Mother, are post-40% bran flakes really the best tasting cereal of them all? Well, your father says so, and father knows best. Yes, it's Father Knows Best transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons. Brought to you by America's largest selling bran flakes. Post-40% bran flakes, and by instant post them, the good tasting drink that's entirely caffeine free. Towns and cities like people have birthdays, and Springfield is no exception. In fact, Springfield celebrates its natal day each year with the annual Founders Day Carnival. A fairly gaudy and joyous affair held in the municipal auditorium. The town shops and schools are closed, and its citizens are urged to join together in the day-long celebration. Crooked around the breakfast table in the White Frame House on Maple Street in a holiday mood, the members of the Andersons family are discussing the event, like this. Gee, Mommy, it starts at 12. We better hurry. Now, don't get so excited, Cathy. Heavens know the carnival runs all afternoon and all evening, till midnight. How much spending money can I have this year? Well, I don't know. You'll have to take that up with your father when he comes down for breakfast. I hope he's in a good mood. I remember last year he didn't much want to go to the carnival. Well, don't urge him.  Let him think it's his idea to go and then he'll like it. Well, good morning. Good morning, Father. Sit down, dear. I'll have a waffle for you in just a second. Fine. What's the matter with you kids this morning? You all look so glum. Don't you know this is a holiday? Oh, is it really? Say, that's right. It is, isn't it? Yesing it all morning. Well, sir, I was lying upstairs in bed thinking about it. Oh, you were? Yes. I said to myself, a man needs a day like this occasionally. A day when he can come down to the breakfast table late in his robe and slippers. So, go on, Dad. So, I decided the only thing to do on a day like this is to put on some old clothes, lull around the house, kick around the yard all day. Yes, anything wrong with that? You surely don't want to go to that annual hassle? Sure. We all do. Well, there's no sense in going to that carnival. It's the same thing every year. Same concession, same acts. They got all new acts this year. Almost. Well, it wouldn't be so bad if we had a good time there, but we never do. I had a good time. Oh, sure. You had a good time. I had a good time. I had a good time. Oh, sure. You had a great time.  I'm in better shape this year. Bud lost his wallet with all his money in it. Betty saw her boyfriend with some other girl and wanted to throw herself in the lake. Oh, yeah. We had a wonderful time. Are you through now, Father? I guess so. Why? Well, I have to go to the carnival. I've got to meet Ralph there. Oh, can't Ralph take you? No, he has to get down there early. He's working in one of the booths. Boy, they throw baseballs at a dummy. I see. Well, if Ralph keeps ducking, I don't think he'll get hurt very badly. They don't throw the baseballs at Ralph. I know it, Princess. I was just joking. Some joke. You mean we are going after all... Now, I don't want to be an old wet blanket or a spoil sport, but look at it this way. Here we go. Now, we have a wonderful free day. No work, no school, a wonderful chance to spend a day together. So why should we spoil it by spending it in a dusty, smoke-filled auditorium, being jostled around by a mob of people we hardly know, trying to get a little enjoyment out of dull entertainment and poisonous food? You make it sound very intriguing, dear. Well, it's the truth. We have a wonderful home here. What better place could we spend a holiday in? Want us to name a few? We have a nice secluded yard, a croquet set. Some mallets are broken and there's just one ball left. Well, it might be better to just rest. Oh, great.  Families don't spend enough time together. Then there's books. Now, this is a good day to catch up on your reading. Books are your best friends. Oh, sure. Bob, you haven't finished your breakfast. Where are you going?  Kathy, how about you? Do you want another waffle? No, Mommy. I'm not hungry anymore. May I be excused? I guess so. I'm not hungry either. I'm going to my room. But better you've hardly eaten a thing. Not enough to keep you alive. You call this living? Well, James, you certainly got the children in a fine holiday mood. Well, I know they feel disappointed right now, but staying home on a day like this is the only sensible, logical thing to do. Oh, I agree with you completely. It is the only sensible thing. But somehow or other, logic doesn't always make children happy. Would you hand me that other section of the paper? Uh-huh. It's kind of fun to get out of the house once in a while. What'd you say, Margaret? Oh, nothing. Did you see this piece in here about our neighbor? Who do you mean? Old Fred Kelver. It says he's just returned from his annual motor trip. Leave it to old Blammermouth to get it in the papers. It says here it was an extremely interesting trip highlighted by a visit to Mitchell, South Dakota to see the famous Corn Palace. Corn Palace? What's that? I'm not sure, but I think it's a big auditorium bill out of corn cobs. Well, that sounds interesting. Well, it won't be with the time Fred gets to telling about it. All he'll get out of it is the exact number of kernels they use. And then compare that with his gas mileage between there and Dubuque, Iowa.  Oh, really? I remember last year he cornered me at the drugstore. I had to stand there for two hours. Two hours! While he told me the exact gas mileage he got between every single town on his trip. Oh yes, and how a gas station man in Wompton Springs, Minnesota tried to jip him out of two gallons of gas. I'll never forget it. How'd the man try to do it? Oh, I've forgotten. Say, where's that book I borrowed from Ed Davis a while back? This would be a good day to read that. What book? About four or five years ago you lugged home War and Peace. Yeah, that's the one. Good heavens, haven't you returned back yet? Well, I haven't read it yet. I think I'll go on the den and tackle it so I can get it back to Ed so he can read it. Well, you ought to be able to whip that off in a couple of hours. It's only 1,400 pages. Yes, sir, this is the life. Let's see now. Oh, here we are, War and Peace. That's a heavy book. Oh, here's something lighter. How to tell your friends from apes. Now to stretch out here on the old Davenport. Yes, sir, this is the life. Ah, boy. Father! Uh-oh. Father, are you in the den? Yes, Princess, and I'm reading. Well, I'll try not to disturb you, but I just have to use the phone. The least I can do is let Ralph know I won't be there. You're right ahead. Just don't hang on the phone all day. Oh, of course not, Father.  Uh-huh. Hello, Ralph. This is Betty. No, I won't be there early, late, or any other time. I hate to say why. Go on, tell him why. Yes, that's right. Well, no, it's not that, Ralph. He's really not cheap. I'm getting fonder of that Ralph every day. Well, anyway, I can't go because we're going to spend a perfectly utterly chummy day here in our charming, exciting home. Well stated. Well, maybe I'll see you tomorrow. Okay, Ralph, goodbye. Are you enjoying your book? I haven't even found out what it's about yet. Well, have fun. Thank you. Now then. Dad. Uh-oh. Dad, will I disturb you if I use the phone? Well, how important is it? Awful important. Joe Phillips is expecting to see me at the carnival and I've got to tell him I won't be there. Won't he be able to figure that out if he doesn't see you there? Not, Joe. He's no good at figuring. I'm beginning to think somebody else is, though. This won't take a second, Dad. Hello, is that you, Joe? Bud? Oh, pretty good, considering. Say, Joe, I won't be able to meet you at the Founders Carnival today. Well, no, it's not the money. Exactly. Who said anything about money? Well, Joe, if people are going to talk about us, they'll just have to go ahead and do it. Hmm. No, we're just going to stay home and play something exciting, like authors. Well, I'll be seeing you, Joe. So long. Enjoying your book, Dad? Oh, yes, fine. I've read the first half page over about six times now. And I couldn't tell you a word that's on it. Maybe you ought to try reading something easier. Maybe. Okay, try again. Page one. Daddy! Uh-oh. I thought this was a plot of some kind. Daddy! Yes, kitten, come right in. Did you wish to use the phone? Yes, how did you know? Oh, I don't know. It just seemed like it was about your turn. What do you mean? Oh, nothing. Whom do you have to call? I have to call. I can't remember. I figured it was real important. Oh, I remember. Do I disturb you if I call her? Oh, no, not at all. I want to read this first half page over four or five more times anyway. It's so fascinating. It's carnival. I can't do much the money. But my dad is real cheap. Cheapest man in the world. Old Pied-Wad Tom, they call him. You wouldn't understand now, Patty. I'll see you tomorrow. Did you think up all those things to say all by yourself, Kathy? I think so. Oh, yes, fine. Most interesting book I've ever read. Well, I'll see you later, Daddy. I'll look forward to it. That was a great performance. Well, let's see now. Page one. Say, Jim. Oh, no, Mark. Surely you don't want to use the phone, too. Use the phone? What for? Well, I just thought maybe you were in on the big plot the kids have going. A plot? Yeah. First, they're going to disturb me so much. I'll give up the book. Then they're going to shame me into taking them to the carnival by indicating I'm too chintzy to take them. That isn't the reason, is it? Certainly not. Well, I bring gayer tidings. I just went out to the mailbox. Who know mail deliveries today? No, but in the mad excitement of the holiday, I forgot that. Anyway, I went out there and guess who I ran into? Our dear neighbor, Fred Culver. Oh, golly, did you get stuck? No, I didn't. But it seems he found out you were going to lull around home all day. So he said, that's great. I'll just drop over and spend the whole afternoon telling old Jim about our fascinating trip to the corn palace. You mean he's coming over here? Yes. And Jim, he's going to bring along some of the most unbelievable mileage figures you've ever seen. Trapped. Right in my own home. Poor father. That's the trouble with planning a quiet day at home. You can never be sure how it will end up. However, here are a few things you can be sure of. When it comes to breakfast, chances are you've been hearing about brand and its important keep regular benefits for years. And maybe you've actually tried it. Only you weren't fully satisfied with the flavor. 