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New YouTube CEO Is Bullish on Web3 Tech Like NFTs and the Metaverse
"10 p.m. Sunday, February 19th, 2023. New YouTube CEO is bullish on web three tech, like NFTs, and the metaverse. Neil Mohan has said that NFTs could enable creators to build deeper relationships with their fans.
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"Off tickets <Speech_Male> than when <Speech_Male> the <Speech_Male> ticket buying public <Speech_Male> believed that <Speech_Male> there was a flaw in the <Speech_Male> game. So <Speech_Male> in an ironic way, <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> the revelation <Speech_Male> of a flaw <Speech_Male> actually allowed <Speech_Male> them to <Speech_Male> create <Speech_Male> more gross revenue <Speech_Male> for <Speech_Male> the government. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> They have <Speech_Male> no <Speech_Male> real reason <Speech_Male> for fixing flaws. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> So <Speech_Male> it's an <Speech_Male> odd <Speech_Male> system <Speech_Male> we've created <Speech_Male> in those state and <Speech_Male> provincial lotteries. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> Yeah, <Speech_Female> it's like when Thorpe <Speech_Telephony_Female> wrote beat the dealer, <Speech_Telephony_Female> suddenly <Speech_Female> everybody wanted to <Speech_Female> play blackjack <Speech_Female> because they heard it could <Speech_Female> be beat. Even <Speech_Female> though they couldn't beat <Speech_Female> it, but it made <Speech_Female> them want to <SpeakerChange> play it more. <Speech_Male> But <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Female> it really makes <Speech_Female> it a great game for <Speech_Male> gamblers <Speech_Male> because <Speech_Male> gamblers can win <Speech_Telephony_Male> the most <Speech_Male> money <Speech_Female> in games <Speech_Male> where <Speech_Male> they're not <Speech_Female> winning it from <Speech_Male> the house. <Speech_Female> You know what I mean? So <Speech_Telephony_Female> it's like <Speech_Telephony_Female> the biggest money winning <Speech_Female> gamblers in the world <Speech_Female> are the people <Speech_Female> who bet horse racing <Speech_Male> <Speech_Female> because <Speech_Female> the track, <Speech_Telephony_Female> <Speech_Female> they're not taking the <Speech_Telephony_Female> money away from the <Speech_Female> track. In fact, <Speech_Telephony_Female> the track is making <Speech_Female> more money <Speech_Female> because they <Speech_Female> get a percentage <Speech_Telephony_Female> of every bet that's <Speech_Male> made. <Speech_Male> Sure, yeah. <Speech_Male> So <Speech_Male> yeah, the lottery, <Speech_Telephony_Male> they just get <Speech_Male> their percentage and <Speech_Telephony_Male> they don't care who wins. <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> Yeah, and that was <Speech_Male> exactly the attitude <Speech_Male> that the Massachusetts <Speech_Male> lottery <Speech_Male> had when <Speech_Male> The Boston Globe <Speech_Male> pointed out <Speech_Male> that in this cash <Speech_Male> windfall game that <Speech_Male> there were these organized <Speech_Male> and highly <Speech_Male> funded groups <Speech_Male> of <Speech_Male> players <Speech_Male> that were skimming <Speech_Male> 75% <Speech_Male> of the winnings. <Speech_Male> And the <Speech_Male> state's response was, well, we're <Speech_Male> still getting our piece <Speech_Male> of the pie. So <Speech_Male> what's wrong? <Speech_Male> And <Speech_Male> they don't <Speech_Male> really have much interest <Speech_Male> in <Speech_Male> thinking through, <Speech_Male> well, what happens <Speech_Male> to the other piece of the <Speech_Male> pie? <Speech_Male> If you're <Speech_Male> and Lou and his <Speech_Male> investors and <Speech_Male> other people and their investors, <Speech_Male> if they're getting <Speech_Male> 75%, it <Speech_Male> means that <Speech_Male> the average <Speech_Male> Johnny lunch bucket guy <Speech_Male> who's <Speech_Male> buying tickets <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> after work, <Speech_Male> he's <Speech_Male> just buying all the losers. <Speech_Male> That's what's happening <Speech_Male> now. <Speech_Male> And <Speech_Male> the state has <Speech_Male> allowed that <Speech_Male> to happen. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> They don't seem <Speech_Male> too worried about it, but <Speech_Male> there's a lot of people that <Speech_Male> think that that's not <Speech_Male> what a <Speech_Male> state lottery ought <Speech_Male> to be doing. <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> So mo, we got two <Speech_Male> minutes left, and you <Speech_Male> are going to be back on <Speech_Male> here in another two weeks. <Silence> <Speech_Male> Last question <Speech_Male> to either answer tonight <Speech_Male> or think about <Speech_Male> and give us an answer in <Speech_Male> two weeks. <Speech_Male> If some of our <Speech_Male> listeners had <Speech_Male> a <Speech_Male> local <Speech_Male> lottery <Silence> and they <Speech_Male> wanted to get some <Speech_Male> cards and send them <Speech_Male> to you and ask <Speech_Male> for a <Silence> <Speech_Male> professional <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> opinion as <Speech_Male> to <Speech_Male> how this <Speech_Male> would be beatable, <Silence> is <Speech_Male> that something that you <Speech_Male> do for a fee <Speech_Male> or are you open to <Speech_Male> that or is that <Speech_Male> something that is not <Speech_Male> of interest <SpeakerChange> to you? <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> <Silence> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> I can give you a quick answer <Speech_Male> right now. We can talk about <Speech_Male> it more in a couple <Speech_Male> of weeks if you want.
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"But with less accuracy? Yes. The success rate in some of the newer games my success rate is around 70 or 75%, which is high enough to be able to play the game and make money. Modest amounts of money. But it's not that kind of spectacular near perfect success in that I had in that tic-tac-toe game. In that game, the only way I could convince the lottery corporation that I was right was to actually put together a kind of a live trial for them. I got 20 tickets that were unscratched. I separated them into winners and losers and sent them to the lottery corporation and said, look, you guys scratched them off and you call me if you think there's something we need to talk about. That they called me two hours later. And they said, we need to talk. I asked them how many did I get right? And they said you got 19 out of 20 right. And so it was so clear that there was something going on. Because I missed only one out of 20. I think if I got 14 out of 20 right, that they might not have been quite so impressed. Do you find generally the lottery you give an example of the lottery people are not? Do not seem to be honorable people. They seem to, when they get a dispute, they go out of their way to make it tough on the players. Is this isolated examples you've been giving us or is that a pretty common? I think it's fairly common. I wouldn't use the word dishonorable. In fact, in my dealings with lottery corporation staff and the executives, with many of them, there's almost kind of a moralistic fervor to what they do. They really believe that they're the good guys. Because they're the ones that are getting money to little league softball teams and hospitals and libraries. And all of the good things that society needs funded, but that in modern North American society, we're not funding with tax dollars anymore. And so I've talked with a lot of lottery people who are a little bit sad or disappointed in me because they don't get why I'm criticizing them. Why I'm pointing out flaws in these games that are getting revenue to society's good causes. They believe they're doing good. And they're trying. But they have no, they have no requirement to run fair games. It's not in the legislation that creates those corporations. It's not in their articles of incorporation, that there's nothing in an institutional sense that requires them to run fair games. But what they're required to do is create an alternate revenue stream for the government. And they achieve that goal if they sell as many tickets as possible. Now they would like to do it under the guise of fairness. But if someone comes along like me and says, hey, that game's not fair. They kind of shrug and they say, so what? In fact, here in Ontario, they pointed out to me when I met with them back in 2011. They pointed out to me that in the week after that wired magazine article came out about the flaw in the tic-tac-toe game. Ticket sales scratch off ticket sales in Ontario spiked. They had never sold more scratch
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"Wired story and to the Scrabble story that mo wrote. But now I wanted to ask you, we found you because well, first I want to ask you about this other MIT group, you went to MIT, but there was an MIT group that was beating the Massachusetts lottery. Can you tell us about them? I don't know them personally. I know about that Massachusetts lottery story, a game called cash windfall. Because I got a call from a journalist by the name of Andrea estes who works for The Boston Globe. And she had tracked me down to see if I could help her understand why there was some very odd patterns in that cash windfall game. And it turned out that because of the way that they managed the prize pads in that game. There were certain weeks in that game about once every 13 weeks when the expected value of a ticket would be higher than the cost of a ticket. So the costs would take it was like two bucks or something like that. And the expected value would be some like $2 and 80 cents. And so this group at MIT, along with several other groups, there are probably about 5 or 6 of them operating at the same time. They realize that the name of the game to plunder that lottery was to anticipate those weeks when the prize payout structure would change. And if you could correctly guess when that was going to happen and it actually wasn't that hard to guess. Then all you had to do was buy as many tickets as you could. So they literally bought hundreds of thousands of tickets in those weeks when the tickets were revenue positive. And that group at MIT along with a few others walked away with about 70 to 75% of the total prize winnings in that game for a period of about two and a half years. So they plundered that game. They got the vast vast majority of the prize money. It was a student by the name of ura and Liu, who coordinated that group at MIT. They had big investors in there.
