I just got my hands on the brand new Lulzbot Taz Sidekick 747. Today I'm going to give you a first look and show you how easy it is to set it up straight out of the box. My name's Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. The Lulzbot Taz Sidekick 747 is the newest in the long line of Lulzbot 3D printers. This printer debuted at Merf 2021 and I was super pumped to see it. The team was awesome to work with. It was really cool to talk to them about all the new specs and features on these printers and I knew I had to get my hands on one. The really cool thing is that a few people at Merf actually got to buy the ones they had there and take them home early ahead of production and I wish I could have been one of those people. Greg, I'll link his channel in the description below, was lucky enough to do that and put out some really great content ahead of everybody getting theirs. So check that out. So Taz Sidekick 747 is kind of a long name. So from now on in this video I'm going to call it the 747. This thing has a ton of features built in including being over 50% 3D printed and we're about to see that. It might be the most 3D printed production printer out there, I'm not sure. So let's get to the unboxing. So I got the box, I've got my trusty knife, let's get this thing cut open. Well the top one sucked apparently. Let's try that again. Bam. Bam. So I cut open the top of the box as you can see, this is what it looks like when you open it up. There's a remove all shipping fasteners before printing warning and there's little orange pieces it looks like. Also this giant piece of instructions which is pretty awesome, I'll get to that in a minute but for now let's pull this bad boy out. So also in the box attention, save all packaging, it is required if warranty shipping is needed. So save this box. So this is it. It comes all in foam like this, looks like it's packaged very nice, it's basically like a cube.  This pops open. It looks like we got instructions on how to unpack this, so we're going to do that.  Make sure it's on a steady surface it says, check. So we've got to get all this packaging out. So in the back there's this orange piece, I believe you have to take that out, carefully it is printed, but it's a nice lock piece there, but it looks like this is being held on by these 3D printed bolts here. So we'll pop that off, there's one, these are really good prints too as far as keeping the stuff steady. There we go. When you get those done, this pops out and that pops out.  Some little 3D printed washers that are orange, I believe all the orange comes off just like the box said. They're shipping fasteners and they just have these really cool 3D printed knobs and threads here. So you get that undone, oops, and that pops off like that, check, I'm going to set them over here. Then we just have to pop all of the orange pieces off. So here's one in the back that I just dropped. It looks like here's another one here, there we go. So all of the orange has to come off at some point. So I'm assuming we might use the green again. There's my tool head there, there we go. It is, ooh, I'm super pumped for this. It is the mosquito with the bond tech on it. Here's another orange belt holder here. We're going to pop those, check. Here's another one on this side. We'll pop those and that's what it looks like so far. Next we want to fold out the screen. So I'm going to fold it out to about right there. Then I'll peel the plastic and we're going to fold out the power supply here. So there is a TPU printed clip here, a TPU printed clip at the bottom and then that folds open.  Next we need to put the Y-axis on and I was looking all around for two more of these black 3D printed bolts or thumb screws is really what they are. And I could not find them and I realized what they did on the underside here, right here, is where they actually stored those for shipping. So you unscrew them from here and you get the last two you need to secure this to the printer. So now we have two here, two there and we're going to secure our Y-axis to the printer. So we'll spin this back around. So the power supply is the back of the printer here. We are going to set this right over the top like this. There are four 3D printed brackets, two in the front and two in the rear.  Make sure they're good and tight. Their threads pressed into the bottom 3D printed bracket so that's cool. And now the Y-axis is installed. Just what you want to do is find your big harness here and it's going to connect to the back of the bed. And I found it's a little bit easier to pull a couple, pull them out just a little bit and make sure they're in there right. The one that's tricky is the little one and that just pops right in. And then clip the two bigger ones in like that and then push your TPU printed grommet right over them so they stay locked in there and secure. The next one we want to plug in is this one right here and this is for the motor. It's kind of hard to see but it's down underneath this back piece and it goes in like this. So once you get that pushed in, push the TPU boot over the top and it's kind of a tight fit so be careful there. We got our electronics plugged in down below. It's time to mount the tool head here. This is the tool head I opted for. It has the Bontech extruder, the mosquito hotend. It uses 1.75 filament but they do offer a 2.85 tool head as well which is really cool. How this is going to go on is you're going to take these two little thumb screws here and this long one. It's going to sit back on the plate. They have right next to the BL touch. This is a real BL touch they're using and then you're going to take your thumb screws and it goes right down into the top and holds that bad boy on. So there's two that go in the top and then there's one that goes right in from the back and you want to make sure that they are all on. Just thumb tight as well, remember these are 3D printed parts and you don't want to over tighten them with a wrench or anything like that. Then your very long one that will go straight in from the back and that will hold that plate against the back like this. We're going to make sure that our cable is sitting in the channel here because it's always good to have it down in the channel. Once you get this mounted plug in the power and it only goes one way, it snaps together and it looks like there's a little loop under here that goes under this one of the thumb screws so I'm actually going to put it under there, probably a little security loop in case something were to happen and it probably keeps it nicely held down. So if I can get in here I'm just going to unscrew this quick and there's a little loop in the wiring harness made out of TPU it looks like and it looks like the screw goes right through you know the thumb screw goes through it and it secures that down. That way it does not move around on you and a little bit of security there, yep it goes just like that. So that loop is now over there and it just kind of holds that wiring harness out of the way. Alright the next thing we want to do is drop our spool holder so we loosen up but we don't take it out. We just drop it straight down like that and then tighten it back up. Now this does move about they say like 5 degrees ish to accommodate different sized spools if you need to so there's that. So we need to install the filament run out sensor behind this thumb screw so take the thumb screw out push it back in and then turn it in. Be careful there is a T-nut hiding in there that you need to use there we go so you can put it up wherever you need it and tighten it in like that so there we go filament run out sensor that I ordered is connected here. Now I believe that's it all we have to do is warm this bad boy up then we're going to pull this down and push it into our hot end here into the extruder and get it going. Now to connect the hot end let's talk a little bit about what else comes in the box. So if we look right over here we get a white box that looks like this if we open it up it comes with a really beefy set of Allen wrenches a bunch of different sizes there also so nano-gloop thank you so much 3d-gloop we're going to pull that out and there's a business card for them as well then you get a bag like this and inside that bag we have an SD card brand new SD card here. We have a Lulzbot sticker gotta love the stickers power cord of course you know what a six-foot USB cord that's a pretty awesome get right there it's a trip light actually which is nice you get two samples of the PLA it looks like one's a polymaker poly light one is a green the 3d fuel green just exactly what this printer is printed out of I believe there's a warranty form right inside there too so that's everything that comes with this printer and the next thing we're going to do is grab this power cord right here plug it in and get this thing rolling we're going to take a quick look at some of the stuff I ordered on mine because when you order one of these you actually include everything you want or don't want when you put the order in for the tool head I ordered I got the bond tech with the mosquito hot end that tool head is going to be awesome I love this combination and comes with a nice beefy part cooling fan here and of course the mosquito fan to cool down the heat break in there I also ordered the filament runout sensor as we showed putting it on a little bit ago so that's a pretty cool feature you can order as well I also ordered the screen that comes with it you can see it says test sidekick on there when it boots it actually shows the Lulzbot logo but you do not have to order this you can run this solely from the USB and that is okay and a lot of people do that in their print farms with their other Lulzbots as well it's kind of nice it actually swivels back and forth and you can put it in pretty much any orientation you want this right here is a printed dial for it it'll go through the menus just like a regular screen would another option I ordered was the magnetic flex plate here I love magnetic flex plates and this thing really holds down very well if I flip this up you're gonna see that the bed has built in magnets here and it goes all the way across the bed you can feel them a just a little bit but it looks like they inlaid them into the plate of the bed there and then basically you just take your bed you slide it against the back and you let it flap I don't know if you heard that but this thing really drops hard let's see so that should be a pretty awesome surface there's a couple different surfaces you can choose from that's the