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Well, it's going to be an interesting afternoon at the White Frame House on Maple Street. Fred Culver, the longest-winded talker in the neighborhood, has discovered that Jim is spending a holiday at home and is on his way over. Let's see how Jim handles this little problem. Margaret, why did you have to tell Fred I was going to be home? What else could I tell him, dear? You made it very plain to all of us that you weren't going to step out of the house. You see, Father, if you'd gone to the carnival like the sensible people in town... Friends, it's simply because I refused to wait in hot dogs and strawberry pop. That's the life. What is? Waiting in hot dogs and strawberry pop. Don't you want to talk to Mr. Culver, Daddy? Uh, run outside, kitten. I don't know what you can do, dear. Well, I know I'm not going to let that champion bore corner me like this without a fight. I'll handle old Fred's some way. How? I don't know yet. Maybe I'll just let him tell his story. I won't say a word. Let him bore himself to death for once. Well, that must be him now. Go let him in, bud, and send him into the den. Yeah, get him here right away. I can hardly wait. Okay. Come on, girls, you come out to the kitchen with me. The men will want to be alone while they discuss the corn palace.  Okay. What can we do, Mommy? Oh, I've got a few ideas that might work. He's right there in the den, Mr. Culver. Fine, bud, fine. Nice little home you have here. We spend all our holidays in it. Dad, here's Mr. Culver. Oh, hello, Fred. Hi there, Jim, old boy. Bud, come out in the kitchen. I'm coming. So you're just taking your kind of easy today, huh, Jim? That was my original plan. Well, sir, I don't blame you. No place like home, I always say. Uh-huh. You take this trip we made. It was real interesting all the way down the line, but even so, there were times when I wish I was home. Ever feel like that? I do right now. Yes, sir. Sure, a lucky thing I happened to catch you in today. Oh, yeah, things have really been breaking for me lately. You know, Jim, I wish you could have been along on this trip. Absolutely one of the most interesting trips I've ever made. Why, you just wouldn't believe the gas mileage I got. Oh, yes I would. Guess what I average for the whole trip that is. Oh, I don't know. Oh, go on, make a guess. Well, uh, about... No, no, you're off. 22 and 3 fourths miles per, would you believe that? Yes. 22 and 3 fourths. Yeah, I got that. 22 and 3 fourths, Jim. Say, that was an interesting trip, wasn't it? Say that again. Now, let's see. You want to start off with the out-of-state licenses we counted or the names of the motels we stopped in? I don't know, they both sound so fascinating. It's hard to decide. Well, I'll tell you. I'll show you the snapshots first. I got some real dandies this year. I'll bet. Yes, sir, we went clean up to Mitchell, South Dakota, you know, and Jim, we saw the corn palace. Uh-huh. Was that interesting? Was it? You wouldn't believe this, Jim, but I counted 19 out-of-state licenses parked right there. No. 19. Oh, it can't be. I'll prove it to you. I got it written down here someplace. Now, where is that? Never mind, Fred, never mind. I believe it. Well, we'll come to that later on anyway. Now, here's a picture of some rocks outside of Pipestone, Minnesota. Really?  No, it doesn't. But you should have seen it in color. Incidentally, it was right near here that we stopped at a very interesting farmhouse to get some water to take my vitamin pills.  A prize-winning boar. They give prizes for that now? Oh, sure, sure. I got a picture of it here someplace. Where did I paste that? I know it's in here. Well, never mind, Fred. Don't bother. No, no, no. I want you to see what a prize boar looks like. I've got a fairly good idea. It's got to be in here. Well, look, Fred, old man, let's just... What's up, Father? I... Oh, hello, Mr. Culver. Oh, hello there. I'm Betty in case you've forgotten which one I am. Oh, sure, sure. I was just telling your father about a little trip we made. Oh, I'd love to hear all about it. Did you really go to the corn palace? Yes, sir. We sure did. The old corn palace. Oh, I'd just love to hear all about it. Uh, Betty... Go on, Mr. Culver. Well, sir, the day we arrived there, I counted 19 out-of-state licenses. Park right there in that one place. Did you really? Yes, with Mrs. Culver's help, of course. 19? What states were they? Betty... Well, there was Tennessee, Idaho, Maine...  Arkansas, Utah, Ohio, Betty... Just a minute, Father. I want to hear this. Kansas, New Hampshire, and you don't see many New Hampshire's. Well, I bet not. Go on. Betty, Oregon, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, both South and North Carolina. Gee. How many is that? I didn't count them. Would you start over again? Betty!  I didn't hear her. Say, Betty, do you know where my... Oh, am I interrupting something? No, but Mr. Culver was just telling Father and me about his trip. I'll bet you'd like to hear about this, too. Oh, boy, would I. Culver, would you mind starting right in at the beginning so Bud won't miss a thing? Well, I'd be glad to, but maybe it'll bore Jim here. Oh, no. Well, no. Well, interesting things bear repeating, I always say. Bud, we left here exactly two weeks ago, a day before yesterday, and we motored to Mitchell, South Dakota. And there we took in the corn palace an average 22 and 3 fourths miles per gallon. Now, what do you think of that? Holy cow! Bud. Well, what I did, Bud, was put down each gallon of gas I put into the car at the time it was put in. And the mileage plus weather conditions. Wind makes a difference, you know. I also indicated whether it was generally uphill or downhill. Excuse me a minute, Fred. Bud, don't you have to go out now and do your chores? I don't have any chores to do. You do now. You better run along. But I thought we were just gonna lull around the house enjoying ourselves today. Mr. Culver, tell Bud how many out-of-state licenses you saw. 22 and 3 fourths. No, no, no. What's the matter with me? 19, 19. What states were they? Bud. Oh, me, Arkansas. Oh, me. Oh, Jim, you'd better hurry and dress or we'll be late. Huh? The children and I are already. I would have called you sooner, but I didn't realize what time it was getting to be. We've missed part of the carnival as it is. Carnival? Are you people going to the carnival? Oh, yes! Whoa, wouldn't miss it for the world. Well, I guess I must have misunderstood. I thought you were going to be home all day. He was going to be home, and then we remembered this was carnival day, and Jim had promised to take the children. Oh, sure, sure, I see. I'm sorry to have to break this up, Fred. Oh, that's all right, Jim. We can do it later. Okay, Fred. I just hope that I haven't lost the snapshot of that prize bore. Oh, you'll find it. Thanks for coming over, Fred. That's okay, Jim. Glad to do it for you. See you later. Fine, Fred, so long. Mrs. Anderson, may I shake your hand and congratulate you on your new position as chief of the rescue squad? Well, thank you, dear. But you little traitors, egging them on like that. Who? Us? What states were they? What was your gas mileage? Oh, I lost count. Will you start over? Whose idea was that, anyway? Who's was it? Well, we haven't time to discuss that now. If you don't hurry, we never will get to the carnival. And we are going. Aren't we, Jim? Do you want to know something? If I don't get out of this house, I'll go crazy. Come on, let's go. Fred Culliver'd make anyone a nervous wreck, wouldn't he? But he's not the only one. There's a certain other party that may be troubling you and your nerves. Tell us about him, Ed Brantus. Well, his name, friends, is Mr. Coffee Nerves. And he's the world's champion sleep thief and nerve-upsetter, believe me.  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Welcome back! What's up? I hope you have had a wonderful week. I certainly have. I'm here at Rooster Teeth Productions. They must be Team Leader 2, right? Everyone who wears red is Team Leader by default. After meeting a number of the staff at RTX, they invited me to come down to the studio and see how their productions are made. That's so awesome! And I was just going, oh my gosh, are you sure? That sounds amazing! And I love the idea. For anyone who's not familiar, Rooster Teeth makes a number of productions that live online, like here on this YouTube channel, which is where I live for now. Wait, where do I live? Do I live in the tubes too? Okay, existential crisis is aside. We're having a lot of fun here in the studio and I thought it'd be a good time to go over some necessities for video production. That's how you say it, right? Nailed it. Yeah! And here to help me with all of the super duper important information that I must get absolutely correct is the showrunner. He's called a showrunner. What? Why is he running from what show? What are we showing? Anyways, yeah! Hey Ruby, thanks for having me. Of course, thanks for having me here. So what do we need to learn about first? First off, we got watermarks. They go in the corner to let people know they're watching one of our videos. Oh yeah, I see it now. Um, why is it wet? Don't tell Neptune he's going to freak out. Some people call him bugs. There's a bug on the screen, bro. Hey, if you're watching at home, please shoot that bug away. Shoot! Shoot! Get it! Here! Next up are end cards, which let's you suggest other videos you've made to people who just watched your video. Of course, that makes total sense. They can go watch the first video that I made, which is called Hi, I'm Ruby. And they can check out my review of RTX 2023. I had so much fun. Exactly. Got it. Okay, that makes total sense. But it still goes at the end of the video, right? Wait, wait. But that means it's in the end. And if it's in the end, it doesn't even matter. We also need Ah, thumb, thumb. All right, I have two thumbs and they're way, way up. Where are the nails? Those are the pictures that people see when they're looking for videos to watch. You gotta make it interesting. Oh yeah, I totally knew what you meant. I'm just gonna slowly put these down. Good thing I dressed up today. What's my best angle? I only have two of them. Oh, what's the thing that you say in your world before photos? Uh, I got it. I wasn't even in the picture, Ruby. Yeah, but you still look great. Thanks.


