GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

Right, and for me, turning a to-do list into a get-to-do list


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

is something simple I can do and it's simple like mind hack


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

that I can, I don't know, think of these tasks and instead of being a burden,


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

like that I have to do all these things in a day,


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

I get to do all these things in a day.


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

So, I don't know, for me that seems like a simple thing that I can do


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

to sort of change my point of view and make like how-to-do lists


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

rather than be anxiety caused, be like, make me excited, right?


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

Make me excited to get to do them.


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

So that's a challenge, try it out, instead of having a to-do list


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

for the next, let's say day or week or whatever, make a get-to-do list.


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

Or think of something that you think you have to do


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

and change it to a I get-to-do list.


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

So, I don't know, a bill comes through, registration for my car comes through,


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

so rather than have to pay that, I get to pay that because I get to use my car.


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

I don't know, you could go so extreme on this, it doesn't matter,


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

but I thought it was cool.


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That's going to be the end of episode 107.


GET-TO vs. HAVE-TO

Thank you so much for watching, thank you so much for listening.


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If you want to check out my monthly newsletter, it's available on my website,


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mrdevoe.com, little sign up box on there.


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Otherwise, all my social media handles are at mrdevoe.com.


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Otherwise, we'll catch you next Friday and it may be an episode on Ray Dalio.


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If not, I'll work something out by then.


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What Is Neuralink??! - TDBS 22 April 2017

What is going on everyone? Welcome back to day 81 of the Daniel Burke Show.


This is a new experience for me. I'm standing up and doing this live show on YouTube.


Well not live, but I'm recording it live and doing this podcast here.


Usually I do it in my car and I'm not doing it in my car today because it's in the sun.


Let me show you. Check this out. If you're watching on YouTube you can see all this.


That's in the sun. Now that's way too hot. So I'm going to test myself and see what it's like standing up.


I haven't done one of these shows standing up before. I've still got my trusty resource here.


Podcast is recording on the bench so don't worry if you're listening to the podcast you'll get the majority of this show.


Oh, here's my makeshift camera stand. Just a whole bunch of books.


Check all of these out by the way. Screenshot all that.


Alright, so...


Why am I in gym gear? Well I'm going to go for a run after this. It's a beautiful day outside as you saw the sun before.


It's April 22nd, 2017 and we're at day 81 of the Daniel Burke Show.


Thank you so much for tuning in. Whatever you're doing I hope you're having an awesome day.


So what I've been up to. So this morning I spent about three hours reading an article by...


I can't remember his name but it's the blog called Wait But Why.


And he wrote an article very in-depth. It was about 38,000 words.


And it took me about three plus hours to read it.


I woke up this morning at about 5.30am with all intentions of going to the coast with my little brother and friend.


And going to the beach. But didn't. And because it was raining.


And so I spent this morning reading it as well as some last night as well as probably the majority of the morning.


This morning actually reading it all. I fell back asleep and woke up at like 9.30am.


But phenomenal article. I'll link it in both descriptions on the podcast and on the YouTube video.


But what was it about? So essentially Elon Musk has started a company called Neuralink.


N-E-U-R-A-L-I-N-K. And you can find out a bit more by going to Neuralink.com.


I'll link that in the description. And what the company...


He's putting together an elaborate team of some of the smartest people in the world.


I don't know their names off by heart. But in the article it goes through some of these people.


And what they've done in the past and what they're doing.


Most of them are professors, like tenured professors from universities.


And Elon's managed to drag them out of their tenured positions.


Which is a big thing if you're at a university and you're a tenured professor.


It essentially means you're guaranteed employment there for the rest of your life if you want to.


But he's dragged them out and obviously not dragged them out against their will.


Because they're working for Neuralink now. And what's the goal of Neuralink?


Well, the article does a much better job at summing it up than what I'll ever be able to do.


But essentially what they want to do is find out a way to link the human brain


with a super powerful or super intelligent artificial intelligence.


Because what Elon's afraid of and what a lot of people are afraid of.


And you've probably heard me talk about this in the past a lot.


Is artificial intelligence taking over humans and just going...


Humans, we don't need you anymore. We're smart enough, we're machines, we're computers.


We can live on our own and we don't need you anymore.


So effectively there's a possibility of humans becoming like pets.


A human race could become like house cats to some sort of super intelligence.


And house cat is actually a good scenario if that happens.


Rather than them wiping us all out.


But that's what Elon Musk wants to do with Neuralink.


Instead of AI taking over, he wants to find a way for us to merge


the super artificial intelligence, so like a computer, with the brain.


And his timeline for doing this, he said, he quoted himself in the article.


The guy from Wait by Why has done an amazing job by the way.


He's spent countless hours interviewing and you can tell how much depth he's gone into


by writing this article.


38,000 words. It took me a long time to read it.


There's beautiful pictures, hand-drawn pictures, diagrams, interviews with the top people in the world


with this new... I don't know. New market essentially.


Well not a market but this innovative space. A phenomenally innovative space.


So it might be the last frontier.


Where we are right now in this period of time is a phenomenal period of time.


We're in the century where we may be well able to communicate with any other human being.


Well we already can communicate with any other human being on the planet.


But without using any medium.


Without using... Right now we need an external device to be able to communicate with someone across the planet.


But if that device was implanted in our brain, and this sounds a whole lot of matrix stuff


and I'm... Read the full article if you want a better description of what I'm doing right now.


But imagine that. Say your best friend's climbing a mountain right now.


400 kilometres from you.


And they say, hey check out this mountain.


And you can tap into their senses and you can see the mountain from their point of view.


You can feel the wind. You can hear the birds chirping.


That's the big picture. That's way down the track.


But Elon's timeline for doing something like this, for bringing it to the market is 8 to 10 years.


Some of the top people working with him are saying, or maybe not. Maybe 15 to 20.


Maybe 50 years, if that. Maybe longer, who knows.


It really depends on whether the engineers can get the tech ready.


Elon wants to make it consumerly available to the public, right?


Because if you imagine this piece of technology, if you can link your brain with a super artificial intelligence,


that's essentially a superpower.


If that gets into the wrong hands, well then who knows what they could use it for, right?


So if it's available, universally available, that's why he's got his company as well, OpenAI.


If you've ever heard of that. If not, check that out as well.


Which is a research company behind artificial... Well, that research is artificial intelligence


and they publish all their findings because the idea is that if everyone has access to it,


it won't get... Even if it does get into the hands of someone who wants to do no good,


doing no good with super intelligence against a whole bunch of people who want to do good with super intelligence,


it's an even playing field. It's not as if someone, one person has the superpower.


Everyone has a superpower, like today, right?


The internet does wonders for ISIS, but everyone has the internet.


So if they had the internet and no one else did, well then maybe they'll be more of a superpower.


So that's an article that inspired me.


I'm learning deep learning and machine learning right now, which is a subset of AI.


And I'm absolutely loving it. The stuff that's going on in the world today,


especially what Wake But Why talks about in that article, is absolutely amazing.


You should definitely check it out. I'll make sure I link it in the podcast and in the YouTube video.


But what else? Oh yeah, today I started reading some books on machine learning,


just to gain more of a basic understanding of it.


I've reached a point in this course that I'm doing that I'm having a little bit of trouble with


and I decided, well, maybe I need to start getting more of a fundamental knowledge


because I've only really started programming this year.


But nonetheless, I'm loving it a lot. Reading that article really inspired me to keep going.


And actually, here's a big point. I was writing today, the 750 words that I do every day,


and I came across a point in the writing where my body moved.


I watched as if when I was typing, I typed something and I was like, wow, that is an incredible idea.


Then my body moved and I ran around the room. I was jumping around the room,


getting excited at this idea I just typed down. And that's what I believe you have to pay attention to.


You ever notice when you're having a conversation with someone and they say something


and all of a sudden your body moves? Or if you say something and then your body moves,


or if their body moves after you said something, like when you move around, right?


You could have a conversation and no one's moving.


But when someone moves, like if they're sitting down and then all of a sudden they burst out in laughter,


well, then you've said something really funny.


Or the same goes if you've said something like, brought up an idea in a conversation,


and someone goes, wow, that's a good idea, or their mind blows.


Then that's when you know you're onto something. So I read it in the past.


It's that when your body moves, you know you're onto something.


So I guess that's why when I'm in the gym and talking to friends,


and we have all these crazy ideas because our body is constantly moving, who knows?


But yeah, when I was writing, I made sure, because I write in this document that sort of gets archived every time you finish,


I copied out the stuff that made me move, and I'm going to review that in a couple of days


and see if it still excites me how it did when I first typed it out.


But that's a piece of advice. So when you're speaking or when you're writing down something that I found,


if it's a profound idea or if it's some sort of magical insight, if it makes your body move, then,


I don't know, think about it more. Just dig deeper on that point.


All right, what else? Oh, lastly, it's my brother's formal tonight.


My littlest brother. He's already in the final year of high school.


It goes so fast. I remember when my formal was, and now I'm his oldest brother.


We're eight years different, and he's got his formal tonight. So I'm excited for that.


I'm going to go do a workout after this and then get dressed, take some photos of him and his friends.


And yeah, driving one of my friends, one of my good friends, Neji.


He's been on the podcast before and been on the YouTube channel.


You've probably seen him in the background. But he's got a pretty cool car.


So we're going to pick him up in that and drive him.


You'll probably see some photos on it if you follow me on Instagram at mrdburke.


But nonetheless, oh wait, what's today's challenge? Today's challenge is...


Hmm... Read some of the article I link in the description.


So even if it's five minutes, 10 minutes or whatever, or one minute,


just scroll through it, find someone that you think might interest you.


Because I think this is a profound technology that is definitely going to,


if it comes off within the next couple of decades, it's going to influence everyone's lives.


And I highly recommend reading into it because some of the best,


the smartest minds in the world are working behind this right now.


And if it's going to be universally available, hey, you might as well get a jumpstart and learn about it now.


