The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now, toll free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning everyone, Basil Chapman here on this 26th day of January. And most importantly what we're looking at here is, and I've got to go, I'm going to do this real quickly. Eiffel Tower in the 5- and 10-minute chart straight up in the straight down. It hasn't taken out that left side low yesterday, but that was a turnaround. I'm going to do this because it's so important. The Dow has made a leg G, excuse me, in the daily chart. However, the Dow diamonds went to a fractional new high. It wasn't G, so oh man, what is this? So I'm going to have to work on that and I'll tell you why I'm a little upset about this. Let me go through this. The Dow is up 9 at 38,587, made at 38,124, all-time high. The S&P right now, the SBX, let me just get to that. S&P is trading at minus 621 at 48,888, and all-time high. Now this is going to be really important. 48,42.07 was the all-time high three days ago. It's just missed that for two days. Day is young, but so far it's missed it. Weekly chart is still very strong, leg B. Now let's go to the QQQ. The Qs are down, made a high three days ago, and now it's at 42,79, all-time high. It's just off that at 423,72, down 265. Look at the IWM. The IWM is the one that's trying to show, hey, I'm the one that's surviving yet, but no, it's actually down. It's up 34 cents, but down from the 205 high that made back in December. So it's taken a while and it's holding okay. It's not great. Gold is trading right now, down just a fraction of 2017, just kind of stuck. And it's kind of stuck because the dollar now, this is going to be important. Look, the dollar made that 200-period exponential moving average target that we have, 103.73. It's been there three out of the past four days in a peak D, holding quite well. Look at the TBT. The TBT, that's the inverse of the TLT, that's the Lehman 20-year Treasury Bond ETF. This is the other side of it, and it went right to its peak D on the 200-period moving average. This is really important because it's saying that yields, they're not breaking down, but they're not really going up all that much, but they are in the higher range. Let's just go to the TLT right now. TLT is testing the low support back in December in the 93 area. It's at 90.61 down 35 cents. Have a look at the, what happened here?  And as we're looking at this, we're going to go to Silver. I want to do that as well. Silver is trading down 0.09 at 22.83. Just kind of stuck on get out of its own way. High-grade copper did okay, and then all of a sudden it gave back a little bit, but actually now it's on the 200-period moving average. This is a very important metric that we're looking at in the general economy. Remember Dr. Copper, that's in everything around the world. That's an important ingredient. Wood is the ice shares. Global timber and forestry. You may have made a peak F-top at about, oh, I'm going to check this out. 82.05, yeah, 82.05 on the 27th of December, and it's just making low lows and low highs. Uranium, I was asked about that if I could follow through, because I said yesterday I thought the uranium had made some kind of a top here that is more likely a G, and it's pulling back, and it is. It's down 46 cents at 52.32. It's brought uranium minus ETF. We're also looking at, what was it? Oh, CCJ, I was asked about. CCJ is kind of the leader there. I call that a very strong potential peak F. Eiffel Tower-type move with a big spike to the upside, peak D in the weekly chart, chemical cooperation, uranium fuel. So this is going to be very important to monitor because, let me just get this right here. Why? Because uranium, the way the chart is acting, it looks to me like this is a multi-month. It's been almost a year since the April low of last year, running all the way from the 20s to the 50s, and now it's at 45. This is CCJ, kind of the leader of the group. Let me just go back to URNM. Why? Because you see the way the weekly chart, the nine-period roofing average is so strong over the 14, MACD is still at least 81% on balance volume is falling, and yet the price is holding very nicely. So I consider this as part of a digestive phase that we're looking at right now, but there is that potential that uranium keeps running in 2024 to the upside. Okay, now what am I missing? Crude oil. Crude oil keeps trying to ready, and it kind of stuck there. So now look how quickly it went from a low to a peak A, peak B, peak C, peak D. Peak D is the fourth highest peak. That's your objective in a buy mode, and minimally is a peak D, and then look what happens. Other things can happen at a peak D. Whoosh, it pulls back, has another peak A, peak B, peak C, and today it's in leg D. If it doesn't go above, a continuous contract above 77.51, today it makes a peak D right on the 200, how important is this 200, moving out? Very important. And you made a peak D in the weekly chart, way up there back in, going into the September, October high of last year. Okay, now I need to do what I wanted to do. Actually, you know what I'll do quickly because I'm not able to forget, and it's a question that came up, could I look at TDC? So I'll do that right now, and then I've got a chunk of things to talk about. Most importantly, round numbers. For those of you who've been listening to me for the last 20-something years, you know that I've been talking about round numbers and for people who've been with me since back in the old days, when the 1987 crash occurred, I was talking about round numbers then. I've got to make sure that I'm talking about round numbers. The 1987 crash occurred. I was talking about round numbers then. I've got a major buy signal on October the 19th at the close because there were unbelievable round numbers. Anyway, with that said, A, B, C, D. So this is already Teradata Corporation. Doesn't this go back a long time? It seems to me I followed this on and off. Oh yeah, I can see this for years. Okay, Teradata, monthly chart says, eh, nothing to see here. The monthly chart says not bad. It's kind of improved. It has gone the nine-period moving average has flipped to positive. But let's just do this here. So just to look at it, I'm going to do this if it's a buy, hold, or sell. So in this particular instance, it's done very well. Now all I can say is that if you're in this anywhere in the low 40s, I would just hold it. I wouldn't do anything. I wouldn't even take a little bit off, which is what I usually say when there's been a big move. Take a little bit off, money management. I don't think I need to do that just yet. I will do that if it was. And I held it. I don't.  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There's no catch or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders, just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Free at 1-877-927-6648 Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Okay, so we're looking at TDC Teradata Corporation. So it's pulling back a little bit. It's having a nice, a little bit of a nice session to have $0.14. But most importantly, what I would do is this. If it's got, or it's got IA, it's got all the sorts of things that you're looking at and I'm just going to say to you, I'm looking at the chart. And the chart says on a daily basis, it's had a very good move. It is, at this particular point, it is not acting badly. But that monthly chart needs to have another week of moving and it needs to move towards the 49, 80, 50.30 area. If it can't do that, it's going to be stuck for a while because that's what the weekly chart is saying. So it's in the sweet spot just on a daily basis. The weekly has improved. If I don't have it, I personally would wait. I just wait. I think with the general market, I'm going to talk about that in a moment. I think that there could be a pullback to the 