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In this episode of QAV Australia, Cam and Tony navigate a turbulent market buoyed by a temporary rollback in US-China tariffs and a curious rally in Bitcoin. They break down the movements in gold stocks like Perseus (PRU), Ramelius (RMS), and West African Resources (WAF), unpack ANZ's (ANZ) CEO handover and the impact of its Suncorp acquisition, and look into Super Retail Group's (SUL) Q3 results. The episode also features deep dives into the governance concerns at Macquarie (MQG), a bizarrely massive dividend from Healius (HLS), a skeptical look at luxury drop shipper Cettire (CTT), and a pulled pork segment on outdoor advertising player oOh!media (OML). Cam also shares a personal health win, and the duo wraps up with some recommendations, banter, and a little Van Halen nostalgia.
Hi! How do you feel about social media and creating content as a maker? I'm also chatting about personal resiliency, fiber focus, my new knit scarf pattern, fave yarns, and all about OML!Knit your best life with me! @northknits | Ravelry | NewsletterThe Resilience Scarf Yarn: Hue Loco DKCity Dream SweaterYarn: Lion Brand Color TheorySimple Seasons Warmer Yarn: Amano Riti LightLoops n ThreadsOur Maker Life MentionedAlexi Tavel | Two of Wands Nicole Clark | Hue Loco
ASX 200 falls another 23 points to 8330 (0.3%) after a solid opening was derailed by the 3.9% headline unemployment number. RBA will be back in its box. Banks slid with ANZ still under some pressure, the Big Bank Basket up to $256.62(). Insurers slightly higher as 10-year yields jumped higher to 4.26%. Industrials mixed with retail down, tech up and ‘old skool' platform stocks easing back, REA down 2.4% and CAR off 1.3%. REITs under some pressure on higher rates. Resources were flat, iron ore miners mixed, lithium stocks tried to rally as PLS CEO bought 500k shares. Gold miners were still in demand, although muted, oil and gas stocks fell slightly, BPT jumped 9.9% on a broker upgrade. Uranium stocks mixed, PDN up 0.7%. In corporate news, SYR was dumped 28.3% on a force majeure in Mozambique, IPH rose 4.0% on buy back initiated. SPK jumped 3.1% on data centre sale news. ORA fell 1.7% as it completed the sale of its US business, and OML fell 3.8% as it outlined cost-cutting plans. VNT and DOW slumped on ACCC allegations of price fixing. In economic news, jobs data was far stronger than the economists had forecast at 3.9% with 36500 new roles created. RBA now back to a serious delay. In Asian markets, a strong day, Japan up 1.0%, China up 0.6% and HK up 1.7%.Why not sign up for a free trial? Get access to expert market insights and manage your investments with confidence. Ready to invest in yourself? Join the Marcus Today community.
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Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a Core Contributor at Sentient, a blockchain project enabling community-built open AGI He's a researcher in information theory, applying its principles to solve real-world problems. Currently, he's a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Why you should listen Sentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. It is building platforms and protocols to enable open-source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to collectively build powerful AIs, and (3) be significant stakeholders in a new Open AGI economy. Today, the development of AI is almost entirely controlled by a few organizations and a few individuals at those organizations. These organizations are locked into a feverish race to build AGI and, in the process, make critical decisions for all of humanity. On the other side, a large fraction of humanity is working to build AI developer and user skills. They have limited ways to showcase and contribute their skills and even worse ways to be gainfully employed. Sentient has the goal of bringing ownership rights to open AI development. By inventing science and technology that enables anyone to build, collaborate, own, and monetize AI products, we will birth an era of AI entrepreneurship. Sentient is building an AI platform for builders to collaborate and monetize their innovations. AI builders are the workhorses and principal actors of this economy, the ones who innovate and collaborate to build powerful new AI offerings. The underlying blockchain protocol and incentive mechanism provide the necessary economic alignment needed for the evolution of Open AGI in this collective offering. For all this to work, it is necessary that the powerful AI models hosted on Sentient are Open, Monetizable and Loyal (OML) – “loyal” models are those which remain aligned with the community that built them, enforced by the underlying blockchain protocol. Sentient has pioneered a new ambitious field in AI research with OML models. OML models will drive a shared Open AGI economy, supporting millions of AI agents and further downstream applications for billions of AI users. The next generation of AI will be able to reason, plan, and act strategically. This AI will be built using new innovative agents and by learning from interactions between these agents, underlying models, and humans. The Sentient AI platform will enable the community and the AI built by them to participate and learn from these interactions, with the underlying blockchain protocol ensuring everyone is incentive-aligned. Supporting links Stabull Finance Sentient Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.
While the party explores so. many. corridors, Carlos doesn’t have an inside voice, Omlöl keeps walkin’, Regdar doesn’t like it when Carlos winks, Zotasha is interested in swirly purple, Kat’chka talks to monstrosities every day, and Shara recognizes Regdar’s hat. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
While the party explores so. many. corridors, Carlos doesn’t have an inside voice, Omlöl keeps walkin’, Regdar doesn’t like it when Carlos winks, Zotasha is interested in swirly purple, Kat’chka talks to monstrosities every day, and Shara recognizes Regdar’s hat. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
As the party keeps on truckin’, Regdar chews on a stalagbite, Kat’chka invents the frisbee, Omlöl continues learning about himself, Zotasha wants to go mudding, Shara is in search of something shiny, and Carlos ain’t afraid of no crystals. Oh, and Scott reminds us we’re all just skeletons deep inside. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
As the party keeps on truckin’, Regdar chews on a stalagbite, Kat’chka invents the frisbee, Omlöl continues learning about himself, Zotasha wants to go mudding, Shara is in search of something shiny, and Carlos ain’t afraid of no crystals. Oh, and Scott reminds us we’re all just skeletons deep inside. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
As the party continues into the tunnels, Omlöl communes with nature, Carlos looks for a seam, Zotasha doesn’t trust hot mud, Kat’chka discovers weird things, and Shara doesn’t want to levitate a pebble but Regdar does—as long as it’s glowing. Oh, and Scott invents a baby cave. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
Himanshu, a core contributor to Sentient, discusses the vision and mission of the project in this conversation. Sentient aims to create a decentralized alternative to centralized AI, where contributors are rewarded for their contributions and the AI economy is more participatory. The project recently raised $85 million in funding led by Peter Thiel's fund. Himanshu explains that while $85 million may seem like a lot in the crypto world, it is not enough considering the expensive resources required for AI, such as compute and talent. He discusses his background in academia and his journey into building different systems related to blockchain and AI. He also explains how the idea for Sentient came about and the decision to focus on building a counterpart to centralized AI. He emphasizes the importance of participation in the AI economy and the need for a more inclusive and decentralized approach. He addresses the market forces that favor crypto AI, such as the availability of compute and the potential for a more powerful economic flywheel. He also discusses the challenges of attracting AI talent to the crypto space and explains how Sentient aims to build models and create an open economy where anyone can contribute and earn rewards. Sentient aims to solve the monetization problem of open source AI models through their Open Monetizable Loyal (OML) Models and Other Artifacts. OML models are open source, can be monetized, and are loyal to the builder's preferred alignment and safety rules. The OML protocol uses backdoor attacks as a basic primitive to tie ownership and monetization to the actual model. Sentient plans to attract and incentivize AI developers by offering distribution and revenue opportunities for their models. The platform will be released in a demo version at DevCon, with hackathons and limited circles experiencing it before that. Himanshu's Twitter: https://x.com/hstyagi Sentient's Twitter: https://x.com/sentient_agi Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Funding in Crypto AI 03:29 The Vision: Building a Decentralized Alternative to Centralized AI 09:07 Creating an Open and Participatory AI Economy 14:51 Sentient as an AI Company: Building Models and Providing AI 19:38 The Potential of Crypto AI and Access to Capital 30:38 Attracting AI Talent and the Role of the Younger Generation 34:32 The Future of Crypto AI: A More Inclusive and Decentralized AI Economy 35:01 Solving the Monetization Problem of Open Source AI Models 44:41 Introducing OML Models: Open, Monetizable, and Loyal 48:31 Using Backdoor Attacks to Tie Ownership and Monetization 51:25 Attracting and Incentivizing AI Developers with Sentient 01:00:33 Upcoming Release and Hackathons at DevCon Disclosures This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token.
As the party continues into the tunnels, Omlöl communes with nature, Carlos looks for a seam, Zotasha doesn’t trust hot mud, Kat’chka discovers weird things, and Shara doesn’t want to levitate a pebble but Regdar does—as long as it’s glowing. Oh, and Scott invents a baby cave. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
In this episode, Carlos hears roaring and gurgling, Kat’chka puts the bug in bugaloo, Omlöl likes running toward danger, Regdar runs near danger, Shara doesn’t go around the bend, and Zotasha is yellopathic. Oh, and Scott puts up with all of it. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
In this episode, Carlos hears roaring and gurgling, Kat’chka puts the bug in bugaloo, Omlöl likes running toward danger, Regdar runs near danger, Shara doesn’t go around the bend, and Zotasha is yellopathic. Oh, and Scott puts up with all of it. Scott McNulty with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Jason Snell, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
Welcome to the first-ever episode of Extra Stitch! I'm Jewell - Northknits knitwear designer, OML community founder, and this podcast is where we take a moment to knit our best lives by going deeper in convo and getting a little bit extra with who we are and what we do as makers. I love sharing topics around knitting, crochet, fiber, pattern design, lifestyle, biz chat, and more in my extra stitch newsletter and this pod feels like a natural next step. We're talking about why we should do things in our biz, brands, and endeavors with crazy launch confidence. I'm chatting about how Founded inspired me to hit record on this first episode, my fave yarns, and this year's hh americas craft show. Hang and listen with me for this half hour episode! Mentioned✨ Our Maker Life community: https://www.ourmakerlife.org/ FOUNDED Community: https://www.instagram.com/wearefounded/ Sewrella Yarn: https://bit.ly/northxsewrellayarn WAK Yarn + Kits: https://weareknitters.com/ h+h americas: https://www.hh-americas.com/ Wips
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC podcast, SIE Suzan Amiri is joined by Dr. Farid Senzai, Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University. Join them on this journey of story-telling as they open up and share their experiences as Afghan-Americans. SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Farid Senzai Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University Founder & President of Afghan Relief BE A PART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
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In de eerste aflevering van Over Mijn Lijk – de podcast spreekt Tim Hofman drie vaders van ongeneeslijk zieke OML'ers, Eva en Zoë (S10) en Daan (S7), waarvan de laatste twee inmiddels zijn overleden. Waar begin je met accepteren dat je kind doodgaat? Kun je dat accepteren? En welke herinnering zouden ze willen herbeleven?
In this podcast of "Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast," hosts Shelly (She/Her) and Alex (He/Him) delve into the topic of why there's a shortage of research on women in medicine. They explore the broader issue of gender inequalities that women encounter in everyday life. Disclaimer! Just a quick note before we dive in: throughout this podcast, I'll be using "women" and “female” interchangeably, and similarly, "men," "males," and "guys" will be used interchangeably. My discussion focuses on the gender binary. SPECIAL GUEST Alex Gonzalez Instagram: scu_mcc RESOURCES Ignored And Underrepresented: The Impact Of Excluding Women In Healthcare Research https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2023/03/07/ignored-and-underrepresented-the-impact-of-excluding-women-in-healthcare-research/?sh=5e6ac50d628a Policy of Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials https://www.womenshealth.gov/30-achievements/04#:~:text=In%201977%2C%20the%20FDA%20issued,thalidomide%20 causing%20 serious%20birth%20 defects Sex and Science: Underrepresentation of Women in Early-Stage Clinical Trials https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/features/underrepresentation-women-early-stage-clinical-trials/?cf-view OML/RRC UPCOMING EVENTS: 3/08/24 - SCU International Women's Day Luncheon 3/13/24 - Women's History Month Panel FOLLOW US FOR MORE INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
Legend has it that when Jean Arthur walked out of Columbia Studios for the very last time, she shouted "I'm free! I'm free!" If it didn't happen that way, well, Jean had her own habit of stretching the truth so The Old Movie Lady thinks it's okay. She was the unusual character with the quirky voice who became a star in her mid-thirties (shhh!) and appeared in a string of classics like Mr Deeds Goes to Town, The Devil and Miss Jones, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, The More the Merrier. and You Can't Take It With You. But how did she get there, and what lead to Jean's ecstatic departure from Harry Cohn's studio? Find out that and more, in this special episode of OML, this is Close Up: Jean Arthur. This episode contains (mild) language that may be inappropriate for some listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Yes we are back, 2024, and kicking it off with UROOJ ASHFAQ! @TwoChickpeasInAPodcast @UroojAshfaq @SohoTheatre Born in Dubai, Urooj moved to Mumbai at the age of 12. She started performing at open-mic nights at 21, becoming a regular in Mumbai's young, rapidly-growing comedy scene, while citing stars like Sarah Silverman, Bridget Christie, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Josie Long and James Acaster as her creative heroes. Owing to her boundary-pushing humour and disarming charm she notched up some serious views and a loyal and growing fan base on home turf, as well as second finalist spot on TLC's Queens of Comedy (2017). Aside from her stand-up performances, Urooj enjoys credits as a writer on numerous fiction and non-fiction projects such as Die Trying (2018), Son Of Abish (2017) and Better Life Foundation (2016). Having an in-built knack for acting, she has also featured in web series such as AIB: Honest Engineering Campus Placements (2017), Die Trying (2018), Pushpavalli (2020) and Comedy Premier League (2021) and also hosted Comicstaan Series 2 (2019). In a noteworthy first, the 28 year-old was the first ever India-based stand-up comedian to be awarded Best Newcomer Award at the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her second full-length show in English, Oh No!, backed by Soho Theatre and OML in India. In the show she introduces her personality and life in India, taking audiences through her anecdotes on therapy, her thoughts on pornography and phone etiquette, to the ways boys suppress emotions and childhood issues. With material strong on Gen Z energy, the fast-talking, quick-thinking creative powerhouse is an endearing presence onstage with her candid and engaging content. Urooj is on tour in the UK from 23rd January to 8th February 2024. Tickets are available on https://sohotheatre.com/ Like, subscribe and share with people who you think would love this episode, your family and friends that have loved watching Urooj Ashfaq!
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#TheMusicPodcast #Ritviz #RahulSinha #ArtistManagerDuoWelcome to the 8th episode of THE MUSIC PODCAST hosted by Tarsame Mittal. An episode featuring the Udd Gaye fame, perfect Artist-Manager duo: Ritviz and Rahul Sinha!EPISODE DESCRIPTIONWho knew that Rahul never ingested any track of Ritiviz 24hrs before release. An exciting episode featuring the Artist and Manager duo! Unvieling the real journey and friendship between Ritviz and Rahul Sinha as they get real about anything and everything! From dropping out in 11th standard to performing at a concert with no audience to Udd gae breaking all records, Meeting Tanmay Bhat, harsh truth about radio stations, hiring a crazy fan, Udyan being the biggest supporter to talking about unrealistic expections in the music industry. Like, Share, Subscribe to The Music Podcast! Looking forward to your views and comments on this episode. Who you'd like to see and hear or which is the questions you'd like an answer on. Do leave your requests/comments below or reach out to us on themusicpodcast01@gmail.comEPISODE CHAPTERS:00:00 - Introduction00:36 - When Rahul met Ritviz01:05 - Real Ritviz aka 'Shivam'02:03 - Ritviz and Rahul's journey to 'Udd Gaye'24:46 - Managing an Independent artist, leaving OML and releases after.36:06 - Rahul and Ritviz opinion on working with Bollywood37:00 - Appreciation from Salman Khan37:33 - What success means to Ritviz38:48 - Ritviz collaboration with Mother on their album 'Mimmi'40:16 - Importance of a good manager41:01 - Team42:22 - Love at first sight with Rahul42:53 - Promoting their content44:17 - Supporting Independent artist45:40 - Industry Knowledge46:44 - The personal bond between Ritviz and Rahul47:41 - Core of Artist management48:15 - Importance of money & Udyan's bass rani launch50:05 - Ritviz's weirdest phobia50:30 - Crazy fan story52:37 - Detoxing together52:51 - Upcoming projects54:07 - Role of Udyan aka Nucleya54:54 - Artist Ritviz wants to collaborate with55:27 - Artist Ritviz feels is the future56:22 - Gesture that makes Ritviz smile56:58 - Request to different platforms of music industry57:35 - Harsh reality of Radio stations59:47 - Unrealistic expectations in Music Industry01:03:45 - One question that Ritviz wants to answerStay tuned for the next 'The Music Podcast' episode!
