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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

Lex Fridman Podcast
Aug 23, 2020 2h 9m
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<p>Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.</p> <p>Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors:<br /> &#8211; Dollar Shave Club: <a href="https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex">https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex</a><br /> &#8211; DoorDash: download app &#38; use code LEX<br /> &#8211; Cash App: download app &#38; use code &#8220;LexPodcast&#8221;</p> <p>Episode links:<br /> 3Blue1Brown: <a href="http://youtube.com/3blue1brown">http://youtube.com/3blue1brown</a><br /> Grant&#8217;s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/3blue1brown">https://twitter.com/3blue1brown</a></p> <p>If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/podcast">https://lexfridman.com/podcast</a>&#160;or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p> <p>OUTLINE:<br /> 00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 05:13 &#8211; Richard Feynman<br /> 09:41 &#8211; Learning deeply vs broadly<br /> 13:56 &#8211; Telling a story with visualizations<br /> 18:43 &#8211; Topology<br /> 23:52 &#8211; Intuition about exponential growth<br /> 32:28 &#8211; Elon Musk&#8217;s exponential view of the world<br /> 40:09 &#8211; SpaceX and space exploration<br /> 45:28 &#8211; Origins of the Internet<br /> 49:50 &#8211; Does teaching on YouTube get lonely?<br /> 54:31 &#8211; Daily routine<br /> 1:00:20 &#8211; Social media<br /> 1:10:38 &#8211; Online education in a time of COVID<br /> 1:27:03 &#8211; Joe Rogan moving to Spotify<br /> 1:32:09 &#8211; Neural networks<br /> 1:38:30 &#8211; GPT-3<br /> 1:46:52 &#8211; Manim<br /> 1:51:01 &#8211; Python<br /> 1:56:21 &#8211; Theory of everything<br /> 2:03:53 &#8211; Meaning of life</p>

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