Hey, what's going on? Welcome back to Conversations With Carrie. I know. I know it's been too long. I know. But honey, let me tell you, when Lord gives you something, He will make sure that if He wants you to share it, He will make sure that you share it. And that's what I'm here for. So how you been? How your mama doing? How your daddy doing? How your cousin and them? I wanted to come on today to talk specifically about when admitting your weaknesses is actually your strength. And I wrote about this recently on my blog, so head over to Carrielead.com to take a read. But I also just want to talk with you, and it's based on the story in Exodus 17.  You know, I feel like last year while it was very difficult, I didn't really face any sincere moments of isolation. And I actually faced that recently, I would say, within the past two weeks. And I was just kind of feeling like I was feeling lonely. And when you're a strong woman to admit that you feel lonely is a different level of vulnerability for me. And even when I'm just admitting it to the Lord or like to a family member or to someone like, you know, that's really close and in my inner circle from a friendship standpoint, it doesn't make me feel good. And it made me feel weak, to be honest.  I knew what to do. However, I needed more than that, if that makes sense. So let me first tell you, so I turned to my word.  You want me to be open with you and share my heart with you. Like, don't share with it. It ain't everybody's business to know how you're feeling, all that kind of stuff. Because also you want to make sure you're not making decisions based on your feelings. But when I turned to my word and I was just like, Lord, I'm feeling kind of weak. I don't like feeling this way. I felt like I know better. I know what to do. And I know that these are feelings and feelings are fickle. And I felt like when I turned to my word, I was like, oh, I should feel better after that. And he actually took me first to 2 Corinthians, the 12th chapter, verse 9.  We don't know the details around exactly what it was. And I love that they don't tell us what it was because, you know, each of us can relate to it in our own different way. But ultimately in verse 9, when he's talking about my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness. I'm like, yes, the Lord wants me to take my weakness, take what I perceive as my weakness. He wants me to take that to him because ultimately the Holy Spirit is my strength. And so I was like, okay, I agree with that Lord. But that didn't immediately make me feel better. And the Lord brought to my mind, call sus and such. And now listen, I'm not one to be special when I'm feeling lonely.  But I was like, you know, when somebody says, Carrie, you can call me at any time. I rarely take them up on that offer, but I knew I needed some support. This word is feeding me. And I know the Lord has strategically placed people in my life to be a support that can reiterate what the Bible says. So I called a confidant and a counselor who has been helping me walk through some things. And when I say that, you know, she just prayed over me and she confirmed even like, yeah, like what you're feeling that that that can happen. And I really appreciated that. And then the Lord took me to Exodus 17. And in Exodus 17, he took me to the story of when Moses was helping Israelites fight the Amalekites. I think I said that right. Y'all know I'll be jacking up the words, but I'm pretty sure I pronounced that one correctly. And this is a story where we find that Moses was instructed to... He told Joshua, hey, choose some men to go out and fight.  We find it in Exodus 17, verse 11. So it came about when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed. And when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy. This is verse 12. Then they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. And Aaron and her supported his hands one on one side and one on the other. Thus his hands were steady until sunset. So again, I'm going to read verse 12 again because that's that's where it's at. But Moses' hands were heavy. Then they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. And Aaron and her supported his hands one on one side and one on the other. Thus his hands were steady until the sunset. And Joshua and the Israelites won the battle. So picture this. Picture this. Lord tells Moses, I want you to take the staff in your hand. You're going to hold it up. As long as you hold it up, the Israelites will win. But as the arm starts to fall, then the Israelites are starting to be beat. So the enemy is winning. And you know, I don't know about you. I work out. I try to stay pretty fit, but I can't hold my hand up like this literally for hours while people are fighting up on the hill. And he had Aaron and her with him. And again, I may not be pronouncing the name correctly, so y'all got to bear with me. But he had them with them up on the hill. And they saw that our leader is struggling right now. Our leader is showing his weakness, which is not a bad thing. Instead of them maybe judging him and saying, oh my God, we're totally going to lose.   And you get on this side, and you get on this side. And let's hold his hands up so that way we can prevail. Now that, my friend, is that's community.  Lord, I see your word here. I know what it means, but I'm still struggling. So the Lord will send you some support that can hold up your right hand and hold up your left hand to help you get to where he has you to go. Okay? Like the Lord, I love this story and I get excited about it because it didn't take, you know, Moses didn't go have to call everybody in a mama. He didn't share his business all over the place, but he just had his inner circle, his inner people that were going to help him, you know, be able to be a leader. Now keep in mind, the power was not in Moses. The power was not in Aaron or her. The power was not in the staff. However, because God could have changed the whole situation. God could have been like, oh, yeah, let me just go ahead and, you know, y'all fight and I'll make sure that you win. But I think we see one obedience and we see the purpose of community and also understanding that you can't do it all. You're not meant to do it all. So as I was having my isolated moment and I'm reading my word and I'm kind of like, okay, Lord, I'm reading my word, which we know that this is powerful. And the Lord wanted to speak to me straight through that. And that was it. That was great. But he also has placed people in my life, a sense of community, to make sure that I can have people who are speaking life into me and can pray over me and help me get to where I need to be. So that's why it's important to attend a Bible based church and to know that, you know, to know that they're preaching the word and not turn into social media or not turning to your other coping mechanisms. We have what we need. And a lot of times the Lord will place people in your life to help you get to where he has you to get so that you can prevail. And you might think, Lord, that's an odd way to do it. Can you have just put your hand down there and taken care of it? The Lord could have sent an angel to talk to me in my bedroom. I probably would have passed out. But he could have. He could have done anything to make me feel better during that time of need. But one, I know that he saw me and he brought to my mind, call us and such. All you gotta do is call that person, say that you can call her at any time. Take her up on that offer. And all she did was reinforce what is already in my word. And but sometimes it helps to hear it from somebody who's wiser than you or who has gone through a similar situation. Like the Lord gives us community for a reason. So as you face any moments where you're feeling like I'm just feeling weak or I'm feeling like isolated, maybe you're feeling lonely, whatever that looks like, tap into the resources that God has created for you. They're there for you. He has placed this here for you so you can prevail. He will have somebody holding up your right hand and somebody holding up your left hand and make sure that they have something that you can have a foundation on, that you can sit on, that you can turn to and pray about. Like he will set that up for you.  It was never designed for us to do it on our own. You know, as Lord created the entire world, the entire universe, the one thing he said that was not good was for that man should not be alone. So therefore, if the God of the universe says that, what makes you think that you're meant to do this all by yourself? No, my friend.  Get your heart. You know, some people who are going to be like, hold you up no matter what and we're going to support you and also do what the God has called us to do.  Ask him, Lord, what should I do? Don't try to do it all yourself. Just like Paul said, it's when we're weak, it's that the Holy Spirit will show up strong for us. He will be there for us. So I encourage you, please leave a comment down below. If you need any prayer or you can email me, you can hit up my website, Carolee.com, whatever it is that you want to reach out. I'll be happy to pray for you and be sure to like and subscribe. Thank you for tuning in. Be blessed.


What's your favourite memory for making this particular series? They're all great fun, you know, when you've got the privilege of making six different films with six different genres and different talent, pools of talent, none of them, you know, they're all fun, so I don't know if there's one single moment. Something like when we were talking to Jodie Foster for the first time, that would be a, certainly that's a moment, wasn't it, that's like a, that's a career high. That's a career high where you're trying not to scream, it's Jodie Foster, so that would probably be up there.  Was that your inner voice? That was my inner voice. It's Jodie Foster, it's a bit Punch and Judy there, isn't it? It's a bit Punch and Judy, which is telling. Is it? Put a little bit of your age, maybe. Do you guys have any, like, concepts or episode ideas that didn't quite make the cut this time? Sometimes when we're doing a season there's ideas that are sort of brand new and just spring up almost fully formed, it seems, and then there's other things where Crocodile is one, for instance, this season where it was an idea we were wrestling with for a while and we couldn't quite work out how the story would work and then suddenly you sort of have a little Eureka moment where you think hang on, hang on a minute, let's throw out what we think about it so far and you sort of see it from a different angle. So it's difficult, they tend to be concepts that stick around for a while and then sort of suddenly become useful. Often when the panic sets in, you're like, oh god, there was that idea about, there was that idea about the thing, honey, that sings when you eat it. Let's do something about that.


