Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Mathematics • Science • AI • Quantum Computing • Cryptography • Physics • Chemistry • Engineering • Biology • Neuroscience • Data Analysis • Chaos Theory • Space Exploration • Music
Breaking Math Podcast, hosted by Gabriel Hesch and Autumn Phaneuf, offers an exploration of mathematics and its profound intersection with various scientific fields. The hosts, with expertise in electrical and industrial engineering, engage in discussions that emphasize mathematics as both a standalone discipline and a foundational tool that influences science, engineering, and creativity.
The podcast covers a wide array of themes, consistently highlighting the critical role mathematics plays across diverse topics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a recurrent theme, with episodes delving into mathematical frameworks underlying AI technologies such as machine learning, algorithms, and neural networks, as well as their real-world applications in areas like medical diagnostics and financial systems. Another significant focus is on the interplay between mathematics and frontier technologies, including quantum computing and its implications for cryptography.
Listeners can also find discussions on the integration of mathematics in understanding natural phenomena, such as the dynamics of animal behavior and environmental systems, and its applications in fields like material science, energy equity, and synthetic biology. The podcast does not shy away from philosophical and ethical dimensions, exploring the implications of AI consciousness, the ethics of AI-generated content, and societal issues like democracy through a mathematical lens.
The breadth of topics is further expanded with interviews featuring experts from various domains, enhancing the interdisciplinarity of the discussions. Explorations of historical scientific efforts, innovative applications of mathematics in education, and the intricate relationship between mathematics and human cognition also feature prominently. Overall, Breaking Math Podcast provides an engaging platform for exploring how mathematics underpins and transforms our understanding of both the natural and engineered world.
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Episodes:
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Algorithms & AI Simplified - The Not So Mathy Version
2025-Jul-01
9 minutes
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What is Cryptography?
2025-Jun-24
40 minutes
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We Live in a Radioactive World: What is Dosimetry?
2025-Jun-17
32 minutes
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What is Life?
2025-Jun-10
41 minutes
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Fire Science: What are Photoacoustic Measurements?
2025-Jun-03
49 minutes
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What is Time?
2025-Feb-26
71 minutes
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What is Measurement?
2025-Feb-18
7 minutes
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How Analytics Can Revolutionize Affordable Energy
2024-Nov-19
41 minutes
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What is Chaos Theory?
2024-Nov-12
13 minutes
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AI in the Lab: How GPT-4 is Changing Molecules and Models
2024-Nov-05
12 minutes
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The Fluid Dynamics of Sheep
2024-Oct-29
15 minutes
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The Discovery of the Largest Prime Number: M136279841
2024-Oct-22
8 minutes
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Exploring GFlowNets and AI-Driven Material Discovery for Carbon Capture
2024-Oct-22
10 minutes
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Victorian Era Spooky Scientists & Paranormal Activity
2024-Oct-15
23 minutes
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Is AI Conscious?
2024-Oct-08
33 minutes
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Molecular dynamics simulation with GFlowNets: machine learning the importance of energy estimators in computational chemistry and drug discovery
2024-Oct-01
28 minutes
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Do Plants Know Math?
2024-Sep-24
56 minutes
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Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World with Maps with Paulina Rowinska
2024-Sep-17
57 minutes
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The Intentional Engineer (with Jeff Perry)
2024-Sep-10
55 minutes
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Math for English Majors with Ben Orlin
2024-Sep-03
58 minutes
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What is Data Visualization? From the Expert Behind PolicyViz
2024-Aug-27
53 minutes
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Love Triangle and Other Maths (with Matt Parker)
2024-Aug-20
59 minutes
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The Black Hole Heist
2024-Aug-16
12 minutes
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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 3
2024-Aug-13
77 minutes
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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 2
2024-Aug-06
56 minutes
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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 1
2024-Jul-30
52 minutes
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What are Journal Rankings? The basics: a minisode.
