Hello everyone, I'm Li Yongchang, and I'm from OPPO, and I'm also a maintainer of QBiFi's community. It's a great honor for me to once again participate in the QPCON North American Conference. Today, I will be talking about Russian learning best practice based on QBiFi's knowledge. First, let's look at the modern history of QBiFi's. On this page, we can see that QBiFi has gone through several keymail stones. In 2019, we joined the sandbox. In early 2022, we released version 3, which introduced both the usual coding subsystem. In the middle of 2022, we successfully became a sensef incubating project. In 2023, throughout this year, we have released several versions. This includes the refactoring of an usual coding subsystem, support for auditing, and improvements of stability. In our recent release, we added support for automatic process interface. Space quota management. The upcoming version will include features such as stamp shots, automated disk migration, life cycle management, and recycle bin. This is the ecosystem of QBiFi's. QBiFi's covers various domains, as shown in the diagram on the left, we support story services for databases, life cycle, elected search, and clean house, which are focused on computation. We also create support for traditional big-data technologies, such as HDFIs, HBis, and Spark. Additionally, we have associated components like premises and communist ecosystem. On the right side, we have the overview of community and its operations. Currently, our community contributors include OPPO, BigGo, Xiaomi, Jingdong, and many others. Interim of architecture QBiFi's also introduced at last year's conference. QBiFi's is a system with scalable protocol interoperability. As you can see from the picture, the three components, EDFIs, process, and the three are connected, then the three protocols can be accessed by each other. The data we're adding by S3 will be recast to the object node in the picture, but it can be read through the possible interface in the picture. We support the story engine in addition to multi-copy engine and the usual coding engine. Both systems are horizontally scalable, and our method node can also be horizontally scalable. Sharding is performed within the data method node. In the sharding dimension, we will form a replica group to maintain strong availability. At the same time, QBiFi's is a high-performance system. Our method system supports a full-memory method organization based on B3. As we will be mentioned later, we will create a multiple-level catch system, especially on the cloud side. We have made a lot of optimizations, including graphic direct storage, which will be discussed later. We are also making adjustments in terms of architecture, which we will be able to discuss in the hybrid cloud later. What you see in the diagram in our usual coding subsystem, the usual coding subsystem is an independent system. In the diagram, you can see that we have the access layer, method management system, automatic health check and repair system, and storage pool. In the original data section, we use route for the three replica consensus in terms of core zone deployment, which specifically supports deployments across one, two, three available zones. Different configurations of data blocks and parity blocks can be used, and we also support local parity blocks within each zone, enabling fast repairs. Additionally, we have implement special handling or small files to reduce system fan outs and improve performance by treating space for time. This topic is the best practice for AI, and the workflow of large-scale modules can be divided into three stages. First stages is data storage processing. Second is module development and training. The third is module acu-ing and online inference. Let's talk about the first stage. In this stage, the storage requirements are scalability and efficiency. Large-scale modules relay a massive amount of data that may be distributed across different dissenters, clouds, applications, or systems. Collecting this data is a prerequisite for training large modules to efficiently collect data. A high-capacity and scalable storage platform is needed. Additionally, the platform should support various methods for fast data collection and data import from different sources. Furthermore, the processing task such as cleaning, labeling, duplication, and augmentation should allow the sharding and interoperability of the same dataset across different data processing platforms. The second is module development and training. In this stage, the storage requirement is to fully utilize the graphic process unit without waiting. Large modules have high training costs and require significant computational power. Due to the enormous number of parameters in large modules, training often involves parallel computing on thousands of graphic process units of several months. So parallel IO capabilities and stability of the storage directly impact the cost of the training large modules. The third stage is module archiving and online inference. In this stage, the storage requirement is fast distribution in second. When the module passed the archiving validation, it needed, it needs to quickly deploy it to online inference service to generate business value. The entire update process requires fast and synchronized distribution, ensuring that all inference nodes and nodes complete module update at the same time. This of all is inconsistency among interface nodes that could affect the inference performance and the user experience. Archiving second-level synchronization requires storage with high concurrency and through output capabilities. The entire process involves repeatedly reading the same batch of this site and performing multiple iterations of computations. It has a falling IO characteristics, repeatedly reading the same batch of this site. Each epoch reads every depot from the same disk site and it is read only once. The data read by the same graphic process unit node in each epoch is random. Random shuffling is applied to this site is to prevent module overfitting. The range of data processed by a graphic process unit is in two epoches. Epoches is randomly selected. The writing of checkpoints during the training process is also important. Checkpoints are written periodically to allow the resuming training from the current report in case of interruptions. The checkpoint writing process blocks the training. Considering the IO characteristic of the training with large models, building a large-scale distribution data catch between the computing nodes and the disk center can significantly improve training