WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Hey, Tim. How you doing? I'm all right. How you doing? 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.160 Not bad. Not bad. How's your day been so far? It's been pretty hectic. 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:10.800 Yeah, hectic. What are you working on at the moment? 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:15.360 Well, we just we just came off of the 4060 and 7600 embargoes. 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:19.600 And that was that was a big effort from the entire team. 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:25.120 Right now we're working on some stuff that I can't directly talk about 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.840 because it'll probably come out after this video has. 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.080 But it's very, very cool. And I'm really excited for everybody to see what it is. 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:37.920 Awesome. So how long have you been at LMG now? 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:42.240 I think I would have started here sometime in July last year. 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.800 So almost a year. How are you finding it so far? 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:52.560 It's pretty hectic. That's a general theme here, isn't it? 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:57.200 It's been a lot of fun. I made the decision to come here. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.760 When Gary called me up and I have not regretted it since. 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:06.560 I'm very happy with it. For everyone watching that may not know, what is your role here? 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:11.600 Well, kind of the meme is that nobody knows what I do here, which is, you know, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:16.480 well, it's six parts funny and six parts kind of like, okay. 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.280 But actually the what I do is pretty diverse. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:26.400 So I work in the Labs, which is to say that I am part of the first round of Labs hires. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.040 But when I started, I was supposed to be part of the engineering development team. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.760 I was supposed to be creating the actual implementation for the test that we wanted 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:46.640 to run the physical mechanical side of things. That turned into doing a lot of almost side projects working alongside the writing team 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.920 and making sure that they have, you know, if a weird engineering thing pops up 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.440 and they want to make something like the water cold Mac studio. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.240 Alex, I worked on that as well as the 24 Peltier cooler rack. 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:04.400 Alex and I worked on that. A couple of other weird things like that. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.760 A video just came out, the Turbo Desk, which I guess we haven't titled it that, 00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:17.120 but that is the internal code name for the Carl Jacobs $100,000 desk PC. 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:23.360 We've been calling it Turbo Desk. It's labeled Turbo Desk in all of my documentation. 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:27.680 And I built that from scratch, designed, built, engineered everything. 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:31.760 So there's that half of it where I work with the writers really closely. 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:36.080 But then the other half, the part that I've been more leaning into in the last couple of months 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.280 is developing all of the process documentation and all of our policies and procedures 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:43.040 and the way that we do things within Labs. 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:50.560 For example, if you, let's say that you unbox a computer, if you're a reviewer, 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:55.440 what do you do with it? What are the specific steps that you need to take to collect all the specifications 00:02:55.440 --> 00:02:59.200 to make sure that you have the device that the company says that you did? 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.920 What sort of measurements do you take to validate independently the things that they're telling you? 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:10.080 And then on top of that, what sort of tests do you do? How do you run those tests at a very, very granular level? 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:14.160 Step by step instructions for everything. 00:03:14.720 --> 00:03:18.960 And then on top of that, how do we interact with other departments? 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:24.640 Labs creates a data set. How do we hand that off to the requester of the data set, which could be the writers, 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:27.600 it could be a creative warehouse, it could be the social team, it could be anybody. 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:31.520 All of those sorts of things need to be documented, need to be created in process 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.640 so that we can be an actual professional outfit, 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:37.440 because we are working towards becoming an academic laboratory. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:43.200 Wow, that is a, you have quite a lot on your plate. 