how can you tell???

A menu of 33 microstructures that quickly build participation and trust in groups

It's very difficult for a storytelling writer to properly develop each character within their own arcs all at once, hence why we don't see these kinds of games much.

Sometimes when playing games that include objectives for the player to complete, the objectives start to feel like busy work/fetch quests. While some players love mindless activities in games, it isn't enjoyable for the average player to run back and forth without much engagement.

The thing that storytelling writers struggle with is making relatable characters for their potential players.

Many of the most memorable experiences I've had while playing games are ones with unique and compelling stories.

1:28:29 Government spends by creating money and when it taxes, the government destroys money

1:25:22 First comes an AGREEMENT by members of the neighbourhood to co-operate and then they agree to use a mechanism called money to mobilise resources

1:24:34 Money is not the scare resource. Money is the organising tool that mobilises people and tangible resources to manifest a vision

1:24:14 We can organise our resources such that it can attract the money that regenerates across all types of capital and all types of nature

1:22:36 Could A community Association get a Community Banking Licence? 1:22:38 Could a local Credit Union be a consortium partner and issue more money into the system to develop the entire wealth of the Neighbourhood

1:10:56 Your checking account is your bank's I.O.U. It is their liability that they owe you. 1:11:08 When you repay a loan, THE MONEY DISAPPEARS

1:09:52 A Bank LOAN is an interest attached to your own ability to pay back something that did not exist before you borrowed it

1:09:59 A bank officer ACQUIRES the loan in order to charge interest on it

1:06:53 The true constraints are the resources that are available (and if those resources will co-create together for the good of the WHOLE).

1:08:08 What is the Economy of Marlborough (for example)

1:04:44 Debt mirrors in NATURE as the seeds, plants, trees, flowers, roots, soil, water, nutrients, pollinators, worms, rock and minerals - WE ARE IN DEBT TO NATURE - NATURE GIVES US SURPLUS

1:03:51 By getting people used to DEBT being SAVINGS, they can focus on the REAL things that matter

1:02:29 The national debt is a historical record of the cumulative money that a government spent dollars than it took out which were transformed into US Treasuries

1:00:18 We should not even use the term borrowing

56:48 The USA borrows money from China IS NOT TRUE. China converts its dollars from selling stuff to the USA to a US treasury bond which earns them interest rtaher than just sitting in a checking account

56:12 When the Community Treasury spends more of its money, people in the community have more to spend

53:36 A community can set up a CONTRIBUTION which everyone agrees to pay in the currency issued by the community issuer 53:48 Therefore a Debt Free Currency System really means a COMMUNITY TRIBUTE money system where the debt is a contribution to the community, payable in the currency of the issuer 55:45 A community can set up its own CENTRAL BANK that sets the interest rate at zero for the money in the community

53:04 Money is the debt of the issuer

50:32 Currency is the governments I.O.U. 52:04 When the government gets its tax, it no longer has the debt so it burns the currency which was an I.O.U.

48:52 Example of a Community Currency

40:40 UMKC created its own currency - the Buckaroo 40:42 Students had to pay buckaroos to get their grades

28:08 UMKC is one kilometre from our location in Kansas - literally at the end of 53rd street where we live :-)

26:30 Bernard Lietaer - founder of the EURO

25:38 MMT changes our view on the nature of money

22:32 In early colonial times, once taxes are paid in paper money, the money was burned

18:59 Warren Mosler 19:49 Government does not need dollars, citizens need dollars 20:18 Warren is not an economist - he is not trying to defend economic theory - he is a financial trader watching the operation of money

18:47 Stephanie Skelton was sceptical at the start too

16:08 During the war, the USA moved 50% of the nations production to WAR. It woudl take a simple political decison to move 50% of the nations production to peace if peace is as profitable as war

14:22 The government spends money into existence

11:42 For a currency issuer, funding the money is NEVER the problem

9:31 Jared Bernstein fails to answer this question coherently. "I dont get it" !!

5:49 95% of the problems with policy is the language used to describe the policy

5:17 Let us evolve beyond the BATTLE FOR IDEAS through Dialogue

4:28 Let us create the money at community level

means of coercion irrelevant- doesn't matter who is really enforcing- aka doesn't need to be the "state."

order is valid from collective belief in order, not rationality of order

what the social order is does not just result from what is most reasonable to do or the most rational system

frequently not just one "valid" order and it's not "valid" or "invalid" there's a spectrum

deviations from order are not always outright or direct contrasts to a rule

Orientation towards maxims (some rationality or establish duty) --> maxims are traditional and habitual --> maxims are legitimate

most of the time maxims held bc it is habitual

due what they're told because of the rules but also for their own sense of duty

social norms for the sake of being social norms are not the binding agent of actors to their normal action- there is a practical, rational motive in there

I just got a 1950 version of this KMG this week in medium rough shape too. (My 7th Royal and my 2nd Standard)

Looks like a Royal KMG with the Henry Dreyfuss glass tombstone keys in Gray Frieze paint. https://typewriterdatabase.com/Royal.KMG.72.bmys

Mine has some minor carriage issues that I'm hoping clear up with some cleaning. Otherwise it may need some tools and internal repair work and/or parts. If yours is generally working, a good cleaning and oiling should get you going: https://boffosocko.com/2024/08/09/on-colloquial-advice-for-degreasing-cleaning-and-oiling-manual-typewriters/

Diagram of parts: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RoyalKMGdiagram.jpg

Manual of the prior model KMM which preceeded it, so the functionalilty should be almost exactly the same: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RoyalKMM.pdf (Royal Standard internals were almost exactly the same from the Ten (1909) through the FP/Empress (1966).)