of parallel IOs for output. It also helps to leverage IO pressure on remote storage and enhance the OO system stability. Now let's look at the challenges of large-scale module workflows. The first challenge is high-capacity and efficient data interoperability. The workflow online modules rely on the rapid collection massive amount of data, module channels governance, the ability to share and exchange data at different stages, and the requirements of the store for storage to store large-scale data while unifying storage for data with different life cycles and hones. The second challenge is training acceleration capacity. Matching powerful graphic process unit computing power to eliminate graphic process unit idle times to boost parallel IO capability of storage to the test. Sufficiently stable storage, fast checkpoint saving and quick recovery after the interruptions are crucial to avoid blocking training while interruptions occur. Robust storage performance and stability are key to reducing the training cost of large modules. The third challenge is accelerating checkpoint writing capability. Efficient checkpoint writing is important for seeing modules process dual training. The ability to quickly write in checkpoints while training ongoing is crucial for minimizing any disruptions or delays. The fourth challenge is rapid online deployment capability. The efficiency of module updates directly impact business benefits, the fast, frequent, and consistent distribution of gigabytes like module online environment requires high demands on storage concurrent IO throughput and streamlined support sites. The ability to distribute the modules quickly and consistently is essential for successful online deployment. So let's look at the data interoperability. Throughout the entire workflow, large-scale modules still flow through different stages from the proper size into module packaging and distribution. How can data efficiently flow through between different platforms? The key line in storage that supports multiple product access, allowing discharging among different access methods while strongly only a single copy of data. And the second challenge is the acceleration. Now we build on a three-layer, three-level catch. The first-level catch is the computing side catch uses local idle memory and disk resources of the computing mode and deployment acceleration service, and catches the recently accessed data of the business. The first-level catch includes two parts, memory-based metadata and disk memory-based data catch. The metadata catch is also included anode catch and the danger catch, which can significantly reduce the metadata query data when filled with files in lookup and open. The data catch mainly catches file, data blocks, the first-level catch as group performance, and is limited by local node storage capacity. It can realize the local catch acceleration tens of millions from metadata and terabytes of data. In terms of catch eviction strategies, the traditional LRU algorithm is not suitable for large-scale modules, unlike a random hotspot or cassettes on private business scenarios. Data reading in large-scale modules training flows a regular pattern. The enderity side is read once before accessing to next round when the catch space is insubstantial. LRU product has evicted earlier access time, accessed date. Due to the massive size of the data in large modules, if the catch space is smaller, then the size of training data size catch breakdown can occur. This means that in the later half of the epoch, the data catch in the first half may be evicted while this data is precisely what the subsequent iterations will need. The cycle needs to no catch hits in the later stages, certainly impacting the effectiveness of the catch acceleration of large modules and even causing active effects. To address this reading characteristic of large modules, QBi5 provides two catch strategies. The other strategy is time-to-life catching. TTL is based on exploration time for data eviction, maximizing the catch of the data in the acceleration rate. There, the data remains in the catch until it reaches the TTL, ensuring catch hits across multiple iterations. These two strategies can be configured appropriately based on the actual scenarios and basic needs. So now we have known that the first level has its shortage. So we developed Level 2 catch. The Level 2 catch is an independent distributed catch system designed to be deployed on the business side. Particularly in public cloud environments, from the diagram, we can see it supports hybrid deployment with multiple environments. Slots are divided into one metabats trunks and hushed into a slot array based on consistent hushing. The slots are zined to flash groups which can have one or multiple replicas in enabling deployment across multiple or available zones. Additionally, the clean side contrasts its own slot routing based on latency or achieving proximity-based exercise. The Level 2 catch can be deployed into its disk-based or memory-based. It can also be distributed on the application side or deployed intimately, leveraging the client-catch capabilities and addressing the limitations and scalability issues of the Level 1 catch. Compared to the Level 1 catch accessing the Level 2 catch requires network communication. However, it offers a large capacity, higher throughput, and can dynamically scale in and out. The Level 2 catch is particularly suitable for accelerating data in large-scale module training scenarios ranging from hundreds of terabits to tidbits. The Level 3 catch, the Level 2 catch effectively utilizes clean side resources, but these resources may be limited in the background system that uses error coding close to low, but performance may be bottlenecked. In such cases, there is a need for the acceleration system with a certain storage capacity that is also suitable for future architecture evolution. Therefore, the modified replica system is equipped with catching functionality, which will be further upgraded in the hybrid cloud scenario discussed later. Additionally, the Level 3 catch supports a large-capacity preheating feature, allowing it to be loaded in advance to meet the acceleration requirements of the business. The OO, the OO, all the out-of-the-3-level catch is shown in the diagram. Level 1 and Level 2 are suitable for catching support for public cloud, while Level 3 is ideal as an acceleration catch for the extra cold storage system. Each level also supports regional affinity for catching. By leveraging the 3-level in combination, the requirements for large-scale module training in scenarios