And finally, Dolly, I've got to ask you, I'm here in the magnificent surroundings of the British Library. It's such a wonderful place. And I wonder, Dolly, if you could share your message, if somebody's never been to a library and they thought maybe going to a library to get a book out isn't really for them, what would you say to encourage them to get into reading and books? Well, I think if there's a library in your town and there usually is everywhere and you've never been, well, you're missing out on a whole lot of stuff. You should get there because they got every kind of book in the world and you should read because there's nothing like it. But I know for myself growing up and when I first had the chance to go to libraries, I thought there's the greatest thing in the world is like going to a feast, you know, because you can have some of everything. So yes, go, get your book, read up on anything, everything. There's something for everybody.


Hey, what's up?  You're probably asking yourself, why is Ricky doing this for free when so many other coaches are charging? Today I'm going to explain the real reason why I'm doing it for free, how it works, and I'm going to give away 10 copies of my book list to last. I get to openly share everything that's in this head with you for free, no strings attached. I want absolutely zero from you. All right, welcome back to my channel. I'm Ricky Caruth with Remax of Orange Beach and ZeroToDiamond.com. What I'm trying to do here on my channel is reduce the failure rate in the real estate industry by teaching agents that it's not about the transaction, it's about the relationship. I think too many coaches out there are coaching you to go after the deal and the new age agent is not going to operate like that. If you operate high pressure to go after the deal, you might actually get left behind in this new technology driven world that we're in. My program is the wave of the future in real estate and it teaches you how to build your business for now and the future at the same time by developing lifelong relationships with property owners in your area. No, I'm not going to tell you to call for sale buyers. No, I'm not going to tell you to call expires. No one am I going to tell you to buy leads and all the other tactics that most coaches tell you to do. And by the way, I think all that stuff works. I think anything works as long as that you are in communication with people that you've never talked to, asking what in the world you can do to help them and then focus everything around whatever the answer to that question is. I started ZeroToDiamond January 2017 after I wrote my first book, ZeroToDiamond. Later on I wrote my second book, List to Last. So as I started the coaching program, I started out charging. One day I woke up and I realized something huge. I realized that I was not running my coaching business the way that I coach real estate agents to run the real estate business. I was coaching real estate agents to go after the relationship, not the transaction. But here I was trying to charge every single agent coming through the door. What I found through that was that a very small percentage of the agents that came through would actually pay for the product and try to use it to succeed and I would lose all the other agents. After I took a hard look at that situation, I thought to myself, this really isn't getting me where I want to go. I'm not really growing with this strategy.  If so, I have to impact tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of real estate agents. So I decided to go free. I had 200 paying members at that time.  I had a meeting with all of them and told them, hey, everything that you guys have been paying for, I'm now going to open it up to the entire general public for free and not only that, I'm going to make it better. So everybody moving forward is not only going to get the same program that you've been paying for, but they're going to get an even better program. And you know what? Not a single person asked for any money back because that's how much value I provided them. So the first huge benefit to having a free coaching program is the fact that I don't have to hold back anything. I can let it all out. When I go do speeches and I'm doing YouTube videos, I can let it all out. I don't have to hold anything back hoping that you pay me something for the content that I held back. I can just let you know everything that's on my mind, how I do everything, everything from the inside out. And I love that. It takes so much pressure off me and it helps you even more. When I was charging and I was holding back content like my phone script, that used to be a big thing. I wouldn't just let anybody have it unless you actually paid for the membership. And I didn't like that. I didn't feel right. It wasn't me. Another reason is something I already talked about. It's the fact that I can go so big when it's free. I can actually make a difference one day. I can actually influence the industry. All I want to do is share my principles with the world. I want to share my low pressure, hardworking way of doing business. And I just hope that one or two of you pick something up that you can take and use and succeed. As I said earlier, there's over 5,000 agents in the program right now. And over the course of the past couple of years, I've gotten thousands of messages from you guys saying you've gotten listings, you've closed the deals, your beginning relationships, all kinds of positive things going on. And you can see in the Facebook group, the Zero to Diamond Facebook group, you can go there and scroll through and see all kinds of testimonials and phone call results and all kinds of stuff. It's insane. But Ricky, you can't be doing this for completely free. How are you going to get paid? What's the ulterior motive? Trust me, guys, I know what I'm doing. I'm going to get paid with book sales, speeches, and sponsorship deals. You see, this is a complete win-win scenario for everybody. I get to share with you everything I do to sell 100 properties a year. By the way, I'm about to hit 100 deals for the fifth year in a row. I get to openly share everything that's in this head with you for free. No strings attached. I want absolutely zero from you. All I want from you is to get out there and succeed. I don't care how you do it. If you take my mindset and apply it to you, your style, great.  If you take a little piece of what I do and crush it, great. If it doesn't work for you, great. It's free. You can go try something else now. You didn't lose anything. So how does the program work? What all is included? What are the steps? How do we get started? What's the deal? So you're going to go to zero to diamond.com. You're going to sign up for the free coaching course. Okay? There's a complete course that I've spent many, many, many hours developing for you. It includes so much. There's a 90-day action plan, 60-day jump start. There's listing presentation, watching me make live calls, all the phone scripts, everything you need to get going 100 miles an hour towards your dreams and goals. So the first step is to go there and take the course. The second step is we have live training sessions right here on this YouTube channel every other week. Each live training session is a subject that we pick out. Maybe it's me making live calls again. Maybe it's some kind of subject that you voted on. And we're going to take that time to discuss whatever the subject is or watch me make calls. And then we're going to have a Q&A session. This is the moment that you guys get to ask me questions and we get to interact and get everything out in the open so that we can move to the next level. As a member, you can email me, DM me on Instagram, message me any kind of form or communication you want to and reach out to me with any questions whatsoever. Then we have the podcast. There's several podcast episodes a week for you to listen to where you're driving to work, working out or whatever you do when you're listening to podcasts. There's new YouTube videos every week that some subject matter that's going to help you take your business to another level. Then we have Instagram. Instagram, I do daily inspirational quotes on Instagram all day long. You can also watch my Instagram stories to keep up with me what's going on through my day. So I'm doing my best to provide you the very best content out there. I want to be the number one real estate coach in the world over the next five years and you guys are going to help me do that. It would really mean the world to me if you would like and comment every single YouTube video that comes out so that YouTube will push it out into the social media universe to spread my message even further and help more agents. So I hope this video cleared up why I'm doing it for free, how I'm actually going to make money out of this and how this situation is a total win-win for everybody included. I want to give away 10 copies of my book list to last. I'm going to sign each one of them and mail them to you. All you have to do is like and comment this video for your chance to win a book. If you're already in the zero to diamond real estate coaching program, just comment what it's done for you, why you think other agents should get involved. If you're not in the program, comment any questions that you have about the program that I can answer for you. Keep crushing it and go sell something.


So we have one final type of conditional statement, and this is where things get a little bit different. We have something known as a switch statement. So a switch statement now is looking at things in regards to what happens if I want to say something is explicitly equal to something. I'm looking at all these different possible scenarios of what it could possibly equal. In this regard, again, I've jazzed it up a little bit and I said maybe I want to build my own ASCII converter. I don't want to do the casting that we've learned already because that was confusing and I didn't understand it. You should go back and watch that video. But I wanted to go ahead and design my own. So one of the things that we can do is by adding in this switch statement, notice how again, I include curly braces to indicate that this is a block of code. And inside of this block of code, I'm going to look at different cases. You can think of this almost like the test cases I do in our homework. So the thing that I establish is again, I make my keyword switch telling Java what kind of code I'm about to do. And then I tell it what I'm going to be comparing. What am I going to be looking at the entire time? What variable? So now, every time I want to deal with a potential case, that word, I use the word case. And then I say what it might potentially equal. In this case, a 65. Well, afterwards, this is where things change a little bit. Instead of putting more curly braces in, I put in a colon. And that colon indicates that the block of code afterwards is going to be what gets calculated out. Now, this is a little bit interesting, but I've included this guy right here. I cannot draw those arrows to save me. There we go. I've included this break statement. This is a new keyword as well. But what this does is this tells Java to exit out of my code. And there's a reason behind this because it'll actually evaluate all the different potential things it can equal. And that's actually a little weird because you're thinking, oh, well, it can only equal one thing. Think of this in the same regard as if I were to make that multi-line code again. There are many differences. Instead of there being an else, it's just an if statement. It's a single alternative if statements one after another. That's actually what I'm doing when I make a switch statement. And in fact, as you can see, what happens if I do not include a break at, say, case 75? That's the one that will be executed in this regard. Well, we take a look at it if you want. You can do this yourself.  Hopefully you've seen what it will do. But if we compile out our code, what we're going to see is in this regard with the break statement, case 75 is K. If I remove that break statement, if I remove that break statement, then what will happen is not only is X going to equal, not only is it going to say X is K, but it will actually move on. And then that last section we haven't talked about just yet, but it is known as the default. And that's the end all, be all. This is what this will be displayed if I don't exit out of my code.


