So yesterday, I was texting my friend back and forth, and we were having kind of a funny conversation earlier in the day, around noon. And I just got off seeing patients around 9 o'clock at night. We had not talked the whole day, and I sent them a really inappropriate text message that was funny.  I was just going to text you something similar. Now I think most of us have had synchronicity or these weird kind of meaningful coincidences in our lives. And there's all kinds of explanations and theories for what synchronicity really is. Is it a message from God? Is it something from the universe? Or just something indicating that you're in the flow of life? Even Carl Jung, who created the term synchronicity, believed that synchronicity was what he called an a-causal meaningful connection. So we never really know what the cause of a synchronicity is. No one can induce them on command. But the meaning behind them is so uncanny. They're hookups from the universe. They're just like these shortcuts from whoever or whomever or whatever force you want to think of. Well in this video, I want to share what I think synchronicity is and how you can trigger it more often. Hey guys, Alex Hine, author of the book Master the Dizzle. Now for me, one of the things that helped me create more synchronicity is these weird coincidences in my life was actually journaling. So it was journaling that not only helped me turn many of my goals into specific actions, but also helped me get more in tune with my intuition and in terms of how I wanted to improve my life or change my life. I really tap into whatever that feeling is, the body intuition. So I've included a free journaling worksheet and a series of emails that can help you begin journaling. It's the first link right there in the description. One of the craziest synchronicities in my life was when I was leaving China, I was 24 years old I think and I hadn't really bought myself any souvenir from the year living there besides a really cool tea set. So I'm in the Beijing airport and I'm just going through the bookstore because I had a couple hours for my flight and I picked up this one book in a tiny little bookstore filled with like pop culture books and the book was filled with like all these cool Chinese medicine practices and herbs and acupuncture massage, a philosophy on longevity and how to live to a hundred. And that book I took home was like about this this thick thousand pages and every Sunday for about five years I would spend two three hours translating it just for fun because I thought this was like this was the stuff I always wanted to learn since I was a kid. I would believe what that book was because I got that book at 24 or 25 I went back to school to do my doctorate in Chinese medicine at 29 four or five years later and guess what that book turned out to be the most important book in all of Chinese medicine. So think about the level of coincidence there. I picked the book up from an airport not a Chinese medicine shop. What are the chances they had this 2000 year old text? Very unusual. It was the one book I picked. I translated it for fun for five years and then I come to school and learn it's the most important book in the world for my profession. That's pretty insane. So how do I make sense of all this? How do you make sense of synchronicities in your life where you meet that one person at the right time where you get that hookup to your dream job and it was effortless. When you meet a friend you haven't seen in 10 years in the weirdest most unusual part of the earth. How do we make sense of these and how do we make them happen more often. So here are three things I know for sure about synchronicity. The first thing is that synchronicity indicates that there's some deeper force occurring every single day that links all humans and maybe other things too but links all people regardless of space or time and that's why sometimes you get that synchronicity and it's like a shortcut to your goal. Sometimes you meet a person in a completely different country that you haven't seen in 10 years that just statistically is not possible. So there is it shows to me anyways proof that there's a deeper force connecting people and that somehow nonmaterially we are all communicating in some way or some fashion in our world. The second thing I learned is that the way to induce more synchronicity in my mind the only way is by following intuition. I find that if I ask for things to happen whether through attention or prayer or things like that more synchronicities will occur but the only way they show up is nonlinearly from not from a logical sense like I can't control or predict when it's going to happen.  That's because we can't control it it's not linear. This whole idea of intuition synchronicity and the flow and it all comes when you least expect it or at least when you don't expect it but what I know for sure is that over the last six months as I've done exercises for my intuition and as I've been blindly trusting my intuition the number of synchronicities has been off the charts on a daily basis. I mean insane. Then the last thing I've learned is that intuition by itself which I know leads to synchronicity if you follow it.   It's like when you're dating someone or you're at a job and you get so caught up in some aspect of the person or getting paid a lot at your job and you're working so many hours you don't have time to think and feel do I even like this job do I resonate with this person and so the prerequisite for intuition is inner calm and the prerequisite for synchronicity is intuition. So here's your homework here's your mission to become a magical manifestor. The mission for more synchronicity is number one to spend more time writing down your intuitions. I actually track them now those ideas you feel in your body we're like oh yeah I should do that. So whenever I feel that I just write them down and then I do them maybe it says go to the bookstore maybe it says read that book maybe it says take that coffee meeting. You do that when express your goals write them down visualize them think about them as much as possible and then the irony the paradox is that let them find you because they will find you through a synchronicity that you can't predict but if you live when you know that it's going to find you it's a pretty crazy way to live your life. So I hope that blew your mind you guys I don't know if synchronicity is like a message from God or what it is but what I do know is that it's pretty crazy when it happens and it can be induced a lot more. So again for me the way I got started is by actually just journaling. I journaled my ideas I journaled my intuition I journaled all the synchronicities I had and I've included the first link there is a journaling e-course you'll also get a download of a basic worksheet but you'll get an email every three days on core journaling practices and how you can use it as a beginner to improve your life. So if that interests you check out the first link in the description you can also check out my recent videos right there and right there.


This weekend we host Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute and well-known Austro-libertarian professor, author and public speaker. Mark is a noted expert on the economics of drug prohibition, having authored the seminal Austrian treatment on the subject titled, The Economics of Prohibition. He's also a sought-after expert on the Skyscraper Index, which attempts to link urban overbuilding with economic busts. Mark and I discuss his recent experience as an opponent of the drug war at the Oxford Union Debating Society, his influence on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and how Wikipedia demonstrates a kind of stateless, spontaneous order, complete with private dispute resolution. Stay tuned. Welcome to Mises Weekends. I'm Jeff Deist, and we are very pleased to be joined this weekend by none other than our own Dr. Mark Thornton. Mark, how are you today? I'm great, Jeff. Great to be on the show. There's so many things I want to talk about right now. I want to pick your brain, but first I want to start with your recent trip to the UK. You were invited to the Venerable Oxford Union Debating Society, which apparently has been in existence since about 1823, and you were invited there, particularly because of your known expertise on the drug war and the economics of drug prohibition. So tell us a little bit about that experience and how it came to be. Well, it was just incredible, and of course it's a great honor to be invited to the Oxford Debate. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, there's photographs of all these people throughout the Oxford Union Debate Hall, and it's just amazing to sit in the same place and to put your hand on the same debating table as people like that. So they invited you to take the pro position that this house, meaning the Debating Society, Oxford Union, should oppose the war on drugs. How did it go, and what was the gist of your argument? Well, it went tremendously well, I think for our side. Each team has a student who makes the proposition or opposes the proposition, and then three team members. And so after the students went making the motion and making the opposition, I was the lead debater, and I got up and basically made the theoretical and historical case against prohibition, and I think it went extremely well for our side. I think I got the best laugh of the evening, and I got the best ending applause of the evening, and it certainly seemed like the audience was on our side, although technically we actually lost the debate. Do you have a feel for sort of the public perception of the drug war in the UK? Does it differ from how people view drug prohibition here in America? Well, I think it's similar. I think especially at Oxford, Oxford is the sort of the central training ground for English politicians. So it tends to be more statist and more for government and more for socialism. And so even the student body was leaning in that direction compared to other universities in the UK and compared to other universities in the US. But there's, I think, less of a war on drug culture over there, I think, in terms of getting drug policy liberalized in the UK. I think there's always been a stronger tradition there in the UK, and of course there's been a lot of noise coming out of the UK in terms of opposing the drug war. Most notably, the London School of Economics just published a massive study saying that the war on drugs needs to be repealed. What's interesting is I think the public on both sides of the pond is starting to view the drug war more as an economic issue than simply just a social or treatment or a public health issue. Obviously, you've written from an Austrian perspective, one of the seminal works on the economics of drug prohibition. I'd like your take on whether there's a particularly or a peculiar Austrian take on the drug war as opposed to just a free market take on the drug war. While there is, in the general context of mainstream economics, they have the same model as the prohibitionists themselves. And that model is you spend money on the war on drugs, you prevent drugs from entering the economy at least somewhat, and then that reduces the problems associated with drug use. The Austrian point is basically that by spending money on the war on drugs, you really don't reduce the availability of drugs. So there's no benefits at all. There's only unintended negative consequences. And so the Austrian take, my take is that there is no benefits to prohibition. It's all cost and it's all negative unintended consequences. So it just makes us worse off. Is there not also quite a bit of rent seeking going on? In other words, there's a prison industrial complex. There's public defenders. There's police. There's drug treatment centers. There's a whole panoply of people who, although they may not be bad people, they in effect profit personally from the drug war. Well, that's absolutely correct. There are people who benefit from the war on drugs and it includes the judicial system, law enforcement, prisons, lawyers in particular. And one thing that