such as from public cloud to pre-cloud can be addressed effectively. The combination of the 2-level catch acceleration and data perfection solution can significantly improve data-processed performance, reading through output bandwidths or handlers or gigabytes to terabytes per second for training framework. This means the IO bandwidth requirements form parallel training of large modules with thousands of graphic processing units. Moreover, the design of Level 1 catch and the Level 2 catch allows for modularity, enabling business to deploy them as needed to meet the requirements of business scenarios. For language modules with data sizes in range of several terabytes requiring small batch level with restrict latency requirements, Level 1 catch is suitable. On the other hand, for image, image, modules that typically have larger data volumes and limited local storage space on computational nodes, catching data in the Level 2 catch based on high-performance SSD would be more appropriate. To address the aforementioned catch acceleration, we have also started investing in hardware-level performance exploration. QBF has utilized graphic processing unit direct storage technology, which enables the direct association of GPUs memory with QBF's remote storage using direct memory access. This allowed data transfer between the GPU and QBFs bypassed the central processing unit, accelerating the data transfer process. This direct transfer mentioned reduced the wall time to process the IO from the client side to the storage side. By leveraging the graphic direct storage, the GPU can direct the read and write data from the storage device generated by motion learning. This saves time and bandwidth while providing higher data throughput. The bow is some of the work we have done in the field of AI. In addition, there are ongoing architecture adjustments for QBFs. Is hybrid cloud storage being a key focus for our future work? Let me provide a brief introduction on the aspect. Hybrid cloud storage refers to combination and integration of unparameterized storage infrastructure with cloud-based storage services. It aims to average the benefits of both environments, allowing organizations to store and manage data across multiple locations, including their own data centers and public cloud platforms. The hybrid cloud business represents a leap for QBFs in terms of data storage. Initially, we considered hybrid cloud storage to address the cost of issues of QBFs, aiming to achieve cost control through data theory. However, we discovered that leveraging the lifecycle concept based on S3 storage enables better mobility that can occur within a pre-cloud or cloud within availability zones or cloud zones, and even between public and private cloud. For the more detailed mobility, it can span different storage systems, encouraging various backend systems within a unified new space, mediate management, acceleration system, and flexible support for different storage subsystems. We can effectively meet the diverse data storage needs of different business scenarios. The unified new space enables directives to correspond to different storage systems, providing greater convenience in meeting various business requirements. As seen in the diagram, the clean side mounting point corresponds to object storage, ADFI storage, and regular POSIX interface based on internal storage. To achieve this capability, the clean side needs to interface of these different backgrounds, backend capabilities. The lifecycle is crucial for the overall data flow, for volume-level operations. It is important to associate volume data in lifecycle with lifecycle policies and resource strategies. The foundation of lifecycle is resource management by the master node and the scaling of migration tasks. Regarding the manual, which handles mediate, it needs to support mediate changes during the data migration without affecting regular data reading. On the other hand, workers can focus on their own migration tasks, making the process simpler for them. The unified cache acceleration ensures timely acceleration of data from different background storage systems. Aligning with the concept of replica cache mentioned earlier, this approach enables one type of data to be stored in multiple storage. However, it is important to consider the impact of migration on the cache as well as the impact on data consistency when users make modifications on the data. The formation, the concept and the content, including average cloud storage and some cache acceleration features, is still being on development and also needs to be enhanced. Some of these features still will be released in the future and some is already on the open source branches. Thank you all. Nice to be here today. Welcome everyone to visit our website John's Community. Thank you.


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What's up you guys, I'm back to another one. If you're new to this channel, I'm Goldpony at the new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube and today we're in the brand new 2023 Toyota Sequoia courtesy of younger Toyota in Hagerstown, Maryland for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we are in this one today because of course it has been completely redesigned for 2023, it shares the same underpinnings as the Tundra and the Land Cruiser, at least over in Japan of course Land Cruiser isn't in the US right now, but it may be in the future. But anyways, this is definitely a large three row SUV as well. So ultimately we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2023 Sequoia. First one being the SR5 starting at $59,865, limited for $66,265, Platinum which is the one we are in today, starting at $72,465, TRD Pro for $77,565, and lastly the Capstone for $76,865. And by the way, that was all pricing for the rear wheel drive variant, except for that TRD Pro that comes standard with four wheel drive. If you wanted to add four wheel drive to any of those trim levels, simply add $3,000 then to any of those prices. But regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant on the Sequoia is going to be the same. Powering the Beast is a 3.4 liter twin turbo V6 hybrid putting out 437 horsepower at 5,200 RPM, 583 pound feet of torque coming in at 2,400 RPM. That power again sent to rear wheels or all wheels through a 10 speed automatic. Zero to 60 time coming in at approximately 5.6 seconds. We'll give that a shot here in a little bit. With MPG numbers coming in at 21 in the city, 24 in the highway for the rear wheel drive at least, 19 city 22 then on the highway for the four wheel drive taking regular