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So anyway, I want to talk about patience and risk today. I already did a webinar on patience, but I honestly didn't get to everything I wanted to talk about patience. I want to talk a little bit more about patience today and specifically how patience and risk kind of go hand in hand with each other. So let's get started. Anyway, so we're going to go over the key traders of the week and there was a lot of them this week, so I'm going to try to get through all of them, all the main ones anyway. Then we're going to go over market sentiment as we do every single week. We'll probably skip the poll group choice just because I'm going to do this video instead. Then we're going to get into the hardly webinar and we're going to have a Q and A and we can do Q and As, you know, we kind of figured it out last webinar that like if you, you know, like we'll just do a little bit of Q and A as we go, especially if it's relevant, I'll try to get to them and then we'll have a Q and A session, a small Q and A session at the end of it for any last minute questions. I said it from the beginning that big bear bar was the tell after a fail breakout. Got a joint. Yeah. I was just on the wrong side. The whole context of the trade is, you know, kind of like, dude, like we're in this like such faders market and this is a, this is kind of a strong pre-market runner and like I can totally see us tanking, holding, trapping and squeezing. And so I kind of want it, like I want it to start early and start patting it and like start getting a cushion so that on the reclaim trade, like I'd be ready, I have a cushioned on the profit and it like if I got that big squeeze, that would be a such a great day. I guess as a, as a failed, I guess wrong side, but, you know, wrong side long, but mitigated. So I just wanted to go over my trades at this week. There's a whole bunch. Gene was one of the traders this week. And this was basically a support long where I bought it because 240 was holding. It's above VWAP. I had a really easy risk and it's a very simple trade and I, and I said in the webinar, I love simple trades. I love trades that I don't have to scale. And this is an example where I have a nice, easy, fixed risk here. Like under VWAP, I can get out at 35. I'm going to be an easy trade, really simple risk. The risk reward is really, really good. And the thing with this talk is that it just squeezed everybody in surprise. And there was all of this volume, right? There was all this volume and we were holding over pre-market high. And I didn't want to buy the first bounce here because it was a little high. This kind of first bounce. It was a little high. I normally prefer them to be closer to the 50% from the bottom to the top of the move. But because you had 240 here prior high, it makes sense that that holds. It's just, it's unfortunate for me that this didn't go a little bit higher. And then I would have liked 240 a little bit better. So that's the reason why I didn't buy the first bounce here. I would have wanted a little bit lower for the first bounce. But you know, I can understand why, you know, it held high because 240 was a prior high. So anyway, I let this consolidate for a while and I really wasn't going to trade it until like, we started seeing this stuffing action and after the big stuff, we started holding for a significant period of time. And after we do the significant hold, I say, you know, the pop is too likely to come. And by the way, this said loads of shorts available too. The pop is just too likely to come. And even if the pop stuffs, I can probably get out for break, even if it's stuff. So it's worth a try on the long end. So I bought it. And now in the webinar, this was actually like, I tried to put a sell at like 260 or 250 or something. Like I was putting my sales out immediately after I bought that. And I can only imagine that I put like, I know it was a mistake. I put like 160 and then it automatically filled.  So I just put, I just, I just re-bought that part at 250 because we, I happened to buy it right as it went. So anyway, that was that trade. And so now to talk about the market sentiment, the last week, I talked about how states were talking about reopening the economy and how I ultimately felt like we should have a top. And I felt that top should be 280. And that we so far, I've been correct in that stance, but I felt like we should have a temporary top until we saw a hint of normalcy and things started to open up. In which case, I expected the stocks, the market to, again, attempt to pre-price and maybe even go higher, even undeservedly so higher before the economic output is even achieved again, right? Because that's what the market is. It's all about future expectations. And I still, like, I think that that's panned out pretty well. I still expect coronavirus names to remain plentiful as long as we don't have normalcy. So the theme of this week has been faders, right? And in a few short sentences, shorts are still maintaining control of the market. The stock's range has lessened slightly. There's definitely more stuffing and that demand that just went straight up and dropping on lows. We're still seeing that the deathline setups have been ideal. Something that I want to point out is that we have seen a reduction in the FU pattern style moves because longs have certainly showed hesitation this week. Even longs might still go for that VWAP reclaim trade or buy on the dips, but they're likely not having the same kind of conviction. They're not using the same kind of size. I know I'm not. I'm definitely being more careful now. And that overall just leads to, like, if less people are buying the VWAP reclaim trade with less shares, that's less demand, right? That's less demand. That's more power to the shorts to win that VWAP slash stuff battle or the dip, people being like, oh, I'm going to buy the dip, but they're going to be tighter with their, they're going to be tighter with their cells. So I mean, it's just been a fader, strong, short selling market. But this remains the same. It still spells particular danger for shorts who add heavily into this kind of market, you know, who are used to getting these like a frame or V shaped rejection upside down, upside down V a shaped rejections and super faders. You know, if shorts are getting comfortable with this, it leads towards potential future squeezers. And like I said, the market participants here like have just been insanely red. Like, I mean, this has been definitely the shorts, shorts market. Shorts have been rewarded heavily in this market. Large caps have basically remained flat. The good news about the market, though, we're still getting at least a gap or a day. We're still getting COVID PRs, even in the middle of the day. We still have a stock that's leading the way I know, that's just, you know, still keeping the bullish, keeping us from entering the dead market. And there's still solid range on all sides, even if the upward range has been limited, right? And you can see this upward limited range on stocks like Peck, which got pumped in a super low flow and still didn't go as high as it could have or would have if it were grand two weeks ago. Stuff like CPAH, that stuff today, you know, we're seeing that kind of stuff more likely now, which when we're in the buyer's market, that stuff just takes off. The negatives in this market, it's stocks are, it's not really a negative. It's more of a bearish outtone. It's more of a bearish tone to the market. Stocks are still fading hard. We had that VBIV offering, the 100% movers are fading, you know, like a couple of weeks ago, we had multiple a day and then we went through a few a day and now think CPAH got to 100%. I think it did, but that's like the one and that was it. So we're definitely losing those 100%ers, which is the fun stuff to trade. Longs are losing interest, meaning it's starting to get unhealthy for shorts too, meaning as long stop buying dips, shorts don't get pops to short into. So it, you know, where it's good for shorts, it's also hard. Like any short seller knows, like when there's no pops, it's hard to get in. So anyway, what's next? The spy is definitely showing the hesitation at the 280 level. I expect that to continue. I believe we somewhat stay still into the first couple of states open. And then I expect the pre-pricing to continue. Still going to get the coronavirus names. And I do think that this, that this fader market is going to taper a little bit. We might start seeing a couple of squeezers next week, but I'm going to not anticipate it. That's what, that's where I've made mistakes in the past is I would anticipate that squeezer and, you know, each hit a couple of times before I finally got the squeezer. I like what Bao said. I mean, dude, if you want to chat room, how do you not have a 100% win rate?  Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree. And there are some times like when we're in M.I.C. and it's like 10 minutes before a line. I'm like, okay, 250 possible area. I think that's like a good time to give an alert.   That's funny though. No, yeah. Large happy fun. All right, guys, I will, uh, see you guys tomorrow. Thanks, Harry, for coming on. Perfect. No problem, bro. And, uh, take care. All righty. See you guys for sure. Thank you so much for watching our video. If you want to see more of our videos, please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the button here. We do our best to post a new video every single day. If you have any questions about M.I.C. or any general trading questions, please text Tosh using the number here. Also, stay up to date by watching some of our most recent videos right over here.


Our social identity, this is determined by different factors. So far, we said that it is gender that decides about our identity. But in this module, you will learn that there are other factors too. Our social identity does not depend only on our gender. Our social class, socioeconomic status, our race, ethnicity also contribute to our, these are other factors. We experience gender in combination with these factors. We are men and women, this is our biology, we are black, this is our race, we are black, brown and white and yellow, Japanese, etc. And brown Asians, black Africans and white, usually Europeans. And who are we with reference to our economic status? We are elite, we are middle class, we are lower middle class. And what is our ethnicity, linguistic identity? We are Punjabis, Balochis and Kashmiris. So all these factors together constitute who we are. One example of factor interaction, their collective interaction is as advertisements and especially matrimonial advertisements where we find such ads where some person wants another person to be a wife or husband, matrimonial. So like this, we find there that we need a person from upper class if that person is to be a husband. So that person should be from upper class, white, not more than 30, lives in UK of this religious sex, etc. So this single ad can clarify this idea that number of factors are involved to define who we are, what is our identity besides gender.