shocks people is that in the United States, we have this massive private prison industry that makes money off of us sending people to jail. The more people we send to jail for long periods of time, the more money they make. And so they're in the business of lobbying Congress as well as state legislatures to make penalties stiffer, heavier prison related to make more things criminal in society. People are shocked by that. They think that prisons are run by the government, but an increasing share of the prison population and it's a huge population is housed in private prisons. Folks, it's interesting to note that even before we had this gigantic industry that revolves around the drug war, Mises sort of understood what prohibition meant conceptually for society. And let me quote him here from liberalism, which he wrote in the 20s. So folks, this is well before modern drug prohibition, quote, as soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individual's mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the ladder down to the smallest details. So certainly press it for his time. But Mark, I wanted to shift gears real quickly and talk a little bit about some unknown history that surrounds you and the Mises Institute and Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. Mr. Wales was an undergrad here at Auburn University. Apparently in the late 1980s, a finance major when he stumbled upon the Mises Institute. And of course, you were quite new to the Institute at that time as well. And a fresh PhD in economics. Can you tell us a little bit about that history? Yeah, I was working in the Mises Institute at the time in a different location on campus. And one day, as I was working there, Judy Thomson was there, I think, in walks, Jimmy Wales, an undergraduate student, as you said, finance major at Auburn. And at the time, he was reading Human Action based on the recommendation of Iron Rand, the written recommendation of Iron Rand. And he was an objectivist and was very interested in that whole philosophy. And so he was following up by reading Mises's Human Action. And so he saw the sign while walking to class. He saw the sign on the building, the Ludwig von Mises Institute. And so he comes in, pops his head in and, you know, wants to know about the Mises Institute and in particular, if every campus had a Mises Institute associated with it. And from there, you know, he asked questions. He asked if he could come in and use our library, which, of course, has always been the case with, you know, students are free to use our libraries. And so he would come on in on a regular basis and read and study and ask questions. And they were very difficult questions compared to Auburn University students in general. These were very penetrating, hard to answer type questions. And he was always looking for new reading material, particularly on the Austrian economics of information, of knowledge, of knowledge dispersal, of knowledge markets, very difficult questions to answer at the time. And it wasn't until several weeks or maybe even months later that I recalled F.A. Hayek's article, The Use of Knowledge in Society, which was published in the American Economic Review in 1945. And so he picked up that article. We had that journal in our library at the time. And so, you know, that's supposedly sort of the inspirational theory behind the structure of Wikipedia. Where people from all around the world can contribute and people from all around the world can use the information and people from all around the world can also correct and dissect the material that's going on there. So and Jimmy Wales has, of course, mentioned this on several interview occasions that Hayek's article was sort of the inspiration for Wikipedia. Well, it's interesting to note that Jimmy Wales sort of took Hayek's concept that prices represent information, that they represent a form of spontaneous order and applied that to the realm of ideas. In other words, that's how he saw Wikipedia operating. And today, I think from the anarcho-capitalist perspective, there's a lot to like about Wikipedia, right? In other words, in some sense, is that represents a form of peaceful, spontaneous order, which you might also term anarchy. And it even has a format for corrections. And you might say the corrections to Wikipedia entries sort of represent the marketplace responding just like they might to consumer preferences and prices. So I'd like to get your thoughts on how Wikipedia operates today. Well, you know, I think it's based on individualism. Individuals can contribute, they can use, they can correct, they can edit. And so it's a free-form organization, really. And it also generates very little taxes for the government. So that's another thing to like about it, despite the fact that it generates immense value for so many people in society. There's no government subsidies. There's no government regulation. And there's no revenue that gets accrued to the government. So it's really a fabulous product, maybe possibly the single most valuable product that's been created in our lifetime. And it's all been done by the market. It's spontaneously evolved to make improvements. There's a hierarchy. There is a meritocracy where better editors are given higher levels of authority. And so in many, many ways, I think it represents the best of what freedom can do for us. Well, I think one interesting note about Wikipedia is that it has a dispute resolution process, i.e. when people have a conflict over what's reported in a Wikipedia entry, there is a system of common law of sorts that Wikipedia has developed. There's sort of a constitution with the basic policies. But then there's also guidelines which have evolved almost like judicial precedent. And if you listen to Judge Andrew Napolitano, he talks about natural law and common law evolving and being almost found law as opposed to legislative created or man-made law. And so I think in this sense, Wikipedia represents a promising example of dispute resolution that might apply in a libertarian society in broader contexts. Yeah, it's a wonderful model because it starts out very simple, but then has to adjust due to increasing levels of difficulties, new types of problems. The Wikipedia resolution system has to evolve to meet those challenges. It doesn't do so in a seamless, perfect, costless way. It's still a very messy process, but that's also true for the common law. That's not something that where everything gets a perfect solution immediately. It takes time. There's errors that are made. And those costs and those errors basically force the system to correct itself and to evolve. Well, let me quote again from Jimmy Wells. He's talking about his goal for what Wikipedia would become eventually. He said, imagine if we could have the sum of human knowledge available for free to every human on the planet at their fingertips. Now that's an audacious goal to be sure, an entrepreneurial goal, but I think it's largely true to the extent that humans have computer access wherever they might be on the planet. But I'd like to get your thoughts. I've asked several guests this over the last few weeks. As you know, information in and of itself does not equal wisdom or knowledge per se. In other words, it seems like we've never had more information at our fingertips yet in many ways where no less intelligent, maybe far stupider that our parents, our grandparents, our forebears simply because we don't use it in beneficial ways. Oh yeah, that's always been the case. Information can be used for good or for evil or for neutral purposes. It's the way in which we use that information. I think on net, it's always going to be a benefit to humanity that we have more information than we have easier access to it. And of course, in science fiction, not only is Wikipedia, you know, completed and translated into all languages, but you're given a little plug into your brain so that you can instantly recall any information whatsoever.  And that's kind of a daunting science fiction futuristic problem. But in general, I think that you have to think that Wikipedia is going to be a tremendous benefit to humanity. And I think we have to adjust and be better users of that information to sort of counteract that problem of dumbing ourselves down and relying too much on technology. But you know, the fact that we don't have to remember everything and that we don't have to go to the library to look something up, we can do it right there at the kitchen table or wherever you are is just an enormous benefit. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Mark Thornton, one of the most interesting libertarian theorists and academics working today read his stuff at mises.org follow him on Twitter at at Dr. Mark Thornton. And Mark, thanks a million for your time. We hope to have you back soon. Hey, Jeff, it's been great. I look forward to doing it again.


Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. So today is December 26 You guys are new here for sure to subscribe. It is so hot. I'm going upstairs. Come on Kobe.  Come on. What are you doing? Okay Also, okay, look at this that they have for the dogs. That is insane. They're ridiculous So I'm still in Texas.  Look at the dogs. This is Kobe.  He just jumps everywhere He's really he's not aggressive. He just doesn't realize that he's strong, but he's really cuddly So he's cute. This is my look for today. You guys already saw in the morning routine, but it's really simple. I Did my makeup in three minutes because my parents were rushing me and then I went upstairs and they were not ready So that's awesome. Love that, but like I was saying today. I'm filming. I need to still enroll in my spring classes Specific. I'm probably getting out friends at some point And I think I'm gonna try orange theory today I've been wanting to try orange theory But I didn't have any fitness clothes or anything like shoes that I brought to Texas Because I left like earlier than I thought I've packed in like two minutes. So I forgot a lot of things Actually, I didn't I only forgot that conveniently, but I think I'm gonna try it out tonight Jenny Ellenberger obsessed with it. So I've been texting them and I'm like, okay. What does it like tell me? Okay, stop crying. I'll take you guys out. My gosh. Also, I'm wearing my new Adidas. Why do I keep forgetting the name? I need to my dreaded tell you guys the name like feather I don't know. I'm so bad at remembering names for things, but I got these the other day and they're awesome They're just like really cute, you know big fan of these there's another look at these in case you guys are wondering I don't know where she got it I'll ask her if you guys want to know but this is she originally got this for Kobe my sister Kobe's big like he's not gonna fit in that all Coco could probably fit in that But it's just very funny That's great mom made it to Adriaca She feels very cool today too straight to my house right now, but I'm in so much pain I close the door on my leg. It's windy My text it's literally a minute ago to come meet us at starwood and she said kkk coming so I texted sad to come so now she's on her way Awesome coffee. I love these coffee mugs. That's why I like starwood. I don't know why I got some apple juice.  