you can see all the variety that I have, I have some tote bags, I have some handbags, I have some shawls. It's a bit of jewelry. So a little bit of everything for everybody. So I really hope that you guys can definitely check us out. We have a website, it's MellyHouseWattique.com, and we also are on social media, Instagram and Facebook. Find us and follow us. Hi, my name is Lyric Duncan. I'm co-owner and co-designer of Anisa Jewelry Breezy Elements. My mother and I have been doing this since I was 12 years old. It's been about over 10 years now, and everything we make here is sterling silver, brass, gold fill. We're based in Wanooski, and we have a website, AnisaBreezy.com, that's recent, that's fairly new. And yeah, we're just here today just to spread some holiday cheer, and hopefully help some people out with their Christmas gifts. Hi, my name is Holly, and I have been running Wild Perennial since about 2012. And this is my third year doing this market here in the park. And yeah, I'm excited to be out here, a lot of great other vendors, good shopping. Everything that I make is handmade with real flowers and real bits of nature. And I make necklaces and earrings and things out of real mushrooms that I pick in the woods behind my parents' house. And I find a bunch of four leaf clovers, and I'll make them into jewelry too. So it's a fun whimsical thing I have going on here. Hi, my name is Makayla Campo. I'm my business is stone fruit, and I do pottery, cartography and photography. I grew up in Vermont, and so it's clearly influenced a lot of my artistic decisions, but now I'm based in Burlington. I've been combining recently, combining mat making with pottery, and so these are actually a topographic map of Mount Mansfield, thrown on a mug. And so I'm a GIS professional by trade geographic information systems. And so combining art and science is where I find my happy place. My name is Damasini Ngae. This is Bernick's boutique. First of all, we sell baskets. These baskets are from Alawi, where my mom kind of orders them from Alawi, and she had a group there where they make them, and they send it to her. And then after that, they send her money. She sends money there so they can get it, come back. Same as this. These are bracelets and necklaces, and these bags. Bags, she makes them here, or the bags here, she makes them here. But the baskets and these hoplites, she makes them in Alawi and those Christmas tree ornaments. Most like everything, except for these fabric stuff, it's mostly made here, and baskets are made in Alawi because so they can get products for to make them. Hi, my name is Fiona. Our company is Wolf Peach, and we make herbal elixirs that actually taste good so that people really enjoy taking herbal medicine. I was a chef for a long time in London, and I've been an herbalist for as long as I can remember. So we're trying to bridge the gap between those two things and make taking herbs a pleasure for people.


The great search brought to you by Digikey and Angel Fruitik. They do use their power of engineer to help you find something on digikey.com using her vast years of experience, creating electronics, looking for parts, and this one is kind of internet famous at the moment, disease. I know. We saw this coming around in Alaska. This is a good one for the great search because frankly, I didn't even know you could still buy the 80 chips, but so a couple days ago, April 15th, you know, you find your taxes and you find out that the Z84C00 product line is end of life. Yeah, they're still products that are probably white goods, automotive industry that uses a Z80 processor.  It must be incredibly old process and very few chips are using that process and the places that are making these wafers and processing them are probably like, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. And we actually see this quite a lot. I remember there's been a few chips that I've seen from, I don't know which part it was from analog, that they were like, not only not making this chip, but because there was, if you guys remember like a few years ago, there was I think some fires in Taiwan, I think was it like in Taiwan, there was a there was a fire in the Taiwan or in the Philippines and a big foundry was damaged, like a big chip packaging foundry factory was damaged. And they were like, well, if we're going to rebuild this factory, we're not going to go, we're not going to rebuild all the old processes. And so I think XP was also affected a couple, a couple of companies are affected and a couple chips were like, hey, all of a sudden like we that factory we used to make them is no longer going to be, they're not going to rebuild that old machinery. So it's end of line. And also like I can't imagine that Zilog is selling that many Z80 processors. So this was the Z84. What was cool about it? It came in a dip format, which is just like so cool and so classic.  The last time by date is sorry, I forgot to say mention to go to the computer. But yeah, this is the Z84C008, eight megahertz processor available in dip. They do have a couple thousand available last time by. The last time by is when you basically if you are using this in a product and you really need your like, look, I need three years to transition to our design. Or if you're like, look, I want 10 years worth of product because I want to finish the end of the product line and I'm guaranteeing 10 years. You can usually put in a request and say, hey, I want the last 10, 20,000, whatever quantity. And then what did you will do is they tell Zilog and Zilog will bundle up all these last time buys and do like the final run. I will say that during the chip shortage, there were many times in which I put in requests for last time buys and they did not pan out. So not saying that's going to happen this time. The last time by is not guaranteed. It's a request. There is no guarantee that you'll actually get those chips. But again, part shortages were a welfare time. That said, you know, if we go to embedded. First off, there are Z80 emulators. You can get emulators like, you know, implementations for FPGA. So you can, you can always mimic it if you need to, although to be honest at this point, if you can move your chip to something else, please do. But under microcontrollers, first off, you can look under the series. And you can see there's Z8, which is probably related to the core processor. Let's see if that's where Z80 might be mentioned. There's the EZ80. Actually, I didn't see this before. I wonder what that is. Looks like there's a couple other chips. So the EZ80 is probably, well, a claim. It's a similar family, not available in dip, but it is available. And some of these are discontinued, not for new designs. So let's look at ones that are, it looks like these are, these are kind of fast. Let's look at active ones. So it looks like the EZ80, F91, these are all going to be, you know, they're big chips, the LQFP, big and they're, you know, they're only eight bit, but they are available and looks like they have, you know, they come with peripherals at this point, not USB, but they do have iSquared C and RDA that do not have a lot of space. So, you know, only like 256, you know, ish K and 8K of RAM. So these are not big chips. These are also not five volt friendly. So if you're looking for a five volt friendly, that's not it. But let's look for others, the 80 chips. One thing they'll say is sometimes these microcontrollers are kind of split apart. Sometimes they're under microprocessors. So if you look here for the Z80, this is where you'll see like that Z84 series, which is last time by, but they also do have some active. So again, if you select active and you'll see these are available in five volts. So there's a couple of options. This one is six megahertz, this one is 10. Wow, super fast. Both are five volt friendly. They're available in 100 QFP. Let's just take a quick look at this one. But that is one thing I'll say is, you know, not every chip got discontinued. So this one is still available if you absolutely need a Z80 core. And yeah, it looks like Z80 multiple ports. It's a scanned PDF of a hand drawn data sheet, just like super cool. And I assume that this must implement, yeah, this implements like the Z80 architecture. It's just it's not going to be a surface mount part. However, you could solder this to a board that then has like 40 pins brought out and like adapted into like the pinout you would expect for a Z80 if you need to upgrade an existing Z84C chipset. So it's possible, but it's going to be more complicated than just like having the nice drop in replacement.  So you get that last time by. But, you know, you you could theoretically use this chip. And like I said, just make an adapter chip adapter plate that would plug in. And as long as you have all the peripherals that you are expecting and an amount of RAM and flash, you could program it as is. Something actually we did for the Zoxbox. We used a 64 K flash chip that was dip. I'm trying to use the at mega 64. And then eventually the at mega it wasn't enough space. People wanted the at mega 128. I remember somebody made an adapter that took the TQFP at mega 128 and brought out the pins into the 40 pin, like that, you know, two by 20 pin point six inch wide package. And people would plug them to the Zoxbox into the socket. So such things are possible, but you can still get active Z80s on Digikey. So do that last time by or you can pick up one of these. My pick for the great search.