Can I take a picture? If you take a picture, you must have filmed the event. Hello Neil. It's day 21, 22, 23, 24. Every day I try to find joy in everything that my family spends on. We're coming up to the end of the month. I've noticed a slight worrying trend for me to go back to the coffee shop chains to do work. I think I've become one of those people. But it's a table and there's people around. So apart from that, I don't think I've got any other spending today other than a trip to Brighton to see a friend of mine stand up friend perform his show. And look at today. So we made it and we are here in. So we made it to Brighton. So we made it to Brighton. I haven't got an ending for this video. I haven't got a middle either. I should just end it here just really properly. I'll take a picture. If you take a picture, you must have filmed the event. Can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers? Just click in the space. Thanks. Bye.


This talk is going back to really simple freshman calculus. Now I understand not everybody in computing took freshman calculus, but I'll assume you didn't come to this talk if you didn't have a vague idea what a power series was. And the point of the talk is how little it takes in Haskell to get a very long way into mathematics. And some of the reasons are on the slide here. Lazy evaluation lets you deal with infinite structures. It turns out that the head-tail notion of a list is just beautiful for some mathematical constructs better than subscripts. And it results in the Haskell looking like mathematics. Power series are just a sequence of coefficients. We're totally formal here. We're not interested in issues like convergence. And if the power series happens to end, we call it a polynomial. Here are on the screen a few useful polynomials, 0, 1, and there are two ways to represent a 0. In fact, there are an infinite number of ways to represent a 0. Simple monomial x is a 0, 1. The cosines, we all know the cosines series. It just turns into a few fractions. The simplest things are addition and negation, which are operations that belong to class num in Haskell. The red things are all that you need to read on the slide. To do addition, you add the heads of the sequences and recur on the tail. Negation, exactly the same. And in Haskell, subtraction comes for free. It's defined in terms of addition in the way shown at the upper half of this slide. The numerical class, class num, has a few standard functions attached to it. Add, subtract, multiply, negate. And here is a piece of the definition from the standard prelude. Negate is a function from some type to the same type, numeric type to the same type. Addition, multiplication and subtraction similarly. And in red, I say same type. This is critical. It is defined that you can only add two things of the same kind. And for multiplication, that makes a difference because you can't multiply a power series by a scalar. There we see a little Haskell showing on top of the mathematics. The same code at the bottom is code that was on the previous slide, how to do negation and addition. Only it's been put in the context of an instance declaration that says lists are numerics. Having lists being numerics, we're off to the races. We could have done a couple of those definitions in terms of standard Haskell functions, or we might have. Negation is simply a map of the negate function over a whole list. It's a temptation to say addition is zipping two lists together with adding term-wise. What's wrong with that? If the two lists are of different length. Exactly. Zipping only goes to the shorter one, so we had to give a different definition than zip for multiplication. Now it gets more interesting. Multiplication. The think of a power series in the upper red line, a power series f is a first term, lower case f, plus a tail, x times a tail, and the tail has a bar over it. With that as the unfolding that, we can find out what f times g is. There are three lines of derivation here. The second line of the derivation is simply unfolding f and g. The third line is noting that the last two terms in the second line can be factored. Factor x f bar out of them. Now we know how to do the head, fg. Well, I can't point to my screen, you won't see it. We add, we have to promote the constant term by putting it in brackets. We promote the constant term to a power series and multiply it by another power series. And finally we have the recurrence on the tail of multiplying the two tail series together. And multiplying by x is simply moving something one place down the sequence, so that the constant function performs multiplication by x. We get integer powers for free because they're defined in Haskell in terms of the product. And this is simply the same old formula for multiplication of two lists followed by how it appears in the freshman calculus book and which one looks easier. The derivation on the previous slide was far easier than the derivation by exchanging orders of summation. Division is a little nastier. If you do the same kind of derivation, it's a two-step process to come up with the red formula. But I'm leaving off the screen a whole lot of decoration. There are various ways in which you have to defend against zero divides more than one way. And we have, by the way, discovered long division in a very simple derivation. Long division is divide the two head terms, although we're writing polynomials with the least degree term first rather than the biggest one, but that's okay. Divide the head terms, multiply that term of the quotient by the divisor, and subtract from the dividend. That's exactly what that formula says, and it's a familiar old long division. The biggest flaw in that statement alone is that if you divide two polynomials and the result is exact, you get an infinite sequence of zeros. It's not too difficult to decorate this up with a test to see whether that's happening and stop. But this is the basic idea. Functional composition, f of g of x. The unfolding procedure goes again in two steps. But notice in that last line of the derivation, we have the head of f added to the head of g. And if we continue to unroll the tail of f, we will get the heads all of g added in there. And that's an infinite sum in order to compute the head of the result. That's not so good. So we restrict ourselves for g to begin with, to not have a constant term. And translating that formula, we get the one at the bottom with sharp taken as the composition operator. Reversion. This is the functional inverse. There's a great literature about reversion. Many, many people have produced, have written papers on algorithms for how to do reversion. Knuth's treatise refers to several of them. And his best treatment of this algorithm is about a half page of pseudocode.  Which is perhaps implicit in the formulations in the papers, but never made explicit. This is the best single line of code I ever wrote. But notice the feedback. The result, RS, is fed back into the formula. This is a wonderful thing about, and why does the feedback work? Well, because you've got one term to work on that leads zero. And that produces the next term, and the feedback does work. It takes delay to do feedback, and we've got it. Now a little bit of Haskellism. In Haskell, you know that the constants, numeric constants, are polymorphic. And they are in a formula, they are converted to the first type on a list, which makes the type of the expression work out. So, and how is it done? There is a from integer, class num has a from integer operation that will convert to, and you have to supply it for each type you'd like to convert to. You want to convert it to list. And this says that to convert an integer constant c into a power series, you first convert it into whatever the underlying type of the power series is, and then you put it in the list. Now, having done that, we have this x, which I showed you a formula for before. This is the polynomial zero one. And in red, I've said you've got to preserve polymorphism. Haskell would ordinarily decide, oh, this is a definition, I've got to give it a type. We don't want it to have a type yet, because it might end up being rational rather than integer. Now, if having done that, we take the formula one over one minus x, which as you recall is the sum of the geometric series down at the bottom of the page, take ten terms of it, and they're all ones. So here with little more instruction than you've given third grade on how to do arithmetic, we've gotten you to power series. Calculus. Derivative is real easy. All you have to do is multiply each term times its index, and shift right one because the constant term has derivative zero. And we happen to have the handy zip width and the handy enumeration notation in Haskell. Actually, there is a gotcha in this particular line of code if you're really into Haskell. Because we used an enumeration, we get enum in the type. And that's a contamination. Now Haskell has dealt with it in certain other places. If you use a fraction, one half starting from one half to enumerate one half, three halves, five halves, seven halves, the result is rational and enum. The notion that the rationals are enumerable is a little bit strange. So I could make these things, these power series enumerable, but I can avoid it by just spelling out the definition instead of using zip width. And division, I'm sorry, integration is the same thing only as a zip width divide and you shift in the opposite direction. Having derivative and integral, we can start playing games. Cosine and sine, we have the differential equations for them with initial conditions at the top. If we integrate those differential equations and substitute the initial condition for the constant term, we get those two formulas for cosine and sine. And that is a working program. Similarly for the exponential. Here's an application of differential equations. We wanted to take the exponential e to a function. That's the same if we, because of the chain rule and differentiation, we have the first formula and then solving the differential equation, turning the differential equation into an integral equation, the same as we did on the last slide, we get y equals e to the constant term plus an integral of the derivative times y. And that turns into this Askel program. Not a very pretty program. We can write it much prettier at the bottom. e to the f of x is just the functional composition. But the upper formula is a linear process and the lower formula is, if I remember correctly, cubic generating functions. Generating functions, if you have one in Haskell, the generating function is something you can execute. It really does generate. It's not just an abstract idea that a generating function