Hello, I just wanted to show some gameplay of my game Cybergriffin that I'm working on for about a month and half now I try not to talk too much to show you the gameplay, but again, this is a project I've been working on It is supposed to be styled like a 2d version of doom Um all the code so far has been written by me for the game, but all the assets the music the art You know sprites sound effects that sort of stuff is from the free doom project so shout out to them awesome project love them for years and Let's me focus on the programming for this game, which I'm very excited about I want to do something like this for years I'm finally get around to do it. I'm very happy with it. So let's go ahead and get to the gameplay Settings you can just the sound effects and volume menu Volumes and it does save that about copyright stuff my website freedom information All the good stuff check all that out.  You can choose difficulty level. This one is very very hard We're gonna go manning up and right now there's no game save But there's checkpoints every time you get to a new level it adds it to a list here so far. I have Five and a half levels down. I have four complete levels of regular gameplay a secret level And then I'm halfway through designing level five or using the naming scheme of episode one M one for map one Just like in doom, so I'm just gonna go ahead and click on this And you started So again, you can play with the keyboard Usually play with the keyboard, but I'm gonna play with the game controller Give a try out I'm playing this game I'm gonna show you where all the secrets are so you may not want to watch this if you actually plan on playing So there's a secret there If you hit select on the game pad or tab on the controller or there's a button on your touchscreen It does go into a zoomed-out map view which also gives you statistics in the top left there your time enemies kill Still working on the enemies being stupid sometimes they don't walk into walls anymore, but apparently My friends play this the other day to test it I was worried that might be a little too easy since you know, it's hard to tell when you're the game developer Over and play all the levels I had and it worked out well They they they had a good time playing with an appropriate amount of difficulty Longer to get Because I again know where everything is Tries on each level so Little storyline here, so we're just gonna skip past this The game runs fairly well. It didn't at first. I had to make a lot of modifications, but my son has a $30 Amazon Fire Tablet from 2019 and this game runs fairly well on it As a lot of bad guys To implement Feature later on Never played it before it's a little more difficult than you would think I didn't really shoot before they were locked doors. I went and got the keys New where to go a little Informational stuff comes up there not necessary for gameplay Some message I have set up to only pop up once basically it Random landing pads for example that one. I just went through to bring you It brought me up there, which is fine But sometimes we'll bring you back here to where this red door opens And you get this and that counts as a secret Since I found zero to I must In-fighting which is fun Fighting is when you get the bad guys to fight each other I must have moved the marker on that one when you start up it gives you the level name and up the top record Where the designer is which is what the levels are like We'll be documented on the web so find out more information about this project. Here's the pit of the spare I'm gonna hug the right wall here typos in this. I have to get this all proofread Exit to a service hatching out inside the machine Or you get the faster you go Places again this level Crushers here I Was just go for it. Ah, and I did it on my first try Nice normally doesn't go that smoothly a few tries at least those fireballs Plasm pack I picked up the plasma rifle by the way that was the secret back there that I went through again This level is counting the secrets A little secret level no one to kill Again, I got through it pretty fast. So it says here Well, when you come through here that this is a testing weapons testing factory and then you see a light up ahead It's coming to get you duck under them. That's why the level is called The secret level a little hidden plasma gun there platforms you cannot only jump when they're Time it appropriate to that or chain gun Feels very sluggish. You have to even stores go to the bottom one each one Flickering lights I try to add something new to test this level coming from that level But also if you come from another level don't want it to be too easy so this door this door opens somewhere else is the first time where I have a remote switch Outside the invisible ones on the previous I got those fuel canisters which allows me to pop up to here. Normally you wouldn't be able to make that jump So that's it that is cyber griffin, let me let me show you the website real quick. I don't need those on anymore, okay? So again, it's in the good-o engine almost like Chris comm forge slash games Click on 2021 cyber griffin and here is the website. I just set up yesterday or the day before It's got some information. You can play it in the web browser, but gameplay may vary depending on your browser Hey Like on my computer in chrome or brave It runs fine, but audio is like a quarter of a second delay, which is a little weird Firefox The audio is fine, but the frame rate is kind of low I played on in chrome on another machine the other day and it ran fine So you can play it right in the web browser. You can get the source code open up with Godot. I have an APK here You need to enable you know Sources what they call it? Outside sources other than Google. I don't forget what it's called. Hopefully eventually I will have this in the play store once I am done With it and then you can also get the game. So you click here. This will generate a zip file for you It takes a second. I have a little thing here. So give it give it a few seconds. It's generating a zip file that has a Little bit documentation But mainly two main files inside that zip file and executable and the pack file and then just click on the execute Extracting click on the executable. So we got Android windows and then Linux Eventually, I hope to have it in the Debian repositories, which would propagate to other distributions But right now if you're on a Debian based system, you can just install Godot 3 with your package manager or go to the Godot website I'll probably have other directions on here later on and download Godot Then just download the pack file. You can use W get word this button right here And then just tell Godot with a dash dash main dot pack open this up So if you were a Debian based system a current Debian based system that has Godot 3 inside the Repositories just basically highlight these three lines of code paste them in your terminal and the game should download and start You all these they've been your password for the Godot Engine there That's it. That's what I have so far again. I am very excited about this. I'm very happy with it I hope you guys are too definitely if you play it Let me know right now. I guess you can comment in this video eventually Maybe I'll have a place. I'm actually thinking about putting something in the game where people can communicate Maybe if I'm up for doing that That being said I'd like to know what you think give it a try and Yeah, I'm open to input. I hope that you like it and again It's still early stages of development, but coming along great I personally think and there's a lot more I have a lot more ideas the next level after I finish this level I'm hoping to do something cool because right now we're on level power surge where the lights are flickering and My idea have developed this yet but at the end of that level when you teleport out You're gonna be ripped into two players and then you have two players that you're controlling with the same controllers on The next level and you've got to get through the level with both players Alive to put them back together. That's the plan for the next level. We'll see if that actually works out I need to give it a try but should work. Anyway, thanks for watching as always. I hope that you have a great day


Ahoy Hoy, and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to talk about how you're wrong about SCP-999. Let's get started. Also, I got a new chair. So anyway, SCP-999 is, we'll actually read from the article itself here so we can explain exactly what this SCP is at first. SCP-999 appears to be a large amorphous gelatinous mass of translucent orange slime weighing about 54 kilograms or 120 pounds, with a consistency similar to that of peanut butter. Subject's size and shape is easily malleable and can change shape at will, though when it rests SCP-999 becomes a rounded oblate dome roughly two meters wide and one meter in height. There's some more, it's just basic physical descriptions here, but I do find it interesting that something that is two meters wide and a meter tall, a blob, by the way, only weighs 120 pounds. That's an interesting number. So, in the grand scheme of things, beyond its physical description, what is SCP-999? Well, think back to your average Series 1 SCP. The 682, there's a variety of them able plague doctor.   