to be at best Like sort of a combo synergistic piece with some other plan Right like they can do some interesting pinning here and there they can do some interesting mortal wounds Like so they there's there is play there, but it's not not with nine of these bad boys. Like that's that's just I can't see it um Okay, cool margonk. I would love for you to kick my butt at gateway open with your anilana grande Version whatever you're on please. Let's let's do it. I I have no idea how the hell he did so well I I really don't rate annihilators with grand hammers.  Yeah, exactly Dylan like how how lucky do you feel about rolling sevens apparently margonk Never fell sevens But yeah, anyway, to be fair the chance is relatively low. It's not too bad. It's like 83 I think something like that with the re-roll the charge. Yeah, that's not bad. Yeah, yeah Yeah, that's pretty good 83 no issue. Just don't fail any of them Five game tournament. Yeah, there we go. That's what I'm trying to say okay Let's talk outlaw GTs now we move over to the outlaw GT here. We have our hammers of sigmar scion skin over shadow and blood thirsty We've got the lord relector with high priest and trans locate lord castellant knight and cantor this time with whore frost We have a two A reinforces what I'm trying to say fulminator unit Uh, vanquishers vanquishers two storm drake guard two storm drake guard and then the chariot Uh, then supporting all this we also have the aether void pendulum floating around Uh, and well, we've got call for aid as our holy command all wrapped up in a battle wretch and an acolytes for four drops Okay, cool Um, can I make a general statement here? Yes, I know tyler. You're supporting this acolytes thing in storm cast I'm against it Okay, acolytes is the one that's good against wizards or the one that gives you primal dice the one that gives you primal dice sometimes Yeah, yeah, sometimes if you're if your people are alive. Yes. Yeah Pick your mind brother. Tell me tell me, uh, so I've I've run two games now with with acolytes Okay. Yeah Now I was doing that in scaven. All right where I'm a million million drops Okay, and and who cares I've got chaff for days. You can make me go first or second It's irrelevant. Most of my army teleports every round, right? Like I don't I don't I have like 10 things in ambush Like I whatever ma'am. It's irrelevant. Like cool. You know, I'm I'm 52 drops. Let's go for this. You know, let's do it um and for them Given the other interesting angle shooting that they can do around the current season and bonuses to magic and stuff like that I've actually found Taking acolytes quite worth it to tip the scales occasionally in my favor Like I went all in I actually took the uh a grace here who had the the command trade as well the one that makes you like That gives you more primal magic dice. I was like, let's let's do this. Let's go all in, right? Oh, sure. Yeah push all the chips into magic, right? And I mean in a game I managed to get merciless blizzard off twice So like I'll I'll that seems pretty good, right? Like that's that's a difficult thing to cast obviously on 12 and I managed to pull it off twice between the various and sundry tricks I could pull off of standing near Uh, uh No, no, remember what you what you got up to each time remember what you got up to cast valley total Just pretty high like yeah Approaching 20. Yeah, basically 20. Yeah. Yeah And you know to the point where like If they the two times it cast their initial two dice were garbo when they tried to unbind Right and so it was just like they they could blow all their dice and not catch me Is basically unless they rolled like yacht seed fives or sixes or whatever. You know what I mean? So it's like not worth it. They just didn't even bother. They just ate the blizzard, right? um I don't buy it in stormcast like you just I don't you there's no other I don't I think the use of primal magic dice is to unbind and i'm not trading drops like that For the chance at one more die Like oftentimes this battalion doesn't even deliver an actual die It's really easy to go a couple of turns and get zero dice out of this battalion Sure, okay and like I would much rather control the The the drops and control the the thing in stormcast. I just think anti magic is your strength You're going to get the primal dice anyways lean into the you can't or lean into the pmd I just I hate acolytes in here and I think I to go to my earlier point. It's just throwing good money after bad You have at best average ish casters. What are you doing trying to make them good casters? Yeah, so I think you have some fair points there. Yeah, the I would be curious If folks add in the comments where people are at with stormcast We haven't talked about drop count with stormcast yet. I've generally been dealing curse your thoughts I've generally been on the assumption that we are looking at more than one some number more than one and to what degree Is it meaningful when you get over one to be lower? And so like when I think about that like one of the baselines in my mind is Calf rate and thunderball volley. I went both traditionally with the stormcast list And but maybe that's a wrong assumption. Dylan. Do you have any thoughts on drop count and where you are? Yeah, so I think uh I think chasing the dragon of drops is uh, very difficult for stormcast I think getting to one drop is like not impossible with the way that our units are right now Less so because of the three heroes, but more so because of the five units I feel like we don't want to put our chips into those baskets We want more units and so like really the best that I've found with most of my list is two one drops Which if you want to go for two one drops, I think that's fine. I think that's like the default button You can press and yeah, it is meaningful, but I think you'll probably still be like Rolling at the very least for a priority like probably at least half the time I would say That's just kind of like off the cuff number. I don't know like how truthful that actually is But I think there's a lot of benefit to being higher drops, especially with the anti magic and magic tools that we have because you can See where they place their wizards because a lot of people are low drops because the battalions are not great this season So you can see where they place their wizards to counter place your encounter place your other stuff out of unbind range Um, and I think like I played a tournament where I was like 11 drops or something really crazy like that And I was very happy every single game when they put down their two one drops one or two one drops And I just got to completely counter deploy them. Sure. And I think that's absolutely meaningful For some we've got a number of battle plans where we can get value out of yeah counter deploy So and I don't think we really care if we go first or second most of the time Especially I was running the evocator cat list and that list really doesn't care I go first cat slam into you you go first you slam into screens and then I counter charge like And so it's kind of whatever That's just a quick defense of my running the acolytes and talking about it. So Uh, the what why I'm doing it personally I mean part of it it it's the usual asterisk right that I'm not building lists fully optimal right as as usual Like I'm making I'm making sacrifices. Okay. So I'm making a sacrifice and you've got to explore some stuff, right? Yeah, yeah So because so part of the sacrifice is uh, basically I need to have It makes sense for me to have five heroes with the lists that are running Okay, so I want to do that. I want to have two encantours. I'm just leaning into the unbinding That's all that I'm doing. I could get I could care less if I cast a single spell I got that entire game. Yeah, so I'm finding it meaningful keyword of late with that in mind as the as the value And then also because I'm already going warlord Then I don't really care about drops because with my lids. I have to go warlord essentially I'm I'm running I need the I want to have call parade thunder ball volley And then I've got luckstone for my one my one artifact. So Yeah I want to sneak in real quick with a little segue on domitan storm coven I think this unit is really neat. Uh, they're the new underworlds warband. They cost 275 points They're a two cast and they are not a hero But they get a spell like a wizard normally does and their spell for Giving something fight first until your next turn doesn't have a range on it And so you can get to some really interesting Scenarios and games where you just literally like chuck them in a corner somewhere And as long as they have visibility of the unit they want and they're both in the same quarter So like it kind of has a range kind of doesn't As long as they're in the same quarter you can get outside of the unbinds Especially later in the game and use the primal dice to make sure it goes off because it does cast on an 8 I don't know if this is actually good But it's absolutely something I want to try because I don't think people have realized that there's Functionally not a range on it. And so you can be outside of unbind range a lot That's neat. That's neat. All right returning to this list real quick I mean, I think the I've never liked reinforced fulminators ever ever ever even when they were like At the height of their power. I still hated reinforced fulminators I just always thought it was way way way too much investment in a single thing I don't hate all the storm drake in this That's probably fine. Honestly, like I think dragons are perfectly fine in the current season For the reasons you mentioned above battle tactics Things we talked about in previous shows magic resistance so on and so forth So it's cool. And hey, at least we got the double banquishers, which I do support that Yeah, cut the endless spell upgrade them. Sure.  