Hi, my name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food.  On our channel, you'll find simple and tasty recipes using everyday ingredients. Hey guys, welcome to week three of the Pantry Freezer Challenge. Really easy dinner tonight. I had to get an injection, steroid injection in my hand. So still kind of swollen and in pain, so I didn't feel like doing a lot of cooking. But in my freezer, I had this mac and cheese from Trader Joe's. We really like it a lot. So I split that serving in half for Howard and I. Harrison is going to eat something else for dinner. He's not into mac and cheese. And then I also decided to try out these gluten-free breaded shrimp. It says a thin gluten-free breading. Now we are not gluten-free, but I got these because everyone said that they are really good and very crunchy. I made them in the air fryer. Here are the ingredients on the back here. And I really like them a lot. Howard just said they're okay, but I like them a lot. Very thin breading, really good flavor. They don't taste gluten-free. I would definitely buy these again. So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight, I am making tortilla beef bake in my casserole dish. I have some crushed up tortilla chips and you may notice that they're different colors because this recipe calls for crushed tortilla chips. And usually I make this recipe when I have just odds and ends of tortilla chips. So I had two different bags and that's what you see in the bottom of the casserole dish. To that I am adding some ground beef that I cooked along with some cream of chicken soup. It looks a little soupier than normal because the recipe called for a pound and a half of ground beef and I used less than that. And next all you have to do is pour two cups of your favorite salsa right on top. And I'll make course of short, I'll make sure of course to leave the recipe in the description box. And next you just top it with cheddar cheese. Now I am going to pop this in the oven and bake it for about half an hour or until that cheese is nice and bubbly. Okay so here is our dinner. I let the casserole cook for half an hour. It's not the prettiest dish but it is very tasty serving it with some corn and some charo beans. I wasn't thinking but I already put the charo bean can in the recycle but these beans are from H-E-B and they come with onions and all sorts of seasonings and so forth. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight we are having crescent roll pizza in my fridge. I had this tube of Butterflake crescent rolls. I just pressed them together. Parbake that crust for about five minutes. Tick it out. Put on some pizza sauce, some Italian blend cheese and pepperoni. Of course I had everything on hand and if you like crescent roll pizzas I do have a video for a breakfast crescent roll pizza. That is really good and I'll link it in the description box. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight we are having chicken riceroni casserole. Now this is a dish that I have made on our channel before and I will link that video in the description box so you all can have the recipe. Of course I had everything on hand.  You all know how much I love those crescent rolls. They're frozen and they are the mini version. They are so good. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight I am making black bean chili. Really easy recipe calls for pantry ingredients. In my pot here I have one pound of breakfast sausage, some onions and garlic and I just cook them up and brown them. You just saw me add in some chicken broth. Now I am adding in a can of crushed tomatoes, a can of diced tomatoes and I am going to add in three cans of black beans undrained. Now I am going to add in the equivalent of one package of taco seasoning and I am just going to give this a good stir and let it all combine. So here is the chili. This is a really thin chili so it is not like a thick and hearty chili. But this is Howard's bowl. He is eating his with some rice and avocado. I am just going to eat mine plain as is. But this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time.


Everybody forced here ripping six boxes for Michael B. Michael's got three 2022 museum collection baseball hobby boxes and three of the TriStar hand-treasure signed basketball jerseys from 2022 here. So we'll do the museum collection first and finish for the jerseys Thanks, Michael and good luck Let's see a sketch Sketch or a book card or a framed auto Lot of possibilities in museum. Maybe like a Bobby Whit auto or pull your Rodriguez auto All right copper rookie Joe Ryan got pulled in a no-hater last night Um Freddy Freeman on the canvas and Jared Walsh dual jersey auto copper parallel 5 of 50 copper Campanella Archival autograph Joe Maurer 28 of 125 Blue rookie O'Neill cruise 92 of 150 Nice cruise and another Homer tonight there's a copper Byron Buxton and And patch card Jose I break you three of ten for the white socks and the box one of museum here Frank Thomas copper helly at Ramos and Quad Dodgers relic Muncie Turner bets and Ballinger 50 of 75 Next up copper rookie Bryson Stott Wow jumbo patch auto Jordan Alvarez 12 of 15 nice hit Michael Love these jumbo patch autos Momentous materials auto jumbo patch relic got blue rookie Vidal Bruhan 33 of 150 Alec Thomas Got a one Mara shall auto number 21 of 50 legend right there copper Chapman canvas Orioles is Coworkan jr. And patch card Philly's JTL Muto 30 of 35 copper Ricky Henderson Shane Boz quad bat relic yet here Malina 20 of 99 and last box last museum box three signed jerseys after this as well Blue Roger Clemens 41 of 150 dual relic auto Byron Buxton Numbered 84 of 299. So I was saying Blake. I was hoping for a sketch Vidal Bruhan rookie copper Tampa Bay there you've got a J rod rookie base canvas Reggie Jackson and an archival rookie auto redetmers 48 of 50 copper Harmon killer brew a Jersey card Joe Maurer 36 of 50 last mini box a museum Purple rookie Brandon Marsh number 43 out of 99 Canvas twins Byron Buxton and a quad relic Wilson Contreras 31 of 75. All right, signed basketball jersey time Three of those now. Good luck Michael. He's up first. Who's up first? It is a Mitch Richmond Nice that old King's Jersey or Royals Jersey maybe Mitch Richmond Hall of Fame 2014. He's got a nice signature perfectly perfect on the number there as well Nice hit is the authenticity and then here's the Player card that comes with it. It's Richmond. Nice number two next up. Oh, it's a spurs Jersey Nice is the ice man. It's George Gervin Well, that's it. That was awesome George Gervin Hall of Fame 96 inscribed The 44s, that's awesome, dude The ice man George Gervin and last one it is a I think I know who it is already Bernard King Bernard King So I'm right at the top the three there was your sticker and it'll play your cards in there as well good stuff Appreciate it Michael. We'll get the cards in jerseys right out to you


It's so hot. You can tell us that the sun in Nigeria is hotter than this. That's a lot. I think it's hotter. Bro, what happened to you? Yes, I'm telling you. Look at that. That was impossible. That was a misconception. That was impossible. The sun here is so hot. That's the one in Africa. Bro, when I was going to Suriname, they told me that the sun here is hotter. I'm like, oh, I'm from Ghana. Bro, when I land there, I'm like, I want to go back home. I couldn't take the sun. The sun is hotter. The sun is hotter. The good thing is, it's a beautiful place. Beautiful, but we still have to tell them the truth. Yes. That the sun is hotter than us. Look at him. He must have recorded it. The sun is too cool.