generates. It really does. And this is the most complicated slide of the bunch. It does the generating function for binary trees. A binary tree has a root, two binary trees under it. If you know how many nodes or how many ways the right-hand tree of size 5 could have in it and how many nodes the left-hand side of size 2 has in it, 5 times 2 added to 1 is the number of trees of size 7 plus 1 is 8. There's the argument and you get this simple little red recurrence formula for the generating function. Generating function for the number of binary trees is 1 plus x times its square. And remember, x times is shifting right, 1, constant. So there's the formula. But why couldn't I use plus in this one the way I used plus in the exponential? Because this, in this case, the feedback isn't delayed. The t on the right is exactly the same t as the t on the left. It's not the tail of it. It hasn't had anything prepended to it. So if I wrote plus, this would be an infinite loop. I had to use cons. And this produces the Catalan numbers which enumerate binary trees or number of ways to parenthesize an expression within primitive symbols in it and so on. I've a lovely generating function example. Oh, not yet. Because lists are in class num and the definition of the way the instance declaration said for lists to be in class num, its underlying type has to be in class num. Well, that's recursive. So given I could have a power series with power series coefficients. Now the power series coefficients had better be polynomials because while you're generating the first term of the, it takes infinitely long to generate the first term of the outer series. But if they are polynomials, we're in good shape. And here's an application. Generating function for the binomial coefficients is 1 plus x to the nth power. Now, we plug that in to the geometric series which has x to every power. You plug that in as the coefficient. The coefficient will have the nth power. You plug that in and see what you get at the bottom. Pascal's triangle for almost free. We need to do a little bit more work.  So the answers really came out fractional the way I had written the program. And I showed you the answers as integers. If I use it default, I'm sorry, the answers didn't come out as integers. They came out as floating point numbers by default in Haskell. If I change the default ordering of types for interpretation of constants to integer then rational and then double, I get nice rational arithmetic as I've been showing. And the other bit of polishing here is I can take the formula for Pascal, put it in just one line of code by simply substituting in the formula for 1 minus x as, I'm sorry, 1 plus x. 1 minus x, 1 minus x, sorry, there's the formula and there's 1 minus 0 1 which is x. Well, that's about enough examples. The notion is just to show how fast you can build and how nice it looks due to the fundamental mathematics behind, that Haskell is based on really nice mathematical ideas that carry over when you apply it to mathematics. A lazy evaluation, a head tail, compute the head and recur on the tail a pattern that should be drilled into every student and we have a list of contributory factors in the design of Pascal. All these formulas can be found on my website in this one very little page which turns there are only ten one liners to get all the way to Pascal's triangle. And that's all I have to say. Thank you.


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You know we talked about some of those criteria and being able to train the most muscle mass When you drop the bench press on your chest And let it bounce off your chest and then sort of grab the bar and start pushing from a few inches off of your chest It's really it's really a front-delta and tricep exercise at that point. You've lost these giant peck muscles You're listening to barbell logic brought to you by barbell logic online coaching where each week We take a systematic walk through strength training and the refining power of voluntary hardship Welcome to the barbell logic podcast. I'm here with my cohort Nikki Sims Before we get started on the show, I want to tell everybody we've got a place now We get asked a lot like what are the current offers for barbell logic and so we created a page for that It's just barbell logic comm slash offers So what's on there? So all of the relationships we have with like great companies like Tushie and Dominion and micro gains and and all of those companies that we have Relationships with that you can get discounts. They're there, but also like our latest e-book or any Any discounts that we're currently running for online coaching or things about the academy all that stuff is there So if you want to stay up to date We update that all the time barbell logic comm slash offers and that will take you that'll tell you what the Discounts are and the discount codes and all that fun stuff. They're all in one place Shopping and that'll that'll be there forever. Hopefully so So we we were talking a little bit over the last couple weeks about this idea That I continued to play around with with programming with my clients and that is I'm gonna make a super blanketed statement, which is really more for a Probably clickbaity title, which is that everyone should pause their bench press. Whoa, should they tell me more? I Think so now the question is should everyone at all points at all time during the training pause or bench press and the answer Probably no When someone new comes to me who is a novice. I don't have them pause or bench press Because it just adds an extra step of complexity to the bench press that doesn't need to be there, right? And they're already just trying to figure out where everything's supposed to go And you just give them like 35 steps to follow This is actually really funny when we were shooting the bench press how-to video a couple months ago It is so much harder to explain all the steps for a bench press then the squat or the deadlift or the press like combined It's so weird There's way more steps even though it's a fairly simple lift And so but you're right one of the things you'll you'll notice especially for coaches or for people who have trained for a long time And maybe they've coached new clients or they've got training partners that have never trained before They're trying to coach their their spouse or a some sort of training partner Then they'll notice that that on a bench press. They're kind of all a brand a newbie is kind of all over the place Right, they touch their chest at a different spot every time The lockouts at a different spot every time and they may be trying to touch the same spot and lock out at the same spot They just don't yeah, it's just kind of all over the place They get wiggly wiggly hands wrist are bending. They're like breathing up and down while the bar is moving. Yeah there's a lot of stuff to remember and once those things sort of The the groove is greased and those things fall in place then I start to notice as people get towards the end of LP and they start going into making their first several steps into Intermediate-style programming maybe we've moved them to five sets of three on the bench press and I start to see the problem of the bounce on the bench press and That is most of us everyone understands when I say the bounce is this you know It's the people that literally drop the weight on their chest It bounces off their chest and and they catch it about four inches off their chest and then return it to lockout And you'll see like you'll see it have like kind of one Consistence be down until it gets like two inches above their chest then it goes really fast Then it goes kind of fast back up and then it gets really slow. That's exactly right. That's exactly right now a Lot of people don't actually bounce it real hard off their chest And that's certainly certainly a more egregious error a lot of people just get loose in the bottom And so maybe they've learned to not literally Bounce the bar off their chest, but they're not staying tight in the bottom so Before I get to why we bench press I want to stop for a second and actually take the bench press Discussion and put it on the back burner and go to the squat for a second because everyone knows this makes sense on the squat so if you're a coach and You have a client who's really struggling to stay tight in the bottom of a squat What are some of the things that you might do to get them to learn how to be tight in the bottom of a squat? Tell them to slow down Yep, so what down there's their speed on the way down. Yeah, the descent the down part. Yeah Yeah, so that they Be baby and by doing that they actually become more intentional about about where they're supposed to be putting their body in space and That makes them stay tighter instead of this kind of like Dive bomb like I'm just gonna kind of hope for the best and see what happens here. That's right And so when they when they do do the dive bomb What do you see like how do you know that they're not staying tight in the bottom? Their depth starts to be very inconsistent.    That's right now Here's here's the next question you and I haven't talked about this on the spot Yeah, then we're gonna stay with the squat when that doesn't work because sometimes you tell people that mm-hmm, and it just doesn't work Do you have like what's the next step to fix the problem if they just can't slow down or they just can't control themselves in the bottom? What do you do awesome? But it's my next step. Yeah, that's exactly right You go to a pause squat or or I'll go to a box squat Which is also a pause squat so pause squat is my first choice because I really don't want Something it's sort of a depth gauge if it doesn't have to be there I'd rather them be able to stay tight and stop in the bottom and pause the squat And if they are just they just can't you know, you see people that they think they're pausing But the bars like still moving down kind of slow and they still fire up I'm like, I really never or they pause and they do the little cheater bounce. That's right We'll cheater bounce then I'll put them on a box. Well, which makes them stop in exactly the right spot Right and it teaches them how to and on a box when I have them sit on the box I tell them sit on the box super slow super easy like a ninja don't make any noise Right ease on to the box.  