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

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