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Discover how Rackspace Spot is democratizing cloud infrastructure with an open-market, transparent option for cloud servers. Kevin Carter, Product Director at Rackspace Technology, discusses Rackspace Spot's hypothesis and the impact of an open marketplace for cloud resources. Discover how this novel approach is transforming the industry. TIMESTAMPS[00:00:00] – Introduction & Kevin Carter's Background[00:02:00] – Journey to Rackspace and Open Source[00:04:00] – Engineering Culture and Pushing Boundaries[00:06:00] – Rackspace Spot and Market-Based Compute[00:08:00] – Cognitive vs. Technical Barriers in Cloud Adoption[00:10:00] – Tying Spot to OpenStack and Resource Scheduling[00:12:00] – Product Roadmap and Expansion of Spot[00:16:00] – Hardware Constraints and Power Consumption[00:18:00] – Scrappy Startups and Emerging Hardware Solutions[00:20:00] – Programming Languages for Accelerators (e.g., Mojo)[00:22:00] – Evolving Role of Software Engineers[00:24:00] – Importance of Collaboration and Communication[00:28:00] – Building Personal Networks Through Open Source[00:30:00] – The Power of Asking and Offering Help[00:34:00] – A Question No One Asks: Mentors[00:38:00] – The Power of Educators and Mentorship[00:40:00] – Rackspace's OpenStack and Spot Ecosystem Strategy[00:42:00] – Open Source Communities to Join[00:44:00] – Simplifying Complex Systems[00:46:00] – Getting Started with Rackspace Spot and GitHub[00:48:00] – Human Skills in the Age of GenAI - Post Interview Conversation[00:54:00] – Processing Feedback with Emotional Intelligence[00:56:00] – Encouraging Inclusive and Clear Collaboration QUOTESCHARNA PARKEY“If you can't engage with this infrastructure in a way that's going to help you, then I guarantee you it's not up to par for the direction that we're going. [...] This democratization — if you don't know how to use it — it's not doing its job.”KEVIN CARTER“Those scrappy startups are going to be the ones that solve it. They're going to figure out new and interesting ways to leverage instructions. [...] You're going to see a push from them into the hardware manufacturers to enhance workloads on FPGAs, leveraging AVX 512 instruction sets that are historically on CPU silicon, not on a GPU.”
We cover linux for better Mac gaming, Thunderbird's Android beta, and NVIDIA's Wayland progress. There's Open Razer, the release of Ubuntu 24.10, and more news about Gnome foundation. And don't forget the AMD Epyc Turin server CPU release with impressive AVX-512 support. For tips, we have "look" for doing dictionary lookups, yum and dnf tricks, pv for monitoring or slowing a pipe, and bless for a useful hex editor GUI. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4876oxh and until next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and David Ruggles Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
As the Avengers Academy winds down, the writers decided to do something fun and interesting. A good old fashion, fun chill book. Not and AvX, more of a chillax book. Using sport to do some fun goofiness. Now, this could be a book about rivals beating each other up or continuing a tale of violence and revenge, but it is not. It is just some kids playing a game. But what about those real historical rivalries? What about the people that really hated each other? The English and the French hated each other on an epic scale. From 1100 to 1800 they were almost constantly at war with each other. I know that there was real reasons for the animosity, but I truly believe that it came down to cooking styles. I have heard that chefs hold grudges. If you are into hard rock, you might know this one. Kerry King vs. Robb Flynn. Machine Head got a career boost in the mid-'90s when they landed the opening slot on a few of Slayer's tours. But by 2001, Slayer frontman Kerry King had soured on Machine Head, calling them "sell-outs" who were "responsible for rap-metal. Being a Pink Floyd Fan, I am well aware of this one. Artistic differences drove a wedge between Roger Waters and David Gilmour during the recording of their classic album “The Wall" in 1979. Waters, who viewed himself as the creative force behind the band's success, became increasingly disdainful of his fellow band members, whom he deemed musically inferior. There may be no American feud more famous than that of the Hatfields and McCoys. The feud is said to have begun during the Civil War. The Hatfields from West Virginia sided with the Confederacy while Kentucky's McCoy family remained pro-Union. Though a Hatfield may have killed a McCoy during the war, the feud really heated up in 1878. when an argument over the ownership of a pig ended with yet another death. Power is a fiery fuse when it comes to inciting a feud, especially the fascinating historical feud between the Medici and Pazzi families. In 15th-century Florence, no family was as powerful as the Medici family. While the Pazzis probably weren't the only other family to feel threatened by Medici power, they were the only ones to do anything about it. You think the Game of Thrones was something, what about the Yorks versus the Lancasters. Today, a monarch's line of inheritance is understood and accepted enough that a feud would be extremely unlikely. However, that wasn't the case in 15th century England. When King Henry VI, a Lancastrian, proved to be an unstable monarch, his York cousins launched a plot to overtake the throne. Feuds will occur, and we will see them in books. Just not in this one. We also have some merchandise over at Redbubble. We have a couple of nifty shirts for sale. https://www.redbubble.com/people/jeffrickpresent/?asc=u Check out some of our pictures at this website: https://jeffandrickpresent.wordpress.com/2024/06/14/avengers-academy-38-crosstown-rivals/ You can also subscribe and listen to us on YouTube! Our show supports the Hero Initiative, Helping Comic Creators in Need. http://www.heroinitiative.org/ Eighties Action by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3703-eighties-action License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Journey Of The Brave by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/12233-journey-of-the-brave License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Cutting-edge AI infrastructure needs all the performance it can get, but these environments must also be efficient and reliable. This episode of Utilizing Tech, brought to you by Solidigm, features Davide Villa of Xinnor discussing the value of modern software RAID and NVMe SSDs with Ace Stryker and Stephen Foskett. Xinnor xiRAID leverages the resources of the server, including the AVX instruction set found on modern CPUs, to combine NVMe SSDs, providing high performance and reliability inside the box. Modern servers have multiple internal drive slots, and all of these drives must be managed and protected in the event of failure. This is especially important in AI servers, since an ML training run can take weeks, amplifying the risk of failure. Software RAID can be used in many different implementations, with various file systems, including NFS and high-performance networks like InfiniBand. And it can be tuned to maximize performance for each workload. Xinnor can help customers to tune the software to maximize reliability of SSDs, especially with QLC flash, by adapting the chunk size and minimizing write amplification. Xinnor also produces a storage platform solution called xiSTORE that combines xiRAID with the Lustre FS clustered file system, which is already popular in HPC environments. Although many environments can benefit from a full-featured storage platform, others need a software RAID solution to combine NVMe SSDs for performance and reliability. Hosts: Stephen Foskett, Organizer of Tech Field Day: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfoskett/ Ace Stryker, Director of Product Marketing, AI Product Marketing at Solidigm: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acestryker/ Davide Villa, Chief Revenue Officer at Xinnor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-villa-b1256a2/ Follow Utilizing Tech Website: https://www.UtilizingTech.com/ X/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/UtilizingTech Tech Field Day Website: https://www.TechFieldDay.com LinkedIn: https://www.LinkedIn.com/company/Tech-Field-Day X/Twitter: https://www.Twitter.com/TechFieldDay Tags: #UtilizingTech, #Sponsored, #AIDataInfrastructure, #AI, @SFoskett, @TechFieldDay, @UtilizingTech, @Solidigm,
It is time for a three part storyline, part of the AvX crossover. Are you ready for this? No really...Are you ready? Because if you are looking at us to provide you with some context or guidance, you have forgotten that we are a Power Pack podcast. We have a few points that we want to hit here, and first we should emphasize that this series is awesome. I mean, if for no other reason than a guy with metal skin states so as he is surfing on land. But that is neither here nor there. Actually, I take that back....there is a guy surfing on land in this book. Focus on that! What we should not focus on is the absolute theft of an iconic scene. No, we will not dwell on this sacrilegious effort to somehow equate Sebastion Shaw with Wolverine. that would be a mistake and we should not spotlight it at all. What would be the point? We all know it is a cheap and unnecessary shot. Dang it! I focused on the picture when I said I was not going to. Bad Rick, you know better. I now need to punish myself severely with physical injury. It is the only way I will learn. Well, at least I have not embarrassed myself or you fine readers by introducing anything over salacious or gratuitous. Mistakes have been made, but nothing that could not be covered up with the correct amount of....clothes. We also have some merchandise over at Redbubble. We have a couple of nifty shirts for sale. https://www.redbubble.com/people/jeffrickpresent/?asc=u Please check out some interesting pictures from this book at our website: https://jeffandrickpresent.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/avengers-academy-29-protective-services-part-1/ You can also subscribe and listen to us on YouTube! Our show supports the Hero Initiative, Helping Comic Creators in Need. http://www.heroinitiative.org/ Eighties Action by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3703-eighties-action License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Carneval by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/221-carneval License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
On this episode I recap the black order season, I review the result of my match in the Snap Judgement tournament and what I learned while having fun! I preview the new season of AvX and talk about both Hope Summers and Pixie. I give my early review, grades and advice on if YOU should pick them up. I talk about my final results from last month and how I finished, weekends with Agatha successful again, a quick rant about proving grounds and a comic book spotlight of one of my favorite books of all time (not marvel).
Plenty of you were joking about the Kirkland Irons looking a little like the P790s...Believe me when I say - TaylorMade was not laughing. Chris and Tony break down the lawsuit that dropped this week, chat about LIV's latest, and some of the bigger golf ball news for 3 different manufacturers
A Gaming AI Dev joins to discuss what hardware you'll need to power next gen games! [SPON: Use ''brokensilicon30'' for $30 OFF $500+ Flexispot Orders: https://bit.ly/3RcyPla ] [SPON: “brokensilicon” at CDKeyOffer Black Friday: https://www.cdkeyoffer.com/cko/Moore10 ] [SPON: Get 10% off Tasty Vite Ramen with code BROKENSILICON: https://bit.ly/3wKx6v1 ] #blackfriday #windows11 0:00 Getting to know our guest, how to get into AI 5:15 What is Pygmalion building to change gaming? 11:31 The Next 2D - 3D Moment for Gaming could be Neural Engine AI 20:44 AMD Hawk Point and the Importance of TOPs in APUs 27:30 Intel Meteor Lake's NPU – Does it matter if it's weaker than AMD? 33:03 AMD vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X 40:45 Intel's AVX-512 & NPU Adoption Problem with AI... 53:01 Predicting how soon we'll get Next Gen AI in Games 1:00:45 Can the PS5 run Next Gen AI? …what about the XSS? 1:16:26 How might the PlayStation 6 do AI? 1:27:19 AMD's Advancing AI Event & ROCm, Nvidia's AI Advantage 1:50:20 Intel AI – Are they behind? Will RDNA 4 be big for AI? 2:03:19 Will future APUs be as strong as H100? When will the AI bubble pop? 2:15:22 Will AI hurt Gaming long term? 2:33:14 AI Ethics and AI's impact on Artists $400 RX 6800: https://amzn.to/3uRsLqX Main Domain (pygmalion.ai is not them): https://pygmalion.chat/ Discord with Active Devs: https://discord.com/invite/pygmalionai AI engine github: https://github.com/PygmalionAI/aphrodite-engine Guest's github (very new): https://github.com/IsaiahGossner Main github for the project: https://github.com/PygmalionAI Their hugging face, where actual models are stored: https://huggingface.co/PygmalionAI https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-12-6-amd-showcases-growing-momentum-for-amd-powered-ai-.html https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AMD-Instinct-MI300-Launch_Page_50.jpg https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AMD-Instinct-MI300-Launch_Page_49.jpg Bryan Heemskerk AI Episode: https://youtu.be/NDEka3tBE1g?si=pd6_xNPgMxo7Jltd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCxHcvtpfAk&ab_channel=Moore%27sLawIsDead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/playstation-6-concept
Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan - Titles we almost went with this week:
Things get downright evil as we delve into Nathaniel Essex, aka MISTER SINISTER! How messy does this diva get? Listen now to find out! Issue 181 - Mister Sinister Intro Background (2:17) Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) created by Chris Claremont in Uncanny X-Men #212 (Dec. 1986) - first seen in #221 (Sept. 1987) drawn by Marc Silvestri Nathaniel Essex born in Victorian London, he is intrigued by Darwin's theories of evolution and survival of the fittest, but believes that mankind can go further After his 4-year-old son dies, he believes that science can perfect the human race - to that end, he hires a gang to kidnap homeless people to serve as test subjects - he allies with Apocalypse, as they share a common goal His wife discovers his imprisoned test subjects, as well as their dead son that Essex had dug up to experiment on - she goes into premature birth, and dies from blood loss, calling him sinister - he takes on the name after En Sabah Nur transforms him with Celestial technology, giving him the powers of immortality and telekinesis Sinister tries to kill Apocalypse, but fails - he commits himself to creating a mutant who can kill him, this leads to the eventual creation of Cable Sinister collaborates with many villains & characters throughout the decades, including being responsible for setting up the High Evolutionary, and having his research be the basis for Weapon X project He keys in on the Summers line, after secretly establishing an orphanage to keep track of children of his experiments - it is here he meets a young boy named Scott Summers, descendant of one of his earliest subjects - Sinister pretends to be Nate, another orphan, and tries to manipulate Scott to become an ally to Sinister until Scott is rescued by Xavier Creates a clone of Jean Grey after determining that a child of Scott and Jean would be capable of killing Apocalypse - after the Phoenix Saga, Scott meets Madelyne Pryor at a Summers family reunion, leading to a whole bunch of messiness Encounters the X-men for the first time during Mutant Massacre Dies during Messiah Complex when he attempts to kidnap the newborn baby Hope - due to earlier experimentations, his consciousness transfers first to Xavier, before transferring to Claudine Renko, a former test subject - she calls herself Miss Sinister Later is restored to a male form and creates an entire civilization of Sinister clones in San Francisco in an attempt to get Celestials to wipe out the planet so he can start anew - this is Kieron Gillen's reboot of the character, and all subsequent stories work off this version Creates five Madelyne clones in an effort to house the Phoenix Force during AvX, but the Phoenix Five destroy everything Sinister built This Sinister is killed by another clone with an X-gene, making Sinister a mutant - it is this clone that works with Xavier and Magneto to compile a database of mutant DNA for the new Krakoan society, and he joins the Quiet Council He also creates several clones of Moira MacTaggert, and exploits her timeline reset ability to his benefit, which leads to Sins of Sinister, where he successfully kills Xavier, Hope, Emma Frost, and Exodus, creating a dystopian future for mutants and mankind Issues - Theme is “The show must go on, but when does it stop?” (12:10) Constant experimentation on others and himself in pursuit of perfection Presentation and theatricality often doom his efforts (17:06) Wants everyone to underestimate him, but overestimates himself (22:14) Break (28:10) Plugs for Frigay the 13th, Hops Geek, and Chris Claremont Treatment (30:20) In-universe - The ultimate family meeting Out of universe - Review making changes just for changes sake Skit (42:40) Hello Mr. Sinister, I'm Dr. Issues. - Hello…Doctor…you know, that doesn't quite fit what we should be going for, here. I don't follow. -While I prefer my choice of moniker, I don't want any mistake in how this works. I am also a doctor. But that's not ALL I am, at this point. Do you catch my drift? So we're colleagues, and I have every intention of giving you the respect you deserve. -Oh, but that's where you're wrong. Colleague denotes equals, peers. There is no such thing with me. Are you trying to intimidate me, or…-*interrupting* Oh my, no! If I wanted to have you cowering in fear, I would simply tear your mind asunder. Then replace it backwards. No, this is all trivial to me. But I'm bored, so let's see where this goes now that I've established dominance. I don't think I've been so eloquently insulted in all of my life! -You're welcome. *clearly angry, but not stupid enough to act* I don't want to be rude back, but if you have no interest in changing anything about yourself, then this is going to be fruitless. -Nonsense, dear doctor. I am all about change for the better. That's why I'm here. I sought you out. That's refreshing…I guess? Then why demean me? -Is it demeaning to say that an insect is expendable, or a seed only has value once planted? You sound like someone I met once -I know…I learned from the best. So what do you want to change? -*truly evil smile* YOU, my dear Doctor Issues *gulp* I'm always looking to improve…but…um…that's not how therapy works. -Do you doubt that the transference and countertransference phenomenon that were known when I was a much younger lad are true? EVERY therapist changes the moment they speak with a patient. But that is too slow. I need to see my results in real time. *fearful* A..aaaaa…as a doctor, you know that consent is a VERY important part of any changes that would be proposed, and I don't give you that -*curt* This is NOT a review board or ethics panel. What I say, goes. Understand?! Is it too late to say that you're falling back on past patterns of aggression for the sake of comfort in a new environment? -If this were truly a new environment, then you wouldn't be in such dire straits right now. Oh, the torment you may feel for a short while will be well worth my efforts. I will admit though *whispering* I'm not gentle. I would like the anger back, please. Creepy is much worse. -Who said anything about creepy? I'm not hidden about my intentions. My name says enough. Perhaps I could interest you in the meaning behind that also referring to left-handed orientation? -More stalling. *yawn* You are coming off as pathetic now. So, you're not trying to scare me, you're not interested in what I have to say, and you want to...do SOMETHING and I don't know what. Are you trying to build anticipation? I'm confused. -Perhaps ***awkward pause*** OK I've had it. Just do it. Kill me, or torture me, or whatever it is you plan to do because it takes a lot for me to lose my patience nowadays. Just know that each time I try to start a conversation that may be insightful…THERAPEUTIC even, you have ignored it, or mocked it, or intimidated me about it. You're trying to play me like a fool, and I'm NOT having it. I can tell you're cunning, but nobody's really that catty about mental wellness treatment. -Well then, let's see how well your sessions go without this oh so beautiful couch to sit on. *ripping sounds* WHAT? Seriously? It's in the name! Who messes up a couch? -You need someone like me to make this whole room over. Your office is in shambles. Have you never heard of feng shui? I don't care -*interrupting* Obviously you don't. And your clothes…a button down shirt with stripes? How tacky are you? Is this what you consider changing me for the better? A mastermind doesn't waste their time focusing on minutiae to criticize! - You think this is beneath me? Forget about Lizzo, darling, I engineered my DNA to be 100% that bitch. So then what are your plans for my DNA? -Oh you simple, simple man. You have to learn how to put a comb through your hair, get a decent suit, learn how to tie your shoes properly AND find a decent non-offensive cologne before I ever do gene-work on you! For once, I must focus on the outside instead of what's inside. I'll be here every week until you are worthy of being my next great experiment. Then I'll keep trying to be an example of a regular person who is willing to accept imperfections. I hope that sinks in. -Nonsense. Until then, consider this my parting gift *laser sound* Whoa…did you just…laser shave…um…but my clothes are still on…you know what? I don't want to talk about it. That was without my consent. - You're quite welcome. This time it was hair. Next time, it will be more than that if you're not careful. Ending (48:36) Recommended reading: Immortal X-Men, Cerebro episode on Sinister Next episodes: Ventriloquist, Bigby Wolf, Eobard Thawne Plugs for social & GonnaGeek Network References: Chris Claremont interview - Anthony (5:45) Gambit episode - Anthony (6:25) Moira McTaggart episode - Anthony (9:15) Cerebro podcast with Kieron Gillen - Anthony (11:23) Transcript Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook TikTok Patreon TeePublic Discord
