the Creative Life, a collaborative production of Think Tech Hawaii and the American Creativity Association. I am your host, Darlene Boyd. And our guest for today is Lynn Kraus. Lynn joins us from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lynn aims to help us to better understand how to navigate through change in our personal and professional lives. She is the Chief Innovation Officer for Brain Based Training and Development Services Incorporated. Lynn, how about we start out by having you give us a quick sketch of why you have chosen Brain Based Training as the integral part of your creativity training services. And then we'll move on and get started with disruptive paradigms of change. All right. I actually, when I worked for the Navy for many years, 25 years, I was introduced to the whole brain model by Ned Herman and started using his work with the Navy. When I left the Navy and for my own company, I just realized how important it was to use whole brain thinking as a foundation for everything I teach, not just change, but whether it's developing high performance teams or conflict management or strategic thinking or creative thinking, that it is really the foundation. And I spent a lot of years with Ned Herman. I was very fortunate before he passed away and he was a mentor with me and worked a lot with me on many of the different applications I developed for using the model in the workplace. Maybe Lynn, we should mention that you came to know each other when you were Executive Director of the American Creativity Association. Yes, Ned was president actually before I was Executive Director and he mentioned the American Creativity Association to me and I became a member and after many years kind of Executive Director for a while. And he was the one who made my connection with American Creativity Association. Maybe we should call it that first slide and look at a quote of his. Yeah, this was back when Ned was president in 1994. Now think about that. 1994 he was talking about change and he said ultimately we humans must accept change not only as inevitable but also as a much needed ingredient in the survival of the species. Without change we risk becoming endangered. History teaches us that the final verdict is change or face extinction. And I think he was ahead of his time on that quote because for us in the field of creativity we were trying to say you do have to think differently. You do have to change the way you think and do processes. But as you know back then we were still going against the tide even in the business community. And so as things went on and change really accelerated. I mean back when he was talking about it we still had what I would call some incremental change where you had some overlap. Something would happen technologically or socially or politically. But now we have ongoing turbulence. There is no more incremental. It's just perpetual overlapping constant change. And back then I think probably in the same years we had George Lan at one of our conferences where he wrote this book Grower Died. And he was talking about and he was talking about how corporations really had to embrace creative thinking in order to survive. But the whole survival mode has changed now because of just the constant overlapping change. And of course with the pandemic now which has driven change down to everybody at the same time across all disciplines. And that now we're really in a mode that I would call change or die. If you can't change you're not going to survive. It's not even about growing. It's about being able to look at what we have and how do we change it and shift it. And so having done organizational change with organizations for a while where you're trying to get people to understand how to drive change, the human element of change, getting them to adapt, teaching them how to drive change through the organization, which is most of the time not successful. The pandemic brought it to the individual. I mean now we all had to change and it required us to really think differently and use the creative process as part of that change. One of the things Ned said, which I thought was quite interesting, he was saying that when you're dealing with change and a lot of people didn't talk about change this way, you're dealing with two processes. One is the change process and the other is the creative process that provides a solution to change. Because you remember that old Einstein quote, if you keep doing the same thing you've always done, you'll get the same result. And that's what was happening. People were trying to implement change, but they were still focused in a very logical linear way of looking at things. So whether it was individuals trying to deal with things that were going on in their lives or even organizations, they were focused on a pretty much logical problem-solving mode to find the solution to the change. And I have a cute little joke that we use because I work with a lot of government organizations. We used to say that are you going to find scapegoats or reorg? That's our little government joke that oh we're going to find scapegoats or reorganization because that's what government used to do. Their solution to every issue was oh we'll do a reorg, we'll restructure everything. And so when you look at creative problem-solving, you're looking at a more risk-taking approach, but you're looking at doing it differently. And so in terms of when we're trying to drive change to find solution, especially with the issues we're dealing with now, whether you're an individual or a company, low resources, limited resources, whether it's money or manpower, and that you have to break out of the way you've done it before. And so with the pandemic, you can just look at some of the solutions that came up, businesses, that now had to rethink how they actually did something. And it kind of reminds me, we both know Edward DeBona from American Creativity also. Well he had a provocation, was one of his big techniques, where you would take a problem and reverse it to find the creative solution. Like an example for our audience would be restaurants that don't serve food, and you would have people brainstorm around it. And of course, I'm living with it. We've lived with restaurants that didn't serve, they delivered, but they didn't serve food. And that's how they got internet cafe and things like that. So what happened for businesses? I didn't think about individuals at home who now had to have school, work, home life, maybe take care of people all in one place. They had to think about, how do I look at this environment that was used for one thing and now make it work for a whole lot of different uses. And that's one of the things he did with that technique. And so amazing if you look at how businesses switched over to all kinds of delivery, crazy things, way to do it. One of my favorite examples about the whole change thing through the pandemic is when I was in New York, to see how these restaurants could take the smallest square footage of outdoor space and create the most amazing little outdoor spaces because in the beginning we were all eating outside. And you know, even in Philadelphia here, I think it might have been 35 degrees and we're sitting outside with heaters, with you know, hoods and muffins. Yeah, while we're eating, because originally nobody wanted to go back in the restaurants and they weren't open. Lynn, your mention of New York is reminding me. Sadly, we remember when New York had a crime problem and then things turned around and then we felt very safe. Those of us, we lived in Philadelphia, we knew we could live in New York very safely. But now every day we're hearing the crime reports and it seems as you of course highlight the pandemic as many of our guests do at this point. How do we regain control during major change? Every day as you point out, we feel like we're spinning and don't know what's going to wake up to the next day. So how do we get that control back? Yeah, and as you said, major change has to do with loss of control. Because you know, change is on a continuum as well. You know, you can have like a minor change that just requires some personal adjustment. You can have a major change that's significant disruption to what you expect in your expectations. And people could accommodate the change, maybe not really easily, but they could accommodate it. Then we have traumatic shock and change, which is kind of what we're going through now. So in order to, you have to create what we call predictability, you have to help people know what's coming when you're driving change, when you're trying to manage through change. So the greater the loss of control, the more major the change is.   So this is where, especially with New York, because it seems like, especially with crime, everybody wants to focus on what happened, how it was better. What was the solution 20 years ago? What was, you know, what could be the solution? And really, it's a systematic thing that they have to really relook at. Now, do I have the answer to that? No, but it would require creative thinking that would let people look past those logical structures of, oh, we could arrest people, we could do this, we can maybe provide shelters, we could do this, we could do that. So, you know, we always have that great saying in creativity, there's always more than one right answer. True. And there's always multiple answers, but that what happens is people get really rooted when they're trying to come up with some solution into some kind of logical kind of way to look at it. And it seems like you're about to suggest some adaptation resources. I mean, don't we have to, oh yeah, and what, yeah, in terms of adapting. And I just, one of the things too, and I just want to say this about change, that people think that crisis drives change, that if we're in crisis, we're going to have change, not necessarily, and I'll just throw this out, that 90% of binary, coronary, binary patient, of bypass patients, when they command and the doctor tells them they need to have a change in lifestyle, according to John Hopkins study, 90% don't change their lifestyle. So, but think about it, that's a major life crisis. And then sometimes, and this goes back to the fear will drive change, but not necessarily either. You need a compelling vision. So when I say compelling vision, that's part of like, what do we see as the big picture solution? And that when you say compelling vision that the fear is, is the compelling part? No, I think people need a vision of not the fear out of the fear. Yeah, in other words, what does the like, I'll use your New York example before we go to capacity, but what does, what does, what does the city look like when we crime is not an issue? What's that big picture? What's the vision of that? And then we can then look it back to see what we have to do to, to make the change. But it's like, there has to be something bigger out there. The other thing that's so important is that people have mindsets. And this is what really affects most of everything going on in that you have this mindset and it doesn't matter what the facts are. Facts do not affect your mindset. And so we reject those facts that don't fit our mindset. And that has to do with change and with many things. And so that a lot of our mindsets are also have to do with the way we process and see data. And so that we all see the same data, but maybe process it differently. And so then, then we start to see all that data that way. And so in order to get past that, to move into some things that look at how do we, you know, do some adoption to change? Those are some major things that have to occur up front.  