It just wants to be friends. Its primary method of attack is to tickle you to death, and not really to death, actually. If it hurts you in any way, even accidentally, it will retreat into the corner and whimper about it. But, beyond this, of course, as described, and if you've seen fan art images of it, which I'll probably put some on the screen right now, if you've seen fan art images of it, you'll see that it's a cute thing. It's nice. It's a breath of fresh air in the SCP world, which is something the SCP world really needs. I've been playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 lately, and there's no brightness at all. It's impressively dark all the time, and the SCP foundation could easily fall into that sort of trap where it's like, let's just be dark. Darkness is cool, but without anything to raise it up above after a certain amount of time, you just, I don't know, what's the word I'm looking for here? It's not that you get bored with it, you just kind of get beaten down by the content you're absorbing, and you just kind of slowly back away from it. You need some sort of an emotional change, like every once in a while, at the very least, something to bring up, and SCP 999, among other articles, manages to do that. And from a meta perspective, an out of universe perspective, SCP 999 provides something of a, like, a juxtaposition to all of the deadly SCPs. I'm sure the author was just thinking when they wrote it, hey, let's write, like, so when the SCP foundation starts, you've got all these deadly SCPs, and they're new, and they're interesting, and they're kind of, uh, kind of different. It's not, it's not the norm. Not everything is supposed to be deadly and all this other stuff, but then the SCP foundation becomes that. So now subverting the norm is creating a friendly creature, right? And so it acts in that capacity to be not just a palette cleanser for the darkness of the SCP wiki, but also to, as I said, juxtapose against the, uh, the normal content you might encounter. However, if that was all there was, I don't think there would be anything to be wrong about. I mean, there's always going to be things to be wrong about because people always get things wrong. But the problem I have is that SCP 999 is used in, in a way, or I should say, interpreted by a lot of people to be inexorably tied to the Scarlet King and the children of the Scarlet King and that whole canonical end of the world scenario, especially 231. Um, and the reasons for that essentially, uh, source from, there's a variety of articles about it, but new job is probably, uh, at the core for most of these problems. So new job is something that was, and by the way, SCP 999, let's just get the author out of the way real quick. Uh, it was posted to the wiki on the 2nd of February, 2009 by Professor Snyder. It's P-R-O-F Snyder. Uh, I'll put the actual name up on the screen right here. I want to make sure that I credit the authors of these individual pieces properly. Um, but on the 7th of June in 2016, Dr. Chandra, uh, posted new job. And new job, um, approaches SCP 999 from a different perspective. It says that it's part of the world ending, destroying all these other things. It's part of that actually. It's an important part of trying to keep it from destroying the world. The idea is, and this, it's funny, so new job references two articles, not just SCP 999, but an article called Dust and Blood, which was written by a jerk, uh, on the 2nd of January, 2014, which we're going to go into that now first, so we can get back to new job in a second. But Dust and Blood is, again, purports to be a, not a Sarkic text. I'm thinking of something else, a David text. It's a David text, um, describing the Scarlet King and his seven brides, uh, which are also technically his children. Um, there's a lot in, I hope, I don't suggest you, SCP 999's fine, but new job in Dust and Blood, req, they have a lot of very triggering stuff in them. Let's put it that way. And if that's the kind of thing that could potentially bother you, I would suggest you avoid it. And honest to God, it's not even necessary stuff, but regardless, um, Dust and Blood purports to say that the seventh bride, the one that, 231, the one that's actually in containment by the SCP foundation of Winton Montauk fame, um, is actually secretly fighting against the Scarlet King and her child is meant to be a kind of warrior against the Scarlet King. Um, it's a little bit more complicated than that. And we'll talk about how this doesn't actually work together as well as most people think it does in a second. New job is about a fellow called Dr. Collingwood who gets appointed to be SCP 999's head researcher. And because SCP 999 is this, you know, gelatinous blob, friendly gelatinous blob, there's an oddity to it because he's appointed by the O5 council and he gets a direct message from O5 command to talk about his appointment, which is not normal for a project of what you would imagine to be so little importance. But the idea is that SCP 999 is a weapon against the Scarlet King and the children of the Scarlet King who were keeping SCP 231 in containment before the foundation got ahold of her and who were supposedly doing Winton Montauk to keep her in containment, which doesn't make sense, by the way. We're not going to go too much into 231 here, mainly for a lot of reasons. We'll just say that. But it doesn't actually make much logical sense that someone who wants the Scarlet King to be brought forth would have on file a way to keep the seventh bride from having a child if the bride having her child is supposed to be the end of the world. And so it's the idea is that maybe that was set in place to trick the foundation into helping contain this creature that could actually fight the Scarlet King. And what they did was they realized this, they let her have her child and SCP 999 is what resulted. A being which is friendly, is capable of curing depression and PTSD just by touch. And who, 682 by the way is considered to be one of the children of the Scarlet King in this version, this canon will say, was actually able to turn him into a friendly animal as well just by being in contact with him. But there's a lot of problems with this. And first of all, we're going to say there is no canon. So if anyone ever tells you that this is absolutely true that 999 is one of the children of the Scarlet King because they read it once, remember that nothing on the SCP Wiki is necessarily canon to anything else. So if you believe new job, great for you, that's true. But if you just read the SCP 999 article, nothing in it would indicate that this is true. So let's just keep that in mind. But secondly, more importantly, a lot of this sources out of dust and blood, specifically a paragraph, and again, I think I credit this properly. Jorick, 2nd of January 2014, wrote, the seventh bride was a Habbat. She was the smallest and the weakest of the seven, but she was not broken utterly by the king and was horrified by her state. Her children walked on two legs and were mighty hunters and heroes. She taught them in secret, hoping that they might destroy the children of her sisters and overthrow the king. They are few and they have failed. Two things. First of all, this is this feels very much like it's supposed to be a humanity saves the world sort of thing. Like they walk on two legs. That's generally humans. But even if it's not, it's talking about heroes, human heroes, specifically. SCP 999 is a blob. It does not walk on two legs. Which if you believe this sort of wrecks the whole of the, you have to do a lot of contortions to be like, well, maybe when it grows up, it will have two legs. Maybe it's a child now. It's only 10 years old. And in fact, a new job mentions it's only 10 years old. This is a child. Maybe when it grows up, it will be like a human and it'll have two legs. But that's the serious contortion to try and make this work for you. In reality, it just doesn't. Unless you want it to. Because again, there is no canon. The version of dust and blood from new job that it's referencing back to, maybe it doesn't include that. Or maybe it's very specific about what it is. The point is, I've seen this thrown around too much, that SCP 999 and all this stuff is necessarily true. That it is one of the children of the Scarlet King and it's meant to save the world from the Scarlet King. No, it's not. SCP 999 is just a fun little pallet cleanser from series one, of which there are stories written where that is true. And if you want to treat that as a particular canon of its own, that's great. Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough about why there is no canon. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, hit the subscribe button. And I really, really, really would appreciate if you hit the subscribe button. That's super important. And then head on over to patreon.com forward slash de-sumerian and pledge at any level, like everybody here on the screen already has, including Dr. J redacted and Sinjeriki, who both pledged $100. And I would appreciate it because this is important. I'm not getting a lot of traffic to my channel lately. 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Did you know that your thoughts have an enormous impact on your life? The law of attraction suggests that what you think and feel can actually attract positive or negative experiences into your life. Studies have shown that people who experience a lot of negative emotions are more likely to develop heart disease. On the other hand, people who have a positive outlook have a lower risk of developing hypertension. But you can harness the power of your thoughts for positive change. One way to do this is to practice mindfulness. This means paying attention to your thoughts and feelings without judgment, so you can become more aware of negative thought patterns and shift your focus to more positive ones. Another way is through gratitude. By focusing on the things you're grateful for, you can develop a more positive outlook and attract more positive experiences. So remember that by being mindful of your thoughts and intentionally focusing on the positive, you have the power to create a more fulfilling life for yourself. You got this.


