Connor Newcomb here with Stevenson head coach Jackie Boswell after a 62 to 60 loss to the Eastern Eagles. And coach, first of all, you guys got in the lead in the fourth quarter. Just what went wrong down the stretch for you guys in a back and forth game? Well, I think we just couldn't get some stops. I thought the key turning point on the defensive end was when we gave up four rebounds down there. And you just got to be a little bit tougher sometimes when things really aren't going your way. I know when things were going your way, Lacey Johnson, 29 points, a career high. Six made threes was a career high. I mean, at what point from the bench did you know like she had the hot hand today? Yeah, I mean, I thought we actually knew it early on. I thought she came out pretty rested and played really well. And I thought our defense really did a good job of keeping us in it. And the whole season, we've struggled just making some easy shots. And that was the difference. And I know you got your seniors here. They all played well today and really tried to wield this team to a victory. What have they meant not just this year, but their four years here? Well, I mean, they're a really special group. Hasn't been easy their entire career here. The last normal time that they've had was their freshman year. And I really commend all five of these. They bring something different, something that's going to be really irreplaceable. And I know that they're going to be really successful in life. And I just feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to coach each and every one of them. Thanks, Coach. Thank you.


So I want to talk about something that is a bit of an inconvenient truth in Roman studies and that is the amphora reuse problem. Amphorae are the main type of evidence that we use in Roman archaeology to talk about long distance transport foodstuffs, many olive oil, wine and fish products. And they are also one of the most used comparable sources of information to talk about centuries long change in the functioning of the Roman economy. Yet those amphorae could be reused. And that fact at best has been ignored in Roman studies and at worst has been declined the night that it even happened. So I think we should investigate this issue a little bit more. Now I'm talking about a very particular type of reuse. This defined as type A reuse by Teodor Peña. So reuse involving an application similar to the vessel's prime use application without any physical modification to it. So basically a pot that was filled with olive oil at some point and that then was reused because it no longer had olive oil in it. It had wine in it, for example, or fish product, these kind of things. So if an amphorae had olive oil in it in a first instance, which is called the prime use content, and then it is emptied of its content, cleaned and refilled with the same type of product, olive oil perhaps from a different source, doesn't matter, that is not the kind of reuse I'm talking about. It is the kind of reuse where we can identify that the vessel was emptied of its prime use content and then a different type of food stuff was put into that amphorae. And related to that is the assumption that every one of these amphorae have a sort of principal content, that an amphorae type, so a particular shape of amphorae produced in a particular region, was also linked to a particular type of food stuff from that region. So for example, amphorae produced in North Africa could be related to locally produced olive oil. And so should we interpret the distribution of these amphorae, equaling the distribution of those products? This is something that we do all the time in Roman archaeology. When we excavate these amphorae, when we analyze selected context, and we look at the distribution of amphorae containers, we assume very often that they had a principal content, that an amphorae type is related to a particular food stuff product, and that we can look at something that we could call market shares of these products, that African olive oil had this particular distribution in the Roman Empire, and that changed in this way and it's directly correlated to the African olive oil amphorae. So something like that is implied here. These are selected context from Rome and Austria for Italian wine amphorae, and it just details proportions of the amphorae and the origins of these amphorae, but it is very tempting to interpret that as, so there was so much of Teranian wine consumed, so much of Adriatic wine consumed, so much of this wine consumed. We don't always make these assumptions, but they are kind of there, and we are not addressing this problem. Now, I do think it is a problem, and I want to use the example of African one distribution. This is a very badly photographed distribution map of African one distribution, but it was the only one I could find in a library when I didn't have a scanner in my pocket. And this is just a typical distribution map that we see all the time and that we like to think we can actually interpret. It just shows red dots that are places where African one was found and excavated in the 1970s. It doesn't matter. This is an archaeological distribution map of amphorae. Does this equal the distribution of olive oil that was also produced in present day Tunisia? Now, there are selected archaeological contexts that suggest that might not be the case. So this is the content of the Grado shipwreck, a shipwreck full of these kind of African amphorae, two hundreds of them. They are typically associated with olive oil, and African one is one of those types of amphorae that are particularly well studied for which we can never know 100% for sure that it was just exclusively used for African olive oil, but we've got a pretty good hunch that we assume it's olive oil that was in there. And in this case, it's full of 10 to 11 tons of fish products. Now, these are pretty big volumes, and even though this particular shipwreck might just be a one-off, or it's definitely an anecdotal evidence, there's not a lot of great context slice shipwrecks where we could potentially identify these kind of things. It does suggest that it was possible that we should be cautious, and at the very least we should try to evaluate the impact of reuse on amphorae distributions. Because if the impact is bigger than we think it is, then it changes the way in which we need to look at distribution maps for understanding the Roman economy. Then the distribution of amphorae types really can't be equal to the distribution of the foodstuffs. There's actually, besides just studying these fantastic contexts, there's a variety of ways in which reuse could be evidenced. A lot of them could be from the type of sites, so there's places, maybe perhaps more in port sites, riverine or maritime ports, where we could have refilling stations where the ships could arrive with the amphorae being typically transported in ships. They're a bit awkward for overland transport, so perhaps we can assume a higher probability of reuse at ports. They could be emptied there, and there could be infrastructure for cleaning the amphorae and for refilling them with a local product or whatever product should be available there. Storage facilities for empty amphorae that are saved in order to refill them. But if you invest in infrastructure like that, it basically implies that you don't have enough capacity or ability to produce amphorae yourself in the local region. So what are those places where that is just not a thing, where there's no tradition of producing these amphorae locally, where maybe primary resources are not available to produce amphorae, to the scale that is required for their use as containers. We can look at the vessels themselves, see if there's use where that is indicative of reuse, or whether there's repair that is indicative of an amphorae being emptied and then being refilled, or whether an amphorae is stopped with something, with a type of stuffer, so like something to close the amphorae, that is not actually from the same location as the amphorae itself was produced. Beautiful rare evidence is written stuff, so some of these amphorae had inscriptions on them in the form of titillipicti, and in perhaps some cases that have been identified they could be overlapping. Titillipicti that could indicate the prime use content, and that an overlapping written description could indicate the reuse content. But these are extremely rare. Now, there's a lot of ways in which we could explore this. The problem of amphorae reuse is that it's very difficult to tie down exactly how it happened. Theories about where and when and in which proportions it happened vary a lot. So there's a lot of things that interact there. On the one hand there's just our theories about how the Roman macroeconomy functioned, and the implications for reuse there. So what was the role of imperial regulation of trade and taxation, and how did that structure, the main long-distance trade flows, and the need for amphorae reuse? There are certain types of amphorae for which this is absolutely nonsensical to assume this happened to any scale, such as the Dresel 20 olive oil amphorae produced in the south of Spain, and then sent in mass mainly to the capital of Rome, where we have a huge mountain called Mont de Testatio, mainly of these Dresel 20 amphorae, so they were just literally emptied and broken. Not saying that this happened for those amphorae, but there's other types out there. So the difference between the type of site, and whether it happened more often at riverine or seaports, and the distance from those ports, the way in which the Roman transport system could have structured the distribution of the amphorae, and it's driven out of foodstuffs, and the need for places that are not well connected in the Roman transport system to be dependent on reuse amphorae or not. Basically, loads of theories. It's actually a really challenging problem, and honestly, when I first heard about it, I was kind of like, yeah, let's not address this, let's just keep it an inconvenient truth. But I find this, well, two things. On the one hand, it's a really important problem to tackle, because even though it's possible and very likely that for some amphorae and in some contexts, the impact was totally minimal, there is indication that in some context it has a huge impact. So we need to be able to at the very least discard the issue of reuse. And secondly, it's totally doable. On the one hand, the theories are modellable, and there is evidence that we can collect in order to validate our formal approaches for evaluating the impact. So I think this is a challenge that we should just try to overcome. What I want to present in the rest of my presentation is a proof of concept. So set your brains to 100% fiction mode. There is not really a lot of archeological data that is going to be involved in what I'm going to say now. I just want to give an indication that the formal simulation side of what I think should happen is possible, and that if we can combine that with a very large scale campaign of residue analyses and integrating large data sets of ceramic distributions and so gathering the empirical evidence that's needed to validate those models, then we can come up with a way of evaluating the impact of Roman amphorae reuse better than we are able to do now. I'm just going to talk about simulation now. So the first aspect of this proof of concept model is to have a transport system over which I will simulate the distribution of these amphorae and the foodstuffs. The only digital open access model of the Roman transport system that's available now is the Orbis model, which is extremely coarse-grained and is really just useful for proof of concept and general trend research. But it's accessible. Then there's two key theories that I will explore. On the one hand, differences between theorized probabilities of reuse. Some people who deny it happens say there's a 