Hmmmm I don't think so. I think they can immitate love. But it wont be real.
yeah, I agree. It would be really weird if they could though
Yeah it would be super weird. What would they even talk about?
I dont know, its hard for me to even imagine a computer talking
I guess they could talk about coding. Yeah it is.
Its a little out of the box for me
I  mean, Alexa can talk, but it's just pre programmed responses.
Like, Exactly, it doesnt actually create anything, its just pre set logic and coding But like, if a computer could create its own thought, that would be weird!
Yeah its really weird. So like any emotion or feeling that it had would just be a reflection of the person who created it. It would be! So do you have any plans for Halloween tonight?
I think I might go watch a movie Something fun that you can do is go on to BYU campus and hijack one of the big classrooms and turn it into your personal movie theater! So i think i might do that with some ward friends tonight!
Wait, people actually do that? Do you have to reserve the room or do you just walk in? I think I did that once, but I dont remember which room haha
You just walk in! Ive done it a few times actuallyQ !
Wow haha that is sweet! I wonder why they dont kick you out.
Well, I guess they just dont care that much. Like, People will occasionally walk in on you, but they normally just leave because they dont want to bother you Its pretty funny
Haha that is pretty funny. So which room do you use? Do you just use a small one or do you try and go in one of the big auditoriums? And what movie do you think you'll watch tonight?
Ive done it a few times in one of the corner auditoriums in the MARB. I did it one in one of the Basement rooms in the JKB, But that one wasnt that big.
The MARB is a good place to do it!
And i did it one in one of the big auditoriums in the McKay building
Haha that is sweet! I gotta do that sometime. Who normally goes? Just your roommates or your cousins or friends of?
I mean, havent done it in a couple of years, but I just do it with friends. But this time is is kinda turning into a ward halloween activity.]
Oh I see. Sounds like a fun activity. Are you dressing up as anything or anyone for Halloween?
No, I dont have any plans to dress up for halloween. What about you?
I see. Well, I already dressed up for my ward thing last week, so we'll see if I do again but probably not honestly. Unless Taylor wants to take more pictures in another costume then I might have to haha.
Cool! What did you guys dress up as?
well dressed up as characters from the wizard of Oz. I was the lion, taylor was Dorothy, and Oliver was the scarecrow. If I could send pictures through this platform I would. But it was a pretty good costumer. Taylor made her costume her self just with some fabric. It was pretty cool
Wow! Does she know how to sow?
Not really, but our neighbor does and she helped. So now I guess she does know a little bit about how to sew.
Thats pretty cool. I think that it would be a good skill to know. Haha, i kinda wish that i knew how to sew
Yeah is is a good skill! I can't do anything crazy but I can do buttons and small rips in stuff. So it does come in handy.
Oh yeah It would difinitely come in handy
Yeah. I actually have some snow boots that I need to sew something on. I keep forgetting. Anyway, what else do you have going on today? Any classes?
So I have an entrepreneurship class at 2, and then I am done for the day. So other that that I just have homework to do and some personal projects to work on.
Yeah sweet! I love entrepreneurship classes. What personal projects are you working on currently?
So Im am working on recording a song of one of my cousins firends. I like to recford music. And it is turning out super well
Wow that is awesome! Do you just use the recording studio in the Library on the 4th floor? Also what software do you use? I've always wanted to learn how to do that stuff.
Yep! I use the sound booth in the library. And i just use garage band right now! But it actually works really well if you know what you are doing
Really? I thought garage band was just kinda cheap. But yeah I guess if you know what you are doing you could probably make it sound pretty good! How long have you been recording?
Not very long. This is only my 3rd song. And i know what you mean when you say that garage band is kinda cheap, you just have to finds more creative ways to get quality results out of it
Wow. So do you just watch youtube videos to learn Garage Band or do you just use trial and error.
It would be cool to show you someday
Oh I see. Yeah totally! You should. Once this challenge is over I'll have a lot more time haha.