46.90s. Is it 47.90s? It's about a point. And if Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, if it's actually pulled back to the level, let's have a look at it and see whether or not, if you aren't in it where you want, I would get in. And if it does rally and it gets to even 48, 48, 45-ish, somewhere in that area, okay, so you're not in it. I like it, but I'm just going to suggest to you that I don't see the kind of strength right now to say that the next phase to the upside is about to begin. I will see that if it pushes into the mid-48s in the next two days, that's Wednesday or Thursday, but I would, sorry, Monday or Tuesday, I would just hold off a little bit. And the only reason is that if it does pull back and it gets into the low 46s by Tuesday, then the weekly chart says, you know, it could take a little longer. I'm not saying it's a bad stock. I'm saying it's making higher highs and higher lows on the shorter term, but that weekly chart is just still something I'm watching very closely. Okay, so here we go. Have a listen to this. So for years and years, when the October, October the 19th smash occurred in the Dow back in 1987, most people couldn't get information. I was very lucky.  That was the only time I ever used a Mac. It was the only thing where I could get this data. But most importantly, I had a little hand ticker that I used to watch, I don't know what it was called. Anyway, it was a clumsy little, it wasn't a little machine. It was actually something that held in your hand, hand held. And I used to walk around with this. I was a musician at the same time. At that particular point, I was still a professional musician. And I had started this whole stock market thing. And I had just gotten the fidelity as a client. It was my first fidelity in the technical department. Bob Hill was running it. And what happened was I was looking at the ticker. And the ticker was kind of behind. And then I was really busy. I actually had to teach that afternoon. That morning I was free and I had warned. I said, just be careful. This is, I had already said the previous week that I was expecting your shop sell off. And then I had said, I'm anticipating a low on Monday. Did I ever anticipate a 506.20% something rather than declining one day? No, I didn't. And then what happened was I got those, I saw the numbers and the numbers that I managed to get. Remember the tickers were at three hours delayed.   So I lesson learned that. But most importantly, those round numbers, I remember General Motors, I might be making up some of the numbers because it was so long ago. But General Motors had opened at like 58 and it had a 44 round number, something like that, low. And all these stocks had these round numbers all over the show. And I thought, this is unbelievable. And I remember going, I had a hotline and I remember going on the hotline the next day saying 20th saying, this is a major low. We should see a new high within, what did I say, 16 months. And one of the reasons was that incredible number of round numbers, but there's a difference when it happens in something like a crash or it happens in something where if there was just an explosive upside move over the last couple of days in the general market and everybody was talking about the market. I don't see that. I've seen a huge move in certain stocks, but this is what I wanted to show you. And this is, let's just go through. So, I don't know if I'll be able to go through them all. Let me just show you something really interesting. What did I just write down a moment ago? Oh, so I'm really saying to myself, so Tesla, look, Tesla had a round number high on the gap down yesterday. That's usually a clue. And that'll say that if Tesla can close for two out of three sessions above 193, it could try to fill some of the gap. I just wanted to throw that out because that was at a low. And then I'm looking at it, I'm saying, but you keep hearing about BYD. Nobody ever used to talk about BYDF, just some of us who are looking at these Chinese EV stocks knew about it. BYD, look at that. So Tesla is on its way down to lows. BYD, they keep saying these are the greatest number of EVs sold, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's at a low. It's at a multi-month low, almost a yearly low, right? Trading at 24.65 down today. And then I thought, I mentioned this the other day that just a state-owned company that does the best work you could ever wish for, Toyota Motors, where are they? Where are they? What do they do? They had a round number high of 202.00 with a tiny Doji Chapman wave. This is called, right here, Sidon Doji, because it was, it was 201.95 was around the 22nd. Round number high on the 23rd of 202.00. We're Australian right now at 197.77. Just not a big deal. But round numbers matter. Did I write that in? Or was it a matter of the only one that didn't have one? Yeah, I think so. Let me see all the others. I can see. But it had a Doji candle. That's right. That's what I wanted to show you. Oh, no, no. 390 was the open. That's what I forgot to type in. 390 was the open on the 24th, and that was the high. The high bar with a Doji candle had a 390 round number. You can go through it. I defy any of you. Go through all your charts. Have a look at especially high number stocks. It's really hard for them to have a round number because, all right, you've got 10 chances in one that you're going to have a round number. But they don't usually have that. You know, fund managers, only when they're getting really excited about buying or selling, snap in a round number. And that's what I always look for. So 390 is the round number. It's a 390, 390 right now. It's higher. That's a good sign. But I'm saying to myself, wait a minute. I just, I can look. Crowd, CRWD. Crowd is down today. Why didn't I write that in? Crowd had a, oh, I didn't write it in because it was a little messy. So yeah, we are. What was the high on the 24th of January? The all-time high? Well, 298 for 28 was the high in November of 2021. 299.70. But wait a minute. The day before, we had a high of 302.00. Where is it now? 291.37. Currencies, commodities and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe, which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Kegstad's Tiger Forex report. 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You won't know it, but during the break I was getting some in and out and in and out, so I hope everything's working. So here's CrowdStrike. So as I said, there's a little doji candle, but it is a peak sea. It means it could still go to a deep, but lo and behold, the day before, what was it? Let me just check that out. I saw it, now it's gone. I did have a round number somewhere. A round number, I don't want to waste time because there's so many others. Yes, that was the day of the 22nd. The high was 302. I wrote 299, but that's wrong. Look at this. We could just go through so many ups and I just lost the sound again. CrowdStrike, we did. I don't want to do them all. Even Microsoft, even our Microsoft had a round number. It had a little doji candle yesterday. Looking at, oh, I've just got a hold of Uri. I mean, this is, I hope you can hear me. Someone type into the den if you can't hear me because I don't know what's going on. So look at this. 650 was the round number high. It's just unbelievable, these things that happen. 