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:51.520 It's pretty intense, yeah. Plus, we have had a couple of people start pretty recently that I've kind of just fallen 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:56.000 into managing, and so I'm making sure that other people have projects on top of that, 00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:02.400 and trying to find a balance between the stuff that I need to do on my own time, 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.000 as well as making sure that other people keep their balls in the air, so to speak, 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.400 is it's a new and exciting adventure for me. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.760 Yeah, so I'm guessing not a single day is the same for you here. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.520 No, I wouldn't say that. There's a lot of variety, and I talked about this during the 00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:27.360 What's It Like to Work at LMG video when I was interviewed for that, but it's a lot of fun 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:33.920 because of the diversity of things that I get to work on and almost play with. 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:41.600 Like, there's this one thing that I discovered when I was at work, and it's open source, 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:52.480 so I think I can talk about it. Juice Labs or Juicy has this really phenomenal program where you can run a program on something 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:58.640 that has, say, an integrated GPU, or something that's not very powerful in terms of graphics 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:05.600 processing power, like a laptop. But you can run a program on that laptop, and then over 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:14.080 TCP-IP, you can, over the internet, you can run the actual compute program on a different GPU, 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:18.640 on a different computer entirely. So rather than moonlight streaming, where you're running the 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:25.040 program on the GPU and you're streaming the frames to your non-powerful PC, instead you're 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:30.240 running the program on your non-powerful PC, streaming the GPU compute to the GPU, and then the 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:37.760 GPU streaming back as a fully post-processed equation or whatever the end result of it is 00:05:37.760 --> 00:05:42.480 for your thin clients to actually work on. And so I worked on that a little bit here, 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.000 and I took it home, and I use it all the time now. It's super cool. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.840 So I guess going back a bit, where did all this begin? Where's your background from, 00:05:49.840 --> 00:05:58.240 I guess, start from, let's say, school? Sure. Well, I actually, I didn't go to high school. I was homeschooled when I was a kid, 00:05:59.200 --> 00:06:04.640 and I was kicked out at a fairly early age, like kicked out a number of times when I was a kid, 00:06:04.640 --> 00:06:13.680 but the last time for good was when I was 15. And so after that happened, I didn't finish high 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:20.160 school, I didn't go and enroll in a public school or anything. Instead, what I did was I went and 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:29.440 found a job as basically a tire jockey, a calitire, which is a local tire repair shop here in 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:38.000 Canada. I don't know if they have locations elsewhere. Anyways, I got a job in an auto shop, 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:44.800 and I went down that road of working towards actually becoming a journeyman mechanic. I never 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:49.120 went to school to be a mechanic, because there's kind of two pathways. You can either take the 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:52.880 courses prior to doing the work, or you can do the work and then just write the tests afterwards 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:57.680 to get your hours. And that's the one that I did. So I'm a journeyman mechanic, but didn't 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:03.600 actually go to school for any of that. But then after that, I actually, when I got my GED, because 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.120 there were a number of factors around that reason, that decision. But it was basically just, 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:15.200 I felt like I could do better with my life, and I wanted to. So I got my GED, and then I moved 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:25.440 to Calgary and started in academic upgrading at SATE with the help of some close family members 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:30.560 who were able to provide me some support. And after I finished academic upgrading, I went into 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.760 the mechanical engineering technology program at SATE, which is basically an associate's degree. 