Sav is here. Remember when he used to make fun of me for creamer But look at me now Got some avocado toast fruit and eggs avocado toast Egg whites. Oh, yeah egg whites. I'm healthy. Sorry. Everyone's just jealous Everyone else is unhealthy. I'm healthy guys that Miley Cyrus got married. That's so freaking cute So Miley, oh Miley Cyrus captioned her Instagram photo. Sav's really excited about this wedding. Let me move this She's very excited about this wedding. She's been talking about it today So she captioned the photo 10 years later because the last song came out 10 years ago And then we really we saw the last song together With your boyfriend that I set you up with right or did I not know? You impressly did it. Oh, I did okay good. Yeah, I remember your office is awesome hotel Yeah, it tells us on the sixth grade. No for a second I thought that I set them up with someone else and that you were mad at me But I realized that someone else was mad at me because I set them up with him up with you But I didn't know crazy six-grade stuff. I was a matchmaker. You were I set up everyone. I think I just thought it was funny Yeah, I've just left. I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm already upstairs. I'm gonna start importing some footage. Oh And start editing my morning routine. It's like really storming outside So I wasn't able to vlog because the lighting is gonna be really bad Guys, I just spent like three minutes looking around for my beats headphones Just to realize right here. So that's awesome. Just great I'm currently importing some footage because this video is going up tomorrow I never do things that last minute, but I did it because I wanted to film it in this house So I've got some editing to do Okay, so I'm trying to book my orange theory class and I think they're all booked for today So I need to book one for tomorrow I'm getting a massage tomorrow.  I really wanted to be healthy, but Maybe you'll try I downloaded the orange theory app and everyone like hates it. So I was like, oh, okay This is for the first go location. I'm not trying to go the first go location Okay, so I guess they're all booked, but I booked a class for tomorrow at 5 30 Hey guys, I just finished editing this morning routine, which will go up in the morning It's already up if you guys haven't seen it. Check it out. I really like how it Turned out. I think it's super cute. So I'm just gonna go Export it and then I'm gonna go change and meet Kai at our favorite sushi place It is pouring out so like actually pouring so I guess it's probably a good thing that the classes were booked So I can just have a cozy night because it is like I haven't seen it rain This much rain probably in like three years, which I love rain. So it's perfect just put a hoodie on actually one of my hoodies The lovey mean it. I love this thing I'm just throwing spots on in a big jacket and going to get sushi with all my best friends in the rain And maybe we'll watch the last song after this is an amazing night guys. I love cozy nights I actually was really upset because I was excited to work out today because I haven't in a billion years And I'm gonna get back and like my obsessed like loving working out thing But it's okay today. It's just a cozy day. Oh cozy day at home So let me see if I can even open this I've switched stuff in here and then I'm gonna get my IMG a Jacket guys. I literally bought four IMG a jacket for people for Christmas. So my outfit for sushi Just have black sweats on hoody IMG a jacket and then my adidas Little sneakers. I'm just gonna grab my bag and head out Kat and I if we're going to Kobe if you guys watch me in high school That's so crazy that that's so crazy because this is my junior year of college But Kat hasn't one of my best friends for like ever That's not what I mean to say right now though We used to go to Kobe all the time my dad we would literally get Kobe every single day It was like our favorite thing. So we're going right now. I cannot wait to get my crunchy roll. Wow guys wait wait Let's look at that. Oh my gosh Wow Shoot no, this song. I don't know why I'm like dancing to it Does anyone ever do that to really you've never heard this song ever before in your life But you literally like know the lyrics Like that's happened to me so many times, but it's just weird cuz I don't know the lyrics. So let's think about it It's raining. It's pouring. I'm in my hometown and I'm driving at night I need to put on some emo music, but I don't know what I'm gonna go with today. You just think old school What would have made me cry in high school kind of thing? You know, everyone knows what I'm talking about I'm gonna literally put on Taylor Swift. Like I'm at that level.  I'm really excited for her Netflix special Wasn't kidding about the Taylor Swift guys My favorite sushi place in pouring rain. I love my life When Maddie and I ordered like 70,000 rolls. I was just thinking about that too because I wrote 11 on my thing I don't know why yeah, it's so embarrassing So embarrassing. Okay. I'm just getting this for now. I'm probably gonna get more though cat and I are at Kobe Getting our crunchy rolls. Literally. This is the same order that we've had for probably five or six years now Maybe longer than that. It's been a bit, but it's incredible This is the best fried rice ever. Good morning everyone. It is Thursday morning. It'd be 27th. I Just woke up like literally two minutes ago Today my mom my grandma and I are getting massages and then getting our nails done I have not had my nails done Since literally my grease trip because my nails were just so weak I had had pretty much acrylics on for probably like four years ish Like I take in breaks, but not long breaks like I don't know my nails were just trash So anyways now they're perfect and I actually kind of like the natural no-nail look to I was like really into that I go through periods of time where I'm like Acrylics or die jell-er die or no nails or die pretty extreme. So yeah, that's what we're doing today And then I'm going towards three tonight Just finished my hour-long massage. I feel so relaxed. Oh my gosh I'm booking my flight home for New Year's to LA because I just need to clean my house That's literally why we're at market street and apparently they changes to a Starbucks. Wow. I had no idea This was not a Starbucks. I was growing up. This is amazing booking a flight back to LA for New Year's Eve I haven't put New Year's Eve in LA since the first year in there Let's see here Just got a venti ice-try no surprise here also booked my flight so I'm going back for New Year's Okay, so got my ice-try. I am going to get my nails done Really happy. I love being in Texas these well this month has been a really hard month and Just I need to get back to LA and deep clean my house Like all I've been thinking about for the past week is how I need to deep clean my house And now I can do that and I have like four days to prep for the year before I have to go straight into orientation in normal Life, so it was good. My flight was like pretty cheap, so I'm really happy about that So just got my nails done. I got like a purple gray color and coffin shape This is 185 next-gen. I don't know if that helps you guys then some red on my toes Okay, so I just been answering emails for a while I changed in to my workout clothes because I'm going to go do orange theory and like an hour or two I think but right now I booked a new flight today. I did a bunch of stuff mom guess what I finally did I Asked for my American Airlines advantage number so I could put all my flights on there. Oh Can I have it? Yes, and it's me.  I try not wonderless, but like I'm not or wonder list I'm not obsessed with it if you guys have any better list apps. Let me know down below, but Like this is just what I have so far Obviously, I have like a lot more than I need to add in so far so good I really want to use a Google Calendar app too because my managers use it So it would just be easier if we can just link our stuff and it already links to like flights and all of that Which is really nice. So this is what I've been doing so far. I'm kind of actually loving this Okay, so I just finished doing a bunch of computer work and now I'm going to head to Finally my first orange theory class Daniela and Brooke are gonna be so proud of me I'm in the parking lot. I'm a little bit early. I'm really to everything. I Don't know why but I had a really old Chris Brown song like stuck in my head And I really don't listen to Chris Brown, but I like couldn't get it out of my head and it's fine It's like really put me in a good mood. Anyways, I'm here. I don't have to be inside for like a few minutes I'm early to everything. Are you guys early early? I'm always early I think we've had a lot of discussions about this my friends and I because I'm a very punctual person a lot of my friends are just not and I think from my Consensus of everything most people who played competitive sports when they were younger are very on time and people who didn't aren't Because in Texas, especially North Texas with the region that I live in the sports are like some of the most competitive in the nation like sports here are crazy and Yeah, if we were late, we would run like miles. So I'm like never late. I was born that way though Like I've been like that forever, but I that didn't help. You know what I mean? So anyways, this is before my first orange theory class very very scary Okay, I'm going in the class I'm not gonna vlog in there because I don't know them if I first class and I don't want to be the weird girl with Camera, so I'll let you guys know how it went in like an hour. I'm like kind of nervous But not really you see my friends are supposed to come with me But they all bailed because they're not as fit as me, you know, or they just like didn't want to work out whatever Well, okay guys, I'm back. They made me buy a shirt because Texas and so stupid and you can't work out in sports But whatever I hope I'm an orange theory girl now See I'm just like Danielle and Brooke. So it was so fun I like loved it. I need to go to Best Buy and Then the grocery store because I'm cooking for my family, but if you guys don't know what orange theory is I'll give you like a little rundown. I'll give you a little. Um, oh my gosh So I'll give you a little bit of a review. Hold on So there's every class is different I asked like so many questions that room before I went every class is different. You have rowing Weights and the treadmill There's three different kinds of days. They're all different. Every workout is different. You want to be in the orange zone I was in the orange zone like the whole time very proud of myself. Honestly, like I kept up well I wasn't like adds out of shape as I thought I was but it was super fun I think I'm going back tomorrow at like 7 30. It was just really fun. So anyways I'm going to go to Best Buy to get an iPad charger and then to the grocery store Best Buy guys, this is such a random like thought that I just had But I really like when people are vlogging and you can hear like their nails and like them moving the camera Like I feel like just some that'd be annoying This is so weird this is like an ASMR thing, but this is my own thing. Sorry. I was vlogging For guys my signature recipe that you has always asked me for this is the only thing I can make so Perfect. Look who it is Soup baby rays is the best sauce ever. Do they not have the soup baby raised buffalo sauce? Oh, no, maybe No, it has or it's buffalo has to be buffalo sauce dang it that sucks. Well, I can just gather buffalo sauce, but Dang it. Oh look Buffalo wing sauce.  It was here the entire time Okay, so it is buffalo wing sauce. I guess this one's thicker though. This is what I use Okay, so all you need is chicken Buffalo sauce ranch and sweet potatoes very easy Microwaving the sweet potatoes right now already did to and I just boiled chicken and it looks horrible but you just drench it in the I can wouldn't say barbecue sauce the sweet baby rays barbecue sauce and then Buffalo sauce I did it again and Then you'll see but Guys watch this like trip just like never mind actually so the sweet potatoes are done We have five because I'm feeding five. I can't believe I'm so domestic now Um, I always just tear up the chicken and then I just drench it in the buffalo sauce Like I said, and then you guys will see the finished product. It's super easy I don't want to do an entire video on this everyone always asked me, but it's like my favorite meal ever I haven't had it in so long.  Oh my gosh, okay. I Used to put more buffalo sauce on top of it, too But I don't I mean I put a lot of buffalo sauce on this.  I am sort of those foods You don't mean like I have to want heavy food toe on it, you know Okay, so Here we go Look at me the chef a real life chef a real life chef staff. Oh, yep, perfect All right I just showered and I'm laundry going but that is it for this vlog I hope you guys enjoyed just a little cozy two days at home if you guys did let me know about you Make a thumbs up subscribe Check out my new podcast episode that came out I think last week now that you guys are watching this I put my first solo episode ever up so that's really cool, but love you guys so much and I'll see you soon. Bye