Welcome back to my channel. I think I already did an intro to this vlog I'm not really sure I did look it over so I may or may not trash it But I know when I was talking I had a little bit more grocery shopping So I may pop that in and then I was going to my auntie's wedding We did do that. We got there on time. It was really nice. I may pop in a few pictures or videos right here But if you're new here, hey, I'm my name is a kid Jenae Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave if I haven't already said that so I just got back from My man's house. I've been there for about two days and we have a lot of packages to open one two three four and Five Open start to open this one. So I'm super excited about this. Um, this video is sponsored. I worked with this company I'll put the blog right here Can't remember exactly what I was doing in the blog maybe was like cleaning and stuff But they had sent me pajamas and they also sent me like a Swimsuit cover up top and you know some really cute stuff. I wear those pajamas literally like Every night like y'all see me in there on the blog a lot of time So I will leave the pajamas and stuff that I got from this company as well I can't really pronounce the name of the company so I put it right here I do not want to butcher it but thank you so much for sponsoring this portion of the video So I think most of this stuff is from them Then I have some other stuff from like other places So we're gonna get into the stuff that is from them if they sent me All of this stuff can be found on Amazon every single thing that I show you guys from Amazon We'll be linked in my Amazon storefront and it'll be individually linked down below because I am back to cook I just got back y'all. I just did a hair pickup order Just got back from getting prints from my parents house and just all kind of stuff I've been on to go the last like three hours. Oh, I'm so excited So my whole thing of picking out was kind of keeping in mind that Fall time winter time is about to come up and y'all know I'm Slightly I'm Jim Gurley. I've been trying to stay in the gym. You know, you know, you know Okay, as I was saying it is getting gonna start to get cold here soon So I was trying to keep in mind that while I was picking stuff out. So this is super cute It's just a cute little um pullover. I got it in a size small reading the reviews But now I wish I would have got a size medium This is like very fitted my normal size is a medium But I decided to get a small because the lady who was in the comments talking about Her weight and height and stuff was like she got a small and it fits it fits good But I definitely probably got a medium just to have a little bit more breathable room because my boobs are a little bit bigger I think than hers was but yeah, I like that Has a hole for the thumb and then I think this can like come in to where you can have like a shorter sleeve So yeah, I like this. I can't wait to wear this I'm gonna be wearing this to the gym just whenever I need a little pullover and I'll probably wear this to work because it's Gray and I have to wear grace girls to work. So this would be super cute just to where you know, it works So that's something I got But they sent me y'all know. I just got into Yoga pants and like leggings and stuff. Well yoga pants not ladies. Excuse me these yoga pants Why was I thinking about wearing these to work? They're gray just like my scrubs that I got a way to work the the quality of them just kind of makes me like It kind of reminds me of figs in a sense like the really really good quality But obviously at a cheaper price and then it has two pockets on the back. It also has two pockets on the front I don't know. I feel like I could get away with where it used to work. It's like Cue scrubs or something, but I got these in a size medium ten out of ten definitely recommend the quality feels really nice It is stretching Okay, actually had another package from Amazon. This is also in this haul. This one is Tummy control shape wear thong women high waisted compression panties Y'all know my stomach is not as flat as it used to be When I'm getting my way, I am getting it all around but definitely it is, you know in that stomach area lower stomach area You know already talked about that in a different vlog But I got some shape wear in the meantime until I go on my little like 30-day Gym challenge or whatever.  I don't look good right now I'm three and it definitely goes all the way down to day near just about to my heels But if you're anything taller than five three, I Don't know if they had a different pants length for y'all. But yeah, just about like five three five four That's about it The second one that I got is in black the exact same thing just in black I'm definitely feeling the black the black is giving me Sophisticated baby. Okay, especially to mention my black glasses. I feel like you can dress this up or down Like I feel like you can do some heels for a cute little like Casual date night or something or this can be business casual like the options are limitless with this one And I really like it I'm loving it This one is giving me like Just regular cool casual Casual vibes the other item that I got from them It's supposed to be like a cute little like lounge around the house outfit So it's kind of like a little dress So it's like a skill up from the little moves that y'all like to buy from Walmart Then it comes with basically Kind of something like a robe You'll just put it on over and it has a pocket right here and it also has a pocket right here I like to keep my apartment set at 69 degrees. So baby right now. It's even cold So I like that I do have this little bitty, you know robe Sweater thing if you will to kind of just walk around the house with chill the material is really soft It's stretchy. It feels nice. So I'm really excited that I did decide to get something like this to kind of just chill around the house so This one says Amazon, but this may be something that I ordered Okay, yeah, this is something that I ordered myself. I'm going to a business tea party tomorrow So we're gonna talk about this outfit tomorrow when I'm getting dressed, but I just got a pink dress I got to try this on hopefully it fits from Amazon and then I got some like head pieces and stuff to like go with the tea party theme Okay, yeah, and that's not it What is this one? Oh, this is a wig that I got a review girl. I was not expecting this and say it wasn't even delivered yet I don't just don't know what it's coming to my oh, this is cute Okay, so this is gonna be a separate video, but we got a wig as well These are shoes that's going to be in a different video and then this See what this is. Hey, yeah, this is gonna be a separate video. So I'm about to get to cooking I'm hungry just got home. I'm about to cook me a T-bone steak with some probably roasted potatoes and I want some macaroni and I also got some turnip greens, so I Probably cook that as well Good morning, y'all crazy right now. I Got my dress on I just got out the shower. I just shaved my legs and stuff So I'm about to do a quick little beauty Make-up look nothing too major cuz I didn't want to have on lashes and stuff So I didn't need to do my eyebrows is nine oh nine Janae is getting ready right now as well as we speak So this dress is from Amazon. I give y'all a better look, but this is cute like For this purpose little brunch outfit. I feel like I could wear this to church as well So yeah, and my eyebrows needs to be I'm tired. I really don't see how people wake up in The morning like it's a morning person because it's not for me now when I have a lot of off-dates in a row Y'all know I be having like 19 off-dates in a row I can wake up early then because I know I got you know a lot of more days, but Supposed to work today. I just fixed one of my Godfriends co-workers or whatever to see if you want to work my ship today Before I called in I don't want to call in but I really don't feel like one today Because I'll be off Sunday, and I kind of want to have my whole Sunday As well as I work Monday.  So I don't know But I really don't need to get no more call in Like points at it. So I Know we'll see I just takes one person. I'm gonna take somebody else and see if they wouldn't work my shoe Yeah, I'm about throwing some lashes and I'm doing the idea foundation concealer eyebrows and we're gonna throw on some lashes and What highlighter Everybody in the room if y'all would we're gonna get up and try to come in this area up here in the front part And y'all gonna get face-to-face with somebody that did you do not know and you're gonna get to know that person He's person gonna get 30 seconds to introduce themselves market yourself in any way possible that you see fit 36 So keep your commercial clean is short. You know saying everybody got it So it's cool, so to give you an example, I will come up to nada as if I didn't know her I'm like, how you doing? I'll tell sick Nick what you do for them. Okay, so what I do is For five years It don't gotta be awkward it don't gotta be, you know, it's okay promise failure This is absolutely helping two things one if you get comfortable with yourself you can't come in when y'all Everybody that got tables. I'm pretty sure y'all been talking to somebody your very first time He was nervous. You really know what say you kind of trying to get the jitters out. This is the part where you get the jitters out Introduce yourself Confidently, let them know exactly what you do and I've been doing this for x y's leave out of years You said I'm saying now you get that practice of what it is that you do So if y'all don't mind without further to do everybody come up to the right You gotta be brave sometimes So we're gonna do a market if you think about it at Don't do nobody we're working on ourselves. Okay. Give them the booze you guys like work on it Governor so My name is Natasha Riley. I own calculated moves cba firm It's a cba firm that specializes in helping small business owners and real estate investors grow their profits Save on taxes and leave a legacy. I've been accounting for over 10 years. So I'm not new to this. I'm used to this I would love to connect with each and every last one of you all My mission is to educate Inspire and love their mother women like my son Need for your business we do t-shirts hats toe bags and we also do Okay, so I wanted to show you guys my outfit. I don't know I can't see right now, but the dress is from amazon. I have it linked down below. It was super cute Like I feel like you can wear this to church like you can Make it go down a little bit further So it's like right above your knee right there and then the back goes all the way down So to your like calf muscles. So I really like it the back is cute You can still wear this with a bra And then I like up here how it kind of still covers all of this and goes back. I don't I really like it It was cute for the tea party. I feel like you can't wear this to church. I mean I will wear the church. It looks fine to me I did already take off my earpiece and stuff, but I'll pop in some videos, but I wanted to show you all that um, and yeah Can't really get too comfortable because I do have to go to work today. So Yeah, it was actually her birthday today. Um, the one who her name's Nala. She's my graphic designer And yeah, it was her birthday. So happy birthday. We already told her that I probably popped in a lot of videos and stuff by now But it was super fun. This was my first ever any type of like Branding influencer type thing to go to not really influencer It was more so for like people who have their own businesses But I mean since I am an influencer have my own brand and stuff. It's kind of like one of those So it was super fun. It was my first one. It was somebody there from like Dallas. Um Somewhere else. I forgot, but yeah, I think I want to go to some more of these. I would like to go to some out of state um, I would love to probably like sit in if some somebody's um Seminar or something like that from like Dallas or even Atlanta. I feel like that'd be a really good um marketing networking situation So, yeah, I'm tired. I just took print out to go outside. I'm pooped. It is literally 4 30 I got to be at work by 6 30. I usually leave the house at 6. So I literally have like an hour and 30 minutes to Get ready for work in all of that. So I'm tired I'm about to use 30 minutes to just chill for a second Um, or I may just go ahead and hop in the shower and then just chill until like five Probably like 5 40 because I already took print out and everything. So Yeah, I probably get dressed around like 5 40 and then take my food that I cooked last night there I may take y'all with me. Um, the way of this vlog. I think I may try to make this vlog kind of like, um A weekend or a week or something Um, like my last one like this was a work week in my life With being a content creator working like a six to six or six to seven So since this vlog kind of is basically about me, you know, going to like different like brand opportunities networking And kind of have like balancing everything. I may go ahead and take out with me tonight at work. I am supposed to be Um shadowing Well, not shadowing. I'm supposed to be training a girl Maybe that they trying to throw her on me. So I don't know. We'll see how much footage and stuff I can get but Um, I may take out on me. I may record like Certain little bits and pieces just to kind of give y'all a feel. I still want to edit this one video that I plan to do. It was like a um Night of the life of like a pct my job at the hospital Um, I have the footage the footage is from like this year in april Um, just me being in my head about stuff like having like, you know, always look perfect or something like that Just kind of what we was talking about at the little Event today like just post like, you know, somebody's always watching. It's cool.  