And some did, it gets you better, doesn't it, sis? Yes, sir. Yeah, yes, sir, yeah. Yeah, almost, yes, sir. Get on this grand post-adison. Yes, sir. All right, now, I'm going to come back. We're going to scale back a little bit. All right? Because what the goal is to understand space to close to pressure. All right? So I'm going to scale back a little bit. We're going to be outside the tie a little bit. The more I can get this guy to pursue me a lot of times, the better off I am at, say, I'm not outside the tie guy. I want to be close and grabbing and controlling. But if I make this guy think that I want to wrestle outside, and he finally gets a hold of me and thinks he's winning, he's riding in my wheelhouse. Okay? So we're going to pair the head and we're going to move our feet. And you're like, man, why don't we do this first? All right? Hey, because I want to keep stimulating your brain and thinking and shifting gears a little bit, I want you to understand what it takes to go from here to a good position to where I can attack. Okay? So this is what we're going to do. I'm going to measure with my hands just to make sure I'm arms linked away. Back leg hands going to come to the ear. Lead leg hands coming under and I'm going to step to the side. I'm pairing his head. Okay? See how my palm is on the side of his head on his neck and I'm just going to circle. Notice my feet stay in my stance. Okay? And I'm going to go to the opposite side. Lead leg hands to the ear. Back leg hand under. And I'm just cooking right here on his neck, making him look away. And I'm circling in my stance. Okay? So I'm pairing the head. Moving to the side. I'm making him look away. I'm pressing his arm. I'm chasing him down. I'm making him move his feet. What he doesn't want to move his feet? Outside hand, inside hand. Pair the head. Notice I'm in my stance. Pair the head. I'm in my stance. I'm into it. I'm making him look away. Pair the head. Make him move his feet. All right? So what's going to happen is the more we make him move in open space, when he starts to start reaching and grabbing, we're going to go right to home, and then we start folding the trigger. Again, won't this got to be uncomfortable as possible? We can only beat him up an entire amount so much. Okay? But with tire mount mentally, it's just as effective as this one. Good? Pair the head. Move your feet both sides. Lead leg stays in front the whole time. Go!


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Just about every person, multiple times per day, needs some type of oil or fat to prepare their meals. The average American throws conventional feedlot butter in a pan to fry their eggs, brainwashed bodybuilder's juicehead monkeys, and vegans use non-stick cooking sprays filled with chemicals and poison. Mexican grandma might use lard from soy fed pork that's high in omega-6. Quite a few things can go wrong. There are three basics we're looking at today. One is the fatty acid profile.  Two is the method the animal was raised that affects the fatty acid profile as well as the chemicals in the food.  What temperature was it heated at? Were any chemicals used in the process along the way? How does that affect the chemical composition, the oxidation of the cooking fat? Before we jump into this list, a few things are assumed.  The store-bought options aren't really reliable for two reasons. One, the feed for the animals is usually low quality. There's omega-6 concerns, soy, corn, antibiotics, chemicals, all that type of stuff. And two, usually is some oxidation because they heat it at a high temperature, but you should be able to smell that oxidation and it wouldn't sit well in your stomach if the former was true. Those chemicals, omega-6 concerns were there. The solution is to basically make it yourself every month or so with high quality fat and make sure it's at a low temperature or buy it from a source that doesn't overheat their fat, such as Frankie Syrian's meat, that's something we try to do. And we also need to assume the product is high quality. The animal was being fed grass, not sprayed with too many chemicals, not given antibiotics. The marketing can be misleading. Make sure to purchase products from a trusted local farmer, maybe even seeking an organic label, especially in the supermarket, but that doesn't seem to mean too much anymore. Here we have our top 10 cooking fats, as well as a bunch of relevant terms we'll discuss. So number 10 is pasteurized pork lard. Now, this would be higher on the list, but the reason it's low is that generally speaking, even pasteurized pork still gets corn, soy, so the polyunsaturated fat content becomes higher. An example of this clever marketing is BocherBox saying they sell heritage breed pork.  But if you have decent quality pasteurized pork that is mostly on forage, it is a great option. The Iberico lard we have on Frankie Syrian's meat is something I'm comfortable cooking with, but I would never buy pork lard from anything besides a local farm that disclosed what they're feeding the animals. Any supermarket, Whole Foods, Amazon, online retailer, you want to make sure they're honest and transparent about what the animals were eating, and I'm really confident in saying the pork lard and pork fat we sell is the best in the United States. Same applies to number nine, which is raw pork fat. And this could be up higher with the other animal fats, but again, most of the time you're not getting a quality product when you buy pork fat. And a lot of this also applies to chicken, duck, poultry, which don't actually make the top 10 list, partially due to availability. And the reason the fat ranks above the lard is because you can throw the fat in the pan, render it on the spot, and then cook with it, which is a little more inconvenient, but definitely better quality. Number eight is ghee, a.k.a. clarified butter. Granted, the original butter was high quality. Ghee is when you take butter and basically caramelize it in a big pot. It's heated, the milk proteins separate, it develops a nutty flavor, and the temperature can be pretty high, so there might be some oxidation concern, but since butter is so high in saturated fat, generally not. It's definitely one of the best fats you can cook with. The fatty acid profile is great, butyrate is so beneficial to gut health. It's just that less heated butter products went out. That being said, this is incredibly shelf stable. We've actually made this raw on our channel before. You can take raw butter and clarify it. Raw clarified butter is probably up there with some other things we'll speak about. Number seven, we have coconut oil, and I was debating on whether this should be higher or lower on the list. It should honestly be ranked very, very high. It's super high in saturated fat, so the oxidation concern is really not there at all, and whether you use version or refined, combined with the availability of organic, seems like a great choice overall for any cooking needs. There's very little to worry about when it comes to cooking with coconut oil. For number six, we have grass-fed butter, and that means any pasteurized butter, what you buy from the supermarket, if in land deal we have on Frankie's syringe meat, it's generally high quality, but with heated, which compromises the bacteria profile, the digestibility of the dairy, and also slightly reduces the nutrients. That being said, the amount of heating required for butter is much lower than rendering any tallow or fat. We mentioned butter fat is super, super nutritious. Not only do you have the butyrate, you have calcium, a bunch of fat-soluble vitamins, and things that are not as high in the animal fats like tallow, but in some cases, the nutrition from dairy can be overkill if you eat too much of it. Now, at number five, we have our top-ranking fats. Basically, from number five up is the best stuff you can be cooking with. We have grass-fed lamb tallow, which is equal to number four, grass-fed beef tallow, and the reason for lamb and beef is they tend to have the best fatty acid profiles as those animals are usually fed solely grass. And although the fat needs to be heated for a pretty long time to make tallow, it can be done at a temperature that minimizes oxidation and preserves most of the nutrients. The reason those fats rank above butter is because people tend to have allergies and some are unable to tolerate that dairy, whereas, for the most part, both lamb and beef tallow is safe for most people. Number three is raw grass-fed butter. And cooking with raw butter is very, very expensive, considering most of the time you have to pay $13, $14, $15 a pound, and people would usually prefer to keep something that expensive in its raw state. But since you know it was never heated before putting it in the pan, there's basically zero oxidation concern. All of the nutrition is intact. It's simply slightly higher in nutrition and not oxidized compared to the previous fats we spoke about. And, you know, we mentioned that you can do raw clarified butter, which would be equivalent to raw grass-fed butter. The raw versus cooked argument has more to do with digestion. And you definitely want both raw and cooked foods in your diet. It's just a lot of people, especially the stands in American diets, tend to be heavily favoring cooked foods. So when people do eat raw, they start feeling better and having dairy as a raw component of your diet is very approachable. Number two, we have raw grass-fed lamb fat, which, as with lamb, and beef tallow is equivalent to raw grass-fed beef fat. These are your top two, guys.  Sometimes if you have like a fatty New York strip steak, you can render that fat cap on the steak and then cook it in those drippings.   That's why we've gone out far and wide to get the highest quality, like deep, yellow, almost butterscotch-tasting fat, because it's an amazing food that people don't really know about. There's absolutely no oxidation concern, and it's hard to argue against these being the healthiest, most natural cooking fats. Least inflammatory, high-end vitamins balanced, very possible in nature. One thing I didn't mention was bone marrow, marrow fat, and it's very, very expensive. If you can get high-quality, grass-fed raw bone marrow and then you put it in a pan to cook with it, by all means, that would also be very healthy, but, you know, marrow bones cost six, seven, eight, nine dollars a pound, and the yield for the fat is about 10%. So, probably 10 to 20 times the price of beef fat or lamb fat. And there's certainly more considerations. You know, what if it's not completely grass-fed? Was it overheated and over-rendered? Are there chemicals in it from the crops being sprayed? You can find out the feed, what the animal was eating for sure. So, once you know that, you can control what temperature the product was rendered at by making it yourself or simply, you know, smelling the oxidation, having a conversation with that producer, you know, what temperature and what length did they cook their fat product at? And the most important two things, guys, are there any negative things in the food and how oxidized was it?  