In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham speak with Oracle Database experts about the various tools you can use with Autonomous Database, including Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle Machine Learning, and more. Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Tamal Chatterjee, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! We spent the last two episodes exploring Oracle Autonomous Database's deployment options: Serverless and Dedicated. Today, it's tool time! Lois: That's right, Niki. We'll be chatting with some of our Database experts on the tools that you can use with the Autonomous Database. We're going to hear from Patrick Wheeler, Kay Malcolm, Sangeetha Kuppuswamy, and Thea Lazarova. Nikita: First up, we have Patrick, to take us through two important tools. Patrick, let's start with Oracle Application Express. What is it and how does it help developers? 01:15 Patrick: Oracle Application Express, also known as APEX-- or perhaps APEX, we're flexible like that-- is a low-code development platform that enables you to build scalable, secure, enterprise apps with world-class features that can be deployed anywhere. Using APEX, developers can quickly develop and deploy compelling apps that solve real problems and provide immediate value. You don't need to be an expert in a vast array of technologies to deliver sophisticated solutions. Focus on solving the problem, and let APEX take care of the rest. 01:52 Lois: I love that it's so easy to use. OK, so how does Oracle APEX integrate with Oracle Database? What are the benefits of using APEX on Autonomous Database? Patrick: Oracle APEX is a fully supported, no-cost feature of Oracle Database. If you have Oracle Database, you already have Oracle APEX. You can access APEX from database actions. Oracle APEX on Autonomous Database provides a preconfigured, fully managed, and secure environment to both develop and deploy world-class applications. Oracle takes care of configuration, tuning, backups, patching, encryption, scaling, and more, leaving you free to focus on solving your business problems. APEX enables your organization to be more agile and develop solutions faster for less cost and with greater consistency. You can adapt to changing requirements with ease, and you can empower professional developers, citizen developers, and everyone else. 02:56 Nikita: So you really don't need to have a lot of specializations or be an expert to use APEX. That's so cool! Now, what are the steps involved in creating an application using APEX? Patrick: You will be prompted to log in as the administrator at first. Then, you may create workspaces for your respective users and log in with those associated credentials. Application Express provides you with an easy-to-use, browser-based environment to load data, manage database objects, develop REST interfaces, and build applications which look and run great on both desktop and mobile devices. You can use APEX to develop a wide variety of solutions, import spreadsheets, and develop a single source of truth in minutes. Create compelling data visualizations against your existing data, deploy productivity apps to elegantly solve a business need, or build your next mission-critical data management application. There are no limits on the number of developers or end users for your applications. 04:01 Lois: Patrick, how does APEX use SQL? What role does SQL play in the development of APEX applications? Patrick: APEX embraces SQL. Anything you can express with SQL can be easily employed in an APEX application. Application Express also enables low-code development, providing developers with powerful data management and data visualization components that deliver modern, responsive end user experiences out-of-the-box. Instead of writing code by hand, you're able to use intelligent wizards to guide you through the rapid creation of applications and components. Creating a new application from APEX App Builder is as easy as one, two, three. One, in App Builder, select a project name and appearance. Two, add pages and features to the app. Three, finalize settings, and click Create. 05:00 Nikita: OK. So, the other tool I want to ask you about is Oracle Machine Learning. What can you tell us about it, Patrick? Patrick: Oracle Machine Learning, or OML, is available with Autonomous Database. A new capability that we've introduced with Oracle Machine Learning is called Automatic Machine Learning, or AutoML. Its goal is to increase data scientist productivity while reducing overall compute time. In addition, AutoML enables non-experts to leverage machine learning by not requiring deep understanding of the algorithms and their settings. 05:37 Lois: And what are the key functions of AutoML? Patrick: AutoML consists of three main functions: Algorithm Selection, Feature Selection, and Model Tuning. With Automatic Algorithm Selection, the goal is to identify the in-database algorithms that are likely to achieve the highest model quality. Using metalearning, AutoML leverages machine learning itself to help find the best algorithm faster than with exhaustive search. With Automatic Feature Selection, the goal is to denoise data by eliminating features that don't add value to the model. By identifying the most predicted features and eliminating noise, model accuracy can often be significantly improved with a side benefit of faster model building and scoring. Automatic Model Tuning tunes algorithm hyperparameters, those parameters that determine the behavior of the algorithm, on the provided data. Auto Model Tuning can significantly improve model accuracy while avoiding manual or exhaustive search techniques, which can be costly both in terms of time and compute resources. 06:44 Lois: How does Oracle Machine Learning leverage the capabilities of Autonomous Database? Patrick: With Oracle Machine Learning, the full power of the database is accessible with the tremendous performance of parallel processing available, whether the machine learning algorithm is accessed via native database SQL or with OML4Py through Python or R. 07:07 Nikita: Patrick, talk to us about the Data Insights feature. How does it help analysts uncover hidden patterns and anomalies? Patrick: A feature I wanted to call the electromagnet, but they didn't let me. An analyst's job can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. So throw the switch and all that metallic stuff is going to slam up onto that electromagnet. Sure, there are going to be rusty old nails and screws and nuts and bolts, but there are going to be a few needles as well. It's far easier to pick the needles out of these few bits of metal than go rummaging around in a pile of hay, especially if you have allergies. That's more or less how our Insights tool works. Load your data, kick off a query, and grab a cup of coffee. Autonomous Database does all the hard work, scouring through this data looking for hidden patterns, anomalies, and outliers. Essentially, we run some analytic queries that predict expected values. And where the actual values differ significantly from expectation, the tool presents them here. Some of these might be uninteresting or obvious, but some are worthy of further investigation. You get this dashboard of various exceptional data patterns. Drill down on a specific gauge in this dashboard and significant deviations between actual and expected values are highlighted. 08:28 Lois: What a useful feature! Thank you, Patrick. Now, let's discuss some terms and concepts that are applicable to the Autonomous JSON Database with Kay. Hi Kay, what's the main focus of the Autonomous JSON Database? How does it support developers in building NoSQL-style applications? Kay: Autonomous Database supports the JavaScript Object Notation, also known as JSON, natively in the database. It supports applications that use the SODA API to store and retrieve JSON data or SQL queries to store and retrieve data stored in JSON-formatted data. Oracle AJD is Oracle ATP, Autonomous Transaction Processing, but it's designed for developing NoSQL-style applications that use JSON documents. You can promote an AJD service to ATP. 09:22 Nikita: What makes the development of NoSQL-style, document-centric applications flexible on AJD? Kay: Development of these NoSQL-style, document-centric applications is particularly flexible because the applications use schemaless data. This lets you quickly react to changing application requirements. There's no need to normalize the data into relational tables and no impediment to changing the data structure or organization at any time, in any way. A JSON document has its own internal structure, but no relation is imposed on separate JSON documents. Nikita: What does AJD do for developers? How does it actually help them? Kay: So Autonomous JSON Database, or AJD, is designed for you, the developer, to allow you to use simple document APIs and develop applications without having to know anything about SQL. That's a win. But at the same time, it does give you the ability to create highly complex SQL-based queries for reporting and analysis purposes. It has built-in binary JSON storage type, which is extremely efficient for searching and for updating. It also provides advanced indexing capabilities on the actual JSON data. It's built on Autonomous Database, so that gives you all of the self-driving capabilities we've been talking about, but you don't need a DBA to look after your database for you. You can do it all yourself. 11:00 Lois: For listeners who may not be familiar with JSON, can you tell us briefly what it is? Kay: So I mentioned this earlier, but it's worth mentioning again. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It was originally developed as a human readable way of providing information to interchange between different programs. So a JSON document is a set of fields. Each of these fields has a value, and those values can be of various data types. We can have simple strings, we can have integers, we can even have real numbers. We can have Booleans that are true or false. We can have date strings, and we can even have the special value null. Additionally, values can be objects, and objects are effectively whole JSON documents embedded inside a document. And of course, there's no limit on the nesting. You can nest as far as you like. Finally, we can have a raise, and a raise can have a list of scalar data types or a list of objects. 12:13 Nikita: Kay, how does the concept of schema apply to JSON databases? Kay: Now, JSON documents are stored in something that we call collections. Each document may have its own schema, its own layout, to the JSON. So does this mean that JSON document databases are schemaless? Hmmm. Well, yes. But there's nothing to fear because you can always use a check constraint to enforce a schema constraint that you wish to introduce to your JSON data. Lois: Kay, what about indexing capabilities on JSON collections? Kay: You can create indexes on a JSON collection, and those indexes can be of various types, including our flexible search index, which indexes the entire content of the document within the JSON collection, without having to know anything in advance about the schema of those documents. Lois: Thanks Kay! 13:18 AI is being used in nearly every industry—healthcare, manufacturing, retail, customer service, transportation, agriculture, you name it! And, it's only going to get more prevalent and transformational in the future. So it's no wonder that AI skills are the most sought after by employers. We're happy to announce a new OCI AI Foundations certification and course that is available—for FREE! Want to learn about AI? Then this is the best place to start! So, get going! Head over to mylearn.oracle.com to find out more. 13:54 Nikita: Welcome back! Sangeetha, I want to bring you in to talk about Oracle Text. Now I know that Oracle Database is not only a relational store but also a document store. And you can load text and JSON assets along with your relational assets in a single database. When I think about Oracle and databases, SQL development is what immediately comes to mind. So, can you talk a bit about the power of SQL as well as its challenges, especially in schema changes? Sangeetha: Traditionally, Oracle has been all about SQL development. And with SQL development, it's an incredibly powerful language. But it does take some advanced knowledge to make the best of it. So SQL requires you to define your schema up front. And making changes to that schema could be a little tricky and sometimes highly bureaucratic task. In contrast, JSON allows you to develop your schema as you go--the schemaless, perhaps schema-later model. By imposing less rigid requirements on the developer, it allows you to be more fluid and Agile development style. 15:09 Lois: How does Oracle Text use SQL to index, search, and analyze text and documents that are stored in the Oracle Database? Sangeetha: Oracle Text can perform linguistic analyses on documents as well as search text using a variety of strategies, including keyword searching, context queries, Boolean operations, pattern matching, mixed thematic queries, like HTML/XML session searching, and so on. It can also render search results in various formats, including unformatted text, HTML with term highlighting, and original document format. Oracle Text supports multiple languages and uses advanced relevance-ranking technology to improve search quality. Oracle Text also offers advantage features like classification, clustering, and support for information visualization metaphors. Oracle Text is now enabled automatically in Autonomous Database. It provides full-text search capabilities over text, XML, JSON content. It also could extend current applications to make better use of textual fields. It builds new applications specifically targeted at document searching. Now, all of the power of Oracle Database and a familiar development environment, rock-solid autonomous database infrastructure for your text apps, we can deal with text in many different places and many different types of text. So it is not just in the database. We can deal with data that's outside of the database as well. 17:03 Nikita: How does it handle text in various places and formats, both inside and outside the database? Sangeetha: So in the database, we can be looking a varchar2 column or LOB column or binary LOB columns if we are talking about binary documents such as PDF or Word. Outside of the database, we might have a document on the file system or out on the web with URLs pointing out to the document. If they are on the file system, then we would have a file name stored in the database table. And if they are on the web, then we should have a URL or a partial URL stored in the database. And we can then fetch the data from the locations and index it in the term documents format. We recognize many different document formats and extract the text from them automatically. So the basic forms we can deal with-- plain text, HTML, JSON, XML, and then formatted documents like Word docs, PDF documents, PowerPoint documents, and also so many different types of documents. All of those are automatically handled by the system and then processed into the format indexing. And we are not restricted by the English either here. There are various stages in the index pipeline. A document starts one, and it's taken through the different stages so until it finally reaches the index. 18:44 Lois: You mentioned the indexing pipeline. Can you take us through it? Sangeetha: So it starts with a data store. That's responsible for actually reaching the document. So once we fetch the document from the data store, we pass it on to the filter. And now the filter is responsible for processing binary documents into indexable text. So if you have a PDF, let's say a PDF document, that will go through the filter. And that will extract any images and return it into the stream of HTML text ready for indexing. Then we pass it on to the sectioner, which is responsible for identifying things like paragraphs and sentences. The output from the section is fed onto the lexer. The lexer is responsible for dividing the text into indexable words. The output of the lexer is fed into the index engine, which is responsible for laying out to the indexes on the disk. Storage, word list, and stop list are some additional inputs there. So storage tells exactly how to lay out the index on disk. Word list which has special preferences like desegmentation. And then stop is a list word that we don't want to index. So each of these stages and inputs can be customized. Oracle has something known as the extensibility framework, which originally was designed to allow people to extend capabilities of these products by adding new domain indexes. And this is what we've used to implement Oracle Text. So when kernel sees this phrase INDEXTYPE ctxsys.context, it knows to handle all of the hard work creating the index. 20:48 Nikita: Other than text indexing, Oracle Text offers additional operations, right? Can you share some examples of these operations? Sangeetha: So beyond the text index, other operations that we can do with the Oracle Text, some of which are search related. And some examples of that are these highlighting markups and snippets. Highlighting and markup are very similar. They are ways of fetching these results back with the search. And then it's marked up with highlighting within the document text. Snippet is very similar, but it's only bringing back the relevant chunks from the document that we are searching for. So rather than getting the whole document back to you, just get a few lines showing this in a context and the theme and extraction. So Oracle Text is capable of figuring out what a text is all about. We have a very large knowledge base of the English language, which will allow you to understand the concepts and the themes in the document. Then there's entity extraction, which is the ability to find out people, places, dates, times, zip codes, et cetera in the text. So this can be customized with your own user dictionary and your own user rules. 22:14 Lois: Moving on to advanced functionalities, how does Oracle Text utilize machine learning algorithms for document classification? And what are the key types of classifications? Sangeetha: The text analytics uses machine learning algorithms for document classification. We can process a large set of data documents in a very efficient manner using Oracle's own machine learning algorithms. So you can look at that as basically three different headings. First of all, there's classification. And that comes in two different types-- supervised and unsupervised. The supervised classification which means in this classification that it provides the training set, a set of documents that have already defined particular characteristics that you're looking for. And then there's unsupervised classification, which allows your system itself to figure out which documents are similar to each other. It does that by looking at features within the documents. And each of those features are represented as a dimension in a massively high dimensional feature space in documents, which are clustered together according to that nearest and nearness in the dimension in the feature space. Again, with the named entity recognition, we've already talked about that a little bit. And then finally, there is a sentiment analysis, the ability to identify whether the document is positive or negative within a given particular aspect. 