Hey guys, welcome to Rotor Riot. My name is Drew Camden, President of the company and I wanted to talk to you today about what is Rotor Riot and what can you expect from us in the new year of 2019. Rotor Riot is dedicated to FPV freestyle. We want to grow the community and the culture of this hobby that we love so much. Most importantly, what you're familiar with is the show here on YouTube, but there's more to us than that. We have a retail operation where we try to provide pilots with all the parts that they could need to do what we do. We have a line of original and licensed products. We do QuadBox, which is a subscription box, and we also do QuadCamp, a whole series of educational initiatives. So what can you expect from all of these things in 2019? Let's talk about the show first, because I'm really excited about a lot of the big episodes that we have planned, and I want to introduce to you the official cast of Rotor Riot for 2019. First off is Kevin Doherty, who goes by Stinger Swarm. Kevin used to be a skateboarder, and you can really see that and how he approaches the tricks that he does. He'll find the thing that everyone else says isn't possible or isn't worth the amount of crashing, and he just doesn't care. It's usually some sort of crazy power loop. He is the power loop king after all, and he will throw his quad at this trick over and over again until he nails it, and it's always impressive. Beyond that, Kevin used to be a commercial airline pilot, so he has a really extensive knowledge of aviation, and he also did instruction for flying full scale planes. So outside of the show, Kevin does a lot for the educational programs in QuadCamp. Next up, we have Bot Grinder. Bot Grinder is a really unique dude. He brings this punk rock vibe. His flying is raw and aggressive. He is also one of the coolest guys to be around. He is super down to earth. He wants to grow the diversity of FPV. He really wants this to be a hobby that anyone can enjoy, and that's something that we all believe in. Jeboy Vortex has probably been flying RC stuff more than anyone else on the team. He came from collective pitch helicopters, and that's something you can see in his style. It's very aggressive, very technical, and he's also a pilot that doesn't let the fear of crashing get in the way of his flying. He is known as the Bando King because he has made so many epic flight videos from the many abandoned buildings found in Detroit. You're going to learn something today. Joshua Bardwell is a talented pilot, but he is even more well known for a massive library of video content that he's created to help people learn how to build, tune, fly. Everything required to enjoy this hobby. He has a talent for taking the complex and making it simple and easy to understand. He has also developed a number of products with this exact same approach, putting simplicity and user experience first. If you only know him from his educational content and from his products, let me also tell you he is just an awesome guy on and off camera. He's a pleasure to be around, and he loves flying and he loves sharing that with everyone. Tommy Tabahia, a.k.a. Oh my God. When I think of him, I think of precision flying. Long locked in lines over the ocean, snappy acro moves that always end perfectly on axis. He's relentless about precision and refinement. Whenever Tommy puts out a video, you know it's going to be something extra special because he has put a lot of time into thinking about everything that he can to make it something unique. You see this same meticulousness and originality in the products he's designed. Tommy has come out with multiple frames that challenge a lot of the standards of frame design using a mix of materials and atypical architectures. Tommy crafts frames that don't fly like anything else. They fly just the way that he wants them. Our newest member of the team, Corey Tapp, goes by cricket FPV. Feels like he came out of nowhere, but he is hungry to be one of the best FPV pilots. He pushes himself to do tricks that you don't see a lot of like backwards dives. Things that you just assume he's got to be lucky to pull off, but he's actually practiced it to the point of consistency. The best part about flying with Corey is that just as much as he pushes himself, he's pushing you. He's always trying to egg you on to get you to try new things. He wants to see everybody push themselves and improve their flying. And lastly, myself on screen, I go by Lydrib and I want my flying to flowy. I want all of the tricks to just melt together. My favorite thing about FPV is how it blends art and science. It takes technical skills to build and fly these machines and it allows you to create this visual aesthetic art. We've got some really exciting content coming this year. So if you haven't already, hit that subscribe button to stay up to date with this channel and the bell icon if you want to be notified of every video that we post. Now, be on the show. What can you expect to see from us this year? First off, our retail store, store.rotoriet.com. We want to provide FPV pilots with the best selection and shopping experience. Everything that you need to do what you see us do on the Rotoriet show, we want to help you find it. Whether you are a beginner or experienced, we hope that we can help keep you in the air and enjoying flying. Beyond just selling parts for FPV drones, we also create them. We have partnerships with manufacturers in the industry that lead in innovation and quality. Our biggest product line is hype train motors. Of course, motors are what actually spin the props and make the thrust, but we also believe they're the jewelry of the drone. They should look good. Hype train motors are specced by the Rotoriet Pro pilots. The signature versions are tailored to their exact flying style. So no matter how you want to push yourself and your flying, we have a motor for you. To learn more about our selection of motors and other hype train products, check out hypetrainfpv.com. Now, if you can't get enough drone goodies or you're always looking for a good deal, check out Quadbox. That's a monthly subscription box and discount club. As a Quadbox subscriber, you get a box of FPV stuff every month. Tools, cool t-shirts, stickers, and parts for your drone. And then you also get access to an exclusive highly discounted website where you can find really good deals to keep your fleet of quads up and running. If that sounds like fun, head over to quadbox.com to sign up. FPV can be a really technically challenging hobby. If you're just starting out, there are a lot of learning hurdles that you have to get over before you can even get in the air for the first time. And even once you're experienced, you'll probably keep encountering little problems and issues that you're not familiar with. So for that, we have QuadCamp. QuadCamp offers online streams and classes as well as in-person seminars to help you learn to build, tune, fly, everything that's involved with this hobby. In the new year, QuadCamp is going to create even more educational offerings such as a part 107 training course for pilots that want to use FPV drones or really any sort of flying machine for commercial operations. Check out quadcamp.com to see our schedule of online streams as well as in-person seminars. We might be coming to a city near you. Alright guys, thank you so much for tuning in to learn more about Rotorat and I hope that you will stay tuned to the channel. Again, remember to hit that subscribe button and bell icon. We have a lot of exciting content coming and I hope to see you there.


One thing that took me many years to realize, even after years of dating and approaching women, was that the highest archetype, the highest personality in terms of attractiveness, is not the strongest guy and it's not even the bad boy or the charismatic guy necessarily. The highest level of personal attractiveness is actually wisdom. So what does that mean? While I was growing up, I was under the societal impression that people who are attractive are the beautiful celebrities, people who have really good looks and money and just the stuff is what makes them. This is actually very ironic since you eventually realize that people who are wise often have material abundance and physical and mental fitness but it's not the things themselves that make them attractive but the characteristics that they embody as people. People also confuse the idea of being attractive with being novel or short-term interesting. When I say attractive, I don't mean something that looks good at the moment and again it's novels or you get interested in it for a short while and then that interest disappears. Kind of like chocolate, you eat a bit and then you're like, okay I don't want to get near that for the next few hours at least. What I mean is something that is consistently attractive and interesting over the long run.  So that's the kind of attractive that I'm talking about. And it's actually again wisdom, it's being smart. Now people confuse that with intelligence. There are a lot of really intelligent people like high IQ that are actually very foolish and not wise and lack maturity. So that's not the type of intelligence that I mean. I don't mean how good are you at IQ tests or with a math problem. The kind of intelligence and wisdom that I'm talking about is your ability to adapt to your environment to quickly learn to scale up dominance hierarchies meaning you know how to become the best at something because again you learn extremely fast and you know how to implement. It's your ability to think critically. All of those combined make you the most attractive person both to specifically to females and also generally as a person because people are attracted to those who have the potential to climb up dominance ladders which means they have the potential or they already are the best at their various fields. When specifically, I'm talking about women here, but when specifically people see in you that you have that ability to adapt and change and improve yourself extremely fast and efficiently they intuitively know that you're like an investment. You're a person who is going to keep growing at an extremely fast pace and everyone wants to be on that ride. It's a lot more efficient to be aligned with someone who's not yet that successful but quickly climbing up with ravage enthusiasm and wisdom than aligning yourself with someone who is already successful but stagnating and kind of sitting still and just sitting on what he has. And that's why wisdom again is the most attractive characteristic of them all wisdom and the ability to make sense of the world and adapt quickly.  All of them read a ton of books, all of them are highly industrious, entrepreneurial. These are people that spent their life improving themselves and honing themselves until they became those people that are like kind of like celebrities but it's not that Hollywood has raised them. They actually stand on their own. They don't need to appease the masses. They don't need to be on the Hollywood agenda. They don't need to have somebody prop them up. They represent themselves and build themselves up. Again think of your favorite YouTube channels, your most, the people you admire the most who have the best lives and are surrounded by the best people with the most abundant resources. These are all self-made people that the main characteristic they share in common is again their ability to quickly adapt and learn and ravage hunger for growth and knowledge. And you'll see that, you'll see that again specifically for a guy and the reason for that is that women evolutionarily, they generally mate with men who are on their level or higher in terms of dominance, meaning it might mean different things in different contexts but what it usually means is status, so success. But you know there's a group of geeks for them, status could mean the guy who's the best video gamer but you know and for athletes it could mean the most athletically fit person but generally in terms of group dominance it's someone who's wise and learns quickly and is able to adapt is going to dominate any environment that he goes into based on that fact. So when you talk to a woman and she sees that in you, she sees that you are inquisitive and quick learning, very keen and wise, she will automatically start smiling and being really interested in talking to you. This is something that I've noticed especially as I got wiser that the more keen for knowledge I became the more quickly I became to adapting to learning and improving myself and making the right choices the more people suddenly started to trust me, offer me help and want to be around me because people start viewing you as the father, as the one that helps the men make the right decisions and protects the women, again that's from a mythical and evolutionary perspective.  So pick up that book that you know you should be reading. Pick up the habit of reading for three hours a day at least. Today my biggest ambitions are things like speaking eloquently and using the most precise words I can use to share my ideas and transfer them into other people's minds because language is extremely important. That's the way I'm communicating with you. Things like knowing my weaknesses and studying things that actually make me feel bad because that's where the unknown is, that's where growth usually is. It comes with time and it comes with age but if you're over 20 by now you should start developing a system of how the world works based on you, kind of a foundation of philosophy of life and it's not going to change very much as you grow older but you need to start building on top of it. So whatever assumptions you have right now start going against them. Start actually seeking information that contradicts your point because the more you find out how much you don't know the smarter you become exponentially. The faster you realize that there's an infinite amount of knowledge out there that you know not the tiniest bit of the totality of knowledge. The quicker you realize that whatever your opinion is it's wrong and the reason it's wrong is because you think it's a fact and you've never studied the other side, you just really like that side of yours and you know that because you think that your side is definitely correct. So pick up a book about something that goes completely against what you believe, that disgusts you and notice how the quote unquote opponent actually makes pretty good points as well and I don't just mean any of your opponents, I mean pick the smartest one. So it's extremely profitable to grow your wisdom and I don't have any more words currently to articulate for how and why you should start now if you haven't. So I hope this video helps you as usual. If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them below and I'd love you to go on a coaching call with me. It's free for a limited time so just go to the link below and sign up and if you haven't subscribed yet here's your chance to. 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But when one of these stocks starts to run, they all start to follow and, you know, becomes a domino effect of, you know, movement. Expect them to kind of pull back and kind of consolidate, but these stocks don't digest. These stocks don't consolidate. These stocks just go straight up, right? So this morning I was shorting BBBY. That to me felt like the weakest sympathy play of AMC. And then I ended up stopping out for a loss. The stock went a little bit further than I thought. So I stopped out for a loss. And when the stock started to change trend, I started to get back in and I identified the key levels that I needed to break. And now it's rebounding like crazy because AMC is rebounding. So a lot of these stocks, guys, they're very difficult right now. A lot of these stocks are bouncing further than we expect. We thought that these meme stocks couldn't make the same move again. We thought that these meme stocks were, you know, pretty much over. But if there's anything that I've learned about these stocks, they are way stronger than we ever anticipate. The meme stocks are a sector that is very, very difficult.