That's right. So now What are we doing? We pause a bench press Same thing. It's the same thing Basically, the chest is the box That's right. Whoa, geez. Whoa We got there together Yeah, so I mean so it fixes the problem and so what we do is We tell them to pause on the chest And we pause for about a one second count is enough. We don't need anything really ridiculously long There are other things, you know in that controlling the descent on a bench press Similar to the controlling the descent on the squat and one thing we do and what what you said on the bench press video That we've got on youtube is to just basically think about touching your shirt Touch the material of your shirt without touching Your breast bone the bony portion of your breast when I pause or when I have a client pause the bench press Especially in the beginning when they're learning how to pause One of the first cues I'll give them is to keep all the weight of the barbell in their hands I don't want it distributed onto their chest now You'll see some really advanced power lifters Set the bar on their chest sink and throw and certainly I'm not that's not entirely legal But it also is really called and so hey, let's do it. Let's let's do the best we can to lift the most weight But for for people who are still trying to learn how to get tight That step of teaching them to Ease onto their chest Keep all the weight in their hands so they don't feel any of the weight on their breast bone Pause for a full second count and then fire the thing up as hard as they can It accomplishes all sorts of things So first off it accomplishes learning how to descend correctly. It fixes the descent Yeah, you end up putting the bar exactly where you need to put it That's exactly right or you don't but you'll figure it out pretty quick It'll force you to figure it out because you have in the same way of a squat You have time to think about it now a lot of times people go down and they get loose in a squat They don't know how deep they got they don't know What they bounced off of They don't know if they bounced off their adductors or their hamstrings or their knee tendons or anything Right because it's just too fast. It's the same thing with the bench press by going down and lightly touching and pausing And throwing you can you can concentrate on staying tight all the way to the bottom Touching the same spot every time Staying really really tight while you're down there and then firing back up, right? Yeah, and it it's going to reduce the stretch reflex a little bit But there still is some stretch reflex that elasticity holds for a couple seconds, right? If I pause down there for three full seconds, I'm basically going to lose all of that But we don't pause that long we pause for one second And really you probably shouldn't be getting much stretch reflex on a regular touch and go bench anyway Like it's not like the squat where you're reaching the full Kind of sweat where you're switching from concentric to eccentric You're not really getting that much out of your your pecs or your interior dirt deltoids unless you have like Maybe really long lower arms Yeah, no, that's a good point You're not at the deepest range of motion of any of those joints or muscle groups But when you stay tight the muscles are still lengthened Yes, and so therefore they can fire and shorten whereas if they relax They're not really lengthened in a under load, right? They're they're no longer lengthen under load and so being able to maintain that is is a big part of this And then here's what I found The first couple workouts that I do this with my clients.  Well, it goes from you controlling however much weight you have in your hands You're controlling 225 pounds down Then when you let it go fast you're controlling 225 pounds plus whatever that acceleration is Then you have to switch directions Then it's even that much heavier when you're kind of essentially digging yourself out of that hole on the way So you want you want to keep it weighing 225 Yeah, and I would argue that The pecs aren't getting used very much down there Because you have let gravity pull the weight down entirely, right? There's no there's no lengthening under load because you just relaxed and the thing's falling down at 9.8 meters per second right and they totally totally jostles They're like arch and they're oh, it's awful at that point And like so much of your bench press has to do with how well you're setting up your arch and pressing Your upper back against your shoulders that if you let the bar slime into you all that stuff just kind of pancakes So another great analogy here. We can literally take the same The same idea and apply it to both the squat and the deadlift as well So on a squat if they if i'm having somebody box squat and they fall on the box That's the last thing I want because now it's in a massive compressive and shear force On the back between the box and the barbell. It's not that's not real fun. Good time Yeah, it does not it sounds like an injury waiting to happen. So that's what we have to ease on the box But this is also the problem that we get with people that bounce their deadlifts on the floor It rattles them out of position. It's the same thing. Totally. And so we're trying to maintain that position So, you know, we talk about some of those criteria and being able to train the most muscle mass Is one of the most important criteria we use When you drop the bench press on your chest And let it bounce off your chest and then sort of grab the bar and start pushing from a few inches off of your chest It's really it's really a front delt and tricep exercise at that point.  Yeah, that's why we do it Or may not be the main reason we do it, but it's certainly one of the reasons we do it We is in a small group of we Yeah, we is in you and I in the room How so how often Do you or is there a time that you tend to take your trainees From just their regular bench press and you make them start pausing their bench press Is there are things that you can pull out and say this is sort of a commonality when they get about here Or is it are you kind of all over the place with your clients with I like to use it as one of the first variations That I use at the lift because it's so similar to the main lift and yet It will only add more control at the bottom We don't have to do a huge offset and weight And we don't have to teach them a whole new movement We're not adding any new equipment So it's just a really simple first choice for the first variation that I use And then if we're training for a competition, I'll get it going right away So it's either going to be a supplemental Well, I'll use it for like the the one bench press day of the week And then I'll I'll stick with the touch and go for the second day But if they're training for a meet I want all pause bench all the time So, um, I'm yeah about the same I mean, obviously I think everybody that's listening to this probably knows but in powerlifting A contested bench press must be paused And in in basic normal strength training it doesn't And if there's good control of the bench press, especially in that in that descent all the way down to the chest I don't know if they ever have to pause it, but Almost everyone at some point will start to use some momentum In the bottom of that bench press and I start to have to add the pause and so I'm the same way Uh, again, if I'm thinking it through the sort of minimum effective dose changes that I tend to make I'll move them from three sets of five to five sets of three when I get to triples That's a good place to start pausing. I don't tend to pause Uh sets with more than three reps. Yeah, so I like pauses with three and less Now some of my clients are listening right now Specifically father john floater who's doing five sets of five and he has to pause all of all But the guy's struggling to stay tight in the bottom. So sorry father john. That's just the way it goes So occasionally Occasionally you got to do 25 reps all pause, which is not very and I don't do that very often, right? So and then I'm the same way with as I was what you're saying if people are doing They're sort of volume day three sets of five four sets of five five sets of five If they're doing some hypertrophy work, you know, like you're doing right now some three sets of eight type stuff I don't make them pause or maybe I'll say pause the first rep of every set often do that And then touch and go after that just lightly touch the shirt But for sets with three reps and less For just about all of my clients who are intermediates and beyond I'm gonna make them pause all those and I do in my own training because I like to be able to control the weight So that's that's a that's an important advantage now I think there's a a second other more advanced advantage To pause in the bench press and that's that I think it will help teach you How to better use leg drive when you pause the bench press because you really want it Yeah leg drive is one of the hardest things to teach especially online Because it's very difficult. You you almost need to put your hands on somebody and show them It's it's also another one of those things that I want them to see me do it sometimes Like it's it's one of the only things I'll model for somebody else Because when we've talked about this before most of the time people can't look at like hey Watch me do a snatch and then you just do it like me like that doesn't work, you know But when they can see the way the legs help throw the bar off the chest on a bench press My experience has been that for most people a light bulb goes off and like oh I get it right you can throw and I can make my sternum move From my leg drive. I can drive my heels into the ground and sort of tense up my quads And it and and pop my hips a little bit not pop my hips off the bench But pop into a slightly better arch as I pop into a slightly better arch It lifts my sternum and as it lifts my sternum that helps contribute to the leg drive on the bench press So I have a question about that. Do you think that That is better than maybe Having so big of a leg drive on the way down that your sternum reaches its max height For the entirety of the movement instead of you getting to that max height as you throw it off That's actually that's a great question. So first off. Let's say this I don't think a super super arch Or a super super leg drive is really valuable for general strength training at all This is a competitive movement at this point, right? So at the point that we're doing but either either or of those things The goal is to bench press the most weight probably for competition Yeah, or because we're trying to set an all-time pr or something like that now There are two ways. I think two ways that if you look at All of the best bench pressers who have ever lived They all will bench in one of two styles One style the ones who have insanely strong Triceps and can reduce their range of motion dramatically. So it also tends to be guys who have short arms Will do what you're saying they will arch arch arch up They'll meet the bar with their chest as the bar is coming down So that they reduce the range of motion on the bench press as much as possible And then their triceps Only have to move the bar four or five inches to lock the thing out And so it's almost an all a tricep all tricep movement There's very little pecs and this was really the way bench pressing was done Back in the 90s and early 2000s when everybody used a bench shirt So again, probably most our listeners know back in that time period of really the 80s through the through maybe 2005 to 2010 10 years ago or so almost all power lifters were lifting in supportive gear So power lifters would put on these they look like What are those shirts that what are those like?   