It's more important that you're not poisoning yourself. Duck fat, chicken shmalt, aren't on this list.  You have to harvest a lot of ducks and chickens, and usually they keep that on the animal to sell it as a whole. I would even rank olive oil, avocado oil, even something like safflower oil, above most duck fat, chicken fat, even pork fat. You know, those three, the olive oil, the safflower oil, as well as the avocado oil, almost made it on this list. You know, they're relatively low in omega-6, not the worst things in the world, probably some slight oxidation concerns. You know, some high oleic oils, which is a monounsaturated fat, even peanut oil, might not be that horrible to use, you know, if it's all you have access to, but definitely not a long-term consistent thing. I mean, a good example of this might be someone that eats, you know, conventional feedlot bacon and eggs on a carnivore diet, but avoids seed oils like the plague. If the animal product is low quality, you're still getting that same high omega-6 linoleic acid content, which is contained in vegetable seed oils. So we definitely can't overlook that. But thank you guys for joining me. Hopefully this helps you figure out what fat you should be cooking with, and this is probably going to answer the question of why you guys see me cook with a lot of coconut oil lately. It's pretty high up on the list. It's reasonably convenient. You know, it doesn't have to be stored in the fridge. You don't have to render it every time you use it. But definitely try out some of the fats we have on Frankie's free-range meat, and let me know how you like them. We will have them available, as of right now, on Frankie's free-range foods as well. So if you're international, you can try them out, but we'll probably get into trouble because it'll get seized at customs because most countries, you can't sell animal products to other countries. That being said, if you guys could please drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below. Share this on any dietary groups you're involved with. But thanks again for joining me, guys, and I'll see you for tomorrow's video. If you guys don't see me, happy Thanksgiving. Thank you.


Okay. Okay. Yeah. So today's date is 13. So it's 13, the good number, 13, a good number or bad number. For some, it's not good. For some, it's not, yeah, it's not bad. So, I just wanted to just mention, you know, this whole thing of superstition, right? So this whole thing of 13 being an unlucky number is very prevalent, right? Like if you go to hotels, they don't have a 13th floor. They don't number it as 13, right? Or the room numbers also, they avoid 13 because they think it's a, you know, it's a number that does not bring good things. It's unlucky, right? So there are superstitions. So, in fact, apparently there is a phobia, which means a fear of number 13. There are people who avoid that. Okay. So maybe we don't have, you know, fear of number 13 or, you know, we don't consider 13 as unlucky. But I just want to ask is what, what is it that we have superstitions about, right? We could have cultural superstitions. We could have, you know, even within, you know, as a believer, we could have superstitions, right? We could have, you know, it need not be like, okay, black cat crossed the road. I'm not, so, you know, I'm not going to go there. But then we might have religious superstitions, you know, as believers, we might think that, okay, you know, I, you know, I'm sure that, you know that reading the Bible is good. Okay. In fact, we're going to look at that. How to study the word. But the fact is that when we don't read and we allow some kind of fear to creep in. Okay. So, so get it right. Okay. What I'm saying, what I'm saying is not that you should not revere the word or not honor God or not walk in faith, not saying that. But when we, let's say you miss reading the word and then we think something bad will happen today. Subconsciously, it's there. Okay. So I just wanted us to want to address that, you know, like, even as believers, we might have superstitions. Even as believers, we might have superstitions which lead to fear. Like, if you, if you look at one John chapter four, I think one John chapter four, verse 18, okay, talks about fear says there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment. Okay. And he who fears has not been made perfect in love. So he's talking about, if you read it in context, it's talking about judgment, having boldness in the day of judgment, not having, not being fearful, what will happen because his love casts out all fear. Okay. So the thing is this, that fear causes torment. Fear brings us to a place of being trapped. Fear does not liberate us. Right. Here always holds us, but we hold back because of fear. And we're talking about, you know, something like a paranoia, an unhealthy fear. So it does that. Superstition leads to fear. Fear keeps us from doing what we need to do. But the Bible very clearly states in John chapter 16 and verse 13 that the role of the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy Spirit is to lead us into all truth. Right. John chapter 16. And let's, yeah. When he, the spirit of truth, he's called the spirit of truth. John 16 verse 13. When he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. Okay. That's the work. That's the ministry of the Holy Spirit. So when we, when we are guided into truth, truth sets us free, liberates us, liberates us from wrong thinking, liberates us from fear, which is as a result of lies or as a result of superstition, whatever it is. You know, the work of the Holy Spirit is to lead us into truth. Truth does not, you know, we sometimes think truth actually, you know, it's very restricting. I'm restricted by truth. You know, I'm not able to live the way I want to live because of truth, but the, actually the opposite is true. Truth actually liberates us.  That actually limits us from living the life that God wants us to live. Okay. So truth actually liberates us, expands our horizon, leads us into all that God wants us because the Holy Spirit, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Right. The Holy Spirit leads us into the freedom that he has for us. Right. So, so let's just pray and say, Lord, whatever is, you know, whatever, whatever fear that I might be having, whatever wrong belief or whatever superstition that I might be, you know, having, Lord, deliver me from it. Guide me into all truth. Right. Father God, we come before you because you are the spirit of truth. And Lord, we thank you in your presence. There is fullness of joy. Lord, where you are, there is freedom, Lord. Father God, we thank you that you came to give us freedom. You came to give us life. And Lord, we thank you, Holy Spirit, that you lead us progressively into your truth and into Lord, even more freedom, Lord, free to do the things that you called us to do, free to be all that you called us to be, Lord. And Lord, we just ask for each one of us that you'll give us that freedom in the spirit today, that we will know, Lord, beyond any doubt God, that truth sets us free, sets us free from fear, sets us free from all kinds of wrong belief and deception. And superstition, God, I pray that if there is anything like that, Lord, let it be dismantled, God, and enable us to be set free today. God, we thank you in Jesus' matchless name. We pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So today we are going to look at, you know, studying the word because we've been looking at preaching. We've been looking at the person qualifications, etc. And yesterday, we, you know, we looked at yet another interesting topic and how you need to minister the word of God, like the content has to be the word of God, our reference point has to be the word of God. Okay. So today we will look at how we can study the word of God. Okay. What are the different ways by which we can study the word of God? Yeah. I just wanted to share the screen. Just give me a minute. Okay. Okay. So studying God's word, there are five, basically five broad categories or different ways by which we can study the word of God. Okay. So I just want to ask us, you know, like, how do you study the word of God? Is there any particular way in which you read the Bible, study the Bible, book by book? No, how do you personally, what is it that you personally use in order to study? Okay. Other translations offer passage verse book. What is it? Okay. Right. Okay. Comparative translations. Okay. Hmm. Talking about that certain topic. Okay. And then find some resources, listen to some teachings regarding the word of God. Right. Okay. Okay. So let's look at, you know, some of the common ways by which we can study. We can employ all of these or some of these. Okay. And each one has its own strength or merits. So the first one that we can look at is the word study. Okay. So by definition, it means that you take a word in the Bible and what that word means right through scripture. Okay. Because the, what we find this cause we use our language, right? English or whatever language we might use translations to study the Bible. But, and it's good to know what is it in the original language, right? What it means in the original language. Like for example, the word love. Okay. The word love is in the English Bible, it's translated as love. I don't know how is it in, in the throughout, that's how it's mentioned. Context. Okay. But, you know, we know that it has four, at least four Greek words, right? Which describe love. You know, what are those Agape, God kind of love? Heroes, physical. It's Phileo, right? Which is Phileo. And then fourth one, Storge. S-T-E-O-R-G, right? Storge. So we have at least these four kinds of Greek words, which are translated as love. Okay. So God so loved the world, right? It is not Phileo. It is obviously it's Agape, right? So when we do a word study, so when we look into the original language, it actually enhances our understanding of it, okay? So to do a word study, it means that you take that particular word and look into, you know, wherever the word occurs in the Bible, right? So, of course, now we have a lot of tools to help us. You just do a Google and say, okay, where does it come? And all the verses are, you know, are there. So we can do that. We can also use words, you know, tools like Esode, right? On your phones, you can have on your laptops, you can do Esode. So all this. So basically it is a study of the word and we understand what it means throughout, right? A study of the word in the original language, it really enriches our understanding of it. For example, if you look at Psalm 23, the last verse says, Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. If the Psalm ends like that. And that word follow, you know, when you look at the Hebrew, I forget what the Hebrew word is, but it has the understanding of a lion or an animal. Going after its prey. Pursuing, right? A lion, let's say a lion going after a, after its meal, after a deer. It just chaves. It pursues, like hunts it down. So that's the understanding of that word. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me. Now, when you read it in English or in our own languages, we see it okay. It says mercy is follow me. It can keep following me close. It can be there somewhere. But, you know, we declared it. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me. But when we have this understanding, the Psalm is saying goodness and mercy is not letting go of me, right? Because the Lord is my shepherd. I'm following the shepherd. He leads me. He makes me lie down. You know, he protects the nurtures. He lays a table, you know, in the front of my enemies. Value of shadow of death. I will not fear anything.  And in the light of all that, he's saying that surely goodness and mercy will just pursue me. Just hunting me down because I'm following the shepherd. Okay.   It's like that.  But it's pursuing the goodness of God pursuing talks about the heart of God, right? So it really enriches our understanding when we do a study of the word, when we do a word study. Okay. I am using a Bible called the Spiritful Life Bible that has a word study. You know, that's also very nice. I think that's a good, that's how I started getting interested in, you know, the Hebrew and the Greek words. It's called the Spiritful Life Bible and it has, you know, all these small, small, wherever the words are, it will give a meaning of it, understanding of it, etc. Right? So, for example, the word, you know, cast your cares upon the Lord, for he cares for you. So that has the picture of a camel. Okay. The camel, a heavy camel, you know, carrying a heavy load. It can carry. But after the journey, the one who is the trainer of the camel or the one who rides the camel, like he gives a command. Okay. He gives a command and in the Hebrew word is Galal, he gives a command. So the camel actually kneels down and just tilts to one side in order to roll over all that weight that it's been carrying onto the ground or whatever. So that it can be unloaded. So that's the picture that we have of casting our cares upon Jesus because he cares for us. Right? So when we have that, say, you know, Lord, I cast my cares on you.  Just roll it off your back totally. Right? So we have that picture. So word study really helps us, enhances our understanding of it, enriches and really gives us an insight into the heart of God. Right? Okay. What's the next one? The next one would be a topical study. Okay. Now, similar to a word study, it is a topic like you said, it's a topic.  Okay. A topic can be like, for example, forgiveness. Okay. A topic like forgiveness. So, you know, the entire Bible, what does it speak about forgiveness? Right? About forgiving, forgiveness from God, forgiveness, you know, about forgiving other human beings. You know, what does it talk about forgiveness? So it's a topic and it's throughout scripture. Okay. So the thing is that, you know, we can look at scripture, we can categorize. Okay. Old Testament, we see this, New Testament, we see this epistles, so we can actually categorize. You know, we see this in the Psalms, we see this in the prophetic scripture, we see this. So we can actually categorize this and then explore the differences, etc. So it can be on various things. I think systematic theology deals with that. It's actually a topical study. You deal with different themes. You're doing systematic, or you finish systematic there already. Yeah. So it's about different themes, right? Salvation, resurrection, Holy Spirit, all that. So it's a systematic theology is about the entire Bible. What does the entire Bible speak about that? So it gives us a very wholesome picture. Okay. I'm not just holding on to one thread and saying, hey, this is the entire fabric. Now I'm considering the Old Testament, the New Testament. I know, okay, in the Old Dispensation before the cross, this is how it was. In the New Dispensation, this is how it is. So it's a very, again, it's a very important and very valuable way of studying the word. And one valuable tool is a concordance. Okay. So a concordance. A concordance is, I think even in your Bibles, if you turn to the last page, there is some, many concordance, right? Like it gives a word and where that those words are. So it's a word concordance. Some concordances have the theme, right? So the theme itself. Okay. So where these scriptures are, you know, does your Bible have a concordance? Okay. So mine does, you know, for example, it says, fables, okay, the word fables. Don't give heat to fables. Or, you know, we did not follow cunningly devised fables. Right. So that fables, it gives two scriptures. 1 Timothy 1 verse 4 and 2 Timothy 1 verse 16. Okay. Similarly, so here I think only old and new. Okay. And the face, you know, I've seen the face of God, Genesis 32 30 and so on. So we can use concordance quite effectively, right? To study. And see, you know, we want to study something on baptism, right? It is, it is there and so on. Right. So concordance is a valuable resource. We can use it. Okay. So topical study. Okay. So it's a, it's a topic. It's a theme. And it's, it's quite valuable to get to know the full picture of a particular theme. Right. Okay. The third one is what we would call a character study. Okay. So character study, meaning it's a biography of the person. Right. So taking a character, studying about the character. And this is also very, very valuable, you know, how, in what circumstances did they come into the picture? Right. What were the hardships they faced? How do they relate to God? How do they relate to other people? What are some strengths that they had? What are some deep character flaws that they had? How can, can I relate to that person? You know, can I identify with that person? Do I have certain things that they had? Right. So good things, bad things, everything is mentioned, right, in the Bible. The Bible does not hold back. Okay. Like for example, when we see about the lives of certain people, we are shocked. Right. We read about it and wow, what is this? I'm not like that. That's your, you know, we are sometimes disgusted, but that's the Bible. The Bible describes, it's not that it's prescribing that behavior. What is the difference? It's not endorsing that behavior. It's not prescribing that you also go do it. No. But it's, it's describing. It's very descriptive. So certain sections of the Bible are very descriptive in nature. That doesn't mean it doesn't mean it is prescribing, you know, or endorsing, you know, that condoning that behavior. Right. So we see that. Now, when we do a character study, we need to understand that one thing that we need to understand is, or keep in mind is what dispensation where they're living. Okay. Meaning, you know, was it before the cross or was it after the cross? It's a very important thing because not everything, the way they related to God, you know, certain things, yes.  But the way the Holy Spirit ministered then and now is different. Right. We have the abiding, indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. So we need to keep that in mind. So not everything can be transferable to our lives. We need to understand that. Well, you know, it's good. You study it and then you say, okay, wow, and I learned these things, what to do, what not to do about their lives. It's good for that. But then when it comes to applying to, you know, our daily lives, we need to understand that, hey, the way God dealt to them, the way God ministered to them, the way God led them is different from how I can be. Like it says, okay, this particular king, he went to seek the prophet, he wanted directions, etc. Now we have the Spirit of God living in us. Well, the prophet can definitely confirm what God has already, you know, speaking to us, what God has already, you know, been leading us into. So that's something that we need to bear in mind. Okay, so character traits, the timelines, what lessons that we can learn, etc. Okay, then we come to the fourth one, which is the book study. Okay, so book study, you take a book and we go verse by verse, just like how we what we're doing in church. These Sundays we're doing study on Thessalonians, right? So we learned, you know, the background, the context, what led to it, who says what and who's writing it and under what circumstances and all that. So if you see a book study would involve all the other three, right? It'll have a word study. You ask because there are certain words that you need to. Yeah, it'll have a topical study because there are certain themes. Like, for example, I'm just thinking about 1 Corinthians 12, 13 and 14. Regarding spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. Then Paul starts. So it's a theme, those three chapters. Till the end of 14th chapter, he's talking about spiritual gifts, how it should be, what are the gifts, etc. So the whole aspect of topical or thematic study also is there in a book study, right? Character study, most definitely, right? You learn about the life of the character of certain people and so on. So it is there. So which means it's going to, you know, it'll be a time of learning. It'll be a time of unlearning also, right? I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. What is the context? Tell me, what is the context? Where is it? Who says that? Paul. And it's in the Philippines, right? So Philippians 4 verse 13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. What is the context? Sorry, what? Go ahead. True. But if you look at the verses before that, right? Yeah. So he's saying it is definitely an overcoming verse. He's saying, you know, through Christ, I can overcome. That is definitely what he's saying. I can overcome any of these things. It is through Christ. But what is he saying? He's saying whatever state I am in, I've learned to be content. I've learned to be abased. I know how to bound. Everywhere in all things, I've learned both to be full and to be hungry, how to abound and to, you know, another thing. You know, these things, this environment doesn't affect me because I can actually overcome. So that's the context. We can. The thing is, we can. We can use it. But when we understand the context, we will use it even in those circumstances. Whenever we face those, you know, I don't have right now, I'm going through a season right now. I can do all things through Christ to strengthen me. Very rarely do we use it, right? In such, in such when we