650 was the round number high. Where did I type it? In Uri, because I might be able to find it right now. I wrote it in. I must have been there. I can't find it. What are we looking at? We're looking at work day. Work day on the 25th of January makes a high. And the high is 298.00. Today it's down. But that also is, I've got it as a peak C. It could be an alternate count. But isn't that interesting? So what I'm saying is, I didn't want to use it as a last night. As I'm looking at this stuff, and I started looking at it because I suddenly saw round numbers during the weekend. It was going to be very, very interesting. And then I'm looking at the stuff. And as I'm going through, I've got now, out of the investors' business daily, plus the others that we always look at, top 20 and then top 50. I'm just going chart after chart, PayPal now, ServiceNow, Palo Alto, Apple. I mean, every single one of them had either a close or an open or a low at a round number. And that just says to me, be careful because at highs, I monitor it. I monitor it very differently to at lows. But when I get a number like this, I mean, now as I'm looking at it, I miss some of them because I wrote it down incorrectly or whatever it is. It doesn't matter. So what I say to my subscribers to my opening call, I say, if a certain index does X, we will then go short. But it hasn't done that. Instead, but last night when I was looking at it, I said, oh my God, this is going to be terrible. And then I stepped back and I said, well, wait a minute, wait a minute. Look at the charts. A lot of them are at highs, but they're in legs C. That could become a peak C, but then we might even still get a D. But this is the area where I was saying earlier in the week is that my suspicion, I can't confirm this because I have to have the technicals verified and the nine-period moving averages are all so strong that my suspicion is that the Dow and the other indices could start to make some kind of a topical pattern on Friday. That's today. And maybe over the weekend, if we have a lousy something on Sunday night, and it has to be almost geopolitical, I don't see it so far in a metric that says it's the economy because even the statistics this morning, they were actually quite good. They were not really bad. I mean, it's not the stuff that says, oh my God, the Dow's down 350 points, the S&P's down 58.  No, not at all. So my thinking right here is that within the context of what's happening, I want to be wary. And I don't see major sales because a lot of these indexes, a lot of these stocks, their weekly charts are only in Leg B or C, look here's Workday. This is only in Leg C in the weekly chart. So I'm looking at this as a short-term phenomenon that I think we're getting to a level that says there's a little too much enthusiasm, fund managers are now perplexed. Some of them are just grabbing stocks, a lot of the major stocks, I mean ZS. Look, yes, ZS. I typed it over there by mistake. Let's do this over here. We've got it, ZS. ZS is trading at, of course, the Z Scala is trading at 237.71 down 59 cents. It had, out of three sessions, it had 245.00 as a round number twice. So it had it on the tiny doji, Chapman Wave, this is called, remember, this is the silent doji, the one that occurs not at a higher or low but the day before, the bar before, the bar after. So on the 23rd, it has a round number 245 high. The next day goes to 246.38 and the very next day it has a 245 high. So it means that, I mean, you're putting in money for a stock that's at $245.00 and you hardly will get a round number if it's you and I putting in a 10 share or 100 share bid at 245. But if a big financial company does that, why are they doing that? They're either getting out or they're getting in because they've missed the whole move and they're just desperate. And if you look at the candle here, a doji candle in leg E in Z-scaler, the whole time I was up in the 300s and here it is at 238. And it's just steadily making high highs and high lows in the weekly charts. It just says to me, treat this as a warning to say that this I consider to be a certain degree of hysteria. Some people, some institutions, I'm almost sure it's institutions, are throwing in bids either to get out just to say, hey, I'm not putting in, I'm not going to type in, 245.03. I want out and out says 245. And it's a round number. So I just go through it. I mean, Palo Alto next to W. Look at this. 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The funds are designed to be utilized only in investors such as traders and active investors. Distributor, Foresight Fund Services, LLC. This program is brought to you by Vista Gold, traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. I just wanted to show you this before we go further. See, this is the Eiffel Tower, straight up and straight down, and then what happened is it didn't take out the load. To me, that's always very important, this Eiffel Tower pattern, because it says if you're holding above the previous load, the major load that made that A failure, then it could go higher. But if it takes out the previous A, you have to respect it. You have to consider that there's internal strength. That's the reason why I was so... Oh, what I wanted to say is that so now I'm looking at the charts last night and I've got all these round numbers and then the S&P plunges. And really, for... Lately, plunge means down 24, 26 points used to mean 50 points and 60, but it dropped sharply and I thought, oh, and the dow was down 120.  It's just one signal, one sign. So thank goodness I said, only if certain conditions are met would we even think of shorting and we had those conditions have not been met. So let me do this quickly. So this is the look. It's walking the nine-period moving average. Now I needed to mention, right, that's why I wanted to stop right now and do this. I talk about the two-click session and it can happen after the market has opened. It could happen early in the morning between 6.30 Eastern time and 8.30 or when the economic report comes or it can happen a little later. But at 11 o'clock when my show is finishing, it can happen a lot this weekend. If the nine-period in the 10-minute chart, if the nine-period moving average is above the 14, look at this from yesterday, if it happens you can have a pretty decent move to the upside. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, don't be over anxious in wanting to short an intraday basis because this sign right now says just at the moment, as we're speaking, there is still a positive technical bias on the short term in the E-mini. Now let me go back to what we were looking at. So the question came in, could I look at let me go in order here. Can I look at, where did it go, where did it go, where did it go? Did TDC, oh. Just wanted to know about MSOS. MSOS is Advisor Shares Pure U.S. Cannabis which has been on a tear, it held that 200-period moving average. Got a doji candle today in Leg D. The magnies good, the nine's over the 14, the stochastic's at 87%. Now we have, we're also in the cannabis sector in an ETF, it's a different one. They have different chart patterns actually. This is the one that says that previous high that was made right there on the week of the 19th, now the week of the 15th of September at 907, that's almost like a target, it's like a magnet line in this cup formation. This is almost like, doesn't this look exactly right here, the rectangle that I've drawn? Doesn't it look exactly like this here, look. Doesn't it look exactly like that there? Came down, held the left side low, did the Chapman wave single leg A failure pattern then held and now it's a brand new move to the upside. The only difference is that's in B in the 10-minute chart, B in the 5-minute chart in the E-mini, and look at this, this is A, B, Leg C. So this is your original A, it's the same thing, wow, patterns repeat over and over, they call fractals. So this is an A, that's a B, and here's your C. So this is looking very good, I like it very much on a short term basis at 928 right now, the 9, oh, and the 9s. I would just say, if there's a steep pullback, watch the 860s, that really has to be key support just on the short term, 860s, give me a yell if it gets there, but I like this, I think this is a sector that's been underplayed for so long that it's starting to get some play and not only that, it is a political year.  