She was going to compete in a parallel to me She couldn't get the leg drive couldn't get the leg drive and I said man So we had a trip and you were on this trip I think where She was in LA at the time went down to LA and I got to just work with her for like an hour and a half And teach her the leg drive she became a master of the leg drive And I see this out of females a lot because they tend to be more flexible They can get into a bigger arch than a lot of guys can and so for for Hypermobile people which tend to be female other guys that can do this too, especially lighter weight guys They have a little more play in their arch and she learned how to bring that bar down Super tight the base of her chest kind of sink and you would watch her throw I bet she got four inches of throw out of her chest alone I mean out of her breastbone and leg drive alone. She would throw it that hard. It was crazy She was great at it. So so that's one of the reasons we do it now again That's an advanced movement But it's very difficult where you can kind of back this up a couple steps Is for clients who are struggling with leg drive and you can see and by the way, this is actually why we're doing I I gave him a hard time a minute ago But why we're doing it with father John floater is because he actually doesn't have a hard time staying tight On the descent on a bench press. He just doesn't have any leg drive That the guy could literally be uh, uh, what's what is it when you cut your legs legs off? Well, that means he could be like a like a like yeah, it could be like a double amputee His legs and you wouldn't notice any difference. The guy's just an upper body bench presser But the thing is he's a way better squatter and deadlifter than he is a bench presser. He's made us He's got super strong legs. Yeah, so it's like man We got to figure out how to use your legs on the bench on the bench press And so that's why he's pausing so he's pausing and sinking and throwing see j. Gocher one of our coaches I'm coaching him right now. He's got a meat coming up. He's doing the same thing We've adapted to using the the sink and throw I have a question Do you ever Have a client wear a belt for their bench press? Yes, or is that do you leave that up to personal preference? What do you think I tend to leave it up to personal preference? I do You may have a different answer for this in general I have done both when i'm competing in powerlifting. I tend to wear a belt more often I think a belt for sure helps to solidify The val salva maneuver we want a good strong val salva on any of the lifts We know the spine isn't loaded. So in the same way that it sort of helps create that Interabdominal pressure so that the muscles that tend to move the bar like on a squat and deadlift like the muscles around your hips It helps to transfer the energy from the hips into the barbell. We know that's not the case on the bench press, right? But I do think you tend to get a better val salva maneuver and you can get a little tighter Um, so I'll use it some but I tend to use it for leave it for personal preference. What about you? Yeah, I'm always just like, yeah, if you want to wear a belt wear it like I've never felt a good trade-off But now as we have this discussion, I'm wondering if that would be At all useful for someone who's not really connecting their lower body to their upper body Like maybe there needs to be some like tactile feedback there through the abdomen that could be helpful I don't know. Yeah, I think I think so for sure. I think that's actually a really good point So yeah, it's probably another great learning piece that if you're trying to Put the leg drive together and you have a hard time getting the leg drive add in a belt Probably does a pretty good job of doing that. One of the things that I try to do with somebody when they're I'm teaching the leg drive is I I don't even put the barbell in their hands.  If you've never done that before just do it before your first couple Before your first couple sets and do it with the empty bar. It's really easy, you know, you can play around Do it with the empty bar. Yeah, and then and then I keep practicing that with With the lighter weights I do the same thing on deadlifts. You've seen me deadlift before when I deadlift my first early sets 135 225 I do this real weird looking like hip pop at the tie get to the top I squeeze my glutes are hard. I pop it and the bar comes flying off my legs at the top Well, it's obviously not going to do that one's heavy. It's going to be too heavy It's not going to matter But you know, I've kind of got bad hips and I'm not great at remembering to pop the hips I tend to lose my deadlifts like you do kind of at the top at lock out and I'm trying to sort of This is probably not a true. This is a bro science word I'm trying to set the set the motor pattern set the central nervous system to say, hey Finish this lift quick at the top pop throw the hips squeeze the butt do those sort of things and so You know, I don't know some of that may just be placebo But it seems to work pretty well to make sure that then as the weight starts getting heavy I've already sort of set the tone. We're not locking this thing out slow. Yeah We're trying to lock it out fast And I had a thought about leg drive that I think sometimes if people May not be getting leg drive. It's always worth it to check that they're That they're sticking on their bench Like sometimes people leg drive and they slide up the bench So if you're at not like anybody can go to global gyms right now Or if you have a really slick bench either get one of those a7 shirts or get that shelf that bubbly shelf lining That you see in cabins that you put in cabinets and that'll help you stick to your bench And make sure your floor doesn't is like grippy enough that your bench doesn't slide That's right Like sometimes sometimes you just don't want to use your leg drive because you're in a like Literally slide yourself out of position. So make sure those two things are secure That's right. So one of the things I look for when I buy a bench a bench press bench We we do not have any sponsorships with equipment what I love about the rep fitness 5000 bench whatever that is the 5000 that's got the the single post at the feet is that it's the The material on the pad is like a It's like half rubber and half marine vinyl like most bench presses are just kind of vinyl Yeah, and that it's it's more rubberized and so The newer rogue ones are a lot like that too. The toms and fat pads are like that I just don't like a I don't like a bench press that wide a lot of guys do I can't imagine very many ladies would like it in this less their shoulders are broader than mine It's too wide for me and I'm 300 pounds, you know You want me to tell you a fun cheater story? totally So back in the early 2000s when I competed in powerlifting and this is before a seven came out So if you haven't checked out a seven, they're one of our favorite They they create they make these shirts that they have like a rubberized back to it And they work great for squats because they help hold the bar and they put you in same thing It helps just sit to the bench now I think for most powerlifting federations are not legal to wear Which is kind of weird, but I don't who cares so but they weren't out there So there was no that wasn't an option what we would do the day before the meet Is we would go to an art supply store and we would buy stickum spray And back in the warm-up room We you know you'd put on your singlet which by the way singlets are usually nylon and they're slick Yeah, right singlets tend to be slick and we put on you'd have a t-shirt on underneath your singlet And you put that singlet on and then you'd have your workout partner spray your your upper back with stickum spray So that you would stick by the way, you know what else you can spray with stickum spray Your butt so if your butt comes off the bench a little bit the material sticks Oh my god, my client Peggy if you were listening to this do not do that. I'll know now She gets real loose shorts and then she sprays it with stickum spray and her butt can come off the bench nine inches But her shorts were still on the bench so Yeah, so that I mean it's it's That's probably about all we have to say about that. It's here's here's the it's pretty simple And if we think about it in a in a minimum effective dose sort of uh logical progression When you start your bench press you just you just bench you you know a full range of motion Mitch it has to touch your chest and it locks out over the shoulder joint. That's it This time goes on uh, you'll probably almost accidentally learn how to get some momentum there And momentum is is not a terrible thing, but it doesn't help the pecs Contribute to the bench press and I wanted to be able to do that because I want to use them the most muscle mass possible And again, we're not talking about competitive lifting yet And so as you start to get to that spot where you go maybe from three sets of five to five sets of three That's probably a good time to start to pause those bench press reps And I would start with pausing all of them and and just like you said it doesn't take much of a It doesn't take much of a deload to usually buy back. It's like five percent, right? Yeah, and I can bench as much pause as I can touch and go now once you learn how to do it and you're efficient When you first start it's kind of hard because you've been used to To drop in the bar and bounce it off your chest But it's a good place to start to pause your bench press to learn how to use more muscle mass You'll