Home Study Course in Typewriter Repair and Service: ca. 1959, published by the Typewriter Repair School in Little Falls, New Jersey. Focuses on the Royal KMM among others: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/homestudycourse.pdf

See also:<br /> - https://typewriterdatabase.com/manuals.php - https://typewriterdatabase.com/1968-Ames_Standard_SVC.royal-repair.manual - https://typewriterdatabase.com/1960-Ames_Gen_Cat_10-March.royal-parts-01.manual

Searching on YouTube for cleaning and repair advice should help out a lot. Phoenix Typewriter has some solid videos on related models (search also the Royal X (ten), KH, KHM, KMM, KMG, HH, FP, and Empress which are all roughly the same internals with slightly different body styles.)

If you need some basic typewriter 101, try: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtHauPh529XYHI5QNj5w9PUdi89pOXsS

reply to u/MajesticWear5478 https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1g1i440/tips_for_cleaning_and_fixing_a_1949_royal/#lightbox

one database to save humanity

I see no meaningful difference between the CSE-treated and untreated cells for MSS4-GFP. How are you determining this difference? Is there a quantification?

There does not appear to be a methods section. How were the images taken? For example, was this a slice of a confocal z-stack such that signal in the middle of the cell really is in the cytosol or a wide field image such that the "cytosolic" signal may just be signal from accumulation of Ede1 at the cell surface (aka endocytosis is stuck at Ede1 recruitment step so a lot more enrichment is visible at the top and bottom of the cell). In other words have these images been taken in a way that can distinguish these possibilities?

I might be missing it somewhere but the two time points do not appear to be in the figure or figure legend -- from the text it appears maybe the bottom row is 2 hours?

MNPs accumulate could affect the infant and the mother, how many microplastics could the child be exposed to?

Observed in rats, MNPs are present in the off-spring of rats exposed to MNPs.

The research isn't there to prove MNPs significantly contribute to infertility.

Phthalates and BPA were other chemicals I want to research.

Changes in reproductive hormones

MNPs are present in many parts of the body

MNPs are small enough to cross barriers of the lungs, gut, and skin bypassing regulatory organs to process the chemicals

MNPs can expose people to xenobiotics by bypassing the gut, liver, and effect surrounding cells.

MNPs vary in chemicals, shapes, and are found in household, personal care, plastic food containers and cosmetic products.

MPs result from the breakdown of larger plastics. not only are MPs everywhere, they're resistant to biodegradation.

microplastic dangerous to pregnant women and infants

Martin has realized how strong, brave, and amazing his son is, all in a positive light. With Sebastian in danger, Martin has realized how much love he has for him, and wants to restore their relationship as a healthy and average father and son relationship. He wants his son to feel loved, and comes to the realization thatches disability does not define him.

Isabel realizes she had left her other son alone, and that he could have almost died. She realized she had so much attention on Sebastian that she didn't even think about the safety of her three year old. This is when her guilt kicks in.

Kaden showed his innocence earlier in the story, but does even more in this instance. He believes a magic wand could fix what was happening to him, and that magic will protect him and his brother from unfortunate events.

Martin has a similar view to many people in society on disability. Unfortunately, people with disabilities dehumanize people with disabilities, and treat them as less than, just because they aren't fitting the stereotypes of a "normal person"

Sebastian, almost fully by himself was able to stand and walk.He may have not done it in the traditional way, because as described he was shaking and appeared to be having a seizure in the process, but he was successful and Isabel could not have been happier.

I feel as though doctors and parents never gave Sebastian a chance to experience an average life so far, they may have not let him do certain things because they may have thought he couldn't handle it. Although they are finally realizing he is thriving in the environments they thought were maybe too difficult for him to handle.

Kaden noticed the horrible treatment towards his brother by his parents, and had good intentions in mind. He was such an innocent three year old, and didn't think anything of Sebastians disabilities because that was all he has ever known for Sebastian. He wanted his brother to be free and feel happiness, after noticing how their parents treated him.

Sebastian was seen as a burden by Martin, and Martin did not want to "deal with" Sebastian and his disability for the rest of his life. He didn't want to congratulate any of Sebastians successes, because he just wished he would not be able to function and not be around.

It is supposed to be a good thing, Sebastian being able to walk. As an initial reaction, Martin realized that his son is "getting used to" functioning with his disabilities. Martin gives the impression throughout the story that he wants his son to be "normal", and not get used to living with his disabilities before its too late to perform surgeries.

in the end, Martin is really shocked and happy at the fact that his son can walk, and that he can perform some natural bodily functions, even with his disability.

Kaden, the three year old brother also describes his infant brother as a horse. Although, I believe this is in a more innocent way. Kaden doesn't understand societies view on disabled people at such a young age, so he has created his own majestic, powerful meaning of his brother being a horse. It wasn't about his looks to Kaden, it was about his personality.

I also find this line interesting. The fact that in the way of his sons safety, Martin wouldn't call the police to report that he is missing because he claims he cannot describe how his son looks. He seems to refuse to accept the fact that his son does not look like the average person, and almost seems embarrassed that he looks the way he does.

This is shocking to me. No mother should think that their three year old child can take care of themselves in the dark, alone in the middle of the night. They are nowhere near the age and maturity of being able to take care of themselves for any amount of time.