Because change is so overlapping. We have one of the things that affects us is called adoption resources. What's our capacity to absorb all this change? I mean, every day it's something, whether it's the price of gas went up now, I can't get what I need at my supermarket. My kids are screaming in the next room while I'm trying to have a conference call for work. I can't go to work because we're not open, whatever it is a whole range of things. So what happens is we're like, if you think of us like a sponge, and what happens is this change, all this change is pouring in. Remember, it's all overlapping. Some of it could be from your personal life. Some of it could be from your business life. Some of it could be because you're in a volunteer organization or your caretaker or whatever it is. So you have, you basically all have one brain, even though we have all different roles in life. But as what's happening is change, it's pouring it, pouring it, pouring it in. So what's the only thing we can do if we keep pouring it? What would be the two things we could do to stop that? What's the two things we could do to help us with change resources? Bring it out. Bring out what we have in there or stop pouring it in. Now, what happens is, whether it's organizations or we're an individual, what most people don't do is try to look at are there things I can stop pouring in? In other words, here's all these things I have to do. Maybe I have to find ways to have other people do it, change what I'm doing. One of the things I say is detach from it. Sometimes we have emotional connections to tasks that we do, and we don't want to let them go. And so sometimes you have to detach. We have to reinvent. We have to delegate. But we have to find a way to look at what we're doing and saying, okay, what things are going. So when you talk about the sponge, and it's an excellent example that we all can follow, sponge is coming all different sizes. So we're not equal in the capacity as individuals as personalities to absorb change. So how? Okay, right. Yes. And what role does our, do our emotions play in dealing with change? Okay, so I'll take one at a time.  But we do have everybody has different capacity. It might be my capacity for change within my family structure, within my work structure, me as individually. And that people, there are some people who resilience is something that we talk about. And what's resilience here? I'm going to give an example. Here's my rubber band.  Now, obviously, at some point, the rubber band will break. So when people are more resilient, they can bounce back faster. What happens with change is that when you have too much change, too much stuffs in that sponge, what happens is you become dysfunctional.  Just you get tired, you get fatigued. And so that's what happens when people have too much going on. Resilient people can absorb larger amounts of that and still stay functional. But everybody has that breaking point. You can't stretch a rubber band forever. And is that why, not because of the rubber band, but why are people more resilient than others? Is it in their past history? Something that... Okay. And one of the things we know about resilient people is resilient people tend to be, have a more positive view towards the change. They have a clear vision of what they're trying to do. They also can be organized around ambiguity. So all the stuffs going on, I have, I can't be dealing with the absolute linear structure. So I need a way to be able to organize with not having a lot of data. I need to be able to make decisions, intelligent risk-taking, creative thinking, which is the same thing, making decisions and trying things without a whole lot of data. And I'm good, and they're good resilient people are good at responding to uncertainty in different things. And they feel they can be focused about getting the task done in terms of where they want to go. So now one of the things is in what I teach in brain dominance in thinking preference, the Herman model, that people, in terms of how they take in and organize data, some people have a natural strength in the area that allows them to deal more easily with ambiguity, coming up with different kinds of things and being higher risk takers where some people are afraid of risk-taking. And so it's maybe it becomes much more difficult for them to deal with change. What role does creative thinking play in developing and enhancing ones? Well, here, this is the great thing. Creative thinking and everything that goes into it is a cognitive function, which means we can teach it. And so it's a matter of people learning to value differences.  So in creative thinking, we try to value the difference and we treat each idea as a gift. Here's a gift, my idea. And before we jump all over it, we examine it and look at it. We have tons and tons of tools that help us do that. But one of the things I found is because it is a cognitive function, whether you're teaching, trying to synthesize things, integrating things, looking at a big picture, conceptualizing, you can train people in that. And that's what's a great thing about creative thinking. Some of us have it naturally and it becomes easier. And it's harder for some people to move into creative thinking because you got to get them to drop the logical processes. And also creativity is all about risk taking. And in today's world, we call it intelligent risk taking because people have to make decisions without a lot of data. You don't have a lot of time. You can't go and gather everything. So that's one of the really important things about using creative thinking with change.  You start to have to say, okay, what can I do? How can I change this? Forget about how I did it before. What can I do to make it better? As a trainer, one of the things I've been doing is all the training I've been doing now is on Zoom because the government, the buildings are still not open. And so when you're teaching creativity and strategic thinking and teaming and all, you're talking about highly interactive courses that use drawing and kind of doing group projects and all. And we just had to find a creative way in a Zoom environment to be able to teach the same thing because we know what the learning objective is. We know what we want the person to get out of it, but then how do we do it creatively? And you know, it really required rethinking things, but one of the things when you do look at things from a creative perspective, you start to see opportunity. So instead of focused on, oh, we can't be in class and face each other and I'm not going to be able to see how they're reacting right to me every time, you start to go, what's the opportunity? And this Zoom as a medium has created a lot of opportunity because one of the things we notice with adults is they interact in a much more, you're more engaged, believe it or not, because in sometimes in a class, you have people who kind of don't participate in the group stuff, it forces them to see one another, look at things. So you begin to see opportunity and that's true in everything. And even though people are upset with having right now to do things at home and do things differently, think about what's the opportunity? What can I do to make this a kind of positive thing versus seeing it only as negative? And that helps move people through change a little faster. Now, nothing's going to stop feeling overwhelmed. It just isn't. But truthfully, you basically have two choices. And the two choices are, you can embrace this and see opportunity and create your own destiny, or you can let destiny kind of find its way to you and hope you like what it is. I mean, that's kind of your choice. I think it's good you call our attention to the choice. We're winding down in the time that we have. And I think you've given us a good picture. I do have a question, a quick question, and that is, when we've been talking about change and when we talk about getting together with groups in a creative process, we're always seemingly referred to groups. How do we, do you think we can be creative by being by ourselves, oneself? I think I am.  I do like displays. I visualize it. I work it out in my brain. I think everybody can be creative individually. And I think one of the things the pandemic's done is people have had to spend more time with themselves. So again, you can either see that as an opportunity or see it as a negative. But as an opportunity, you get to try things, explore things, you know, maybe read things you never did. Just I'm just taking a lot of stuff online, you know, classes where, you know, it's, it's, it's video, but I'm like learning things I never learned before. And I just, you mentioned something I'd like to share with the viewers.  Yeah, yeah, we put up the light show. And I, of course, I have, I build waterfalls and ponds. Ask me how I know I don't. I just try it. It's kind of like trial and error.  And some people I think want to do it in an individual way versus being in a group. And the other thing I've noticed, and this is a whole new thing. If you've noticed adult coloring books, have you seen that, Darlene? That's a whole new, a whole new venture they're selling pencils.  And they paint this beautiful things and it teaches them brush strokes. So I think that the, even though we're going through tough times, and we have to know that we're never going to get time and money back in terms of an individual, we can really be creative and take everything that happens as an opportunity. Even if you have to help your kids with being the teacher at home, think about it as, oh, I have a short time to be their mentor and teacher. You know, just reframe everything. Isn't that what we say in that creative? Reframe the problem into a positive, right? I think reminding us that to look at things or try to find the opportunities and to go with it is probably a good path for us to look towards, for anyone to look towards. So with that, we are, we've had time and you have my head spinning thinking of the adaptations and glad that you clarified some myths about change for us today. And look forward to tomorrow was a day of opportunity and we face the next challenge. And I thank you, Lynn, for joining us. Oh, happy to, Jordan. You have been watching The Creative Life featuring our guest for today, Lynn Crouse. We hope we have offered you ideas for regaining control during major changes and also offered you some strategies for identifying ways to gain adaptation resources and dealing with change. Join us in two weeks for the next edition of The Creative Life. Until then, aloha.


