Best Antonio Barake Podcasts (2024)

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Michael Freedman | A Fields Medalist Panorama 2:52:45

2M ago2:52:45

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Michael Freedman is a mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his solution of the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture. Mike has also received numerous other awards for his scientific contributions including a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Medal of Science. In 1997, Mike joined Microsoft Research and in 2005 became the direc…

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Marcus Hutter | Universal Artificial Intelligence and Solomonoff Induction 3:01:55

4M ago3:01:55

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Marcus Hutter is an artificial intelligence researcher who is both a Senior Researcher at Google DeepMind and an Honorary Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at Australian National University. He is responsible for the development of the theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence, for which he has written two books, one back in 20…

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Richard Borcherds | Monstrous Moonshine: From Group Theory to String Theory 2:05:15

7M ago2:05:15

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Richard Borcherds is a mathematician and professor at University of California Berkeley known for his work on lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. His numerous accolades include being awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 and being elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the National Academy of Sciences. Patreon (…

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Announcements for 2024 and a Message to Viewers 1:13

8M ago1:13

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Thought I'd share some exciting news about what's happening at The Cartesian Cafe in 2024 and also a personal message to viewers on how they can support the cafe. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timothynguyenBy Timothy Nguyen

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Tim Maudlin | Bell’s Theorem and Beyond: Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics 2:41:51

9M ago2:41:51

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Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science specializing in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and logic. He is a professor at New York University, a member of the Foundational Questions Institute, and the founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Patreon (bonus materials + video chat): https://www.patreon.co…

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Antonio Padilla | Fantastic Numbers, Naturalness, and Anthropics in Physics 2:34:13

12M ago2:34:13

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Antonio (Tony) Padilla is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. He serves as the Associate Director of the Nottingham Centre of Gravity, and in 2016, Tony shared the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for his work on the cosmological constant. Tony is also a star of the Numberphile YouTube channel, where his videos have re…

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Boaz Barak | Cryptography: The Art of Mathematical Secrecy 2:33:29

1y ago2:33:29

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Boaz Barak is a professor of computer science at Harvard University, having previously been a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and a professor at Princeton University. His research interests span many areas of theoretical computer science including cryptography, computational complexity, and the foundations of machine learning. Boaz serve…

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Sean Carroll | The Many Worlds Interpretation & Emergent Spacetime 2:12:40

1y ago2:12:40

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Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and an external professor at the Sante Fe Institute. Sean has contributed prolifically to the public understanding of science through a…

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Daniel Schroeder | Introduction to Thermal Physics 1:33:14

1+ y ago1:33:14

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Daniel Schroeder is a particle and accelerator physicist and an editor for The American Journal of Physics. Dan received his PhD from Stanford University, where he spent most of his time at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, and he is currently a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Weber State University. Dan is also the author of…

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Ethan Siegel | Demystifying Dark Matter 1:49:00

1+ y ago1:49:00

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Ethan Siegel is a theoretical astrophysicist and science communicator. He received his PhD from the University of Florida and held academic positions at the University of Arizona, University of Oregon, and Lewis & Clark College before moving on to become a full-time science writer. Ethan is the author of the book Beyond The Galaxy, which is the sto…

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Alex Kontorovich | Circle Packings and Their Hidden Treasures 2:20:02

1+ y ago2:20:02

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Alex Kontorovich is a Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University and served as the Distinguished Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics in 2020–2021. Alex has received numerous awards for his illustrious mathematical career, including the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2013 for mathematical expositi…

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Greg Yang | Large N Limits: Random Matrices & Neural Networks 3:01:27

1+ y ago3:01:27

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Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher at Microsoft Research who for the past several years has done incredibly original theoretical work in the understanding of large artificial neural networks. Greg received his bachelors in mathematics from Harvard University in 2018 and while there won the Hoopes prize for best undergraduate thesis. He …

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Scott Aaronson | Quantum Computing: Dismantling the Hype 3:05:08

2y ago3:05:08

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Scott Aaronson is a professor of computer science at University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Previously he received his PhD at UC Berkeley and was a faculty member at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2007-2016. Scott has won numerous prizes for his research on quantum computing and comple…

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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) | Unsolvability of the Quintic 2:19:33

2y ago2:19:33

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Grant Sanderson is a mathematician who is the author of the YouTube channel “3Blue1Brown”, viewed by millions for its beautiful blend of visual animation and mathematical pedagogy. His channel covers a wide range of mathematical topics, which to name a few include calculus, quaternions, epidemic modeling, and artificial neural networks. Grant recei…

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John Baez | The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories 2:59:50

2y ago2:59:50

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John Baez is a mathematical physicist, professor of mathematics at UC Riverside, a researcher at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, and a researcher at the Topos Institute in Berkeley, CA. John has worked on an impressively wide range of topics, pure and applied, ranging from loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to…

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Tai-Danae Bradley | Category Theory and Language Models 2:25:17

2y ago2:25:17

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Tai-Danae Bradley is a mathematician who received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center. She was formerly at Alphabet and is now at Sandbox AQ, a startup focused on combining machine learning and quantum physics. Tai-Danae is a visiting research professor of mathematics at The Master’s University and the executive director of the M…

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John Urschel | Tackling Graph Theory 2:13:25

2y ago2:13:25

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John Urschel received his bachelors and masters in mathematics from Penn State and then went on to become a professional football player for the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. During his second season, Urschel began his graduate studies in mathematics at MIT alongside his professional football career. Urschel eventually decided to retire from pro footba…

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Richard Easther | The Big Bang, Inflation, and Gravitational Waves 2:32:00

2y ago2:32:00

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Richard Easther is a scientist, teacher, and communicator. He has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland for over the last 10 years and was previously a professor of physics at Yale University. As a scientist, Richard covers ground that crosses particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics and astronomy, and in particular, focuses on…

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Po-Shen Loh | The Mathematics of COVID-19 Contact Tracing 1:30:03

2y ago1:30:03

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Po-Shen Loh is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a coach for the US Math Olympiad. He is also a social entrepreneur where he has his used his passion and expertise in mathematics in the service of education (expii.com) and epidemiology (novid.org). In this episode, we discuss the mathematics behind Loh's novel approach to contact tracin…

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Introduction 1:04

2y ago1:04

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Hello everyone, this is Tim Nguyen and welcome to The Cartesian Cafe. On this podcast we embark on a collaborative journey with other experts, to discuss mathematical and scientific topics in faithful detail, which means writing down formulas, drawing pictures, and reasoning about them together on a whiteboard. If you’ve been longing for a deeper d…