Math Meme Review with Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
00:00:00.000 | And now for a bit of fun, here's Math Meme Review with Grant Sanderson, aka 3Blue1Brown,
00:00:06.880 | that we did after the recently released podcast conversation that you should check out. And also,
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00:00:22.160 | I don't know if I actually know what the goal of a meme review is, but I'll just give it to you.
00:00:27.120 | All right, so on Calm Down Calm Down, A+.
00:00:30.400 | Just what do you make of the absurd fact that when you divide by zero, that's not allowed,
00:00:36.080 | that breaks the universe? And my review is that the devils in the upper right quadrant
00:00:41.600 | aren't nearly appreciative enough of projective geometry. So that's my review of them.
00:00:47.920 | It's been this. Oh, yeah. OK. This is a machine.
00:00:51.920 | Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
00:00:56.480 | Yeah. Well, machine learning is doing it over and over again, but bigger.
00:01:03.760 | Yeah.
00:01:04.240 | So sometimes, you know, quantity has a quality all of its own.
00:01:07.520 | Yeah, scale. Just like with GPT-3, there's some magic that happens.
00:01:12.720 | Yeah. Einstein didn't have 175 billion parameters. That's my review of that meme.
00:01:18.240 | This one, whatever numbers you think, whenever you think you know numbers,
00:01:22.480 | my review is it's not sufficiently mindful of diversity concerns and how the peodics are
00:01:28.240 | consistently underrepresented in people's conception of what the different number systems
00:01:32.240 | are. So I think it's, I'm going to say narrow-minded. That's my review of that one.
00:01:37.440 | All right, you study college-level math. Yes, I am almost done with my bachelor's degree,
00:01:42.800 | so you know a lot of math. This one is uncomfortably true.
00:01:47.760 | This is to our point, is when you get your degree in math.
00:01:52.080 | There's a lot left to know.
00:01:55.760 | That's not even, it's hard to, oh my god.
00:02:05.920 | I think there's, so what is that? I think that's a fish eating a cat.
00:02:11.440 | Yeah, no, so it's a cat eating a fish, and then the fish eating the cat. So
00:02:16.320 | I just have to say A+. This should be in every algebra textbook. That's my meme review.
00:02:20.960 | I poured root beer into a squared glass. Now I just have beer.
00:02:27.520 | Tired. Not impressed.
00:02:29.760 | Not impressed. Engineering. Got Mythbusters and such. Physics.
00:02:35.520 | Oh, this is a prior discussion. This is a prior discussion.
00:02:40.480 | No one thinks that you could popularize math.
00:02:42.560 | That's interesting.
00:02:44.320 | So it ends with, that is insightful. Poignant.
00:02:48.480 | So do you think there could be a cosmos for mathematics?
00:02:53.520 | Yeah, I actually, I think there's huge appetite for it. I think Numberphile proves this fact.
00:03:00.080 | And your channel, I mean that's true, but there's not, for some reason,
00:03:03.680 | do you think there'll be a Netflix show one day with the…
00:03:06.080 | Anyone at Netflix is watching this, I will host it for you. You just call me.
00:03:12.480 | But do you think you could have a general public kind of show like Cosmos and do mathematics?
00:03:19.360 | 100%. I think it wouldn't be easy because you've got this tight line between are you
00:03:24.400 | doing it substantively or are you just waving your hands? I think there's enough really
00:03:28.160 | interesting math that you can substantively get across. And I do think there's a pretty
00:03:31.600 | big appetite for it. The reason I say Numberphile isn't just that Numberphile is great, but that
00:03:36.560 | Brady has like 10 projects of very similarly styled channels, and Numberphile is the biggest
00:03:41.280 | among them by far. But they're all successful. They're all successful, but I would have guessed
00:03:45.200 | if you were just pitching these products, you know, like 10 years ago, like, oh, the channel
00:03:48.240 | on physics will be very popular, the chemistry one will be pretty popular, the numbers one,
00:03:51.920 | I don't know, some people, that might be like third or something. But the idea that the one
00:03:55.600 | about math is the most popular of his channels by far, even though they're similar styles,
00:04:00.880 | it does, I do think speaks to the fact that there is a unsatiated appetite for real,
00:04:09.680 | a real understanding of what gets mathematicians going.
00:04:12.000 | And I think a Netflix type entity might recognize that.
00:04:16.000 | You heard it here, Netflix.
00:04:18.560 | Half-off haircuts.
00:04:22.240 | Oh, it's getting shaved. It's every time it's shaving half of the remaining hair.
00:04:32.560 | This is going to take a...
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00:04:38.240 | Great, I love it.
00:04:39.280 | It's kind of brilliant.
00:04:39.920 | That's my review. No substantive descriptions, just I love it.
00:04:42.800 | Oh, I actually saw this one for a print.
00:04:45.600 | Yeah, "Cotechin, Seacant, and Kosyngin, you deserve to be quiet over there. Who needs you?"
00:04:49.840 | Oh, you don't give them the love? You think sine, cosine, tangent,
00:04:52.480 | these are all...
00:04:52.720 | So you make the calculus of like tangent look a little bit more compact, while kind of be confusing
00:04:57.280 | to every single calculus student there that's like, wait, what was Seacant again? Just write
00:05:01.200 | it as one over cosine squared. It's not that many more symbols.
00:05:03.440 | Oh, you're contributing to the problem. Well, thank you for doing the most absurd
00:05:07.520 | thing I probably have ever done. You probably have ever done. I appreciate it.
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