23:56 Nikita: Now, for those who are already Oracle database users, how easy is it to enable text searching within applications using Oracle Text? Sangeetha: If you're already an Oracle database user, enabling text searching within your applications is quite straightforward. Oracle Text uses the same SQL language as the database. And it integrates seamlessly with your existing SQL. Oracle Text can be used from any programming language which has SQL interface, meaning just about all of them. 24:32 Lois: OK from Oracle Text, I'd like to move on to Oracle Spatial Studio. Can you tell us more about this tool? Sangeetha: Spatial Studio is a no-code, self-service application that makes it easy to access the sorts of spatial features that we've been looking at, in particular, in order to get that data prepared to use with spatial, visualizing results in maps and tables, and also doing the analysis and sharing results. Spatial Studios is encoded at no extra cost with Autonomous Database. The studio web application itself has no additional cost and it runs on the server. 25:13 Nikita: Let's talk a little more about the cost. How does the deployment of Spatial Studio work, in terms of the server it runs on? Sangeetha: So, the server that it runs on, if it's running in the Cloud, that computing node, it would have some cost associated with it. It can also run on a free tier with a very small shape, just for evaluation and testing. Spatial Studio is also available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. And there are a couple of self-paced workshops that you can access for installing and using Spatial Studio. 25:47 Lois: And how do developers access and work with Oracle Autonomous Database using Spatial Studio? Sangeetha: Oracle Spatial Studio allows you to access data in Oracle Database, including Oracle Autonomous Database. You can create connections to Oracle Autonomous Databases, and then you work with the data that's in the database. You can also see Spatial Studio to load data to Oracle Database, including Oracle Autonomous Database. So, you can load these spreadsheets in common spatial formats. And once you've loaded your data or accessed data that already exists in your Autonomous Database, if that data does not already include native geometrics, Oracle native geometric type, then you can prepare the data if it has addresses or if it has latitude and longitude coordinates as a part of the data. 26:43 Nikita: What about visualizing and analyzing spatial data using Spatial Studio? Sangeetha: Once you have the data prepared, you can easily drag and drop and start to visualize your data, style it, and look at it in different ways. And then, most importantly, you can start to ask spatial questions, do all kinds of spatial analysis, like we've talked about earlier. While Spatial Studio provides a GUI that allows you to perform those same kinds of spatial analysis. And then the results can be dropped on the map and visualized so that you can actually see the results of spatial questions that you're asking. When you've done some work, you can save your work in a project that you can return to later, and you can also publish and share the work you've done. 27:34 Lois: Thank you, Sangeetha. For the final part of our conversation today, we'll talk with Thea. Thea, thanks so much for joining us. Let's get the basics out of the way. How can data be loaded directly into Autonomous Database? Thea: Data can be loaded directly to ADB through applications such as SQL Developer, which can read data files, such as txt and xls, and load directly into tables in ADB. 27:59 Nikita: I see. And is there a better method to load data into ADB? Thea: A more efficient and preferred method for loading data into ADB is to stage the data cloud object store, preferably Oracle's, but also supported our Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage. Any file type can be staged in object store. Once the data is in object store, Autonomous Database can access a directly. Tools can be used to facilitate the data movement between object store and the database. 28:27 Lois: Are there specific steps or considerations when migrating a physical database to Autonomous? Thea: A physical database can simply be migrated to autonomous because database must be converted to pluggable database, upgraded to 19C, and encrypted. Additionally, any changes to an Oracle-shipped stored procedures or views must be found and reverted. All uses of container database admin privileges must be removed. And all legacy features that are not supported must be removed, such as legacy LOBs. Data Pump, expdp/impdp must be used for migrating databases versions 10.1 and above to Autonomous Database as it addresses the issues just mentioned. For online migrations, GoldenGate must be used to keep old and new database in sync. 29:15 Nikita: When you're choosing the method for migration and loading, what are the factors to keep in mind? Thea: It's important to segregate the methods by functionality and limitations of use against Autonomous Database. The considerations are as follows. Number one, how large is the database to be imported? Number two, what is the input file format? Number three, does the method support non-Oracle database sources? And number four, does the methods support using Oracle and/or third-party object store? 29:45 Lois: Now, let's move on to the tools that are available. What does the DBMS_CLOUD functionality do? Thea: The Oracle Autonomous Database has built-in functionality called DBMS_CLOUD specifically designed so the database can move data back and forth with external sources through a secure and transparent process. DBMS_CLOUD allows data movement from the Oracle object store. Data from any application or data source export to text-- .csv or JSON-- output from third-party data integration tools. DBMS_CLOUD can also access data stored on Object Storage from the other clouds, AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage. DBMS_CLOUD does not impose any volume limit, so it's the preferred method to use. SQL*Loader can be used for loading data located on the local client file systems into Autonomous Database. There are limits around OS and client machines when using SQL*Loader. 30:49 Nikita: So then, when should I use Data Pump and SQL Developer for migration? Thea: Data Pump is the best way to migrate a full or part database into ADB, including databases from previous versions. Because Data Pump will perform the upgrade as part of the export/import process, this is the simplest way to get to ADB from any existing Oracle Database implementation. SQL Developer provides a GUI front end for using data pumps that can automate the whole export and import process from an existing database to ADB. SQL Developer also includes an import wizard that can be used to import data from several file types into ADB. A very common use of this wizard is for importing Excel files into ADW. Once a credential is created, it can be used to access a file as an external table or to ingest data from the file into a database table. DBMS_CLOUD makes it much easier to use external tables, and the organization external needed in other versions of the Oracle Database are not needed. 31:54 Lois: Thea, what about Oracle Object Store? How does it integrate with Autonomous Database, and what advantages does it offer for staging data? Thea: Oracle Object Store is directly integrated into Autonomous Database and is the best option for staging data that will be consumed by ADB. Any file type can be stored in object store, including SQL*Loader files, Excel, JSON, Parquet, and, of course, Data Pump DMP files. Flat files stored on object store can also be used as Oracle Database external tables, so they can queried directly from the database as part of a normal DML operation. Object store is a separate bin storage allocated to the Autonomous Database for database Object Storage, such as tables and indexes. That storage is part of the Exadata system Autonomous Database runs on, and it is automatically allocated and managed. Users do not have direct access to that storage. 32:50 Nikita: I know that one of the main considerations when loading and updating ADB is the network latency between the data source and the ADB. Can you tell us more about this? Thea: Many ways to measure this latency exist. One is the website cloudharmony.com, which provides many real-time metrics for connectivity between the client and Oracle Cloud Services. It's important to run these tests when determining with Oracle Cloud service location will provide the best connectivity. The Oracle Cloud Dashboard has an integrated tool that will provide real time and historic latency information between your existing location and any specified Oracle Data Center. When migrating data to Autonomous Database, table statistics are gathered automatically during direct-path load operations. If direct-path load operations are not used, such as with SQL Developer loads, the user can gather statistics manually as needed. 33:44 Lois: And finally, what can you tell us about the Data Migration Service? Thea: Database Migration Service is a fully managed service for migrating databases to ADB. It provides logical online and offline migration with minimal downtime and validates the environment before migration. We have a requirement that the source database is on Linux. And it would be interesting to see if we are going to have other use cases that we need other non-Linux operating systems. This requirement is because we are using SSH to directly execute commands on the source database. For this, we are certified on the Linux only. Target in the first release are Autonomous databases, ATP, or ADW, both serverless and dedicated. For agent environment, we require Linux operating system, and this is Linux-safe. In general, we're targeting a number of different use cases-- migrating from on-premise, third-party clouds, Oracle legacy clouds, such as Oracle Classic, or even migrating within OCI Cloud and doing that with or without direct connection. If you have any direct connection behind a firewall, we support offline migration. If you have a direct connection, we support both offline and online migration. For more information on all migration approaches are available for your particular situation, check out the Oracle Cloud Migration Advisor. 35:06 Nikita: I think we can wind up our episode with that. Thanks to all our experts for giving us their insights. 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A szerzővel Mészáros Sándor beszélget A Glaukóma, a Két akarat és a Rítus szerzője, Áfra János hat év után jelentkezik újra önálló verseskötettel a Kalligram Kiadónál. A költő eddigi legterjedelmesebb kötete, az Omlás az életmű eddigi megszólalási módjait, problémaköreit, poétikai megoldásait fuzionálja, terjeszti ki új irányokba, miközben épít a Szegedi-Varga Zsuzsanna képzőművésszel közösen jegyzett művészkönyv, a Termékeny félreértés disztópikus világára is. A transzcendens összefüggések tárgyalása után a kötet fókusza a családi múlttal és a társadalmi valósággal kapcsolatos kérdéseken át terjed ki a baljós globális összefüggésekre, és jut el a katasztrófák uralta jövővíziókig. Az Omlással a Horváth Péter Irodalmi Ösztöndíjas szerző eddigi legkomplexebb kötetét veheti kézbe az olvasó. A Kalligram Kiadó programja. A Liszt Ünnep Nemzetközi Kulturális Fesztivállal közös program. A Margó Irodalmi Fesztivál és Könyvvásár kiemelt támogatója a: Bookline. A programok az MVM és a Nemzeti Kulturális Alap támogatásával valósulnak meg. A beszélgetés a 2023-as őszi Margó Irodalmi Fesztiválon hangzott el.
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Att läsa om böcker kan handla om trygghet, att återvända till en älskad plats. Men det är också ett sätt att få syn på förändring, menar Eva-Lotta Hultén. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.I en stringhylla, som då ännu inte var retro utan bara omodern och därför placerad i ett barnrum i ett fritidshus, stod tre böcker. Ofta stod där många fler men dessa tre stod där alltid. Rummet med hyllan och böckerna var mitt under somrar, helger och skollov. Det var så litet att där utöver hyllan bara rymdes en säng och en smal byrå. Ändå tillbringade jag en hel del tid där, läsandes. När de medhavda biblioteksböckerna var utlästa tog jag valfri bok av de tre ständiga och läste om. Om och om igen.Det handlar om ”Bröderna Lejonhjärta”, Lennart Nybloms ungdomsbok ”Sök vid nymåne” och Jan Mårtenssons skämtsamma deckarhistoria ”Släkten är bäst”. Kan jag ha läst dem femton gånger? Eller tjugo? Plötsligt saknar jag dem. Kanske inte så mycket Astrid Lindgrens klassiker som jag läst högt för mina barn, men de båda andra. De hör inte precis till världslitteraturen men de finns i mitt system. Båda utspelar sig på små öar och har dem på omslaget. Som vuxen är jag bosatt på en liten ö. En slump? Kanske.Jag beställer båda på antikvariat och faller rakt ner i barndomen när jag börjar läsa Sök vid nymåne. Den underbart muntra boken handlar om en 1950-talsfamilj som på impuls köper en ö på Västkusten och bygger sig ett hus. En lång rad udda människor kommer i deras väg och jag skrattar högt precis som förr.Omläsning ger igenkänning som kan skapa trygghet. Små barn hör gärna samma sagobok hundra gånger. Om det finns någon bok jag är verkligt trött på att läsa högt så är det Richard Scarrys Vi lär oss ABC. Men även äldre barn kan uppskatta omläsandets trygghet. I Sök vid nymåne är alla snälla och allt ordnar sig till det bästa. Jag visste precis vad jag skulle få när jag tog ner den ur hyllan. Lättsam underhållning och lyckligt slut. Precis som i en annan av mina barndomsfavoriter ”Vi på Saltkråkan”. Även den utspelar sig för övrigt på en ö, med en intrig som är märkligt lik Sök vid nymåne. Nybloms bok kom ut först.Men läser inte också många av oss som vuxna om böcker för att det inger oss trygghet?Kerstin Ekman konstaterar i sin essäsamling Min bokvärld att det är nutidsflykt hon ägnar sig åt när hon glider in i Herman Melvilles Moby Dick. Jag citerar ”På 1840-talet när Melville skrev om havet hade ännu inga tankfartyg läckt ut tjockolja, ingen plast drev omkring på sjön, fragmenterades och sjönk neråt för att slukas som osmältbar föda av valar, delfiner och andra havsvarelser. Inga motorer bullrade och inga enorma turistfartyg i flera våningar släppte ut sitt avfall i dessa till synes oändliga vatten.” Slut citat.Moby Dick är som bekant ingen munter bok, och det är inte heller Kejsarn av Portugallien eller Jan Fridegårds En natt i juni, som jag själv läst om som nutidsflykt. Bara det faktum att de utspelar sig i en svunnen tid ger möjlighet till en stunds vila från klimat- och miljöbekymmer. En trygghet så god som någon.Men de flesta av mina omläsningar i vuxen ålder handlar inte om trygghet. Jag har återvänt till Månen och silverslanten av William Somerset Maugham, Det som en gång var av Helena Granström och Mästaren och Margarita av Michail Bulgakov för att de varit omvälvande läsning på olika sätt. Mästerligt skildrad mänsklig komplexitet; intellektuellt utmanande existentiella frågor i skönlitterär dräkt; vildsint magisk realism och samhällssatir. När jag sjunkit in i dem för andra eller tredje gången har det fortfarande funnits mer tankeguld att hämta, mer njutning att få.Den ideala läsaren, menar Ekman, är just den som läser om. Efter att en av hennes böcker gått som radioföljetong hör flera personer av sig och berättar att de förstått boken på ett annat sätt den här gången. Den första läsningen skedde för spänningen, den andra ledde djupare.Kerstin Ekman själv återvänder till bland andra Leo Tolstojs Krig och fred, Thomas Manns Bergtagen, Emily Brontës Svindlande höjder och Cora Sandels Alberte och Jakob. Hon läser dem mitt i natten när hon inte kan sova och beskriver en djup och varaktig kärlek till dem, en sådan man kan känna för en god människa eller en älskad hund. Det är böcker med förtrollande språk och underhållande intrig; böcker som förbryllar och böcker som hon som författare återvänder till för att lära sig mer om hantverket. Böcker som för varje omläsning ger nya perspektiv, nya frågor och nya insikter.En läsupplevelse formas alltid av berättelsen i kombination med våra egna erfarenheter, känslor och tankar. Som läsare stiger man aldrig ned i samma berättelse två gånger. Det här kan vi gärna hålla i minnet när det kommer till läsning i utbildningssyfte. Är det en litteraturkanon vi behöver, eller fördjupning? Att läsa för att ha läst eller för att förstå och utvidga vår tankeförmåga? Att läsa om är att vägra vara effektiv, vägra prestera och vägra erövra.Jag minns ännu hur min gymnasieklass fick läsa, och läsa om, Gunnar Ekelöfs debutsamling Sent på jorden och hur vi tillsammans tog oss allt djupare in i texten. Denna gemensamma vandring bland Ekelöfs dikter är ett av mitt livs största läsupplevelser. Inget skulle bockas av. I stället återvände vi till samma texter och utforskade dem från nya håll. Alla de böcker som fått ett kapitel i Kerstin Ekmans Min bokvärld hör till det vi betraktar som höglitteratur: Homeros, Eyvind Johnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Moa Martinsson, Doris Lessing, bland andra. Men inte läser väl Kerstin Ekman bara om sådan litteratur? I bisatser nämner hon Jerome K Jeromes Tre män i en båt och Agatha Christies 4.50 från Paddington.Vilken bok har hon läst om flest gånger, 4.50 från Paddington eller Thomas Manns Bergtagen? Varför får den ena en helt egen essä medan den andra nämns i förbigående?Kanske kan hennes nästa bok handla om alla de böcker hon återvänder till för att de ger henne tröst, trygghet och skratt trots, eller kanske på grund av sin lätthet. Så som Adrian Moles dagböcker av Sue Townsend både roat och lugnat mig sedan jag läste de första delarna i tioårsåldern.Adrian Mole har följt mig genom livet och varje omläsning är ett besök inte bara i en för mig välbekant bokvärld utan också hos en tioåring som satt lutad mot väggen i sängens fotända med en bok i händerna och skrattade åt helt andra saker än en femtioåring.Vissa, tyngre, böcker i min hylla är fulla av understrykningar i olika färger. Alla är de mina, gjorda under decennier. Som 40-åring ville jag markera andra rader än som 20-åring. Genom årtiondena talar jag inte bara med böckerna jag läser om utan också med mig själv och den jag var när jag läste förra gången och gången innan den.Omläsningsböckerna är den bästa sortens vänner; de som hela tiden öppnar nya skikt i en, men som samtidigt låter en minnas och bevara den man en gång var.Eva-Lotta Hultén, journalist och författareLitteraturKerstin Ekman: Min bokvärld. Albert Bonniers förlag, 2023.
