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Currently Playing: How Aristarchus deduced the distance to the moon

Full video: https://youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U

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• The Sphere Intersection Puzzle
• There's never been a better time to go into math
• The Phone Number puzzle
• The last IMO problem AI could not solve
• The last IMO problem AI could not solve
• The jumping pegs puzzle
• The 64 sugar cubes puzzle
• But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2
• 100 random chords, how many intersections?
• Measuring the entropy of English
• What's the perfect encoding? How do you know?
• Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1
• Tie random ends: How many loops?
• Covering 10 points, a surprisingly tricky puzzle.
• Escher's most mind-bending piece
• The subset sum puzzle
• How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image
• Bacteria Grid Puzzle Solution
• The most beautiful formula not enough people understand
• The lattice bacteria puzzle
• Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle
• Why you can't comb a hairy ball, and why we care
• The ladybug clock puzzle
• Why Laplace transforms are so useful
• The dynamics of e^(πi)
• But what is a Laplace Transform?
• The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude
• What was Euclid really doing? | Guest video by Ben Syversen
• Incomplete open cubes
• Exploration & Epiphany | Guest video by Paul Dancstep
• Simulating and understanding phase change | Guest video by Vilas Winstein
• How AI connects text and images
• The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems | Guest video by @Aleph0
• But how do AI images and videos actually work? | Guest video by Welch Labs
• Where my explanation of Grover’s algorithm failed
• But what is quantum computing? (Grover's Algorithm)
• Testing your intuition for quantum computing
• How to measure nearby galaxies
• Measuring the distance to Venus without radar
• Measuring the speed of light using Jupiter's moons
• The tragic tale of Guillaume Le Gentil
• Zooming out by powers of 10
• Why colliding blocks compute pi
• When being beautifully wrong leads to discovery
• Why the ancient Greeks rejected heliocentrism
• How to estimate the distance to the sun
• How Aristarchus deduced the distance to the moon
• Terence Tao continuing history’s cleverest cosmological measurements
• How Earth's size was computed by Eratosthenes
• Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder
• Measuring the earth with Terence Tao
• The topology of two-note chords
• The barber pole optical mystery
• Monge's Theorem
• Thinking through double slits
• The inscribed square problem
• This open problem taught me what topology is
• The meaning within the Mandelbrot set
• The scale of training LLMs
• Large Language Models explained briefly
• This puzzle is trickier than it seems
• Sphere surface area proof sketch
• Newton’s Fractal is beautiful
• The Triangle Of Power
• The twirling tiles puzzle
• A bizarre probability fact
• Solving problems by adding a dimension
• LLMs are next-word predictors
• How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks
• Hologram preview
• Holograms are wild (full video linked above)
• How are holograms possible?
• How might LLMs store facts | Deep Learning Chapter 7
• In the vector space of all advice...
• What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | Harvey Mudd Commencement Speech 2024
• Temperature in LLMs
• How word vectors encode meaning
• Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6
• Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5
• Simulating the electric field and a moving charge
• A challenging puzzle about subset sums
• Ellipses have multiple definitions, how are these the same?
• Three levels of understanding Bayes' theorem
• The medical test paradox (well "paradox")
• Positioned as the hardest question on a Putnam exam (#6, 1992)
• Why does light slowing imply a bend? (Beyond the tank/car analogy)
• The cube shadow puzzle
• What does it mean that light "slows down" in glass?
• Why do we call them "scalars"?
• A beautiful international math olympiad problem
• Definition of a "bit", in information theory
• The Newton art puzzle
• What is a group?
• How to derive a formula for π
• The limit of limiting arguments
• For anyone who might not know how links in shorts work
• Infinite Lighthouses and π
• Can you even imagine 2^256?
• Order from chaos
• A short on shorts