I think banquishers are such a terrible unit Really why? They're okay. So they're they're a four up save. So they're the same as a sequitur for a save They don't have the option for the ward and the sequiturs do more damage than them Even when banquishers are fully juiced like getting their max attacks And so it's like I just think they don't serve any purpose besides being the cheapest battle line And when you're already taking like ather void pendulum, which I don't think is a great endless spell just upgrade the battle line What are secreters right now? I would make a difference. You ready? I would have said Like like if I'm looking at this you look at that pendulum. I look at that chariot. That's 200 points right there There's 10 left over in the list Like it's 1990 2000 210 that's two tempesters right there. That's that's yeah, I mean that's probably better So like if we're like if I'm gonna take the cheap banquishers to get the cheap battle line Cool, like that's that's a defensible play to me if you're just trying to get to the cheap battle line Then you pack in the value everywhere else, right? Yeah, but don't like use the points to like take an endless spell or something just upgrade the battle line. I think right that's fair Okay, uh I really don't write them right now for them. I mean I I could rate one unit I would say they just seem like a unit that is overcosted to me at the moment Uh with their their output so many comments that they like fulminators more than storm trick I I would generally agree at the current price value of 230 240 compared to yeah, 340 Dylan where are you at with storm trick garden? So storm trick garden are absolutely an answer piece to me I think they Do really well into certain armies and so like if you feel like you have a bad like lumenath matchup I think they're pretty good into and zinch. I think is where they're actually really good I think if you have a bad like lumenath and zinch matchup which storm cast often does Uh, you slam in a unit storm trick garden kind of band-aids that match up a little bit Um, which I don't think fulminators do that Um, I think like going for the two units and just kind of being like these are a generally good unit I think is a bit of a trap, but I don't think they're like bad Okay, interesting. Yeah Midwest meltdown, let's take a swing over here into the Midwest Uh And so this is the four and one list right ninth place at Midwest. This is palmer from the Detroit Warhammer Club Detroit reppin as always So great result. I think this was the best result of the weekend out of storm cast, right? Yeah, it was yeah It was the only four one and then there was one three two and speaking of the Detroit Warhammer Club I don't know if he's watching but shout out to brilliant. He he was at midwest meltdown coming back with the night hot He did really well back in the mix Glad to have him back So the so here we've got some hammers and sigmar in stormkeep Uh grand strategy over shadow the encantoor with wharf frost the castellan with the tome Night relic door with high priest and translocation our old friend the Uh the current everybody's favorite borrowed wizard Uh the battle mage with uh with wild form, of course Then we've got five libbies five libbies again that big reinforced unit of fulminators 15 vindictors Uh three raptors of crossbows three raptors of crossbows warlord vanguard 10 drops double holy command I assume tyler like you you like a lot more about this list than than some previous lists Yeah, 100 i think this is getting More along the lines of some of what we've been discussing this has a lot better balance in my mind And again, i'm just going on a limb. I don't think he had the call for aid in thermoboli But just assuming maybe he did but it seems like an obvious that's that's what you would do. Yeah So, uh, yeah, I love the big unit of 15 vindictors You know, they can be buffed up by the battle mage. Obviously the fulminators can't as well He's got the castellan to them with I mean just fantastic hero choices here. I don't mind I mean, yeah, dylan, uh, obviously we live in a very privileged world To a re-roll through re-rolling too bad with uh translocation like this where like it's pretty clear that like He's getting value out of yeah, uh, his points. I think it's okay. I don't love it still I don't think I would do it personally, but I I understand why right Because he's not going spellcasting savant. Yeah, he's got another good option with overshadow We'll be interested to hear your thoughts on the grand strategy dylan that you've chosen Which I kind of get but it's a peculiar it's it's a little left field But overshadow that's the one. Yeah, where you have to what have all Enemy battle line destroyed I believe for overshadow and have one of your battle lines still alive one of your battle lines still alive, right? Yeah, so there's a stormcast version of this which is basically that but it's got to be redeemer So yeah, you probably just go over shadow to make it generic And uh, yeah, I I just think it's also this Events had a warband that you got for free so zandaiers truth seekers Getting that for free. That's quite nice to 230. It's a very good warband Yeah, something that certainly is adding a lot of value to this list on top But uh, I I think it's a great list. Yeah more reflective of some of the principles we've been discussing Yeah, so I I like this list quite a lot It does the thing that you see fairly often in some stormcast lists when you see a battle mage And that you just super juice one of the units in this case. It's the four fulminators. I'm sure And you just translocate them give them plus two to charge and they just slam into stuff and start tearing face Um, and so that's why I actually like the reinforced fulminators here More so than I think in probably any list I've ever seen And I think that they absolutely can be a problem, you know I think the draca lines do something very very similar to this where you just put both of the castellans plus bonuses to save onto them You whore frost them and you just throw them forward and your opponent has to deal with this problem While you get to move up the board with this block of vindictors Uh, the liberators that can go tag objectives. You're on storm keep so you count as a ton on objectives with your liberators and oh Yeah, we haven't mentioned that. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, this is a nice one with storm keep. I like this list I think it's a little inconsistent, um Just because knight relicter and relying on the battle mage Um, you know, that's yeah It's the way it as you said it gives you some protection if people want to give you first Which they're gonna want to because your 10 drops here, right? Well, okay. I've got a real potential play here I'm going to be out of unbind range with my battle mage except against seraphon Uh one inconsistency though or oddity is he's got the long strikes with storm keep So yeah, there is a risk of playing somebody right with real range damage Magic or shooting output that potentially because you you're not going to be keeping off the board I mean they could be backboarder But some matchups are going to be able to a we damage them off or range damage them off in general And by by long strikes or at least depleting them. So that's that's one of the potential Yeah, kill these hills of this kind of list with storm keep Yeah, I think you're basically relying on the distraction, right? Because I think the thought I think the thought there is If you end up honestly, I don't know that I hate that part of the play Because to me it's like well if you focused any attention on these guys That means you weren't dealing with the the juiced fulminators in your face And you weren't dealing with all the things that are actually in the midboard winning me the game Right right now, right?  Don't get me wrong, but like they're not going to win the game on their own Yeah Yeah, I think like I think it can play with target priority in an interesting way It's god Yeah, I think a lot of storm cast a good storm cast list will have four legitimate threats And then not three but but four actually and this is what this has two two ranged and then two Again, I'm using threats kind of in a general sense, right? Like just Yeah pieces problems. Yeah Sure. Thanks to you. Yeah. Yeah, my only thing I'm not I I've never liked a bet at all on the yolo win strategy. I don't care how well constructed this particular Rube Goldberg machine is right like yes You can bet like with the backboarded battle major the castellant and we've set them up for This and they're they're whore frosted and they're mystic shield and they're they're holy lantern And then we jump them forward and now it's still roll a seven twice. We talked about that before right? Is that still the number it's still roll a seven twice, right?  They're still there. They're still a problem Um, and so like they're there for the counter charge Um, and that's the very similar thing that happens with my evocator list Uh, you you love it when the rube goldberg machine goes off But you have enough defense and kind of like can co-op the board To not just like lose the game when it fails unlike the annihilator list where I think they just kind of like I feel the seven my annihilators here and now it is just gone. It's because they just kill it on their turn Fair No, I think the worst case is you succeed on the prayer and then fail the charge That's when that's when things are going wrong. Yes. I mean, they're still there I've done that with a list like this before but with retributors instead of fulminators and like They're not killing a thing that turn, but they're still there. They're still there They're still juiced and like you still have to deal with them. Otherwise, they kill you next turn Realistically if you have layered the saves on them, they actually don't care that much about being charged Especially if the horror process has gone off in any kind of meaningful way They will actually do quite a ton of damage even if charged Uh, all right, cool Midwest meltdown number two. This is the three two list from there Uh, here we've got an astral templars list in scions the storm over shadow and blood thirsty The lord aquilore who is the general was shock and awe the lord arcaneum on griff charger The knight zephyros the knight incantor the knight arcaneum Just flying in the face of everything we've said for this whole show And then five vanguard hunters five vanguard hunters five vanguard hunters three vanguard paladors three vanguard paladors Three raptors with long strike crossbows three raptors with long strike crossbows three aether wings Six griff hounds and they and the my worst call ever in the most recent history of the show The malevolent maelstrom in a battle wretch and acolytes and a redemption brotherhood to combine into a four drop I'm going to be honest. This is so far afield from the list. I would ever think about playing No, that's beautiful. This is basically units. I have Never fielded this army. I think there's like the knight incantor That's like knight incantor and raptors everything else is uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, like nothing else on this list has ever made it into a list I have played ever So I have no basis of comparison like This could be the greatest list in the history world. I wouldn't understand how it's how this thing is working So somebody else take this Uh, tell me any thoughts on this one. Yeah, I was actually ironically enough just workshopping with one of my friends Earlier today about a list with paladors. And so I feel like I have some fresh thoughts on this list Was that friend drew wilson? Yeah, it was How did you know how did I know? But yeah, so I think The the gameplay of paladors is don't engage on even playing field ever You want to Uh chip things down throughout the course of the game and then like swoop in and kill them with the paladors And just like take objectives drag your opponent around the map and stuff like that. And I think this list um is kind of the like Standard way you'd think of doing that Um, I still don't love the aquilore, but like at this point you're playing paladors. You're playing the flavor So play the aquilore And I think this list is one absolutely probably beats up on people that don't know what's coming Uh, very few people have played against paladors and vanguard hunters and know what all this stuff is And if you don't know how to play against it, it can absolutely catch you off guard and just Like like I said, just tear you around the map and you have no idea what you're doing Um, but I think if you play against a player that knows what they're doing And more importantly has some kind of fast unit that can catch you or some kind of durable unit that you can't chip down I don't see a way this list wins. I think go trick is the answer to that problem Um, but there are other issues with go trick, of course, sure yeah Well, andra is my favorite news from cast player Because I've been wanting to see somebody run and do well with a vanguard chamber theme list for a long time We hardly ever see it. We saw a little bit in 2.0 But I was