So Loot is a massive part of Loot as shooters. Game developers understand it's what drives many people in continuing to play their games. The loot has to be worth chasing. It has to be worth customising. It has to be worth upgrading. Outriders the latest in the loot shooter genre is right around the corner. It too, offering great loot, I thought it would be a good idea to accumulate what we know and have seen in terms of our legendaries. This game is exotic and bring them to you guys in an all-in-one legendary weapon showcase video. Like I said, legendaries are this game's top tier rarity. This game is exotic. Has it gone guys? My name is DPJ and if you enjoyed this video leave a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Outriders be sure to subscribe. So within Outriders, Legendaries are highest tier of loot. The legendaries are the Endgame Chase and over the course of time in which people can fly have shared footage of this game they have also included that said Endgame Loot and today we check out every legendary weapon we know of so far. Now details on some of these are not properly known yet but what we do know I will cover. Another important thing to mention is this game includes an in-depth upgrade system which sees you being able to upgrade certain weapons through the rarity ranks making some lower tiered weapons actually legendary. These for the most part we will ignore besides one demonstration later on in the video. As today it's all about actual legendary weapons and those that only come as legendaries. So getting to know what makes a legendary is different is quite important so I'll quickly go through it. So within rare epic and legendary weapons they have mud slots, rares have one mud slot, epics and legendaries have two mud slots however legendary gear comes with its own dedicated highly powerful mud. These muds are tier threes where the three tiers of muds legendary exclusives are tier threes everything else is tier two or one. Any weapon with two mud slots so legendaries or epics you can replace one mud with another mud that's completely up to you and muds become available when you dismantle said item that mud is tied to. But yeah the main difference between legendaries and lower tier weapons is legendaries have their own unique tier three mud. So let's get into the weapons people and firstly we have the absolute zero. This is an assault rifle and luckily with this item level which like every weapon we will see today can be maxed at a level 50 but these stats are not static and can be upgraded obviously or come higher so looking at such and mentioning the value uses pointless right now. We can see this legendary specific mud is though ultimate threes in bullets. Sharks in flip threes on enemies pretty cool guys. Okay so next up we have the amber vault the legendary double gun man this looks great that kind of bony cloth abomination looking unreal. This legendary unique mud is called killing spree. Killing Sharks increase damage by 30% for this weapon for 30 seconds. Bonus Iteria rates with time and stacks up to five kills pretty cool. Next up guys we have the Grim Marrow. Wow look at this thing I thought the last one was crazy looking man this is on another level. So this is a light machine gun and its unique mud is called Singularity. Killing Sharks create an anomaly Singularity. When destroyed the Singularity explodes dealing a certain amount of damage to enemies with an a 6.5 meter radius. Awesome. Next up guys we have the iceberg and man I love the luck of this thing these just get better and better. So this bought action rifle which I'm pretty certain is this game's name for a sniper comes with a unique mud called Winter Blast. Critical Sharks create an icy blast that inflicts freeze on enemies within a 4 meter radius. I cannot wait to use this people. Next up guys we have the migraine which is a sub machine gun. This weapon which looks like a mutated rack of ribs is like nothing I've ever seen. The weapon's unique mud is called ultimate bleeding bullies. Sharks inflict bleed on enemies. Nasty. Next up guys we have this crazy unique assault rifle called the thunderbird. I mean these weapons are just all incredible. I mean I've said that about every single one but they just get better and better. So this one's unique mud is called the ultimate storm whip. Sharks bring down lightning on an enemy dealing said damage. Amazing. Next up guys we have the voodoo matchmaker. This is a legendary assault rifle and again guys incredible. So this one's unique mud is called ultimate damage link. Sharks link up to three enemies sharing 30% of their weapon damage dealt and 10% of the anomaly damage dealt. Awesome. Okay so next up guys we have this one I found within gameplay. This is the only image we have of it right now and it's called the anima. It's a legendary automatic shotgun narrow bar and that sounds cool by itself but it's unique mud is called morning winds. Reloading creates a strong blast around you dealing so much damage to enemies in a range of eight meters. This one has a two second cooldown. Nice. Next up guys we have the golem's limb. This legendary pump action shotgun I think you will agree looks incredible. It's unique mud is called golem rising. Killing Sharks grant you a protective golem effect for three seconds. Wow. Okay so next up guys we have the molten idola. This is a legendary rifle and it again looks incredible. Look at those embedded schools within that framework. Amazing. This thing's unique mud is called ravenous locust. Sharks create a swarm of locusts dealing said damage over 15 seconds and inflicting weakness to enemies remaining within a six meter radius of that target with a cooldown of two seconds. How amazing does that sound guys. So before we get into other legendos, despite from gameplays and trailers which we don't know the names of or what they do yet, I will showcase to you a weapon which has itself been upgraded to that legendary status. So we can see this one on screen now. This is a white common weapon this dude is using. Obviously the user has a liked it and the way in which he performs and accumulated the resources to upgrade it to a legendary which you can see on the screen now. This way it's power goes up and you can also apply two mods to it. Amazing. Okay so now we have weapons which are just too incredible looking not to be legendos. So first up we have this beast. I have no idea what it is but rocking those elephant tusks at the front. It sure as heck looks like a beast. The one on the left of this video we see some insane looking pirate kind of shotgun. Look at that cannon on the front of it. Looks on another level for sure. And we see it again right here where it's accompanied by another incredible looking weapon we don't yet know the name of or what it does. We then see this outstanding looking. Well I first thought it was a sniper but I actually think this is a shotgun. Again we have no idea what this thing is called or what it does but I bet it's pretty badass. Next guys we have three legendos this player is using. Now I don't know if these are upgraded but I'm certain this one here is not and is a unique legendary as we see within this other snippet where it's pulsating with an amazing looking aura and slight electricity. But yeah guys there we have it the stash of legendos I could find footage on. But let's not end the video there I just want to quickly mention how amazing the customization is in terms of upgrading weapons in this game and I think you all love this. So the legendos we have covered today all have unique legendary mods exclusive to those legendos right? Well if you dismantle that legendary for instance say you find a better version later on so you dismantle the older version you actually learn that specific mod exclusive to that legendary weapon. What you can do is then guys apply that same mod to another legendary weapon so that one legendary weapon can rock two incredible mods offering the best of two incredible legendos. I mean how cool is that? You all know it's badass. And there we have it guys. All the legendos I could find footage on and what we've seen so far and I hope you enjoyed the video. And on that note we have come to the end. If you did enjoy leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here want to see more outriders be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I'll see you on that next one.