one I went with so I just went through some of the accessories are parts that I ordered for this thing and that's one of the coolest things about this you go on to the configurator you add the stuff you want you don't add the stuff you don't and you get the printer as you wanted it you don't have to add the screen for the extra money you don't have to add the filament runout sensor and there's a bunch of different tool heads you can choose from one of the really cool things is with the tool heads if you have any other Lowell's Bot taz is out there they all are interchangeable so if you have old tool heads out there from the Lowell's Bot taz it should fit right on this and you don't have to buy any other ones another cool thing is you could swap out this 1.75 filament tool head for a 2.85 tool head which is really awesome if you have extra 285 or you want to run maybe a tool head with a thicker nozzle and some bigger filament maybe have some laying around you want to get rid of anything like that it's really cool that you can be diverse like that with this thing something I didn't already point out this does have a built-in BL touch right here in the back it's already ready to go and we'll give it a test when we start firing up first prints this does have a 24 volt power supply which is pretty awesome and it's also running Marlin firmware as far as slicing goes it uses a rebranded Kira so I'm gonna get that loaded on the computer and I believe there's a firmware update that when I get it loaded on the computer will push to the printer as well so we'll get it updated to the newest firmware right out of the box as soon as I load the rebranded Kira on my computer this does come with a one-year warranty right out of the box and it also has this right on the bed and what this says is we respect your freedom to modify your Lulzbot desktop 3d printer however any modifications or attempt repairs that cause damage are not covered under the warranty so if you have issues call them first they're gonna help you they're gonna walk through it with you before you try to repair something and break it there are two different colors you can get when you order these you can get the Lulzbot green or the stealth black which are both pretty dang awesome I wanted the green because I thought it would pop a little more for the stream and I really like how it looks so far so stay tuned I'm gonna get this thing fired up we're gonna get a bunch of test prints going and see how they look I cannot wait to check this thing out I will use the leveling feet under here to get it nice and level before I print I think the parts look pretty good overall the machine is beefy it's built good and it's over 50% printed as you can see from all of the green parts and black parts here there's TPU this thing is just gonna be a lot of fun to print with and I can't wait to get that going so stay tuned we're gonna see what else comes off this 747 I cannot wait to get this thing printing I should know that Lulzbot did send me this as a review unit I'm gonna use it for a few months and I'm gonna package it back up and send it back to them unless I decide to buy it they did give me an option to do that as well but they did send it to me as a review unit so no money exchanged hands they're not asking me for anything they don't want to see the videos ahead of time they just sent this to me because they're awesome and they're gonna let me test it out and get some videos out on it I think that first actual print I'm gonna do is the mini gym that you can get on things and things as a sponsor of this video so thank you so much thanks for sponsoring this video if you want the mini gym as well go down to the link in the description below and grab it it is free it's on things and you can print as many mini gyms as you want after the first print when I do jump over to that mini gym that I grabbed on things I'm gonna use this coax 3d filament now coax sponsors the channel with filament they're awesome they're made right here in Wisconsin and this color I have not used yet this is lilac purple and I can't wait to see what a mini gym looks like in this purple so stay tuned because this is gonna be an awesome color especially on the mini gym who knows we might even jump into a torture toaster also found on things so thank you so much coax for sponsoring the channel with filament I really appreciate it and I can't wait to check out this lilac purple I hope you guys learned something enjoy the video and as always keep printing hey everybody I hope you liked the video today if you did shoot me that thumbs up hit that subscribe button right here if you haven't already done that and the 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Live from New York City, it's theCUBE. Covering Lenovo Transform 2017. Brought to you by Lenovo. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of the Lenovo Transform event. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Stu Miniman, who is a senior analyst at Wikibon. We are joined by Kirk Scalgan. He is the executive vice president and president of Lenovo Data Group.  Yeah, we're doing this on a monthly basis. That's great. So you're fresh off the keynote. The theme of this conference is transform. Lenovo has undergone a massive transformation over in recent years. What is your focus and where do you see sort of the biggest points of change in the company? Yeah, well, I think we're sort of celebrating today this transformation to the next phase of our growth. If you think about us as a company, we've kind of acquired the X86 business, server business from IBM a few years ago, we are also building off more than a decade of our China heritage for the think server business. So that's combining the two together, kind of driving to our next phase of growth. The whole purpose of today is really transforming the customer experience and starting with the customer first. We're incredibly proud that we just got ranked number one in customer satisfaction again, but we're not kind of stopping there. We're going to use this announcement today to kind of catapult us ahead. Customer service has always been a strength of Lenovo and as you said, you're going to continue to drive toward that. You said in the keynote that you're incentivizing employees around customer service. Can you talk a little bit about how you plan on maintaining the edge? Yeah, so this year, every Lenovo employee is getting incentivized on customer experience. So we're making them take kind of a personal goal of how they can better improve the customer, regardless of whether you're an engineer or you're in phone support or these kind of things. So it really starts at the grassroots level. It gets everybody thinking customer first, which is great. And again, we're excited because we're in 21 of the 22 categories, number one in X86 servers, but we're constantly learning and wanting to improve and that's where we're starting. Kirk, YY in his keynote talked about just the pace of change. Said that if we forget about 18 years ago, 18 months ago, we probably couldn't predict how fast things are going. How does that drive your strategy, how you work with customers and drive the product line? Yeah, so I think customers are asking for simplicity. It's getting so complex and the rate of change is so much. So when we did this design of both our server storage and networking, we're kind of future-proofing it. So we actually are dramatically reducing the number of products, but building them to be more flexible so you can qualify less solutions but have them live longer in your data center. And that's been a key attribute as we look at kind of future-proofing. Also as we move to software-defined, that's going to be a key element as well because people aren't looking to change out the hardware as much as they are the software part. So everything from our configuration managers to our system hardware management and with X Clarity, the whole design experience, we're changing to simplify the experience for the customer because the change is just almost getting to a point that's too much for people to handle from a technology transformation perspective.  So explain to us the new branding. You've got two new brands that you announced today, kind of thinking behind that and walk us through what they are. Sure, so today we're announcing ThinkSystem and Think Agile. So on the server side, we had both the ThinkServer brand from Lenovo and then the SystemX brand from IBM. We're building those two together. The engineers were kind of given the charter years ago to say, how do you stay number one in reliability, number one in customer satisfaction? And then we have a legacy of now of over 150 world record benchmarks. So it's a brand that's highly flexible, premium, and it's going to span now not only our server products, but server storage and networking. One of the surprises I had joining Lenovo is just we have hundreds of engineers in networking that the old IBM had acquired from companies like Blade Network Technologies. And now things like hyper-converged storage, once you've solved the storage compute integration, networking becomes the next bottleneck. And so the products we're announcing today on Think Agile, which is our software-defined products, are helping solve not only the hyper-converged storage problems, but also some of the challenges that that brings to networking and moving traffic from a traditional North-South architecture to East-West. So simply put, ThinkSystem for network storage and server and Think Agile for software-defined. On the Think Agile, the two partners that I saw highlighted up on screen were Nutanix, which you've had in OEM for a while, and the Microsoft Azure with Azure Stack, we know is coming this year. Both of those companies have a lot of partners. Why is Lenovo positioned to be a strong contender with both of those partners? Well, I think when we talk to CIOs, what we're hearing pretty constantly is that Lenovo's lack of legacy. You know, we don't have a huge legacy router business or a huge legacy sand business and all the associated costs and services. So we see our competitors sometimes up pushing one more generation of legacy technology. And so we feel like we're getting pulled in to kind of leap ahead, not being encumbered by the past. And then I always say, little things don't mean a lot, little things mean everything. So it's the thousands of Lenovo engineers that are tuning this for both of those solutions, especially with Nutanix, we've got integrated networking now in the stack. So we're not just solving