In this video, I'm going to be ranking the Google career certificates from S tier, which is the best to F tier, which is the worst. Now, these Google career certificates are basically like a job cheat code. And the reason I say they're like a job cheat code is because pretty much nobody knows about these right now and they're incredibly valuable. Ever since I started talking about these, you guys have left comment after comment after comment about how you've taken them and you've had incredible outcomes from them. Some people talk about how they took one of the Google certificates and recruiter started reaching out to them, right? And they weren't even done with it. Other people talk about how they took a Google certificate and they got a job within a few months. And even the people who aren't able to get a job, typically they're saying that they had a good experience, right? They learned a lot from it. And for $39 a month, which is all these Google certificates are, and you can even audit the courses for free, that is a ridiculously good value. And the reason these massive companies like Google, IBM, Meta, et cetera started creating these certificates is because of the fact that there were certain positions where there simply were not enough people who had those skills. And college was not keeping up with the demand. So after getting frustrated with college, they decided, you know what, let's go ahead and create our own alternative to it. And they created the professional certificate program and they partnered with Coursera to do it. And so with these certificates, even if you decide to not take them, it's worth it to know what subjects they're teaching. Because those are the subjects that are in demand right now. Those are the subjects that these big companies want from people. Those are the skills they want people to have. But honestly, I do not know if this is going to last forever because right now it's basically like a career cheat code. So if this changes in the future, I will let you know. So make sure that you are subscribed to the channel. This is an incredible way for you to, one, identify in-demand careers and in-demand skills. And then two, learn those in-demand skills and create a portfolio. But that begs the question. What are the best Google career certificates? And I'm actually going to talk about some of the other companies like IBM and Meta as well. So if you appreciate me and my team doing this research, it took us like 237 hours to do all of this for you. Go ahead, gently tap that like button and let's jump into it right now. Alright, so the first one we're going to talk about is the Google data analytics certificate. And this is one of my favorites. First of all, I have had several people report to me that they have gotten jobs with just the data analytics certificate alone. But with that being said, I do not think that for most people getting just the data analytics certificate is going to be enough. I think you should supplement this with other certificates like maybe the IBM certificate. And I think that also you should do some study outside of Coursera. And the biggest thing here is you need to work on your portfolio. So yes, it will help you create like a base portfolio, but you should be doing other things outside of that as well for the value that it gives. This one is incredible on the site. This one has a 4.8 star rating with over 61,000 ratings. The cost is about $39 a month. When you look at the demand for data analysts on LinkedIn at the entry level, there's 578,000 results. 578,000 results for data analysis at the entry level on LinkedIn. That's absolutely nuts. And if you look up data analyst on Glassdoor, you're going to see they make about $93,000 a year. So this is one where it is a little bit harder to get into than some of the other ones, right? So there's certain careers I recommend on this channel that are super easy to get into. IT, tech sales, digital marketing is relatively easy to get into. Data analytics a little bit harder, a little bit harder to get into. But with that being said, really good one. This one gets S tier status. Next one on the list, Google IT automation with Python. This is one that I'm not as excited about. But with that being said, even the ones I'm not super excited about are still pretty good, like I'm not lying. Like they're still a really good value. The ones that I'm more excited about are ones where it can either almost get you a job or straight up get you a job. And those are the ones that I put an S tier. If you look at the rating, 29,000 ratings, 4.8 stars. So people are relatively happy with it when they take it. It's $39 a month. And this is one that could get you into many different jobs. I think a lot of the people that take this particular certificate are people who are already in IT and they want to learn a little bit more programming, right? They want to learn some Python. So if you're in that situation, this one is like S tier. But if you're somebody who doesn't know anything about IT, you don't know anything about programming, I don't think this is the best one to get right off the bat. So one career path you might go down is becoming an IT administrator.  So don't be surprised when you see like kind of lower results on these, whereas data analytics is like 500,000. There's trust me, there's a ton of jobs in IT. So IT administrator is like 14,000 results. So IT admins make about $72,000 according to Glassdoor. You might also become an IT software engineer. They make about 110,000. So yeah, there are some really good options here. This one, because of the fact that it's not as beginner friendly, in my opinion, it's more made for people who already have a little bit of experience. I can't put it in a higher tier. I have to give this one a D tier rating. But with that being said, it's still great. Like a lot of these certificates are amazing. Next is going to be the Google Project Management Certificate. And I made an entire video on this one as well. 4.8 out of five stars with 73,000 ratings. So it's a really good one. Of course, you could become a project manager or a project coordinator. Project manager, there's about 74,000 results. Project coordinator, there's 30,000. There's a lot of random jobs you can get into this one. Again, it's one of those things where there's a lot of sort of scattered random jobs you can get into. So you're not going to see like the immediate massive number. But yeah, 74,000, 30,000. Project assistant, 66,000. Operations manager, 68,000. Program manager, 76,000. Scrum master, 33,000. Project associate, 25,000. I think you get my point. And those are all at the entry level. And if you type in project manager on Glassdoor, you're going to see about $84,000 a year. So really nice salary there. So this is one. Again, I made an entire video about it really breaking it down. There is another certificate that you should probably get on top of this one. That's by kind of an accrediting organization. So this is one where if you already have a little bit of experience and you want to move into kind of a project management type role, that would be a great certificate to get. You can get it on your own. You can get into a project management role with the certificate alone. I have seen people do it. But with that being said, probably best if you maybe get another certificate and also probably best if you already have a little bit of work experience. So because of the fact that you need a little bit of work experience, I can't give this one too high of a rating, but it is phenomenal. Lots of people absolutely rave about this one online. We basically scraped the internet when we were doing this project. So and yeah, I'll give this one a tier. Next one is the Google UX design certificate. So UX stands for user experience. And this is one that a lot of people want to get into because of the fact that it is kind of an artistic type career, right? They want to get into UX UI design. Now, typically the UI portion is the more popular one because that's more of kind of the artistic portion, whereas the UX portion is a little bit more of the analysis type portion. But with that being said, if you want to get into a UI role, a lot of the time they expect you to be really good at the UX side of things as well. So again, with this one, I have seen people get in with just taking the certificate without having a degree or anything like that. But with that being said, you are going to have to have a super solid portfolio. Anything that involves like designing websites or like aesthetic sort of things, you have to have a super good portfolio when you're doing that. So you can't just take this certificate, do the basic portfolio stuff that they offer inside of it and expect to get a job. You are going to have to work on your own unique projects and have some things that you can show in that portfolio. But with that being said, 4.8 out of five stars with over 58,000 ratings. If you look up UX design on LinkedIn at the entry level, you're going to see about 16,000 results, which is pretty good. And again, this is another one where it's not always called like UX design, right? There's a bunch of different words for it, but there is a good amount of demand for this one, especially for something that's kind of art related. Now, if you look up UX designer on Glassdoor, you're going to see they make about $97,000 a year. And UI designers make even more at about $100,000 a year. And again, like I said before, there's a bunch of different names for this. So for instance, UX researchers make about $99,000 a year. Now, with that being said, with this one, it is going to be inherently more difficult to get kind of like an art related career just because of the fact that so many other people want to get those types of careers, right? The supply and demand is not going to be nearly as off as it is with some of the other careers on this list. But this is a great way for you to kind of dip your toe into UX design, see if it's something you want to do. And if you are able to get the certificate, it is going to set you apart quite a bit. Now, I have made a ton of videos about people who are artistic and want to get into artistic careers or start their own artistic side hustles. And I plan on making even more videos about that in the future. So if you don't want to miss out on that, go ahead, hit that subscribe button. So the Google UX design certificate, I'm going to give this one a tier status. Next on the list is the IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Certificate. Now, for this one, I have seen relatively mediocre ratings and feedback online as well as people who have talked to me after they've taken it. It is rated 4.6 out of five stars. I will say that there's not a lot of really great resources for getting directly into cybersecurity. A lot of the times the people who get into cybersecurity kind of make a horizontal career shift from IT or maybe software development. So this is another one of those certificates where it's probably going to be better for you if you already have a little bit of career experience. Now, they say here on Coursera that 84,000 is the median entry level salary. They also say that 20% of graduates actually started a new career. Now, that is a little bit of a sus number right there because at any given time, probably 20% of people might be starting a new career or maybe not 20%, but a good amount of people are starting a new career. So what did they start a new career at Starbucks, start a new career working as a carpenter? You never really know, right? So that's a little bit of a suspect number right there. I'd like them to dive into the data a little bit more. But that being said, there is a ton of opportunity out there for people who are cybersecurity professionals. So they say about 205,000 in-demand job openings in cybersecurity. So there's a bunch of different names for the careers. So for instance, security architect, 20,000 results, cybersecurity engineer, 15,000 results, malware tester, 1,800 results, penetration tester, 15,000 results, application security engineer, 14,000 results, cloud security specialist, 32,000 results, and cybersecurity analyst, 15,000 results. So we're not going to go over all of those different ones again when it comes to the salary. Cybersecurity analysts make about $87,000 a year. And if you're able to become a security architect, you make about $174,000 a year. Now, for all those reasons I mentioned, the fact that it has a little bit lower ratings, I haven't really heard as much like really positive stuff about this one. And because of the fact that you probably are gonna have to have a little bit of career experience to get into this, I have to give this one D tier status. But with that being said, for the price, it's still pretty valuable, right? It's