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Full episode with Grant Sanderson (Jan 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_lKUK2MCsg Clips channel (Lex Clips): https://www.youtube.com/lexclips Main channel (Lex Fridman): https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman (more links below) Podcast full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Podcasts clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/ai Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 Podcast RSS: https://lexfridman.com/category/ai/feed/ Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain concepts in linear algebra, calculus, and other fields of mathematics. Subscribe to this YouTube channel or connect on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: * Whether advanced math requires AGI * What careers should mathematically talented students pursue * Why Grant plans on doing a stint as a high school teacher * Tips for self teaching * Does Godel’s incompleteness theorem actually matter * Why are good explanations so hard to find? * And much more 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grant-sanderson-3blue1brown-past-present-future-of/id1516093381?i=1000631087010 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u05TKwP8pozY4ojY4e0fH?si=SfRvmI-8R4q-jBPogrpMBw * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/grant-sanderson 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Does winning math competitions require AGI? 00:08:24 - Where to allocate mathematical talent? 00:17:34 - Grant’s miracle year 00:26:44 - Prehistoric humans and math 00:33:33 - Why is a lot of math so new? 00:44:44 - Future of education 00:56:28 - Math helped me realize I wasn’t that smart 00:59:25 - Does Godel’s incompleteness theorem matter? 01:05:12 - How Grant makes videos 01:10:13 - Grant’s math exposition competition 01:20:44 - Self teaching
Grant Sanderson is the creator of 3Blue1Brown. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: - Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex - DoorDash: download app & use code LEX - Cash App: download app & use code "LexPodcast" EPISODE LINKS: 3Blue1Brown: http://youtube.com/3blue1brown Grant's Twitter: https://twitter.com/3blue1brown PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 5:13 - Richard Feynman 9:41 - Learning deeply vs broadly 13:56 - Telling a story with visualizations 18:43 - Topology 23:52 - Intuition about exponential growth 32:28 - Elon Musk's exponential view of the world 40:09 - SpaceX and space exploration 45:28 - Origins of the Internet 49:50 - Does teaching on YouTube get lonely? 54:31 - Daily routine 1:00:20 - Social media 1:10:38 - Online education in a time of COVID 1:27:03 - Joe Rogan moving to Spotify 1:32:09 - Neural networks 1:38:30 - GPT-3 1:46:52 - Manim 1:51:01 - Python 1:56:21 - Theory of everything 2:03:53 - Meaning of life CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
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Full episode: https://youtu.be/oDyviiN4NVo?si=ppwYqgn3iA4JGEz2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grant-sanderson-3blue1brown-past-present-future-of/id1516093381?i=1000631087010 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u05TKwP8pozY4ojY4e0fH?si=SfRvmI-8R4q-jBPogrpMBw Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/grant-sanderson Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp