Good morning everyone. I guess I'm competing against the downloads outside. So it's it's a very tough Competition, but thanks for being here very excited to to be here today. So let's get started I travel all the time and and I love spending time with my clients and When I get them talking to me about BA you business are useful kind of all the alarms come to me because I think we can say that Business today is is everything but but usual so many changes which I'll try to To explain to explain today Actually, it's probably good to put a bit of a context about what's What's the situation and and why I'm saying that businesses or should be kind of everything anything but but usual eight almost seven eight out of the ten largest companies in the market Tech companies at the moment and we can say that they are fast 50 times more efficient Which you know if we break that down that number is kind of a bit scaring actually to compete with a company that Use one resource to do the same as as what you do with 50 people, right? It's quite a scaring Companies where the cost of IT every IT transaction is a seventh and where the ratio of capital consumption Is a third right? It sounds a bit scaring. It sounds a bit like the future, right? Is is out of control because if any of these companies decide at any point in time to get into your business You're probably out at least you will struggle So I think what we will be talking today is about how to regain control and what does the role of both? Technoscience and trusted intelligence to regain back control on your future so Realities that these companies are not stop everybody's under transformation. Yeah, but it sounds like it seems like the efforts Are not working because by the time they finish a transformation program the gap It's even bigger So it's not decreasing the situation is getting worse and time matters time is of essence now We can say that data and technology are Consolidating as a disruptive business driver So let me explain a bit of why that gap is increasing and why from a new paradigm is Needed because with this paradigm if we don't change the paradigm this situation will get worse and worse Now not everything is about technology so I'll talk about three Main factors, of course, I think the audience of this event It's more likely to you know get into the details about technology But I want to maybe make a step back and I'll talk about three things operating model culture and technology And I make a stop and I'll come back to that in a moment about the architecture of the future Enterprises right because under the concept of an enterprise, right? We are what we see is a massive simplicity on these technology companies versus extremely complex Organizations under an enterprise. I can say that there are hundreds or thousands of enterprises below that Which has an impact around speed and as I said before Speed is of essence. It's like trying to you know with that heavy bag Trying to get into a race or with the crutches that they want I would probably not do that probably better play chess rather than anything else But reality is that the concept of the enterprise the architecture of the enterprise or traditional business need to change the second element is around Technology as I was saying and I think We need to talk about Distributed age technology versus the monolithic age Technology were probably 95% of the market somehow is dealing with What's the difference between? Gathering data trust the data from every single transaction and customer interaction and use that to learn by the second Versus organizations that don't learn anything. I Mentioned before A gap in terms of efficiency of 50 times Yeah The paradigm was wrong and I will try to explain why in our views the paradigm was wrong That's separation in times and space Between the operations where the customer seats etc and the information the analytics the brain That separation in times and space is no longer valid because that's makes Organization and capable of learning by the second and that's massive legacy so as I was saying before this This approach has a huge impact in terms of efficiency speed and efficiency now we are very excited about The strategic partnership that we have made with the strategy Because we are going to change the state of school And we are committed with that we strongly believe that we can do because I think why what we do is transformation, but now we're bringing Into we're joining efforts and we are bringing probably the best technology We have seen in the market to change that status cool and to Help companies operate as Google does as a same as if they had kind of this distributed technology So let's see how we do that. Well, first I'm saying that and I'm I'm fully confident that we will change the status cool Because I mean I see why we are almost 300,000 people and we have access to 200,000 clients We can get anywhere So what's the value proposition that we are taking to the market today, right? We believe that As I was saying before will change the way companies leverage data in AI to regain back control on their future It was a bit of an intro but and I mentioned the complexity of the architecture of the enterprises as well as the point around why Companies are so slow and also kind of that gap is becoming bigger and bigger and Let me introduce two concepts the concept of techno science and trusted intelligence Because we believe this will be an act as the core of the future enterprise We always talk about AI right and AI is kind of the headline Yeah, but the reality is that as the conversions of multiple technologies beyond AI and The combination with science What will shape the future? If you think about the architecture of the future at least the way I said The architecture of a future enterprise will be fundamentally different as what it is today And I think we need to talk about for instance Just put an example the convergence of blockchain in AI and I can see the future Architecture of an enterprise with ledgers of blockchain around finance around operations around HR Etc in AI sitting on top of those So the headline I think the market should evolve and the headline of AI to me is It's getting a bit shorter because it's that conversions 5g the IOT the quantum computing Combined with the science the algorithms that intelligence the trusted data what will Somehow change when when companies will will operate So I was talking about the stream complex on how Organizations and again behind an enterprise. There are hundreds or thousands of enterprises Pro and probably one of those constraints And it's not trivial One of the elements that make that complexity actually is data Because there's a lot of constraints dependencies for any application for any business solution on the technical data We need to think about a future enterprise as an exercise of a stream Simplification of a stream simplification of the current structures So how do we see that? architecture in the future This is a very small very simple picture Companies from a technical standpoint will have cloud tech computing layer We'll have a business data fabric a trace a trace the data for a fabric at the core of the future enterprise And this is essential for the rest of the talk. I will I will explain that concept in more detail We need to talk about intelligent process The new data to me is the process itself People talk to me and tell me what's matter. What is what matters now? Is it data or is it the algorithms? What is it what matters? I don't know if you have an answer to that. I have an answer. It might not align with your views to me somehow the concept of ontologies What gives what is relevant today? Because an anthology as I will explain later later Gives meaning to data, but not only that it explains the relationship And we live in a connected world Relations and networks become more and more important To me is the meaning of the data and the relationship of that data what matters Intelligent process I was saying before That's an opportunity to send companies as the company the enterprise of the future will move from static processes to life processes The new data to me is the process itself That's probably the next gen of of AI As when you can learn from the experience where process become life So it's about embedding the reason why These tech giants are so efficient. I said before they learn by the second They get smarted by the second they have AI embedded as the core processes processes are not static but they are life and Then signals and experience with every interaction you change the way you interact the enterprise changes the way they interact everything is as I would say power by techno science and trusted intelligence Somehow we need to move from building solutions to configuring solutions to come on kind of speed up and and building trust Trusted intelligence based on trusted data, so we'll see a way to to get into into that So the trusted or business data fabric for us become a disruption and the reinvention of IT How do we close the gap? With those digital giants as I was saying they operate in a fundamental different way They don't split between the operations and the informations. They don't build data lakes Yeah, which is what we have been doing for Data warehouses data mouse data like whatever everything is the same Yeah, we were actually bringing all the inconsistency and then non-trusted data of the operations We were bringing all that into these lakes which Were nothing else and more than another data silo. They were not solving the problem So the first way for you know how to make kind of all these companies with a lot of legacy system to get smart and to operate as Google does the first thing is to Put a platform on top of that right a single Data platform where we are able to somehow self-discover all the data When I said trust the data You will probably think about quality data and that will immediately take you to clean data But trust the data is more than clean data Yeah, because you need to think about compliance. You need to think about security. You need to think about regulation, etc etc, etc, right So I can't tell you that the data lakes that we had in ages were not based on trust the data So first thing that's platform. Yeah to Put kind of to self discover the data and start first step to start giving meaning to data a Second disruption and by the way no need to Split to create an informational environment. Yeah second thing moving from human land data management to AI land data management, yeah Data data management cannot be solved by humans full stop It's just a problem that because of cardinality more than 10 million colons more than 50,000 Business terms they match in between the technical dictionaries and business term can't be managed by humans full stop Companies have been trying to do it manually But reality is that they never catch up never by the time They get may take two years three years by the time they finish the problem is even bigger So how To get that problem sorted and we introduced with our partner of the strategy That's the technology that they bring the technology to create data on two logis describe as a formal as the relationship formally structures quality rules and Relationships between different structures. Yeah So we can do the matching The automating matching we can put an ontology and attribute Into and then and the quality rule kind of into a vector and do the automatic matching Think about any attribute of I don't know the address The balance of an account, etc It might not be done 100% by AI, but it will reduce the human effort 50% 60% 70% and the thing is the system will get smarter and smarter These ontologies will immediately create what we call the business data layer Which is the beginning of what we are saying as the what we define as the Reinvention of IT at the new age of IT Because basically what as I was saying before one of the reasons why companies are so slow It's because there's for any the constructions to build out of any application That's a lot of dependency the constraints are always on the data model, right? So for a company, it's impossible actually to build a central unit of intelligence Think about a large bank or you know a large retailer They can't create like at the same or the one thing crime solution for instance for everywhere. Why? Because the data model in the UK is different than In in Germany the US Brazil, etc. They have to Create Multiple applications the cost of IT gets multiplied but as many times as countries, right? Again, one of the reasons why organizations today are so complex Arpecals of that dependency and the constraints on data This business data layer will decouple somehow the development of any application from the The the technical and from the technology from technology and will give business users the possibility to really build AI Applications, which is at the end of the day the stage where we want to get the full democratization of AI Because reality is that business are trying to compete against those digital Giants in the technology playground and they are losing and they will lose The only way to regain to regain control on the future Is to give the business users? access and control on the technology because that's where They can't really that business knowledge is What any business in any industry has and it's these technology companies they don't have that's what we call IT for business and again that speeds up and reduces cost of For and in in the development kind of any any application Now that data ontology is already disruption because somehow What we are talking about is defining the future data standards not in an enterprise level But at the sector level Which become a massive? accelerator So we are at the moment together with the strategy of defining these business data layer these ontologies for retailers For banks We believe that we have the best open banking solution for health For the agro business Etcetera Etcetera and one use case. I think is what brings things to life, right as a bank The development for a global Global trading platform across 14 countries what we are talking is moving from 36 months development and a cost of 42 million to a development of eight months and Less than 8 million and why is that? Because what before was developed in 14 different countries 14 different platforms The cost of maintenance is multiplied by 14 What we are doing that now is building things once in one place and then rolling that out Across the rest of the countries and that business data layer as I was saying is what is the coupling and enabling us to do It's a bit like the concept of data Data adapts to the algorithm and not the other way around so again that constraint of of The data the data structures we are removing that and that's why we're saying it's a bit like the the next age of the revolution So it's a as I said before it's about moving from building solutions to configuring a solution The way to it per escalate linear growth doesn't cope with this Russian. How do you grow in a way that is exponentially? What you have to leverage you have to build Artifacts you have to build components. This is like a Lego and accelerate the way you build solutions You have to add the reusability the concept of reusability becomes essential That's what these digital jaguars do kind of all the time and Everything underpinned by trust and intelligence and trusted data It really composes what is a solution? Because on the enterprise I mentioned about these four layers the cloud tanks the data fabric the smart processes and The signals and experience Across to that. It's all the solutions And we can say that or any solution will have a component of a data ontology will be based on that We will be built on a data ontology. We'll have a component of Machine learning. We have the business logics the amp the value We are bringing trust in every single component of these artifacts That's why again the combination of techno science and trusted intelligence will become essential to develop the enterprise of the future Now why I Think I highlighted a bit why this is a game changer Again, we have a very very powerful technology now And we have extremely we have access to anywhere in the world. I mentioned 200,000 clients 300 100,000 people What we are doing is We are reimagining business What if it's like what if you guys were 50 times more efficient How would you value chin? What will be your value proposition? How would you change? Let's do that? Let's make it real We are transforming entire industries. I said this is not This is not an enterprise-wide solution. This is a sector. Isn't it right? right We are reimagining we are rebuilding the open banking solution has never before With this technology And I didn't mention but we are improving communities And I know this was the second day of two days conference, and I'm sure you've seen a lot of use cases I Selected today a few use cases which are More relented with somehow improving communities as well because to me we also have the commitment and responsibility around supply and tech for good and I I think I think actually I was not competing now just against the donuts But I was competing again. There was a tech talk about someone from the United Nations. So Maybe that's that's that's why Now so with this technology And the business knowledge around transformation how we are helping clients change The start of school I mentioned we are going to change the way companies use Data in any eye we are Reinventing we are helping them catch up and and grow exponentially as the others do. How do we do that? There are four paths. There are four ways. One is is get the problem on data sorted Yeah, just get the problem around data governance sorted. It's something I can't tell you any CEO Any CDO and everybody will be happy to get that sorted For the regulators for the clients compliance purposes, etc. But it's actually the best the fastest step For the rest Because getting the problem data right means giving meaning to data gives means Having trusted data Which again is essential is the basis for the rest The other thing is another path is where we are not talking about a big bang things do not happen in general in life Like a big bang. Yeah, actually if we think about what are the core processes of a company? It's less than 20% This is where we need to put a focus This is what matters. These are the processes where we need to embed and we have trusted data Trusted intelligence and build AI into those process. Don't get crazy. We don't need to change everything We need to change that 20% and that's where the focus is I was with the company the other day in New York Re-inventing the entire agro business. That's fascinating that industry, right? You know, I think but it's like well If you could learn by the second How would you change your relationship with the farmers? with the providers With the end users with the end customers. I mean you could build the best e-commerce platform Why not? What we are talking is about actually a competitive advantage and I can't tell you that the market will use this technology The opportunity window is 24 months. I Said before Speed is of essence speed is of essence now. Of course you can Stop you can decide to adopt this in a few years, but that opportunity To have a green field will be gone and that's actually one of the patterns Same as Google Google for instance, right? They they are entering now in the UK in The banking yeah with the bank with a Google account you can open a Citibank, right? They are just learning they are in the process of learning, but you know they Anything where they want they just get it Like what if your own business could be in that situation because this is what we are talking about The difference between Human land data management from AI land data management makes a whole difference and again, this is a competitive advantage now probably not in five years time and and the other path where we are helping our clients is on the entire IT transformation a Company's I was saying before They are still using the mainframe the horse the technology of 50 years can we wait for a minute and think what? Was the technology 50 years ago? Well, I still think that is amazing today We could go to the moon But think about the technology 50 years ago really This is what this is how the clients how the market is operating now This is impossible to compete as I was saying with the one platform native. Yeah So we are helping somehow to define a road map to the progressively decommission From the old technology and bring things into into that platform I've taken two Two videos actually is one of my colleagues here. I think I know I mentioned I think I saw him And that again What we are trying is to to have an impact and I'm sure you probably don't think that he why We don't think that he why is doing anything like this. The first use case is about Preventing on breast cancer We are using actually empowering using the the technology and the platform of Astratio to build Not just to build a solution in algorithm itself, but to change the entire operation about how Radiology is kind of managed kind of this process we believe that we can Through a pattern and image recognition. We can identify Signals of breast cancer two years before what any radiologist can do at the moment Let me put that video Breast cancer is one of the main cause of death in women were wild Every year more than 1.7 million women are affected by this pathology In the developed countries every woman from 55 to 75 years old has to take one Mammography every two years in order to prevent this pathology In the non-developed countries the problem is huge because they don't even have Radiologists to inform this kind of test Analyze and improve the image in order to mark the zones with possible injuries classifying the types and to have a diagnosis of the images Identify a digital biomarker by using artificial intelligence Where it will allow the prediction of possible occurrences of malignant tumor in mammograms with benign and diagnosis In the future the mammography is sent to the new cloud solution which will analyze and improve the mammography to diagnose the image also mark the zones with possible injuries and To facilitate the radiologists which detect with much more accuracy the types of injuries in the study It indicates with high precision if these injuries are benign or malignant and marks all the affected areas identify a digital biomarker Allowing the prediction one to two years before of possible occurrences of malignant tumors in mammograms without any suspicion Also, this new solution can be used to analyze other medical images such as dermatology or ophthalmology Actually, but the studies here So that was the the first use case And the second one and I'll finish with with this I'm just conscious of time and It's one solution that I'm very committed with personally, which is about child protection which is about identifying situations of Child abuse at early stages So basically Million kids suffer From violence at home. There's a huge problem. We're talking about from an economic also an economic perspective 7 trillion dollars and about 2,000 kids die every year because of Violent what we are our child protection solution is gathering information from multiple sources from the police hospitals the courts, etc. And we are moving from We are moving from an early Detection yeah in action. We are changing the entire cycle Detecting applying analytics to detect early signals of violence. We are using use special analytics to identify Situations in boundaries kind of of different jurisdictions and identify when someone is close to a child and that might be at risk We are also using network analysis to identify the different relationships And and just to protect so at the end of the day we are creating a solution That moves from being reactive to being productive The solution has been applied in Australia in Canada And it's now being ruled out in Brazil and we hope again we can have some impact to solve and to save the lives of thousands of kids So that's all thank you very much. I really enjoy being here. It's been a pleasure