A Boston accent is hard for me to hang on to. I'd have to be living in it for a week for it to really take. I can do a Boston accent, but any time I'm doing an East Coast accent, it goes right back to my New York accent. Slips, cool. Nobody asked. The funny but foolish. With the funny but foolish.   You can follow us on Instagram, put up more juicy content, there's a Patreon post, you can subscribe, today we've got a best ever food review show. Love it, love it, that's why we watch it, love it, love it. This is a holy Indian street food, apparently. Wow. But not holy, like H-O-L-I, it's H-O-L-Y. Like spiritual, I guess. Bizarre to epic. Bizarre to epic in, say this name. Varanasi? Varanasi. Varanasi. It's Varanasi. What is that? That's the name of the place. Ah, like the city. Yes. Bizarre to epic in, what part of India? India, Uttar Pradesh. Ah, is that, that's mid, right? That's like. Mid up. North. Oh, it's north. Mid up. Okay. UP. You know UP. But I'm interested in the H-O-L-Y. It's basically like the Vatican city of India. Oh, hence holy Indian street food. Got it, I've been to the Vatican. Have you? I went to Rome.  Just because you were in Rome, doesn't mean you went to the Vatican. Yeah, it's a different city. Yeah. Small city in the world. Yep. How was that? I had a lot of cool stuff in the museum, for sure, yeah. Cool. I mean, I didn't meet the Pope. He was busy. Was Rome the only place you saw in Italy? Yeah, because we were only there for four days. Got it. And so we didn't have time to branch out, unfortunately. That's, that whole trip we went to Ireland and I'm right all over Ireland. I forgot that Italy was part of that trip for you. Yeah. France, which was Paris. Yeah. And then we went down to Italy. I could go back to Italy. Such good food. Greco del Toro is where I wanna go.  That'd be amazing. I wanna go Naples, cause that's right next to Greco del Toro where my family's from. 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Even though there's so many people gathered, there is a certain tranquility to this place. Like this rent or bhati stuffed with chickpeas then cooked in flaming cow dung. How it renews when it dries out, it is an excellent combustible material. Let's back up a second. Oh, that's an old boat. No kidding. The city of Varanasi goes back over 5,000 years before history- Just like L.A. Okay, we are right now in the streets of Varanasi. Going past me right at this moment is a human body. This is a holy city. Film of spirituality, ritual and old souls transitioning to their final resting place. Is that where Vicky's film was made? It's a lot of films, seven films. Yeah. In the sacred Gajis River. But first, I'm gonna find something to eat. Good morning and welcome to Varanasi. A lot of films I've filmed there because it's a very old holy site. It is one of the oldest cities in the world and two is one of the holiest places in India. With thousands of temples and, of course, people walking here to the river itself. Varanasi, also known as Benares, or Kashi in ancient times, is the spiritual capital of India. All along the river and as you're walking here, there's just so many unique sites to see. People with different colors, patterns of tika on their forehead, people with ceremonial clothing, people who are coming here to hopefully get healed. It is something like I've never seen before. It's very exciting. Those who have journeyed to the sacred place perform rituals, descending to the river's edge by way of the god, an ancient stone stairway. Even though there's so many people gathered, there is a certain tranquility to this place. Here, they soak, plunge, or play in an effort to purify themselves. For most Hindu families, a vial of this water is kept in every house. So let's talk about food. India and Hindu is the majority religion and for some people that means no meat. Basically, since this is a holy city, we're not gonna find any meat today.  In just a moment, we're gonna pull up on shore, head into the city, and see what we can find. As soon as you get off the boat, people are here. Either they are pretty close back on or stripping down to get in the water. But there's so many different ways to worship, to pray, and to give gratitude while you're here. Beyond that, you can buy candles. You can buy incense. It's just like an unlimited number of things that you can see and discover while you're here. Today, we're starting our food tour with one of the city's favorite traditional breakfast options. In a restaurant that goes back well over 100 years. We've come to our first food. This is called Kachori Sabzi. The bread you see right here, boiling, frying in this hot oil. And then the sabzi. Sabzi just means a vegetable dish. Here at the Rambandar, they have two. And we're taken on boat. For four generations, people have been here making this dish. Can you imagine before the airplane, before the car, before Facebook? Is there anything before Facebook? Almost nothing. This place was here. This morning's eating utensil in Kachori. It starts with a dough made of lentil paste and flour. Love Kachori. And bread and deep fry. Let's scoop up two types of sabzi. Aloo sabzi with a potato base, spiced with fried cumin, also potato, bay leaves, turmeric, and other secret masalas. Then chole sabzi is made of seasoned black chickpeas. They also have green chutney, and they have a sweet tamarind sauce here too. Upon order, both sabzi are added to the bowl. The two sauces. Oh. That looks beautiful. Oh, scrumptious. Let's go for this. That's breakfast right there. Sabery. Oh yeah, baby. My taste buds are alive. That is spicy, it's sour. There's just tons of different seasonings going on there.  I'm gonna put this on my canine. I'm gonna grab some of this right now. The bread is brown. On my canine. Delicious. Even by itself, it's a treasure. I'm gonna scoop up whatever will stick to the bread. Little potatoes, some chickpeas getting in on the parting. All of it mixed together. Let's go for it. Crispy golden bread. Actually, I got some tamarind in there too. So we've got spicy, sweet, savory, sour, like every flavor holding in different directions. There's just so much happening in here. This is less than a dollar. You can get about three of these for one dollar. And that's one heck of a breakfast. The last thing I want to point out here, please call the police. You can't get a McMuffin for a dollar. Would you rather have that or McMuffin? Yeah. Okay, we are right now in the streets of Varanasi. Going past me right at this moment is a human body. In the spiritual city of Varanasi, perhaps no endeavor carries more weight than that of the proper and sacred passage to the afterlife. Evidence of this is seen routine in the city's narrow streets.   A lot of people come here for the last days of their lives, and that is something we just witnessed. Devout Hindus believe that if a deceased one's ashes are laid here in the holiest of the sacred city, their soul will be transported to heaven and escape the cycle of rebirth. This is pretty heavy stuff. When all you're trying to do is grab a quick dessert. Let's talk about lassi. Lassi is a drink, a snack, a dessert, and it's loved all over India. Here in Varanasi, they do it a little differently, and at this shop, they can prepare it 100 different ways. First, a bird and sugar are added to a steel mixing vessel and hand churned with a bit of ice until it becomes thick and yogurt-like. This place is over 100 years old. That is what's so interesting about Varanasi.  When the lassi base is ready, he portions it into clay cups. You could just drink it like this, but I'm looking for it. Ah... Ah... It looks incredible. I bet it's better with big, beast-tasty nuts. It's heavy, and it was hard-burn-inducing. But this is what's going to bring you back to life. This is kind of the deluxe version. It's got a little bit of everything, but here you can order 120 different types of lassi. Are they super fast? No, not really.  The thing that makes this place kind of cute and unique is inside there's passport photos of a lot of people. My favorite part about the passport photos is it's a lot of pictures of people looking stern, a little scared. That is different from when people actually tried this. This is awesome. It's a great snack. It's a dessert. It's whatever you want it to be in your time of need. This is pun. It was once thought of as a symbol of Indian royalty, and this food goes back more than 2,000 years. This third generation shop is non-stop, kicking out different varieties of products. I've not had a good time yet. I have. You can try following along and making your own at home. Let's give it a try. Today we're going to get silver on made out of silver. Sunny in this moment has no idea what this is. Sunny who does voiceover knows everything. Let's cut to voiceover. This is always the base. Add kata, then channa, an infusion, a saffron, and slaked lime to help binding a belief. You're not doing a mixture. Oh, I love nuts, especially D's nuts. How's your palm looking at home? Good? Okay, let's keep going. Next, rose petals that have been cooked in sugar. You all know already, rose is not my favorite ingredient ever, but that is a lot of roses. Then fruity green candy, some green chutney, more candy flavors, and finally this...  