But nonetheless, whatever you're up to, have an awesome day.


Tell someone you love them and tomorrow is day 82.


OpenAI's DALL-E explained. How GPT-3 creates images from descriptions.

Hello! Did you hear about Dal E? No, not WALL E. DAL E. No, not the human painter. The transformer-based


AI painter. Twitter exploded again, because OpenAI's new image generation model called


Dal E was announced. So here we are, trying to figure out how cool it is and how this could


happen. Image generation was already spectacular, with dedicated models used for rendering people.


There were also models for rendering animals from textual input. But the difficulty was to


generate these kinds of images from text, when the text combines concepts and the image has to produce


plausible combinations of these concepts. So OpenAI looked down upon the world, decided to stop


resting after publishing the great GPT-3 and quickly solved the problem of image generation


from text too. Yes, just like that, Dal E was born. And OpenAI rested the next day. Oh no,


they should not rest, because they still have a paper to write about Dal E. And of course we do


not have access to the model, so we only have OpenAI's blog posts to look at. But the situation


is not new, they did the same as GPT-3. Perhaps again a multi-dollar company will buy exclusive


rights to the model and we will never see it again. Okay, Ms. Coffee Bean, we were cynical enough.


So here it is, Dal E creates images that combine unrelated concepts in plausible ways. Check.


It can also generate storefront text. I have never seen anything like this, did you? Let us know in


the comments if you did. Dal E can do also style transfer by a text prompt. So it can modify the


style of an image following a textual description of the desired output. Wow, how crazy is this? Okay,


enough showing off. What is this model and how can it work? Dal E is, I cite, a 12 billion


parameter version of GPT-3, trained to generate images from textual descriptions. Oh, that


explains everything. No, it does not. GPT-3 looked at text, not at images. What do images and text


have in common? Ms. Coffee Bean has a variety of videos on this, trying to explain that images


and text are not that different kinds of input for a transformer that usually works on sets. As long


as both images and texts are regarded somehow as sequences or elements in a set, everything works


again. There have been some kinds of image sequentialization approaches in the literature,


but it is safe to assume that OpenAI stuck to their approach from image GPT, where they


sequentialize the image row by row into a 1D vector. So now that we know how images can be


sequences, we are ready to know how Dal E is basically GPT-3 also looking at images. Dal E


is also a language model that receives both text tokens and sequentialized images as input up to


1280 tokens. Why is the sequence length limited to this number? Because attention scales


quadratically and increasing the input size can really blow up computational time. Then,


like in language modeling, the goal is to predict one token after the next. Text tokens are words


or subwords and image tokens are image pixel values. This also means that Dal E does not only


generate images from text, but can also continue images if the beginning of the image is already


in the prompt following the text. So that was it for the technical details. Okay, but why does it


work? Why did the image generation problems need a specific GAN or VAE architecture to solve the


problem only partially and now a transformer-based model can do it all? Well, because of the


formidable amount of training data. How much data was used exactly, we don't know, but it must have


been the whole internet, like OpenAI also did with GPT-3. And things that were not possible


with academic-sized datasets have now become feasible with a model that has seen it all.


This does not make the Dal E results less impressive, but the creativity that we see


with Dal E has something to do with the variance of the data it has seen. Take this example,


where they visualized perspective and three-dimensionality. Yes, perspective and 3D


looks very good in general, but impressive for Ms. Coffee Bean is how the model knows to make a


capybara from voxels. It becomes clear that something like this is possible only because of


all the Minecraft and other pixel art images that the model had access to. We would never expect


from a style GAN to make something sensible out of the word voxel if it has never seen the voxel


ized images before in the gaming or art area of the internet and has been limited to a benchmark


dataset of celebrity faces only. With enormous data and variance comes great power. Let's look


at more showing off of this power. OpenAI invested a lot of time into this blog post.


Did you ever have trouble imagining a cube made out of porcupine? Well, wait no more, here it is!


Okay, so a cube with the texture of keyboard.


Okay, one can also draw multiple boxes and really tell the model how to render these.


Wow, this is awesome!


These plates are so cute!


And so shimai! Were you making a youtube video but did not have exactly that emoji you were


imagining? Wait no more! Dal E is here to paint it for you! And this is very interesting from


a multimodal perspective that one description can have so many possible outcomes. Wow, this is


amazing! I can play with it the whole day! Remember the image completion example? Well,


one can even change the pose of this bust. Okay, here are some failure cases. Interesting to see,


especially because we don't know if OpenAI was cherry picking in this blog post. We don't know


because we don't have access to the model. And of course the applications are limitless. Do you want


to design a new t-shirt? Just tell Dal E how to draw it and then you have many versions of said


t-shirt on a mannequin, because you introduce the mannequin head with an image prompt and well,


you have here your designed fashion. This has huge industrial applications. And yes, the combination


of unrelated concepts. Wow, I mean this is... is this art? One could ask. It made a snail into a


harp or, you know, it made a harp made of snail. And this can be creativity, one might think.


So it is exactly how they put it. It is a 3D rendering engine via natural language.


You just say what you want Dal E to paint and it paints it. And you can expect the model to


fill in the blanks, which means that you underspecified your rendering instructions


and the model comes up with something. And we cannot tell for sure, but it might just be that


this something that it fills in the blanks with is just the most probable example that it has seen


in the training set, which already opens the Pandora box of bias. In the blog they promise


to investigate the societal impacts and check for biases. Hopefully sooner than later. Until then,


or until they release the model, one can just scroll through this blog indefinitely.


But we really cannot deny it. These are impressive results from Dal E,


bridging the gap between vision and language, stepping into the multimodal realm. Multimodality


is my dearest topic in machine learning. Miss Coffee Bean, what's your favorite topic?


Lala Liddy.


Oh, okay, so you don't want to tell us. Fine. But back to Dal E. However excited I might be


about this, I have to say I am also a little frustrated about all this. Because throwing


the whole data of the internet at a problem solves the problem, rather than clever tricks


and gimmicks presented so far in the multimodality literature, you know, by ordinary mortals,


unlike OpenAI. Especially as a PhD student, one has to take these results, you know,


a little diluted to still feel a little relevant, you know, in this whole system.


But you know, everything is not done yet. Future research will tell us about the real capabilities


and problems that these models bring with them. Also, I really hope that they will keep their


promise and investigate societal impacts and biases. Until then, I will keep scrolling this


blog in awe. Miss Coffee Bean will get back to making another video and, you know, what about you?


BJJ White Belt Competition - How I won my first competition (with commentary)

Hello everyone, Daniel Burke here. I've got my arch nemesis and best friend here.


Hey guys, I'm Dave Layfield.


So what we're going to do today is, well, long story short, we've been doing Jiu Jitsu.


I'm probably going to take these off because that's going to get very annoying very quickly.


But we've been doing Jiu Jitsu for the past year or so. It was actually earlier this month


in 2018, it's 2019 now, that we signed up to our local Jiu Jitsu gym that opened up


down the street, Infinity BJJ Sandgate with Coach Robbie. We had our first session.


And since then we've been basically addicted.


Yeah. It's been a totally new learning curve and I think we're both addicted to the new


challenge. Something shiny comes up and we're like, boom, let's get into it. And surprisingly


for me, I've actually stuck to it for the past year instead of being distracted by something


else that's new. So I think that speaks volumes for how much more I've enjoyed it. I'm sure


you as well.


Yeah. I wrote an article the other day saying some of the life lessons I've learned from


it. A lot of, I think you can get it from almost any difficult physical exercise, but


for some reason Jiu Jitsu has just really spoken to us. We've worked out together for


years beforehand and now doing Jiu Jitsu for the past year, it's just totally changed our


perspective on what we want to do going forward in terms of being physically active, mentally


active because that's all a part of it, right? It's like you're doing, there's a saying,


it's like Jiu Jitsu is high level problem solving with dire consequences. And one of


the beautiful things is it's hard to really worry about small things when you're trying


to prevent someone from choking you out.


Definitely. So over the past year, between all the guys who we sort of started training


with, we've done a couple of competitions and pretty much in recent times, yeah, clackity


clack. In recent times, we've decided to start filming a little bit more of it and probably


start sort of documenting a little bit more is probably the right word for it. So over


the last competition that we did, which was the grappling industries, grappling industries,


yeah, at the Gold Coast in, well, it's pretty much just over a year of all we've been training.


So in October, 2019, we all filmed all of our fights and what we wanted to do today


is film a bit of a video where we sort of watched the fights and just analyze it and


have a bit of a yarn over the top of it. Yeah. So that's what we're going to do. That's pretty


much it. Yeah. Well, important thing to note is I think the progress is being phenomenal


like these look at the end of the day, these are nice to have not mean to have like the


progress is more fun. Just this competition that we're about to show was just one day


like the whole year was more fun, the training leading up to it, etc, etc. But it's kind


of cool to see the progress of what, how much can change in a year. Our first competition


was six weeks after we started up and we lost all our fights. Oh, I won one, you lost. Yeah.


And then since then you've done what two or three more one place on the podium. I remember


after my first competition, I looked at the podium like, wow, that'll be hard. And lo


and behold, after this one, I made it there. So exciting. Yeah. That's enough blathering


from us. Um, we're going to go through the key roles first. I was in the 66 to 70 kilo


division and then we'll go through no gear. How many fights were there in total? I had,


I had 11 roles in total, but we've only recorded 10. So I think four of G and six, no G. Let's


jump in and some of them, some of them aren't from the very start. Like they just stopped


sporadically because my brother was trying to film like four of us competing at the same


time. That was awesome, mate. Thanks. So this first one is no G I mean, sorry. Maybe I'm


still recovering. Maybe we should explain how it starts. Yeah, let's do that. So before


we get into a fight, here's how it starts. All right. So you both basically, uh, you're


waiting for your name to come up on a TV screen and the mats, the let's backtrack a bit. So


all the fights, they're only one round and they go for five minutes. Uh, for anyone,


uh, brown belt and below the black belt matches go for 15. Yeah. I think it increases as your


belt goes up. So we all start, you all start at white belt as your belt goes up, the time


your match goes up as well. So basically the way that you win a role is you win on points.