still probably worth the amount that you have to pay. Now I know that like 90% of people who watch this channel either want a fully remote or a semi remote job. And so what I did is I created an entire tier list to talk about the best remote entry level jobs. And you can check that out right here. Next, let's talk about the IBM Data Analyst Certificate. So this is that certificate that I said it might be a good idea for you to take alongside the Google professional certificate. But with that being said, the rating here is 4.6 out of five stars with 11,000 ratings. And I already talked about all the demand for data analysts, so I'm not gonna go over that again. But I will say that this one has gotten less good feedback than the Google Data Analyst Certificate, but it's still gotten pretty good feedback. And especially for the price, this one is an incredible value. So I'll put this one in A tier. And by the way, if you wanna check out any of these certificates to look on your own, first of all, I will put them down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. So you can check that out. I also made videos on almost all of these certificates, maybe all of them, I'd have to double check. But yeah, I made videos on almost all of them where I really deep dive into every single aspect of the certificate. And I rank them on a scale from one to 10 in different areas, like how much money you make, like the salary, job satisfaction, how likely you are to get a job, et cetera. So definitely check those videos out as well. On this channel, I'm basically obsessed with alternative education and getting you the best jobs as quickly and easily as possible. So things like certificates, when I find that they're a really good value, I always cover them on this channel. I also cover other things like online courses that are able to get people jobs in like 10 to 14 days in extreme circumstances. All right, so next on the list, we're gonna cover the IBM Data Science Certificate. So data science is kind of a step above data analytics. And yes, I know before somebody says yes, I know it's data, okay? I know it's data. Somebody's already commenting it right now, I'm sure, commenting down below. Yeah, I know it's data, thanks. Thanks for letting me know. I've only figured that out a hundred times. I say data, get over it. But anyways, data science is a step above data analytics. And typically people who become data scientists first become data analysts. So this is another one of those certificates where it's really not entry level, right?  In fact, people who go straight into a data scientist role typically have master's degrees. So the much more common method of getting into this is to first become a data analyst, work on that for a few years probably, learn a bunch of other extra skills and then become a data scientist. But with that being said, this one has a 4.6 out of five star rating as well. So relatively good with 61,000 ratings.  So tons of opportunity for data scientists.  And if you look up data scientists on Glassdoor, you're gonna see $125,000 a year. So very high paying job. And if you type in data architect, even higher paying at $162,000 a year. So yeah, data science and a bunch of the careers that are related to it. Super high paying, super in demand. I've talked about this over and over again on the channel. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse, but data is worth more than oil or gold. It's incredibly valuable. It's also incredibly sketchy. People are taking your data against your will. TikTok is like the devil basically, but I'm not gonna get into that right now. Next on the list is going to be the Meta Social Media Marketing Certificate. Now this one, I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on it. So I'm probably gonna put it in a lower tier just because I don't know for sure if it's really good. And you know, in the future, I might get more feedback on this one. And then I would put it in a higher tier. But with that being said, it is ranked 4.9 out of five stars. And social media marketing is incredibly valuable. I think everybody knows like the content creation ecosystem is just getting bigger and bigger. Brands are starting to figure out that it's much better to reach people organically than to reach people with paid ads. And this is a relatively broad skill set. So social media marketing could encompass just like making updates on a company's Twitter, all the way to stuff like contacting different YouTubers and trying to get paid sponsorships for them, right? Integrations. So obviously depending on what you specialize in in social media marketing, there are gonna be like better jobs out there. But with that being said, if you type in social media marketing on LinkedIn, at the entry level, you're gonna see 37,000 results. And there's a bunch of other random names for the things that you could do that are not under social media marketing. So it's another one of those. And if you type in social media marketer on Glassdoor, you're gonna see about $45,000 a year. So that's not bad. But at the same time, it's not nearly as good as a lot of the other ones on the list. And I don't think this is nearly as valuable of a skill set in my opinion than a lot of the other ones on the list. For that reason, I will give this one a B tier ranking. Next one on the list is going to be Python for everybody. This is one where there is 200,000 ratings and it is a 4.8 star rating. So this is Python for everybody's specialization. So I'm gonna give this one a little bit lower of a rating than you probably think.  But actually I'm not. And the reason for that is because it doesn't really teach you how to land a job, right? And I like courses and certifications that are outcome based.   I don't really like that as much as the ones that are like, this course is designed to land you a job. Now, I do think this one has good feedback, has gotten relatively good feedback when I scraped online, but I didn't hear of that many people who actually landed jobs with this one. So in my opinion, the way that I evaluate courses, that is gonna knock it down a little bit for me. But with that being said, Python developer, if you type that in on LinkedIn at the entry level, you're gonna see 16,000 results. And there's a ton of other random jobs you can go into. This is another one of those. If you type in Python developer on Glassdoor, you're gonna see they make about $101,000 a year. And yeah, so this is one where, on this channel, I give you guys like practical advice, and this is something that's probably gonna hurt a little bit, but chances are, if you're somebody who kind of got into self development, you're trying to teach yourself these valuable skills, there's a good chance that you have fallen into the trap of paralysis by analysis.  You're learning all this stuff, but for one, you're not actually learning it because it's too passive. You're watching all these videos on like Python tutorials and stuff like that, but it's too passive. You're not actually learning it because you aren't applying it to the real world. And then for two, you are not showcasing the skills. You're not creating projects that you can put in your portfolio. And so what ends up happening is when you try to learn everything, you end up learning nothing. And so what I say over and over again on this channel that is the best thing to do is that you try to learn the skills that are essential for you landing an entry level job and nothing else.  And time is your most valuable resource.  And even more importantly than wasting money, you're wasting opportunity cost. Because I'm being honest with you, let's say you're starting tutorials like two years ago, you probably could have gotten a job a year ago, maybe even a year and a half ago. And that's if you just focused on the things that you actually need to know to land an entry level job. So yeah, for this one, I'm gonna have to go ahead and give it a C tier status. But if you disagree with me, go ahead, let me know why down in the comment section below. Everybody wins if you do this, let me know the ones you agree with me on, the ones you disagree with me on, people can kind of like talk about their opinion on it. It's especially useful if you've actually taken these certificates, you can kind of give your opinion and your feedback on them. And then everybody ends up winning, right? All right, so next one on the list is going to be the Google IT support certificate. And this is basically the one that started it all. So with this one, there's 153,000 ratings, a ton of people have taken this one and it's 4.8 out of five stars. So this is the one that is the oldest and most tested because I believe it was Google's very first certificate that they released. And back when I first covered this certificate, I was a little bit skeptical of it. I wasn't sure if it was going to be as good as people were saying, but over time, more and more and more people had great outcomes with it. And I just saw over and over again, people getting results with the Google IT support certificate. Now, IT support is a career that is super easy for you to break into. And I know what you're probably thinking, right? These certificates, there's so many certificates in IT.  You take some kind of class on Udemy, you get a certificate. And at the end of the day, these certificates are almost like participation trophies. And that's true for a lot of them. Don't get me wrong, that's actually completely true. But for these Google support certificates, they're actually incredibly valuable for three reasons. And I get into these reasons in much more detail in the other videos that I do, so make sure you check those out. But basically, for one, the certificates are actually relatively respected by hiring managers, recruiters, and business owners. The people who actually matter. And the reason for that is because of brand name recognition. People who see a certificate from Google, IBM, Meta, et cetera, they are going to respect that more than some random certificate from a company that they've never heard of. The second reason is they give you access to job boards that you wouldn't have access to otherwise, that hundreds of companies are a part of. And then the third reason, and this is probably the most ninja stuff I've ever talked about on this channel. This is like basically a cheat code. And that is when you put this on your LinkedIn profile, whether you post about it, or whether you put that you're actually taking the certificate, you don't even need to finish it. And so it's another way for you to get discovered. And I had a ton of people tell me or comment on the YouTube channel that they were actually found from certificates through LinkedIn. So businesses actually reached out to them because of the fact that they put that they were taking the certificate on their LinkedIn profile. So these certificates definitely do make a difference and they set you apart. They're not necessarily going to get you 100% of the way to a job, like take you from zero to 100, like some of the online courses that I recommend will, but they might get you 80, 90% of the way there. And then you just have to get yourself the rest of the 10% there. And typically that's going to involve making a really good portfolio and making sure that you have the skills necessary. So there is like a million different little random IT related jobs, kind of like I talked about before when I went over the other IT certificate. But according to the certificate, there's over 400,000 in-demand job openings with IT and I believe that. And 75% of Google career certificate graduates report career improvement. And if you look at computer support specialists, there's over 875,000 jobs according to BLS. Now, if you start off at a super entry level role like help desk, for instance, you can expect to make about $46,000 a year. A little bit up from that would be systems analysts. They make around $86,000 a year. And there is a ton of different opportunities to get into an IT. It's probably the easiest way that you can get your foot in the door in the technology industry, which is probably the best industry that you can work in. The only other job that's as easy to get your foot in the door is tech sales. And let's be honest, a lot of people, you know, they probably don't want to do tech sales because it's a sales role. So if you're not the type of person who wants to do sales, prospecting, marketing, that sort of thing, but you still want to get a really good job and you want to get into the technology industry, IT help desk is probably the best way to get there. Now, if you're confused about what type of remote job you want to get or what entry-level jobs are available, I actually made an entire entry-level job tier list, which I highly recommend you check out right here.


Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad in which we will discuss joint product and we're going to learn to determine whether we need to sell the product as is, as at the split-off point or process further. To learn about this concept we need to learn about few terms up front to understand how this work. In some industries a number of end product are produced from a single raw material. A classic example will be crude oil. From crude oil we can produce gasoline, we can produce kerosene, we can produce home heating oil, we can produce asphalt, as well as other chemicals and other products as well. All these products they are called joint product in which one or more product are produced, these products are produced from one single input and that's crude oil. Now joint cost, joint cost means what? It means all these products are generated from the crude oil. So there's a cost here. How do we allocate this cost to the various products? Well at the split-off point when we produce different products we can use something called a relative sales value. What does that mean? It means, let's assume for the sake of illustration, gasoline sales was 40 000, kerosene sales was 20 000, home heating oil was 10 000, that's 40 20 60 70, asphalt was 20 000 and other chemicals was 10 000. Those are the sales amount. What we do is we add up all the sales and I'm trying to make the number equal to 100 000 40 plus 20 60 70 90 100 100 000. What we do is we say gasoline should absorb 40 out of 100 000, so gasoline should absorb 40 percent, kerosene should absorb 20 percent, home heating oil 10 percent, so on and so forth. So this is what we mean by the relative sales value. So whatever cost we incur, let's assume you know the cost was you know 30 000, we would allocate the cost to various products this way. Now we need to learn about the split-off point. What is the split-off point? The split-off point is the manufacturing, is the point in the manufacturing process where each joint product, each one of these products can be recognized as a separate product. So gasoline stop a separate product, that's the split-off point, kerosene stop, home heating oil stop, asphalt, so on and so forth. So the question becomes from our perspective is do we need to sell the product as is? For example we can sell the crude oil as is, we can sell the crude oil as is or we can process into gasoline then sell or we can process further into kerosene and sell. Maybe the kerosene comes before the gasoline but it doesn't really matter. We can process into home heating oil, sell it or process further so on and so forth. Well under those decision joint costs are irrelevant in the decision so the cost of the crude oil we don't take it into account. What we look into account is to see if the incremental revenue, if the additional revenue is greater than the incremental cost. If the answer is yes, we we process. Now we're going to work an example to see how this work but I'll give you a simple example. Let's assume you're selling your house. Actually I'm in the process of selling my house and let's assume the selling price is for the sake of illustration 300 000. This is the current selling price and my real estate agent told me, let's assume that's the case, if I put a new roof if I incur an additional 7 000 on a new roof that's the incremental cost we can sell the house for 310. Should we do it? Well so if I add 7 000 in cost my revenue will go up by 10 000. My revenue is greater than my incremental revenue is greater than my incremental cost I will do it. Otherwise if I put a new roof and my revenue goes up to 305 then from a mathematical perspective it does not make any sense I should not improve my home by installing a new roof I should sell as is. Now the best way to illustrate this is to look at an example to see how this works. Now before we look at the example most likely you are a student or a CPA candidate this is how you end up on this recording that's great go a step further farhatlectures.com where you will have additional resources such as multiple choice, true false lectures that's going to help you with your CPA exam, CMA exam and your accounting courses. If you have not connected with me on LinkedIn please do so like this recording if you're watching it's helpful to you please like it share it connect with me on Instagram Facebook Twitter and Reddit. Let's take a look at this example add them ink cut slog from which unfinished lumber and wood dust are the immediate drone product basically they cut trees not a good idea but that's the business they are in. The unfinished lumber can be sold as is or they can be processed further into finished lumber the wood dust the wood dust can be sold as is as well to carding whole sailor or it can be processed into mulch and sold as mulch so we need to collect more information to determine whether it's a good idea to process further or sell as is. Sales value at the split-off point for the lumber is 150 for the wood dust is 50 the sales after further processing so a few if you turn the lumber into a finished lumber you can sell it for 280 if you can turn the wood dust into mulch you can sell it for 60 per log allocated joint cost joint product cost 186 and 34 again that's not relevant for us cost of further processing so if you want to process the further if you want to process the lumber further from unfinished to finished it's going to cost you 60 dollar if you want to process the wood dust from wood dust to mulch it's going to cost you 30 dollars so let's see if we should process further or sell as is the sales value for the lumber after we process further is 280 dollars the sales value for the wood dust is 60 the increment the sales at the split-off 150 and the sales as split-off for the dust is 50 therefore we have an incremental revenue of 130 for the lumber and 10 dollars for the dust now to process further we need to incur an additional 60 dollars for the lumber and additional 30 dollars for the dust what does that mean it means for the lumber it's worth it because we're going to be increasing revenue the incremental revenue is 160 the the incremental cost the one the incremental revenue is 130 the incremental cost is 60 we should go for it for the dust or for the wood dust we're going to get an additional 10 dollars but to do so we're going to be incurring 30 dollars therefore we don't process further and we sell it as sawdust as is so this is how we make this sell or sell as is or process further what should you do now to learn this concept okay explain it that's great but you need to practice multiple choice through false additional exercises to help you learn this concept go to farhatlectures.com and do so good luck study hard and of course stay safe


In this module, we learned about igneous rocks. So these crystalline assemblages that are formed from lavas and magmas that have crystallized either beneath or at the surface of the earth. These are made up of silicate minerals that are very resistant to weathering, and they're also very, very hard. So the physical properties of these rocks is an amalgamation of the physical properties of the minerals that make them up. But in summary, they come together to form a very hard, very resilient, very lasting rock that will be around for geological time scales, which are on the order of millions, hundreds of millions of years. I've seen basalts that are over two billion years old. So we're talking about stuff that could stick around for a long, long time here, and this comes into play in some of the ways in which it's used in art history. Very much so. Yes, as I hope you have noticed, the common thread running through our case studies is that all of the works we looked at were meant to be permanent. And in the case of some of these sculptures, we actually have inscriptions on them from ancient Near Eastern rulers that said, I chose to have this made not of gold, not of bronze, not of lapis, which was very expensive, but instead of basalt or of diorite, so that it would last forever. And it's that lasting forever that is one of the most important commonalities that we have. And that comes with a difficult side, as I hope you also noticed, for the artist, because unlike some of the softer rocks that we're going to investigate next, it is very difficult to work with diorite and basalt, here's my diorite, and with porphyry, you have to work it punching into it perpendicularly, rather than being able to kind of slice it off or shave into it the way that you can work with tools in marble. And so there is an extra level of effort and of difficulty just in shaping and forming it. But then the payoff is that permanence.


USS Freedom worked with the Philippine government to deliver 10 pallets of supplies to Tacloban November 24th as part of Operation Damayan. The pallets were loaded onto Freedom last week in Singapore where she joined other Navy ships in the Typhoon relief effort. Freedom's multi-mission helicopters airlifted the pallets into the city and unloaded the medical and hygienic supplies. Across the fleet, Petty Officer Advancement Quotas are out, and you could be one of the more than 21,000 sailors who will advance to E-4, E-5 or E-6. Although the overall advancement opportunity decreased slightly, it is still above the 10-year average. Quotas are now posted, and results are expected to be posted later this week on the All Hands Magazine website. Read more about these stories at Navy.mil. From All Hands Update, thanks for watching.