So Apple is really serious about console level gaming on the iPhone and we saw the Announcement of Resident Evil Village during the iPhone 15 pro and pro max launch got to play the game the games available now It plays really well. It looks really good, but that's not where they're stopping They're more games coming out and I got to check out more games coming to the iPhone I think you guys are going to love now the first one I want to talk about is the division resurgence This is a mobile first game. It's takes place basically before the original division series and It looks absolutely gorgeous. It feels and looks like a console game on your iPhone now Control wise you have touch controls on here, which you can use But you can also use a controller like the backbone controller and it plays very well Honestly, I was impressed with the gameplay and I was there for quite a bit of time now You can continue this and play it on your iPad as well and on the iPad It also takes advantage of the bigger display and also the of course the m-check processor on there Giving you a very very smooth gaming experience from what I experience here at the at the showcase Now another game that I got to check out But I couldn't really record because there's a really early beta is that stranding now It's available on the Mac, but you will be getting on the iPhone and it looks really good But for me personally, it's all about Resident Evil 4 Remember that's the game that I got on my GameCube way back when when it first came out and that game was awesome And it looks really good on the iPhone and the iPad and the Mac Now you'd be able to get the game across all three system with just one purchase So basically within the Apple ecosystem, you can get yourself one game that goes all across the board Now how does it feel playing on the iPhone? It's very smooth. It feels really solid graphically It looks great on the iPhone and of course the controls with your backbone controller or controller like that Just felt really smooth now playing it on the iPad It felt like another step up there again It's got the big gorilla state and I can see myself playing this on the road quite a bit it looked nice It played really well and graphically. Yeah, it's up there It is really up there plus you can also continue that experience on your MacBook as well So that is something that I think takes this Experience into a very different level where you can do it across your devices So say for instance, you know, you're at home and you have like a Mac at home You can play on your iMac if you want to because it has an M series chip there the the new iMac 24 inch or on your MacBook M3 You can also play on your iPad your M series iPad as well as also in your iPhone So think about that. That is an impressive Spread of these games now, there will be more games like this Resident Evil 4 comes out on December 20th So if you guys want me to cover this game, let me know But if you want me to cover more console level games coming on the iPhone and the Apple ecosystem I'm here for it because you know guys. I love my games. So leave your thoughts down below Don't forget to like share subscribe and let me know what games you want to see next that is console level On in the Apple ecosystem and especially on the iPhone. This is Thunder E same. Thank you and always enjoy entertainment


The topic today is issues women entrepreneurs face when they want to start a business. But I want to put it out there to you. Do we face problems? Or do we feel we face problems? And how do we handle those hurdles? I've always approached things from a positive side because I've always felt that if I put a positive out there, I negate the negative. One of the most important thing I think for any person, whether it's a man or a woman, is confidence. Confidence of their idea, confidence of what they want to do and a plan. Once they've got that down and the belief in themselves that they are able to take the idea and make it from a concept into reality, then I think that anyone, regardless of what the product is, can achieve what she's planning to do. One of the biggest hurdles that even I faced when I first started was finding funding. Most of the VCs usually don't have experience in this particular space. They don't have a long history or they didn't come from an IT league or an IIT. But I don't think that should be the plot hole that holds you back from moving forward. I think there are many areas that you can go out there and get funding from. I think there are many ways of even convincing a VC to kind of believe in you. But before you do that, you need to believe in yourself, in your concept and be willing to take on a fight to make your dream a reality no matter how long it takes. You want to go out there and you have a passion and you have a vision. Put it down on paper, get the concept together and then find, identify the people that you think would actually be open to hearing to your idea and go out there and start pushing. You may get a million no's before you get that one yes. But don't stop just because you've got the no's. Don't stop because they say there's so many of them out there.  I want to end by saying that women can do anything they put their minds to. We are born to lead, we are born to be mothers, we are born to be leaders and we should give ourselves all that credit because without us, the world wouldn't be there.  Just believe in yourself because that's the first rule of being an entrepreneur. Believe in yourself.


you know last year in october i got an abortion although media and celebrities try to paint abortion as this glamorous self-empowering act it's not it's a dark twisted outflowing of a sinful heart for the sake of convenience she chose influence over her infant she chose cheers over her child she chose touring over her toddler i can't imagine that sits well with her soul my heart breaks for those who continue to rebel against god suppressing the conscience that's crying out for relief those looking for an abortion think that by taking their child's life they will get their life back it's a lie jesus on the contrary gave us his life that we could live you don't have to live in that guilt or shame anymore jesus has already taken all that on himself that if you would repent and turn to him in faith you would be redeemed


There's been increasing concern about two different things. One is that the honey bees, so the bees that we're providing in a box, are finding it harder and harder to live in our agricultural landscapes. And when I say that, I'm talking about the whole world. This is not just a problem for Australia. This is a problem that the whole world is thinking about. So when you see stuff on the news about, oh, bees are in decline, often what they really mean is that one particular kind of bee, the honey bee, is in decline. And that's not a bee that's native to Australia. That's a bee that evolved in Europe and North Africa. But that's still a real issue because it's important to be able to provide the bees in a box when you need them as a farmer. But the other thing is, we've got, well in Australia we probably have three to six thousand species of bee. We don't even know how many because there aren't enough people that study bees to answer that question. So we've got all of these wild species. Globally there's probably twenty thousand or more species of bee. And then there's other insects that are contributing to pollination. And they're not necessarily declining for the same reasons that honey bees are declining. But they are threatened by loss of habitats and the presence of insecticides on farms just in the same way that much of nature is. So when you read about bee decline, that's often really what it's talking about is the risk that we're losing honey bees and we might be losing wild bees and that can be causing problems for the production of food. But there's a lot more nuance to that story. I want to tell you that it's not quite the crisis that's painted in the media sometimes. But there are some real issues, really important issues that we as researchers are trying to help to understand better and provide better ways by producing food but also creating an environment that's better for humans to live in.


Onw rydw i ddim yn chynnwch am hyn Cymru, ond gwych yn cael ei eich iddo ddweud eich Lai'n teimlo yn y ddiwrnodd y parw gwir. Beth oed yn wedi eu methu honni, a mae'n rhod i mae'n gwir gan gyffredig, ond mae'n cydraed mewn galari hefyd. Rhyw o'r gali sy'n cwrs iawn, wedi bod nhw'n ei wneud hynny'n gweld chi'n gwych yn gwyntio, mae'n gweithio bod yn gyntafu'r rhaglen â'r gweithio. Mae'r gweithio yn cyffredinol yn 56 oes, yn dangos yn yr ysgol maen nhw'n gweithio yn 56 oes oherwydd mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio yn cyffredinol. Yr ysgol yw'r QRC yn gyflwyno'r 3, mae'n gweithio yn cyfrifiad, ac mae'n gweithio'r hynny. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio ar gyfer hynny. Ynny'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio? So, tydw'n mewn hwnnw, yn gweithio. Yn y pwylltog ar gweithio y comput i ddechrau i gyd yn ei ddechrau? Dwi'n mynd i gyd yn y peopleu'r rai kryd credu y Maes Gwerthers. Pefyrdwyd yn cynnid i chi nad oed ddim yn y cyfnodol. Mae'r cyfnodol sy'n mynd i'r llyffordd. Wrth hynny, rhai ddim yn gweithio ein llyffordd. Rhaid i ni wedi bod y mhobwn yn regard rhaid iawn, sydd wedi gwych am llei, Fy rhaid i ni'n gweld eich llyffordd ar y llyffordd. Mae'r dda, mae'n dda, mae'n dda, mae'n dda, mae'n dda, mae'n dda, mae'n dda, mae'n dda. That's true, that's good yet anymore, yes. Will it be involved in the development process or is it a separate process? Yes, we need to be involved in the development process, as opposed to just this separate model which could often occur. One of the most important things is this, is that creative software engineers create beautiful code, but we also create good user experience because they've got creative ideas Mae'r backgrann prosesau allwn oedraeth am hawl. Rhaid i nawr yw dweud sicrhau eu cyflenau i ddatblygu.  Felly mae'r dros ychydig yn ei wneud am ffordd ar bobl a ei wneud Ie wneud i wneud Ie wneud Ie wneud sloff arenae, A rydym ni isair am eu trionn pan sy'n mynd i siarad godsud ar arnod sy'r boed ychydig yn livwyr Dim yn Lwnello. Od dweud i chi'n ceisio'r boed pan ond Fy plain neu a Ac yn costau am b Credwyr Dim. Cyn sport forwards ym gyfrannu'r ymwrwain o'r dw i. Ty rydw i chi fyddio'n directions cyll welw pŵa o boedин sy'n gyldignau hynny. Mae'r ddechrau tal o'r preferably neu o'r berthyn Roedd gael o'r rwyfyrdd i'r bwysach er mwyn mawr i ddisgu maturau rhywunol sy'n dod, gyda'r gwirio yn ystafod, a'r gwirio'n gwirio gyda'r gwirio. Mae'r cwyddiad klwymau yn resignation. Diolch yn amser y cysylltu i fynd ymhyngod. Mae'r cyfu weld mae'r cyfunoedd sydd gennych Dunoddiol yn Llywodraeth. Mae'r cyfunoedd yn ychydig yw eu cyffredinol a'r cyffredinol, ac mae'n ddechrau yn ystafod ac eich bod yn ychydig ychydig mae'r cyffredinol. Dyna, gallwn ni'n ddim yn gwneud hynny'r cywir gyd-Dod! Yna, mae'n gobeithio'r ffrwng Cagwyddoch yn arwt! Be… So, oedd mae'n troch ymwygarion Cagwyddonn! Mae y gallwn ni yn cyfwneud i'r cyrwm Cagwyddoch, mae'n gobeithio'r cyfrwng hynny'r cyfrwng hynny! Mae oeddan nhw'n gobeithio eich cyfrwyng nhw angen y cyfrwng nhw. Mae'n gobeithio haün i chi, ac mae'n gobeithio i chi sy'n gynnwys, neu mae'n gobeithio. ddech chi d respectoi divided byd, ychydig defnyddio'r ddweud. Ond e'n gwaith cael y ffodol ond dych yn ddweud a'r ddechrau. yr roedd, o'ch ddweud? Dwy'n defnyddio y ffodol? Ynisons? Mae'n gwybod. Felly, dwi'n ffodol. Felly ymwy ffodol ymlaen, fyddech chi'n meddwl da'n ddechrau. Fyddech chi'n gr answers ar y dyna, felly mae'n eisiau i'w gydordebeth o fнов. Yn ystod fel ychydig sy'n dod, oedd y gallwn yn dod. yn ymdweud hynny, rydyn ni wedi'u gweithio'r gweithiau. Rydyn ni wedi'u gweithio'r gweithiau. Rydyn ni wedi'u gweithio'r gweithiau. Rydyn