and then number two

is a card weighting algorithm so it looks at a card in a cube and it's going to assign a weight to to that card and it does that over all cubes for all cards So those two things kind of work together.

And so basically, I'll just walk through how we, you know, generate like a vintage cube, for example, will basically be that I will, I may give it a hard list of like cube IDs to go crawl.

But in addition to that, it's going to look at all the cubes that have the quote, unquote, fingerprint of a powered cube.

vintage cube and that is they basically have to have what i i think is i think at this point is commonly the power 10 in cube so that's the power nine minus time twister plus soul ring and mana crypt so all the cubes have to have that so that's like one one benchmark and then the other sampling filter that we have, there are two more.

One, the cube size, because that actually does have a fairly large effect on the output quality.

So for vintage cubes specifically, and probably for legacy, as well um or modern the if you're mixing like a 360 cube and a 540 cube you're going to get kind of weird results so for me my cube is sized at 360 so i look at cubes that are approximately 360 so like a plus or minus 10 around like a size of 360. so yeah so i do that and then the the last data filtering parameter we have is the update recency.

yeah yeah yeah for sure let's talk about the second algorithm so first algorithm kind of is focusing more on like what cubes to include what does the second algorithm do

Yeah

... without thinking about them from a sort of individual standpoint, really looking at what it feels like to have these experiences.

So I started thinking about a book that would expand the ambit of Monkey Mind to look at despair, envy, regret, annoyance, all these things that I was familiar with and that to some extent I even prized as a kind of, I don't know, the other side of a, of an intellectual life, the other side of the life of the mind, the other side of refinement.

So on the one hand, they seem to be a kind of aspect of sensitivity.

Would you be open to sharing an example?

It's funny, I often think of an opportunity I was given in my early 20s when I was working at a magazine, and I left that...

I said no to the opportunity in a way that felt logical to me at the moment, and went on to write.

But in fact, I look at it now and I often think, "Well, if I had taken that, that path, I would have had a career in editing that would have brought me more financial stability, more existential stability," writing is a difficult situation, "more savings, more, just more stability in general."

And, uh, with all those different extreme weather conditions, it certainly does play into, to how long we have to be concerned about some of the herbicides that we put out there in these fields.

Absolutely.

It makes a, a really big difference.

Um, and those really wet acres, um, this year, those herbicides got activated really well, hopefully provided some good weed control, um, if the rains weren't too severe, and then were broken down by the microbes and, um, the rainfall.

The soil moisture conditions really help, um, feed that environment to quickly break down the herbicides.

But in those fields where we didn't see a lot of rain this year, those herbicides could in fact be activated a little bit later on in the growing season, therefore making that, um, known rotational interval a little bit more tricky to calculate as those herbicides are still out there, um, lingering around.

That's where we see some her- herbicide carryover injury into more sensitive crops like alfalfa, um, and then that type of thing where we're putting down some really good herbicides maybe in our corn crops, then trying to plant that next crop, we can start to see some injury occur.

Um, what do you see out there? Are there some that you'd say, "Hey, here's a few that you sh- you should watch out for in our state"?

This is the word of the Lord.

Good morning, Strathcona.

Let's try that again.

Good morning, Strathcona.

It's good to see you guys this morning.

I love this Psalm.

I love this Psalm because it reminds me that life isn't always neat and tidy.

Go Daniel.

How you, how are you feeling personally about your form and, and about the role you're playing for the group this year?

Yeah, feeling pretty good at the moment.

Obviously there's no time like the present to be at your best form of the season, I'd say.

So, uh, feeling pretty good with all of that.

Um, yeah, like you said, definitely coming in, it's a different style to what I was playing over at college, so it did take me a couple of weeks to get into that.

Um, but now, yeah, finding my role on the team, and I think that's kind of just what works well with this team, is as long as I do what I'm required to do, rebound, play hard, run, work hard on defense, the rest of it just comes easily as long as you just control what you can control.

Is that, is that sort of where you think you're gonna be able to get them Saturday night?

Yeah, I feel like a lot of our energy and transition in offense comes from the defensive end.

versions.

There weren't a lot of headlines actually.

The first page is entirely full of advertising.

The second page has a column kind of introducing the newspaper and its endeavours to follow local issues.

And then, you know, page three and page four are principally full of advertisements as well.

All the

community organisations regularly kind of get named and individuals get named.

Like, you know, you know you've been, you're part of the community once your name's been in the mail sort of thing.

that... that works, yeah? And what are you discovering young people, young kids, young children need so that they can read, write and do arithmetic?

I think in terms of that, the deep breath moment is young people are growing up in a world that we have created for them.

We have skin in the game.

We have created this.

Yeah.

I would say that young people aren't stupid.

In fact, I was at a school last night, Marston Park Anglican School, which is led by Darren Cox, who's a very talented educator.

I didn't put the rail guards in place.

Daniel, what do you think about this place?

Amazing.