So I think this is in play, I might be wrong, but that's what I'm looking at, okay. So here's the other thing that I'm looking at, so that was one question. Another question came, can I look at DocuSign? So I follow DocuSign a lot, it was one of those that I said has to be in your portfolio, this is not an ours, I always missed it, but DocuSign, the electronic signing, it had a 314.76, a two bar reversal at a peak C at its all-time high, 314.76, next bar a month goes by with a sign in doji candle and it goes to 314.76 cents below, and that was in August of 2021, and then it has a little bit of a pullback from the year 39s, was that the actual, somewhere in 38, 39, and just a beautiful run from October from under 40 to 63, I mean, a 50% gain. Now, you see the way it's stalled, I'm always a little nervous about these, this is one of those charts where you actually want to, if you're not in it, then it makes it very difficult. If you're in it below, you want to grab 64.76, 64.70, amazing, this is the same as this all-time high where 76 was the high, and 76 was the decimal placement on the right at the all-time high, and then the following month was 70 cents, this is 64.76 for the most recent high at peak F, and 64.70, I love those coincidences. Anyway, this is where at 65 you want to add if you're in it. Now, if you're not in it, I'm going to suggest, start a position because you've got a narrow rectangle, and it's going to tell you if you're wrong, why? Because if it starts to trade underneath, so 63.35, I don't think a two-point stop at an initial position is a bad thing. Look, if it's 64.70, right? And then the low is 60.70. No, four points is too much. Start a position. It'll be a smallish position right here. It's holding really well, but on this position, I would have half of it. We have a stop at 64.70, 63.37 right now, 63. No, I think you can do that, and have a 62. You could start your position right now, and at least part of that position should have a 62 stop or maybe one-third of it, because if it doesn't close under it and goes back in, it says, yeah, it's still within the rectangles. Come back into the remember rectangle. If it's starting off as a narrow rectangle, it can remain a narrow rectangle for a lot longer. So that's all I'm saying. I like it very much. Start your position. This is not your full position. This is like your starter position. I hope that helped you. Next question came in. Yeah, American Express. So this is a big deal. So American Express, and I just saw, as I was putting it in, one of our YouTubers said, I've had American Express for a long time. Congratulations. So this is at an all-time high. I believe it's an all-time high at 204.18 up 16. And it's in leg A and leg B, and I'm calling this a leg C, and only a leg B in the monthly chart, and the weekly chart. Wait a minute. Is this a leg B in the monthly chart? 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Remember IBM had a fantastic day and a united UNH had a lousy day. And what we're seeing is that there's more of a dominance of these stronger stocks with their pickers up and leak gaiters. So I'm saying just be a little careful you start looking at them carefully at the market. That's what I'm saying because round numbers I don't mess around with them when I see them. I'm aware. Thank you for Steve Rose. Check out my opening call.


First of all a little bit of us Okay, just to say that we are not developers. We are organizing We are organizers in 5CN, but not really Python developers. I'm instrumentation engineer in Fesic in Spanish-Rosier Council. I'm working in marine technology But I use Python in everywhere I can. Hi, I am Ignacy. I am an infrastructure engineer. I am working at DevEx.com Media site about NGO and international development. I'm coming more from the system administration part of the thing. I like to write programs since I was a kid, so I'm kind of a wannabe developer. Not very good. A little bit worse than a system administrator, but trying to balance both. By the way, if you ever come to visit Barcelona or something and you can check in www.pibcn.org about our activities or meetups or dojos or whatever. So if you are around you can feel free to come and give a salute. So we're going to give a very introductory talk on what we have been doing for the last nine months, one year because we started with doing some dojos. Is there anyone who knows what a cutting dojo is right now? Well, quite a few. We will start with a brief story of five Barcelona dojos, how we started doing them, what we have been doing a little bit.  We will do a small recap on the sessions we're on, just choosing some of them. Not all, because it could be quite long. Then we will take a look back on to see what things we learned doing dojos, about what you need to prepare, what things you need to be aware of. Then we will be talking about the dojos sessions we are going to be running at the Euro-Python this year. We will give a very small set of ideas to start with your community. Actually, it's a pair of points. The five Barcelona dojos were not related to the five Barcelona group before. We started with a small group of system administrators, people who were interested in learning some programming stuff. Then we decided to start using Python, because it looked like a very low-variant level language, easy to learn and to start working with. The big problem we had is that we did very frequent sessions. We barely did one every two months. After having these sessions, or during having these sessions in another conference, we were commenting with some Pivas and other members about what we were doing. They were quite interested in setting up these sessions for the whole Python Barcelona community. With them, we started running these sessions monthly, determining the dates every three months, and having different kinds of sessions. We felt that there were a lot of different skill levels among the people that were kind of interested in having them. So we are going to talk about what has passed for the last nine months. For those who don't know, coding does this as the Hanson session. The first very important target or goal of these sessions is to have fun with code colleagues and people with similar interests. The second is learn from others, because usually it comes that there is someone attending that says, yeah, I'm very new by it. I don't know anything where I barely use Python, but there are also other people that master some subjects on Python, or even on just the kind of audience we are proposing. And for the people who know more about Python or master some subjects, it's to share the individual knowledge. We get that because we try to use several techniques that I'm going to explain later. Also, we use coding dojos to practice new technical tools which we don't use to do them in our daily jobs. For example, testing or writing tests or doing TDD or such. Then the related concepts. More important to be aware of when you are attending or organizing a dojo are those of here. The first one is the Cata. Cata is the trivial exercise. We are going to stay for the session to complete. It's trivial because it's usually not very difficult. And it's trivial because it doesn't matter if we come to a solution. We're not trying to cure cancer or to find anything big. And it doesn't matter if individually or within the team we form off, we find a solution. What we are trying is to learn from what others are doing within the team or with other teams. Usually we use paper arming also because this is a very good technique. Especially when you use paper arming with TDD, for example, it can be kind of fun. Also, we do interactive development. So when we prepare the Cata, we tend to have some preparation before in order to have the steps, the iterations we are going to have. So we can guide people attending. These iterations are done within a time box test structure. We use the Pomodoro Technique, which is just having 25 to 45 minutes to have every iteration. We tend to change the times and it's kind of chaotic sometimes, but it's important to try to enforce these techniques. Also, we put a very strong emphasis into differentiating testing versus TDD. This doesn't mean that we need to write tests for everything. This doesn't mean that we use TDD in all the sessions. There are some sessions where we enforce much more TDD. There are some sessions where we only want to see some tests to check that everything works, and even we have some sessions that we are not even looking at the tests in case they are. Also, on each session, after all the iterations, we have... Well, it should be small. Usually it is not. Retrospective session with all the attendants. So people can explain what they like, what they don't like, what they learn, and what they are taking off from the session. So we can learn what we are doing good, what we are doing bad and we need to improve, or what we should be taking care of.  