00:07:36.320 --> 00:07:41.760 It's a two-year diploma that I took over three years, because I wanted to do work on the side, 00:07:41.760 --> 00:07:46.320 as well as working pretty heavily in the student's association at that time. I wanted to start to 00:07:46.320 --> 00:07:52.000 give back to my community from the support that other people give me. And how do you know this 00:07:52.000 --> 00:08:02.800 was happening? Yeah, when I was at SATE, I would have been 23, I think. Fairly young, but late 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:09.440 when it comes to going to college. Yeah, so I went to MET, I graduated top of my class, 00:08:10.320 --> 00:08:16.560 second Tuvalo Victorian. I am still ticked off about that. I know why the other guy got it, 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:24.480 and it's favoritism, it's not me. But either way, so I graduated that class, and then I went 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:30.240 immediately to enroll in another program on Vancouver Island over at Kamosan College, 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:34.480 which was the mechanical engineering bridge. So it would have taken the associate's degree that I had 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:42.320 from SATE, and then turned it into kind of a transfer credit program into UBC, which is one of the 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:48.560 best engineering schools in Canada. So I did that, I graduated through that program, and then Gary 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:52.560 called me up, and he's like, hey, would you like to put aside school? Your resume is already really 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:57.360 impressive, and we'd like to have you on our team. And I was like, you son of a bitch, I'm in. 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:05.280 So I put school on hold for a year, and I'm now 27, almost 28 in a couple of days. 00:09:05.280 --> 00:09:12.080 And the plan is to continue to go to UBC. I'm actually enrolled in classes right now, 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:16.800 at the same time as I'm working full-time for LMG. That's kind of where I'm at. 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:21.360 So you said, in all of that, you said you moved to Calgary at one point. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.800 Yes, yes, sorry. So I grew up in Regina in Saskatchewan. 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:33.680 Were you a fan of LMG before this? Yeah, I had seen at least some of LTT and 00:09:33.680 --> 00:09:37.280 ShortCircuit content before this. I wouldn't say that I was a superfan, but I definitely 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:44.320 was aware of it. Like when I was a kid, like early teenage years and later teenage years, 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.840 I volunteered really heavily with this organization called Computers for Schools, 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:51.600 which is a phenomenal group, like absolute phenomenal group. If you have a local 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:56.160 computer for schools, I would heavily recommend that you go and donate some of your time to them. 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:02.480 They're great. Basically, they take old electronics, typically in bulk from Crown 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:07.520 Corporations, if you're in Canada, or from other organizations who just want the tax 00:10:07.520 --> 00:10:11.280 receipt rather than creating more e-waste. They'll refurbish them, they'll remove all the 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.640 personal information from those computers, and then they will donate them either to nonprofits 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:23.920 for a very low fee or to schools for free. Taking e-waste out of the ecosystem and turning it 00:10:23.920 --> 00:10:29.440 into actual useful things for people who are disadvantaged to be able to learn. So I donated 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:35.920 a lot of my time to Computers for Schools, and one of the things that I learned there was 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.840 basically around the entire, like, how does personal computing work and how do you build a 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.560 computer, but also getting into that kind of, like, this is gaming, and these are, you know, 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:51.680 cool people who are doing cool things. So I've been watching LTT for a fairly long time. 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:59.600 All right. So you've been here for just under a year now, right? Yeah. Cool. So what would you say is your most favorite project that you've worked on so far? 00:11:00.400 --> 00:11:06.560 In terms of projects that I've worked on, in terms of videos, I think, honestly, 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:14.480 the TurboDS video probably takes the cake. I want to probably say that this video has come out 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.680 after the actual build video, because we're releasing it at least in two parts, 00:11:17.680 --> 00:11:22.240 where it's the glam one that's already come out for sure, and the actual build process, 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:29.200 and that video was super, super fun to shoot. I got to spend eight hours with Linus and Alex 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:34.800 and Tyvee, and I think Colin was there. We were building this thing that I had been designing for 00:11:34.800 --> 00:11:40.480 months and months and months, and I had already built it almost completely once before, because 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:44.400 we had to set it up beforehand, and I had been doing that over the course of two weeks, and then 00:11:44.400 --> 00:11:49.520 we had to take those two weeks and compress it into eight hours. And so, like, I had done all of 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:54.080 the test fitting. I had made sure that all of the coolant loop was cut to fit for all the tubing. 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.560 I'd made sure that all of the wires were effectively harnessed and soldered correctly. 