Array Cast - September 1, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Lynn Sutherland and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:34 2023 APL Problem Solving Results https://www.dyalog.com/news/156/420/2023-APL-Problem-Solving-Competition-Winners.htm Dyalog System Admin/Enterprise Architect opening https://www.dyalog.com/careers.htm#sysadmin[02] 00:02:18 BQN Licensing change to MPL https://github.com/dzaima/CBQN/tree/master#licensing[03] 00:03:11 Contact Stephen about q tutorials sjt AT 5jt DOT com[04] 00:04:51 Nial Programming Language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Nial APL Farm discord https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Farm Alberta Research Council/Alberta Innovates https://albertainnovates.ca/ National Resource Council https://nrc.canada.ca/en/corporate/about-nrc MaRS Institute https://www.marsdd.com/[05] 00:11:12 Queens University https://www.queensu.ca/ Mike Jenkins https://www.cs.queensu.ca/people/Mike/Jenkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-jenkins-1ba84915/ Trenchard More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchard_More[06] 00:14:10 Procedural Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming VAX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX IBM PC XT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_XT[07] 00:17:20 Nested Array Theory https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Array_model#Nested_array_theory[08] 00:18:43 Jim Brown https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Jim_Brown[09] 00:25:14 Computer Language Magazine https://archive.org/details/computerlanguage Carl McCrosky https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-mccrosky-b936051/ Intel AVX512 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512[10] 00:27:21 OpenAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI Triton OpenAI https://openai.com/research/triton[11] 00:29:31 APL 84 Helsinki https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_conference#1984[12] 00:31:15 Dyalog https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Dyalog_APL KX https://kx.com/ Julia Programming Language https://julialang.org/ Clojure Programming Language https://clojure.org/ Unix Operating System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Red Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat Sun Microsystems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_microsystems[13] 00:34:15 Matlab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab[14] 00:38:09 Java Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_programming BQN Programming Language Modifiers https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/ops.html#modifiers J Programming Language Gerunds https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/GerundsAndAtomicRepresentation[15] 00:40:39 Nial tutorial https://www.nial-array-language.org/ndocs/intro/[16] 00:42:25 Strand Notation https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Strand_notation Combinators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic Nial Atlas https://www.nial-array-language.org/ndocs/NialDict2.html#atlas Point free programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming[17] 00:44:43 eachboth https://www.nial-array-language.org/ndocs/dict/#eachboth[18] 00:46:56 q Programming Language https://code.kx.com/q/learn/startingkdb/language/ peach https://code.kx.com/q/basics/peach/ J threads https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/tcapdot#dyadic[19] 00:51:25 Nial website https://www.nial-array-language.org/[20] 00:52:37 Order of Operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations[21] 00:55:00 Javascript Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript Unary Functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_functions Smalltalk Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk[22] 01:02:50 TIO Nial Examples https://tio.run/##y8tMzPn/P7EstSgxPVUhs1hBP7q4NFdHoSQxJ6cy1pqrvCizJFUBJm@oYKRgrGDy/z8A https://tio.run/##y8tMzPn/v7wosyRVQVtBS0HD0EDByEATSCsYaf7/DwA https://tio.run/##y8tMzPn/v7wosyRVQVvB0EDByEBBS8FQwej/fwA https://tio.run/##y8tMzPn/v7wosyRVQUNbwdBAwchAQUvBUMFI8/9/AA https://tio.run/##y8tMzPn/v7wosyRVQVtBw9BAwchAU0ELyFIw0vz/HwA https://tio.run/##y8tMzPn/v7wosyRVQcPQQEFDK1pXRztWU8FI8/9/AAOnline Nial Interpreter https://niallang.github.io/NIAL_WASM/[23] 01:17:48 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT Com
Welcome to episode 224 of The CloudPod Podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan discuss some major changes at Terraform, including switching from open source to a BSL License. Additionally, we cover updates to Amazon S3, goodies from Storage Day, and Google Gemini vs. Open AI. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week's title was ✨chef's kiss✨ A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
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Cuando la fuerza Fénix se dirige nuevamente a la tierra provocada un enfrentamiento extremo entre los X-men y los Vengadores. Aliados se volverán enemigos y Scott Summers se volvera loco en este drama cósmicos intitulado: AVX
We continue Cosmic May with a look at the newest member of the Nova Corps, Sam Alexander! How does Sam stack up against other heroes, and his own expectations? Intro Last call for PuchiCon Hiatus coming up in June Background (7:05) Sam Alexander created by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness in Marvel Point One #1 (Nov 2011) Character named after Jeph's son Sam who died of cancer when he was 17 Sam Alexander lives in a small Arizona town with his little sister, mother, and father Jesse, who works as a janitor at Sam's school, and is always drunkenly telling stories about how he was a member of the Nova Corps One night Jesse disappears, and then Sam is visited by Gamora & Rocket Raccoon, who give him Jesse's helmet and tell him he's the only Nova Corps member left in the galaxy - after the initial surprise, he encounters and heavily damages a Chitauri invasion fleet heading towards Earth, and upon his return gets trained by Gamora & Rocket Joins the Avengers briefly during AvX, and then allies with Speedball & Justice for a new iteration of the New Warriors Utatu eventually revealed that Jesse was alive, sending Sam into a state of elation Discovers Jesse serving as a Chitauri slave, and brings him home - only to later discover that it was a clone made by the Chitauri to get close to Sam, kill him, and get the helmet - the truth sends Sam into a depressive state Joins the Champions after Civil War II, as he Kamala and Miles are dissatisfied with the Avengers and their actions He encounters a returned Richard Rider, who mentors him for a spell After the Champions capture a major villain, Sam's helmet is confiscated because the kids went rogue in their efforts - this once again spirals him into depression, although he later gets it back Issues - Theme is looking for love in all the wrong places (9:40) Always looking for a father figure Ruby - stopped “hero-worshiping” his dad - that moment when kids realize their parents are only human and just as flawed as they are (17:38) Usually feels he's the odd man out on any team, whether the Avengers, Champions, or Nova Corps (25:56) Break (33:50) Plugs for Not If I Reboot You First, Geek Peak, and Howard Mackie Treatment (35:28) In-universe - Have Sam work on things without the helmet Out of universe - (38:07) Skit (42:25) DOC: Hello Sam, I'm Dr. Issues. SAM: Hey. DOC: Thanks for taking the time to meet with me, I know you're very busy. SAM: Yeah, well not like I had much say in the matter. DOC: I understand this isn't easy for you. SAM: I don't know why Kamala is being such a hardass about all this. She said I couldn't have the helmet back until I talked to you. DOC: Let's not focus so much on how we got here, and start talking about what we can accomplish while we're here. SAM: *mutters*Yeah, I could go get the Ultimate Nullifier from the moon dude and end this- DOC: What was that? SAM: Ugh, nevermind. I'm just sick and tired of always losing this helmet, having it taken away from me, or whatever. It's like… no one gets it. DOC: Then explain it to me. SAM: What difference would it make? DOC: Seems to me it would make all the difference in the world. The helmet sounds pretty special to you. Would it help you feel better to have me understand it? SAM: I dunno, maybe? DOC: There's your answer, then. SAM: Can you help me get it back? DOC: You said Kamala won't give it back until you talk to me, right? So, talk to me. SAM: Fine. So, this helmet… it was my dad's. He wasn't always the best dad growing up, and he told me all these stories about how he was in the Nova Corps and he fought all these amazing battles in space and saved people all the time. I never believed him. And then one day he disappeared without a trace, but he left the helmet to me. Well, he left it to a talking raccoon and a green assassin lady, but he told them to give it to me. And it gives me all kinds of awesome powers. I can fly, I can fire energy blasts, I'm super strong. That helmet made me the only Nova Corpsman left. Well, at least until Rich came back. And it made me an Avenger, a Champion. It's helped me save the planet, the universe, other worlds. Yeah, it's brought me some trouble, but it also helped me protect my family more times than I can count. And it's helping me search for my dad, because he's alive somewhere out there, and I'm gonna find him one day, no matter what it takes. So this helmet… it's a huge part of me, it's who I am. And every time I don't have it, I feel like… like I'm losing a part of myself. Like I always have to keep fighting to keep my identity. DOC: I see. SAM: And I wish I could make other people see how much it means to me. DOC: Have you told them that? SAM: Yeah, lots of times. DOC: What kind of reaction do you get? SAM: People roll their eyes, or they laugh and say stuff like “you need to be a hero without the helmet” or crap like that. And it's like, obviously I can't fly through space without the helmet, so yeah it makes a difference. I'm not, like, Thor or somebody. Doesn't make me less of a hero. DOC: I understand. SAM: Do you really…REALLY? *sarcasm* you've traveled to other worlds and saved people? DOC: No…I've listened to hundreds, maybe thousands of people place part or all of their identity into one facet of their life and whenever it's not there, they try to compensate by recreating that part of themselves in other areas where it just won't fit. SAM: Oh. OK. That… kinda sounds a little accurate… DOC: Then when you try to loop in the ones that you think would understand, they're dismissive because they already have their own defense mechanisms and don't necessarily want to open up that can of worms talking to you about it. SAM: Uh…yeah…I guess that's right DOC: And at least there's someone that can show you how to do things right…if you're lucky, but then they probably don't want to stick around for all of the things going on in your head, and THEY bounce, so you feel like you're back to square one again! SAM: I mean, sometimes that's true, like with Rich. Who am I compared to that guy? But he knows what he's doing, not that I don't but, come on, man! And there's one thing you probably can't relate to still, because nobody really does. DOC: That being… SAM: *pause, deep breath* Can I ask you for an opinion? DOC: My degree and my session timer say yes. SAM: Ok…ok…a lot of times, I mention my dad, and that's when people shut me out. I don't know why. I think it's because they think I'm being a moron or too soft. Is that it? DOC: *pause* I doubt it. SAM: Why'd you hesitate? DOC: Because I don't know. I don't know all of the people you interact with. But I will tell you this. In general, people don't think about you nearly as much as you think they do, unless you are directly bringing things up about yourself. Then the switch goes on and they have to use their mental bandwidth in a way that they didn't expect. I have to pause, and it's my job. Imagine what that's like for a layperson…even a superpowered layperson. SAM: Huh. That's deep. DOC: It can go deeper. I don't think that's your real question. SAM: I don't understand. DOC: You didn't get this far to say all of this stuff to me just for the helmet. Your dad question is right street, wrong block. SAM: So I'm in the neighborhood? DOC: I…guess…thank you for explaining the metaphor. Anyway, my point is, I think you're having some conviction issues about the search for your father. SAM: It's not that I don't believe he's out there. It's just… I had thought the search was over. I brought him home. And he turned out to be a clone. That… that broke me. Because it was like losing him a second time. So now I'm back at square one. DOC: Now that, I won't pretend to understand. That type of grief doesn't vanish. Just so you know, there's no right answer. If you want to actively search, maybe take a set amount of time when you can, it makes sense. If you want to put it on the back burner, and focus on other things while you heal, that works too. Either way, we can work out a plan. SAM: Does that plan involve me getting my helmet back? DOC: *sigh* Well since you have to function at a high level I guess I have some pull to say you should have the helmet. But I'm not going to fight anyone who takes it away from you. Work out your own relationships, ok? SAM: Sooooo…I DO get the helmet back? DOC: Yes. Fine. But my point is if Kamala says no - SAM: *ignoring the last part* I get my hellllllmet, I get my helllllllmet…SWEET! Ending (50:05) Recommended reading: First Nova series (Loeb/Wells), Champions Next episodes: Galactus, Nova (Richard Rider), Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099) Plugs for social & GonnaGeek Network References: Eddie Murphy Buckwheat - Anthony (9:42) PKJ Interview - Anthony (24:53) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook TikTok Patreon TeePublic Discord
It's Saturday Morning! Put on your PJ's, pour a bowl of cereal, and join me and special returning special guest host, my sister Arianna, for a stroll down memory lane on today's Saturday Morning Sniktoons! On our fifty third episode we discuss the comic book storyline inspired by today's cartoon episode, Age of Apocalypse, but before that I rant a little about AvX. After the discussion on the two events we compare a very special top five: Age of Apocalypse character designs. Afterwards we continue our chronicle of X-Men The Animated Series by breaking down the ninth AND tenth episodes of the fourth season: One Man's Worth parts One and Two. If you like the show and want to continue the conversation you can reach out to me via email at Talksnikt@gmail.com. If you're up for something a little more personal consider joining the Talkin Snikt discord by following the link here: https://discord.gg/wJD5d8n4. Until next time, Bub!
For more info on the Dallas Shootout, visit: DallasShootout.com. Tori sits down with Beth Yahara, a member of the Titleist Golf Ball Fitting Team. Listen in as Beth shares how any player, whether beginner or expert, can find the right ball for them. She smashes several common golf ball myths, and unpacks the three primary factors to keep in mind when choosing a ball: flight, feel, and spin. Key Moments ● (03:01) Swing speed doesn't matter. Regardless of your gender, handicap, and all other factors, swing speed is not the most important factor in your game. ● (07:35) The cover of the golf ball is its most important component. It's almost always unintentional, but it will throw off a lot of players. The cover is the brakes of the golf ball—what helps it stop. The softer the cover material, the better it interacts with the grooves of the ball. ● (10:26) There are two types of stopping power. The “cover” takes care of shots going around 50 yards out. Fuller golf swings—around 150 yards coming into the green—come from the “core”, the engine of the golf ball. The Pro V1, Pro V1x, and AVX golf balls will give you your best short game control. The flagship differences between the three balls are flight, feel, and spin. ● (15:52) You can identify the year of a Titleist golf ball by reading its sidestamp. The flight, feel, and spin of a Pro V1 from 2013 is different from one from 2018. This is why it's so important to be fit for a golf ball to find one that suits your game. ● (27:19) Pro V1, Pro V1x, and AVX balls come in optic yellow. There is a “sheen” to these balls that allow sunlight to reflect off of them while airborne, making them easier to see. ● (36:28) Even beginners can benefit from playing a golf ball they were fitted for. This is for the same reason getting fit for clubs early on can be extremely beneficial. Simply, it allows you to get better, quicker. ● (43:59) The higher the elevation, the farther the ball goes. Other factors that influence the ball include humidity and weather. However, it's important to play with the same golf ball no matter the weather, and to store them in a controlled environment regardless of season. ● (46:40) The feel of the golf ball is influenced by the compression of the core. Cores are all solid rubber. A low-compression golf ball, such as 60 compression, will feel softer than 110 compression. One is not better than the other. As with weather and temperature, performance all depends on the player. This is why players must practice with the balls they normally play with. ● (54:03) Having a low swing speed doesn't necessarily mean you need a lower-compression ball. This enduring myth came out from the days of ball cores being made of rubber bands. Rather, take note of how high you hit the ball, how much spin you have on the ball, and your feel preference. You don't need to get to the center of the ball anymore. If you make 50 yards, you're fully compressing the golf ball. Connect with Our Guests: Titleist Instagram Get Fitted for Your Perfect Golf Ball HERE Subscribe to our FREE Female Golfer Facebook Group: First T Crew [Behind the Scenes of Women's Golf] Get in touch! Instagram: @tori_totlis TikTok: @tori_totlis YouTube: @tori.totlis Website: CompeteConfidenceGolf.com Be sure you are subscribed to our podcast to automatically receive the NEW episodes weekly!!!