So for having a dominant position or you win by submission, which is where you get the


opponent to tap because they're in a compromised position where your arm's going to get snapped


off or you get choked and you can't breathe, something like that. With a joint lock or


a choke. Yeah. So basically you'll start the role. The, um, the referee will call you both


forward. You sort of come onto the mat, shake hands to everyone. You know, you sort of etiquette


and then, uh, the ref will shout, shout. Yeah. Five, four, three, two, one. Okay. And we're


back. All right. So we had to fix up some audio here. We just left off saying the ref


is, uh, just said, come back. And so what we've done is we started standing, we've walked


into each other. And now because jujitsu is a ground-based martial art, we're trying to


take each other to the ground. So this little process here, where we're like grabbing each


other's collars is called rip fighting. And see, we just went off the mat there. The fight


area is like that little gray part, that little gray square. So if we go outside of that little


arena, the ref's going to stop it, pull us back into the middle of the mat. Something


else you guys will see is you can kind of tell the rank of your opponent even within,


so you've got just the, you can tell the rank of your opponent by the color of their belts.


Obviously this is a white belt only competition so that you're all sort of similar, uh, skill


level, but within a belt, you've also got rankings and you've got stripes on your belt.


And the more stripes you have, the closer you are to the next rank. If your gym gives


out stripes, not all gyms do, but I think your opponent has four stripes here. So is


it four's the max before you go to the next? Yeah, four dance. So you'll have a white belt


within a stripe. Once you get to four, after you get your next stripe, you go to blue belt.


So what we're doing here is he's got top position at the moment. I'm on the bottom and there


we go. So I'm trying to roll onto the top of him and see here, we went out of bounds.


I just got the good position, but because the ref saw we went out of bounds, we got


reset. And I think because you didn't hold it for a certain amount of time, he'll reset


you standing. Yeah. Yeah. Some, I'm still trying to get my head around some of the reset


rules. I think if you haven't, um, oh, we've got the leg. Beautiful. Haven't kept it for


a long enough period of time and you've been out of bounds, I just reset you standing again


or the previous position. So I think I took him down here again. So basically the point


system, it works off two, two kind of ways to win a match is the point system or the


submission system. Here I was going for the armbar, but he defended that well done. And


now it's getting him in guard. In guard means that I've got him wrapped around, as you can


see. So I'm using my legs to block him from getting to me. The idea there is it's pretty


much, it's, it is a very defensive position because it stops the opponent from being able


to pass and get up and get on top of you. But it also gives you heaps of opportunities


for attacks as well, which is what I'm about to do here. I'm remembering trying to get


this and I'm like, how's his arm? How's he not tapping? Massive. So I didn't have a good


enough grip here, I think. What I'm trying to do is essentially bend his elbow, bend


his arm or shoulder to a point that it hurts. And so he taps for submission. I think what


you had to do there was get your right arm through his arm and grab your wrist. Yeah.


Watching this back, that's probably why. Yeah. I mean, you should have been pushing,


at least you're going to hold those weird sort of grips, you should have been pushing


on his elbow. Yeah. Yeah. Cause that would have been. I needed to figure four my own


arms here. And so we're back to like two ways to win. One is submission or through points.


Points get given basically whoever has the most control. So control would be he's on


top of me, I'm on top of him, I've got his back or he's got my back or something like


that. Or you've got your knee into their belly and you've sort of got them pinned there.


Now here I'm trying to get a baseball choke on. So that means I'm grabbing the collar,


twisting around. It's kind of hard to see in the video, but it looks like he's almost


lying on top of Dan, but actually. Underneath I had my hands around his neck and was trying


to choke him out. But then once I had it on, we get reset again, get taken back to the


middle. Having a breather mate? This is pretty good actually. I think he was having a breather


because I just put it this way, he was struggling to breathe until the ref had to reset us.


I thought you were going to get him there. I did too. We're all watching off to the side.


The crew are all on the left. See this is the fun thing about it right? It's like your


friends going to battle. It's like old times Roman Coliseum. You're watching your friend


go to war and you're watching on the sideline. There you are mate. So now we're back standing


again, trying to get each other to the ground. I remember I could feel him tiring out. See


I'm pretty fit, so that's one of my strengths is that once people get tired I can take advantage


of that. So I'm like good, I'm just going to go harder. This is where I was reaching


into the grip again. I knew getting him to the ground had been a bit of a pain in the


ass, so what I was trying to do here was reach inside the collar and get another baseball


grip choke. So essentially just grabbing my arms around his neck and then I was like taking


down. So this is, he's on top of me but I landed with my hands around his neck and I'm


trying to pull down. But he's trying to stay back to stop Dan from pulling him over his


body. If he does that he's got full leverage. So you can't, I don't know if you can hear


this but from where I was he's breathing like this. So I was cutting the air off but it


didn't get fully on because my hands were too far apart. So he survived it. There we


go. And now he's in side control which means he's to my side and on top of me. So he's


got a better position than me at the moment. So now it's my goal, I think the fight's almost


over here. It's my goal to try and get out. But it's in his best interest to stay on top


of me, stay in control. He's holding on for dear life here. Yeah. I should be used to


getting out of this position by now with you, mate. We're looking for a triangle here. Yeah.


But he was just holding on for dear life. And so this is the end of the fight. No, you're


just like, no. I nearly walked off. The rush is insane so your brain doesn't function properly.


And you can't see the scoreboard here but this fight finished off 3-2. So I'll be honest


like with myself, I think I fought the more entertaining fight because I was trying to


put on more submissions but end of the day I didn't get them so he won. Rule looks there


for a reason, hey. It is a sport. So in real life, if it was a fight, you probably would


have come out, you would have kept attacking him and come out on top because eventually


you would have got one. Yeah. And so now that was roll one. Roll one out of 11 or something


for the day. Let's get into roll two. Say that again. So we start in here again going


for the same fight. Oh, nice. Down we go. I took him down with a single leg takedown.


So at the moment I just got points there for taking him to the ground. So what's going


through my head right now is he's trying to pull me down and get guard but I'm letting


him move his foot around my waist. See I'm fishing in there. I got his foot, right foot


with his, no, his left foot with my right arm. So I'm holding it in. Now we've rolled


to the ground. You can't really see this but I've got his leg secured under my right arm


trying to put the foot lock on. And he's trying to defend. His defense here is to stay close


to me. So I've got his right foot. I'm about to, I'm trying to straighten his heel or his


hip. And so there he submitted. So that's what I was, this was actually a pretty quick


one. This was what? 40 odd seconds. So if we go back, I'll show you the point. We'll


just freeze frame it there. So as you can see, yeah, I wanted him, I was, this is the


thought process going through my head is I took him to the ground and because I like


to do foot locks, my thought process is, okay, I'm going to let him think that he's getting


an advantage here by placing his feet on my hips and keeping the distance. But then I


let that foot, which is his left foot, it's kind of hard to tell, go through so my right


arm could secure it. So now I'm holding my right arm like this, holding onto my knee.


And so when I take him down, I've got that right, left foot, sorry, very well secured.


And then when we hit the ground is where I'm leaning back, is where that submission comes


in, is where he's trying to defend. You can't really see it. But long story short, where


we go, probably from here. Long story short is I've got his foot in here and what I'm


doing is just straightening it so you can imagine the top of the foot is being expanded.


So he just gets pulled back. Yeah. So that's it.


So that's it for your sitting to move mate, especially through this competition.


So that's yeah, fight two. So now I'm one and one, one loss, one win. Okay, so this


one you'll see right from the start. Shake hands, fist bump at the start.


Mr elusive left hand right there. Yeah.


Pause guard. I haven't watched any of these back.


So here I've gone for the same lock again, the foot lock, but this guy's managed to get


out of it. I didn't get on as tight. He's a lot faster on his feet than the other two


guys. So right now I've got, what's that? That's half guard? No, I've got him in full


guard actually. So I've got him in full guard. What I'm doing is I'm just taking it easy


at the moment now because we're kind of in a stalemate position. So what I was doing


here is I'm remembering like thought pattern now is I'm just like, I'm going to hold him


here until he makes a move. Hopefully grab one of these arms and put him in some kind


of arm lock. So there you see on the left side, I'm trying to block his right arm with


my left leg. This is where I was attempting to do an arm bar. Didn't get it on fully because


his elbow wasn't deep enough. So I'm kind of trying to hold on here, but then I realized


no, I don't have it. I'm going to give up and take top position.


So basically now Dan's trying to get past his knees because if you've still got a leg


in, it's hard to really have control and you don't get any points for it. Yeah, that's


what I needed to do is clear that leg. But again, here you can see me. I'm trying to


get my right arm. Oh, I was trying to go for the foot lock there. That's all right. I fell


over. I was trying to do a spinning arm bar. That's all right. Working, working. Look at


that sick mohawk. Right now you've got a good chance to isolate the arm. But my Kimura isn't


good. So yeah, what Dave's saying is that arm that you can see closest to us, it hits.


I can potentially isolate that, but I'm not very good at that type of submission. That


was a knee ride. I put my knee in his chest. So now, oh, arm bar. I thought you were trying


to take his back there. Another one. So right now I'm just trying to throw on arm bars,


left, right and center here. Man, you do a heap of submission attempts. Yeah. So that's


my style. My technique's not good, but I have, well, it's better than when I started, put


it that way. But I do have a high level of fitness and speed. So a lot of my technique


or style is just attacking. Here I'm trying to get the triangle, but he's doing a good


job of posturing. So if I got my feet tight there, he was gone. What I needed to do was


move my shin onto, oh, it's actually close to a triangle here. You can hear his ref coaching


him out of it. And then I realized- Then you went for the chalk nose. I've got another


triangle here. Wow. Nah, not really. Just some sort of head grip. Now we're at North-South.