0% probability of reuse. This type of amphorae was never ever ever reused. And if you find one where it's evidence, then you are lying. Or there's 100% reuse. It's really, really frequent. It happened all the time, which is something that almost no one says. And then there are people who are a bit more pragmatic. People like Teodor Penya, who published this model of live cycle of amphorae, who argues that in some cases like African one, he theorizes an 80% probability of reuse in the port of arrival. And for amphorae in general, a 38%. That's the first set of experiments. And the second set of experiments focuses at reuse at ports. So it is not crazy to assume that reuse might happen with a higher probability at port sites because they were mainly meant for maritime transport. I explored conditions in which there's 0% reuse at ports, 50% and 100%. Now, I will also have... I need to implement a basic macroeconomic model of how the Roman economy functions. So we have some production in North Africa, focusing on this case of African olive oil. And we have a distribution of demand for all of those settlements in the Orbis network. And the proxy evidence I use for demand are just population estimates which are derived from the work of Jack Hansen. And I'm just using a correlation of population with demand. That's it. Now, what I do is I then... I create a simple model. I simulate distributions of these amphorae and I simulate the distribution of the food stuff. I can keep track of both of them. And I compare the outputs of the simulations with four different types of data patterns that are suggested as indicative of this African one distribution. So... And this is the only bit where archaeology comes in. So, you know, there's no special collected data or anything. It's just squinting your eyes at this map. The focus of this distribution is on the Western Mediterranean. So we expect more of this distribution in the West than in the East. It reached as far as Britain, maybe in small volumes. We definitely got there. There are high volumes of prime use contents, so not the reuse in Rome and Austria. And there is a high proportion of reuse at Aquilea. Now, that is just... We have the Grado shipwreck, which is close to Aquilea. And so I want to check in which conditions I have a high proportion of reuse at the Grado shipwreck. How can I reproduce that? That's like just one anchor point that I want to use. The model is very simple. Initially, I create a demand for a product, which is correlated to the population. I generate a supply, which is the production. Then there's a discard of that production, which is a proportion taken from Ted Penya's model. Then amphorae are sent to places that still have an unsatisfied demand for products. Then depending on the settings of the experiment, reuse selection of amphorae will happen. So this could be at a port and then there's a 50% probability or 100% probability depending on the experiment I'm testing. This is where reuse happens. Then all the amphorae that are transported in that turn are not selected for reuse are deposited. So this is how I get distributions of pots and also distributions of foodstuffs, simulated ones. In the next time step, the ones that are selected for reuse will be further disseminated. Here are just some example results of one experiment. Experiment number six, in which we assume 50% reuse selection at ports. We have to modify from 25 to 50% the production capacity of the producer here. So basically their ability to satisfy all the demand in the system. What I want to show here is that on the left-hand side we have distribution, simulated distributions of the pots. On the right-hand side we have simulated distributions of the olive oil. In this theoretical scenario, the distribution of the pots is different than the distribution of the olive oil. The cause of that is the theorized impact of reuse. So I'm going to just read out key conclusions of this proof of concept work. Under no circumstances that I tested in which I had zero or 100% reuse, did I get anything that was even remotely close to the four archaeological markers that I tried to reproduce. So this is almost anecdotal, but the extreme scenarios we can discard very easily and provably with a method like this. But given that we all agreed might have probably happened to some extent, what can we say about the more moderate proportions of reuse? The cases of 18% to 38% reuse, combined with more frequent reuse selection at the ports, are more promising. So these simulation experiments here tend to compare more favorably with the archaeological markers that I'm using to validate these models. In no cases where there is reuse is the distribution of the container the same as the distribution of the foodstuff. And so if we even hypothesize a small effect of the reuse, we expect there to be a difference between those two distribution patterns. So we cannot assume that if we look at a distribution of pottery, we are looking at a distribution of foodstuffs. But this is very important. In all of these scenarios, I can explore in which context this impact is bigger. Is there a higher probability of reuse to be resulting in assemblage in a port site, in a riverine site? What is the difference with places that are far away from this port site? What is the typical assemblage at small terrestrial sites, for example? So the proportion varies greatly depending on the context and generally following this logic. Higher proportions of reuse are simulated for assemblages further away from the producing region and higher proportions of reuse are simulated at terrestrial sites further removed from ports. Now, what it doesn't succeed is representing the more limited presence of African one in the eastern Mediterranean and for that I think in just future proof of concept models I should have an element that represents the structuring of state demand for goods both for the capital of Rome, the large consumption centers but also the troops along the limous. Now, finally, I just want to conclude that all of this is fiction but I think this is something we should do more of. I think I can show that simulating these theories is possible and useful. There's three useful things I think this does. On the one hand we can have the simulated geographical distributions implied by our theories. Secondly, we can estimate proportions of reuse for site assemblages under a particular context. We can use those estimates to calibrate the amphorae that we excavate. This would be hugely useful to be able to have like a probability range like an error margin of everything we excavate. And then to identify differences in the reuse proportions between these site contexts. We need to combine these kind of things with large scale campaigns of residue analysis and with bringing all the amphorae data that we have available to us together and I do think that is possible right now. So anyways, just the proof of concept thing please do talk about this with me because it's obviously an early stage. Thank you.


Hmm Okay, I have a few minutes between things right now and Okay I'm gonna do my live now. I usually do it at round five give or take like four hours So I'm totally within the window. Anyway last week someone asked me a question. I think it was Hans Hans and He wasn't really clear About his questions. So and it was it was toward the end of my live last week. So I was like, you know Just just send me an email Sometime during this week and you know, I'll think about it and answer it next week, right? What's up be early stream? So anyway, he sent me an email a couple days ago Hey, Hans, what's up? Yeah, that was you who sent me the message, right? Anyway, she sent me a message and the the basic gist of this question was Jamie, can you explain brain code? Which is Yeah, thanks for picking my brain code question. Well, yes, you're the only one who sent me a question this week So I guess I'm picking it plus pretty good questions. Okay, so he asked me to explain brain code Which I've mentioned in some previous videos years ago. I haven't said anything about it in a while. I don't think so anyway The simplest way to explain brain code is just to say it's like it's the it's the language your brain natively uses like the language that's just built into your brain So if you're a computer coder at all, you probably know what machine code is So like different machines have code like language is built into them And if you if you have to program one of these machines if you have to program it in machine code Oh, it's such a pain because all the math will be in like hexadecimal instead of 10 digits and You know the language is like XRF B 269 and he just like makes no sense So you get a computer program that translates it into like C plus plus or some other You know Englishy kind of language and it makes it much easier for you to you know type your junk in and You know program the thing and then the the computer program Translates it into the machine code so that that machine can run efficiently because the machine doesn't run efficiently If it's if it's running off of a code that's not it's native code because it has to constantly translate everything it's doing and waste a lot of a lot of you know CPU power doing that so the the machine runs much more efficiently on its own native code the machine code and your brain like any other Computer kind of machine I'm not saying your brain is the same as every other computer, but it's but you know, your brain is basically a computer It has its own native code that you're born with if you weren't born with it You wouldn't be able to think about anything until you were taught language But you can think about things before you have language now then we go to school And one of the things that we learn in school is how to think in English or Dutch German French will depending on where you come from of course, but I'm just going to speak From my own experience. I grew up in an English speaking country. Canada. Well, there's French there too. Okay, look Whatever language written language is in your country that's you but for me I learned English So school pounds it into your head. You got to learn you got to learn English and this is how you think you think in English and you think in math you think in math and you think in English Because these are things you can write down so you can convey the information to other people and I'm sure this varies depending on the school But I was mostly taught that if you can't communicate information Then it's wasted. It's just wasted in you if you if you can't convey the information It's a waste.  It's worthless. It's not good for anything because you can't you can't communicate it, right? It's only useful if you can translate it into English Or into math or something where you can write it down Now there is definitely a big advantage to being able to communicate ideas, right? It's it's great but there's also but there's There's a disadvantage to limiting yourself to thinking that way Because if you think always in English and math then The language largely defines what you can think and how you think and how you think about things and just Just your whole approach to all kinds of things Based on the words available based on the words, you know Based on the the phrases that you hear over and over based on all this stuff It's very limiting it limits the way you can think and another another big downside of of thinking in English and math and all that stuff is that It's just not efficient for your brain like it's not your native brain code.  What's what's the information and you're just like?  