There is so much data available today. But it only makes a difference when you transform that data into actionable intelligence. In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Nick Commisso, discuss how you can harness the capabilities of Oracle Machine Learning to solve key business problems and accelerate the deployment of machine learning–based solutions. Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Ranbir Singh, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. ------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00;00;00;00 - 00;00;39;06 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Product Innovation and Go to Market Programs. 00;00;39;08 - 00;01;07;15 Hi there. For the last two weeks, we've been off the Oracle Database train, but today we're back on it, focusing on Oracle Machine Learning with our Cloud Engineer Nick Commisso. Hi Nick. Before we get into Oracle Machine Learning, I think we should start with the basics. What is machine learning? Machine learning is focused on enabling data science teams to add ML-based intelligence to both their applications and their dashboards. 00;01;07;17 - 00;01;37;07 With machine learning, we can automate the entire data analysis process workflow, from collaborating in order to obtain data from many sources to creating and analyzing the data, and showing the results and reports. We can perform predictions and easily visualize the data to provide a deeper and faster and more comprehensive insight to enable effective business decisions. I think we can safely say that machine learning is the future of analytics in every industry, right? 00;01;37;09 - 00;02;11;26 So where does Oracle Machine Learning come in? Oracle Machine Learning provides a reliable, AI-driven environment that truly encapsulates the power of machine learning. Enhanced performance and scalability is achieved in part by eliminating data movement for database data and providing algorithms that have been redesigned specifically for scalability and performance. Next is simpler solution architecture and management, where we want to avoid requiring separately maintained analytic engines or tools for data and model governance. 00;02;11;26 - 00;02;38;10 In-database machine learning also offers flexible architectures for deployment tests, in-production spanning the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. And because of its SQL and REST interfaces, it's easy to integrate with the broader Oracle stack. Now the third is that OML empowers a broader range of users with machine learning. It's readily available in the database from multiple interfaces, including third-party package support. 00;02;38;13 - 00;03;06;19 So do you have to be an expert to use machine learning? To make even non-experts productive with machine learning, OML supports AutoML from a Python API, and a no code user interface. And there's also other built-in automation features like automatic data preparation, integrated text mining, and partition models. And these make machine learning even more accessible to a broader range of users. 00;03;06;22 - 00;03;33;04 What can you tell us about the pricing structure? Machine learning capabilities are included in the core product at no additional cost with Autonomous Database, and the OML components of ADB are pre-provisioned and ready to use. And an on-premises database is included with the database license. So overall, the takeaway is that OML helps reduce costs and complexity while increasing productivity and access. 00;03;33;06 - 00;04;01;06 What are the areas or fields in which OML is useful? Modern businesses and modern problems require solution best delivered by Oracle Machine Learning. Medical science has been leveraging machine learning successfully to perform quick and accurate diagnosis or creating curative solutions using vast quantities of data. Physical robots use a combination of machine learning solutions to sense their environment and respond appropriately. 00;04;01;08 - 00;04;37;07 Computational biology makes use of machine learning to analyze biological data, such as genetic sequences or organic samples, and make predictions. Analysis with financial or security data can identify clients with high risk profiles or cybersecurity surveillance to pinpoint warning signs of fraud. The recent growth in the popularity of machine learning has been aided by the fact that we now have improved machine learning algorithms, which are supported by the advent and frequent innovation in technology related to data capture, networking and computing power. 00;04;37;11 - 00;05;02;24 So you basically don't need to write complex software for every change in the data. And the machine learning model evolves as the historical data evolves. We have more advanced sensors and I/O devices which support machine learning models with accurate and real-time data. Customers of various services are now looking for more customization options, which can be efficiently supported with machine learning solutions. 00;05;02;26 - 00;05;24;16 The historical challenges of manually trawling through data to extract actionable knowledge is no longer a problem now because machine learning algorithms supported by powerful modern computers are designed for that particular purpose. 00;05;24;19 - 00;05;52;18 Are you attending Oracle CloudWorld 2023? Learn from experts, network with peers, and find out about the latest innovations when Oracle CloudWorld returns to Las Vegas from September 18 through 21. CloudWorld is the best place to learn about Oracle solutions from the people who build and use them. In addition to your attendance at CloudWorld, your ticket gives you access to Oracle MyLearn and all of the cloud learning subscription content, as well as three free certification exam credits. 00;05;52;23 - 00;06;09;20 This is valid from the week you register through 60 days after the conference. So what are you waiting for? Register today. Learn more about Oracle CloudWorld at www.oracle.com/cloudworld. 00;06;09;22 - 00;06;39;21 Welcome back! Nick, I was hoping you could share some use cases where machine learning can really be leveraged. Banks and other businesses in the financial industry use machine learning technology for two key purposes: to identify important insights and data and to prevent fraud. The insights can identify investment opportunities to help investors know when to trade, and machine learning can also identify clients with high risk profiles or use cyber surveillance to pinpoint warning signs of fraud. 00;06;39;23 - 00;07;10;23 Machine learning is a fast growing trend in the healthcare industry. The technology can help medical experts analyze data to identify trends or red flags that may lead to improved diagnostics and treatment. Finding new energy sources, analyzing minerals in the ground, predicting refinery sensor failure, streamlining oil distribution to make it more efficient and cost effective. The number of machine learning use cases for this industry is fast and still expanding. 00;07;10;25 - 00;07;46;27 Analyzing data to identify patterns and trends is key to the transportation industry, which relies on making routes more efficient and predicting potential problems to increase profitability. The data analysis and modeling aspects of machine learning are important tools to delivery companies, public transportation, and other transportation organizations. Shopping websites also use machine learning, right? Websites recommending items you might like based on previous purchases are used with machine learning to analyze your buying history and promote other items you might be interested in. 00;07;46;29 - 00;08;14;17 The ability to capture that data and analyze it and use it to personalize a shopping experience or implement a marketing campaign is the future of retail. Government agencies, such as public safety and utilities, have a particular need for machine learning because they have multiple sources of data that can be mined for insights. Analyzing sensor data, for example, identifies ways to increase efficiency and save money. 00;08;14;20 - 00;08;42;12 Machine learning can also help detect fraud and minimize theft. Retail industries can use machine learning to recognize customer spending patterns for targeted marketing or optimize supply chain logistics by recognizing outliers or anomalies in the data. All that a data science needs to do is identify the problem domains, such as transportation, find the data, and let Oracle Machine Learning take care of the rest. 00;08;42;14 - 00;09;08;18 GPS navigation services make use of historical data to predict travel time based on the current traffic levels. Video surveillance systems uses facial recognition systems to identify situations which require attention from emergency services. Social media uses machine learning to study the patterns of user interactions to suggest connections, item of interests, targeted ads, and so on. And we can use it to find spam, I'm sure. 00;09;08;20 - 00;09;33;27 Machine learning helps email services recognize spam or malicious emails by recognizing the common patterns among offending examples. And the well-known and almost essential Internet searches use machine learning to refine results based on the search patterns of the individual users. Nick, now that you've given us a really good idea about all of the places machine learning can be used, let's talk about the features of Oracle Machine Learning. 00;09;34;00 - 00;10;09;12 Oracle Machine Learning provides access to a wide array of features in addition to the collaborative notebooks, which include templates, user administration tools, and schedulers. In-database algorithms allow you to implement machine learning solutions on your data residing in Oracle databases without having to move your data anywhere else. OML provides support for SQL, PL/SQL, R, Python languages, and Markdown, which you should be familiar with if you've worked with databases before, making implementing machine learning solutions lot easier. 00;10;09;15 - 00;10;38;04 OML also provides support for the deployment of enterprise machine learning methodologies within the Autonomous Data Warehouse. What are the different parts of Oracle Machine Learning? The components that make up Oracle Machine Learning are the machine learning user administrative application, which is a web-based user interface for managing your Oracle Machine Learning user, as well as mapping your machine learning to the Autonomous Data Warehouse database users. 00;10;38;07 - 00;11;03;22 Now you can also access machine learning user interface for the administrator. The OML application is a web-based application for your data scientists to help create workspaces and projects, as well as notebooks. Earlier in our conversation, you spoke about these powerful machine learning algorithms. Can you tell us more about that, please? The OML tagline is move the algorithms, not the data. 00;11;03;25 - 00;11;34;26 To realize this, we've placed powerful machine learning algorithms in the database kernel software operating below the user security layer. Other tools simply can't do that. OML eliminates data movement for database data and simplifies the solution architecture as there's no need to manage and test workflows involving third-party engines. OML extends the database to enable users to augment applications and dashboards with machine learning– based intelligence quickly and easily. 00;11;34;28 - 00;12;05;14 It delivers over 30 in-database algorithms accessible through multiple language interfaces, and it's important to note that the broader Oracle ecosystem for data analytics and machine learning also include tools like Oracle Analytics Server and Analytics Cloud, OCI, Data Science, AI services, and others. And OML is included with Oracle Autonomous Database instances and Oracle Database licenses. So you already have free access to it to start using it. 00;12;05;18 - 00;12;33;25 And what are the benefits of using OML, Nick? Whether minimizing or eliminating data movement, support from multiple personas or multiple languages and both code and no code interfaces. These and other benefits resonate with customers needing powerful and integrated machine learning to meet their scalability and performance needs, while simplifying their solution and deployment architecture. What are the various OML components? 00;12;33;29 - 00;13;19;07 Build ML models and score data with no data movement with the OML4SQL API. Leverage the database as a high-performance compute engine from Python with in-database ML with OML4Py API. Leverage the database as a high-performance compute engine from R with in-database ML with OML4R API. OML Notebooks is a collaborative notebook user interface supporting SQL, PL/SQL, Python, R, and Markdown. OML AutoML UI is a no-code automated modeling interface. And OML Services is a RESTful model management and deployment. 00;13;19;09 - 00;13;44;19 With Oracle Data Miner, there's a SQL Developer extension with a drag-and-drop interface for creating ML methodologies. Let's talk about the life cycle of a machine learning project. The life cycle of a machine learning project is divided into six phases. The first phase of the machine learning process is to define business objectives. The initial phase of the project focuses on understanding the project objectives and requirements. 00;13;44;22 - 00;14;10;28 In this phase, you're going to specify the objectives, determine the machine learning goals, define success criteria, and produce a project plan. The data understanding phase involves data collection and exploration, which includes loading the data and analyzing the data for your business problem. In this phase, you will access and collect the data, explore data, and understand data quality. Alright, then. 00;14;10;28 - 00;14;40;22 So what's next? The preparation phase involves finalizing the data and covers all of the tasks involved in making the data in a format that you can use to build the model. In this phase, you will clean, join, and select the data, transform data, and engineer new features. In the modeling phase, you'll select and apply various modeling techniques and tune the algorithm parameters called hyperparameters to your desired values. 00;14;40;24 - 00;15;07;20 In this phase, you're going to explore different algorithms and build, evaluate, and tune models. At the evaluation phase, it's time to evaluate how well the model satisfies the originally stated business goal. In this phase, you'll review the business objectives, assess results against success criteria, and determine the next steps. Deployment is the use of machine learning with a targeted environment. 00;15;07;22 - 00;15;42;04 In the deployment phase, one can derive data-driven insights and actionable insights. In this phase, you will plan enterprise deployment, integrate models with application for business needs, monitor, refresh, retire, and archive models, and you'll report on model effectiveness. Thank you so much, Nick, for sharing your expertise with us. This was great. To learn more about Oracle Machine Learning, please visit mylearn.oracle.com and take a look at our Using Oracle Machine Learning with Autonomous Database course. 00;15;42;06 - 00;16;07;19 Once you're done with it, you can take the associated specialist certification exam with confidence. That brings us to the end of this episode. Next week, we'll talk about MySQL and why it's everywhere. Until then, this is Nikita Abraham and Lois Houston signing off. That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. 00;16;07;22 - 00;18;40;10 We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.
In this episode of Word on the Street: An OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/They), Bella (She/Her), Grace (She/Her), Kyara (She/They), Nicole (She/Her), Shawn (He/Him), & Shray (He/Him) discuss what they have experienced, learned, and dealt with in their time as student inclusion educators at the OML and RRC. This episode is the final episode that we will all be a part of, and we all collectively thank anyone and everyone who has listened to episodes, stopped by the office, liked our posts on social media, or attended our events. We loved the work that we did and the people we came to know because of these roles, so from the bottom of our hearts we love and appreciate you, and wish the best of luck to the SIEs who take over after us. BE A PART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIE Kyara (She/They) is joined by Colleen (They/Them), Grace (She/Her), & Lucia (She/Her) from the SCU Wellness Center and Clarise Ballesteros (She/Her) from CAPS to discuss various aspects of Queer mental health including resources for safer spaces on campus, the lived realities of each of the hosts, as well as what initiatives the LGBTQ+ community on campus would like to see enacted. RESOURCES: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ BE APART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link SPECIAL GUEST: SCU Wellness Center Instagram: @scuwellnesscenter CAPS Website: https://www.scu.edu/cowell/caps/ FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
On this episode we got so carried away talking about the highlights of the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway AGM, the OML drop, HotCopper pump and dumper gets prison, Light portfolios beating the benchmark, review the “The Lowest PE” rules, QAN replacing its CEO, NAB getting sold off, pulled pork on PLS, the latest RBA rate rise, the Federal budget, and reviewing the “Buy follows Sell line” and the “Latest Buy Line”, that we ran out of time for questions.
