Neil everytime I watch your videos, it’s like listening to my favorite big brained uncle explain the mysteries of the world to me. You’re an inspiration to so many kids and adults of course. I love showing your videos to my students, just so that they find joy in exploring the world around them. The world is a huge playground if one is interested in understanding it and there is no one better at evoking that feeling than you, Neil. Thank you so much.
The size of the brain isn’t that significant, if I’m correct - it’s the density. Of course the size does play a rol, because animals with a small brain tend to be far less intelligent, but it’s not like - the bigger the brain, the bigger the intelligence...
This has to be a coincidence. Just yesterday I got the book Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry. They not only invited the author but also got her to talk about the exact topic of the book!
Lol Okay, let's come up with an algorithm to determine the chances of a Startalk subscriber ALSO picking up a book on algorithms and human interactions with artificial intelligence within a day of the author appearing as a guest on the show....
Yes, it is a coincidence. Lots of people didn't buy the book yesterday. Chances were, some people did. But the important thing is; would you recommend the book?
What an incredible show!!! I never thought Hannah Fry would be hosted in Star Talk. That was a REAL surprise, and yes Neil... you gotta BRING HER BACK! And of course along with Chuck Nice who's become an essential part of the show. Well done you guys! 😉 Always happy and enriched with the amazing knowledge you all share 😊
Neil, whenever I see you upload, you make my entire day that much better! Cosmic Queries is definitely something I look forward to! You are also the reason I am pursuing astrophysics through online college courses! Love you all!
It was a pleasure to see this episode of StarTalk. It reminded me of a visit to a scientific conference more than 35 years ago in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I was invited by the Soviet Academy of Science and I could also visit Bukhara and Samarkand. In the travel guide I read that one of the greatest mathematician was living in this region in the 9th century: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Chwarazmi, Muhammad, son of Musa from Khwarazm, a region near lake Aral. He wrote a book on Indian calculation system with decimal numbers introducing the number "zero". The book consisted of step-by-step instructions to solve mathematical problems. The latin translation of his name Al-Chwarazmi in one to the titles " coined the term Algorithm. Another book with the title "Kitab min hisab al-gabr wa'l muqabala", a compilation of mathematical rules and examples, coined the term "algebra" again from latin translations of it's title.
Thank you for always feeding a curious mind. I feel in my life , if I had had teachers like Neil and Hannah I may have turned out different. Chuck is my curious minds humorous voice, I have asked questions like him , he is the human on the ground in the world of science. Thanks to all three of you for showing us that its still fun to learn and ask questions , I look forward to StarTalk and yes PLEASE BRING BACK HANNAH!!! Thank you for help building my mind scapes !
Yeah i cant believe he didnt know about P vs Np! How can he not know sonething that is so widely known! It just doesnt make any sense whatsoever! Whats P vs Np again? No? Ok
The problem with intelligence is that with all its branching fields and intellectual debates, one can specify down one branch so much that what others might find to be quite common speech is, in fact, on another bough. Just like one could be so versed in engineering that they could assure a near-indistructable infrastructure in the construction of a space shuttle, yet not know how to build a house. Or how terms like digitizing, vectors, and shape have different definitions depending on what branch you are currently perching on.
It's just amazing how Dr. Tyson makes any topic informative and enjoyable (i.e. not boring), aided and abetted of course by the hilarious Mr. Nice. Please keep up the excellent work. Also, if you can read this Dr. Fry, I absolutely loved your show from BBC Four, Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths. It perked up my interest in numbers all over again. To Dr. Tyson, Mr. Nice, and Dr. Fry, a big, big thank you! =)
Wow, imagine how small the disturbance would have been for it to take that much time to finally fall... And to imagine how random the disturbance could have been... It's all chaos theory
Shaurie Pvs or she lives in an apartment type complex and someone come down stairs? Or stairs in her own house. Plus you got a 10 pound book and a two pound bonsai tree for a book stop lol
Every time I watch these videos I never stop smiling the whole way through. Hannah was very enjoyable to listen to answering these questions. Thanks for the video.
Love this! I am so impressed by Chuck...he really has some interesting insights and shows that he has really thought about the subjects. I love the quote about studying Math. I have a math major and in 35 years I have not uses that equations but the analytical skills I developed are immeasurable
Thank you, Neil, for highlighting the work that's being done by some prominent females in the industry. Would love to see more of these names out there so more young girls that typically aren't exposed to this career path know that this is JUST as "normal" of a profession for women to be in as men.
