Hi, I'm Olga, co-founder of TRC, Thermal Recycling of Composite. Do you know what have in common wind blades, planes, boats, suncars and the bikes? They are all made of composite. They are made of fiber and resins. And the use of this composite is increasing at about 12% every year because they have very good features such as mechanical properties, stability, durability and so on. But they also have three main problems. They are very expensive, mainly due to the high price of the carbon fibers. They have a very high environmental impact because they are very hard to recycle and a high management cost. Those are the reasons why these composite materials are now dumping landfills. In this case, they are wasting the fibers inside the composite because there is no technology now that can recover it. For example, wind industry has already dumped only in Europe 2 million tons of this kind of waste. That's why we, TRC, have developed R3 fiber a thermochemical technology that can transform the waste into high quality fibers that lead with 70% of the initial mechanical properties and also as by-product we can obtain fuels and energy. Our target market are on one side the wind industry that generates blades every year, 4,000 blades every year is generated in Europe and on the other side the fiber before composite industry that pay a high price for the fibers and also these fibers have a high carbon footprint. We can reduce the composite waste cost management in a 34% contributing in this way to the circular economy because wind industry, for example, the only waste that cannot recycle is wind blades, this kind of composite. On the other side, we can also reduce the price of the fibers in at least 25% and we can contribute also to reduce the carbon footprint reducing the emission in five years. We can achieve reduced 25 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. This is thanks to our team with experience in management, development, research and also in production, very important in our in our sector. We can achieve in 2019 our first positive evita with a sales of around half million euros and after our internationalization process we will achieve an evita of almost five million euros. Don't allow composite materials be the environmental problem of the future. Thanks for your attention. Thank you. Thanks for that. Can you go through a little bit more about like the actual sort of what you do now because it was a bit of vague on sort of the status I found on exactly where you are today, the status of the company? Yeah, we have a small pilot plan now about maybe 10 kilograms and we are designing a bigger one about a capacity of 100 tons because we understand that we need to do that step to kind of for all the ways that are in Europe. And how fast can you grow from that? So how long will it take sort of to before you sort of properly sort of industrialized? We plan to build this plan in the beginning of the next year maybe in March is already I hope finger crossed and from then we plan to have alliance with other companies that already are resulking in different points on Europe and we can grow very fast with joy and alliance with venture alliance. If no one has anything else then I'll go on defensibility again. That's my main topic. How do you defend this like sort of IP patents? How do you make sure that no one else does? We are patent pending for our tech, PCT patent and also have an industrial secret already signed in Spain. Thank you. Thank you jury. Thank you.


Welcome to SPM Bars and of course Sauti TV. We are right here at the 10 years of hard the band and I took a happy V when I quit as I did the birthday boy. Happy birthday. Nashkuru munguana rahisisha in pole pole 2. I'm turning 24, but I'm turning 31. I'm turning 31. I will make my love as a blessing. By 430, nili kwa nime receive kitu nili kwa nimi nimi me pita 300,000 kido ku zawadi tu By 430 p.m. Eee, sasa by the time tu nafunga ayopinda fika milion Yondo target Yondo target Eee Anyway, kunatul kwa noli za pialabda badde basi weke wa to fans Nime kwa busy sana nime kwa nashuguli nime kwa kazi nime kwa wapi Ninge wish nikuwa idol nimi weke basi bat nimi me shinwa Sonatafta kataima ali nimi weke basi Kisa miwa naji na manisha kuna nge na achikulia labda tese na pambaba Acha achikulia Skuizi we are responsible for what we say What you understand Only responsible for what we say How you understand it Is not So this means birthday parties are for idol Aa, paana Utsinu kuni sinu miskot Sijafanya basi kwa dakfanya bat nimi kwa nashuguli The old day nili amka 6 Na nili setrol saangapi Sijafanya setrolata saangapi ni kwa pa event So na nani ki pangapa weekend So still around Amapiyuna pangaku jipei akatreta to the country Ani minda jipei akatreta Kamani inside the country Outside But na dafkiri ya Ka 2 day ni tu liya kili Amo 1 week No, right here celebrating 10 years of hard the band Aa tumbe labda om nijiwa na VP 20 I first met at the band in 2011 By that time it was not Happy birthday Oh, thank you Oh So sa I ni hagiya 2004 leo 2024 Leo nani hagiwa E, leo Say, what is the special? Kwa na jwa na peldoma Jwa ni hagiwa saa na nani penda pahinja What is the standard to know na penda? Ewa na nilav Ah, penda Taruni, taruni hafo Anyway, hi, you took care of me I first met at the band in 2011 Not, it was not at the band I don't know if it was called that way So in 20 I don't even know the name but Shirao is now called Abednego Skoko We used to be the same group called Heart String Kenya Back then I never got opportunities to Be on that stage, nili kwa na chuju wa skuya sho Nili kwa na daga audition Na pigeriazol Na lemewa Sotuli juwani hapo E, e, aki pigeriaz Anko na tuniwe letua So kutia tando nukwa na wawana Bakwa kaza Temflano kwa na imbolizakia Tupale KMT Apuwa Leon's Frances Then 2013 Tukifanya cha chilro Aka kujaku dryi piwa Aka perform cha chilro Before omoke 2013 mali apuwe tuzao zige nazao I think August, September And the rest is history Maybe, since you've been Throughout your journey Labdasuji, what is that one thing You notice about them And what is the message This guy is so talented And they put in a lot of work And also the dedication they have In putting the team together Everyone has their own strength But they put up a show They'll rather bring band Muzima nini wangapikwa stage Actually I used to know them as the best performer Until now Like there are people who can trust With the stage And they can entertain your audience And I feel like that is what is separating them Wasami wakeni of course Mekua accused of a lot of things Kwenye mi tandao in every area I don't know whether this One thing can be said That other artists can learn from them And because most of the time To meza kuskiya kwa mbawa o kidogo Storing scandals or anything How a party I don't know what else One thing can be said That you can learn from her Scandal marani ingi How ingi Uwa ina kupata Uwa o itafuti Doman itwa scandal Kuna zile scandal Ambazo niza kipindi Ambazo piwa watu tengeneza But what na sema Sometimes you can be good And then a bad day comes And you are in bad news So for them If they are maintaining the discipline That's something that you should learn from them Because being in these spaces There is a lot of temptations You meet a lot of people And anytime your name can be In bad light Let me take you a little bit Palivokon ya bad day And of course Watu ingi o meza kuku post Konyu mitundao But there is this one post Ambayu me leta Kidogo tashushi palivokon ya mitundao I don't know whether you've seen Why, why is post Why, why Nemutu amba e amepotea Nemutu amba e agile Laki ni lewa me jilewa Yo post Watu ona ni tag Nataka ni kechi ni sa ni yone Watu ona ni tag Gini ni waiwai na nataka ni nene ni yone Kwebo jeyona But ikotu saawa Ikotu saawa Kumei yona Ikotu saawa Ni sinashida na yo manze Kamaneza tumia pichasa Di ya kuni wishbathu di Misawa tu Misawa Pengina kupata pichangu na kafiti ya Lafpia Tena monaume kupost Pichazawa na umesa Inkina tena Oviyo, oviyo So whatcha tumia yo lewa Sali lingini ambaloli mekualikyu Lizo ahibileo ni When is the return of season 2 of Anastro I said the hint is 2 And 2 can mean a lot of things And right now we are done With the scripts We are done with the pre-production We are about to resume shooting Because most of our members became stars And they are busy And we appreciate that But they are not taken leaves And are ready to shoot anytime from now But hint Nambambili Alright, thank you so much Happy birthday Asante sana