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIE Isa (She/Her) is joined by program directors Jazmine Low (She/Her) and Maria Autrey (She/They) from the Ignatian Center to discuss the work done surrounding immersions with the center. Throughout the conversation, the group discussed what an urban plunge is, the statics covering homelessness, spatial justice, and other surrounding topics. If you would like to learn more about this topic, and Immersions at the Ignatian Center, please check out the resources listed below. RESOURCES: Learn more: https://hsh.sfgov.org/get-involved/2022-pit-count/ BE A PART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link SPECIAL GUEST: Jazmine Low Program Director, Immersions Maria Autrey Program Director, Immersions INSTAGRAM @scuignatiancenter WEBSITE https://www.scu.edu/ic/programs/immersions/urban-plunge/ FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning TIKTOK @scu_oml_rrc SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her) and Shray (He/Him) are joined by Kiara Mariscal (She/They) from the MCC and Rachel Stattion (She/Her) from QPOCA to discuss what fatphobia is and how it affected our mental health, self-esteem, and other aspects of our upbringing. This episode is based on telling the stories of our own lived experiences, so a trigger warning for topics such as suicidal ideation, self-harm, and eating disorders should be considered before listening to this episode. RESOURCES: Learn more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1086482218817532 Fat Friendly Shopping https://www.theplusbus.com/ https://www.eloquii.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-eloquii-Site/default/Home-Show https://www.fatfancyfashions.com/ https://www.curveconscious.com/collections/new-arrivals https://whatlowants.com/ https://curvexchange.com/apparel/ https://twobigblondes.com/ https://secondhandstare.com/ BE APART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link SPECIAL GUEST: Rachel Stattion from QPOCA INSTAGRAM: @QPOCA_SCU Kiara Mariscal from MCC INSTAGRAM: @SCU_MCC FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning TIKTOK @scu_oml_rrc SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIE Shawn (He/Him) is joined by his triplet brother Sam (He/Him) and friend Jonathan (He/Him) to talk about their personal experiences in Part 3 of Word on the Street's Growing Up Mixed series. BE APART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning TIKTOK @scu_oml_rrc SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her), Bella (She/Her), and Nicole (She/Her) are joined by special guest Pia Cruz (She/Her) from The Q Corner to discuss the Bi+ experience, in honor Bisexual Health Awareness Month, under the lens of biphobia and bi visibility. This episode contains anecdotes of lived experiences of the speakers and listener submissions, examples from media, as well as statistics regarding sexual assault and mental/physical health. We hope you enjoy this episode and continue to have conversations regarding the Bi+ experience during Bisexual Health Awareness Month and beyond. RESOURCES: https://www.hrc.org/resources/bisexual-faq https://www.nsvrc.org/blogs/Bi-phobia-series/disparities-bi-health-and-sexual-violence BE A PART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link SPECIAL GUEST: Pia Cruz from The Q Corner Website: bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/peer-support/q-corner Instagram: @theqcorner FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning TIKTOK @scu_oml_rrc SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Isa (she/her) and Grace (She/Her) are joined by Dr. Sharmila Lodhia (she/her), Associate Professor and Department Chair of Women's and Gender Studies at SCU to discuss the importance of language, specifically the words we use to talk about ourselves. BE A PART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link RESOURCES: Archie Crowley's TedTalk: Language Around Gender and Identity Evolves (and always has) https://www.ted.com/talks/archie_crowley_language_around_gender_and_identity_evolves_and_always_has?language=en Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIE Nicole (She/Her) and Keanu Spindola from the Veterans Club discuss assumptions held about Veterans, the need for visibility on Santa Clara University's campus, and Keanu's experience in the Marine Corp as a 1st generation college student and Mexican American. Celebrate this Veteran's Day by listening to this episode and following the resources down below. RESOURCES https://storycorps.org/discover/military-voices/ https://www.warrior-scholar.org/ BE APART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link OML/RRC UPCOMING EVENTS Queer Craft Corner Fridays (Except Week 8) 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM OML House (832 Market St) Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil Mon, Nov 14th 7-8 PM Fountain facing the Mission Church Goddexx Butterfly Performance Tues, Nov 15th 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM California Mission Room Paint and Sip Friday, November 18th 5-7 PM Alameda Hall 101 RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexnIPh4lWZv8CTMbjLUhVywlWpzQTh7Xg8IuUXk3xnra083Q/viewform?usp=pp_url NOVEMBER IS NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Check out OML's Native American Heritage Month Playlist FOLLOW US FOR MORE! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
From the NATO Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters, I'm James Cook – and I'm Jörg Schildknecht - the creators of a new show dedicated to keeping you informed on the debates, research, people, and events related to operational maritime law. We invite you to join us for this first season of the OML podcast, where we'll introduce the topic of operational maritime law, and host discussions with experts on a broad range of legal issues effecting the global commons. Whether you're a maritime professional, legal scholar, government official, or someone who just wants to learn more about this fascinating community, you're bound to gain new insights and a new perspective from every episode. The first episodes will be available January 1st, 2023. To make sure you don't miss new releases, please subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon music, or wherever you like to listen. For more information on our Centre of Excellence, or to see our upcoming events, please visit: operationalmaritimelaw.org. Thanks for listening. www.operationalmaritimelaw.org
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her), Kyara (She/They), Nicole (She/Her), and Shray (He/Him) are joined by Sarah (She/He/They) and Juliana (She/Her) from QPOCA to discuss the unique, BIPOC experience of coming out to our family members. All of the material discussed and advice given in this episode are based on our own personal experiences being queer people of color. We do not claim to be experts, but we share a connection to the topic and hope that we, and those who listen to this episode, continue to expand upon and discuss this topic more openly in various spaces. BE A PART OF THE PODCAST If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link SPECIAL GUEST: QPOCA General Meetings: Thursdays, 5:35 - 6:35 PM in the Shapell Lounge Instagram: @qpoca_scu OML/RRC UPCOMING EVENTS Una noche en Latino America October 15 7-9 PM Locatelli Center RSVP: https://scu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bOYPR4PvSPDikPc?Q_CHL=qr Queer Craft Corner Every Friday 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM OML House (832 Market St) QCC: Button Design Workshop with Rhiley Jane Friday, Oct 21 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM OML House (832 Market St) RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxFzWB7WkoYRF_-261b7mABJTv6_sN_7dEysV_bzeCryalmQ/viewform?usp=pp_url Queer Horror Night Rift (2017) Saturday, Oct 29 Movie Begins at 7:00 PM Williman Room RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIhW9ZR_-ZlvGC0S-XTGPhB2gFajUs4bjcKDBWlrsJwkXQcg/viewform?usp=pp_url Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
El SLS ha esperado a que volvamos para despegar, pero ahora tiene un problema más ¡Primer episodio de la segunda temporada de PARSEC! Damos un repaso a lo que nos hemos perdido este verano: Artemis I: el SLS no despega Dos intentos de lanzamiento abortados, el 29 de agosto y el 3 de septiembre. Primero por un supuesto fallo en el motor número tres (que resultó ser un sensor defectuoso. Después por una persistente fuga de hidrógeno en el mástil de cola en la plataforma móvil. La próxima ventana de lanzamiento se abre el 27 de septiembre, pero la NASA necesita una exención de la Fuerza Espacial porque el crucial sistema de terminación de vuelo tiene baterías que hay que revisar cada 25 días, un periodo que terminó el 6 de septiembre. https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2022/09/06/artemisa-i-se-niega-a-despegar/ La Starship completa un encendido de siete motores Mientras tanto, el Booster 7 ha completado un encendido de siete motores Raptor 2 sobre la plataforma orbital OML en las instalaciones de SpaceX en Boca Chica. El propulsor regresará ahora al angar para unas mejoras. El Booster 8 se dirige a la plataforma orbital para realizar sus propias pruebas. Por su parte, el Falcon 9 sigue batiendo récords. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1571929797185667072 https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-52nd-falcon-9-rocket-52-weeks/ CAPSTONE vuelve a estar en modo seguro Por segunda vez desde su lanzamiento el pasado 28 de junio, CAPTSONE activó el modo seguro durante una trayectoria de corrección de maniobra el pasado 8 de septiembre. La NASA aclaró que el sistema de propulsión de la nave había caído por debajo de su temperatura de funcionamiento después de que realizara su maniobra, pero tanto las comunicaciones como la temperatura han mejorado. https://es.gizmodo.com/la-sonda-lunar-capstone-esta-en-mayores-apuros-de-los-q-1849533608 PLD Space arranca del todo el Miura 1 Por primera vez, una startup europea consigue un encendido completo de su cohete en configuración de lanzamiento. Ha ocurrido en las instalaciones de PLD Space en el aeropuerto de Teruel. El Miura 1 es un lanzador suborbital de una etapa con capacidad de 100 kg. Su CEO, Raúl Torres, destaca que esta prueba exitosa abre "todas las puertas" al desarrollo del cohete orbital MIURA 5, mucho más grande, pero tecnológicamente similar. https://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/espacio/pls-space-encendido-completo-miura-1.html Arreglaron la Voyager El objeto más remoto creado por la humanidad ya no chochea. El AACS había comenzado a enviar los datos de telemetría a través de una computadora de a bordo que se sabe que dejó de funcionar hace años. La solución fue ordenarle que reanudara el envío de datos a través de la computadora correcta. https://actualidadaeroespacial.com/ingenieros-de-la-nasa-resuelven-el-fallo-de-los-datos-en-la-sonda-solar-voyager-1/ El Ingenuity vuelve a volar Superado lo peor del invierno marciano, el pequeño helicóptero ha realizado con éxito dos nuevos vuelos, con las perspectivas de hacer otos más largos a medida que mejore el tiempo. También hablamos de la sonda espacial Lucy, que ha conseguido desplegar su problemático panel solar. https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Flight-Log Todo listo para el impacto de DART La sonda llamada a desviar por primera vez un asteroide ha desplegado con éxito la sonda-cámara que grabará su impacto con Dimorphos (Didymoon para los amigos). La pequeña sonda LICIACube ha sido desarrollada en Italia y cuenta con dos cámaras ópticas: LUKE y LEIA. https://es.gizmodo.com/dart-despliega-con-exito-la-sonda-camara-que-grabara-su-1849546535 Blue Origin pierde un cohete en pleno vuelo El cohete falló al poco de superar la fase de máxima presión aerodinámica, 65 segundos después del lanzamiento. No era un vuelo tripulado, pero las 36 cargas científicas salieron ilesas gracias al sistema de escape de la cápsula, que funcionó a la perfección. Se acabaron los lanzamientos para Blue Origin hasta que termine la investigación del incidente, supervisada por la Administración Federal de Aviación de Estados Unidos. https://es.gizmodo.com/la-faa-suspende-los-vuelos-de-blue-origin-despues-de-qu-1849536326 Por último, despedimos a Valeri Poliakov, la persona que más tiempo seguido ha pasado en el espacio. PARSEC es un podcast semanal sobre exploración espacial presentado por Javier Atapuerca y Matías S. Zavia. Haznos llegar tus preguntas por Twitter: @parsecpodcast@JaviAtapu@matiass Puedes escucharnos en todas las plataformas a través de parsecpodcast.com.
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her), Grace (She/Her), and Hannah (She/Her) are joined by Dr. Joanna Thompson (She/Her/They/Them; Director of OML) to continue the discussion of being bi/multiracial in a new edition of the Growing Up Mixed Series. The episode focuses the conversation on Dr. Thompson's dissertation on the experiences of bullying among mixed-race college students at the University of Illinois at Chicago and continues the further understanding of our own mixed identities and that which many other mixed-identifying individuals commonly experience. If you would like to read the dissertation or view other works done by Dr. Thompson regarding mixed-race identities see the resources below. If you would like to submit a story or join an episode of the Growing Up Mixed Series, please fill out the google form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g RESOURCES: MIXEDconceptions: An Analysis of Mixed-Race College Students and Racialized Bullying by Dr. Thompson https://indigo.uic.edu/articles/thesis/MIXEDconceptions_An_Analysis_of_Mixed-Race_College_Students_and_Racialized_Bullying/10912694/1 The Space Between: To Be Mixed-Race and Queer | Joanna Thompson | TEDxLakeForestCollege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGJW5AJj0Og Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference https://criticalmixedracestudies.com/ Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: An OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her) and Grace (She/Her) work in collaboration with Dr. Miranda's ANTH/PHSC 135 class to discuss reproductive justice, and specifically the Supreme Court's draft leak containing votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. Though the episode was originally already planned to cover reproductive justice, in light of recent news the content of the episode is heavily targeted toward what the overturning of this case means for people with uteri and others from various backgrounds. We should preface that the statistics and evidence discussed in this episode use a lot of gendered language, however reproductive justice as a whole represents everyone. Listen and learn with us in this episode, and if you would like a further in-depth discussion please join SIEs Mehak (She/Her) & Grace (She/Her) for our next 3D: Roe v Wade: Let's Talk About It, this Tuesday, May 10th at 6 pm. More information on this event and abortion-related resources are listed below. If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g UPCOMING EVENT: 3D: Roe v Wade: Let's Talk About It Hosted by SIEs Mehak & Grace Where: Zoom (Meeting ID: 917 2605 8375 / Password: 974137) When: Tues. May 10th at 6:00 PM RESOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bE9EY4EOJ9zsVqOYjmoOpdjQAnFoIyoztthchuxUfyI/edit?usp=sharing Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her), Grace (She/Her), and Hannah (She/Her) discuss how their multiracial identities shaped their upbringing, and their personal understanding of their place in the world. This episode brings the light of what it is like to grow up mixed from the personal perspectives of the host, however we know that many come to their own expertise and understanding of their identities. For that reason we would like to ask our viewers to take part in this series by filling out the form located below (or can be found in the link tree on the OML & RRC instagram bios), and share your own stories, or requests to be a guest hope in future episodes! If you have any questions and comments please feel free to let us know in the forms linked below, email us at RRC@scu.edu or OML@scu.edu, or visit our offices: RRC in lower Benson Rm 11 or the OML house at 832 Market St. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfemAp6aZ1XsVJTuTghAI8t7cUk3VtmfTk7yRXsl4-6eezYQA/viewform?usp=sf_link (Word on the Street: Growing Up Mixed Listener Submissions) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd75t6HjMmxviyaSVXiQbiOZiLZHocQxw_r0zuVaby4jKOH7A/viewform?usp=sf_link (Word on the Street - Listener Inbox)
In this episode of Word on the Street, Student Inclusion Educator Chi of the OML is joined by Dr. Kai Harris, faculty member from SCU's English Department, to discuss her first book that was released February 1st. You can learn more about Dr. Harris and her work at https://kaiharriswrites.com and her social medias on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok at @/AuthorKaiHarris If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, SIEs Annissa (She/Her) and Valeria (She/They) from the RRC are joined by Counseling Psychology (MFT Track; LGBTQ+ Counseling emphasis) graduate students Alex (He/They), Cory (They/Them), and Shayda (They/She) to discuss, answer, and react to viewer/listener submissions surrounding gender identity and expression. As members of the LGBTQ+ community, we shared a lot of our own experiences and connection to the subject but should note that none of us are experts and operate based on what we have come to learn and understand for ourselves and those around us. If you have any questions and comments please feel free to let us know in the forms linked below, email us at RRC@scu.edu, or visit our office in lower Benson Rm 11. If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below or on the Rainbow Resource Center's Instagram bio. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g UPCOMING EVENTS 3D: #BLACKCULTURE: Cultural Appropriation on TikTok 2/16 6:00pm - 8:00PM Zoom Event BD Wong & Songs From An Unmade Bed 2/17 7:00pm - 9:00pm Music Recital Hall Center of Performing Arts Queer Craft Corner: Free Paint! 2/18 1:00pm - 3:00PM Zoom Event and OML House Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