unleaded fuel. But so now before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in the Sequoia, I wanted to mention to you guys the drive moves. There's actually a circular dial located directly behind the shifter. If you turn that to the left and the right you got eco, normal, sport, and then there's also a tow and haul mood button as well. So ultimately adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response and the steering sensitivity. So now having got all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? I had to put the Sequoia to the test. Let's find a straightaway and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2023 Sequoia here up to speed. All right, three, two, one, yay! Hey, this thing is moving. That is fun. That was quick, man. That is plenty of an acceleration for the Sequoia. Honestly, I didn't know an SUV of this size was gonna move like that. That was a very, very good acceleration for this thing. And honestly, zero to 60 at 5.6. It's an impressive number in itself, but yeah, that was a really, really good acceleration. Definitely impressive. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  As far as it's six easier stopping distance goes, that comes in at 134 feet, which is not the best number on paper, but let's go ahead and just hit the brakes real quick. It's okay. It's not bad. The feel itself isn't bad. It's a little bit on the firmer side of things, but having said that, 134 feet is definitely not the best number, but it is an expected number at the size of the Sequoia. And I have seen as bad as 139 feet, so it's not horrible, honestly. 134 feet is fine. It's just a little bit on the higher side of things for a six easier stopping distance. That's all. But anyways, braking feel is fine. Then touching on suspension and handling upfront, you're gonna get an independent double wishbone type front suspension in the back. Coil Spring Baltic Link rear suspension. It did want to mention that for the TRD Pro, you get a TRD Pro off-road suspension with 2.5-inch Fox bypass coilovers. Also rear-remote reservoir shocks and a TRD Pro front stabilizer bar as well. And I did want to also mention a little optional suspension component being the adaptive variable suspension with air suspension that's gonna be available for the Platinum and the Capstone in case you were interested. It doesn't come standard on any particular trim level, but it is available. Essentially what that is is it monitors each shock absorber individually, not only adjusting to the road of perfection, it's giving you a smoother ride, but also tightening up that suspension during heavy cornering, giving you better handling as well. So really giving you the best of both worlds. So that's one where you will definitely notice the difference in ride quality especially. So if you want the smoothest ride, go with that option. So speaking of, as far as ride quality goes, it's been great in my short little test drive here today. I've had absolutely no issues. Having said that, just turning a little bit there, there's a decent amount of body roll as expected in an SUV of this size. So do you get a little bit of that? So obviously you're not gonna get the very best handling, not that anyone's gonna be taking the Sequoia to a circuit track anyways, but there is somebody, well I just wanted to say that as far as cabin noise goes, it's actually really, really good. Now I have the AC on so you might be hearing that, but as far as road noise and wind noise goes, it's almost non-existent. And that's partly due apart because there is an acoustic laminated front windshield and it did what I also mentioned if you go with the Capstone at least, we also do get acoustic laminated front side glass. So I don't have that one today, but we do have the acoustic laminated front windshield. And like I said, cabin noise has been definitely on the luxury side of things without a doubt. As far as steering feel goes, it's definitely on the looser side of things as expected in an SUV. So it's not a bad thing, it's just as you would expect the steering feel to feel like in the Sequoia, I'll just put it that way. They're touching a visibility. I can see actually perfectly fine out my rear view mirror right now and that may be due on par because the third row seats are folded down. So we got new third row headrests up right now. I'll have to take a look at that later maybe, but rain-sensing windshield wipers will come standard on the Platinum trim level and up. And if you were to go with that Capstone, you will also get a head-up display that I actually am looking at right now. So it is available on the Platinum trim level. So I do want to mention that, but that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review, you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Toyota Sequoia. All right, so here she is, you guys, the new 2023 Toyota Sequoia. Love this look, especially finished in red. But again, it shares a frame with the Tundra as well as the Land Cruiser over in Japan, in case you're curious about that. But as always, let's go ahead and start up front on the Sequoia here. So let me actually start by touching on the front grille a little bit because it is going to differ substantially depending upon the trim level that you go with. For example, the SR5 is going to give you a black horizontal bar front grille with some chrome surrounds. The Limited is going to give you the gray front grille. Platinum is going to kind of give you this dark mesh front grille, which you guys are looking at right now, of course.  And lastly, with the capstone, you're going to get a chrome accent and mesh front grille. So again, it differs with every single trim level option that is available. So that's kind of interesting, but also with that capstone, you get an integrated LED light bar and some amber marker lights as well. So that's pretty cool, but let's take a look at the sides there. LED headlights do come standard for all trim levels across the board with LED daytime running lights. You get the automatic feature. You also get automatic high beams though. So if you have your high beams on in night, since the vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim them back to low beams. And when that vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically bounce it back up to high beams for you there. So that's definitely nice. LED fog lights down below, you guys can see those for every single trim level across the board. I really like the look of those. They look really darn good down there.  