This was hugely entertaining and informative. Thank you, Hannah and Dr. Tyson! Please do have Hannah back for more! Hannah’s comment on dating site statistics (starting around the 40-minute point) explains why I love scientists…. because they “disrupt my opinions” in the course of educating me. Interesting. PS> Anyone else notice that the book on the top left shelf of Hannah’s bookcase moves by itself, at the 50-minute mark?
I love this guy! My favorite group of guys talking about space while im in space lol and he makes difficult things very understandable. I wish to visit the museum of New York where he works
It is actually because of "Star Trek" that the word "data", in the US, is no longer pronounced "Dat-Uh" but "Day-Tah". The whole cast was rehearsing with the name pronounced "Dat-Uh" but then Patrick Stewart came on he pronounced it "Day-Tah", so everyone else pronounced it that way. It is also because of "Star Trek" that this show is called "Star Talk".
Is this true? It's on the internet.... so it must be. So one guy makes a mistake.... and rather than admit to the mistake your whole country changes their vocab to fit the new narrative?
@@ZeroOskul I hadn't realized you'd spoken to all 200 million Americans alive in the 1960s. Just because everyone you know used one pronunciation, does not mean that everybody else used the same pronunciation. My _Webster's New World Dictionary_ from 1970 gives what you call "day-tah" as the primary pronunciation. Now, what is your source that no one used that pronunciation before 1987?
14:30 I was studying programming and the definition I was taught for algorithms is so simple, I love it: "An algorithm is just a list of instruction." It doesn't necessarily have to give you a result, it can just be part of a greater thing. For example, an AI is a massive algorithm that keeps making its own smaller algorithms over and over and solving them over and over without anyone ever knowing what they are or what they do. That's why it's a black box. It's a computer making up computer jargon to only be understood by a computer. The processing power you'd have to give your AI to have it make its internal code also understandable to humans would be a phenomenal waste of money and time, so no one bothers to do it.
Hannah was great:) I have watched a lot of episodes and never commented but Hannah was really intelligent and offered a different perspective. Great show.
Just found out about her today, I adore her perspective, tone and how she focuses on humanity and mathematics at the same time. Humble and clever af (ofc)
33:47 brilliantly sums up the internet, although It makes me happy and gives me genuine hope for the world that there are intelligent, interesting people out there trying to solve the mysteries of the universe 👍
Please have Hannah back on. I've seen her TED Talk and other appearances like on Numberphile and she is brilliant! I look forward to when she's on the show again!
Love the subject, love the intelligence provided and LOVE HER ACCENT!!!! I could listen to her for HOURS! (but the knowledge hurts my brain!) but i LIKE it!
I want to thank you Neil & Chuck for being an oasis of intelligence and humor in a desert of ignorance and negativity. Also I think I’m in love with Hannah 😍
21:00 If it is based in math, you can always choose an answer and check it for accuracy as long as you know at least one correct factor. In grade school it's basically called reverse checking. That is how I made it through a LOT of math tests growing up. And oddly, since my math abilities are in fact limited, I use the same technique when I try out a sudoku puzzle. I say try because 99% of the time I end up on another task.
Hello StartTalk Crew! Great show. Please show a little camera trick to Dr. Tyson. Ask him to make sure he is in Focus and then toggle the AutoFocus feature to Lock. That way the camera stops autofocusing every time Dr. Tyson reaches out or does hand gestures. It's not the end of the world, just quite distracting for some of us. Thank you and keep it up!
PLEASE take the frames around the black and white swans and switch them around! The black swan would look better in the black frame. White swan in white frame. It's a far better contrast. Their backgrounds wash out the frames. I've been mentally switching them in my head for 2 months now. Have mercy on me! Otherwise, facinating topics, as always. Love the show. Edit: Also IDK if you plan to paint that wall, but a medium gray would look stunning and make those swans pop!
On the sudoku example. Could you run a program that randomly fills in the sudoku and a parallel program that checks the previous randomly filled puzzle. Could you in this create a system that uses the checking quicker than the solving method to solve general problems quicker than you could find a proper way to actually solve the problem in an elegant way. Brute force is some times brutally beautiful.