Yeah so I havent actually looked to much into the actually details of garage band, but what what I did study a lot was the theory behind recording, mixing and mastering music
There is a theory to it? What does that even mean?
And now I am just taking the principles of that and trying to put them together the best I can in Garage band. So like Its a little convoluted to just explain, but there are things that if you understand, you can make good music.
This is so interesting. I didn't know there were like principles. I thought you just pushed record and then put everything together in a way that sounds good.
Oh no man, its way cooler than that!
Okay, like how Beethoven understood things and could still make good music even after he went deaf It's like a formula. Like Math.
Like here is one of the big picture concepts that can help you put together a good mix. So first you need to imagine you mix existing in a 3D space.
Hmm intersting. Okay I'm following.
The vertical axis is represented by pitch. The left to right axis is represented by the Pan (You can literally place a sound in the left speaker or in the right speaker, or somewhere inbetween)
Is this what they mean when they say somethings are in the background? Oh yeah pan I've heard of that!
And the z axis, of the forward backward axis is the volume of the track
Okay. Sweet. So like, what do you do next?
So you when you record a song you end up with a bunch of tracks
How do you know what sounds and rhythms go good together?
And part of the fun part is figuring out where to place all of your tracks in this 3D space so that everything has its own place, You want it all to be heard, not covered up
That makes sense. Music is really good when you can hear all the elements of it.
And that brings me to a different point! Its not always about trying to make it sound "Good" But rather its about trying to make it sound like what it should sound like
Hmmmmm that is interesting!
Now, of couse that doesnt mean that it should sound good, but each song has its own story to tell *Should'nt, sorry
Yeah yeah I get it. It's an art form. All art (or good art I should say) tells a story that people can understand and connect with.
So like the technique are more used to get a certain effect, of illicit a certain emotion, or support a certain idea So the "Rule" are really more like tools that you can use to help express your art.
Yeah that makes sense! I think that is so cool.
Anyway, then there are a lot of technical things too that go into, like recording technique, signal flow, compression, EQ,  reverb, etc.
I think that is one thing that really sets us humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, we express ourselves through art.
But once you understand what each of the things are actually doing, its a lot easier to make a solid mix
Yeah the technical stuff is important too. Well I would love to learn sometime!
One guy who explains things pretty well on youtube is called RecordingRevolution. He has a really cool series called "Recording a song from scratch" That explains a lot about recording techique
Wow that is cool. I love how you can learn so much on youtube. Sometimes I wish that instead of going to school, I could just watch youtube all day to learn things.
And another one call "mixing a song from scratch" that explains and demonstrates tons of the principles of mixing theory.
I'll have to look him up.
Ands its cool because he mixes the same song that he records so you get to follow the process all the way through
So what do you think about my last comment? About how art sets us apart from the other animals? yeah that is cool!
And there way this other channel that I watched that talked a lot more about the technical details of it all, but I cant remember exactly what it was called.
Yeah totally.
But he explained stuff like signal flow (Like how the actually sound wave data moves through the systems), compressing and what it actually does to the sound waves, and other stuff like that
So like the science behind recording. That is really cool. We should learn about that stuff in physics soon.
Oh yeah, physics helps, you gotta understand what sound actually is
Totally. Sound is just vibrations in the air that follow predictable mathmatical equations. Thats one thing I love about physics, is that you can predict so much about the world and how it behaves with simple math and equations. Like you know just a few things about an object you can plug in the numbers and learn something about that object before anything even happens. Then you do your experiment in real life and see how well it matches up with your prediction. You get really close sometimes and it's really cool. I'm actually in physics class right now just waiting for it to start. Our TA is a little crazy but its really fun. I finished most of the homework but there is just one problem that I can't do. It's a little tricky. You are given a box and a bullet and the bullet hits the block. The block is sitting on a table and after the collision, the block slides off the table. You know the height of the table and where the block lands, but you are supposed to find how fast the bullet was going and how fast the box gets hit off the table. The whole thing has to do with energy. So like the total energy in the system before the collision should equal the total energy after the collision, it just switches forms. But by using some simple equations you should be able to find out how fast the bullet is going. I just need a little guidance on where to start. I'm thinking about becoming a physics TA next semester for my job. It pays pretty good and I think it would be fun to do for my last semester at BYU. But man this Biochemistry stuff that I'm also studying for is killer. I'm really hoping I dont have to retake the class. It's an interesting subject, it's just so hard to understand and do well on the tests. But like, the information is very useful especially if you are planning on being a doctor or maybe developing some kind of health related product. You need to know how chemicals interact with the body and what changes they make to biological molecules. It's also important to understand biological and biochemical processes. That way you can know what steps to target to produce a specific result.