just ecstatic to see that he went 3-2 That's you know, 20th is great with this list going 3-2 with this list because you're right I mean it does have real issues Obviously hunters are nice, but I mean they're they're chip damage oriented. They're not going to do a whole lot There's I do think this list can play better in this season than the last season With the nature of some of these battle tactics Surround and destroy, intimidate the invaders that we have more missions where we're a little more spread out We were very sort of concentrated in last year's set of battle plans more so than this year So, you know, I think it's got to look some more things going in its favor But yeah, still it's going to be pretty challenging. If anybody doesn't know the vanguard hunters They basically operate like tree revs started. I don't know if it started the moment phase or anytime in the moment phase You can just pick them up now if they're in combat. They cannot do this Uh, but they can come haul you within six of a board edge So in that regard, you know tree revs are better because they have no limitation like that But uh, I don't think the paladors have any limitation though, right paladors. Yeah, paladors are anytime Uh, I thought tree reverence also was in place of a normal move, but maybe I'm misremembering that Uh tree revs is in place of a normal move. Yeah, so they can't do it out of combat. Exactly. Yeah, but they Paladors can paladors is the same as translocate. I'm very Interesting. Uh hunters. I don't know. I think they are also in place of a normal move But don't quote me on that. Uh, that's correct Yeah, that's correct because I just recently played a couple of hunters to try them out But yeah, it's uh, it's fascinating list Congrats man. Andrew on if you're listening great great show the nine arcanum Maybe he just I think he was just going vents with the acolytes. Yep, probably just needed because he's Uh, I probably just needed to keep cheap hero. Chief second also hear me out Uh, griff hounds have four attacks each Uh, you put whorefrost on them and they actually try to slap like way more than anybody thinks they would Let's show Let's see. What are we gonna all in attack celestial blades get them on twos and threes whorefrost minus three brand Let's go. Yeah. Yeah, and it's like 30 attacks or whatever like Good dog. Love guard. Those are good dogs Yep, no, they bounce out and it's like oh, they're gone. Yeah. All right. Dylan's list. Here we go. All right, Dylan So your list is hammers sions of the storm your grand strat is barren landscape You got the old lord relicter high priests and translocate lord arcanum on celestial dracoline with celestial instincts and celestial blades You got the knighting cantor with whorefrost the lord castellant with the arcane tome We got five seckeys five seckeys five lilies Uh, two tempestors We've got the six by evocators on kitty cater or the kitty caters. I should say a six by kitty cater Three raptors three aether wings lunchbox the soul seeker warlord and vanguard 11 drops For all the reasons you talked about earlier I mean, this is definitely Playing out this is playing to a lot of different outs. I'll say that right away like what's obvious There is both a primary strap, but there's a lot of outs. Okay. Hit us with it. Hit us with why you like this list so much Yeah, so I think uh, the the cats are like Far and away the most important part of this list Uh, your turn one is usually that rube goldberg machine. We talked about uh, you cast whorefrost you cast louchin You move them forward and uh, you just kind of like slam them into stuff Uh, I haven't gotten burned on it yet in my six or seven games. I played with this list Um, but it's it's coming, you know, like it's not gonna work 100 of the time But I think the list has enough outs that you can Do other things with it I think the three units of redeemers the two sequiturs and the liberators are enough to kind of like hold the line And between I almost always put the raptors up in the sky along with the aether wings And so they basically come down with a free screen in front of them They get the plus one to hit so you're saving cp. We've talked a bunch about how cp starved for this army is um I the lord arcanum on celestial dracoline has Um cycle of the storm and so you give your dracoline unit even more survivability Along with the like most likely plus two save from the castellan and then he juices them to do even more damage with their mount attacks Uh, the encounter is an auto one bind. That's just a problem answerer And tempesters are just so good of a unit. I had points for them and I wanted them in Fair enough. Yes. I mean the can tour is obvious.  Answers, right?  All right. Go ahead. If you're if you're making changes What are you cutting or or swap changing with this list? So if you have to I think the uh hero, uh dracoline is the most obvious place to cut That's more on that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I think he is he's a win more kind of piece Um, when your dracolines get in and he's in range They do more and they kill more stuff and you have a more explosive turn Um, and he's like he gets retreat in charge He gets to ferry around on laukin in the mid game And so what'll usually happen is I'll move laukin up with the big block of evocators and then I'll position in a way that He will be riding around on laukin for the rest of the game with retreat in charge He can be extremely slippery and really hard to kill Um, and he's pretty good in combat. Um, like I said, he has the cycle of the storm which is pretty much always value Yeah And he just kind of like does things Uh, but I do think he is a obvious choice to cut if you find yourself wanting to play other pieces Have you thought about what might swap in? Not particularly. I think like More tempesters feels like an obvious answer like cut the aether wings cut the dracoline put in more tempesters Um, maybe play around with a few other things. Um, like you could I don't know there's there's enough points and you're in hammers So tempesters are battle line that you can probably take out a battle line and upgrade it to a tempester Uh, if you like screw around with a few things There's this little unit quest or soul sworn. I don't know if you've heard about it I I do like quest or soul sworn a lot. We've talked about how good they are I don't think this is necessarily the list for them because You want to be in your opponent's face so much Um, you want the cats to go forward so much that the soul sworn May not be getting value from the objective outside of your territory Um, because you're going to be in your opponent's territory so much and Like it is another like mobile piece. This list has a ton of mobility Uh between like lauchin and the translocate and scions drop in That you can just like flip around the board even more than you already are So I think it's absolutely an option. But I think this list is maybe a little too tight for him I like the list though. Yeah, there's there's a lot of nice pieces here I mean, it does have three clear threats not quite the the four all I mean, you could you could say like an aggregate you're those five you've got essentially Up to 15 sequiturs in this list, right with call for aid. Ideally you're using call for I mean, that's that's pretty nice At at seven attacks you're getting with threes and threes minus one two damage potentially a little bit better with buffs So like yeah, I love that you've got a lot of pieces here. You can play the board Well, you can play battle tactics. Well, yeah, very sharp list, which I would expect nothing less from you It's really cool. Take it Uh, and I think we can all celebrate kitty caters. We're a glorious return. Absolutely. Even you I think They're so good with whore frost you get whore frost often They just like they are the best unit in the game for whore frost receiving buffs I think that's actually an important point. I think whore frost buffs Track lines more than any other unit in the game with uh, you've got how many grand state for only up four Yeah, you take the max grand staves, which is four Yeah, oh baron. I meant to ask about baron iscape as your grand strat.  Yep. And then keep them out of the center as well. It's Battle type or a grand strats are rough this season. Um, it's it's doable. Um, I find myself Losing all my battle line fairly regularly when I play this list Because you have to have a starting battle line for overshadow, right? So the call for aid doesn't work I believe that's true. Yeah from your starting army. So call for aid doesn't work with that Um, I don't like I definitely see the argument for switching to overshadow And I think if you want to I think that's totally fine I found baron iscape to be doable though because like you kind of just like You essentially uh, bowl into them turn one and as the cats kind of keep munching through stuff They keep killing stuff. Yeah, you're hoping to put them on the reaction on the back foot reaction So you're you're on the shinai you're sort of controlling the the tempo of the game And so hence you should be able to roll into that. Yep. Yeah, but I'm not super sold on the grand strat Like play play what you want to be honest sure, but this one's worked out for me Okay All right, let's end on uh, tyler. Let's so we've got well then we'll then we'll just do a quick summary and head out Of here is we're late. So tyler hit me buddy Hammers scions spell casting savant is what you went for You've got the knight in cantor general with eater of magic and whore frost You've got another knight in cantor with merciless lizard. We've got vandus We've got the knight draconis with the ability talked about luck stone and celestial instincts And then we've got the castellan. So we're on the big five hero pack You'd mentioned earlier in the show 10 vindictors five vanquishers five vanquishers five vigilars five vigilars three pay tours To keep your general alive and fighting and then three vanguard rafters of long strike crossbows Wrapped up in an acolytes warlord redemption brotherhood total of seven drops the most middling of drops We've managed to get out here Yeah, it's it's it's helped me out a few times. So surprisingly, but yeah, sure Now I think a lot of people would look at this and say Where's the actual damage? Where's the threat? Because because you like you don't have a lot of these lists We've been able to clearly pick out the threat Five vigilars like yeah, they do some shooting. They're not really the threat, right? Like they're not they don't blow stuff up Obviously the raptors with crossbows. Okay fine sure. It's three of them. Like it does work. That's fine And it's got thunderbolt only we get it like that does damage Raptors are good. You know like raptors are good news 11, right? Like sure. There's but like 10 vindictors Okay, not really a threat like it's not it's more of an anvil piece than it is or an attrition anvil I should say like it can do damage in a long grind But plenty of units will will out grind you The Vanquishers are what they are. They're the chief battle line. So like What's your what's your actual strat here for for getting the damage through would be my question? Yeah, so the I mean you definitely key to events on What has been the main challenge with this list is that in too many games? I've been having to pass a dps check and I've not been able to pass it So like our count I have no even scar brand. I was playing against scar brand I mean it's scar brand right like