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Rymu'l'r Cymru i ni. Rydw i'r Llywodraeth yn gwneud y Llywodraeth Llywodraeth yn nodill iddyn nhw'n ein bod yn ôl yma. Rydyn ni'n siŵr i chihmmu a fyddwch i ddym ni'n glifion yng ngryng, rydyn ni'n mwyaf allu i dyfodol ui ffilusol sy'n gwneud y diolarch, oherwydd mae'r rhaid hyn yn amser gallwch i siŵr llwyddoedd gweithio'n gwneud hynny'n gallu mwynhau. Rydyn ni'n ymlaen i'r bwysig o nodllwyd dronwn yn gwneud yn gwneud hynny. If our retranslating is just strings, then, like Timmer has looked at before, it's even better for people to get to us. We are really using the get-takes PO format for where the translations from our system get converted to, and then they go into the translation system, and then they come back out of the translation system and get converted to our custom format. So we might as well just cut out the middleman there and use get-takes as our standard translation format. We use get-takes to extract translations, and then we need some way to provide those translations at one time, and those comes with a suitably licensed. It claims to be multi-threaded, properly threaded, unlike the standard get-takes. So it's a boost of the mutation of the IECarn V to load translations. So that looks very promising. We could use the standard PO format, somebody else's library to load it up to suitably licensed, and then that would give us, that would remove the blocks between us using DECARD, which is a website to show you what the dialogue you are translating looks like when you have translated it. So we need the theoretical, remove the blocks to implement DECARD so that translators can see what they're translating in the website. There are some practical problems there around the cost of widgets, but we can work on them. Like cost of widgets won't work in DECARD, Gleidwyr, but yes, that's where I'd like to get there. So that's, if we have standard fuel files and stuff, things like this on the screen just work. So if it works. So that's like the next step after the version is to remove all of that. Yeah, I think people say it's on the top. No, it's through YouTube. Well, I've tried the demo before and you get an integrated dialogue on the graphics of the theory box. Awesome. And it's an incremental way we can leave to that. Is this something we can do? Yeah, I haven't looked into it for the years, but I think we can do it an incremental way we can start with the smallest space, our C file, and just convert over one module, the smallest module, there as the demo. We'd have to get all the stuff building, because that's just a matter of building it. And with the smallest one over, there's a few practical things. I mean, it's straightforward. You know what to do with basic strings. We also had string lists inside of LibreOffice. I don't know. I read the documentation on GetTex that they do support stringless concept. It looks a little bit ugly, so we see how that looks in practice. But there's image lists. Do we really need to have image lists? Probably not. And that probably simplifies a lot if there was LibreOffice as well. And then images. But images are just URLs to the image, so that's not an issue either. But the only thing about URLs and images is that at the moment we extract them from SSC files, so that we cut down the amount of stuff that's in the icon teams that we bring out. So we move those URLs directly from the source code. We'd have to be extractive them, you know what I mean? So you would lose our ability to shrink down the icon teams based on detective body images that are actually used by a simple scan. So that's just some edge cases there. But I think it generally would be easier to go around and remove all of this translation. Sorry. Yes, I would like to ask, because from what I remember from the GetTex, it used to mean that it kept the image text inside finally. So I would like to ask if there's change or is it possible still to have some idea that would be in binary and you would have all in the English text outside of the binary, which would be more important one? Yeah, I think GetTex is using it. Why would we need English words outside? Because at the moment we ship our images together, so for the Libraffus perspective, what's the downside of having English in the binary? The size of the binary. Because at the moment, SRC has to do just all the three strings outside of the binary and when we have the line it's like 60 max for the I, IOS, then everything go by with accounts. Okay, that's a concern. So I don't know what's the, what's the way this take on GetTex if it is possible. We can hack it some way. We can provide the ID there and the image text as well. You're basically right as far as I know that even in the boost model, the English word stays in the binary. So yeah, you probably have to do some exhibition there. I'm confident that Dooblosh can create a template that will compile the pdf file. I know. Always know that there are translating resources and the size of the translating resources. The double becomes a translation set in the English string. So every m.mo5, national check 5, contain English and translate English. The mo5 contains actually English string. Yes. But for the fourth issue, it's kind of easy to drop it on with just a machining on the numberation value of the code. And that could be brought to the English version. Yeah, I kind of wanted to get away from that. I think most of the English strings for the diodes, I didn't have anything to do with the Wi-Fi, so we are talking about the strings, the messages. And what about the seeds that are coming from the XU? Yeah, that's nice to hear from. I mean, for example, gettxt has always backed up the Wi-Fi, so I wouldn't think it would be too hard to add another word to gettxt. Another scheme for extracting from our XU files. That's what I'd say you'd have to do. And as well as the XU files, also the various things like the desktop files would be covered. And then there are some windows, special transmissions for windows for the installer. You would let the files have to be used, and they'd have to be properly mined. They're sticking in the microphone, so do you have a microphone near the... No, I think it's no mic itself. The idea of the different mics would really go on. It's constantly ticking. Okay. There's my microphone. Yes, we can pause and reassemble. I'm sorry about the ticking noise. I can hear it. It is still ticking, so... I've turned it off. Oh, yes. It's still ticking. Maybe the G8 connected, because I've been started when quite a lot of times. Thank you. But anyway, let's put phyrite beads everywhere. This is an interesting idea. Let's just share the... Is it still ticking? Okay, you're going to get something. If you don't want to hear it, just come and sit up here. I'm going to say it. Okay, I'm concerned about size. I think to do it, we need to have a solution for that. Okay, why don't you hold that on top? Yes, so let's say that if we're looking at doing that, then we should have a size in binary, and then obviously the size of the resulting MO files as well. There's two different sizes there in terms of the translation being too large and then the actual binary potentially being too large because it's a story in English translation isn't it. And you have the additional non-standard file formats that we need to support as well. So you're looking at the ECU files and the ULF files. How does that work at the moment? Is it a certain bunch of Windows translations and Windows looks after it? So you've got me like a custom conversion there? Yeah, it's going to do it for everything. We're still going to need to put translation by a little bit faster. Oh yeah, it's going to be real edge cases. Okay, there's quite a problem now as well. Yeah, I'm sure there will be edge cases. I think we can cover the majority of stuff. The Windows one is going to be a problem, right? On list, you know. I mean, there are, there's also experience as well from Blender. I think Blender is using this so we can also quickly look to see what the other large applications are using in the boost icon these stuff are doing. So we should look at Blender and they cover it Windows and Starware so they have a translation system that's put off get text as well. One issue, I don't know if that is a practical issue but if you, if we now met an ID to text you might have the same in get text have an English text that we have to something. If you have a short English text like nice which can mean that too many different things in another language you might actually have two IDs which are different but are the same in English. Get text has an ID as well. Is that a problem? Yes, so it's exploration time for that. Well, I want to do that. Are there a lot of things that we can do problems with? Lots to do in strategic brokenness? No, not in the short term. I mean, you have some stuff going on with the life cycle stuff which may be on the screen but exactly you have a mind. Yes, sure, sure. So, I think the VCL life cycle concern that I have is that the most awful things in code to try and avoid widgets getting destroyed while using them. So there are various kind of listeners that, you know, you admit an event and you have to have this thing canary sitting on the stack and you check after it finishes to see if it's by now dead to the pointer. And you can, this is very error-prone and fragile. It would be much better to have reference counting and exclusive displays to be on the VCL widgets. So I think the first part there, just talking to a Noel last night, is Noel here? There he is, there he is. The first step in that anyway, regardless of what solution you put at the end, is that I don't think you should be able to create any of those windows on the stack. You have to be at least starting with your new team because they're on the stack and there's absolutely no way to reference counting that's going to work. So Noel has a list. And it's not just on the stack, it's also members. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once the stuff that has been converted over to WI has converted all of that into pointers to the ownership belongs to the actual VCL builder or something that you moved out of the dialogues. So yeah, I think then that's really quite a significant change across a lot of things, but I hope it would help. I can start off. I hope there's some clang genius for health. Ha, you know, help with this. We've been moving a lot of the existing destructives into dispose methods, making sure the dispose methods can be run multiple times, replacing every delete to dispose. It starts to look like quite a big chunk, but I think, as you say, first finding the stack is a prerequisite.  Do people disagree or object? There's a lot of them. There's a lot of stuff that's been built in. I'm just looking at yours. There's an impol ed dyn. There's a thing you look out for. Dyl data, basically. It's all over the place. We have these checkers for it. If something has died in the last... So we replace those with the reference? I don't like the reference to just deal with the problem. There is a lot of stuff built into it. A lot of stuff depends on it. So, you know, we're just side effects in it. So is that a matter? It's not against it because it's a bad idea, but just I think there's a lot of nasty edge cases there. But either way, the first step of, like, I mean, certainly, if you have a crazy idea that you think we should be doing in LibreOffice, we're starting at the bottom here. So there's often things, good things at the top. McLosh. So one machine that's quite low-low and generic is that... As far as I know, the initial idea between the devalued and the normal difference was that allowing and devaluing... I mean, code which is non-binary compatible and then how to debug it. But in practice, probably quite some developer wasn't a developer of the debuggy testing. So if you are building a menu with a debug level 2, which is autonomous or to debug your table, then sometimes, no sometimes, but regularly you also get a binary incompatible with the other. And in LibreOffice, we have crashes, and after an hour, it also is just building from scratch, if you ever made the problem go away. So I guess it could be a good idea to, at least, in case you are aware of some code doing this, then changing the conditional from who I saw, devalued or something to be able to tell in this case. All right, I hope that there is such an example. If you're building a debug level 2, then you're importing, creating, debugging, and that helps development. On the other hand, we constantly do this cleaning, building with debug level 2, then going back to normal and that's it. And I'm sure it's not just right for them. I know that for the core catcher, you also have to build a debug level 2 because some other movies also have debug models with the same conditional. Because we don't have that wrong way of doing it. This is the right way. So you want to get it from here? No, no, no. I have a patent code in greater than 0. Okay. The greater than 0 is something I know, for example, taken care of by beyond the writer. See if that's not the case. Okay. But this is second below dollars. Do you remember? Well, in the end, I mean that's a total of things, but I would love if we just have one, two or three more things there. In the end, one thing, if we only had a debug level 4, someone wants to make that debug level 10 feel free to do that, but not having two different if-desk, which gives us four different ways of doing something. Having a single component and debug in conditional would be awesome. But that proposal is just part of that. Yeah. I think we talked about that quite a lot, but maybe the STL stuff is, maybe the error is coupling the STL stuff to the DBA. So you would have one OSL debug level, which goes from zero to whatever, and you have enabled debug STL to a new level, but that's only STL then. I guess we have a trade-off here. On one run, we would like to be nice to new contributors, so debug utility is not mandatory. And it's possible to just build a few more years with debug symbols so that the build is faster for a new contributor and so on. And on the other hand, we would like to have a single debug switch. So it's not possible to have both at the same time. No, no, no, sorry. It's not what I said. The point of debugging is that it's incompatible, so you can't just build one module in debugging. Okay. So what's the concrete thing there? I mean, we agree to leaving, we're doing these changes to make it work. It's a good thing. I can imagine that speaking just about right after that, that's one error I know, but to get the debug level to same, to just debug it to and some run time in biome and variable or root type, variable or anything like this. So, at least, we would only have two bits and not a whole int and a bit. But I'm sure this is not the only place. Cool. What do you still need the debug levels for? I mean, higher than one. What is it used for? In other filter or in other filter? I mean, why do we have still OSL? I guess, for example, but John Marek, please correct me. Is it true that also during mail merge, if you have debug level 2, then we are saving the OTT temporary files in some directory? Or something like this. So, typically, if you build with debug, you still don't want to get random temporary files created on your file system and so on. And these additional debug levels do that. But it's not necessarily a real-time conditional. So, it could be a real-time one. In such stuff like BBM OSL, do you bother talking about that? In a week? In a month? And so, if these higher levels would be switched to the BGU deal, would it still be necessary to have the OSL debug level or the level part of that? So, that would just transfer from OSL debug level? Just if it was debug? If it wanted to have debug and have debug usual. The issue with that is, if you use the OSL debug level, you can use that without having the debug usual built. So, you can enable that quickly without rebuilding everything. And if you move that over to dbgutils, just to get these statements, you have to rebuild a debug build completely because it's interoperative between monitor and software. So, this is why I still like to use the debug level sometimes because it gives me debugging without having completely recompiled down to SEL. So, my feeling is that it's an interesting area that you know about. I don't think we can probably discuss debug levels all day without getting into any more fundamental architectural points of interest. And are we at the end? Is it half an hour short? Or is it an hour short? Perfect, we can talk about debug levels for now. It's a fair point. I think it's probably not one of the larger structural things that's good to get down. Cool. So, it's good to have things that students have, or easy hackers can storm through. I'm just slightly worried we have too few of those things at the moment. Also, those style info and style warning stuff with levels back there. For me, it was really interesting to just figure out what kind of debug stuff should I use to actually write something. I have now gone with the style info and warning because you can enable and enable them with an export where you can just style info it for how long it was. The style info and style warning is nicely documented so that's not a problem. It's just a very good few things. A good situation to get used to which debug is just and then also stuff to clean up, I think. You're so good to be a nice girl when you're thinking of the digital stuff. Fair enough. I understand. I'm an fprintf guy, but I hear there's a new client bug in to make my life better. That's cool. There's whole levels of strata of different bug. Let's try and move on. I think Michael had a really good talk on threading. At least from my perspective, trying to move as much as we can given the API service we have into rendering in a single GUI thread in idle handlers or callbacks or whatever makes some sense.  We just have this large theoretic fall exposure. What's your take? Come on, talk to us. What's the solution? We heard the problems earlier. If it was something we could do we'd at least inch towards something better. Diffrwch! The problem is that the GUI service is not legacy. So we can deprecate those and see what happens. But it seems to me that at least fixing the core so that we don't deliberately create situations where we rely on this ourselves to make spell checking or whatever some database thing were. I suspect that it's the less frequently used corners of the cave that have this constraint in them. The Java using database report building tool thing. You know? I don't know. I think be using threading or is it just remoting? It's a boring one thing. Have a remote channel into the application you have. Rather need to put it. Both are going to start one thread during the GUI. One is the one that you have one GUI dedicated GUI thread. Have no new text and everything that is working outside the GUI thread needs to send messages into the GUI thread for synchronisation. The other approach that has been taken here is don't have a dedicated GUI thread or have a solar new text that you pass around and with one of the solar new text long-term start acting as the GUI. Any kind of that when you have a remote channel in you always have a situation and you have multiple things going on concurrently and you need to coordinate between them. A lot of general structures are going to be much easier to maintain if you give up the solar new text token that every thread can acquire and instead of a new model where you have a dedicated GUI thread and such a primitive just go on from there where you have the external communication Do you think that the reworking junior to execute incoming requests at idle rather than in a thread is a prerequisite there? No, I don't think so. Do you want to face the main work of the recording and notation of the objects that I have with the logic of the solar new text? Right, okay. So if I had a choice of rewriting the implementation to defer work to the main thread and simply deferring the UNO incoming call to the main thread it seems to me like fixing the UNO would be somewhat as I'm fixing it. I don't think you'll get far with that if all that's good. Okay, but if in every single UNO call that could trigger some kind of graphical update we now have to defer not take a solar new text or ship to a main thread. That's basically proxying every single UNO method to a main thread, right? Is there currently the whole app that's protected by a solar new text? And if we have an infrastructure for doing that, it seems like you might fit too. I think my point is that if we have an interpreter's communication mechanism that we can hook and proxy then running your UNO implementation in the same thread so you put your UNO method and it goes immediately into the implementation and that implementation then says if in implementation am I in the main thread