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"That story got picked up by hearing Canada by our national broadcaster, the CBC. And back in around 2006, it became a very popular story that the CBC ran on this practice that retailers had developed of scamming tickets from customers who had winning tickets. And that was what triggered the buds men's investigation that forced the lottery to change their policy. But it's. A scammer's keepers policy that was enforced about ten years ago. Now, we found you because last week we had done a story about this woman Joan ginster, who has got a PhD in math and has won the scratch off lottery four times to the tune of over $20 million. So now I'm sure you're familiar with Joan and have you had any have the lottery people hired you about her or anything like that? No, on the lottery side, I was a bit surprised when I mentioned her name in one of the meetings I had with the Ontario lottery. This is back around 2011. They asked me to come in and have a chat with them. And as part of my explanation for why I believe that there are still flaws in instant scratch games. I said, well, what about the case of Joan ginther? How did she win the same game four times in a row? And one of the senior executives there in that meeting just drew a blank. He looked at me and he said, who's John ginther? And I looked at him like I thought, how could you ask that question? And one of his senior vice presidents had to explain to him who Joan ginther was. So she's not on the radar screen of a lot of the people who are running the state and provincial lotteries. Yeah, that is just amazing. And Joan, if you listen to the show, I know you live in Las Vegas. We'd love to have you, come on. But if she is listening to so, I would love to have coffee with Joan one day. I mean, I went to Stanford and she did too. I would love to sit down and just have a great chat with Joe. I think she's got a great story there. Yeah, absolutely. Now, off topic, but worth a mention. You wrote a story. And a year ago, you won a Canada rights competition. It's a short non fiction story. Centered around the game of Scrabble. It's a 5 minute read that'll make our audience smile. You can find it by Googling Mohan shrivastava are probably even most of us of a Mohan MOH. Srivastava is a bit tougher. SRI VAS ta VA, and when you do that, you're going to see lots of pictures of him in various stages of facial hair. And you'll read about him cracking the lottery code, but you'll also find this story. Go read this story. You will like it. Yeah, and actually when I put up the podcast on my site at Richard munchkin dot com, I have
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"Why would they be doing that in the first place? And if retailers in the course of being instant scratch retailers, if they're scanning tickets, they're trying to create electronic copies of tickets for some reason. And one reason, one reason that would be a smart thing to do is that you have some piece of software that helps you separate winners from losers. And it's a lot easier to do it if you've got a piece of piece of software doing the work rather than trying to do it all in your head. Like I was doing with that tic-tac-toe game. So the state auditor says, look, you've got to stop these guys from scanning tickets. And there was no follow-up on that. But how did they know that they were scanning tickets? Well, whatever investigators he sent in to watch what was happening in retail outlets. Notice that they were doing it. And he said, my guess is he didn't, he couldn't figure out why they were doing it. He just thought, that's a bad idea. You ought not to be dead. Now earlier in the early part of the show, we had a situation of finders keepers rule. In a Pennsylvania casino, are there any similar finders keepers, there's got to be on the lottery scratch ticket. An interesting story you have to share. Well, the one that I always remember when you were describing that Pennsylvania situation was actually not an instant scratch game. It was one of the numbers games here in Ontario. A game called super 7. So you pick 6 numbers from one to 49 and then once a week, they do it a draw with those balls that bounce around in machines. And there was a guy in a little town up in north of Toronto called the town was called coba con. Charming little town in cottage country. The guy's name was bob Edmonds. I'm sure if you Google bob Edmonds will be a Wikipedia entry on his story now. But back in the little bit more than ten years ago, he had been playing the super 7 game, took his ticket into the store where he bought it, and asked the retailer to check it for him. So the retailer checks at the little winning jingle goes off, so bob knows he's won something. And the retail says, oh, wow. Congratulations. You've won a free ticket. And she hands him a free ticket. And so he takes his modest prize home.
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"After I broke the Ontario game, I was contacted by a graduate student in mathematics at University of Texas at Austin. This is backing around 2004. And he was trying to work out a system for doing exactly what I just described. He wanted to filter winners from losers working just off the barcode. Because the lottery corporation or the printer who's working for the lottery corporation has to work out which tickets in the sequence are going to be winners in which are going to be losers. And to do that, they use a piece of computer code that's called a random number generator, and this student that UT Austin figured that he had a way of kind of reverse engineering that random number generator. And so the winner would be assigned to a particular barcode you're saying. Yeah, the reason they introduced that in the lottery business, this goes back to kind of the late 1990s. Was that some retailers had started to complain that they felt they were being given bum packets that these things are kind of shrink wrapped in packets of 200 or something like that. And some retailers felt that there weren't enough winners in their packets. And that the distributors for the lottery corporation were kind of playing favorites. They were giving good packets to some retailers and not so good packets to other retailers. And so too, to respond to that concern that was coming from retailers that the printers for the lottery industry developed a system for baking in a guaranteed minimum number of winners in each packet and it's what they call the low and intermediate prize structure. It usually goes with the acronym lips. The so you get your money back. That's a winner. Sorry. Getting your money back would be a winner in this case. Yeah. And in the way that they guarantee the minimum number of winners per packet that they ended up using a type of random number generator that gives them the control that they need, but also opens up the possibility of someone being able to reverse engineer the parameters, the mechanical details of how that generator is working. This is sounding more and more like I need to buy a 7 11. It's a good start. The retailers had certainly have an inside track on. Picking winners from losers. If there is a system for identifying winners and losers, then the retailers have first kick at the can. It's interesting that you keep coming back to that buying the 7 11 store. In Massachusetts, the state auditor back in the late 90s reviewed the practices of the lottery corporation. And in his report, he had many, many recommendations, all kinds of things that were just playing fishy about how the lottery was working. Including things like single people, cashing in huge quantities of instance scratch tickets. So many that the state auditor points out that there aren't enough hours in the day for these people to have bought them all. These people are clearly working as the frontmen for some much larger group. Anyway, the one recommendation that kind of goes to what you're pointing out. He said that the state lottery should ban the practice of retailers scanning tickets. And why would this be good? And when I read that, I thought, why on earth would a retailer want to scan a ticket anyway?
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"Just sell the losers. That's a good plan. I'm not as ambitious as you. Where my mind went to. Is that I make more than 600 bucks a day as a consultant. And so I wanted to hook the lottery corporation on the concept of hiring me as a consultant. I wanted them to pay me to help them. And this was a pipe dream. It was for several years. That they strung me along for a while, conned me into writing a report that they never paid for. And then several years later, for entirely unrelated reasons, the provinces on buds men opened up this investigation into lottery. And as a result of that investigation, about 5 years after I broke the game, the lottery corporation was obliged to hire me as a consultant. They ended up paying for that report. Plus interest, and they put me on a retainer for that year. So in the end, it worked. I did okay. Well, good. But you also, I mean, I don't know. I know a lot of people who would work for 500 bucks a day.