I would like to stay up After I get off actually tomorrow to go to church. Um But we'll see I'm not even gonna lie if I work saturday nine times out of ten normally I do not go to church the next day because I'd be so pooped especially because at eight o'clock Tomorrow morning I will be up for 24 hours and my church doesn't start service until nine o'clock and then it ends at 10 Granted, I am off sunday. It's like, you know, like this is really just excuses But I just physically don't think I will be able to make myself stay up Like, you know, I do not want to fall asleep in church So I don't know we'll see but I would honestly like to go to church in the morning um, but yeah I'm tired My mouth is dry And we'll probably recap a little bit. I'll probably plug in some um Footage and stuff from the event and then probably like voiceover Kira will tell y'all some stuff but yeah, my apartment is a mess because I unpackaged all of my Collaboration stuff. So my living room looks a mess. That's all like sponsored content right here So I'm about to go ahead and hop in the shower And I'm going to try to lay down and be in the bed by like five o'clock is 433 and I'm about to take off this makeup It kind of messed up and stuff on my nose because of my glasses But I want to try to be in bed by like five o'clock so I can just chill and relax for about like 45 minutes And then get up and get ready for work.  Um, I'm also going to take some snacks So I have fruit snacks. I also have cheez-its. So I'm going to put some of those in a zip-lock bag And take that as a snack for tonight so hopefully Turn on is a good night. I tried to get somebody to cover for me today, but the two guys that I asked They were like they can't do it. But one of my friends Emmanuel He was on my blog when he helped me move. Um, he said he'll work my monday because Basically, I'm working today saturday.  Hello today is um Sunday, I'm sober first actually happy. I'm sober first. It is 7 19 in the evening Um, I woke up at three didn't really just get up until like five o'clock just took prints out and everything So right now what I'm doing is I got alexa set for a one hour alarm right now and After I'm done cleaning for an hour. I'm going to just be cleaning every room for an hour Not on each room, but like one hour. I plan on recording a amazon's favorites video tonight I wanted to record it earlier today so that I can have it up for today, which is sunday I don't know uploading day, but it didn't happen that way So I'm going to record it tonight doing my hair makeup and stuff real quick record that video I was thinking about going ahead and knocking out the little sheet in Hall video as well just to get those clips for that um I don't think I'm going to do a full youtube video for that because it's only six pieces And yeah, I can just kind of create that into like a youtube short video per se Um, so yeah, I'm just going to do like a tiktok what I bought versus what I got Um, so yeah, you can use any platform for the um Sheen stuff. So I do like whoo I do like that. You can um do that. So yeah, I'm going to clean for an hour and then Do my video I was playing last night at work like content Um, I like to post every sunday and thursday So that being said every sunday and thursday of this month totals nine days So I need at least nine videos and in between those nine youtube videos I would like to actually post some tiktoks reels and shorts videos on youtube as well and I want to do that kind of twice a week as well So then that means I would need non additional youtube like non additional Like tiktoks and reels and stuff like that. So I'm going to be probably I'm not probably going to plan tonight since I do need to get like these videos This video villain in or she in video and I need to like clean to have my apartment ready for tomorrow Tomorrow I do have a weave review. I think I said that in the beginning of this vlog Um, so I want to try to get that out of the way in the morning because if I can't put the wig over my Sew in I'm going to have to take my sewing out because at this point I really I want to take it out Anyway, because I'm tired of it, but Yeah, if I can't put it over this I'm just going to go ahead and take it out. Um So, yeah, then other than that, um I have to do I'll probably do a I don't know. I need to do something with those shoes from the fence. Um Instead I've got to do a youtube video. So I'll probably plug it into This one or the next one. I'm not sure yet Um, or do like the youtube shorts. I don't know So I need to write down the rest of our collaborations and stuff like they kind of just plan out For content as well. Um, I wanted to show you guys this so You know, this is my youtube studio office, whatever So this was from june have not updated this since so I like to use this chart For the days I work and the days my bills are due as like more so visual so I can see that And I was thinking of putting that up right here. So the next chart that I have These are content plans for june have not wrote anything since june so Content plans for june's I like to write down like my collabs income and collabs I like to do tiktoks and reels ideas or what I would like to post in that month and the youtube video ideas or what I would like to post so I'm going to Some of these I didn't even do But some of these ideas so I'm going to erase this or take a picture of it and write down what I didn't do But my plan for that Tell me what y'all think I'ma set y'all up right here So over there on that wall That's my high school diploma My degree from college and like other certificates and what I got baptized and stuff. So I was thinking of putting Three pictures on this wall from my photo shoot since you know, I run a hair business and stuff So I want to put three pictures of the photo shoot I was going to do a neon sign in here But I think I'm going to do that from my room Because it just it just makes better sense to me and it looks better I already made like a mock-up of it. So I'm going to put three pictures from the brand up there um and then over here I didn't know if I wanted to put these So I was thinking of putting this right here but I'm like Well that kind of throw off the vibe Because I'm going to have you know brand photos over here And I kind of just want this wall to be like it's pretty as possible So I would like to have this right here. But then I'm thinking like, okay What if I just put it down here? And everything is kind of like at our level I can Sit in my chair while I right over here. So I don't know I may put this right here And there's not really another place that I would put this I still have to finish this wall with the wallpaper because I was thinking of putting it over here But I do sometimes record content over here and I don't want to have to keep Taking these down and moving them every time I want to kind of get a cute shot over here Like aesthetically pleasing shots. So that's why I'm not going to put it on this wall But yeah coming down below. I think y'all are probably going to say put it under My um like certificates and stuff like that the homeless and degrees so I may end up just putting it right here and then we'll see because I do need this hanging up It's literally just been sitting down like on the floor or a table and that's not helping me So we're going to be Updating these either tonight or tomorrow because like I said, it's already 7 25 And I really need to do this amazon video I'm about to eat a little pizza real quick.  So I'm going to eat the rest of that food and tomorrow I really would like to wake up early like Early eight seven o'clock is how to get this weed just out of the way And it's also a frontal. So frontals take me 10,000 years to complete if it was a closure closure week can be Like the whole process probably take like an hour and a half to two hours A frontal would be dangling in like three to four hours long. So Yeah I'll talk to y'all when I'm done cleaning because I've been talking to y'all for a minute. So I've been talking to y'all for seven minutes and That's seven minutes gone on my one hour timer


Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2016 from Bangkok, Thailand. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today with Mr. Shinichiro Nakamura, who is the Deputy Division Director of the Global Business Division of the Internet Initiative of Japan. Mr. Nakamura, thank you very much for being in the studio with us. Thank you very much, and I'll see you. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about Internet Initiative Japan. What is the IIJ, and what's your priority at the moment? Let me explain how the company is. IIJ is the first Internet provider in Japan, and that was 23 years ago. And from that time, we expand our business more, IT globally. And what the subject is, one thing is crowd service. The second thing is modular data center. Regarding the crowd service, we expand our crowd platform to four countries in Asian countries. And Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia and Vietnam. And also, we want to expand this crowd service to other countries, including ASEAN and also outside ASEAN also. And by using the expertise in Japan, we'd like to work with local partners to expand business in terms of crowd. And for the modular data center, we just recently provide our modular data center to the Laos government. And it is a very energy efficient data center, and costs a very economic cost. So these two are our subject right now. How is collaboration important to you, and ideally, who would you like to partner with? Okay. Basically, what we believe is for local market should be local people. So we want to be local people who have some kind of the technical advantages working in this country. And IIJ can work together in this company. And what we can do is we will show the expertise in Japan and give technology to them and work with them and deploy the market. So this is quite important. And also, we want to talk with the like our entrepreneurs who want to have new solutions, new applications, want the business in local side. We want to work with them. So this is quite important to work local people. Now, your company's been around for many years now. I wanted to ask you, in your opinion, what do you think is the most important factor in today's growing digital economy? Yeah, that's right. And as I mentioned, you know, I just started the first Internet service in Japan. Since then, IP technology is expanding all the world. And based on this IP technology, there are a lot of solutions, a lot of people coming in. And for this is never end. And also what is important thing is, I believe we need more flexible and stable infrastructure because we have a lot of people coming in new services. But sometimes it's very difficult to make it. So what IAJ is trying to do is, will give us various solutions to support these IT infrastructures. Now, Japan has got a great presence here at ITU Telecom World 2016. I wanted to find out what's the value of attending events such as ITU Telecom World? You know, I think this kind of event is kind of few events to focus on telecommunication technologies. And it is a great chance to see many people involved in this business. And also, I can talk to ITU people, I can talk to some government people, and also I can talk to carriers and service providers, and also new companies who want the business with telecommunications. So I think it's a great chance to see them and talk to them. And also, it is a great chance for IAJ to present new solutions to all the people. Mr Nakamura, thank you very much for being with us today. My pleasure. Thank you very much.