Sometimes it's just a format, the air conditioner of the room, or the quality of the projector, or something like that. But sometimes people explain, yeah, this kind of problem was very nice, but we hadn't an statement before, or we hadn't a statement to check when we were coding. Things like that can be helpful to improve the sessions. So this is a small recap on three of the most cool or interesting sessions we had. Some months ago, we had the Pytest versus Unit Test session. It was intended to be a hands-on on Pytest, with comparing with the Unit Test version on the same cat, very simple and small. One of the big problems we had with Pytest on versus Unit Test session, it was that we didn't have so much knowledge of Pytest. We just had the very introductory knowledge. So it was very hard to answer certain doubts that people get. We were trying to, when we did that session, we were trying to provide something more interesting for people with some experience that are not so interested in starting with TDD, but learning about what they can get from using other tools. And this was one of the problems we had there. In the Syriq and Python session, which was based on a Peter Hinge workshop at EuroPython 2014 last year, it was quite interesting. We had, I think, 18 people attending. It was quite stress, but it was very, very nice. The feedback was very good. So we are quite happy. Maybe we should have some more time to learn more about Siren QE4. We used to be kind of the procrastinating people. And, well, the feedback was very good. We had a lot of people working with engineering, with infrastructure engineering, also, and so on. And, yeah, sorry. Then we had another session with Mocking which introduced the session of the mock library, which it's not re-included, but it's very useful to find out, to fake things happening around our code in the architecture. This session was kind of bad, at least, because we hadn't been very prepared. This was one of the first new kind of sessions we had. We went with a supposed cata that we invented, which we haven't tried. This is one of the very first things you need to do if you want to organize those sessions. Okay, and a little bit of a resume about what we have learned doing this, because in these sessions we also learn about people who come from that. One, the first seems very elementary, but you have to practice your cata before to do other people. And usually we find, we try to think what could be the different solution that people we are going to find just to guide the session to be fun and to be fast and not to be worried by the people here. You have, obviously, if you guide the session, you have to have a specific knowledge, but you don't have to be a master. You only have to have a main idea, and usually people who come to our dojos when we guide, usually the solution that they show is that they are almost better than us or have some points that we, all the people in the session learn something. Then, okay, if you introduce a new library, probably you have to take care to show the basics of this library. You have to take time to, all the people start with the same knowledge. And to guide the session is really important to have learning skills, okay, to learn teaching skills and these kind of things. I think it's the most important to feel that, to feel, to make feel comfortable all the people in the room. Yeah, and then that it's useful. Okay, and then it's open to other programs that come from other languages, but we try to focus on Pythagonic solutions, of course. Okay, and a little bit about the session we are going to do in EuroPython. Okay, on fly sensations, we are going to focus, to explain a little bit baby steps and how it works. And, yeah, practice per programming. I don't know if you ever program it in pairs, but I think it's quite fun, not just to be three hours alone programming. Programming alone, okay, sorry. And it's just, it's just a game, but programming usually a pair program the test and the other program the program, the code to solve and then change the roles. I think it's, you learn how to do the test, how to program. And one of the important parts is, yeah, if you have a Mac and a PC who manage this session, which editor, which, and sometimes you learn new things sharing with your partner, even more than in the group. Okay, on the Saturday session it's going to be a little bit complex, but okay, these two sessions are related to the typical algorithmic problems, which are going to be classical algorithmic problems, okay, just to practice TDD. Okay, Friday is more for Q's and TDD. Saturday is just texting. And in a more complex scatter, probably you are going to, if you come, you are going to practice some refactoring about the problem, okay. The seats are really, really limited because we, our sessions in Barcelona are in a small group, and we will. We won't want to be very personal in every group, know what it's doing, and we think that 20, 25 people in the room it's how to manage, okay. Then come soon, we are going to publish in Twitter or, I don't know, in that way. We are going to make it even brighter. You are going to sing it up. Okay, I think you are going to sing it up and I want to see you in these sessions. Okay, a little bit about. And if you are interested in piping dojos, I think it's a good way to spice your community. I'm a piping organizer, and since two years ago, about, and I feel that, okay, you organized meetups and conference, but it's a little bit cold, okay.  I think it's, with piping dojos, we have a community that you know what is developing, what it's like a family now. We do piping dinners and these kind of things. I think it's a relationship more, okay, it's more warm. Okay, I think if you are interested, if you want to ask how to start piping dojos in your community or if you want some examples or some experience, if you want to share some experience with us, we are here all the week. And we recommend to read this book about piping dojos handbook, my Emily Wange, and of course, you can contact us with using Twitter and in person here these days. Any question? Yeah. How about the catas? Yeah. How about the catas? Yeah. Did you prepare it in advance? Yeah. Or do you just go and you ask people what they want to do? Yeah, we know a lot about people who usually come. People repeat. That's an important point. Well, yeah, we ask people, new libraries, if you want to try new libraries, we try different formats. Yeah, it depends on the people. For this reason, we think that the feedback that we get at the sessions are really, really important for us just to know that it's interesting or not or what to change in the next session. How about the cata preparation? It also depends how much time do you need because sometimes you can have a very complex cata and then you need like more than a week to prepare it. That doesn't mean that you need to be careful because if you prepare the cata during one week, you can easily have a cata as long as at the time you have for running the session. But if it's simple, you can have it easily in 23 one hour. I've got lures, actually. I organized the London Python code. Okay, I know. We asked, actually, we talked with someone, we talked with Rashid about that. Yes.  