Now Akash Lab has got Akash Tech support project for us, mended by Mr. Tushar Sharma and Mr. Virendra Verma. Akash Tech support provides a platform for Akash tablet users to freely express their problems, complains, ideas, and discuss their issues that they are currently facing with the tablet and its technology. In case the discussion forum is unable to solve their problems, they can submit a ticket and get their issues resolved by technicians at Akash Lab's IIT Bombay. Team is here. Good evening everyone. I, Gavdeen Kalra, on behalf of the Akash Tech support team, welcome you all. Let's have a glimpse of what we have done in the past two months. First of all comes the purpose of our tech support team. There are around 1 lakh tablets that have been distributed all over India in 300 colleges and if they face an issue, then what to do? Therefore to report these issues, they'll come to our website and report the issues. The technology that we have used, mainly we have focused on Python and Django. Last year it was Joomla and PHP and this year we have made it in Python and Django. The two basic modules of our tech support is the discussion forum and the ticketing system. In the discussion forum, we have created an online platform where the users can pose their questions and they'll get replies to their queries. We implemented it in the same way like the stag overflow where other users can also pose their replies. Earlier this facility was not available because only the admin used to pose the replies. One more module is the ticketing system. This is also used for submitting your queries. So ask a question, facility was there in the discussion forum but other users got to give the replies for it and if you want a reply and you are not getting it for a very long period, then the technicians from IIT, Bombay are going to answer it. So let's have a demonstration for it. Basically to submit a ticket or to ask a question you need to log in. Therefore we have created two functionalities, login and register. For every text field that is there the validations have been created in JavaScript and Django and for the login facility, now when the user logs in he'll have several options. He can go to his home, he can edit his profile and he can also view his profile. Now Shubham will carry forward. Once the person is logged in, he could either log in with his user is logged in, he could either go to the questions part see the queries, see if it has any interest of it. Like here he can put a downward query. Accordingly its value will change and it will be reflected into the questions part. The way in which its value is increased like frequently viewed, frequently voted or the ones which have not been answered yet and can post the answer in the same only. Together we have clubbed all the questions into categories. Here we can see category, their description and the number of posts that are related to these categories. Here is question is sorted according to the number of posts that it has. We have also maintained a user profile for registered person. So that could have got clumsy in that panel only so we have made that feature in a profile. Person can like search for a query also from here. Related question will be displayed. This was not in the previous Joomla site. Similarly there is a functionality like if we have here tags are limited, categories are limited but if we have multiple categories the person can search for a category also and results will be displayed and accordingly if he clicks on one of the categories all the related questions will be at his disposal. Like a person post a question he could view his profile and below that the questions that he has posted and the answer that he has answered it. Hello I am Kashav. So I will take you through the discussion forum. Now in this discussion forum as you can see this is the basic question displaying page which shows the title of the question and the body and related tag to it and the user who has asked it. So on clicking the title it will direct to a page where the title the entire body of the question is displayed and along with the answer given by other users. So suppose the user doesn't find the appropriate question in the discussion forum so he can ask a question there but for this you need to login since it's already logged in in the name of A, B and T, S, and so on. So I have a provision for asking the question here I will enter the title of the question. For example select the category and the tag and I will post the question. So when you post the question it will not be directly posted on the forum it will be sent to the admin for his approval. So once the admin approves it only then it will be shown. Now I will log out and will login again with the admin's ID. I will show the approval. In the admin's panel there is an option called approval and where you can approve a post or a reply that has been already given by any other user. So I have given a post so I will click on the approve a post section. So you can approve or delete the post it doesn't like suppose the user doesn't find appropriate replies to his questions then you can always instead of waiting you can always submit a ticket to the admin for the pick reply. And for that I would like to invite Anurag to continue. In order to submit a ticket I will click on the submit ticket link He has to first login in order to submit a ticket. So the fields required here are the tablet ID. By clicking on the user name here upon submitting a ticket he is presented with a unique ticket ID and the user has also an option to view all the tickets submitted by him. The user can view all the tickets submitted by him and earlier in the pre-existing system the admin only had rights to close a ticket and in this newly implemented system we have transferred that right to the user now the user if satisfied with the reply of the admin he can close the ticket by himself Now we are going to look at the admin dashboard so I am going to continue So for the admin dashboard we have to login as admin So first I log out and log as admin This is the dashboard and this is the ticket submitted by Anurag just now Wi-Fi connectivity So if admin wants that it should be forwarded to his staff member so he can add extra email like CC Oh that is the response Yeah yeah Yeah if he wants that his staff member also be informed about this so he can add this


Hello, let's talk about politics and governance. Let's tackle today head speech on social media. We welcome our two guests, Darren Nieliker from Bournemouth University and Marta Perez Escolar from the Universidad Loyola, Andalusia. And they will talk about xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants in the UK and in Spain, specifically within right-wing community pages. So in this episode, we dive into challenges of content moderation and how addressing underlying societal conditions might be the key to combating head speech. Darren and Marta, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Darren, I'll start with you. It might be quite obvious. But tell us about the importance of studying head speech on social media and its impact on democratic societies. Well, head speech has been recognized as a serious problem in many democratic societies. And the problem is that it emerges out of these sort of enclaves online. And so in us looking at Reddit, it's not 4chan, 8chan. It's not one of these sites where we know the alt-right and extreme right congregate. But it's a midway space in social media between the more moderate Twitter and Facebook and the normal spaces for the hard right. And when they are demonizing refugees, migrants, which are often used as a term that has no real definition, it's just outsiders to a country, that can become normalized. And the more that that content is repeated and shared, the more people may accept. But this is an accepted view. And the alt-right itself talks about the Overton window, this sort of space of which there are acceptable views that can be held and can be shared. And they like to say that they are extending the Overton window. They are moving it towards being less accepting of outsiders. And I think in some ways they are right. And that's why it's important to study this. What were still with you, Darren? What were your expectations, yours and Marta's expectations that prompted this investigation? Well, the thing they wanted to understand was not just whether hate speech exists and what terminologies use, but also how it's thematically organized. So how is an anti-immigrant or migrant statement constructed? What are the key reasons why they argue that we should be concerned about migrants and refugees? Why are they a danger to our society? What's the way in which, as we say in academic language, how are they framed? Who are they as people? How do they interact with our society? And that was the bit we wanted to get a better understanding of, because these themes can then move out, be discussed further, become headlines in the mainstream media. Of course, it's a great kickoff for what's coming. So Marta, tell us about the findings. Well, we have identified three important frames expressed in online