you should be able to handle scar brand with ranged output and like I had no answer to scar brand other than merciless like okay. This this has just gone too far, right? So that's why the long strikes got added into the list I hate playing the long strikes, but there they are because I needed more dps Quest or soul swarm was not really going to help me as much with this list Uh, as I said the things My last game literally last night was the first time in about 10 games with this list that things clicked With I was sufficiently passing the test that needed to pass So I mean it's it's the usual kind of list that I like to play right like it's it's it's designed Hopefully be more than meets the eye designed to be more of the sum is is greater than the the hole is greater than some of the parts It's all about synergistic plays. It's about having a very clear idea about executing battle tactics And you know having a lot of optionality and executing battle tactics It's playing the board really well. So it's got 12 drops So I can put up up to six pieces off the board Which is quite quite lovely Sometimes you can put like bandit's and the tim predictors off the board just put them off the board, right? So that's something they have to think about and consider That is is very meaningful In in a number of situations. So I just yeah, it's take a little while to explain The nitro conus is certainly a huge piece of this list as part of again the common damage that I've been as my Trace of the night Yeah, where the two options of 24 threat range on the board buffed up with castellan and or mystic shield and Or he's off the board with an auto charge of 12 And so that's been Incredibly Meaningful. He's been the MVP of the list But yeah, it's it's been quite quite good at competing against lists that are more obviously stronger than is itself Dylan, do you have any thoughts concerns? Yeah, no, so et cetera Quite like vince said I immediately looked at this list. I'm like, how are you killing anything? um, I think I've I've played Yeah, I've played all these units in different packages kind of like how you were saying and I I've seen the weaknesses of a lot of these packages firsthand and I I I don't know. I don't I don't love it. Uh, I think I'm enjoying this so much. I was gonna say you're enjoying the my my nergalis and ash con vince thought it was terrible Oh, maybe that's an overstatement, but you we were in the hotel room. Like I don't see it I believe that was the quote. I don't see it I think tyler you are a very very good player at making these kind of lists work, right? I don't think you're an average player. Can I grab this list and be like, all right, let's go I think this is a tyler special as close as it gets Yeah, I'll tell you what's a tyler special in here real quick. I just want to jump in those three freighters that don't need to be there Yep, we're just throwing 140 points in the toilet. This is this is you This is you okay my my lack of accepting risk in the world Correct This is you're like, oh, but what if my eye of the gods table rolls bad when you're playing s2d, right? Who cares that it happens like yeah, that's gonna happen once in a while But it's so rare Like that you would spend any resources to hedge against it, right? Like like there's just those guys aren't They're just not worth it. They're not doing anything like I don't know what you're buying for 140 points That's something else, but I'm pretty sure I'd find something I'd find something Vigilars vigilars praetors. That's 440 points. That's 10 protectors, which I feel like I don't you like you've got me you got me thinking about writing an alternate list with 10 protectors I had to go back to the well I am sure I don't know that somebody who presses the button on 10 protectors every time I can Sure, and like that's strong. I don't know that you need to go that far Like the five vigils could still have play in there But like you pulled the two of them out you got 290 points to play with like that's That's something like two tempesters and I don't know they're two tempesters and uh, yeah, no that work two tempesters and like some birdies For your for your crossbows would be an interesting pickup to me Um, like I said that again. I was distracted. What would you say if you pulled five of the vigilars and the three praetors? That's 290 points. You could replace that with two tempesters and aether wings. That's 280, right? Yeah Yeah, right my head And so like I actually look is then the then your raptors have bird friends The tempesters are really great operators threats everything like handle a lot of current problems as we've discussed And like, you know, you you how much are you trying to mark her light at once? Right is really what it comes down to you know what I mean Like the number of turns where you where you need to do that It's yeah, it's often uh, vindictors vigilars vandals in one area and then uh, the other five with the draconis another area, but but sure or or benefiting the the the long strikes But yeah, no, that's that's definitely a fair point. Uh, yes, I have had a number of games where the praetor is all right Cool. So the the knight encounter is going to be safe. All right boys. Let's go off and do something Yeah, and yeah It but it is you're right like it is those games where I'm facing four vex lures or just whatever I'm facing That has the ability to reach out and now we are I do have two auto embines So that's going to make it more difficult to do that with it's mainly probably early on It's about the aoe output and yeah that it's going to be relatively I don't know It's not that likely you're going to be facing aoe that it can just snap the fingers and take out the knighting cancer Uh, that is with the new lookout start You're not having to deal with shooting as much anymore And then you're just having to worry about magic ranged output You know like a spell portal one not to pick out to reach out and touch the knighting cancer Just take it out but with two auto embines you're helping that so you might be right I might be able to get away with it. Uh, but yeah, I'm hesitant obviously take the risk Drop the praiders drop the vanquishers put in tempesters is probably just like the the real like The real answer I have running some tempester sounds amazing. Yeah, and again, I've shot him out a number of times, but shout out to my friend Dan Yeah, who got me on running some of these things. So yeah, and I have said my distaste of vandals with the 10 vindictors I don't think I don't think he adds enough Um, I think you're better off spending those points elsewhere Especially when you're running the knight draconis who is already like this, uh damage at a premium kind of peace All right, you need to keep it up. I'm gonna accept and graduate you game one I was gonna say just soak it in All right, you skip your turn again Let's close it out here gentlemen. All right way to beat me I figured out what happened. I don't know if I ever told you dude, but I figured out what it's finally figured out Anyway, we went up to go through it, but yeah, I did finally figure out what happened All right, so I think I think the summary here is s e the stormcast lists Work well with a sort of integrative approach.  You want to achieve the battle tactics You have to be thinking about this stuff, right? I think all of us agree that it's about this sort of like Combination of different elements acting as best in class in their role with a both a clearly defined strategy Like this is my primary play But also this is my outs like I have options I have these ways that I can operate that are going to be not like I don't have only this one road I can drive down, right? Like sure, I've got a primary highway I want to take to work, but I know the back roads as well just in case there's a traffic accident, right? Like that's the best way I would describe it Um, there are a lot of trap units now What I'll say is that I think with a lot of these lists We've seen in kind of everything we've talked about is that it's not like taking one Unit that's underpowered is going to spell doom for your list or something you can't win in your o and five or some garbage like that That's not how it is like the world is not ones and zeros, right? Like if you've got a pet unit you love and that's the way you want to spend your 200 points go nuts But I think over investment into those trap or over cost that are bad units is where it gets Is where it just gets rough like to me. It's like you got about 200 points to just like sure be You can be wacky Know how you use it if you know it Well, that's going to be worth high like you knowing the unit is worth way more Than it being slightly underpowered Right, like if you've used the unit a lot and it's your pet unit And you know how to get the most out of it and where it has good matchups then fine It'll punch above its weight and you'll be okay Just don't over invest in that stuff so that you end up being basically like in a season where I think stormcaster already on the back foot You don't want to be tip over That puts you on tilt And you know most stormcast lists in the current season are struggling You look at those results from from the first weekend and it's like let me tell you what folks we didn't report them all but It is rough Okay, that's better for us. Yeah, it's it's it is a rough showing for stormcast Uh who had decent representation at most of these tournaments and did not put up the results But that doesn't mean the average can't be broken, right? It it absolutely can't as we saw With uh with the the 4-1 list, right? Like that that was a very much average breaking list. So it can be done All right dylan Thank you so much sir. It was this was great. It was fantastic. I had an amazing time. I am I would love to be in here Wonderful absolutely wonderful appreciate all of your you're extremely deep Stormcast knowledge was was was wonderfully appreciated. So thank you sir. You're welcome back anytime Uh, I I would love to be back when stormcast inevitably Does more things in the meadow. There you go. Well, absolutely. You're gonna be top of the list Tyler, thank you sir. As always all of you out there. 