To a lot of people, mate, who have never watched this before, it looks like just a lot of lying


around and lying on top of each other. But I promise you, if you've never tried it, it's


a totally new type of fitness. Yeah. It's crazy. Even being on the bottom is insane.


Yeah. It's draining. So here we go. I'm doing the similar move to what I was trying to do


before, is isolate a foot and get it stuck under my right arm again. So now he's trying


to block it with his legs, which he does a good job of. So now Dan's got to get past,


see how his leg's trapped between the two fellas. The fellas' two legs. Got to push


that foot down. Straight over to the side. So now we're kind of in a stalemate. We're


just trying to find a position. I'm probably in a better one because I'm on top. There


we go. Get out. So here we go. I've isolated the right leg. This is exactly what I want.


You can see my right hand. I'm trying to grab my gi to strengthen my grip. And here we go.


This is, I remember. There we go. So now I've got his foot stuck there. Basically once it


gets to that position, it's very hard for them to get their foot out. This was end of


fight three. Well done, mate. I think this is the one at the end where I come walking


over you. Yeah. Because I see you throw up the shuckers because I'm laughing over on


the side going, I've been tapped so many times by Berkey doing that bloody foot lock. I should


get a tattoo on my ankle that has his name written on it. That was a good roll. Yeah.


I think I, here we go. Here's you. Just finished it off having a giggle. So that was three,


what am I now? Two and one. Two wins, one loss. And we got roll four. Now this was,


I think my one before this, this is the final. So I actually had a roll after that one you


just saw. And this one is for the gold medal. And because by this stage I won the other


one. And so now I was three and one. And so I'm about to roll Tom, who I met on the day


actually, real good guy. So shout out to Tom for the gold medal. So we actually missed


footage of one roll. So you can just imagine the one before this. I won that one by a killer


team submission. That was a good one. There we go. Right from the start, tap hands. Quick


grips, eh? Nice. This guy's pretty sturdy on his feet. So I kind of overheard this,


him with his team. I think he'd seen all of my rolls before, which means like he was watching


me fight. So maybe kind of knew my style, knew that I was going for foot blocks, but


it didn't really matter. The way I sort of think about going into these things is it's


just another role. Like it's just, this is how we train. Dave and I train about this


intensity at GM as often as we can. So when we go to competitions, it's no different.


You guys can reset there. Did he feel strong? Yeah, no stronger than other people in the


division. Yeah. Was there any highlights? Anyone who was super difficult? To be honest,


the whole time, I'll be brutally honest, I never felt like in danger of anyone. I think


that's a testament to yourself, mate. Well, I hope so, mate. I've got about 20 kilos on


my back. So yeah, right now, I remember pulling the gi over his head and then I'm like, yes,


I'll get a leg. But then I think, oh, there we go. So I would have got two points for


that because I took him down. Thank you, ref. I remember pulling his gi over his head. And


now he's trying to go for the Kimura. But I remember just being strong enough to defend


it with a single arm. There we go. And I was planning on reversing the Kimura here actually,


like getting on top of him. And if you've never heard of what a Kimura is, it's basically


just bend the shoulder in a way it's not supposed to. Yeah, bend it up like that. Eventually


they tap. So now he's trying to pass me. And I remember distinctly he was going to get


side control here. But I remember moving into the banner on purpose. Race the rulebook.


Yeah, because I knew we'd get reset. So I remember that was like a sneaky trick from


me. So the belt I've got on is just to differentiate us from each other. So we know who's like,


it's like blue and red corner. I need to work on what you just did there, like reaching


out with your leg, you're too off balance. Not you in general, but just in general. Yeah,


I always give him my leg. So here we, I remember this one, we were spending a longer amount


of time with this like it's grip fighting and wrestling than I wanted to. Like I wanted


it to go to the ground, because I knew I could do well there. But I think the good thing


about that as well though, is because you are so fit, you can afford to keep grip fighting.


It's very tiring. Yeah. Trying to wrestle all the time. It's like when guys play footy,


they go 100% all the time. With this, it feels very much the same. So if you can tie the opponent


out and keep it fit, that's good. He's coming around. Oh, nice. So I was trying to spin


around. Oh, then he gets me inside control. You were close. So now he, yeah, now he has


the dominant position. Like he's lying on top of me. So he gets points here, I believe.


Yeah, he definitely got points for that. And his goal here, unless he's super comfortable,


is, there we go, coming across into what you call mount. But his weight was off balance.


I got my leg. So my right leg, you can see there, I'm blocking him from getting on top


of me. And now, if he passes that leg, he gets more points. So I'm trying to prevent


that at all costs. So that leg that I've got between mine, I don't want to let him get


that control of that. So I'm holding onto his knee with my two legs. There we go. I'll


lock my feet over. I'm not in a very good position right now. So he has a lot more control.


But that being said, I wasn't in a threatening, in terms of potential for submission position.


Yeah. He really has to pass that leg before he can be in complete control.


At the moment, oh, there we go. I don't think he actually gets, maybe he does. Oh yeah,


there he gets some points. So because he's in mount, or maybe he didn't get the rep.


You moved.


No, there we go. Okay, so he would have got four points, I think, for that, for mount.


And so then we roll over. He's in back take. He's trying to choke me out here. But this


is where I was trying to wrap his foot around. See with my bottom leg, I'm trying to wrap


around that foot to hip out. There we go. And that's when I break his feet to get out.


But then he gets into the mount, or almost doesn't get into the mount. And again, I think


I was trying to push us over to the side of the mat. Like this is kind of where you have


to play with the rules, like a bit. Because I was trying to push him over the side of


the mat so we'd have to get reset again, because I didn't want to let him get that dominant


position.


I think this screen is getting extremely dark. So we'll fix that for the next one.


Come on.


So yeah, we're going to reset a few times here. Look at that six pack though. I was


pretty shredded for this. What did you weigh?


I weighed in on the day at 68 kilos.


I took him to the ground. I took each other to the ground. And that was it, end of the


fight. And so you don't see it, but I lost this one. That was... I need to fix this brightness.


But long story short, I lost this eight two. That was the points. And that was when I got


the silver medal for the gi. Now we'll get into the no gi, which is, if I'm honest, I


prefer no gi because it's... You don't wear the big clothes thing with the extra grips.


What do you prefer?


I think I actually really like gi because the choking aspect of it. It's something that


you can only do if you know how to use a gi. I think I enjoy that.


Beautiful. All right, no gi time. We should be a bit more brighter now. We're back, ready


for the no gi.


Lots more of them.


Yeah, I had six no gi rolls. So let's go into number one. And yeah, really the only difference


between this is the same rule set. It's just you don't wear a gi or a belt.


You basically just wear like compression gear. So like...


Yeah.


You could do it in shorts.


You could do it in any clothes, but you want to keep it loose. So you could even do no


shirt if you want.


Yeah. So there's nothing to grip onto.


So this one starts and we're already on the ground. So it's just because my brother was


jumping between different fights. So we've done the whole kombat. I remember with this


one I was dancing around trying to get... Yeah, here we go. I was trying to get a footlock.


So that's that right arm. Oh no, left arm.


I remember standing on the side here and listening to all the other guys who were in your division.


Rolling up and said, oh, he likes the feet.


I do. I'm a footlock fiend. See, I was trying to set it up here. Here we go. I think, oh,


no, he gets out. Something that's really different about no-gi is it's super, super slippery,


especially if guys, oh, you already tapped once. Yeah, it's that twice. It's super slippery


because your sweat just like sticks on you and it's very hard to hold any grip even on


the body. Whereas with the gi, it sort of absorbs it. So you just hold onto it.


So what, he never tapped twice?


He tapped twice.


So we'll go back. So now I've got his foot.


Watch the first one. And then you fall and roll over again.


I've had it on pretty tight here. He's in pain. So tap.


Tap, tap.


It's easy to miss.


I had it on pretty tight.


Easy to miss though.


Yeah. But I remember too, I remember overhearing the people on the sideline. I think they'd


watched another of my other fights. I think because he was part of a team, the guy I lost


in the final, two last time, he was part of his team. And I think they were watching that


I'd gone on, I think three or four foot locks by this stage. So that was no gi match one.


That was good because yeah, that was my fifth roll of the day. So a little breakdown of


what happens is, so I had the gi rolls and then there was about an hour and a half break.


So we're just kind of walking around and watching other people fight. So we had a little bit


of a rest. But don't get me wrong, it's still pretty tired by this stage.


Well, look at the timestamps. It's filmed between 2.30 PM and 6.20 PM.


Yeah. So like four hours.


Massive gaps. Yeah.


Yeah. And in between rolls is where doing warm ups, stretches, having food. You didn't


even have much food.


No.


So we've got no gi roll two. So again, we've already done the starting thing. This is right


at the start. We're playing, oh, you can see the outfit here. He's got no gi on, no belt


either. It's a lot more faster style. So basically, I'm trying to get the foot here again.


I'm pretty sure this guy is the brother of the guy that was in my call.


Oh, really?


Yeah, I think so.


So remember just playing it safe here, just stopping him from getting any kind of, or


trying to stop him from getting any kind of at-band conjoining or getting points. So here


we're just chilling out in guard.


It's actually really difficult to get out of someone's guard. So Dan has the guard.


His competitor is sitting inside his legs. It's actually really difficult to do that


because you can't grip onto anything. It's like you can either try and hold someone's


hips or the tops of their arms, or you can pick them up and try and let them fall off


because their core strength can't hold them. But I think your core strength is definitely


out of control.


I'm trying to get the arm bar here, but I didn't have the elbow deep enough. No, you're


right, man. If I get stuck in Dave's guard, which is like basically they have your legs


wrapped around you and crossed over at the back. I have to wait until he makes a move.


Man, he's attacking trying to get a head and arm from in your legs.


I remember being really calm during this one. I think that's a big difference. How did you


feel compared to your first competition to this one?