control the bar better in the bottom and it'll also help you learn how to leg drive better Moving forward and then it's time goes on if you want to adopt some of those advanced techniques like A much bigger arch to reduce the range of motion for a for a competitive bench press Or a sink and throw with a giant leg drive for a competitive bench press Then you're you've already down that road without getting into this area that's sort of like I don't know is this kind of cheating and I'll and I'll be honest It is kind of cheating by the time you get there by the time you sink and throw Or by the time you have this ridiculous arch and wide bench press and you've reduced the range of motion But you're you're playing within the rules of powerlifting So you're a competitive lifter That's what you're going to do, right? If I was a major league baseball player and they allowed metal aluminum bats titanium bats I use I wouldn't use a wooden bat because That you know, like I think major league baseball should use wooden bats because it's like it's a historical sort of game But if they change the rule, I'm not going to handicap myself And so use it but for normal lifters. It's still a really good reason There's like there's good reasons to eventually get yourself to learn how to pause and throw because it'll help control Just the same way it is for most people when they squat So learn how to pause in the bottom of a squat or sit on a box and fire up off a box The same reason we stop a deadlift after every single rep at the bottom And it's a dead stop because we have to learn how to stay tight get tight at the bottom Not just rattle and bounce around down there All of those things are are beneficial. And so that's why we do it.  Still have these flappy elbows Touching the correct spot still have these flappy elbows So yeah, the more you pause the more you get used to having that consistent groove that you've talked about before That's right. Yeah, and that's we hadn't touched on that and that I have other We can even probably do another show on this, but it's another thing that tends to help people who tend to flare the elbow early They're flaring the elbow early because we're getting loose at the bottom and they're trying to regain tightness In the bottom, right?  They're getting tightness in their pec is what they're doing So they're they're showing me that they lost tightness in their pec on the way down and they're trying to regain it And they're like, I don't know how to get tight now. And so they chicken wing out So a good thing to do is slow them down on the descent make them tuck And everything is better Awesome. All right, that's another episode of the barbiologic podcast. 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patience young grasshopper it will come it will happen in its own time I promise this is temporal locus right so the fact that every instance of behavior occurs at a certain period of time with respect to other events so if you start to think about I wake up in the morning should probably drink coffee it's gonna be really I often don't drink coffee before I go to bed I mean it could but I don't often do that so to get up in the morning relative to that I'm going to have my coffee sometimes it takes eight minutes sometimes it takes 18 sometimes it takes eight seconds that's not what we're talking we're not talking about the inner response time although it's related to that fact it's just the fact that behavior occurs in its own time and its own context related to other events and other discriminative stimuli and what what have you so it's just the temporal temporal locus so the of which behavior occurs I guess I think that's about it


Hello everyone. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime, albeit on a principally fish-based diet. Teach a man to fish and then give him a loan to my nets in a boat. He increases his economic activity and feeds part of his village.  Teach a man a fish, give him a loan for the net in the boat, but make sure that the net has got holes large enough so that the small fish don't get caught as well, wiping out the entire fish stocks and thinking from the previous talk about sort of where those fish nets would go as well, you become a sustainable banker and you're more relevant in your community. What on earth is sustainable banking? I did a workshop earlier and in a way the first question, what is banking, is already a pretty difficult question. Putting the two together creates this kind of huge explosion. When we talk about sustainability and banking, a lot of the time that gets reduced to something which isn't about the sustainability that a lot of us talk about in terms of ecological responsibility, intergenerational equity, how we figure out how to work as a society and be resilient into the future, a lot of it is around how do banks just keep going. In a way we kind of got into this question before, the shadow question here of how can the world help save banking? This is around seven years after the crash of Lehman that we're sort of standing here and we still haven't figured out how that happens. In a way we're almost bored of the question. The world kind of went mad and we're sort of caught up in the madness.  Yeah well we know but we could use the eggs and as a consequence regulations that comes into to help the world save banking doesn't really go to the bigger more challenging question which I want to reverse and have this reveal for the question today which is how can banking help save the world? Let's just dwell a moment in terms of that because that's supposed to be quite arresting. What do we mean by help save the world? What are the things happening in the world? We have huge global challenges, climate change, resource scarcity, things in water but in terms of social relationships, the inequality and polarization in society, driving huge things which we see now crystallizing in the refugee crisis. We see an aging population paired with huge youth unemployment in a lot of Europe. What role could banking possibly have in this? Well what role do we have in this? We see sort of here I'm representing sort of the ascent of man up to this staircase and we sort of see we're at this precipice and we do feel that there is this kind of sense of normal being over. You could argue well we've always managed to come out of it before and we've always managed to kind of step out and societies managed to go on and and this isn't really anything really new we've seen things in history and to an extent that's true although if you really look at societies in history societies have a history of sometimes thriving and sometimes failing and the global challenges the interconnected global challenges which we're now facing the fact that climate and resource scarcity and polarization and all those things trends are globally connected we are now talking about the one global society either thriving or failing. That's massive that's that's that's a huge global question where on earth can individuals take in terms of a next step well you've really got as Joanna Macy the philosopher in Berkeley University said three choices you either just keep going as you are and think la la la business as usual we'll find some solution out of somewhere and that may well cause us falling off the edge you could go into panic and fear and curl up into a ball and just wish it wasn't happening and get very angry or you can just connect to whatever it is within you that you feel that you can do in order to make a difference and find other people who you can connect with to be able to make that difference feel more tangible and more real and in a way this community here is sort of in own different ways searching for that and we do find our own particular ways we have something which is within ourselves which is our connection to whatever the the particular localised force that you recognise from this is something which you want to to give to the world in your own way and find that freedom of expression and entrepreneurialism and somewhere there's also you as a citizen within part of a community saying this is what we collectively need and somehow you need to be able to match these for this freedom and this energy and this will of people with what you need in a community and that is the potential for banking the possibility space for banking to be what it was really supposedly designed for which is a way of being able to facilitate and enable so that human relationships could could figure out how individual enterprise could really meet the needs of communities and to sort out the good agreements the contracts negotiating the best kind of set of agreements for how we're going to arrange all this now yes there's practices and processes which can look more technical in terms of risk but that's all it is it's just being able to arrange different sets of human relationships so that we can do things differently and hopefully get to a next step which may or may not be up but is feeling like the best step for us as a community I always get dry mouth present presented in terms of the solutions there's already lots of established solutions in terms of global crisis is in terms of climate change there's already plenty of renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions for us to solve the climate crisis a big problem now how do you determine how do you organize people in order to make that happen there was no last lack of money to be able to save the banks in the banking crisis they should not be money is being the issue it is about the banking issue of how do you make the contracts between people to make that happen similarly in terms of sustainable agriculture and organic principles in terms of how we feed ourselves how we use resources the circular economy and before the existing solutions and all the wealth of existing social entrepreneurial models there's the entirety of the wealth of creativity amongst everyone in society who says I think I've got something which I can do and I can innovate to do this better and for that you need someone within the community who's selected who's hired by the community to say you be our banker and you figure out how this creative energy how this innovation can work with us in this way to use to channel our money and what we're going to do and our part of it in order to to make this sound in order to make this so that it reaches the scale that we want it to within our community to make that work and that is a fundamentally human judgment and at Triados Bank we have this this is our our principle it's really at three levels