This is a Witchspace News special report, I'm Commander Burr. So Frontier who are attending the Gamescom Expo in Germany have just dropped a new trailer and the first solid details about the new fleet carrier system. You can see the trailer footage running underneath at the moment and we're going to break down what we know and also speculate a little on what we don't know. So here's the facts. The commander will be able to purchase one carrier each for what Frontier are describing as a large amount of credits. The ship will be purchasable for players of the base game as well as horizons. In total the carriers have 16 landing pads, that's 8 large, 4 medium and 4 small pads and players will be able to set permissions to allow other players to land at their carrier. All fleet carriers will have rearm, refuel and repair services. Commanders will be able to choose a varied number of loadouts for their carriers to support a number of different role choices. The role chosen for the carrier will govern the availability of services, modules and ships across the following disciplines. Bounty hunting, mercenary work, pirating, trading, smuggling, mining, exploring and search and rescue. Each carrier will have a jump range of 500 light years per jump and will require a new unique fuel resource for that jump. That fuel can either be purchased or mined. Frontier have said that carriers are not destructible but will require a certain amount of upkeep from commanders to maintain their functionality and presence. Your fleet carrier loadout will affect what support vessel travels with the carrier. In the trailer we see 3 of these support vessels. They're all different in appearance which appears to be driven by their role specialisation more on that in a moment. How these smaller capital class vessels operate is currently unknown and Frontier are for the moment staying tight lipped on the subject. It does seem that your carrier loadout will not be fixed and you can change the functionality and thereby change the support vessel but this will cost credits. How you change that loadout will be covered in a future live stream. Only one fleet carrier will ever be present in an instance meaning you'll never see multiple carriers together. The carriers cannot be directly steered from the bridge like a regular ship but rather a jump from system to system via the galaxy map. So that's what we currently know. What's not clear at the moment is what specific purpose the support vessels that travel with your carrier will serve or how they function. What's also not clear is what difference having a carrier along on your adventures will make. For example if you have an exploration themed fleet carrier then what difference to that experience will having that larger vessel with you make. Or if you're mining or trading what difference will a mining or trading themed carrier make to that gameplay. My initial thoughts when hearing these details were that organisations like Operation Ida or the Fuel Rats or the Post Disaster Evacuation Service are likely to find this new class of ship extremely useful. I was also really pleased to hear that every commander will be able to own one. Were they to be restricted to squadrons only that would lock out a huge amount of commanders and essentially mean that only squadron leadership would realistically have access to control the vessels. What's not clear is how the support vessel travels with your carrier. Do they somehow dock with the main vessel when it uses hyperspace or do they have a jump drive all of their own etc. Here at the burpit we've been discussing this and specifically how the support vessels arrive and leave from the same instance as the carrier. As you can see from these screenshots the fleet carrier being shown appears to have a very modular feel particularly to the forward section. What we think may be the case is that the support vessel rather than being a task specific separate vehicle is in fact a mission specific module that attaches to the front of the carrier section and what we're being shown as the fleet carrier at the moment is in fact a generic fleet carrier and when you select a roll the support vessel replaces that front section forward of the landing base. Now this is of course wild speculation but when you look at the mercenary specific ship featured about halfway through the trailer the various sections of that support vessel are almost identical to the forward section of the carrier vessel shown in the background. Whilst it's not so obvious with the other two support vessels shown you could argue that they could work in a similar fashion. A frontier attempting to throw us a curveball? Possibly. FDF have clearly made a conscious decision not to show how the support vessel arrives in the trailers we've seen so far but what do you think? Are we on to something here? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. We won't know the truth of it for a while but FDF have promised that the extended details on the fleet carrier system will be shown off in upcoming live streams between now and December. It's worth noting we don't know exactly how many credits a carrier will cost but it will be expensive. All these new fleet carriers coming to the game are going to need funding. Upon release of this news I suspect there's about to be a colossal mining boom. So in summary when you boil down all the details of all this it appears that the fleet carriers are essentially a sort of movable task specific spaceport that will act as a forward base of operations for whatever your operations might be. Here at the burp pit we're quite excited to see what squadrons will make of all this. You could conceivably see a situation where one squadron member is able to field a mining platform, another research and rescue ship and another emersory vessel all moving as part of the same battle group. Squadrons are at their best and the game really shines when commanders are working together so it'll be fascinating to see if fleet carriers tie into this mechanic. Ultimately as with any new in-game system it's all about the new gameplay that is centered around that system and that is what will define the success of fleet carriers going forward. Don't forget between now and December we've also got the next update that FDF have confirmed goes live on September the 18th. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then O7 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do please keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time


It has been passed down from generation to generation to generation that we don't mess with water. Keep watching, and I'll tell you what book I'm talking about today. The Nine Yell, and today we're talking about fulfilling your dreams. When the Oscar, write that award-winning book. Do 500 videos and get monetized. Fulfill your dreams, okay? Today we're talking about the book, The Covenant of Water. The author of the book is Abraham Vargas. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is literature, okay? Y'all, y'all, 724 pages. When I listened to the audio book, it was like 33 hours. So good. So my favorite quote is, we don't have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill, okay? What does that have to do with The Covenant of Water? This book is absolutely heart breaking in the best way possible, okay? So this book follows a family that is afraid of water. You see someone marry into the family. The husband's afraid of water. They have a baby. The baby won't put their head in the water. What is going on with this water? Hates water.   Then you have another child. This child loves when it's raining, just sits and watches the water. The child that absolutely hates the water ends up encountering people who are like almost drowning. And so then the kid grows up and you're like, oh my God, she was watching the doctor. He's gonna be a doctor. No, Abraham said that's not the storyline.  But he's so cautious. He doesn't want her to ever be around the water. And so then the mom is here. She's obsessed with water. She's walking through my soons to get here. What is this deal with water? So back to the quote, the granddaughter is up fulfilling the dreams that the dad thought he might have, right?  It is not just the phobia. It has been passed down from generation to generation to generation that we don't mess with water. And it's so fascinating that it took all these generations, multiple deaths of people, multiple occurrences of waters, large bodies of water, baths, drinking water, all iterations of water to get to the granddaughter who eventually discovers why there is the issue. An incredible book. So good. It's giving Gray's Anatomy in the Middle East. Okay, that's the best way that I'm gonna describe it. This book is phenomenal. I was gonna say this is the type of book that make me not wanna write. And I know it's not about reaching his level, it's about reaching my level, but ay, ay, ay, this was phenomenal. I don't even think I have this kind of a story in me, but this book was very, very good, okay? I saw this book when President Obama put out his list of must reads for 2023. I was like, okay, let me pick that out. Let me see what it's about. And it is so good, so good, okay? If you are interested in more books that are all about water and growing up and coming of age, take a look at this review here. All right, this movie, the movie adaptation for this book was almost better than the book. I mean, scene by scene, the way that I would have played it out, it's perfect. And there's a lot of water scenes as well, all right? So I'll see you in the next video.


Hello everyone, I'm Yao Sun. It's my pleasure to give a presentation here. And my topic today is Automatic Search of Cubes for Attacking Stream Siphers. So in this talk, I will introduce a new algorithm to search for a special kind of cubes. This presentation contains three parts. Firstly, I introduce the background and our main contribution. And secondly, we talk about the many ideas of the search algorithm. And thirdly, we apply the search algorithm to attack against trivial. Now let's start with the first part. Our attacks are based on the cube attack, which has become one of the most powerful tools of attacking stream saffers. For stream saffers, the output bit can always be represented as the boolean polynomial f. And let i be the set of indexes of public variables, and ci be the cube of i. By summing up the values of f over the cube ci, we can obtain a new polynomial p. And this polynomial is called the superpoly of the cube. And generally, the superpoly p should be balanced. And in the offline phase of the cube attack, we need to generate the balanced superpoly p. And in the online phase, we need to query the order code for many times to get the active value of p. And then we will obtain an equation. Using this equation, we can filter out half of the illegal case. And this is the overall complexity. Note that using more superpolys can lower down this complexity. And this is the main idea of the cube attack. So in the cube attack, the first problem is how to generate the superpoly p. And many works have been done to solve this problem. In the earlier years, linearity tests and quadraticity tests were used. And in 2015, the division property was presented. But the related computations were very slow. And in the next year, the concept of division trail is proposed. It is similar to the concept of differential trail. And it can be computed very efficiently using MLP methods. And in the year 2017, the division trail method was first applied to cube attack. And this does the recent cube attack against stream suffers. After many improvements on the division properties, and finally the free subset division property without a no subset was presented in 2020. And since then, the problem how to retrieve the superpoly was solved completely. And what's the next problem to be solved in the cube attack? In my opinion, I think it is how to find good cubes or superpolys. Since one cube corresponds to exactly one superpoly, searching for cubes is equivalent to searching for superpolys. But the related works are quite for you. Next, we talk about which kind of superpolys should be searched for. Firstly, linear superpolys, they are perfect in the attacks, but they are too rare to find. And moreover, I think they may not exist at all for a year round of stream suffers. And secondly, the general nonlinear superpolys. They can be found almost everywhere, but they are useless. So to my understand, we think we can find a special kind of nonlinear superpoly called superpoly with balanced variables. For example, in this form, the variable Ki is a balanced variable, and the monomials in the other part can be nonlinear. I believe there are lots of these kinds of superpolys, much more than