Mike, Kara, and Paul come together to discuss big, bombastic, stupid comics that are dumb and fun. Also: Mike goes on a(nother) Hellraiser rant, Paul discussed bad(?) Batman comics, and Kara goes deep into skin care courtesy of a how-to manga.Timestamps:00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics00:03:17 - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands00:07:17 - Makeup is Not (Just) Magic: A Manga Guide to Cosmetics00:17:39 - Fantastic Four (2022) #100:24:06 - Batman Special #1 / Batman: Year Two00:34:51 - Big Ethel Energy Vol 100:41:26 - Gospel #100:43:02 - Hellraiser Omnibus Vol 100:51:58 - Top of Our Pile00:52:14 - Captain Carter: Woman Out of Time00:53:52 - Below Ambition00:56:01 - Listener Picks00:57:16 - Kroma #100:59:41 - Bombastic Comics: Big Dumb Fun01:24:05 - The gangs Perfect Picks for Dumb Fun Comics01:28:27 - Wrap/CreditsMusic provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVELProducer: Mike RapinProoflistener: Daniel MartinezEditor: Zander RiggsSupport us on Patreon to get access to our Patreon-only series: IRCB Movie Club, Saga of Saga, Giant Days of Our Lives, A Better Batmobile, and more! patreon.com/ircbpodcastEmail: ircbpodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @ircbpodcastInstagram: @ircbpodcastDiscord: discordapp.com/invite/E8JUB9sReddit: ireadcomicbooks.reddit.comIRCB GoodreadsMerch: shop.ircbpodcast.com
Before he makes his big screen debut in Wakanda Forever, we take a deep dive on NAMOR! To what depths does his distrust of the surface world go? Intro New patron: Citizen Amar-Kareem Background (4:55) Namor Mckenzie, the Sub-Mariner, created by Bill Everett in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly (April 1939) and Marvel Comics #1 (October 1939) Namor was born from a human father, sea captain Leonard McKenzie, and an Atlantean, Fen, daughter of Emperor Thakorr His unique parentage gave him both strengths and weaknesses that other Atlanteans did not possess: he is pink skinned like humans as opposed to the blue skin of pureblood Atlanteans, but he cannot survive in water or on land for prolonged periods of time, or it will impact his psyche Initially Namor was, if not a full villain, at best an antihero or well-intentioned extremist, attacking Americans in the name of protecting Atlantis and the ocean Once WWII started, he joined other heroes in attacking Nazis After WWII, he suffered an amnesiac attack, and once he recovered, he joined Professor Xavier in searching for mutants - Xavier's attempt at repairing his memories, however, created further issues in Namor's mind, and gave him bipolar disorder He was later found wandering the streets of New York as an amnesiac vagrant - upon learning that Atlantis was destroyed by nuclear bombs, his memories returned and he vowed revenge on the surface world, pitting him against the Fantastic Four numerous times He would attempt several times to woo Susan Storm away from Reed, but although Sue admits an attraction to Namor, she remains loyal to her husband He married twice - his first wife Dorma was killed shortly after the wedding by an evil mermaid, and his second wife Marrina was driven mad, and Namor was forced to kill her with the Ebony Blade - she survived, and Norman Osborn altered her DNA to turn her into a raging beast as part of his revenge on Namor, who killed her once again #BecauseComics In the 90s, he searches for sunken treasures and uses the money to finance a corporation that focuses on conservation He is a member of the Illuminati, and notably the only one opposed to sending the Hulk into space, as he foresaw dire consequences should Bruce return - he was the only one who Bruce didn't seek vengeance upon when Hulk came back Due to his mutant abilities, he formally joins the X-Men, and is one of the Phoenix Five during AvX, but is the first one to be defeated and lose his Phoenix Force powers Namor is killed by the Squadron Supreme in retaliation for his numerous attacks on Earth and other worlds, but this is undone by time travel after the team realized Namor's murder would lead to global destruction Fights the Agents of Atlas after Atlantis' guardian dragon is stolen - after some battling, Namor & the agents come to an understanding, and then team up against the King in Black Issues - born of two worlds, welcome in neither Mixed parentage creates hostility Unique physiology leads to bipolar disorder, or at least manic/depressive swings Zealotry for Atlanteans leads to issues with both his people as well as surface dwellers Break Plugs for Last Sons of Krypton, Cheers to Comics, and Meghan Fitzmartin Treatment In-universe - Out of universe - Mixed race parentage Skit Hello Namor, I'm Dr. Issues. - I am King Namor, ruler of Atlantis. I am not one of your colleagues, we are not fraternizing over a beverage. You will address me accordingly. My apologies, your majesty…your highness…your Atlantean Majestic highness? I'm bad at this. -I gave you one job and yet you have failed. But I am a forgiving ruler, so you will get one more chance. Thank you, King Namo…wait, you don't rule me! -That is not the point. As long as you show the proper respect, and the appropriate decorum, then I have no quarrel with you. Very well then. What does the mighty King of Atlantis have to gain from gracing the presence of a common land-dwelling human psychiatrist? -I would have thought that my message was delivered ahead of time. If not, then I will be forced to punish the one that failed to deliver said message, AND then I will have them re-send that message twice as fast the next time. There is no room for error in troubling times such as these. So…what was the message? - That I, albeit one of the most important figures in existence, has made his mark on the world, yet still find challenges that can only be mastered through the guiding hand of one with the knowledge of the mind. You, my humble servant, are such a man. Um…thanks? So, what can I help you with? -My people have respected me for so long that I worry they no longer fear me the way they should. There is no room for comfort when our world remains in great peril on all sides. No offense but, that comes across a bit paranoid. -You wouldn't say that if you have fought the battles we have fought. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. But why would you want fear instead of respect? Fear is the more primal response and that sounds…beneath you. -Fear can be harnessed. Respect is dormant, docile even. Boy, you really have a hard edge. Do you ever relax? -I am capable of the finest travels in leisure only privy to those that would dare seek such an endeavor. *pause* Such as… -That's classified. It is beneath a man of my stature to, as you say, kiss and tell. Oooooookaaaaay…are you always this obtuse? -There is no need to use such language! Remember your place amongst royalty. *pause* You don't know what that word means, do you? -*pause* The kingdom of Atlantis has no need for obscure vocabulary. We speak directly, we are a people of action. All you're talking about so far is your people. That's nice, but the point of individual therapy is the individual. What do you want to change? -Nothing. Then we're done here. What's the point? -You once again have a misguided approach. I am saying that I value consistency. Tradition. Honor. Or are those concepts too…obtuse for you to comprehend? You want permanent, everlasting control of that which is important to you. -Now we are speaking the right language. As a psychiatrist, I must inform you, King Namor of the Atlanteans, that I am in no position to make any such guarantee that our sessions will yield that result. - I see. You need to work on your delivery of sarcasm. It does not match any of my rivals for wit or passion. You're USED to people talking to you that way? Did you ever think that it's because you get under the skin of every person you meet? -A pearl is made by an irritant of sand in an oyster's mouth. And yet, not every oyster produces a pearl. My lot in life is to create more treasures of the sea. Why should I care if others are intolerable of my grit? I'm not sure that's a “lot” in life instead of a conscious choice. -*pause* That's not a question. I…don't think I wanted it to be a question? Anyway, you're blocking my attempts to understand your emotions, your thought process, and your values. What do you want from me? -Well, you haven't attempted to throw me out of your office yet, so that tells me you are more tolerant than most plebs. ***paper unfurls*** Here's a list of every goal that is relevant to my success. The first 50 of them are crossed off. You don't need to show me those. -Then how will you know of my great achievements? I agree -What? *quickly* Nothing…now, you name at least 20 people here and simply have an exclamation point next to their names…except Sue, where you have a heart…but there are no details for any of them - I don't need explanations; I know what they mean. But I DON'T know what they mean! -That's for you to decipher as we talk over the next 22 sessions 22?! Aww man…um, why 22? -I have a full calendar of every in-person session and phone call that we'll have so that you can't say “I'm busy” at the last moment. Your online system is truly convenient. Are you trying to make up for a lack of other attachments by putting more energy into me? -*pause* You say it like it's a bad thing. 15 minute…10 minute time limit - But I *interrupting* and only 3 topics -You are in no position to *interrupting again* plus if you are more than 5 minutes late I charge double -*pause* you are trying to create barriers. I see. But a king never yields. You WILL treat me and you WILL know my greatness. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go salvage a barren stretch of an unknown trench that you have never heard of but will save countless ocean creatures for the sake of Atlantean commerce. I'll be sure to send you a private message when it concludes at…oh, about 4AM on your time scale. *heaviest sigh* I look forward to it. - Now THAT was better. 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How To Buy NFTs What is a Non-Fungible Token NFT How To Make Your Own NFT Best NFT InvestmentsEpisode Summary:Today's episode of The Roadmap:NFT HeadlinesHosts:Chris KatjeBrian MoirProducers:Alyssa ColeFollow The Roadmap on Twitter!Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited Transcript:all right, everyone. Yet, this is the roadmap Benzinga NFT show. We've got so much to talk about as we previewed last. We had one of the biggest sporting events, the super bowl. And there was tons of rumors, tons of conversation about what was going to happen during the big game. So without further ado, let me bring on the man who I talked to about all those rumors and all that news we have Benzingers oh, Brian Moore Hola. Brian, before we get started today, I have to remind everyone that today's show is sponsored by FPX U S one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume and daily use. The FTX app is used by over 6 million people that buy crypto and NFTs, no transaction or withdrawal fees from your phone or computer.And that FTX us trading platform offers NFT trading on both the Ethereum and Solano blockchains with no gas fees. You can find out more by clicking on the link in the description below and also pinned to the chat right now. And Brian, speaking of FTX we talked about this last week, right? That our friends from FTX, we're going to have a super bowl commercial and they were also going to be giving away Bitcoin based on what time that commercial aired.So Brian. That commercial was the FTX featuring Larry David. It was one of the most talked about commercials and I thought really well done and really funny. What'd you think of that commercial? Yeah, I really liked it. I liked the other coin based one where I had no idea what was going on with it, the bouncing around on the screen. So Brian I was way off with my guests on a FTX. I thought that commercial was going to error like nine o'clock. And it actually, I shared the tweet here. 7 54 was the actual time. So they're giving away 7.5 for a Bitcoin to anyone who retweeted and entered that contest. Fingers crossed here, of course, but again, props to our friends at FTX for getting that Superbowl commercial out.And then Brian, you of course mentioned the other one that I've heard so many people talk about. Coinbase not a 32nd ad. They did a full minute, right? Yeah. What seemed like it would last forever, which was probably good because it gave a lot of people time to figure out what was going on. So $14 million is the estimated cost that they spent for that 60 seconds to have a QR code bounce around. And. For many of us in the crypto space, in the NFT space, I think we knew what was happening right away. I grabbed my phone so fast, Brian. I already had it out because I was live tweeting commercials during the super bowl, but I scan that QR code and I was hoping, Hey, it's going to be the Coinbase NFT marketplace.Let's go, let's start buying NFTs. It wasn't but still just disappointed. Like I even, I ran into. As I was in the kitchen, fixing, finishing what were made for dinner because my wife and I stayed home and I saw it on my phone and of course I couldn't do anything for my phone. So I ran into the bedroom, we were watching it and then I started scanning it and got it.And I was like, really disappointed, but she had no idea what the hell was going on. And she was like, I don't get it. That was stupid. Why? And I was like I bet a lot of people scan that. And then a lot of you are disappointed like me because we didn't really get anything. Yeah. And that's the key point, and I, as my, my takeaway is that I scanned as fast as I could. And what did I get out of it? Nothing, possibly something. So on the top of it, something to talk about, there you go. And what did they get a ton of new users potentially. And that's what they spent money on. Of course. And also Brian, I saw the data yesterday, there.Chief product officer actually said that they had 20 million visitors to their website in one minute. So one minute after that commercial aired or during 20 million people last or in the month of December, they had 77 million visitors. So around a quarter. Of what they normally get in a month, they got in one minute, thanks to the power of the Superbowl.So obviously $14 million is no small amount, but it looks like potentially money well spent and also their app. It went all the way up to number two, I believe on the U S app charts for downloads. So again getting their word out there, we also saw. Crypto.com. So FTX, Coinbase, crypto.com.All doing ads. And then Brian, the surprise one for me. And the one that I think a lot of people loved because it had so much going on was the E Toro one, right? So the equatorial commercial, it featured a Sheba dog, that we saw lots of different crypto communities fight over which coin it was actually supposed to be.But then also hidden in that commercial, which no one seemed to find until each Toro tweeted out. There was a board ape from the board ape yacht club, NFT collection. Brian, I didn't see this the first time there it is on screen. You have to really slow down zoom there. Yeah. So they tweeted out and said that they brought a friend along.So that is a board ape that belongs to their founder and CEO. So here we have the the. Of the actual NFT, right? So there it is. That's his, and he featured it in the commercial. Brian, there was all kinds of talk, that we were going to see board apes in a commercial, we were going to see board apes as part of the halftime show.That stuff didn't happen. But instead we got a one second image of a board ape in a commercial. Is that kind of a small constellation prize or just a non-event. Yeah. It's just here you guys go quit talking about it. Yeah. Now people can't say that aboard wasn't in the Superbowl commercial. Cause technically so I guess on a technicality we'll take it, but has also mentioned that maybe they're going to get into the NFT space. So maybe this was just a glimpse of what they have coming. So again watch out open, see, there is tons of competition out there or coming your way soon. But the super bowl is very exciting. We also saw the bud light next commercial that featured the nouns. Which is something we talked about, those nouns glasses. That was really cool for me to see. And technically that was the first time. And Ft ever featured in a Superbowl commercial. So a bit of history there.What did you think of that bud light ad? That was, it was really neat. I saw bits and pieces of it. Then I had to rewatch it because it. I wasn't really paying attention when I first saw it, but it was, it w it was what you expected, I guess it was pretty neat. I still go back to what I was saying on the episode before the super bowl in hope and hoping that this will push the nouns Dow out there a little bit more.And we'll have more Dow's actually. Follow what they're doing. Cause I don't know why, but I really liked their style. I really like how they have done everything and just the fact that it's never going to end and it's a daily auction. Maybe a couple years from now when people might forget about or whatever, you might be able to snack one for really cheap, just out of nowhere kind of thing.So I don't know. I think it's really cool. And I, hopefully they, we see a lot more of them because of the commercial. And the. Yeah, definitely. And something else, Brian is we gotta give a shout out. We talked about a couple players, right? So winning the super bowl and it wasn't his first super bowl ever Von Miller defensive player for the Los Angeles Rams.And we highlight. Because he is the owner of a couple of board apes. So let me get this cowboy on the screen, right? This is his board aid that has been his profile picture before. He also owns two mutant serums that he has not used yet to make those NAPE yacht club NFTs. I'm wondering when we get news or anything on that, but cool to see someone who's so heavily involved.In the NFT space, as far as athletes win a Superbowl tweet about it, be congratulated by the community. And then also we saw Odell Beckham Jr. Who has a dead fellows and FTS his profile picture. He also owns a crypto punk. And Brian, I don't know if you saw this picture. I just actually remembered about it to add it in here.During the celebration he wants again, war his crypto punk. So here it is. I didn't see that the Lombardi trophy there is Odell Beckham Jr. On the right with his crypto punk on his shirt. I mean talk about a flax Superbowl champion, crypto punk owner. I love. And not the first time he also wore this way before. We talked about that last week, Brian. Odell was having a great game. I was really rooting for him. I had, I may have had some money on him to win MVP. And then of course he got her. Which was very unfortunate. Sounds like it is a score one. So I was fine. I know he did get that touchdown yet.So good call Brian. I did get some money off of that, but he didn't hit the over on the yards I needed. He didn't win MVP, so that would have been cool to hit those things. But again, my hats off to him, he has now a super bowl champion. But Brian, I think that's what we've got for Superbowl.Anything else that really caught your eye or to talk about what the super bowl here? The halftime show was really awesome and it made me think about back when I was a kid listening to rapper a teenager listened to rap and all those people were. My favorite.So I really liked that in sneaking Kendrick Lamar, but yeah, it was overwhelming on the sense of, we, we definitely maybe got a little over excited about how crypto and empty focus it would have been. But then if you look back on retrospect, it makes sense. There's not really much else to do besides commercials and stuff like that.I was just hoping. I would have seen a lot more stuff, maybe on social media and different announcements, different drops, and just see a lot more trending stuff than just the usual just to have a halftime show, blah, blah, blah. It's a little underwhelming on just that small aspect of it. Overall. I thought it was good. Yeah. And looking back now, I feel like maybe we should have thought that all along the fact that there were so many performers that there wasn't going to be room or time to really do anything NFT related. And also it's not like it was just Eminem and Snoop Dogg, performing who both owned board ape.There were other performers who, to my knowledge don't own any NFTs. So what would that have Look would they have just stood on the stage watching, would they have bought some before? Would that have been part of it? And that, that performance Brian, you mentioned it.Yeah, it