So what Katana Strike does is we bring in all the digital measuring capabilities from the joint force, whether it's the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps. And we combine that into a single exercise in which we conduct dynamic targeting within the maritime environment. Katana Strike definitely aids in readiness and in lethality as it provides data link architecture and the fidelity of those data links is going to make us more lethal as a force. This has not been done before, to my knowledge, it is going to show the commanders here within the 3MAP and 3MIG that the commercial off the shelf radar is a viable tracking solution. As new sensors and new systems come out, this is one of the great opportunities that we have to work in a collaborative effort in order to test what their limitations are as well as smooth out the wrinkles from some of the unknowns and expose some of those gaps that we find for that if we had to move this to an operational phase. So I think all of our individual platforms kind of know what they're capable of, again just individually out there by themselves, but being able to share those capabilities and use one another to enhance our individual capabilities, whether that's increased range, increased communication, kind of increased picture of what's going on out there so that we can better use our individual capabilities as a force, as a combined unit with a common goal in mind. It was really cool to see because it's kind of let us experience that next phase of the whole data link process. Instead of just talking about admission planning, we really got to see multiple units come together using the same Link 16 technology that we're using on station a lot, but really in the same network this time sharing information out in the real world on our physical platforms against real targets and being able to see the data link, the connectivity, the communication kind of come to fruition and see how that actually impacts mission execution in the real world. Katana Strike is of extreme importance in training how we will fight. Integrating across joint coalition forces or multi-domains is something that we do not get the opportunity to enact enough and this exercise provides us this unique opportunity. The more times that we do this as this exercise is done frequently, we get better and better every time. Roger, out.


So, I will get started, I think two of us are tag-taming, I do not know where Siddharth went, can you just say, so I think two of us are tag-taming and we are from Flipkart, both of us and the purpose of this talk is to sort of give you, so the first I will spend not more than five minutes giving you sort of an overview of what we do in analytics and decision sciences at Flipkart and Siddharth is one of the scientists at Flipkart and he is going to take one use case. So, I think we give a very brief generic overview and one use case related to price elasticity and we have done some work around price elasticity and price intelligence more importantly that we will talk about. So, that is the context. So, just to give you why this problem is important and see why it is a different problem, right? Elasticity is a fairly straightforward problem in economics literature solved a lot, means in very sophisticated ways by multiple people in econometrics and statistics and so on so forth. But what makes it different for a business like Flipkart is fundamentally the scale. So, the next four or five minutes I want to spend around that, right? So, we have around 80 million products, around 150 million I think around registered users. This is a little bit dated, it is probably six months dated and the rate at which we grow this number keeps, means I cannot update this slide fast enough. So, I think that is the scale at which. So, the point is you think about the scale of the problem, right? We have to look at pricing of every one of these products on a daily basis and account for multiple things like self-price elasticity, cannibalization because you have 80 million products, many of these are cannibalizing other products so on so forth. You look at whether there is a sale event happening, whether a sale event is not happening, the browse behavior of about 100 million plus users and then being able to understand a competitive position, all of these things, right? And so, and doing all this and being able to update price on a near real time basis and being able to, then there are multiple guard rails around making sure there is a price trust that is established with the consumer. Every day you want to, don't want to be saying different prices for different products.  So, there are multiple components to solve this problem at scale, to build price intelligence at scale. And that was the thing that I wanted to communicate with the slide more than anything else is that it's not a very, very sort of well isolated simple problem of price elasticity, price intelligence when we talk about large e-commerce sites.  We have a lot of, so these are all the kind of signals that are used for driving sort of price intelligence, right? Understanding consumer behavior as a time series, understanding the impact of seasonality, impact of things like events like a big billion day and so on and so forth and other events, looking at browse paths, browse history, cannibalization, competitive position, all of these things in a scalable manner, right? And now just going through what we do as an organization, right? This is one use case that we are going to talk about, which is price intelligence. Broadly, our goal as an organization, right, is to sort of move decisions. See, all our decisions are anyway driven by data for any e-commerce, internet company. However, there is a mix of what is done by machine, what is done by humans. I think the goal is to keep moving that from human decisions to machine driven decisions. That's the larger sort of this thing, right? So this kind of gives you a view on what are some of the different kinds of problems we are solving at Flipkart today. Basically, we have a data platform where literally whatever product you build, you make sure that the data from that gets ingested by our data platform so that you have one repository of data. And then you have multiple sort of solutions. So we talk about insights, but insights are essentially signals, right? These are models which build a signal that can be consumed by various products in the organization, some of, or for human decisions, right? There are sort of product insights. Elasticity can be a product insight at a SKU level and that gets, so that's the model that Sid is going to talk about. And then that can be sort of consumed by our data platform. And that signal can be used for many different things. It can be used by other products. It can be used by humans, like business category leaders to make decisions and so on and so forth, right? Similarly, there are user insights which can again be consumed by multiple different traffic insights, pricing, supply chain insights, and that's what you see at bottom gives a very small sample of some of the use cases that sort of have been built and that are getting consumed by various systems in Flipkart. So now I'm going to sort of stop here and invite Sid to the stage so that, and he's going to talk about one use case which is the price intelligence. Thank you, Ravi. Hey guys, my name is Sid. I work as senior decision staff decision scientist with the analytics team in Flipkart. And so just deal with one of the particular problems that we work on, right, which is price intelligence. So essentially what is price intelligence? So the idea of price intelligence is very simple, right? The idea is that you can use elasticity, which is basically the percentage change in demand divided by the percentage change in price. The effects, rather the trend in elasticity can be used to our advantage. So to speak that there are certain regions of price where your elasticity curve or demand curve actually changes drastically and certain regions where it does not change drastically. And so for example, let me point out to you. So you see this curve right here. This is a typical elasticity curve where, forgive the lack of access here, but this is basically increasing price and this is increasing demand on the y-axis. So you see that as you keep decreasing, rather increasing price, you see that there is a sharp decrease here and then suddenly it flattens out. So it's like a real sigmoid curve that you can see in a lot of places in real life, right? So let's fast forward to basically this curve because this is basically what I'm going to be kind of using to explain, right? So essentially here you see that you have an increasing price on the x-axis. As you keep increasing price, your demand drops. So at some point, essentially you have your total revenue kind of increasing and then start decreasing again after that. So essentially that means that there is some sort of optimal price point where you can place a particular product such that you can essentially get the maximum possible margin out of it, maximum possible demand out of it and therefore maximize your revenue, right? But there is one further complication, right? Which is this. Cannibalization, which is a big problem, right? So you say you have a particular category, right? And you have a whole set of, you have a whole gamut of products, right? So what happens is that when you decrease the price on one particular product, then the demand for that particular product increases, but the demand for the others which actually are cannibalized by this product also decreases. So what you need to do is essentially come up with a pricing vector for all of the products in your entire, so let's say, category, right? Which such that you are maximizing some sort of measure sale, you are maximizing margin, maximizing revenue, maximizing units overall, but essentially it boils down to the same problem which is that how do you account for the effect of cross elasticity? So to speak that the price change of one particular product affecting the demand of another product itself, right? So once you do that, so essentially the whole goal of this is to come up with a set of optimal prices such that I maximize an objective function, right? So with that, let's basically go on to the next slide. So the way that we go