This is it's like It's like the direct connection into imagination and imagination is massively important Which is why it's one of the eight adventure builder virtues Imagination is is how you get new ideas. See if you're if you're always thinking in English Then you could only think of things that there's a word for and if there's no word for it If you're so trained to only think in English, you'll be like, oh, that must be nothing Let me get rid of that and and either get rid of it or warp it And you kind of censor it into something that is that is English that I can then communicate and then it's valuable And everything else throws away So so how do you how do you even recognize what this brain code is? Oh, okay. I'll get to your guys comments after I got to get through this though because uh to be totally honest when When I'm thinking about things in brain code It is really difficult to communicate it So if I'm thinking about things if I'm using brain code I'm like kind of like halfway using brain code and halfway thinking in in in english so I can speak but like It's really hard to kind of go between the two because they're totally different languages But uh, okay say say you're talking to someone And you're like trying to describe something and you get to a point where you're like, ah, what's the word for that? What's the word? I know the word See you have the idea even though you don't have the word, right? That means the word isn't the idea you don't need the word to have the idea You already have the idea But at that point you still know that there's a word for that idea You just don't remember the word so take it one step further And say you're trying to you have an idea in your head and and you think There just is no word for this. I can't communicate. There's there is literally no word for this You're probably using brain code right there. Like you when you have an idea That's just like you've never you've never Heard anything about it. You like it's it's just it's just something that is that has been produced inside your own brain And you there's no word for it You don't we have no idea how to communicate it that you're probably using brain code right there and brain code is like It's like connecting with your with your subconscious so, uh I mean, I I I'm pretty sure I explained this better in a previous video years ago, but basically You know, you've you've got your kind of your upper upper brain level here where Where you have all these ideas that you can communicate and then below that is like your subconscious and your your instincts and all that stuff and all that stuff Largely people call it the background, you know, it's it's it's it's the subconscious It's it's like underwater it's stuff that's that you don't really have access to But if you can think in brain code you totally have access to all that stuff And you can you can you can think in your subconscious area and do do really amazing things And this is where I go whenever I'm trying to design a new invention so If I'm if I'm trying to come up with new ideas um There's no point in trying to talk to me because I'm I'm gone. I'm I'm not thinking in English. I can't communicate the ideas Uh, I have to you know, I'm I'm processing things about 500 times faster Then I could do if I was thinking in in In uh, English or or or like numerical math or something like that Now that's that's another thing, you know, I was saying that if you're thinking in math, you're not thinking in brain code But I mean brain code has its own math, you know, it's got I it's hard to explain like say say I'm trying to divide something instead of using the numbers I'll just poop and and take it out into the chunks and like And just like almost almost like visually do it, but I don't even have to visually do it because It's just got this language built in Okay, let me this this is how I've tried to explain it before like the really basic explanation of what brain code is and Like like how you get there So think of a tree So when you think of a tree you think of like like a picture of a tree and leaves and maybe some words tree and leave and bark and Roots and ground and air and you know, you kind of get images of all this stuff Well, what if you take out the words and the pictures and take away all all the the bark and the trees and it just Just clear everything out And you've basically wiped out almost all the information, but you can still have the idea Of a tree in there, you know, it's like but it's all it's just this little wispy idea Just it's like barely there and uh From that little tiny speck of information you can You can get all kinds of stuff you can get the picture of the tree You can get the word like you can go go all these other places But when you break it down and get rid of all that stuff You still have this tiny glimmer of a of a thought of an idea Of a tree just the most basic thought that's brain code and when you when you can think in that way I mean it is basically like clearing out all of the extraneous information and getting down to the most basic pieces um And when you clear out all that stuff, it's like It's it's really hard to explain it's just like it's like It's like you lived your whole life in a fog and then the fog just clears and it's like holy crap Like I can see so much now Because you take out all that extraneous information that that we've been taught to stuff into your head and have all these all these superficial Associations and languages and stuff which are useful in certain circumstances in a lot of circumstances But if you just if you just want to process something in your head move all that stuff aside put all that stuff out just just You're not dealing with that you're just dealing with it the most basic pieces of information And it takes up so little information instead or so little so little Processing space inside your head and so little memory that you can now have instead of just tree you can have like like a thousand different Items a thousand different thoughts all in your head at the same time And you can do things with them and like figure things out and you can You can come up with ideas This is really hard to explain if you've never done it, but like When you've got the idea of a tree, it's just this this little tiny nothingness And but it's kind of got a shape and a flavor kind of you know and then like House will have its own kind of shape and flavor, but it's almost nothing You know and like spoon Like you know all these like almost non-existent pieces of information Once you get rid of all the images and stuff and once you start being able to kind of see what these most basic Ideas look like what the what the the most basic brain code looks like You can generate new stuff You know, it's sort of like it's sort of like having an alphabet like say I have an alphabet, you know I've got a b c d d d all all the things I could conceivably just say hey, what if What if I took an o? And instead of putting a line here to make a q what if I just put a line up on the top and just like this new There's there's none there and I just made a new thing And if you're in brain code that actually means something like it's it's an actual idea that that is Not a thing necessarily, but it's it's an idea that you can then translate up into something that relates to reality You know and this this is how you really connect with imagination like we're saying like you you you get You get an incredible access to your imagination if you can if you can figure out how to think in brain code How to think in your subconscious how to how to just get right down in there another thing that's really cool Kind of cool, I thought it was going to be cooler than it ended up being but You can this is going to sound crazy, but you can read other people's brain code And you know the The magical explanation would be that somehow there's some kind of espn going between brains and you know And you can like connect with other people's subconscious. Maybe here's some kind of signal. I don't know Uh, the the more kind of mundane grounded Explanation would be just that All our brain code Is very similar like it's bait. We all basically have the same brain code. Like we're like we're born with it It's evolved over a long period of time. We're all born with basically the same brain code So if you look at someone else You only need a few cues like like tone of voice the the way they're they're holding themselves, you know They're they're expressions like Their posture, you know, just like you get a few cues like particularly if you look at their face or their eyes or something and because because you you you basically are the same you can tell what they're thinking and That's a really awesome experience when you can connect with someone Who also has either some Some connection to their own brain code or they at least Are not resisting it constantly because one one of the problems I mean one of the downsides of brain code like if you're thinking in brain code is it's very difficult to communicate with other people Like you have to stop and be like, okay I have to take like 250 miles of Of information and condense it down so that I can actually communicate it, you know So and it's like it's really it's really difficult takes a lot of Energy and you end up like stopping and stuttering and being like wait. Hold on. Let me just let me just condense this more and turn it into English and So, you know when you're thinking in brain code If you're on your own You can do a lot If you're working with someone else It can be very frustrating because no one will understand what the hell you're talking about like you can say to them Hey, if you do that that's going to go wrong But if you do this this is going to this is going to go right and they'd be like, what how do you know that?  They don't have whatever. But anyway, if you if you can work with someone else Who is kind of open-minded and has a generally positive attitude you can kind of see What they're thinking and what their motivations are and and how Like how to work with them.  I shouldn't say a lot of times occasionally And you know, it's like when you're working with something with someone else and you just kind of end up in this groove Where where they know what you're doing and you know what they're doing and you don't know exactly why this is working so well But somehow you just got into this groove like you've connected on a subconscious level like you're you're in you're you're You're brain coding, you know Ah, that's so that's the that's the basic gist of brain code. I mean I could talk about it for hours and it's a really it's Like being able to think in brain code Is I would say by far The most valuable mental skill I've ever gained Out of anything by far Because it applies to anything like I can I can apply brain code to any problem And find answers better than I can any other way now. I don't always use it In fact, a lot of times I don't use it because when I'm working with other people It gets very frustrating knowing the answer and And laying out the plan before someone And then and I'm just getting frustrated and angry like why do you why do you know this? Well, how maybe my idea is better and then they're just like they just get crazy and it's like, all right Forget all that. Let's just do it the dumb way, you know And not everyone's like that but like that that is basically how we're taught to we're taught to think In like the the top of our brain not not physically the top But you know the the most upper part We're not we're not taught to think in brain code at all Which would which would be amazing because you can connect with people in a way that You can't connect any other way All right, so that's that's a basic gist of that and I just realized YouTube changed some stuff here There's a different format. Whatever. It's basically the same though. Hey, Jay. Let's see. I think brain code was mentioned in Tales of jamie 005 sounds about right to me. I don't know Hey, what's it going on Jeff? Klondike, how's it going? What do you think about chat g tp for writing computer code? I don't know I mean, yeah, I don't know Well, I think automation is overdone. I think we just way overdone automation and the thing is If we just keep getting computers to do things for us Pretty soon There's no reason for us to be here at all the computers just do it at all Then what then what are we just do? We just sit around and just get fed by these computers who just take care of us Like we're a bunch of babies um Yeah, I'm I'm kind of I I kind of more want to go the other direction less less automation less less programming of computers and I I love computers. I mean, I think I think they're super useful And programming things to do amazing stuff is super cool. But I think I think we've definitely overdone it like we're To a large degree humans are giving up their They're giving up their own lives like people aren't living their own lives because it's easier to just get a computer to do it which is insane because like like Trying to make it easy shouldn't be the goal of life Like if you really want easy just die see easiest thing in the world, right? Just be dead You don't have to do anything.  