Gambling With an Edge
"mohan" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"And if you can get three numbers in a row or in a column or a diagonal, then it's a winner. I see. And how much you win depends on where exactly you get the three numbers to line up. So I worked out a way of creating those tickets. Well, kind of rough outline in my head. And then I got to the store. Claim my prize got my coffee. And thought that I'd forgotten about it. I went back to work. And then later that day, I was walking back home past the same store where I had cashed the ticket, and as I was walking past the store, this little voice inside my head, kind of from that back part of your head where voices talk to you. A little voice said, but if you program it that way, there will be a flaw on the face of the card. There'll be a pattern that betrays whether the card is a winner or loser. And so even though I thought that I hadn't been thinking about the problem for several hours, it was clear that somewhere tucked in the back of my head, something was still working away on this programming problem. And I'd realized that the algorithm, the program that seemed obvious to me as the most direct way to create the tickets in the game, that it wasn't correct. It wasn't the right way to do it. And that intrigued me. I started to wander. Well, is it possible that the people who actually wrote the program that the lottery corporation ended up using is it possible that what was obvious to me was also obvious to them that they ended up using exactly the same procedure that first seemed correct to me.
Mac OS Ken
"mohan" Discussed on Mac OS Ken
"B of a analyst one see Mohan has both Apple three and Yahoo finance. And mister Mohan putting on his thinking cap where the iPhone 14 line is concerned. Apple is expected to announce that at next Wednesday's far out media event, along with new models of Apple watch and who knows what else. Also, who cares what else? As far as many are concerned, the event and Apple itself are all about iPhone. As far as mister Mohan is concerned next week's event isn't even about iPhone, but about how much the next iPhones will cost. And our opinions as the analysts note, iPhone pricing is the main focus item for investors followed by timing and cadence of the launch and any news on pricing and bundling. Seriously, barely a mention of the hardware except to say there's going to be hardware. On timing and cadence, if iPhone 14 launches on the 16th of September, that's two Fridays after the far out of that, there would be 9 ship days and fourth quarter fiscal year 2022 for the new phones. That is better than the two days iPhone 13 got according to the analyst and more normal for iPhone releases. On pricing, Mohan thinks the consumer and will keep the same starting price this year as last, while pro phones could start a few bucks higher. Quoting his note with an inflationary backdrop, Apple could choose to increase the price of the pro models, high end consumers are less sensitive to price and leave the lower end models unchanged. If Apple were to raise the pro model prices by 50 bucks, we estimate a 20 cent earnings per share, tailwind. Now I said earlier that all analysts care about is iPhone where apple is concerned and that all mister Mohan cares about is the price. Yeah, it was being glib. Not only did Mohan use Thursday's note to reiterate his buy rating on Apple shares, he also listed several reasons why he is a fan. They include but are not limited to great expectations for iPhone upgrades in fiscal year 2023, driven by the need for higher connectivity, which will enable new AR and VR applications. There's higher growth in services revenue, continuing strong capital returns, and expectations that Apple shares will outperform in a broader market down cycle. He's got a buy rating on the shares as I say. Mister Mohan's price target on the shares is $185. New iPhones expected have you heard? TF international analyst Ming Chi kuo has, and he has thoughts on manufacturing. Specifically, iPhone 14 manufacturing in India. Yeah, it's going to be a few weeks later than he initially thought. In early August, the analyst hit Twitter with a surprise prediction saying my latest survey indicates Foxconn's iPhone production site in India will ship the new 6.1 inch iPhone 14 almost simultaneously with China for the first time in the second half of 2022 India being one quarter or more behind in the past. To his credit, he linked to that Twitter post when posting his new expectation. Instead of pretending like the old one never happened, yeah, points to young MC. Update began his Twitter post on Thursday. The iPhone 14s mass production schedule in India this year is still about 6 weeks behind China, but the gap has improved significantly, therefore it is reasonable to expect that India and China will be able to produce the new iPhone 15 at the same time next year. And now I take back the points awarded a moment ago for causing me to mention iPhone 15 before iPhone 14 is even announced. New iPhones expected have you heard? Samsung has and it is mocking the new phones even before they've seen them. Apple insider writes up a 32nd spot posted by the South Korean electronics giant. Basically says that all of the innovation and smartphones rests not in the next iPhone, button phones made by Sammy. That includes the company's 100 X space zoom. It's 108 megapixel camera and the fact that some of its phones fold up. For showing off their phones, the ads really aren't that bad. I still don't want a folding phone, but the shots in the moon were pretty pretty. That said, the ad mentions Apple by name wants an iPhone by name once and alludes to apple's upcoming event. Seems kind of weak, but even that is actually not the worst idea. I mean, we wouldn't be talking about the cool things in the Samsung phone, if Samsung hadn't mentioned apple a couple of times. If you want to see the ad, it is up now on YouTube and here is something really unusual for YouTube. The comments on the ad or actually kind of insightful. Or they were when I checked them Thursday afternoon. New iPhones expected have you heard? Yes, you have. We're done with that bit.
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mohan" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"The mouthfeel of it, the palate is a little bit different than just drinking grape juice. Well, you've touched on a lot of really important things in that answer. I'll give you my answer to the question of whether I've had a palatable D alkalized wine, the answer to no, I've had a lot of things that tasted pretty good that you could enjoy not in Lua that you could enjoy at a meal that would be pleasant to drink in a meal. But the important thing to me the important thing you just said there was how it fits into the satisfy the craving of how the drink fits into the theater. What I always think of as the theater of drinking the pleasure that we have, we come to associate the bottle of wine with the good meal or the class of the martini at the bar or the glass of whisky at the end of the evening. How much of the trying to figure out for yourself? How much of the thing you enjoy is the ritual of the poor from the beautiful bottle into the beautiful glass at the right moment and how much of it is how much how it actually tastes and smells and how much of it is the psychoactive effect of the alcohol and disaggregating all those things is really very difficult. No, it's a good question and I'll note too that last year when I did dry January, I ended up extending it for months. And I found play of other things that I enjoyed just as much if not more so than alcohol. Like coffee or tea in the evening or this non alcoholic beer brand that we've talked about a lot on this podcast that we really like. Sometimes that would satisfy like the post exercise with friends, people want to go grab a beer. I'll have the non alcoholic beer. It just satisfied that need. It's the ritual of it that I found was like very easy to replace and therefore it was very easy to go not alcoholic. You asked specifically about physiological health effects too, which is a separate category, and an interesting one. I think that the health nutrition science is so. It's a mess. It's hard for people to operationalize because of how confusing and contradictory the actual field is. And that's why there's space for diet fads and things like that. Because we hope somebody else will have operationalized nutrition science and nobody nobody really has except for some very basic things. Like don't eat too much meat and get some exercise and that sort of stuff. I think that the health benefits of red wine are probably more in play than most people think. The so called French paradox like, how come these countries that drink so much red wine are so healthy? It's like, well, they have a lot of other healthy habits too, is probably the answer. And they also we're not talking about we're talking about a glass of wine with dinner. We're not talking about the bottle of wine. Right, the chicken, the stuff you're trying to accommodate by having a dry January. And I'm not exempting myself from any of that, by the way. But the question of whether if it's still kind of like wine will it have the polyphenols or whatever we think is in the red wine that was helping people with some be more healthy. I mean, I guess it might. You know, the question is whether those are more soluble in the alcohol. So if you take the alcohol out if you're making it that way if you take the alcohol or you're taking those out too and I'm not sure there's any way to know that plus, I don't know anybody's really calibrated the amount of polyphenols in various kinds of wine, much less what the healthy pharmaceutical dose is of those. So it's very hard to answer those kinds of questions. What that health benefit is. Also, the vexing problem here is that could be that the reason that alcohol has a health benefit is that one drink columns you down. And if you're stressed, then the psychoactive effects of alcohol, the depressive effects of alcohol, like you get calmed down. So if you had a really hard day where you're pumping out cortisol all day because you're super stressed out because you can't vaccinate your children against a pandemic because they're too young or something. And they're home again, because the schools are closed. And so you self medicated with a glass of wine and you calm down and you felt better in life than you were a better parent somehow. I don't know if that's all true. And it's different from person to person. And then we tend to abuse those things. If one glass of wine made you a better parent, two glasses of wine did not. Or something like that. I don't know. And it's very from person to person and it's super highly contextual, which is why it's so tempting to take a month off. In addition to the other health benefits of not drinking as much as people may be, because alcohol has an impact on your liver. You can get fatty deposits over time built up and can have health implications. It has gastrointestinal effects. It can be uncomfortable or worse. It can erode the esophageal lining in the GI tract. It packed on the stomach down there as well. It has, and these are just straight organic effects on the organs, much less what it does to your sense of habit forming and what kind of fights you get into with your partner. If you have one extra sip and it changes your because it changes your psychology. And these are things maybe you don't want to do anymore. And it would make sense to take that month off and sort of evaluate how much of that is me and how much of that is the martini before dinner. Hitting pause. Speaking of hitting pause, we're going to take a break and then come right back. 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Startups For the Rest of Us