forward with solving this problem, right? Is we look at the product sales, essentially we try to model the demand as a function of time. Now the demand has a lot of pieces. Essentially we have a whole bunch of signals basically affecting the demand which I'll come to in the following slide. Essentially having all these signals basically large number of signals becomes a feature reduction problem, feature selection problem and essentially a forecasting problem, so it's like app for machine learning, right? So we use a random forest with lag variables or a support vector machines or a unobserved component model or something like that. Any model which basically can suitably sample the posterior distribution of the demand itself depending on what it is. Once we do that, what we do is we filter products based on model accuracy and we say that because we won't find like infinite model accuracy everywhere you go. Essentially it's not going to be always 100% it's going to be like 50% 60% and so on. We don't want to be modeling products which have very poor model accuracy and explicability, so we don't use them. And also the other thing is that price has to be a significant variable. So either the price of the product itself or the price of other products affecting the particular demand has to be a significant variable. Otherwise basically there's no point of actually taking it as part of the elasticity optimization itself. The next step is basically we say we have the demand curves for all of the products across the entire category. Now what we want to do is essentially say what are the set of prices such that all of the demands are such that we optimize a particular objective function. So essentially the objective function can be something like we maximize the total monetary value that comes out of the entire category. Or it could be that maximize the margin which comes out of the entire category subject to some constraints. So this is a problem which is definitely not convex. So essentially you're looking for something which is like a stochastic optimization of starts. So I will come to one more complexity in this, but we generally end up using a genetic algorithm to solve a problem like this. The other complexity is that there is a demand stochasticity, meaning which when you predict a certain demand it has a natural noise which comes along with it. So essentially you have to account for the noise when you're accounting for your overall fitness function that you're trying to optimize as well. And the second thing is that you also need something like your model accuracy is not 100%. So you've got to account for these two. There is demands stochasticity. There is model error which you'll have to account for as part of your genetic algorithm itself. And this process is called stochastic optimization. So that is kind of the next step that we do along with the genetic algorithm. So we factor that as part of the fitness function as well.  So the demand response function you take this as with a pinch of salt because this is actually a kind of a, let's say a simple representation of what the sales would look like. So essentially let's say that sales actually represents a particular product sales in a particular week, right, in a particular category. And essentially what happens is that you're looking at something like this is the lagged sales of week one. So it's kind of an autoregressive model here based on the demands for the previous two weeks. This is a display effect essentially how frequently does something turn up in a search when you put it on a e-commerce website. So what is the impression share or something like that? There's an availability effect. What happens when something goes out of stock? So essentially something else takes it up. There is cannibalization by something else. So therefore that's definitely going to result in a lower demand in the future weeks as well. And then it's going to go back up later because this is autoregressive anyway, right? And then there's a self-price effect. And there are few other terms here at the bottom which is basically similarity based cannibalization. So essentially there are similar set of products which you can identify either based on browse behavior. So essentially somebody actually looks at two different products in the same session, for example, that's kind of co-brows. There is price-based cannibalization, essentially products which belong to the same price category, so to speak. And finally there is competitive price cannibalization. So you have competition from other companies, other online platforms and so on. So you account for that as well. So factors affecting demand. So this is a very comprehensive slide of all the possible factors that, you know, could potentially affect the demand. I would say this is necessary but not sufficient. So take this with a, again, this is probably very comprehensive but not complete. So then you have product quality related attributes. You have display data related attributes. Sales data related attributes. So essentially, meaning up here, you have other factors like inventory styles, age of listing, how old a listing, particular listing is. You have offer data. You're basically saying that something is going on offer. Essentially, is it something that we are putting out there with more frequencies at a greater discount? Is it getting more traffic? And then there's a cannibalization module. Essentially, it goes into the model. So this is kind of all of the factors which kind of subsume anything which could potentially affect your demand for any particular product. So the demand prediction model itself, this is more of a summary of how we combine it, right? So essentially what we do is we take a particular category. We have a particular product which is called the focus product, right? We have the focus product here which is the product we are trying to predict the particular demand for. We have all these products which basically can potentially cannibalize from this particular product. So essentially what we do is then take the sales data at t minus one. So essentially it's kind of an autoregressive model at this point, right? And then we take the ratings, reviews, competitive views. So essentially all of those things which can potentially affect how the demand works. Then the cannibalization at time t minus one. So when I say time t minus one, I also mean time t minus n. So essentially take that to be an nth order autoregressive function, right? Cannibalization based on co-brows, based on correlations between demand and product price. One thing you should just remember is that cannibalization always is demand of something with respect to the price of something else. So essentially demand versus demand is demand versus price, right? So then we actually model the overall demand over a week and then essentially spirit out so that they can do the price optimization. So essentially this is kind of the overall process of how we do this, right? It's a very technical process. I can just go by it very quickly. So essentially we do the data cleaning transformation, very standard stuff. We do a rolling test and train test just like we do for any kind of long time series where you have multiple change points. Essentially it's very important to not take the entire time series to do the train and test, but have a rolling train test. We do a feature selection using rank correlations or mutual information. So sometimes we have categorical variables. So we need to use mutual information in those cases and we actually do something called a adaptive feature selection using a Markov chain Monte Carlo where we adaptively select how correlated features can be with a particular objective function as opposed to within themselves, right? So because we don't want too much correlation between or rather we don't want multicollinearity. We evaluate all possible hyperparameter combinations. So essentially we choose the model itself adaptively and the hyperparameters adaptively and the features adaptively. So all of them kind of are baked into the MCMC. We do a forward-looking cross-validation. So essentially we obviously can't use future information because this is a forward-looking time series.  We give out the prices and say these are the prices you need to go forward with this particular week. So essentially once basically we have each model, right? So just expanding on the last point, we have once we have each model, essentially what we do is we feed it to a GA. So essentially that each price that you give out for or rather each price vector that you give out for a set of products is fed into the GA which essentially does one thing which figures out what the demands for each of the products is going to be for that particular price point and says okay here is your objective function value. So you can imagine that if you have a particular objective function you're trying to optimize all you need to do is just keep iterating over this vector, figure out what the prices are going to be, right? So this is just a standard GA algorithm that you have here. It's nothing new. This is quite vanilla. So let me go on to this slide basically where we show you what the optimization strategy is, right? So essentially what we're trying to do here is we have different types of products. We have low elasticity, high margin products, high elasticity, high margin products and high elasticity, low margin, low elasticity and low margin, right? So the general optimization strategy is that when you have a high elasticity and high margin you can actually change your price by a little bit and get a lot of demand goodness out of it. So whenever you have high elasticity that's what you want to do. And whenever you have very low elasticity but high margin so essentially you want to basically get more margin goodness because you know that changing the price by a bit is not going to really do anything to the demand so you might as well get some margin goodness out of it. So this is very simple. So this table right here is just showing you evidence for the fact that the algorithm actually works in one of the categories that we've implemented it in. So this is something that we are going to do full time and actually expand across all our entire gamut products very soon. And that's about it. Thank you very much for this opportunity.


Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. Today we're talking about a really interesting new tool that I've been using a lot in my narrative work and that is Follow Fill. Often when you're shooting a scene with two people talking and the camera is moving, there's no way to get the lights far enough back that they won't get in the scene. This can be a real problem, especially when you're shooting outside or somewhere that's really dark and you want that extra little bit of fill to bring up the level on your subject so that you separate them from the background. The answer to this is Follow Fill. Follow Fill is a light, usually an LED, on the end of a boom pole that a grip or a gaffer carries above camera powered by battery. They try and keep the light as close to the axis of the camera as possible so that it doesn't create extra shadows and you don't see it moving around. Often it'll be in some kind of china ball or diffused setup so that they can carry it right above camera and it sort of acts like you're just getting that much extra light on your subject that your subject is that much brighter. This is great for when you're outside, say on a city street and there's no way to rig lights along the pathway of the camera move to give that extra illumination and if you did, they would keep illuminating the background and it would cut into that separation that you have between character and background. The great thing about Follow Fill is because of the inverse square law, the light only travels at the level you want it a couple of feet. So if the person holding the Follow Fill keeps it, you know, two or three feet in front of the actor, you're going to get an actor that pops out of the background that really is this much brighter. You see here them using it on Deadpool when he's running down a city alley that there's nowhere that they could have put a light that would have been soft enough and bright enough that you wouldn't see as the camera pulls back. Another one you see here being used in Black Swan when she's walking around the streets at night. The only solution for this would be to rig a soft light source above the path over 20 feet, which would be super expensive, really hard to power, probably quite loud. Just having this light source in a china ball above Natalie Portman's character means that she is separated from the background. You get all the great things you want to do with light very conveniently. And since there's usually a boom operator holding a microphone almost at that same place, you either have to negotiate between the to the mic and the light, or you shoot these kind of scenes MOS meaning without sound on the day and you add the sound and later this allows the person holding the Follow Fill to get as close as possible to the actor with just staying out of the frame lines. Pretty much anyone who knows how to swing a boom on set and keep it out of the shot can do this job. I've used the IntelliTek LC 50 on a boom pole because it's light because it's battery powered. You can run the cable down the boom pole onto the operator's belt and have a really bright light that will run for hours off a 98 watt hour V-mount battery. I used it on a recent video where we wanted a walk and talk through a alleyway that was almost totally dark. We had the actor stop at different positions. They would have gone into complete darkness in between the different lighting setup. So this is a really cool tool to experiment with in both daylight and darkness, especially if you're shooting something like exterior night scenes and you want your character to be visible as they're walking around. I've also seen it done with a piece of poly board and having someone off screen shine a bright Fresnel style lens onto the poly board that the grip is carrying with the actor. So there are a bunch of different ways to do it, but really what you're thinking about doing is just holding a light behind camera and adding that extra sense of illumination so that as the camera swings around you won't see any lights in frame. That is my look at the follow fill, a really interesting tool, one that I've been using a bunch and one that I plan to use a bunch more. Please let me know in the comments below if you've ever used a follow fill, what lights and fixes you used, what your results were and really how we can get the most out of this. Thank you very much for watching. Links to the products seen here in the description. Leave your questions in the comments and I will see you next time.


Welcome to Hard Questions. This is where we gather pastors together to take on your tough questions and answer them right from the Bible. I'm Tom Hollis, the moderator, and today our panelists include Dr. William R. Glaze, Bethany Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. Ray Hypole, Providence Presbyterian Church in Robinson Township. Pete Giacalone, Lead Pastor, South Hills Assembly of God Church, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Janneth and Gilbert pastor of another level in the North Hills area. Pastors, thank you for being with us today. Today on Hard Questions, we're talking sex. Did you really say that? Being saved and spirits, all questions from the hotline. I love when we get questions from the hotline. So let's go to the first one. I would appreciate it if you could tell me what scriptures give a clear direction who's in a relationship. She and her boyfriend are very close. They don't live together and she's hoping that they will marry. At this time, intimate relationship. Good question, good question for where our society's at, Pastor Glaze. Well, yeah, and that was a great leading because that's what I was going to say, that as a pastor, it seems like most of the people that come these days to get married are already either living together or they're involved in an intimate relationship. And so even though our culture is changing, the Word of God has not changed. And she was asking for a specific scripture and I go back to 1 Thessalonians chapter four in verse three, where it says, for this is the will of God. This is not the hope of God. This is not the wish of God. This is the will of God, even your sanctification that you abstain from fornication. And fornication simply is sex outside of marriage. So you know, if you're involved in an intimate sexual relationship outside of marriage, then you're not in the will of God because it says right here, this is God's will that you be sanctified, that you grow, that you be, you know, set apart. And so fornication is something that the scripture absolutely prohibits for an individual or individuals that are not married.  But in 1 Corinthians 6 18 says flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality actually sins against his own body. So, and again, we need this preaching back. And this is, when we go back a couple of shows ago, this is where people say, you're being judgmental. No, we're not being judgmental. We're trying to warn you that there's consequences to your choices. So it's not that we're judging you. And then, you know, we're told that the marriage or marriage is honorable among all and the bed undefiled. But fornicators and adulterers, God will judge. And there's other scriptures and I'm sure maybe you guys have them. Well, I think that as we delve into this subject a little bit more, you know, it's interesting in our society to see people engaged for like eight years, engaged for 10 years. It's like, wait a minute, why get married?  But, I agree. And you see in the Old Testament over and over again, the concept of keeping the young woman virgin until she's married. And that gets to the fact that marriage is an image of Christ and his bride, Christ in the church and the purity of that. And, you know, I do a lot of premarital counseling and I always say to couples, like, I'm not a priest. You don't need to confess this to me. But if you're sexually active with each other right now you need to repent of that to God and you do need to commit to me. And I won't marry anybody until they take a commitment that we will remain, it's our intention to remain, sexually pure from one another or anyone else until the wedding day. And I always tell them, because I want God to bless your marriage and he can't bless your marriage if you're leading each other into sin. You know, if you're corrupting one another, I mean, you should be trying to honor one another and keeping those vessels pure until the commitment is made. And once the commitment is made, it's for life and now you have access to one another.  So, the marriage ceremony has to happen first. Yeah. So, real quickly, I think one of the things, I'm gonna go on a different avenue with this, is that people always wonder, why should you abstain?  And so, the Bible says, who can find a virtuous woman? And then it goes on and says, he that findeth a wife finds a good thing. So, the whole purpose of a woman being hidden and being covered up is to prove the man's pursuit. And a man will only pursue a woman to that degree without sex until God has put something in him for you.  