conversations. Reddit, Facebook, and for a coaches. For a coaches is supposed to be an online forum for talking about the things related to cars. And in this online conversation, as I say, we have identified three important frames that represent different types of hate speech against immigrants. And these speeches, ideas, or expression can be easily translated into a real-life situation. And we think that for this reason, it's important to first detect them and then to identify tools, materials, and other things to combat them. So the first frame describes immigrants as leeches. In this case, immigrants are described as taking jobs away from British workers, for example, or taking advantage of Spanish public service. And these comments relating to this frame are mixed. Some promote hostility by framing immigrants as competitors for resources who are advantaged by the system. But other comments do include pejorative terms. The second important frame involves arguing that immigrants do not possess the same values as the British or Spanish. And so they will not follow established norm and laws of society. And they have, since they have different values and their lack of loyalty to the national position, then has potential criminals. And the last one, the third common frame explores the notion of the clash of civilization. This frame is a key feature of Islamophobic discourses and strong Islamophobic attitudes. OK, about these three frames that you mentioned, Darren, I'm curious to know more about potential policy implications of these findings, of these three frames. What can you tell us about that? I think the first area is the debate about free speech. And it seems that we have a quite polarized debate where there is a position where speech has to be censured and certain views should not be expressed and hate speech is against the values of our society. And then there is a debate that, well, free speech is a right that everyone has. Everyone should be able to express our views. And I think this debate has become very polarized, as I said, but also very politicized. Some parties will promote one side, other parties promote the other side. And this is one thing that needs to be really discussed in society about what is acceptable. Should we be able to say the sort of language that all refugees are potential criminals, all refugees are potentially a threat to our values and our systems and that they don't belong within our cultures. And using, as some of the arguments do, that one person who is a migrant who commits a crime is representative of them all. And so, yeah, it's those sorts of things around free speech that should be discussed. And I think a further one about education generally and the way that people learn about migrants. And if we have an atmosphere where migrants are being constantly demonized and treated as the other and described as a threat, this is a problem. All of us probably descend from migrants. We may go back sort of centuries, literally, but we all descend from, we've all moved somewhere. And I think that sense of, you know, our land and our borders and protection has been something that has built up in societies. It calmed down a little, but now it seems to be getting much more potent in people's minds that we need to protect things. And so that education about a, what migrants bring to a society, but also, you know, our own backgrounds, our own histories could make people think slightly differently about these migrants. And also a little more empathetic about where they come from. I think another one is breaking that down. You know, this group, this idea of migrants being this homogenous blob of people, you know, that have no identities, but there's also different reasons why people move.  Are they migrants because of war, which makes them refugees? Are they migrants because of persecution, which makes them asylum seekers?  And so having that broader set of definitions of what is a migrant, I think is important. And so through communication policy, perhaps, definitely through the tone in which politicians talk and also through education and greater understanding of our histories and past, we can do something to redress some of this, as well as then, you know, that question about what we do about free speech and how should social media platforms behave and deal with content properly, as opposed to claiming to, but not doing so? Absolutely. So you have given us from your research three key frames and Darren, you've given us three potential policy implications for the future. Marta, let's look at the future now. So how can we, in terms of research, how can we keep framing this hate speech you mentioned before? So new social media platforms to look at, new geographies, or perhaps debating what is acceptable or not to say, educate the audiences, as Darren said, aiming for politicians, lawmakers. So tell us what's ahead of us now. Yeah, well, given the debates around immigration in both countries, it is useful to continue to detect how media also frame migrants or refugees, which are different kinds of perspective, and contribute to expanding hate speech. It will be also interesting to know how much this kind of speech is infected by political discourses. In fact, due to high profile cases where politicians have been accused of using a figurative language when they portray migrants or refugees, we think detecting how supporters of the most extreme parties in Spain and UK construct arguments that may filter into online discourses or media. So for us, these are the two maybe ways to propose new part-letter studies. Okay, and either to explore the topic that we talked about, these frames that we talked about, and also to support future research, Marta, could you recommend some additional materials, some additional content for our listeners to access? Yeah, sure. Some public institution like United Nations launched in June 2019 a report in response to the alarming trends of growing xenophobia and intolerance. The report is on the website of the United Nation. It's called United Nation Strategy and Plan of Action on Haterspeech. There is another important report published in 2017 by the Council of Europe. The name is Taking Action Against Haterspeech and also other organized institutions Ofcom, for example, also explored the impact of online hate speech relating to people with different protective characteristics. The Alan Turin Institute, that is the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence created a hub for online hate research. So mainly these are also the main materials publication that we encourage people to read, to just check carefully and if they want to know more about the consequences, the implication of hate speech. Perfect. And for those who are watching us on our website, let's talk about Politics and Governance website. If you scroll down below the video of our talk, you can find the materials that Marta has shared with us. In this conversation, we have focused very, very clearly, structurally on what were your expectations, the keyframes that you identified online, the three main tips for policy implications and look ahead. Darren, I'm going to ask you for a wrap up of all this. So in conclusion, Darren, what key message or takeaway would you like our audience to remember from this discussion? Well, I think firstly, the hate speech we see online is part of our society. People believe and have these beliefs and have these opinions. And so it's part of who we are and it's something that we need to deal with. And the more they're repeated, the more normalized they become. And normalization can lead to acceptance and then can lead to discrimination and extreme cases can lead to violence against those people, against refugees, migrants, or people who are perceived to possibly be migrants and refugees. And so we are, the narratives need to change both the political level in the media, but also within society more broadly through our education, within households, within schools, within colleges and universities, to really sort of talk about refugees, talk about the issues, but also talk about hate speech. And to get more people to think, would I say this in public? Would I say this that I'm going to say online? Would I express this in public? And I think that could go some way to making people think twice about what they're saying. Darren, Marta, thank you very much. Thank you. For our listeners that are watching us on YouTube, you can find, as I said before, all the resources and materials of this conversation on the Let's Talk About Politics and Governance website, both the recommended materials and the article in which this conversation was based on. You can also listen to this episode, wherever you get your podcast. You can subscribe to our newsletter if you scroll down. And you can follow us on Twitter at Kojitatiu LTA.