yes, no, do your own customer and code your IPC to the main thread to block there and wait and do it there and then come back again and then return to our abstract computer model. Is not a good use of the information we have for much better to block in, you know, use the apartment in your type start model to go over to a main thread next to you there, surely. So I think the threading is one of those particularly intractable ones but at least if we agree that finding existing uses of threads and killing them or pushing them, deferring that work in a different way. So I mean UNO has an apartment model at least so that some things can be. Okay, cool. There are other issues here. Other people have other issues. I have GL land frame and your priorities. I think we're going to make some areas on these links A signal slot mechanism. To me, the signal slot mechanism is really annoying. Is anyone using a boost signal anywhere? We need one brave person to use the first one or... Are we really not? Does it depend on if you can use C++ 11 or does it change anything? Definitely. C++ 11. Do we have signals and slots and things like that or not? Is that the use boost? Signals and signals. What do you mean if you have if you would like to have so the signal slot you are is starting to work? Yes. It may make a major difference if you can use C++ or not. That's a question. I don't know. Nothing about C++ 11. I defer entirely to Stephen. His answer was funny but not in a way I could understand it. I'm not sure how your signal slots work with relation to others. When we have Decal link which is possibly the worst in the world, right? It's... Can you say that again Stephen? What's over you with Decal link? It's not type safe. It's hard to read. It's not standard so you have to train people in multi-colonial means. Could we maybe make this Decal link a background signal? So you would still have Decal link everywhere but you would actually use a boost signal as an implementation and then you could slowly kill off all the marker users and make that all the ground before here. Would you pick like that? So there's two boost signal phases. A signal 2. A normal signal is deprecated. A boost 2 requires the library or a signal 2? My question was more about if this would be a last conversation and we are creating co-packed functions with one of our tool lines and one month later we will use a C++ C11 which introduce lambdas. So the second must call will remove all these one or two line of methods that may be easy to break the point when we allow C++ C11 and do of the co-marking on the end. But it was a question to see if this was a 11th place technically in Kenya what is the function of that? I'm thinking of use cases where there is a checkbox and a co-pack on the mouse that can keep bullying lambdas or something like that. Sure, sure, so you can see obviously you're having a clear line of sites but what level of how well does it map on to our deck or link or link or all these? Okay, I just run on you because it's an explosive on C++ so I don't know. Does anyone else know? I think it depends on the library. Does C++ is a feature of the library if it suffers some dust in some way? The C++ 11 feature is just about currently if you would like to have a function co-pack then you create a class with a single operator like it's a co-pack and then you write your single or few lines that go down and with C++ 11 you can have that with an anonymous class and all that in line.  Okay, so you see there's basically no clear answer but the boost signal is a lot better. We're going to get a body of mastery and everyone's boots could see nicely after that sort of question. So I use boost signals and they work, use them well. They have all the joys of templates as much as you can pile anything that includes anything that uses a template that gets a lot slower than you pile and there's a lot of links about that. You're on back. I think that's the difference and I'm pretty sure that boost and other boost signals that can be used in the nation with numbers. So anyway, no one is violently opposed to someone coming and doing a person cleaner but they're using this signal. What else? APNGL rendering? Okay, so the thesis is that our current rendering API is SAC and APNGL SAC is in a standard way and having API so that people know about is always a good idea and yet still wrapping APNGL to a degree so it's easy to use maybe in some ways, would be a good idea and okay, I think is that summarised it, Marcus? Yeah, it's just having another easy item that's based on the PR and the X-ray of some programs that we have. One example that's older but it is radiant because there's a user in these calls that you can consider and now I want to to work on it because it controls some load from the CPU to the GPU and you might be able to support some more complex stuff easier stuff made by gradients are more or less to be in all the GPUs of their operations and they are better so countless levels are not better than above they're finally having more or less better in the CPUs graph. So Alyssa, I think none of that is controversial assuming there are people to do the work no one is going to shout about it probably the more controversial thing is gradients stuff and throw away the non-GL backend stuff so we currently have a huge amount of duplicating extremely legacy code all sorts of people in the Linux backend at least Anyway it would be great to share that GL code across Windows Linux and iOS and Android. Yeah, so it's surprisingly one of those we get the best of the best support but one might be if you have one in all supported all six versions of mobile platforms it's a bit worse than it should be and then it comes in as a way to have some theory of code for the GL version so that's the question of the GL response something personally I have a problem so to a to a home-based line or at least to a home-based line personally I would to a home-based line but that would talk more less after I have users migrating from to a home to how much time we want to invest now So I guess in a place where people live business questions around how much we can afford to screw a very positive end to break Yeah, but at least of a home-based line there are a few users around that use number 4 but it's like I think you can't come to them and I think it's very easy to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to So feasibly it's going to be 6 months before anything happens here before we ship anything so it's a sort of new process of 5 different versions Yeah, but in some way I think we have no other solution but we have to replace the exhaust and so on and I think all of the other projects are going to go at some point and the LLVM pipe future does that fix the problem for us or Linux? Can we just say? I don't think we need an ESC core and we don't need one next week either so cool Okay, but we still could viciously savage our desktop integration people don't have GL for example to kill much of the KDE and you know back ends Yeah, for teaming we use the LGTK API to render out to peaks maps and then stick the peaks map over our existing BCL with the GTK3 and kind of hoping that I can allow against GTK3 to natively open up our dialogues and just render them itself or existing widgets into wraparose around the native GTK3 maps that's kind of a real going with that but when it comes to that what do we do with GTK3 or KDE4? I mean rather than just using the X-cars or existing GTK3 integration and continue to try and fix that up to just use the actual GTK3 or rendering stuff and not using the great X-cars I mean that was pretty much done but I haven't looked at it to see that it worked horribly recently I mean it's still been on so that's something that we can better look at releasing the GTK3 slightly things and see what kind of skills we can but I need to look at it to be able to give a useful answer Cool, so we've rambled the model, we've not gone anywhere above BCL but really up to that Any other major break in those things that are obvious that we can do is refactoring as KT maps higher up in the stack any big churnable tasks we're pretty much in the hour so it's like unwinding the bitmap stuff if when we do the GL backhand rule we solve that and we'll try to get alpha into bitmaps when it's split out yeah various pinups I guess otherwise design-wise I think we're getting in a positive direction still Cool, so thank you for showing up that was a tough and very efficient Have a good day


A 12-week blended course in the use of drone technology sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, is currently under way with officers from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development. FAO consultants, leading the drone training, Dr. Kim Baldwin, concluded five days of intensive face-to-face sessions, teaching the team of technical officers professional flying methods for risky environments using international standards for drone technology. Dr. Baldwin explains that this technology consists of a multitude of applications which can be used to simplify processes within the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development. So what the team here has realized in the first month of training is there a multitude of applications. Just this week we've discussed of how the drones can be using for mapping farmlands, looking at vegetation health, stress, pests, but also being able to use it for larceny, monitoring, surveillance, enforcement, using the drones for disaster management, insurance claims, using it also for climate change. We went out, we mapped sargassum seaweed this week, so you're able to map the abundance and quantity of sargassum that's washing up on the beaches. That's a national priority, not just here in St. Lucia, but across the whole Caribbean. Deputy Director of Agricultural Services, Barry Innocent, says the training in the areas of drone flying and safety practices, mapping and modeling is another breakthrough for the agricultural ministry in achieving its goal of increasing climate resilience and sustainability within the sector. Due to the topography of the St. Lucia geographical context and the fact that hurricane seasons come and agricultural officers sometimes have to go and get data in extreme sensitive areas when it comes to how dangerous they are, the drone technology has proven to be something that can get us the data we need quickly and safely. Areas that an agricultural officer or a field worker cannot go to get information, a drone can quickly go in there and take it in a much quicker time. Food with the software is attached to the drone. We can provide data on various things for us, from topography to soil type to vegetation and also even pest and disease to a certain extent. So the drone technology provides a good caption of relevant and significant data that gives us or allows us to make informed management decisions about agricultural sector in St. Lucia. Upon successful completion of the training in July, the team of technical officers would be certified in drone flying. It is expected that the agriculture ministry will realise its ultimate goal of knowledge sharing and capacity development among other officers in the agricultural sector. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anisia Antoine reporting.