So, it's important to allow that man to chase you and not get anything back in return because he must be an initiator without expectation of return. That's a really good point, Jay. Thank you. And there's a lot more we can talk about. We're gonna go on to the next question. So, let's go to our next audio question. Ask the question. First of all, I would like to say I enjoyed the program. And the question that I'm asking is in regard to your spirit and your soul. I know if our spirits refer to part of man that connects with and communicates with God and our soul is our character, thoughts and feelings, which makes the soul self-centered, my question is, does this mean our spirits desire to connect with and communicate with God, but people who are in sin allow their soul nature to control their lives? Thank you. Wow, that's right. I wanna answer this question not so much on the terms of does the soul do this, does the spirit do that? I think that's a little deeper and there's gonna be more disagreement and you're not going to find a list of in the Bible what the spirit says and what the soul says. And I personally believe there are one thing anyway that we are only physical, non-physical. We are only body, soul, flesh, spirit, whatever you wanna call it. But I think the question behind this is a little bit more important. And that is that we do have sinful desires and we do have godly desires. And the Bible talks about the sinful nature, which it just calls sarks, the flesh. But the flesh not as this, not as the body, but as your sinful, your old nature that wants sinful pleasure, that wants to sin against God, that wants to be your own God. And I just want to say to you that if you're born again Christian, you have a new nature. And that nature wants to serve God. And that's the spiritual battle that we're all in as Christians. We are to put off that old nature. The Bible uses the word flesh for that. And we are to put on the new nature, which is usually termed the spirit. And that is something that we work at with the means of grace, the word of God, prayer, sanctification process and that Christian service. And a couple of scriptures I would give you, Romans eight, five, those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. It's not whether or not it's your soul or spirit. Are you living for God or are you living for sin? Then you set your minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit, capital S, set their minds on the things of the spirit to be carnally minded as death, to be spiritually minded is peace, life and peace. So we are to buy the spirit, put to death the deeds of the body. That's the life of the Christian. And that's the way I would exhort this caller to get into your heart, the mind of the spirit by getting into the word, going to church, getting good Christian fellowship and putting off the sin nature that continues to affect us until we die. Right, just a really good take on that, Rand. Just a couple of minutes before we go to the next segment. Pastor Glaze, could you give us some thoughts on this? Yeah, well, you know, to me, I think the spirit and the soul are neutral.  You know, they're neutral. So the issue goes back to what Ray said. You know, the issue is between that sin nature, right? And Paul talked about that in Galatians. He said for the flesh, the lust of against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. So it's not the soul and spirit that's struggling with sin, but it's the flesh that's struggling with sin. So I think that maybe the question is couched in a wrong way because I, you know, again, I think the spirit and the soul are neutral. You know, everybody has a spirit in the soul, but then it's affected by your sin nature, by the flesh. Right, put down the flesh and go after the things of the spirit. Paul says, I die daily. I crucify my, that's one thing he declared. He says, I crucify my flesh every day. And I think that if we can bring that back into our disciple training that, you know, because again, it seems like the church has embraced, it's okay. It's not okay. We need to die to the fleshly desires. Yeah, put the death of these of the flesh. Well, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back, we're going to have another audio question. It's when we get to heaven, when we see Jesus' scars on his hands and feet, we'll be right back. Welcome back to Hard Questions. Before we get to our next audio question, Pastor Jay, you had some thoughts of what we were talking, just talking about before the break. Yeah, real quickly, you know, and I'm sure we may be saying the same things, but I believe that the soul is the control center of the man, it's the mind, the will and the emotions and they are impacted by either the flesh or the spirit. That thing that you mentioned in Galatians, that scripture there in chapter five, he's talking about, if you sow to the flesh, you know, you're going to reap corruption. Why? Because it's going to influence the soul. And so as a result of that, you're going to make decisions according to that fleshliness you mentioned in Romans chapter eight. He said, if you're currently minded, you're going to be driven by the flesh. If you're spiritually minded, you're going to be driven by the spirit. Well, what's driving it? It's driving the soulless part, the mind, the will and the emotions. So it's a matter of which one, that's why whatever one we feed is usually the one we crave, either the spirit or the flesh. So I believe that people that are in the flesh are like she had mentioned the question in there about, does God allow, people that are in sin allow their soul nature to control the flesh? No, I believe they're carnal nature. Not their soul, their carnal nature is driving them. It's really a question of sin more than dividing the soul and spirit. Well, good point. Now I'm going to come right back to you with our next audio question. Let's hear this. When we get to heaven, will we see Jesus' nose scarred in His hand and His feet? Well, we see the scars on Jesus' body on His hands and feet. Well, the Bible talks about how in John chapter 20 that Thomas, after this is Jesus' resurrected body, told him to put his hands in his side and in his hands to feel, because he said, I'm not going to believe unless I see that. The unique thing about Jesus' resurrection, that'd be a great study, pastors. I mean, I'm thinking about it. Just all the different forms he took. I mean, they didn't recognize him.  They talked to the man for what was it? 11 miles? Was it that they walked with him?  I mean, the man was disappearing and he was eating fish one minute. Don't touch me, go into the father, the next. I mean, it was all these things that were just happening. So, you know, could it be that there's multiple forms? You know, a matter of fact, I always believe the book of Revelation is part of that. It's called the Revelation of Jesus Christ is because we have such a mentality of Jesus and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. We think that's who's coming back. It isn't. Who's coming back is Revelation chapter one, the one that John said, I felt that his feet is a dead man. His hair was like wool, his feet were like bronze, his eyes were like fire. Whole different guy, you know? I mean, in essence, it was him, but he came in a different form. And so I wonder if we're gonna see different parts of him. Could it be there? The Bible explicitly does not say we will or will not, but the Bible talked about Revelation 4, how there'll be a lamb that will open up the scroll. Could we see different forms of him in regards to eternity? I saw a lamb as if slain, right? As if slain, exactly. Suffering servant to conquering king. He encompasses it all. He encompasses it all. I like that. Well, and that was my point. You brought it out that when he appeared in Revelation, he was a lamb slain. You know, so what's the indication of crucifixion? Nails in the hands, in the feet. And then let me just give you four, and again, I'm just gonna give you the point. Four reasons why I believe that we will see it. It'll be an eternal witness to his incarnation. It'll be a reminder of his great sacrifice. It will be a reminder of God's love, and it will also be a reminder that he defeated death. So I believe that we will see him and that they will serve as reminders of those things. That's good, that's good, right? I think so too. I think we will, and for a lot of the same reasons, I think when we think of scars, that's something that is a blemish, something that happened, and we know when we get new bodies, the bodies are gonna be perfect.  I mean, there will be a resurrection of the body. We wanna make sure we affirm that. That when we die, I think we go to be with the Lord, our souls, but there will come a day when everyone will hear the voice of Christ and the righteous and the unrighteous will come back to life and be judged in those bodies. The sinners, those who've never believed in Christ will be cast into hell, body and soul, and the believers will live in the new heavens and the new earth, body and soul. But I think it will, it will testify. Those wounds on Christ's hands and feet, I mean, that's his glory. That's him defeating death and Satan and sin and the curse.  