After nine gripping episodes, the first season of The Last of Us is done. I'm gonna give you my thoughts in this spoiler-filled review so if you haven't seen it or played the game and know what to expect, I would walk away from this. If you don't care about spoilers, then by all means, carry on. Initial impression? Needed more clickers. Let's begin. This may come as a shock to none of you, but The Last of Us TV show is based on a video game, a very popular one, a very successful one, and the reason why is not because there's zombies in it, not because it's a survival horror. There was lots of those already. In fact, the zombie thing was already very played out when The Last of Us hit the video game market. No, it was entirely because of the story and mainly the connection between our two leads, Joel and Ellie. When the show was announced and casted, I was hesitant to thought Pedro Pascal, not my first choice, but he kind of looks like Joel and he definitely acts like him. Then I saw Ramsey as Ellie and I thought, okay, this is a little bizarre. She almost looks like the character, but there's this uncanny valley thing going on. Almost feels more like a cosplay of the character. Now that the season is done, I'm happy to say that they won me over. Full stop. These are not quite the characters from the video game, and this show is not quite the game either. And by that I say, obviously with a game or with a book, you have more time to dive into things. You have more time with the characters that you like. And the game connects to even more than a book, because you're actually controlling these people. You're playing as them. You're seeing things through their eyes, making some of the actions. So while the show is not as good as the video game, it is truly something special, mainly because most video game movie adaptations are just horrible. But besides that, this is also a very fun companion piece to the game, because it explores different things the video game didn't, or just kind of alluded to, such as how the spores communicate, how these clickers and these creatures work together to talk about threats. Of course, they don't really do much with it in season one. You have to imagine they're just kind of setting a foundation going forward. Where the first few episodes started really strong, and we got a sense of the danger and everything going on in the new world, it kind of fizzles out halfway through. The clickers disappear. There's no bloaters. There's no infected running around. It felt like it was missing two or three key moments from the game that were really powerful, such as the school attack and Joel being impaled with the rebar. It's in the show, but it's very much downplayed. I get they're going for more gritty realism. I get it's going for gritty realism, but then it's not, because in that final episode Joel is very much doing the Call of Duty Bro-tastic killing spree around the hospital like you do in the game. He takes out like 40 fireflies. It's odd, but the criticism I have for this first season is like the polar opposite of what I usually do. I wanted more of season one of the game. I needed them to take more time with it before we rushed to the ending. It really felt to me like Neil Druckman was done with that first game and he wanted to immediately get to the part two that he built.  It's very polarizing. I didn't like the story and I will get into that in a second because I remember the last time I talked about this show, I mentioned how I didn't like the second game story and people were like, what? It's a masterpiece.  I'll get there. I just want to point out that Druckman tends to focus on things that seem almost inconsequential, such as the Bill episode, which was episode three. Don't get me wrong. That's a fantastic episode. I love it. It's one of the best of the season, but if you're going to spend that much time fleshing this character out, why not spend the time on the iconic moments from that first game, such as the school, such as the sewer sequence where there's all those infected coming after Ellie and Joel. He did a lot of things right, but then he quickly rushes through other things that would have been really fun to see. And I think having only nine episodes to tell the first game story was just kind of foolish. This could have expanded to two seasons at least. And you would have had time to breathe with some of these storylines. And it would have made Joel and Ellie's journey even that more tiring, like, okay, look what these guys went through together. We would have had more time for them to get connected, because that's another aspect where I thought it felt a little rushed. They seemed to hate each other for the seven episodes. And then the last two they finally connected. The worst episode of season one for me was left behind. It was based on the DLC, which was like two or four hours long. You could get through it pretty quickly if you knew what you were doing. And that again speaks to my earlier criticism where Druckman seems to be interested in the things that aren't that interesting, such as that prequel storyline with Elle and her girlfriend at the mall. It just felt really tiring to get through that episode. But then he quickly speeds through other things that should have taken time. And the same goes for when Joel is injured. In the game, when this happens, that is the moment when I played, I thought, holy shit, this is not your standard run of the mill survival horror game. This is like something deeper. This is a profound game. It's going places most games don't think to. We're now killing off the lead character, and I'm playing as Ellie, the helpless younger girl who has to fend for herself, find medicine, maybe save the lead. I don't know if he's gonna live. Of course, that tension is gone from the show if you've played the game, but I still don't think it was as powerful as it was done there. And that brings us to the final episode of the show where once again, it goes a little too fast. We don't have time to breathe or sit with some of these choices that Joel makes.  He's not the good dude that they thought he was. That's a weird take. I never once played the last episode and thought, oh, Joel's the bad guy. He's horrible. He's a terrible person. We're living in a world where most the people are bad because that's how they survive. It's not the world we're living in right now where things are comfortable. This is a world where you can't trust anyone.  It's because he is worried the doctor is going to go hit some panic button or yell for him to get back up or the doctor has a gun somewhere that he doesn't see. Joel is all about surviving. He's about getting this girl out of the situation. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you didn't watch this final episode. Well, here's what breaks down.  She was infected at birth. Ashley Johnson's the mother. That's an actress that did the voice of Ellie in the games. It was really cool seeing her in the show and she did a fantastic job. And it was really funny because when I saw her, I didn't recognize it was Ashley Johnson at first. I thought, Oh my God, did they, did they put Ramsay and make up and make her look older? Because she looks a lot like Ashley Johnson. And that got me thinking maybe they didn't cast Ellie based on the video game model, but on Ashley Johnson's character because the mother daughter similarities are so good. So that was just brilliant. I love that casting choice. It worked really well. That was a great scene that wasn't in the video game. And anyway, they get to the hospital. Joel's knocked out. He has no idea where Ellie's at.  Like it's all kind of nonsensical. The Fireflies clearly don't know if this is going to work. It's an experiment. They're hoping it does, but nothing's set in stone. They also didn't ask Ellie permission to do this, which is a huge red flag. Now we have learned from the second game that Ellie absolutely would have done it. It wasn't Joel's choice to make, but in that moment he didn't know. And I think it's a little unfair to put that on him. But then on the other hand, Joel would have done the same thing regardless because he's very much in a protector state. He lost a daughter years earlier. He looks at Ellie as his new daughter, the new cub that he has to take care of. Any father would do the same thing. That's the other part about this whole Joel is an evil bad guy. If you're a father, I find it very hard to believe you wouldn't do the same thing he did, but that's an entirely different debate we don't have to get into. The bottom line is no one is in the right here. Ellie's the victim in the situation and Joel's going to get her out of it. And the only way he knows how to do so is by killing everyone in his way.  Joel isn't your goody two shoes hero. He has a lot of baggage. He's very rough around the corners. He's selfish. Is he all right? Evil though? No. Most people are nuanced. There's gray.  At the end of this though is where it really kills and the game is brilliant about this of course. And that's the moment when Ellie Point Blank asks him if he's lying and he says no.  I've come this far with the guy. I have issues with him. I don't know if I believe him, but I am choosing right now to put my faith solely in him. He has not let me down. And that's just great writing. It really is. This is going to take me into my thoughts about the second game storyline. Now if you haven't played it, you don't know anything about it, you want to keep it under wraps, this is a good time to walk away. Give me a like if you want. Please subscribe if you haven't. I post tons of movie, TV show content all the time on this channel. We'd love to have you stick around. I really liked The Last of Us. They did a great job with season one on HBO. I hope to see more of it coming forward. Here are my issues with the second game. I think the storyline could have worked very well. I have no problem with Joel Dian. I think it was inevitable. I think most people thought by the end of the second game he was going to die. What we weren't expecting, a lot of us, was for him to die in the first hour. And then never really be seen again outside of that great flashback sequence. It also sucks that it ended on such a sour note between these two characters. And what really sucked about this was not only did they kill off the guy that we all grew fond of and really loved the relationship between these two characters, but they did it in such a violent, ugly way with a character we didn't know of and then were forced to play as her. And not only that, we're going to switch off between her and Ellie and her girlfriend who I have no interest in either and is kind of like not on board with this mission.  