Yeah, I think we're doing quite differently, actually. How does yours work?  No. We have been thinking about trying out different kinds of sessions for the dojos. This is one of the ones we have been considering, but we never did one of those. Okay. What we need is to start with pairing people and commenting the cata, explaining what the details that the cat can have for what complex and things. And then with the people working in pairs, start working with that. If the cata is simple enough to run the session, you can do that. If the cata is simple enough to run just one iteration, then we try to enforce people to switch the team so they can share with more people in the same session. If the cata is more complex, then we just stand with that and go on with programming complex integration. Yeah, and usually, then we, well, we aim the people to share the code and explain the control. Yeah. How it works. Okay. Now how many iterations are you doing roughly? Three, four. In the rest of the cases. Why? Like she said before, there's always someone attending that masters much more than you. So we had, for example, one guy with one cata, the guy just solved the first iteration, the second iteration, and the third iteration using the first one. So, yeah, you're going to have to have this kind of... You always have to think more stuff, more than the time you have because of the people who is coming. Yeah. Not to people who try to enjoy all the people. We also started doing something by the end of the year. It was... We prepare the sessions every three months, every quarter. So we use... We do a very simple cata in the first month. In the second month, we do a more complex cata with less TDD or less test focused. And then we have a third session with, for example, a certain queue. With a specific library, yeah. Can I ask more questions? Sure, but the last one. Okay. How many of you are coming every dojo? Well, it has been... Depending also on the lack of STDs and so on, it's very important, especially if the Barça football team is having a match. We have to... We choose the dates in advance. Yeah. Really three months in advance and sometimes we don't know. But we used to be like 10, 15 people. Okay. And do you provide beer and pizza or something like this? Well, we had some kind of things. Yeah, cookies. Yeah. We used to... Sometimes I cook pizza and those kind of things. Yeah. But we're planning to talk with some local brewery to get beer or something. And we're paying for... We're paying for the cookies and the beers and the location. Yeah. We are within the pirates on our hook, so everything comes together. Okay. And is it free to attend? Yes. Yes. Well, we have only the... We are publishing the heaven ride with 25 seats. Yes. Much more people could be kind of difficult to manage. Meaning... Thank you very much. I mean... Yeah. Talk later. Okay. Right now there will be a coffee break and we'll start at quarter to five sharp. And don't forget that you can read this talk at the guidebook, sorry. And that's it. That's it. See you after the break. Thank you for coming. Thank you.


Good morning friends and poor one today. We will discuss the following question from a lot of 30 bulbs Which includes six defectives a sample of four bulbs is drawn at random with replacement? Find the probability distribution of the number of defective bulbs Let us begin with the solution now Now let X denotes the number of defective bulbs drawn in four samples Then X can take values 0 1 2 3 4 as there can be 0 1 2 3 4 Bulbs drawn which are defective That is the maximum number of defective bulbs that can be drawn as 4 and the minimum number is 0 now probability of drawing a defective bulb is 6 upon 30 as there are six defective bulbs and in all there are 30 bulbs This is equal to 1 upon 5 So the probability of drawing non defective bulbs is 1 minus 1 upon 5 and we get this is equal to 4 upon 5 At X is equal to 0 We have probability of drawing zero defective bulbs that is probability of drawing four non defective bulbs in four draws is 4 upon 5 Into 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 Into 4 upon 5 because probability of drawing non defective bulbs is 4 upon 5 And we have this is equal to 256 upon 625 At X is equal to 1 We have probability of drawing one defective bulb is equal to probability that first bulb is defective that is 1 upon 5 into probability that we have three non defective bulbs and it is given by 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 plus Probability of drawing one non defective bulb that is 4 upon 5 Into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 Into probability of drawing two non defective bulbs, which is 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 plus Probability of drawing two non defective bulbs that is 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 Into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 Into probability of drawing one non defective bulb that is 4 upon 5 plus Probability of drawing three non defective bulbs that is 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 into probability of drawing one defective bulb that is one upon five. So probability of drawing one defective bulb has four arrangements. That is the first bulb is defective and others are non-defective or the second bulb is defective whereas others are non-defective or third bulb is defective whereas the other three are non-defective or the fourth bulb is defective whereas the other three are non-defective. So we can write this as this is equal to 4 into 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 and we get this is equal to 256 upon 625. Now at x is equal to 2 the probability of drawing two defective bulbs is 6 into probability of drawing one non defective bulb that is 4 upon 5 into probability of drawing one non defective bulb that is 4 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that is 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing a defective bulb that upon 5 as there can be 6 arrangements for drawing 2 defective bulbs so we get 6 into 4 upon 5 into 4 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 and we get this is equal to 96 upon 625. Now at x is equal to 3 we have probability of drawing 3 defective bulbs is equal to 4 into probability of drawing 3 defective bulbs that is 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 into probability of drawing 1 non defective bulb that is 4 upon 5. As probability of drawing 3 defective bulbs has 4 arrangements so we get 4 into 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 that is probability of drawing 3 defective bulbs into probability of drawing 1 non defective bulb that is 4 upon 5 and we get this is equal to 16 upon 625. Now finally at x is equal to 4 we have probability of drawing 4 defective bulbs is equal to 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 into 1 upon 5 as we have probability of drawing a defective bulb is 1 upon 5 and we get this is equal to 1 upon 625. So now we will draw the probability distribution table. So this is our probability distribution table. Here we have when x is equal to 0 1 2 3 and 4 then we have probability of x as 256 upon 625 256 upon 625 96 upon 625 16 upon 625 and 1 upon 625 respectively. This is our answer. Hope you have understood the solution. Bye and take care.