firstly at that level of motivation to really reach to the entrepreneur and understand that motivation that we are genuinely interested in what is that motivation what is this this this spark it's not just about the money that that comes later because that's in pursuit of of serving the purpose of what is this motivation the next level is in the in the social sphere if you look at how the how the interactions are worked around a business there's customers there's suppliers there's employees there's other stakeholders around how are things kept in the right balance so that everybody feels like yeah this this feels like something which is which is positive and productive this isn't exploitative it's not unbalanced and at the base level at the eco level both of the economic level and the ecological level it makes sense it delivers the the returns and doesn't extract from the planet the the resources which are which are necessary for others it is sustainable from an economic point of view and the level of return that it needs to generate will be appropriate and balanced against well well what is it trying to do and what does it look like and these three levels the motivation the social and the eco the economical and the the ecological level is the judgment that the banker must form in order to say is this is this viable is this something which we can which we can bring into the world and that is the responsibility of someone who is a sustainable banker now that's quite a difficult thing to kind of expound in this day and age because it uses a few concepts like balance well everyone thinks one something wants to be one thing or the other balance is a messy concept balance requires human judgment it requires some degrees of compromise it degrees of well negotiation and imperfection and yet that's the human world that we are in this is humanity we are not perfect beings there is not one silver bullet solution it's about understanding and relationship and being able to work out well if you've got a set of skills and a will to do something but you actually really need somebody else to work with you to to compliment then that's part of the the constructive dialogue that the banker needs to have in order to make that work in order to give it the best chance and within that concept of balance we're also balancing not just the the returns and the financial return and the fact that we need to look after savings of depositors or the money that that's that's being invested in through us into the community not only the risks in terms of what it is that could go wrong and making sure that we've done the best work that we have to be able to make things as safe as possible will never be safe but in terms of impact and the positive impact which we have is always going to be in context of understanding well what is the what is the relative benefit that this has for a community let me give you some examples in Lima there's a bank called mi banco where the loan officers get up in the morning and they spend a little bit of time in their community on their computers but then pretty much early in the morning they are in downtown Lima in their community and that's where they stay and they hang out for the whole day and they know everybody and they're able to respond quickly because they've grown up and they are in complete relationship within their community they're not going to stiff anybody because they live there and they have to show up the next day and the day after that they're able to respond quickly because when somebody approaches them they're not just a faceless thing which has come through the internet and popped up as a loan application which has to be processed through some from algorithm and then notes typed up they're the person who they've grown up with they know they know the parents they know the uncle and aunt they know who they've spoken to they know the interconnection they they're able to ask the constructive questions to be able to make it work within triados bank we we work with a number of entrepreneurs social entrepreneurs environmental entrepreneurs some of the principles which we work to are really being able to make sure that we demonstrate impact through transparency but also use that transparency to make it clear to the community what is happening and how we're doing this we had we had a very successful bank account which offered no interest at all you parked a thousand euros with us and it was called the chicken and egg account we took the thousand euros and we collect those up and we lent money to sustainable organic farmers raising chickens and we said we're not going to give you any interest but we'll give you a voucher for eggs and so you can go to the shop and you can you can take some eggs for five years and then you get your money back and in the meantime basically you've been helping the farmer and that's how that's how the circle goes we're gonna actually have after five years you got the chicken that didn't work out so well but we've we've worked in a variety of ways in being able to mobilize some of these complex situations and we're looking now at the energy crisis and looking at how do we how do we help for example health and social care organizations or arts and cultural buildings to save energy and heating and lighting and we're taking inspirations from some of the work which we do in emerging markets through partners so for example in Mongolia where where a bank called Hasbank has insulated hundreds of thousands of people's wooden huts that the gays in in Ulaanbaatar which is the second coldest capital city in the world and being able to mobilize again finance for the good of community there's lots of examples and we publish every single loan that we do part of that transparency is being able to enable the community to make decisions and to have a dialogue with us we are we're owned by ordinary people thousands of them our customers we're not on the stock market in fact we don't even give people a true vote because our mission is enshrined by a foundation who owns us who who protect what we are going to do we we don't want to be democratic from the point of view of voting we want to be democratic from the point of view of reaching out and having genuine dialogue with people so thousands of people all over Europe come to our annual meetings and will challenge us on what we're doing and how we can be doing more of it and and the the dialogue I can tell you is not about you know why can't they get higher interest rates or more return it's about how can we be doing more in the world and being more relevant and this is happening across the world and it's radiating there is a network of banks the global alliance for banking on values which with microfinance organizations and credit unions and all different types of banking models is purposefully setting out to see how can they how can they learn from one another they're already serving 20 million customers and it's it's quite sizable there are from the from the top down through UNEPFI there's now a project on positive impact which I'm part of which is looking at how do you enable large banks to actually start to collaborate with each other and harness some of the latent skills and energy that people have to say how do we figure out how to do more in the world and tackle relevant problems how do we how do we mobilize that how do we experiment with that and there's taking disruptors within businesses of the finance innovation lab will be working with all sorts of new innovators crowdfunding for renewable energy and such to like to be able to bring a disruption into the financial sector and and try to kind of have a more diverse and fair system I can tell the times up I'm not going to be much longer in terms of banks and what we will do in terms of the value-based banking world we're trying to scale up what's there when I started 18 years ago in triados bank which was a tiny little bank we'd had a balance sheet of 20 million in the UK and we're now over 12 billion euros I made a loan to a small cooperative of Welsh Hill farmers doing a wind energy scheme and it was tiny in comparison now to what you see in renewables and that being able to scale up sort of sort of reiterates that now renewable energy you see a wind farm it's just commonplace fair trade it's almost become boring and passe I think it's Rebecca Solner who said you never get to celebrate the victories you have sometimes because by the time you've achieved it everyone goes yeah but that's that's obvious now so what we need to do is look for renewal how can we look to do the next thing the refugee crisis right now we're asking ourselves tough questions about what it is we can do how can we find the social entrepreneurs who are going to make a difference our innovation is fairly frugal because all we have to do really is just listen well to find the people who've got ideas and figure out how we can connect up the system to give them the best support the final part of it is being able to shift habits so asking me me asking this question can banking help save the world is really going to be a challenge for you because in a way it's our own behaviors which can sometimes prevent this question being asked unwittingly by engaging in the same old ways with the banking institutions which we have and and our deference towards them can sometimes reiterate and build on the current situation however it's predicated on our understanding of money and money is sort of dirty and it's it's it's a weird concept and it's it's something which we don't want to go to because it feels like it's technical and we only engage in it when it's reading bills or mortgage statements or all of that stuff and how do you connect all of this meaning and life purpose to the point that money is just in service of that and it's just an instrument to be able to serve it and therefore if money is in service of meaning can we then translate it for banks really being in service of society I believe it can and by being able to do some of that inner work in terms of what we think banks are doing within our communities and changing the conversation we have with banks with each other about what we can do we can reframe we can reframe the situation and dig into some of the internal freedoms and energies of people in the banking sector who are equally horrified by the ugliness of the financial crisis and all that's being created and are desperate to unleash themselves to actually find their own higher meaning and purpose and together we might be able to help banking help save the world thanks very much