I wanted to mention that as well. But overall, I think we can all agree this looks pretty much like the new Toyota Tundra on the front end, which is definitely not a bad thing. I like the look, but pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. So now since we are around to the side of the Sequoia, roof rails do come standard on every single trim level across the board to get rear privacy glass as well, along with a gloss black A-pillar. You guys can see that in the front there for every single trim level across the board. So that's a nice little design element there. Automatic power standing running boards for the capstone that's gonna be optional on the Platinum. We actually do have that today. And actually, since I mentioned it, let me go ahead and show you how that works real quick. Essentially all you need to do is just open the door and you'll automatically deploy. And then when you shut the door, give it a couple seconds and they'll automatically fold back up into the vehicle like that. So pretty cool. So to take a look at the side mirrors, they are body colored power adjustable side mirrors. They will be heated with LED integrated turd signals then as well. And then take a look at the wheel setup. They will differ again substantially depending upon the trim level. 18 inch alloys for the SR5, 20 inch alloys for the limited in Platinum, 18 inch forged aluminum BBS wheels for the TRD Pro, of course. And then 22 inch alloys for the capstone. But that pretty much rounds out the side profile. I love the look of the side profile. Definitely looks good with all the gloss black accents on this red. But anyways, let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so we're now so you are around to the back of this one all the way to the top. You do have a gloss black shark fin antenna. Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. Just below that rear window wiper. You do have LED tail lights that do come standard on all trim levels across the board. I absolutely love that. Got that Toyota Sequoia lettering spelled out horizontally on the rear lift gate as well. Definitely looks good. By the way, if you were interested in towing with the Sequoia, you can do that max towing capacity available on this one actually comes in at a very impressive 9,520 pounds. So that is not too bad either. One of the coolest things on the tailgate of the Sequoia I want to show you guys is it's actually a button to kind of flip up that rear glass. It's almost a hidden button, but if you press that button, you do have the ability to go ahead and flip up the rear glass. Makes for easier loading, I guess, if you wanted to do that or you could just let the breeze in, I guess. If you park at a beach, you can just back into the ocean, I guess and check out the view. So that is a wonderful feature I love on the Sequoia. So let's go ahead and shut that. Anyways, last thing I wanted to mention to you guys underneath here, you do have a single exhaust outlet tucked away underneath on the driver's side there. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the Sequoia, when it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is a power tailgate for all trim levels across the board. So that's definitely nice. There's a button on the key fob. There, of course, is a rubberized button on the tailgate itself then as well. But once opened up, cargo capacity behind that third row comes in at 22.3 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, of course, there is a 60-40 split. So you can fold that third row down. So behind the second row, that comes in at 49 cubic feet and with all rows folded, 86.9 cubic feet. So right around the amount of cubic feet as a Toyota Highlander or Honda Pilot or something like that. But there were some buttons actually in the cargo area. I was a big fan of them. It was very easy to fold down and up that third row. So I like seeing that back there. There's LED cargo lighting back there. There is a 120-volt power outlet. If you were to go with that limited trim level end up, there's also a very nice multi-level cargo shelf system back there. So you can essentially take the shelf and move it up or down. There's a bunch of different slots, essentially. You could just kind of slot it in above. So that was pretty cool. So then making our way up to the third row legroom that is going to come in at 33.7 inches. For reference, I mean, even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. Of course, rear ventilation is going to come standard. There's vents on the kind of roof of this thing for all three rows. By the way, those second row seats actually slide up to six inches forward and backwards. There's actually buttons for those third row passengers to do that. So if they need a little more legroom, that is one simple way to go ahead and do that. There are some cup holders back there. There's actually rear charging ports for those third row passengers as well, which you definitely don't always find. And one thing you almost definitely don't find in third rows of other SUVs, there are third row side window sunshades. Typically, that's just a second row thing if it even comes with it. But with the Sequoia, you got third row side window sunshades. So that was pretty darn cool to see back there as well. But anyways, they're making our way up to the second row legroom. That's going to come in at 39.2 inches. For reference, I mean, even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. Heated rear seats are going to come with the Platinum and the capstone trim levels. You do have some charging ports back there, of course. Again, you got the second row sunshades to go along with the third row sunshades. And by the way, that's for the limited trim level and up. I should mention that. And if you're curious about bench sheeting versus captain's chairs, you do get the bench sheeting with the SR5 and the limited. However, all the other trim levels are going to come standard with captain's chairs like we have on this one today. So then making our way up to the front seats, you will find a fabric trim for the SR5, soft tax upholstery for the limited, leather seating then for the Platinum trim leveling up. You're going to find memory settings for the limited trim leveling up. All seats though are going to be power adjustable with power lumbar, so that's definitely nice.  