It's a very weird dynamic and one that never really works. Now, narratively speaking, this is actually very smart. I think the idea behind it is sound. Seeing the fallout of Joel's rampage in the first game and what it did to real people. Abby is a victim. She's the same age as Ellie, roughly. And her dad was one of the doctors I believe or mom. I think it was dad who died by Joel's hand just because he was there at the wrong place at the wrong time. Abby's pissed. She wants revenge. The whole second game is about revenge. Abby wants revenge on Joel. Ellie wants revenge on Abby for killing Joel. It just goes back and forth a few times. It gets exhausting. I get that that's the point. But it's just kind of sloppy how it's presented. Had the game maybe started with the ending of the first and then we see Abby and what she's going through and we get to like her and we get to understand her pain and anguish at Joel. And then we get on that revenge path. It would have worked so much better. Plus we also would have had more time with Joel and Ellie. Let us have the damn game together with them. It's what we signed up for. And then at the end of this thing we could have had it come to a head. That could have been the final stuff. People would have been pissed of course still. But I think it brings the narrative together better. We don't have to be with these people and sit with them for hour upon hour. Another thing that always annoying me about the second game is Joel's brother Tommy is obviously pissed. And he's on this revenge mission before Ellie even is. So often you're going to locations that Tommy's already been to and taken out huge swaths of people. And Ellie's like oh man this must have been crazy. How about I play as Tommy then? That looks like the game that would have been more exciting. What was special about the first is Joel and Ellie found joy in the minutiae. In the pain and anguish. There would still be this bright light from Ellie.  Just like Joel used to be. Why? Like that was too soon. It was too abrupt. And you don't have anything to latch onto. Now it's just sitting in this misery with these characters. It's not pleasant. The game won a ton of awards. Story being one of them. Neil Druckmann loves it. It's his baby. He's not going to change a thing. I don't think. The only reason I bring this up is I think he does have an opportunity to use that time more wisely and maybe lay things out differently than this back and forth jumping in the future and in the past. It was very messy. He can tell a more linear story. And I wouldn't honestly be surprised if we start season two the way I'm suggesting where we do see Abby witness her dad die. And then we keep checking in on her as the season progresses. And then by three or four is when that revenge plot kicks in. Because as much as Druckmann loves his story, it's not going to work on TV the same way. It's why it took so many years on The Walking Dead to kill off key characters that died in the graphic novels way earlier. Because people have attachments to characters. If you kill off Pedro Pascal in the opening of season two, that's game over for your show. I can tell you right now, you will lose a huge amount of audience members to that. He's a big star. He's one of the reasons people tune in. You can't rip it away that quickly. Well, there you have it. My thoughts on the second game and more importantly season one of the show. Thank you for sticking around if you did. This was a longer video, but I think it I think it had some weight to it. Hopefully, let me know in the comments your thoughts on the game story in the second one or your thoughts on the show. Please again like the video and subscribe if you haven't and hopefully catch you next time. Take care.


All right, the survivor is awesome. Welcome to this talk. I'm Athen Reigns. And what I'm going to talk to you about today is math, numeric computing, and JavaScript, a nice weighty topic before you go home, right? And just so I can get a kind of feel for the room, I need to do a quick little survey. How many people here have done what they think to be numeric computing? That can be like clustering, statistical analysis, data analysis, just a quick show of hands, a timid show of hands. All right, how many people have used R? Excellent. Python, MATLAB, oh, Mathematica. Any Mathematica fans? How about Julia? How many people have used Julia? One brave soul. Awesome. And then how many people have used JavaScript for anything at any time? Everyone. But how many of you have actually used JavaScript for numeric computing? Oh, yeah? OK, awesome. All right, cool. So this talk is going to be a bit of a roller coaster. It's going to be an emotional journey, OK? It will be. So I mean, you guys are familiar with different languages. You're familiar with JavaScript. So what I'm going to tell you is going to be like, ah, oh, ah, oh, no, that's not going to really work. So I want to try to provide some light in terms of if you've ever thought about numeric computing in JavaScript, like how to approach it, what to avoid, the pitfalls, et cetera. Because if you're doing data visualization or you want to do some analysis, or maybe you just went a little bit of machine learning in your application, there are some things you need to be aware of and things that you need to look for in different libraries. So the overview is, first, I'm going to motivate a little bit like, well, why should you care about JavaScript in the first place? And then I'm going to talk about the state of JavaScript, in particular, the state of math in JavaScript. And then I'll talk about the state of the ecosystem. I'll talk about a project that I'm working on that's helping to drive this conversation forward. And then I'll talk about the future and how you can be a part of the JavaScript computing revolution. So without further ado, let's talk about JavaScript, everyone's favorite language. And whether you like it or not, like JavaScript is the capital T-H-E language of the web. And as Mike Bostuck was talking about, it is how you do things in a web standards way right now. And it's how you do things if you want to be able to distribute your application to anyone in the world, whether that's through desktop, mobile, or through the web browser. And depending on your bent, there are some things that are not so great about JavaScript. And then depending on your bent, there are some good things about JavaScript, using a fairly polarizing example. But when people think about numeric computing, they typically think about Matlab, or Python, Julia or Mathematica. They never really think about JavaScript. And we should ask ourselves, why is that? Why do people not really consider it? Is there something inherent about the language for why you can't do numeric computing on JavaScript? Or is it maybe just a historical accident? So let's investigate some of the reasons why people say, oh, I don't want to use JavaScript for numeric computing, for any kind of number crunching. First is that they might say, well, it's dynamically compiled. Maybe these are people from a C, C++, four-term background. But the reality is that many other numeric computing languages, like R and Python, are dynamically compiled, right? Or they say, well, there's no 64-bit integers. I care about my dollars and cents. Well, neither does R. R doesn't have 64-bit integers. You have to use an outside package for this. Or they say, well, there's no native big end, big number support. Well, in R, you need to use a package. In Matlab, you need to use a toolbox. So in these other numeric computing languages, you don't have these features. They also say, well, it's single-threaded. So is R, right? Or they say, well, what about performance? JavaScript is really slow, isn't it? And that may have been true back in the early 2000s and 90s, but that's no longer the case anymore, especially after the browser wars in the late 2000s, where browser vendors competed to really drive performance forward on the web. And so now I've done the benchmarks. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that JavaScript as a dynamically compiled scripting language is faster than R and Python. Most people don't realize that, but it's a fast language for doing just regular computations. And then finally, they say, well, there's no C, C++, and fortune bindings, because the secret behind Python, R, and Julia, et cetera, even Matlab, is that they're just wrappers around older libraries from 20 to 30 years ago. They integrate with, like, BLAS or LAPAC. That's where a lot of the performance comes in for linear algebra and high-performance computing. They just provide some external APIs. And the thing about with JavaScript is that, well, in the past, yeah, everything ran in the web browser, so you couldn't have, like, couldn't interface with C and C++, but given the rise of Node.js and the ability to write Node.js native add-ons, you can easily tie into these BLAS libraries and get high performance in American computing and JavaScript now. And especially with web standards coming on board, like WebAssembly, this means that you can run native code, C, C++, in a web browser with near-native performance. So what was true in the past is no longer really true now. But there are two more substantive issues that people give. So all those reasons I just listed are they're not technical barriers for why you can't do numeric computing on JavaScript, right? There's no reason why you might choose R just as a language over JavaScript, right? But there are two more substantive things that people cite for why you don't want to do numeric computing on JavaScript. The first is just sheer community. Now when we talk about JavaScript, the size of the community is huge, but the size of people doing interesting things in numeric computing in JavaScript is small. So if you wanna do something in numeric computing, the amount of tutorials and stuff like that, it's gonna be quite few and it's gonna be kind of a lonely endeavor, right? Another reason that people cite is, well, there's a lack of comparable libraries. There's no NumPy for in JavaScript at the present moment. And this is true, right? Like there isn't a NumPy right now for JavaScript. People are working toward this, but there isn't one. So if you need to do something here and now, well, you're kind of out of luck. But this doesn't mean that you can't use JavaScript or we can't port these libraries to use JavaScript for numeric computing in a web browser. In fact, we need to. And you might be asking yourself, well, we still haven't really answered the question why we should, why would we even want