This is metal that indicates world team and second place finishes. Oh, this is the silver. This is the silver pun. I know what you're thinking. Something usually has to get the bronze pun. And maybe I can't get the gold one, but I'm going to keep saving in one day. Last, garnish it with cherry and coconut shavings. And this is the most packed, confusing after-dinner mint I've ever seen. This is a very unique food. I think a lot of people eat it here after dinner and it's a great after a cigarette if you're trying to hide your smoking habit from your wife or girlfriend. I'll tell you that. Oh, that guy's talking to the camera. I've got it right here. It's a one-biter. Let's go for it. What kind did you like? The one that was made fresh for us at a Bengali festival. God was making it right here for us. It was so good. It didn't taste like perfume? No. It didn't taste like something. It couldn't even taste like silver. That is a wild experience here on the streets of Varanasi. Very nice. It's just to do it. There's no flavor. Not even texture. There's nothing. Do you like pan and journey? Right here. You like pan? Okay. Padichuka. Nailed it. Our next street food is cooked in flaming cow dog. Like Ezekiel 4.9 bread. Do you have it? Very flammable. That's great. That looks delicious. Yeah. Right. That's interesting. Potato curry. It's a mix of veggies, spices. Eggplant, tomato and boiled potatoes. Add a bit of green chutney on top. And then the bread. Dipped in ghee before serving. Wow. Alright guys, I have my next food right here. It looks tempting, hot and spicy. That looks amazing. It's 160 degrees today. It's the perfect weather for spicy food. Let's try that. It's so powerful and so intense. And greasy and spicy. There's something super sour in there. What's interesting is if I was in Vietnam they would have some herbs to balance out the meal. Here our balance is just straight onion. It's like oh is that too spicy? You just eat raw onion then. Inside you can see the filling. It is that roasted chickpea flour. It's nutty, it has a very thick texture. The chutney is bringing something hot, something sour. In many countries you go to your average meal is going to be either designated spicy, savory, sweet. This is the one that wakes you up at night as you remember the flavor in your dreams. You're in a seasonal Missala sweat. It's all delicious. That is a powerful food with a kick on these streets. I like those leaf balls man. I love them. The Hindu religion itself has several sub-branches. Though some tenets of the faith seem constant. Most about Hindus are vegetarian. Though dairy consumption is still allowed and enjoyed widely. That's interesting. For those who follow the Hindu faith the cow is to be revered and it's seen as a mother figure. The cow provides milk and gives life. This is also why it's not unusual to see cows in the street even in major metropolitan cities. Right now we are deep in the alleyways of Varanasi. This is a local Indian confectionary where they're making about a dozen different desserts that people can buy on the street. India is famous for its desserts and their massive dessert making factories to be home. On the outside it actually looks like a delicious wheat flour dumpling but it's kind of a dessert dumpling. Here in another small corner of Varanasi the team from Jaikobal Mishan Bandar confectionary have been producing this unique dessert for over three decades. The filling is prepared right on the spot. Starting with Koya a type of cooked reduced milk. Next add sugar and ground clothes. That's where I love about India is whether it's meal food or dessert food they're always crossing boundaries and borders and kind of taking it to places I certainly wouldn't expect. Now the filling is thoroughly mixed and stuffed inside rolled flour sheets and contorted into their signature shape. Interesting. Now the healthy part. Deep fry for 10 to 15 minutes until they turn a heavenly crispy golden brown. In a separate pot filled with sugar syrup milk is added to remove impurities of previously cooked food particles and after adding a touch of rose essence it's ready. Submerge fry dessert saturating it completely. Dang! Wow! Geez, that looks like it's going to be dripping. A cow just walked through here and I'm hoping that it comes back to say hello. I'm not sure if this part of the cow's natural diet could be because this is still hot and just dripping with sugar. Yeah, absolutely. Let it squirt. It makes the things going on. Oh! It is filled with a hot syrup. It's like napalm. You got to be careful. It will leak out onto you. The best way to have any dessert in India is still blazing hot. I'm going to take another bite of that. Not a ton of clovey flavor. Actually there's some dairy in there which is nice, soft, creamy and then there's the rose. So you have this cool looking brown bottle of the souls of 10,000 fields of roses inside of the stuffing too. Only cow. I mean, actual... That's not even the one that came by earlier. That's a calf. Where are these cows giving birth? Are they just doing it on the street? I mean, that would be the most ultimate insane thing to see in the streets of India. Back to this. Let's take another bite. Oh, no. I got a mouthful of clove. I like the clove. They're eating Christmas candy or something. An extraordinary dessert. I didn't even know this existed. Getting to try it as you see a calf walk by even better. We have one more left. Let's get to it. We're now approaching our final food of the day. If I just show you each of the ingredients independently you'd never guess what all this is about to become. It has been an incredible journey throughout this entire day from the morning by the entrance to the river where people go and take a dip and worship all the way through these narrow pathways and alleys full of ancient history and foods and restaurants that have been around for hundreds of years. Here we have the final meal. This is called chat. Chat is a family of savory treats that are originated in India. They're considered snacks or starters. It's hard to explain. It's usually like a snacky item in India. It can be crunchy and dry or it can be kind of soupy like this. The soupy version is called tomatarchat and it packs a powerful, heavy punch. It is a beautiful mixture of ingredients. There is so much flavor in here and it is so heavy inside. This thing is like... Why is he being pushed? I don't know. Hot Tawa. They add ghee and ginger and a mushy mash of tomato and loads of spices. They mix in coriander, garam masala, chat masala, red chili powder, pink salt and even more ghee. Wow. Mix mash and mix again until it's ready. This is the base for this dish and it'll be put together with even more ghee, sugary syrup and a bit of lime. Hit it with a few more doses of chat masala and a tomato gravy. For texture, fried crackers garnished with even more coriander. Oh, cow! That is our final food for today. I love it. Before departing for our nasi, I have one more order of business to attend to. The Ganges. Iconic, holy and writing to all who seek it. The New York Times articles will tell you to steer clear. Writing the laundry list of afflictions that await you in these silty waters. But these are our final food for today. I love it. Before departing for our nasi, I have one more order of business to attend to. The Ganges. In these silty waters. But these are the same people who tell you not to eat street food. Is to risk. From the moment you wake up to the moment you're not off at night. I'll never be fulfilled to myself that at least I've played it safe. At least I dodged a hypothetical calamity or some imagined outcome. To certainty, I'd rather have a story for life. Well done. By the way, the moment I stepped out of the Ganges, I saw the algae soak steps, hit my leg, and I couldn't walk for two weeks.   Everything we do here works because of you guys. Click the link in our description to join our Patreon and receive exclusive benefits. This is my man, Pradeep. This is his shop. He is the boss of Pan. That could be a new food network show. Boss of Pan. Who needs boss of cakes? Or what is it? Cake boss? Pan boss. I'm just noticing there's a painting over here that says 75 years old. I'm curious, why not just write the year and establish? Because now you have to update the year every year. I don't think they've updated that for a while. I would absolutely recommend this. Hey, how you done? I don't think that hung was for us. I think that was for someone else.  That is it for this one. Thank you so much for watching. Okay. Once I stop, there's no pulled corn. I always enjoy his videos. Fun as always. I always enjoy his videos. Although, every single one of those looked absolutely delicious. Even the Pan? No. As long as it... I think it's the Rose. I hate... Rose flavor just tastes like perfume to me. I think that's what the turnoff is for. Ramel perfume. Here, it's a very distinct smell. Well, most Paan that's sold here, you can go to an Indian market and you'll see them having some Paan. It's been sitting out. You don't know how long it's just been... That was the first Paan we ever had. And it did. It tasted like it was just dunked in perfume. But then we add the one in India that also still tastes like perfume. It was much better. The one that was made for us at this Bangladeshi festival. Fresh ingredients. Better pizza, Papa John's. Bangladeshi was Bengali, Hindu. Oh, my bad. Thank you. If you can't hear us because she's not speaking, explain that more clearly. Yes, we went to a Sauraswati Pujo festival in the Bengali community here. And that's when we had Paan. But I know it... why it didn't stink like you said. Because the person used raspberry jam instead of something. That's why I liked it. That'd be much better. Keep the rose away. I actually... I forget what dish it was. We had to buy rose. And I barely put any. But I could still taste it. I was like, this would be fine. Just take the rose out. It's so gross. I hate it. It's a gross flavor. I'm sorry. It's definitely popular in India. The rose flavor. But man, I don't like it at all. No, I'm not a fan either. If that's why I liked his Paan, then that's the issue.  No, especially women. Because it's like a digestive. And my aunts used to put them a little buzz. Speaking of digestives, we bought the other day and I actually popped it in my mouth while she was making dinner. She was making dinner and I said you know what, I'm going to have a hajmola and I just sat down and it was actually post-dinner because I was having a digestive. India really loves digestives. I actually was enjoying it. But here, this is what she made the other day. She's been cooking amazing stuff the past couple of days. She's been cooking something new every day. Is that okra? Okra with mustard and poppy seed paste. You guys love mustard seed and mustard. She was making stuff. She was food processing it. Spicy cabbage. Looks quite tasty. It was amazing and ghee in the butter. I mean ghee on the rice. I don't combine my naan with rice because I'm married to an Indian woman. Well, clearly you've never had a burrito. Anyways, let us know what other videos we can react to. Those are Mexicans by the way. Not Indians. Same place? Tortillas. Tortillas is basically roti because they're so close to each other culturally on the planet. The similarities are funny but I've never once seen my wife. Tortillas? And roti? Roti is just a flaky tortilla. She uses tortilla sometimes like a roti. It's not that weird as you guys think it is. Also stop eating roast stuff. That's gross. Anyways, let us know what other videos we can react to down below.