took me. Years ago, listening to all those songs and I could've listened to that halftime performance for so much longer. And then it ended and it was like, oh shit, it's over. They all performed, so there probably wouldn't have been time to really get into anything crypto or NFT related. But it was a great game and also a great halftime performance. And again, we did get some NFT and crypto connections via the commercials, at least. So a lot for us to talk about last week and of course today to wrap it up. But I think that's going to do it for Superbowl talk. Brian let's get into something we talk about a lot is the top 10 from last week.So the top 10 and FTS by sales volume, we did have a couple, a new ones on the list here. So we had Kara Fu Ru was number one at 54.3 million pixels. Number two at 52.7 and then criminal punks came in third. Cool pet fourth ACCE, five board, eight, six, no surprise. A Zuki fell from one down to seven and then Clonex and mutant, Abe.And then number 10 I believe it's CRA Bata. So Brian, I'm going to break down a couple of these cause they caught my eye. So Kara Fu topping the list. This one came out around 12 days ago. Now it's a collection of 5,555 floor price of 3.15. So it's an interesting one. And then pixel mine, it has really been talked about a lot and we might get to that later on in today's episode of these NFT projects with huge followings starting their mint price way too high. So pick some on, had a Dutch auction. The starting price was three east. And now we have a floor of around 1.4. So people are literally underwater from where they got in depending on when they bought in this Dutch auction and then crypto punks. Brian, did you see the record?Crypto punk 5 8, 2 2. For anyone out there watching or listening? It's one of the rare alien punk. So there are only nine of these alien punks in existence. And it sold for 8,000 EAs or $23.7 million. Brian, that is a huge price tag. And with that, we then saw a little bit of a run on a crypto punks.And then of course cool cats and cool pat saw good volume because of the cool pets launch. The surprising one for me though, Brian Kirabati coming in at 10. This is based on the avalanche blockchain. It's a plater earn game sales volume, 18.2 million Brian, I don't know a ton about avalanche, but this game.Tell me more about avalanche? I just saw an article that avalanche is now trending up because a DFI is coming back and I've actually seen a lot more mentions on different parts of Twitter that Defy's kind of making, not necessarily the same kind of run, but we're seeing the NFT.Pretty much only focused now expand back to inclu, include a tokens and crypto into NFT and both or vice versa or NFTs with tokens or tokens with NFTs. So finally, we're having this mesh that. It should have been all along and maybe we'll see a lot more of these EIP or ERC 1, 1, 5, 5 protocols where you can have fungible and nonrefundable and tokenized assets all in the same. Avalanches. Yeah, just another defy protocol with staking and all that kind of stuff. Just like Solano. We're just seeing a lot more rise in it. And that probably is why this and if T project had a big boom because AVX shot up 40% or something like that, the last little bit in a very short time.Yeah. And I have the website pulled up in my browser because I've been meaning to do some research on this game and find out if maybe I want to get involved, but play to earn, we've got the typical mining, looting, breeding, and battling. Obviously looks a little bit similar to ACCE 64 breed types.It looks like we're still in the early phase here though. So they have a demo for windows, Mac, and Andrew. They have a token, their own token, their own in-game currency. And then also the NFTs that are playable. This is interesting. I'm going to need to do some more research on it. Brian, but it's always nice to see something non related, pop up in the top 10. Usually it's just ACCE. Occasionally it'll be something on like the wax black chain, right? Yeah. But lately we've been getting these other ones. Solana now, avalanche it's nice to see some difference and some diversification. And that's why when we did our interview recently with Solana legend, which we actually replayed yesterday, too Those NFTs have been kicking it. It's an area I want to get more exposed to because I want more diversification in my portfolio. I'm definitely going to be checking out Kubota, anyone out there listening or watching has experience with avalanche NFTs hit us up, let us know. Cause maybe we can feature that in a upcoming episode.Brian, I tuned into a Kula Twitter spaces yesterday. It was actually hosted by a Coinbase, I believe. And it was with a bunch of the women in the NFT space. So it actually featured a Reese Witherspoon. Known actress and entrepreneur, and then women behind So we had like dead fellows, world of women, long neck ladies.And it was really cool just to hear like their perspectives, the different inspirations for their artwork and really get a spotlight. And from an investment perspective, Brian, we've seen a run on a lot of these women led projects. So to me, I was able to take notes right.And less than, and see, okay. Which of these projects have taken off. People know about, but they still haven't taken off all the way. Because obviously world of women. Out of my price range right now, it's taken off a ton, but some of these other ones, I still think there's room to grow because they have that that factor, they have a good community, a good roadmap.So a something I'm interested in. What do you think of some of these women projects? Brian? I think they're awesome. I liked the the. Ah, it's, it'd be really weird to say no, I don't like projects that are headed by women, but I really do that fact that we're having a lot more projects that are focused, headed up by women.And they're making this a. I would agree that the crypto space has been inclusive over the past couple of years to be mainly male dominated, because it's just, maybe it's because of like how it all is laid out or I couldn't really tell you why I'm not. A social scientist or someone that could really explain the difference, but they're just not as many women led projects are really women in the space.So it's really awesome to see a lot more of them. Kinda take charge, take ownership and kick ass because it, this crypto and blockchain empty any part of this space, it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from. You could be part any part of the country, any part of the world. Any demographic, any, anything whatsoever, and you can make a name for yourself in this space, and you can either tell people who you are, or you can be completely anonymous and be the creator of Bitcoin.And no one knows who it is, but has changed every single person's life that you'll ever talk to for the rest of your day for the remainder of time. It's pretty cool. I really liked that, that we were seeing a lot more and they're taking charge of it and being. All I said that. Yeah. Yes.Love it. Yeah. No, and a good, another good use case of Twitter spaces, right? An area that we've tried to grow with. Benzinga Brian, I know you're so active in the Twitter spaces. I've been trying to listen in on more, right? Obviously. I spoke on some weed co-hosted, but sometimes it's cool to just listen, and get that perspective from other people which is what the NFT community can be so much about. Different opinions, different artists, different perspectives. That was really cool for me. Brian one of the areas I've mentioned was that we had.Some controversy in the NFT space. So we have some of these projects. Yeah. Nothing new, but it seems like it's really coming heavily lately. So the biggest things I see are a lot of these projects have large followings and then they're doing these high mint costs. And it's something that they're doing because they have the demand, or they think they have the demands. But then they end up not having as many people maybe as they thought, or some of these NFT well-respected names say, no guys like this isn't right. You shouldn't be doing this high mint costs. I've seen a couple lately. We had a serial club mint today and they did a Dutch auction and it just seemed like it was really high.Squiggles, which we talked about not too long ago, they're meant they actually ended up getting delisted from open C they had some transactions that were questionable from team members, weather report, which we'll get into on the upcoming mint. Their former artists published a document today saying that he was only going to get 5% of royalties and the two co-founders.Split 50%. So now there's a debate on whether or not weather report is going to make it. And then we also saw jacked ape club, which was another ape derivative project where we actually had some influencers not disclose that they were influencers. The project manager. But then we saw the founders kinda walk away with the money. Which is something we never liked to see was it a rug poll time will tell because then we saw some other people start to buy him up and the floor price actually rose Brian what do you make of all this? I know I just rattled off a bunch, but there just seems so much controversy to where, if you're new to this space, how do you get into some of these mints?You're almost better off. Going to existing projects, rather than trying to get in one and find one, that's not going to rug. I think you almost nailed it. Whenever you go into a mint and a not financial advice, of course, but everyone, you need to keep something like this in mind, if you're going to be trading stocks, assets options in MTS grip to anything with NMT is especially if you're going into a mint. Just know that at that moment is the most speculative. The asset will ever be, especially in MTS, that being said, MTS are on their own. Are speculative in general because unlike cryptocurrency, unlike say we'll take a one ether. For example, one ether equals one ether, but one board API club token does not equal another board come together.Everything's really subjective. So when you go into the minting aspect say the mint price is 0.06. They mint out, then they're on open sea and now they're going to be trading at 0.03 for the next six months. Do you hold onto it to goes back up to 1.3 or do you get rid of it and try to move on because you don't really want to hold something for six months unless the project keeps your attention, keeps you involved and keeps you motivated to stay in.So I always wait until see things on open seat. See how much left is in the mint, and then go from there. I've mentored a couple of things, but I think of. Done to in my whole time where I made money off the mint, specifically over buying or minting and holding for awhile yeah. You know what we're trying to provide some education and guidance and Brian, that's where I try to be as honest as possible and we don't provide financial advice and I don't want to see anyone get hurt.I don't want to see anyone lose money. And that's where I almost want to call people new to this. To look at existing projects that have been established. We know who the founders are. We know that they didn't walk away with the money. They're still active. The discord still active. The community is still active or they're projects that maybe you can buy in with the USD. And get some some early experience with NFTs, right? Like dapper labs with top. Some of these other drops, right? It's just, it's so hard to get behind some of these projects that have these large followings. And then all of a sudden they say, Hey, our mid price is going to be four ease or our mint price is going to be one ether.With the exception of cool pets, right? Cause cool. Cats was established their mint price was 0.5. I get that when Newton API club launched, everyone got a serum, but they also did a Dutch auction or a launch public launch. And that was a couple EAs. But again those people have clearly made a lot of money that meant then, but I think that price was warranted because they had that community, they had already done a successful launch.I just really don't think some of these. Can a do these ones. Yeah. And we got nifty hunters in the chat saying, I believe in jacked, a club Bradley Martin took over the projects, Bradley Martin. I believe has a huge following on Twitter, a fitness person, I believe. He was active in that project and now seems to be in charge and again, the floor price did go up, but they did have some questionable influencers and questionable group of founders. And sometimes red flags are enough to just get me to steer clear of a project. And Brian, it's not like we only have five projects to choose from. We got thousands. I get a number. So if I pass on one, there's more to choose from and that's. Anyone new to the space. I just want to remind you guys again, to be cautious out there. I've seen a lot of people get burned over the past couple of weeks. And unfortunately when people are new to the space and they get burned, usually that turns them away forever. And that's not something that. For the space and to see NFTs, continue to grow, we need to get more people involved in the space as well. So just a word of caution, Brian, I didn't even put it in my notes, but I was actually thinking that metaverse right. You missed Thursday's episode.Last week I had Mitch from Benzinga with me and we opened some packs from MBA, top shot and up all day, but we also spent some time in the metaverse. So we played around in decentral land and Brian, it's a date a day. Doesn't go by that. I don't see a headline or get to write about decentral land. So today. I actually got to write about the metaverse. The Atlanta Braves are going to be the first baseball team to put their stadium in the metaverse. So they are going to create a virtual copy of their park. And the really cool thing here is for fans is they're going to have some Easter eggs and some scavenger hunts.And if you're able to complete puzzles and win games, you can win. Maybe some tickets, maybe some memorabilia. And again, it's not like it cost you money. You're just hanging out in the metaverse. And then also J JP Morgan, one of the largest financial institutions out there, they launched a bank in the metaverse this week.And they also put out a 18 page report, which Brian I'm still reading and working on articles about it. Talking about growth of the metaverse. They see it as a $1 trillion. I know market size. That is insane. But something we've heard other say, but to hear JP Morgan say yes, metaverse $1 trillion and they talk about the growth of work in the metaverse. Even saying people in other countries could work from the metaverse and not have to worry about moving. To the U S or to other areas. So we could help some emerging markets, it could also help with gaming companies, which obviously we've seen all these. But what do you think Brian?$1 trillion. Is that just hogwash or is JP Morgan onboard here and that's a legit number in the. No, I think that's absolutely legit number in the future. It's speculative, we say that word a whole lot, but yeah it was JP Morgan first off, so there is a little bit of credibility behind that whole conglomerate. But also. Yeah, there's no telling like $1 trillion. I that's almost on the low end, in the whole grand scheme of things of what it can be worth in the next 20 years. Within the next five to 10 years, we're going to see probably double one. 2 trillion and who knows it's going to be its own entire ecosystem and decentral and the central land up land sandbox.And there's maybe a few others, but those three, I think are the forefront of this whole thing. And yeah, it's no telling where they're going to be. And they're definitely going to be way bigger than Facebook and all these other ones. Yeah, but easy Chilean, easy. Yeah. And for those looking looking for more information, like I said, I'll have a couple articles out.We have one up on Benzinger right now about JP Morgan opening that bank in the metaverse. So you can find a link to that report with that article. Brian. So metaverse huge talk obviously. I want to get to some upcoming mints, right? That's something we always like to do on the show. And again, I stress, right?Not financial advice, Brian and I are not telling you to go out and mint these or buy these right. We're providing the data, the date, the mint cost, right? Some some information. Oh yeah. You reminded me of the New York stock exchange. They filed a couple patents and they are possibly exploring the metaverse right.I actually spoke to a representative from the New York stock exchange it's spokesperson. And this is the quote that they gave me. Brian, the New York stock exchange has no immediate plans to launch cryptocurrency or NFT trading. The New York stock exchange regularly considers new products and their impact on our trademarks and PR protects our intellectual property rights.According to. So a vague statement, right? That they don't have immediate plans, but they filed trademarks. So for those of you out there listening or watching the New York stock exchange, one of the largest exchanges in the world, they filed trademarks to potentially launch virtual currency, a NFT marketplace, NFTs, virtual events.That's huge. And we've talked about it recently with McDonald's Panera. All these companies where they file and it doesn't mean that they weren't. But normally if you file a trademark, either means you want to block other people from using your brand or you have intent to do something with that. So to me, I feel like there's intent here, right? Brian, that maybe. I see them launch if, Hey, they can make money off of people buying and selling stocks. Maybe they want a piece of people buying and selling NFTs. What do you think is the New York stock exchange going to take on open sea and Coinbase down the road?Yeah, I think so. I think one, they be stupid not to form like kind of a. A tokenized version of stocks on their own anybody who is in any ticker that goes through the NYC it has a tokenized version to it. And then there, you open up this is legality and stuff like that.We're not lawyers or anything, but you can open up a futures. You can open up a fractional. Shares, you can open up a ton of different things, even collateral against your tokenized stocks, because you have all your stocks in your portfolio. Then you also have a tokenized version of them. You get the tokenized version of them as collateral against a loan or may your margin and stuff like that. There's endless possibilities, what they can use it for. And you know what New York stock exchange that's free. It doesn't consultants. Yeah we got Brian in the house giving some advice to the NYC and Ryan, you made some great points there. And I would highlight with what you said, the IPO process, right?When a company decides to go. They can choose between listing on the New York stock exchange or the NASDAQ, are the two major ones and there's disadvantages and advantages to both. But what if the New York stock exchange has an NFT marketplace and can make that fractionalized trading option of your symbol, your ticker, your company, right as shares and the NASDAQ can't right.That's a competitive advantage. And then. AMC, right? They did where everyone who owned shares got an NFT, it was part of their investor connect program. And what if the New York stock exchange could be like the. The middleman for something like that, right? If you're publicly traded we know who all your shareholders are, we can get that data and we can give all those people in NFTE.So I really think there's strong use case here. And I was pretty excited to see at first, Brian, when I saw the headline, I was like, oh this is fake. The New York stock exchange files for NFT is I was like, no way. So I had to dig in and like I said, I was on the phone yesterday with the NYC. Cause I wanted to hear it from them. We were able to get an article out and to get that source, that spokesperson in the article, that's something Benzing always tries to do. Is get the source, make sure they're reliable, but a great point there, Brian, on the New York stock exchange thing that they could do, which is something I thought might be interesting.I'm just coming up with it. But they could also take the tokenized version and different time zones can all sync up to be like there. Preferable eight or nine 30 to 4:00 PM open and close. It could be on all their times, but you can also have the amounts of trade and volume, everything match up to where it wouldn't change anything throughout the country, but everyone's on the same thing.I was just saying, there's so many possibilities