municipality site enabling better places a user's guide to Wisconsin neighborhood affordability so this study came out with seven recommendations, and I'm just going to read through these briefly and then I'll get into more detail as we go through the PowerPoint But the first recommendation was to allow them allow multi-unit housing as a permitted use in single-family zoning districts Which have historically included two family and multi-family? The second one is to realign lot widths and areas to match historic patterns favoring narrow or lots The third one is to reduce setbacks to historic distances to allow greater use of existing lots The fourth is to allow accessory dwelling units by right and for all single-family zoning districts Number five is to permit residential uses including multi-family in commercial districts number six is to reduce or eliminate parking minimums and Number seven is to assess and streamline the subdivision and workforce housing application process Including standards that direct development outcomes and a time limit on municipal response So starting out with the first Recommendation allow multi-unit housing as a permitted use in single-family zoning districts Which have historically included two family and multi-family? So under the current city of Sheboygan zoning ordinance We do not allow multi-unit housing by right in single-family zones So to give you a feel the map on the right of this screen are the single-family zones within the city so the darker is suburban residential three You can see those is primarily in the far north in the northeast side under a single residential three Zoning district. It is three dwelling units per gross acre and the typical lot size is about ten thousand square feet Suburban residential five or SR five is Five dwelling units per acre with a typical Size of about six thousand square feet. So the picture there shows you a typical northeast Sheboygan neighborhood That neighborhood at fifth and Euclid is zone suburban residential five so you can kind of see the density of those Neighborhoods and this designation preserves and protects The suburban residential community character for those who want to live in this environment So if we were to adopt this recommendation This is what you would get this apartment building could be built. Sorry, Roberta Flicky Panesky This is over the top of your house, but this but But but if somebody wanted some great lake views they could build a multi-family housing development of this sort in This zoning district by right and would have to go through any type of approval process so what we have today with the way it currently stands is in order to do that you would have to go through a rezoned process which triggers a Rezoning hearing of the Common Council and the neighbors have an option to come in and talk about it And you have a more public engaged process than just allowing these types of units to pop up wherever you Want in these single-family districts? So that's just a representation of what would happen if we would adopt that recommendation The next recommendation is realign lot with some areas to match historic patterns favoring narrow lots the city of Sheboygan currently has very narrow lots are Standard lot size our minimum lot size is 6,000 square feet, which is 60 by 100 60 feet wide by 100 feet deep and this Lot size allows for a Little bit of side yard not a ton, but some side yard on both sides of the house The the pictures on here shows What a 60.4 what a lot size looks like and what that is from the street And you can see that there is some green between the garages in the house on the side yards and it's not You know typically densely packed it gives you some opportunity around the property if we were to go to a 40-foot wide and Take this recommendation which we have some of these lots in the older parts of the neighborhood Of the city you can see that the narrower lots tend to cause more Issues with where do you discharge your sump pump? I live on a 40 by 100 lot and I struggle every day with the neighbor sump pump flooding my basement when it rains And where do I put my sump pump water? So that's a challenge And it also tends to lead to more neighborhood disputes and then higher police concerns So you can see in the image The house is right on the property line. There's very little setback in side yard So the the recommendation now of keeping our six, you know of keeping what we have is where we're at from a standpoint of Denser isn't always better It creates additional issues for us. So, you know, I think this recommendation might be more geared towards Suburban areas that have a lot larger lot a lot larger lot sizes than we do But we're already pretty densely packed with what we have The next recommendation is reduce setbacks to historic distances to allow greater use of existing lots We right now in our zoning ordinance There is language in there that states that a 50% of the houses on the block have reduced setbacks If you were gonna build rebuild an infill house, you could follow the same setbacks as the rest of the home So the idea here is that you line the houses up on the block So if let's say a house would burn down in the middle of the block and you were going to rebuild it We wouldn't make you follow the new setbacks and push that house back and have, you know All of them fairly consistent and then have one that shuts back and kind of do like that We would hope to try to line them all up with the streets. So you have some You know consistency We also have a process through the board of zoning appeals that would allow one to apply Through a public process to request an ordinance change So and the the zone of boarding appeals deals with this on a regular basis and issues hundreds of these a year to Help facilitate redevelopment and reinvestment in our older neighborhoods by reducing setbacks and and working through those Processes so we have a means to be able to do that and we've been pretty responsive to those needs The next recommendation is allow accessory dwelling units or ADU's by right in all single family districts So this is a good way of thinking of an ADU or an accessory dwelling structure is a mother-in-law suite or Some type of other family housing unit. So ADU is a secondary housing unit on a single family residential lot The next one over smaller lot sizes combined with existing Housing garages and sheds makes for cramped neighborhoods. So you can see in the illustration in the second blue box from the left Where you have a house an ADU a garage in a shed You do not have a lot of green space left. So that's the challenge We have with our smaller lot sizes is that if you're going to do if we're gonna regulate and allow people to do These accessory dwelling units are ready on small lots. It's only gonna get more cramped in our neighborhoods Now is there some opportunity for accessory dwelling units? Maybe on top of a garage or some kind of existing structure? I think there is some possibility For that so we'll have to analyze that going forward And then a concern to be considered is when they are sold do these ADU has become rental units or another concern is The density get too high. We had this on Erie Avenue where habitat just finished the new homes There was houses double wide triple wide in there And then you kind of create this little neighborhood within a neighborhood and please the police can't see what's going on And you just create crime issues because you have all this densely platted houses on top of houses So, you know, those are some of the concerns that need to be looked at ADUs may be feasible on larger lots. Some communities have allowed these Through a conditional use permit allowing neighbors to be part of that process So I think there is some possibility out of all of the recommendations This is probably the one we'll explore a little bit further to see if there is any Possibility in zoning districts that have larger lot sizes, but in our typical lot size in the central city We're not recommending adopting this Clearly because of the issue of being so densely platted The next recommendation is permit residential uses including multifamily in in all commercial districts So we do that right now our commercial districts are considered urban residential 12 neighborhood office neighborhood commercial and central commercial so from the map in the center of the Diagram you can see that yellow is the urban residential 12 which allows for multifamily The blue is the neighborhood office zones Red is neighborhood commercial and then the green is central commercial. So a lot of the downtown Is zone central commercial which you can see that we have multifamily in those districts already This also would be in areas kind of out of the downtown north uptown area Those areas are our zone neighborhood commercial and through a conditional use permit process you're able to Construct multifamily in those districts Reduce or eliminate parking minimums In the central commercial zone, which was a majority of this map. So the green on here Parking minimums are waived as part of those developments. So In the area from a street from Pennsylvania to about Michigan Is essential commercial zone? It goes out a little bit wider to like seventh and a ninth streets as well But that area we do not require parking Minimum so if you're gonna develop a multifamily housing, it's really up to the developer to put in the amount of parking They think they're gonna need to facilitate their rental But if they wanted to go less or not have any at all that's their prerogative and they can do what they Want in those areas in the other zoning districts There's variances are recommended as part of the conditional use process So you can get lesser amounts in the other ones as a exception to the Conditional use permits when they come in for plan approval they can request that and most of the time Those are granted The last recommendation is to assess and streamline the subdivision and workforce housing application process Including standards that direct development outcomes and time limit on municipal response The city of Sheboygan does not have a problem with this You can get a plan approval if you follow the process and get everything in within 30 days on average There is a caveat state law does require us to post any type of planet Commission applications for two weeks in the newspaper, so We're required by