go through certain circumstances like that. So the word study would actually give us the background will give us the context, right? And we can apply the word in a more meaningful way, right? So it's going to take time. Yes or no. Yeah. So, you know, we can, when he's studying books of the while, here are some things. Okay. And I'm just going to put that in the chat for the online students. I'll just. Okay. So. One is make an outline of the book. Okay. So that's one thing. When we read through, we see the themes. Okay. And in fact, in our Bibles, it is, it is one letter, right? It is, it is like, hello, how are you? Lots of love. It's one letter, but there are different themes, right? And the people who have put it together have actually segregated the themes, right? Striving and suffering for Christ. I'm just looking at Philippines, you know, humbled and exalted Christ, Philippines to, you know, so it's actually there. So these are different themes. So you make an outline, look, look for keywords of phrases. Okay. So what are some keywords? What are some phrases? For example, if you were looking, you know, if we look at first Thessalonians, that we were, you know, that we were studying on Sundays. So we can see some certain patterns, right? Let me just pick one. Oh, I didn't mark it. Let me, okay. If you look at first Thessalonians chapter two, okay. So two and verse 10, okay. So we see certain things, right? We are witnesses and God also how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behave. Okay. So he'll use like three attributes over and over again. Okay. How justly, how devoutly, how blamelessly. Okay. And if you look at the certain versus following that also, you see that he uses, you know, these kind of attributes over and over, three attributes. He's talking about faith, hope, love, you know, it became an example, etc. So we, you see certain, certain patterns there, certain phrases that he uses.  Right. Okay. So look for those, look for those keywords, look for those phrases. That also gives an understanding what he's trying to reiterate, what he's trying to, you know, what he's trying to emphasize in the, in the letters. Right. Yeah. So are you saying like defining keywords and phrases that you just see the repeated words? Yeah, it could be repeated words. It could be repeated themes that he's emphasizing. See the repetitions, it's a pattern, like when we look into the Psalms also, we see certain things that are repeated and we, you know, your love endures forever, your mercy endures forever. And we know that's part of a song. Right. So this is a refrain that's coming over and over again. So these things really, you know, jump out. But when it comes to these words and themes, like verse 19, right, what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? You know, so it says, I don't know, it's, it's something for us to look at, something for us to study. And it could be this, these kinds of patterns, right? It could be repetition of a word. It could be, you know, these kinds of patterns, like three words over and over again. Right. So yeah, so these are some things to watch out for. Both one, look for the main applications. Okay. There is the application. And if you're taking one Thessalonians as an example, there are a lot of applications. Right.  So that's the, you know, that's a basic application there. So application is how can I live out this, right? This principle, this truth. How can I put it to practice in my life? That's application. Okay. Then, of course, we study the background of the book. When was it written? Why was it written and so on? When you look at the Thessalonians, we learned that it was written for, you know, maybe three reasons, right? If you study one, he's encouraging the believers not to give up, right? Two, he's reminding them of the things that he taught them, right? All the things that he taught in that short period of one month. Thirdly, he's also, again, encouraging them about the return of the Lord and the hope of life hereafter. Because they were obviously going through persecutions, maybe a lot of people lost their lives and talking about the reality of the hereafter when people die in Christ. Right. So he's talking about that. Yeah. So those are some things that we can look at. We, some application points, right? Truth applications. Okay. So between this class and next, why don't we do a word study? Okay. As an assignment. Okay. So you can pick your word. Let me know. You can do it now. So I can just make a note of it. Okay. So we don't want to repeat. Right. Same words. So you can let me know. Online students. Same thing. What do you want to do a word study on? Okay. Yeah. If you can tell me now, I'll make a note of it. Or I can just put a Google doc. You can enter it in the first person. Okay. So once again, let me. Okay. Can somebody make, Anand, you'll make a note of it. Okay. Okay. So wrenching is wisdom. Sriradha faithfulness, friends, anointing, Nikhil. I always get confused between Nikhil and Vimal. I was about to say Vimal. Then I said, okay, I'll wait. Nikhil. Yeah. Francis, what to select? Okay. So give to Anand. And let the, I think Anand is already written. Okay. So, okay. Online students, you can post it here. And I'll just copy and paste it on an Excel, on a Google doc. Okay. So, yeah, Chira, Prabhu, Anthony, Mercy, Nikhil Mercy. That sounds like a name, Nikhil Mercy. Nikhil Mercy. Okay. Nikhil Mercy is writing, I was studying about Nikhil Mercy. Francis. God. Okay. Interesting. That's a lot of work. All the best. Yeah. Nina greys, is it? Okay. Okay. Okay. So, in person, we are sorted online. You can actually put it on the chat. What I can also do is I'll make a Google doc and I'll share it online students. So you can do that. E-learning, it's up to you. You can choose a word and do a study on it. Just like how we discussed, you do a word study. What does it mean in the original language and are there different words in the original language that we will look at on the one word? What does it mean? How is it used, et cetera? Okay. Okay, Nina's perseverance. Thank you. Okay. So, let's move on to the next one, which is inductive. Inductive Bible study. Okay. Now, inductive is interesting. Okay. So, what does that word mean inductive? Okay. In logic, right, there are two different words that are normally used, deductive, inductive. Okay. So, deductive reasoning is general to the specific and simply put, you know, inductive is, you look at one thing, specific thing. You know, why is it there? What is the meaning of it? And then you apply it to a more general sense. Okay. So, that's inductive. For example, you know, questions like, we can say, okay, inductive Bible study would require, let's say three steps. Okay. First one would be observation. Okay. The second one, interpretation. Third one is, you know, application. Right. Simple. Observation, interpretation, application. Okay. So, in the interpretation, even as we observe the text, there are several questions that we may ask. Okay. That you, that is there listed in the notes. Right. So, questions like, what does this passage say? Okay. You read a passage and then you're asking yourself that question, what does this passage say? Okay. What is it saying? Another question, what does this passage mean? Okay. So, both the same or different? What does it say, this passage? What does it mean? Yeah. So, it is different. In what way is it different? You can probably use the, you can use the mic, please. Yeah. Yes. What they say is like what they're conveying. What they mean is like to see what they are trying to teach us through it. What are the principles? Okay. Okay. So, let's, yeah, that's basically, you know, that's the thing. Okay. This parable says, or this scripture, you know, it just says this, but this is what actually is the truth that is conveying. For example, okay, let's turn to Matthew 7. Okay. Matthew 7, nine onwards. Okay. What man is there among you? Who, when a son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? Okay. So, this is what he's saying. So, when it comes to, you know, we read on and then he says, if you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your father who is in heaven will give good things to those who ask him. Right. So, these questions are in the context of saying that, okay, something value, something of value is given, not something that is of lesser value or something that is harmful when you actually ask your father. Okay. Things like maybe another, another verse that we can look at is, let's say, yeah, okay. Well, I'll just explain it with another example. Let's, let's look at, let's try to see. Okay. So, yeah, I think Anand's question was, is there a hidden meaning in it? Okay. So, there's, there should, there could be one aspect of it in the sense. I'm just trying to find the scripture to as an example. Okay. Just give me a minute, one minute. Okay. Let's, let's look at the book of John. Okay. John chapter 14, sorry, John chapter 4, I'm sorry, John chapter 4, verses 13 and 14. Okay. Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. Okay. So, when you look at the, what does the passage say? I mean, what does these two us to say? This is what it conveys, that Jesus is saying he'll give something, he'll give water, and it's not like the water from the well, but it will spring up into everlasting life. Okay. The literal meaning he's giving something is giving another water. Right. But what does he actually mean by that? He's obviously referring to everlasting life, referring to salvation. Right. And which, which the physical cannot satisfy. Right. He's talking about the spiritual, which, you know, we look at John chapter 3 also, unless one is born again. Okay. And there he goes on to explain to Nicodemus, the previous chapter, right? John chapter 3. He goes on to explain to Nicodemus about how one is born of water and the spirit, and that which is born of the spirit, that is born of the flesh is flesh and so on. Right. So he goes on to explain it, but certain passages, it, you know, it just left like that. And we know what does, you know, we need to understand in context, what does it mean? Okay. Does that help? Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. And also, when we go through, of course, we are studying, and we know that we are not just using our intellect alone, but we have God the Holy Spirit, who's the author of the scriptures with us. Right. So, what is God telling us? Even as we read, the Holy Spirit is making these, these logos, he's making it reema for us. He's quickening it. Right. He's highlighting, emphasizing certain truths to our hearts. Okay. So, so the question to ask again is what is God telling me? Okay. Some, some other questions here, how am I encouraged and strengthened? Is there a sin in my life for which confession and repentance is needed? How can I be changed so I can learn and grow? And so on, you know, how are these precepts affecting me? Am I listening to God? So many questions. And I'm sure we can add to these questions also. Okay. So what can I, is there an instruction for me to follow? Is there a sin for me to confess? Is there, you know, what is it that I can be an example of, et cetera? So, so this is a, yeah, allegory for What, what does this passage say? And what does this passage mean? So, yeah, so the, in the sense, yeah, there is an allegory there could be. So, so in that case, when we use this, these questions, it's helpful for us. Is it an allegory?  