And we also put a weather station in the forest, in the jungle, and we real-time sent the wind patterns of the Amazonian rainforest. And we blend this all together and create the winds of Yavanava. Winds of Yavanava is last year's most successful NFT project, blockchain project. We raised 2 million dollars for the transparently-owned web tree, no institution, no bank, just from artist to artist to Yavanava. So we are now creating an open-source AI research, not only for Yavanava, for any indigenous people, that they would like to preserve their language with technology, to be sure that we are all equal, and we all exist together at the same time. So my most important message to deliver about AI is to be sure that it is a mirror, and AI will exactly reflect who we are. So it's not about AI, it's about humanity. But the same technology, I do believe, can be used to create possibilities, can be used to solve certain problems. And as a hopeful mind, I do believe that we can bring inspiration, joy, and hope for humanity by using AI. It has to bring indigenous as a sterile wisdom. It has to be inclusive. And since the moment I became an artist, I always believed that my art should be for anyone, everyone, any age and any culture. And to make it happen, I put humanity in the center of my imagination. What's happening on social media is making the offline world more dangerous for women and girls. And so it used to be the case that extremist misogyny was sort of segregated onto dark corners of the web. But over the past six years or so, we've seen a lot of misogyny spread from places like Reddit onto mainstream platforms like TikTok. And now jokes about things like violently abusing women are not only commonplace but considered hilarious as part of youth culture on TikTok. And I think that that is incredibly dangerous because I think that what it's doing is it's normalizing violence towards women and abuse towards women offline. And the reason is because we know that social media is also a place where we can empower ourselves. Social networks are places where people connect with other people in our fields, find jobs, get involved in important social justice movements. It's a place where many kids develop interests that turn into careers. And so I think what we need to demand is for tech companies and lawmakers to fix the problems with social networks and to make them better places for women and girls and people of all genders. One of the things that a lot of people may not realize is that when women use social networks to try to bolster our careers, we often end up with fewer followers, fewer reposts and fewer resulting opportunities like speaking engagements than the men in our fields. And I think that this very much reflects a deeply rooted bias that causes people to turn to men more than to women for expertise. And we need to actively change that. So one thing that we can all do is make a conscious effort to follow more women and to amplify the posts of women when we appreciate them. I also think it would be a good idea for employers to recognize this disparity and to think about making a conscious effort to repost the posts of women's staffers in their organizations at all levels. I think it's a really bad idea to comment directly on those posts because that will only boost their engagement, which sends a signal to social networks that people want to see more of them. But if you know someone who is posting inappropriate content about women or other topics online, I think it's really important to have an offline conversation with them about what's wrong with their content and help socially stigmatize the practice. That is where you post positive things about the woman to counter that hate. So you can post about her accomplishments in her career. You can post things that you appreciate about her. We have to send a signal to tech companies that we do not want to see this sexism and misogyny on their platforms. One way I think we can do this is by filing reports with them when we see their community standards violated. It would send a very powerful message to tech companies to register our collective concern and discontent with this this toxic content that they're hosting on their platforms.


I will talk about, I guess, I made a video a minute earlier, so I won't necessarily speak on it too much, but basically I was saying short the pound or my bias was to short the pound. And for those of you that may have missed it was the fact that fundamentally we know, what we know to be true is this, is that inflation rises, if that's inflation, then central banks will typically high crates, so they will high crates. Now, hiking rates is again, and I use the word typically and usually, because it's not necessarily always set in stone. There are reasons why some typical fundamentals don't necessarily have the desired effect on a currency's appreciation or depreciation. And this is one of those scenarios. And so because we have to understand that GDP, yeah, GDP is a factor in the ability for the central bank to kind of hike rates or a hike in rates has to be supported by rising GDP, right? A growing economy, yeah? So inflation puts pressure. So remember we've got the 2% target, yeah? So inflation puts pressure on the central bank to hike rates, but also you have to have a growing economy to be able to support the growth rate. A growing economy to be able to support those hikes, yeah? And one of the difficulties and the conundrums that central banks have, yeah, in stagflation for any of you and all of you that have done the short course and test and answering the questions, is the fact that stagflation is very, very, very difficult to, I guess, navigate for this very reason, right? Because in stagflation, you have rising inflation but you have, I guess, contracting GDP, right? So what is the central bank to focus on? Do they focus on inflation, yeah? Or do they focus on GDP? What would you focus on, right? If you don't hike rates, yeah? If you're looking to hike, hold or cut, right? The question is if you're hike, holding or cutting, yeah? What are the consequences for, let's say, I would say cutting is definitely out of the question. So let's say the two options that central banks generally have, yeah? Holding or hiking. So let's start with holding rates. If they hold rates, yeah? What does that do to, what do you think would happen to inflation if they hold rates? Would inflation go higher? Do you think inflation would go higher?  Marianne says higher inflation. Higher, yeah, yeah, pretty much everyone's on the money, right? And because obviously if inflation is above their 2% target and they're not doing anything about it, generally you should see inflation go higher, right? So what is the effect of higher inflation? What are you seeing right now when it comes to the economy, wherever you're living in the world? Because I think a few people were speaking about this yesterday in the group and when it comes to prices. So let's just talk about living standards.  Everything is more expensive, right? If inflation is 9% at the moment in the UK, things cost 9% more than they did last year. Right? So from that perspective, from that perspective, there's an issue there, right? When it comes to inflation and the direct effect that that has on, for example, a growing economy is gonna be the fact that people are gonna have less money in their pockets to spend, which then affects businesses, right? And slower growth, that's exactly it, Mr. Diligent. So Mr. Diligent says people have less money to spend in slower growth in the economy. Yeah, and because they're not gonna affect this, people aren't gonna take as many chances, right? People aren't gonna spend, and let me say chances, I'm talking about, people are not gonna necessarily invest in things, they're rather just play safe, think about yourself. Have you got money to start putting into the stock market, for example, right? You would rather spend the money on shopping and food and travel, right? You haven't got enough money to save you, but not necessarily you in particular, but people generally wouldn't, we're gonna go on less holidays, right? So that's gonna affect tourism. People have got less money to spend on things like clothes and things like that, right? So that's gonna affect retail. So it's affecting businesses directly, which then has a negative effect on GDP, yeah? So that's what happens if a central bank doesn't hike rates or looks to hold rates, right? Inflation goes out of control, it directly affects GDP. And so what you'll end up having is it might be start exacerbating GDP to the point where it might accelerate the downturn, right? If you don't. So then now let's look at, for example, what happens if they hike rates, yeah? So if they hike rates, what should happen to inflation? Should inflation go higher or should wanna go down? In theory, yeah, in theory. It should go down in theory, right? Correct. Right, it doesn't go down straight away, of course. Nobody knows when exactly it's going to come down. Everyone has forecasts and projections. And remember, the central banks only try to control inflation through monetary policies like hiking, holding, and cutting, right? And then it takes its time to work its way through the data, right? So they have to try to look at both. They're looking at inflation and looking at GDP. And then they're saying to themselves, all right, what's the bigger threat at the moment? So they look at the GDP numbers and they'll say, okay, well, GDP is at where at least positive, right? When it comes to potential growth, yeah? We're in a positive territory because two negative quarters would be classes of recession. So we haven't got a negative quarter at the moment. So with that, it's the lesser of two evils. So rather than either holding, yeah, and maybe trying to manage the economy, right? And hopefully give people a chance by not making things too expensive, but they run the risk of higher inflation or hiking, yeah, trying to drive down inflation, but the knock-on effect we're doing that is also, when you think about it is hurting or maybe compiling or piling pressure on an already potentially struggling economy, right? Because what then tends to happen is what?  And you already, inflation is already at, let's say, for example, 9%, yeah? So your cost of living is coming down. On top of that, yeah? You have rising costs, rising borrowing costs. So if you're getting, if you've got a variable mortgage and the Bank of England are hiking rates, even if it is by maybe 0.25%, yeah? That could be a lot of money, yeah? For anyone who has a mortgage, and especially it might be, I don't know, depending on the size of your mortgage or whatever it is, that could be anywhere from 50 pound to 200 pound, 300 pound, who knows, right? But that's less money in your pocket. And imagine they're doing that every statement. So every three months, you're finding out that your mortgage is getting more and more and more expensive. Yeah? So then that, again, exacerbates the cost of living crisis, right? So you've got a double whammy of rising borrowing and lending costs, yeah? As well as inflation. So again, as a central bank, what do you do? If you're a central banker and you're already in the country, what is the lesser of two evils? Holding rates, yeah? Or what's the bigger threat? So actually now, I'll go back to the original question. So what do you think is the best scenario, the best, what would you do in that scenario? Would you agree with what the bank's doing in hiking rates, or do you think that holding rates should have been the way to go? Is the diligence has increased rates? Anyone else? Marianne Sithaik? Yeah, it is a losing battle. This is exactly it. And if you look at the definition, you know, of stagflation, right? Stagflation, right? Stagflation is characterized by a slow economic growth and relatively high unemployment or economic stagnation, which is the same time a company by rising and then there was, right. So here's the definition I wanted to find. So in economics, stagflation or recession, inflation is a situation in which inflation rate is high. The economic growth rate slows and unemployment remains steadily high. It presents a dilemma for economic policy, right? That is the key. It's a dilemma, yeah? It's a dilemma, right? So Daniel says, increase rates if GDP can handle it. And that's exactly what they're doing, Daniel, right? That's the reason why. Because at the moment, if you're looking at GDP, it's still in the positive. Yes, it might be trending down, et cetera, but the fact that it's in the positive at the moment means that they're just all saying, do you know what, it's better that we try and hike now, yeah, and try to get inflation down because then by the time a recession does come, if a recession does come, yeah, then at least we would have got inflation down.  