2024-Jul-23
12 minutes
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Why Machines Learn: The Math Behind AI
2024-Jul-16
40 minutes
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The Intersection of Mathematics and Democracy
2024-Jul-09
62 minutes
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Math Lounge: Celebrating 101 Episodes
2024-Jul-02
47 minutes
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Minisode: Absolutely Nothing
2024-Jun-18
19 minutes
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Can We Survive on Mars? Hot Tips with Zach Weinersmith (Part 2)
2024-May-28
34 minutes
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Can We Survive on Mars? Hot Tips with Zach Weinersmith
2024-May-21
32 minutes
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What's the Use? Interview with Professor Ian Stewart
2024-May-14
44 minutes
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Bayes' Theorem Explains It All: An Interview with Tom Chivers
2024-May-07
49 minutes
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94. Interview with Steve Nadis, Co-author of 'Gravity of Math'
2024-Apr-30
52 minutes
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93. The 10,000 Year Problem (feat. David Gibson of Ray Kitty Creation Workship)
2024-Apr-23
34 minutes
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92. The Mathematical Heart of Games Explored with Prof. du Sautoy
2024-Apr-16
74 minutes
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91. Brain Organelles, AI, and Other Scary Science - An Interview with GT (Part 2)
2024-Apr-04
31 minutes
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90. LEAN Theorem Provers used to model Physics and Chemistry
2024-Mar-16
47 minutes
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89. Brain Organelles, AI, and the Other Scary Science - An Interview with GT (Part I)
2024-Mar-05
30 minutes
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88. Can OpenAi's SORA learn and model real-world physics? (Part 1 of n)
2024-Feb-27
34 minutes
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87. OpenAi SORA, Physics-Informed ML, and a.i. Fraud- Oh My!
2024-Feb-20
36 minutes
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86. Math, Music, and Artificial Intelligence - Levi McClain Interview (Final Part)
2024-Feb-18
28 minutes
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85. Math, Music, Neuroscience, and Fear - an Interview with Musician Levi McClain
2024-Feb-13
33 minutes
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84. (Part 2) Intelligence in Nature v. Machine Learning - an Interview with Brit Cruise
2024-Feb-06
45 minutes
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83. Intelligence in Nature v. Machine Learning-An Interview with Brit Cruise - Part 1 of 2
2024-Jan-30
36 minutes
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82. A.I. and Materials Discovery - an Interview with Taylor Sparks
2024-Jan-21
17 minutes
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In Memory of Sofia Baca, Cofounder and cohost of Breaking Math
2024-Jan-11
48 minutes
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81: Correct. Now Try Again (Multiple Approaches to the Same Problem)
2023-Jul-24
37 minutes
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80: Physical Dimension (Dimensional Analysis)
2023-Jun-26
35 minutes
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79: 1 2 3 (Counting)
2023-Jun-08
47 minutes
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78: Perpetual Notion (Entropy and Thermodynamics)
2023-May-09
31 minutes
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77: An Interview with Christopher Roblesz of MathNMore
2023-Feb-28
55 minutes
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76: Joule Pay for This! (Energy)
2023-Jan-15
66 minutes
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75: Existential Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder (Author Interview)
2022-Oct-13
41 minutes
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74: Lights, Camera, Action! (3D Computer Graphics: Part I)
2022-Jun-19
42 minutes
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73: Materialism: a Material Science Podcast Podcast Episode (Interview with Taylor Sparks)
2022-May-28
55 minutes
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72: The Lifestyles of the Mathematical and Famous (an Interview with Author Robert Black)
2022-May-15
50 minutes
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71: What's the Matter? An Interview with Chris Cogswell of the Mad Scientist Podcast (Material Science)
2022-Apr-12
55 minutes
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70.1: Episode 70.1 of Breaking Math Podcast (Self-Reference)
2022-Mar-20
46 minutes
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70: This Episode Intentionally Left Blank
2022-Mar-19
46 minutes
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69: An Interview with Michael Brooks, Author of "The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization"
2022-Jan-23
62 minutes
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P12: O My God (Big O Notation)
2022-Jan-04
22 minutes
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68: LOL!!! SO RANDOM (Random Variables)
2021-Dec-23
34 minutes