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Coming back to history and philosophy of science and medicine, I'm Matt Brown and today we're talking again about Paul Fireabend and his book Against Method. We're talking about part two, which covers roughly chapters eight through fourteen. So I want to remind you a little bit of where we were last time. So Fireabend's overall goal in the book is to criticize philosophical and popular theories of the scientific method and the idea of science as a kind of rational rule-governed pursuit that can be sort of explained with one shared structure across all sciences and all history, right? History of science. He's trying to oppose that. In order to oppose that notion, Fireabend articulates a kind of methodological principle that he thinks no philosophy of science would agree to. He calls it counter-induction. Counter-induction is basically the idea that science should proceed, is a methodological principle according to which you should proceed by positing and pursuing and sticking to theories that go against other well-confirmed theories and go against established empirical data or empirical evidence. So this counter-induction principle is meant to be something that no sort of rationalist account of scientific method would accept. And he attempts to show us that Galileo and Galileo's defense of Copernicanism in particular is engaged in a kind of counter-inductive method. And he ends the discussion that we talked about last week with what's called the Tower Argument, right? So this is an ancient argument against the heliocentric model of the solar system against the idea that the Earth moves rather than being stationary at the center of the universe. And the idea is if you drop a weight or a ball or or anything from the top of a tall tower, it falls straight down. The same distance from the tower is where you dropped it. The tower is, you know, perpendicular to the to the ground. And if the Earth was moving, the Tower Argument goes, you would expect the ball to fall away from the tower at roughly the same rate that the Earth was moving, right? And there, I'll post some video examples of how this works. It's supposed to work. Okay, so that was last time. The Tower Argument is supposed to be evidence against Copernicanism was considered as a refuting evidence against Copernicanism. However, Galileo provided alternative interpretations of that evidence using his new dynamics, his new physical dynamics, and his new theory of what you would call relativity. It's the Galilean theory of relativity of relative motion to show that it actually was consistent with Copernicus, right? So he showed that there was a kind of natural interpretive assumption or natural interpretation packaged with the Tower Argument evidence. And that one could replace that with a speculative theoretical assumption in order to turn the evidence against the theory and evidence for the theory. Okay, so this week, right? Firehubbin continues the argument, but he focuses instead on instead of on the Tower Argument, he focuses on the telescopic evidence, right? So Galileo, of course, was one of the first to build and use a functioning telescope to study the stars, right? And to study the heavens, right? And he did a number of things such as study the surface features of the moon, but it was a planetary body with features much like the features of the earth, mountains and things, right? Mountains and plains and so on. He also discovered satellites around Jupiter, right? They were called the Jovian planets at that time. And these were supposed to be evidence in favor of Copernicanism. He also was able to provide alternative evidence to what seemed to be the case that you would expect when you observe planets like Mars and Venus, which sometimes are very close to the earth and sometimes very far away from the earth on the Copernican model, to vary in size and brightness, much more so than they do in actual observation with the naked eye. And Galileo was able to provide some evidence that using telescopic observations that things were closer than you would expect using naked eye observations to the Copernican model, okay? That's all very technical, complicated, or at least a little bit to explain, but the basic idea is Galileo used the telescope as a source of evidence for Copernicanism. What Fyrovin points out is that that is a really dubious source of evidence for a number of reasons. Number one, because there were good Aristotelian reasons to think that things work very differently in the heavens than they do on the earth, and including observation, right? Number two, because Galileo did not have a very strong understanding of the nature of optics, nor of the nature of the perceptual workings of the human body and mind, right? And so he didn't have very strong reasons for thinking that the telescope produced veritical or true perceptions rather than illusions, right? He didn't have good reasons to think it was more like, that it was more like natural perception magnified than it was like looking through a kaleidoscope or something like that, right? So that's another problem for the telescopic observations. Finally, many of Galileo's peers could not confirm what Galileo claimed to see through the telescope. And they saw different things, or they saw nothing at all. They couldn't make clear images out. They saw double. And even Galileo himself saw things that we now regard as illusory, including, if you look at the diagram in the book on page 97 that he drew of the moon, and you compare that to a photograph of the moon on page 109, you'll see that these are quite different, quite different pictures. Let me see if I can show you here. So on the one hand, right? Note this enormous crater in the middle of the picture towards the bottom. If you look at a similarly matched contemporary photograph of the moon, this is on 109, you know, there are some craters down here, but none of them are nearly as large or as perfectly circular as the one Galileo depicted. So even Galileo's telescopic evidence was not from contemporary standards, very good, right? So here you have a set of evidence. It does seem to support Copernicanism, but it seems to have its own host of problems. And yet there were the mutual fit between the apparently refuted thesis of Copernicanism and the apparently refuted observational technique of the telescope gave mutual support to each other and gave defenders of the view reason to stick with it, right? You combine that with Galileo's dynamics, which also went against common sense in various ways in its theory of relativity. And again, you have this mutual support between these different parts of the theory. One of the things that's going on here is that the Copernicans have to deal with the fact that the Aristotelian system of knowledge is very tightly linked together. So you have Ptolemy's Earth-centered astronomy, and that's what Copernicus is trying to reject. You also have Aristotle's physics, his theory of change and dynamics, which is a much more robust and inclusive theory than the one Galileo posited. It's true that Galileo's theory does help us think about the relationship between the heavens and the Earth, but Aristotle's theory of change is much more comprehensive. It doesn't just concern motions of bodies, but also concerns the generation and growth and decay of animals, the change of mental phenomenon, including perception, and a variety of other processes of qualitative and quantitative change united in one theory. You also have various theories of optics and perception, theories of theological accounts, all of which are mutually supporting system in the Aristotelian worldview. The Copernicans can't develop a robust alternative all at once. The astronomy comes first. It's not great. It doesn't provide a lot of predictive improvement. It does provide some easier calculations here and there as compared to Ptolemy, so it's kind of pragmatically useful, but not so empirically different. The Galileo's dynamics have some benefits, but are also extremely problematic. It would take centuries before you had a fully robust account of all of these things together that was a rival to the Aristotelian approach, but by that time Aristotle was not even alive consideration. Now, Fyroben does not tell us all of this in order to tell us that there was something wrong with Galileo. This is not a criticism of Copernicus, not a criticism of Galileo. This is an argument about the historical development of science, perfectly reasonable in one sense for what Copernicus and Galileo did. In fact, if we agree with most defenders of modern science that Galileo was right, then we also need to preserve the kinds of scientific strategies that Galileo pursued that made him right. Those strategies, Fyroben argues, are ones that go against modern theories of scientific method. Indeed, you can think about it this way. If the modern philosophers of scientific method had their way, Galileo would never have gotten off the ground. The Copernican theory would have been dead in the trade also to speak, and we would all still be Aristotelians. That's the main line of argument in this part of the book. There is also an interesting discussion about the church in chapter 14, and the other aspects of the Copernican Revolution in chapter 14. And so what's happening here towards the end of this is Fyroben starting to explore some of the broader ramifications of his account, including thinking about sort of historical change of standards of rationality, the relationship between ethics and social, the social good and science, and some other aspects like that that we'll get into more in the next two parts of the book. So that's a brief sort of introduction to part two of Against Method, and the main argumentative structures there are lots of details for us to talk about in class or in the chat on Discord or in comments on the video. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about that. Otherwise, I look forward to talking with you. And I'll see you next time.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says Taxi charges in a city consist of fixed charges per day and the remaining depending upon the distance traveled in kilometers. If a person travels 100 kilometers he pays Rs 700 and for driving 200 kilometers he pays Rs 1200. Find the fixed charges per day and the rate per kilometer. So in this question we need to find the fixed charges per day and the rate per kilometer according to the conditions given and the conditions given are that if a person travels 100 kilometers he would pay Rs 700 and if he travels 200 kilometers he would pay Rs 1200. Now let's see the solution. So first of all we assume that the fixed charges per day be equal to Rs X per day then we also assume that the rate per kilometer be equal to Rs Y per kilometers and we need to find the values for these X and Y. Now when a person travels 100 kilometers he pays Rs 700 so when the person travels 100 kilometers then the fixed charges would be added that is X plus 100 into Y that is he travels 100 kilometers and rate per kilometer is Rs Y so for 1 kilometer since the person pays Rs Y for 100 kilometers he would pay Rs 100 Y so the fixed charges plus the charges for traveling that is X plus 100 Y and this is equal to total Rs 700. So we have got one equation that this be equation 1. Then in the equation we are given that when a person travels 100 kilometers he pays Rs 1200 so the equation for this would be given by adding the fixed charges that is X plus the charges for traveling which would be 200 into Y since for 1 kilometer he pays Rs Y so for 200 kilometers he would pay Rs 200 Y and X plus 200 Y would be equal to 1200 since he pays Rs 1200 for traveling Rs 200 kilometers. So this is equation 2. So we get 2 equations X plus 100 Y is equal to 700 this is equation 1 and X plus 200 Y equal to 1200 this is equation 2. Now we will solve both these equations for the values for X and Y. To solve these 2 equations we subtract equation 1 from equation 2 and we get X plus 200 Y minus X plus 100 Y is equal to 1200 minus 700 this gives us X plus 200 Y minus X minus 100 Y is equal to 500 or you can say we get 100 Y is equal to 500 from here we have Y is equal to 500 upon 100 which is equal to 5 thus we get Y is equal to 5 now we will get the value of X by substituting Y equal to 5 in equation 1 this gives us X plus 100 into Y that is X plus 100 into 5 is equal to 700 that is we have X plus 500 is equal to 700 from here we get X is equal to 700 minus 500 that is equal to 200 so the value of X plus obtained is 200 and we had assumed X to be the fixed charges per day and Y to be the rate per kilometer thus we say fixed charges per day is given by rupees 200 per day then rate per kilometer is equal to rupees 5 per kilometer so this is our final answer this completes the session hope you have understood the solution for this question


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We're rebuilding free safety Minka. This team is way better. Are you kidding me? And hey, I actually get Aaron Jones this time.  I already got a 90 and there's that right end. Oh, this was the best thing ever could have Happened we're getting a 91. Oh that hurts because literally none of these players are better than what I have Catching is horrible, but he has like just burner speed. I'm gonna take Randy Moss 91 overall. Oh, I think that's a 91 if I take Warren sap. I think that's what that's saying, but I don't want Warren sap I want prime time fine. I'll take Warren sap. I know that's what I'm supposed to do It makes me have a 91 overall team too, so I'll take I knew see taking JC Treaders white to 92 because it's gonna move It moved my offensive lines. I'm out. Yeah, he went to left tackle. That's why that worked out so well I really just built a 92. No, no, no, so I don't want to retire from the event I want to play game.  Get there. Get there That was great great down feel coverage. Okay, he fakes spikes it doesn't get that. Wow This is a massacre already. Can we get there? Can we get there? Can we get there? I think he has negative 30 yards. Yeah, he quit already. That was a good one boys Hey, he's got Tyler boy down and cook Minshew Kendricks Jarvis. It's like all theme builders is the top threes But all right, we go play action right in the middle of the field is Aaron Jones Really really miss ran that route. All right The goal is for Gardner Minshew to have a perfect passer rating a 158.3, right? I think I'm gonna have to hit feel around this one. Oh No, that's a touchdown to X. Look at Aaron Jones unguarded. Is he there? He's there Aaron Jones Gardner Minshew is gonna have a 158.3. I promise it. You can't catch me Come on, man. Let's go on 4th and 19.  I think this is rollout.  Oh my god.  I'm gonna hit you in the backfield. It is irrelevant Third and 19 heater heater heater. I'm gonna use her mink up if he sends his tight end though. I'm in trouble He did not That corner routes open it goes Bruh Mike Evans, are you kidding me big blitz incoming? Oh Galvin cooks got a lot of room. Why bro? Why is this man getting yards? Stop calling audibles, bro. They doesn't matter Come on Lurked it with Kendricks. I didn't send the blitz that time. We got to keep Minshew hop All right, so Aaron Jones. I think should be open right off the clear Ah hey keep it up keep it up. I'm gonna hit him No, he dropped it. Oh, I just went from three for three for 90 to three four for seven We're gonna play straight coverage here. Oh, he goes with a handoff Good hit second and two.  No play action get to the QV He lobs one up, dude. I didn't do so hard. You got a fumble. Come on, baby I just saw it. I saw it late. I'm actually losing. I'm gonna score I'm gonna win by 35 points or he's gonna rage quit before that. That's my prediction right now with PA jailbreak screen right here, baby Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I don't think I've ever been so mad Slip screen takes me out for a lot.  Let's see if it's doable Tyler Boyd bingo.  Damn it. I was at two clock that predictions not wrong All right now. I actually execute the rollout pass. I'm lobbing it deep.  All right, I'm on Minka This is another run play Let's go Minka gets there. That's my last time out. Well, unfortunately He gave me way too much time Jimmy Graham is pretty open and he's just gonna get nice and easy out of bounds. Just depends how we play this Aaron Jones in the pocket Got the catch.  Get up there and spike it. I don't really know how Jeff draft champions runoffs work But that's too bad. All right, we're going jet sweep to Jarvis Landry. I think oh, no, it's a Tyler Boyd All right, I like it anyway. I don't think this is gonna be there, but we'll give it a go All right All right, and I think I'm just gonna straight up give this to Aaron Jones because there's a lot of room there Yeah, I'm just gonna give it to him even though that was totally the wrong read. Where's the read? Where's the read? Got him. Let's go Get to the edge. Oh, why didn't you block him? I don't really even know what this is But I haven't gotten Randy Moss the bold once so Somehow he just kind of screamed through the line. Let's see if Landry's there on this bubble. I think he is Okay, we had our block for about point two seconds and then we lost it fourth and 15 I'm thinking I can just hit Aaron Jones. I could probably just cash money this in Aaron Jones Oh, it's not there, but that might be Oh my god Dude, am I like in the contention for losing this game? Well, I don't think I'm winning by 35.  Can we chill? Calls 3500 automals and he's Called 35 automals to get sacked back to the 37 third and 23 he goes play action.  This game is dumb.  Let's go. Wait. I can still win by 35. It's still doable. I So in my 35 rainy moss Let's go It's doable. It's doable. All right, we're up by 14 right now. I have not gotten a two-point conversion a single time yet So All right, he's wide open that makes it easy. I'm fine if he wants to keep doing that because watch I'm gonna bait it out He's gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna bait this one. Oh, okay. He didn't even try See ya person like 24. There's the 4th sack. I'm on Minka And that's a safety it's either a ragequit or I'm winning by 35 I Was so I was about to do it. Come on, man. Connection free has been lost. Why two free wins That was very good. Definitely one of the best teams I've ever played with in draft champions.  Hey two wins. I love it Boy, thank you for watching as long as I told you I do another draft champions If you really like it, I'll do more but this was more just a gimmick. It was just for fun. We're quarantine, man I'm getting bored too. Okay, so let me just let me have my videos. Okay, that's it boys. Thanks guys I'll see you the next one. Peace out