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So, this is going to be a little bit of a different kind of Linux distribution. Today, I want to talk about Paraphesus, because I just discovered this in the last couple of days. I was scouring DistroWatch for something, and I noticed this distribution, Paraphesus, and I'd never heard about it. But it ranks rather high in the DistroWatch rankings. It is actually in their top 100. And it's odd seeing a distribution in their top 100 page hit rankings that I've never heard about. So, what is Paraphesus? Well, it's a small-scale, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. It's an incomplete system, but it's constantly being improved. So, what this is, it's a live USB is essentially what it's going to be. You download an ISO, you burn it to a live USB, and you've got a very stripped-down Linux operating system on a USB. And when I say stripped-down, the entire ISO is 193 megabytes. So, there is no graphical programs on this at all. It is entirely the command line. So, you're not getting X or Wayland. There's not a package manager built into this thing either. All you get is what is actually on this 193 megabyte image, which is essentially the Bashel, the GNU Core Utils, and a few other extra niceties to help you live in this USB stick if you need to. For example, this is going to have the Lynx web browser, which is a terminal-based web browser. I think it's got a terminal-based email client built into it as well, and some other things. If I click on the user manual here, I will say their documentation here, their user manual, is actually really nice. It covers everything from burning the image to a USB, which I shouldn't need to cover, but they tell you how to do it with the DD command, if you want to do it through the command line with DD. But you can use a program like Etcher on Linux or Rufus on Windows to burn the ISO to a USB stick. But most of the user guide is just how to do stuff at the command line. For example, how to set a root password if you need to, because by default, the root user is not going to have a password set. You can do anything as the root user and pair of pieces. But for the most part, it's just your basic command line commands. It covers a lot of basic shell commands, the kind of commands that I spent a lot of time talking about on my YouTube channel. We've covered a lot of the standard GNU Core Utils, and their user manual is essentially how to use a lot of that stuff. So it's kind of neat. It's a really educational kind of Linux distribution, because to get around in this thing, you're really going to have to learn how to use some of the basic shell utilities. So let me switch over to this virtual machine that's just booting off the ISO directly. There's no hard drive, no storage attached. This is essentially the exact same thing as running a live USB. And when you first load up pair of pieces, it boots up automatically into this TTY login. And there's only one user on the system. It is root, and root doesn't have a password set by default. So it automatically logs you in. So some of the first things you'd probably want to do, especially if you were doing this on a USB stick, that you could write stuff to, first of all, let's verify that we're actually using Bash. So it looks like the root user's default shell is slash bin slash sh, which is just a sim link to whatever the default system shell is. But I'm assuming if I did a where is Bash. Of course, slash bin slash Bash does exist on the system. If you wanted to do any kind of customization with the Bash shell, let's see if they include any kind of Bash RC. So is there a Bash configuration file for the root user? Because we're logged in as root, right now we're in the slash root directory because that is the root user's home directory. And you can see there's no dot Bash RC for the root user. We could create one, but I'm not going to do that. And here in my virtual machine, I don't have storage attached. So it wouldn't be saved permanently anyway. I did a uname dash R. What is the kernel we're on? 6.0.2. That's not a terribly old kernel. So that's good. If I do a uname dash A, let's see all of the information. So Linux, of course, is the kernel. Parapheases, it's the name of the distribution. Obviously, GNU slash Linux is the name of the operating system in the kernel 6.0.2. If you wanted to read some documentation, you could use the links browser. So if I do links and then a URL such as parapheases.org, we'll take us to that website. And I just use the arrow keys to go down. And I find a link that I want to read, for example, new chapter, the screen manager. So this is about GNU screen, which is kind of like a terminal multiplexer. I don't know how to use it. But apparently they have it installed. And they have some documentation about that. If I wanted to read about it, I'm going to hit Q on the keyboard to quit. Do you really want to exit links? Yes. And I'm back here at the command line. Let me clear the screen to get that cursor back at the top of the screen. And really just reading some of the documentation, this is really, again, it's kind of an educational kind of project. You can see I'm actually going through their user documentation, for example, editing command line. So it tells you that by default, the Bashio uses Emacs style key bindings to navigate. If you wanted to set it to using VI style key bindings, it gives you the command to switch over to the VI bindings. Although interesting, VI is not installed, which is really weird, because VI is kind of the text editor on Unix-like operating systems. It's almost always there. And it's unusual to find a Unix-like operating system that doesn't have VI installed. And if you're asking about Vim, Vim is definitely not installed. So what is our text editor? Well, reading their manual, Ed, is the text editor. There's actually two. But Ed is one of their text editors. I did a video about the basics of how to edit a file in Ed. It's complicated. It's not something you probably really want to look into. Colon Q, I believe, quits out of it, similar to Vim. Or actually, I guess, just Q. Yeah. So no colon is needed. The only other editor here is Nano. And honestly, I think pair of pieces. I love the whole idea of a very minimal command line-only kind of operating system. But you've got to have better text editors, because you're going to do so much with scripting. You're going to have to create some scripts to make life work in this operating system. And most Linux users are not. Nobody's going to use Ed. Let's just be real. Nobody is going to use Ed as a text editor. And most of the kinds of people that would use this kind of operating system are probably not going to be happy with Nano either. VI at least needs to be installed, if not Vim. Vim would be a better option. But if they're trying to keep the operating system super small, at least give us VI. And if you want to uninstall Nano or Ed, that would be all right, too. But I would say keep Nano, I guess, for the Nano users. But you've got to have VI. And looking at some of their documentation, again, we were on a page a minute ago about screen. It looks like screen dash capital S. And then I could give it some name, would create another screen, another monitor, with a different prompt. And if I do Control-D to detach, I'm back to essentially the screen that I was on before. Either way, if I do that LS again, LSLA here, .melrc, you're probably wondering what that is. So there is a program that they have installed called Snill, I guess. Some kind of mill client. I don't have any idea how to use it. There is documentation. But if you wanted to, I mean, I guess I could take a look at the configuration. Well, for one thing, I would never set this up on camera anyway, because obviously I would have to enter some personal information as far as emails and accounts and things like that. So I'm not going to get that working on this video. But for those of you that need access to email from a essentially a TTY-only operating system, that is possible. And of course, you have the links web browser as well. So really, you could use this thing for a lot of things. There's really not much you couldn't do in this kind of operating system. The only thing you couldn't do is obviously things that have to be graphical. So you couldn't watch a video, right? But you couldn't edit a video.  But beyond that, pretty much everything else that you want to do on a computer can be done at the TTY. Going back to the documentation, that really just covering a lot of the standard GNU core utils, what is apropos, manDB, which is the database of the man pages. Of course, that's one of the most important things. Every Linux user really needs to know about are the man pages. It even covers the basic directory structure on Linux. So what is slash bin? What is slash boot, et cetera? It covers some of the more powerful commands, such as the find command. I've done videos on all of these command line programs, LSBLK, the list block command, and mount, and unmount, and charu, and yeah. So this is really interesting. There's some networking stuff here, if config, and then WPA sublucent, it looks like is installed and available to us as well. So that's a little bit of what you can do with pair pieces. Again, it's not much to it. Because, again, this image, 193 megabytes. And that is kind of cool. Honestly, I wouldn't mind keeping a USB stick around with something like pair of pieces on it. I find it a rather interesting project. And I'm going to keep up with it in the future. Right now, according to their website, again, they mentioned that it is an incomplete system. So I'm assuming that in the coming months, if not the coming years, it's going to see a lot more improvement. And it's going to become more than it currently is. It looks like it has been around. It has had several releases dating back to at least 2022. If I go to more news, I wonder what the oldest release is. Early 2021, February 2021. So this project has been around for a little more than two years. And again, ranks kind of high on Distro Watch. But for whatever reason, it has flown under my radar. I'm just now hearing about it. But yeah, pretty cool stuff. So check that out. Now, before I go, I want to thank a few special people. I want to thank the producers of this episode. And of course, I'm talking about Gabe James Maxim, Mahomi Stubbald, Matt Miment Mitchell, Paul Royal West, Armored Dragon, Bash Potato, Chuck Commander, Ingrid George, Lee Marshdown, Methodist Nate, Erion Paul, Peace, Warshroom, Dora, Polytech, Realities for the Last Red Prophet, Roland Tools, Devlin, Willie, and Zenibit. These guys, they're my highest tier patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, this quick look at pair of pieces would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these lovely, ladies and gentlemen. These are all my supporters over on Patreon. Without these guys, I wouldn't be able to do what I do. If you like my work and want to see more videos about Linux and free and open source software, subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon. All right guys, peace.


here with my colleagues, John Furrier and David Floyer who are actually on the West Coast. And we just heard guys, Steve Mills, talking about the billion dollar investment. Really, IBM is all in on Flash. I think IBM is just getting started in this space even though they got a lot of experience. They've got to bring together their systems and storage expertise and their software expertise. The TMS acquisition was the first move there. David Floyer, we're going to hear from a customer in a moment, but talk to me about what customers, you know, what's their perspective today? We like to talk about vision. We like to talk about things like atomic rights and bringing together unstructured and structured, analytic and transaction processing. What's the everyday IT guy going through regarding the Flash? The everyday IT guy is interested in making their applications that they have on the floor work better, work faster. And the most difficult applications to get to run faster are always the database applications. So the first area that these are being applied to is allowing database applications to run faster, to take away the issues with the storage admin, the DBAs, et cetera, fighting about who's got the problem and how to make it go faster. You're seeing that applied almost universally to existing databases, taking away the operational issues, taking away the headaches of the DBA. That's almost always the first area of call. And I think that's what you're going to see from Sprint. Yeah, let's talk to Karim Abdullah. I was with him on 4.11, actually had dinner with him the night before, and let's hear what Karim Abdullah of Sprint is doing with Flash and get his perspectives. So watch this video.