And a recession is way, is high. Because I don't know what you would wanna call that, right? Inflation is still at 9% or 10% and rising, but yet you're in a recession, that is just probably the worst scenario you could possibly be in, yeah? Worst scenario to be in. Now, I say all that, yeah, to go on to, you know, the fact that all central banks at the moment are pretty much in this scenario to varying degrees, yeah? To varying degrees. Some are worse than others. Some have better GDP than others, yeah? And some don't. Some have higher inflation than others, yeah? So everyone's in the same scenario because there's potentially a global recession. But when it comes to deciding which is the dog with the least fleas, yeah? That's ultimately what we're trying to do in currency land, yeah? We're trying to see the differences and the divergences and to, again, to keep it really, really simple. Who's the best? Who is the best of the worst, yeah? Who is the best of the worst? And one of the currencies that I thought was, you know, is a sell, yeah, is the Great British Pound, GBP, yeah? That is pretty much one of my sell trades. Now, again, you know, it's just a trade idea, right? It's a trade idea. I don't know whether this is going to, but if I'm looking at the pound and I'm looking at the issues that they have, yeah? The issues that they have in comparison to, you know, some other currencies, like for example, the dollar, you know, like for example, Canada, yeah? The pound is the worst off out of those two. Are they the worst? No, but for me, they're one of the two. And one of the things that really, I would say solidifies this is one second, right? Sorry, right? So in the UK channel, right?  This is, you know, our research. And one of the things, one of the videos that came out, which was quite interesting was, in fact, the Bank of England to do less due to weak economy and this was from more than Stanley. And pretty much it echoes really what I was thinking myself. And it's because, and let me just explain this quickly, is because, and you'll hear it from them, is that they can't hike as much, yeah? If they are facing a downturn, right? So generally when you're on a, when you're hiking rates, you generally, what's known as a hiking cycle.  So central banks generally don't just hike once, they hike, you know, three, four, five, six, seven times, eight times, et cetera, right? Depending on how, what happens with inflation. Now, when you have a scenario where inflation is a, you know, 9% for example, very, very high. Obviously you're looking for that 2% target. But GDP, right?  The problem is, is that if you hike too aggressively, it could send your economy into a recession quicker, yeah? Because it's compounding the economic effects that come with rising borrowing costs and rising inflation at the same time, yeah? So the Bank of England are very, very aware of this. So they don't wanna hike too much because, again, as I said, they could compound the problems of the economy, yeah? So that was my thinking, going into the fact that, you know, we had rising inflation, but the pound I was saying was still a sell, yeah? Welcome, Jarbred, by the way. Is Jarbred still in here? Yeah, Jarbred, welcome. Since blessings. Yeah, right? So the reason why I was also short on this was because I understood that the Bank of England have a massive headache on their hands, yeah? Because they don't want to kill the economy before it's actually got started, yeah? And although, as we know, generally, hikes, yeah? Rate hikes are generally positive for a currency in this scenario, in this scenario, in fact, sorry, rising inflation, right, which leads to hikes is positive. In this scenario, it's not so much because of the effects that hikes are going to have on GDP, yeah? So it's really, really important that you understand the relationship between all three. Everything else is just, you know, leads to this scenario.  So, and again, as I was saying, what typically happens, yep, that would, you know, tend to typically appreciate a currency, yeah? But because rate hikes at this moment in time are probably hurting GDP and the Bank of England know this, the Bank of England are basically saying now, in fact, we probably may not be able to hike as much as we want to hike, because if we do hike and hike too much, too aggressively, we're gonna go into a recession quicker, yeah? So if you go back to the UK channel, go back to the UK channel, again, the headline is Bank of England to do less due to weak UK economy, right? And it's only a minute long, but I'll play this for you. Yeah, I'll play it, try and play it loud. There are a lot of focus on the Bank of England this week because there's a lot of data coming out on the UK today. They've had labor markets more as CPI and the market seems to be pricing in more rate hikes this morning than they were just yesterday because of the strength of the labor market. And what did you make about narrative? Right, so again, everything we've spoken about because of high inflation, the market is, they're saying that the market is pricing in those potential hikes because the theory goes and what we would typically see is higher inflation should lead to more rate hikes, yeah? That's what typically happens. But again, the headline being a weak economy, you'll start to see and understand, and as I've explained as well, why in fact Morgan Stanley are actually taking the other side of that trade, which is this. Yeah, so we have a different view at Morgan Stanley. We think the Bank of England is ultimately gonna do less on the hiking side because the economy will ultimately be weaker. So today's data doesn't fit that narrative as maybe well as we would have liked, but it's just one data point and we do think UK consumers are still being hit with a very significant cost of living increase. You still have some major uncertainties around trade and the evolution of Brexit and you still have some energy uncertainty. So we think all of that will ultimately drive a weaker consumer backdrop in the UK, which will ultimately mean the Bank of England does not hike as much as the market currently expects. There you are, right? There you are. Now, who am I, right? I'm just Leon Rowe here in, I mean, in my home telling you what my theory is, right? I'm not the smart, it's sort of smart, you know. Yeah, but you are Ambassador of Kwan. Tell me the money, man, come on. Right, and this is just one trade idea, right? I could be wrong about this and also as well, there is market timing, right? Because sometimes you're gonna have a trade idea. Many times we have trade ideas that don't necessarily play out when we want them to because timing is a very important part of our trading, right? Because we're trying to time highs and time lows. So we're trying to time turning points. But, you know, my opinion on the pound is that it has further to fall. And again, if you look through, you know, cut through the, I guess the headlines and understand, for example, you know, some of the quotes that we're seeing and even from the Bank of England themselves, right? Talking about, you know, significant shocks. So the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey reiterated that those risks when told UK lawmakers on Monday, a significant income shock was playing out in the UK, which would ultimately push up unemployment, right? So that's yet to happen. But these are the smart of the smart guys. These are the smartest guys in the room, right? And it's, again, you see here, right? So markets are still pricing in a strong degree of tightening in the UK even after Bank of England flagged increasing risks of a recession in its MPC meeting and its last MPC meeting, right? So the Bank of England are saying basically what I'm saying here. Yeah, the risk of a recession increases as faster the more hikes you do.  Because if, you know, if interest rates are at, what's the Bank of England interest rates at the moment? Is it 1% something like that? I think, is it 1% guys? If it was at 1%, let's say, right? But that isn't an inflation is still going higher. Then the conundrum is that, okay, what do they do? Do they hold rates? Or do they still continue to high crates and potentially compound recession or bring the recession forward? This is the headache. This is the problem that they have. Now, it's our problem as well, but it's our job as traders is how do we make money from this? How do we make money from this trade idea? Yeah, do you buy the pound? Yeah, do you buy the pound based off of rate hikes? Or do you, you know, continued rate hikes and what the market is potentially pricing in until it doesn't? Or do you maybe try to get ahead of the story and risk maybe being maybe a few steps ahead and maybe, you know, having to miss time the market at certain levels. So one second, right? Because ultimately, what are we doing as traders? Right? What's my approach? My approach is this. Yeah, let's say, for example, I've got short on the pound New Zealand, right? Pound New Zealand, oh, sorry. Right, that's where we are. Now, so what I'm doing, I say this all the time, this is just from a supply and demand perspective. I've already got my bias, so I'm looking to short the pounds. Yeah, so I know that that's the direction I'm planning. Now, because my bias is to the short side, I'm only looking for short trades. Now I have no idea whether, you know, the first trade I take in this trade idea is gonna net me a thousand pips or not, right? I have no idea, yeah? It might not even work out there, right? It might just go down a little bit and I might get stopped out. But ultimately, if I'm right about this trade idea, and even if I'm wrong about this trade idea, there's always gonna be pullbacks to make money from, right?  But the point is, is that if my bias is to the short side, all I'm looking at is taking those types of setups. I mean, I'm taking stop hunts that go in the direction of short trades, yeah? And whether I make money or whether I don't, when I do make money or when the trade idea does play out, then I should hopefully make, you know, 10, 15, 20 to one type trades, right? Or even more hopefully in swing trade these, yeah? So, it's not, it's our job as traders to pick a direction and see where the potential downside is and whether this is, you know, a bargain for the New Zealand dollar, yeah? And whether the market agrees with us or if not, if the market doesn't agree that that's a bargain, then maybe it might be the next level up. It might be the next trade up. But ultimately, if we're right about this trade idea and we can capitalize from it, then we should have lots of downside, you know, potential.