that I'm just so many now we're excited and that would give us a ton more to talk about in a future episode. Let's get this some upcoming minutes. Brian, I mentioned this, we missed you on Thursday show. I had Mitch fill in one of Ben's thing is great video team members here.I'm sure people had seen him before, across other shows. And one of the things we did was we opened up some packs, right? So I had some NBA top shot and an NFL all day past. Brian. I ripped open the NFL all day pack and I actually had a rare Patrick. My home's a moment. They don't have a marketplace yet, so I can't sell it.But people in the chat were saying all that's going to be worth a thousand. That's going to be where 2000. I don't know what it's worth yet, but I was pretty excited. Guess what? There is another NFL all day pack drop happening this week. And this isn't just any old pack, right? So at 4:00 PM today, for anyone on the closed beta list.So not if you're new, you had to already be on the. They are dropping 32,400 packs, $59 each. And you get four moments in the pack and at least one moment will be from the super bowl that we just watched on Sunday. So the very first ever super bowl moments from NFL all day. And then on Friday, they are also launching a premium pack, which will be $259.No real details on this yet. But two drops this week and the most they had done before, that was one. So it looks like maybe NFL day getting ready to fire on all cylinders and maybe closer to a public launch. Brian, what do you think? Sports NFTE seemed like they're really here to stay. NBA top shot led the way.And now we have these NFL moments launching is part of the problem here though. Could it be a timing? The super bowl is over the season's over. Are we going to cool off here? And maybe they they're going to see not as much demand as they thought at the end of the season.What do you take on that? We'll see cause each sport has their own diehard fans. So now maybe we'll run over to basketball and we'll see a lot more like with top shot and stuff like that. And another thing that we're I saw that LeBron or not LeBron, maybe Dwight Howard, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure you get the name right.Who it was, did a made like 330 something thousand dollars betting Bitcoin on the super bowl. And they, he only bet a big, oh, Drake, it wasn't a basketball player. It was Drake, sorry, but a Drake made a $381,000 from Superbowl Bitcoin bets. And so I think we're going to see a lot more crypto game.It, now that there's a whole lot more sports betting because I like football more than basketball, but I like to bet on basketball more than I like to bet on football. Cause this is a lot more predictable. And I think with NFTs in this whole thing, not just remembering Billy and not just for collectors items, but with NFTs and cryptocurrency in general, we're going to see a lot more betting move towards crypto, as opposed to just or that secure.A ACH transfer, all that nonsense. That's outdated and whatnot. You'll be able to verify people's location, age, all this other stuff. So I think we're going to see a big influx of that within this year. Yeah. And speaking of tickets in the blockchain, Brian, I hadn't even looked yet. I'm going to have to look after the show.But we did have where everyone who attended the super bowl got that free Ticketmaster, NFL, NFT. And I hadn't looked to see what those were selling for yet. But again, sports NFTs I think are definitely here to stay and just gonna grow another mint that's coming up soon. This isn't per se a mint, but.I don't think you had joined the show yet when we talk or no, I think you did. When we talked about crypto bats, the Ozzy Osborne and smattered. Yeah. Okay. So remember how we talked about how they had partnered with a couple of other NFT groups and eventually you were going to be able to do like this bite process, create a mutant bat. I don't think you've seen this yet, Brian, but before you joined backstage today, we actually where to watching this video and having a good one. Brian, I want to share this crypto bats video. And to me, this is how you make a NFT hype video. Let's take a look at this guys. I really enjoyed this and I'm an Ozzy Osborne fan hats off to him to.Do you hold NFTs, but don't know what to do with them. Do you wish your JPEGs have a little bit more powerful? Introducing the new muni bats, biding utility brought to you by using lines of code in the ERC 7 21 smart contract. You can have hours of fun. Simply visit crypto bats.com. Connect your wallet and select the NMT victim you'd like to buy.The blockchain will magically create a mutant bet that you can call your own. Wow. On it. Doesn't stop there. Your cool new music fat who share the traits of both your cryptos and the victim might have a selection of blue chip projects, including foreign API club crib. Self ducks, alien friends and Cybercom street, the crypto bats floor today on open scene, but for, to learn to bite off more than you can.Launches February 20th, crypto bats can only bite warrants visit crypto bats.com/ for more information. This is not investment advice. Brian, how about that? What an NFT commercial, right? And they even got Ozzy Osborne or participate. He probably has no idea what NFTs are wa you know, an ERC token is, but they did get him to participate. Look at that. He looks so excited, Ryan. He is ready. He is ready. I didn't get into crypto bats cause I didn't make the white list and that project took off. I think the floor price now is 1.25. But I think it's really cool that they partnered with these projects. And you're going to be able to combine.So if you have a crypto bat and you have a board ape you can do the biting process. And I just want to see what these look like. The mutant bats, I think they're going to look so cool. So I'm very excited about that. So that is February 20th. So that is first here on our list of some upcoming things February 21st sneaky vampiress syndicate, which is from sneaky vampire syndicate who were on a past episode.Oh, this is their next project, Brian and a 0.16. Ease is the mint cost. But if you own a sneaky vampire, you have been collecting or earning the blood token. So you will actually be able to pay less by utilizing that blood token. So I liked that, you're rewarding existing members. The 0.16, I do think is a little high, but again, it's a well-established project. They're been successful. The new collection will have a supply of 12,545. I don't remember if I put any of these pictures into the overlay here, but they look really cool. The sneaky vampire syndicate always reminded me a bit of Oh here's a vamp. Yeah, there we go. The sneaky vampire syndicate all released reminded me a bit of Adam Sandler's character in a hotel Transylvania the artwork, but I always thought this was really cool. Brian. I'm interested in this. If I'm able to mint and get in at 0.16, or maybe a little bit more, that has been a nice community, right? The sneaky vampire. They also have that blood token, which they can continue to utilize. So that's one that's on my radar. What do you think or know about sneaky bay? Not much besides what we talked about, we covered the I thought that they were really cool. I liked the art. They have a lot of this neat utility and I think the bats project is one of the cooler ones out right now because they've collaborated with a few other projects. I'm pretty sure wall street bulls has a similar aspect to theirs and.Talked on the show and like on Twitter spaces with different projects that do have some sort of connection to other projects and written in the smart contract to where it's open-ended to where you can, if you hold this token address in your wallet, you'll actually get either. This NMT, this token will change.This NMT will change or that one will do, or you'll get a whole new one, that kind of stuff. So I think that's really cool to include in your projects because you not only get your community, you get their community and you get different ones and everyone's coming together, driving the price up and always have a good time.If you're a smart NFT token developer or a project, this is what you want to. Because you're eliminating yourself just by only your community, might as well join forces or have other people in. I think it's really cool. I like it. I can't wait to see what's next on the evolution of what's going to be the next hot topic as every other week, every other project.There's something new and cool and exciting. And this is the last one. I think that's the most exciting to me so far. Yeah, no shout out to Gilberto Rodriguez in the chat. I know we've talked to him before with wall street bulls during the, those interviews and the chat and saying. They partnered with a lot of female projects.So he got white list spots due to owning world the women. You heard me mentioned that Twitter spaces, and now we have sneaky vampire doing a female trait project. And that's one of the things with board apes is the board apes were all these male traits for the most part, which has led to some derivative projects that have been female.Because board apes, hasn't done a female launched themselves. So I really liked sneaky vampire doing this themselves, creating a whole nother way. Also crypto dads, which I own, they did the crypto moms mint, where you got a free mom for holding a dad. There eventually we're going to have the crypto taught down the road, but I really am looking forward to this.Brian. And another one we talked about recently with star catchers, right? So star catcher is very cool artwork. A big hyped project. Their mint date now is out February 22nd, a MC cost of 0.1, one, one east supply of 10,000. They just did a spaces recently with robotics and I know the robotics team. I like that, that gives me some nice validation of the team because the last couple projects that we've seen that have these huge Twitter followings have ended up not being the greatest ones to get in. So star catchers has over 77,000 followers. But we actually have a hundred and common right. Between me and them. Which I like seeing that, that means a ton of people in the NFT space. Follow them, look at that image right there. We got the backpack, the jacket and that star and that, even that background that is PFP a bowl right there. What do you think.Yeah, I like it. I like the colors. I like the pastel aspect to it. Yep. Yeah. So again, that is star catchers and that is February 22nd 0.1, one one. All right. So February 23rd Brian, this is probably the biggest project that I have heard about or seen since makeover launched a couple of months ago. Invisible friends. So invisible friends, February 23rd 0.25 Eve is the ma costs 5,000 supply. Their discord is now locked because they want to fight off any possible, but attempts when they do their mint. Last I looked invisible. France has 470,000 followers on Twitter. And I have 230.Followers in common. Again, this is the biggest, most hyped and Ft project I've seen in a while, but Brian, there's only 5,000 and they're meant costs is 0.2, five. What do we think is going to happen? I know they have a big white list. So those people are going to be able to get in and probably avoid gas wars, but I don't know how many are going to be left for public.But I just have the feeling that floor is going to go up significantly. And I actually respect this team a lot for keeping it at 0.2, five. Again, that's higher than we've seen other products. But the last couple projects that have had this big of a following have done a much higher mint costs.So what do you think? Point two, five mint cost with this big of a following and only 5,000 supply. Was that the right call? Is it too high, too low? That's going to probably sell out very quickly and the floor price will be between on and to eith within seconds of it selling out. If if, even if it's that low I'm thinking higher.I, this one has been really hyped and yeah. It's gonna, I think it'll explode. It might dip a little bit when people try to sell, get out. Cause it, if you are going to mint, one thing that I would do again, not financial advice. If you're. Try to always get multiple of them. Try to get more than one and do it at the same time.So you don't pay ridiculous. You're not paying for one and just gas he's alone. Keep doing that more meant more than one. And then take your profits off one of them, or try to flip at least one of them. And if you have multiple more, but if you only buy one don't just flip it right.When you get. I wouldn't flip it right when I got it. That's what I meant to say. You just hold it do what you gotta do. Maybe by more than one. Yeah. This project. Again, it's so hyped, I'm looking forward to it a 0.25. I'm not on the white list. I don't think I have any chance of getting one.So I'll be looking at open C for secondary sales, but again, I just think that they're going to be too high pre reveal and I might get priced out of this. But the fact that it has this many followers and this big of a a community and hype I'm still going to take a look, and see and then Brian, on February 24th we have weather report. So weather report, I can't remember if we've talked about on the show. It's one that I've been following for a while. Another one where people are really drawn into the artwork. So they announced their mint date, February 24th.I have not seen a mint price yet. Look at these images though. Really cool. Really unique. And the thing with this though, Brian, of course, as I said in the drama segment, they have. Some drama out there. The former artists took to Twitter today, released a paper, saying he was let go from the project. He was promised 5% of royalties. The founders were going to get 50%. There was a huge disagreement. They stole his artwork and the list goes on. They did a Twitter spaces today. I don't know if the former artist was part of that Twitter spaces, if they all cleared the air, if they came to any agreement, my guess is that was probably one sided. But who knows? So if anyone out there listening or watching knows, let me know, but otherwise I'll be sure to play the recording on that Twitter spaces later tonight. But Brian the fact that there's a little bit of a a phot on this project going into the, I don't love it. When there's other projects that we could find a. But again, it should be on everyone's radar that the mint date is February 24th and we'll definitely keep everyone updated. And then last on the list, February 20. We have wonder pals, minting wonder pals the wonderful artists MENA a collection of 10,000. Brian, look at those. They're so cute. They remind me of some of these other projects. And the thing I love about this project is that when we had like toy boogers on and some other. They love this artist. They love the project. Look at that mid price 0.08. Let's get cement back under 0.1.I love it. This one's on my calendar February 26, 10000.08. What do you think? Have wonder pals here, Bri? Yeah, like that. I liked the price. I liked the art and I liked the. Just the whole aesthetic. Cause that's kinda my style. I really liked those like the cartoony, but like the pastel colors kind of thing.I like it just on a aesthetic. Just by looking at it. That's what I like. So I'm down with them. I like, I don't know if I'm going to get into them yet. I got to see more about it, but from just the way it looks, I do really like it. Definitely. All right. We're running out of time here, so I just want to recap, cause that was a some big projects that are coming up over the next two weeks.So again, today we have NFL all day dropping packs where you get a guaranteed Superbowl moment inside those packs for moments $59 32,400 packs available on February 20th, we have crypto bats being able to bite and another NFT project for the first time to turn into a mutant bat floor price on crypto bads.Currently 1.25. February 21st, we have sneaky vampiress syndicate launching from sneaky vampire syndicate 0.16 east mint price. Or you can utilize your blood token for a cheaper cost. That collection 12,545. A supply. On February 22nd star catchers, 10,000 NFTs 0.1, one one east mint price, February 23rd, invisible friends 0.25 east 5,000 supply.Their discord now lacked over 700,000 followers on Twitter, February 24th weather report. And then February 26th, wander pals, 10,000 NFTs 0.08. There I got through on Brian. That was a lot to rattle off, but again, a big part. What we want to do of the show is letting everyone know what's project should be on their radar and they should be looking forward to, so we'll let everyone know. If any more pop up. Brian, one thing I do know is I saw an update from Photofinish the Solana based horse racing game. And I think maybe we're going to have to talk about that on an upcoming episode and get more into some of these Solana projects, because I wrote an article about that interview with legend. And there was I listened to it again, Brian, when he named his top five and man, that guy is so smart and those five that he named. Yeah. I got to get some Solana and I got to start getting into these projects, especially getting my stable setup and photo finish. What do you think Brian?We're we're going to have to buy some Solana enough to use right now. I'm two steps ahead. All right. Brian, anything else to add before we wrap for the day? All right. We will see everyone tomorrow, as Brian said to take care of 2:00 PM Eastern time tomorrow, again, shout out to everyone watching us live, watching us on replay and listening in on the podcast.Be sure to smash that like subscribe to Benzing as YouTube. A big, thank you to our friends at FTX for sponsoring this episode and getting that killer commercial in the super bowl. Shout out to Ruelle in the chat right now, too. I see him there. He has a show talking crypto and NFTs and Benzinga as well. And we will catch everyone tomorrow. Stay tuned, take care. Every one.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-roadmap/donations
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I speak to a lot of lawyers who are interested in moving into in-house roles. While not every in-house lawyer is happy leaving private practice, on the whole, I find that the in-house lawyers I meet have higher levels of career satisfaction. In-house lawyers generally don't keep track of their time, at least not in the same way. And while the hours can still be demanding, lawyers who work in corporate law departments often have more predictability. In-house lawyers also enjoy having an ongoing relationship with a client that they get to know on a deeper level. And for many in-house counsel, being the company lawyer means the opportunity to participate in more business decisions. The path to in-house is clear for corporate lawyers. Employment attorneys also have a relatively easy time moving in-house. But for litigators, the path is less obvious. In this episode, I speak with Evan Slavitt, a former litigator who has some great advice for litigators looking to go in-house. I recently reconnected with Evan after many years and after we spoke for a while about his experience as a General Counsel. I quickly realized that I had to have him on the show. EVAN is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation in South Carolina. Before joining AVX, Evan spent many years in private practice where he concentrated on complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense. He also did a stint at the US Attorney's office in Boston in the 1980's. I met him during that time when I was a law student working as a clerk in that office. Evan can be reached at evan.slavitt@kyocera-avx.com,
It's the first MCMF of the new year, with Gary rejoining the show to talk about Nova: Origin. Spinning out of the pages of Point One and AvX, this five issue story details how teenager Sam Alexander followed in his father's footsteps to become the new Human Rocket, Nova!
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For episode 4 of MCMF, Marcus is joined by known Tony Stark hater Gary to talk about Avengers vs X-Men!Released in 2012, AvX covers the battle between Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Children of the Atom over the mysterious and powerful Phoenix Force, believed by one side to signal Earth's doom and by the other to be their salvation.
In episode 75 of the Fishing Guide Podcast our host Brad Wiegmann interviews Chris Fox with Clay Maxey Vexus talking about building and owning a dream “Vexus” boat, Clay Maxey dealership, accessories for Vexus Boats and performance of the 2080 AVX series Vexus Boat. Tackle Time features PICO Lures and Smith’s Consumer Products Regal River 48-inch Portable Fish Ruler.