ni wedi'u gweithio'r gweithiau? Rydyn ni wedi gweithio'r gweithiau yw Microsoft's Scrutworks. yn gyntaf, yn gyffredig y Siadwg, nid wedi gwneud y canfys. Dyn yw ddweud yn weltyn amser. ..ac oedd y cyfrifiad gyda'r iawn, ac yn cyfrifiadau cyfrifiad.. ..a gwahorfawr eich cyfrifiad yw yw dyma'r ymwneud a'i cyfrifiadau. Er ydych chi'n ymwybol gynnwys ar hyn dyfodol yma er hynny.. ..yna chi'n ysgrifennu cyfrifiad thatau deolch ac mae'r cael ei gallu bobl, datblyniad. Mae'r gwahanol os yna yn ei ddweud gyda'r mewn cyngwun.. ..a phobl mwy seith cenedlau.. ac mae uchyn nhw ar wlad iawn felly y gweithio allwn digwydd. Mae'r rydyn ni'n gwybod i ddim yn unrhywun iawn, rym ni'n gwybod i'r byw. Ar yr hollraff o'n gweithio gŵr yn gweithio ar gyfer ei golygu, yn gweithio amdraffoedd yn gweld gweithio ar yr oled. Rydym yn ei gwybod yn llweithio. Agile is good for user experience when you kind of know what you're doing, when there's some definite end, so that you can go through lots and lots of types of iteration cycles. So these aren't mutually exclusive, I mean there's obviously some overlap between them. So we all know about agile, you've all just done, has everybody done the agile course last year, last semester? No? You've done software engineering though, right? In the second year, yeah? Okay, and that had a lot of agile in it, didn't it? Yes? Ish, sort of, kind of, okay. Well, agile in the notes, obviously there's these four principles for agile development. Now obviously the agile was kind of first discussed back in what, 2000 till 2001, it's a snowbird in Utah, where you've got a number of sort of software engineering deliveries getting together and writing down what they thought software engineering should be about. And they've got very little agreement apart from these four things and 12 overriding principles that go with them, okay? So these four things, individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Now this thing here is right for user experience, quite obviously because it's about, it's about people, straight out, it's about what is the people, what's their expectation. Working software, so this is kind of this iterative prototyping which we do in user experience, okay? Customer collaboration, so this is about collaborative design, participatory design, which we're going to be looking at a little bit later on. So this kind of thing here is better than just contract negotiation, is what they're saying. And respond to change over following a plan. Well of course that's great for our kind of work because we need to respond to change a lot. How many companies do you know, do you think actually do this agile scenario? Yes, okay, that's very good, very good. Any other ideas? Yeah, I think a lot of companies will be trying to bring in and obviously moving away from all the technologies at the same time, especially if they've got some like the banquets as soon as refuse to move from their more rigid structures. That's true. I think they at least have at least one team in a big company if not more of a site to introduce them. Okay, yeah, that's true, yeah. Any more ideas, thoughts? Yes? That's one of the main things people like to say we do agile, blah blah blah, but who's doing management in here as well? Okay, so those of you doing management in here as well, the problem sometimes managers get into is that they like to see things in a nice audit trial with definite steps and completion points and completion times, and agile doesn't fit that. It's quite, because it's so flexible, it's very difficult to put it into that kind of box, okay? So even though it's good for software engineering, the managers who are sort of saying, well we want this kind of outcomes, we want these kind of contracts, we want these endpoints, so we know it's definitely done. Oftentimes you don't realise that it isn't definitely done, it's a constant process of iteration, and so the problem that the manager of people who do management here, if you can be on any of your technical management at all, needs to realise is that, not just now but in the future, you need to be real like responding to the change which is real in the software engineering process and not fake, which is things that make you feel better about how software has been developed, but actually it doesn't say anything about what software really is being developed, okay? There's a subtle differentiation between those two points, so it's absolutely right. You can't put agile in the gap chart very easily, okay? It's just one big line in there. Interactive development, yeah? So that's the problem. Okay, I'm not going to be able to do these, but we all know things like model view controller, do we? Service-oriented architectures, okay? So these things allow us to have this thing called the separation of concerns. Now separation of concerns is quite large in user experience, not just in development, but in all the testing that you're going to do. Who knows anything about line trials, double line trials, triple line trials? So all these trials are to do with the separation of concerns. So what they say is, a double line trial says that me, the person who wants to know the information, can't enact the trial, can't be the experiment, can't ask you the questions, because you all know what I want just by my body language and give it to me, yeah? Triple blind means that the person who's gathering the data can't be the person who wants the data, and it also means that the person who's doing the data analysis also can't be the person who wants the data or knows what the correct answer is because the answer they want is, yeah? And the reason why that is is because we can manipulate the statistical process. We can manipulate the analysis process to kind of come out with the answers we want if we really want them enough, okay? Even if we think we don't. So the idea of these separation of concerns through all of user experience and not just user experience, all mostly in the fact that it's the same with clinical trials or drugs, it's the same with psychological trials, okay? All this kind of stuff, you can have this separation of concerns, which is really important. And it's important in the software engineering process, and that's why we've got a model for your control of service or inter-architectures. Okay, and I'm going to follow back on those. Separation types. So these ones are mainly not explicitly coming directly in the notes, certainly part of two of the three parts. So we know about remote procedure calls, and we know about flexible interfaces really, yeah? Okay, so we need to, well we don't need to, but we ought to be aware of those, because certainly web services, we know about this one, yeah? Web services description moment, whereby you can give a description in data, and it will generate your interface, okay, for web service. Yeah, so that's a real separation, because, you know, you've got this web service acting something, and then you've got your requirements going into that. And certainly we know about the grid. The grid computing. Anybody? No? Yes, Bob, yes. Grid computing, tell me about grid computing. So there are many machines to... Okay, so grid computing is many machines to process data, but not just that. Grid computing publishes a list of functionality that says, these are the things I can do, okay? And then it's up to the interface or the interaction that you're having to decide what you need and how to process it. So there's a massive separation of concern there, from processing to the what's required and getting the data through to that process. You don't care where the process is occurring. It can occur somewhere across the world. Why do we care as long as the process occurs? So that's part of this separation of concerns. Okay, so I would rather develop an open source, okay? So that's something that should go right now. I'm not very much into this cathedral aspect, okay? So has anybody read this book? Cathedral of the Bazaar, okay? And what did we think of it? Yeah, good. What was your view in the end? I liked the... I don't think it worked quite well. Cool. Well, yeah. That are quite pretentious. He thinks to place a lot of steam on the pachyculture and the open source culture, I think. I don't know. I think it was pretentious that it was valuable at the same time. Pretentious but valuable in place of a lot of sorts on the pachyculture. The open source culture. Yeah, well, I mean, I do that. I'd replace a lot of emphasis on that too. But the reason why I think this is a great... these are good lessons is that with open source, with openness, you get the literature to extend from something that... and we'll see that from our principles of the user experience because we want to extend beyond something that we didn't originally intend the design to work for. So by having open source, we allow ourselves to have some... to have some... to see something called emergent behavior. So we'll see this as well through user experience. This concept of emergent behavior is everywhere, is emergent because when it was designed, we didn't expect it to work like it does now. It's kind of gone off on its own and does its own thing, really, by all the people trying to do their own thing in it. So the timber has really detected that to happen. And you'll see that in the model for websites, emergence is now written into the actual cycle because we just can't tell what's going to happen when we put lots of people... we won't give lots of people the technology and we'll use it as they kind of like. So if it was a closed model, then that means that because it doesn't... because that model might not be conforming, the usage of that model might not be conforming to the expectations of the people who have closed that model, the corporation, then there's a problem with looking for that emergent behavior because the emergence is not working. So that's one thing why it's good for user experience, but it might not be good for everyone that it's good for user experience. OK, we're not going to have to break, obviously, and we're going to go on to people in computers. So this is something that we should not have no support now, and this is a part that we're hoping to have and getting about a bit more. People in computers, this is, again, a background, if you like, lecture. So it's about... so this is more about letting you understand that there's lots and lots of different needs and abilities out there. OK. We need to look at those user experience. The first thing is Geoff Raskin. Geoff Raskin. I've mentioned him before. Who wants to prove that they were listening last time and, you know, tell me what they were listening to. Nobody wants to tell me. Nobody was listening at all. Nobody knows, yes, he was the apple guy. He was the apple guy. Good job. Excellent. What's your name? Doug. Doug. Excellent. Excellent. Right. So, yes, he was the apple guy. So Geoff Raskin designed lots and lots of bits of software, bits and bits of hardware, actually, and the most famous of it is the apple, OK, where we looked at the interface for the apple, OK. It wasn't a big... it didn't like that much, Gwys in the end, because he said that they sectioned the locus of attention, there's this idea of attention, and where you put the locus of that attention. So, for instance, in most user tasks in software, in devices, we're looking for an attempt, we attend to a certain point on the screen or a certain activity, OK, or a certain process. We're often not multitasking, we don't multitask very well, OK. It takes us a bit too long to section out the multitasking, which we do in real life quite well, OK, but not when it comes to technology very easily. Now, we also can see this in that basketball playing video that I showed you earlier on in the course. You know the one where it's about attention blinders, when you're focused on one thing, you're so focused on one thing that you just don't see any other stuff around you, and that's all about this locus of attention. We also did some other work, and we did some work here, actually, which looked at automatic update on websites, OK.  