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Today I wanted to talk to you about the performance of the new Macbook pros is there an issue with I don't know I've heard a couple stories about it where these higher I'm sure probably the entry level system is quite adequate and definitely a very positive type of computing experience you're gonna get from it I'm sure you're gonna be happy in a lot of experiences laptop in the same line that produce much less thermal energy. So this has kind of, I guess, been performance hinders in some cases because there's something called thermal gating. It's a system where when.
The computer gets too hot somewhere around boiling temperature can you imagine that's happening just in your little laptop heat venting out of your keyboard goodness gracious that's what you have to do to get 4k video coming out of a laptop so with all this going on with that processor trying to not breach a boiling point it does you know on the desk where it was produced was spinning up the fans producing a lot of heat and stuff they put it in the.
I guess because it was a better heat dissipation system, though it's not an optimal system to run a computer in a freezer. Because of that system, you know, it's a laptop, a very thin laptop trying to run very high performance utilities. So I'm kind of curious about, you know, really what the design perspective is on that. It'll be interesting to see where things go from here, and I'm sure...
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Oh yeah, there's been so many discoveries since the last time of year. Gravitational waves have been verified. They've been projected before, but now they've been verified, I guess I suppose. They say the math is strong. I'll let the scientific community bet that all. But yeah, they say that they found, what was it like, a 26 and a, or excuse me, a, I think it was a...
26 and a 34 solar mass black hole orbiting each other came closer and closer kind of spiraling in on their same like point and then they finally merged I think predicted in Einstein's theory of special relativity where it kind of matches a pattern of how gravitational body.
Then what that would mean is that when mass is accelerated to a certain point it turns in energy that's what happened in this event these two thirty solar mass black holes collided with each other it released three solar masses that's three times the whole mass of our sun from mass into energy out into space and I think this is one of like the largest or the most energetic events that we've been able to record in cosmology. and was it for mid-February that's when they kind of announced it.
For any daily use but it will change a lot of the astronomical well I'd say like part of the study of astronomy going forward in the next 50 or 75 to 100 years you know is because now we can make a gravitational telescopes we can make these tools that are able to observe gravity Eventually, once they're able to do this or once they're able to let's say now that it's proven they're going to be able to refine it so much more that they're going to be able to pick up much more subtle gravitational waves and once they're able to do this or once they're able to let's say now that it's proven put this type of technology out into space and then make that a expanse really vast we're going to be able to refine details of these gravitational waves to a much smaller resolution and that's going to give scientists and.
To look into the early stages of the universe forming, which is going to be really exciting. I think this event that they observed was one and a half billion light years away. They say it's not triangulated so they don't know exactly where in space this event took place, but they say that it would be out somewhere past the magelantic cloud if we were to kind of think about it in the sphere of the sky, that's in the southern hemisphere.
Pretty cool stuff and say okay the coolest thing so it's kind of obtuse to sort of wrap your head around what it means what are they observing what is a gravitational wave but this ripple from this event that happened one and a half billion that's why we didn't see any kind of crazy you know thing happen there's no kind of that's that way of I think stretched and then shrunk galaxy by the width of a thumb so that's like a hundred.
A hundred thousand light years across the Milky Way galaxy and that kind of wiggled by an inch with this gravitational wave. You're saying that it got a space in it that was the width of a thumb and then it got closer together. You know it's really strange it warped.
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It's complicated yeah that the that the fabric between the atoms had flexed outward imperceivable to us as beings that don't have a capability of perceiving something like that of the change in our space time we're not able to really do that we perceive because since we're in it we perceive time to be pretty constant. But if we were outside of that we could see that.
Between proton and proton in an atom is is expanding outward and the size of those atoms are expanding outward it's just like space time is expanding right it's just sort of the ocean a few weeks ago we'd kind of be in the wave it would move through but then it would go back to the status of the water before the wave right so the wave similarly it didn't displace anything.
On well yet to be proven to this item of gravitational waves is really just been theoretical up until this point because it had not been no technology developed to make that an observable phenomenon, these so there's two locations right now and these were all part of a scientific grant to look for a theoretical piece of science that can detect that Yeah, so there's two locations right now and these were all part of a scientific grant to look for a theoretical piece of science that no one believed even existed even Einstein I think kind of sort of tried to retract this idea during his life that there is that there was even the.
Wave observatory. Really interesting stuff. I won't get into exactly how they do it, but it's a laser interferometer and it uses like a period of an amount of time to bounce a laser beam back that amount of time that period really, really accurately and then when this happened they're two observations all part of the same, I don't know, observational, well there's two observatories. They both get recordings and then they match that data together,
So if there's an earthquake in one, you could kind of measure that against whatever the other one would pick up, and you can cancel that signal out. Okay. Yeah, it's cool stuff. So now that it's been proven, now that this really experimental thing that costs billions of dollars to get set up for the first time, has not been proven, it's going to be this huge expansion into the scientific community where they're going to be building out a lot more of these tools to do gravitational wave observation. That's really cool. It's going to be really exciting.
I think I mentioned that there are two observatories that were picking this up and they were doing noise cancellation against each other to try and refine the signal, which is part of how the technology works that they're that there's two installation sites right now they're both in America I think they're gonna expand soon out from that because there's gonna be an advantage if there are well at least if there are more than two, because right now, with two they're not able to.
One of them is in Washington state and one of them is in Arkansas right now. Cool. I think the best place for them to be off the earth entirely. the highest resolution way that we can make observations of the universe was by putting that telescope so that they can look out so deeply into space. Really cool how they're able to do that. With optical telescopes, I think in a lifetime over the next 30, 40 years, if this seems like a promising feel.
Into laser interferometer gravitational wave observatories that are put out into space as like long satellites or satellites that communicate to each other and send a pulse back and forth or send a laser back and forth to each other and then try and pick up that same period of time as the technology and the world, like we might see something from Cern or we might see something from, you know, just from some other installation that would want to build something like this now that it's a provable, scientifically researchable field.
Of cosmology. Be really cool. It's going to be one of the most exciting things that happens for for this next century of scientific discovery. I think this is probably one of the groundbreaking things that'll be part of learning about gravity, learning about that part of early universal history. Be interesting. Yeah, that would be really interesting. Yeah. to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at.
So I wanted to talk about painting stuff that I've been doing. I think I'd mentioned I'd done a good bit of work with you know other programs in the past but this is really the first time that I've gotten to be a website called linda.com and linda.com was these screencast video tutorials of how to use different types of software and how to.
And so all of those courses that have existed over the years have a lot of good information in them. But so I went back to what would be Linda.com now as it has been purchased by for like essential training for logic pro ten. There's a number of videos for like essential training for logic pro ten but there's nothing because now this new update, logic pro ten four there's a full essential training video that was produced by uh...
And he just kind of goes through the controls and the system and stuff. You get a good feel like how to make changes, how to use different features, how to use the mixer versus like the linear tracking system, you know how to use different controls and stuff. A lot of the stuff is similar if you've used GarageBand, like I was mentioned, or another digital audio workstation that does multi tracking in the past. But it was cool, yeah, learning like some techniques about how to apply.
Similar training videos and there's a lot of people a lot of music producers out there that have done their own screen cast of kind of walking through different services or different techniques that these digital audio workstations provide so I was looking at a guy's website I think it was why logic pro rules Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of the Billy Newman photo podcast I hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy newman photo.
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