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67: Wrath of Math (Mathematics Used Unwisely)
2021-Dec-09
23 minutes
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P11: Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)
2021-Nov-30
30 minutes
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66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe)
2021-Nov-21
71 minutes
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P10: Chivalry is Dead (Knights and Knaves #1)
2021-Nov-14
18 minutes
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65: An Interview with Author Ian Stewart (Book About Everyday Math)
2021-Oct-24
44 minutes
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64: What Projection Is This? (Map Projections)
2021-Sep-29
47 minutes
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RR36: The Most Boring Episode Ever (Rerun: Math Games)
2021-Sep-19
49 minutes
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63: Broken Voting Systems (Voting Systems and Paradoxes)
2021-Sep-05
33 minutes
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62: The Atom Bomb of Information Operations (An Interview with John Fuisz of Veriphix)
2021-Aug-22
45 minutes
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61: Look at this Graph! (Graph Theory)
2021-Apr-25
29 minutes
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P9: Give or Take (Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates / Fermi Problems)
2021-Apr-19
31 minutes
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60: HAMILTON! [But Not the Musical] (Quaternions)
2021-Apr-03
29 minutes
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59: A Good Source of Fibers (Fiber Bundles)
2021-Mar-21
42 minutes
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58: Bringing Curvy Back (Gaussian Curvature)
2021-Mar-03
42 minutes
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P8: Tangent Tango (Morikawa's Recently Solved Problem)
2021-Feb-25
19 minutes
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P7: Root for Squares (Irrationality of the Square Root of Two)
2021-Feb-07
14 minutes
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57: You Said How Much?! (Measure Theory)
2021-Feb-01
30 minutes
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P6: How Many Angles in a Circle? (Curvature; Euclidean Geometry)
2021-Jan-28
28 minutes
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56: More Sheep than You Can Count (Transfinite Cardinal Numbers)
2021-Jan-24
34 minutes
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55: Order in the Court (Transfinite Ordinal Numbers)
2021-Jan-14
31 minutes
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54: Oodles (Large Numbers)
2020-Dec-21
27 minutes
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53: Big Brain Time (An Interview with Peter Zeidman from the UCL Institute of Neurology)
2020-Dec-11
43 minutes
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52: Round (Circles and Spheres)
2020-Dec-05
30 minutes
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P5: All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Fractional Base Proof)
2020-Nov-26
13 minutes
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51: Episode "-2,0,1" (Bases; Exotic Bases)
2020-Nov-15
34 minutes
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50: Episode "101" (Bases)
2020-Aug-31
54 minutes
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49: Thinking Machines II (Techniques in Artificial Intelligence)
2020-May-26
57 minutes
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48: Thinking Machines (Philosophical Basis of Artificial Intelligence)
2020-May-18
54 minutes
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P4: Go with the Flow (Conceptual Calculus: Related Rates of Change)
2020-Mar-10
36 minutes
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47: Blast to the Past (Retrocausality)
2020-Feb-29
29 minutes
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P3: Radiativeforcenado (Radiative Forcing)
2020-Feb-03
39 minutes
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46: Earth Irradiated (the Greenhouse Effect)
2020-Jan-20
41 minutes
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45: Climate Denialism and Cranky Uncles (Interview with John Cook of Skeptical Science)
2019-Dec-10
25 minutes
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44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)
2019-Nov-03
36 minutes
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P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)
2019-Oct-30
18 minutes
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43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World)
2019-Oct-23
42 minutes
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P1: Peano Addition
2019-Sep-29
37 minutes
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42: Maybe? (Probability and Statistics)
2019-Aug-15
32 minutes
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41: Reality Is More Than Complex (Group Theory and Physics)
2019-Jul-29
54 minutes
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39: Syntax Matters: Syntax... Matters? (Formal Grammar)
2019-May-29
33 minutes
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38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)
2019-Apr-23
32 minutes