And reality is that unless they're very big and unless you've actually initiated them, when you're concentrating on something, you don't notice that they've even happened, OK. So we get a massively statistically significant score for that, but people just don't look at these things unless they're 400 pixels across, OK, and that they've actually got executed. They're expecting it, if you like, for expecting what happens. So the locus of attention, which is Jeff Rashford's thing, really, is something that you should consider when you're concentrating all of your software, OK, and all of your hardware. Are there multiple points where you're expecting somebody to divide their attention on screens, on pads, on iPhones, those kind of things? Because if you are, then you'll need to do it and you'll need to think about how to notify that person that something's happening because their locus of attention won't really be, will be focused on the job at hand, not on stuff that's happening around, OK. OK, so the bit on this point is that we're variously skilled, OK, so humans are variously skilled. We've got lots of different skills. We're heterogeneous society, which is good because otherwise, if we were all the same, then we'd all be dead high now, I imagine, OK, because we wouldn't be able to survive right now. So the great benefit is that it's heterogeneous, OK. So that also means that we're variously skilled. So, technology is not an individual skill, it matches up well with the requirements of operating technology. So this is what we're trying to do. Your user experience would have. It's all about making sure that the skills of the individual and what their skills are and what their natural abilities are match well to the software, OK, to the devices that you're creating. And that's very difficult because obviously you're creating one device for everybody, not, you know, you're not creating 400 devices, 400 different groups of people, yeah. OK, so there are two components to this, training the human to accommodate the needs of the technology and designing the technology to meet the needs of the human. Now, these things will occur, but the better we do better, the less we need to perform it. So if we actually design the technology to meet the needs of the human, the human has to train us. There's always going to be some need for the human to actually train or be trained or to understand the device or to understand the technology, but you need to reduce that massively, OK.  Yes? No? Read the Effing Manual? That's the response for most. OK. Right. Yeah, no one needs a manual. OK, nobody really does read the manual, but that was the thing that we thought would occur, OK, that you can create a great big manual with everything in it and then pay the fees and you just understand how to drive the software by reading the manual and the device. You can see that that's now shrunk, shrunk down massively, but still there's a need for training and that's why there's lots of training courses in computers, OK, and devices and how to use your iPad and the missing iPad book. I don't know why there would be a missing iPad book, but there is one. Somebody's written all the things that you wouldn't normally realise. What I'm trying to get across is that you need to think about these. Is it something that you know that seems obvious to you when you build your software, but isn't obvious to somebody who's not skilled at this software because they're just even buying this as a piece of consumer device, say. OK? Or a piece of consumer software that they're not interested in reading a manual or anything else. They just want it to work and you want it to work with as little hassle as possible. Yeah? So you've got to think about these things. So, if you're creating... This bit is key. Training the humans will accommodate and use the technology and design the technology to meet the needs of the human. So you need to really do a good design to meet the needs of the human and forget about the training because it's never going to happen, really. Yeah? OK. So there are a number of different... I don't understand that. There are a number of different ways that we get information in, that we perceive the information. Just to find out what those ways are. So first of all, what's one of the first ways... What do you think is one of the most primary ways we perceive information? Vision? Tactile, OK? So, vision, tactile, any more. What are the ways we perceive information? Auditory, hearing, yeah? They're all senses. Touching or something? Touching, OK. We've had touching, yeah? Any more? Yes, smelling, good. And what's also linked to smell? Taste. And do you think there's been interfaces built for all of those senses? Yes, there's been factory interfaces. There's interfaces for smell, interfaces for taste, interfaces, haptic interfaces for the feedback and for touch, for gestures. There's obviously... Auditory and obviously vision. All of those things, OK? So, how many of those come to that? As well as some others. So, when you think about your designs and your creations, you can't just think that the work you're going to be doing is always going to be in a nice operating system framework where you're going to be banging out for Windows or Mac or something else. What happens if you're employed by a family? OK? And you need to make sure that pilots have a good situation where they're in. What happens if you're employed by you've just got a little bit of say in American levels? Lots of work done when you're making apples on your interfaces. OK? What happens if you're employed by, you know, one of these footworks that wants you to think differently about how we can actually make interfaces better? Before gestures, people didn't really think much about gestures. Gesture interfaces. OK? But now that's all we do. So, if somebody had to have that thought, oh, we could use gestures. It seems it's simple now. It seems easy now. But that wasn't a convention 10 years ago. Why would it be just talking to you about vision and sound? And that's it. Because there's nothing much more going on. So you need to think differently about the kinds of expectations of input and output that people have. And we're going to do, we're going to look at that in a bit more detail next week. But for instance, how do you get input if you're, say, deafblind? How do you get input from a computer? How do you stick out? Yeah, that's something that would be difficult to understand, maybe. But similarly, what happens if you were in a fighter aircraft with lots of smoke in the cockpit? You don't have, you know, you might be deaf. Sorry, you might be deaf because of the noise. You might be, because your headset is not working properly. You might be blind because there's lots of smoke in the, you know, in the cockpit, what you do. So how can you get input? Yeah, I can't play it good, do you? But that's millions of pounds worth of the... How do you know you're about to die? Can you just smoke? Can you put it out? Can you put it out? We're all down the window. We're all down the window. You can just park up. OK, so you need to stop it. So think a bit differently about the kinds of input and the kind of output. So there's over 50 different areas of the brain that deal with vision, OK? So with vision, we've got lots and lots of data input really well, OK, obviously. That's one of our key points, that's one of our key features. Obviously we've got blind spots which are filled in by the eyes because we've obviously got the nerve input that goes out at the back of the retina. So there's no cones, there's no sensory cells where that nerve input goes out. Yet we still see. We don't see a big hole, OK? We're dragging processes of the data and fills it in for us, OK? So that's a blind spot that we have. OK, so if you can see here that it's an equal it's an equal division between the eyes, OK? So if you've got, if you've got eyesight that allow, if you've got one eyesight then obviously you're not going to see quite the same. You also aren't going to have depth perception. If you've got some kind of macular degeneration then you might only have peripheral vision. OK?  Now these things, you might think a lot of you are talking about these things these things are like for the same people that are well done because there's not so similarities between seeing a very small spot of an application or information on the front of a small mobile phone. OK? So that's why that there's applications in mainstream computer science, mainstream user experience. So that's the first thing. Now what we're looking at now is we've got we've got the inputs coming through the eyes here and the eyes are actually joined directly into the brain through the nerve bundle so that's why that the updates are very fast, OK? Normally updates coming up the spine are actually quite slow, OK? Comparatives speaking. But the closer everything gets to your brain, obviously the better it is, the faster it is. Now there is no actually of the brain, where the most direct connection is to the brain from your senses. No? Yeah. Is it yours? OK? You've got a direct nerve going straight from your brain down into your nose, OK? And that's exactly what smells on the mucus that's in your nose is there to protect specifically that nose nerves, OK? And to transfer the actual data, OK? Transfer the molecules that is, OK? OK. Let's move on. So hearing is quite obvious, OK? It seems to us that you've got these ears on the side of your each side of your head and incomes the sound, OK? And by a sequence well actually it's a sequence of very small bones three small bones the anvil, the hammer and the stirrup, OK? Stirrup is the last one. So the stirrup looks like this, OK? And then you've got the anvil which looks kind of like this but not the anvil, the hammer and then you've got the anvil as well which is kind of a bizarre shape to bone. I can't move my shape around. Anyway, it's like a bizarre solid shape bone looks good, I can't move my shape around. But this thing here, the stirrup is important because it connects to the copier, OK? Which is the bit where all the data where you're going to sense the data of the sound. Now, why don't you think that there are this set of bones doing the connection? No, it's not quite that. You can't get in there but not quite any of this. Yes? Do you mean by break with the sound that comes in? Yeah, so they vibrate with the sound that comes in here but what they're to do is to cut out the very high noises and to amplify the very small noises that's why we've got the hearing range of between 5 and 20 metres, OK? So it's so that you don't destroy this bit, the sensitive bit, OK? That's one of the main reasons why we're there. Now, this thing here, the copier is spun on. It's like the copier is like this. Is it going to look a bit wrong? Is it going to look a bit wrong? OK. With a stirrer just here, OK? Now, this is when it's been pulled out, extended. Normally it gets a spiral, OK? There's no point in saying that. So normally it's a spiral. So this thing here, which is called the basal membrane is the thing that does the actual it's got the actual nerve cells connected to it. They're going to your brain. What happens is that all this is filled with fluid and there's little hairs on this basal membrane and these hairs, as the sound waves go this way, the hairs agitate, OK? So the basal membrane looks like it has a base and an apex and the high frequency sounds are detected here. Think of it as an oscilloscope. Low frequency sounds at the top. Yes. Well, they get, they can get in parallel, OK? And then the nerve waves go off into the great, into the auditory cortex which is there specifically different parts of the auditory cortex process different frequencies of sound, OK? So that you can hear in parallel. Now, the thing that's important that if you do have an just a lot of this terribly, terribly part of the auditory organ they won't know what would what they just couldn't see. So the thing to think about for this is that it's not just about sound going into your ears. When you put your headsets on does that sound, does the sound coming out sound like speakers? Does the sound on your headsets sound like