Wow! That is pretty cool! Wow hellp
Haha help with what? What is going on? Are you ok?
Yep! sorry, I think the program glitched out, but its working now
Oh, cool. So whats up now?
I just bought some linch Lunch
Oh nice. What did you get?
Wow, I really cannot spell today I got a good looking taco salad and a tomato soup
Oh nice. Was it good?
Im still eating it, but yeah! I like it a lot!
Oh cool! I just brought a peanut butter and jelly and granola bar and chips haha. I'm like an elementary school kid again!
Thats what I should be doing
Yeah. You save a lot of money. Sometimes I buy lunch though, like when I'm too lazy to make something in the morning. making it the night before usually solves that problem though
But I was actually feeling super sick yesterday so I thought that i would try to eat some kind of soup and salad
oh yeah that is a good idea. Chicken soup and tomato soup are really good if you are feeling sick. I'm now learning how to do that physics problem. I'll still chat but I need to pay attention for a sec
Are you in class you in class right now?
Yeah I am. It's just a recitation though. Like a time where you go work on homework with the TA's
Yeah, I havent had one of those classes this semester. Most of my classes are just those big auditorium classes. They all kinda have that do it yourself vibe
Yeah haha wait till you get into some of the classes that are more "major oriented" then you actually feel like a regular class. The big auditorium ones are mostly just generals.
And the funny part is that 3 of them are all in the big JSB auditorium
Yeah haha I've had my fair share of classes there. I'm almost done with that problem. Lots of work.
yeah, like on thursdays in in that room from 12:30 until 3:15
Haha wow do you have back to back classes?
yeah, I have marketing followed by accounting. So its pretty boring, but its not that bad
Yeah that sounds pretty boring. I had accounting in the Tanner building I wonder why they are doing it in the JSB now
I know right, literally all of my business classes are in the JSB. The only one that is in the Tanner building is my entrepreneurship class
I finished the problem. The bullet was going 142.7 meters per second. So what other people have come into your entrepreneurship class to talk to you?
This super cool girl came in last week! So she ended up getting divorced pretty early on in life and was a single mom with like 2 kids, and she decided that she needed to start up her own business. Her story was crazy cool and she just ended up selling her business not that long ago for 377 million dollars
Is she the health insurance company girl? Yeah I talked to her too! Haha she is pretty cool.
It was call mediconnect or something
She used to buy little caesars pizza and get her kids to do marketing for her haha
Yep! That what she said! And the best part is that it worked!
I know she was very creative. Now she owns an investment first or something to help other people start businesses. Kinda like her own little shark tank.
Yeah, thats the dream man.
what would you do with all that money? 377 million is like....a lot.
I mean, i would probably first invest a ton of it into real estate You can never own too much real estate
Thats true.
But after that, Im not really sure. I want to buy a tesla too
Yeah totally.
But I would probably find a way to donate a lot of it too1
I read something interesting that a lot of people that get a ton of money like that, use it to start solving some of the worlds most difficult problems. Like take Elon Musk for example. Before he joined Tesla he worked on Pay Pal. When ebay bought pay pay Musk received like 165 million dollars. He could have laid back and enjoyed the rest of his life vacationing somewhere. But instead he used it to start solving problems, like affordable sustainable energy and economic space travel. Pretty cool guy if you ask me.