In this video, I explain the solution of simultaneous linear algebraic equation by Gauss elimination method. Learning outcomes, at the end of this session, the student will be able to solve the simultaneous algebraic equation by Gauss elimination method. Now, first the video and answer this question. And Gauss elimination method, the original equations are transform 2. Number one is Gauss column transformation. Number two, row transformation. Number three, that is C option is both column and row transformation and D option is the subset transformation. I hope you get the answer. That is, answer is for the row transformation. In the Gauss elimination method, we cannot use the column transformation. Because you have to use the column transformation, then the coefficient of the unknowns are changes and which is not equal to the A and B. Therefore, we cannot use the column transformation while you have to solve the system of equation by the Gauss elimination method. Therefore, the required answer is the row transformation. Now, example, solve the system of equation by Gauss elimination method.  The given system of equations can be written in the matrix form is the x is equal to b. Where is the coefficient matrix, which is defined as a equal to matrix. First row contains the coefficient of the unknowns of first equation, that is 1. Where a is the coefficient matrix, a is equal to the first row contains the coefficient of first equation, that is 5, 1, 1, 1. Second row contains the coefficient of the second equation, 1, 7, 1, 1. Third row contains the coefficient of the third equation 1, 1, 6, 1. And fourth row contains the coefficient of the fourth equation 1, 1, 1, 4. And x is the unknown column matrix, that is x, y, z, w. Where b is equal to, that is a retention element of the given system of equation, that is 4, 12, minus 5, minus 6. The augmented matrix means you are appending or adding or inserting a column to a coefficient matrix, which consists of the element of the b. That is a new matrix so obtained, it is called augmented matrix, that is a, b, which is equal to matrix 5, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 7, 1, 1, 12, 1, 1, 6, 1, minus 5, 1, 1, 1, 4, minus 6. Now, we are interchanging the first and the fourth row, that is r 1 interchanges to r 2, that is equal to 1, 1, 1, 4, minus 6, 1, 7, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, minus 5, 5, 1, 1, 1, 4. Now, the aim of, is in the Gauss-Elmetson. The aim of the Gauss-Elmetson method is reducing the coefficient matrix to upper triangular matrix. These are the principle diagonals. Make the below principle diagonals are to be the 0 by using the row transformation only. The row transformation for the same is the r 2 equal to r 2 minus r 1, r 3 equal to r 3 minus r 1, r 4 is equal to r 4 minus 5 times of r 1. That becomes the change in r 2, r 3 and r 4. Write r 1 as it is. That is 1, 1, 1, 4, minus 6, 0, 6, 0, minus 3, 18, 0, 0, 5, minus 3, 1, 0, minus 4, minus 4, minus 9, that is 34. Now, next one, the r 2 is equal to r 2 by 3 because all the elements of the second row are exactly divided by the 3. Therefore, for our convenience, we have to divide by 3. That is r 2 is equal to r 2 by 3. That becomes changes in only r 2. Write the remaining rows as it is. That is 1, 1, 1, 4, minus 6, 0, 2, 0, minus 1, 6, 0, 0, 5, minus 3, 1, 0, minus 4, minus 4, minus 19, 34. Next, you have to make that the second element of the fourth row will become 0 by using the second element of the second row. For that, the transformation is r 4 is equal to r 4 plus 2 times of r 2. That is, apply the transformation only the r 4. Write r 1, r 2, r 3 as it is. That is, augmented matrix A B is equal to 1, 1, 1, 4, minus 6, 0, 2, 0, minus 1, 6, 0, 0, 5, minus 3, 1, 0, 0, minus 4, minus 21, 46. Again, you have to make the third element of the fourth row to become 0 by using the third element of the third row. The transformation for the same is r 4 is equal to 5 times of r 4 plus 4 times of r 3. Then, augmented matrix A B is equal to 1, 1, 1, 4, minus 6, 0, 2, 0, minus 1, 6, 0, 0, 5, minus 3, 1, 0, 0, 0, minus 1, 1, 7, 2, 34. The equivalent system of equations is that is x plus y plus z plus 4 w is equal to minus 6, 2 y minus w is equal to 6. Call it as equation 2. 5 z minus 3 w is equal to 1. Call it as equation 3 and minus 117 w is equal to 234. And solving this one, the w is equal to minus 2. Now, by the back substitution, the substitute in the w is equal to minus 2 in equation 2 and 3. 2 and 3, we will get z is equal to y is equal to 2 and further, we have to substitute in the value of y which is obtained from the equation 2 and z is obtained from equation 3. And then, substitute in the w value in the equation 1. We get the x is equal to x is equal to 1. Thus, x is equal to 1, y is equal to 2, z is equal to minus 1 and w is equal to minus 2 is the required solution of the given equation. Now, come to another example. Solve the system of equations by Gauss-Elmetson method that is 2x plus 2y plus z is equal to 1, 3x plus 2y plus 2z is equal to 8, 5x plus 10y minus 8z is equal to 10. The solution, the given system of equation can be written in the matrix form is ax is equal to bm. Where a is the coefficient matrix which is given by 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 5, 10 minus 8, x is the column unknown matrix that is x, y, z. b is the column matrix which is the constant that is the retention element of the given system of equation that is 12, 8 and 10. The argumentary matrix is that means adding or appending the column matrix which consists of the element of b. A new matrix is obtained and that is called the argumentary matrix which is defined as ab is equal to 2, 2, 1, 12, 3, 2, 2, 8, 5, 10 minus 8, 10. Now, then again same reducing the coefficient matrix to a upper triangle element means these element you have to make it to be 0. Means the second element of sorry first element of the second row and third row are becomes 0, the first one by using the first element of the first row for that the using the row transformation that is the R 2 equal to 2 times of R 2 minus 3 times of R 1 and R 3 equal to 2 R 3 minus 5 R 1 that becomes the 2, 1, 1, 12, 0 minus 2, 1, minus 20, 0, 10, minus 40. Now, further now make the second element of the third row becomes 0 by using the second element of second row is equal by using second element of second row that transformation is the R 3 equal to R 3 plus 5 times of R 2 the argumentary matrix ab is equal to 2, 2, 1, 12, 0, minus 2, 1, minus 20, 0, 0, minus 16, minus 140. From this matrix the equivalent system of equations are 2x plus 2y plus z is equal to 12, quality is equational minus 2y plus z is equal to minus 20, quality is equation 2 that is and third one is minus 16 z is equal to minus 140 that is from this z is equal to 140 divided by 16 that is the z is equal to 35 by 4. Now, the by back substitution the 2y is equal to z plus 20 that is z is equal to 35 by 4 and simplify then the y is equal to 115 divided by 8 and substitute the both value of y substituting the value of y is equal to 115 by 8 and z is equal to 35 by 4 in equation 1 and the simplify that is x is equal to minus 51 by 4. Thus x is equal to minus 51 by 4 y is equal to 115 by 8 and z is equal to 35 by 4 is the required solution of the given system of equation. Reference numerical methods by B. S. Grivall. Thank you.


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Hey everybody, this is JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Octaya of JSA. On behalf of my team here at JSA, welcome to our monthly virtual CEO roundtable. These virtual roundtables lead us up to our on-site CEO roundtables at our C-level networking events in telecom exchange or techs for short. And new for 2019, we are now quarterly. So next one up is Tech's Dallas. That's a pop-up, an afternoon event, March 13th at the Aloft Dallas downtown, where we will be talking bringing 5G to the edge. A great topic there. More info? Go to www.thetelicomexchange.com. So let's go ahead and get started today's topic and traditionally our most viewed roundtable of the year. No pressure panelists. Predictions for 2019 technology and its impact on the ecosystem. We have a fabulous C-level lineup from three absolutely innovative companies joining us today. And here to help us break it all down, I'm proud to introduce my friend, an editor and creator of the industry's top blog, Rob Powell of Telecom Ramblings. Rob, thanks so much for returning every year to be our guest moderator and for kicking off our roundtable series for 2019. I should also add that personally, I love your blogs and I look forward to your own predictions and reports of the industry every December while shipping hot cocoa at the Christmas time. So thank you for joining us as our star guest moderator and please do us the honor of moderating our roundtable. Rob? Thank you, Jamie. And I won't be doing the predictions this time though. We brought some people to do that for us. So let's meet the panelists. Jezebel, tell us about yourself. Good morning. I am Jezebel Gilmour. I am the SVP of Business Development for Packet Fabric, also a co-founder of the company. And Packet Fabric is a fully automated network as a service provider and you say fully automated network that those words don't really go together. But that's what we are. We are three and a half years old. We have 160 on-net locations and where you can order services through our portal or API instantaneously turn up one to multiple hundred gigs of transport service instantaneously. And on top of that, we also do cloud on-ramp connectivity. So we hope you come and see us and talk to us about your knee. Great. Jeff, tell us about yourself and what you're doing. Great. Thanks, Rob. Jeff Lapp, vice president of cloud and managed services here at 365 data centers. 365 data centers is a primarily an edge data center provider. We have 10 markets today and very rapidly growing. All of our data centers are east of the Mississippi currently. But we also have about 28 pops now throughout North America. So North, South, East, West. And as a data center provider, it's very important for us to be able to provide that connected network so that these data centers of course can interoperate. So we provide a full IP transit transport services, high speed redundant links between all of our data centers, as well as a vast array of other carrier services, third party carrier services that we integrate here for our customers to make it seamless as possible for them. Right. And, Michael, tell us about what you're doing. Thanks, Rob. Hi, I'm Michael Quinn. I'm the founding partner of QAdvisors, a Denver and San Francisco based TMT investment banking boutique. We're probably the leading cloud and managed services bank in the world by a number of deals. We've done close to 100 in the last seven or eight years in the cloud and managed services space. Just this morning, our good client, TPX, merged with public company, Pensari. So we're excited to talk about what's coming up in 2019. Right. Now I know how to pronounce Pensari. I wasn't sure. So let's jump right into it. First question. We'll just go right down the line and hear what everybody has to say. What new technologies do you see driving the industry in 2019? Where is demand for internet infrastructure and services, whether perceived or real, going to come from? Jezebel? Well, so given that packet fabric is a fully automated network, we see demands and new technologies driving the internet infrastructure coming from the growing needs in storage, in compute. The growing amount of data needs to be moved around between these storage clusters is a high demand for all of those people, for all of the customers, because what's happening is not only they have replication that's needed between their own data centers, but they're moving information to the cloud. So there's technology that's driving the movement of data from the data center to the cloud and back. So the end user have to be able to access the data that's been put into those locations. So we see that the need for security, all of those easier management of security on the movement of data, the requirement for scalability and better transport service because of the storage demand. And a lot of that information is really all feeding into the new AI and ML, that artificial intelligence