the storage problem, but we're addressing that network solution as well. There's a reason why we have 150 world record benchmarks is that fine-tuning with our partners to get the last few bits of performance out of the systems. I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about this lack of legacy, as well as the cost efficiencies you referenced in the keynote in terms of having everything in China and you described going left to make the servers and going right to make the PCs. Can you talk a little bit about how that helps Lenovo improve its offerings? Yeah, so I think we have the benefits of being kind of an autonomous data center group and making our own decisions, but we're taking advantage of the manufacturing capability of Lenovo. So if you look at the devices side, Lenovo's building about four devices a second. And on the server side, we build a little bit over a hundred servers an hour. But if you go into, for example, we have factories in Seville, Hungary, Monterey, Mexico, North Carolina, in even Shenzhen. If you go into our Shenzhen factory, the parts warehouse is common on the first floor. It comes up through the second floor and actually goes left for notebooks, right for servers. So all that vendor managed inventory, we're taking advantage of that scale of four devices a second and we get that advantage, unlike some of our competitors. What that really means to our customers is we can compete with the best commodity costs and the best manufacturing costs in the industry. I mean, some of our third party analysts are saying we have manufacturing rates that could be almost half of our competition because some of the scale that we have. Kirk, one of the things that caught my attention in the keynote was talking about using the intelligence and inside your supply chain through the whole kind of life cycle of the products. Can you give us a little bit of insight as to how you're using it internally and what customers see from that? Yeah, so we just hired our Chief Technology Officer, it was Dr. Ray Yong, who's ex-Microsoft, he's one of the world leaders in artificial intelligence. And our CIO and us in the data center group, we've all been collaborating to bring artificial intelligence deeper into everything we do, but even from our supply chain to our order delivery, which is why I think our customer satisfaction rates are so high because we can predict the supply chain, the right amount of inventory, and then shipping it all the way through and predicting the dock date to our customers incredibly well. But one of the key learnings we had, I think over the last couple of years of acquiring the IBM X86 server business, it took us almost two years to get off the IT systems, right? We had over 40 different databases that we had to integrate in, and now that as of January one, they've all become part of Lenovo, pulling those big data analytics together and using artificial intelligence, we can now track the aged population of all of the installed base of over about two and a half million servers that we have out there, who's coming up for warranty replacements, who's coming up for hardware replacements, and that's almost that predictive analytics that customers are really valuing. In terms of Lenovo and its aspirations for the future, in terms of becoming the world's biggest supercomputing company, you are the fastest growing, but let's talk about impact, and this is something that YY talked about in his keynote and really making sure that Lenovo is working not just helping companies sell more widgets, but also with scientific breakthroughs, curing diseases, predicting the effect of climate change. How big a part is that of your job? Yeah, well, I think it's something that's incredibly motivating to Lenovo employees, right? Beyond financial return to shareholders is every day I get internal texts or WeChat's from Lenovo employees that are feeling really proud to be part of a company that's off trying to do something good for humanity as well. I mean, on the PC side, I think we're selling Chromebooks and bridging the digital divide between kids in Africa and kids in the major metropolitan areas of the world, but on the data center side, things like we did with the Barcelona supercomputer where we now have the fastest next generation Intel computer on the planet. It is one of the breakthroughs, predicting weather and climate change, predicting and tracking the next tsunami to evacuate coastlines faster, trying to find cures to some of the most terrible diseases on earth, so it's a huge part of I think the culture of trying to do good for the world, not just make a financial return, so. Kirk, I want to go back to think Agile for a second because you dropped a hint that we couldn't let pass. Said that it's likely that we should expect M&A from Lenovo here, now I don't expect you to tell us who you're looking at, but what do you look for? What type of company to look for? What would fit well into the Lenovo portfolio? Well, it's funny because we're Lenovo, so we're not Huawei or Cisco or EMC, right? Big names, what I would say, in traditional networking and storage, so all of these startups out there that are, essentially competing with those large legacy companies are coming to us saying, hey, we want either access to China, given our strong China presence, but also global scale, because once they get to a couple hundred million dollars in revenue, they have a real tough time scaling, and as I said, we're participating now in over 160 countries, 50 call centers, that's pretty big investment, even for some of the fastest growing software defined companies in the world to set up, so I think we want to build our own internal intellectual property, but we're also going to look at joint ventures and M&As in the areas of software defined networking, software defined storage, because our customers, again, see us with that lack of legacy and are really pushing us to go even faster, which is great. So those are the businesses you're interested in, but what are the kind of cultures you're looking for, particularly because culture is such an important part of Lenovo? Yeah, I think one of the reasons I moved from Intel to Lenovo is they're just fierceless innovators, right, and we became number one in PC through innovation, not just cost cutting, and I see that on the data center side as well, all of those little things that matter, so I think we want to have people who have the highest of aspirations, right, when we go into something we want to be number one in it, people who are fearless, that aren't afraid of companies that might be three or four times our size, but that want to make a global impact, so a lot of these customers, they've already made their, maybe their financial returns in a previous startup, and now they're looking at how they can go, change the world, and the scale that Lenovo brings, I think it's something that's pretty exciting to them. Kirk, on the Intel point, I think this is the fourth show that we've done the QBAT this year where Intel's been up on stage arm in arm with a partner in the cloud space and the server space talking about that next generation chip set. What's going to set Lenovo apart with this next wave, and what are your customers excited about for this next spin of the Intel chip set? Yeah, so I think we're seeing 59% performance improvement on things like SAP HANA, we're number one in the world in installations, we're seeing better total cost of ownership reductions, so particularly in hyper scale and HPC, I mean we see a step function transition over almost immediately on the new Intel chips. And we're looking at all architectures of course as well, but I think with Intel we've put in the largest Omnipath solutions on the planet, with Barcelona Supercomputer, we're working not just on the processors, but on their SSDs, on their accelerator, to see on PHY technology, on the fabrics, so we have a really tight innovation relationship with them, so we're selling probably more content per box, and so therefore we're obviously able to fine tune the entire portfolio together with them, but I think customers are excited about us continuing this world record performance that we've had, the TCO reductions of getting to lower power, most of these supercomputers are still constrained by power, so we have more than 25 patents now in water cooling technology to try to be greener for the earth, so I think those are some of the things that we're seeing from Intel. Those are the selling points. Yeah, I mean, higher performance. We have a very tight, close relationship, so there's not a lot of finger pointing. If we get into an issue, as all companies do, we can solve it very, very quickly, and I think, again, being number one in customer satisfaction from a third party is our testament to that. Kirk. Kirk, this last question I had on that, the hyper scale market, could just give us the update as kind of Lenovo's position there, heard a lot about the HPC market, we know kind of the traditional enterprise market, but hyper scale I think is one of the areas you differentiate yourself. Yeah, I mean, we obviously sell the Baidu Alibaba 10 cent as part of China, we're one of their largest suppliers and partners, and we're now expanding through this new segment focus into the west coast of the United States, so we don't necessarily go out and say the names of those customers, but there are multiple hyper scale customers in the top 10, many of which are based in the US, that we are already now shipping into significantly more units this year than last year, and it's a function of really getting cost optimized. Again, we're taking advantage of PC economics and bringing them to hyper scale compute, so we're not afraid of low margin, high volume business, because that's what we're doing in the PC space every day. So we're going to continue to expand not just in the top tier ones, but also move into the tier two, tier three kind of customer base as well, so we're expanding that sales force, looking at it end to end, only burdening it with what it needs to be burdened with, relative to the cost structure, so that we can compete with the best, most cost effective companies in the world, and still make a little bit of money for Lenovo shareholders, so. Kirk, thanks so much for joining us, it's been a pleasure having you on the show. Yeah, the excitement around here is great, so we appreciate you guys coming and appreciate the time. Great, I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman, we'll be back with more of Lenovo Transform after this.