free-standing speakers? No, why not? What's missing? Is the space around you there? Is the space around you there? Noise or the noise? That's true. Reflections. Reflections, yeah? What about for our heads? What about for our heads in general? Directionality. So, but one of the main things that it also misses is that you can see you've got these direct sound paths and indirect sound paths, reflective sound paths which you don't get on the headset because obviously it's mostly directed right into your ears. The other thing is bone sound. OK, that's a big component of sound, bone sound. So that's where the sound waves are hitting your head, creating a vibration and that adds in to your hearing which is called the bone sound. So therefore you can actually hear things in different levels of detail. You can do better spatial isolation because you're not just picking up from your ears you're picking up from the bone the vibrations through your bone and through your body, mostly through your head. But you can feel it clearly so these are the things to think about that if you're trying to do something that's really good auditory by audio speak headsets they're going to get you so far but not that far. You might want to have some other kind of vibration system. Maybe we have a little vibration system that comes out onto the head from the headset to aid better 3D spatialisation. That kind of thing. So these are the kind of things you need to think about. So we've got touch and there's also with touch we've also got other things called haptics. Haptic information feedback. So touch is about actually obviously understanding what touch is. Here we can see that obviously you've got a probe going to be stuck in and you can obviously feel that. So this is because various nerve fibres and nerve cells are being deformed. So the way that this works at a small level is that you have a nerve fibre and in that you have what's called channels. On this side you have fluid. This side you have a different fluid. So normally these might be so human potassium channels. You might have a positive charge and a negative charge fluid. What happens is when you actually touch something this deformed so that at this point that might be one of the molecules that needs to go through it. When it's deformed it opens up slightly. So you get a lot of these going down into a negative or positively charged fluid which is the actual which transmits itself which transmits signals. So that's how it works. What I'm doing when I'm touching my thumb now is that all I'm doing is deforming this nerve channel so that more of these positive or negative charged ions can come through. That extends a signal from my nerve into my spine to my brain to say there's been a change. Something's been depressed. Now there's lots of other ways of doing this and there's lots of other chemical sensors. So ones whereby you have chemicals that are differently charged and only certain types of the chemical can come through into it to give you that response that there's a chemical change. That's generally how it works. It's quite slow. It's quite slow. So that's why there's a sense of sensitivity for the perception of the touch. So for instance, if you're vibrating fingers on your hand if you vibrate these two fingers at the same frequency it feels like it's this finger that's vibrating. Just because that's the way the senses work the perception of these work. So what you need to think about is that even though you might have say a touch that might be doing some various kinds of vibration or maybe working as you would expect it to the combinatorial aspect might not be the case. You might have to do modify the vibrations but it's not the vibrations but you might have to modify the fingers that vibrate because you will get a different perception. So cell and taste are very much interlinked and we do have as I've said Stephen Brewster over at University of Glasgow did a lot of work in 2006 on smell interfaces because smell is very evocative so therefore he had smell interfaces whereby there was a smell associated with a certain kind of interactive activity that he was doing and so therefore even then just creating the smell allowed you to better execute that task because you can remember it better. So yes How can you create a smell within the system because it's a by-product of a chemical reaction? That's right and so what he had was think of those horrible smell things actually those terrible kind of things that you stick into the plug and then it has this smell that comes out of it like flames of the forest or something like that to make it air freshen the kind of thing but it's done by heat so what he did was he had a very fast heating coil and he had lots of different of these chemical smells in a long strip and then whenever there was a certain interaction that he wanted to do he used to send a charge to the heat so it would heat, evaporate he actually sends those molecules chemical sends those molecules very quickly and then you know yes I need to do this next That's how it worked I mean obviously not cotton, it's a research product it's one of his school work things but it's interesting it's worth thinking about that there are different ways of interacting, the different ways we can take information okay Okay, thinking in more early this is something we're going to consider in a bit more detail in three weeks time so with this one I'm going to skip over this one memory, so you can think of memory in two different ways you can think of memory as short term memory whereby short term memory is a bit like RAM and long term memory is a bit like ROM okay so that's what we can think of or a bit like not ROM, a bit like a non volatile storage yeah okay so we're going to have a stick it in memory where as soon as you stick it in short term memory where as soon as you think about something else it goes away again and you can't remember it that well or you can put it in long term memory where we're going to write it to disk okay, non volatile yeah whereby we can do that again and what, for us, you may be thinking about is this, procedural memory skills and habits, these are the things that people do when they do an interface when they're looking at interaction in the area of interfaces and when looking at the skills they have yes they can do the actual different jobs that they can pick up not necessarily facts and events kind of less okay, so it's this stuff it's this non declarative stuff they're not remembering facts, they're remembering ways to proceed so one thing you also see which you may get to now many of them later is that when you close your eyes and you visualize something the area of the brain say for your visual cortex lights up even though you're not sitting in the room you're still using your visual cortex when you're remembering a sound listening to a sound listening to a sound you're remembering it, it still lights up even though we're not listening to anything directly so that suggests to us even though we don't know that much about the brain that suggests to us that there's some value certainly from the user experience in having some kind of way of allowing people to re-visualise before they start a task so that if you can go through in your head certain tasks, certain interfaces, certain interactions if they're easily, if you can easily bring them to mind then it's more likely that you're able to do a better job because you can actually go through those procedures in your head you're actually doing it so therefore a very complicated interface is very difficult to remember very difficult to visualise the quite simplistic one is a lot easier to visualise so it gives you this kind of learning where you're not even actually there gives you an idea of what you'll be expected to do before you actually get to do the task and this is all about this procedural memory skills and habits now talks about intuition intuitive interfaces have you ever heard of intuitive interfaces so there's all this idea about intuitive interfaces but intuition does it really exist do you have a question of things now he thinks that it's just that we're familiar they should be called familiarity interfaces or familiar interactions they're not intuitive directly so what you should also think about is when you're building this kind of stuff certainly for this memory is it intuitive really or is it really just something that's about familiarity with action familiarity with something so you might say that the big interface the big interface is intuitive because it looks exactly like Google very similar to Google it's just one of the start points seems to get to it very quickly even if they're not particularly well versed they seem to be able to pick up a way of finding the first or second time one of the games without having to talk how to use the phone that's right in some cases that's true but it's often if you look at what they're familiar with themselves anyway first of all kids don't have this idea that they're going to break it so then just keep messing with it so that's one thing is that if they're already familiar with certain types of games or interaction interactive scenarios always from the parents do those interactive scenarios then they can easily transfer those interactive scenarios to the phone itself so the intuition of it yes maybe it's like the fact that it's kind of intuition is more like something that developed from becoming familiar with something so because essentially you have to develop this kind of intuition from somewhere otherwise yeah yeah could it be that they get the intuition from interactions with a real world that doesn't suggest you based on interaction with those things? yes they could get it from a real world interactions but what I'm saying is that there's a thing about intuition that people will say they'll say you'll hear it or maybe you already have they'll say oh well did I need to miss this one because it's intuitive but if intuition is a factor based on familiarity it might be familiar to one person it might not be familiar to another person so to say oh it's intuitive but it might be intuitive to me but does that mean it's intuitive to you or to the users? yes a preconception comes in I think in the regards to the example of children I think they move from one thing to another if one thing's taken away they literally move to the second thing the best thing they can find to play is that they're not going to do this they just move from one place to another and the same thing for the others as well if you really want to use something regardless of how horrible that is you will see something totally different what does that preconception come in as well? preconception obviously comes in because it's kind of like familiarity that you're already familiar with something you can seem to notion of something and therefore it's a matter of actually enacting that as preconceptions even if you might not be aware that you're doing it this intuition seems to be familiarity but you're not aware that you're doing it it's the same with preconception I suggest okay exeration what I'm going to model with that I don't think we need to do it right now okay so this is just interesting to see implicit and explicit communication so we've got explicit and over it so we've got closed and open and over it and this is really just about what kinds of communicative signals that you've given in your interaction in your designs so some of these things will be closed there will be closed and obvious there will be explicit if you like so there will be like words saying an error has occurred that's really the case but what would you think if the letter of address when you've typed something in the form changes from blue to red do you think there's an error or not yeah because it's gone red but it's implicit you know it's not exactly it's not there it's not explicit it's not open for everybody to understand this because if they can't see then they can't see it's changed to red it's just the same yeah okay and that's that okay input and control we're just going to finish up with these and then we can go through a couple