"mohan" Discussed on Startups For the Rest of Us
"Feel like they can just make their product customers and even their life so much easier. And it's okay to do that. I think there's a reason this podcast is called startups for the rest of us. It's not called bootstrapping for the rest of us. It's never been anti funding and in the preface of my book. Back in two thousand ten said. I'm not anti venture capital. I'm only anti everyone thinking the only way to start a software company is to raise funding. There are different options. That's it and this has always focused on freedom purpose and relationships and back in two thousand five. Maybe you couldn't raise funding without giving up your freedom or control your company. Maybe i don't know. I wasn't trying to raise. Although i did apply to i applied to y combinator in two thousand seven. I did try to raise an angel around. And i just didn't know anybody know network. I was an outsider right now. Most of us are. that's most of us bootstrap is that we're we don't know anyone. We don't friends and family was a joke. it's like. I don't have friends and family with money like i can't raise. I raise a couple hundred bucks or something. So that started changing. And the moment that i heard about people raising for sas companies raising a couple hundred grand from angels. Who weren't wasn't on the venture track. You know that you could make your life easier. That's when i started realizing. Oh there's this third option that's building and whether we call it somebody call so people call it. I know third wave funding. I'm trying to think of the other terms but it's basically just funding without maybe the expectations or the the strings attached. That used to use to come with it. And that i mean that's tiny seed right. I mean that's the point. Because i was writing angel checks out of my own personal net worth into sas companies under this model and i enjoyed it. But eventually you just get overweight. Your asset allocation is out of whack and that was when it was like. Why don't we just raise a fun to do. Because there are so many folks who could use this to your point who could benefit from it and maybe have a little bit easier time. Growing their company perhaps biggest. It's not a regret per se. But one of the things that i would have done differently looking back building drip is. I kept toying with the idea of raising or a small round two fifty to five hundred k. One time round just to do what you're saying which is higher that chief to staff and just be able to hire more senior people and have the budget and i never did. I never pulled the trigger on it. And i kind of regret it because it made the journey much harder than it needed to be an. I coulda raised it until ten percent of the company wouldn't have been that much and it wouldn't have made the ultimate outcome even if we sold for the same amount it would just kind of all been awash anyways right. It just wouldn't have. It's not like i would have given up half the sales percy's or something. So i'm not saying everyone should or should or whatever but it's like this is. This is a viable option. Yeah absolutely. I think you talk to own lesser off your company if the value of your company's larger right..
Startups For the Rest of Us
"mohan" Discussed on Startups For the Rest of Us
"On that the absolutely and honest i actually never raised before like you said right like all this bootstrapped so i also heard that it makes sense to ten years back right like when. Dha and all these smart people talked about just how receives a evil. And maybe there was some truth to it for share. I also hear these stories and other podcasts. Off like some of the early companies in the barrier selling for seventy percent of their equity right off the bat for like five hundred k. Or something and that certainly doesn't have any more. Evaluations have been rising. I think like yeah. Sure why see is maybe partly responsible for it but i think it will happen sooner or later anyway right like there's so much money to be invested. So i think. In recent horowitz does it and softbank does it. And so the game has changed entirely. Ian people have seen a lot of exits ten billion forty billion fifty billion. That i think there's a prediction that in ten years there'd be a lot more fifty billion dollars startups man. I agree with it so when you look at it from that perspective i mean venture capitalists always been kind of a lottery right but a smart lottery no way so when you think about just how much the returns are people are willing to place bigger and bigger bets and if anything only benefits the founders i think for most part the smartest funders anyway never raise at the highest valuation. I think the always like raise at a good valuation with the right folks. But it's good that the average solution is higher now. I think the other big difference is a lot of people. Think that you raise money and then you give up control of your company and it's not true at least in the beginning before you you had to do a price transfer you raise that million dollar series and you spend six thousand on just the legal fee and you give a board seat. Not people wrist like three million five million on a safe which is simply a promise of equity so you don't give up any control of your company you obviously have to be in in touch with the investors and you should be. But they're not running the company for you so. I just think that there are a lot of these misconceptions about what happens after you raise money. Actually what most people would be surprised with is most of the time once. The money's in the bag investors actually just move onto the next deal like that's their job is to primarily close deals not to actually babysit you there there if you need them so to me. This feels like a very different landscaper. Good for more people to rethink it. Because i see a lot of people working extremely hard having customers having tens of thousands of dollars in revenue and just never considering.
Startups For the Rest of Us
"mohan" Discussed on Startups For the Rest of Us
"Who has it's an sm ass product for e-commerce shops and one thing that we were chatting about was just how not real time email is anymore and as someone who obviously built in esp p. And still there's still a ton of value in email. There's still. There's a purpose for it but sms and facebook messenger and in-app notifications whether it's web app or whether it's mobile app push i mean there's all these things that really do. They do different jobs now. And so i i totally hear you and i feel like this is a really evolving peace. Even to the point of inner common drift kind of lodged things like intercom had to come on the scene. They had the chat widget but they were also email. And i don't know if you would need to do that today. I don't know that that's a requirement. Also have the email piece. Because i just think the job is is so different. A lot of customers don't use email. But then i think email is here to stay. What we want to do is overtime just sent as few emails as possible so like to e mail deliveries but very smart or leave a notification. Hasn't been seen or maybe batch them up and then send them out in an email so it's almost like you wanna really kind of lead the way and decluttering your user's inbox and you want to respect it more so and it's also good for application to us to much rely on it. Yeah because you want to hit them when they're thinking about it and when they're in their email inbox often thinking about other things. I want to get work done. A lot of people use their inbox as their to do list versus when they log in to magic bell. They're thinking okay. I'm in the magic. Bow mindset oh here's some notifications about new updates about something that happened in magic. It's like they're already in that context. So i i think there's a lot there. Yeah and then all these users like insurance agents customer support agents. They're already online for like eight hours right now. A lot of applications a lot of our users come to us because they use us have to go back to email to check notifications and then come back again and they can build this themselves but it takes months vitriol time being hard and just multi channel and so what we're eliminating for them. It's like you're us already are being your attention but you just don't have a way to leverage it and that's what magical office do so i want to switch it up a little bit and talk about something. We were talking about offline right before we hit record which was this idea of being bootstrap for funded and something you said to me. I think is worth diving into. And it's you said there's often this. Anti funding mindset or an anti funding rhetoric. That probably came about fifteen or twenty years ago. When the funding landscape was not that founder friendly it was different and these are my words now. In my opinion it was paul. Graham that changed. It was y. Combinator because before that the docks were opaque there is an information asymmetry where investors had all the info about terms and we didn't as founders and paul gremaldi change that i know there's been arguments that pogrom potentially took it too far away. She has taken it too far. You don't have to comment on this. Having gone through. I see but i've heard some investors jason calcutta's say it's people in a garage and they expect expected ten million dollar valuation or an uncapped note or something which is so not investor-friendly that it cuts the other way but all that said the landscape today there is no doubt is night day different than twenty years ago. You wanna talk me through your thoughts..
Double Tap Canada
Smart Bathrooms: Are They a Smart Decision?