The boy is terrified being alone in the dark and quiet, hence the line "he can't hear anything but crickets marching closer and closer in the dark". He fears for his safety and hints at the fact that he feels something bad may happen to him.

This reminds me of the description of a "glass child". A glass child is the sibling of someone who has mental or medical issues, and doesn't require the most attention from parents. The three year old brother was left behind and forgotten about once Sebastian ran away, and wasn't informed of the parents leaving him by himself in the middle of the night.

Going along with my previous idea of the mothers guilt, she seems to want to reassure herself that she is fine and her son is in danger and he is who the focus should be on. Although, in the back of her mind she still fears for herself.

The mother feels very frightened in the woods in the middle of the night by herself. She feels this guilt of being nervous for herself because she can only imagine how her infant is feeling, who is not old enough to take care of himself.

They continue to dehumanize Sebastian, continuing with the horse references they related him to because of his disabilities.

The Office S4.E8 The Deposition, Nov 15, 2007<br /> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031476/

Michael is put in an awkward position when Jan sues Dunder Mifflin for wrongful termination and he is deposed as a witness.

Jan: Remember, it's not just a pattern. It's a pattern of disrespect and inappropriate behaviors.

Michael "Dis-ray." My friend Dis Ray got new specs. Dis Ray Spect. My friend In-A-Pro drives a Prius with his behind neighbor.

Jan: Does this work for you?

Michael: Yep.

Michael Scott makes up some truly incredible (bad) mnemonics to try to memorize specific phrases for a deposition.

The author means you will find hidden gems that come to light in your mind that you might want to consider writing about because these thoughts were not there before you start writing your first draft. They're saying in order to have the ideas and completion you want you must start somewhere.

personal connection; as a person who took creative writing in high school I found this to be immensely true for me. I take writing very seriously and writer's block can be a headache. I found myself going though this less when I started asking myself questions and writing down the first couple sentences that came to mind. Good or bad it will get the creative gear rotating.

simile; literary device. comparing 2 things using the words "like" or "as". The writer here is trying to explain it's not the easiest to create your 'perfect writing' but that should not be an excuse to type up something stale and unoriginal. He does this by comparing 'finished' ragged work to a husky carrying on in the snow.

extended metaphor: comparing the fact that even though an audience can be used to one ideal they can still embrace and even appreciate the author's work. In this sense nonfiction writers found themselves captivated in a novel they usually wouldn't personally relate to. titles, looks, brands, and even books can be deceiving you never know who can take a piece from your work ypu just have to start it.

Unnecessary information, and inaccurate. The 10mL of liquid were measured out each time and would have varied slightly.

This methods is cut closer to the lab procedure we were given as students rather than the lab procedure we create based off the lab. There are too many subsections, which are too short and make it hard to follow. 12.

Here is another example that demonstrates how missionaries and conversion were tools of colonialism. The fear that if the missionaries are not with the Mi'kmaq the willsurender to the British confirms that although the missionaries may truly want to save souls and create true Christians the act of converting Indigenous peoples to Catholicism was still ultimately an imperial act.

If materials are going to be listed out like this, they should have been mentioned at the start of the sugar density section as part of a 'materials required'.

This is another example of how missionaries had to adapt their teachings and practices to suit the Mi'kmaq way of life. More missionaries were necessary than in European settlements where societies were sedentary and revolved around the church. In European settlements people came to the church, but to serve Mi'kmaq communities missionaries had to travel to and with them and adapt their religious teachings and practices to suit the Mi'kmaq lifestyle.

This speaks to what we discussed in class that missionaries did operate as imperial agents. They saw Indigenous people as potential allies, particularly in a potential battle or war. They saw converting "all these sauvages" as a way to ensure Acadie. By converting them they thought that they could create allies for the French crown, strong enough allies to fight alongside them.

Reader does not have access to the same materials. The content of the questions in the packet should be written out if relevant to the report, or completely omitted if not.

Perhaps listing out the materials required first would make this easier to follow.

This is fine. Could be better with something like, "Excel was used to create a graph, and the given equation used to complete the questions was based on the trendline."

Reports should be written under the assumption that the reader does not have access to the same materials, and so that anyone could replicate the procedure.

Mention of the lab packet is unnecessary, as it doesn't relate to procedure. It is also too vague and would not help future chemists working through the lab.

This paragraph should have an indentation.

As other people have said, it is not labeled; but not only that the numbers do not indicate what is a percentage and what is the density. That alone is done before even making the graph, so data may not be reliable.

Who are the best story tellers of our time?

There seems to be an inherent value higharchy here for what makes an epic story, Corona was sold as a very epic story, 1918 spanish flu, not so much

Ya Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Wikipedia author Yuval talks about this a lot

• There was no difference between these two groups

• What's important is that you review it regularly, but the feedback doesn't have to be immediate as long as we take the time to learn from the feedback

• Turn the learning objectives into questions and answer them

• When studying flashcards, say it out loud or write it down so you'll be able to identify the error

• More time you spend studying something, the better you'll learn it

• Anesthesia doesn't resemble sleep since the general feeling of passing time doesn't appear after waking up from anathesia

Here's what a public annotation looks like. You can add links to these annotations too: OAI at PSU

Important to differentiate physical, cognitive, and social concerns that are caused by anxiety and depression.