Like that's that's the answer to Making it easy.  I must accomplish this. How's the fastest way I can do this so I can get my paycheck and go home Well the chat gpt can do it. Okay. Go do it or just automate anything So I get out of here and go home as fast as I can And then I can get in my car and drive as fast as I can to get home And sit there and then just watch tv and then the next morning Go as fast as I can to work and get it worked on as fast as I can and then just go home again Like yeah, why I don't get it like what's it? What's the point of that? Like just going through life just trying to just trying to get everything done so you can just go away Like there's no point in living then, you know So I'm I'm much I'm much more for less computerization less Programming less automation More human do it yourself I think it would be kind of cool to have like a diverging species of humans Which is like kind of more on the neanderthal track where You know, we we still rely on our hands and our muscles to do stuff Not that we can't use a computer or technology and stuff It's just we we we uh We don't rely on that for everything, you know, it's like like we're selective about it Like, huh, I could get a machine to do this But you know what I really could do it myself and if I did it myself I would be a stronger human being when I'm done Mentally and physically so I'm gonna do it my damn self, you know, like that that kind of person And I who knows maybe maybe there will be a divergence like that Because a lot of the human population is going directly for automation and sitting down and doing nothing and just being entertained And there's there's gotta be I mean obviously me and there are other people who are just totally like I don't want to do that at all I want to do things like I want to physically Do things I want to get sore and then get stronger And I want to have cuts and scrapes and you know near-death experiences. I mean not not all the time, but you know Stuff happens like I want I want to live I don't want to just I don't want to be alive like I want to live All right, was that enough of a tangent on that question? All right, what we're going on about here Do you have an inner monologue I only asked because it said that not everyone does Ha Well, it depends sometimes I do sometimes I don't If uh, if I'm not around people for a while, I don't have any inner monologue um Yeah, basically when it my inner monologue is Figuring out how to say things to people so um You know, I have pile of kids here. So if I'm by myself And doing something that's not using a lot of brain power. I might Just like focus on what I'm doing and just do the best job I can and you know try to use my muscles better and do faster and do stronger and all this stuff or I might Turn my brain on to thinking about okay, so my kids did this And I yelled is there a better way to react to that? How's how can I communicate with my kids better? What can I say what like or what kind of activities can I do to kind of get us better connected and stuff? So Yeah, I mean sometimes I have an inner monologue and sometimes I don't but generally my inner monologue Only has to do with communicating with other people or if I'm if I'm going to do a video like this Like before I turned on the button I like put my put my tablet here and I was like Typed in my title and whatever and I was like wait a minute before I hit the live button Let me think about what I'm going to say for a second And then I've been an inner monologue for for a couple minutes and I was like all right I think I basically basically got the gist of what I'm saying Or if I was if I was going to give you know a more formal address to people um I might spend you know like A lot more time inner monologue and like sometimes I'll do that when I'm driving to town because it's you know few hours a couple hours depending on which boat I take of just Driving just just going straight Um not a lot to think about sometimes I'll draw pictures or just you know check out the scenery But sometimes I'll be like okay. There's a video I want to make and I have something I want to talk about So let me run through it in my head for the next hour and a half and kind of figure out what I want to say And then that'll have an inner monologue. Yeah But um, yeah definitely not always Okay, my one inner monologue That I have sometimes is this It's just it's just like a hum It's just like uh, it's like a machine hum. That's like kind of how I imagine it Well, I sort of imagine it a little bit like uh, you know the starship enterprise It's got those warp engines and they're like But when it's just cruising it's just kind of like like there's always the ship sound of just machine going Oh Kind of like that a little bit, but it's like a specific frequency that's just like Yeah, it's just like It's just like the I'm I'm going frequency. It's like my metabolism is up to this level So yeah, I often just have this this tone the kind of kind of relaxing and energizing me And then if I if I You know need to do something more strenuous In my my inner monologue will often be more like Just like Non-stop just just just screaming. I don't even want to do it as loud as it is, but it'll just be like this screaming in my head and um Sometimes like it just kind of comes on itself And I'm like cool, but sometimes I'm getting real tired and I'm like, oh man, I gotta get myself going. All right. What do I do? What I gotta force this screaming in my head and it just like it's just like kind of Brrr, it like turns up all my metabolism even if I'm tired or hungry or whatever. It's just like, all right Turn it up. Let's go Oh, I could apparently apparently I could talk about inner monologues all day How about thinking in sigils? Oh, what's a sigil? Is a sigil just like a symbol, right? That would Okay, I'm gonna have to look up what a sigil is but I think a sigil is just like a symbol Which would just be like a written language Like Yeah, the same thing is thinking in English. Like if you're thinking in brain code, there is there is nothing I could not express In any written or drawn way What an idea looks like in brain code? Although I think You know the impressionist painters were kind of doing that, you know, like Like in the abstractionists, you know, you gotta go back into a bit of art history here But I think a lot of that had to do with trying to take a canvas And express an idea Jackson Pollock, you know, he did the drippy slobber paintings Like I think the I a lot of the idea of what he was trying to do was trying to be like, okay Let's take out all the objects. Let me try to express just Like an intangible idea that It's not it's not it's not an object. It's not a physical object It's not it's not a thing. It's not even a feeling or it's like not anything I I could really communicate But let me see if I let me let me try to do my best on this canvas And you know, you can look at it and it's kind of like I don't know what that is thing, yeah Dude this math reminds me Of this autistic genius That adds numbers based on shapes cresting new shapes create. Oh wait, is that supposed to be cresting or creating new shapes? That's cool though The brain code that can be spoken is not the brain code totally true, man. Yeah, like like Like if you come up with a new idea and there's no word for it To try to communicate that idea it might take you like an hour and a half Of trying to like come at it from different directions You know, it's it's like it's over there. It's right over there and the person's like Like right there like no no it's further. Well, how far okay, let's come on out from this way. It's like right there Okay, if we cross-reference and triangulate wait, how many dimensions do we have to look at through this? and it's like you you can't really pinpoint what it is but If you get someone open-minded enough and you can communicate well enough You can you can get there you can kind of connect with their brain code and get them to see the idea in some way But if they don't understand Like what brain code is or like have any connection to it they won't they won't they won't really get it But if you have an open-minded enough person they can kind of understand even though you can't Really communicate it and the truth is you can't really communicate anything like you can Whenever you're okay, I'm saying all these English words right now, right? and You could understand these words in a thousand different ways but if I if I Keep reiterating different. I like certain ideas With with my words you can you can kind of narrow it down more Precisely the ideas.  It could be a literal road. It could be a road for cars. It could be a road for for Drafts. I mean it could be a road through the sky. It could be you know, there are a lot of different things, but um Like basically any time you're communicating You're definitely hugely reliant on the other on the other party the listening party to To fill in a lot of blanks What are we talking about? Yeah, it's a brain code that that can be spoken is not the brain code yet Nearly all networks have nodes The warp And the wolf in biblical way in biblical are taking or talking I think you mean talking about the strings and the web connections You know all networks have nodes. I see the wolf. I don't I never read the bible.  