law to do that so that contributes to the amount of time, but for new subdivisions You could have plan approval for the preliminary plat to move forward with the project within 60 days Including the additional steps that are required by law the toolkit Recommends 90 or fewer days for approvals and I know there's a lot of communities across the state of Wisconsin that take 90 plus days to get Approval we've streamlined that process is as efficient as we can and can get that done in 30 as 30 to 60 days most of them are a 30-day time frame So the only recommendation that we think could use some additional Look as the allowing accessory dwelling units by right in all single-family districts with larger lot sizes So we would we're doing an analysis now to see if there's any Opportunity for that and if there is it would come back as to this body as part of a zoning Ordnance change to see if that if that would work for us So that's it in a nutshell of the recommendations does anybody have any questions questions comments concerns thoughts ideas from council members older Feldy Thank you Chad is this also on? municipality Website or it is I can send tomorrow morning I can email the link to the document to all the council members so that you can read through it. That'd be great. Thank you Any other thoughts comments from elders older problem? Yes The first one That you mentioned the first of the seventh Well the picture you put there is kind of Inherently controversial because it's a huge building and so on but aren't there possible compromises on what you could? build in areas that right now have Different type of limits correct. That was pretty that was pretty far to the site To just show what could happen in that district But yes, we would hopefully be able to work with them to get it more toned into the neighborhood But the if you approved multifamily by right They could put up as a skyscraper if they wanted so then would you please explain what what that means by right? By right would mean that we they wouldn't have to come in for a it would be a permitted use within that district So it wouldn't require any kind of Rezoning or anything of that they by right can build it and then they would just they could just go through the land use process Which is a public hearing to the Planning Commission, but the council per se wouldn't necessarily have You know a part of that process because it wouldn't require a rezone so the recommendation from the league is that We would rezone and then everybody could do that by right The recommendation by the league is not to rezone and make it more efficient and easier for developments to happen in single-family zones So you wouldn't have a rezone process be that process would be eliminated So then would that allow for more or less of those type of buildings? Would that say that then if we were to follow their recommendation Would we would there be more options for builders constructors to build? Yes There would be if that's what we want in our single-family zones Right, so but could we allow that with different types of limitations on the type of buildings and can be built on? those stones in those zones Chuck would like to answer this because there is some There we're there's stuff that we can limit and there's stuff that we can't limit By some recent action at the state. I don't know Chuck if you want to Yeah, you can you can define Things in your zone. So for example, you you might still put in a residential Zone you could still put height limits you could you could make it you know that you allow two families things like that So, you know the the example in the photo is sort of an extreme example But that but there could be other limits that would be put on sort of in the definition of the district, right? Thank you It's older flaky Pineski sure. I saw your hand moving. I was like thank you So I'm understanding that these are recommendations coming from the League of Municipalities and that For our purposes in this city the only one that Likely has some applicability is the multi accessory dwelling In certain areas, which is going to be under review correct. Thank you So you're good with the housing development proposal then for north point Okay, no objection Okay Additional feedback comments from alders All right, I'm sure that housing will be a continuous topic that we discussed moving forward. So thank you director Pell check All right next item number five Resignations city attorney. Thank you. There's one resignation from Marcus of Alio Resigning from his position as district 5 older person effective May 4 2022 Alder Felde I Move to accept and file Spend a motion in the second any discussion Seeing none all those in favor of accepting and filing please state aye Any objection that item is approved number six city attorney There are also appointments the mayor submits the following appointments for your consideration Lisa Salgado to be considered for appointment to the mayor's international committee to fill a vacancy with the term expiring on April 17 2023 and Faye windgrove to be considered for appointment to the board of review to fill a vacancy with the term expiring April 20 2026 all right and those appointments will lay over to our next meeting. Thank you Next public form anyone here for public form tonight city clerk. There is no one this evening. All right Next we'll do mayoral announcements Well, good evening everyone happy Monday here in sunny, Wisconsin mother that we're having in May great great kick to May Just a few quick announcements and proclamations for today Just a friendly reminder that this Wednesday this Wednesday is the highly anticipated Community Town Hall which will be on May 4th at 5 30 p.m. Right here at City Hall in the council chambers So come listen from our friends at visit Sheboygan the business improvement district a CEDC Chamber of Commerce as well as Your friends at the city as well too. So this should be a fun and educational event. So please Hope to see you there bring As I say bring snacks, but I think this this will be this will be a good meeting This this this a lot of a lot of good information will be here Also may is young professionals month So there are some nominees From the city that have been nominated. I'm looking at her in the monitor here That have been nominated for young professional of the year award So we're really proud of our finance director for for being one of the nominees for that as well So there's also there you go Scott move the camera. There we go. Perfect So hopefully we having to announce that as well. So check out the Chamber of Commerce website as well There's a lot of young professional events going on through through the month of May So stated item number five. We have recently just accepted the resignation from Marcus Vallejo He was here 30 minutes before the meeting his wife had a medical Emergency so he had to take her to urgent care. So Regretfully, he's missing his final meeting But we'll be here at the next meeting to do some some official Recognitions recognitions. So his family is growing. His wife is expecting So they need to buy a bigger house and his new house is in a different district. So So he's he's sadly resigning from the council and it's been a pleasure serving with Alders Fallejo for for the five years He and I were elected at the same time in 2017. So He is no longer the most senior member of the council at that time. So So we'll we'll miss Marcus on his new adventures as well. So Some proclamations so Julie from mental health America is here Come on up Julie. So we'll be doing a proclamation for mental health Awareness month and I'll quick read the proclamation here Whereas mental health is essential to everyone's overall health and well-being and whereas all Americans express times of difficulty and stress in their lives And whereas prevention is an effective way to reduce the burden of mental health conditions And whereas there is a strong body of research that supports Specific tools for all Americans to better utilize and handle our challenges and protect their health and well-being Whereas mental health conditions are a real and prevalent in our nation And whereas with effective treatment those individuals with mental health concerns can recover and leave full positive lives And whereas each businesses school government agency health care provider and organizations Promote the well-being of mental health and supportive services for effective treatments now Therefore I Ryan Sarnson mayor of the great city of Sheboygan do hereby proclaim Mount this month May 2022 as mental health month. So I know a lot of our departments whether police fire Transit the library no matter what department that we're in in the in the city We we impact those that are struggling with mental health concerns and it's great to have our friends at mental health America Be a great ally in making our community better place. I'll present this proclamation to Julie You have a few words that you'd like to say Thank you. Thank you so much to the entire council and the municipality of Sheboygan in 2021 we Had the highest rate of suicide within Sheboygan County that we've recorded and Many of those lives lost came from this municipality within the city of Sheboygan one in five of us will have a mental illness at some point throughout our lives and 50% of mental illnesses Present themselves before the age of 14 75 percent before the age of 24 And I want to say to the entire council and anyone that's listening out there Let's look out for each other. This is a tight community here in Sheboygan County If you see somebody that doesn't seem right say something get them to the appropriate people And I would just want to give a shout out to law enforcement. They do so much within this city They take thousands of calls each year For mental health and they're acting as social workers and I just want to give a shout out to all of the work that you do here And thank you for making this proclamation. So, thank you. I missed my sticky note here when I was talking about Marcus So since there is an opening on the city council Applications to fill the position will be due to the city clerk's office on May 12th By the end of business day. So please Get for those watching get get that information into the clerk's office by May 12th and council will be voting To fill the appointment honor at our next meeting May 16th, so that's that note on that