Alright Eggheads, this is Agent Theron Sherman, and today's briefing is on SCP-4019. Let's get down to business. Item Number- SCP-4019 Object Class- Euclid Special Containment Procedures As the theory which is diametrically opposed to the anomalous effects generated by SCP-4019 has been accepted as fact by the scientific community, suppression of information surrounding SCP-4019 has been deemed a medium-low priority. Two subunits of Mobile Task Force IO-7, codenamed Caduceus, have been assigned to monitor published studies regarding human anatomy for SCP-4019's effects. Affected studies are to be altered such that all instances of SCP-4019 are removed and then republished. Description SCP-4019 is a substantial disagreement within the field of anatomy over the amount of orifices present on the human body. The majority of anatomical scientists have concluded that humans possess seven openings. Two openings within the nasal canals. Two openings within the ear canals. One opening within the mouth. One opening within the anal canal. One opening within the urethra. However, studies which involve the examination of a cadaver for the purposes of disproving this conclusion universally result in the discovery of two additional orifices. These instances are located on the upper chest and forehead, and allow direct access to the right ventricle and cerebral cortex, respectively. It's noted that effective studies often state that a thin flap of fat and skin covers these openings, preventing blood loss. Addendum 4019-1 Discovery Log SCP-4019 was first noted by Dr. Masood Konstantini, a now retired surgeon and pathologist. In a study entitled, Autopsy Verified Adnormalities within the cleavage lines of the male and female human body. In it, Konstantini states that the walls of the openings possess markings which are similar to those present in the scars of patients which have undergone surgery. In an unearthed entry of their personal journal, Konstantini elaborated on this observation. Quote, The scarring was present in every cadaver, and was visually distinct. It was as if these individuals possessed two small foreign objects within their bodies and, sometime before, during, or after their deaths, they had been forcefully removed.


Oui, vous voyez nous, nous sommes là. Oui, nous avons vu un peu. C'est juste une grande salle. Ok. Alors, Milo va parler de cette session de Paris. C'est un set-up de la technologie haute. Parce que c'est un set-up de cette session. Alors, Milo, je serai là. Je serai juste un mec, un micro-carrier. Donc, je passerai le micro à tout le monde pour les questions. Mais vous êtes le boss. Ok, merci beaucoup Jean. Merci tout le monde d'avoir regardé. C'est un chien. Je n'ai pas été avec vous. J'espère que je serai capable de vous joindre dans les prochains jours. Alors que le temps est allé. Mais ok, donc cette session va être sur les applications d'application qui peuvent être rélevées pour la science en général. Et ici, la première session, la première session va être donnée par J. Howlong, qui est venu de l'Université du Président. Récording in progress. Ok, ok. Could you help me? Yes. Ok, ok. Thank you. Hello everyone. Thanks for your invitation from organizers. I want to talk about my recent work with J. Howlong, about the reinforcement in the production of Hilbert space. Reinforcement is algorithm, with a huge size in goal, video games and robotics. For unizing powerful functions automations like kernel or neural networks, the practical reinforcement can deal with programs with a huge space space and high dimension. However, with existing theoretical works, mainly focus on typology, in which both space space and action space are finite. And the sum of complexity is proportional to the size of the state action pairs. To explain the practical exercise of reinforcement and the power of function optimization, we will consider the reinforcement with kernel function optimization in this talk. Let's begin with a short introduction to the reinforcement program. Reinforcement is considered with how to maximize expected combinatorial rewards in a more competition process. This talk will focus on the timely homogeneous case or the episodic amount competition process. In this case, the length of the MDP is finite and the reward function and the transient probability vary from different time steps. An episodic MDP consists of six components. A state space S and action space A and initial distribution mu, the episodic length H transition probability P and the reward function R. L'enmer�� est���able. Qu'est-ce qui nousomme si ça nousætre en parlant de la fenêtre ? Je masique Je vois. Je dois vous dire une question. Je suis désolé pour la communique. Ne t'inquiète pas. Si on peut faire mieux, c'est bon. Mais si c'est trop compliqué, on va y arriver. Ne t'inquiète pas. Pour nous, c'est bon. OK. Donc, vous pouvez y aller. Bonjour. Ça va bien? On vous écoute bien. OK, merci beaucoup. OK. So, the transition probability gave the distribution of the next state, I sub h plus 1, with given state I sub h and option A sub h, and time step h. Rural function r gives the expected reward at the edge, I sub h and A sub h. The exact form of the first transition probability and the reward functions are unknown to us. But we can connect samples from them with any given state action purpose. We need to decide a policy which gives the distribution of action at any given time edge state I sub h to maximize the total reward. We denote the declaratory reward of an MDPM with a policy pie as J of M and I. Here, I sub h and A sub h are generated by the transition probability p, initial distribution mu, and the policy pie. We then use rho sub h, p, pie, and mu to denote the distribution of I sub h and A sub h generated in this way. Our goal is to find the optimal reward of J star and the optimal policy pie star through finite samples. So, we introduce the reward using corner helper space, which is closely related to the corner function optimization. Given a positive definite corner k on S times A, we can introduce the archival function h sub k as a combination of all possible linear combinations of k sub x i under the so-called archival norm. According to that, our goal is to answer when a reinforcement program can be solved by corner function optimization. We are mainly focused on high-dimensional problems and the sample complexity. Our complexity, like computational complexity, is not conserved here. Although it's hard to start the reference learning with corner function optimization, the theoretical results of supervised learning with corner function optimizations are well known. So, for any k function f, line in an archival stress h and the efficient distribution nu, one can efficiently obtain estimate h f using corner function optimization so that h f and f is close with respect to L2 norm on the distribution nu. Note that the sample complexity of the supervised learning program does not suffer from conserved functionality. You know it was mainly the reward function plays a similar role with the target function in supervised learning. This motivates us to study a more concrete question if the reward function lies in an archival stress. What is the condition of the archival stress and the transition probability to ensure that the reinforcement problem can be solved efficiently? Compared to supervised learning, reinforcement learning is more difficult due to the distribution mismatch from the phenomena. Here we take the Q-value estimation as an example. The optimal Q-value function is the optimal expected to reward from the time step edge to the end if the state and action at the time step edge is just s and a. The optimal policy is known to be the gradient policy of the optimal Q-value function. Now, if we have an estimation of Q star, so that the actual distance is more under a pavement distribution nu, then what about the performance of the gradient policy of hq? We can use the famous performance difference dilemma as you can say that the difference between Q star and hq is assumed to be small under the distribution nu and the difference between hq and hq can be found by 1. The question is that in this inequality we involve this distribution those sub h, p, hq and nu. But we don't know the hq before we estimate the Q-hat. Because the Q-hat is just the gradient point of the hq so we need a force to have the hq then hq. So it's impossible to make the probability distribution nu for estimation under the distribution low of h, p, hq and nu the same. We call this phenomena in the analysis of the overall difficulties brought by distribution mismatch we will introduce the computational complexity by distribution mismatch The core idea is that although we cannot access to the distribution low of hq, p, hq we know that this distribution is the action distribution of the MDP generated by a policy. Hence if we can find the difference between Q star and hq under all state action distribution generated by all policies on the performance difference To refer this idea we introduce the perturbation response by distribution mismatch as follows First, for any set pi of