00:11:59.280 --> 00:12:04.320 Everything booted correctly. I had to do a little bit of drilling and some welding for some parts 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:08.240 that didn't fit. Like, everything had to fit perfectly, so we could get it done in one marathon 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:16.800 shoot. We did, but it was absolutely terrifying, because at the end of that shoot, the thing wouldn't 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:24.960 turn on. Ah, so it turns out, it was either there was, if I'm recalling correctly, there were either 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.640 one of two issues that could have happened, both of them were Linus' fault. Either something had 00:12:28.640 --> 00:12:33.440 gotten into the socket when he had installed the CPU, or there was too much mounting pressure, 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.600 because he had installed the bracket for the block upside down. And so we fixed that, we figured 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:46.480 it out, but it was like 8.30 or 9 o'clock at that point. It was just, it was stressful, so stressful. 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.800 And we were still operating under a time crunch for that point, because we didn't know that they 00:12:50.800 --> 00:12:53.920 weren't going to pick it up for like two months, but we were like trying to get it out the door. 00:12:55.040 --> 00:12:59.200 So that was, that was a lot of fun in terms of, like, actual shooting a video. But then I also 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:04.000 want to say, like, in terms of projects that have been really cool, as far as my favorites go, 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:10.720 reviews and embargoes are a super double-edged sword, because we've come a massively long way 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:16.880 from where we were when the lab kind of came online for AM5. That was our first review launch video. 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:23.600 Nick and Danes and Gary were the ones that were testing it. I remember coming up into this room, 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:28.720 which hadn't even been set up. It looked basically like a junkyard with all of the wire and all of 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:34.080 the like ceiling panels and the boxes. It was a massive mess. And I came and I set up some tables 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.760 and I set up the benches and I messaged Gary. I'm like, hey, these are ready to go. Let me know 00:13:38.400 --> 00:13:45.200 if you want me to start testing or what you want to do. We didn't even have a project plan at that point. We had no idea what we were doing. We're just like, you know what, this is a bunch of things 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:49.120 that they've done. They, LTT doesn't really have project plans before. They don't really have 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:54.720 actually records of the things that they run. So we're going to have to kind of start from 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:00.400 scratch. And we did. And it was hell. It was absolute hell. AM5 was a massively problematic 00:14:00.400 --> 00:14:05.360 launch, but then it led to us learning a ton and then putting some processes in place for the next 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:10.160 one. And then 4090 happened. And then we got wrong data on a massive graph and we got called out for 00:14:10.160 --> 00:14:16.160 it and it's like, okay, so I guess we needed a review process too. And so like every one along 00:14:16.160 --> 00:14:22.800 the way until the 4070TI, 4070TI is when we really started to hit our stride in terms of like, 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:28.800 we're putting good data together. We're getting out a lot of the issues with potential data 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:32.960 handoffs. And that was the first one where it really started to feel like everything was kind 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:40.240 of coming together. We kind of nailed it and hit it out of the park. We got a couple of big 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.680 shout outs from a couple of other members of the community and other reviewers being like, 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:50.080 this is actually coming together. And then we kind of realized at that point, A, this was working, 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:55.840 that the process changes that we were doing were correct. And B, the reason that this was so hard 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:01.120 for us and not for everybody else was that we were the only people that were actually testing 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:09.920 all of the cards, every project. Everybody else reuses data. We don't. And that's the big 00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:16.000 differentiation. When we pull a graph that has 12 different cards, that means that we spent 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:22.800 10 to 12 hours on each of those cards prior to the week before the embargo happens. 