Hamdi is the Executive Director of AVX, a non-profit cooperative exchange connecting high-value talent with early start-ups backed with research and IP from leading comprehensive research universities across the United States. AVX focuses on solving the 'talent valley of death' for deep technology ventures. Over the past 4 years, AVX has worked with over 520 proto-ventures from 33 different universities and has generated over 10,000 connections for these teams with advisors, board members, co-founders, c-level leaders, and investors who have experience helping inventors build ventures. This conversation is a fast-paced, deep dive into the world of technology transfer. Hamdi has seen and participated in this sector from a variety of different vantage points and has an extremely unique perspective. We talk about the team DNA of strong research-based university spinoff companies, including advice to young entrepreneurs and researchers who want to lead or join these initiatives. Hamdi is one of the most well-connected people in the space and operates at a distinctive intersection and critical stage for these young startups coming out of the lab. We talk about what tech transfer orgs (TTOs) do well, how they can improve, and also Hamdi's background as a researcher and what might be on the horizon for him. I always learn from Hamdi every time we speak and this was no exception. I highly recommend signing up for Hamdi's newsletters which aggregates an enormous amount of useful info on research commercialization from around the web including articles, insights, events and more. See past issues here and enjoy the episode! More about Hamdi Prior to AVX, Hamdi completed his BA/BS in Chemical Engineering at Tufts University and his PhD at Columbia University in the lab of Dr. Ozgur Sahin. Hamdi's research interests lie at the intersection of biology, energy, and the environment; his thesis is titled “A Theory of Renewable Energy from Natural Evaporation”. Hamdi has co-authored several papers in Nature Biotechnology and Nature Communications. During his PhD, Hamdi served as the President of the Graduate Student Advisory Council at Columbia University and worked for 6 years as a Fellow (3 years) and Senior Fellow (3 years) at Columbia Technology Ventures – the tech transfer office at Columbia University in the City of New York. Hamdi previously served as an assistant and advisor to both the BioMedX Accelerator at Columbia University and the New York City Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) i-Corps program. Find Hamdi on LinkedIn. Learn more about AVX on their website. Join the Bountiful community today and realize your power to save the world. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn if you haven't already.
A brief break from AvX to talk about the Disney+ series: LOKI Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be sure to check with your local library to see if they have them there! You can find one using this site (https://www.comicshoplocator.com/) Gary is on Twitter (https://twitter.com/garybuh), and Jeremy is too (https://twitter.com/jggreer). Duckfeed is on Patreon (https://patreon.com/duckfeedtv), which is a great place to support the show. Keep up with the podcast by checking out our Schedule Page (https://daysoffuturecast.com/schedule). Music by Gary, podcast art by our friend Wayne (https://twitter.com/onsideseven)
On this episode Ted and Barb talk to Brandy Bossle. Brandy Bossle started her career off as an Industrial Hygienist. She moved from that role to an Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist for AVX Corporation. Last year, she transitioned to AVX's Corporate Environmental and Safety Manager for over 14,000 employees. She has her Certified Safety Professional Certification and her Associate Safety Professional Certification. In 2020, Brandy won 1st place in the SPOTY Awards or Safety Professional of the Year Award from J.J Keller. Brandy has been volunteering in professional safety and environmental organizations for a few years now. She currently volunteers with the Air and Waste Management Association as a Director on the Board of the South Atlantic States Section and the American Society of Safety Professionals in the Piedmont Chapter in South Carolina as Vice President. Brandy shares about her career, the value of volunteering in ASSP, different aspects of working in private sector and consulting, as well as a site EHS specialist and management. She also shares how she won 1st place for the JJ Keller SPOTY award. According to Brandy, volunteering with a professional organization has many benefits from networking, making friends and connections with the same mindset as you, and meeting EHS professionals with expertise in a particular topic and experience you might not have. Resources: https://www.healthandsafetynow.com Brandy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandy-bossle-csp-asp-csd-a029016a/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandy-bossle-csp-asp-csd-a029016a/) Brandy on Twitter and Instagram: https://twitter.com/safetybran (https://twitter.com/safetybran) Instagram: @SafetyBran
Open source codec pioneer, Tom Vaughan, talks about the advantages & disadvantages of proprietary & open source technology. What he says may surprise you – despite which side of the fence you are on. The following blog post first appeared on the Beamr blog at: https://blog.beamr.com/2019/01/24/in-the-battle-between-open-source-proprietary-technology-does-video-win-podcast/ Video engineers dedicated to engineering encoding technologies are highly skilled and hyper-focused on developing the foundation for future online media content. Such a limited pool of experts in this field creates a lot of opportunity for growth and development, it also means there must be a level of camaraderie and cooperation between different methodologies. In past episodes, you've seen The Video Insiders compare codecs head-to-head and debate over their strengths and weaknesses. Today, they are tackling a deeper debate between encoding experts: the advantages and disadvantages of proprietary technology vs. community-driven open source. In Episode 05, Tom Vaughan surprises The Video Insiders as he talks through his take on open source vs. proprietary technology. Press play to hear a snippet from Episode 05, or click here for the full episode. Want to join the conversation? Reach out to TheVideoInsiders@beamr.com TRANSCRIPTION (lightly edited to improve readability only) Mark Donnigan: 00:00 In this episode, we talk with a video pioneer who drove a popular open source codec project before joining a commercial codec company. Trust me, you want to hear what he told us about proprietary technology, open source, IP licensing, and royalties. Announcer: 00:18 The Video Insiders is the show that makes sense of all that is happening in the world of online video, as seen through the eyes of a second generation codec nerd and a marketing guy who knows what iframes and macroblocks are. Here are your hosts, Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill. Mark Donnigan: 00:35 Okay. Mark Donnigan: 00:35 Well, welcome back everyone to this very special edition. Every edition is special, isn't it, Dror? Dror Gill: 00:43 That's right. Especially the first editions where everybody's so excited to see what's going to happen and how it would evolve. Mark Donnigan: 00:49 You know what's amazing, Dror, we had in the first 48 hours, more than 180 download. Dror Gill: 00:55 Wow. Mark Donnigan: 00:56 You know, we're like encoding geeks. I mean, are there even 180 of us in the world? Dror Gill: 01:01 I don't know. I think you should count the number of people who come to Ben Wagoner's compressionist breakfast at NAB, that's about the whole industry, right? Mark Donnigan: 01:09 Yeah. That's the whole industry. Mark Donnigan: 01:11 Hey, we want to thank, seriously in all seriousness, all the listeners who have been supporting us and we just really appreciate it. We have an amazing guest lined up for today. This is a little personal for me. It was IBC 2017, I had said something about a product that he was representing, driving, developing at the time. In fact, it was factually true. He didn't like it so much and we exchanged some words. Here's the ironic thing, this guy now works for us. Isn't that amazing, Dror? Click to view x265 vs. Beamr 5 speed and performance test. Dror Gill: 01:49 Yeah, isn't that amazing? Mark Donnigan: 01:52 You know what, and we love each other. The story ended well, talk about a good Hollywood ending. Mark Donnigan: 01:58 Well, we are talking today with Tom Vaughn. I'm going to let you introduce yourself. Tell the listeners about yourself. Tom Vaughn: 02:10 Hey Mark, hey Dror. Good to be here. Tom Vaughn: 02:12 As Mark mentioned, I'm Beamr's VP of strategy. Joined Beamr in January this year. Before that I was Beamr's, probably, primary competitor, the person who started and led the x265 project at MulticoreWare. We were fierce competitors, but we were always friendly and always friends. Got to know the Beamr team when Beamr first brought their image compression science from the photo industry to the video industry, which was three or four years ago. Really enjoyed collaborating with them and brainstorming and working with them, and we've always been allies in the fight to make new formats successful and deal with some of the structural issues in the industry. Dror Gill: 03:02 Let me translate. New formats, that means HEVC. Structural issues, that means patent royalties. Tom Vaughn: 03:08 Yes. Dror Gill: 03:09 Okay, you can continue. Tom Vaughn: 03:11 No need to be subtle here. Tom Vaughn: 03:13 Yeah, we had many discussions over the years about how to deal with the challenging macro environment in the codec space. I decided to join the winning team at Beamr this year, and it's been fantastic. Mark Donnigan: 03:28 Well, we're so happy to have you aboard, Tom. Mark Donnigan: 03:32 I'd like to just really jump in. You have a lot of expertise in the area of open source, and in the industry, there's a lot of discussion and debate, and some would even say there's religion, around open source versus proprietary technology, but you've been on both sides and I'd really like to jump into the conversation and have you give us a real quick primer as to what is open source. Tom Vaughn: 04:01 Well, open source is kind of basic what it says is that you can get the full source code to that software. Now, there isn't just one flavor of open source in terms of the software license that you get, there are many different open source licenses. Some have more restrictions and some have less restrictions on what you can do. There are some well known open source software programs and platforms, Linux is probably the most well known in the multimedia space, there's FFmpeg and Libav. There's VLC, the multimedia player. In the codec space, x264, x265, VP9, AV1, et cetera. Dror Gill: 04:50 I think the main attraction of open source, I think, the main feature is that people from all over the world join together, collaborate, each one contributes their own piece, then somehow this is managed together. Every bug that is discovered, anyone can fix it, because the source is open. This creates kind of a community and together a piece of software is created that is much larger and more robust than anything that a single developer could do on his own. Tom Vaughn: 05:23 Yeah, ideally the fact that the source code is open means that you have many sets of eyes, not only trying the program, but able to go through the source code and see exactly how it was written and therefore more code review can happen. On the collaboration side, you're looking for volunteers, and if you can find and energize many, many people worldwide to become enthusiastic and devote time or get their companies motivated to allocate developers full- or part-time to a particular open source project, you get that collaboration from many different types of people with different individual use cases and motivations. There are patches submitted from many different people, but someone has to decide, does that patch get committed or are there problems with that? Should it be changed? Tom Vaughn: 06:17 Designed by a committee isn't always the optimal, so someone or some small group has to decide what should be included, what should be left out. Dror Gill: 06:27 It's interesting to see, actually, the difference between x264 and x265 in this respect, because x264, the open source implementation of x264 was led by a group of developers, really independent developers, and no single company was owning or leading the development of that open source project. However, with x265, which is the open source implementation of HEVC, your previous company, MulticoreWare, has taken the lead and devoted, I assume, most of the development resources that have gone into the open source development, most of the contributions came from that company, but it is still an open source project. Tom Vaughn: 07:06 That's right. x264 was started by some students at a French university, and when they were graduating, leaving the university, they convinced the university to enable them to take the code with them, essentially under an open source license. It was very much grassroots open source beginnings and execution where developers may come and go, but it was a community collaboration. Tom Vaughn: 07:31 I started x265 at MulticoreWare with a couple of other individuals, and the way we started it was finding some commercial companies who expressed a strong interest in such a thing coming to life and who were early backers commercially. It was quite different. Then, because there's a small team of full-time developers on it working 40 hours plus a week, that team is moving very fast, it's organized, it's within a company. There was less of a need for a community. While we did everything we could to attract more external contributors, attracting contributors is always a challenge of open source projects. Mark Donnigan: 08:14 What I hear you saying, Tom, is it sounds like compared to the x264 project, the x265 project didn't have as large of a independent group of contributors. Is that …? Tom Vaughn: 08:29 Well, x264 was all independent contributors. Mark Donnigan: 08:32 That's right. Tom Vaughn: 08:33 And still is, essentially. There are many companies that fund x264 developers explicitly. Chip companies will fund individual developers to optimize popular open source software projects for their instruction set. AVX, AVX2, AVX512, essentially, things like that. Tom Vaughn: 08:58 HEVC is significantly more complex than AVC, and I think, if I recall correctly, x265 already has three times the number of commits than x264, even though it's only been in existence for one third of the life. Dror Gill: 09:12 So Tom, what's interesting to me is everybody's talking about open source software being almost synonymous with free software. Is open source really free? Is it the same? Tom Vaughn: 09:23 It can be at times. One part depends on the license and the other part depends on how you're using the software. For example, if it's a very open license like Apache, or BSD, or UIUC, that's an attribution only license, and you're pretty much free to create modifications, incorporate the software in your own works and distribute the resulting system. Tom Vaughn: 09:49 Software programs like x264 and x265 are licensed under the GNU GPL V2, that is an open source license that has a copyleft requirement. That means if you incorporate that in a larger work and distribute that larger work, you have to open source not only your modifications, but you have to open source the larger work. Most commercial companies don't want to incorporate some open source software in their commercial product, and then have to open source the commercial product. The owners of the copyright of the GPL V2 code, x264 LLC or MulticoreWare, also offer a commercial license, meaning you get access to that software, not under the GNU GPL V2, but under a separate, different license, in which case for you, it's not open source anymore. Your commercial license dictates what you can and can't do. Generally that commercial license doesn't include the copyleft requirement, so you can incorporate it in some commercial product and distribute that commercial product without open sourcing your commercial product. Dror Gill: 10:54 Then you're actually licensing that software as you would license it from a commercial company. Tom Vaughn: 10:59 Exactly. In that case it's not open source at all, it's a commercial license. Dror Gill: 11:04 It's interesting what you said about the GPL, the fact that anything that you compile with it, create derivatives of, incorporate into your software, you need to open source those components that you integrate with as well. I think this is what triggered Steve Ballmer to say in 2001, he said something like, “Open source is a cancer that spreads throughout your company and eats your IP.” That was very interesting. I think he meant mostly GPL because of that requirement, but the interesting thing is that he said that in 2001, and in 2016 in an interview, he said, “I was wrong and I really love Linux.” Today Microsoft itself open sources a lot of its own development. Mark Donnigan: 11:48 That's right. Yeah, that's right. Mark Donnigan: 11:50 Well Tom, let's … This has been an awesome discussion. Let's bring it to a conclusion. When is proprietary technology the right choice and when is open source maybe the correct choice? Can you give the listeners some guidelines? Tom Vaughn: 12:08 Sure, people are trying to solve problems. Engineers, companies are trying to build products and services, and they have to compete in their own business environment. Let's say you're a video service and you run a video business. The quality of that video and the efficiency that you can deliver that video matters a lot. We know what those advantages of open source are, and all things being equal, people gravitate towards open source a lot because engineers feel comfortable actually seeing the source code, being able to read through it, find bugs themselves if pushed to the limit. Tom Vaughn: 12:45 At the end of the day, if an open source project can't produce the winning implementation of something, you shouldn't necessarily use it just because it's open source. At the end of the day you have a business to run and what you want is the most performant libraries and platforms to build your business around. If you find that a proprietary implementation in the long run is more cost effective, more efficient, higher performance, and the company that is behind that proprietary implementation is solid and is going to be there for you and provide a contractual commitment to support you, there's no reason to not choose some proprietary code to incorporate into your product or service. Tom Vaughn: 13:32 When we're talking about codecs, there are particular qualities I'm looking for, performance, how fast does it run? How efficiently does it utilize compute resources? How many cores do I need in my server to run this in real time? And compression efficiency, what kind of video quality can I get at a given bit rate under a given set of conditions? I don't want the second best implementation, I want the best implementation of that standard, because at scale, I can save a lot of money if I have a more efficient implementation of that standard. Mark Donnigan: 14:01 Those are excellent pointers. It just really comes back to we're solving problems, right? It's easy to get sucked into religious debates about some of these things, but at the end of the day we all have an obligation to do what's right and what's best for our companies, which includes selecting the best technology, what is going to do the best job at solving the problems. Mark Donnigan: 14:24 Thank you again for joining us. Tom Vaughn: 14:25 My pleasure, thank you. Dror Gill: 14:26 I would also like to thank you for joining us, not only joining us on this podcast, but also joining Beamr. Mark Donnigan: 14:32 Absolutely. Mark Donnigan: 14:33 Well, we want to thank you the listener for, again, joining The Video Insiders. We hope you will subscribe. You can go to thevideoinsiders.com and you can stream from your browser, you can subscribe on iTunes. We're on Spotify. We are on Google Play. We're expanding every day. Announcer: 14:57 Thank you for listening to The Video Insiders podcast, a production of Beamr Limited. 