and machine learning. The machine learning is doing all these algorithms based on the real time data that's being collected, that's been moved around. So all of that coming together with security is really important. But to us, what we see most is the requirement for the data by passing the transport of data by passing the internet. Jeff, what do you see coming? Yeah, I absolutely agree. I've said this many times over the years and this will continue to be the case. If you want to know where everything's going, follow the data. We have just an absolutely outrageous explosion of data. It's not even exponential and more geometric level explosion of data. Two and a half billion gigabytes of data every single day, new data, not the existing data lands on the open internet every single day across the world. And of course, that's increasing tomorrow, it'll be 2.6, the next day after that 2.7. And this causes some serious problems. We're not just talking about scaling problem in a traditional sense. Everything that Jezebel just mentioned, right, the ability to transport the data, to store the data. And most importantly, which I think is going to be the largest tension in the industry has given to technologies around securing that data. Because as that data continues to grow, the rate that it is, it is going to become monumentally more difficult to protect it. And as networks get larger, the size of these attacks that come at your data are going to increase very significantly. So there's going to be a lot of focus around that. The other side of the coin is going to be the things that we're seeing that later this year with 5G, the availability of that, that's going to bring not only a much larger highway, to bring all that literal on-prem data backhauled to the edge and then of course further backhauled to the public cloud. But now you've got the availability of that many more devices that are out there generating that data, the IoT of the world, right? There's going to be another massive explosion of data now coming from that side of the house. So we've got, we've got some pretty significant challenges, I would say, I don't usually make investment recommendations. I'll leave that to Michael. But I would say that if you're investing or if you're in the business of data management and data storage, you're probably going to be in business for quite a while. Interesting. Michael, you've been called out. Yeah, no, look, I think both Jeff and Jezbel make some good points. Obviously, as a banker, I look at it a little differently. And for me and for our clients and for the investors that invest both on the infrastructure side and the cloud and managed service side is network capacity is growing. And the need for better, faster, more secure network capacity is growing daily. The question is how do you do it in a cost effective manner, right? Because in the old days, and Rob and I grew up in the CELAC world know what people always hated was the lack of free cash flow. And now you have the ability to accelerate network expansion through SD-WAN, fixed wireless, small cell, which increases the pipe. And you're going to need that, as Jeff mentioned with 5G, but how do you do it in a cost effective manner? How do you meet the client's needs, but not cripple yourself financially by spending too much on an infrastructure? And I think the technologies that enable that are going to be the winners. Great. For each of you, in what part of the ecosystem do you expect to see investments focused? Are we looking at things on the edge in the software or the gear? Jezebel? Well, I run a network. So I like to think that the investment is going to be put into the network. But our network is different than almost everyone else's network because we are a truly software driven network, right? So everything you interface with the network as a customer is through our own software. So in essence, if you're investing in the network, you're investing the software itself. From my perspective, 2018 was a year of investment in SD-WAN, right? As Michael said, that there's a lot of development in SD-WAN, but also SD-WAN has certain limitations. It's an over the top product. So it writes over the internet. When we talk about the need for scalability, when you write over the internet, the inherent problems is still there. You do not expand the capacity. You're not writing on larger pipes. You're only making it more optimized. So you gain a little more benefit from it instead of the true scalability of a private network. So what I like to see from the investment community is investment in SDN, a true SDN, and to scale out and grow on top of the SDN layer because in order to change people's behavior, it requires not only a great product, but convenience to use and competitive pricing. The question on why should you change to a new technology shouldn't be because X, Y, and Z, it should be why not? Jeff? Yeah, you know, at the end of the day, the way that I've always viewed the progression of technology is if you look at the entire chain that's required to deal with data, whether you're talking about processors, which typically will generate the data storage that contains the networks that move it, as that continues to evolve, it's being pushed by the data. So as you apply pressure to one particular area of that chain, the next one in line will feel the pressure that will have to adapt and adjust and so on. And that's the level of scaling that we're seeing. In fact, right now, to Jeff's point, we're seeing a shift. I rebalancing of the equation, as I call it, across the global internet from the public cloud to the edge and now, of course, the on-prem and the balance of where that data lives. Because as we continue to scale and we continue to push those resources harder and harder, each of those respective areas you're going to have to adjust to accommodate, right? There's always going to be the weakest link in the chain. So no question on the network side. We're about, I would say about halfway through our overall of our backbone network on our journey to 100 gig and beyond, and we're obviously partnering with companies around the world to help us extend that network, extend that reach. Because of that shift that's occurring, we've got to be able to support that shift. And that is absolutely happening right now, as we speak. And of course, the data center space, obviously, the brick and mortar space that we're in, not only just expanding square footage to be able to contain these technologies, but also, like Jezebel was mentioning, right? We need the efficiency. We need the software to do what it needs to do to help us contain this, so that we don't have to deploy so many resources, or as many resources like become more efficient. Same thing with the increase in the density of these systems, right? The server and storage world, they're bringing much more power, but they're bringing it in a much smaller package. But one thing that we have to deal with as a service provider is that there's no free lunch. So as these technologies become more powerful, they also draw very specifically in the data center more power, more wattage per square foot. And that's a real problem for us, right? I mean, even though we've got the floor space, we have to make sure that our power systems that support all that are also in line with that efficiency in that shift. So that's the stuff that we've got laid out for 2019, as far as the investments that we're making in that we're seeing in the industry. Michael, what part of the ecosystem do you expect to see people focusing on? Well, so I look at it from two angles, I really agree with with what what Jezebel said. So clients, enterprise, medium sized clients care about two things, security, reliability, and customer experience. And so I am very wary of the constant growth in over the top service providers, because you I don't think you get the customer experience. I don't think that you get the security elements that you do within it. And so I'm in full agreement with Jezebel. I think SD-WAN is really just that first step to that application layer. It's more secure. You're just going to see a lot of consolidation in that area. We just did a capital raise for Merriplex in Houston, which is a SD-WAN provider. TPX is probably the largest SD-WAN provider right now. You know, we just did that transaction. And the reason why is the application layer provides feature and functionality that you cannot get from a traditional network. But, you know, the question is what kind of security elements do you need? And you're seeing a lot of SD-WAN companies that, first and foremost, they're leading with the security element of their SD-WAN offering, as opposed to anything else from an application layer. On the infrastructure side, I think what you're going to end up seeing is a lot of what we at Q call tower as a service, where you're going to see a lot more development work like we did with the Tillman infrastructure deal between vendors and tower operators, offering their clients a full package of hardware, software and bandwidth. And that's something those have all been siloed traditionally. And right now they're becoming a service MRR offering to carriers. And that is very, very new. Interesting. On that note, on tower's note, is 2019 the year that we're going to see 5G for real? Or are we still prepping the infrastructure as we have seemed to have been doing for a while? How will the expected 5G rollout activities affect the ecosystem going forward? Jezebel? Well, you know, I can't tell you how many times I hear about 5G and the edge in 2018. And I continue to see those words blasting my screen from every channel. But from what I know of 5G, which may not to be as comprehensive, the technology is still somewhat further out. And in the investment of the deployment of 5G, which is extensive and very expensive. So I also spoke to some of the application and content providers in, you know, they they keep hearing about 5G and they're planning their strategy about, you know, on 5G, but they don't have them all in place yet. So as I understand it, we are absolutely are going to still be in the infrastructure preparation stage for 5G rollout, as you say. And we also have spoken to a few different companies that are you know, going to be very heavily influenced by the deployment of 5G. And they're trying out a slew of different solutions to support 5G. Nobody knows the answer just yet, I guess is what I'm trying to say. And we're all trying to figure out how to make it work better for the consumer at the end. Interesting. Jeff? Yeah, you know, we're not a we're not a mobile network operator. Certainly not something that's off the table in the future, but it is very early. And one of the things that seems to be coupled with the 5G discussion is also the concept of smart edge computing or just edge computing in general. Obviously, that's, you know, kind of again, trying to improve that user experience, but also having the ability against the backhaul to the edge or further that data that is somewhere. But really, it's all around the user experience, right? This is why we're even talking about this or at least considering it.  But it's really around again, the application deliberate increasing user experience. In fact, one, one vendor that we spoke with recently said, give us a very interesting use case might sound a little bit big brother share, but I think you'll get my point. You walk into a retail store, which has of course, these technologies, the smart edge based technology.  