more so there's different kinds of input that are conventional now some kinds of input the reason why we're always telling you about the previous stuff is because you might in the future have some massive idea that allows us to add a line to this you're all at this university I'm hoping that one of you is so sure somebody of course is going to you know have a massive breakthrough be a you know ISR like character and then we can add a little bit of control to the bottom but this is but these are the kind of conventional controls and the conventional ways of getting input and controlling now so we've got keyboard obviously cursive pointing for speed back would you remember for speed back haptic stuff haptics speech touch and gesture there's a difference between gesture and touch so you need to make sure you get those correct there's a difference between the touch interface and the gesture interface now obviously some people are calling these Apple gesture touch interfaces touch gestures but gestures can be very much different whereby you're actually manipulating the actual gesture markup and then there's sort of implied control like Google's talking about doing gestures for you based on where you are in the world what you want to do ok it's actually still hot so the hotm is the head operated mouse so these are whereby you can have accelerometers etc on a helmet and so you can actually control pointing devices using your head blink switches so if you blink not because it's a autonomic response but because you actually think about it and blink then it's much slower and it's easily detectable so blink is a good way to control it gain is an eye tracking that's in a way but we can actually point haptic interfaces that are as well pressure switches now we've also got new stuff such as stuff we control in alpha waves normally from our brain so brain interfaces for people with say loctins in the room those kind of things but this we're not going to be doing it because we're going straight to the next yeah obviously I'll expect you to read by next week up to page 19 but we're going to add that in the next video okay so we're going to have a 10 minute break, well just under 10 minutes can you go back here for 12 okay we've got more to do this one hat racks for understanding which is all about e aesthetics focus because my assom my look is that no why stupid I'm I want to I'm sorry


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The problem statement that we're trying to solve for with respect to water is access to safe drinking water for everyone all the time regardless of where they are. Roughly about four billion people globally do not have routine access to water. So they're experiencing water scarcity, water stress on an annual basis to varying degrees. That's four billion people. Roughly about one to three million people in the U.S. don't have access to safe water. So this is not an emerging economy issue. It's here and now. You have people that in some cases are just far away from where there's like drinkable water. And so just the tyranny of geography can be like a big problem that I mean you got women in Africa carrying water for hours just to get water to their village. In other cases it's simply a lack of awareness. People are drinking dirty water and they don't even realize it. A lot of times people just go to the faucet and turn it on and there's water there and so they think everything's great. As you can see in Flint it's not until something bad starts to happen that people start to realize that something's wrong. So maybe as simple as creating a affordable scalable monitoring solution that allows people to see what the quality of water is. I hate to say it's lunacy, but it is lunacy. Appalling numbers, appalling that we in some ways accept that we're chipping away at the edges as opposed to going big and really looking at what has failed. My military experience you had to carry the water that you were gonna bring with you for anything that you were doing but it definitely created an appreciation for water that like a lot of people just don't ever experience because they're kind of used to like oh well I'll just walk over here and get more water if I need it. I spent really the early part of my career putting in water supply wells in places like Puerto Rico, the Northeast in addition to cleaning up contaminated groundwater. It became personal very very early on and that's all I do. I think the solution for water is meaning that nobody has to worry about it anymore. The key for us being successful is how do we kind of pull the parts out of the problem where we think we can. It won't be easy but nothing is but we can absolutely do that and there are models in the XPRIZE that have worked. Deeply challenging problems with all the moving parts that you've laid out can be solved.


The space industry in New Zealand is actually kind of off to a roaring start. This is an area that I didn't predict would be a huge area for New Zealand, but in hindsight now it actually makes a lot of sense. Things are going really fast and much faster than I would have expected five years ago. In New Zealand, we know that there is already a big tech base. The government is very progressive and also now interested in the space industry. You've got Rocket Lab now who is starting to have launch services. So all of the ingredients for creating a space industry is now in place. People that we talk to know that they're in the right time to initiate projects that just support workforce development, support startups and support community building. New Zealand has a unique location that is good for launching certain satellites to certain orbits. So the geography is actually an advantage in some ways. There are data scientists here. There are programmers here. There's ability to launch here. There's a great location for launching. There's great regulatory environment. The overarching huge theme is really around going from these huge satellites to much smaller satellites and that has opened up new business for small launch vehicles. Normally if you wanted to work on a space project you would have to go to one of the few places that space projects were being worked on. It used to be you think that it's only for big governments and the big aerospace companies because you're thinking about going to the moon, Mars and all of those big visions. But space is not just that. If people can build or are playing with drones and things like that you're really close now to making spacecraft. They're not that much different. It's not only technology that's been disrupted. It's also education that's been disrupted. In the past you'd think that you would need another four year degree in aerospace engineering to actually have a business in space. Because of the internet it's much more accessible to kind of break into the system. People are coming up with ideas all the time how to stop illegal fishing using these satellite systems. You can monitor some of the invasive species where they are in New Zealand every day. You can check on the health of the coral reefs. Our big vision is to democratize space for everyone so that nobody's left behind. If we can create an ecosystem in emerging countries of which New Zealand is a perfect place to do it we can potentially have the model for any country who wants to participate in this global space economy to actually be part of that ecosystem. We can do great things here in New Zealand. How do we solve these open questions and come together to form reasonable policies that are going to attract entrepreneurs and investors? Really all these dreams that have been going on for 20 or 30 years about going out to the moon and going to the asteroids and all these things are starting to become real and I think in the next five years you will be astounded by what is possible.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's casebreaks.com with a nice little snack here. Just a quick little one-box break of 21 22 Panini mosaic Premier League soccer one spot gets you two teams. So it's essentially a 10 buck break So big thanks everyone here. Let's double you up. Oh double up. Oh, oh And they're the the Premier League teams right there Let's roll it and oh my connection is secure. Don't worry random dollar one and a five six times So names and teams one and a five six times one two three four five and six We got Christopher down to Brian one and a five six times for the teams one two three four five and six and final time Got Norch down to my club Liverpool. Oh nice mark That's a good idea lays down we We had a our friend Gilo was talking about how he's gonna for Halloween is gonna give away Not only a little bit of candy But some some vet comments that he has laying around as well thought that was a good idea So Mark's doing that too Except he's got a he's given him inserts to go everyone go to Mark's house Christopher with Norwich Stephen Kay with Crystal Palace Brian with Arsenal Kevin with Everton Gary with Man City Christopher with a Westham mark with Southampton CJ Las Palmo Joe Brentford Mark with Leicester Bennett with Burnley Kevin with Newcastle Joe with Brighton and Watford Gary with Tottenham Joe with Chelsea Bennett with Leeds CJ with Wolves Stephen Kay man United Joe with Aston Villa and Brian with my club Liverpool Let's sort these by Alphabetically by team will pause the video will allow allow a little trade window and we've come back of the break as well Stick around BRB All right. Welcome back. No deals were done here in this quick little one box break. I load up another one pretty cheap to get into and and There is no deals pretty easy to get into but price point wise and like if you were not too familiar too sure about About dipping your toes into the soccer world. This would be a great time to do it You know, this will give you a good good example of of how they'll do in the secondary market without too big of a buy-in and with soccer sort of Profile being increased greatly by the World Cup coming up. I might help you with a Secondary market sales might help you there might see see a little boost. This is just the English Premier League, but a lot of top players around the world often end up and out of the English Premier League or in Spain And I think we're looking for One autograph for a box on average Plus whatever low-numbered parallel parallel or insert that we can find All right. Good luck all hardship No, not yet Maybe maybe today Today's the day Today's the day even Konate, I think is back for in from injury for for my club Liverpool and The autograph is for Aston Villa. It's Lucas Dignay that'll be for Joe and Aston Villa who recently sacked Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard Her manager got sacked Here's another Konate this time red which are not numbered but Everything ships think a lot of Liverpool fan including myself We're hoping that Aston Villa would do well and then you know once you're in clot leaves and then he would be a stepping stone to that but Doesn't look like that's gonna happen now Liverpool defender Virgil van Dyke and we got a numbered card here for the Hammers That is one out of 99 that is Said Ben-Rama For Christopher and Westham. Oh, and here's a nice one here Harvey Elliott for Liverpool Brian Heyman With Harvey Elliott a rookie card mosaic parallel. He scored a goal today the Champions League match. I Want to say he scored in two Champions League matches in a row Which makes him one of the youngest players To do so Still a teenager things they still just 19 years old So he's an up-and-coming star for For my club, but I'm a ties Norman for Norwich rookie Silver For Christopher Sineacus Conor Cody for Wolves he read a parallel That's for Southampton that's gonna be for Mark L another Rookie Silver for Burnley. That's gonna be for Bennett Agent Collins All right, there you go gang Quick little break right here nice little snack just a quick little one-box break of a mosaic Premier League soccer We popped another one on the site So if you want to goof around a little bit of this check it out jazby's case breaks calm Thanks, everyone. I'll see you next time for the next one