The Cartesian Cafe
The Cartesian Cafe is the podcast where an expert guest and Timothy Nguyen map out scientific and mathematical subjects in detail. This collaborative journey with other experts will have us writing down formulas, drawing pictures, and reasoning about them together on a whiteboard. If you’ve been longing for a deeper dive into the intricacies of scientific subjects, then this is the podcast for you. Topics covered include mathematics, physics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and comput...
Episodes (22)
Justin Clarke-Doane | Mathematics, Reality, and Morality
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Jay McClelland | Neural Networks: Artificial and Biological
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Michael Freedman | A Fields Medalist Panorama
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Marcus Hutter | Universal Artificial Intelligence and Solomonoff Induction
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Richard Borcherds | Monstrous Moonshine: From Group Theory to String Theory
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Announcements for 2024 and a Message to Viewers
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Tim Maudlin | Bell’s Theorem and Beyond: Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
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Antonio Padilla | Fantastic Numbers, Naturalness, and Anthropics in Physics
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Boaz Barak | Cryptography: The Art of Mathematical Secrecy
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Sean Carroll | The Many Worlds Interpretation & Emergent Spacetime
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Daniel Schroeder | Introduction to Thermal Physics
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Ethan Siegel | Demystifying Dark Matter
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Alex Kontorovich | Circle Packings and Their Hidden Treasures
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Greg Yang | Large N Limits: Random Matrices & Neural Networks
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Scott Aaronson | Quantum Computing: Dismantling the Hype
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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) | Unsolvability of the Quintic
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John Baez | The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories
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Tai-Danae Bradley | Category Theory and Language Models
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John Urschel | Tackling Graph Theory
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Richard Easther | The Big Bang, Inflation, and Gravitational Waves
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Po-Shen Loh | The Mathematics of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
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Introduction
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