"You told me the other day the your bathroom. You're what do you call the restroom. Cova i have no my bathroom. Nassar bathroom exists. Yes yes right well in your master bathroom yes you've made it super smalls from my understanding. I may have got a little bit farther than i should have. Legal march japanese toilet I do japanese. It's a it's a canadian made. It's called lovie The toilet as you approach it. The seat will open no way allies. Swear it has remote control as a built-in Function which you heat of the heat of the water that speeds up your little touchy Control the intensity of the headwaters so you get a good cleaning it goes battled for all the crevices and you can also control the The extension and the position. that's the For the meal cleaning. Then there's the female cleaning hop today it's Then there's A fan that pulls out the air so that when you're doing something a little bit more odorous gets rid of that for us. It doesn't really comes with. Does that airlock does it. Yeah it's eco-friendly. When you flush it it does it. Expose water in very nicely. Keeps very little water What else does it have. A heated seat so keeps you nice and toasty nice. Yeah that's nice always good. You can control the heat of the seat as well and of course the water and everything else And that's about all that's all the toilet does. Oh that sounds amazing. Thing hang on more. Did i mention the shower. That is controlled by voice so mohan Which is very famous. Zooming of you know taps a system. Could you by mowing the letter. You and it's a whole shower systems in my shower. All you have got the rain shower thing and the handled telephone handle type thing. And i've got a little keypad like little keypad on there. And that keypad connects via wifi network. And there's an alexa skill for that and I can literally say Start my shower. Preset to whatever i do and it will turn on the right thing. It'll get the temperature and it keeps it at the proper temperature of the entire
Software People Stories
"mohan" Discussed on Software People Stories
"In his lady christine conversation. It's more one topic ason. Who's listening you mix. An attorney had talked in your funny topics associated act digital divide in his own words. Oh as a song. Union chief change the For this is being run hopi efficient. Because he hasn't been brought up in the simone said right so gladys improved operating. You can just tell the outset others if somebody thing That use you you off okay. How the basically if you are in the system you may not know that human all the problems. You're not sold them. But if you are just just outside that's seven they're talking and you will find a better dancer protrude across. It's an all time will come to the software people stories today. The discipline being in richard. Here i see that a lot of juice or chair and being part of this Let's go ahead than i on it now forest. You're giving us yourself for our listeners. My name is whoa who participate in short one hundred. I didn't get it in. Orlando steve chennai back in one thousand. Nine hundred ninety one actually I'm done. I did a masters for my together and then i joined a company a lot of stuff. coke about the whole it. Jerry started that ross In nine hundred ninety every everybody was jogging. Id but you get to get placed basically Jogging forces. I think what we. I think that people the exam. I think that six people so from three headed fuss cut. I think we became the twenty people qualified from people equal big wall street. Six people So it was like i think was very david also thinking that quality matters more at that point in time no i think i said it happens safely. Though the quality matters again right now in larger quantities that's bond brought up in phychi actually did miss bullying and the pool daddy's till felt by. Then i moved to chennai viable independent from the family's from the point i'm more of a mid despotic all missile. But at the everybody's buzzing amber small city by woodley right so you have your own limitations so that you don't know a lot of stuff and you learn a of come back so that's a brief capsule actually talked being a part of my life also one and one on the biggest interaction. You've missed your. Ceo off med expert a solutions. Today's hino innovated at largely you won so many awards so want to. How does it feel you read the fine. I want to bring that as part of the decision. I don't want to jump in della plan. My heart i'm a i'm a small town boy and And a developer who died. And let's see. That's what i'm feeding that. What if you feel that the auditor your your lose that Subdued us to throw things other stuff. So i was just introduced. Passable forward with the conversation took ironically as As you spend a few of medics flu and that we can't to healthcare industry in gendelman hospitals in particular actually so we make them must be does lend their business efficiently and That's the whole goal. An pro aid in in india. I think motivational the option of technology and obstacles. This little bit of not the art part of not enforced in legally also they do have a lot of potential going out that also digitizing them to a the current trend and then providing a reasonably quality product along with reasonable price. He's my goal and as often as we found. The cloud is what we loo- actually and but there are a lot of other things feed also. It's a knee why that he staples of this is just sending the oscar. Don't handle upgrading. The healthcare industry also moving into the they have a standard at. What finds you know. And all that Off things are happening in terms of of technology and all spear of the hell can the scene so put something in there to make sure that we are example that a lot of ecosystem players. That insurance is a great pair data and then you have Patients and customers at large. And then you ho fun with you change. You have the labs and other stuff's also so they said there's a whole lot fico chain that it should be enable interacting seamlessly so those are some things to do so it's just a not just managing the hospitalised one part of this and we are from other things fall so unless we got a couple of questions that are running in my mind. I you call yourself. You know continuously curious right and having that imbibing your mind saying that. How could you be inquisitive. Julius and what in what you do how did you build that actor in you or the very simple. I think when a giant industry ninety five. So i'm not You to percents at that point. In time i think some kind of talent Someone at goldsmiths put some tests that they recruit. You'll mificantly when you go added brain. Does she value house. Zito not automatically case will come with the knowledge. So no you you are. You will only diphu with charts just way out musically so since jedi is a necessarily that makes you a so. Obviously you know. When i come on what is motherboard. Say.
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"mohan" Discussed on the Talk 2 Q Radio Show!
"Either. They're even mcdonalds burger king or somewhere like that. They don't have enough people they can't work so it's just really is really odd. You know you don't know what's gonna be open or what's going to be closed on day to day basis. Get because they don't have enough dinner. Have enough workforce even dishwashers at certain restaurants and making much nineteen bucks an hour just about at wash the dishes so anybody else frustrated. Yeah it till you asked that question. It just may be think about on a situation i had last week. We have a brand new burger king. That opened up. Maybe less than a month ago. And i went over there to get me. One of those impossible offers a never used to you. Know being in the burger king. Line that loans. So when i got into the window. She told me to drive around like m. I. mcdonnell's so i drove around the building. A set set for five minutes. Went back to the window and still waited tim more medics working the window and Doing the orders and they just open so they didn't even have enough people stamped for their opening. So you're really impossible and it was no well of course is not a song working tax you story last year. We have one of those Mohan touched since kitchen faucet thingies in the battery started going or something without the battery last year and we were within our first year. Which by the way don't buy those terrible. You call the company in. You're on hold and then you have to leave your name your message in schedule a time seven days later for them to call you back and if you miss that time guess what you have to call him back again so after three and a half weeks i finally got a hold of someone and she put a rush order on a replacement part. And i mean we were. We were washing dishes in the in the bathroom downstairs instead the kitchen and using the dishwasher but she put a rush on it and even the parts coming took forever so it would should have been here at rush order. You know within seven days still took twenty nine..