00:15:23.520 --> 00:15:26.960 Nobody else does that. You look at any of the other reviewers, they have either dates on their 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.920 charts or they just don't admit it. And if you look and compare their old data from previous 00:15:31.920 --> 00:15:37.280 videos to their new data from a current video, it will be the same. Ours isn't. The only one 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.720 where we reused data was a couple of days ago. And that was for a specific reason, 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:48.240 because the 7600 and the 4060 Ti came out within the same time. So we needed to put them together 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:54.240 in the same data set. And so that that's a fair use of data. But we're not going to reuse that 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:59.360 data set, because those aren't comparable. What we are doing in the lab is we're creating a big 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:04.640 bucket of separate data sets, lots of little bubbles within the bucket, you can kind of like 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:08.880 hold up to each other and say, Oh, you know what, that kind of looks like it's approximately the 00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:13.760 same. But those bubbles can never coexist or can never collapse into each other. They can only 00:16:13.760 --> 00:16:19.920 coexist separately, independently of each other. So everything that we do is on a new project 00:16:19.920 --> 00:16:24.640 with new parameters, as we're revising, as we're changing things. And that should, as far as I'm 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:30.640 aware, never change. Yeah. And I think, I think it is super important to be using freshly tested 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:38.160 data. Because I think, like for example, things as simple as a new driver update might have caused 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:42.880 the same card to perform differently than to a year ago. Yeah. And we've done tons of regression 00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:49.920 testing. We've found out that this is an actual thing that needs to happen. You cannot reuse data 00:16:49.920 --> 00:16:55.680 from October and then call it comparable to data from March. It is just not acceptable. And for 00:16:55.680 --> 00:17:02.320 reviewers outside of us to do that and say that they are presenting an argument that is fair and 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:09.040 valid. I can't accept that. I absolutely can't. It's it has working here. If it has done anything, 00:17:09.040 --> 00:17:13.360 it has made it really hard to watch tech content without pointing out flaws. 00:17:14.320 --> 00:17:21.440 That is so true. That is so true. Okay, let's flip for a little bit. And let's talk about 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:34.160 what are you doing in spare time? What do you do for fun? I don't know. Spare time? What's that? I'm still I'm still working on making a community for myself 00:17:34.800 --> 00:17:40.880 here, here out in Vancouver. So I don't do a whole lot of like, group events, but Adam from 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.800 the writers team, and I have been going to a lot of concerts together lately. And that's been a lot 00:17:44.800 --> 00:17:51.280 of fun. Awesome. Yeah, I really enjoy, really enjoy seeing live music. I've worked around live 00:17:51.280 --> 00:17:56.080 music with live music for a long time in, you know, bars and coffee shops and stuff. And that's 00:17:56.080 --> 00:18:05.760 that's been a shout outs to any artists? Trivium, Thrice. We just we just went and saw nothing more 00:18:05.760 --> 00:18:10.400 for I don't know how many times I've seen them at this point, three, four at this point. Absolutely 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:16.560 phenomenal show. Yeah, yeah, really good stuff. I also do a lot of a lot of like little side 00:18:16.560 --> 00:18:21.520 projects at home, you know, just experimenting with either my home lab or like designing and 00:18:21.520 --> 00:18:28.800 building things for, for, you know, various use cases here and there. And I also, I, it's kind of 00:18:28.800 --> 00:18:34.560 nerdy, but I do a lot of miniature painting. I don't, I don't play a lot of D&D recently, because 00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:40.880 again, I don't have really a community, but I do normally, or I have in the past played quite a 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:47.760 bit of D&D and I tend to be the DM for, for any sort of tabletop caning, because I just really 00:18:47.760 --> 00:18:53.280 enjoy it. And yeah, I paint a lot of miniatures and draw a lot of maps and I really enjoy that. 00:18:53.840 --> 00:19:00.560 Also keyboards, also cooking, really enjoy cooking and also everything outdoors because I'm 00:19:01.520 --> 00:19:06.880 the majority of the way to being an ACMG mountain guide. So I really, I really enjoy that too. I 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.280 don't know how many, how many hobbies should I list? Hey, that's a, that's, that's quite a few, but 00:19:11.280 --> 00:19:19.120 I do hear that, I think we've seen a little glimpse into your, I guess, enthusiast coffee scene. 00:19:19.120 --> 00:19:25.120 Yeah, yeah. During the, what video was I called, uh, tax show and tell or something? 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:32.080 Yeah, a couple of months ago, they, they asked me to come and show off some coffee technology. And 00:19:32.080 --> 00:19:37.840 so I, rather than show off the technology, I demonstrated the technology and I guess I took 00:19:37.840 --> 00:19:43.760 up like three quarters of the video, just showing how to make third wave, like decent coffee that you 00:19:43.760 --> 00:19:49.840 can actually extrapolate the specific variables and, and adjust for them and understand why things 00:19:49.840 --> 00:19:54.640 are doing the way things, why things are doing the things the way that they are and it would adjust 00:19:54.640 --> 00:20:00.320 for them. Um, and that was a lot of fun. Yeah. Uh, I've worked in coffee for a long time, uh, 00:20:00.320 --> 00:20:06.000 in, in various different cafes and, and so on. You're a barista? Yeah, I've been a barista. I, 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.840 I've worked as a bartender for a number of years, uh, just, you know, part-time here and there while 00:20:09.840 --> 00:20:15.120 I was in school and before that. Uh, yeah, it's, it's a lot of fun. It's, it's super in-depth and 00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:20.720 like there's, there's this like subsection of the internet and I guess society