In this video, I'm going to show you how you can embed a video from a website directly into Ecamm Live using web widgets. Now, this is something that people often want to do. They want to share a YouTube video, perhaps, where they want to commentate on it, or give a reaction to it, or whatever the case may be. Lots of reasons why you may want to bring a video from the internet directly into Ecamm Live to talk about it. And the way that people would tend to think to do this is to use screen sharing. So they'll screen share their portion of the screen where the video is playing, or they'll share the browser window, for example, where it's playing in YouTube, for example, and then just crop into the video part. There's a couple of issues with this, though.  The second point is you do then need to have that sort of screen real estate, as it were. I hate that term, but there you go. I've used it. Taken up by the browser window. So there's got to be space on your screen to actually have the video open for you to be able to then play it. And then again, you need to actually go and click on the play button, or however you want to do that in the browser to get it actually playing. So there is a better way in my view to do this if you want to do a little bit of forward planning and actually have it embedded in your Ecamm Live production. And that is what I'm going to show you today. Incidentally, this question came up in the Ecamm Live Facebook group. Somebody asked in there how they would go about doing this if there was even a way to do it. And so that's why I'm making this video. And so if you are an Ecamm Live user at whatever level, if you are not a member of the Ecamm Live Facebook group, then you're definitely missing out. In my mind, it is arguably the best feature of Ecamm Live, is the welcoming and supportive community over at facebook.com. slash groups slash Ecamm Live. I'll leave a link in the description. And yeah, any questions you've got, just go and ask them in there. I've asked plenty of questions in there. Myself has been a vital part of my sort of development and learning Ecamm Live. So once again, if you're not already a member, definitely head over to that Facebook group. So with that said, let's look at how we're going to do this. Now I've got a video queued up ready to use. And it happens to be this video I did just a few days ago about actually easily embedding videos in your website using TubeBuddy. Now this is going the other way. This isn't what we need to do today, but I thought it seemed like an appropriate video because it does give you a really quick and easy way to get the embed code exactly as we want it, or almost exactly as we want it. It's got a little piece of code that we need in there. First of all though, I should just say you don't need TubeBuddy to get the embed code. What you can do is just come down to any particular video that you want to share and do make sure you have permission to share it. And there's no issue or copyright things going on with you actually using the video in your video. I think I'm safe with sharing my own video. I've given myself permission. Generally videos on YouTube will be sort of creative comments, commons rather, not comments, creative commons, and you will be able to share them. And in fact, I think if you are not able to, then you simply won't be able to get the embed code. But don't take my word for that. Do make sure that you are allowed to use any footage that you are using in your own videos. But down here on YouTube, so you don't need to be logged in or anything like this, it's just a case of into your own account. I mean you could be using anybody's video. You can see here where it says share and click on share and it will give you the code if you want to share that video. Now it's going to start with a link. So this is basically just a link for the video if you want to share it with somebody. But you do also have this option here which says embed. Now if you click on this embed link, what that's going to do is give you this section of code. And this is if you are going to embed this into your website. And it's structured in such a way as an iFrame. So without needing to go into technical details, this is basically a virtual frame on the website where the video is going to stay. But don't let's get bogged down in that because we don't need to get into coding and stuff like that. All I'm going to do is just for now I'm going to copy this code. What we want to do though is we want to actually have this video play automatically when we load it up. So I am going to go into the TubeBuddy section at the moment to just actually make sure that it has set to auto play because we need to do a little bit of a change to this code. And if I use the TubeBuddy version, I'll be able to show you the code that you need to put in. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually come into my YouTube studio here. Just bear with me because you'll understand why I'm doing this in a moment because I'll show you the two pieces of code together. So let me just go through and actually find that exact video within my YouTube studio. So it is one of them up here. Easy embed. Oh, there it is. So within TubeBuddy, what we can do is I can click on the video. So that is the video in question here, this easy embed video. And there's a little tool here for TubeBuddy. Click on this one and then you've got this one, advanced embed. All I'm going to do in here is I just want to make sure that this auto play is set to auto play. So it's giving me the embed code down here, which will be pretty similar to the embed code that we get directly out of YouTube. I just want to make sure that we've got auto play selected. And now if I copy that, you'll notice that it has actually added in this little bit of code here. Auto play equals 1 and that's the bit of code that I want you to just take note of. So I'm going to copy this and I'll explain how later. I'm going to copy this and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to come over to my notes. And in fact, at this point, what I'm going to do is I'm going to come into live demo mode so that we can see how to do this. So I'll just come back to this view and then I'm in live demo mode now. So what you can see here is we've got these two pieces of embed code. Now, the question in the Ecom live group was specifically about how to take an embedded video from a website and it was a news website as opposed to from YouTube. I'm doing this video about YouTube because this is a common question that people have or common need that people have. So that's why I'm using this. The process should be the same, although I'm not sure what the news website was. So the actual code that you use may be slightly different. But this is the one that we just took straight from YouTube. And this one down here is the one that we took from TubeBuddy. Now, the one from TubeBuddy basically is a smaller piece of code because it doesn't have all the same parameters and things like that because we only clicked one. The one that we clicked was for autoplay. Now, what we need to do is it's basically this bit. So this piece of code here is the exact piece that we need to actually embed this as a widget in our Ecom live. This is the format of them. So you'll find that whatever site you're looking at, be it from YouTube, from Vimeo or something like that, they will put this bit of code here related to the frame and things like that. They'll also add in all these other things. So here it's got YouTube video player. It's got the iframe border. So that's all related to the way it's presented on screen. You've got all these other different things. So allowing autoplay, clipboard, encrypted media, gyroscope, picture-in-picture. You don't need to worry about any of all of this. All we're interested in is this, which is the actual URL of the embedded video. So let's just extract that part now. And I'll just put this up here, like that. And we can actually just get rid of all of this. But as mentioned that we did want to autoplay. Now what you'll notice here is here with this iframe format, it has actually got the autoplay listed amongst a load of other things. But we don't want to have that because we want to actually just incorporate it directly into this URL. You'll notice from the TubeBuddy version though, if I come to the TubeBuddy version, it has actually got the autoplay section is part of the URL itself. So that is the difference that we get when we use the TubeBuddy. You won't need to use TubeBuddy necessarily because all you'll need to know is that you just need to add this little bit of code onto the end. So once you've got the embed URL from YouTube, all you'll need to do is add on this question mark, autoplay equals 1. That is the one that we're going to use. And that's going to mean that basically because you're not going to have any player controls as such in your e-cam live, it's just going to play the video. This is just going to trigger it to autoplay. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to physically start and stop it from within e-cam live. Once again, the actual code for autoplay may be different from platform to platform. So I don't know exactly the new site that was in question in the e-cam live group. But this is how we'll do it with YouTube. So now I'm just going to click on Copy. What I'm going to do is I'm going to come to a different scene over here, which is basically exactly the same as this one. But it's just a different scene to work with. And then what we're going to do is we're going to come down here to where it says Widget Overlays. If I hover over it, it's this one here with a little picture of the globe just down there. Click on the plus here. And then I'm going to highlight the text. I'm going to copy that, and I'm going to just paste it in here. Here's one I did earlier. Paste it in there like that. And then I'm going to call this one demo video. Why not? And then I'm going to click on Add Widget Overlay. Now that's adding it in. And you can see it's already actually starting to play. So if I just make this a little bit smaller like this perhaps. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the TubeBuddy Advanced Embed Tool so that you can understand how it makes embedding your YouTube videos a piece of. So there, that is now embedded into that scene. Now it will auto play. So if I come back to that scene, and it's going to start playing again. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the TubeBuddy Advanced Embed Tool so that you can understand how it makes embedding your YouTube videos a piece of cake. If I just hide my interface for one second. If you have ever tried to embed a video either on your website, on a blog or something like that. You'll know that it can be quite tricky to find the exact bit of code that you need to make it look the way you want it to because there are lots of different things that we can change. For example, you know, do you want it to auto play? Do you want it to loop? Do you want the controls to be displayed on screen? All these sorts of different parameters. And they've all got some extra little bit of, that was a bit meta, wasn't it? Me playing a video of me playing a video. But anyway, so that is how you would do it. So now you can see that as I go to that particular video at that particular scene. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the TubeBuddy Advanced Embed Tool. As I say, you don't actually get the, you do see the player controls on there. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the TubeBuddy Advanced Embed Tool so that you can understand how it makes embedding your YouTube videos a piece. But we don't actually have the ability to control it. So although you will see those controls over it within Ecamm Live, we don't have the ability to actually go in and control those things on the screen. But if you want to just basically share a video and have it play. So maybe you want to have it play in the background. You can have it on the scene by scene basis. So you can just drop it into a scene. Or obviously the other way to do it is you can just actually show and hide the overlay. So if I come back into demo mode, I go into this scene here. In this video, I'm going to be talking about hide the overlay. It will just disappear just like that. So if I come back to my other scene, come out of demo mode rather. And now I just show that video as an overlay. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the TubeBuddy Advanced Embed Tool. So I hope that helps. That is a quick and easy way to actually just embed a video into directly into Ecamm Live if that's something that you want to do. I'll leave a link to the code that you need to add in. So basically if you're embedding a YouTube video, you're just going to extract that YouTube embed link. And just to really reiterate that one more time. It is this one that looks like this. YouTube.com slash embed and then your video code. And then if you want it to autoplay, which you will do if you want it to just play automatically. Then you just need to add this question mark autoplay equals one at the end of it. And that is how you do that. Now I'll leave a link actually directly to that other video that I did all about embedding code from TubeBuddy. Because you really got a lot more control over what you actually include when you are embedding videos the other way into your website. So that video is going to be coming up next. And I'll see you over there.


So let's do some math. Who's ready to do some math? OK, so my name is Zheng Yang. I'm a software engineer at Facebook, Singapore. Today's topic is KL theory in 20 minutes. No math can be scary for a lot of people, but trust me, today's math is very fundamental. You can understand it. So first question we ask, why KL theory? Because it's very important. It can be found in many, this kind of behavior can be found in many natural systems. So stuff like butterfly effects, three-body problems, I believe you have heard of it. Anyone have heard of butterfly effects? Quite a few people, yeah. For those who don't know about it, it's basically a metaphorical example where some butterfly wings shaking can cause a tornado somewhere else. So a single small change in the initial of the system can have very different outcomes, like drastic changes later on. Besides that, there's also a very interesting topic in its own right. It's basically investigating some system that is deterministic, but at the same time unpredictable. Well, if you think about it, determinism implies certainty, and certainty implies predictability. Why is there some system that is deterministic but not predictable? So I'll start with some basic concepts, namely functions and iterative functions. And then we'll look at two interesting problems, our interesting systems, logistic map, and the convex game of life. So functions. Functions, you can view it as a machine that transforms one number to another in mathematical context. People would say it's an expression or it's an equation that takes in a number and generates another number. So for example, two and a function called square, the output will be four. So if I put three inside, I'll get nine out. So pretty simple. And as developers and engineers, we write functions every day, input is the parameters, and output is the return value. It's right. Iterative functions. So we know about functions. It's just mapping between input and output. Iterative functions just repeatedly apply the same function again and again. So taking example, initial value of x. Taking the function x square, initial value of two. And in the first iteration, we're plotting the initial value of two. And we get four out. And then in the second iteration, we get four and we're plotting four. And then we get 16 and so on and so forth. So every iteration, you take the output of the previous iteration as the input. And then you get another output, which will in turn be the input of the next iteration. Simple, right? So we're just looking into the same thing. Here's some notation. So the four here, the superscript is not the exponentiation. It's just the fourth iteration of that function. And similarly, we do this kind of stuff every day. We write loops every day. And we write recursion hopefully every day. So it can be done in the computer programming context. Yeah, now we are equipped with functions and iterative functions to very simple concepts. Now we look at one of the interesting systems called logistic map. Logistic map is a family of functions taking this form. OK, kill. I want to touch it again. I wish there's no microphone here. Oh, no. There is a little bit of setup. OK, so logistic mapping is a function that takes this form r times x times 1 minus x. I think it's pretty easy to understand. Where r is a particular number. You can just plug in any values to replace the r.  They are called logistic maps. Let's do some iterations on logistic map, let's iterate logistic map. On the right-hand side, you have table where on the left column, we have this iteration numbers. We start with 0.1. And the first example, we take r into 2.5. And then you're plugging 0.1 into the x. And then you've got 2.6 times 0.1 times 1 minus 0.1.1. And you get 0, 2, 3, 4. And then again, you take input 0, 2, 3, 4. And you get another number. So left-hand side is the iteration. And the right-hand side is the value during that iteration, also the iteration. So we plug in this table with horizontal axis being the number of iterations and the vertical axis being the value. It's pretty much the easy to understand it's converging into a single value. So it settles on single value, means it's predictable. If you ask me, OK, what is the value of 1,000 iteration? Obviously you'll say it's just this value because it never changes after that. The reason being, if you plug in that number into this function, you get the same number out. So just start there. OK, not too interesting. Let's increase r to 3.4. And now you have a slightly more interesting pattern. It's oscillating between two values. It doesn't set on single value, but it's oscillating between two values. If you ask me whether this is predictable, I would say yes, it's predictable. Because if you ask me 1,000 iteration, I'll probably say one of those two values. So let's increase further to 3.5. And now the pattern gets more interesting. Now it's oscillating among four different values. It settles on an m shape. So it just repeats like sine curve, it just repeats itself. Still, I would say predictable. OK, anyone can see a pattern here. Now we increase the r to 3.8. Anyone can see a pattern here? It turns out there's no pattern. So it appears to be, if you run this for longer iteration, number of iterations, you'll never discover a pattern. So it appears to be random. But if you think it carefully, is it really random? Is it really random? No, it's not. It's not, right? Because you have the initial value of 0.1, that's not random. And you have function 3.8 times x times 1 minus x. That's also deterministic. And every step, you can just calculate it. There's nothing random, there's no random factor inside. But you ask me whether it's predictable. Do you think it's predictable? We did that right. Pardon? We did that right. It's not predictable, actually. Why? Let's first look at the first reason. When we see the table here, what are we talking about? The table is generated by like 20 iterations, like a loop or a follow, and generate those numbers. But if you see, the numbers cannot be represented precisely, a lot of times, oftentimes, in the computer. We use 32-bit, we use 64-bit to represent the floating point. But oftentimes, it's just approximation. Think about 2 over 3. Precisely, it's an infinite number of 6 digits. But usually, we're just fine with running it to the 7 as the last digit, right? So here, I would say it's not the real value, real output of that function. It's approximation. So all this value you see is approximation. But it should just be fine, right? Because approximations usually is fine. We can work with approximation. It gave us a good way of understanding it. But it's not the case this way. This is what we call the behavior of chaotic systems. It is the sensitivity to the initial conditions. We take two very close values, like 0.1 and 0.1001. Very tiny difference. And we run the same experiment. We use the same function, by the way. We run multiple information. And what do you observe? Initially, it's not just our intuition. We can just use a similar number. And the approximation should just work. So they overlap with each other. And after maybe 15, they start to slightly disagree with each other after 15th information. And after 20th information, you see they go completely different ways. So everything stays the same. The only difference is that 0.0001, tiny difference.  