And I think that we will always see them and it will be a great joy to see his glory, his crown that he did this for us. You know, I think there's a couple of interesting things we're talking about when we're talking about this. We will have bodies in heaven, right? I mean, they're giving robes to put on, right? You don't put a robe on a spirit, you know, you put a robe on a body. But Jay, you brought up something I think is really key. So John, this is the revelation of St. John, they call it. You know, the revelation that was given to John. He was the beloved disciple, right? He's the one who knew God, knew Jesus better than any other. And when he sees him, he falls over dead, you know, in heaven because of the majesty, the incredible. So it's not the hand in hand of the man who's still the water so much. It's this majestic God, the God of power. I don't know, any other thoughts about that? Well, matter of fact, I think it's outstanding because when you read Revelation chapter one, I mean, you look at the outline of this man.  And I was looking at who he was in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. We saw pieces of it. That's why when he went, when they said, are you the Messiah? Are you the Christ? And he said, I am. And they all fell back. And then at one moment he kinda, when he was on the Mount Transfiguration, it showed up there. But he kept all that under reign, but he's gonna let it all loose in Revelation, which is a powerful passage of the scripture to read. Does it say that the sun and stars fled away like from his face?  So really good. We're gonna take our break here. We'll be right back with another viewer question who asked, am I saved if I'm depressed? Wow, we'll be right back. Welcome back to Hard Questions. Let's listen to our final hotline question of the week. I know a sin is a sin without a doubt. If a person is a born-again Christian and they have struggled with tremendous depression and problems in their life, I was just wondering, can they still go to heaven because they're born-again? I mean, thank you so much, sister, for that question. Pete, let's talk about that. Well, this is dear to my heart because this past summer I went through depression like I've never gone through in my life. Never, never. And Psalms 42, five through six, the psalmist says, why are you cast down on my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him. And then he ends it again, towards the end he says, why are you cast down on my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him the help of my countenance and my God. My sister, I'm so sorry that you're going through what you're going through. I have a greater appreciation after, and I don't know how this happened. I don't know, it just happened. But it doesn't mean you're not saved just because you're battling discouragement and depression, and it doesn't mean God has left you. He hasn't left you. He'll never leave you. So forgive the emotion, but I feel for you. I can truthfully say I know what you're going through. We look at the great prophet Elijah. And if we study his life, the miracles that he did, and if we truly study what he went through, and I'll give you descriptions to look at, First Kings 19, verses four through five, and then verses nine through 10. This man suffered depression, but God did not disown him. And in the same way he did not disown him, he's not disowning you. Absolutely. Thank you, Pete, thank you for sharing that. Dr. Glaze. Well, and Pete nipped on it a little bit, Moses, Elijah, Job, you know, these are great people of God, and they all suffered from depression, some shape or form. Jeremiah, the prophet, he suffered from depression, and God still loved them. He didn't cast them away. So that lets you know that if these great people of God suffered it and God embraced them, that he's reaching out, opening his arms to embrace you. And I think of what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly and hard, and you shall find, and we just got finished talking about the soul, right? The suke, you will find rest for your soul, you know, for whatever's troubling you, whatever's eating away at you, that as you come to Christ, that he's able to ease that burden of the soul.  But some people may struggle with that, right? And so you just want to give the reassurance that, man, you know, God still loves you. He does. Amen, that's good, that's good, Ray. Paul mentioned something in 2 Corinthians chapter one where he says, verse eight, for we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that, here's the phrase, so that we despaired, even of life. I mean, here's the apostle of the Gentiles, you know? But he gives a reason for it. Yes, we had this sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death. He did deliver them. And I think that's what I want to say to this caller, that if you're truly born again, God will deliver you from this despair, from this tragedy, from this depression.  And even in the midst of this, you have to hold on to the fact that this is ultimately something that God is going to use for my good, that, you know, just like Dr. Glaze, you said of Pete that you were able to administer now to someone in a new way because you went through something. You wouldn't have chosen to go through it. But, you know, all those hardships that we go through, God uses that. You know, we fill up the sufferings of Christ. It's our great privilege to suffer too as He suffered. And when we suffer, then we're able to minister to others. And that might be the case with this woman. Maybe you're going through that because God's going to use you in some mighty way. I don't know, but what I do know is that suffering will ultimately be for your good and God will not let you be taken away in depression and in despair. So good for us to know that our salvation isn't dependent on how we feel at the moment. Pastor Jay, what's your thoughts on this? Yeah, well first, thanks, Pete, for sharing your transparency and being open in the courage to open up that. And because a lot of times people look at us and think we got it all together. And when they see we have a battle and you're still here, means there's fact of matter that they can get through what they're going through. And I think also, you know, you have to understand depression is something that hits so many people. One of the things that if you're watching and you're bound with depression, if you have not gone to a doctor, go to a doctor as well. If you're dealing with a chemical imbalance, it may not be spiritual. Some things are spiritual, some things are chemical. Your body is made of chemicals. And if you don't have the right things in order, you can be balanced up that a medication get rid of and it doesn't make you less spiritual. No different than somebody that takes insulin or someone else that takes high blood pressure medicine or whatever it is that it might be. The second thing also to realize is that I was thinking about Paul, you mentioned that I went to second Corinthians chapter 12 where he talks about how he had sought the Lord three times that this would depart from him. And just because it didn't depart doesn't mean God's not with you. Matter of fact, God may have chosen you because he trusted you to walk through this like Pastor Pete trusted you to walk through it. And what did he say? I love this here. He said to me, my grace is sufficient for my strength is made perfect in your weakness. Therefore, most gladly, I would rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, where approaches in needs and persecution distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak, then I am strong. So I just wanna encourage you and let you know that even though you may be feeling weak right now, the power of Christ is rest upon you. This is someone that had sought God three times. God said, no, my grace will be more than enough for you. Boy, that's so good. I appreciate that, Pastor Jay. And sister, we love you. We're glad that you shared and we're bold enough to share. And for anyone else out there, that you're struggling, that you're struggling with that issue, trust in the Lord. Your salvation is secure. It's not a salvation issue. That's right. Your salvation is secure. Don't go there, but trust and believe that God is going to bring you out and through and out to the other side. We just wanna go to the scripture. It talks a little bit about sorrow, a different kind of sorrow. Listen to this, yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended. And so we're not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret. That's second Corinthians seven versus nine and 10. Pastor Glaze, can you give me some thoughts on that about Godly sorrow? Yeah, well, you know, I think if that's the reference in first Corinthians, the guy was living with his stepmother and they told him to put him out of the church. And evidently they put him out, but then they didn't wanna let him back in. The guy had repented and the guy had true sorrow and they didn't want, and Paul said, man, don't let Satan get an advantage. Let this brother come back in because he has expressed Godly sorrow. And so when we think about the things that we do, the sins that we do, that it should hurt our heart. It should be a breaking of our heart that Godly sorrow. Man, God, I'm sorry that this sin offended you. God, I'm sorry that I've done this and sinned against you. Absolutely, yeah, you know, that's the key is that there's hope in Christ at all times. We hope you enjoyed today's program. And we wanna hear your emails and your questions at hardquestionsatctvn.org or you can call into our hotline,<PHONE_NUMBER>. God loves you today. He loves you with an everlasting love.