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37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory)
2019-Feb-25
39 minutes
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36: The Most Boring Episode Ever. (Math Games)
2018-Nov-23
46 minutes
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35: Please Be Discrete (Discrete Math)
2018-Nov-05
34 minutes
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34: An Interview with Mathbot.com's JW Weatherman
2018-Oct-20
39 minutes
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33: Interview with Math with Bad Drawings (Ben Orlin)
2018-Oct-03
40 minutes
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32X: Black Hole Heist (Comedy Sketch)
2018-Sep-23
12 minutes
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32: Gaze into the Abyss (Part Three; Black Holes)
2018-Sep-23
77 minutes
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31: Into the Abyss (Part Two; Black Holes)
2018-Aug-23
56 minutes
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30: The Abyss (Part One; Black Holes)
2018-Aug-02
51 minutes
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29: War
2018-Jul-14
34 minutes
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28: Bell's Infamous Theorem (Bell's Theorem)
2018-Jun-19
34 minutes
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27: Peer Pressure (Cellular Automata)
2018-May-14
51 minutes
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26: Infinity Shades of Grey (Paradox)
2018-Apr-26
48 minutes
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25: Pandemic Panic (Epidemiology)
2018-Apr-13
44 minutes
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24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language)
2018-Mar-07
44 minutes
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23: Don't Touch My Circles! (Geometry)
2018-Jan-15
52 minutes
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22: Incomplet (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Chapter IV Discussion)
2017-Dec-23
56 minutes
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21: Einstein's Biggest Idea (General Relativity)
2017-Dec-04
40 minutes
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20: Rational (Ratios)
2017-Nov-18
40 minutes
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19: Tune of the Hickory Stick (Beginning to Intermediate Math Education)
2017-Nov-07
39 minutes
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18: Frequency (Fourier and Related Analyses)
2017-Oct-11
44 minutes
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17: Navier Stoked (Vector Calculus and Navier-Stokes Equations)
2017-Oct-05
60 minutes
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BFNB2: Thought for Food (Discussion about Learning)
2017-Sep-19
71 minutes
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BFNB1: Food for Thought (Discussion about Learning)
2017-Sep-16
35 minutes
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Minisode 0.6: Four Problems
2017-Aug-18
26 minutes
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15: Consciousness
2017-Jul-30
60 minutes
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Minisode 0.5: ___forNon___
2017-Jul-20
14 minutes
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14: Artificial Thought (Neural Networks)
2017-Jul-11
65 minutes
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13: Math and Prison Riots (Interview with Frank Salas)
2017-Jun-27
49 minutes
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12: Math Factory (Algorithms)
2017-Jun-13
53 minutes
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11: A Culture of Hacking (Hacker Culture)
2017-May-31
62 minutes
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10: Cryptomath (Cryptography)
2017-May-16
76 minutes
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9: Humanity 2.0 (Transhumanism)
2017-May-02
52 minutes
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Minisode 0.4: Comin' Up Next
2017-May-01
16 minutes
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Minisode 0.3: Lights, Camera, Action!
2017-Apr-20
20 minutes
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8: Evolution and Engineering (Genetic Algorithms)
2017-Apr-18
57 minutes
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Minisode 0.2: What's Up, Bangalore?
2017-Apr-10
29 minutes
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7: QED? Prove it. (Proofs)
2017-Apr-04
44 minutes
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Minisode 0.1: Hypercubes and Other Stranger Things
2017-Apr-01
24 minutes
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6: Word (Linguistics)
2017-Mar-21
49 minutes
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5: Language of the Universe (Relationship Between Physics and Math)
2017-Mar-07
48 minutes
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4: Digital Evolution (Digital Computing)
2017-Feb-21
52 minutes
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3: TMI (Information Theory)
2017-Feb-07
48 minutes
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2: Wreaking Chaos (Chaos Theory)
2017-Feb-07
51 minutes
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1: Forbidden Formulas (Elitism in Math)
2017-Feb-07
59 minutes
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