And if you repeat the same experiment with 64-bit, you get 0.74. So this time, that tiny running error that you think is fine, but it is actually not fine. So it gives you different values. Which one do you think is correct? None of them is correct. Well, you may say, let's just get the process number, process value. It turns out, if you compute those school way, you just use what we do on a pen of paper. And you just multiply digits by digits. It actually grows exponentially. The number of digits grows exponentially with the number of iterations. So it's computational prohibitive to do that. So by the time you compute 1,000 iteration, you have more than number of atoms in the universe to represent that number. We know that it's between 0 and 1, but we don't know what the value is. So this is a typical example of chaotic system where everything is deterministic. You know the initial condition. You know the rules to derive from one step to the next. But I would say it's unpredictable because we don't know the value. It's just hated. We don't know the value. In the long term, it's opaque. We don't know the future. Oh. OK. So if you are curious about what other R values, remember that R value, it can actually take all the R values at the hard-on-access axis. And the number the pattern settles on in the vertical axis. The first example, R is 2.6. It settles on a single value. So here, it settles on. So 3.4, remember the oscillation between two values? That is why, because you have two values to pattern. And then remember the n shape is 3.5. That's four values. And 3.8 last example, the chaotic one, you don't see a pattern actually. It's seemingly randomly jumping in that range. Jumping in that range. So this is called bifurcation diagram. OK, let's look at another example. Let's play some game. This is called Game of Life. Another example. So this whole common-based game of life is played on a 2D grid, where each cell can be either dead or alive. Here, blue color means alive, and white color means dead. It's a zero-player game. Zero-player means you just set up some initial conditions. You just bring some cells alive. And then the game will play itself by some rules, according to some rules. So the rules are like this. If a living cell, if a blue cell, has two or three living neighbors, a blue cell has two or three living or blue cells neighbors. So by the way, the neighbor is surrounding each cell. It will stay alive during the first diagram. That cell at the center will stay alive. Otherwise, it will die. The second one that will die because it will have one neighbor. If a dead cell, if an empty cell, a white cell, has three living, exactly three living neighbors, it will be alive. It will become alive. And otherwise, it will remain dead. So in the last example, because it only has one neighbor, it will remain dead. So pretty simple, right? That's the latest game. Initially, it was set more like this, like here, square. And then, according to the rules, it will become like this. Again, again, again. So if you look at this, this is very similar to the previous example, right? So what is function in this case? Function is just rules of game. And instead of using a number to represent a state, this is the board. It's done tire-to-degree. So you just iterate on the same rules. And then you play it again, again, again. Now something interesting happens. You see that goes back to the previous state. So if you take that bar, you take that grid, and apply the rules, it goes back to the previous state. And it's a cycle stuck there. So nothing interesting afterwards. It's just oxidizing between the two states. All right. There are some interesting equilibrium we're set of some. Some still lives. So it just remained there. Lives have stayed there forever. Death cells stayed there forever. Remained death forever. And oscillators, similar to the one we just saw. So it's just alternating between two patterns. And space shapes, like moving across the board. Coming back to the chaotic behavior of this system. If I just bring one cell down, so I just kill one cell. So it's similar to the previous one. I just bring one down. It actually gives you a very different future. So just by removing one cell, you have a completely different path. This is not. It's very different from what we saw just now. So this is a butterfly effect. Well, if you think about why we can predict weather, it's because we have some sensors around the globe. We know that the variation of temperature of each point, we know the variation pressure of the atmosphere. We know the heating effects of the sun. And we think with the laws of physics, we should be able to predict the next day. But the thing is, reality is we can't measure every single point in the 3D space. It's not possible. And with a single mis-measurement, or you didn't measure this part, and that could be this cell. And the weather you predict could be entirely different. That makes long-range prediction of weather very difficult. Remember that 0.01 example. We first a few days, it's fine. But if you project much longer, then the actually very different, looks very different. So the butterfly effect was coined by this scientist called Edwin Lawrence. Lawrence was a pioneer in this field. So he once said, when the present determines the future, the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. With that end, my talk. Thank you.


Hello hello friends! How are we doing? Welcome to our last summer ween vlog. If you don't know I've been doing vlogs for summer ween. I did a vlog for days one and two, a vlog for days three and four and now we're doing a vlog for days five six one seven and I'm excited. So far we've read four books and a short story which like guys I think it's pretty great. Wow so make sure you go check out those vlogs if you haven't seen them yet but this is the closing off of summer ween and I want to end on a really high note. So I've got some books that I'm really excited. Let's chat through my plans okay. I'm trying to be realistic. I feel like I'm you know I want to start doing some other stuff other than just reading. I haven't played cozy groves since you saw me play it in day one. I still haven't finished speaking out. I haven't listened to the vault tracks guys so we have to do that at some point. So I'm trying to be realistic of what I'm gonna get read in these three days. So if you've watched other vlogs you know that I'm reading like a short story a day kind of of her body and other parties. I think I've read the first four and I've got four left to read so I'll try to run them today but I'll probably just chat about this with you on the last day once I've read these last four maybe or maybe I'll chat with you after every two. But I'm really enjoying this so far. I've saved my ratings of the short stories in this we've had so far. I've been a five, a four, a three and a five. It's very like surreal horror with like a little bit ugly. It's very like sensual. It's queer. There's a lot going on. So I'd like to make progress on this and then the two books that I'm aiming to get read are Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. This is gonna fulfill my prompt. The only prompt I haven't fulfilled yet which is read a book set in full. One of my patrons sent me an image. She was also reading this for summer ween and she sent me an image where it says that this does take place in autumn at least part of it. So it's what I'm counting. This is a five star prediction to me okay. It's about two eyes one who's gone on this deep sea mission and she comes back completely changed and it's about their relationship. I read the first chapter of this as a contender for my first book of the year and it narrowly missed out legends and lattes which is like you know stiff competition. It's hard to match up. So yeah this is a five star prediction for me. I think I'm gonna love this and then I also want to get around to Horror Store by Grady Hendrix. I just picked this up the other week and I just feel like I want to read it straight away you know. I love Grady Hendrix. He is definitely an author that I want to read all of his backlist. I feel like in terms of horror I'm a bit of a wimp right. I'm watching everyone's summer ween videos and some of the books people are reading. I'm like that's past my limit. It's past my limit. I'm not a big horror girlie. I like horror. I like dabbling but I don't... I don't love super graphic stuff. So Grady Hendrix is more camp. I feel like he is my perfect horror author even though I've already given him one... I've already read one book for a moment. It's been a four star. I feel like we do have five stars you know potential with him. So those are the books we're gonna be reading in this vlog. Who knows if we'll read more. I may read these really fast. We do have three days left but I'm trying to be realistic. It's not realistic. It's just not realistic. Now I was gonna start Our Wives Undersea just so we could tick all the prompts off but I'm gonna be honest guys. I'm having a bit of a meh day. It's already like four o'clock. I've been working again this evening. It should have only taken me to like maybe one o'clock to do all my work but it's taken me until almost four. It's like half past... it's more like half past three. I'm being harsh on myself. But I'm just having a