I like Hanna. She did a documentary about Mathematics under BBC. It's on UA-cam also. Thanks for making her your guest for this episode. I hope she gets invited again in future episodes of this show.
Fantastic show, a few years back visiting London we rented a "flat" in Greenwich, a walking distance to the observatory. Beautiful part of town, full of history.
31:30 the triangular hexacontahedron is also a platonic solid, but the pentagonal hexacontahedron is not. The triangular hexacontahedron is the shape of the interior box from "The Last Mimzy". It is composed of sixty equilateral triangles and can be made by placing five obtusely protruding triangular faces into each pentagonal face of a pentagonal dodecahedron.
This conversation has taken years to resurface. I'm sitting and enjoying the communication of these ideas. First time was in the 80's, then I have to ask. Has this conversation happened on a regular bases, as ideas and technology became available, to check the questions?
Her last algorithm reminded me of The Minority Report movie. Fascinating talk and I like the explanation of what algorithm means Watching Hannah light up with some of these questions makes it obvious she's in the right field and loves her job =)
I would love to hear Sir Hanah Fry discuss the Navier Stokes equations, Arrhenius equations and Iterative closest point (ICP) algorithms or anything else for that matter, very nice voice(PLEASE COME BACK!). Anyway buying the book now.
There was a confusion at the beginning between algorithms (sets of steps) and models, especially prediction models, even though she tried to point that out, but was ignored... Glad she was able to address that later in the video through a question.
Great to see Hannah on here, turns up in all the best places... It's worth pointing out Radio-4 also has a lot of fantastic comedy and plays, Infinite Monkey-Cage (highly recommended if you enjoy star-talk, Neil has been a guest at least once), Hitchikers guide, the News-quiz, The Now show, Terry Pratchett adaptations, etc. "BBC-Sounds" app is worth a download.
In high school, I was really good at math. In my senior year, math wasn't required. This became my downfall, or at least a part of the reason for my downfall. I am the oldest of 3 boys. My younger brother has a photographic memory and quite literally learned how to read and how to do basic math before he learned how to walk. My baby brother......well, he was the baby of the family and all that comes with that. I, on the other hand, was the one who managed to get out of any locked door or window as soon as I could walk and was always taking things apart to see how they worked. Very long story short, my brothers were always treated with special preferences and I was treated like I shouldn't have been born. At some point in high school, I broke and no longer cared about school, or my future for that matter. So, I only did what was absolutely necessary. I still managed to get an 86.2 average and scored in the middle 1400's on my SAT. Point is that I let things slip over 20 something years ago that I sorely regret letting slip now that I'm almost 45. Math being chief among them.
If you notice the reflection of the window to the left on the picture, you will see that a gust of wind had blown over her house at the time of the book moving resulting in a gust of wind in the reflection just after
Neil everytime I watch your videos, it’s like listening to my favorite big brained uncle explain the mysteries of the world to me. You’re an inspiration to so many kids and adults of course. I love showing your videos to my students, just so that they find joy in exploring the world around them. The world is a huge playground if one is interested in understanding it and there is no one better at evoking that feeling than you, Neil.
Thank you so much.
except its Neil da Grasse Tyson on his infamous explaining journies
The size of the brain isn’t that significant, if I’m correct - it’s the density. Of course the size does play a rol, because animals with a small brain tend to be far less intelligent, but it’s not like - the bigger the brain, the bigger the intelligence...
Kees Jansma it was just a figure of speech
Deebo 😂Oh, okay, my bad
Deebo got students now and he gon get that Kees Jansma
This has to be a coincidence. Just yesterday I got the book Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry. They not only invited the author but also got her to talk about the exact topic of the book!
🎯So cool ! Great choice 🤘😎📈
Lol
Okay, let's come up with an algorithm to determine the chances of a Startalk subscriber ALSO picking up a book on algorithms and human interactions with artificial intelligence within a day of the author appearing as a guest on the show....
Google algorithm ; )
Yes, it is a coincidence. Lots of people didn't buy the book yesterday. Chances were, some people did. But the important thing is; would you recommend the book?
@@bert3163 But I am a subscriber!
Hannah needs to come back every 40 star talk webisodes. She's brilliant, funny, insightful and gregarious. She has to be a regular!
"It got terribly out of hand and ended up being a TED talk." I just love this line.
Chuck's my favorite. Keep him full time. The energy between you two is unmatched.
