The Cartesian Cafe

22 Episodes

1. Justin Clarke-Doane | Mathematics, Reality, and Morality

   Published: 12/6/2024
2. Jay McClelland | Neural Networks: Artificial and Biological

   Published: 10/2/2024
3. Michael Freedman | A Fields Medalist Panorama

   Published: 7/19/2024
4. Marcus Hutter | Universal Artificial Intelligence and Solomonoff Induction

   Published: 5/10/2024
5. Richard Borcherds | Monstrous Moonshine: From Group Theory to String Theory

   Published: 2/2/2024
6. Announcements for 2024 and a Message to Viewers

   Published: 1/9/2024
7. Tim Maudlin | Bell’s Theorem and Beyond: Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics

   Published: 12/1/2023
8. Antonio Padilla | Fantastic Numbers, Naturalness, and Anthropics in Physics

   Published: 9/27/2023
9. Boaz Barak | Cryptography: The Art of Mathematical Secrecy

   Published: 8/2/2023
10. Sean Carroll | The Many Worlds Interpretation & Emergent Spacetime

    Published: 6/14/2023
11. Daniel Schroeder | Introduction to Thermal Physics

    Published: 5/2/2023
12. Ethan Siegel | Demystifying Dark Matter

    Published: 3/21/2023
13. Alex Kontorovich | Circle Packings and Their Hidden Treasures

    Published: 2/15/2023
14. Greg Yang | Large N Limits: Random Matrices & Neural Networks

    Published: 1/4/2023
15. Scott Aaronson | Quantum Computing: Dismantling the Hype

    Published: 11/22/2022
16. Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) | Unsolvability of the Quintic

    Published: 10/13/2022
17. John Baez | The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories

    Published: 9/7/2022
18. Tai-Danae Bradley | Category Theory and Language Models

    Published: 8/22/2022
19. John Urschel | Tackling Graph Theory

    Published: 8/22/2022
20. Richard Easther | The Big Bang, Inflation, and Gravitational Waves

    Published: 8/20/2022