Hey, what's going on, everybody? It's great to be here. Before I get started, I basically just first want to thank all of you for doing what you're doing, because, you know, especially after talking to a lot of you last night, I just began to understand that, you know, running a float center is really very much a labor of love. You know, it's a lot of effort into it. And it's not always glamorous. And it's a lot of your personal life gets eaten into because it's a small business, you know, and you're always working at it, you're always thinking about it, you're always making it happen. But the reason that, you know, it's so beautiful is that you all are putting the effort into it, you know, sacrificing some of your own times from your energy to keep this thing alive because you know what it's doing for the greater good.  Each and every one of you that own float centers, you know, it can get used to the idea probably, like I don't own a float center, of course, but you can get used to as you see customers going in and out all the time. You think, oh yeah, well they're just doing their float, but what's really happening in their inner lives when they're having that experience is huge. I'm sure, you know, it's easy to lose track of that sometimes. So I just want to say, you know, first of all, thank all of you for doing what you're doing because you're creating a big impact in the world and creating a lot of positive change on all the people that are going through your floats. So I'm going to talk about my history in float tanks first and how that I used the float tank to become an active modality to change some issues that I was having, but first I want to talk about my history with float tanks. So I first became aware of float tanks and probably about 20 years ago or something, about 300 years old, and it was really from reading like books on hippie philosophers like that type of stuff where they would talk about these things and I thought that sounds really interesting because from the time that I was a teenager I was really interested in just poking at my brain, you know, trying to pull and snap my consciousness like a rubber band and see, you know, what's going on in there.   So I was very interested because of that but in, you know, way back then in the 90s when we were first hearing about these things, they weren't really accessible, you know. There were no beautiful lush float centers like I'm from Austin, Texas. There are places that are just very luxurious and beautiful, giant like entire room size float tanks almost like a New York apartment pretty much that you can get into really amazing stuff. But back then this is a little, situation was different. I'm sure some of the people that have been in the game for a long time remember that. So after I had, you know, the idea I had that I wanted to do a float, I forgot about it for a little while and then one day I thought, you know what, I'm going to check that out. So I googled to see what was going on. I found a place that said that they offer floats. So that's fantastic. So I set up an appointment and I drove across town and it was at someone's house. So just some random person's house. So nice and comfortable. I go up to this front door and I go in there just some, you know, random float purveyor in there. They say coming on side and I say, great. So I go into the living room talking to him for a minute. It's a little awkward. You know, you just don't know someone at all.  And there's two worse locations. And if you're in someone's house, it can make you less comfortable if you don't know where you're at. The worst one is if they say, let's go into the basement. So fortunately that isn't what they said because there's no basements in Houston. The second worst one is they said, let's go upstairs.  And they're like, okay, so here we go. The float tank is in my bedroom. So now I'm upstairs and they're going to direct me into the bedroom. But they're like, but first, before you go into my bedroom, I need you to take a shower. All right. Okay. All right. All right. Let's do it. So that's all right. Show me where the shower is at. So I go in the shower and it's weird to like just be suds and up and some strange like, I was in my car 10 minutes ago. Now I'm in someone's shower. Like, what am I doing here? So I get out, squeaky clean going there. And they're like, okay, here we're going to my bedroom. Here's the float tank. And now this is again, this is like probably 20 years ago. So the float tank was kind of like a coffin with warm water in it. I'm only always met a cardboard. It was like just this rectangle box kind of death trap looking thing. And I was like, very great. So get in there and they're like, I'll be waiting out here for you. You know, why? Well, your clothes and personal effects are out here. Enjoy, relax. You know, I was okay. So I get in there. But, you know, the thing that was great was that the second I got in there and closed the door, it was like a key turning and like another dimension opening. And I really immediately experienced the palpable effects of flotation. But I think now is a relevant time to ask, why would I put myself in that situation? Why? Why would I go to some weird person's house and take a shower? You know, and it was because, I mean, now I'm hooked on it. I do it all the time. But no, I, it was like, why would it do it? It's because I had terrible anxiety. I had terrible anxiety whenever, ever since I was a kid, you know, because I came from, you know, just the environment I was living from the family, all that stuff. You know, this is, that's a whole other talk. But I will say that I had extreme anxiety. You know, it was a situation where my heart was always racing all the time. My stomach was always in knots. You know, my shoulders were always tight. You know, whenever I was a kid, I would come home. I would try to put my key in the lock of the front door. And sometimes my hands would be shaking so bad that I couldn't get the key in the door because I was so nervous about going inside to discover what was going to be waiting for me, you know. And so as an adult, or as I was just coming to an adult, I realized, I have to, I have to figure this out. Like, I can't live my whole life like this. This isn't normal. And so that's why, you know, I got into meditation first. And then after practicing meditation for a while, this is when I then found the float tank. And I thought, this could help as well. This could be something. So the beautiful part about that first experience in the float tank was that whenever you're going to cultivate the meditation practice, there are a lot of things that you hear about, you know, a lot of states of mind experiences that you hear or read about, but it takes a while and a bit of dedication before you experience them.  What are the thoughts that are moving through? How can I become more aware of those and, you know, acknowledge them and engage with them in the moment, as opposed to them seeming like they are what I am and they are controlling me and they are this, you know, immovable force that's inside me. The tank immediately when I closed the door got to that space. I knew it was that space of mine the second I closed it because I had been working towards it. I had gotten flashes of it, but getting in the tank there, it was like, okay, this is it. Now I can actually relax and explore that mental space because in meditation, of course, it's an active practice. But with flotation, you're just receiving. You know, you're just, it's passive.  And so I started, you know, just begin to watch my mind in there. And I noticed that I was just in a perpetual, you know, parasympathetic fight or flight mode. That's what I began to realize is that my anxiety was coming from just being locked into this fight or flight thing where I was just going through life just reacting and reacting and reacting. And I had no agency over really what I was thinking or what I was saying. It was just like everything that was said to me. It was essentially the script of my subjective perception of what reality was. Was it any comment, any experience, anything that I saw, any look, anything was somehow related to me being in trouble or guilty or being threatened or something like that. And so I was just reacting to it all the time. And I began to notice that whenever I asked the question why and what it was and I looked deeper, see that, okay, this is, you know, this state of mind that I need to work through. I need to figure out what the opposite state of mind is and start to get into that space. And so I really started applying the meditation techniques to that and I made it to where I would go to this one particular float place that I talked about and I would go there every couple of weeks, once a month, whenever I could afford it at the time. And I started integrating meditation practices while I was in the tank. And what I found was that applying an integrated approach to a passive thing, which is