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3Blue1Brown· 17 ago 2025How AlphaGeometry Combines Logical Proof with Creative ConstructionAleph0Aleph0 explains how a symbolic geometry solver gets surprisingly far without AI, and how a language model supplies the auxiliary constructions that take it to Olympiad level.
7:17ENErik and Martin Demaine on the Mathematics of Curved-Crease SculptureErik Demaine, Martin Demaine · MITThe MIT father-and-son collaborators turn paper folding into art and research, embedding puzzles and mathematical fonts in their sculpture Solve Me.
3:23ENNitya on Training and Working as a Quantitative Trader at Jane StreetNitya · Jane StreetA trader on the New York international ETF desk describes the skills, training and collaboration involved in her work.
11:41ENFive Ways to Calculate the Wait for a Successful ShotSawyer · Jane StreetA 20% success rate leads to an expected wait of five attempts—but two consecutive successes take 30. Explore the reasoning through series, recursion and a long-run argument.
10:32ENReal Numbers: Expected Time Between Exams and a Half-Court Shot ChallengeSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves an exam-scheduling problem in several ways, then asks how many basketball attempts it takes to make one shot or two in a row.
6:04ENFinals Week and the Expected Number of Snowboards UsedSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a new exam-scheduling puzzle and uses indicator variables in two ways to solve the previous snowboard problem.
6:16ENIndicator Variables: Marching Bands and SnowboardsSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer uses linearity of expectation to count in-step rows, then poses a six-snowboard challenge.
9:40ENReal Numbers: A Marching Band Challenge, Expected Damage, and Bayes’ RuleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a marching-band expected-value puzzle and uses linearity and Bayesian updating to solve a monster-attack problem.
10:08ENExpected Damage and a Golden-Ratio Window PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces expected value with an unknown video-game monster, then uses geometry to solve a painting-through-a-window problem.
7:55ENThe Art Thief’s Window and a Toy Boat’s Return JourneySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a geometric window puzzle and solves the previous episode’s river-crossing problem in two ways.
5:38ENWavey’s Return: Solving a River-Crossing PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves the first toy-boat crossing with a 5:3 speed ratio, then asks how the answer changes when the return journey starts 60 meters downstream.
6:37ENCrossing the River: A Toy Boat Puzzle and a Snow-Cone SolutionSawyer · Jane StreetA toy boat drifts downstream in a steady current. Sawyer poses a navigation puzzle and solves the previous episode’s cone-and-hemisphere problem.
3:35ENSnow Cones and Spheres: A Volume Solution and a New Geometry PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer derives the height of a cone with the same volume as a hemisphere, then asks how to reshape the ice with minimal movement.
5:39ENA Snow Cone Geometry Puzzle and a Piggy Bank ProbabilitySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a cone-design challenge and solves a conditional probability problem in two ways.
7:03ENGrandma’s Secret College Fund: A Bayes’ Theorem PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetA random $20 bill reveals information about a hidden deposit. Sawyer poses the new puzzle and solves a DMV probability problem three ways.
7:23ENBayes' Theorem and a Driver's Test Probability PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer derives Bayes' theorem, poses a question about test-takers who studied, and solves an earlier card-game probability puzzle.
8:03ENReal Numbers: A Taxi Challenge and Two Ways to Calculate a Sleep ProbabilitySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a consecutive-taxi puzzle and solves a five-night dog-sitting problem with a probability table and a counting argument.
6:50ENThe Perils of Dogsitting: A Probability Warm-UpSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a five-night dogsitting puzzle and reviews independence, overlapping events and complements with coins and dice.
7:15ENA Balanced Game of War and the Probability of Three TaxisSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces conditional probability through a card-game challenge, then solves an earlier six-car puzzle in two ways.
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Lex FridmanPódcast · 2 vocesWhy Donald Knuth Thinks P = NP and Why It Might Not MatterInvitado: Donald Knuth · Presenta: Lex FridmanKnuth explains how an algorithm can provably exist without anyone being able to write it down, and why that shapes his view of P versus NP.
11:11ENLex FridmanPódcast · 2 vocesFilling the Empty Quadrants: Jim Gates on Supersymmetry and the Beauty of Broken SymmetryInvitado: Jim Gates · Presenta: Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Jim Gates explains supersymmetry with a four-slice pie, recalls how he chose it for his thesis in the 1970s, and connects it to the way physics moves from mathematics to experiment.
11:34ENLex FridmanPódcastNeither Discovered Nor Invented: Grant Sanderson on the Cycle Between Math and the WorldPresenta: Lex Fridman3Blue1Brown's Grant Sanderson tells Lex Fridman that mathematics feeds on a loop of discovery and invention, and wonders why the universe's laws are so compressible.