But overall as far as seat comfort goes, it was fine. Nothing too crazy, not the very most comfortable seats, but they're not bad honestly. So shouldn't have any issues taking this thing on a long road trip. But let's take a look at steering wheel. It is tilt and heliscoping and is leather wrapped and it will be heated for the limited trim level and up. And I kind of like the thick grips on it too. The 10 to two grips, especially the bottom grip. That is a very thick grip right there. So, but soon now let's go ahead and make our way to the startup. Essentially all of your buttons are located on one side of the key. Got lock, unlocked about the pop the rear tailgate and a Toyota logo of course, but it is all keyless entry with a push button start for all trim levels across the board. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my front of the brake and press that bright blue engine start button located just kind of by the driver's right knee. And so once started up, 12.3 inch digital gauge cluster will come standard for all trim levels across the board. So that's definitely very nice. The cool thing about this digital gauges is if you change the drive modes, it will adjust the gauges ever so slightly. Not too much of an adjustment honestly, but it does switch it up a little bit. So I did like that. Steering wheel mounts controls are found on the left side of the steering wheel. You can toggle between a trip A trip B, how many miles you have left until you hit empty. Your average mileage per gallon as well. You got a little compass up there, radio information. If you need an oil change or some other kind of service. So pretty much as everything you could possibly want because it is a digital gauge cluster. That's basically why. But now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. Power moonroof coming on the SR5 Limited TRD Pro. Panoramic roof coming on the platinum and capstone. LED interior lighting for all trim levels across the board. Wireless phone charger for the platinum trim level and up. Home light controls for all trim levels across the board as well. I love that. And that could be found just below kind of this frameless rear view mirror. So big fan of that as well. And since we're up here, we actually have an overhead sunglass holder here on the roof of this thing. So I like that. Overall as far as interior quality goes, it's not bad. It's pretty much finished like the interior of the Tundra. So if you've seen the interior of the new Tundra, that is essentially what you're looking at. You do have some cool platinum lettering found just above the passenger side glove box. I would imagine that would change depending upon the trim level that you go with, obviously. I like the blue contrast stitching. It matches with the blue engine start button since this is a hybrid. It's going to be a lot of blue accents. But just to the right of the shifter, that's where your wireless phone chargers located. A little bit of storage there. You do have a dual cup holders as well. And within the center armrest here, there is an absolute ton of space as you would imagine because of the size of the vehicle. There's some coin holders in there. There's a couple USB charging ports actually as well. But so now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment, the tech here. Eight inch color touchscreen display is gonna come on the SR5 trim level only. However, all other trim levels are going to get a 14 inch color touchscreen display giving you Bluetooth and audio streaming, Android Auto Apple CarPlay as well. And by the way, that's a wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay. So that's even better. You can check out some driving statistics up there if you wanted to along with your radio information. So when it comes to the sound systems, there's gonna be an eight speaker sound system for the SR5 Unlimited, and then a 14 speaker JBL sound system for the Platinum TRD Pro and Capstone. So having said that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio today. Let's see what we got playing and let's test out the clarity of this one. All right, so what I'm gonna say about that is the bass was really, really good. I was expecting a bit more clarity with 14 speakers, but honestly, it wasn't bad. It's certainly an excellent sound system for the size of this vehicle. Again, the bass was amazing. Not the best sound system I've ever heard though. But anyways, last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the Sequoia in reverse, you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board along with a panoramic view monitor. And yes, that comes standard for every single trim level across the board. That's gonna be that view to the right there, which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so, IIHS has not yet tested the Sequoia, so typically I give you those ratings, but there isn't any yet. But anyways, I will say the new Tundra was an IIHS top safety pick plus. And since the Sequoia is built on the same frame, I would imagine the Sequoia would probably be the same. But anyways, front side side carrying airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well. In the back, you're gonna have latch, aka lower anchors to tether your children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks, car pressure monitoring system, but also coming standard, Toyota Safety Sense 2.5, which will give you a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, dynamic radar cruise control, lane departure alert with steering assist, lane tracing assist, road sign assist, blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert, trailer merge warning, and front and rear parking sensors as well, that's a good bit actually. So overall, when it comes to my final thoughts, this thing does have a good bit of space, about the same as a highlander, a pilot, which is plenty of space for me, honestly. But if you wanted more space, you might want to wait for the Grand Highlander because what Toyota has said is they're shooting for nearly 100 cubic feet in that one, as opposed to the 86 in this. So do want to mention that, but also love the styling on this thing, it looks dang good. Power is plentiful in this Sequoia. I won't say that, it didn't expect this thing to move as well as it did. Also as far as third seat leg and headroom goes, that was plenty fine.  Not only that, my headroom was perfectly fine as well. I saw some other reviews where they said that headroom was an issue for them, but I showed you guys on camera, I wanted to kind of debunk that to see if it was true or not. I was easily able to fit at six feet. So maybe if you're six-four, six-five, sitting in the third row, I would say you're gonna have an issue, but what are you doing sitting in the third row if you're that tall anyways? But overall as far as room for improvement goes, I would say maybe the interior quality a little bit. There is a lot of hard plastic kind of surrounding the shifter and all of that. I wouldn't have minded if they swapped that out a little bit. And the other thing is I would kind of, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking about reliability because I know it's a twin-turbo V6, that's also a hybrid. It's just a lot. And I know Toyota is known for incredible reliability, but that's typically with their naturally aspirated engines and their hybrids as well, but I don't know about a twin-turbo V6. But anyways, let me know what you guys think in the new Sequoia in the comments section below. And that is about it for this one, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in any new car reviews because that is what we do here on this channel after all. Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.