What's going on everybody got Kyle here with latent sports cards, and we are ripping this is the legacy of luminance four box mixer number six Um, we got random team style here guys did a randomizer for the break had Joseph M with the chiefs down to Luis M with the vikings. Good luck here guys. Let's see what we got legacy of luminance We'll start with the legacy Do the luminance second good luck good luck Again guys, we got Don Russel Lee coming up next still got 15 to go. I believe on that one Um, this one is quintin johnston first rpa nice one there for the chargers future's rpa quintin johnson to 249 Looking solid for the chargers man big target for herbie got prize prospects of rishi rice just scored He said vet that basic split okay lord. I got his first catch The rookie tight end Say venetary colts repeat anthony richardson It's a red clayton two number to 299 rookie for the cardinals got devon witherspoon on the rookie for the seahawks got prime CJ Stroud rookie jaren hall There's auto. It's going to be rakeem. Jarrett silver rookie auto that one will go to the bucks rakeem jared on the silver rookie Got lamb jack under the lights Right you guys still 15 to go on Don Russel Lee Get that one going next Joe montana blast from the past Clayton tune Come on give score He just got a pass for like 10 yards. There's a red chris godwin for the bucks 250 Nice got for the ages russ. Oh no Oops to 299 we got michael parson's cowboys got prize prospects addison vikings rookie Look forward. I don't think I don't know tank big speed rookie I think it was a little bit of everything a little timing issue. Oh, yeah, I've been the center. I don't know it was Maybe the center is just to wait for which coffee going There's a orange no one smith to 199 The Burt's got a garret wilson and quiche on Well jet's card there Take that silver many this one's going to be erin jones for the packers Got a for the ages of james harrison There's a travis kelsey nice gold atomic or yellow atomic number to 25 I sit there chiefs on the kelsey to 25 brine cook Oh boy Who's number zero? There's vikings the 150. I don't know who's getting bad called kraus on the yellow Mike ervin Who josh reynolds? I think All righty guys that'll do it for box one of legacy. This one is the legacy of luminance mixer DC is gonna be mad Yeah, right Hold on the ball, son Still got 15 to go guys on donress elite six box are coming up next box two Appreciate everybody who's filled up spots so far today hanging out with us in chat We guys are enjoying the uh nfl kickoff today, man No, we're excited There's a blue that one's almond raw it's a 50 for the lions for the ages got a um allen page base There's a silver mini jared golf There's the kelsey's um trav and jason will roll a dice for this one guys one two three We'll go top on these duels and uh four five six will go bottom on the duels We'll roll a dice for the kelsey bros This one will be four that'll go to the bottom The bottom on these generations duels ready guys. Good luck here Legacy of luminance mixer got elite donress coming up next we got um Got donress timo and a bunch of good stuff. That's a dare to tear Dare to tear it is going to be rookie dare to tear quinton johnson that one will go to the chargers number to 65 Nice one their chargers There to tear and red is uh mike evans Mike evans there to 50 Yeah, it has been a little quinton johnson box Congrats chargers like to dare to tear Jordan addison silver under the lights red at 299 durwin go nulls Blast from the past is bob lily Richardson rookie Say orange to um this one's a 249 ed read for the ravens Got a lamb jack under the lights There's a bronze erin donald's number 75 on the ramps bronze mini decade of dominance yellow to 150 is lt legends for the chargers The prize prospects tanner mckay another dare to tear Oh, no, that's rpa. Never mind Disregard it is to 100. It's going to be um jersey auto of kin anderson for the bangles We'll throw back jersey auto there for the bangles Appreciate that You michael grabbing some legacy, um You can john grabbing a spot in merlin Um boondestliga and iMac for the realtor on this week appreciate y'all Um still got 15 to go on our next one guys donress elite Paris johnson rookie munios Charbonne rookie This one is going to be kin kade 249 on the rpa dual jersey rpa for the bills Nice one there dalton kin kade new uh tight end Got bijon on the prize prospects Let's get some football spots moving tonight guys got a bunch of football breaks Um some cheaper ones. We've got some nt full cases Definitely check it out guys got some uh football going for the uh the new football today kellan winslow the kickoff Zach evans and christian gonzalez Alrighty guys that'll do it for legacy now. We got two boxes of illuminates Good luck. Good luck. Let's see what we got What's the better way to enjoy football being back than getting to a football break exactly Exactly See some of the new class here This one is my guy pacheco bright beginnings to 50. I'll be for the chiefs on the jersey pacheco Nice one there josh downs the 75 I like that uh parallel in the 75 josh downs rookie for the colts and stetson benet the 175 rookie rams And a nick bosa at a 50 for the niners this dude got paid today Not quite as much as burrow though. Wow Oh, did bosa get? Yeah, bosa got paid today. It was like 180 million or something. Oh, okay. So he's good to go though All right. Nice. Yeah, it's all chef there chef which we did that one earlier today I missed that Got our uh points got points coming. There's anthony richardson rookie This one is blue. It's going to be the 150 brine brie saints And we got 250 points that'll be random to all at the end of the break That should have been picked off and deandre hopkins unforgettable to 100 green of eric gray rookie for the Giants and our year one auto is going to be deuce vaughn nice one there for the cowboys on the red ink year one auto very nice And a engaged devon white. Hey, what's up? Wahoos? How you doing today, sir? You got some football on There's a yellow cooper cup number to 250 And jaren hall this one's going to be our rookie otter 350 vikings rookie qb And a michael parson's vestige. Hey, I feel that. Wahoos. I feel that. Yeah same. All right, you guys box two box two Moments or animation I'm down There's a zack tom. It's going to be our jersey to 50 vintage materials for the fence That's a sick chase orange little color match there to 50 Donning is this one to 50. Um jamar chase. Oh, I'm actually watching the heart and 175 dorian thompson robinson browns dtr unforgettable of mike williams Yeah, I definitely can't complain tonight, man Can not complain about some football being on So got 15 to go guys on our next one Let's get it uh filling up here This one will break next Bryce young base rookie another points card. This one is um, justin shorter on the rookie for the bills To 150 got another 250 points Random, uh, that one as well at the end and a elegance or sorry dynamic of hendon hooker Well, I thought that was already a thing I didn't even read it. I just thought that that was the name of the set in the parallel Well, I won't Anthony Richardson. Yeah, right with the human centipede. Yeah. Yeah got a orange chase brown to 50 Um bangles rookie and this one is lucas van ness auto to 25. That's a sick looking parallel there lucas van ness for the packers on the rookie auto and a jalen waddle vestige Another 60 out of 50. Oh, yeah another one chase brown. Yeah, there you go. Mm-hmm Here's a uh, gold or yellow to 250 gonna be kin walker auto. This one is shutter signatures for the bucks. It's gonna be um At his hardy nickerson for the bucks throwback there number 200 Little cream bucks jerseys and a fusion of um, gervante williams on the back All righty there guys that'll do it for the legacy of luminance mixer I'll do a quick hit recap and we got a random to all we'll do two. Um, 250 points cards This one is the 25 lucas van ness for the packers on the auto We had the um hardy auto to 100 shutter signatures Bucks to 350 jaren hall vikings. We had red ink deuce vaughn on the uh cowboys year one auto Dual jersey futures rpa dalton kin k bills. We have kin anderson jersey auto for the bangles to 100 Rikim jaret bucks and quinton johnson on the uh futures for the chargers Alrighty guys. Give me just a moment. We'll do a um random to all for two 250 points cards close out this break You roll the dice. How many times we'll go on it We'll go 10 times 10 times here on this one Random to all Top two top two in the random here. We'll get 250 points Good luck guys. I've got um all teams and stealers down to raiders. We'll go 10 Hey morning, Ian. How you doing today, sir? so one two three four five six seven eight nine And 10 we got ravens And the broncos bears combo ravens and broncos bears Alrighty guys, that'll do it for legacy of luminance four box mixer number six appreciate y'all


The opening of the new U Student Centre in D.C.U. was a presidential affair. President Michael D. Higgins officiated the ceremony while former D.C.U. SU president, Nile B. Hinnell, was in attendance, as well as his successor, Vita Maloney Burke. They joined Professor Brene McCraw, president of D.C.U., who spoke about how D.C.U. got this facility. The opening of the new U Student Centre in D.C.U. was a presidential affair. They joined Professor Brene McCraw, president of D.C.U., who spoke about how D.C.U. got this facility. The opening of the new U Student Centre in D.C.U. commercial with companies including, for example, the new Belongus Campus Shopping Institute. No government funding was used to deliver this facility, all self-funded, and, as I said, a testament to generosity. The process of creating the U began six years ago. Since then, D.C.U. has become an autism-friendly university. As the U evolved with D.C.U., it provides areas where all students can see a friend. where the president said, a project in terms of his university and making it a contribution of creating an inclusive darkness and accessible environment where students can flourish and take full advantage of their education. It's nice to have, like, just in between lectures and it's a really cool modern building. So it's great to have on campus. Yeah, it's really handy. I remember last year in between lectures, there was nowhere really to go, apart from the library or the canteen. So to have an actual place, we can sit down and just relax. It's really good. I mean, it looks nice, but it's really to form an opinion on how it's going to be in the future. Was it worth the wait? Yeah, yeah, I'd say so. But actually, I think the name is very good, the U. I think the facilities are very good. In my speech, I mentioned it in particular. Although the U was originally meant to open last year, it seems so far it's been worth the wait. I'm Cotch Caden with DCU TV News.