So, yeah, of course, it's not literal. So things like that we can, yeah. Right. The scripture also comes. Yeah. Yeah, so he's actually, yeah, referring to he's using natural, he's talking about natural elements, water, fountain, et cetera, but he's referring to a deeper truth. Yeah. So it's not a parable in that sense. It's not a story because a parable would be an earthly story, but yes, he's referring to he's drawing a parallel between the spiritual and the natural. Yeah. Yeah. Same we see in, I think John chapter 6 also, right, when he talks about the Holy Spirit and there, of course, John clearly explains this he says about the Holy Spirit. When he says, sorry, John chapter 7, I think. No. John chapter 7 verse 38, he who believes in me as scripture said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Okay. So it's symbolic of the work of the Holy Spirit who flows out like a river. And John explains that we see spoke concerning the spirit whom those believing in him would receive. One of the difficult thing is, maybe if you read English Bible and all, we can understand. Okay. In this regional language, there will be so much different language. Oh, is it? Okay. Some scriptures. Okay. I saw a few people is interpreting in a very different way because of that, language, how they translate. I see. Maybe if you, if you can think of something, you can actually discuss it. You can just, you know, and how it is in the regional language. You can let us know. Yeah. It's like he heard the sound. And in other passages, it's like he didn't heard the people who are. Yeah. They could not hear. Correct. But the thing is, I was doing a research on it. Then in this NKJV also it's same. They didn't, they heard. Okay. NIV. When we go to NIV, the sound of, when it came, that they sensed, it's, it's clearly in NIV. Yeah. So, so the thing is they heard and they heard a noise. Yeah. So it did not make sense. It was not in some terms of words and sentences, but they heard something. Yeah. Yeah. Paul's encounter. Okay. You make a note of it. We can look at it. Right. So I think it's, yeah, I asked towards the. Hmm. Okay. 22. Chapter nine. But the voice, but they didn't see any person. But they didn't understand. Hmm. So it makes sense. There's no contradiction there. It, it's, it makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Oh, I see. Okay. They are there. Yeah. They couldn't hear the articulate words. Hmm. Okay. Okay. We'll study about the Telugu thing. Next. Delugu translation. Okay. So, thank you so much. We'll stop here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. God bless. Bye-bye.


Today I'm going to talk about something that's pretty important and of course I think it's important because I'm a firearms trainer, right? I'm going to suggest that you get more training. I'm going to suggest that every year you go and get some sort of training at least once that has something to do with firearms, martial arts, use of force issues of legal class, something like that. Do something to keep yourself sharp and to demonstrate that you are keeping up on your martial arts skill set. And I'm going to of course including shooting. Shooting is a martial arts. Shooting guns, you know, swinging a sword around, punching. They're all types of fighting, all types of martial arts. So the reason I'm suggesting this is let's look at the people that do this stuff for a living, have a pretty good probability of getting sued at some point in their careers, the cops. Municipalities, counties, states, federal governments don't like to get sued. So they make sure that their officers get to updates, make sure they get annual training, annual refreshers on important things like use of force. Their shooting is tested. They go through qualifications two, three, four times a year depending on the agency and just make sure that they're up to par on what they're doing. I'm going to suggest that perhaps if it's important to them, it should be important to us as civilians. So whether or not you come and get the training from us, which of course I would like and I invite you to come and check us out or if you go to some other qualified instructor, get some sort of training. If nothing else, watch YouTube videos, buy a book, read several books each year, read articles, document these things. It can't hurt to have your own good documentation showing that you take your own safety seriously and the legal issues surrounding your safety. Those are serious too. Make sure you document them. Make sure you keep training and don't think of getting a concealed carry permit as passing a class once and then for the rest of your life, you're good to go. Shooting is a perishable skill, knowledge of ever-changing laws, that's certainly a perishable issue, so make sure you stay up to date on it. Thanks for watching. Please click on the like button below, subscribe to us.


Hello, Austin. How is everyone? Great to see you all. My name is Michael Tannenbaum. I'm a co-founder at Mycelial, and while I would be my dream to be with you all in person, I'm speaking to you today remotely about AIML at the extreme edge with WebAssembly, a path forward. Today, we're going to be talking about what WebAssembly is, why it's a good fit for AIML at the edge, what are the struggles and challenges of delivering AIML at the extreme edge that WebAssembly can really help us catapult forward, and what are some of the peripheral challenges that turn out to be not so peripheral when we're trying to deliver AIML solutions at the extreme edge? Just by way of a little bit of background, I am the, as I mentioned, one of the co-founders at Mycelial, and previous to Mycelial, I was a principal solutions engineer at Erecto working on Kubeflow, which is an AIML end-to-end solution that runs on Kubernetes. Originally came out of Google and now is being adopted by a wider audience. I was privileged enough to work on a SIG for the on-premises community for the Kubeflow project. Before that, I was a principal solutions engineer and the AIML practice lead at Mesosphere now named D2IQ. Just very quickly to give you a little bit of context about what Mycelial does, help you understand why it is that we come into contact so often with projects relating to AIML at the extreme edge, is we are the edge native platform for distributed local-first applications. What that really means is that we combine conflict-free replicated data types, which we'll be talking about later because they have a lot of relevance for the extreme edge in a lot of different cases, not just AIML. With WebAssembly, to make it easy to create distributed applications in these highly constrained environments, and our goal is to make it just as easy as making a local application that you might run on your laptop or on a server in the Cloud. Mycelial as a company was founded last year. We raised about $3.8 million from Crane Venture Partners. Anil Akhani is in the audience today from Crane, and if you really want to get a perspective, that's fantastic on the market, as particularly in these areas, I would encourage you to communicate with him. We work with large enterprises that are looking to deliver scaled products in the field. So I think US Department of Defense, large retailers with a big physical footprint, and you'll see why we focus on these folks when you get a little bit more of a sense for where we're coming from. So I mentioned that we're the Edge Native platform for distributed local first applications, but it's just a bunch of buzzwords. What does that actually mean?  Well, Cloud Native is a term most of us are familiar with, and Cloud Native is really defined by the benefits it provides over any particular or specific architecture. So with Cloud Native tools, we were able to meet the challenges of web scale, starting at huge companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, and so on. All Cloud Native tools are designed around the goal of providing scale, agility, velocity, and hopefully without a lot of headache. However, the limitation there is that Cloud Native tools focus, of course, on the Cloud. So racks of servers in a data center, either your own or borrowed from somebody else, like one of the big three Cloud providers and so on. And the applications that run there are Cloud applications. So we can think of them as sort of data center applications. When we at Mycelial and hopefully you at the end of this presentation, think about when we think about the Edge, we think about anything that runs outside the data center. So for us, the goal of Edge Native is to provide that same scale, agility, and velocity. But for applications that run outside the data center, so we would call these real-world applications. And these can be from a variety of different perspectives. So for us, something that runs in a browser tab, it's outside a data center, it's an application, we would call that an Edge application. Then more traditional considerations of Edge, things like the Internet of Things, or mobile, and so on. These, of course, smart meters, other types of smart devices that exist in the real world. Anything outside the data center for us is the Edge. So Edge Native is not a term that we invented, but it's one we are promoting and trying to encourage people to think about, given the change, given the change in circumstance, the different constraints that exist outside the data center versus inside the data center, after all, most people don't have racks of servers in their home or something like that. Maybe this audience, I shouldn't say. But most people don't have access to those tools on certainly on their phone, or perhaps on a smart thermostat, or on their robotic vacuum cleaner, that sort of thing. The constraints are different, the challenges are different, and therefore we need to think about our tooling and what the challenges are that we're trying to overcome differently. And so from our perspective, there is indeed a need to consider separate architectures and separate sets of tooling for the Edge, because of course those constraints are different. But at the end of the day, Cloud Native and Edge Native both are defined by the goals that they seek to deliver to the end user, that being scalability and velocity. We could probably add a few other descriptors there, but generally that's the focus of today's conversation is around everything that runs outside of the data center. And after all, the extreme Edge is just an even more challenging version of the Edge. So you were probably expecting something to that effect as well. So the question that a lot of people ask when we first start considering AIML and the Edge is to borrow a phrase or to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld. What is the deal with AIML at the Edge? Okay, that'll be the last time I attempt to impersonate Jerry Seinfeld, you're welcome.   