Apple cider vinegar sounds a little too good to be true. It can help you lose weight, increase your good cholesterol and lower your bad cholesterol. It lowers your blood sugar, regulates blood pressure. It's good for your gut microbiome and it's antibacterial. Let's take a look at why apple cider vinegar is touted as the holy grail of elixirs. The simple answer to that is acetic acid. Found in apple cider vinegar, acetic acid is a synthetic carboxylic acid with antibacterial and antifungal properties. Although its mechanism of action is not fully known, undissociated acetic acid may enhance lipid solubility, allowing increased fatty acid accumulation on the cell membrane or in other cell wall structures. What this specifically means is that there is a beneficial impact on fat metabolism. Acetic acid is a weak acid and it can also inhibit carbohydrate metabolism resulting in subsequent death of the organism. The impact on carbohydrate metabolism can be explained pretty easily as acetic acid inhibits the body's production of certain enzymes related to this carbohydrate metabolism. Acetic acid suppressed sucrose, lactase and maltase activities in concentration various carbohydrate digestive enzymes. This is an excellent explanation to why we see people lose weight. They're not digesting the carbohydrates and the carbohydrates are just feeding gut bacteria as opposed to being stored as fat. This can also explain why apple cider vinegar might regulate blood glucose. And in the studies that we look at later, there is clear evidence that people that consume apple cider vinegar with their meal don't have as high sugar spikes afterwards. Another study on the topic of weight loss, vinegar and acetic acid also increased AMP and ATP ratios and expression levels of PAMPK, PPRY coactivator A1. And this pretty much means improved energy metabolism. If your body is more efficiently digesting carbohydrates and fat, you're probably going to be more active, feel better, lose weight. In the same study, acetic acid and apple cider vinegar also inhibited angiotension to type 1 receptor expression. This is something that's involved directly with blood pressure regulation. So if you're inhibiting something that regulates blood pressure, it makes sense as to why people have better blood pressure when consuming apple cider vinegar with their meals. Now, to me, this is sounding a little too good to be true. Can it actually lower cholesterol and increase gut cholesterol? Dietary acetic acid reduced serum total cholesterol and triglycerol first due to the inhibition of lipogenesis in the liver. Second, due to the increment of fecal bile acid excretion in rats fed a diet containing cholesterol. So this is what we saw earlier. It's inhibiting certain digestive enzymes in the liver and possibly the pancreas as well. In addition to that, what we see here is the increase in bile secretion.  This will increase gut motility, which pretty much means that you're going to digest foods more efficiently and food is going to move through your digestive system quicker. So if you're digesting food incredibly efficiently and maybe it's not feeding bad gut bacteria, you're going to have more energy be more active as we said earlier. And it doesn't stop there. Apple cider vinegar aids with weight loss. It increases your gut cholesterol. And this study also demonstrates a reduction in bad cholesterol that we saw previously. The participants were randomly allocated on 30 milliliters of apple cider vinegar per day, just under two tablespoons for 12 weeks. The apple cider vinegar group significantly reduced body weight, BMI, hip circumference, visceral adiposity index and appetite score. Furthermore, plasma triglyceride and total cholesterol levels significantly decreased and high density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDL, aka the good cholesterol, concentration significantly increased in the ACV group compared to the control group. This is really significant evidence and it's pretty crazy that just by consuming apple cider vinegar, it improved these people's metabolism so much that they lost all of this weight. Cholesterol is something that people in more up-to-date health knowledge don't view as bad, but improving HDL to LDL ratio is definitely something we shouldn't be taking lightly. It's a great indicator for levels of inflammation in the body. So not only are these people losing weight, they're reducing inflammation in their body. This is, to me, concrete evidence that we should really be considering acetic acid from a health perspective as something that we need to incorporate in our daily lives. So what about gut bacteria and the gut microbiome? Various beneficial bacteria such as lactobacillus were the most commonly identified bacteria in apple juice byproducts. In apple cider vinegar, which is the result of acetic fermentation, a bunch of these beneficial bacteria were detected even if the acetic acid bacteria was substantially higher. In addition, shrimps fed a high apple cider vinegar diet significantly lowered total heterotrophic marine bacteria compared to the control group and the lowest bacterial number was observed in the shrimp fed the highest amount of apple cider vinegar. Seeing as apple cider vinegar is an antibacterial and antimicrobial and what happened in this shrimp study, to me it's pretty clear that the bacterial benefits of apple cider vinegar aren't really what we should be looking at. We shouldn't be looking at the bacteria that's inherent to the apple cider vinegar. What we should be looking at is what the vinegar or mainly the acetic acid does to our gut microbiome. Maybe it's changing metabolism of certain nutrients so that the food we're consuming is feeding gut bacteria. That could be why there's an improvement in the gut microbiome. But