probability distribution on s times a we define a same norm called pi norm on the continuous function space on s time flow but as the maximum compensatory variable of hq under the distribution low chosen from pi Second, given a general analysis space and a positive constant epsilon greater to 0 a probability distribution nu belongs to a probability distribution nu on s and s times b we can define the distributional space with k epsilon as b sub epsilon and nu which is just the function space with the function whose b norm is bounded by 1 and l2 norm is bounded by epsilon This is a multivit that we are super learning in architecture we can efficiently obtain an estimation of the target function so that the difference is bounded and small on the l2 norm Finally, the perturbational response by distribution mismatch is just the radius of b sub epsilon and nu We then gave some examples of the perturbational response First, if pi only consists of the distribution nu the perturbational compensates can be bounded by epsilon This means that without distribution mismatch the perturbational response is very small second, if pi consists of all distributions on s times a then the pi norm becomes l infinity norm which is used to handle the distribution mismatch phenomena in tableaux rl However, the estimation with respect to l infinity norm in architecture may suffer from cause of dimensionality which is the main difficulty for rl in architecture compared to tableaux rl In the definition, we can say that the scale of perturbational compensates may use the discrepancy between nu and pi and reflects the error due to the fact that we don't know the state-accueil distribution on the policy of nu We then define the reinforcement problem by simplifying the prior knowledge of mdp So we want to solve an rl program whose underlying mdp belongs to a family of mdp and we know the exact form of the family m but we don't know the exact value of the data In mdp, all mdp show the same state space, action space mass and initial distribution In this talk, we already consider the case that the index side is the partition product of the index side of the reward function and the index side of the transient probability which means that there are prior knowledge for the transient probability of the function independent In the part of a law bound we assume that the reward function lies in the unit of all of a general of a space while in the part of a bound we assume that the reward function lies in the unit of all of an arc address with a kernel k Finally, we can assist to a generative simulator which means that for any edge and the state-action pile we can observe a state variable from mdp sub-theta conditional from edge, s and a and the noise reward which equals to r of edge s and a plus standard Gaussian distribution This is called one access to a simulator So, a generally infrascining algorithm can be viewed as a mapping from theta to a real number as an estimator of the optimal value of m sub-theta The following form ensures that this algorithm already depends on all accesses to the simulator Each time, we choose a state-action table based on values data then access to simulator to get the next state and noise reward corresponding to the table and put them into a dataset Finally, we compute an estimate of the total reward based on the whole data Here the variable denotes the randomness of this algorithm Our goal is to find the best algorithm which minimise what's the case error with respect to the state In our paper, it comes to two cases one is a simple case called the law in transition case in which we know the transition probability and hence the exact site of the transition probability only equals 0 Another case is a general case in which we don't know the transition probability and the exact site is a general site So, due to time limitations I can only discuss the normal transition case in today and you can find the general the results of general cases in our paper Or, we always use pi of hp and nu to denote all possible distributions of state-action panel on the transition probability p and the initial distribution mu The pi of p and mu refers to the union of pi on different times type We define the perturbation of complexity by the distribution mismatch of an MDP family M in the case of law in transition by just the replaying pi by pi of p sub 0 and mu the site of all possible state-action distributions and they take even more choices of the estimate distribution mu We show that the perturbation of complexity of M is a law bound of the work case error of all possible reinforcement algorithms with n samples Therefore, this result shows that the sum of complexity of the reinforcement programs on the MDP family M is related to the decay rate of the perturbation of complexity with respect to epsilon To get an up bound based on the same quantity which reduces the fatal reward algorithm These algorithms we first find the distribution head mu which minimise the perturbation complexity and then I had the sample M square points from the head cube I actually times type the access to the noise rewards on these points We then estimate the reward function and this times type a simple connex regression The output of this algorithm is just the optimum point with respect to head M sub theta which just replace the reward function in M theta by the estimated reward function Our law shows that the performance difference can be again bounded by the perturbation of complexity Notice that the sample size in the up bound part is M square but in the lower bound part our lower bound and up bound are not matched and they are still removed for improvement Finally, we discuss some properties of perturbation response and perturbation complexity and application of all results If we can find a distribution mu the derivative of all distributions in pi which is 1-2 mu have uniformly bounded Lp log which correspond to the perturbation of complexity or perturbation of response Decay is fast This is called a concentration coefficient assumption in the literature of the learning theory Hence, under such assumption we can recover the common results in the literature through our up bound Another common assumption in the literature used to prove convergence of reference algorithms with connex function optimization is that the perturbation of all probability distributions is closely related to the eigenvalue decays Since the perturbation complexity of all probability distributions is the largest of the perturbation complexity of all probability distributions we can conclude that the perturbation of response to K5 for any distribution inside pi On the other hand the right side of the force in your quote is as slow as possible and one can consider the hard reinforcement problem by making the side of all possible state by making the side of all possible state action distributions in MEP closer to the side of all probability distribution So, one can conclude that when eigenvalue decays fast we can expect a variable performance of reinforcement algorithms because of the perturbation of complexity decays fast But, like a variable decay is slow like in the large publishing column and the real tangent column on high-dimensional sphere the low bound the low bound in the force in the quote decays very slow In this case, the knowledge of pi plays a vital role A direct application is that if the state space is just a single point and h equals to 1 then the reinforcement problem is essentially to find the maximum value of the reward function lying in a unable of architecture based on value of endpoints So, due to this due to the hardness of this question in real RL if we need to handle high-dimensional action space we need to assume the decay of eigenvalue is fast to break the cost of attentionality Ok To conclude the distribution of complexity by distribution mismatch gives a low bound for the error of error algorithm on the considerably important algorithm a very important problem In the case of non-translation the prohibition of complexity also gives an outbound of the error on the space that reward them In the case of unknown transition as we are now covering the cost in our paper with an additional assumption of an outbound for the error of the so-called fetch-recruiter algorithm and all results used with the prohibition of complexity generalize the existing results for faster convergence based on the assumption of the final contribution or faster algorithm value decay Finally, in our paper we give a concrete example in which the reward functions lying in a high-dimensional architecture The action space is finite but the cross-bounding reinforcement can be no sovereign result of the finite So, due to time limitations I cannot draw this example into detail but you can find this example in our paper Ok, thank you for your attention Thank you Joe So, we cannot hear the claps if we can see the claps from where we are So, are there any questions in the audience and here I will ask my fellow organizers to relay what's going on in the audience I'm on it Ok, there are no direct Hello, hello, can you hear me? Thank