If we're using our mobile phone or our computer, we point and click. That's a fairly standard modality, but if we want to talk to our computer, if we want our computer, and I'm speaking computer very generally here, if we want our computer to recognize our face in order to authenticate us, if we want our car to be able to view the world like a human driver and react hopefully even better potentially than a human driver would, that's using AIML. In 2022, I can't tell you what'll happen in the future, but in 2022, AIML is the way that we can interact with more human modalities like speech, vision, and so on in order to interact with a computer and accomplish whatever our goal happens to be. So because the interface between humans and computers outside of pointing and clicking requires AIML and because humans live in the real world, therefore we need to deliver AIML at the edge. Now you may be saying, well, Michael, why can't I just take all that data and centralize it to some centralized server and in a data center somewhere and then beam back the results. Well, the reason is because for many safety critical situations, really in any situation on the edge, you have to consider the reality, not the chance of, but indeed the reality of disconnection and that's a very real, that's a very real constraint and you'll see it throughout the discussion today. If we take one step below the surface though and we actually look at what is the common pattern that exists in the AIML at the edge world, there's a wonderful talk that was given actually quite 2017 I believe it was by Peter Levine who is a retired partner formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and he gave a talk, it's publicly accessible if you just Google the source below called the end of cloud computing in which he imagines a world that is fast upon us whereby the quantity of data generated at the edge and the need to make real-time decisions at the edge, again, anything outside the data center without reliance on connectivity, without suffering the challenges not just of latency but inconsistent latency. Elon Musk talks about this quite a bit with Tesla where it's called jitter, where we can't actually even plan around the latency because the latency itself is inconsistent. Ultimately, all of these projects boil down to more or less four different steps and Peter Levine created this framework that I think is really quite compelling. The first thing we wanna do in an AIML application at the edge is send something, we wanna determine what's going on in our world and if it's something that we need to evaluate as a and make a decision about which comes to our second point. So we need to take that sensory data and then we need to plug it into an AIML model. We need to create an inference about what that data actually means. So I'll give an example. If I'm a self-driving car and I have much image data coming into me, I need to be able to make a decision as to whether it's safe to continue driving, for example, or whether we need to come to a stop. After I've made that inference, I then need to act on it. So we have to flow data from the sensory tooling, the sensors and to be quite literal into an inference engine, that's your AIML model. And then that AIML models inference needs to then be flowed into a separate set of applications connected to perhaps something physical, perhaps an alerting mechanism to then take an action. And then lastly and sort of asynchronously from the first four, we want to actually use the data that we're collecting at the edge in an intelligent way to actually make our models stronger. And in many cases, as conditions shift over time, for example, a movie on Netflix may become very popular and then everyone's seen it. So why do we want to keep recommending it? We need to learn from what users, what the world is teaching us out in the real world, take that data and actually make our models better, hopefully, or at a minimum, at least update them. That learn function actually has a very interesting opportunity, especially when it comes to the edge and especially when it comes to WebAssembly as it relates to privacy. So today, the way that substantially all AIML training jobs run in a centralized location. So we take all of your data, we hover it up right to the cloud, we plug it into some ETL process and prepare it, pre-process it, run a training job on it, and then push those models back down to the edge. But wouldn't it be wonderful for your own privacy and mine if instead we could run a training job locally on a local set of data and then extract the learnings, not the actual raw data that contains your private information, but the learnings from that back to a centralized source so that it could be amalgamated with other learnings from other users, other cars, trucks, planes, boats, trains, and so on out in the field without actually needing to centralize quite all of that data. And that's really the crux of Peter Levine's argument here. He's saying that the quantity of data generated at the edge far outpaces our ability, just pure bandwidth-wise, to centralize it. And indeed, each individual high fidelity data point that's generated at the edge doesn't need to be centralized if we're going to learn from it. So the opportunity to run sophisticated code at the edge, which as we'll see is a wonderful fit for WebAssembly, the opportunity to deliver sophisticated code on smaller footprint devices, and to be able to extract the learnings from that is a huge advantage that WebAssembly does indeed open up for us. We'll see why. So just as a moment to establish my credibility in this arena, I have attempted to put cloud-native tooling on a wide variety of different edge locations. And I'll be honest with you all, they all failed. I've tried to put Kubernetes on a submarine. I've tried to put Spark on a robotic arm. I've attempted to create centralized repositories for electric car charging stations to do, training at the edge, as well as inference at the edge, a whole variety of different toolings that I've a different, excuse me, different locations where I've tried to put Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Flink, all of these cloud-native tools that work great in the cloud, they're just really not designed for smaller devices, think Raspberry Pi, and so on. And in particular, they really don't shine at the edge. And the reason is because the edge is not a data center. I mean, a data center, if you think about it, fairly contrived location. If you're in a data center, you know you're in a data center, right? There's racks and racks of servers. They all have tremendous connectivity. They have huge, nowadays, huge amounts of CPU and memory. And cloud-native tooling, to its credit, takes advantage of that environment. So it relies on the fact that there's plenty of memory, plenty of CPU, near constant connectivity. Just as a quick aside, we always like to say that when you're talking about the edge, your disconnection is not an error state. But if one of your Kubernetes nodes is disconnected, well, someone's gonna get a page and very likely will need to come in and fix that situation. Whereas for some of the work that we and others do, if you're talking about, for example, an autonomous naval vessel that spends six months of the year under the water, well, disconnection is actually part of the game there. That's not an error state. That's just regular operations. And then of course, these tools are quite ops-intensive. So if we're gonna be running our own Cassandra, someone has to feed and care for that database. Same with Kafka, Spark, Flink, any Kubernetes, any of these cloud-native tools. And because they know these tools were designed to have access to a ton of bandwidth, they rely on that bandwidth. So if anyone's looked at logs from a Kubernetes cluster, it's a mind-boggling amount of messaging that goes between different applications and different nodes in those clusters. It's very bandwidth heavy, which in the data center is perfectly fine on the edge when moving a kilobyte of data could cost a million times more than it does sitting in a single availability zone in the public cloud, we have to think a lot harder about what we wanna actually be putting over the wire. So can WebAssembly help us? Absolutely it can. I list on the bottom here a couple of resources that I found to be particularly useful in my journey with WebAssembly, the bytecode alliance, I have some wonderful resources. Lynn Clark, if you look them up on YouTube, unbelievably helpful cartoons and diagrams to discuss WebAssembly and then of course, webassembly.org. So what, let's take a quick review for the folks who may not know a little bit, may not be as familiar with WebAssembly. What is WebAssembly? Well, WebAssembly is an intermediate representation and essentially it's a compile target. So other languages compile into WebAssembly and then WebAssembly is then run in different environments. So one of the interesting things about WebAssembly is that you're already using it. Every single browser in the world supports WebAssembly as far as I can't think of an exception. And it's been out in public for a very long time in the world of the browser virtual machine. What's changed is now folks are starting to realize, well, not now, the past few years, starting to realize, hey, we have this wonderful technology that's incredibly small, can provide near native performance, can be created, compiled to from many days in different languages, has some wonderful secure by default functionality involved and provides a standard system interface. After all, we all have browsers on our machine, for example. And so now folks are starting to realize, well, how can we use this not only in a browser environment or in a headless browser environment like a V8 engine or something like that, but also directly on a machine through runtimes like WasmTime, Wasm3 and others. So here are the key properties of WebAssembly. You can look it up that we don't have time in this discussion to go all the way through. Here's the key properties of WebAssembly for you. Super tiny. We can compile it down to very, we can take complex apps and high level languages and get them running in very