Recode Decode
"mohan" Discussed on Recode Decode
"Of it. You historically not spent a lot of time on creation tools. So i think there is the youtube capture app and it came and went. I i used it. I don't think it. Now you're saying you've got to build up that creation skill set. Do you have that in house. You ready goes product at their you waiting to figure it out. What does that look like. So the first thing i would say is that it true that sort of the predominant use case at least as it comes to videos that have wide distribution. Lots of views on youtube. Where videos that as you describe. Were shot edited elsewhere than uploaded to youtube and youtube studios about managing those videos on youtube as opposed to having a suite of editing tools. So that's correct. But i think i'll go back to what we were talking about earlier. Which is kind of the genesis of shorts and things like that and if you sort of zoom back out from just the shorts product in the shorts roadmap as it is and if you think about sort of one of the core sort of product incites. I'll keep coming back to it. Which is creation through mobile phones and the power that these foams bring to that process and it's not just power in terms of lake. You know power tools in terms of what you described. It's actually also the flip side of power is ease of use right like because you can do things so powerfully on the phones oftentimes on the client itself. You are enabling a whole suite of tools that can be also really easy for creators to use 'em so yes that's an area that You know we want to continue to invest in. it's also an area where as we grow our cleaners that are producing predominantly on their mobile phones. We get feedback where it's awesome that you're doing this but you know here's sort of the next set of things that you could be doing so the i really do look through the lens of if a creators getting started today. What are their expectations. How are they gonna to build their audience on youtube and part of that is enabling a set of tools mobile phones tech talk is emerging of distribution creation instagram. I think historically the first app that really merged creative tool with distribution youtube is a big app. There's a lot going on in the app. You're adding more to it. Are you going to add the creation tools to the youtube app or they going to be in a different app. I don't think i. I can say specifically today what i will say though is bringing it back to shorts specifically a lot of the ways that you can enhance the video that you're that you shot for your shorts. I think should live in that overall shorts workflow now. Does that mean that there shouldn't be another set of capabilities for videos outside shorts etc. i. I can't comment on that specifically today but our goal is to continue to make the shorts experience more feature rich for video creators the other part of short surreal is distribution. Right you the mechanism you just grow up. You get the next video. That's happening automatically. I see a lot of repurpose. Ted talk videos on shorts. I see a lot of repurpose takes videos on reels. I know repurpose tick-tock videos on instagram reels bothers instagram. Does it bother you I think at this. It's interesting. I i would tie this back to where we started the conversation. One of our core northstar principles In terms of product design. Youtube is doing what really works for our users and our viewers and so that is The leads through which we look at it and obviously we have lots of signals and lots of data that we get from our users. There are goal there is to make it so that shorts content whatever ford is easily and readily available to our users. That's why you see the short shelf right on the home feed. It's also why you see the top. That's there the permanence of that. That shorts tab. So that's how we look at it from a user standpoint from cleaner standpoint. I mean. I think what i'll tell you. Is that those trends are changing on a regular basis the amount of a first of all new creators but also creators cutting back and producing original shorts on our platform. That number is going up into the right on a week on week basis and so that is another set of metrics that we look at not just of your metrics but also how easy fun kind of powerful it is. The tool set is for our creators. And like i said we've begun the journey there. We just launched globally just a couple of weeks ago mid july. So there's still a lot more to be done. Specially on the creator side to make it so that it's easier and more powerful and even more fun for them to produce original content for youtube but even with our tools are today that number continues to grow when i say no. Instagram is about what i mean. Specifically is the openly announced that videos with watermarks in them would get lower engagement than video without watermarks. which is a very roundabout way of saying. Hey when you expert video from talking has a watermark and if you repurpose instagram we're gonna lower it it's engagement. Have you thought about similar moves. I mean i think again the the the the high level answer. I'll give you their delay. Is that first of all. We make decisions and tweaks and updates to our recommendation raking all the time multiple times. You know multiple times a month just to make it so that that works better and better for our users but we have a set of kind of corridors star principles and metrics by which we govern that and they are driven by things like viewer satisfaction engagement from our viewers the feedback that we get directly from our viewers in those little surveys that you see in the app on a regular basis and that is the lens through which we will make decisions on things like weiqing of shorts just like we do for quote unquote. Traditional videos on youtube is with instagram. Particularly they're very explicit with their creators that using their additional products boost their overall engagement so when they had stories using stories boosted your engagement. Now they have.
Recode Decode
"mohan" Discussed on Recode Decode
"One of them was. Hey let me watch youtube videos at one point. Five speed mitee. Neal said sure. I've heard this request before. I'll look into it. Turns out that was shipped a month ago and neither of us knew about it because youtube is so big and so is this conversation. Okay newman chief. Product officer at youtube near the chief product officer. Youtube well-conceived decoder. Great to be here and you like we have a lot to talk about new monetization system for youtube shorts. That seems very interesting. It's a big program you're a full participant in the creator economy. But i want to start at the beginning of some very simple questions. What does the chief product officer at youtube do all day. Well my responsibilities. Really to help run youtube where i'm responsible for all of our products. Everything that you use as a viewer of youtube all of our creators use. I work very closely with our partners across google in terms of solutions for our advertising partners so all of our products from the map to the kids app to the music app and i'm also responsible for our trust and safety organization so everything that has to do with our content policies what governs the type of content that we allow our platform the content that we take down we call them our community guidelines and so my teams are responsible for that as well as the design of products pow they look and feel how they work critical user journeys. That's really what my team. And i do all day every day. It's unique i think among all the social platforms trust and safety reports to product. Do you wanna dive on that. But just give me since you're like. What kind of meetings are you in. I'm in a lot of meetings. Everything from one online's very large meetings. Maybe i could give you a flavor of can of a couple of sort of
Recode Decode
An Interview With YouTube's Chief Product Officer, Neal Mohan
"One of them was. Hey let me watch youtube videos at one point. Five speed mitee. Neal said sure. I've heard this request before. I'll look into it. Turns out that was shipped a month ago and neither of us knew about it because youtube is so big and so is this conversation. Okay newman chief. Product officer at youtube near the chief product officer. Youtube well-conceived decoder. Great to be here and you like we have a lot to talk about new monetization system for youtube shorts. That seems very interesting. It's a big program you're a full participant in the creator economy. But i want to start at the beginning of some very simple questions. What does the chief product officer at youtube do all day. Well my responsibilities. Really to help run youtube where i'm responsible for all of our products. Everything that you use as a viewer of youtube all of our creators use. I work very closely with our partners across google in terms of solutions for our advertising partners so all of our products from the map to the kids app to the music app and i'm also responsible for our trust and safety organization so everything that has to do with our content policies what governs the type of content that we allow our platform the content that we take down we call them our community guidelines and so my teams are responsible for that as well as the design of products pow they look and feel how they work critical user journeys. That's really what my team. And i do all day every day. It's unique i think among all the social platforms trust and safety reports to product. Do you wanna dive on that. But just give me since you're like. What kind of meetings are you in. I'm in a lot of meetings. Everything from one online's very large meetings. Maybe i could give you a flavor of can of a couple of sort of
Native America Calling
Rapid City Boarding School Continues Unidentified Bodies Project
"Work continues on a boarding school project in rapid city. South dakota as discoveries are made of burial sites at former residential schools in canada. Mike mohan reports almost a decade ago. Volunteer driven effort was launched to verify details about native children buried at a former federal boarding school. On rapid city's westside that research pave the way for an historic agreement with the city to establish parcels of land for native purposes project volunteer valerie. A big eagle says news out of canada and the remains of two hundred and fifteen children found their as an emotional element to the local effort. We tried this horror stories of children. That were you know killed and buried and we've heard this from others and it's really really challenging new details about the land. Transfer will be shared at a public meeting this thursday including converting some of the property into a native american community center that follows a resolution approved by the city council. Last fall acknowledging that tribes were never given a portion of the land along after the school closed. fellow project. Volunteer eric zimmer notes. The non native population can share in this experience as well what we're talking about doing. This undertaking work that sort of raises the quality of life for everyone in the community through a long careful deliberate process of trying to understand and respond to the more challenging. Parts of our history in volunteers were recently recognized for their work with an honorable mention in the outstanding public. History project award issued annually by the national council on public history. That was mike
Native America Calling
Enbridge Wins Minnesota Court Ruling on Oil Pipeline Permit