you very much for the talk I was wondering if there is any way around the course of dimensionality and if you could give us a little intuition of the concrete example that you mentioned Ok, ok So, this one right So, the interesting is that as I say the put, so this term can be very, can be taken very slow in the condo like the Russian condo or your Tanya condo So, what can you castrate in an example like the side of all probably all the action distribution is very close to the distribution of the all distributions as times day So, in the sense the lower bound is very close to the system and in the system for the course as your Tanya condo or the Russian condo starts from a course of internet so by this way we will improve the quality of that example Is that clear? It is, thanks Any other question? Right, I think on our side it's there is no more question So, maybe I can ask a quick question then So, I mean I'm no expert in reinforcement learning but I think it's a nice study where you can have some theoretical understanding of those complicated learning frameworks and I was wondering from your perspective how far are the assumptions you need to take from practice and whether you see that you can take any more steps closer to practice and retain some analytical conclusions Ok, so basically there are two major jobs of this org, so first is this one we assume the possible transient property or probability of the transient property and the real function So, this may not true in the practice so another thing is that our real function lie in the unible architecture which means that we don't know the real function but in practice in many RL problems we know the real function so in this case, in that case we cannot solve all the results so I guess this is a major job and try to do that ok ok, thank you any more questions in the audience I think we are good thanks a lot again yeah, thanks a good job again welcome and so our next speaker will be Mario


So my presentation it's really about cell phone photography because that's the tool you usually have available to you I find a bit of background I work in a camera store So I sell cameras and I also print pictures. I print cell phone pictures So I see kind of what goes wrong with them a lot But my main point every camera ever has sucked in some way every camera has limitations every photo that has ever been taken as a compromise of some sort so Photography also isn't really just an art anymore. It's a practical thing if you're taking a picture with your cell phone It's not usually because you're feeling stirred by like the creative passion It's because you have a picture you need to take a picture of something you need it for your website You need it for your Instagram you need it for your mom So she knows where you are and knows what's going on because she's gonna want to see it So the best camera you is the best camera people come in all the time and say, you know I need to buy a camera. What's the best camera the best camera is the one you have with you and Can use know how to use and are going to actually get out of your pocket and use if you have a giant SLR Rig that's sitting in your bag like mine is it's not doing you any good so Addressing the limitations of cameras most of these I had to admit I'm sort of cheating. These are just pictures that I've taken None of them are with cell phone cameras Most of what you can like there's things you can do with cell phone cameras There's limitations just like with everything the first limitation is light cell phone cameras really suck in low light But every camera does so what you want to do is maximize the light you have available to you Sometimes they have flashes. They're not going to reach very far get closer to the thing You're taking a picture of move it next to the window do what you can Second thing is motion see that I'm using someone else's flash went off. I took a picture. It was lucky But you have to be aware of things like that try to take advantage of it when it happens I tend to have this obsession with with photographing things that are in a horrible light So my entire life as a photographer has been dedicated to making the best of a really crappy situation This is the golf dome in Henrietta. It's awful Sometimes you get good light take a picture You don't you want to avoid backlit subjects usually you need some fill light So that's what a flash can be for or just reposition your subject Your next enemy is motion a little motion blur can be really cool in a picture like there's a motion blur That's neat. They're moving you can tell they're moving cool But the problem is if you're if you have camera shake Then it wrecks the picture. It doesn't look like anything a little camera shakes. Okay, you can see I wasn't holding it Totally steady, but if it's too shaky you've ruined the picture So what you need to focus on it's controlling your motion brace your arm use the camera self-timer Or it's like what I've found is hitting the button always moves the camera and wrecks the picture So you got to try like this one. There's a bunch of camera shake, but there's a lot more motion blur. It's more interesting that way Those things are on fire that girl was crazy. I Also was probably drunk but Sometimes the motion blur I'm moving the camera with the moving subject. So she's clear and nothing else is So you can try things like that You also like if you brace your finger just above the touch screen on your cell phone sometimes you can get it to go off Without shaking it, but the self-timer is the coolest thing and the other thing is to control your distance Try to frame the picture in a more pleasing fashion because most cell phone cameras The other thing they suck at is zoom no matter where you are you're either too far away or so close The darn thing won't focus so pay attention to your focus. This one actually was using a remote flash You can't really see because there's a thing anyway You can't do that with cell phones, but you can do that effect with another light So you could try things like that you can get creative if you want, but you're probably not doing this for art You're probably doing it for practical purposes, but try changing your angle getting low get closer to the thing Whatever you're taking a picture of get like if it's a kid get down on the level try to get a picture like that So you can get everything you want in the picture, but not have it so far away. You can't tell what's going on So anyway, most of the really fancy aspects of art photography aren't available in most cameras Like if you're a little point-and-shoot, but it's easy to use and if you use it a bunch You can get the hang of using it and get better results So just because you can't do really fancy stuff with the remote flashes or super fast shutter speeds or super high ISOs Doesn't mean you can't take a meaningful photo and again my point that I was starting with to see that was low I got a lot of gravel on my knees with the shot The point is that you can still get a photo that is useful for your purposes and occasionally you can make some sort of accidental art too So anyway They're on Delaware Avenue


Governor Mark Dayton says he'd veto a bill that would kickstart construction of a crude oil pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota. The years-long review process for the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is nearing its conclusion. The Public Utilities Commission approved the final environmental review of the pipeline replacement earlier this month. But House Republicans say approval of the energy company's project hasn't come fast to no. House committee passed a bill Tuesday night that would authorize construction immediately. It could come up for a final vote in the coming weeks. Dayton promised on Wednesday that he would veto that legislation. He calls it a politically motivated bill that would trample the state's regulatory process. I will oppose anything that will compromise or in this case destroy that integrity of the Public Utilities Commission and that review process. And this one is just ridiculous. I mean just to say we're going to take it over and just say Enbridge can do whatever they want and it's approved, I mean that doesn't take us back to the 20th century, that takes us back to the 19th century. The Public Utilities Commission is set to decide on approving the project in June. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Okay, so thank you for the introduction. I have to apologize in advance. Hopefully you can all hear me okay. You won't be able to see my less than beautiful face because webcam issues on Chrome, this is my work computer and we're not authorized to install the Zoom client app on work computers. So forgive me for that. So instead, Mike is gonna co-pilot my presentation for me, he's screen sharing it right now. And then I'll just ask him, I'll say next slide every time I want Mike to go next. And I think we should be able to get through it okay. If you're dying to know what I look like anyway, just you saw the picture ahead of time. So that's a good enough one. I'm the only Gabe Hall me on the internet. So if you wanna reach out to me, you should be able to find me. I also have, I think my contact info at the end. So stay tuned for that. Look, I work for AWS, Amazon Web Services. If you all are new devs, you might not, well, you probably know of it, but you might not have a lot of experience with it. So this talk is just kind of some of my favorite tips that I share with everybody about working with AWS, whether you're brand new or you've been using it for years, everybody I share this deck with learn something new and they thank me for it. So I hope it can make your life better. And like I said, even if you are not into AWS at all, there's some concepts in here that will help you no matter what you do and there's some fun history lessons. So with that, let's take it away and I will try my best to keep it to around 25 minutes. We'll see how well I do there. And then I, if you have any questions, why don't we do questions at the end that way I can gauge the time of the presentation better. Okay, next please. So as builders, what do we want? Well, I would assert that we want powerful and flexible tooling and what we build when we build it, we want to be able to observe the systems that we make and measure them to understand how they're behaving. And of course we do this in this virtuous cycle of building and observing and building and observing as quickly as possible so that we can learn and iterate and make whatever we're building better. And so I'm gonna try and share tips around these three themes with you. Next slide please. So this is a little bit of a quiz. I think everyone, most people on the call are a little bit shy. So I'll just, I'll do rhetorical questions here. I'm wondering if anybody knows what this machine is, if you do without looking at the Wikipedia credit at the bottom, then points for you. Next slide please. For those of you who don't know, it's a teletype model 33 and this is a device that's, this particular model is from 1963. So back in the day, you know, before we would program into, you know, write text and computer screens to program computers, we would type into machines and the first teletypes were actually made to do Morse code long distances or to replace Morse code rather with telegraphic machines. So there'd be two of these machines hooked up together over a network and you type the keys on one and it would print on you in front of you and the same signal would go over the wire and print onto the machine it was connected to. And so it was a great way to exchange messages quickly back and forth. I know, what if you got a typo, right, Jimmy? So that's exactly right. You just have to keep on typing back in the day that was just send only, right? There was no buffer or anything like that or line editing even. But that's how it all started. And so that sort of paved the way for us typing onto a machine that looks like kind of a keyboard in order to do some interactions with people. The next evolution then was to interact with computers. So next slide, please. So next came this, Multix. Does anybody know what Multix is? If you do, again, another point for you. You can, we can keep score and ask for who got a lot of points at the end. I didn't know what it was till I started doing research for this, this is my favorite part about doing talks. Next slide. So this is an operating system. Now, some fun facts here, okay? In 1964, so we're talking only one year after that teletype Model 33 was made, a man named Louis Poussin coined the term shell or computer shell when he was thinking about, it didn't exist yet really, but he was thinking about a interactive command line interface to talk to computers where you would type commands in and get results back. He was thinking about this, but he hadn't even made it yet. Now, a year later, a woman, and I always like to prep or voice for awesome women in computing, this is one of the lesser known women, her name was Glenda Schroeder. So a year after Louis Poussin had the idea for a shell, Glenda Schroeder at MIT writes the first thing that we would consider an interactive shell while she was at MIT in Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an operating system called Multix, which was one of the first multi-user operating systems. Now, she also actually helped build what many people would consider the first version of email, but it wasn't email for machines connected to each other. The idea was you would write email to local inboxes on a shared computer. So I could send messages to you as long as we were working on the same host in a multi-user fashion. But still, a predecessor for the network demo that we know and use today, we can thank Glenda for that as well. Now, that's all well and good. So a year after we were typing into teletypes, someone thought about a CLI to talk to connect these, something like this to a computer. A year later from that, Glenda builds the first interactive shell. And now if we advance forward just a few more years, next slide, we get this. Next slide again. Points, if you knew what this was, this is a data point 3300. So this is also called like a glass TTY or terminal, terminal displays. This is one of the first and most popular computer terminals, what we sometimes people call them a dumb terminal, where you would have a screen instead of a piece of paper in front of you, but it was modeled very much after the teletype machines. So this is 69, it's only a few years after interacting with computers. Before that, now we've got pretty much, if you squint, it's exactly like what we used today, where we type into terminal emulators and our shells to get work done. Next slide. So there's a history about CLIs and how we kind of got to where we were today in three broad jumps. But why do we love the CLIs developers? Well, because it gives us the ability to do things fast. We can compose commands together, right? It's clear to some extent. If you are familiar with the commands, then if you know them, then when you read them, you can kind of understand what it does. It expresses the intent very well, rather than telling me, click here, click there, click this, right? A command will do that for you. And finally, they're repeatable. We can put these CLI commands into scripts and run them. And I think that's why they're, it's still such a beloved tool for us as developers for all of these reasons. So next slide. I'm gonna do a demo for you now of the CLI, the command line interface tool that we have for AWS. And next slide again. And then I think if you just do next one more time, it will play or click the button, that's fine too. Yep, whatever you want. Okay, so this is a quick demo. I'm gonna show off some commands using S3, our simple storage service. So the first thing I'm gonna do is make a bucket. That's like a place where you can put files on Amazon web services. And we can see here now I can write a different command, the S3 API sub command to list the buckets. I'm gonna make a few here just to show off some of the features of the command line. And when you're making S3 buckets, I have to have globally unique names. So I'm just making some really long names here for the purpose of illustrating some points. And so I've made three buckets. And now if I run that list buckets command again, I'm actually seeing all the buckets I've made in the cloud just from running those commands. Now every command in AWS, you can change the output to see it as text instead of JSON. You can also see it as a table if you like with the CLI, which is pretty nice. Now what's pretty cool also is being able to take the same thing and do some filtering too. But first what I'll do is I'll show you my favorite feature of the CLI actually. So I'm just gonna make a little mini file system here with a few folders and files. They're gonna be empty files, but it doesn't matter for the purpose of this demo. We're gonna make some folders, make some files inside those folders. And what we'll do is we're gonna sync our local file system directory up with an S3 bucket. This is super useful if you just wanna like back up a folder really quickly, even recursively. So this is what the structure looks like if the folder structure I've created. So now we can just say I want to pick a bucket. Let's pick this one. I'll copy that. And I'm gonna say sync, synchronize my local file system. So this current folder with the dot with this particular S3 bucket and boom, it will sync it all. Now obviously the files were not, they didn't have anything in them, they were empty, but it still is really damn fast. And if we add some more files and we look at our file system again, and now we run our sync command again, it's only gonna sync up what's new. So it's also smart enough to look at the bucket and figure what was already there and what do I need to do to put things there. You can also go the other way. You can pull from the bucket down. And we can use the LS command now to see that we've actually got content in the bucket. So everything you could do with the AWS web browser, sorry, the AWS management console on your browser if you're familiar with that, you