For AUD/SUD in particular, examples of these could be... 1. Fear of becoming an alcoholic 2. Fear of physical symptoms and health defects related to alcoholism 3. Fear of being seen by others as an alcoholic

astounded with the fact that he sees wine, or that his friend is chaining him up? Seems to be the wine, but I first though it was the fact that his friend was chaining him up

jesus. This reminds me of the Nutty Putty cave incident. Someone was trapped upside down for 27 hours, and you couldn't even make out his final words since it was basically just gurgling.

This is terrifying. Fortunato has no escape

Okay man Fortunato's tryna leave now I thought he was your friend

first EJACULATED HUH????? Also he really just cares about the wine

wow yeah he just chained him up what on earth

restrained with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles. Woah you just straight up chained your friend?

It's cold, dark, the air is awful, Fortunato is barely able to walk, it feels grim

Narrator is a mason? also, what is the brotherhood?

Is this more like a karma situation? do good and you will be lucky? Is Fortunato a someone? <br /> I wrote that before finding out it was just a character. Maybe this is just saying Fortunato was not justified in doing harm to the narrator.

Narrator yet again telling fortunato to turn back

This limit clause won't go away even if the user types more than 2 letters, though.

Is there a way to define a debounce timer?

Neoliberalism is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism. The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is often used pejoratively. (Wiki)

Very similar to the circumstances of the Dudley Triangle.

Without AI being set up properly it could set up any of these institutions up for failure, but if it is then it could have a enterprise-wide impact.

It is already having an increasing affect in Productivity and more specifically in the organization field.

These industries are realizing that there are more positives in adding AI and how AI could positively increase their productivity and numbers.

able to increase productivity.

This shows how AI isn't just a quick fix and something to instantly get you results rather you have to work on it so then it could be more productive in the long run.

It seems to already having a positive affect on the banking community

This shows the massive impact AI is having and how much money is being made because of it and provides facts how it has increased from 2.8 to 4.7%

big reward shaping

All these little optimizations in the implementation of PPO have a big impact on it's performance.

The column has been changed from variable to variable_unified and from description to description_unified

The new data includes 10 elements instead of 8. To align them first create variable_list <- tbi$metaData_variables and values_list <- tbi$metaData_values before deleting the two additional elements tbi<- tbi[1:8]

This article angers me far beyond what it should. It is supposed to be a call to action for society to stop treating introverts like they're inferior. As an introvert myself I feel belittled reading this. Like I'm the victim and that it is a negative trait to be an introvert. While it's supposed to be a positive trait according to the article (Oh look, I'm introverted and that makes me a GREAT leader). All it does is just list the author's problems with being an introvert, but all of what she did list is barely traits of being an introvert, it's traits of being a coward with no self-confidence and a victim complex. Being an introvert or an extrovert is neither good nor bad, it's just what it is.

this shows how the way she is labelled doesnt define her. The outside appeance isnt always what is true on the inside

the effect of the label of being shy on the author

diction and perspective: shows how the other peoples opinions affect how the author views herself

Nice point

The Tirukkuṟaḷ, a Tamil text from the "Global South" that is at least 1500 year old, contains "narratives of 'hard work'". The idea that this is somehow a Global North concept is woefully ignorant.

Couplet 620:

Who strive with undismayed, unfaltering mind, At length shall leave opposing fate behind.

Miles, 1905 uses an arrow symbol with a hash on it to indicate a "connecting link between two Sentences or Paragraphs, etc."

It's certainly an early example of what we would now consider a hyperlink. It actively uses a "pointer" in it's incarnation.

Are there earlier examples of these sorts of idea links in the historical record? Surely there were circles and arrows on a contiguous page, but what about links from one place to separate places (possibly using page numbers?) Indexing methods from 11/12C certainly acted as explicit sorts of pointers.

When was the use of the caret first made for indicating the insertion of material?

Eustace Miles has an example from 1905.

Eustace Miles suggests the use of "special marks on cards" (annotations) in the top left corners, though he doesn't provide specific examples of how they might be used in practice. He does mention "The Abbreviations and Marks need be clear only to the Writer [sic] himself. They save ever so much time."

• "X": As contrasted with—
• "Q": Quotation
• Black triangle in corner: important
• Arrow pointing to corner of card: As compared with
• Angled parallel lines in the bottom right corner of card: End of Paragraph (or Chapter).
• Arrow pointing to the corner of card with hash mark: Connecting Link between two Sentences or Paragraphs, etc.
• Upside down V (or caret): An omission, e.g. to be filled in afterwards
• ?: A doubtful point

In Miles' visual examples of cards, he presents them in portrait (rather than landscape) orientation.

This goes against the broad grain of most standard card index filing systems of the time, but may be more in line with the earlier French use of playing cards orientation.

His portrait orientation also matches with the size ratios seen in his Card-Tray suggestion on p187. https://hypothes.is/a/llEgpIf4Ee-dVfcaIGUryQ

He's repeating (and thus emphasizing) the admonition that a card system is not expensive, particularly in relation to the savings in time and effort.

Miles suggests using a Card-Tray (in 1899) with various compartments and potentially an open top rather than some of the individual trays or card index boxes which may have been more ubiquitous

This shows a slight difference at the time in how an individual would use one of these in writing versus how a business might use them in drawers of 1, 2, 3 or cabinets with many more.

The image he shows seems more reminiscent of a 5x3" library charging tray than of some of the business filing appliances of the day and the decade following.

very similar to the self-made version at https://hypothes.is/a/DHU_-If6Ee-mGieKOjg8ZQ

Miles goes against the grain of using "cards of equal size", but does so to emphasize the affordance of using them for "Arrangement and Clearness".