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Is AV1 more efficient than HEVC? Dror & Mark get into the middle of a 3 against 1 standoff over whether AV1 is actually more efficient than HEVC. The following blog post first appeared on the Beamr blog at: https://blog.beamr.com/2018/11/23/codec-efficiency-is-in-the-eye-of-the-measurer-podcast/ When it comes to comparing video codecs, it's easy to get caught up in the “codec war” mentality. If analyzing and purchasing codecs was as easy as comparing fuel economy in cars, it would undoubtedly take a lot of friction out of codec comparison, but the reality is that it's not that simple. In Episode 02, The Video Insiders go head-to-head comparing two of the leading codecs in a three against one standoff over whether AV1 is more efficient than HEVC. So, which is more efficient? Listen in to this week's episode, “Codec Efficiency Is in the Eye of the Measurer,” to find out. Want to join the conversation? Reach out to TheVideoInsiders@beamr.com. TRANSCRIPTION (lightly edited to improve readability only) Mark Donnigan: 00:41 Hi everyone I am Mark Donnigan and I want to welcome you to episode two of the Video Insiders. Dror Gill: 00:48 And I am Dror Gill. Hi there. Mark Donnigan: 00:50 In every episode of the Video Insiders we bring the latest inside information about what's happening in the video technology industry from encoding, to packaging, to delivery, and playback, and even the business behind the video business. Every aspect of the video industry is covered in detail on the Video Insiders podcast. Dror Gill: 01:11 Oh yeah, we usually do cover everything from pixels, to blocks, to microblocks, to frames, to sequences. We go all the way up and down the video delivery chain and highlight the most important things you should know before you send any video bits over the wire. Mark Donnigan: 01:28 In our first episode we talked about a very hot topic which asked, “Hasn't this kind of been worn out?” The whole HEVC, AV1 discussion. But I think it was very interesting. I sure enjoyed the talk. What about you Dror? Dror Gill: 01:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I sure did. It was great talking about the two leading codecs. I don't want to say the word, codec war. Mark Donnigan: 01:58 No, no, we don't believe in codec wars. Dror Gill: 01:59 We believe in codec peace. Mark Donnigan: 02:00 Yeah, that's true. Why is it so complicated to compare video codecs? Why can't it be as simple as fuel economy of cars, this one gets 20 miles per gallon and that one gets 30 and then I make a decision based on that. Dror Gill: 02:15 I wish it was that simple with video codecs. In video compression you have so many parameters to consider. You have the encoding tools, tools are grouped into what's called profiles and levels, or as AV1 calls them “experiments.” Mark Donnigan: 02:31 Experiments, mm-hmm… Dror Gill: 02:35 When you compare the codecs which profiles and levels do you use. What rate control method? Which specific parameters do you set for each codec? And each codec can have hundreds, and hundreds of parameters. Then there is the question of implementation. Which software implementation of the codec do you use? Some implementations are reference implementations that are used for research, and others are highly performance optimized commercial implementations. Which one do you select for the test? And then, which operating system, what hardware do you run on, and obviously what test content? Because encoding two people talking, or encoding an action scene for a movie, is completely different. Dror Gill: 03:13 Finally, when you come to evaluate your video, what quality measure do you use? There're various objective quality measures and some people use actual human viewers and they assesses subjective quality of the video. On that front also, there're many possibilities that you need to choose from. Mark Donnigan: 03:32 Yeah, so many questions and no wonder the answers are not so clear. I was quite surprised when I recently read three different technical articles published at IBC actually, effectively comparing AV1 versus HEVC and I can assume that each of the authors did their research independently. What was surprising was they came to the exact same conclusion, AV1 has the same compression efficiency as HEVC. This is surprising because some other studies and one in particular (I think we'll talk about) out there says the contrary. So can you explain what this means exactly, Dror. Dror Gill: 04:16 By saying that they have the same compression efficiency, this means that they can reach the same quality at the same bitrate or the other way round. You need the same bitrate to reach that same quality. If you need for example, two and a half megabits per second to encode an HD video file using HEVC at a certain quality, then with AV1 you would need roughly the same bitrate to reach that same quality and this means that AV1 and HEVC provide the same compression level. In other words, this means that AV1 does not have any technical advantage over HEVC because it has the same compression efficiency. Of course that's if we put aside all the loyalty issues but we discussed that last time. Right? Mark Donnigan: 04:56 That's right. The guys who wrote the three papers that I'm referencing are really top experts in the field. It's not seminar work done by a student, not to downplay those papers, but the point is these are professionals. One was written by the BBC in cooperation with the Multimedia and Vision Group at the Queen Mary University of London. I think nobody is going to say that the BBC doesn't know a thing or two about video. The second was written by Ateme, and the third by Harmonic, leading vendors. Mark Donnigan: 05:29 I actually pulled out a couple of phrases from each that I'd like to quote. First the BBC and Queen Mary University, here is a conclusion that they wrote, “The results obtained show in general a similar performance between AV1 and the reference HEVC both objectively and subjectively.” Which is interesting because they did take the time to both do the visual assessment as well as use a quality measure. Mark Donnigan: 06:01 Ateme said, “Results demonstrate AV1 to have equivalent performance to HEVC in terms of both objective and subjective video quality test results.” Dror Gill: 06:10 Yeah, very similar. Mark Donnigan: 06:16 And then here is what Harmonic said, “The findings are that AV1 is not more advantageous today than HEVC on the compression side and much more complex to encode than HEVC.” What do you make of this? Dror Gill: 06:32 I don't know. It sounds pretty bad to me, even two of those papers also analyzed subjective quality so they used actual human viewers to check out the quality. But Mark what if I told you that researchers from the University of Klagenfurt in Austria together with Bitmovin published a paper which showed completely different results. What would you say about that? Mark Donnigan: 06:57 Tell me more. Dror Gill: 06:58 Last month in Athens I was the ICIP conference that's the IEEE International Conference on Image Compression and Image Processing. There was this paper presented by this University in Austria with Bitmovin and their conclusion was, let me quote, “When using weighted PSNR, AV1 performs consistently better for bit rate compared to AVC, HEVC, and VP9.” So they claim AV1 is better than three codecs but specifically it's better than HEVC. And then they have a table in their article that compares AV1 to HEVC for six different video clips. The table shows that with AV1 you get up to 25% lower bitrate at the same quality than HEVC. Dror Gill: 07:43 I was sitting there in Athens last month when they presented this and I was shocked. Mark Donnigan: 07:50 What are the chances that three independent papers are wrong and only this paper got it right? And by the way, the point here is not three against one because presumably there're some other papers. I'm guessing other research floating around that might side with Bitmovin. The point is that three companies who no one is going to say that any of them are not experts and not highly qualified to do a video assessment, came up with such a different result. Tell us what you think is going on here? Dror Gill: 08:28 I was thinking the same thing. How can that be. During the presentation I asked one of the authors who presented the paper a few questions and it turned out that they made some very questionable decisions in all of that sea of possibility that I talked about before. Decisions related to coding tools, codec parameters, and quality measures. Dror Gill: 08:51 First of all, in this paper they didn't show any results of subjective viewing. Only the objective metrics. Now we all know that you should always your eyes, right? Mark Donnigan: 09:03 That's right. Dror Gill: 09:04 Objective metrics, nice numbers, but obviously you need to view the video because that's how the actual viewers are going to assess the (video) quality. The second thing is that they only used the single objective metric and this was PSNR. PSNR, it stands for peak signal-to-noise ratio and basically this measure is a weighted average of the difference in peaks between pixel values of the two images. Dror Gill: 09:30 Now, we're Video Insiders, but even if you're not an insider you know that PSNR is not a very good quality measure because it does not correlate very well with human vision. This is the measure that they choose to look at but what was most surprising is that there is a flag in the HEVC open source encoder which they used that if chosen, the result is improved PNSR. What it does, it turns off some psycho-visual optimizations which make the video look better but reduce the PSNR, and that's turned on by default. So you would expect that they're measuring PSNR they would turn that flag on so you would get higher PSNR. Well, they didn't. They didn't turn the flag on! Mark Donnigan: 10:13 Amazing. Dror Gill: 10:17 Finally, even then AV1 is much slower than HEVC, and they also reported in this data that it was much, much slower than HEVC but still they did not use the slowest encoding standing of HEVC, which would provide the best quality. There's always a trade off between performance and quality. The more tools you employ the better quality you can squeeze out of the video, of course that takes you more CPU cycles but they used for HEVC, the third slowest setting which means this is the third best quality you can get with that codec and not the very best quality. When you handicap an HEVC encoder in this way, it's not surprising that you get such poor results. Dror Gill: 11:02 I think based on all these points everybody can understand why the results of this comparison were quite different than all of the other comparison that were published a month earlier at IBC (by Ateme, BBC, Harmonic). Mark Donnigan: 11:13 It's interesting. Mark Donnigan: 11:14 Another critical topic that we have to cover is performance. If you measure the CPU performance on encoding time of AV1, I believe that it's pretty universally understood that you are going to find it currently is a hundred times slower than HEVC. Is that correct? Dror Gill: 11:32 Yeah, that's right. Typically, you measure the performance of an encoder and FPS which is frames per second. For HEVC it's common to measure an FPM which is frames per minute. Mark Donnigan: 11:42 Frames per minute, (more like) frames per hour, FPH. Dror Gill: 11:45 A year and a half ago or a year ago when there were very initial implementation, it was really FPD or FPH, Frames per hour or per day and you really needed to have a lot of patience, but now after they've done some work it's only a hundred times slower than HEVC. Mark Donnigan: 12:02 Yeah, that's pretty good. They're getting there. But some people say that the open source implementation of AV1 I believe it's AOM ENC. Dror Gill: 12:11 Yeah, AOM ENC. Mark Donnigan: 12:16 ENC exactly has not been optimized for performance at all. One thing I like about speed is either your encoder produces X number of frames per second or per minute, or it doesn't. It's really simple. Here is my next question for you. Proponents of AV1 are saying, “well it's true it's slow but it hasn't been optimized, the open source implementation,” which is to imply that there's a lot of room (for improvement) and that we're just getting started, “don't worry we'll close the gap.” But if you look at the code, and by the way I may be a marketing guy but my formal education is computer science. Mark Donnigan: 13:03 You can see it already includes performance optimizations. I mean eptimizations like MMX, SSE, there's AVX instructions, there's CPU optimization, there's multithreading. It seems like they're already trying to make this thing go faster. So how are they going to close this a hundred X (time) gap? Dror Gill: 13:22 I don't think they can. I mean a hundred X, that's a lot and you know even the AV1 guys they even admit that they won't be able to close the gap. I talked to a few senior people who're involved in the Alliance for Open Media and even they told me that they expect AV1 to five to 10 times more complex than HEVC at the end of the road. In two to three years after all optimization are done, it's still going to be more complex than HEVC. Dror Gill: 13:55 Now, if you ask me why it's so complex I'll tell you my opinion. Okay, this is my personal opinion. I think it's because they invested a lot of effort in side stepping the patents (HEVC). Mark Donnigan: 14:07 Good point. I agree. Dror Gill: 14:07 They need to get that compression efficiency which is the same as HEVC but they need to use algorithms that are not patented. They have methods that use much more CPU resources than the original patent algorithms to reach the same results. You can call it kind of brute force implementation of the same thing to avoid the patent issue. That's my personal opinion, but the end result I think is clear, it's going to be five to 10 times slower than HEVC. It has the same compression efficiency so I think it's quite questionable. This whole notion of using AV1 to get better results. Mark Donnigan: 14:45 Absolutely. If you can encode let's say on a single computer with HEVC a full ABR stack, this is what people want to do. But here we're talking speeds that are so slow let's just try and do (encode) one stream. Literally what you're saying is you'll need five to 10 computers to do the same encode with AV1. I mean, that's just not viable. It doesn't make sense to me. Dror Gill: 15:14 Yeah, why would you invest so much encoding into getting the same results. If you look at another aspect of this, let's talk about hardware encode. Companies that have large data centers, companies that are encoding vast amount of video content are not looking into moving from the traditional software encoding and CPUs and GPUs, to dedicated hardware. We're hearing talks about FPGAs even ASICs … by the way this is a very interesting trend in itself that we'll probably cover in one of the next episodes. But in the context of AV1, imagine a chip that is five to 10 times larger than an HEVC chip and which is the same complexity efficiency. The question I ask again is why? Why would anybody design such a chip, and why would anybody use it when HEVC is available today? It's much easier to encode, royalty issues have been practically solved so you know? Mark Donnigan: 16:06 Yeah, it's a big mystery for sure. One thing I can say is the Alliance for Open Media has done a great service to HEVC by pushing the patent holders to finalize their licensing terms … and ultimately make them much more rational shall we say? Dror Gill: 16:23 Yeah. Mark Donnigan: 16:25 Let me say that as we're an HEVC vendor and speaking on behalf of others (in the industry), we're forever thankful to the Alliance for Open Media. Dror Gill: 16:36 Definitely, without the push from AOM and the development of AV1 we would be stuck with HEVC royalty issue until this day. Mark Donnigan: 16:44 That was not a pretty situation a few years back, wow! Dror Gill: 16:48 No, no, but as we said in the last episode we have a “happy ending” now. (reference to episode 1) Mark Donnigan: 16:52 That's right. Dror Gill: 16:52 Billions of devices support HEVC and royalty issues are pretty much solved, so that's great. I think we've covered HEVC and AV1 pretty thoroughly in two episodes but what about the other codecs? There's VP9, you could call that the predecessor of AV1, and then there's VVC, which is the successor of HEVC. It's the next codec developed by MPEG. Okay, VP9 and VVC I guess we have a topic for our next episode, right? Mark Donnigan: 17:21 It's going to be awesome. Narrator: 17:23 Thank you for listening to the Video Insider podcast a production of Beamr limited. To begin using Beamr codecs today go to beamr.com/free to receive up to 100 hours of no cost HEVC and H.264 transcoding every month.
Titleist VP of Golf Ball Marketing Michael Mahoney joins the Two Guys Talkin' Golf podcast to discuss Titleist's decision to bring its new AVX golf balls to retail across the United States. He answers all of the questions golfers want to know... what's different about the golf ball? Who's it for? Why is it priced at $47.99, the same as Pro V1 and Pro V1x?