Lol u see the size of his red mug at the start hahaha😂
What a surprising collaboration ! It is great to see Hannah here.
It's great to see her anywhere.
Agreed
She’s hot 🥵
@@stazi7532 very much
To be honest, I listen to her for the accent
Pls make part 2 and part 3 of this topic with Hannah Fry!
What an incredible show!!! I never thought Hannah Fry would be hosted in Star Talk. That was a REAL surprise, and yes Neil... you gotta BRING HER BACK! And of course along with Chuck Nice who's become an essential part of the show. Well done you guys! 😉 Always happy and enriched with the amazing knowledge you all share 😊
Neil, whenever I see you upload, you make my entire day that much better! Cosmic Queries is definitely something I look forward to! You are also the reason I am pursuing astrophysics through online college courses! Love you all!
It was a pleasure to see this episode of StarTalk. It reminded me of a visit to a scientific conference more than 35 years ago in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I was invited by the Soviet Academy of Science and I could also visit Bukhara and Samarkand. In the travel guide I read that one of the greatest mathematician was living in this region in the 9th century: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Chwarazmi, Muhammad, son of Musa from Khwarazm, a region near lake Aral. He wrote a book on Indian calculation system with decimal numbers introducing the number "zero". The book consisted of step-by-step instructions to solve mathematical problems. The latin translation of his name Al-Chwarazmi in one to the titles " coined the term Algorithm. Another book with the title "Kitab min hisab al-gabr wa'l muqabala", a compilation of mathematical rules and examples, coined the term "algebra" again from latin translations of it's title.
Thank you for always feeding a curious mind. I feel in my life , if I had had teachers like Neil and Hannah I may have turned out different. Chuck is my curious minds humorous voice, I have asked questions like him , he is the human on the ground in the world of science. Thanks to all three of you for showing us that its still fun to learn and ask questions , I look forward to StarTalk and yes PLEASE BRING BACK HANNAH!!! Thank you for help building my mind scapes !
I absolutely loved this episode. Hannah Fry is amazing!
Neil didnt know about P vs NP?? I cannot believe that.
@19:55
This was absolutely amazing thank you so much!
Yeah very weird it’s like the biggest computer science problem
Yeah i cant believe he didnt know about P vs Np! How can he not know sonething that is so widely known! It just doesnt make any sense whatsoever!
Whats P vs Np again?
No? Ok
@@waqasahmed3115 All I know is the Simpsons kept bringing it up.
I'm pretty sure he knows. Dr. Tyson is a great host and often asks questions to clarify the subject for the viewers.
The problem with intelligence is that with all its branching fields and intellectual debates, one can specify down one branch so much that what others might find to be quite common speech is, in fact, on another bough.
Just like one could be so versed in engineering that they could assure a near-indistructable infrastructure in the construction of a space shuttle, yet not know how to build a house.
Or how terms like digitizing, vectors, and shape have different definitions depending on what branch you are currently perching on.
Watch every Hannah Fry documentary! They're great! & also, gosh she's pretty :)
Euler Spirals!
Yeah... Super smart, accent, red hair and funny. If she said she played video games I would consider her as near perfection as possible.
Yeah,a real nerdy-smarty beauty
There are the smart and pretty and then there is me
So true
It's just amazing how Dr. Tyson makes any topic informative and enjoyable (i.e. not boring), aided and abetted of course by the hilarious Mr. Nice. Please keep up the excellent work.
Also, if you can read this Dr. Fry, I absolutely loved your show from BBC Four, Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths. It perked up my interest in numbers all over again.
To Dr. Tyson, Mr. Nice, and Dr. Fry, a big, big thank you! =)
I can't sleep without watching Neil once a day. 😊👍
A book on Hannah's top-shelf falls over at 50:08
It’s the PM pushing it
Wow, imagine how small the disturbance would have been for it to take that much time to finally fall... And to imagine how random the disturbance could have been... It's all chaos theory
Shaurie Pvs or she lives in an apartment type complex and someone come down stairs? Or stairs in her own house. Plus you got a 10 pound book and a two pound bonsai tree for a book stop lol
@@5777Whatup fair guess!!
I scrolled the comments just to see who else noticed.
Dr. Fry is the complete package. I'm a new fan.
Every time I watch these videos I never stop smiling the whole way through. Hannah was very enjoyable to listen to answering these questions. Thanks for the video.