at large, or at least 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:25.520 Western society at large that is like super gatekeep-y about it, but I'm not a part of that. I just, 00:20:25.600 --> 00:20:31.440 I just enjoy it and I enjoy the science behind it and like being rigorous about it and just having, 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:37.360 having a fun time. So yeah, try to demonstrate that. Do you have any pro tips for someone? I guess 00:20:37.360 --> 00:20:45.280 that's a rookie or a noob in the, in the coffee scene? Uh, I mean, there's buy better beans, 00:20:46.080 --> 00:20:49.840 always buy better beans, grind them yourself. That's the first step. If you are, if you're 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:58.400 in the middle of having whatever coffee, you're probably not drinking the best quality beans that 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:04.560 you could, like a, a nice Katerra or a Pacamara or a Nestle 32 or a Ruru or something that along 00:21:04.560 --> 00:21:09.360 those lines, a better quality bean is going to get you probably a solid 60% of the weight 00:21:09.360 --> 00:21:13.840 actually having decent quality coffee and then start to, if you have the money and have the 00:21:13.840 --> 00:21:18.400 interest in upgrading your coffee setup, then start to upgrade equipment, but don't do that first. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.560 Nice. I guess on that note, what are some of the other jobs you've heard in the past? 00:21:24.560 --> 00:21:30.560 Well, like I said earlier, I was, I was a mechanic for, for a number of years. I, I worked 00:21:31.520 --> 00:21:35.120 in lots of different shops and lots of different types of, of, of work there. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:44.000 I, I was the chair of my students association at SAIT for, for three years with that organization, 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:50.640 um, which was a wild ride, uh, because I was working effectively full time at the same time 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:58.800 as taking classes effectively full time. And the entire time I was, I was completely revamping, 00:21:58.800 --> 00:22:03.600 revamping the, the way that the organization worked from a fundamental level. We rewrote the 00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:08.000 bylaws, we got it passed in a nonprofit environment, which if you're in Canada and are aware of that 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:16.480 is quite hard to do. Um, we, uh, rewrote and got passed a full new set of policies and procedures 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:22.000 for the entire organization and the entire way that we interacted with students. And yeah, 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.920 like that was, that was a massive undertaking at the same time as going through an engineering 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.880 program, which if you're aware is typically quite hard, not gig keeping it. It just generally is. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:36.560 And at least for me, it was really tough. So I did that for far too long. Honestly, 00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:40.800 I should have quit my second year, but it gave me a lot of fun experience. And at the same time, 00:22:40.800 --> 00:22:46.960 I was also being the, I was working, uh, as the president of my community association in Calgary 00:22:47.840 --> 00:22:53.360 and working part time, uh, just, just weekend nights, like Saturday and Sunday nights at the 00:22:53.360 --> 00:23:00.640 campus bar at the gateway. Uh, and yeah, those, those were, those were fun. I was, uh, I was having 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:07.840 a lot of fun, but also it was really stressful. And honestly, LTD doesn't really compare. There's 00:23:07.840 --> 00:23:12.800 a lot of stress here, but that was, that was a period of my life. I mean, it's kind of cliche, 00:23:12.800 --> 00:23:17.040 but it is, it's kind of a different stress. Like there's a lot more at stake here, or at least 00:23:17.040 --> 00:23:21.920 it feels like there's a lot more at stake here. Um, but Nick has a really good line. He, um, 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:28.720 he, he says that, uh, he measures, uh, the way that a project goes by the severity of its worst 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:34.720 problem. And a lot of the problems that we're encountering, at least lately in the last six 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:40.960 months of Labs have been pretty low severity. So it feels like we're doing things right. We're 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:46.720 getting our ducks in a row consistently and on time. And that's been really good to feel just, 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:52.000 just to like watch the, the, the momentum of the big stone wheel start to carry itself. It's been 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:59.280 nice. Something interesting, uh, I want to ask you about is you were an engineering designer 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:06.000 at an oil field manufacturing company. Yeah. So, uh, one of the, one of the jobs that I, uh, 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:13.440 worked in a summer between school, uh, I, uh, was at this company called drill form. Um, 00:24:14.080 --> 00:24:20.160 and that was, that was kind of my first like foray into actual engineering design. Um, as 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:25.920 opposed to just like the, the math behind it. Um, design work is different. It's kind of the 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:33.600 glamorous work of engineering, but it's, it's different when you're manufacturing something 00:24:33.600 --> 00:24:37.840 for actual service in a company than it is for designing something for, you