The first artificial neural network was designed to serve as a bridge between biophysics and psychology. Frank Rosenblatt called it the perceptron. Nowadays, machine learning can do much more than simple neural networks. In this talk, I will share with you three different strategies to use machine learning for hearing models. Machine learning instead of a hearing model, machine learning for a hearing model and machine learning as a hearing model. Two years ago, we were the first to use knowledge distillation for perceptual model. What is knowledge distillation? It was originally developed to replace a complex ensemble of neural networks with a single neural network. The ensemble acts as a teacher and the single network as a student. The teacher is accurate but slow and the student shall be as accurate but also fast. Here we have the Cambridge Loudness model. Like many good perceptual models, it is accurate but complex and slow. It considers the transfer function through the outer and middle year, calculates excitation patterns at the cochlear and several other aspects of loudness. Most of the computation time is spent on the excitation patterns and converting them to loudness. But all that this block in the middle basically does is to convert the spectrum to a single value. It's nothing but a non-linear regression from a high dimensional input space. And that is something where neural networks are very good and extremely efficient. And you can use this strategy for other hearing models as well. They just need to regress from one or two spectra to something else, for example speech intelligibility. We wanted the neural network to be simple so that it is fast. We used a multi-layer perceptron with only three hidden layers and each of them had 150 units. As activation functions we chose rectified linear units. So all parts of this network are simple but they are fast and they are good for regression tasks. If we allow parallel processing we can predict 24 hours of loudness within minutes with that neural network. That's a huge improvement from the reference model which took up to 50 days for the same task. But even with a batch size of one we are still much better than real time. We probably could already deploy it in a hearing aid or other small device and with hardware being specifically developed for AI it will only get better. By comparison it's quite unlikely that somebody develops hardware specifically for excitation patterns. In terms of accuracy we think that we have a good approximation if our errors are less than one decibel. We computed the loudness for about 2 million spectra with the original loudness model in order to provide target values. After that we trained the neural network on speech and on artificial sounds. We evaluated the predictions of the neural network for various sounds like aircraft, cats, rain other environmental sounds music but also speech because it's so important for our applications. So we evaluated it on several sounds that it had not seen before. In terms of levels most of the speech sounds and environmental sounds had loudness levels around 60 to 80 phone quieter segments did occur but less often. We set the music to a higher level in order to see how well the network generalizes to those higher levels. And here are the results. Each panel shows more than 100,000 data points, so you mainly see the outliers. The top row shows the results for clean speech and for speech of lesser quality both of the lib with speech corpus. The bottom row shows the results for the environmental sounds and for music. The outliers are mainly at the lower levels that occurred less often during training and that are probably less important for the applications. The root mean square error is less than half a phone for each category and that is pretty good and corresponds to considerably less than the one decibel that we had as a target. In audiology we are primarily not interested in a model for the average listener. What we want to know and what we need to know are the individual parameters for hearing impaired person so that we can use that personalized hearing model for our applications and active learning provides mechanisms to determine those individual parameters efficiently. A simple model of a hearing impairment is the audiometric threshold and that is probably the model that is used most often in clinical practice. Most sophisticated models take into account things like loudness compression also as a function of frequency hair cell loss auditory filter shapes or edge frequencies of dead regions. I will talk about dead regions because that test is an interesting example. A dead region is a region in the cochlear where all inner hair cells have died or have never been present. Its edge frequency is more complex to determine than a threshold because the responses do not directly give information about the model parameters. On the bottom right you see three psychophysical tuning curves for three example sets of model parameters. There are master levels and frequencies that are a good choice to discriminate between those curves so we should test them. And there are also points where the curves overlap so if we test there we don't get lots of information. The task in a dead region test is to tell whether a tone of fixed frequency and fixed level has been heard or not. We know that the subject can hear the tone in quiet but we mask it with a band pass noise or fixed width. Given the sound parameters X which are the master level and the mask frequency and the model parameters theta which are the edge frequency and the broadening of the auditory filters at that place we can calculate the probability that the tone is heard. In each trial we do not just want to query around 50% detection probability we want to present the master level and master frequency that are most informative about the model parameters. We choose that based on mutual information. Mutual information is the uncertainty of the response minus the expected uncertainty when the model parameters are known. So we want to probe around detection probabilities of 50% but only if the uncertainty stems from a disagreement between model parameters that we previously find equally likely before we obtain the response. We don't want to query there because we already know that the threshold is there and we have we want to discriminate between candidate models and not flip a coin. After we obtain a response we update our belief about the model parameters and we repeat the procedure. We start with some prior belief about the model parameters which you see on the top left. In our case we apply the uniform prior across the model parameters the yellow area. Based on the high signal frequency and an audiogram that we've taken before we can already exclude lower frequencies as candidate edge frequencies. The choice of a prior bears some ethical considerations too. We could choose an informative prior and reduce average testing time further but this could disadvantage those with an uncommon hearing loss. For scientific experiments we like a uniform prior because it does not introduce any bias. For clinical tests we need to make sure that outliers can still be tested within a reasonable testing time so we must not make a rare hearing loss too unlikely in our prior even if healthcare systems and insurance companies mainly care about average testing time. The middle panel gives our current belief about the expected detection probabilities for a given mask integrated across model probabilities and the right panel shows the mutual information. So for the first trial any mask level and frequency in the yellow-orange area would be a good choice. After 30 steps shown on the bottom right we're quite confident that the edge frequency is around 13 cam which is around 700 hertz. It works even better in simulations but most importantly it worked very well for our 14 human subjects. The three open symbols for the three runs are always close to each other which shows that the method is consistent. Three open symbols are also close to the method that we chose as a reference and when they weren't close other methods weren't either. That indicates that our methods method is both fast and accurate. Third part machine learning as a hearing model we're not the first to use automatic speech recognition for this purpose but we made some valuable contributions. This is what an off the shelf system looks like.  In our approach we wanted to shed some light into the black box and connect several blocks which set up our inspired by the physiology of our brain. We wanted a meaningful output for nemes that is why we used the timid database. We want for nemes because when optimizing a signal processing strategy of a cochlear implant hearing aid or hearable noise we would not know what to do when we are just told what the word error rate is. But we know what to improve and where to improve when we are told that for example s and f are confused and that is why we work with confusion matrices and measures like mutual information. You can download our ASR system from my github it can be run on any platform in your usual python environment and it is free. Let's assume we want to predict the phoneme at a certain point in time indicated by the orange line. First we transform the signal to a spectral representation just like our cochlear does. The next step that happens in our brain is the accumulation of auditory information across time. We model that by a causal neural network that converts the spectrogram before the current time step to probabilities for the current phoneme. It does not use any information of the future it is just like accumulating information that happened before. We do this for every time step to get this representation of phoneme probabilities over time. The yellow bit just before the current time step indicates a high probability for t and we are transitioning to something that could be u or e. It is not absolutely certain directly after the orange line. When decoding a longer sequence we use our memory. When asked for the phoneme at the orange line you would probably not only look to its left but also to its right. We model this by a second neural network that is centered at the current time step and that improves our phoneme predictions. Again, we get a representation of phoneme probabilities over time. To transform those phoneme probabilities to a sequence we use a hidden Markov model and the sequence that I randomly chose says terrible to witness. In our whole system the speech recognition part is only the second part. I need to emphasize that it works on any input that looks like a spectrogram. It can be the output of a first principle shearing model like the Mohr model, Bruse model, Zwicker model and even of Manohar's group developed a finite element model of the cochlear that we can predict speech recognition for electrical stimulation 100% computationally. Just briefly about the architecture of the networks. Both networks have two layers with gated recurrent units. The network does some average pooling at the start so that it can have a bigger window size and predicts the preceding and next phonemes too so that we can make the hidden layers consider the context. We achieve a phoneme error rate on timet that is comparable with similar architectures. We didn't optimize it further by more regularization because we wanted to focus on a reasonably quick training. We're also going to replace the hidden Markov model with an attention layer. If you are a student who is looking for a remote summer internship and are interested, then please get in touch. Here's the accuracy after the causal neural network for different input window sizes. It already works quite well when we have only 5 time steps at a step size of 2 ms or 10 ms window but of course it improves when we consider more parts of the signal. When we process those outputs through the non-causal neural network with a window size of 600 ms, the accuracy becomes the same for all window sizes of the causal neural network. That was to be expected because the output of the causal network with small input windows still provides useful input features and they obviously got corrected by the larger context. We interpret the differences between the two performances as a measure for the listening effort, so the amount what the memory needs to do. We can manipulate the processing abilities in a temporal and spectral domain. If we use only a fraction of the input notes which has the same effect as using a bandpass filter we confirm experiments from the literature that frequencies between 1 and 2 kHz are most important. Maybe more interesting a comparison between the ASR predictions and data from actual cochlear implant users. I don't want to go into more detail here and just emphasize that the green bars for the CI listeners are similar to the bars that were produced by the ASR. Tim will present more about this and our whole pipeline to analyze cochlear implant performance in a few minutes. Let me conclude with our contributions to machine learning for hearing models so far. We were the first to use knowledge distillation to speed up a hearing model. We did so successfully for loudness and others did so for speech quality, speech intelligibility, neural activation patterns. We developed Bayesian active learning tests for dead regions notched noise tests equal loudness contours which allows us to determine individual parameters of complex and sophisticated hearing models. Furthermore we developed an easy to use ASR system and we use it to optimize the signal processing and strategies and cochlear implants and other hearing devices. More will follow I'm already looking forward to seeing you again.