"The minnesota court of appeals has up held approvals of permits for the line. Three oil pipeline. The move is seen as a win. For enbridge energy the company behind the project but indigenous groups and their allies. Fighting construction are not backing down mike. Mohan reports in a two one decision. The court said state regulators acted properly when giving their consent align three which is being built to replace an aging oil pipeline that runs across northern minnesota winona. La duke is one of the leading tribal advocates speaking out against lying three. She says the state including governor at him walls has let them down. I am so dismayed by. The court of appeals and we will stand in resistance with thousands of others. This summer is young. She says the ruling will result in more people arrested or heard with opposition surfacing along the construction route last week. Protestors held their largest gathering yet resulting in arrests after people locked themselves to equipment. Meanwhile the duke says they're pleading with a biden administration to intervene canada-based end bridge says lion three creates thousands of jobs that high degrees of safety are being applied to construction and maintenance installation of line. Three is nearly sixty percent complete and the court noted its presence while troublesome too many groups and tribal members is less of an environmental risk than the current line. But luke says it's a direct threat to natural resources. Tribes rely on watersheds are now subject to bridges aggression and destruction. Even if this decision is appealed to the minnesota supreme court opponents. Worry that would take a long time before a ruling is issued. They say that's why they want. President joe biden to take action with construction moving forward now. is mike moen
Unreserved
How Indigenous People Are Promoting and Learning Their Languages
"For many people trying to learn a language is all about immersing yourself in one family and ontario has challenged themselves to make their home and free zone and are trying to stick to finish. Nabi mohan exclusively. They're sharing their experience. A new podcast called n weighing our sound much. Go go up and this is. My husband was all over new here. We will be talking about stories challenges triumphant as we share our experiences. Our the five. That's the intro to new podcast. By and wife were trying to raise their three year old daughter and one year old son entirely without english. But mom most could grab could quit. Didn't grow up. Speaking in snobby mohan. She actually studied german university and was living in austria when she felt a deep longing to learn about her own culture. The best way. I could describe it was it felt like someone was holding silly putty from here and i was all the way over in austria and i could just feel like that tiny tiny little strand was was still there and i i needed to go back and and kindle let fire so most could could quay came back to turtle island and began studying an nabi mohan. She spoke with cbc's k. To dak about how falling in love with her language transformed her family and created a home. Her kids speak sounds that she says were always meant to be. There's when i began learning the language and the breakdowns and the roots of who we are and what that meant. I felt that piece. I felt like that but missing piece was was filled in and i could kind of move forward in life and move in a direction. Finally i wasn't wandering around trying to find that anymore when i began learning initiative win It's a language that is alive. it's a spirit and itself. And i don't really know how else to describe that other than you can have a relationship with it and in a relationship. That has a two way street. And i'm trying not to get emotional because it's just so beautiful to me because like i fell in love with it. It gives me a chance to connect with those at our. I've gone like long before but still walk with me. And these are there ways and they held it and carried it and protected it for so long for me and for my children to have. I just feel like it's the most beautiful gift you ever give. Somebody
Native America Calling
Cheyenne River Youth Project distributes food boxes
"The national native news. I'm antonio gonzales. During the pandemic more and more doctors visits are going virtual and some people are avoiding clinics emma gibson reports that within the navajo nation. Women's healthcare is adapting as much as possible with infrastructure and as nature will allow when the pandemic i took hold in the navajo nation. People avoided the doctor because they were afraid of being exposed to the disease. Now after a short respite case numbers are surging again. Jennifer white hair is a women's health doctor practicing into the city. She's also a citizen of the nation. I think a lot of us have been surprised. We think of it as we're not seeing patients as often we would see more bad outcomes and we haven't really seen that dr white hair says she doesn't know why this is but guesses. More people are self treating unlike city doctors off tribal lands. She can't rely on the internet for a telehealth appointment. She's depending on phone calls. Patients monitoring their own blood pressure in some in person visits. We do recognize that there is going to be some minimal us. But we can't modify pregnancy during the pandemic she says she's proud of her community and their willingness to wear masks to protect others just outside the nation in flagstaff. Arizona masks have become highly politicized for national native news. I'm gibson a south dakota teacher says while the stay has helped we've in curriculum about american indian history more can be done. Mike mohan reports a report last year from the national congress of american indians noted. Twenty seven states don't even mention native americans and their k. Through twelve curriculum but a majority of states surveyed said. They're trying to improve their lessons. Leslie crow who teaches on the rosebud. Indian reservation sees positive movement and south dakota but she worries. Many students aren't getting the whole story. All students need to understand that way. You know non natives can also appreciate our culture and would also be more empathetic to our culture in the way of life that we've that was taken from us grow says. She attended public schools and didn't learn much about our people's history until she transitioned to a tribal school. The state department of education didn't respond to a request for comment before deadline. But in twenty. Seven south dakota passed a law that required the development of content on the history behind the region's chimes crow. Who also is a member of the south dakota education association as part of the difficulty is getting enough staff to carry out the lesson plans and ways that students can absorb the information she thinks. If administrators encouraged more teachers to embrace the curriculum their students might have greater appreciation for the contributions or native americans. Air comes a lot of good things that are people known have like our way of life is really truly sacred and there's a lot of all these good things that really help. Our people survive. One example of teachers taking the initiative is in rapid city where a handful of educators have each been assigned roles to fully integrate the curriculum across the district. That was mike mohan reporting the cheyenne river sioux tribe enacted a shelter in place. Order monday for the community of eagle butte. south dakota due to rising cova nineteen cases. The cheyenne river. Youth project helps sir families before the order was in place with three curbside distributions last week which included fresh produce home-cooked meals and turkey. Boxes produce dinners were also given out earlier in the fall. The cheyenne river youth project is a grassroots organization dedicated to helping young people on the reservation. The shelter in place order is expected to last through the middle of next week. I'm antonio gonzalez.
Native America Calling
Virtual Doctors, Teaching Native History, and Cheyenne River Youth Project
"The national native news. I'm antonio gonzales. During the pandemic more and more doctors visits are going virtual and some people are avoiding clinics emma gibson reports that within the navajo nation. Women's healthcare is adapting as much as possible with infrastructure and as nature will allow when the pandemic i took hold in the navajo nation. People avoided the doctor because they were afraid of being exposed to the disease. Now after a short respite case numbers are surging again. Jennifer white hair is a women's health doctor practicing into the city. She's also a citizen of the nation. I think a lot of us have been surprised. We think of it as we're not seeing patients as often we would see more bad outcomes and we haven't really seen that dr white hair says she doesn't know why this is but guesses. More people are self treating unlike city doctors off tribal lands. She can't rely on the internet for a telehealth appointment. She's depending on phone calls. Patients monitoring their own blood pressure in some in person visits. We do recognize that there is going to be some minimal us. But we can't modify pregnancy during the pandemic she says she's proud of her community and their willingness to wear masks to protect others just outside the nation in flagstaff. Arizona masks have become highly politicized for national native news. I'm gibson a south dakota teacher says while the stay has helped we've in curriculum about american indian history more can be done. Mike mohan reports a report last year from the national congress of american indians noted. Twenty seven states don't even mention native americans and their k. Through twelve curriculum but a majority of states surveyed said. They're trying to improve their lessons. Leslie crow who teaches on the rosebud. Indian reservation sees positive movement and south dakota but she worries. Many students aren't getting the whole story. All students need to understand that way. You know non natives can also appreciate our culture and would also be more empathetic to our culture in the way of life that we've that was taken from us grow says. She attended public schools and didn't learn much about our people's history until she transitioned to a tribal school. The state department of education didn't respond to a request for comment before deadline. But in twenty. Seven south dakota passed a law that required the development of content on the history behind the region's chimes crow. Who also is a member of the south dakota education association as part of the difficulty is getting enough staff to carry out the lesson plans and ways that students can absorb the information she thinks. If administrators encouraged more teachers to embrace the curriculum their students might have greater appreciation for the contributions or native americans. Air comes a lot of good things that are people known have like our way of life is really truly sacred and there's a lot of all these good things that really help. Our people survive. One example of teachers taking the initiative is in rapid city where a handful of educators have each been assigned roles to fully integrate the curriculum across the district. That was mike mohan reporting the cheyenne river sioux tribe enacted a shelter in place. Order monday for the community of eagle butte. south dakota due to rising cova nineteen cases. The cheyenne river. Youth project helps sir families before the order was in place with three curbside distributions last week which included fresh produce home-cooked meals and turkey. Boxes produce dinners were also given out earlier in the fall. The cheyenne river youth project is a grassroots organization dedicated to helping young people on the reservation. The shelter in place order is expected to last through the middle of next week. I'm antonio