I mean I mean a lot of brain a lot of like The way I really figured out how to use brain code is I I had to unlearn everything I learned in school And I don't remember exactly when this was I don't like middle school or something grade three or four. I know somewhere grade five somewhere in there I was still pretty young but at some point I was like I I I have this idea That there's this other thing in my subconscious and I've been told over and over and over that you have no access to your Subconscious, but I kind of have a little bit of access to my subconscious. What if I just got rid of all this stuff? I've been taught And just try like just see what's so I spent a lot of time just just Unlearning all the stuff I've been taught and I found that oh If I think in my subconscious I get access to this brain code and I can think way better like way Way better than before Like like thousand times better like I can Like things I could I could uh have vague ideas about now. I can like like Work with the information and do things and figure things out It's really really cool when when you can figure out how to use brain code And and you're you're born with this stuff, you know, it's already built in You just have to not be taught not to use it Uh, that'll be the coolest thing if if if people were taught to use the brain code I wonder I wonder what I can do with my kids to get them to use brain code more Because it's a super advantageous thing. I have ESPN too Well, hey there. What's up tomatoes like programming in assembling language versus something like basic. Yeah Assembly language machine code. Yeah Brain code is the same as daydreaming on a problem and come up with an answer Kind of but you I mean you can daydream Like not in brain code at all but that is kind of in the in the right direction And one of the things I mean I could go on for hours about all the all the cool things you can do with brain code But one of the real cool things that you just remind me of let me see what you said again Uh daydreaming on a problem and come up with an answer. Yeah So one of the things you can do when you when you're thinking in brain code Is You can put a question in your head And as long as you don't force an answer you can just you can just It's sort of like waiting for an answer, but you're not really waiting. I don't know. It's like The rules are different like every this is what I'm saying about like having to unlearn everything I'd learned like you just It's just they're just just different rules when you're thinking of brain code but anyway, if you can if you can think of a question while you're thinking in brain code and then It's almost like you just leave this this blank open space And then this answer just comes in And if you try to force an answer to come in it doesn't work You just have to let it happen and you'll get answers to things that like You you did not think we're Not not that you didn't think but you've been told are impossible like it's impossible. There's there's no way Anyone could notice there's no way to get answers about this. There's no way to learn this stuff But um, if if you do that you can get answers to things that people won't even believe I mean, I could I could sit here and tell you things that I've learned through this and you just be like, all right Well, that doesn't mean anything.  The rules are totally different There's no need to prove yourself Which is this is a nice thing to get away from Let's see, but yeah coming up with coming up with answers to problems is is I mean brain code is like made for solving problems How's the dredging going? Will you make the island higher? So I have I have been dredging a little I have I haven't in a few days though Because I was just busy doing other stuff. Oh, I need a root canal by the way and one of my teeth Ah So I got this this like tooth infection like a year ago, but I was just too Wrapped up in disastrous life events to deal with it. So for the last year I've had like this infection in my gums and for the first month or so I kind of felt like sick all the time, but then I uh I guess my body Just got used to fighting it all the time so You know the last few months. I mean most of the year. I mean every once in a while I'll I'll kind of feel it and feel a little sick, but it's you know, it's like my body can fight it off now So anyway, I'm going to get a root canal on this This infected tooth I mean, you can't see anything from the outside, but the guy took an x-ray and I could feel it It's like a little tender not as much as it was at the beginning. It was like way worse, but anyway um I'm hoping that when the guy fixes my tooth Then my metabolism will be like yo, we can relax now, man, and then I'll get all this extra energy. That'll be great Anyway, I'm getting that fixed And uh, I also got sick the last couple days because Someone had to go to work to make money even though he was sick And got like 40 different people sick and oh god. I hate that like Like if you get sick, don't go to work.   You're fine Anyway, uh, but I haven't done any dredging in a few days and you know, I've been cutting cutting wood in the jungle and um Yeah, I haven't done a bunch of dredging, but I did some before And I'll do some more but I really really want to get this second floor up Now that's kind of become top priority Other than getting my tooth fixed, which I'll do Sometimes this week. You got to go to the dentist. Yay Root canal Question do you have any advice for people who bounce between projects without completing most of them?  Um, let's see Bounce between projects without completing most of them. This is this is a problem that A lot of people have I'm trying to think of when I've had this kind of problem Well, you know, I have this I have a little bit of this problem right now where I've started You know tiling the roof and then something got in the way And then I just haven't gotten back to it So I'm working on something else, but I mean, I'm still making progress on a lot of things and getting things done So I don't know if it really counts I don't know. You know what? Just pick something just pick something and say Or do this or do this.  So say say you want to build a car And you know building this car takes a month so it might take two if if things don't go right um And think about the different points of building this car think okay I'm going to get you know the first the first week is going to be a piece of cake because I'm going to be excited The second week, you know, I'm going to be a little more tired But I got to just keep doing it in the third week, you know, maybe maybe I'll need to take a break in there But if I take a break, I can't start something else I could I have to stay on this project and come back to this and And think about getting all the way to the end and just just pull yourself through the entire process mentally Before you start it and then once you start there is no there is no going on to something else If you have to take a break take a break, but don't start something else Stick to the thing. I mean take care of the things you have to do, you know If you have a job or whatever or you need to Move along like like do the stuff you have to do in the day, of course But when you have time to do the thing whatever project is you're doing That's the only thing you're doing. You're not starting something else. You're only doing that um And you know, you might have to really force yourself to to go through it But if you start building up the habit of of completing projects, it gets it gets much easier It just becomes an automatic thing like of course. I'm going to finish this project I wouldn't I wouldn't stop it and then you don't have to be so strict about it You know, you can have maybe two or three different projects going at once And you know that you're not going to add more projects until you Until you finish one of these and then you can add another project and you can be working on A reasonable number of things at a time. So next project you start Just say I am I am absolutely finishing it no matter what and Really think about that before you start the project because once you once you take the first step on it That's it. You're locked in But make sure you're locked in lock yourself in You know this it kind of reminds me of uh, this is the best analogy, but this is something I used to do a lot where I would I would force myself to not be able to back out and the example that always comes to mind is It was like the end of high school and it was the end of the track and field season And you know, I just won the last big race. So now it's like I don't I don't have to be I don't have to be ready for any track meets or anything for a while Um, so I don't I don't have to like, you know, be on the strict training schedule or anything And I was like, you know what?   So I left the place where I was and I locked the door behind me And it was about I don't know eight or nine in the morning And to get back into this place. I had to wait for someone else to come Show up after work like six and six in the evening So I at that point I'd locked myself out of the only place I could be and my choices were either sit down And wait or you know find something to do but basically just hang around waiting or Run the friggin 50 miles and get there And I wasn't gonna sit around all day. So I ran the whole 50 minutes. There was no coming back I ran the 50 miles and I brought a few bucks with me so I could stop to get drinks every like 20 miles or so And uh, man, I could barely walk the next day. Well, it was pretty awesome And I've done that with a lot of different things like when I when I dug the road This is a this is actually an even better example because this was a Like a multi day like like a month and a half kind of thing when I dug a road to my place in Vermont like there was no road there and Uh, I kind of figured out An area where I could make a mile and a half road But it was going to be an incredible amount of work because it was not a road It was like driving along 45 degree angles and up things and down gullies like I did I do a lot of landscaping so What I did was I mean first first I just you know tested things out for a week and just You know did the easy part of the road first and then when I got to the hard part I was like all right now I have to decide am I doing this or not and I was like all right I'm doing it So I got my truck and drove it into the road as far as I could go And this is a road that was barely as wide as my truck like I could barely fit through So at that point my truck is is it is on the road Facing the direction where it can't continue unless I keep going digging my way through the road The other the only other option is to back out Like along this precarious road and retreat Which would not have been easy first of all just in terms of driving and second it would be It was just the thought of backing out gosh humiliating even though i'm the only person there I'd be like oh Anyway, so my truck was in there. I couldn't I I spent a month and a half uh digging the road always bringing my truck Up to where the where I finished that day and leaving myself no no way to turn around and go back The only way I could get out was to back out which would have been super dangerous And yeah, I just just locked myself into finishing And I finished it. Oh, I just heard my 3d printer finishing by the way It's printing robot parts, which is like all the time now um question wait Question before your parents die. Would you want to take care of them? Chat gp is just a young baby. What? that's Before your parents die. Would you want to take care of them? I'm not really I'm probably not going to take care of my parents um we've We've just gone our separate ways, you know And chat gpt is just a young baby. I don't Are you familiar with iron rand the author jamie you would adore atlas shrugged. I think also hello Yeah, I love that atlas shrug. That was cool Well, I saw I was I was going to say it's a cool book. I never read the book though, but I saw the movie You know, it was like a tv movie. There were three parts and every part had half the budget of the previous part So by the by the third one it was so low budget. It was it was pretty fun But uh, I like the story. Yeah, it was cool um Let's see tow mators. What's up? Me too, uh, I wake up screaming I find American measurements are the only thing I can think of in real terms and can't think in metric at all Well, you should be able to think about your own brain code measurements Like regardless of what? Measurements are out there Jeff if you really wanted to do things in metric you could do things in metric You you are totally capable of learning that just get a meter stick Put it on the wall somewhere look at it once in a while realize oh a centimeters about that much 10 centimeters a meter Dude the math with metric is super easy compared to like feet and inches Your lego gear looks oh my god. Oh my god the lego gear. I am so Oh Yeah, I'm I'm just printing a bunch. There's not that many in there yet, but hey get out of the way. Let me see the gears anyway um Yeah, these are amazing If anyone doesn't know this is related to my last video. I just uploaded and so I was I was looking around on the internet And uh, you know, my kids are always bugging me to print stuff out print stuff out just download something to print it I was like, you know, it would be cool lego gears. And so yeah, sure enough you go on Thingiverse Someone has uploaded lego gears the big one's pretty good And then you know the medium size