to be able to do numeric computing in JavaScript? Why should we even care? What are the positive reasons for why we need to do this? The first is that you wanna be able to leverage web APIs. You even want access to hardware APIs. You want your application to leverage browser rendering capabilities. You wanna be able to output your data visualization and your analysis as SVG, Canvas, WebGL, as Mike Bostock talked about earlier. You wanna have a tighter coupling between your visualization and your computation. So as we saw on the keynote with the reactive programming style for D3 Express, imagine if you could marry that to a computational backend within a web browser. You could make a pretty powerful proposition there for interactive numeric computing. All on a client's machine. Another thing you wanna take advantage of is ubiquity. The fact that you can run JavaScript pretty much anywhere and everywhere, right? And every single Fortune 500 company now, they're running Node.js in production. Another thing is if any, pretty much any smartphone device has a web browser, so you can run JavaScript there. And now with Electron, you can create desktop applications. So you can pretty much run JavaScript anywhere. And especially if you think about the IoT movement and with Samsung's movement and Jerry script, like increasingly, JavaScript is running IoT devices. So if you wanna develop a numeric computing application and you do it in JavaScript, you have a pretty good chance for having pretty high penetration. Another thing is this distribution. The fact is, is with JavaScript, distributing your computational library or your results or to be able to reproduce your analysis could be as simple as just giving someone a URL, right? There's no special setup installation configuration.  Another reason that you might wanna use JavaScript is this package management. I mean, if you come from other environments, if you're familiar with like PIP and you've done like R packages or you've been familiar with like Julia, you know that package management and other ecosystems is kind of difficult, especially when you think about versioning. And the reality is that for all its warts, like Node.js and MPM of kind of like more or less, in my opinion, solve the package management problem. Like it's an efficient way of thinking about versioning and you wanna be able to take advantage of that for distributing your computational results, version of them, et cetera. And you also wanna be able to take advantage of the largest package ecosystem of any language out there. But there's one other really important reason for why you wanna think about JavaScript for doing American computing and that's the type of applications that you can do. If you went to the decentralized talk earlier this afternoon, you heard the topic of edge computing. The notion of edge computing is the thought of, well, why should, why do we need to do our computational task on a server when a client's machine with its resources and its graphics cards can just as easily do this type of computation? Why can't we outsource some of our infrastructure to client machines so we can decrease our own server cost? You also wanna be able to take advantage of cross-platform applications. Maybe you wanna be able to do something that's a bit more compute-intensive. Maybe you have an application that wants to do like interactive data analysis. For example, let's say you have a mapping application and you wanna be able to do dynamic sampling of your tiles. You need to be able to do some kind of numeric computing for this. Well, let's say you wanna be able to, you have a lot of time series data and you wanna be able to slice and dice and filter and sample, et cetera. You need to be able to do some numeric computing with that. And then maybe you wanna do an application that's integrated machine learning in a web browser context.  You need to have machine learning. You need to have some kind of primitives, a numeric computing framework within JavaScript to be able to do these kinds of things. Then maybe you wanna be able to do something that's a bit more AI-powered.  Maybe that does somehow kind of enhance augmented reality or with object tracking within images. And then lastly, you wanna be able to do mad science, right? You wanna be able to do mad science in the web browser. You wanna be able to do crazy things that are really only accessible and available in JavaScript and within the node community, like for example, a peer-to-peer serverless grid computing application over WebRTC, right? That's possible more or less over within using just web technologies right now. And that's really hard to get access to or not immediately accessible in other languages and platforms. So that's great. Hopefully your interest is like, ah, okay, that's kind of interesting. It's a little bit peaked. You're like, I can kind of see some applications and maybe I care a little bit, but I'm still a bit skeptical. And you might be wondering, okay, so like, how do I get started? What do I need to do? And so from there, we need to talk about the state of math in JavaScript, like what's available, right? The state of math in JavaScript is not great. This is our emotional roller coaster, right? It's not great. So we first need to just talk about the standard math library. This is the standard math library in its entirety, right? It's 35 functions. And if you're familiar with like modern computing languages, you know that this is a little bit small.  You're like, oh, great. And you come to JavaScript and you go, oh, that's not very good, right? And then if you compare this to, let's say your numeric computing languages like R or Julia, this is like downright tiny, right? What am I gonna do with that? And the reality is this is not much, but there are more problems with the JavaScript standard math library and the ecosystem. The first is, this is kind of the section of the talk where we talk about like here are the warnings, the big red flashing signs you need to be aware of when you start to think about like even creating data visualization packages or whatever else your applications within web browsers. Like here's the things you need to think about. The first is that there are no standard algorithms for the standard math libraries. The specification does not say like how you need to compute something. So each browser vendor can have a different underlying implementation. That's kind of a problem. Another one is that the specification does not mandate a particular precision. Browser vendors are able to make speed and precision trade-offs and they have. And what this means is that you cannot guarantee portability of your numeric computing application right now from like different between different browsers that you could run in Firefox and you could run on Chrome and you can get different results. Okay, and because there's no standard math algorithm or anything else, even from one browser restart to the next, you could have a different underlying math implementation and you could have entirely different results. That makes an issue, especially if you want to do reproducible applications. There's another issue that there's no common code base. This is kind of how the JavaScript community works and how browser vendors each have their own implementations. If you care about really driving this conversation forward, well, it's gonna be kind of a pain because you have to invest a lot of time and research going to different repositories, et cetera. It's not like Julia where there's like one single repository that I can go file an issue for. No, I have to go around to like, I had to look at Rust, I had to look at how the Chrome guys are doing it, et cetera. It's a lot of work. There's also just kind of this slow pace of innovation within JavaScript at the specification level. For example, 64 bit integers have been kind of like on the table, off the table, on the table, on the table for over a decade now. And this more recently, there's finally a specification that's reached like stage two for doing arbitrary precision integers like you would have in Python, but it's a stage two and it may not even succeed. These things take a lot of time because you have to get cross browser consensus. So it's really hard to do things at the specification level to drive math forward on the web. And then finally, there's one more problem, which is that you would think like, JavaScript has been around since like the mid 90s, right? You would think like, hey, and they probably like nail these implementations. I'm sure everything's accurate. No, they're not, right? A lot of the implementations are not accurate. In fact, my version of Chrome running right now does not accurate compute 10 to the 308, okay? And I came across this initial bug because I was doing testing for high precision numeric algorithms and I kept on getting the wrong results or things that defied my expectations. And it's because of this, something very basic. And the reason is because the Chrome team is using a fast algorithm to compute powers, right? They're making that speed and precision trade off. And so there's accuracy issues. And other versions of Chrome, when you compute e to the x, it's not accurate, right? And the reason why this is so important is because these implementations are foundational, right? If you wanna be able to do higher level machine learning and statistical analysis, you need to get the basics right because those errors propagate. And those errors matter when you're trying to decide if someone has cancer or not, right? Like these things are important. And the reason why browser vendors have won in this kind of flexibility is because in the past, they've been more concerned about like games, how to make things really fast on the web. And so they wanted to have like really fast implementations. But the domains to which those concerns apply are definitely not in American computing, right? So we need something else to address these shortcomings. So anytime the standards have let us down in JavaScript, right? We go, the community has always rushed in and created stellar solutions and they've come and saved the day, right? So let's talk about the state of the ecosystem. The reality is the state of the ecosystem ain't great either. And there are a number of issues. 