Miles admits that one can use both sides of index cards in a card system, but primarily because he's writing at a time (1899) when, although paper is cheap (which he mentions earlier), some people may have an objection to the system's use due to the expense, which he places at the top of his list of objections. (And he does this in a book in which he emphasizes multiple times the ideas of selection and ordering!)

Miles lists the following objections: - expense - inconvenience - unusual (new, novel)

Notice that he starts not with benefits or affordances, but with the objections.

What would a 2024 list of objections look like? - anachronism - harder than digital methods - lack of easier search - complexity - ... others?

Miles' uses the ubiquity of card systems (even at the writing in 1899, prior to publication) within business as evidence for bolstering their use in writing and composition.

(Recall that he's also writing in the UK.)

Interesting to see a mention of Alphonse Loisette here!

But also nice to see the concept of linking ideas and association (associative memory) pop up here in the context of note making, writing, and creating card systems.

This book was finally published in 1905. The introduction was written in 1899 and the mentioned Feb 1900 publication of How to Remember didn't happen until 1901.

Miles, Eustace Hamilton. How to Remember: Without Memory Systems or with Them. Frederick Warne & Co., 1901.

writing and waiting is useful in many instances, and particularly for clarity of expression.

see also: <br /> - angry letter https://hypothes.is/a/6OoqHofyEe-1mtOohGA63w - diffuse thinking<br /> - typewriter (waiting) <br /> - editing (waiting) https://hypothes.is/a/VxRNeofvEe-5n1dpCEM48Q

Recall: Abraham Lincoln's angry letter - put it in a drawer

Using a card system, particularly while travelling, can help to more efficiently use one's time in preventing idleness while travelling and waiting.

Compare this with the reference in @Kimmerer2013 about responsibility to the tree and not wasting paper: https://hypothes.is/a/pvQ_4ofxEe-NfSOv5wMFGw

where is the balance?

This shows that people don't like slaves so much that they don't want them to have a family and they can do anything to their slaves like they own the slaves which is very cruel.

This just shows the amount of hate for people with a darker skin color which is just completely un human.

Even though slavery ended this quote is explaining that the effects of slavery was racism which was never ending or it would take a very long time to end.

This quote shows how the African slaves were treated especially with their children which were separated away from them and sold to other people to work or one day become another slave and those kids would not know anything about them or their families.

This last section maybe a good solution to the issue of loot box addiction.

Both problem gambling and financial consequences are a good aspect to look at the issue of online gambling and loot boxes.

Helps strengthens the previous claim of lonely individuals being vulnerable to loot boxes.

The connection between loot boxes and indebtedness may be indirect. However, researching further in problem gambling may produce help claims that strength the research question.

Need to find further studies for after the pandemic but this can be a good baseline on how individuals can be affected by the 'predatory monetization schemes' as previously mentioned in the journal.

This overall feeling of indebtness can help strength the claim of the similarity of hopelessness that gambling produces to what loot boxes produce.

Potentially looking for cases of severe loot box addictions can help improve the claim of how these loot boxes mask the true nature of online gambling.

Good to further look into as these 'predatory monetization schemes' could be a point to bring up in how these loot boxes can change the perception of online gambling by posing as a lighter form of online gambling in a way?

The term gambling-like activity can be key in placing loot boxes as an activity closely linked to gambling.

Good point to bring up in the dangers of gambling.

Potentially a good angle to describe the individuals that might be the most vulnerable to loot boxes and online gambling in general.

These studies would be helpful in strengthening the claim on how those how are mentally struggling are the most vulnerable. These studies can also supplement the potentially connection to how loot box purchasing can have adverse affects on mental health. However, this claim will require additional research using multiple sources and studies.

Good definition for what a loot box is. Also helps present the loot box as a form of in-game purchase based on luck.

Strong point that be used as an argument on why loot boxes can hurt individuals with its similarities to gambling. This can also help show how loot boxes promote a form of online gambling.

Hello there, folks.

Thanks once again for joining.

Now that we've got a little bit of an understanding of what problem cloud is solving, let's actually go ahead and define it.

So what we'll talk about is technology on tap, a common phrase that you might have heard about when talking about cloud.

What is it and why would we say that?

Then what we're actually going to do is walk through the NIST definition of cloud.

So there are five key properties that the National Institute of Standards and Technology does use to determine whether or not something is cloud.

So we'll walk through that.

So we've got a good understanding of what cloud is and what cloud is not.

So first things first, technology on tap.

Why would we refer to cloud as technology on tap?

Well, let's have a think about the taps we do know about.

When you want access to water, if you're lucky enough to have access to a nice and easy supply of water, all you really need to do is turn on your tap and get access to as little or as much water as you want.

You can turn that on and off as you require.

Now, we know that that's easy for us.

All we have to worry about is the tap and paying the bill for the amount of water that we consume.

But what we don't really have to worry about is everything that goes in behind the scenes.

So the treatment of the water to bring it up to drinking standards, the actual storage of that treated water, and then the transportation of that through the piping network to actually get to our tap.

All of that is managed for us.

We don't need to really worry about what happens behind the scenes.

All we do is focus on that tap.

We turn it on if we want more.

We turn it off when we are finished.

We only pay for what we consume.

So you might be able to see where I'm going with this.

This is exactly what we are talking about with cloud.