day where I'm just kind of like I feel very sluggish and I feel very like... I don't know. The vibes aren't great but we're gonna turn it around. Change your costume. Change it around. We're gonna turn it around. So I was gonna start with that but I feel like I need an audiobook and I don't have the audiobook for this but I do have it for Horror Store and I have it for her Bonnie and other parties actually on the script. I feel like... I was wondering about this guys. Yes it does limit you right? A script if you don't know. I always have a link where you can get two months free if you want. In my description I get a month free. Thank you to everyone who's ever used that because I now have a script for free until like 2060 or something. So if you know anyone else who has a link like a friend or whatever I always tell my patrons like ask if anyone else in the patron in the discord has a link because use theirs instead of mine. But I feel like script selection has been really freaking good lately. Like I've been looking up some of the books on their like hair's yellow face. It has... I don't know I can't remember the other ones but there was so many good books that have been added lately. Anyways so I do have the audiobook for these. I think I'm gonna read Horror Story. This wasn't the plan but I'm really excited. It's set in an Ikea, the camp. Grady Hendrix. The camp I'm so excited. I think we're gonna start this. I think this is what we need. I'm gonna go ahead and read it and I'll chat with you maybe when I'm about halfway through. It's not very long. It's like 230, 240 pages. I'm just hoping for fun, for ridiculousness like I think I'm gonna love this. So this is what we're gonna go for and maybe we'll try and read this all today. I don't know. I do have reading sprints late as my Patreon. So anyways let's get into it. Let's have a great last days of the readathon. I'm very excited for the books that I've got in front of me. Let's go start this. The audiobook is definitely helping me stay focused and like have good vibes because I just you know you need an audiobook to stay focused. I mean I wouldn't recommend getting just the audiobook for this. I think it is free if you have Audible or at least in the UK. I think it's like one of those ones that's included in the catalogue and that's how I have it. But um yeah because so much of this is visual I would really recommend getting it physically. So all you need to know about this is that it's set in like an Ikea rip-off and strange things have been happening there. Things have been getting vandalized. The boss says to some of the some of the workers there like I need you to stay here tonight. I'll pay you double overtime. Stay here and we'll try and figure out who's doing this. And it's basically like a it seems to be like a haunted house story but in an Ikea essentially. And I'm enjoying it. I'd say at the moment it's like a 3.5 but I'd round it up to a 4 kind of situation because here's the thing. I'm enjoying this. I don't have any problems with it but I'm not like enamoured with it. I'm not reading it and I'm like oh my god you know. I think it's good. I think it's fun. I love a book but that's something different.   You guys are so weird.  I know. Everything is weird. I wish I'd actually been a bit more of that other than just at the start of every chapter there being like a piece of furniture. I think the writing is good. I just think I'm not gonna love this as much as maybe find a girl support group and as much as I would you know. The ones that I really think I would love from Greyly Hendrix are probably Southern Book Cubs Guide, Besser and Zexasism, House on a Haunted House. They're ones that I probably had higher like rating anticipation of. I would just excited to read this because I think it's a fun twist on the genre and I love something that's a bit different. That's more why I was excited to read this. I think the characters are fine. I think it's probably fairly forgettable in terms of the plot itself but I'm enjoying the campiness and the kind of referential aspect to it and like the idea is like a really cool bit where they were getting lost in the showroom and like Ikea's, I mean we'll call it Ikea is, they reference Ikea in this and say this story's a knockoff of it but like Ikea's the pathway is, it's a maze. It's meant to make you get stuck in there and spend your money so I don't know. I really enjoyed the kind of references in it but it's not incredible. It's fun. It's fun. Anyways I'm on Reading Spirits of my Patrons now. I would like to get close to finishing this tonight because I don't think it's going to take me long to finish it. If not we'll finish it first thing in the morning but I'm really enjoying this. Granny Hendrix likes to do something different and I appreciate that. Appreciate that. That's weird. Okay bye. Good morning! Hello, how are we doing? Physically on my chest. I have really sensitive skin just on my chest and I don't have to like scratch it and it goes red and I don't know why and then it like takes like 10 years to come down so anyways. I finished Horror Store this morning and I enjoyed it. I'm gonna give it a 3.5, round it up to a 4 on Goodreads. I'd say the halfway mark to the 3.5 mark was like a five star section. It was intense horror. It was so good. The way the story kind of shifted all of a sudden and it got really dark and it got really dramatic and it got really over the top and I loved it. I really liked the end ending but then that kind of like 3.5 to end mark wasn't as strong for me but I think this is fun, right? I don't think it's particularly memorable. I just love the uniqueness of it. I love the kind of like catalogue idea of it and there's some extra elements in it that just make it so much fun. It's camp! It's camp! I don't know what to tell you! I don't think it's the best plotted story. Like I feel like, I don't know if I was saying this to you or to my patrons on the live last night but I don't think I'm gonna remember the plot of this or the characters. I'm gonna remember just the unique aspect of it which is basically what you know going into it that it's set in an IKEA-esque store and it's kind of like a catalogue. That's what I'm gonna remember of it and kind of the way that it twisted the idea that we have of a place like this and twisted the idea of a haunted house. I enjoyed that aspect of it but the plot itself wasn't incredible. I don't think it's probably Grady Hendrick's best but I'm glad that I've read it and I'm glad that I read it so quick after buying it. You know, this really is about the horror of working in retail. I never worked in retail. I worked in a lot of restaurants, well two different restaurants when I was younger so that's like more hospitality I guess so I haven't worked in retail but some of the people you meet in hospitality did go on and this was like giving me wall flashbacks to my first job. My first job was horrible. My second one was lovely. I worked like a little cafe bistro kind of thing for the second one but the first one was it one of my favorite restaurants to this day. It's still putting the place I go to on my birthday dinner but the experience of working there and my boss it was just it was too much for the little old Megan. It's like a steakhouse and you always had to carry three things.   He's like I said I've really struggled because I have quite weak wrists and he goes that's not what I heard about Essex girls so I didn't have a good experience working there and it's just giving me like wall flashbacks to working there as a 16 year old. I don't know but yeah I would I would recommend this. I think it's a fun time. I enjoyed the audiobook. I enjoyed reading it physically as well. It was fun. It was perfect read-a-thon. I feel like I've been pretty good with the books I've picked for this read-a-thon like they've all been you know books that are fairly easy to get through fairly easy to read so we are now going to start Our Wives Under the Sea by Judy Armfield. I'm very excited. This is like a five-star prediction for me. I'm going to go make some dinner. No not dinner lunch but I did tell a bit of a lie there. I'm going to make a cob salad okay a cob salad is kind of like an American thing isn't it but I had one on holiday when I was in Portugal and I loved it. It was so good so I'm going to go make one. The thing I'm nervous about is getting the ratios right. So I'm really excited though. So anyway so let's go make a cob salad. Okay I've got bacon on. I've got eggs cooking. The thing that I'm worried about is the ratios because I'm not sure I have quite enough chicken. I only have like one. Is that enough for two lunches? I'm trying to make two here. I don't have avocado but I think I'm going to add some red onion in because I do love red onion. So that's the plan. Oh yeah this goes. I haven't done to make a lot of salads guys. I have like one halloumi salad that's my go-to. I don't know why I'm nervous. Okay I'm also watching the reunion from season one of Rehousewives of Beverly Hills. I've watched the whole season after watching the most recent season and I'm obsessed. Tom was watching it with me last night and he was like asking all the questions. When I first put it on I could see he was like playing a game on his switch and I could see his head kind of like looking over. Like he was trying to pretend he wasn't watching it but then he just started asking all these questions about who are these people. Anyways I'm going to go watch the reunion and make my salad.  