We look at how Netflix serves 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance, read through the 2nd quarter FreeBSD status report, show you a freebsd-update speedup via nginx reverse proxy, and customize your OpenBSD default shell. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-connect-appliance-cdb51dda3b99) In the summer of 2015, the Netflix Open Connect CDN team decided to take on an ambitious project. The goal was to leverage the new 100GbE network interface technology just coming to market in order to be able to serve at 100 Gbps from a single FreeBSD-based Open Connect Appliance (OCA) using NVM Express (NVMe)-based storage. At the time, the bulk of our flash storage-based appliances were close to being CPU limited serving at 40 Gbps using single-socket Xeon E5–2697v2. The first step was to find the CPU bottlenecks in the existing platform while we waited for newer CPUs from Intel, newer motherboards with PCIe Gen3 x16 slots that could run the new Mellanox 100GbE NICs at full speed, and for systems with NVMe drives. Fake NUMA Normally, most of an OCA's content is served from disk, with only 10–20% of the most popular titles being served from memory (see our previous blog, Content Popularity for Open Connect (https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/content-popularity-for-open-connect-b86d56f613b) for details). However, our early pre-NVMe prototypes were limited by disk bandwidth. So we set up a contrived experiment where we served only the very most popular content on a test server. This allowed all content to fit in RAM and therefore avoid the temporary disk bottleneck. Surprisingly, the performance actually dropped from being CPU limited at 40 Gbps to being CPU limited at only 22 Gbps! The ultimate solution we came up with is what we call “Fake NUMA”. This approach takes advantage of the fact that there is one set of page queues per NUMA domain. All we had to do was to lie to the system and tell it that we have one Fake NUMA domain for every 2 CPUs. After we did this, our lock contention nearly disappeared and we were able to serve at 52 Gbps (limited by the PCIe Gen3 x8 slot) with substantial CPU idle time. After we had newer prototype machines, with an Intel Xeon E5 2697v3 CPU, PCIe Gen3 x16 slots for 100GbE NIC, and more disk storage (4 NVMe or 44 SATA SSD drives), we hit another bottleneck, also related to a lock on a global list. We were stuck at around 60 Gbps on this new hardware, and we were constrained by pbufs. Our first problem was that the list was too small. We were spending a lot of time waiting for pbufs. This was easily fixed by increasing the number of pbufs allocated at boot time by increasing the kern.nswbuf tunable. However, this update revealed the next problem, which was lock contention on the global pbuf mutex. To solve this, we changed the vnode pager (which handles paging to files, rather than the swap partition, and hence handles all sendfile() I/O) to use the normal kernel zone allocator. This change removed the lock contention, and boosted our performance into the 70 Gbps range. As noted above, we make heavy use of the VM page queues, especially the inactive queue. Eventually, the system runs short of memory and these queues need to be scanned by the page daemon to free up memory. At full load, this was happening roughly twice per minute. When this happened, all NGINX processes would go to sleep in vm_wait() and the system would stop serving traffic while the pageout daemon worked to scan pages, often for several seconds. This problem is actually made progressively worse as one adds NUMA domains, because there is one pageout daemon per NUMA domain, but the page deficit that it is trying to clear is calculated globally. So if the vm pageout daemon decides to clean, say 1GB of memory and there are 16 domains, each of the 16 pageout daemons will individually attempt to clean 1GB of memory. To solve this problem, we decided to proactively scan the VM page queues. In the sendfile path, when allocating a page for I/O, we run the pageout code several times per second on each VM domain. The pageout code is run in its lightest-weight mode in the context of one unlucky NGINX process. Other NGINX processes continue to run and serve traffic while this is happening, so we can avoid bursts of pager activity that blocks traffic serving. Proactive scanning allowed us to serve at roughly 80 Gbps on the prototype hardware. Hans Petter Selasky, Mellanox's 100GbE driver developer, came up with an innovative solution to our problem. Most modern NICs will supply an Receive Side Scaling (RSS) hash result to the host. RSS is a standard developed by Microsoft wherein TCP/IP traffic is hashed by source and destination IP address and/or TCP source and destination ports. The RSS hash result will almost always uniquely identify a TCP connection. Hans' idea was that rather than just passing the packets to the LRO engine as they arrive from the network, we should hold the packets in a large batch, and then sort the batch of packets by RSS hash result (and original time of arrival, to keep them in order). After the packets are sorted, packets from the same connection are adjacent even when they arrive widely separated in time. Therefore, when the packets are passed to the FreeBSD LRO routine, it can aggregate them. With this new LRO code, we were able to achieve an LRO aggregation rate of over 2 packets per aggregation, and were able to serve at well over 90 Gbps for the first time on our prototype hardware for mostly unencrypted traffic. So the job was done. Or was it? The next goal was to achieve 100 Gbps while serving only TLS-encrypted streams. By this point, we were using hardware which closely resembles today's 100GbE flash storage-based OCAs: four NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 drives, 100GbE ethernet, Xeon E5v4 2697A CPU. With the improvements described in the Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale blog entry, we were able to serve TLS-only traffic at roughly 58 Gbps. In the lock contention problems we'd observed above, the cause of any increased CPU use was relatively apparent from normal system level tools like flame graphs, DTrace, or lockstat. The 58 Gbps limit was comparatively strange. As before, the CPU use would increase linearly as we approached the 58 Gbps limit, but then as we neared the limit, the CPU use would increase almost exponentially. Flame graphs just showed everything taking longer, with no apparent hotspots. We finally had a hunch that we were limited by our system's memory bandwidth. We used the Intel® Performance Counter Monitor Tools to measure the memory bandwidth we were consuming at peak load. We then wrote a simple memory thrashing benchmark that used one thread per core to copy between large memory chunks that did not fit into cache. According to the PCM tools, this benchmark consumed the same amount of memory bandwidth as our OCA's TLS-serving workload. So it was clear that we were memory limited. At this point, we became focused on reducing memory bandwidth usage. To assist with this, we began using the Intel VTune profiling tools to identify memory loads and stores, and to identify cache misses. Because we are using sendfile() to serve data, encryption is done from the virtual memory page cache into connection-specific encryption buffers. This preserves the normal FreeBSD page cache in order to allow serving of hot data from memory to many connections. One of the first things that stood out to us was that the ISA-L encryption library was using half again as much memory bandwidth for memory reads as it was for memory writes. From looking at VTune profiling information, we saw that ISA-L was somehow reading both the source and destination buffers, rather than just writing to the destination buffer. We realized that this was because the AVX instructions used by ISA-L for encryption on our CPUs worked on 256-bit (32-byte) quantities, whereas the cache line size was 512-bits (64 bytes)?—?thus triggering the system to do read-modify-writes when data was written. The problem is that the the CPU will normally access the memory system in 64 byte cache line-sized chunks, reading an entire 64 bytes to access even just a single byte. After a quick email exchange with the ISA-L team, they provided us with a new version of the library that used non-temporal instructions when storing encryption results. Non-temporals bypass the cache, and allow the CPU direct access to memory. This meant that the CPU was no longer reading from the destination buffers, and so this increased our bandwidth from 58 Gbps to 65 Gbps. At 100 Gbps, we're moving about 12.5 GB/s of 4K pages through our system unencrypted. Adding encryption doubles that to 25 GB/s worth of 4K pages. That's about 6.25 Million mbufs per second. When you add in the extra 2 mbufs used by the crypto code for TLS metadata at the beginning and end of each TLS record, that works out to another 1.6M mbufs/sec, for a total of about 8M mbufs/second. With roughly 2 cache line accesses per mbuf, that's 128 bytes * 8M, which is 1 GB/s (8 Gbps) of data that is accessed at multiple layers of the stack (alloc, free, crypto, TCP, socket buffers, drivers, etc). At this point, we're able to serve 100% TLS traffic comfortably at 90 Gbps using the default FreeBSD TCP stack. However, the goalposts keep moving. We've found that when we use more advanced TCP algorithms, such as RACK and BBR, we are still a bit short of our goal. We have several ideas that we are currently pursuing, which range from optimizing the new TCP code to increasing the efficiency of LRO to trying to do encryption closer to the transfer of the data (either from the disk, or to the NIC) so as to take better advantage of Intel's DDIO and save memory bandwidth. FreeBSD April to June 2017 Status Report (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.html) FreeBSD Team Reports FreeBSD Release Engineering Team Ports Collection The FreeBSD Core Team The FreeBSD Foundation The Postmaster Team Projects 64-bit Inode Numbers Capability-Based Network Communication for Capsicum/CloudABI Ceph on FreeBSD DTS Updates Kernel Coda revival FreeBSD Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA Intel 10G Driver Update pNFS Server Plan B Architectures FreeBSD on Marvell Armada38x FreeBSD/arm64 Userland Programs DTC Using LLVM's LLD Linker as FreeBSD's System Linker Ports A New USES Macro for Porting Cargo-Based Rust Applications GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) GNOME on FreeBSD KDE on FreeBSD New Port: FRRouting PHP Ports: Help Improving QA Rust sndio Support in the FreeBSD Ports Collection TensorFlow Updating Port Metadata for non-x86 Architectures Xfce on FreeBSD Documentation Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition Doc Version Strings Improved by Their Absence New Xen Handbook Section Miscellaneous BSD Meetups at Rennes (France) Third-Party Projects HardenedBSD DPDK, VPP, and the future of pfSense @ the DPDK Summit (https://www.pscp.tv/DPDKProject/1dRKZnleWbmKB?t=5h1m0s) The DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) conference included a short update from the pfSense project The video starts with a quick introduction to pfSense and the company behind it It covers the issues they ran into trying to scale to 10gbps and beyond, and some of the solutions they tried: libuinet, netmap, packet-journey Then they discovered VPP (Vector Packet Processing) The video then covers the architecture of the new pfSense pfSense has launched of EC2, on Azure soon, and will launch support for the new Atom C3000 and Xeon hardware with built-in QAT (Quick-Assist crypto offload) in November The future: 100gbps, MPLS, VXLANs, and ARM64 hardware support *** News Roundup Local nginx reverse proxy cache for freebsd-update (https://wiki.freebsd.org/VladimirKrstulja/Guides/FreeBSDUpdateReverseProxy) Vladimir Krstulja has created this interesting tutorial on the FreeBSD wiki about a freebsd-update reverse proxy cache Either because you're a good netizen and don't want to repeatedly hammer the FreeBSD mirrors to upgrade all your systems, or you want to benefit from the speed of having a local "mirror" (cache, more precisely), running a freebsd update reverse proxy cache with, say, nginx is dead simple. 1. Install nginx somewhere 2. Configure nginx for a subdomain, say, freebsd-update.example.com 3. On all your hosts, in all your jails, configure /etc/freebsd-update.conf for new ServerName And... that's it. Running freebsd-update will use the ServerName domain which is your reverse nginx proxy. Note the comment about using a "nearby" server is not quite true. FreeBSD update mirrors are frequently slow and running such a reverse proxy cache significantly speeds things up. Caveats: This is a simple cache. That means it doesn't consider the files as a whole repository, which in turn means updates to your cache are not atomic. It'd be advised to nuke your cache before your update run, as its point is only to retain the files in a local cache for some short period of time required for all your machines to be updated. ClonOS is a free, open-source FreeBSD-based platform for virtual environment creation and management (https://clonos.tekroutine.com/) The operating system uses FreeBSD's development branch (12.0-CURRENT) as its base. ClonOS uses ZFS as the default file system and includes web-based administration tools for managing virtual machines and jails. The project's website also mentions the availability of templates for quickly setting up new containers and web-based VNC access to jails. Puppet, we are told, can be used for configuration management. ClonOS can be downloaded as a disk image file (IMG) or as an optical media image (ISO). I downloaded the ISO file which is 1.6GB in size. Booting from ClonOS's media displays a text console asking us to select the type of text terminal we are using. There are four options and most people can probably safely take the default, xterm, option. The operating system, on the surface, appears to be a full installation of FreeBSD 12. The usual collection of FreeBSD packages are available, including manual pages, a compiler and the typical selection of UNIX command line utilities. The operating system uses ZFS as its file system and uses approximately 3.3GB of disk space. ClonOS requires about 50MB of active memory and 143MB of wired memory before any services or jails are created. Most of the key features of ClonOS, the parts which set it apart from vanilla FreeBSD, can be accessed through a web-based control panel. When we connect to this control panel, over a plain HTTP connection, using our web browser, we are not prompted for an account name or password. The web-based interface has a straight forward layout. Down the left side of the browser window we find categories of options and controls. Over on the right side of the window are the specific options or controls available in the selected category. At the top of the page there is a drop-down menu where we can toggle the displayed language between English and Russian, with English being the default. There are twelve option screens we can access in the ClonOS interface and I want to quickly give a summary of each one: Overview - this page shows a top-level status summary. The page lists the number of jails and nodes in the system. We are also shown the number of available CPU cores and available RAM on the system. Jail containers - this page allows us to create and delete jails. We can also change some basic jail settings on this page, adjusting the network configuration and hostname. Plus we can click a button to open a VNC window that allows us to access the jail's command line interface. Template for jails - provides a list of available jail templates. Each template is listed with its name and a brief description. For example, we have a Wordpress template and a bittorrent template. We can click a listed template to create a new jail with a vanilla installation of the selected software included. We cannot download or create new templates from this page. Bhyve VMs - this page is very much like the Jails containers page, but concerns the creation of new virtual machines and managing them. Virtual Private Network - allows for the management of subnets Authkeys - upload security keys for something, but it is not clear for what these keys will be used. Storage media - upload ISO files that will be used when creating virtual machines and installing an operating system in the new virtual environment. FreeBSD Bases - I think this page downloads and builds source code for alternative versions of FreeBSD, but I am unsure and could not find any associated documentation for this page. FreeBSD Sources - download source code for various versions of FreeBSD. TaskLog - browse logs of events, particularly actions concerning jails. SQLite admin - this page says it will open an interface for managing a SQLite database. Clicking link on the page gives a file not found error. Settings - this page simply displays a message saying the settings page has not been implemented yet. While playing with ClonOS, I wanted to perform a couple of simple tasks. I wanted to use the Wordpress template to set up a blog inside a jail. I wanted a generic, empty jail in which I could play and run commands without harming the rest of the operating system. I also wanted to try installing an operating system other than FreeBSD inside a Bhyve virtual environment. I thought this would give me a pretty good idea of how quick and easy ClonOS would make common tasks. Conclusions ClonOS appears to be in its early stages of development, more of a feature preview or proof-of-concept than a polished product. A few of the settings pages have not been finished yet, the web-based controls for jails are unable to create jails that connect to the network and I was unable to upload even small ISO files to create virtual machines. The project's website mentions working with Puppet to handle system configuration, but I did not encounter any Puppet options. There also does not appear to be any documentation on using Puppet on the ClonOS platform. One of the biggest concerns I had was the lack of security on ClonOS. The web-based control panel and terminal both automatically login as the root user. Passwords we create for our accounts are ignored and we cannot logout of the local terminal. This means anyone with physical access to the server automatically gains root access and, in addition, anyone on our local network gets access to the web-based admin panel. As it stands, it would not be safe to install ClonOS on a shared network. Some of the ideas present are good ones. I like the idea of jail templates and have used them on other systems. The graphical Bhyve tools could be useful too, if the limitations of the ISO manager are sorted out. But right now, ClonOS still has a way to go before it is likely to be safe or practical to use. Customize ksh display for OpenBSD (http://nanxiao.me/en/customize-ksh-display-for-openbsd/) The default shell for OpenBSD is ksh, and it looks a little monotonous. To make its user-experience more friendly, I need to do some customizations: (1) Modify the “Prompt String” to display the user name and current directory: PS1='$USER:$PWD# ' (2) Install colorls package: pkg_add colorls Use it to replace the shipped ls command: alias ls='colorls -G' (3) Change LSCOLORS environmental variable to make your favorite color. For example, I don't want the directory is displayed in default blue, change it to magenta: LSCOLORS=fxexcxdxbxegedabagacad For detailed explanation of LSCOLORS, please refer manual of colorls. This is my final modification of .profile: PS1='$USER:$PWD# ' export PS1 LSCOLORS=fxexcxdxbxegedabagacad export LSCOLORS alias ls='colorls -G' DragonFly 5 release candidate (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/10/02/20295.html) Commit (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-September/626463.html) I tagged DragonFly 5.0 (commit message list in that link) over the weekend, and there's a 5.0 release candidate for download (http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/). It's RC2 because the recent Radeon changes had to be taken out. (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-September/626476.html) Beastie Bits Faster forwarding (http://www.grenadille.net/post/2017/08/21/Faster-forwarding) DRM-Next-Kmod hits the ports tree (http://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod/) OpenBSD Community Goes Platinum (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20170829025446) Setting up iSCSI on TrueOS and FreeBSD12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4myESLZPXBU) *** Feedback/Questions Christopher - Virtualizing FreeNAS (http://dpaste.com/38G99CK#wrap) Van - Tar Question (http://dpaste.com/3MEPD3S#wrap) Joe - Book Reviews (http://dpaste.com/0T623Z6#wrap) ***
Better late than never again! Jermaine, Stephen and Riley are back with a vengeance to answer the Indoor Kids' call, go over all of the new books announced at the ImageExpo, provide advance reviews of Batman '66 and Collider, and lead us all in a lively session of Comics at the Table! Show Notes: Elm St. Center photos on Jermaine's Instagram! Get an idea of what the framework of Comic Book City Con will look like! The Indoor Kids podcast on Nerdist.com, specializing in video games! The movie Joe said Stephen should lose his nerd card for having not seen was Unbreakable! "Image 2013: New Comics From Brubaker, Epting, Remender, Straczynski, Sienkiewicz, Aaron And More" at Comics Alliance.com. "Image Comics Now Selling DRM-Free Digital Comics From Its Website" at Comics Alliance.com. Batman '66 and Guardians of the Galaxy Tomorrow's Avengers' "Infinite" Comics on Comixology! "Like" Acme Comics Presents on Facebook to keep up with all of the latest reading events! Comics at the Table! - Satellite Sam #1, Superior Foes of Spider-man #1, Catalyst Comics #1, Avengers A.I. #1, What If? AvX #1, Batman Incorporated #12 and Legends of the Dark Knight #10!
This week we review X-Men 35 and 36, WATXM 17 and 18, AVX 6, Uncanny 19, Consequences 1-5, Legacy 1, Uncanny Avengers 1, and All New X-Men 1. We then look back at the introduction of Cable in New Mutants 87 and 88.
This week we review AVX 11 and 12, Versus 5, Wolverine and the X-Men 15-16, Uncanny X-Men 17-18, New Mutants 48, Astonishing 53, Legacy 272, X-Factor 243, and UXForce 30-31. We then bring back Top 5 to figure out the best ways to fix current X-Men comics. And in Retro Reviews we look at X-Factor 53 and 54.
In this episode, we review about a million comics to catch up, ending with AVX 10.
In this week's episode we review Wolverine and the X-Men 10-13, Uncanny X-Men 11-15, AvX 5-7, and AVX Versus 3-4. We then bring on ComicCon correspondent David Gutierrez to talk San Diego ComicCon. And in Retro Reviews we look at Uncanny 257 and 258.
This week we review AVX 2, Avengers vs X-Men Versus 1, X-Factor 229 - 233, and Wolverine and the X-Men 8. Then we take YOUR questions in another edition of Fastball Special. And we wrap things up with Retro Reviews of X-Factor 51 and 52.
Associate Editor Ben Morse again talks with Avengers Vs. X-Men Editors Tom Brevoort & Nick Lowe about the latest news on AvX, your questions and much more!
Associate Editor Ben Morse talks with Avengers Vs. X-Men Editors Tom Brevoort & Nick Lowe about the latest news on AvX, your questions and much more!
Jermaine, Stephen and Frank spend a while with writer Jim McCann discussing the ins and outs of his new creator-owned series from Image Comics, Mind the Gap, out on Wednesday, May 2nd! The gang also reveals a Mind the Gap related contest that you, too, can participate in! Then it's a stacked week of Comics at the Table in which AvX gets bumped for an indie and Stephen makes his penance for not talking about any DC books on last week's show! Show Notes: Stephen with the Legend of Zelda Master Sword that he purchased at C2E2! 9 Page Preview of Mind the Gap #1 at Comic Book Resources! @JimMcCann on Twitter. Jim McCann Online.com. Comics at the Table - 3 Story: Secret Files of the Giant Man, Avengers vs. X-Men #2, Avengers #25, Wolverine & the X-Men #9, Batgirl #8, Batman #8, Nightwing #8, Justice League #8, Manhattan Projects #2, Wonder Woman #8, Prophet #24, Supergirl #8, Resident Alien #0, FCBD New 52 Special and FCBD Superman Family Adventures!
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