95 to 99% of the math libraries out there that you will see in JavaScript and referring on the web make false assumptions. The first number one assumption they assume is a good standard math library, right? And that's an issue because it just kind of like taints the rest of all their implementations if they wanna do some kind of machine learning or deep learning, right? They just assume, blindly assume that they have a good standard math library and they ignore the reality of what the lay of the land actually is. The next thing is that many people address this low hanging fruit. Like there are just tons of packages out there to compute like the mean variance and standard deviation of an array. And that's great, go ahead and do that. But if you're gonna do like the basics, you better make sure that you do them right, right? And the reality is that there's a lot of poor implementations. One of my litmus tests for any math library out there is like, how do they compute the variance? Because if you take the standard textbook definition where you do like the sum of squared differences, it's not numerically stable. You can have overflow errors or you can have catastrophic cancellation, right? It's my most basic litmus test. 99% of math libraries out there do not do this well.  Do your homework, you need to read the source because most of them haven't really done their homework. Another thing is that there's this kind of insufficient scope, right? So there are some interesting libraries out there that have done like deep learning in the browser. So like Androcarpathia's, CovNet.js where there are people that have thought about like, okay, I'm gonna use WebGL shaders and I'm gonna implement BLAS, I'm gonna call it WebBLAS so that you can do really high efficient computational algorithms on the graphics cards and browsers and that's great. However, there's an insufficient scope here. You can't do, that's not a foundational technology that you can build and erect an entire numeric computing ecosystem for JavaScript around that. And then there's this kind of this lack of ambition, right? So a while back ago, a developer by the name of Mika Lysenko who does a lot of stuff in graphics programming, definitely check him out. He showed that basically the same multi-dimensional data structures that you see in like R and Python and MATLAB, there's no secret to them. You can implement them in JavaScript. And he called it, he created a package called ndarray and he showed how you can do efficient computation in JavaScript very performantly, right? So instead of the community kind of consolidating around this and figuring out like effective ways to leverage this kind of technology, this way of thinking, we're still addressing these low hanging fruit, right? And so this is kind of lack of ambition and really tackling the hard problems. And part of that is just getting momentum into the ecosystem and stir up demand for why numeric computing is important within the browser context. So at this point, you're going this, I'm floored, right? Like I'm on this emotional roller coaster and you really, we're at the bottom. This is not great. I came here to learn about numeric computing in JavaScript. Is anyone doing anything on this? And I can tell you that there are people that have identified these problems are actually working on a solution for this. The project that they're working on is tries to combat a lot of noise within the ecosystem. And that project that they're working on is Standard Lib. Now Standard Lib is a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on numeric computing. And if you're familiar with the MPM and Node ecosystem, you might be familiar with like modular design. If you went to Emil Bezos' talk, he talked about decomposable functions and separating things out. This project embraces that philosophy to its end, right? It creates many, many different packages for different elements in numeric computing. It includes robust implementations for like special functions or doing floating point manipulation. It does plotting, it does utilities. It also includes a extensive growing list of seedable random number generators that you might find in any kind of numeric computing library. There's also an integrated help and REPL so that you can get REPL docs if you're familiar with like NumPy and you can just do like help and a function. You get back to this help text. Here I'm showing the help for a BLAST implementation because this project has written wrappers for BLAST and LAPAC libraries to do efficient high-performance numeric computing in JavaScript. And with that, there's also web assembly implementations so that you can do this kind of computation within web browsers now. And if you're familiar with the R REPL, I think everyone in here has done R. You know that you can run like example and then whichever function and that gives you, it spins out that example and then you can interact with it. Same thing here, just calling an example with a certain function and you can go back and edit that history and interact with it. So it's a standard library. It's a standard library. It's a piece of foundational technology that focuses on doing high-performance numeric computing, a lot of utilities to build libraries that do like machine learning, statistical analysis, et cetera. Now, unless you think I'm one of those false profits, that's full of a lot of noise and doesn't really know what he's talking about, there's also an integrated bibliographic database with all the primary literature that we use for all the different implementations. And there's also tests against standard reference implementations in Julia, R, and Python. So that's great. You might be thinking, could I'm back on this? We're on the high point of the roller coaster. There's like this library out there that's solved all my problems, fabulous. How can I use it? Roller coaster. The reality is that it's still much in very much an active development. It's been over a year now that I've worked on this full time as an open source developer, living off my savings. And there's still a lot of work to be done. It's very much an alpha status, right? It can be used to interact with it now and it'd be great to get feedback, but there's a lot of work still to be done. And so you might say like, what's needed? What's needed to really kind of drive this forward and how can I start taking advantage of doing machine learning applications in the web browser and within my applications? And what's needed is your help. Your help is needed to do, to write robust and performant algorithms, to write tests and documentation. Your help is needed to make JavaScript a first class computing language and to really bring computing to the web browser. And hopefully, I've shown you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I encourage you to look into it, give feedback and hopefully you'll help us get there. So with that, I'd like to thank you for coming to the talk, for coming to the conference. If you're interested in the project, here's a URL and if you wanna help Crowdfund it, there's also a URL. So thank you very much and I can take the questions.


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So, Blender 3.0 just came out, I just finished downloading it and started checking it out to see what's new and I'll be very honest. I was genuinely surprised with it. I think something that's always bothered me personally with Blender was for like three years a new version would release and I always felt like rigging an animation were really not a priority at all because for me all I do is character rigging an animation and it always seemed disappointing to watch a new release of Blender and see that rigging an animation maybe got one or two updates and grease pencil and cycles would get like 35 updates. So when I was watching the new release video yesterday I honestly expected to be disappointed again but to my surprise it looks like animation was the primary focus this time around and I was shocked because I really did not expect that and believe it or not I actually don't enjoy hating things for fun, I'd much rather spend my time improving my skill or giving credit where it's due. And in this case I think the Blender 3.0 team definitely did a great job and deserves to be praised today. So fantastic job guys, I love the new look and I think the new tools are going to save animators a lot of time. That being said there are small things Blender could do from here that would make huge improvements to the user experience and I think it's very important that Blender makes these improvements because whether you like it or not your competition is watching you and paying very close attention to your weakness. As many of you know I started my journey to try and learn to be a professional character designer and through messaging and talking with people on artstation who are much more talented than me, when I asked them why don't you use Blender? The common answer is basically because while it can do everything it's really not the best at anything and they break it down something like this, AutoCAD is the best for realistic modeling and architecture, ZBrush is the best sculpting software, Substance is the best texture software, Maya is the best animation and read topology software, Marvelous Designer is the best clothing creation software, Adobe Premiere is the go-to video editing software and if you ever really want to render something amazing in motion you can do that for free in Unreal Engine. So the question for most professionals becomes at what point in my workflow is Blender the best choice? And when confronted with this question it became apparent to me that Blender's biggest strength is well it's free. I mean there are things I think it does better than everyone like grease pencil but if we're talking about the professional industry really Blender's strategy is being free. And the problem with that is the competition is very aware of this and it's very obvious that they're starting to target this strength. Houdini is really pushing its free soft versions, ZBrush has free trials and Maya is constantly pushing its prices down lower and lower to the point where I'm actually shocked at how good the indie version of Maya is. But the point is if Blender does not keep improving at the rate that its competition is cutting its prices it's going to find itself in a tight spot because these other software are really good and there are very good reasons to use them depending on what you're doing. And they're clearly trying to make new cuts into Blender's territory. But two can play at that game. The same way the competition copies Blender, Blender can copy the competition and I would like to see Blender fight back. So I would like to spend the next couple videos covering things I really think Blender needs to steal from other software. But for now I think this video is long enough and I just want to say incredible job to the Blender team. Let's keep that momentum up, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.