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
Trump Administration Aims to Block New Funding for Coronavirus Testing and Tracing As Schools Try To Re-Open
"As school districts scrambled open in the middle of the coronavirus, pandemic educators at Colorado Eh across the nation say they'll need more. Support from the federal government. If they're going to open safely, school districts will need more teachers, substitutes and custodians more buses for social distancing and personal protection equipment Denver area high. School Teacher Emily Mohan Berg says teachers are eager to see their kids again, but many are also terrified. We don't know if we're going to have to purchase our own hand sanitizer kids going to be responsible for. Does that mean that I should also go by my own box of disposable? Disposable masks just in case, one of my students shows up without one new guidelines released by the American Federation of Teachers Call For holding back on reopening schools in districts until the number of new covid nineteen cases drop for at least two consecutive weeks. The Union is also calling for ramping up the capacity to test trace isolate each new case President Donald. Trump is threatened to withhold funding unless schools reopen and points to Germany, Denmark and other countries where schools have. Have reopened without problems
Data Skeptic
Bert Explained: State of the Art Language Model for NLP
"By my own personal final accounting burt is a sufficiently advanced technology and therefore tautological is magic the what is Bert. You've got to separate that in two generally areas I the bird architecture and we'll get to that but it's a very clever way of making machine learning find its way to a solution. It's providing some smart mechanisms so that when standard learning approaches are applied basically gradient descent and that sort of thing thing that it is at least plausible hopefully likely that in some unquantified period of time this unsupervised learning model will we'll develop a particularly useful and informed encoding boo not a good T. L. D. R. Let's try that again so T. L. Dr Burt Bert accepts text as input. This texts can be of arbitrary length that is a property that isn't true in a lot of historic settings the fact that sentences or a variable length and in fact in a document roughly speaking the further apart two sentences are from one another probably correlates with how much they relate into each other but it's also not that unusual for page. I Dunno ninety seven of a book to reference something of page seven in the same book having no mentions between eight ninety ninety six and expect the reader to connect those two ideas connect the definition or whatever the case may be now of course some authors are more talented at that than others but but without a doubt a true language understanding machine would amongst other things need to be able to look at arbitrary links of text. You know a model that only looks at the last last fifty words. I built a lot of stuff like that. It solves reasonable problems blunt instrumentation but that can get the job done so okay. The input is raw text text arbitrary length which is great. There's even folk wisdom about how you can split up a document in either by paragraphs or sentences or whatever so one document becomes a series collector's. Oh yeah the vector so Bert you give it as input that text and output comes a fixed length numeric vector so for the sake of this podcast cast. Let's pretend that it's a three dimensional embedding space and got X. Y. Z. The real bird or at least burt base. I guess I should say there's a whole little taxonomy Johny of birds in different variants that I will not be getting into here but the base burt is a seven hundred sixty eight dimensional vector no problem linear era algebra is linear that number is even a point of research and the original bird paper which I found it hard to believe only hit the archive October Kolber eleventh two thousand eighteen my gosh it has taken the world by storm since then Burton all the subsequent things we really didn't episode on Elmo that everyone should go back and check check out if you missed that one elmo sort of the precursor to Berta in some ways the inspiration and in other ways the benchmark has the burt paper has a really interesting way of presenting its. It's formalism it goes to great lengths to restrict a certain type of training of its model to be more or less at parity with what the ELMO team did in other words trying to say hey we're not gonNA cheat by just using more computer hardware because powder resources. You just throw more money. It wouldn't be surprising that you train a better model and then they went onset. Onset will okay if we also relaxed that constraint and see what is our model do unbounded now we have appointed comparison between how Mohan Burt and we can look at a larger training set head of Burton's see how it does as well in terms of I guess would a business person would call the return on investment from training that larger model and quite frankly paying for the computer hardware to keep it in memory.
Talking Tech
The Top iOS App downloads of 2018
"Talking tech is brought to you by wicks dot com with wicks you can use artificial design intelligence to create a stunning website right from your phone in five minutes or less. Just go to wicks dot com. That's W I X dot com and create your professional website today. Apple just released its list of the twenty most downloaded iphone apps for twenty eight teen in if the name Santho mayor, well, they should it's the same players, but with a few surprises, and I'd love to tell you today about the app that apple chose as the iphone app of the year, which you might not have heard of it's all on today's episode of talking tech. I'm Jefferson Graham with USA today. So the most downloaded app of the year is YouTube which has been around for over thirteen years. It was followed by Instagram Snapchat, Facebook messenger, Facebook the bit Moji app from Snapchat net. Flicks. Google maps g mail and Spotify. Yeah, it's the same old apps after all these years the next ten or just as familiar with two maybe new Tia names Amazon. Uber WhatsApp Andorra the wish shopping app tick tock cash Google. Photos. Google Chrome browser and Twitter more on tick tock and cash in a minute. Those are the two new ones the app that Apple's editors chose the iphone app of the year is called procreate pocket. It's an art app that sells for five bucks and it calls itself. The most powerful sketching painting and illustration app ever the app a similar to the old paint program. Many of us have used for years in windows computers. You can select different colors and styles of your paintbrush and go to town. It's a bite sized version of an app that's been available for the ipad for several years with gesture control layers incompatibility at least on the ipad with the apple pencil. A quick note about tick tock and cash tick tock is this year's teen obsession in that used to be called musically where kids with lip sync songs intil the app was bought by a Chinese company, which merged it with another app in change its name. Same sort of concept though for peer to peer pay. Payments the app, you're probably most familiar with his van mo-, which young people have generally used to split fees on pizza in rant and things. Like that square is the little dungle that you see merchants using and small businesses to pay them with your credit card without forcing them to buy credit card. Readers cash is squares answer. Then Mohan does all the same things. I'm surprised to see it on Apple's chart as I've never come across anyone using it listeners to use cash. I would love to hear from you finally other editorial winners from apple iphone game of the year. Doughnut country ipad app of the year froggy pedia apple TV app of the year, the workout apps wet for more about Apple's choices. Check out the main page of items. I'm Jefferson Graham, you've been listening to talking tech. I'm on Twitter at Jefferson Graham love to hear him, please. Subscribe and talking tech on apple podcast, please favorite show on Stitcher, which helps for people find the show and his always. Thanks, everyone. For listening talk. Tech is brought to you by wicks dot com. When you're ready to get your website up and running you wanna be able to do it quickly and efficiently and wicks dot com has got you covered. They developed artificial design intelligence that creates a stunning website for you with wicks, you can create your own professional website right from your phone, which means you can open your own online store portfolio or blog wherever you are. How's that for officiant? Just go to wicks dot com. Decide what you need a website for pick your style at your own images link your social accounts and just like that your website is ready. You'll look amazing on every device desktop and mobile and it takes less than five minutes. Plus, you can do it with one hand. So it's time to get started. Go to wicks dot com. That's W I X dot com and create your very own beautiful professional website today.
BBC World Service
Myanmar judge refuses to throw out whistleblower's testimony
"Meeting in march with mr trump's lawyers the south korean president moon jaein has dismissed the suggestion that american troops could pull out of the country if a peace deal is reached with north korea and south korean presidential spokesman kimmy gum said the two issues were unrelated sean how meeting us troops stationed in south korea are an issue regarding the alliance between south korea and the united states it has nothing to do with signing peace treaties the statements came after a presidential adviser suggested earlier in the week that it will be difficult to justify the us president presence if north and south korea signed a peace treaty nearly thirty thousand american troops are stationed in the south world news from the bbc myanmar's de facto leader aung san suu chee has said is now the appropriate time to allow united nations agencies into recline state to prepare for the safe return of the ranger refugees earlier a judge ruled that evidence given by police whistle blow in the case of two reuters journalists will be allowed to stand his myanmar correspondent nick peak two weeks ago the evidence of police captain mohan i stunned me on mom in an unprecedented display of defiance he claimed the superior had ordered that the reuters journalists be sat up they had always claimed they were framed because they were investigating the murder of rare hindu villagers by burmese soldiers the judge ruled the captain was not a hostile witness and his account was consistent however it's emerged that after giving his evidence the policeman was himself jailed for a year for misconduct meanwhile the case of the journalists drags on the french authorities say one one hundred nine people are still being held in detention flowing may day riots in we heard it protesters vandalized shops vehicles president emmanuel macron has condemned the violence ethiopian jews have appealed to the president of israel to help them migrate that to be reunited with members of their families the request was made to president reuven rivlin by jewish representatives at the start of a state visit he's making to ethiopia that the sharp reactions to cohen's by the american rapper kanye west suggesting that the enslavement.