Oh man, the first one felt like it was kill or be killed, and really kill or be killed.


You can still sort of emulate that feeling, but it's like you know that... It's probably


because you know what you're doing. How many rolls do you reckon we've had, even just you


and I, in the last year?


Probably 100 plus.


Oh yeah. At least probably once, four days a week.


Yeah. Sometimes a year.


You definitely find yourself pretty familiar with being in a position like this pretty


quickly.


I've got his hand around my head, and maybe if you've never experienced that before, that'd


probably be an uncomfortable position, but here I'm completely calm right now. I've got


space. There's no chance he's going to get me. He could get me in a choke if he puts


like there, but I got out.


If he goes on the other way.


Oh, nice.


I tried to really lock that foot a lot of times quickly there.


I see a little bit of action in the back.


He knows. He knows. He's trying to...


So we're off the mat here. We'll get reset, come back on.


What's it like from a spectator point of view, man? What are you seeing when...


When you're watching your rolls?


Yeah.


I think I'm probably more relating it to I know exactly what the other guys are doing


before me. That's it. I know your speed. That's the big thing.


Speed and the feet.


Here I would have got some points. Sorry to interrupt you, but as you can see, because


I'm on top and past his legs, that means I'm in top mount. I get four points.


He did a good sweep just there. That's what I'm pretty bad at, is when I get on top, I'm


not great at holding it.


The reason why you're giving points for being in the top position is because if you're in


a fight, then you're in the prime position to be playing into something. So you get points


for being in the top.


You're going to feel it.


No, I didn't feel it so far.


That's it, on. Come back up.


You guys are both pretty good at the scramble.


So again, what I'm doing with my head is I'm putting my head against his, so that's kind


of creating a certain amount of minimal space between us so that if he tries to do what


I'm doing and reach for the leg, he can't really do that. So the head is like gauging


how much space we have between each other. There we go, I shoot for the leg, then take


him down.


That's a good takedown. Then land straight in there.


No. Well, I'm on the wrong side now. I was passing him.


Thank you.


I don't know if you can see on the back, but there's a scoreboard. I'm up here, 8-0. So


I'll just like...


I looked at the scoreboard and was that the thumbs up? Go back.


That would be go back.


And so he's got his arm around my head, but I'm in a safe position.


I'm pretty sure I'm sitting where the camera is and I'm looking at you and I'm like...


Yeah.


I'm just like, keep it there, mate. You're safe.


I think I'm pretty sure I'm actually shouting out, you're safe, you're safe.


So at that point, I knew that I was up on points, so I was just like, I'm going to ride


this out and just win by points.


Ideally, I'm a submission dude, so I like to win by submission rather than just points.


But when you get to that stage...


Five seconds.


Yeah, six seconds left or something.


Did you hear my stomach just then?


No.


What was that? Your stomach?


Boo.


I'm hungry, mate. You got to...


Okay. So now we're up to Nogi Roll 3.


Oh, this is an interesting one.


This was a good roll.


No, this is the bad one.


This is V1.


I haven't seen this one.


The second one was great.


So this one, again, the start is a little bit shaky, but that's all right.


Let's go.


So I think the cameraman was just adjusting here.


He seems quite calm because the ref is getting in the way.


Yeah, here we go. I've got the leg again. Take him down.


Cameraman's changing angle.


But essentially, I landed with his arm around my neck,


which is a similar position to what I was in before, but probably a little bit worse.


There, he thought I tapped. That's why he gave up.


But I didn't tap.


And then I go to reach the foot lock on again, except my top leg goes too far over, which I don't know.


Go back. I want to see that again.


Yeah, let's replay.


I haven't seen this.


And so he wasn't happy at the end of that match.


So let's go back just to about here.


This is where.


So I've taken him down, and my head is under his arm at the moment.


It was tight.


So you can see my arm come up there.


He thought I tapped, but I didn't. I was like adjusting position.


And so that's why he let go of everything.


And then he's a little...


So I dive on the foot lock, but my leg, this top leg up on his chest apparently passed the halfway mark.


So that's when I get disqualified here.


And he wasn't happy. He thought I tapped.


Well, you know what the good thing about this is, mate?


You got a second chance.


Yeah.


So that was my third match.


I got disqualified, and then I had one literally right after this because my matches were scheduled for 4.52pm and 4.57pm.


And so they were like, do you want to go again?


Regulation says that you can like have a few minutes break.


And I'm like, no, that match was only like a minute.


So I'll just go straight into it.


So this one was literally straight after.


Mate, I just saw as well.


Your bloody Groushy used to be tight on your arms.


You've lost so much weight.


I'm skinny.


You look like you're wearing a blanket.


Okay, so this is the... I'm versing the same guy in the first Gi match in no Gi.


So I got a few submission attempts on him in that first Gi match, like the chokes.


He won that, didn't he?


Yeah, he won that.


So I lost against this guy.


Yep.


Hey, man.


So he's put on this sweatband so they can tell us apart again.


So like the ref like scores a sweatband.


You can see the ref has a sweatband on his hand.


Again, we start in a wrestle fight.


I'd already gone against this guy, so I kind of knew what his style was.


You're trying to pull him down, aren't you?


Yeah, basically that was my style.


I was just like, I'm going to go as hard as I can.


What?


Let me dry my beard.


Needs some drying.


Does it?


Yeah.


There's you in the background, mate, with the medal on.


Oh.


There's your two medals looking to click.


Now we're just rolling around.


And I'll be honest with you, once it gets to this stage, I'm getting pretty sick of


being in this wrestle match.


So I want to start diving for his feet or start taking him down.


But this guy wouldn't put a leg forward and I was looking for the single legs the whole


time.


So I'm starting to think maybe I just pull guard, which I did.


Well, that's where we train from the most is we're on the ground, we're moving.


We have been doing more takedowns and stuff and it's important.


That's actually the biggest thing I took away from this competition was a lot of the work


is done when you're in feet and taking him down.


So if you can add that into your game, you get so much more.


It's a little bit of a stretch, but it's a good stretch.


So he got side control here and he would have got some points for that.


So see how he's passed my legs, but on the side.


But again, I'm not in any compromised position.


It's just him lying on top of me.


And I'm used to being in this kind of position.


So start to roll.


I don't know how close I was to the time limit.


If you didn't let go of that.


Yeah, but that's all right. I think I can.


So now I've got one of his arms in between my legs and one of them outside.


So my move here is to get the triangle tighter, which I do.


Nice, the legs closage.


There we go. Once that's on.


Now I'm pulling his head down to choke him out.


You can see the hand, he's fluttering.


Yeah, nice.


Nice.


So what happened there was I had him locked up.


And basically his throat was being pushed against his own shoulder.


I pulled his head in to make that close up the air gap so he couldn't breathe.


So it was a rematch.


I got my revenge.


There's the coach.


Shout out to Coach Robbie.


All right, let's go to roll four.


No, five. So that was four.


So I won two. I've been disqualified in one.


And I just won another.


And so now this I think was for the semi-final.


Because, yeah, you have four matches.


So this will be the semi-final. I'm going against the guy I got disqualified against.


So this was like our rematch.


He thought he tapped me, but I got disqualified.


I didn't realise. I thought I wasn't moving very fast in no-gi, but this is...


I'm moving pretty quick.


Like we're dancing around a fair bit.


As you can see, some of the mats in the background are being cleaned up.


Oh, got a takedown.


Looking for it.


I was looking for his foot here. Yeah, you're right.


But I didn't get inside control.


I was a little bit premature.


That's all right.


Oh, he died.


Oh, yeah. See, no-gi is very slippery.


You're racking up points here.


Well, at least I haven't watched it. See how long it really happened.


Two? Yep.


So every time you take someone down, you'll get points.


So I just got two lots of points there.


And in my head, I'm thinking I'm just going to keep him on the ground.


You're very persistent.


So I'm holding his feet.


So there's no chance he's going to be able to get up if I'm holding his feet.


And what I'm searching for here is a foot lock.


But he's got...


Oh, if he knew how to do it, that was his chance.


So he just got two points for that because he took me down.


So now we're at 4-2.


And he's trying to pass around my leg, but I'm keeping that far leg, my right leg,


in against his hip so he can't get his legs around.


Mate, I was even contemplating trying to bring this leg up for a rubber guard choke.


Like, bring that leg all the way up through his neck.


I'm just watching your knee thinking,


yeah, right here.


There's almost a sweep there.


For me.


Yeah, it's just so tight.


Take him to the left.


See, look at this.


I was trying to bring my leg up under his throat.


That would have been a sick tap.


He's working his way.


So if he gets past that right leg of mine, which is...


He's got his arm around, he's going to get points.


But he can't...


The thing is, you've got to be careful of is his left arm.


See how it's hanging behind.


If he puts that through your legs, then you've...


Got a triangle.


Yeah, so it's a really...


You've got to be picky.


I take him to deep half here.


Look at his arm just banging to me.


I love this.


We practice deep half.


And now I'm in deep half.


And I think I shoot out the back.


That's it.


Very good.


If you'd played a bit more with the arm, the weight...


Yeah, there we go.


I shoot him out.


Boom.


Would have been so sick if you kept your legs in.


Yeah.


Did a big push.


That's what I was hoping to do.


So now again, I knew I was up on points because I had people on the sidelines saying,


hey, Dane, you're up on points.


Even though it's only...


Oh, there we go.


Yeah, I think he got something to say.


So my game plan here was to either get him by submission or keep him on the ground.


Because I knew I had another match after this if I won,


so I didn't want to expand extreme amounts of energy


only if it's completely unnecessary.


What would you do here, mate?


You're up on points.


You've got a minute left.


Just don't involve...


I think I have one roller that's very similar to this.


Yeah.


And again, it's a good thing.


Yeah, yeah.


And again, it's not out of the way I like to roll.


It's because you've got rolls ahead of you.


You can't be gassed with your forearms, especially, by flying.


Especially in G.


Because you're working all these grips.


You just fire out so quickly.