Speaking of the clerk's office. Can I have both our city clerk and our deputy city clerk come on down? They're both giving me looks because they didn't know this was coming, but maybe they did Alright, so whereas the office of municipal clerk is a time honored and vital part in local governance throughout or the work that they Do whereas the office of municipal clerk is one of the oldest among public service And whereas the office of municipal clerk provides professional link between the residents and local governments and all the agencies at all levels Whereas municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality And making sure that their work is done in a clear mind and whereas municipal clerks serve as the information center of all functions of local government And whereas municipal clerks can continually drive to strive for improvement of administration Throughout the city and whereas in most appropriate We recognize the accomplishments and all the great work that our municipal clerks do and whereas municipal clerk weeks is celebrating its 53rd anniversary in 2022 and now I Ryan Sorensen mayor of the city sheboy can do hereby proclaim this week May 1st through the 7th is municipal clerk's week So it's an election year. So there's four elections two down two more to go So we're really blessed. We do set the gold standard and and having municipal clerks here There's a lot of moving parts working with the council members preparing agendas doing recounts and ties Which was the first for our clerk's office as well But they do a darn good job and we're so blessed to have them So I'll present this to our city clerk merit at the Bruin. So anything to say here. All right. She just says thank you So, thank you everybody. Well jump right along to the consent agenda items 10 through 12 Alder Feldy Thank You mayor. I move to receive and file all our O's and receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances Second, there's been a motion second discussion on any items on the consent agenda What do you even Joe Troublood came in for item 10 just in case? All right, sounds good seeing no discussion Please refer to your meeting code to vote There are nine eyes. All right the consent agenda is approved next is item 13 RO number 8 22 23 by the city plan commission to whom was referred our own number 1 4 6 21 22 by the city clerk general ordinance number 43 21 22 by older persons Decker granting Old World Creamery LLC and its successors and assigns to the privilege of encroaching upon described portions of St. Clair Avenue right away in the city of Sheboyga for the purposes of creating a concrete approach Alder Decker. Thank you, mayor. I make a motion to file the RO and adopt the ordinance motion in second Any discussion on this item seeing none. This is a voice vote all those in favor, please state aye Any objection seeing none item 13 is approved Items 14 and 15 will be referred to their respective committees Item 16 resolution number 9 22 23 by older's Feldy Flicky Panesky authorizing the appropriate city officials to sign the January 1st 2022 through December 31st 2022 contract between the city of Sheboygan and the Sheboygan professional police officer Supervisor Association older Feldy. I ask to suspend the rules any objection Seeing none, please proceed with the motion. I move to adopt the resolution Motion in a second to adopt the resolution any discussion Alder Decker because I just have one question. Why is it only a one-year contract? Do we not do multi-year contracts on some of these? Who wants to take this one? finance director It actually is a two-year contract for both this item and also the next item for the police union any other discussion Does it need to be amended? I believe I believe looking at the actual Resolution in the packet it shows December 2023, but in the agenda item it shows 2022 So the resolution is correct. Thank you Additional comments from Alders. All right. This is a roll call vote. Please refer to your meeting code Alder person rest There are nine eyes. All right, that's approved next item 17 RO number 10 22 23 By Alder persons Feldy and flicky Paneski authorizing the appropriate city officials to sign the January 1st 2022 December 31st 2023 contract between the city of Sheboygan and the Sheboygan professional police officers Association older Feldy I ask to suspend the rules Any objection Seeing none, please proceed. I move to adopt the resolution second Been a motion and second any discussion on this item being none. Please refer to your meeting code Alder person actually There are nine eyes. All right, that item is approved Items 18 through 26 will be referred to the respective committees Next is a contemplated closed session holder Feldy I move to convene in closed session under the exemption provision in section 19 point 851 E of the Wisconsin statute for the purpose of Deliberating regarding possible development incentives for an affordable housing project located on the north northeast Corner of Erie Avenue in north 13th Street Spend a motion in a second. Thank you go into closed session. This is a roll call vote Please refer to your meeting code and for those at home We will be adjourning after closed session. So this will be ending our program for the day. So Alder person Mitchell There are nine eyes. All right. That's approved Well recess for three minutes and we'll assemble in the 305 305 closed session. Thank you


I'm going to be speaking about the frameworks which have been building that we've heard a decent mark now through the aspect from the earlier talk. It's really this crappy estimating framework which forms one of the coffee spin structures both in terms of our assessment and optimisation pipeline. The real goal was to create and build an automated scalable framework which sefydl anodol o'r amseriaid rhaglen o'r cyfnod yn cerddraeth. Yn ddygaidd, rwy'n g Anytimefyrdd, byddwn ar ôl eistedd mewn cyfrannu gysylltu. Gallwch anodol yn ysbyt ym Llywodraeth llwyddol yng Nghymru. Be gydig o gwneud hynny'r cyfrannu cyfrannu ac tyffanaeth hynny'n ei ddweud o'r cyfrannu? Bydwch cofyn a'ch gydig addo, a'ch gydig i ymddir ymdwygaru. More than just having a tool that can extract the data, we want it to almost be able to understand the data, kind of know what is a density, know what is a salvation energy, or at least automatically know what calculation steps would be required to estimate these different properties. Or if the framework doesn't know how to estimate these different physical properties, we want everything to be extensible so that anyone can come and plug in their own definition of how should any physical property be able to be estimated, that they think may help in the optimization or assessment cycle. Kind of not just defining or knowing how to estimate these physical properties just by using programming simulations, we actually want it to go a bit further than that. So, if we're using kind of a gradient-based optimization and to do our fossil fitting, we maybe do 10, 20 evaluations of the objective function for what we're looking to do in the future at least in more specific techniques. Kind of Monte Carlo based sampling and Bayesian fittings, and these typically quite under 100 or 1000 of evaluations of the objective function. So, if you're having to do that many, you can't just go and run simulations at every step, you need something a bit more specific to take this. So, this framework isn't just about running simulations to get up to physical properties, but it's estimating from simulations and simulation data, and I'll talk about that a little bit more as well. In the same vein of kind of a performance improvement, we also want this framework to be entirely scalable and possible. So, in particular, we want to be able to scale up the size of the data set that we want to pick in, and up, and in, and set again, but also be able to scale up with the availability of compute resources as I demand to grow and grow and grow. So, maybe spoiler, but this is kind of the real work result, and if nothing else, the take-home message is, we can do this and it works quite well. So, just, I think it's been mentioned before, but just to stress again, the point of this framework is true whole theory. It's crucial to help and just curate our physical property data set and curate and extract them from the data. And it's also what we do first in terms of our assessment, kind of a human running this framework, but also in that optimisation cycle, kind of integrating into whichever optimisation engine we're trying to use, which is kind of a nice take of Python API. So, I won't say too much about this because I think my teacher at Central Coder had heard more about this. But essentially, the first release has been based on trying to optimise and accept the data from this ThermML archive, which contains a vast number of thermodynamic properties, hundreds of thousands of densities, tens of thousands of mixed properties. So, we really wanted, and the first thing that I did was building the framework to build the utilities to kind of go into ThermML and pull all of this data down. For the sacred time, I won't talk too much about this, but essentially, we've got this Python API, this kind of ThermML data set object. So, you just give it the digital objects of the entire of the data set that you want to pull from this ThermML archive or a list of URLs or a list of file packs. It will go understand this data format, pull all of that data into a Python object and do some basic filtering, duration, temperature ranges, pressure ranges, and so on and so forth. And this kind of object has been what we'll use in the first few rounds of filtering to kind of build our data set that we want to optimise things. And for anyone interested in how we pick kind of the data set, the link can't quite be seen, but we use this object in this data selection repository that we're having GitHub, which details how we use this kind of API to build our automatic sets. Kind of the key aspect of the framework is actually the estimation that we should have. So, what scalability in mind, we kind of chose to design the framework as kind of a, we call it like a client-server architecture. But the basic idea is that the view on your laptop or photon on your laptop can be able to use our API to kind of pull down the physical property data set into a Python object to be able to load in the bar scale to address. And