With cloud, however, it's not water that we're getting access to, it is technology.

So if we want access to technology, we use the cloud.

We push some buttons, we click on an interface, we use whatever tool we require, and we get access to those servers, that storage, that database, whatever it might be that we require in the cloud.

Now again, behind the scenes, we don't have to worry about the data centers that host all of this technology, all of these services that we want access to.

We don't worry about the physical infrastructure, the hosting infrastructure, the storage, all the different bits and pieces that actually get that technology to us, we don't need to worry about.

And how does it get to us?

How is it available all across the globe?

Well, we don't need to worry about that connectivity and delivery as well.

All of this behind the scenes when we use cloud is managed for us.

All we have to worry about is turning on or off services as we require.

And this is why you can hear cloud being referred to as technology on tap, because it is very similar to the water utility service.

Utility service is another name you might hear cloud being referred to, because it's like water or electricity.

Cloud are like these utility services where you don't have to worry about all the infrastructure behind the scenes.

You just worry about the thing that you want access to.

And really importantly, you only have to pay for what you use.

You turn it on if you need it, you turn it on if you don't, you create things when you need them, delete them when you don't, and you only pay for those services when you have them, even though they are constantly available at your fingertips.

Now, compare this to the scenario we walked through earlier.

Traditionally, we would have to buy all of the infrastructure, have it sitting there idly, even if we weren't using it, we would still have had to pay for it, set it up, power it and keep it all running.

So this is a high level of what we are talking about with cloud.

Easy access to servers when you need them, turn them off when you don't, don't worry about all that infrastructure behind the scenes.

But that's a high level definition.

So let's now walk through what the NIST use as the key properties to define cloud.

One of the first properties you can use to understand whether something is or is not cloud is understanding whether or not it provides you on demand self service access, where you can easily go ahead and get that technology without even having to talk to humans.

So what do I really mean by that?

Well, let's say you're a cloud administrator, you want to go ahead and access some resources in the cloud.

Now, if you do want access to some services, some data, some storage and application, whatever it might be, while you're probably going to have some sort of admin interface that you can use, whether that's a command line tool or some sort of graphical user interface, you can easily use that to turn on any of the services that you need, web applications, data, storage, compute and much, much more.

And you don't have to go ahead, talk to another human, procure all of the infrastructure that runs behind the scenes.

You use your tool, it is self service, it is on demand, create it when you want it, delete it when you don't.

So that's on demand self service access and one of the key properties of the cloud.

Next, what I want to talk to you about is broad network access.

Now, this is where we're just saying, if something is cloud, it should be easy for you to access through standard capabilities.

So for example, if we are the cloud administrator, it's pretty common when you're working with technology to expect that you would have command line tools, web based tools and so on.

But even when we're not talking about cloud administrators and we're actually talking about the end users, maybe for example, accessing storage, it should be easy for them to do so through standard tools as well, such as a desktop application, a web browser or something similar.

Or maybe you've gone ahead and deployed a reporting solution in the cloud, like we spoke of in the previous lesson.

Well, you would commonly expect for that sort of solution that maybe there's also a mobile application to go and access all of that reporting data.

The key point here is that if you are using cloud, it is expected that all of the common standard sorts of accessibility options are available to you, public access, private access, desktop applications, mobile applications and so on.

So if that's what cloud is and how we access it, where actually is it?

That's a really important part of the definition of cloud.

And that's where we're referring to resource pooling, this idea that you don't really know exactly where the cloud is that you are going to access.

So let's say for example, you've got your Aussie Mart company.

If they want to deploy their solution to be available across the globe, well, it should be pretty easy for them to actually go ahead and do that.

Now, we don't know necessarily where that is.

We can get access to it.

We might say, I want my solution available in Australia East for example, or Europe or India or maybe central US for example.

All of these refer to general locations where we want to deploy our services.

When you use cloud, you are not going to go ahead and say, I want one server and I want it deployed to the data center at 123 data center street.

Okay, you don't know the physical address exactly or at least you shouldn't really have to.

All you need to know about is generally where you are going to go and deploy that.

Now, you will also see that for most cloud providers, you've got that global access in terms of all the different locations you can deploy to.

And really importantly, in terms of all of these pooled resources, understand that it's not just for you to use.

There will be other customers all across the globe who are using that as well.

So when you're using cloud, there are lots of resources.

They might be in lots of different physical locations and lots of different physical infrastructure and in use by lots of different customers.

And you don't really need to worry about that or know too much about it.

Another really important property of the cloud is something referred to as rapid elasticity.

Now elasticity is the idea that you can easily get access to more or less resources.

And when you work with cloud, you're actually going to commonly hear this being referred to as scaling out and in rather than just scaling up and down.

So what do I mean by that?

Well, let's say we've got our users that need to access our Aussie Mart store.

We might decide to use cloud to host our Aussie Mart web application.

And perhaps that's hosted on a server and a database.

Now, when that application gets really busy, for example, if we have lots of different users going to access it at the same time, we might want to scale out to meet demand.

That is to say, rather than having one server that hosts our web application, we might actually have three.

And if that demand for our application decreases, we might actually go ahead and decrease the underlying resources that power it as well.

What we are talking about here is scaling in and out by adding or decreasing the number of resources that host our application.

This is different from the traditional approach to scalability, where what we would normally do is just add CPU or add memory, for example.

We would increase the size of one individual resource that was hosting our solution.

