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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Pattern Recognition Isn't Sufficient

patterns that you're recognizing are not like the end goals but instead they're they are the little bits and paths that get you to the end goal. There's all sorts of wonderful examples of false patterns in math where um one of the earliest videos I put on the channel was talking about you can kind of dividing a circle up using these chords. How quickly you jump to thinking it must be powers of two because the problem itself there's really no no good way to think about it as doubling a set.

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