then what you would do is what we call create an object called the property estimate client. The property estimate client takes the data set, takes the bar scale parameters and translates that into a tangible set of calculations. I think it translates a density into a workflow graph or a set of workflow steps. So, I'm still in, I have a number of definitions for how to convert into like a density into a workflow graph, but it's at this kind of point where you can plug in your own definition. Either if you want to change how internally we're choosing to estimate these properties, or also if you want to expand into make your own property. The idea is that once this client object has turned your property of interest into some kind of workflow graph, it's ready to connect with what we call this property estimate server. So, the property estimate server is just a program that runs on whatever computer you've got available. Maybe it's a big speedy computer, or maybe a speedy computer plus this. So, it just sends on that object and waits for the client object to kind of send it those workflow graphs. The server then kind of uses a library to take those graphs and execute them properly to the assessors. It does the calculations, it computes the properties as well as their gradients with effect bar scale parameters. For one of the key things to serve as well as this kind of launch and decalculation, is a start to store all of the data that was generated from the decalculation. In particular, the server object is continuously storing the uncorrelated configuration that we've generated from any simulation that we've run. And that's kind of the key for what allows us to become more efficient in the future. To give just kind of an idea of what this framework looks to use, you can essentially estimate the entire physical property data set in many different types of properties.  This automatically spins up and connects to the server. The server does its business, returns to the pack, the results, and you can query either has a server finished with these, using the results object, this kind of request object, or kind of get up to the information of how far along have these practices been completed. So, very simplistic, very easy to use both on your laptop, or very easy to kind of hop into the optimizations that we have in mind for the future of the cycles. So, the key thing, and I won't talk too much about this, but the key thing to this framework is we want it to be able to rapidly estimate property data sets. So, not just by running simulations, but by kind of taking this multi-fidelity approach to estimating physical property. So, the idea is within this framework, we've got this kind of notion of different calculation layers, where the idea is a calculation layer of the space that needs some technique to take a physical property data set and turn it into a set of estimated values, as well as a constant. So, we've got kind of two calculation layers implementing framework at the moment. So, we've got one kind of calculation layer, which basically just takes a physical property data set and runs the simulations to estimate those physical properties. We get the gradients helped in that as well, and we turn those values. But, as I mentioned, we also use this kind of calculation layer to catch the simulation data that was generated from these different simulations. In addition to this, we have a secondary kind of calculation layer that uses a technique called simulation re-waking. And what re-waking essentially allows you to do is take the results of the simulations that you've done in the past and re-process it to evaluate what would have been the physical property that you've estimated from that simulation data, how to run that simulation using a slightly different set of conditions. So, in particular, if you run a simulation that once has four scale parameters, re-waking essentially allows you to re-evaluate your observable set of four scale parameters very close by. And these kind of methodologies that we employ to do the re-waking not only give you a value for the physical property re-evaluated using these four scale parameters, but also kind of a confidence in how well have you been able to do this and kind of having gone too far from that initial state where the method begins to break down. So, kind of these two instruments left, one that the simulation, one that takes the results of those simulations, implies re-waking. So, why do we do this? Simulations are quite slow. You can take tens of minutes to finish hours, days, depending on the kind of properties that you want to calculate, whether it's the energy, especially things like how to define if it's going to be quite expensive to do. Re-waking, this technique, when you need to use cash simulation data, is literally just a re-processing set. You look at a set of uncorrelated samples and to re-evaluate those, but essentially, as re-processing, you don't have to re-evaluate another simulation. So, it's order of magnitude faster to estimate properties used in re-waking compared to the initial simulations themselves. And this is really where we start to do performance gains when we start to estimate physical properties using parameters most to where we initially generate the simulation, which is exactly the case of what happens during the optimisation. So, just to mention that, while we have kind of got two of these calculation layers implemented at the moment, we plan to expand this in the future. But just to give a more detailed picture of how these kind of calculation layers all fit together, it really is about how fast can our server objects through these calculations and to what confidence can the different layers of it affect properties. So, we want to imagine that, if you've not run any simulations before, if you've not done any calculations, if you've got no cache data, there's not much you can do except to go off and run your simulation and get the evaluative objections in that way. But you then cast that simulation data from those initial simulation concepts. If you imagine that it's some optimisation engine that initially requested that these properties be estimated using these four-scale parameters, and then the optimisation engine makes a small perforation for those four-scale parameters and actually to re-evaluate those three-scale properties, our server object will receive that request. See that it's now got cache data, I think, on the disk. We'll automatically know how to load it up, how to deploy this method called re-weighting. We will see has it not enabled to calculate these three-scale properties with sufficient confidence using these two four-scale parameters at the speed that's at an order of magnitude faster than it has to run those simulations. And if it answers yes, then perfect, then just return the result back. We'll automatically know when it can use a faster technique and when it needs to fall back and re-lawn a new set of simulations to generate a new set of cache simulation data. The idea of it being re-on a simulation would be if we can re-weight it, if not we launch a new set of simulations, re-optimise it and make another change to the parameters, and the next time, eventually, we'll get into a region of confidence where this kind of re-weighting technique can be able to re-weight the data, as opposed to on any simulation. So this is kind of what we've got built in at the moment. We've built too much of a function of this during the release one bit in due to a number of slight technical difficulties. But one of the things that we do want to look into it is not only new simulations, not only new re-weighting, but actually start creating things like so-that models or neural networks to take this cache simulation data and start to learn the response of how our objects are functioning, how are our different figures properties changing as we change our faster parameters. So we think when this isn't going to help us too much, we'll kind of start out optimisation and we'll kind of park them on the minima. But as our optimisation engine kind of proceeds and parameters are going to get more stable, we think we can train a surrogate model around that point to learn the responses and should be able to be evaluated in seconds. So where simulation is going to be days, re-weighting is going to be 10 seconds, surrogate model is going to be literally seconds or milliseconds. And it's kind of this much-difficult approach that will allow us to go from an optimisation engine which maybe needs 10, 20 iterations to one that maybe needs hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of generation cycles and this is really the core power of this framework that we've been building. This idea that you can use multi-built sampling, different calculation layers, each one that tries to be used as much data as possible to estimate these physical properties in the fastest way that would be possible. So in terms of how we actually estimate these properties themselves, either by simulation or by re-weighting, it's within the property estimate framework and I really want to suggest that we're going to be using a lightweight workflow engine. The real focus of this framework is in building this set of re-usable workflow components which will change together and produce quite powerful workflows and can be used to estimate physical properties. So in particular, we've got protocols which will build coordinates in a set of smiles, or we've got things using OE dots, we've run simulations using minimisation or OE command, we've got things using things like Ynchor, APR, hostgeff, bindings and simplification using the tweeter. So really, the main part of the practice of this framework is you've got the filtering components which do individual tasks when combined together and on larger workflows which will allow us to estimate almost any different physical properties without having to do any coding that's literally just building blocks together. The last we look like is not just kind of one protocol sequence, these protocols are really quite simplistic Python objects. I mean, they just look like a Python block that has a number of set of inputs and a number of getter outputs and a method that says execute. So there's really nothing to them. It's just literally like a Python run script that will use some specific tasks. And the idea being that each of these protocols will have some