can also do from the command line and that can be really, really comforting. So at the end there, I just cleaned up the bucket. But what you might not know is that if you have files in the bucket, AWS is like, no, I don't want you to delete this. So instead you can say dash, dash, force and it will actually clear out all the files in the bucket for you. So a super handy trick to empty a bucket if you really, really want to from the command line. Okay, next slide. A lot of people don't know about synchronizing. So that's, oh, I don't know why it's playing that again. Can you go next, Mike? Okay, cool. And just one other fancy thing to show. So you can really take the AWS command line and compose the commands. So this is a shell script that will, if you know AWS then you might know that for security purposes you can have these things called roles and roles have policies associated with them and the policies say what a particular principle can or cannot do in an AWS account. But you can't delete a role if there's policies attached to it. So similar to how you can't delete a S3 bucket if there's files in it. So we can use different commands to list all the roles and then for every role, I'm going to get all the policies attached to that role and then for every policy attached to that role I can detach the policy from the role and then I can delete the role. So you can see how you can compose these things together for pretty powerful stuff. Yes, AWS also has a web management console you can log into. You don't have to use the CLI. I just think that people shun the CLI at first but it's actually quite powerful. I don't recommend starting with the CLI but as you start interacting with the web interface more you might want to do some things programmatically or just from the command line sometimes. So it's good to know that you can't and that's why I wanted to show it. Okay, next slide. Another really cool thing is something called the AWS console recorder. Now this is also a video but in the interest of time I'm not going to play this one, we'll skip it but don't go through the next slide just yet Mike. Hold on a second. I'll just tell you guys, what this, if you're interested in this idea this is a browser extension you can install that will watch what you do in the AWS web console while you're clicking around in the web interface. It records it all and then it can output everything you did as the command line interface equivalents. It can output them as Terraform scripts as AWS cloud formation scripts as Python troposphere scripts. So it's an amazing way to say if I want to learn how to build some infrastructure as code if you're into that but you don't, you want to start by figuring out what all the parameters are do it in the console, record interactions and then dump that out with this tool. So if that sounds like something you might be interested in I just wanted to put that in front of you and say go learn more about it, it's really cool. If you use AWS you will love this. If you don't, it's not as interesting to you so I don't want to spend more time on it. Okay, next slide. So again, some other tips for you. There's how you can install the CLI for AWS that's that first link. There's an alternative community based CLI called SAWS or supercharged AWS. It's got some other fancy bells and whistles like some cool cloud resource auto completion and things like that.  Finally, the console recorder and then another tool by the same creator links are there. So the other one there, former two, it does the opposite. Sorry that you all should have a dot before the dot com. That's the typo, just added that in today. But former two does the opposite of what console recorder does. So former two says, I already have some cloud resources I made in AWS and now I want to know what the scripts are to recreate them. So it can look at your existing infrastructure and make scripts from it. It's super cool. Okay, let's move on. Next slide please. More quiz time now. So this is a really cool picture. And I wonder if anybody can recognize what's going on here. Some guys using a pen pointing at a screen. Next slide. This is a piece of software called Sketchpad which pretty much everybody will agree is the first program to ever use a graphical user interface or GUI. So that's an amazing piece of history right there. And that's in 1962, 63. So just around that time, depending on who you ask or when you're gonna consider the program finished. So that's really neat that you, some people were really at the cutting edge back in even 62 drawing on computer screens to do some simple computer aided design kind of like drafting and architectural work. Next slide please. Okay, I wonder if this is getting, we're getting a little bit more modern here. So I wonder if anybody recognizes this. Next slide. This is a screenshot from Smalltalk 76. So Smalltalk is cool and all of us as devs would probably have a special place in our heart for Smalltalk even if you've never used it. Smalltalk is widely regarded as being one of the first really object oriented languages. And it had its own IDE that you could use to write Smalltalk code in. But what was so cool is that the entire user interface, this whole IDE was also written in Smalltalk. So you could customize your own IDE with your own Smalltalk code for writing Smalltalk programs super ahead of its time. And really not that long ago in 1979. So pretty, pretty cutting edge stuff. Now, it's actually not a big leap from 1979 to what we have next. So next slide. This is, it's not gonna look that much different, right? We got windows and we got text in those windows and we can do things. So it's just like Smalltalk let you get in and debug your programs and look in the insights into them in real time. Next slide. We can do the same thing now with the code we write on our computers. And that's no surprise, right? I think we've all done some debugging before. But what you might not know is that we have tooling in place to make working with things like Lambda functions, which is code that you run in the cloud without having to provision a computer. You can do that on AWS and you can even debug that kind of that stuff locally on your machine as well with some tooling that we have. So next slide. Also in the interest of time, next slide. I'm not going to demo this one for you right now. I'm just gonna tell you if you, or I think here, go to the next slide, Mike. I'll talk about it on this next one. And one more. So thank you. So we have this thing called the AWS toolkit and you can use it in Visual Studio Code if you like VS Code like I do. You can also use it in Python or IntelliJ if you like those IDEs. And it just makes working with AWS really easy, has a lot of cool auto generation for you. You can quickly edit code that you have already uploaded to Lambda functions and things like that. It does local debugging. It's great. Again, this is not an AWS meetup, so I don't want to spend a lot of time on it, but I wanted to put that out to you in case you didn't know, if you like using an IDE, I mean VS Code is where I usually live now for all the code I write. I find the AWS toolkit very useful for all the AWS work that I do. So I want you to just know that it's there. Okay, next slide, please. This one is super, super cool and this is the oldest picture that I have in this deck.  Okay, next slide. Why do I owe you a beer? Because this is, believe it or not, a stone tablet or a clay tablet from somewhere between 3,100 and 3,000 BCE. So a hell of a long time ago when we were using a writing style called Cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing to keep track of things. And we didn't even write on paper back then. Paper came later, right? Paper or the word paper comes from papyrus because we used to take the papyrus read and actually use it to make markings on clay and that's what's going on here, right? So they would take the tip of the papyrus read, they would mark on the clay and they would let that dry and that was like their first version of record keeping, written record keeping, I should say. And what this is, is actually people keeping track, apparently, I don't read Cuneiform, but apparently this is people keeping track of beer, like who owes who beer, not joking. I think this is amazing. So we've come a long way since then. Next slide. Obviously, we figured out paper and we figured out a particular way of writing things down to keep things better in our life. Next slide. So this is an accounting ledger. So this is from 1828, this particular picture. And there's already a lot going on here. So as people here, even in like the 1800s, we figured out we ought to have some structure to what we're writing down. We shouldn't just write things down willy-nilly. It's nice to have some format, right? We've got columns here. We did the same type of data as in each of those columns, like it's names or it's the money and figuring out who's owing, who what. So this is just the evolution in the Cuneiform tablet with a little bit more organization behind it. And similarly, something that we can do now in the modern era, next