floatation, with an active thing, which is meditation, really created incredible results. Because while I was in there, the ease of being in that state where boom, the doors closed, you immediately are looking inward and you're aware of the stage of your mind. And then being able to do those meditative practices to then begin to reset and calm the nervous system in the body. And that's the interesting thing about meditation, is that to get into the sympathetic nervous system state, which is the opposite of the fight or flight one, which is basically the rest and digest that's after you eat, that's after you go to the bathroom, after you have sex, whatever it is, you get into that state and you feel calm and warm and relaxed in your body. And so I was doing these things, I was trying to get into that state. And what's interesting is that when you're, I'm sure that people here are experiencing anxiety, we all do. What's interesting is that whenever you are experiencing it, what's happening is that you're in that nervous system state and not intellectually, but physically, your body feels like you're actually in a threatening space. It's reacting as if your environment is threatening, but really you're just waiting in line to get a coffee or something, which actually probably shouldn't be having coffee, you're anxious, but you're waiting in line, you're there, everything's fine, everything's cool, but your body is reacting as if there's a saber-toothed tiger over here looking at his chops, looking at you. And so to get out of that state, you have to then retrain the mind. And so what's great is that the breathing and meditation, the breathing signals to your mind that lets it know that your body is safe. And so I found that in the flotation, while I was doing the meditation practices, that the breathing of the meditation, the visualizations, was a way to then reassure my body and my mind that everything was actually okay on the outside. And that became really, really valuable. And it was wild that after every session I would notice my anxiety go down like 5%, and then I would do it again and another 5%, but it would actually stick because there's a lot of things I would do to try to get some more constructive than others to see if I could get my anxiety to calm down. But they always kind of, it was a yo-yo effect, like a little bit of effect, and then a week later or whatever it was back to normal. But this really stuck. It made it to where I noticed these decreases in long-term resting anxiety over time, the more that I floated. And having experienced meditation before this was really valuable because a cultivation of that witnessed mind of being able to kind of always be aware of what was going on in my mind made it where I was able to observe that change in that process over time and kind of be more aware of it unfolding as opposed to going into the tank and kind of reducing your anxiety and then just one day hitting you and being like, oh, I feel a bit better, you know? So it was very valuable and very interesting to be able to watch that process. Now, you know, what's really interesting is that in Buddhism there are six senses, and we generally of course think about our five senses, but in Buddhism there's six senses, and of course we all know what our five senses are and how those contribute to our experience of reality, right? So if you think about it for a minute, and this might get a little bit weird, but that's what we're here for, right? So if you think about your perception of the world and you have your sight and your smell, your touch, your taste, you're like in this body that's in three-dimensional space and there are all of these, the sense information flowing around, right, outside of your body.  And so the combinations of all of our senses are always sending these signals in through our nervous system and it's creating these mental formations that arise in our mind. Now I think all of us are pretty comfortable because that's just how, you know, our human body is programmed and that's how we experience things and we're used to it, you know, because it's all we've ever known, but the interesting thing is that the sixth sense in Buddhism is thoughts. So they actually say that the actual thoughts themselves are another type of sense and that might sound a little bit odd, but if you think about it, what are thoughts?   So it's writing as much material as it can for you to draw from. The problem is that's one, that can be very overwhelming and the two, here's where the rub is, is that we mistake rising thoughts as something more threatening and authoritative and final than what we experienced coming outside of our bodies because it's coming from inside of us. So that makes it much more personal and therefore it appears to be real and really powerful.  You're like, yeah, I'm cold, I'll go get in the shower, I'll go work out, I'll step outside in the sun, you warm up and then you carry on, right? But if you wake up in the morning and you have this thought, you look in the mirror and you go, oh, that guy's going to fail today. You know, that doesn't go away just like the cold does, right? That sticks with you for days, weeks, months and times, right? And so if you think about that in the same way it really shows how absurd it is that our thoughts have that much control over us because essentially like having a negative thought or an anxious thought that is really arresting your whole body and holding on to it all in mistaking it for something so real and final and permanent and effective is just the same as waking up in the morning, pulling those covers off, filling the coldness and then five hours later when you're running through the park sledding you're like, I am still freezing. I'm still freezing. That thought that I had about the coldness is still with me. I'm really holding on to it, you know, because I experienced it once and I became attached to it and now I'm grasping it for hours and hours. Like we simply don't do that with what we perceive from the outside world. But we do that with our thoughts. And so whenever you can start to see your thoughts in the tank and having an active practice in the tank with meditation is really valuable in this because you begin to see your thoughts for simple, arising pieces of information.  They're things moving across the stage of your mind. They aren't you. It's like weather, you know, moving through a state or through a city or something like that. It's just data that's moving, right?   You accept it like that was a passing momentary piece of information. And now I'll move on, connected to what's actually here, the true nature of reality. And through flotation and meditation in the tank, you can get closer to that because the opportunity to look inward with the help of the tank makes it to where you're not distracted, having to put in the work to get to that space. So you have such a huge opportunity to be able to really go inward to look at your mind, to understand yourself more deeply, to look at where those things are arising from and really the mechanics of the arising thoughts and mental formations that flow through your mind. And so you can become more comfortable with those from a witness point of view. Being able to just observe with the awareness of your mind, those things, it really makes it to recreate a separation between the thoughts that create anxiety, the reactions that create anxiety, and your actual experience that you're having in life. So that was really how, through that process, how I remapped my relationship with reality. It's because in the beginning, whenever I was young because of trauma, I had this intense anxiety and through the process of meditation and meditating in the float tank, I then was able to remap my relationship with reality because I understood that it wasn't what I was feeling, it wasn't the arising information in my mind that was really what I was experiencing. That what I was experiencing was out here. Like this is what's real. And all of that arising stuff is just information that is no more solid or no more threatening than the cold air that you feel on your skin. So I would just encourage all of you as float tank owners and operators to offer some of those tools to your customers. If you have tanks with speakers in them, maybe offer guided meditations. Maybe offer binaural beats or music or something like that. Maybe a way to expand the business and to create a different diversified form of income is to perhaps offer meditation classes along with the conjunction of floatation. So it's like, hey, here is this evening where we do half an hour of meditation and then everyone goes to do their float. So they're primed and they're in that frequency of space before they even go into the tank so that they can experience what the integrative approach is like. So that's all for my talk. Thank you all for being here. Thank you for doing what you do and I really appreciate all of you for doing great work in the world.