input and these inputs need to be set from constant values. So we may have a protocol that runs a simulation and you might want to set a Python set and you might want to set that just arbitrarily for one template. But this protocol might also need like a quality object to describe what simulation it's going to run on. The idea of the input can also come from the output of another protocol so one of the protocols that may be built to system in the first place. So this idea of individual protocols which have a response process of doing a small task this idea that you can arbitrarily stick them together either using constant stuff on the output of different protocols is unbelievably flexible and allows us to compute really quite tribly different physical properties just by re-using these same protocols at the moment. So to give an example of how we do this identity it's not particularly exciting but we essentially use one of these protocols to build in coordinates. We use a protocol that essentially defines some kind of parameters. One of the nice things that we have is kind of represented by the three-box in this visual figure as we have built in this notion of what we call a conditional execution group which sounds maybe daunting but essentially what it allows us to do is take a group of protocols and just run them again and again and again and again and pull some specific criteria that's been met. So in case of our framework if it will be a system we want to capture it into a certain uncertainty especially kind of roughly on par with the experimental uncertainty report with methods and we just take the protocols that we've run the simulation we wrap them in kind of conditional groups and we automatically run them again and again and again and pull their uncertainty within a target uncertainty of our two circumstances. And it's not just the simulations data and use this kind of reweighting technique to reweight these protocols using this kind of workflow graph as well so really quite a flexible system. So I think this may be quite apparent but the nice thing about defining how we capture these processes into the granular nature is that almost any of these steps can be easily taken out in places that seem to go. So for example maybe we don't want to placement of samples maybe we want to apply gaps by OK Elector 2005 without changing much of how to try the definition of how we estimate these different processes we just take that and then a protocol to strip out and replace it with one that applies to the system instead maybe we don't want to use open amendments and loads into the clouds that block from the workflow and stick in one that runs through much instead so it's very flexible and modular and it allows you to accomplish the template. The other nice thing about it is it allows us to kind of automatically determine where we're doing redundant work so if you imagine that you're asking for an entity to be calculated and a dielectric to be calculated the steps that one would need to take to actually estimate those different properties that are essentially identical from set to get the system, run a simulation and extract the property are just the only differences what can be your exception. So after in-work and automatically look at the workflow that you're using to estimate these different types of properties you where you're doing redundant calculations and just push those together so you're doing the least amount of work and not use a bit more complicated resources than we need to do. So I think one of the key things that I want to stress about this what we're doing with this framework is we're not trying to build any workflow and we're not trying to reinvent the wheel but to see things that already exist. The things that we're focusing on is building individual protocol buildings which is quite generic which seems to be used by the very lightweight workflow and which we built or which is plugged into any available workflow because instead of writing from the complicated engine that takes our workload graphs and try to execute them we'll just use a library called Das and basically with Das you say I've got the protocol that I want to execute and then goes up and executes them on your compute resource. I won't say too much about that but essentially it's a nice feature of the library using the called Das job queue as it integrates with our local inverted queuing system and in principle an input with the queuing system asking for inserting your jobs into the queuing system without you having to submit them based on the workload that you have to get to so if you're submitting 4 calculations this kind of job queue library will insert 40 jobs into the cluster and as those dots finish it will scale that down and this not doing too much detail allows us to make real quite powerful use of the cluster and allows us to request more GQ using more resources than we would otherwise if we were to manually submit these things so that's a very fly by car of the practical estimate framework I think as with all our stuff it's available to download on GIST as well as the repository that we've been building through our rate of data that's using the utility that can become in the framework itself so I think if nothing else the HOME method is that we have this framework it's incredibly flexible that you can define how you want to estimate your different physical properties just by combining together these flexible workload components what we really want to do and what my personal goal was this framework was to kind of abstract ourselves away from the simulation of themselves and allow us to focus on the scientific questions that we want to answer we want to be absolutely trivial for anyone to be able to come along and say I want to assess my four skills against entity admission and without having to rewrite a whole new set of components that we've just been struck by this definition of what is an entity of mixing into the framework so really abstracting ourselves from the entity and the tediousness and just taking advantage of some of this framework so in terms of what comes next in the framework we've already used it across the optimization cycle but we're now planning to use it as part of the assessment cycle as well so the path that we want to expand into the tools that we've built into not only extract data but generate it and filter it allows to ask more interesting questions it's not just filtering by tempers and pressures but can we build force which will allow us to filter data set by chemical specificity or can we use the filter set by our agent force which will allow us to automatically identify what regions of chemical space is our data set left lacking then essentially which will allow us to help identify what data are we missing which length do we need to fill in the other thing that we want to do is continue to expand the number of properties that we have built in support for so currently the framework can do density dialectrics, entities of mixing, entities of vaporisation as current got partial support for host guest bindings both through absolute things calculations using gents by using a patch called relief and Dave's flowchaller and we're just finishing off implementing that and getting ready to use that as part of the assessment phase and similarly for the point where we can be using implementation so in addition to that, the last two things that will really make this powerful going forward and make it more useful for the optimisation is this notion of employing surrogate models as one of our additional calculation approaches because surrogate models could previously be a model on our patch simulation data it would essentially allow us to evaluate our physical properties really, really rapidly and allow us to do more sophisticated optimization techniques than what was currently available to it and of course additionally we'd love to improve the ability of the framework to scale across different resources so currently it can run calculations under the single cluster but we'd love to be able to scale across multiple clusters up into the cloud and that's another big engineering piece that will allow us to scale across calculations into the future Thank you How well can you actually fit to all the properties right now? So are you trying to actually fit to all the properties simultaneously or do you say fit to one then try to fit to the next one and then go back again It would be interesting to actually see how transferable would it actually be to fit to one property and then see if it improves the properties of a different property I think it's right because it's odd and self-correlated Absolutely, yeah But I would say we don't actually know how much better we're doing it but that should be happening in the next few that will be happening in the next few weeks so then we can make more quantitative things of how well is it doing and this is the testing the training of the testing Let me demonstrate my ignorance by asking about what the correlation involves and the coupling in your workflows Okay, so we think you just calculate the auto-correlation function with respect to what they have observable, what we're trying to compute and then we basically sub-sample based on the auto-correlation time Okay, thanks a lot


I love what I've seen from Purdy so far. Am I getting too caught up in the hype? Yeah, I maybe pumped the brakes just a little bit, but there's a reason to be excited. When they drafted him, and he was obviously the last overall pick in the draft, Kyle Sheena had talked about him being the cop, being Nick Mullins. And so some people here were kind of underwhelmed by that comparison. But Nick was a guy who played a lot of football in college, like Purdy. I mean, Purdy was a four year starter at Iowa State, so he has a lot of reps. So he just knew the position, worked hard, didn't have the greatest arm strength or anything like that, but just knew how to play the position. Well, since they got him, they realized that Purdy is a really good athlete. So he has a short area of quickness that enables him to sidestep the rush and still look downfield and make plays. But he's also got a stronger arm than they thought he did. But with that, along with the work ethic, I mean, he has a really good touch, even when he's talking to us at the podium. It seems comfortable in everything he does. He just looks like a guy who belongs.