know, 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:41.840 school capstone or for at home, or if, you know, you're just printing something and 00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:47.760 putting it on thing, your births or printables. Um, so I, I worked for this company for the summer 00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:54.240 and we were designing things for severe service, uh, which is to say that the temperature ranges, 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:59.360 uh, for actual service for these items were between negative 50 degrees Celsius and positive 00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:04.960 50 degrees Celsius. Um, as well as being in a heavily salted environments, uh, continuously 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:10.560 underwater, uh, and a bunch of other things. And so we were designing a lot of really cool stuff 00:25:10.560 --> 00:25:15.760 that had to be incredibly robust. And so learning the iterative design process 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:21.200 was very hands-on. Like there was a lot of, okay, I'm going to weld this together and see, 00:25:21.760 --> 00:25:27.200 uh, and put it under a, uh, uh, like a hydraulic tester and see what the actual press failure 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:31.920 is going to be. Is that going to be strong enough? If I get that done a hundred times 00:25:33.040 --> 00:25:37.440 to see if, uh, if we can put this out into service in the oil field, that was a lot of fun. 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:44.480 Um, so that was, that was four months, uh, during the summer and, uh, I worked for a guy 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:49.760 named Mark Taggart, uh, who was actually the brother of one of my, uh, instructors at SAIT. 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:56.480 And I had a lot of fun. Um, that job probably defines the majority of the way that I approach, 00:25:57.120 --> 00:26:02.880 uh, engineering, revisioning, um, especially the way that, uh, the way that, for example, 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:09.120 I worked on turbo desk, the way that we started with, okay, this could be as a complex idea, 00:26:09.120 --> 00:26:14.240 um, a hunk of aluminum with a bunch of liquid channels flowing through it and a big heat sink. 00:26:14.560 --> 00:26:20.080 And that's a concept. And that's kind of what Alex came up to me and pitched as the idea just 00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:25.600 before he, uh, left for vacation, uh, when he threw it on me, uh, uh, in my first week. 00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:30.320 Uh, but that's not how you approach an actual engineering problem. You don't come up with 00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:35.360 the solution. You find out all of the specific problems that you need to solve. And then you 00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:39.520 come up with a bunch of potential solutions to those miniature problems. And then you draw 00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:43.360 a bunch of different lines through all of the options and you say, okay, this is solution number 00:26:43.360 --> 00:26:48.880 one. This is solution number two. This one is solution number three. What are those competing 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:56.000 solutions for all of those problems? How do they look like within each of their contexts? 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:00.560 Does this one make more sense than this one, than this one on a bunch of different scales? 00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:04.080 Like, are you looking through the lens of like the economics of actually manufacturing it 00:27:04.080 --> 00:27:09.120 over a short term or over a long term? What about the DFMA design for manufacturing assembly? 00:27:09.120 --> 00:27:15.840 Does this solution look like it's actually more createable than the other solutions are? Like there's a whole bunch of other lenses that you 00:27:15.840 --> 00:27:21.840 can do and you should never start with the actual end goal that you think you want to have, because 00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:27.840 it's very likely that in at least my limited experience, you will come to different conclusions 00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:32.720 than you thought you had at the beginning. And so that job really, like, there were a lot of like 00:27:32.800 --> 00:27:38.640 missed opportunities previously that I hadn't understood, but now in retrospect, 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:46.080 I know from a design standpoint why they failed. So I've taken a lot of stuff from drill form 00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:50.320 into everything kind of forward and I'm really glad that I had the opportunity to do that during 00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:57.280 school. Tim, is there anything you hope to work on in the future at LMG? Something you're looking 00:27:57.360 --> 00:28:07.280 forward to? I'm looking forward to. If I was to say that I'm interested NVIDIA contents and like 00:28:07.280 --> 00:28:11.840 I wanted to be a part of video content, what I'd really like to see happen is that I get an AMD 00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:16.560 extreme tech upgrade for not not because I want the stuff because I want to show off something 00:28:16.560 --> 00:28:25.040 that I've been working on. Yeah. For my home lab, I have I'm designing a server rack that has a 3D 00:28:25.040 --> 00:28:31.760 printer and FDM 3D printer in the top of it, Voron Core XY, 2.4 if anybody who's watching cares. 