one is pretty good the small one though was no better than the original crappy Flimsy lego one. I can't believe no one has done this before someone must have done this before You know, it's basically just the small lego gear with a solid solid circle at each end To make it was just so much stronger before than than it was before than the original ones Um, yeah, I'm really excited about those now. I'm thinking I'm kind of thinking about printing more lego like custom lego parts to make special lego things like when I was a kid I was always I was always making like walking machines and stuff with lego And I was always like melting parts together with a lighter which don't don't do that And like cutting parts up and kind of making my own custom parts and like taping these together and like melting them and gluing them whatever Now I have 3d print I could I could like make any any shape lego custom parts like I can make I can make a spider tank with lego if I if I 3d print a few custom parts Which I think I probably have to do actually after I finish this robot. I mean I get I have stuff to do, you know But yeah, in my free time. I think I I try to have to do some more some more lego stuff this This came out so good So Like the precision is so nice like it slides on pretty easily, but it's like snug enough that it stays Oh, it's so good You know, I I had to print out a few different ones to get the size just right but once I got the size just right So good Anyway, yeah, there's like 3d printers are fun, man This reminds me of that artistic dude who remembers the Guinness book of world records for most Wait, gold record for most numbers in pie by remembering a shape that looks Like the group of bones in the wrist. Okay Using mnemonic devices sounds like ilan ilan musk is a brain code thinker that would explain The stuttering also and the good ideas. Yeah, I mean I mean, I don't know ilan musk, but I've seen him talk at times. Yeah, it seems like he He does that too and you you can kind of tell like you're saying like like he'll kind of get stuck um Doing that, you know kind of be like Like let me translate my My real ideas of my brain into english. Just hold on a second. Okay. Now I can say it, you know Um Yeah, oh Greetings from the sub zero north I've got a nice fire going and I finished my engine rebuild rebuild. That's great Waiting for warmer temps for first start now on to other projects. Oh, you got to wait till it gets warm to start it up Yeah, I guess that does make sense. Is anyone building a steam engine.  Someone gave me those zapper tennis rackets, you know, you're supposed to whack black mosquitoes with them but We just don't really have that many mosquitoes here. I mean, there's the occasional mosquito smack it, but um I don't know. They they're just in a bucket Hey from vermont andrew what's going on man I'm not a fast verbal thinker. I think that's forced me to tap into at least a bit of brain coding Well, I mean, this is a good chance.  I was always Not scolded. What's the word like berated just I was crapped on for for not being being a good verbal communicator and You know, I learned to communicate But I was always like You know anytime I'm I'm I can put my my ideas into the English language and communicate them Well, they either have to be already very well worked out Or whittled down to something that I can communicate like I'll I'll take like Some really cool thing I'm thinking about whittle it down to just a little Some kind of cool bits then I can communicate Um And then I would get all this this positive feedback and I was always like why why am I getting so much positive feedback when I've I've taken my great idea and turned it like into so much less Which I It's one of the problems with school I noticed your freehand milling skills with chainsaw a while back. It's impressive. Why thank you I'm actually I gotta say I'm kind of impressed with my chainsaw skills, too um You know when I when I first started chainsawing Boards, I mean I I did it years ago in Alaska But I was using like, you know, uh some equipment but when I when I was here. I was like, well, let me just try freehand Like supposedly people can do that, right?  I'm just it's just like Like a human being can can do that. It's it's really cool And one of the things I always I always think about in those sorts of situations Is when I when I ran track and field in high school Like when I first started I had no idea what I was doing or whatever I had a had a really awesome high school coach and he said All right, you're gonna tell me what your time is you're gonna run a 400 right now and Oh when I started did my 400 repeats were not very good He's like you're gonna run a 64 And when you're done, I want you to tell me exactly the time you're in. I was like, what do you mean? I would down to the 10th of a second. I'm like, all right So I I'd do the run and come back and I don't know 64 and a half and be like Well 64.2 not bad Um, but he always made me made me guess And it was it was amazing within a matter of weeks. I could tell him the time I ran within a tenth of a second like And I was just blown away by that like even down to like hundreds of a second Like he could say we could go to a track and he could say, okay Run 600 meters in a minute 28 seconds and a half And I would be like dead on Um, and I and I would finish and he'd be like, what was your time? And I'd be like, well, I sped up a little bit there and you know, I went a minute 28.42 and he'd be like Well, I got 426 but close enough, you know, it's it's really it's just it's really amazing like what What a human being can do that we don't People don't generally understand how amazing humans are like when you when you actually try And you know learning from what I did track and field and just learning that skill of of being able to tell a time down to the 10th of a second easily It's just it's just Open my mind to the possibility That I might be able to do anything like there's all kinds of stuff I wouldn't have tried in the past if that didn't happen because I thought there's no way this there's no way And then it was it turned out to be pretty easy So so now I try all kinds of stuff that I I think there's no way And I'm like, well, maybe there's a way and then and then all kinds of stuff works Like freehand cutting boards with the chainsaw Yeah, you can totally do it Anyway, uh, what thing well, you know, it's impressive. What things are you focused on while making cuts space From saw edge to board. Okay. When I'm when I'm cutting Ah When I'm cutting a log so say the log is down here I mean it's down on the ground, but let's say the log. Okay. Let's say let's say my arm is the log I'll make the first cut You know first I'll I'll drag a line with the chainsaw And that first line, I mean a lot of times I'll just eyeball it I'll just kind of drag the chainsaw back and look down to try to keep it straight And I can do that pretty well or I'll do a chalk line But a lot of times I just eyeball it. But anyway, once I've got that line Then I'll I'll you know cut that first that first board off And what I keep doing is I keep looking down Down the cut that I've already made And make sure that's lined up with with the part of the the chainsaw bar So I'll I'll like look straight down the cut I've already made and that lines up my eye You know directly with the cut and make sure that's also lined up with with the bar of my chainsaw And then just go down Now that's a little tricky because the cut you've already made It gets full of sawdust and stuff So I might have to clean it out a few times But once I've got that first that first slab off, then I've got a flat side here, right And then when I'm making the next cut I just look along that flat side and that I mean dust doesn't get caught in there or anything So I just look along that flat side and then look along the The chainsaw bar and just make sure they're they're parallel and they're close enough together I think it's pretty easy to tell if they're off or not and um, yeah, I'll just Keep an eye on that and a lot of it is also just Like the first cut I make I'll just hold the chainsaw in What feels like the most natural position like I'll just kind of let it fall where it goes So it picks its own angle and I'll just try to keep that I'll try to you know, so Even if I don't look for a few seconds Like it's like it's basically staying where it is because that's where I'm holding it And if my line ends up off a little bit I just changed the grip of this hand to change the center of gravity Or not center of gravity change where my hand is above the center of gravity So if I move my hand over this way it tips the chain So a little bit that way or if I move my hand that way it tips it that way a little Like it's Yeah, it's it's easy to kind of like make little adjustments like that And then just keep yourself like once you start going just keep in the same position and just It's it's not as hard as I thought it was going to be so if you ever want to try doing that Um, just start going don't worry about messing up a few boards That's actually one of one of the important things don't worry about messing up because that can make you tense and change you Just just go with it, you know Are you going to build a gymnasium on the second floor? No, that's on the third floor, which I'm also super excited about Uh, wait, wait I used to daydream a lot of school and lessons I still daydream and come up with great ideas and inventions. That's awesome robotron. I love your name um Yeah, and we're and we're told not to daydream, but man daydreaming is like That's like connection to your imagination, man Did you do that daydreaming daydreaming and get those ideas? And you know, you can daydream in negative ways, of course If he's getting just down or down downhill spiral and just think about negative all the time negative things all the time But if you're daydreaming about positive things, they can really Have a good effect on just everything you do Okay, about sawmill chainsaw you spend a lot of time in your video working The exit or end of the log with a saw before continuing your rip Did you file your own ripping blade or did you buy one? I don't have a ripping Not blade chain or I don't have a ripping Chain for my chainsaw. I just have this the standard when it came with You know, if I got a ripping one, I should be able to cut faster, but Working the exit or end of the log the saw before continuing your rip Working the exit like the like when I was finished I don't know. Are you going to build a gymnasium? Okay Toothpane. Oh, are you aware of clove oil? It instantly stops trend transcendent tooth nerve pain very good to have When the pain builds apply With finger and you get reprieve not a cure just the pain. Well, I don't really care about pain when things hurt I'm just like that's just telling me what's going on. So um Yeah, I mean when my tooth tooth was really hurting the first month I was just like, well, I'm not going to do anything about it right now. So let's just Just ignore it. Um Although when I go in there, I'm definitely going to let them numb it Uh My cold frame star recruit inspired by you. Oh have weathered negative 30 degree nights I made a double layer mylar blanket on a roll to lash down over lid and would be trash and it's worked great. That's awesome All right, what time is it here? I'm gonna have to go pretty soon because I gotta go pick up some, uh Chain saw stuff actually Salt water is electrolytic using electrolysis method. You can separate the hydrogen and oxygen from salt water To fuel items on your island just sharing an idea. That is true. I have played around with electrolysis a little Loved the video you just uploaded cutting mahogany if you have an extra piece left after doing your floor I'd buy a slab or two About 12 to 14 feet two inches thick and 14 to 24 wide. Do you live around here? Um 14 to 24 wide Okay, one of the