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

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