And the the ability to do that has to bring the real time process and right to the on-prem, right? But in order to do that, effectively, long term, you have to have those technologies like 5G again, bringing that back to the data center for further analysis and crunching and then and then speeding the on-prem systems with that with that that new analysis. So there's going to be essentially new state applications going into 2019 and certainly beyond. Michael. That's interesting. I think we talk about 5G as this ubiquitous concept, but you really have to look country by country. Okay. And what's going to slow down 5G politics? Take Europe right now. And we're not even talking Brexit. We're talking about Huawei. Okay. So the governments want to ban Huawei from the 5G networks. This week, both Deutsche Telecom and British Telecom said if you do that, 5G rollout will be delayed 24 to 36 months. Okay. Now, the governments have a choice to make, right? Is the privacy and national security more important or is getting faster data speeds in Canada and in the US, the ZTE and Huawei have already been kicked out of most of the networks. So that's going to be an issue. So what I look at is we're going to be at four and a half G for a long time. And the results is going to be a faster deployment of small cell, a fixed wireless, allowing more of the backhaul that Jeff and Jezbel was just talking about. And I think that 5G is going to actually slow down the cost of the political situation that we're seeing. Interesting. And that ties into the next question on security. Is it going to be Huawei all the time at this point? What do you see as driving the conversation and security? Are we no longer looking at the loan hackers and the criminal enterprises but the nation state? Or what do you see, Jezbel? I think security is becoming much more front center, not just for the experts of the industry, the people who are in it all day long, but the consumers. The privacy, the security at the end of the day, the definition of security I went up incredibly, because your privacy is also security. So how do you define that? And it requires, from my perspective, again, it requires everyone to work together. Yes, there still could be a loan hacker. There could be nation states that we need to be on the defense for. But as an industry, we need to come together from all the different layers of technology to make security a truly solution that's built in as a mentality, rather than an afterthought. Security can't come after you build a solution and say, Oh, we forgot to add in security. Let's see if we can buy a piece of software to add some security to the solution that we've implemented. It doesn't happen that way. It has to happen from the very beginning. You have to build security as a mindset from layer zero all the way up. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I couldn't agree more. I mean, security, I think by some people, when you ask them what the definition of that is, it's almost as clear as what cloud was initially, right? A lot of people really couldn't define it because it was a lot of different things. And security absolutely is one of those multifaceted areas, defense and depth, securing of the data, securing of access, log analysis, incident response, micro segmentation, all these things. But also, it does include an area that we don't hear too too much about every once in a while in the industry. But as a service provider, we certainly see it. And that's also about the availability of the data. Because whether you're if your network is down for one reason or another, obviously, your customers are up that way. We work to avoid that. But the network may be just fine. But it may be that we're being attacked, right? Distributed DDoS and those sorts of things. So that's the other avenue of the security component, right, that we have to we have to look at. But it's very interesting. I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who manages six of the 10 largest banking institutions in Manhattan. And one of the things that they're very keen on or that they're driving to, because there's just simply no option is the ability to use AI machine learning type technology to try to keep up with the the attack pace. There's a lot more people out there that are trying to attack because now you've got much larger bandwidth, right? I'm sitting on, you know, my home office right now and I've got a one gigabit per second connection directly into my office from our local provider. As that becomes more prevalent, again, the attack surface is going to be much, much larger. And so we're going to have to really deal with the threat of the network and what's carrying that data and those attacks. And the other thing is, is that we need to simply be able to keep pace with it and be able to support through, in some cases, the millions and millions and millions of log events that happen in a day, that's no one single person or even a group of people can do it, right? We're going to be machines in order to keep up with that. And it's going to be going to be pretty interesting in security space, no doubt, but it's an evolution. It's not a once you've got it in place, you're done. That has to be looked at over the course of three, six and 12 months and looking at where you stand in light of the new threats that are coming down the road. Okay. Michael, what do you think security is going this year? You know, it's interesting. I look at it from a personal level, right, where I think my wife wants to throw the Alexa in the garbage can because it just starts talking to us, you know, and there's no one named Alexa in our family. So you have you have that element to it. And then I think you have the regulated industry and the, you know, we're a registered broker dealer, right? We could never go over the top, right? We could never use an over the top solution because the, the, it just doesn't meet the criteria for a secure network. And I think if you look at financial services, as Jeff mentioned, if you look at health care with HIPAA, you look at any type of regulated industry or any defense industry, the security element is huge. And it's really just it's not simply from nation state hackers. It's from corporate, corporate hacking, you know, industrial espionage. And these are really not spy fiction things, right? These aren't Robert Ludlam type novels. Okay. This is real stuff that's happening all the time. And so if I'm, if I'm a public company, and I have no network, right, that ring central or an eight by eight, I personally believe that there is a cap on where those businesses can go because they just don't have the security element to it. And I think that's going to be, you're going to see that change a lot in the next 18 months. Interesting. All right. Let's, let's move on to prediction, Simon. Can, can each of you give me one concrete prediction of something you expect to happen in the world of internet infrastructure in 2019? Don't be shy. I have to do it every year. So Well, you're putting me on the spot. I think that enterprises and because this is my, this is our customer base is so I'm going to speak from their perspective. I think enterprises are going to be looking for secure dedicated connectivity for their solutions, because as we see things, everything that we've gotten to today, the prevalence of cloud offerings, of service offerings, video conferencing, right, we're using today are all being conducted over the internet. We're going to see a lot of that that's going to go on private networks that's dedicated for those services between the service provider and the customer prem and the customer's dedicated network nodes. So, and that's for better security, which we just talked about the better performance reliability. And that's what the customers are looking for, because as Jeff said, you know, DDoS is isn't just a single case that happens to the biggest network once a while anymore. That's a constant in life. And all of those now, even the smallest enterprises have to be wary about. So as Michael said, the customers are looking for reliability, performance, and most of all security in 2019. Thank you, Jeff. What do you got for us? Yeah, there's so many, so many things we could talk about. But I guess one in particular, again, just trying to keep it near and dear to my heart in the cloud space is, as we continue to move forward, and we're, you know, this shift that we're seeing right now, which is a pretty significant one, I think Michael Dell was quoted saying that he's calling it the repatriation of the on-prem, right? There's a lot of applications that are being pulled back for various reasons, back to the edge or the on-prem closer to home, right? It might be latency related, right? That's a physics problem, like the cost containment. It's obviously the public clouds are not going anywhere, but there is a there is a change happening. We're seeing that in terms of, you know, AWS outposts and, you know, Azure stack things and trying to, trying to maintain and keep that revenue with those vendors, because they're certainly seeing that that shift occur as well. And 40% of the calls come on every week. I hear that, right? At least in part, there's a lot of data and applications being pulled back. However, what I think is still going to be very necessary, which is what I see a lot of vendors that we work with, what they're trying to do is they're trying to abstract away the all of the moving part, if you will, all the complexity around the integration of and working with the integration between your on-prem solution or your data-centered solution that's close to home, as well as, you know, the public cloud, right? So you have your private cloud, your public cloud, and how do they interoperate? I think that we're seeing software being really the main focus in enabling that to occur. And what I get the vendors are really trying to push for now is, again, they want to make it as seamless as possible to be able to move workloads backwards and forwards, regardless of the type of public cloud that you're using. And there's many of them out there. But also the full integration with your on-prem private cloud. So as your application set evolves, as your requirements evolve, certain data sets move very freely back and forth. The applications, of course, go with that. And the abstraction layer that we're talking about, again, is all done in software. So I think you're going to start to see that the lines are going to be blurred. And it's as they say in real estate, it's going to be all about location, location, location, as opposed to necessarily Azure, Amazon, Alibaba, Google, it's just going to be where in the world is it? Because the complexities have been, have been abstracted away now by software. So it'll be interesting to see where that goes. Interesting. Cool. Next. Okay, well, I think the first thing we're going to see this year is that cloud data providers, the Azure, the Google, the AWSes of the world are going to buy cloud voice companies or contact center companies. I believe that the, the merging between that and the application layer are huge. And those folks have unlimited capital. They have a client base that actually trusts them. And for that, the ability for them to sell to the mid to large enterprises are huge. So I would expect in 2019 to see one, if not more of those guys make a very large move similar to Cisco's move to buy broad soft last year. That's prediction number one. Prediction number two is we're going to see a renaissance in traditional OEM manufacturers, the Ericsons, the Nokia's, the Appletales of the world, and they are going to fill that void caused by the political upheaval that's the Chinese manufacturers find themselves. And my third prediction is that my beloved New York Knicks are going to be known as the Venezuela of the NBA, because after their trade, I think that Madison Square Garden will become a wasteland. It isn't already. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. Well, thank you, all of you. I'll turn it back over to Jamie here. Jamie. Oh, my goodness. Thank you guys for your fabulous 2019 predictions. I can see us doing little vignettes over the year when one of Michael's predictions hit. And we'll just we'll add him in saying, hey, remember, you heard it here first. And for sure, we put some great content out of this. Thank you guys. Again, our all star panelists, Jeff Slap, 365 data centers, Michael Quinn, two advisors and Jezbel Gilmore packet fabric. And of course our star moderator, Mr. Rob Powell of telecom ramblings. This wraps up our latest CEO roundtable, our virtual CEO roundtable, the first of many for 2019. And if you like to see this roundtable lie, go ahead and come here, our CEO roundtables at Telecom Exchange again quarterly. So we're in Dallas, New York area, Toronto and LA route 2018. Check out the telecom exchange dot com for more there. And to feature your thought leader here or on site at telecom exchange, go ahead and hit us up. Email us at pr at jsa.net. All right, that's it for this Friday. Thanks for tuning in to JSA TV until next time. Happy networking.