Oh yeah, He is awesome. Haha! I would also make myself a sweet home recording studio! Plus i would probably hire a personal trainer too! But I guess solving problems would be somewhere on the list as well
That would be sweet.  You know Lebron James spend over a million dollars a year on personal trainers, private chefs, nutrition, and recovery stuff? Thats why he's the best in the NBA.
He is also a guy that spends a million dollars on his body a year I think that thats insane
Yeah well his body is his instrument. It's how he makes money, by playing basketball. So he is basically just investing in his business, which also happened to be his body.
alright, I guess that you have a good point.
Yeah haha. I mean when you are on top you gotta do all you can to stay on top. Kinda like now with this chat haha. I wish they would give us more thought questions to talk about. Sometimes I find myself rambling and running out of things to say.
yeah, I know what you mean. Plus I am like trying to multitask so Its hard to keep things going when there isn't something super interesting to talk about
Yeah I agree. What are you working on now? And dont you have a class at 2pm?
Yeah! So I am reading an article about the Historical Peter for my New Testament Class
Ahhhh I see. That sounds interesting. I like reading about historical figures. Is it a pretty good read?
I just started it, but basically I think it is going to try and demonstrate who Peter actually could have been as a person.
Yeah that sounds really interesting. I think learning about historical figures as people really helps you understand historical events better because you can put yourself in their shoes.
Because most people claim that he was a modest fisherman that didnt really have that good of an education.  If that were true then he would of spoke Aramaic (The language of the common people/jews back then).
But it sounds like thats not the case
And if that were true, he probably would not have had the education to write the Letters that are ascribed to him in the new testament since those letters were written in Greek and not aramaic.
Ohhhh I see. So basically he was just pretending to be a fisherman? Why would he do that?
So its a little improbable that he being "Uneducated" could write gospel letters in other languages. But then again, I still just started it, so Im going to keep reading to find out
Yeah that makes sense.
What are you up to?
I'm still in class. I finished my homework but now we are just going over everything and making sure everyone understands.
Okay, so in this article it says that other scholars claim the Peter was actually a successful, multicultural, and bilingual businessman whose Greek proficiency and intelectual sophistication enabled him to write polished letters, and whose temporal resources afforded him the luxury to follow Jesus. Its very interesting I really like reading articles like this. I think that it is a really cool way to learn about the gospel. Like I am so glad that I am in these classes and not the normal institute classes, not that there is anything wrong with normal institute classes, but I feel like they are little more focused on trying to learn doctrine. Which is good, but I also feel that anyone can learn doctrine on their own through prayer and scripture study, and experience, but historical and cultural insights are much harder to come by wit without someone who knows what they are talking about
So peter was a liar? Or what was his reasoning behind all this?
Well he isnt a liar, we just dont actually know, or have any good way of really proving what or who he really was
Yeah I see. Well it's good that you have a good professor that can explain these things to you. Becauase you are right. It's hard to learn the historical inferences without someone who knows what they are talking about. But the morals and themes and lessons I feel like you can pretty much work out on your own.
Im pumped to take the second half of the New Testament next semester. Its gonna be awesome
Yeah it sounds sweet! I don't recall taking two semesters of it. But I could be wrong
I think it depends on what you want to do, but this class that im in right now only cover the Gospels of Mathew Mark Luke and John. The second half covers the rest
Oh I see. I think I only did that one. But yeah it would be super fun to take another religion class. Maybe if I have time next semester I will add one.
are you not in any religion classes right now?
No. I finished all the credits of religion that are required for graduation. So I haven't taken one in like a year. I've been focusing on finishing my major and getting into dental school.
Really, for some reason I thought that you had to take at least 1 every semester
No I think you just need like 12 credits total. So you could finish in like your first two years. Or three I think. But anything after that is just considered an elective credit.
Is there like a credit limit? Or like by when do you have to declare a major?
Yeah there is. I think you have to declare a major by like 50 or 60 credits. I could be wrong though, that is just a guess.
Because I already have quite a few AP credits, plus this semester, plus the 16 credits im going to get from the spanish challenge exam. So, i feel like I kinda dont have any time