It's like having a cold.


It is that.


Yeah, so what I'm doing here, I'm keeping my head against his to keep space.


And I'm keeping my legs away so he can't grab my legs.


Because for him right now, for him to win, he has to either get five points at least.


Or submit.


He's probably got, what, 30 seconds left with that?


So if he first fails to get into the ground...


I would have chopped my knee in there.


I'm trying to sneak in a few more.


Huh?


Yeah.


Well, I was contemplating that.


I'm like, how do I get to his back?


I remember this.


I'm like dancing with him.


I'm like, how do I get around to his back?


He's throwing up some good...


He's like being aggressive here.


I'm like, oh, there we go.


We get a guillotine maybe.


Nothing to sit back down.


He had a few opportunities.


This guy should have learned leg locks.


So here I'm taking side control or trying to.


He's trying to...


So I was trying to get a guillotine there.


And that's the game over.


He wasn't happy.


Either not happy or extremely gassed.


One of the two.


It doesn't matter.


One on points there.


So I went to shake his hand.


I don't know what happened after that.


Maybe he was upset or something.


That was the rematch.


I think he might have still been upset from when he thought I tapped,


but I didn't.


So now we're up to the final, mate.


Nogi final.


So this is six rolls straight of Nogi.


So this is the same guy I versed in the Gui final.


So Tom.


I didn't realise it was you guys again.


Yeah.


Well, right from the start.


Come on.


I was really excited for this one.


I'm like, yes, get to do the rematch.


Well, they'd all done pretty well so far.


So again, we're fighting for grips.


I really don't like this.


Oh, oh.


He would have got points there, but then I got him in guillotine.


That could have been a lot worse.


I had him pretty damn tired of this.


Look at that.


Except he got to the side.


Actually, wow.


Still on.


I was hoping to flatten him out.


And here.


Yeah, but I think there was meant to be a little...


I didn't get points for that.


No, you didn't get points for that.


I think I got points for that.


No, you didn't get points for the mount.


And then we were shouting at Earthly around,


where's the points for the mount?


And then he looks down and you're out of mount by the time he looks down.


And back up and he's like, oh, whoa.


What are you talking about?


I should have dived over the top.


Yeah, I'm trying to stay on top here.


I've got my arm around his neck.


I'm trying to choke him out there or at least distract him.


So he moves his legs and so I can get top position.


He's doing well here.


He could almost grab that arm, yeah.


So he's going for Kimura here, trying to bend my shoulder.


And I remember defending it, thinking I'm going to reverse it as well.


So I remember being strong enough to kind of defend this with one arm.


What's the reversal that you flip over the top?


Yeah, so I take his arm and just sort of like that.


So now I'm just, yeah, there we go.


If I held it onto there, maybe I could have got the reversal.


Did I get points there?


No?


I think something you could do differently there,


instead of reaching over, is go for a cross face.


Yeah.


And then you spread them out.


Because he's on his side, his strong side.


He's got your arm right there.


So now he's trying to get me and get the...


I remember that being pretty tight actually.


But coach and I have been practicing that one through the week.


So I knew how to get out of that.


Back on the feet.


Back on the head butt.


Did your ears get sore after this?


Yeah, it might have still sore.


Mum, we're tender.


I don't want to get cauliflower ears.


Touch wood.


It's the money maker, mate.


I'm too pretty for jiu-jitsu.


So again here, same position as before,


but I've got my left leg, the far leg, locking his legs right there.


Blocking his legs from getting around mine.


And I'm trying to isolate his arm and bring my leg up.


Because I'm thinking maybe potential triangle here.


But I remember he did well at getting past.


Yeah, there we go.


He almost...


I think he almost gets me here.


Like in terms of passing my legs.


Oh, there we go.


I remember shoving my arm to his face.


So he didn't...


Oh, sorry, let go.


Here I'm again trying to just isolate the arm,


waiting for him to make a movement.


I want to get one arm.


So when they have two inside, it's hard to attack.


He's almost out.


Oh.


There we go.


That was a good pass from him.


So here's the scramble.


So basically I'm trying to stop him from getting control.


Oh, you're lucky he didn't catch your arm there.


I remember just saying to myself, keep moving, keep moving.


Man, if you weren't so fast, you would have got your back there.


Yeah.


This guy knows where he's going.


I was literally saying in my head, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving.


I was like, good, take me down.


Just got to get that arm, but I think he's hiding it.


Yeah, so now I've got one arm isolated.


The coach is yelling out from the side, lift your hips up


and get that arm across the...


So it's going to be his right arm,


the one that's in between my legs.


I need to get it to the other side of my body,


which is what I'm trying to do here.


I think I start swimming backwards.


Oh no, I land on top.


So now he's really wrapped up here.


There's almost no escaping this if I'm doing the right thing.


That's just the best finish ever.


A mounted triangle.


That's sick.


And that was for gold.


Yeah.


That's just like, who's your daddy?


And then I took the gold.


I love that.


So the same thing again happened there,


is that his shoulder ended up,


my legs are wrapped around this area.


And so his own shoulder ended up choking him out.


And...


That one was for the gold medal, but that's all right,


because Tommy beat me in the previous one and I got silver.


That was a good one.


It almost went the distance too.


Yeah, well that was...


That was like nearly five minutes, wasn't it?


Four fifty-two.


Wow.


You would have like the better part of, what, maybe ten seconds?


I'm more proud of that than it going the distance.


Yeah, that's cool.


I wanted to get the top-mountain submission.


Yeah.


That's a cool sub.


Yeah, it's my favourite.


So that was a massive day on tour.


It ended up being, what was that, eleven rolls or something like that?


Competition level, so the adrenaline's a bit higher.


Used to rolling pretty intense like that when we trained together,


but never like eleven in one day.


Usually we averaged like three to four per training session.


Eleven, that was a stretch.


But yeah.


I'm half fit.


And usually like we can sort of deal with rolling and like we do the Ironman rolls


where we put an hour of straight rolling and Dan and I usually do it together.


Yeah, we got one coming up, Halloween.


Yeah, isn't it?


Two hours.


Two hours of rolling.


We're probably filming.


Yeah.


Ultimate Ironman.


Yeah, that'll be...


Oh, that'd be like watching a movie.


I don't know if you guys...


This video's already long enough.


I don't know if you want to listen to my voice for two hours.


Let's just commentate this.


We're sitting here lying for ten minutes.


It's really long.


But yeah, biggest takeaway I think for me was I wrote an article, I'll link that in


the description on some of the things, life lessons that Jiu Jitsu's taught me.


I think some of the biggest ones are being able to stay calm under pressure.


I think that translates to just general life as well.


Like in the gym when you're rolling with someone, you might look at these positions and think,


wow, someone's on top of me, they're trying to attack me.


When you first start out, it's a big shock to the system.


You're like, wow, this is...


I felt sick after my first couple of sessions.


But now after doing it for a while, you kind of get used to being in uncomfortable positions.


Yeah.


Coach Robbie always says knowing the difference between a bad position and a threatening position.


So if you get used to being in the bad position and work your way out of it, you do it calmly.


You can sort of save yourself, but you've got to know when you're about to be choked.


You've got to get out ASAP.


And that's where the energy comes from.


It's a beautiful, beautiful sport.


We're definitely addicted.


I think you've got to roll on this afternoon.


In about an hour.


Exciting.


But no, a lot can change in a year.


In our first tournament, lost.


Now, this tournament, we're starting to place on the podium.


And again, medals are just something nice to have, not a need to have.


What's more important than I like to do is just making progress, getting good at something.


It could be jiu-jitsu, it could be anything.


But jiu-jitsu is what we're focused on at the moment.


It's a great way to stay fit.


A lot of hard work, a bit of heart and soul.


A bit of heart and soul.


Heart and soul, baby.


But yeah, that's it for this commentary over the roles.


We'll probably do a few more in the future at some point.


Maybe on Dave's channel, maybe on my channel.


We'll still work it out.


But we don't plan on stopping training jiu-jitsu anytime soon.


No.


It's more a lifestyle.


I see it being really a lifelong sort of thing.


Yeah.


Yeah, for sure.


Always more to learn.


Every day, day one.


It's that white belt mentality, man.


White belt mentality.


I've started to wear all white.


I just want to remind you.


Be a white belt.


Every day.


All the time.


No matter what.


Non-stop.


Look at everything in new.


Always white.


All right.


That's it.


Keep moving.


Keep learning.


We'll see you in the next video.


Oss.


Learning Programming? You should try Anki | Learning Intelligence 38

Morning team. I just got up to page 50 in the new Python for Pandas, no, Python for


Data Analysis book that I got the other day. And chapter three is on built-in data structures,


functions and files. But what I was doing this morning, it's been a little bit of a


bit quieter than yesterday morning. Yesterday morning we kind of got up and summarized and


applied a PR.


You can see that post on my Instagram. That was pretty fun. But just been going through


the book, not necessarily taking notes, just reading. I've got like a little bookmark here


of something important that I want to come back to. Because someone reminded me the other


day on my channel and in one of the comments, have I been using Anki? Let me show you what


I've got.


So Anki is like a flashcard remembering system. It's a free piece of software. It's pretty


basic. It's got some decks here from when I used to learn Japanese, used to learn Mandarin,


done a bit of my SQL, PHP and Python, which is what I'm most focused on now. I was learning


too many things at the same time. If you want to learn something, really focus down on one


thing. And so now I'm on Python all the way. Python through and through, baby.


And here come the Globo Gym Purple Cobras led by White Goodman. All business.


So we're going to my Python deck and what it is, is it's smart flashcards. So this is


a Python deck. So there's no new ones because I haven't used it in a while. And I've got


100 to review. So I've got my work cut out for me. If I want to add something new, like


for example, this little thing here in range, you can add a card there. So if we add it


to the deck, I'll just quickly show you what it looks like. So the front will be like the


front of the flashcard. Then the back, you won't be able to see until you try and answer


the front. Just a little statement so I can think about it in my head. And that will return.