one of the tricky things about the mahogany wood I mean a lot of trees are like this but mahogany is definitely one of them So say the tree grows like this The wood is always trying to pull itself away from the center So any boards you cut right out of the center of the the log which will be the the widest boards They'll have a tendency to split like to try to get apart from each other at the ends um, and that's why When I was cutting the log I was cutting you saw it was cut down the middle and half And then I put the two halves down and then I cut boards out of those Because if I didn't put that cut down the middle it would have cracked down the middle anyway And the crack is not going to be straight. So it's better to just cut it down the middle And that that's the crack and then I can cut the boards But um, if you if you live around here and you're saying you want to board just just email me and I don't know See what I can do We're jamie were you in kindergarten as a kid if so how old Were you put there? I don't know. I just I was in the normal school Deal five four I remember I was in pre kindergarten and then kindergarten I don't I don't know what age I was I was putting I was I spent a lot of time in school. It was too much Um, if you don't already know about them precious plastic is an open source community. I think you'd love I do know about them. I don't know that much about them though um I love jamie. You're like a real life cartoon the way my brain views the world love the lego mini gears, by the way I'm so excited about the lego gears. Yeah, I think I think I have to print more lego stuff Join the metric world and wonder where that 10 millimeter socket Oh the 10 millimeter socket Oh god, why don't they just why don't they just put five of those in everyone? Ah, what is it with the 10 millimeters? um I don't know ever heard of a wind hex. I don't know Lego company may be interested in the spider tank kit. Well, maybe Um, I would tell what we're doing. I mean I have a lot of Cool like little inventions that would work with lego Some would need a couple custom parts for a lot of them not much What's brain code? Sorry. I just tuned in you gotta go back to the beginning man Hello from england. Good to see your printer is working nicely. Just saw your lego cog video Yeah, the printer is awesome. The only problem I've had with the printer is Um, things weren't sticking that well for a little bit And then I started wiping it off with alcohol Uh, I did it. Yeah, I just cleaned it off really really well and and then things were sticking well again And now whenever I get parts off I really really try hard to not touch the the print bed at all so I don't get any finger grease or anything on it and now I may be clean it with alcohol once every other day, you know Just kind of as a precaution But yeah, everything sticks well. I think it was just You know grease from my fingers was was getting on the print bed and making things not stick Other than that, I mean Yeah things I'm so impressed with that 3d printer like the gears for that robot I could not have printed those out with with any of the previous 3d printers I've had I mean those were also years ago, so For tooth pain nothing better than Oh splanthies akiyay tooth toothache plant Oh, I like your I like the adventure builder ring you printed. I'd like to have one made of silver. I have one made of Bronze yeah, I got it made at um What's that place called?  I think it's shapeways It was like ten dollars or something Uh or maybe a little more I freehand chainsaw re saw lots No big deal props to you as most think I'm crazy. Yeah, man. Once you It's like it's like once you realize that it's not really that hard to freehand chainsaw But you kind of get it just dive right into it and but pretty soon you'd be like, hey, this isn't that hard Oh, you can throw away so much equipment.  Maybe something to make a straight line Which is you know kind of nice because it makes your first cut easier But uh, yeah, it's just just getting rid of all that extraneous stuff is so nice Especially if you're going like out into the woods to do it I need to go to bed. Good night. Nala solis Chainsaw milling thanks for sharing the tips Sighting down bar natural center of gravity very helpful. Yeah, I mean the most useful thing is just keeping enough bar Visible that you can just line it up with either your cut or the edge the pre of the previous cut And it's it's pretty easy to stay straight And you know the first the first few cuts you do when you're just learning it might Be a little strenuous to keep focusing on that But um, yeah, you know, it's it's like learning anything, you know, like you get on a bike It feels like you're gonna fall off, but then a couple days later. It's like, yeah, I can drive around No problem, you know, like like your brain just kind of like learns a bunch of it and it does a lot of it automatically I've always been afraid to say anything to you since you so clearly have your stuff together That anything I could say would not be helpful But I've been following you Or but I've been following since you started the giant robot. Cool, man That high ceiling steeple building looks awesome. Oh, I do love this building. This building is super cool as captain's skeletons Oh, I love your guys names. Jamie. Do you have a method for setting goals? Oh method for setting goals I don't know if I have so much of a method. I guess I probably do have a method I don't really think of it as a method, but okay when I when I want to set a goal I mean, it's it's kind of funny because right now I'm in the middle of so many goals But I have to think back to when I was like setting everything in motion um Yeah, okay, so When I'm at a point where I'm like kind of in a crossroads in my life or You know, I've got some a bunch of things done and it's like, okay. Now. I've got it. Now. I've got to set goals I'll think to myself. What is the most frigging unbelievably amazing thing that could happen and then What could reasonably happen? And then can I get those to meet somewhere as far over to the amazingly Awesome things as possible Like what's what's the most awesome thing? I could possibly possibly do and possibly have a chance to do um, and I'll kind of I'll kind of I'll kind of try to pick the goal that's that I'm not Currently able to do like something that's currently impossible for me So I'm gonna have to grow to to to be able to accomplish that goal And I think that's one of the mistakes people make a lot when they when they make their goals is they'll They think it's going to be easier to pick an easier goal that they know they can do the problem is then you get bored But if you pick a goal that you think Maybe I can grow enough to meet that goal Then it's like exciting. It's like you get to be the hero like you you get to go on this journey where it's like You don't even know if you can make it But you you got you got to become a better person You got to become stronger and better and then you know that that that can really keep your interest in a goal So whenever I'm trying to think of goals to make I'll I'll say You know, what's what's the most awesome thing I could possibly do and try to try to keep it A little bit outside of what I what I reasonably think I could do and then just go for it And sometimes I fall a little short But it's still pretty awesome and sometimes I I I get like halfway there And I'm like I've already gained the skills to do everything in this goal Let me make it even harder more amazing. Sometimes I overshoot the goal and do way better than than I was planning um, but yeah, I always try to aim for something that That's going to be that I think is going to be super amazing That's that's that's outside of what I can currently do and and then once I Once I start on the goal And this is this is mostly a habit. I've just built up over time It's like I stick to that goal like I'm I'm going to do it like even if I have if I get to a point where I have to put it aside for a while I'm not going to forget about it like I'm I'm getting back to it and even if I can't do this one part I'm working on this other part and I try to have a few different goals going at once So that I can I always have something to do You know in different weather circumstances or if I'm like waiting for a part for something and I can't work on that I have something else to do So I try to keep a couple different goals going for different Different working circumstances, but yeah, try to try to pick something That you really think is going to be awesome That's going to hold your attention and it's it's going to challenge you because that that's what will keep you interested um and then Sometimes I'll write them down. I don't usually but sometimes I'll actually write down the goals and I usually do that if If I have A bunch of things going on at once And I'm kind of like mentally losing track that I'll write down the goals and they can wake up in the morning And look at my list and say, okay, I'm working on that one, you know Let's see Spellantis is also an antibiotic if needed Hey wanted to give you an update about my island Water tower is complete and I'm digging a canal. Where where are you? I started I just started a youtube channel January 1st any advice. Oh, can you send me a link to your youtube channel? That's that sounds great, man um A youtube channel. Well, I mean, I'm probably not the best person to ask for advice about a youtube channel um, you know, I don't I mean, it depends what you want like I don't I don't really Try to get lots of views or anything if you want to get lots of views definitely ask someone else what I the way I do my youtube channel is I try to I try to make videos that will be useful to someone And then, you know, let the chips fall where they may um And if you want to do that, I I recommend doing that. I think it's a great way to do it. Um You know, it might not be the best way to rely on money but it Is definitely rewarding like it feels good to do something that I think is is going to be useful to some people um So, yeah, I mean, I would just not worry about views and not worry about Comments too much make the videos that you think would be useful to you that you that you would want to watch And you know, that's a good starting point and then you know do that for a while and see see how how it's going Um, yeah, don't get don't get too worried about views. So I still can't find a whole wait Just move I still can't find a hole punch the same size as the lego stud You gotta make one man. Uh, yes, I do live close to you just missed you at bill's dock on the 10th Oh, well, uh, yes, send me an email. Um Yeah, tell me where you are and I'll I'll see what would I have left? Um What will you do when you are old and frail you mean when I'm dead? I don't know. Nothing. All those would be rotting in the ground warm food You're awesome. Thank you for sharing your entire journey with us. The best part is your tenacity and having no fear Of perceived failure.  Well, thank you cryptocurrency Mr. Landville just sent me a link or you posted a link. I don't know if I can get that off here. Um Thanks for asking my youtube channel is sailing seniorita. Cool All right, I think I'm at the end of comments Which is good because I need to go get some chainsaw stuff right now from the store And my 3d printer's done. I can start that now I don't have time. I gotta I don't get something Okay, everyone have an excellent day and I hope I have explained brain code sufficiently Um, you know, here's a look at my here's a look at my awesome ceiling. Oh, I love it Yeah, this is this is all just a bunch of scaffolding that won't be there That was so I could get up to the roof that was a scaffolding I climbed on to be able to build the roof From from this This is the third floor joist. Although. That's just a temporary one. That's gonna come out I just made that so I could build the the You know the roof from but from there Up to the the roof roof It's like 15 feet. It's like two stories Maybe like a short two stories. Anyway. All right. What was that question? Oh, you'd be great. See you're awesome Okay, I'm gonna get out of here and go to the store. Everyone have a great day