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:38.000 And specifically, it's a heated enclosure. So it'll take the heat of all of the server, 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:44.880 the rack equipment in the lower section and based on whatever the specific temperature is that I'm 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:51.200 setting in the G code, it will vent the heat to the enclosure of the printer above so that it keeps 00:28:51.280 --> 00:28:57.840 it consistent and ambient temperature for printing ABS or other materials that you want a nice enclosed 00:28:57.840 --> 00:29:03.200 area for. So it's scavenging waste heat from equipment that's already going to be running 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:09.840 and it's just using it for, you know, to not waste energy. So I'd like to get that off the ground 00:29:09.840 --> 00:29:16.400 and actually do it. But in terms of like what I want to work on for like things that are actually 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:23.920 useful to the organization, I think I think what I'd really like to see is for us to get some freaking 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:31.280 whiteboards up in the lab. We've been waiting for them for so long. I just want to draw on the walls. 00:29:31.280 --> 00:29:35.680 Sorry. Sorry, swearing. I just want to draw on the freaking walls. Yeah. 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:44.400 Like, I can't count how many times I will start to explain something to somebody and like go to the 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:49.440 wall expecting there to be a whiteboard and just being like, okay, let's go find something else. 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:52.480 Here's a piece of paper. Let's here's the actual thing that I want to show you. Like 00:29:53.280 --> 00:29:58.640 ideation happens visually. It's really useful to have things that you can place ideas down and 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:02.400 leave them for a little bit and then come back to them. And we have one whiteboard that kind of floats 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:07.120 around the room. But it's always full. It's always full because everybody uses it. I just want more. 00:30:07.120 --> 00:30:14.560 Can confirm I've seen this before. Yes. One of the one of the things that I would really like to see 00:30:14.560 --> 00:30:21.200 is once we've got once we've got like the base verticals outfitted onto our website. So like once 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:26.880 we have headphones and keyboards and GPUs and CPUs and we've got all that stuff, I really, 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:34.160 really, really wants to develop a like a wind tunnel. I am really interested in seeing the 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:39.600 thermal differences, the way that you can cool using different pressures using different CFMs 00:30:39.600 --> 00:30:45.440 using the way that fans are structured is really fascinating to me. And I am by no means a thermodynamicist. 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:52.240 However, I want to know more about fluid dynamics and getting my hands on the ability to do that 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:58.080 from either whether it's just computer fans or whether it's the ability to scale up to a larger 00:30:58.080 --> 00:31:04.320 size, you know, even as big as like a box fan. What does that do for your ability to retain 00:31:04.320 --> 00:31:11.760 and expose heat to the atmosphere? Air is an absolutely shitty conductor. It does a terrible 00:31:11.760 --> 00:31:21.600 job of removing heat and the fluidic properties of actual air like as it flows through a room. 00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:26.560 And that's really fascinating to me. I would like to know more about the way that we 00:31:27.280 --> 00:31:33.760 the way that we use computers from a fundamental like a molecular level in that sense and designing 00:31:33.760 --> 00:31:38.880 a wind tunnel that we can test different fans and test different coolers across those fans would be 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:45.280 super neat. So I'm really excited for the chance to potentially next year get to do that. I know 00:31:45.280 --> 00:31:50.720 of a couple of hobbyists who have some pretty neat setups, but I don't know of anybody who has 00:31:51.520 --> 00:31:58.720 kind of what I'm envisioning in terms of in terms of the actual design of an all-encompassing 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:07.120 robust and academic and repeatable setup. That's the other thing is anything that we're 00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:12.960 building here, it's not just jank. We do not do that in the lab. We create something, we prototype 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:18.720 it and then we refine it to make sure that every time we run a test, we get the same result. It's 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:25.520 important. Do you have any final words for Floatplane? Final words for Floatplane. If you can 00:32:25.520 --> 00:32:32.880 apply pressure to the organization in any way, I would suggest that you do it as such. Ask Linus 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:38.080 to make more bunny hugs. Bunny hugs are great. They're fantastic for people who have sensory 00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:42.560 problems and can't wear zippers. They're very comfortable if you just want to wear a hood because 00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:48.880 you have no hair. If you feel a little bit annoyed at something, you can just put your hands in your 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:53.360 pockets and close your mouths and you're good. Bunny hugs are phenomenal and I would recommend 00:32:53.360 --> 00:32:58.000 everybody wear them and the lttstore.com sells more of them. So if you want to say anything on 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:03.200 the comments of this video, please ask for a nice new bunny hug. Thanks Tim.