So we'll add that to the flashcard deck. You can press Command Enter, that's a shortcut.


And it's added. We'll go back to the deck. And see how there's one new now because I've


just added that card. And let's study. What is Lambda? Lambda is an anonymous function.


Short example. So here down the bottom, you can see I haven't done it in a while. But


if I need to, if I didn't get it right, I would press again because then it would ask


me the same question within 10 minutes. If I found it hard, it will ask me again in 6.1


months because I've done this flashcard a few times. And if it's good, it'll ask me


in 1.5 years. And if it was easy, it'll ask me in 3.3 years. And what does that mean in


time spacing? So the idea of Anki is if you're recording say Python functions for example,


and you're getting better and better and better at certain things, you don't want to be asked


them every single day. Otherwise, you'll have a list of a thousand. I've got a hundred I've


got to go through before I'm back to zero. If you're getting really good at some, you


don't want them to be asked for a long time. That's why you see the 1.5 year timeframe


there. And if you're not so good, you want to be re-asked that in a relatively short


timeframe. So for example, say I just added in that list range one, the first time I answer


it, it will actually ask me twice within 10 minutes. And then the time will get longer


and longer and longer as I get better. So I'd encourage you if you want a really good


way to I don't know why I stopped doing it. I think it because it was getting I was I


think I was learning too many things at once. I'm going to re-instantiate my Python deck


and get back into it after I've learned some new things. I forgot to mention the idea of


Anki is space repetition. So if you do set it up, if you do set up a flashcard deck,


try and do it every single day. I mean, that's that's what I'm going to be trying to do.


I'll set a little reminder for myself to to go through my Python Anki flashcards every


day because we want to be Python wizards, right? We want to be able to craft some programs


and do some data analysis. But I think today we're studying some more data science me and


my bro might need to go to the library or something. All right, scratch that. When I


was in a Fortnite tournament. So we're not going to the library. I'm going to get jump


into some stuff. I got stuck on assignment two last last week. So I'm going to finish


that off and then once once he's ready, we'll get back into it together. I hate the blue


flashing light on my monitor at night time. So I always turn it off with the wall before


I go to sleep. Okay, Google 25 minute timer. Sure. 25 minutes. Starting now. Okay, Google,


stop the timer. All right. 25 minute session. We're still stuck on on assignment two on


the same question made some progress. But I'm gonna have to bounce to the forums and


take a five minute break go for a walk in the backyard or something and let let the


let the subconscious solve the problem for me. Fingers crossed. We'll come back to it


in a sec.


I think I've got it. Throw the ball around. Help me think about it. Love getting out into


nature when I'm stuck in a problem because because look at that. It's so simple, but


it's beautiful. Nature reminds me of of how slow the world goes. When you think you're


you're stuck on something and you're trying to do it really fast and trying to get it


done. Come outside and you realize everything's still all right. Let's go solve this problem.


All right, I think I got it. So I had to sort a data frame from highest population to lowest


population based on a whole lot of different parameters and eventually got out California,


Texas, Illinois as my answer for question six. So what I have to do had to separate


the states counties into another data frame create a list of the top three counties in


each state by population map each state's top three counties to the state name sort


the state and population dictionary in descending order and then save out the top three states


and put them in descending order and return top three gives us these. Is it right? I don't


know yet. Could it be done with less code? Probably, but my solution works so far. If


you're stuck on something, take a break because I came back and after a few more iterations,


we got it done. On to question seven. Let's get some sun light in here because you know


why? I'm feeling good. Because I just passed assignment two of the applied data science


course with Python. So I had two submissions. They both failed zero out of 100 zero out


of 100 and then I fixed up the errors. This one was a pretty big jump. So I made a heap


of progress here and then I fixed up the errors for 320 and got it submitted. Oh yeah, baby.


You know what that means. We're under week three. Let's go see my bro. Data science.


Hell yeah. Oh yeah, baby. You got to clean this room first. All right, we didn't make


it to the library. Where are you up to? Assignment two. Oh, just when I finished. What's going


on? Look at this error code. Yeah, I think it's because it could be a little intimidating


seeing this massive error code. Look at that. But when really it's only, go to the bottom.


It's only a small thing. Unsupported operand type. It just means you can't use that with


float and string. That's all right. I knew that. We'll work it out. Ready to submit,


bro? Good luck me. Handbook success. Submitted successfully. My submission. Oh, baby. You


passed it as well. 100 out of 100. How do you feel? It was difficult. Yeah, actually


we just spent the last, I don't know, two or so hours just going through the code from


the top to bottom again, step by step to try and get a bit of a round. Yeah, but we got


it done. How do you feel? Accomplished. On to the next week. I'm scared of what week


three holds. What's week three? No, we got this, bro. We got this. Merging data frames.


Do you know what my cash phrase is? No. Keep learning. Keep hammering. Keep hammering.


Multimodal Machine Learning models do not work. Here is why. Part 1/2 – The SYMPTOMS

Hello!


In the last video, Ms. Coffee Bean presented a couple of definitions of multimodal machine


learning.


Even came up with a definition of her own.


There we learned how images are one modality and language is another modality.


So we will spend this and the next video to talk about how neural networks have problems


combining vision and language.


Problems?


What are you talking about?


Deep learning has had a lot of success over the last years.


Take for example the case of Visual Question and Answering or short VQA.


Deep neural networks have no problems to answer questions related to images and even show


us what they are looking at while giving the answer.


Or do they?


One more example on Visual Dialogue, where neural systems deliver the state of the art


in chatting with a user about an image.


The Visual Dialogue Challenge website even comes with a Visual Chatbot demo.


We have to try it out!


We upload our favorite image and we see that the model thinks it is a close-up of a mouse


and a mouse?


What is the mouse doing?


I can't tell.


Why is the mouse running?


I don't know.


Is this really a mouse?


Yes.


Are you sure?


You are wrong.


Okay.


Let's try with another image where I think that the model will recognize something.


Yes, it's a woman standing in front of a red building.


What is the red building?


What can you tell?


I have no idea.


Wow.


No.


Where is the woman?


On a sidewalk.


I can agree to that.


Right.


Is the building beautiful?


Do you know what beautiful means?


Okay, bye.


Seeing the success stories being reported in papers.


Papers tell only success stories.


Nobody reports about failed experiments.


Yeah, you're right.


Ms. Coffee Bean, don't interrupt me.


So I was saying, after reading about all these success stories, I got a little suspicious


and hired a world-class detective, Ms. Coffee Bean, to conduct a private investigation.


She could go and find out what is really going behind the multimodal scenes of vision and


language.


We now switch to her.


Ms. Coffee Bean, where do vision and language models fail and why?


What did you find?


I have traveled the vast paper wasteland.


Why is my voice so strange?


I have traveled the vast paper wasteland and I finally found a pot full of proofs, telling


us that we should keep a critical eye pointed to multimodal systems.


Let's see what I have in this pot.


First on my journey, I encountered the symptom of the disease.


The symptom seems to show systems that tend to forget about one modality, visual or textual,


and focus almost completely on the other.


In this, although we are trying to solve multimodal tasks, where it is essential to combine the


information from two or more modalities to gain an answer based on both, an answer that


should be not possible to give when looking at only one modality.


This symptom of ignoring one modality and focus on the other can be seen in a very interesting


investigation of this paper.


The authors take a very common multimodal architecture from 2019, where features are


extracted from vision and language respectively by two different branches.


Then these features representing different modalities are concatenated, further transformed


by a linear layer, followed by non-linear activation and ta-da!


This is the multimodal representation containing information from both modalities.


With this representation, further task-specific layers enable the model to predict the answer


for the task, like the answer to how many cups are there in the image.


And the answer would be here too.


With this architecture, the authors train a well-performing VQA model on the VQA dataset,


but then they want to test it to see how well the model considers both modalities when delivering


the answer.


For this, they do crazy things with the dataset.


They replace nouns in half of the image captions with other nouns, so that they do not fit


the picture anymore.


Then they let the same learned weights from the VQA task predict whether the caption does


fit the image or not.


For more information on this diagnostic procedure, check out our video on probing linked below.


So do we expect from a model that performs well on VQA, delivering right answers to questions


about the image, to recognize that the caption does not fit the image anymore?


Yes, we do expect this.


Only that the model does not notice the change.


For telling whether the caption fits the image or not, it performs with the same accuracy


as random chance.


Disappointing.


And the authors do not restrict themselves to VQA, but test also the same neural architecture


on other tasks, like visual dialogue and phrase localization.


The models trained specifically for understanding the relations between images and text are


not able to tell if the captions have been altered or not.


This raises serious questions like how is then the model able to perform well in VQA


in the first place, if it clearly does not understand the relationship between the image


and the text?


Another study indicating that multimodal models ignore one modality was conducted on multimodal


machine translation, where the model has to translate from source to target language,


but this time with the help of images.


Only that the model performance on translating image captions did not differ convincingly


when having access to the image compared to not looking at the image at all.


Only when many tokens from the text were deleted and the text barely contained some information


for the model to rely on, the multimodal model started to focus on the image.


Of course, there's a lot to discuss here about the task of multimodal machine translation


itself, where we could argue if we delete a text, it becomes more image captioning than


multimodal machine translation.


Or we could even ask if multimodal machine translation is a sensible task in the first


place.


Why are we requiring images at all?


Regarding the latter, I will try to convince you that images are helpful, just think about


cases of disambiguation, where if I tell you get in the car, it would be very helpful for


me to translate this, to also have a picture of an automobile or a train car, or think


about misspellings in the text and so on.


So far, we have seen the symptom of the multimodal illness in vision and language.


One modality, especially the visual one, is taken too little into account, even ignored.


Only the textual modality seems to contribute heavily, raising serious concerns about the


success of multimodal integration.


Miss Coffee Bean, why is this?


On my journey I encountered two sources of all evil.


What about this in the next video?


See you then!


Can't wait!