I'm worried I've made it too big but I'm going to add some seasoning. I'm not going to add the dressing until the end when I've portioned them separately because I don't want it tomorrow to get soggy but it's add some salt and pepper and then mix it. Add some dressing now that I got. I'm not going to add a lot because I'm not a big fan of dressing. I'll probably just add like a tablespoon I think. I just had a bite. It's really good. I slapped. Okay hi I'm trying to get you to stand up on the bed. Okay how are we doing? I am 75 pages into our wives under the sea and the wrong problem we're having is just that I don't usually read every day. As we've seen I had already had one day in this read-a-thon where I didn't basically read anything. I mean I've read 75. Actually no I've read like a hundred pages today which isn't bad but I'm kind of like pushing through and I don't want to do with that with this because this was a five star prediction. Like I said many times I read it on that first chapter video I did at the start of the year where I was trying to choose my first book of the year and I loved the first chapter of this and it gave me such a feeling and an emotion and a vibe and I only didn't read it because it was against their juzanates and that's like an impossible feat to come up against. But I'm just not getting the same vibes from this today because I don't think I want to read but then I'm like I have to finish this before the readers want to answer then I'm trying to like force myself through and then I'm getting stressed out about like is this right moment should I really be reading this now am I doing the book of the service am I doing media to service and I'm getting like stressed out so like what do I do I think I'm just gonna have a bath and then read more tomorrow but basically I've told you everything you need to know the wife went on a deep sea mission and the submarine was lost but is now back home and she's like not speaking there's some weird stuff going on with her body she's bleeding a lot from like her gums and nose and stuff and we're switching between perspectives of her recounting her childhood but predominantly also when the submarine kind of went underwater and then her wife is telling us the present day story and it's kind of the main voice of the story I am enjoying it but I'm just getting stressed out about not enjoying it as much as I could you know I think the writing's great it's got this very claustrophobic tight atmosphere to it it's a horror because there's some weird shit going on and it's unsettling but it's also about their love for each other and I think that's kind of beautiful so anyways I'm gonna have a bath I might check in with you again tonight if I read loads more but probably I'll see you in the morning with some more thoughts and hopefully I'll be more into it then because I'm getting a bit panicked okay it's the last day of summer wean we've got to hurry up because we have got two books to finish I didn't read any more of our wives under the sea last night and we've got to finish her body of the parties I'm not even gonna film any b-roll today because that like takes up an extra element in my brain we just need to read and read and read and read and read because it's already like I checked if I ever watch it's already like half three so we've got to get to reading I'm gonna try and finish our wives under the sea first and hopefully love it more than I was yesterday so that's the end of the game so I will see you once I've read a bit more of that please hope and pray for me send good vibes because I'm gosh we've got to get this I don't know how I'm feeling about this okay and that's not me saying I don't know what it's trying to do I now get what we're trying to do I now get the vibe like I get what we're trying to go for here but I just don't know how I feel about it and I don't buy that I mean I don't know if I'm gonna give it a five star or two like it could be anything still I really haven't made my mind up on what I think about it I'm also finding it incredibly hard to talk to you about because I think it's a pretty short book and I'm doing three check-ins I'm a hundred and three hundred and fifty pages in so this will just be a short check-in so I don't know what the fuck I think I suspect it's eerie it's slow it's intimate it's romantic it's beautiful but it's ugly it's many things I just I don't I I have no opinion I have no opinion I feel like I have too many conflicting opinions in my head that they're all just drowning each other out and I have nothing for you so I really I was gonna say I really like the writing but then I was like is that the truth I don't know I could I do I hate it do I like it do I love it I love I don't know what love is I think I just need to go finish it because I don't know where me and this book are at right now things could change it could get a two it could get a five I generally feel like that is still all the possibility so I'm gonna go finish it I don't think it's gonna get a five though but it could I'm not ruling anything out I do I am feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt that I have not read this this wasn't the perfect time to read this book and I've scuppered it and I've ruined it but that in itself is ruining the reading experience I said this to you before and it's just you need to calm down anyways let's go finish it and then I will have an opinion wherever this is hopefully so last night I finished both her body and the parties and our wives under the sea we'll talk about this first because I finished this first I just came over and feeling not very well last night and I just didn't want to film I was like no one could see me this book is so difficult to talk about I'm ending up giving this a four I did really enjoy it I feel like it's such it's such a strange reading experience to me it was kind of like straining against letting me in do you know what I mean I was like let me in let me in and the book was like no then I feel like I kind of like I don't know pierce the fold it's getting weird in the last third and really got into it and got into the beauty of it and got into the atmosphere of it everything just came together I do think this is a book that not everyone is going to love but I do think it's something that's very unique and something that's very special and so I am hesitant to recommend this because I think some people will go into us thinking they're gonna love it and then not love it but I enjoyed it I didn't love it as much as I thought I would and we had a bit of push and pull throughout the whole book you know me wanting to fully connect and get past a little bit of a barrier that I felt the book could put up and then kind of finally in that last third I feel like I kind of got into it but it's strange it's weird you're not gonna get easy answers on this book but I think it was beautiful and I really really enjoyed it now this one let me get my phone actually because when I last checked in with you in the last vlog I'd read the first four short stories then last night I read the second four and it's really difficult to talk about because I gave the first two of those last four both five stars basically one was maybe a 4.5 and then the last two were both threes verging on 2.5 for me so this book and me have been all over the place let me add up all of the ratings so it's five four three five four point five five three okay let me try and add all these up and see what the average rating is divide that by eight okay exactly four exactly four is what my average rating of all the short stories is so I'm going to give this a four star there were quite a few short stories in this that I loved but then a few that I found boring and didn't work for me what I said at the start of reading this in the first some wing vlog still stands I think Carmen Maria Machado is one of the greatest writers in terms of like craft and I feel like I fully I'm not fully there like I can't fully get it because like her brain is like above mine I think that the way that this blends ideas is really interesting and amazing and actually one of the short stories really reminded me of our wives under the sea and then one of them really reminded me of the writing retreat another one was like this art retreat but yeah I'm really excited to read in the dream house I know that's going to be a difficult read but I'm still excited to read it after reading this and again this is one I'd be tentative to recommend because I think it's like a lot and like you have to pay attention reading it it's not an easy read I feel like I've also read a lot of depressing reads in summary guys these two in particular are just kind of like both sad in a lot of ways and I just feel like I need to read something happy next or something fun is one thing like so let's have a look at all the books I read in summer wean let me rank them actually in terms of enjoyment give me a moment so the good thing about summer wean is that I didn't have anything below a 3.5 so that's pretty good so these are both 3.5s here at the bottom then we are 4 4 4 4 5 but that is what I would say my ranking is of all the books that I read I just put our wives under seat at the bottom of the falls because I did have that kind of resistance with it fangs doesn't have I don't think has as much substance as these falls you know what I mean it's just like a graphic novel but it was fun and cute you know I mean and then the writing retreat the first book I read of summer wean is still the standout for me nothing it's gotta get a sip of water nothing topped it for me I get that it's not gonna be everyone's thing but I just loved it I thought it was so good I thought it was so much fun oh it's crazy but I loved it and that lot of people have said to me that the last word by Ted Adams is crazy on a similar level so I'm gonna wait a little while to read that I am I don't I can't have too much crazy at once so there we have everyone that is the end of summer wean I hope those of you who participate in summer wean had a great time I had a great time I feel like reading eight things because I read the Ed Gallin Poe short story as well eight things in seven days is pretty great pretty great so I'm really happy I feel like I'm gonna take like three days off of reading now and start getting on Monday with reading because my brain is kind of like but yeah if you want to do a video comment a pumpkin or a ghost emoji we did with those for the previous two vlogs so comment a pumpkin or a ghost emoji if you got to the end thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video bye