the linear ones. So these kinds of superpolys are not hard to find, and they are also very useful. Note that the superpolys with balanced variables must be balanced superpolys. And we call the cubes whose superpolys have balanced variables as the variable cubes. And this is the objective we are going to search for. So the main contribution in this paper is that we propose a new heuristic algorithm to search for valuable cubes. And as applications, we improve the theoretical cube attacks against trivial and anacrybium when the paper was submitted in the last year. And we also improve the practical key recovery attack against trivial. And this is the best result, best practical result now. And next, let's see the third algorithm. Our goal is to search for valuable cubes. Or equivalently, search for the superpolys with balanced variables in this form. So the first idea coming to our mind is that we can choose a random cube and recover the whole superpoly and check whether there are many balanced variables. But clearly this method is not very efficient. Because, for example, recovering the whole superpoly for 840 trivial always takes more than one hour. So this method has a very low success rate. And an improvement is that we can choose a specific secret variable, Ki. And only check whether Ki is balanced in the superpoly. And this method is faster than the first one. But it has a very low success rate because the number of secret variables is large. For example, usually more than 80. So we got the third idea. That is, we can treat a set of cubes together such that the common computations among these cubes can be shared. And this method is much faster than the previous ones. And it also has a high success rate. But in fact this method is still not efficient enough because we must finish the computation of all the cubes. And actually we only need a few numbers of valuable cubes. So we think we can reject some hopeless cubes during the computation. And this will slightly lower the success rate. But the efficiency of this method will be very good. And there is another problem that is how to reject hopeless cubes timely. And by saying a hopeless cube of Ki, we mean that the secret variable Ki is not balanced in its superpoly. Equivalently, there are many nonlinear monomials involving Ki appear in the superpoly. And this introduces another problem. That is, we need a method to check whether a monomial appears in the superpoly, which can be solved by the three subset division property without a null subset. And next we briefly introduce the main result of this method. There are some notations. Fr be the r round function and Xr be the state of the r round. And pi w Xc just a notation. And f hat w is the a and f of a boolean function. And the three subset division property without a null subset says, a monomial appears in the a and f, f hat w, if and only if the vector u corresponds to an odd number of solutions of the system. By this result, we can see that to check whether a monomial appears in the superpoly, we only need to solve this polynomial, solve this system. And for simplification, we restate the bound statement as a monomial appears in the, in some in an if and only if, sorry, if and only if it appears all the times in the solutions of some system. So to reject hopefully this curve timely, we can use the divide and conquer strategy, which is proposed in 2020. The idea is simple. Since we want to solve a big system, we can split this big system into several small subsystems. By solving these subsystems one by one, we can accumulate the results. And by using this divide and conquer strategy, we can determine whether a cube is hopeless with a high probability after we computing only a few number of subsystems. And that is, we observe that the property of the whole system approximately equals to the property of the subsystem. And specifically, we have two observations. Our first observation is, if a monomial appears in the solutions of some subsystem, then it tends to appear even times. And this observation holds with a very high probability, particularly when the system is complicated. And our second observation is, if a monomial only appears in a few subsystems and it appears all the times in some subsystem, then it tends to appear all the times in the whole system with a relatively high probability. And the logic of this second observation is that for a monomial, it only appears in a few subsystems. And by the first observation, it appears even times in most of them. And if it is all in some subsystem, it hardly turns to even in the last. And there are some data supporting. We cannot prove this observation, but there are some data that can be supporting the observation, too. The data are the statistics, the statistics of the monomials in the superpolis. And we thought the monomials by degree. And the fourth column shows how many monomials, appear odd in the subsystem. And the fifth column shows how many monomials appear, still appear, odd in the whole system. And the ratio is given in the last column. From the data, we can see that the higher the degree is, the ratio, the higher the ratio is.  In the first step, we prepare a set of candidate cubes and choose a specific secret variable Ki. In the second step, we divide the whole system into several small subsystems. And in the third step, we solve each subsystem one by one. And during the computation, for a cube, if a nonlinear monomial emollient K appears odd times in some subsystem, then we remove this cube from the candidate side. Another case is for a cube Ci. If the monomial Ki appears in some subsystem, this time we record the number of the times for Ci. And after the computation finished, if there exists some cube Ci, such that the recorded number of Ci is odd, then Ci is a valuable cube. And in our experiments, we use two criteria to detect hopeless cubes, and one is more aggressive but more efficient. And another possible case is that our criteria are too aggressive and reject all candidate cubes. And in this case, we can increase the size of subsystems and search again. Because if there really exists some valuable cubes, we can always find them if the subsystems are large enough. And next, let's see the applications. And Trivium is a famous stream cipher, and it has an 80-bit K. So to provide a theoretical attack against the round radius Trivium, it suffices to find one valuable cube, with dimension no bigger than 78. So the set of candidate cubes we used in our experiments contain all the cubes of dimension 78. And for attacking 8400 round Trivium, we choose three secret variables by random. And we compared the number of hopeless cubes and the number of valuable cubes. And we also give the timings of each search algorithm. From the table, we can see that the first criterion is more aggressive. But it is more efficient. And the data of different variables are also different. And here are the timings for retrieving the superpolis. From these data, we can see that all the timings are more than one hour. And compared with the search algorithm, we can see the search algorithm is very efficient. And we also apply the search algorithm to higher rounds of Trivium. For 841 and 842, we use the first criterion. And for 843, we use the second criterion. And finally, we found two valuable cubes. And we recover the superpoly of one valuable cube. And the superpoly contains more than 16,000 monomials. And it leads to a theoretical attack against 843 round Trivium with a complexity slightly better than the brute-force method. And another application is a practical attack against Trivium. In this case, we need many superpolis instead of one. So we present a set of indexes S. And we prepare all the candidate cubes from the subsets of S. And we searched about two weeks and got about 200 valuable cubes, as well as their nonlinear superpolis. To solve this nonlinear system, we use the guess and determine method. And please note that only the values of balanced variables can be deduced. For example, in this equation, only the value of x2 can be deduced. And by guessing the values of 43 variables, we can deduce the values of the other 37. And the deduction costs no time. So the complexity of getting the active values of superpolis is 2 power 44. And the complexity of solving the true k is 2 power 43. Both can be done practically. And there are some details about the valuable cubes and the balanced variables. Note that a superpoly may contain several balanced variables. And at last we summarize this presentation. Our main contribution is to propose, is that we propose the new algorithm to search for valuable cubes. And we will apply the search algorithm to both theoretical and practical attacks. And we believe the search algorithm can be applied to other sectors directly. And that's all. Thanks for your attention.


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I have the aunt Jackie's buttercream coconut cream buttercream intensive moisture sealant I'm not sure how I feel about this product only because I really haven't used it as a leaving conditioner But I'm going to do that for this review. Okay, but in the middle of that, I'm using popcorn Now normally I don't eat popcorn.  I guess I got new videos now My cannon mark to camera started working again. I have previously been using my phone to do videos right and so Something told me, okay, let me go ahead and put another different SD card in and let me spread out and boom it started working. I'm like yay So I did that last hair related video for y'all and I did a blog which I haven't edited yet. So yeah, I'm going on y'all these expenses Because we put Jamie out of public school a couple of months ago. I was at work last year How you been last year? No this year earlier this year We are paying through the woo-haw For extra resources for him because you know if you go through the special ed SE special education at your public school You get all type of resources, right? Well at a private school, that's not the case you would think so since you're paying on this money But they are not I Don't want to say they qualify. They're not equipped. That's a better word They are not equipped to handle special education Especially if your child has dyslexia or is dyslexic like JB is and so we're paying Besides the tuition fee, let's just say we're paying almost almost a thousand dollars a month for JB for resources school camps all of that is I am trying to find something but We can afford it, but it's like we're now dipping into money that we could be saving, you know what I mean So thank God they were blessed enough to afford it. It's like I'm not saving as much as I would have liked to my husband is working longer He he initially was only gonna work a contract job for like two two months He's been working And he's for a while now and he's gonna be working through August and we're doing this to pay for JB's schooling, you know So those of you who don't know I'm in a field called I'm in learning and delivery. I'm specifically what you call an LMS administrator There's not too many people I know in this field if they because if they are in this industry they move on to they move on to instructional design or E-learning which is are the people that develop the web-based training I'm trying to get my hand my foot just a little toe and to instructional design One thing that I learned is that when you are working regardless of your work in corporate America You need to ensure that you are gaining a new school set every three years And I was doing that up until ten years ago I was gaining a new and it could be something as simple as Learning Google sheets. That's not necessarily simple. That's what I'm saying It doesn't mean that you have to get a degree or certification Learning Google sheets. Let me tell you something if y'all can learn Microsoft 360 those you in the office arena Microsoft you can even get certified in Microsoft 365 or 360 girl. I've been drinking Google sheets Google sheets is major not mean because I had that background. I don't need to take a class I can learn Google sheets just by looking at me It wouldn't take me a long time. SharePoint is a big one. I've been doing SharePoint for almost 20 years So that's all I'm seeing that I've been Staffing it because a lot have been going on. I mean, I've had a baby. I've gotten ill We moved I moved three times. No four times It's a lot in teen years and then a pandemic hit in the middle of that but there's no more excuses. So my goal is to start looking into Seeing what type of school says I need to gain and I know where I need to go for now besides that JV is doing well So sweet. Yes, my mama was here for a week and you guys Let me just say this Up until when JV was born, I was used to being by myself most of the time girl that fly bugs everywhere Sorry, y'all. I was used to be by myself most of the time That means that my husband even is not here what he wasn't here because he's always worked second shift So I'm used to having certain hours by myself Weekends by myself and then JV was born. I'm like, okay. We got a little person here great But even then we would tend to be by ourselves a lot or go out and we will control that Baby, my mama is an extrovert actually both of my parents are extroverts and it's funny because my sister and I are introverts, right?  