Welcome to the first episode of Subaru EJ25 engine assembly and this is what we got. I've been waiting a while for all the parts to come back from the machine shop. As you can see the block is nice and clean. I just cleaned it myself. Again I know the machine shop they do clean the block but just to make sure you always want to make sure there is no metal shavings left anywhere. It can be bad news. Anyways they did deck both both surfaces. They also checked the line bore for roundness which was okay and they did go one size over. I believe it's 99.7 right now the bore size and they did hone it obviously. So the block is ready to go. Here we got the main bearings. These are you probably won't be able to see it but it says XPG racing standard size. Here we got the crank and I will explain a bit later why it's the rods are on it already. I will not be removing them and we got some plastic gauge. We're gonna install the crank torque the two halves together with the plastic gauge on the mains and just to double check the machine shop's work. I did tell them to measure everything. I do not have any measuring equipment besides this but you can really measure all the critical components of an engine properly with that tool obviously and I'm not about to invest you know $3,000 or so on good equipment measuring equipment. I do not put engines together often. I know I could invest in like a three or four three or a $400 gauge set from Amazon for example but this is an important build. If this was a daily car then yeah that's fine but since this car is gonna be seeing tracks and autocrosses on a regular basis because of that I don't want to risk having my measurements off. That's why I told the machine shop to basically measure everything and that's why I am not taking the rods off the crank because the the ARP bolts that I've bought for the rods and the heads especially on the rods they are stretch bolts and we'll talk about later. All right making sure everything is nice and clean including the main bearings obviously. This one doesn't matter it's same on both sides so we're gonna pop it in push it in all the way making sure these edges this the edge of the bearing doesn't stick up too much and on the rest of the bearings you can see there's a little tab on one side that goes in here same thing here see this guy here no oil between the the bottom part of the bearing and the black. I know there's plenty videos on how to put the EJ25s together and probably hundreds of them by now but there's never one that's very detailed just from A to Z all of it so I decided to do one anyways one more one hurt so I'm gonna try and be detailed show every single step try to make it as quick as possible so if you want to follow this build subscribe and make sure you hit the the bell button whatever so you get notified whenever there's a new episode up that noise that you're hearing right now that's the heater it is cold outside winter is here I imagine this will be quite a few episodes since we're doing everything from what you just saw all the way up to till the car gets dined all right I thought I was recording but apparently it wasn't anyways you can see the the plastic the plastic gauge right here basically what you do is you cut up short pieces and you put it on top of each journal sideways before that you put the crank in no assembly lube or oil of any kind right now do not rotate the crank when you're just checking the clearances with plastic gauge now it's just a matter of putting the other half of the block on top there is assembly loop on the rods there we go just using its own weight kind of this is as far as it's gonna drop on its own using a rubber mallet okay looks like we're even on both sides these are stock bolts the washers need to be replaced we'll do that later but we're only doing the plastic gauge thing right now now two of these are different look at the the thickness of the washers the thicker ones go inside inside the the block the thinner ones go on the outside which is actually right here there's two so actually the shorter shorter ones go on the outside here okay I'm gonna add a little bit of oil on the thread on the bottom side of the washer this is so the torque when we torque it down it will be easier for the bolt to get tightened down so it doesn't get stuck against the washer against the block or on the threads somewhere so that needs to be done to all of them notice I'm wiping everything down trying to keep this as clean as possible even the socket on the inside I'm actually gonna just set it down so I don't have to lift it all the bolts have been torqued I will show the torque specifications and sequence when I will be torquing it for the last time no need to install any of these outside bolts remember we are only double checking the clearance so now it's time to remove the bolts looks like we have some success here I don't know if you can see this but there we go see the lines on the journals there on the mains same thing on the bearings here now all I got to do is measure it and the way to do that is you basically but say this is the line to do is you match it up with the measurement okay whatever it may be and that's it that's pretty much it so that's what I'm gonna do right now I will not show the clearances for any of the mains or rods or whatever only because as many people that many opinions this is the way I did it all I can say is that everything is a little bit looser as far as the bearings go and obviously much looser on the mainly pistons they are forged after all and I will explain why why you need the bigger clearances piston tool cylinder wall if you have forged pistons so now after measuring it I'm gonna remove the crank clean up the plastic gauge and start the actual assembly before I install the crank I wanted to show you something all of it got also balanced I might have to mention that before the rod these are stuck rods by the way you can see the way they balance it rods for example they put it on two weights and weigh the rod on each side at the same time and then some if if this side is heavier than the they pretty much match all the rods and you can see some material had to be taken off of this one see this one looks factory this one does not and on this side can see the same thing the little bit was taken off here and it wasn't here so this whole thing was balanced same thing was done to the pistons the crank the flywheel the factories do not do that to any of their cars maybe some high-end cars do get this kind of treatment but not your regular you know Subaru's Mitsubishi's hand does whatever now I kept the old O-rings and all the gas gets in fact so I can match up the new ones I put a little bit of oil on my fingers just loop these up a bit this just ensures a better seal I using this kind of assembly loop make sure the loop is everywhere everywhere on the bearings not on the block remember silicone goes between the two halves so you don't want we're gonna be putting silicone right about here so if you get assembly loop on the block on this mating area surface then you're gonna be cleaning that up just like snot okay now I'm gonna grab the crank or the rods I should say and grab the second rod and the fourth rod looking from the front so like that let the other two drop and slowly drop it in there we go so you can see how it looks as of now we got the four O-rings installed the usually the assembly loop will hold the rod up I mean both of these they got a point straight up so you can actually install the second half of the block forgot to mention why I am not taking the rods off just to check the measurement because I don't have any of the gauges the if these bolts were stock bolts then I could just torque them down but since these are ARP what you do is what they ask for is you torque these down on the crank obviously and then you measure the length of the bolt so you would measure your top of the bolt to the bottom of the bolt if it's too short or too long you pretty much adjust it tighten it more if it's too short so it stretches more so these are stretch bolts so you need a stretch gauge to actually get these in the right position forgot I should apply silicone first then install the crank so I'll just remove it look it took a bearing with it no biggie okay now I'm just making sure that wherever the silicone goes the surface is super clean see check this out look after me cleaning it it's still dirty so clean clean clean using brake cleaner okay now we're gonna apply the RTV what I'm using is this ultra gray maximum torque gasket maker I actually bought this just for this job just to make my life easier you want to be as even as possible I guess I cut an opening of an eighth of an inch basically what I'm doing is going around each hole next to the bearings and then on the inside area or the the outside of the case but on the inside of the bolts all around and then little bit well we'll see we'll see how it goes should be good I think let me go another line here probably didn't have to do this part okay now it's time to drop in the crank see this area here that's critical because you don't want to go too close with the silicone to the crank that's why I put a very thin layer a small bead of the RTV okay try and balance the rod okay forgot to put new washers these are rub with rubber seals on the inside of them and the inside bolts so we gotta do this quickly before the RTV dries up they should go on tight gonna apply oil more oil this time and install the short bolts that go on the outside no new washers for these forgot to put oil on the short ones so these instructions actually say assemble parts immediately while silicone is still wet finger tighten until material begins to squeeze out around the flange let dry for one hour then tighten to torque specifications so so plenty of time actually got it coming out on top here a little bit and on the front here I see a little gap here I'm gonna tighten it some more now I'm gonna flip it or just lay it on its bottom now it's much heavier so only the thicker washers get replaced all together at six of the six of them okay now while I wait let's install the rest of the bolts here you can see the silicone coming out which is perfect it's not too much again oil on these there is one more on the very bottom but I'm gonna wait till it dries up so about 45 minutes or so tiny bit of silicone see came out there you want to clean this up so when when I'm gonna be putting the oil seal back in that will not interfere with the new oil seal alright it's been about an hour time to torque it down now what I do and this is this is what I do there there are several different ways to different torque specs and whatnot but it's all a similar specification what I do is I start with 10 feet pounds of torque then 25 and 37 and on this side which is the pet the driver side I go 1 2 3 4 and then continue on the other side and then come back to this side and other side and then this side and then the other side again and go 10 25 37 top bolt now bottom bolt now top front and bottom front now middle top middle bottom now number three is front top and I went over one that's okay this is only the first sequence so we were number one two three now four five and six that takes care of the first sequence now we're gonna switch it to 25 there you go now 37 I don't like the way the bolts are cracking I'm gonna recheck later so silicone is actually coming out a little bit which is good now the top ones oh yeah this is 18 now I'm just gonna simply recheck all of them switch to 37 on this back to 18 more silicone squeezed out 10 mil bolt which goes the 10 mil okay it goes right now yep right here