1/5 of a million views.

200,000 views on my channel.  

Channel was created when I bought a new computer in 2019 but Jan 2023 was when I started the lesson videos. I have 103 videos and the shorts are promoted the most, they are now found when someone searches youtube for a tune for the most part.

JWST data.

 I just got some JWST data from the NASA MAST website. There is a lot of data there available to the public so I used chatGPT5 to help me download it and process a random picture. 

This is part of M1 the crab nebula which is just to the right or Orion in the constellation of Taurus. 

I got chatGPT to image process it and I got this:

So you can see part of the JWST at this wavelength 7.7 micrometres which you cannot see in the original. This was taken in about 2024 and they are studying  (chatGPT lookup)

• A map of dust and molecules in the nebula.

• A test of supernova explosion models.

• A way to measure how much dust survives after 1,000 years.

• Key data to decide whether the Crab is a rare electron-capture supernova remnant.

The star exploded as a supernova in 1054 and was documented historically as you could see it during the daytime. 

JWST is a million miles away at the L2 point in space.

Age of the Universe with chatGPT5

I got a science degree in the 1990's and am running a few ideas on chatGPT5. 

I wondered if I could recreate the Edwin Hubble graph of the universe with modern data. 

Hubble looked at areas of the sky with his telescope where there appear to be fuzzy cloud type objects. In the Andromeda area could he saw a special type of variable star called a Cephid variable. Using this star allows you to calculate distance and he realised that Andromeda is so far away (2.5 million light years) that it was another Galaxy. 

The next step is the easy one you put the light from Andromeda through a prism (diffraction grating) and then you can see little black lines in the spectra like you see in our sun. However the absorption lines are slightly moved to the left a little bit and then you can calculate from this the blue shift and so the velocity of the Galaxy. 

So Hubble did this with 24 Galaxies and then plotted them onto a graph of Velocity vs Distance. He got a straight line and surprisingly saw 3 blue shifted Galaxies coming towards and 21 Galaxies flying away from us (red shifted). Also the further the Galaxy the faster the velocity.

This indicates that all of the Galaxies were at one time close together and that there was sort of an explosion that pushed them apart (Big bang)

I used chatGPT to recreate this graph and it looked up the modern data that we have in various star charts and it then plotted, it only could find data for 22 rather than 24:

The gradient of this graph is known as the Hubble constant (H).

Hubble got H to be 500 but he made an error in distance calculations but was correct in principle. My data gets H=59. 

To get the age of the universe you calculate 1/H

ChatGPT5 did all the conversion of H from  km s⁻¹ Mpc⁻¹ into 1/seconds.

I got the age of the universe to be 16.6 billion years. Not bad as it it is about 14 billion.

This all took about 5 minutes as I was sitting on my sofa having a cup of tea.

Global Rank on Youtube using ChatGPT5

 I used ChatGPT5 to estimate the world ranking you have when you hit between 1000 and 2000 subscribers. You start with a global rank of 10.1 million when you hit 1000 subscribers but by the time you hit 2000 you leap over 4.5 million and get a rank of  5.5 million. 

This is like a video game leader board , currently  Mr Beast is at 1. 

ChatGPT5 used a power law to do this as the official data is banded into groups 1000 to 9999 and then 10000 to 99999 etc.

It uses this function:

Also today I just noticed I have 10 free level Patrons:

https://www.patreon.com/c/AndyPattinsonMusic

1000 subscribers

 

1000 subscribers, 103 videos and 164,000 views. Took about 2 years and 7 months of organic traffic growth. I started the channel in 2019 but only tried to grow it from 2023 where I had 21 subscribers.

It seems to me that you either get subscriber growth or watch time growth on your channel. In my case its subscribers so I have completed the first milestone in monetisation. The second milestone is to get watch time which is 4000hrs in 365 days. Then you get ad revenue. After you qualify you dont need to get 4000 hours again as you only need to qualify once. so far I have only 218 hours so I need to make the videos more interesting for people by talking. However this means upping the production value and editing which is why I have not done it yet.

So phase one is complete and here is some data from ChatGPT o3 model about it:

Milestone	Channels that have reached it	Share of all ~114 M active channels	1-in-N odds
1 000 subs (your tier)	≈ 10 M channels	8.9 % – top ~9 %	1 in 11
100 000 subs (Silver Play Button)	≈ 321 000	0.28 %	1 in 350
1 million subs (Gold)	≈ 29 000	0.025 %	1 in 4 000
10 million subs (Diamond)	≈ 700	0.0006 %	1 in 150 000
100 million+ subs (Red Diamond)	14 channels	0.000012 %	1 in 8 million

So I am in the top 9 percent of all YouTube channels in the world since 91 percent never get to 1000 subscribers. This means that out of people with a YouTube channel (114 million in the world) I have beaten over 100 million channels. 

975 subscribers

 975 subscribers , 157,678 views, 103 videos.  I also have 5 patreon free subscribers.

950 subscribers

 950 subscribers , 103 videos and 151,000 views.