It's pretty epic looking with the palm trees contrasted with the orange cliffs up there.

You can't capture it on video.

The sheer size and everything is just amazing.

And it means, people, you don't have to go to Turkey and have your teeth done, doesn't it?

Doesn't it? Yeah, I mean, I'll beg people.

A lot of people are doing that when they just don't need to whatsoever.

But I mean, yeah, you know, the way this come about was I was using a lot of products myself.

And, you know, some of the people here might resonate if they've used teeth whitening products before.

Sort of bad sensitivity issues, strips that just don't stick to your teeth.

They slide around everywhere.

how did you come up with the formula then how did you know excuse me i'm sweating bucket still um how did you come up with a formula that you know that you knew that was going to work how did you come up with that or was it so yeah don't get

Mm-hmm

... to show where the ropes would actually drop because that's one of the big questions, is how did the veil system drop in here? There's lots of different descriptions, but because nobody's actually come in here and done this much work, nothing has really gone into this detail.

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Oh, okay.

Because it says when they rose up from the pulpits, that He was in front of them, and this would be most likely towards the front.

So, and that would make more sense that he's not quite as high so that when the different prophets come to ordain, that they're at a closer level.

So it's pretty incredible to have the visual of this, and we're creating a 3D model so that we can then be able to show what we, what our findings will be.

Why might a ketogenic, so a high-fat, low-carb diet, help improve symptoms of bipolar disorder? Daniel?

So I'd start by saying we don't really know.

[laughs] And then I would say that it may be something to do with energy balance in the brain.

So if we think about the brain as a very energy-hungry organ, in fact the most energy-hungry organ in the body, it may be the case that some of the networks in the brain that regulate mood and energy and sleep and activity and all of these things are in some way compromised or working inefficiently.

It may be the case that going from glycolysis, so using glucose as the energy source, changing that into using ketones as the energy source may be a more efficient way to deliver energy to brain cells and neuronal networks.

And maybe it's that sort of more efficient use of energy that could be therapeutic.

But I would stress this is very early days.

So if the trial is successful, if we find this is something that makes a difference to people with bipolar disorder, could there be a way of exploiting this as a mechanism rather than people staying on this diet for a long time, especially when we know there are long-term serious effects? Daniel?

Hmm

... an essential part of us temporarily is going to backfire.

If you are feeling lousy and you have a couple glasses of wine, you're going to feel better while you're buzzed, but you're not gonna feel much better afterwards.

It's just gonna come back.

If you go and go on social media to distract yourself or go watch a TV show, you'll distract yourself for the time being.

But these, these emotions have-- they're indelible parts of us.

They're, they're parts of our psyche, they're parts of our experience, and, and you could think of them not as problems, but as messengers with messages about what we're going through, that if we really, really want to live more wholly, live, um, with more equanimity, then the best thing we can do is not try to cleave these parts off from us, but actually stop and try to understand what it is that they're trying to say.

Mm

Those, those seem like two different things.

Yeah, it is.

I mean, it, it really depends on whether you're feeling the thing alone or whether you're feeling, uh, it and acting on it.

I mean, w- what I find with, in my work as a thera- psychotherapist is that a lot of people are experiencing pain not because they're acting on their emotions but simply because they're feeling it.

But, you know, I concede the point, that there are different degrees of these emotions.

I, I personally am less prone to anger and rage than I am to annoyance.

I have a sort of strong, what the psychologists call an annoyance proneness, and sometimes I act on that.

And I, I, you know, I never heard anyone really discuss the topic, so discuss the topic.

Tell me, how did you pitch to him?

Uh, Gary Vee was the most strange experience of my life.

Um, w- I was, I'm a firm believer that if you can ask the right people enough times, then y- you can at least get an answer.

I think people stop at, uh, maybe an email or stop at even the thought sometimes of that anything... y- you can get anyone on your show.

Or especially in the guest world, I mean, this can go across business in general.

Like if you wanna talk to s- an investor, or if you wanna talk to, uh, somebody about being a part of your business or influencer that you wanna be a part of to, to spruik your show.

There's no, um, there's no stopping how... until they tell you to stop.

Mm.

So let's start by defining, like, what actually is an emotion? And, you know, maybe we could also start to get into what some of the science says about emotions as well.

Yeah, this is a really difficult one to answer and in a way was the hardest part of the book to write because it turns out that there is no obvious definition of emotion.

They have done surveys of scientists in the field and And the interesting result is that nobody agrees.

It's like one of those concepts.

It's like canvassing a bunch of theologians on what is God or what is grace or what is faith.

Or canvassing a bunch of philosophers to ask them, what is the ultimate question? What are the questions that are most valuable to ask in philosophy? And how do you go about doing philosophy? It's just...

It's just the most heterogeneous group of answers, which, as I write in the book, I kind of find beautiful because there is something very human about not being able to define something as important, as fundamental, as central to human life as emotions.

Or