In this episode of Word on the Street, Student Inclusion Educators Annissa and Omar of the RRC are joined by Jocelyn, Evelyn, and Antonio, members of the Multicultural Center and/or Latinx Student Union to discuss Disney's Encanto from their perspectives as Latine individuals. This episode contains many spoilers for the movie, as well as deep discussions of mental health stigma and lack of resources, generational trauma, and representation. Throughout the conversation, and in the title of the episode, “Latine” is used rather than “Latinx”. The use of this gender-neutral identifier rather than the latter makes a more organic sense to native Spanish speakers, while still retaining its inclusive intent. There is debate over the use of “Latine” versus “Latinx”, but for the purpose and company in this episode, “Latine” served as the better option. If you have any more questions about “Latinx”, “Latine”, or any other gender inclusive language across cultures, be sure to email OML@scu.edu, RRC@scu.edu, or write in to the podcast via the form below. Also be on the lookout for a future podcast about gender identity coming in February! If you would like to write in to, join, comment on, or suggest episodes to the Word on the Street: an OML & RRC Podcast, please fill out the google form listed below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s1kr2rKW1hsgTNNr81K-RreySUu-YxEV7cUD6MjMw5g Follow us for more! INSTAGRAM @rrc_scu @scuoml FACEBOOK @SCURainbowResourceCenter @SCUOfficeForMulticulturalLearning SPOTIFY Word On The Street: An OML & RRC Podcast SCU OML YOUTUBE SCU Office for Multicultural Learning
On this episode, Jay Aguila, JL, OML and King Kai Dave reunite to complete the top rivals in this seasons of the shinobi unfolding. As well quick conversation about the new season of JOJO, Update on God of High School and more. Join and share your thought on this episode of the SHINOBI UNFOLDING podcasts. Link to our social media: www.facebook.com/theshinobiunfolding/ www.instagram.com/theshinobiunfolding/
Damian Pelliccione is the co-founder and CEO of Revry. We discuss saying no to his family cheese business, being an early expert in live video for car shows, launching the 1st Queer streamer network from his living room, how a delayed mortgage and the launch of QueerX festival almost bankrupt the company, the power of grassroots marketing during SF Pride, how diversity inclusion starts with ownership, and changing the narrative for the Queer community.Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com---Chris Erwin:Hi, I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up, a podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Damian Pelliccione:Cut to November, around Thanksgiving of 2015. I was playing a new Apple TV. You install it on your TV and you search for apps of apps that are of interest to you. I searched lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer. Nothing came up. I was like, ding. The light bulb went off. This is it. We're going to create the first LGBT streaming network. I had Alia, LaShawn, and Chris in my living. I said, "I have this idea. What do you guys think?" They were like, "Yeah, let's do it. We're all in." Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Damian Pelliccione, the co-founder and CEO of Revry. Damian was born in Canada, and since a young age had a passion for the creative arts. So he passed on taking over his family's large cheese and food distribution business, and moved to New York City to study acting and production. But after the tragic events of 9/11, Damian decided to move to LA and became an early mover and shaker in digital video. He did it all, from early web streaming and YouTube production, to producing live streams at car shows, and even running his own digital workshops. Chris Erwin:In 2015, Damian was sitting in his living room with three friends, frustrated by the fact that there wasn't any queer streamer apps on platforms like Apple TV or Amazon Prime, so he decided to change that and soon after launched the first 24/7 queer streamer network, Revry TV. Chris Erwin:Damian and I get into a lot of different things during our chat. Some highlights include how a delayed mortgage and the launch of the QueerX festival almost cost Damian the company, the wild success of grassroots marketing at San Francisco Pride, why Damian was such a standout at one of my executive dinners in LA, and changing the narrative for the queer community. Chris Erwin:All right, I'm pumped that we get to publish this episode during Pride month. Let's get to it. Chris Erwin:Damian, thanks for being on the podcast. Damian Pelliccione:Thanks so much, Chris, for having me. It's exciting to be here. Chris Erwin:Awesome. Let's rewind a bit. Why don't you tell me about where you grew up and what your household was like. Damian Pelliccione:Yeah, so I grew up actually in Canada. I'm from Toronto, a suburb of Toronto actually called Unionville, which is a small town, colonial, turn of the century, Victorian home that I grew up that was built in the later 1800s. It was a wonderful place to grow up because it was extremely multicultural. There was definitely not one of anything in terms of race and culture. Ironically enough, even though my family is extremely Italian, my father was actually born in Italy and immigrated at six years old to escape World War II. He was the youngest of six. Both my nonna and nonno, which is Italian for grandmother and grandfather- Chris Erwin:Oh, I'm Italian as well. Damian Pelliccione:Really? Chris Erwin:My mother was born in Italy, in Trieste, on what used to be the Yugoslavian border. I know nonna and pop pop. That's my grandparents. Damian Pelliccione:Parli Italiano? Chris Erwin:No. My mom spoke Italian growing up, and spoke it with my grandmother, but never taught the children. To this day, we always give my mom crap about that. Damian Pelliccione:[inaudible 00:03:33]. This is where my talking with my hands, that is completely my Italian [crosstalk 00:03:39]. Chris Erwin:It's all coming together now. Damian Pelliccione:All coming together, yeah. My family, my dad, was from [inaudible 00:03:46], which is in the [inaudible 00:03:49] province of Abruzzo. Unfortunately it was ravaged by a massive earthquake in the early 2000s. Since recovered, but we still have family there. I have cousins actually there. My dad... cross section of Damian is my dad was the entrepreneur in the family. Him and my uncle started the family business, which is huge in Canada. We're, I think in the top five biggest Italian cheese distributors to Canada. Chris Erwin:Wow. Damian Pelliccione:They obviously distribute to the United States as well. They built that from scratch, my dad and my uncle, and now all my cousins run the company. I had no interest in selling cheese. Chris Erwin:Was the opportunity was available to you and you were just like, "Ah, pass"? Damian Pelliccione:Of course. In a big Italian family, the opportunity was given to me and my sister. Both of us past. My sister, Kelly, was definitely going into a different sector than sales and cheese distribution. It's ironic, because I'm in distribution, but I'm more on the film and TV side of distribution, not the food side of distribution. Definitely was very inspired by my father, who was a tremendous salesman, and an entrepreneur who ran his own businesses and obviously started the big family business with my uncle. Damian Pelliccione:Then, ironically enough, my mother is also Italian, but she is third generation. Her and her parents were born in Canada. Her grandparents were born in Italy, a different part of Italy, too. Calabria, which is the heel of Italy, just across from Sicily. It's a little bit different in terms of Italian traditions between the two families, but obviously my mom and my dad are wonderful people. My mother was a politician. She was chairman of the Catholic school board. So was my father, actually, before my mother was. She ran the race relations committee in our city where we grew up. You can see, my mother was a politician, and my father, the entrepreneur, and out comes Damian. Chris Erwin:Yeah, I was going to say, I was like, it makes total sense because I think about, you're the ultimate showmen. You have incredible charisma. I remember that from when we first met at one of our executive dinners. Then the entrepreneurial bend, now I know where that comes from. Yeah, totally get it now. Damian Pelliccione:One of the biggest things, you know Toronto. Most of my family lives in Woodbridge, or Vaughan, which is extremely Italian, predominantly Italian. My mother and my father were very much, this is instilled in me and my sister growing up, about being respectful and understanding and learning about all races, religions, and cultures and walks of life. They chose Unionville, which is a part of town where it was very eclectic. I had friends from all over the world, whose families were immigrants from all over the world. I had so many different cultural upbringings. My parents even made me and my sister, even though I was raised Catholic... I'm not very practicing myself. I consider myself Agnostic, but made us go to all the different: Hindu, Jewish, Islam, all the different sects to see what that religion could provide. Chris Erwin:Would you actually go to their places of worship? Damian Pelliccione:Yeah. I went once or twice to multiple places of worship my mother would take me and my sister to because she wanted us to experience everybody. I think that is where, at least for me, it was instilled at a very young age, were authenticity, diversity, and inclusion, before it was even a thing. This is the late 80s, early 90s. I'm 40 years old now. That was always a part of my upbringing. I think it's ironic where you have a mother politician, father, entrepreneur, and very inclusive family in terms of how we were raised and outcomes Damian and Revry. Chris Erwin:Your mother was super ahead of the times giving you exposure to these different religions and different cultures early on. I get that. I see that as a seed for what you're doing for the overall queer community, trying to drive awareness and inclusion and change the message around queer culture. I think that's brilliant. Chris Erwin:I think that you are involved in the dramatic arts and the school for film and TV at an early age as well. Was this something that came out in your teen years, or before then? When did that start to be? Damian Pelliccione:I was a scene stealer before I was even five years old. I think my performance started at family functions where I have some cousins, and we're all born the same year. I would direct and create the family productions. The kids would get together and we would put on some kind of a show, where it was a musical number, a comedy, or whatever. We would perform for the whole family in the living room. I did this growing up, I think until the time I was 10 or 12 years old. We made that a fun family activity. Of course that led me into being an actor, and I started with community theater, just like anyone else does in Unionville or Markham, Ontario, where I'm from. Damian Pelliccione:From there, I auditioned for the Arts York program, which is part of Unionville High School. Unionville High School ironically enough had this arts program that was to take kids from all over the region, so not just by town, but other surrounding townships who specialize in music or dance, or visual arts, or drama. I was accepted to the drama program and had the most amazing inspirational teachers. These folks are still family members of mine. They inspired me in so many ways to stay in the arts and stay in drama. My passion when I was a teenager and into my early 20s was to be an actor. That's what led me to New York City. I got into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and graduated from that program in 2001. Damian Pelliccione:Then 9/11 happened, and I had already booked a gig in Los Angeles. I was going to do this actor showcase for agents and managers and casting directors. I had a really good friend, one of my good friends from high school, is Hayden Christiansen, who is, as you know, Darth Vader. Hayden, like, come to LA, you should come to LA. I came to LA. Did the showcase, stayed on his couch I think for one or two nights and at a hotel and with other friends. Before the end of the week, I had been booked. I had been booked on a short. Got a commercial agent, got a theatrical agent. Chris Erwin:Okay, interjection. Along this journey, was your family supportive, or were they increasingly questioning, like, Damian, we have ae family cheese business, why are you not involved? Everyone else is here, what are you doing? Damian Pelliccione:No, they've been supportive the whole way through of my career. I am very lucky and blessed. They've been supportive of me, as a queer man, and they also have been supportive of Chris and I, my partner. They've been extremely supportive of my career. They knew, I think, what they were getting into at an early age, that this was pathway, was to be in entertainment. They helped my entire journey, both financially... I was very lucky, and I'm blessed that I had that opportunity. And even my immigration to the United States, because remember, I'm not an American citizen. I am now. I only became an American citizen three years ago now. They have been extremely supportive of my career the entire time, and supporting me early on and when I was in college, obviously financially, and then also with my move to Los Angeles. And then from there, I did what every other actor does. I waited tables for probably almost 10 years. Chris Erwin:You're at Hayden Christiansen's, on his couch, and then all of a sudden you start getting booked. You get an agent, so you're like, okay, this is happening for me. My career is taking off, right? Damian Pelliccione:Here's what's funny. After I finished school in New York, which is a two year program at ADA, I made a deal with my parents. I had been accepted to Concordia University in Montreal for philosophy, which ironically enough I had failed in high school. I'm like this is kind of funny that they accepted me for philosophy. I packed up my apartment in New York. This is, again, a month after 9/11. The decision was if I don't book an agent or manager or things don't start to feel like they're going to pick up in Los Angeles, then I'll go to Montreal, and I'll tell the movers to take my stuff to Montreal, or take my stuff to Los Angeles. Damian Pelliccione:I got lucky. They took my stuff to Los Angeles, and that was October of 2001. It was a crazy time to be in Hollywood. It was an exciting time to be 20 years old and moving to LA, and just hitting the ground running. I think one of the biggest things is that I've always had commitment to everything that I do, good or bad. I think that that has been my greatest life lesson. It was an exciting time. It was back when there was still pilot season, and you test for pilots. I tested for a bunch of pilots, and back when the casting process wasn't about your Instagram influence or your Facebook, or your YouTube. It was well before all those times. It was the old school... I think I even still have my black and white, 8 x 10 head shots that they had from that era. It was an exciting time. Damian Pelliccione:Look, when you're 20 years old, and I was also coming out at the time as gay and queer, it was a great place to be for me, both professionally and socially. Chris Erwin:In terms of pursuing your career, where do you start to hone in, which is like okay, of all the different types of acting or genre or projects that I can do, where were you starting to lean into more? Damian Pelliccione:Like I was saying, my early 20s was all about acting. I auditioned for a bunch of things, worked with agencies. My biggest booking to date was the Gilmore Girls. I actually had one pretty big scene with Alexis Bledel, and a character whose name was Lance. It was season five. I still have... well people and friends and family who watch it on Netflix, marathon watch it. They're like, "Oh my God." They'll screenshot it with their phone and send me a text. I still get residual checks from that show, because it's such a legacy project, right? It was wonderful to do that. I had done a bunch of independent. I had done a bunch of commercials. I had a pretty decent resume as an actor, but then the writer's strike happened in 2009, and it changed. Damian Pelliccione:That's when there was a dramatic shift. My roommate at the time, Deanna Nicole Baxter, who is a true inspiration of mine, had started to create a web series. This is 2006. Remember for context, YouTube launched in 2005, 2006. Chris Erwin:Is this like lonelygirl around that time, too? Damian Pelliccione:Before. Chris Erwin:Before, wow. Damian Pelliccione:This is [inaudible 00:13:44] 88, which won the first daytime technical Emmy for best broadband drama. I saw Deanna do it, and I was completely inspired by her commitment for work and the team that she had. I was like, oh, she can do it, I can do it. I'm always inspired by other people. I surrounded myself with amazing like-minded friends who I still have today, who have always been supportive. We've always supported each other's work along the way. This is my chosen family, as we say in the gay community. It's also, we need to inspire each other to push ourselves to do more. Deanna was one of those, and still today, is a big inspiration for how I lead. Seeing her win the first ever Emmy, was, hey, if she can do it, I'm going to do it. I created a web series vehicle for myself, called Homolebrity. Chris Erwin:Wait, hold on. Wait, hold on. Homolebrity? Damian Pelliccione:Homolebrity, yeah. It's not a very PC name for today, but the idea was to play off the reality boom at the time, and queer celebrity and the reality boom. I remember I was pitching it to Logo, which had just launched as well in 2007 in hopes that we'd get our own TV deal. Bright eyes, big hopes. The whole thing was, regardless of it just going to the web, we did it. We did another one. We did a superhero fantasy show called [inaudible 00:15:04]. We just, I kept producing and producing and producing, and eventually I wasn't putting myself in it, because people are like, "Oh, you're a great producer." Chris Erwin:Were you self distributing, or were you distributing through third-parties? Damian Pelliccione:Oh yeah. No, we were self distributing, just like everybody else. You would call it, I guess user generated content, but we were doing it on a bigger scale and a lot more scripted. It was a really exciting time, and I just got really good at producing. Here's where the transition happened, and I transitioned out of being an actor and being a producer. I produced for other people, and more projects. Damian Pelliccione:I started our own little production company. I remember my first office, which is right at 5th and Spring, because I had a loft in downtown. This is now, cut to 2007-2008. I had a couple of friends. One was an editor and a shooter. The other one was a producer as well. We had this office that was 150 square feet, one room, [inaudible 00:15:58], and three desks. We were like, we're going to be a production company. We just started producing stuff. We produced things for broadband TV and we produced things for YouTube. Some of them we got paid for, and some of them we didn't. We produced Illeana Douglas with Easy to Assemble. I think it was her second or third season. It was a lot of folks who were, they saw and recognized our skillset for user generated content and specifically the web. That was our first office. Chris Erwin:You transitioned from an actor to a producer. Then you're having more and more projects. Some you're getting paid for. Where do you think this is headed? In this moment when you're like, I'm on my way to be a film producer. Damian Pelliccione:That was literally what I was thinking. I'm like, I'm on my way to be