small footprints. Near native performance, we can get within about 90% of native. And if you're talking about a small device, think Raspberry Pi, being able to, to extract all of that performance is critically important. As I mentioned, it's polyglot, so we can compile from 35 different languages into WebAssembly. I should say that some languages have more functionality at this time than others. This is a wonderful place. If you're looking to invest in the community to help grow it, is actually to help expand and create a more profound set of resources for taking other languages and compiling them to WebAssembly. It's secure by default. So every file, every system permission needs to be permissioned explicitly. So reading a file, writing a file, opening a network socket and so on. And in a wonderful, I don't wanna say accident of history, perhaps we're in a new era. The WebAssembly system interface, the spec for running WebAssembly outside of a browser directly on a machine has a great community alignment behind it. There's still a huge amount of work to be done. Again, a wonderful area for folks to invest if you're looking to contribute to a particular project or area within the WebAssembly universe, being able to expand out not only what is defined in the spec, but also the implementation of the WebAssembly system interface spec. Is a great way to look. A great place to look. So let me make this the sort of challenges of AIML at the extreme edge, a little bit more concrete with a case study. So this is a project that myself and a few of my colleagues in the audience as well had the privilege to work on where we were working with a global manufacturing conglomerate. And what we were trying to do was do on machine anomaly detection. This is something that's very popular these days. And the reason is because if we can get a little bit of a heads up as to when one of these large manufacturing machines is going to fail, then we don't have unplanned maintenance. And when you're talking about a very large organization, sometimes it can be, it's not immediately obvious, but we're talking about $100,000 of losses per hour that that machine is down without being planned for. And the second and even more important reason, of course, is that if a machine fails in an unexpected way, could lead to human injury. And that's certainly not something that we want. And then lastly, the thing to remember that, again, is the key to the edge is that cloud connectivity in these cases is unreliable. So some of these manufacturing facilities are in places with absolutely fantastic network connectivity. Others are in very remote locations that have intermittent connectivity or very expensive connectivity over satellite or something like that. So we need to be able to handle all of the decisions and all of the sovereignty over the data needs to remain local. It cannot have a cloud dependency. So the good news is we were using a TensorFlow model. The good news is that compiling TensorFlow to WebAssembly, there's a few different mechanisms. If you're interested, I would take a look at an organization called Hammer of the Gods, H-O-T-G.AI is their website. They've got some really interesting work around WebAssembly containers and containerizing within WebAssembly ETL and data pipelines as well as serving and monitoring models at the edge. Great folks, open source product, highly, highly recommended to take a look at that, but there are quite a few different mechanisms you can certainly play around with them. But okay, so we've got our model compiled to WebAssembly, but as we saw in the Sense and Fur Act Learn step, there's actually quite a bit of data flow that needs to happen in order to make that work. And indeed, when we're talking about a connected factory, it's not enough just to take the sensor data from one machine, plug it into a model, running on that machine, and then making a decision, taking action based off of that. In fact, we may have dozens, hundreds, even thousands of connected machines of different types that actually need to coordinate together. And again, we can't rely on a cloud centralized service in order to orchestrate all of those, all of those different applications. And we characterize the edge native challenges not only in terms of actually delivering a physical application that is the model and the inferencing engine, but three additional big challenges. They're all data challenges. The first is we need to have, you'll need to handle our local data as the source of truth, because we don't know whether we will have access to peers or other services within the environment. I, as a manufacturing machine, or as a robot need to be able to make sense of my world independently. But then I also need to interact with others. So as I come into and out of connectivity, I need to be able to resolve and zip up, if you will, or merge my data with the understanding of the world that others have. Indeed, I may be out of date, they may be out of date. So I need to be able to merge the data and synchronize the data without conflict. So I need a guarantee, a mathematically proven guarantee that the state will converge to a single state among all of the peer applications that need to share that state in a way that's conflict-free. And then lastly, as discussed before, we need to think about bandwidth differently here. We can't, we need to be smart about what and how we put over the wire because it can be so expensive, whether we're talking about LTE, 5G and so on. So it turns out that there is a wonderful technology called conflict-free replicated data types that solve just this problem. And as the name suggests, conflict-free replicated data types are a data type. So something that looks like a primitive, like an integer or a string, instead and behaves like that under the covers, in fact, has a synchronization component to it. So we actually push all of the logic for synchronizing and merging data in a conflict-free way into the data type itself. So conflict-free replicated data types are just one of the most fascinating new technologies. You can think about them almost like Google Docs, which is to say that when you use a Google Doc or a collaborative document editor, all of the conflicts between, if I change something, you change something, it's gonna converge onto a single state and everyone will see the same state at the end of the day. So conflict-free replicated data types guarantee that all the peers that share a state, in fact, converge to the same state, regardless of the order in which they received a given message or a given update, which if you think about in an offline first, local first, disconnection heavy environment can be absolutely critical because it means that if I'm disconnected from all the other peer applications, all the other machines are sharing state and I'm over here completely isolated. It means that when I reconnect, my state will be conferred, so I don't need to worry about mutating my data locally. And you can see how that looks over here with the example on the right. So for example, in the first machine, the messages are received in the order A, B, and C and the resulting document is A, B, C. In the second machine receives the messages in the order CBA and by virtue of the algorithm converges to A, B, C. And the last one, same thing, receives it in a completely in a third order and again converges to A, B, C. So it doesn't matter for how long I'm disconnected, when I rejoin, I am guaranteed to share the state of every other one and be consistent on that, which is incredibly powerful because now as an engineer, I don't have to write all that logic. It's just in the data type itself. To make it a little bit more concrete, I just wanted to give an example. There's an actual unit test. I've left the Mycelial logo on here specifically so that you know that this is our open source web assembly-based CRDT engine. Don't wanna say that every CRDT works like this, but this is how our open source CRDT engine works, how the Mycelial library works, but this is generally a good idea. So let's just sort of take a quick look at how CRDTs are able to do that. So here at the top, you can see we create two new list CRDTs. On the first one, we append the world hello, the word hello on the second, we append world, and then we generate a diff by sharing the, by passing the vector clocks of the opposite one to the other. That's essentially saying, hey, these are all the unique updates I have, which are the unique updates that you have. In this case, one has hello, the other has world, and then we apply the diff. And by virtue of the magic of vector clocks, which you don't have time to get into today, they converge. You can see here down to hello world, hello world strictly ordered in that way. So even though the first one had hello and the other one had world, they converge always to the same way, to the same state. Now you may be saying, well, how do I know what state it's gonna converge to? Great question. There's no promise that it's the state you necessarily intended or wanted, but once it's converged, you can then take additional steps to say, okay, let's manipulate this data, let's have some trigger that deals with it. So when it comes down to what we actually need to deliver AIML at the extreme edge, WebAssembly is a wonderful tool and a wonderful framework to be able to provide that. And we can take our AIML models and compile them to WebAssembly, and that's great. But we can use WebAssembly actually for some of the data flow, a lot of the data flow as well. And conflict free replicated data types are, in my opinion, the future for that because they just work in the local first conflict free bandwidth optimized way. And when they come together, what we get is a very interesting paradigm for Edge Native that I find particularly compelling where we have safer, cheaper, faster applications, faster systems that are scaled to human beings. After all, that's the goal here is to be able to take a digital process that is indeed very sort of not unnatural, but completely a natural, it's synthetic. And using AIML, using really deep learning, let it interface with the organic world, with people and allow us to interact with computers much in the same way that we interact with humans and much in the same way that we expect of humans. So for example, if a person looks at you, you know they're looking at you. If a computer looks at you, well, they need computer vision, AIML to do that. Thank you all so much for coming to my presentation. I have colleagues, as I mentioned, the audience who will be there, happy to chat with you as well. Please do check out Mycelio online. We're an open source company. We would welcome your collaboration and participation. And we're super active on our Discord. So please do join up or follow us on social. Thanks, everyone.