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

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Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.

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    3Blue1Brown: http://youtube.com/3blue1brown
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    Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

    OUTLINE:
    00:00 - Introduction
    05:13 - Richard Feynman
    09:41 - 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

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