a film producer, and I love the journey, and I love production. Even just now, I produced something in house for us last week and every time I get to be on set it reminds me about my passion for even just being a producer and how much fun it is. Then afterwards, we did this for awhile and produced a whole bunch of work, a lot of editorial content, broadband TV, when broadband had been around different areas and different cities. Damian Pelliccione:You could bid for different stories or pitch them stories, very much like a newsroom. That was really exciting. We did a bunch of different op ed pieces and exciting pieces. We even, I remember covering the... this is so funny. I was covering Prop 8 in the 2008 elections, the proposition for equality marriage. There was this big rally in downtown Los Angeles, and it was a lot of Yes on 8, and for context, Yes on 8 was you're anti gay marriage. No on 8 was you're pro gay marriage. I was at a Yes on 8 rally, and I thought I was undercover. I was with my friend, Logan, who produced a show called The Yellow Mic. I was interviewing people and asking them questions about why are you voting yes, and tell us your theories, and collecting the other side of the story, which is really interesting. Damian Pelliccione:Then all of a sudden, the police are like, "We're going to put up blockades in the No on 8 people." They stopped the intersection and there was Yes on 8, No on 8 people across the aisle yelling and screaming and holding up their signage and marching. All of a sudden, Sacha Baren Cohen shows up. He did a film where he was the gay character. He shows up. No one knows who he is, and we were the only who had cameras. I'm like, "Oh my God, that's Sacha Baren Cohen." We got him doing it. We were the only ones with cameras. I remember the next morning we sold it to the news and TMZ. That was my foray into being a paparazzi, which was kind of exciting. It ran on, I think KTLA even and TMZ the next day. Chris Erwin:Oh wow. Where does this lead you, Damian? You're being opportunistic. What's the next major step as you're working your way to eventually be the founder of Revry? Damian Pelliccione:The next step was I worked at Dogma Studios, [inaudible 00:18:41] who was my CEO there saw something in me. Started producing a lot of great content, did stuff with Taylor Dane, Taylor [inaudible 00:18:48] who has since passed, and some great comedians. Dogma, of course, happened during the recession in 2009. I only got to be there for a year, and Scott cut our department. But Scott's like, "Hey, we have this great space. Do something with it." The next thing that I created was with Deanna, which was web TV workshop, which was literally, we're like, hey, what do people do in a recession? They go back to learning new skills. We created our own, tried to produce content for the web with an Emmy award winning actress, writer, director, Deanna Nicole Baxter, and Damian Pelliccione, entrepreneur and web producer as well. Chris Erwin:Was it an early master class, like you sold these as tutorial videos? Damian Pelliccione:Not even videos. We did videos a year later, but we were doing it brick and mortar, where on Tuesday nights every week, or Tuesday/Thursday nights, and we had [inaudible 00:19:36] speak and then [inaudible 00:19:38] speak. [inaudible 00:19:38] we had speakers... like lonelygirl from [inaudible 00:19:41]. Everybody, they all come and speak in the class and we would have different topics ranging from production, all the way to the distribution and understanding the technology and YouTube. It was an eight week course. We were packed. We were full. We did that for a year, and then we created an online version, which now you can still on [inaudible 00:19:58], which was shot, I think in 2000, oh my God, '10 or '11. They still use it on their website. Yeah, it was an exciting time, and that took us into technology. Damian Pelliccione:From there, just to bridge the gap to Revry, Deanna and I were approached an Israeli casting startup called Audish, which was a self casting website, because now we're going into the world of not having to do self casting, which is now the norm, and shooting yourself and making sure it's all final. I was head of business development and user experience. Deanna was head of sales and marketing. Chris Erwin:Is this the first time that you're working for somebody else, or a startup? Because before it's like these are your own projects. Damian Pelliccione:Yeah, Dogma was, they were more of a post house, and I worked for them. They were established. They were not a startup, but yes, this was the first time working for a startup. It was Audish. It was super fun. We'd work at the founder's house in West Hollywood in the Hills, and we were this small team. We just loved it. Then from there we got approached by another startup, which was kind of doing something similar, another Israeli casting startup called eTribez which still exists. Then from there, I got approached by Chevy and Cadillac to do auto shows, both domestic and abroad. In the auto shows I was doing, I was product present. They put me on stage on what those rotating stages to talk about the cars. Chris Erwin:How did they find you? How did Chevy and Cadillac say, "We think Damian's going to be a great showman to sell our cars?" How does that come to be? Damian Pelliccione:I had a friend who worked for the agency, and the agency saw some of my work and said, "Hey do you want to do this?" I'm like, "Hell yeah, I get to travel the country." It was good pay. Then through that work, I suggested, "Hey, you know what you should do? Put a camera up connected to your GM website." Then all of a sudden it became this whole big thing about streaming these presentations. I was the first one to suggest this. This is 2013. You got 250,000 people coming through the Chicago Auto Show or the Detroit Auto Show. Put a camera in front of it and show the rest of the world what's happening here. That was huge. Then from there, they sent me to Geneva. They're like, "Oh, can you go do this for Cadillac in Geneva?" I'm like, "Sure, yeah. Why not? I've never been to Switzerland." I did it for a year. It was really exciting. GM is super, super corporate. I'll leave it at that. Damian Pelliccione:Then I found myself back in startup. The startup that I ended up leaving GM and Cadillac for was a German streaming company called Make.TV. I promise, this is the last one before I get to Revry. I'm giving you my entire resume right now. Chris Erwin:No, it's a great story. Damian Pelliccione:Make.TV, which has since been acquired by LTM group, I was head of VD for North America. Then someone got pregnant in Germany and they get a four year option. They gave me Globe. During my time there, I created a partnership with YouTube Space LA in New York. I actually trained creators at Space LA and Space New York on how to use this proved technology. It was a proven vendor of YouTube on how to stream live, and using multi cam and all that great stuff. I really got my feet wet with SaaS, and SaaS tech ed. I knew everybody in the YouTube market, all the influencers, all the execs, all the players, all the Space people in New York and LA, even in Space Dubai and Space Japan. It was really cool. They sent me all over the world. I went to Dubai for [inaudible 00:23:08]. I went to Singapore for broadcast Asia. Of course I was always at IBC in Amsterdam. I always at NAB here in Vegas. I went to all the entertainment tech shows and met everybody, and really understood the technology in a way and where it was going. Damian Pelliccione:I did that with Make.TV up until 2016, so almost three years, two and a half years. Chris Erwin:Were you developing a relationship as, okay, Damian is one of the preeminent digital producers, also with a specialty in live streaming as well? That was the brand you were creating for yourself. Damian Pelliccione:And understanding the technology, first and foremost. Going to all these technical trade shows, you're in front of all the new SaaS tech players, which used to when you went to NAB, a small section of one of the convention room floors. Now it's multiple floors, because it's all software. It's no longer hardware. Software and SaaS obviously in streaming is so huge. We were very OG SaaS tech streaming technology. Definitely carved a space for my knowledge. I just love this stuff. It was combining my love of technology and producing and content and entertainment into distribution and understanding really the ins and outs of how technology effectuates the consumer experience, and how that was my vision of how that would shift. Of course all of the things I thought of back then are all now definitely coming true today, or are already at fruition. Chris Erwin:Hey, listeners. This is Chris Erwin, your host of The Come Up. I have a quick ask for you. If you dig what we're putting down, if you like the show, if you like our guests, it would really mean a lot if you can give us a rating wherever you listen to our show. It helps other people discover our work, and it also really supports what we do here. All right, that's it everybody. Let's get back to the interview. Chris Erwin:Damian, I think next up is that you found Revry with three other co-founders. Tell me about that. Damian Pelliccione:Ironically enough, I was in Germany prepping for IBC in Amsterdam. I only speak a few words in German, and there's nothing to watch. There's not that much English content on TV that was in my hotel room. I watched the Apple broadcast every September, and then even when it was... before I'd even watch it every September when they had the new product launches with Steve Jobs, who's a hero of mine. Damian Pelliccione:I saw the announcement of the Apple TV, and specifically TV OS, the new operating system. I was like, wow, this is going to be huge. This is going to change TV. I see something here. I want to build something. I was inspired to do something. Of course, I didn't know what right away, right? It hadn't dawned on me. Damian Pelliccione:Cut to November, around Thanksgiving of 2015. When Chris, my partner, broke his iPhone, the glass on the iPhone. You used to go to the Apple store and they'd fix it there for you. Apple Care. I was playing a new Apple TV, and Alia, who is now my co-founder and our COO, she had gotten it in October when it came out. She's like, "It's super cool. You should get it. You should get it." Damian Pelliccione:I bought it, and you install it on your TV at home, and you search for apps, just like when you get an iPhone that's blank, of apps that are of interest to you. I searched lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer. Nothing came up. I was like, ding. The light bulb went off. I was like, this is it. We're going to create the first LGBTQ streaming network. I had Alia, LaShawn and Chris in my living. I said, "I have this idea. What do you guys think?" They were like, "Yeah, let's do it. We're all in." Chris Erwin:That just sounds so easy, because many people will say, "Oh yeah, I was recruiting them and they had different jobs, and someone just had a baby. They have financial obligations." But you guys, you're sitting in a room. You tell them the idea, and they're like, "Yeah, let's do it." Damian Pelliccione:I think everyone, besides... I'm just an entrepreneur who's crazy and has all the ideas. One of out of ten works. This is the one that's worked the biggest, in the biggest way. Alia wanted to be in entertainment. She was an attorney, went to law school with Chris. Her background is more small business and startup and employment law. I think she was over working at the firm she was at. Damian Pelliccione:LaShawn, besides being an Army veteran, woman of color like Alia, she is a graduate of the American Film Institute for editorial. She knows all the editorial, and she's our Chief Product Officer, is amazing at what she does in terms of spinning up channels. She was working on a freelance project, editing a film at the time. She was ready for the next big challenge. Damian Pelliccione:Chris, who was I think the most interesting story, he was the attorney for Shark Tank, and even worked on People's Choice awards. That was his biggest legal job. Prior to that he was at Original Productions doing a lot of the reality TV production contractions. When you're on a studio like that, it's not necessarily the most exciting thing. Depending on who your bosses were at the time... that's all I'm going to say about that. They're not necessarily the nicest people to work for. He was ready for a change. He's like, "This wasn't what I thought it was going to be." Damian Pelliccione:It's also difficult when I'm the one that's all over the place doing a whole bunch of different jobs. I'm like, "Let's quit both of our jobs, make no money for five years, and start this startup." Chris will tell you, it's the greatest decision he's ever made his entire life, the same with Alia and LaShawn. What we have built and what we have accomplished in five years consumer basing, this June, when we first started marketing our product at San Francisco Pride in 2016, drove ourselves up to SF, because gay capital of the world. Bigger Pride than Los Angeles, of course. We had a lot of friends up there that were going, so we're like why not? It's going to be a fun weekend. Self printed pink tshirts with a horrible old Revry logo on it. Giant postcard size fliers. I don't know why we thought that was a good idea. We hit the streets handing out the fliers. Chris Erwin:What were you promoting? Damian Pelliccione:Download our app, download our app, download our app. Just download our app and watch some great content. For those who you know, San Francisco, everyone parties in Delores Park on the Saturday before the Sunday of the parade. We were just walking through Delores Park handing out fliers with these hideous pink tshirts, fuchsia tshirts on with the Revry logo, old school Revry logo. People are like, "Oh, what street marketing team do you work for?" I'm like, "No, that's the CBO, that's the CPO, that's the COO. I'm the CEO." They're like, "What?" They're like, "You must really believe in what you do." I'm like, "No, we totally do." We were positing it on the porta potty stalls. We were trying to stick them up to walls and on posts. Damian Pelliccione:By the end of the weekend, we ended up getting booked on Oakland News. Two days later, San Francisco News. Bay Area News. Chris Erwin:What was the reception as you were telling people in the streets in Delores Park about Revry? Did they immediately get it? Were they confused? Damian Pelliccione:They got it, and they downloaded it, and they were watching stuff. They were subscribing. Again, this is the easiest sell, because it's queer capital of the world and San Francisco, tech capital of the world. They totally were in it to win it. I think they were just more astounded by our commitment, and that we're doing it in a very nontraditional, grassroots way. Damian Pelliccione:By the end of that weekend, had a friend of a friend of a friend who introduced us to Mac World. He was queer. He was a writer for Mac World. He's like, "I got to do a story on you." He did the interview that weekend. It didn't come out until about a month later, but once it was published, it was instantaneous downloads that rippled into 10 different languages and 100 different media publications, because Mac World is such a major player that we were the first LGBTQ TV OS app ever created for Apple TV. Damian Pelliccione:Even today, I will say we are bound to be featured again on IOS this next month in June. Everyone at Apple are big fans of Revry, and they keep featuring us, which I'm very happy about. I said it in this interview. If Tim Cook is listening, my ultimate dream is to have lunch with him in Cupertino at the Spaceship. I would fly up there in a heartbeat if he said yes. We'll see. You never know. Dream. Dream big. Chris Erwin:I think that's something I've seen in tracking your business over the last couple years since I first met you at that dinner, was that your resilience, persistence, and passion just always pays off. You've gotten a lot of nose in raising money and pitching partnerships, but then you call me three, six months later, and you're like, "I ended up getting that partnership. Yeah, we just got a check. Yeah, we just closed that round." Feels like the Tim Cook lunch in Cupertino is coming up. I'm excited to get that call from you. Damian Pelliccione:You'll be the first one to know, for sure. Chris Erwin:You mentioned that you launched QueerX in 2016. I want to hear about that, and then there's a pretty crazy moment in 2018 when you were running out of money. You had to do some unique financing structures to figure it out. Tell us about that. Damian Pelliccione:We're crazy. We launched two things at the same time. The former name of it was Out Web Fest. Then we rebranded to QueerX in 2019. We launched our own festival, kind of playing off the LGBT film festival circuit, but more focused on the short form side. Digital content, shorts, music videos, things that are typically not as publicized as feature films in the LGBTQ film festival consumer markets. Damian Pelliccione:We wanted to carve out that space and really highlight these new up and coming emerging voices. The big caveat to this was this is a great way to connect, create, an experiential event, create community, and also find content for Revry. At the end of the day, this is how we even seeded our application at the early stages, because folks were excited not to play in the festival. I would say about 50-60% were also excited to license us their content. It became a tool to curate content for our platform. Damian Pelliccione:Cut to 2018, an investor didn't write a check when we thought they were going to. That was going to be a thing that was going to float the festival. I was two weeks out from the festival, freaking out trying to figure out how to raise $10,000. I ended up getting a creative mortgage. I say that because it was a hard money loan, and not that it has interest... not terrible. I think at the time it was only 6%, but definitely- Chris Erwin:That's pretty good for hard money. Damian Pelliccione:Yeah, definitely on the high end, but because my credit wasn't the greatest, because when you start a business your finances drop a little bit. You're not making as much money. You're taking a pay cut. That was the only available loan to me, but I was able to close it quick enough to be able to float what we needed for the festival. I remember how stressful that was and tears and joy when it did all come through. That's I think the testament to our resilience. That's just one story. There's multiple stories on how... not to get too down in the weeds, but how anytime we were close, and this is any startup has this problem, running out of money or close to the end of your burn or your runway, and you're like, "Oh shit, when is the next check going to come in? Is that investor really going to come through the door and cross the line? Are we going to get the revenue we need?" These are the stressors of your first five years. Damian Pelliccione:Then eventually as