I mean, I can't do both I really can't y'all. I'm an early riser. I Smile at you in the morning.  So that's what it was. It was do you remember this or did you see your uncle's posts on Facebook? Now I mentioned to her two or three times that I'm not on social media like that I get on Facebook, maybe once or twice twice a week, but I don't stay on there going do strong I'll scroll through two or three posts. That's what that's all you gonna get for me two or three posts. That's it That is it cuz I don't have the patience, you know, cuz if I see anything is done And so she got a little quiet She got a little quiet when I told her, you know, she was asked me if I saw something so close in this person I'm like, oh I don't follow them or I thought I'd tell her hold on y'all At one point, you know by the third day, I was like, oh, you I forgot you were an extrovert I said, you know, I'm Alex now, which is my husband's name. I'm like, we're mostly introverts. She's like, what's that I Said, okay. Um, when we're gonna go to Papadose because this is way too many Y'all and I get it. She this is the first time No, it's actually the second time that she's came and stayed with us. So anyway, you guys What was I talking about girl?  It is what it is. He ain't watching this so I can talk about him He won't watch this is at least he can't drive y'all He has literally had an accident every year that I've known him I kid you not one year it involved my car He hit my car trying to back out of the garage and he hit it's not only once but twice And so I remember I wasn't I Was somewhere in the house and all of a sudden I can hear JB said are and I'm like, what? So I run to the garage I'm in the doorway of the garage and sure enough my husband hit my car puts the car back in and reverse And hits it again and JB and JB and I are looking in the doorway looking like this And here's JB.  Just go back inside the house The first year I met him when we were just dating actually a few months after I was dating He hit a median. He hit One of my chitchats we were out it was late at night You want to go get some um some Mexican food cuz your girl used to love she was extra fluffy I was about 50 pounds more of what I'm I'll wait now very cute still I don't that doesn't matter for my point is I was eating right and so we got back from a Mexican food restaurant And he was making a left-hand turn You know you have the medians the concrete medians that are a little bit back away It separates the different right side left side you and I know this right Why when you want to go make a left-hand turn? Drivers. Oh y'all hold on sweet P. I love you baby. Tell me to me. I said thank you Okay, bye in home daycare here. Don't be afraid of in home daycares you guys I know that it could be crazy especially with me. I was so paranoid about finding something for JB Especially if it's in home because you don't know I just say use your instincts go with your gut intuition and That was I text message the mom. She has an in-home daycare. She's been homeschooling for years she has a child James age and Bucks her excuse me like an hour ago, and she never responded.  She had JB to call me in to speak with me The girl she picks up JB and she drops him off You can't beat that y'all for 35 dollars a day And he's there. I mean that's amazing. You really can't beat that. So and they do some learning some days So I love it. So about this man and his his issues. Yeah, I honestly think he can't see I really do think that's what the issue is Because he has cataracts and he's had he has had cataract surgery before and so This weekend my mother and I JB we were out in downtown thorny Looking around looking at the old house is all beautiful historic houses, right? And I get a call on my phone and it's from him and he's like, yeah, um I scratched up your mama's car. I Said do what? He's like, yeah, I scratched up her car.  No, he's at the front side Linked over though too much the love. So when he was backing out He hit it and he scratched it up. He then he asked but my car scratched up, too I said, you know what? How how how are you doing this every year? How are you doing this? I said, okay, you know what? I'm gonna work and I look at my mama.  She's so sweet. She's so sweet you guys. She was quiet. She's like, well, I'd be able to drive back the long view So we went it and sure enough is scratched up So remember the score is not that old is less than five years old, you know So I clean it off and we look at it again, and it's really not that bad I'm looking I'm like, okay, it's not that bad if you walking by it.  I'm like, it serves you right But I've been looking at again old episodes of divorce court Listening to some music and watching episodes of soft white underbelly He is a youtuber who also is a photographer He has a very unique way of Getting people to talk so girl what I'm watching so first off stranger things. I try you guys I got to the second or third episode About this season that just can't keep me Maybe I'll just have to spend like a morning and really focus on watching it. But right now There's nothing about stranger things that is making me want to watch it and that's really not so I'm not watching it same thing with Piki blinders that is back and I hate it the way the previous season ended But I do like Piki blinders. I like the characters And so but the same thing I can't really I don't know what it is you guys I really can't get into this particular season. So I just stop watching. There's another one on Believe it's Netflix savage beauty Absolutely love it out of South Africa. There is one called What is it called blood sisters that I started watching it looks very interesting again They said it's South Africa shout out to the South African people um Girl the movies I've been watching. I don't know what I like about these be rated Black movies so girl I watch modus remember modus y'all modus part one with um Vivica Fox Shamoramore before before he got that bottom teeth. I forgot those bottom teeth for Those bottom teeth were like jagged his bottom teeth were throwing up Cripsons They were just all over the place. It was like two teeth back here Well, like all jagged in a stuck indoors box with Michael J. What Michael J. White with his fine self running from the players club and then the little Passive aggressive girl. I should know these people names the actors that played in My best friends. No, not my best friend's wedding The black version of my best The best man. I'm the one that you know who slept with She's in it and I've seen that movie before but I'm warning But it's a little good and then it had from blossom Joey Lawrence.  He is dead.  They're sorry. I'm gonna supply but Christophe St John also died of heart disease So let's get into what I really came here to look into girl P Valley, let me tell you something. I watched I really do wish they had released all Eight or nine episodes for the season because I wanted to watch it all in one. So They only have three three episodes out now Disclaimer, I am going to be speaking on things that have happened. So spoiler alert Don't watch this girl. Go ahead and click out right now. I've already warned you Go ahead go ahead and do it. Okay. So P Valley y'all, let me tell you something I absolutely love the fact that they Incorporated the pandemic into like all of the episodes.    Mr. What is his name? Y'all funny watching? I'm viewing it and I understand that we went through all of that but it seems like another reality because I'm like wait a minute all the masks and People dying unexpectedly that you thought we're gonna live The you know the testing and all that I'm like that have we went through all that and it wasn't that long ago, right? so child Mercedes mama She is a one to be reckoned with Mercedes mama got her drive through church. She handed out little green and orange Bible She handed out little green and orange Bible Bible to everyone doing her thing cuz K. Sean Who I think it's absolutely adorable.  Do they have two kids? They have two kids she had those one episode where she was storing away diapers. I'm like, what are you doing girl?  He seems to be doing okay.  She has a fake relationship with little murder Because he's on the DL cuz he has a thing with Clifford I think it seemed like they they could they together, you know But so they make you kind of seem like they together and y'all the little friend the one that runs the funeral home I love his voice even though he is small and tiny like little scrappy dog tiny enough Little short man don't do anything for me But his voice is he has a great voice to me. He has a really great voice. So anyway Y'all I had to pause it because I completely forgot to talk about a scene that had me shook So with p-valley since it deals with strippers, you're gonna expect some nudity from the women, right? You rarely see nudity from a male. They may show his bud They may show like an outline or something, but you don't expect the full line where there was a scene I forgot where episode well woman is giving a man a private dance And she has on like a bandana as her mask and he's basically like I want to see your face She's like, no, we can't do that.  She pulls her face mask down. He's like, I knew it.  Here we go already.  No, it was his real dingling pulling now. I was like, wait a minute So I have to rewind it like five or six times I have to run or one that bad boy a half a dozen times to make sure that they really they really was his pain I'm all over the place y'all. So one thing I've noticed about this particular season is that it has an almost Darkness supernatural feel to it. Are y'all feeling mad? Because remember that one scene So because remember that one scene where Uncle Clifford and the security the bouncer, whatever They're fixing the lights and all of a sudden they feel the wind they feel a wind come through and Uncle Clifford is like Did you leave a door open? I was all of a sudden red-boned English girl Girl, what's her name not red-boned English girl Haley. It's Haley walking in and she saw all the things they've done And then you have the one scene with diamond child When Kassha approach diamond at the pigly wiggly or what a brook shot Which grocery store they were at but they were the grocery store and diamond Don't know no longer works at the pink And so Kassha approach them because if y'all remember they had kind of like there wasn't an attraction between him and that actor He's fine. Let me tell you this. This is sad to say but he's fine He's fine. He's a very attractive man But I think his finest has to also do with the mystery behind his character You don't know much about him till this one episode So you have Mercedes that goes up to the she's she's doing her thing on the pole and she falls When she falls they take her over to diamonds check his sugar shack or whatever you Whatever you want to call it girl He brings out some rocks and some jewels and a unicorn teeth Let me tell you something. I guess what he was doing was what I know it as Reiki is Where his energy and you're basically placing it but honestly what he was doing was who do which is different from voodoo from what I understand it's a part of Mississippi culture and for those of you who don't know there's actually some Christians that also Practice that stuff to you guys. And so he was able to release Whatever it was in her body and it was seven pounds Seven pounds of something right and I will tell you growing up in East Texas They do some stuff like that around there. They believe it's stuff like that Red clay and people have what it was my grandma my big mommy's called him hanks.  I'm absolutely. I'm addicted to it Um, I I don't I don't feel like they're showing enough of Haley But she's getting up that she wants it's really interesting to see when Old boy's wife comes in and she's taking off all of the PCP stuff and I'm like, oh you poor thing It's just a lot you guys because you have again I'm looking at the show like we went through that Yeah, we went through all that and we're still trying to go through it, you know, we we're getting through it So that is it you guys my life is a blanket. So I know this is gonna turn off any soon y'all rock with me Thank you guys so much. Thank you for all my new subscribers. Take care. Bye