Disclaimer!


This video highlights a not so favorable aspect of integrating vision and language.


For information on risks and side effects, please read your favorite publication and


Python and Pullups | Learning Intelligence 4

What's up learners, how's it going? Today I've been working all the way through, well, pretty much all day on Udacity's


Artificial Intelligence Navigate Degree Project 2, otherwise building an adversarial search agent, that's a bit of a mouthful.


In other words, rather than adversarial search agent, that sounds way too complex, I like to keep things as simple as they need to be.


Essentially it's a game playing artificial intelligence at the game Isolation.


Now, I've mentioned this before in the vlog, I won't go through the rules of Isolation because it can take a bit long and I can't really explain them properly.


Anyway, the project is a modified version of the traditional game of Isolation and I've run into a roadblock.


I'm trying to get some functions going here. As you can see, I've got dual coding windows up here in Atom and the Udacity classroom up here.


So I've got lots of coding happening here. I've run into a problem here implementing the Minimax algorithm.


Let me show you terminal actually. So this is the Udacity submission section.


So if I type in Udacity submit Isolation, it submits my project and does a few tests on it for me.


So if you see test output, this is the function I'm trying to do. Minimax player dot Minimax.


And I got an E for that, which means error or test failed. So I've got E's for all the Minimax functions.


So what did I do? Because I'm getting so many errors, I wrote down here what I've done today so far.


This is just like a journal entry essentially. What I've done today, what my next steps are for tomorrow.


And that's what I'm going to be doing tomorrow. So I'm going to take a break.


Let my subconscious solve the problem for me rather than just sitting at the computer aimlessly typing away and trying to solve it.


I may come to a solution eventually. But from, you probably know this if you've been keeping up with the vlog,


from me taking breaks, I solve more problems than I do just sitting at the computer.


So I've been lifting a lot of weights with my mind today on this coding challenge.


I'm about to go lift a lot of weights in my body and head to the gym.


I'm doing something a little different today. I've decided for every Pomodoro I do studying, I'm going to do five pull-ups.


And so I'm aiming to do six Pomodoros at least on my Udacity AI Nano Degree Project 2.


And so I've just completed one. So we'll mark it off the whiteboard.


And look at this. This is a mess right now. This is what I do. I line up 10 Pomodoros a day.


That was my first one for the Udacity AI Nano Degree. So you see here, this is a goal for today. Udacity six Pomodoros.


So let's do some pull-ups.


Five done. 25 more to go.


Ten pull-ups down. Halfway through my study goal today of six Pomodoros. So that means I've done 15 pull-ups.


Still stuck on the first function of the second project, but that's all right. I'm going to have a break, get something to eat.


And I'm sure once I knock over this first function, the rest of them will come with momentum.


20 pull-ups done. One more power-up.


25 pull-ups done. One more set to go.


Six sets of pull-ups done. Six sets of five. So that's 30 pull-ups overall. So what does that mean? Come check it out.


The marking off Udacity six Pomodoros done. Today was a big day. Very big day. Check this out. I'm so happy.


Boom! We passed the first function of the project. It took all day, but we made it.


As you can see, this little dot indicates test pass. And we got test output interface of Minimax.


Player.minimax. Four dots, baby. That means the first function is done.


My brain is officially toasted. That was a big session of coding for me.


Six Pomodoros worth. So that's about two, two and a half hours to three hours. I'm not sure. You can add up.


Six 25-minute blocks. I'm done for coding for today. I'm going to head for a run and get back into the project tomorrow.


I've got about a week left to finish it. I'm excited. You know why? Because I may have mentioned it a few V-logs ago,


probably in the 100 days of code V-log series, that I applied to Startup Catalyst, which is a mission for 18 to 29 year olds in Australia


to go over to Silicon Valley for a two week trip, fully funded. And I've been shortlisted for it for the mission coming up in November.


I'm 10 out of 10 keen for that. I've got an interview tomorrow at 2.45 or so. And so today I've spent some time researching,


went over back through my application, what that actually say, watched some videos on the website to get an idea of what the mission will be about.


And it looks absolutely epic. It takes a group of youths, as I said, who are tech savvy and have entrepreneurial spirit,


takes them over to Silicon Valley with the goal of visiting some of the biggest tech startups over there.


And the idea is so that they, or people like myself, if we were to go over, we bring that information back to Australia


and build up the startup ecosystem here. You can check out more about Startup Catalyst missions on


startupcatalyst.com.au, slash missions, slash youth missions. This is the one I'm going on and I'll put the link in the description, by the way.


Or, sorry, I'm not going on yet. I've got the interview for it tomorrow. I'm excited for that. And otherwise, today,


I went through the Data Camp Daily Challenge. So we'll check back in tomorrow after the interview, see how I go.


And then also I'll let you know if I get selected for it or not. Either way, I'm excited just to be shortlisted and worst case scenario,


I keep doing what I'm doing, which I'm absolutely loving. Check it out. I just finished the Python programming track on Data Camp.


It involved a series of few courses like an introduction to Python, to go over some basics and then some intermediate stuff on


Python for data science, which was I learned all about list comprehensions. Oh my God, my mind is blown.


All the stuff I've been going over in the artificial intelligence standard degree involves list comprehensions and I didn't even really know


what they were. So now I've got a deeper understanding of what list comprehensions are. I'm sure I can use them in the future.


I'm definitely going to go back over my notes and whatnot because they're so powerful. They're getting lines and lines of code,


creating like a list into one line of code. And that's really nerdy, but I love it. In terms of performance, it makes everything easier.


Some more awesome news for today. I had my interview for the Startup Catalyst Youth Mission at River City Labs in Brisbane City and it ran amazing.


I had a great time. It was over so quickly. Like it was only 10 minutes. Essentially, it's the list of people has been narrowed down


to about 70. Aaron from Startup Catalyst and Brianna are going to be interviewing the next 70 people. I was maybe one of the first.


I'm not entirely sure when they started for 15 minutes each to see who makes it out of the one to 20 people who go on the trip or the Startup Catalyst


Youth Mission to Silicon Valley. So if you haven't checked it out, startupcatalyst.org I believe or startupcatalyst.com. I'll put the right link in the description.


If you're aged 18 to 29 in Australia and into tech, I highly recommend checking out this program.


So 2017 mission leaves at the end of October. There's always next year's mission. I'm positive they'll keep this going.


Do I have some cool things to show you or what? So today's been a pretty productive day, despite me working out in the middle of the day and then having a nap


because it's so hot here now. I live in Brisbane, Australia, if you haven't heard before, and it was like 37 degrees Celsius and it's definitely, it's like, what is it?


Nearly 8pm at night and it's singular weather and I've got a slight sweat and my doors and windows are completely open.


But let's check it out. Completed the Python programming track on DataCamp. So this number is actually a lot lower than the other ones I had.


The other ones are in the millions. So maybe not as many people have done the whole track. That means I'm potentially moving on to a new course on DataCamp.


I'm thinking about this one, Machine Learning with Python. Considering machine learning is taking over software and software is taking over the world.


So I figured that could be a good choice. And there's another one I've been looking at as well, Deep Learning in Python.


So I might do both of these actually. They're both about 4 hours long, which is not too long. I could probably get them out in maybe just an hour a day, each for a week.


But another cool thing is this site, Pluralsight, I believe it's pronounced. Plural site. I'll put the link in the description anyway.


Essentially, DataCamp are partnered with these guys at Pluralsight, Plural site. I keep calling it Pluralsight.


And their website is another education site to learn a whole bunch of skills, whereas DataCamp is focused on just data science and coding in general, really.


Plural site has everything, writing, video making. Maybe I should do some video making courses on there because I don't know how well my vlogs are.


I'm having fun with them anyway. But the tool they have on here I really like is the Python proficiency test.


So it was only about 5 minutes long, about 20 or so questions. And I landed right in the middle. Between 0 and 300, I got 145. Just below the middle actually.


So the 47th percentile. And so I've set a date in the calendar to do this test every month. So I get 6 months access to Pluralsight with my DataCamp's description.


I'm really excited for that. So I'm going to keep practicing Python over the next few weeks and months and whatnot and try and see if I can beat my score.


Get up into the expert zone, which is over 200. That'll be my short term goal, getting that expert zone there.


And because of that, on the Python path on Pluralsight, because I landed at 145 Skill IQ, they recommended me starting at the intermediate level rather than the beginner course.


Beginner course on Pluralsight is about 8 hours. So I potentially saved myself 8 hours of the Python track because I'm at the intermediate level already.


And that was a lot to take in, I know. Some really cool things. Oh, one more thing. I started writing part 2 of my Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree assignment,


which is to review a paper, a game playing paper with Artificial Intelligence agents. And I'm doing the one that Google published recently, or Google and DeepMind, with StarCraft.


And they built a... My puppies are going wild. This is a good time to wrap it up. They built an environment to help reinforcement learning agents in StarCraft.


So I'll put it out on my blog once I finish the summary and you'll get the link somewhere in the description in the future.


Building a Deep Learning PC

I got fed up. Two days in a row, yeah two whole days. Two whole days I couldn't access a GPU on


Building a Deep Learning PC

Google Cloud. I was trying to do some deep learning experiments, couldn't access a GPU on Google Cloud


Building a Deep Learning PC

because they ran out of GPUs in my region. I live in Australia, South East and I think there's


Building a Deep Learning PC

something like at the moment 200 or so GPUs and so all of them, all of them were taken up. And so


Building a Deep Learning PC

I could have used Colab, of course I could have used Colab but the experiments I wanted to run


Building a Deep Learning PC

were a bit, a bit outside of Colab's, exceeded what Colab can provide. That being said, do you


Building a Deep Learning PC

need your own deep learning PC? By the way this video is about building a deep learning PC,


Building a Deep Learning PC

you can probably tell that from the title. Of course not, if you're just beginning Colab is


Building a Deep Learning PC

more than enough for you to get started or the computer that you have, use that, use it to write