So that's just elasticity at a high level and it's a really key property of cloud.

Now, we'll just say here that if you are worried about how that actually works behind the scenes in terms of how you host that application across duplicate resources, how you provide connectivity to that, that's all outside the scope of this beginners course, but it's definitely covered in other content as well.

So when you're using cloud, you get easy access to scale in and out and you should never feel like there are not enough resources to meet your demand.

To you, it should just feel like if you want a hundred servers, for example, then you can easily get a hundred servers.

All right, now the last property of cloud that I want to talk to you about is that of measuring service.

When we're talking about measuring service, what we're talking about is the idea that if you are using cloud to host your solutions, it should be really easy for you to go and say, I know what this is costing, I know where my resources are, how they are performing and whether there are any issues and I can control the types of resources and the configuration that I use that I'm going to deploy.

So for example, it should be easy for you to say, how much is it going to cost me for five gigabytes of storage?

What does my bill look like currently and what am I forecasted to be using over the remainder of the month?

Or maybe you want to say that certain services should not be allowed to be deployed across all regions.

Yes, cloud can be accessed across the globe, but maybe your organization only works in one part of a specific country and that's the only location you should be able to use.

These are the standard notions of measuring and controlling service and it's really common to all of the cloud providers.

All right, everybody.

So now you've got an understanding of what cloud is and how you can define it.

If you'd like to see more about this definition from the NIST, then be sure to check out the link that I've included for this lesson.

So thanks for joining me, folks.

I'll see you in the next lesson.

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Let's review these other studies as well.

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This would imply improved equanimity, but perhaps not long term focus improvement.

This particular study seems to show that the change in focus efficiency was actually better in the control group than the experiment group.

Hey there everybody, thanks for joining.

It's great to have you with me in this lesson where we're going to talk about why cloud matters.

Now to help answer that question, what I want to do firstly is talk to you about the traditional IT infrastructure.

How did we used to do things?

What sort of challenges and issues did we face?

And therefore we'll get a better understanding of what cloud is actually doing to help.

We can look at how things used to be and how things are now.

So what we're going to do throughout this lesson is walk through a little bit of a scenario with a fictitious company called Ozzymart.

So let's go ahead now, jump in and have a chat about the issues that they're currently facing.

Ozzymart is a fictitious company that works across the globe selling a range of different Australia related paraphernalia.

Maybe stuffed toys for kangaroos, koalas and that sort of thing.

Now they've currently got several different applications that they use that they provide access to for their users.

And currently the Ozzymart team do not use the cloud.

So when we have a look at the infrastructure hosting these applications, we'll learn that Ozzymart have a couple of servers, one server for each of the applications that they've got configured.

Now the Ozzymart IT team have had to have gone and set up these servers with windows, the applications and all the different data that they need for these applications to work.

And what it's also important to understand about the Ozzymart infrastructure is all of this is currently hosted on their on-premises customer managed infrastructure.

So yes, the Ozzymart team could have gone out and maybe used a data center provider.

But the key point here is that the Ozzymart IT team have had to set up servers, operating systems, applications and a range of other infrastructure to support all of this storage, networking, power, cooling.

Okay, these are the sorts of things that we have to manage traditionally before we were able to use cloud.

Now to help understand what sort of challenges that might introduce, let's walk through a scenario.

We're going to say that the Ozzymart CEO has gone and identified the need for reporting to be performed across these two applications.

And the CEO wants those reports to be up and ready by the end of this month.

Let's say that's only a week away.

So the CEO has instructed the finance manager and the finance manager has said, "Hey, awesome.

You know what?

I've found this great app out there on the internet called Reports For You.

We can buy it, download it and install it.

I'm going to go tell the IT team to get this up and running straight away."

So this might sound a little bit familiar to some of you who have worked in traditional IT where sometimes demands can come from the top of the organization and they filter down with really tight timelines.

So let's say for example, the finance manager is going to go along, talk to the IT team and say, "We need this Reports For You application set up by the end of month."

Now the IT team might be a little bit scared because, hey, when we look at the infrastructure we've got, it's supporting those two servers and applications okay, but maybe we don't have much more space.

Maybe we don't have enough storage.

Maybe we are using something like virtualization.

So we might not need to buy a brand new physical server and we can run up a virtual Windows server for the Reports For You application.

But there might just not be enough resources in general.

CPU, memory, storage, whatever it might be to be able to meet the demands of this Reports For You application.

But you've got a timeline.

So you go ahead, you get that server up and running.

You install the applications, the operating system data, all there as quickly as you can to meet these timelines that you've been given by the finance manager.

Now maybe it's not the best server that you've ever built.

It might be a little bit rushed and a little bit squished, but you've managed to get that server up and running with the Reports For You application and you've been able to meet those timelines and provide access to your users.

Now let's say that you've given access to your users for this Reports For You application.

Now let's say when they start that monthly reporting job, the Reports For You application needs to talk to the data across your other two applications, the Aussie Mart Store and the Aussie Mart Comply application.

And it's going to use that data to perform the reporting that the CEO has requested.

So you kick off this report job on a Friday.

You hope that it's going to be complete on a Saturday, but maybe it's not.

You check again on a Sunday and things are starting to get a little bit scary.

And uh-oh, Monday rolls around, the Reports For You report is still running.

It has not yet complete.

And that might not be so great because you don't have a lot of resources on-premises.

And now all of your applications are starting to perform really poorly.

So that Reports For You application is still running.