slide, is take that one step further and instead of having to manually tally things together, like in a paper log, we can, next slide, we can analyze log files with computers. And this is like, you know, that's not maybe such an a-ha thing, but there's some strategy to it. So we'll come back and I'll show you a quick demo of this, but let's go to the next slide and I wanna talk about a concept first. So the concept is called structured logging. So if you're a new developer, this may be a new idea for you, but if we compare these two examples I have here, right? The first one is only good for humans. We can say, I've got a timestamp, then I've got the log level, and then I've got a message. User Gapol and me completed order one, two, three for total three, one, three, three, seven, right? Awesome, it gets the job done. And that's the kind of logs that we might write when we're just building out our system so that if something goes wrong as a human, we can look at it and figure out what happened. It's super useful for debugging. It's a good habit to get into logging, especially with a logging tool, so you can tune what level of logging gets emitted depending on what you're working on, if it's in production or not, if it's on your local machine, you're gonna have a more verbose style messaging. But there's an alternative, right? Look at that second one, for good for humans and machines. It's exactly the same information. It's just presented in a different way. In this case, I just represented it as JSON. Of course, you don't have to use JSON or JavaScript object notation, but if you put some structure into your log messages, then it makes it very easy for computers to do helpful things with them. And if you use a language like JSON, it's sort of self-documenting. Each record says, here's my label value and here's the value for that label. And so it's a really good saying default anyway. It's a bit verbose, but storage is cheap these days. It doesn't cost a lot of money at all for storing log data. So it's not a bad choice when you're just trying to decide how should I represent my structured information in my logs. And so we can do cool things with this, with this concept of structured logging. And that's what I wanna show off really quickly. So if you can go to the next slide, I'm gonna demo a feature that's relatively new to AWS so you might not be aware of it. It's called CloudWatch Logs Insights. Next step, please, next slide. And this is a video too, Mike. So if you can just play this, cool. So I'm gonna open the Amazon CloudWatch. And CloudWatch is the place in the AWS web console and this is the web interface in case you've never seen it before. Where all of your logs go for the things you do on AWS for services that you choose to log in the cloud and not just stay on your local machine or you know whatever VM you're running. And so here I've got a Lambda function. Again, Lambda is our thing that does code running in the cloud without provisioning your own servers. And I can see here, there's even some structured logging here. Now this isn't JSON, but we've got labels and we've got values that are separated by spaces. And so every Lambda function by default, no matter what else you decide to log, will log things like how long it took to execute, how much memory it consumed, et cetera. And now then you can go to this Insights section of CloudWatch Logs and you pick a log group which is like a folder where all the logs for a particular service go. And then we can run queries. So it may be a little blurry here depending on your internet connection here or how the screen sharing is going for Mike, but this is just a very simple query that's saying, I wanna look at this whole log group. I want to show me the average and maximum duration and minimum duration times for the Lambda function from that structured logging, bin it into 10 second chunks or like bins, like a histogram and then show me the data. And then I can interactively explore that data with the mouse to zoom in on data and see what values are there. So this is like, there's a really popular log analysis service called Splunk that you might have heard of. You might, you could think of this like a very lightweight version of Splunk that has some of the basics about what you need, but built right into AWS. And so it's pretty great for just getting started if you don't need all the heavyweight enterprise features and excellent capabilities that Splunk can also give you. So what we can see here is I've got that one data point at the top and then some other ones. That first one would be like my Lambda cold start where the code needed to get warmed up the first time it was executed. But then if I zoom in on the other data points, I can then go back to my graph and I can see a little bit more detail about that graph because we don't have that one outlier now. So I can see how my response times vary depending on what was happening there. So there's a few sample queries that come built in with CloudWatch logs insights. I'm just showing a few of them here for the purpose of getting you inspired. And you can also write your own. So here's another one that looks at the amount of memory that the Lambda function was using and figuring out how much it used on average, how much maximum it was used. And then we can see from that, maybe I've over provisioned, maybe I've selected too much RAM for that Lambda function to use and I can see that and I can chart it if I wanted to. That's probably enough Mike, you can go to the next slide. We don't need to watch all these any more examples for this. So if that seems cool to you and you wanna know how do I do this? How do I use this list CloudWatch logs insights tool? Which by the way only charges you when you use it. It's like a pay per use, right? So it's a feature that's on, it's ready for you to use and you're only gonna pay for the day that you actually analyze for those ad hoc on-demand queries. You can look at these URLs to learn more or just search for CloudWatch logs insights in your favorite search engine. Okay, next please. This is me wrapping up then. So a summary next. CLI is a great, right? If you're not comfortable with the CLIs yet, if you're not, you know, if you're still getting started in the terminal and I think as junior devs, we've all been there and there's always more to learn, right? Like I've been a professional software engineer for 17 years and I still learn new command line and stuff all the time. So it's a lifetime of learning but it's great to start if you haven't yet and I encourage you to get a little bit more comfortable with the command line because it's not just for the stuff you do on your local machine. You can also use it for a lot of different tooling like working with the AWS cloud, for example. Of course, IDEs are really helpful. So don't shy away from them. I was a long time terminal only VIM user and VIM is still great, it's super fast but over time I found that there are a lot of features that show up in IDEs that I do just really enjoy and I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of the editing speed that I had with VIM only in a terminal for some of the added graces that I get in an integrated development environment.  And finally, remember that if you write your logs in a way that will be easy for computers to parse, you will thank yourself later because there will come a time where you will want to analyze data from your logs and that idea may not even occur to you if you didn't start with it because it would have made your job really hard. So if from day one you write your logs in a way that's gonna be easy for computers to analyze, you will future you is gonna say, oh my God, I'm so glad I did that because you'll be able to make really cool graphs and help figure out what problems are a lot easier than having to write custom parsers and figure out what log messages you actually were logging and pull actual useful data out of that. That's it, that's all I wanted to leave you with. I hope that was useful, at least a walk down history lane and maybe also you enjoyed some of the AWS tips too. So thank you for your time and attention. You could be doing a lot with your Thursday night. I know that and I wanna really say, it really means a lot to me that you chose to spend these last 25 minutes with me. So thank you if you wanna keep in touch. I'm the only Gabe Hallaby in the world, as far as I know, I'm Gabe Hallaby on LinkedIn and Twitter, that's the best way too. So maybe we have time for like one or two questions. If anyone has a question, I will just look in the chat now or you can come on with your voice if you wanna ask a question. Okay, well, if nobody wants to ask any questions now, you can find me anytime. I'm always happy to chat. In fact, it's also my job to talk about AWS. So thank you for that. But even if it's not about AWS and you just have weird or fun programming questions, Mike can vouch for this. I do love helping people. So don't be a stranger and reach out if you need anything. And thank you, okay. And thanks to Mike for running my slides. You're amazing. No worries.