The Cartesian Cafe

The Cartesian Cafe is the podcast where an expert guest and Timothy Nguyen map out scientific and mathematical subjects in detail. This collaborative journey with other experts will have us writing down formulas, drawing pictures, and reasoning about them together on a whiteboard. If you’ve been longing for a deeper dive into the intricacies of scientific subjects, then this is the podcast for you. Topics covered include mathematics, physics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer science.Content also viewable on YouTube: www.youtube.com/timothynguyen and Spotify.Timothy Nguyen is a mathematician and AI researcher working in industry. Homepage: www.timothynguyen.com, Twitter: @IAmTimNguyenPatreon: www.patreon.com/timothynguyen

The Cartesian Cafe is a science podcast hosted by Timothy Nguyen, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Timothy Nguyen hosts The Cartesian Cafe, a science show with 22 episodes published.

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  Episode #20

  Justin Clarke-Doane | Mathematics, Reality, and Morality

  Dec 6, 20242h 34mS0

  <p>Justin Clarke-Doane is a professor of philosophy at Columbia University, whose interests span metaethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic & mathematics.</p> <p>In this thought provoking-discussion, Justin and I go deep into topics that are typically neglected by most mathematicians and scientists, namely the philosophy of mathematics and morality. Justin has contributed to both these areas via his book Morality and Mathematics, which takes the view that the standard position of being both a mathematical realist and moral antirealist is incoherent. Perhaps the most novel aspect of Justin's work is the treatment of the philosophy of mathematics and...

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  Episode #19

  Jay McClelland | Neural Networks: Artificial and Biological

  Oct 2, 20242h 59mS0

  <p>Jay McClelland is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and is a cognitive psychologist and professor at Stanford University in the psychology, linguistics, and computer science departments. Together with David Rumelhart, Jay published the two volume work Parallel Distributed Processing, which has led to the flourishing of the connectionist approach to understanding cognition.</p> <p>In this conversation, Jay gives us a crash course in how neurons and biological brains work. This sets the stage for how psychologists such as Jay, David Rumelhart, and Geoffrey Hinton historically approached the development of models of cognition and ultimately artificial...

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  Episode #18

  Michael Freedman | A Fields Medalist Panorama

  Jul 19, 20242h 53mS0

  <p>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 director of Station Q, Microsoft’s quantum computing research lab. As of 2023, Mike is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Mathematics and Scientific Applications at Harvard University.</p> <p>Patreon (bonus materials + video chat): https://www.patreon.com/timothynguyen</p> <p>In this wide-ranging conversation, we give a...

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  Episode #17

  Marcus Hutter | Universal Artificial Intelligence and Solomonoff Induction

  May 10, 20243h 2mS0

  <p>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 2005 and one coming right off the press as we speak. Marcus is also the creator of the Hutter prize, for which you can win a sizable fortune for achieving state of the art lossless compression of Wikipedia text.</p> <p>Patreon (bonus materials + video chat...

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  Episode #16

  Richard Borcherds | Monstrous Moonshine: From Group Theory to String Theory

  Feb 2, 20242h 5mS0

  <p>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.</p> <p>Patreon (bonus materials + video chat): https://www.patreon.com/timothynguyen</p> <p>In this episode, Richard and I give an overview of Richard's most famous result: his proof of the Monstrous Moonshine conjecture relating the monster group on the one hand and modular forms on the other. A...

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