O'Dell Beckham Jr., this thing has been going on literally throughout this entire season. Where's O'Dell Beckham Jr. gonna land? Who's gonna sign him? Who's gonna bring him on? Is he healthy enough? And it was sort of seeming like it was trending to him getting ready to sign with the Cowboys or the Giants or the Beals. Those were of course the three teams that he visited with. And apparently a couple of weeks ago it came out that both the Ravens and the Chiefs they were also keeping tabs on O'Dell Beckham Jr. as well. So he had his visit with the Giants. Things were quiet. He had his visit with the Beals. Things were quiet. He had his visit with the Cowboys. Did all of a sudden it comes out? Hey, well we don't think that O'Dell Beckham Jr. is gonna be healthy enough to play this year. We got some concerns over his health. And at first I was like, well, I could agree because the way that this thing has been just, it's been being carried out and been drawn out and whatnot. It almost does seem like maybe O'Dell Beckham Jr. is more focused on next year, not even necessarily more focused on next year, but his availability will truly be next year, not even next calendar year, but next football season year rather than this season. But it's still to be determined. Then I was thinking, hold up, NFL is a very nasty business. Why didn't I hear this about the Beals? Why didn't I hear this about the Giants? But we heard it from the Cowboys. And the Cowboys have been the team that has openly expressed having the most interest in O'Dell Beckham Jr. So coincidentally, when he visits with them, now all these reports come out that, oh, they're concerned about his injury. So could this be that they are actually concerned about his injury or could it be that they're trying to scare these other teams that may be interested in O'Dell Beckham Jr. off? So that's up to you to determine. Now, I do think they are legitimate concerns about his injury, about his current health status. Especially because this thing has just been taken so long. Like it's been taken forever. And we are at the very end of, oh, that's so sad. We're at the very end of the football season. We're very close to the end of the regular season and playoffs are coming and Super Bowl are coming. Then, boom, we started all over, but we're getting close. So for O'Dell Beckham Jr. to join the team, it's like, okay, the clock is ticking. So we'll see what happens with that. But as far as these Baltimore Ravens, because the last thing that we talked about was when the report came out that the Ravens were having conversations with O'Dell Beckham Jr.'s people. And I was thinking when this sort of newest report came out today, I was like, hold up. We never talked with Team Keep It Clean about the last report that came out about the Ravens and their O'Dell Beckham Jr. sweepstakes. But as far as the last report from, what day was this from? This was from a couple of weeks ago. No, actually, excuse me, from last week, from last Friday. It's from Jocena Anderson. And you know, Jocena Anderson, she has been covering O'Dell Beckham Jr., not even just this year, really throughout the entirety of his career, really, his NFL career. She has been on it, but especially with this whole situation, she is his go-to reporter. She got all the information when it comes to O'Dell. But from last Friday, she said as indicated in the video in the previous tweet, so she's letting you know, like, hey, you want the information? You got to watch the podcast. You got to listen to the podcast. So I did that. I did listen to the podcast from last week, then I listened to the one that she just dropped today as well, just to make sure, see if she said anything different from anything she tweeted. But anyway, she said as indicated in the video in the previous tweet, Ravens already discussed with O'Dell Beckham Jr. how he'd fit in their offense, what to expect from Lamar Jackson over the course of a game recovery status of his knee. My understanding is their focus is on his ability now and evolve from there. So again, that was from last week. And so just to break that part down, how'd he fit in their offense? So if you are possibly trying to bring somebody in, especially at wide receiver, like as for Ravens, they would have to do extra selling for somebody to bring them in at the wide receiver position, especially a notable name like O'Dell Beckham Jr. Even though he not 100% right now, you still have to do extra to entice him on signing. So with O'Dell Beckham Jr, again, my hopes would not be high for the Ravens assigned O'Dell Beckham Jr. And even if for whoever signs O'Dell Beckham Jr, I just, I don't think the focus would really so much just be this year. I think it would really be next season because how much can you really expect O'Dell Beckham Jr. to contribute to your football team?  Next season is a different story, but how much can you expect right here right now? But anyway, how'd he fit into their offense? So I'm sure they would explain to him about the targets or lack there of the limited amount of targets that he would receive as a wide receiver, what his role would be as a wide receiver. Would it be sort of a, an Anquan, I don't know why I said Anquan Bowden. I'm so sorry. I've met Deshaun Jackson. I am so sorry. I don't know what made me say Anquan. Anyway, would it be more of a Deshaun Jackson type of role where he's out there maybe like 10 plays and like maybe two or three a drawn up form for Deshaun Jackson's case for him to go deep for O'Dell Beckham Jr. It could be a different number of things. They would just have to let him know how he could fit in. The other part, what to expect from Lamar Jackson over the course of a game? That part was really interesting. I was like, what does that even mean? What, so that, yeah, I didn't understand that. What to expect from Lamar over the course of a game? So is that more of his play, his style, what he normally does, his tendencies or whatnot? I guess it could be those things. And then recovery status of his knee. I think that's the most important thing because if, so much depends on that. Cause that's his health. If he's not healthy, he can't play. No matter what team you signed to, no matter the contract. If he's not healthy, he can't contribute to anybody at all. So I think that that's the most important thing. But anyway, and she ended it off with my understanding is their focus is on his ability now and evolve from there. And then again, like I told y'all, when I watched the podcast that she was letting people know to watch that said all that stuff, she literally said the exact same thing in her podcast. Well, no, that was in a report that she did from either the Beals or the Giant Stadium. I think it was from Giant Stadium. But anyway, then today, shout out to my guy, Eric Henry. Eric Henry, he asked Justina Anderson. He said, was there ever any more updates regarding Odell Beckham Jr. and Baltimore? And that was from today. She said, well, that was from early this morning. That was from 11 hours ago. So it was really early in the morning. Eric, what you doing up so late? Anyway, Justina Anderson replied. She said, conversations continue. So conversation between Odell Beckham Jr. and Baltimore Ravens, they continue. And she said, listen to the podcast and watch the video, it's in there, scroll back. But yeah, so pretty much the same thing that she was saying last week, the Ravens are still in contact with Odell Beckham Jr. What this means that they're still in contact with Odell Beckham Jr. They still keeping tabs on them and whatnot. We haven't heard of any visits being scheduled, anything like that. I think that's when things would be more serious when you start hearing about visits. But talking is just talking. And talk is cool, but talk is talk. And again, wherever Odell Beckham Jr. ends up, if he even ends up anywhere this year, because she, in her podcast from today, she talked about like how would Odell Beckham Jr. She said, he obviously had the visits with the Cowboys, the Bills and the Giants. But she said that he's on his way home to sort of take a little rest from all the visiting and stuff and think about some stuff. So I'm really thinking like, hmm, it's December. Today is December 8th. They're not even 30 days left in this month. That's why my expectations with Odell Beckham Jr. for this season is low. Because again, not that he needs to rush anything. He not that he needs to rush a decision, but the fact that he's just again, taking a sweet time, taking a sweet time with this whole thing, it just doesn't seem like things are being thought about for this season. But again, that's just my opinion. That's just how I feel about it. So we'll see. We'll see. Anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all so much. I appreciate y'all so much. Thank you for being who y'all are. Thank y'all for supporting the channel. Shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons and shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean channel members. I love all of y'all. I really do. Thank you for what y'all doing. Thank y'all for being so special and always being respectful, no matter how you feel about whatever the conversation is that we having on here. I love y'all. Make sure y'all love y'all selves and love each other. I appreciate y'all and we out.


Hello. This unit studies the role of the lexicon in generative grammar. It shows how lexical aspects help to solve various problems with ungrammatical or strange sentences. In the virtual session, which exhibits two e-lectures and several micro-teaching videos, we will show how the lexicon interacts with the phrase structure component and will discuss the aspects that are necessary to define the legitimacy of lexical insertion. If you don't know where to start, use the question sheet with the hyperlinks in it to be guided through the virtual session. The mastery worksheet is an identification task where you have to insert the appropriate verbs into local syntactic trees. It shouldn't be problematic after the virtual session and of course by means of applying your knowledge about phrase structure. The practical, another one typical for syntax, provides you with data with words and sentences that need to be specified in detail before they can undergo lexical insertion. The whole unit is fairly complex but provided that you make use of all its components and with your knowledge about generative grammar at hand, you should manage.