a great analogy to be made here is a teaspoon in a bucket of water. If you're putting a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar in your digestive system with all this other food and all these other liquids, the impact from a bacterial standpoint is so insignificant. It really doesn't make any sense that consuming that tiny amount of bacteria is going to overpower or populate your gut, especially considering how much bacteria is normally present in the microbiome. Now if you started chugging apple cider vinegar, would it make a difference in your gut microbiome? I don't really know, but I firmly believe that any benefits towards the gut microbiome and consuming a couple tablespoons of apple cider vinegar per day are not going to be related to the bacteria in the apple cider vinegar specifically. On the topic of stomach acid, apple cider vinegar is actually less acidic than your stomach. So if you consume apple cider vinegar, you're technically diluting your stomach acid. Why do people see improvements in their digestion when they consume apple cider vinegar? It has to do with what we said earlier about consuming acidic or bitter foods and the stimulation of things like bile and various digestive enzymes. So if you're consuming apple cider vinegar, I would be curious if you're going to get the same benefit from consuming bitters. And the properties that acetic acid has on these enzymes as well as fat and carbohydrate metabolism can easily improve your digestion. So that makes a lot of sense, but consuming apple cider vinegar is not increasing the acidity of your stomach. The pH of your stomach is as low as 1 to 1.5 and apple cider vinegar is a bit higher than that. If your stomach is not as acidic as apple cider vinegar, then you have much larger issues to be looking into. So there is definitely a lot of good research demonstrating specific mechanisms of what apple cider vinegar and I guess more specifically acetic acid do in the body. So can we deduce this to just vinegar and acetic acid? I made some high meat, some rotten meat several days ago. And upon further research, I found that any food fermented in a moist environment will develop acetic acid. So sauerkraut, kimchi, those foods that more people are familiar with. In my case, eating what is essentially rotten meat is another way to obtain this acetic acid. This ties into our indigenous roots and how every group of native peoples consumed some form of fermented food. So I don't think these benefits are specific to apple cider vinegar. I think that these benefits are just specific to fermented foods in general that were made in a natural way. And foods like high meat have a very high nutrient content because essentially they are supposed to be made from quality meat products. They have vitamins, vitamin K2. So I think consuming fermented foods is not only going to get you the benefits of acetic acid, it's also going to get you nutritional benefits in addition to bacterial benefits because we know the bacterial content of apple cider vinegar isn't too high. But rotten meat, high meat has an incredibly high bacterial content. Kimchi, sauerkraut, incredibly high bacterial contents that we can say would correlate directly to some sort of change in the gut microbiome. Now, which of these foods should you actually be consuming is, I don't think it's really up for debate, but it's definitely questionable. If you're consuming a food in your diet, normally it would be okay to ferment it. But if you're following a carnivore diet, it doesn't make a lot of sense to eat things like sauerkraut or kimchi. The food that you're eating is the food that you would ferment in the context of native and indigenous diets. The bacteria that's on that food that develops when it ferments will help you digest that food in its unfermented state. To me, keeping things that are specific to your diet makes the most sense. I'm not going to go drink kombucha after being on a carnivore diet for two months. That's a great way to mess up your gut microbiome.  Another thing that's commonly spoken about is acne and how apple cider vinegar helps your acne. But I think this would be from an oral perspective because the mechanisms that we see demonstrated by acetic acid, if you improve carbohydrate and fat metabolism, if you reduce inflammation in the body, I think these things will clear up your skin.  So if putting apple cider vinegar on your face helps your acne, then you might have some hygiene issues. If you're washing your face properly, if you're sleeping on a fresh towel every night, I don't think apple cider vinegar is going to affect you from a transdermal perspective. But there can definitely be some benefits from consuming it orally from what I'm observing here.  The cause of my acne was underlying dietary issues. So if you cannot fix that underlying issue in general, then don't expect your acne to get better. If the issue is your hygiene and you put apple cider vinegar on your face and your acne gets better, you technically fix the underlying issue.  Apple cider vinegar is also a high histamine food, and this can definitely cause issues for some people. A food can be high in histamines because it is fermented or aged, or a food can cause a high level of histamine reactions in the body. Foods like eggs and dairy tend to do so. Histamines are involved in the immune system response. So when you consume apple cider vinegar, if you get a rush of energy, this could actually be related to the histamine content of the food. Definitely something important to keep in mind with not just apple cider vinegar, vinegars in general, aged foods in general. So Frankie boy, what's the deal on apple cider vinegar? Should we consume it? Ladies and gentlemen, that is for you to try yourself. I think that if you're not consuming fermented foods, that you will see a direct benefit to incorporating acetic acid in some form in your diet. For me, following a carnivore diet with high meat and fermented meat, I don't think it's necessary whatsoever. One thing I do want to tie in here is my love for food and cooking and culinary applications. There are so many different types of vinegar. You know, this benefit is not specific to apple cider vinegar. You can make a pate with sherry vinegar. You could put some champagne or white wine vinegar on some oysters. You can make a chimichurri with red wine vinegar.  There are so many culinary applications for vinegar. And if it's good for you, hey, the more the merrier. I will put some vinegars on my Amazon shop in the food section. 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