#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
August 23, 2020
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Episode 118 · August 23, 2020
#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
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<p>Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.</p>
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<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
05:13 – Richard Feynman<br />
09:41 – Learning deeply vs broadly<br />
13:56 – Telling a story with visualizations<br />
18:43 – Topology<br />
23:52 – Intuition about exponential growth<br />
32:28 – Elon Musk’s exponential view of the world<br />
40:09 – SpaceX and space exploration<br />
45:28 – Origins of the Internet<br />
49:50 – Does teaching on YouTube get lonely?<br />
54:31 – Daily routine<br />
1:00:20 – Social media<br />
1:10:38 – Online education in a time of COVID<br />
1:27:03 – Joe Rogan moving to Spotify<br />
1:32:09 – Neural networks<br />
1:38:30 – GPT-3<br />
1:46:52 – Manim<br />
1:51:01 – Python<br />
1:56:21 – Theory of everything<br />
2:03:53 – Meaning of life</p>