It's still trying to read data from those other two applications.

And maybe they're getting really, really slow and let's hope not, but maybe the applications even go off entirely.

Now those users are going to become pretty angry.

You're going to get a lot of calls to the help desk saying that things are offline.

And you're probably going to have the finance manager and every other manager reaching out to you saying, this needs to be fixed now.

So let's say you managed to push through, perhaps through the rest of Monday, and that report finally finishes.

You clearly need more resources to be able to run this report much more quickly at the end of each month so that you don't have angry users.

So what are you going to do to fix this for the next month when you need to run the report again?

Well, you might have a think about ordering some new software and hardware because you clearly don't have enough hardware on-premises right now.

You're going to have to wait some time for all of that to be delivered.

And then you're going to have to physically and store it, set it up, get it running, and make sure that you've got everything you need for reports for you to be running with more CPU and resources next time.

There's a lot of different work that you need to do.

This is one of the traditional IT challenges that we might face when the business has demands and expectations for things to happen quickly.

And it's not really necessarily the CEO or the finance manager's fault.

They are focused on what the business needs.

And when you work in the technology teams, you need to do what you can to support them so that the business can succeed.

So how might we do that a little bit differently with cloud?

Well, with cloud, we could sign up for a cloud provider, we could turn on and off servers as needed, and we could scale up and scale down, scale in and scale out resources, all to meet those demands on a monthly basis.

So that could be a lot less work to do and it could certainly provide you the ability to respond much more quickly to the demands that come from the business.

And rather than having to go out and buy all of this new infrastructure that you are only going to use once a month, well, as we're going to learn throughout this course, one of the many benefits of cloud is that you can turn things on and off really quickly and only pay for what you need.

So what might this look like with cloud?

Well, with cloud, what we might do is no longer have that on-premises rushed server that we were using for reports for you.

Instead of that, we can go out to a public cloud provider like AWS, GCP or hopefully Azure, and you can set up those servers once again using a range of different features, products that are all available through the various public cloud providers.

Now, yes, in this scenario, we are still talking about setting up a server.

So that is going to take you some time to configure Windows, set up the application, all of the data and configuration that you require, but at least you don't need to worry about the actual physical infrastructure that is supporting that server.

You don't have to go out, talk to your procurement team, talk to a different providers, wait for different physical infrastructure to be delivered and licensing and software and other assets.

With cloud, as we will learn, you can really quickly get online and up and running.

And also, if we had that need to ensure that the reports for you application was running with lots of different resources at the end of the month, it's much easier when we use cloud to just go and turn some servers on and then maybe turn them off at the end of the month when they are no longer acquired.

This is the sort of thing that we are talking about with cloud.

We're only really just touching on the service about what cloud can do and what cloud actually is.

But my hope is that through this lesson, you can understand how cloud changes things.

Cloud allows us to work with technology in a much different way than we traditionally would work with our on-premises infrastructure.

Another example that shows how cloud is different is that rather than using the reports for you application, what we might in fact actually choose to do is go to a public cloud provider and go to someone that actually has a equivalent reports for you solution that's entirely built in the cloud ready to go.

In this way, not only do we no longer have to manage the underlying physical infrastructure, we don't actually have to manage the application software installation, configuration, and all of that service setup.

With something like a reporting software that's built in the cloud, we would just provide access to our users and only have to pay on a per user basis.

So if you've used something like zoom for meetings or Dropbox for data sharing, that's the sort of solution we're talking about.

So if we consider this scenario for Aussie Mart, we have a think about the benefits that they might access when they use the cloud.

Well, we can much more quickly get access to resources to respond to demand.

If we need to have a lot of different compute capacity working at the end of the month with cloud, like you'll learn, we can easily get access to that.

If we wanted to add lots of users, we could do that much more simply as well.

And something that the finance manager might really be happy about in this scenario is that we aren't going to go back and suggest to them that we need to buy a whole heap of new physical infrastructure right now.

When we think about traditionally how Aussie Mart would have worked with this scenario, they would have to go and buy some new physical servers, resources, storage, networking, whatever that might be, to meet the needs of this reports for you application.

And really, they're probably going to have to strike a balance between having enough infrastructure to ensure that the reports for you application completes its job quickly and not buying too much infrastructure that's just going to be sitting there unused whilst the reports for you application is not working.

And really importantly, when we go to cloud, we see this difference as not having to buy lots of physical infrastructure upfront as being referred to as capital expenditure versus operational expenditure.

Really, what we're just saying here is rather than spending a whole big lump sum all at once to get what you need, you can just pay on a monthly basis for what you need when you need it.

And finally, one of the other benefits that you'll also see is that we're getting a reduction in the amount of different tasks that we have to complete in terms of IT administration, set up of operating systems, management of physical infrastructure, what the procurement team has to manage, and so on.

Again, right now we're just talking really high level about a fictitious scenario for Aussie Mart to help you to understand the types of things and the types of benefits that we can get access to for cloud.

So hopefully if you're embarking on a cloud journey, you're gonna have a happy finance manager, CEO, and other team members that you're working with as well.

Okay, everybody, so that's a wrap to this lesson on why cloud matters.

As I've said, we're really only just scratching the surface.

This is just to introduce you to a scenario that can help you to understand the types of benefits we get access to with cloud.

As we move throughout this course, we'll progressively dive deeper in terms of what cloud is, how you define it, the features you get access to, and other common concepts and terms.

So thanks for joining me, I'll see you there.

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