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

Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 10:43 p.m.

b'Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.
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\\nHere\'s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
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\\nOUTLINE:
\\n00:00 - Introduction
\\n05:13 - Richard Feynman
\\n09:41 - Learning deeply vs broadly
\\n13:56 - Telling a story with visualizations
\\n18:43 - Topology
\\n23:52 - Intuition about exponential growth
\\n32:28 - Elon Musk\'s exponential view of the world
\\n40:09 - SpaceX and space exploration
\\n45:28 - Origins of the Internet
\\n49:50 - Does teaching on YouTube get lonely?
\\n54:31 - Daily routine
\\n1:00:20 - Social media
\\n1:10:38 - Online education in a time of COVID
\\n1:27:03 - Joe Rogan moving to Spotify
\\n1:32:09 - Neural networks
\\n1:38:30 - GPT-3
\\n1:46:52 - Manim
\\n1:51:01 - Python
\\n1:56:21 - Theory of everything
\\n2:03:53 - Meaning of life'