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The Republican Party has become so authoritarian that they're no longer only trying to disenfranchise voters They're actually trying to invalidate votes that have already legitimately been cast and It's gotten so bad that even Republicans are speaking out against their own party one Republican exposed Lindsey Graham for trying to invalidate ballots in Georgia And what Lindsey Graham was trying to do was literally get votes Canceled that had already been cast in an attempt obviously to steal the election for Donald Trump and of course there should be a thorough investigation into his actions and Prosecution should be on the table if necessary and there has to be at least some level of accountability Now thankfully that's what some individuals are calling for for example co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal called on him to resign Saying Lindsey Graham must resign it has now been corroborated that he urged the Secretary of State in Georgia to find a way to throw out Legally cast ballots there must be accountability and justice for this dangerous attack on our democracy and she's right Authoritarians should not serve in a government that's supposed to represent the people I know that the idea of Congress representing Americans and not large multinational corporations is almost comical now But still if you are authoritarian and you were anti Democracy you shouldn't be in Congress if you're trying to get votes invalidated That's that's worse than voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement. This is authoritarian by definition So he needs to resign and the fact that there isn't More noise being made about this by Democrats, you know more calls for him to resign that to me is Alarming because when you have someone be openly authoritarian and there's no opposition that's calling that individual out That's an issue. So I credit this Republican for coming forward and we'll talk about this But the problem is that Democrats they don't plan on holding Lindsey Graham accountable In fact Kamala Harris when she Interacted with Lindsey Graham for the first time after the election after learning that he tried to steal this election from her by cancelling votes This is how she greeted him Unfucking believable. I mean at this point Republicans could literally come out and self-identify as fascists and we'd still hear Democrats preach about Bipartisanship, there's no line That Republicans could cross to where Democrats would say, okay, we just have to defeat this party This is asymmetric warfare and you know, I'm not one to king shame anyone But Democrats have to have a humiliation fetish at this point. I mean, what was that? This man was busted trying to invalidate ballots This would cost you the White House Kamala if he was successful in enough states And he wasn't successful But even the fact that he tried shows that he's an authoritarian and he's your political enemy But what do you do you fist bump him like a fucking imbecile Now I want to dive a little bit deeper into uh, Lindsey Graham and what he did because this should honestly Enraged anyone who cares about democracy, which should theoretically be Everyone in this country regardless of their political affiliation, but that's not the reality that we are living in So teen vogue's lucy diavolo reports Representative Pramila Jayapal called on senator Lindsey Graham to resign after Graham has reportedly been trying to pull shenanigans with election results Potentially bolstering president Trump's unsubstantiated claims of election fraud and rigging Graham once a trump critic Who has turned into a presidential lapdog has reportedly been asking GOP officials election related questions about mail-in ballots One official came forward to say he felt Graham was trying to advocate for throwing out legal votes The washington post was the first to report georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger a republican Said he's been dealing with fellow GOP members attacking his work as he oversees the georgia vote tallying He told the post he was shocked when Graham called him with a question about signature matching Which raffensperger interpreted as a ploy to get legally cast mail-in ballots thrown out in some counties And i'm guessing those counties are uh, mostly democrat during our discussion He asked if the absentee ballots could be matched back to the envelope raffensperger told cbs this morning I explained our process after it went through two sets of signature match at that point They were separated but then senator Graham implied for us to audit the envelopes and then throw out the ballots for counties Who have the highest frequency error of signatures? I tried to help explain that because we did signature match you couldn't tie the signatures back Anymore to those ballots on monday Graham called raffensperger's claim that the south carolina senator had asked him to toss out Legally cast ballots ridiculous the post reported the main issue for me is how do you protect the integrity of mail-in voting? And how does signature verification work? Graham said monday if he feels threatened by that conversation He's got a problem according to the new york times Graham's office has also reached out to people handling votes in nevada and arizona two other key states That decided the 2020 presidential election in biden's favor according to politico Graham said he was calling people in those states to ask about the verification process for mail-in voting Last week Graham said on fox news that he believes that mail-in voting Which appears to have played a significant role in 2020's historically high voter turnout with threatened republicans chances to ever win The presidency again and look Lindsey Graham isn't too far off with that assumption because whenever turnout is high Democrats win and republicans lose But rather than trying to you know win over New voters what republicans do is try to disenfranchise voters and suppress the vote as much as possible And now apparently invalidate votes. I need you to understand how serious That ask was from Lindsey Graham. So Basically if there was a particular county, I'm assuming heavily leaning democrat counties That had a higher rate of mismatched signatures We don't just toss out those signatures that may be Invalid we tossed out all of the ballots in that county. That's what he's asking He is asking to disenfranchise thousands of voters This is authoritarian. This is comparable to uh, when we see authoritarian regimes just throw ballots in a dumpster and burn them That's what Lindsey Graham wants. We shouldn't be fist bumping the motherfucker. He should be under investigation This is unacceptable. Democrats for years cried about russia interfering in the 2016 election And this guy is trying to get votes literally canceled Something far worse than they ever alleged about russia and their fist bumping them. They're okay with it Unreal uh, if democrats don't try to hold him accountable and hold republicans accountable who are trying to invalidate thousands of ballots They're gonna do it. They're going to be increasingly authoritarian because they can get away with it So there's no low that republicans will stoop to that will you know cause democrats to say all right We just can't work with you. We have to condemn you and defeat you they still um It's business as usual and that's That doesn't bode well for the long-term health of our democracy When somebody is trying to cancel votes that were legally cast You don't fist bump them. This is your enemy. You call him out to his face for trying to steal this election What I mean, this is democrats we're talking about and they have no spines and they're usually clueless politically So, I mean, of course republicans will uh continue to do this because they can get away with it. Yeah Great