time goes on and you sustain, you get... this becomes less and less of an issue. I can count at least two or three moments in time with Revry where I thought we were going to go bankrupt, or we weren't going to be able to pay our payroll, or whatever. There is always some saving grace, whether it was my home and our mortgage, that first time, or an investor that just came out of nowhere that then we would be able to get a check from to be able to sustain the difference in what we weren't making up in our burn for revenue. That's been kind of our mode, that and staying lean and really understanding how to run a business and scale a business with not a lot of money. We are four minorities. We represent veteran, LGBTQ, Latina, African American women, immigrant. I do consider myself non-binary. Chris Erwin:Just to be clear, these are the four co-founders of Revry. I think it's the most diverse founding team that I've ever worked with or been exposed to. Damian Pelliccione:That's our superhero strength. Because we represent so many different cultural, racial, sexual identities, gender identities and backgrounds, I think is a testament to our resilience, our skillset, and our ability to move at a really fast pace. We even got knocked in the beginning from being four co-founders. They're like, "It's never going to work. Someone's going to drop out. Something's not going to happen," whatever. It's like being in a rock band, I always say. It's like if you can get past your first few years, you probably can sustain. Damian Pelliccione:Alia, LaShawn, Chris, and I are very close. We even have founders night out once a month, just social time for the four of us. We support each other in every possible way of our business. I am saying, I proved all the nay sayers wrong that no, you can have four co-founders. You can diversity and inclusion. We believe that diversity and inclusion starts, authentic leadership starts from ownership. That's why we're four equal co-founders. No one owns any more equity than the next person. We leave from that pillar when I'm talking to a tech partner or a vendor, when I'm talking to a content creator, filmmaker, or distribution company. When we're talking to, even advertisers, like Lexus or [inaudible 00:35:53] who we work with, the main pillar and mission with our company is true reflection, authenticity, and diversity, and inclusion within our community. Damian Pelliccione:Because the great thing about being LGBTQ or queer, we like to add queer. We're adopting unapologetically queer, is that you're not one race. You're not one gender. You're not one sexual orientation. You're not one cultural background. You're not one language. Queer exists all over the world. This is a really exciting moment for us, and the rest of the world, and the entertainment business to be embracing what we're doing with Revry in such a big way where we've got some pretty big wins coming down the pipeline which we'll have announcements for in Pride month in June. Chris Erwin:Which leads to the next question of what is next for Revry? Now that you've been doing this, I think you said, for the past five years that you've now been officially consumer facing, right, with the product in the market, tell us how many different apps, how much programming do you have? Let's fast forward three to five years out. Where are you headed? Damian Pelliccione:Yeah, so right now Revry is available in over 280 million households and devices. That is our reach. This is our sweat equity over the last three years, and really understanding the market and the differential between... we call ourselves a trihybrid of fast, free, ad supported streaming TV, AVOD, ad video on demand, and SVOD, subscription video on demand. We started as a subscription video on demand platform when SVOD was not as big of a thing as it was today, and building that subscription audience. That was hard. Now today, it's super competitive and competing Disney+, Hulu, and Amazon, and Apple TV Plus, and all the ones that have way deeper pockets than I do. I think where we saw a major opportunity, which was in 2017, we started with Pluto TV, a fast channel. Revry was the first LGBTQ network on Pluto TV. Then a year later we launched on Xumo TV in 2018. We crushed it and we brought in advertisers like Lexus. They were the first advertiser. They actually unbounded us six months after we launched. Damian Pelliccione:So, launched in 2016. January 2017 I receive an email from our info at Revry.TV email from this agency that represents Lexus and asked if we did advertising. Of course we get that, we're like, "Yes, we do." You figure it out, because you don't want to say no to that opportunity. Luckily we have the Pluto TV channel to be able to figure that out on, which launched the next quarter. It was great, and they've increased their spend year over year and we're a major partner of Lexus, specifically in the LGBTQ space. We're very honored to have worked with them for so long now since 2017, but we saw just based on that one advertiser and that one channel, the opportunity for having free, linear TV. Damian Pelliccione:Today it's the cable killer. It's fast. It's going to overtake the market. I believe that the new cable networks are the smart TV manufacturers. The Samsung, the Vizios, the LGs, the Sonys even now are getting into this space. These are the ones that will lead the charge and why you won't need a subscription pairage package to your teleco broadcaster like Comcast or AT&T, and what Comcast bought Xumo, and why AT&T is mostly likely going to go into facet as well, to catch up to the market. Damian Pelliccione:Cut to day, we're on 35 fast platforms, more than half of which we are the exclusive and/or only LGBTQ provider. We are also on SVOD platforms, like Xfinity. We're about to launch on a few other big ones coming down the pipe this summer. Our distribution footprint is so massive, and it's not just US. We just launched May 12th with Samsung UK. We launched in a territory in March, which I can't talk about, because we're still in beta for that. We're launching with Australia this week. Actually in just a few days we launch TV across Australia. Next month we're launching in another Latin American territory. Then later on in North America, and hopefully Canada. Damian Pelliccione:It's just been this rolling explosion of opportunity with big partners like TV and Samsung and Vizio, and really embracing what we're doing in the content and how we're distributing. I think the next phase, to answer the question of the business, outside of continuing to spin up channels and build more connections for our networks so now we're not just one network, we have multiple networks... we have our North American English feed, our global English feed, our USA English feed, but we also have Revry News, the first ever LGBTQ 24/7 news network. We have OML under our Revry, which stands for Oe More Lesbian, the first ever queer women acts lesbian network, which has exploded. Revry LatinaX, the first LGBTQ Spanish language network. Damian Pelliccione:Then we have a few more announcements coming up later this year for specialty channels of language specific channels, because, again, we exist as people, LGBT people everywhere, and we're massive underserved in the market other than the few things you can watch on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, or whatever territory that you live in, or on YouTube. There's no global network like Revry for our community until now. Damian Pelliccione:Really, for us, it's taking over all those global markets and tapping into... even outside of just English speaking markets, the community in Brasil, the community in Mexico, the community in India, the community all over Europe, and very soon the community in Africa. That's exciting to me. What's more exciting from a social impact standpoint is we don't have a barrier to entry. Yes, we still have our subscription product. We call it Revry Premium. That's upgrade from our... just like Peacock, right? The idea there is that if you want greater access and no ads, you pay the subscription price. You don't need to register to our site. You can just go on and start watching. Download the app and start watching anywhere on any device. Damian Pelliccione:The social impact site is like no matter your socioeconomic background, or where you are in the world, you can access Revry content. You as a trans person in Saudi Arabia, as a lesbian in Russia, as a gay man in South Africa can watch great, free content that is ad supported to see your story, to see yourself reflected. Damian Pelliccione:We've had letters from all over the world. The letter was after the Mac World article. That was from a gay man in Saudi Arabia who wrote me a message on LinkedIn of all places, from an anonymous profile saying, "I'm a queer man from Saudi Arabia. I read your Mac World article. I didn't know really what gay meant. I'm closeted, and I now see that there are other people out there like me. Thank you for doing what you're doing. I love this film, so and so." That was powerful. That's not the first. I have that framed, by the way. That message is framed and sits next to my desk, a reminder for why I do what I do every morning. When you're creating something way bigger than yourself, it gives you so much more purpose and drive than any other job you could ever have. That, I equate to our success. Damian Pelliccione:The other opportunity that I had where I saw the impact that Revry is having as a platform was when I was in India in June of 2019. I went to Mumbai to speak at the queer film festival, KASHISH. At the opening night ceremony, they had all the guest speakers come in and just say hello and give a little insight into what their talk would be later on in the week. All these queer female filmmakers surrounded me at the after party. We had this one title called The Other Love Story by this great filmmaker, [inaudible 00:42:50] in London, about this lesbian relationship in Bangalore. It was a scripted show. We branded it as a Revry original distributed in 2017 and '18, and it exploded, like these numbers from India, which we never expected. Again, testament to massively underserved market, but big opportunity. No one's tapping that. Damian Pelliccione:These queer women were so excited to meet Revry, a representative from Revry, let alone the CEO. I was like, "Oh my God. I'm so excited to meet you, too. Tell me what your project is. Can I license something?" That's where my mind goes in distribution, licensing and acquisition. This one girl's like, "No, no, no. Damian, I want to show you something." She pulls out her phone and shows me her Tinder. I'm like, "Why are you showing me your Tinder?" She funnels for lesbian, right? All the images in the grid were images were from The Other Love Story, our acquisition original from that territory. Damian Pelliccione:For context, we're celebrating 50 years of Stonewall right now in the United States, but for context, they only have their stonewall moment in 2018 where they decriminalized being LGBTQ. This is a year later that I'm in that territory. For fear of discretion, for their friends, their families, their jobs, or their places that they live or worship, that's how they identify themselves. Queer women specifically, and I started crying. I took this girl to dinner. I woke up Alia, LaShawn, and Chris in the west and was like, "Hey you have to, have to hear this story. This is huge. Everyone was crying." Damian Pelliccione:Even when I tell this story, I still get a little emotional, but it shows the power of the impact that media and a platform like Revry can have for the greater good of our community on a global scale. I've been quoted saying this story and the Saudi Arabia story multiple times in the past, but I will continue to quote it on all the interviews that I do, because that is the impact that we're having. That is the most exciting and biggest reward that I can receive as a founder. Chris Erwin:Beautifully put. Look, before we move on to the rapid fire, Damian, in terms of reward, what are the exit opportunities as you think about Revry? Where does this go? Do you just continually raise funding, or is there an exit that you're targeting in the next two to three years? I know the common answer is heads down building, we have a lot more to do, but what are you really thinking there, you and the three other founders? Damian Pelliccione:Heads down building, we have a lot more to do for sure. A lot more that we want to do and where I'd like to take this company, and where the founders, collectively, Alia, LaShawn, Chris, and I would like to take this company. We always knew from inception that this was not an idea business. We were an acquisition. When you look at the consolidation that's happening right now, MGM being bought by Amazon, Disney buying Discovery, I don't think that my thesis of acquisition is going to have very much longer before we're sucked up into a bigger machine. I wouldn't hate that, to be honest. I don't think any of the founders... I think we're all excited for that opportunity once it presents itself with the right partner. Damian Pelliccione:Right now, what am I doing? We're raising our next round. Series day is next. We'll see where the future takes us, but there's other conversations happening in the background. I think we're a really hot ticket item. We are the market leader, clearly, hands down the market leader for LGBTQ end streaming. We would be a great acquisition for any of the major studios at this point. And for the right price, not just the right pice, the right upside, but more or less being able to be capitalized in a way with the powers of a bigger studio and keep running the business the way we want to, which is to focus now more into the original side of content, and to create our whole slate of content and market and distribute that. I think that is a big value proposition. Damian Pelliccione:When you look at the stuff that we're coming out with this Pride season, I'm very proud of our slate of originals and content and shows and specials that we are about to announce just in a few days. Chris Erwin:Awesome. Last thing before I move on to rapid fire, Damian. I want to give you and the team some kudos. I remember, I threw an executive event nearby when our office was in Culver City. I think this is in the summer 2019. I did not know you, nor Revry before this. I think one of the guests that was commenting was like, "Oh, I want to bring this guy, Damian. He's electrifying. Can I add him to the guest list?" I was like, "Sure. Let's see." I remember, I think there was three or four long tables. You ended up sitting directly across from me. I just remember from the moment that we sat down, you not only lit up the space between us, but the entire table. I had such a good time talking to you. I got so excited by your vision and your gumption and your energy. That kicked off us working together on a few different fronts. Chris Erwin:I remember, and I was like, this is just a show that existed for this couple hours together, or does this persist? As I have continuously gotten to know you and the team better, and going to your office for an offsite and meeting the other members of your team, like you said, I had hesitation. I'm like, four co-founders? How does that work? But you guys have something very special in what you're building in your product, very special between the four co-founders, and your mission is fantastic. I know without a doubt that you guys are going to be coming out in a very, very special place. Keep on doing what you're doing. It's been amazing to track your journey, and it's fun getting to know you. Damian Pelliccione:We love you, Chris. You've always been a big cheerleader since we've met, and we appreciate your support. Chris Erwin:Cool. With that, we're going to move into the rapid fire round. Six questions. The rules are as follows. The answers are to be very brief, at most one to two sentences, but could also be one or two words. Do you understand the rules? Damian Pelliccione:Yes. Chris Erwin:Great. Let's dive in. Proudest life moment? Damian Pelliccione:Mumbai, India. Chris Erwin:What do you want to do less of in 2021? Damian Pelliccione:Work. No, I'm kidding. Chris Erwin:That's totally fair. Damian Pelliccione:What do I want to do less of? I want to eat less. Chris Erwin:You want to eat less, okay. What do you want to do more of? Damian Pelliccione:Exercise. Chris Erwin:What one to two things drive your success? Damian Pelliccione:Passion, innovation, love. Chris Erwin:Final three. What advice do you give media execs going into the end of 2021? Damian Pelliccione:Fail fast, fail big, and learn. Chris Erwin:Any future startup ambitions? Damian Pelliccione:Cannabis. Chris Erwin:Huh. Okay, I have to ask, what are you thinking on the cannabis front? Damian Pelliccione:Don't know yet. I have a passion for it, too. I think there's a frontier and a gold rush. I think there's so many healing qualities to it and so many unlocked potential and scientific research on what this plant can do. I wanted to be a part of that in some way. It hasn't revealed itself exactly, like what sector of cannabis, but I just know that I definitely want to... if I were to start another startup, it would definitely be in the cannabis sector. Chris Erwin:That'll be a good reason to have you on the show a second time, about your new venture. Damian Pelliccione:Yeah, there you go. Chris Erwin:Last one, very easy. How can people get in contact with you? Damian Pelliccione:Easy. You can go to our website, Revry.TV. You can also find me on Instagram, Damian, D-A-M-I-A-N media, M-E-D-I-A, or Revry TV, R-E-V-R-Y T-V. Chris Erwin:Awesome. All right, Damian. Thanks for being on the show. This was a delight. Damian Pelliccione:Thank you so much for having me, Chris. Always a pleasure to talk to you. Chris Erwin:I got to say, I just love spending time with Damian. He is so positive. He is so effusive. He always brings a smile to my face. That interview was a real delight. All right, before wrapping up, we have an exciting announcement. Rock Water has launched our second podcast. It's called the Rock Water Roundup. In under 15 minutes, me and my colleague, Andrew Cohen, breakdown recent media and commerce news. We already have, I think around seven or eight episodes up, and we cover topics like live stream commerce and whatnot's $40 million capital raise, the growth of creator competition series, including the recent Logan Paul and Floyd Mayweather fight, the rapid growth of the resale market, including Etsy's $1.6 billion acquisition of Depop, and so much more. Chris Erwin:You can get it wherever you listen to your podcast: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, you name it. And you can also go to Rounduppodcast.com. We're getting some really good feedback on the short, what we like to call micro cast format. Would love to have you check it out. All right, that's it everybody. Thanks for listening. Chris Erwin:The Come Up is written and hosted by me, Chris Erwin, and is a production of Rock Water Industries. 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