Love this! I am so impressed by Chuck...he really has some interesting insights and shows that he has really thought about the subjects.
I love the quote about studying Math. I have a math major and in 35 years I have not uses that equations but the analytical skills I developed are immeasurable
He's definitely been studying on the sly.
chucks awesome
First time seeing Hannah Fry I think I fell in love.
She's a regular on Numberphile channel, her Euler spiral video is the best! Had the same feeling after watching that.
I subbed to numberphile becuz of her
Any topic is interesting on this show. Love it!
Thank you, Hannah, for explaining protein folding to me in simple terms. I've been folding@home for years.
I love Hannah she is AMAZING she is super smart and quick witted I want more Hannah on StarTalk
Hannah is the best! Love watching her on Numberphile as well! One of the best star talks I've watched great discussions!
I can't get enough of watching Star Talk. This is funny and awesome. I love learning. Thank you
Again another intelligent show. We definitely need more programs like "Star Talk".
Thank you, Neil, for highlighting the work that's being done by some prominent females in the industry. Would love to see more of these names out there so more young girls that typically aren't exposed to this career path know that this is JUST as "normal" of a profession for women to be in as men.
Wow she was great, personal favorite guest so far. Definitely bring her back.
43:53 I always suspected that my "forever loneliness" was mostly due to my ugliness, now I know I'm too beautiful... Thank you!
I've seen a UA-cam video by BoyInABand where he talked about that subject.
This was hugely entertaining and informative. Thank you, Hannah and Dr. Tyson! Please do have Hannah back for more!
Hannah’s comment on dating site statistics (starting around the 40-minute point) explains why I love scientists…. because they “disrupt my opinions” in the course of educating me. Interesting.
PS> Anyone else notice that the book on the top left shelf of Hannah’s bookcase moves by itself, at the 50-minute mark?
Knowledge is power, Neil and Chuck!! Great show!! Thank you!!! 😘✨👍🏾
chuck always has an amazing comment in these shows......"looking for the answer to ask the question" mind bending!
Indeed. That totally nailed what they were talking about exactly. The perfect plain English description.
If she isn't already voicing documentaries, she should be. She has a nice strong, calm, and confident voice.
chuck is absolutely amazing when it comes to reiterating the questions tbh
I love this guy! My favorite group of guys talking about space while im in space lol and he makes difficult things very understandable. I wish to visit the museum of New York where he works
We need her on the show more often.
Agreed 👏👏👏👏
I hope Neil has her back on ASAP for Part 2, she was awesome.
It is actually because of "Star Trek" that the word "data", in the US, is no longer pronounced "Dat-Uh" but "Day-Tah".
The whole cast was rehearsing with the name pronounced "Dat-Uh" but then Patrick Stewart came on he pronounced it "Day-Tah", so everyone else pronounced it that way.
It is also because of "Star Trek" that this show is called "Star Talk".
That pronunciation was common in the US long before the tv show.
Is this true? It's on the internet.... so it must be.
So one guy makes a mistake.... and rather than admit to the mistake your whole country changes their vocab to fit the new narrative?
@@michaelsommers2356 No, it was not.
We always said "Dat-Uh".
Find common usage of "Day-Tah" before 1987, and post a link.
@@ZeroOskul I hadn't realized you'd spoken to all 200 million Americans alive in the 1960s. Just because everyone you know used one pronunciation, does not mean that everybody else used the same pronunciation. My _Webster's New World Dictionary_ from 1970 gives what you call "day-tah" as the primary pronunciation. Now, what is your source that no one used that pronunciation before 1987?
@@michaelsommers2356 the '60s are a very small part of pre-1987 history. I'm an English language scholar.
So great to see Hannah Fry here. Let's talk some maths!!
14:30 I was studying programming and the definition I was taught for algorithms is so simple, I love it: "An algorithm is just a list of instruction."
It doesn't necessarily have to give you a result, it can just be part of a greater thing. For example, an AI is a massive algorithm that keeps making its own smaller algorithms over and over and solving them over and over without anyone ever knowing what they are or what they do. That's why it's a black box. It's a computer making up computer jargon to only be understood by a computer. The processing power you'd have to give your AI to have it make its internal code also understandable to humans would be a phenomenal waste of money and time, so no one bothers to do it.
Hannah was great:) I have watched a lot of episodes and never commented but Hannah was really intelligent and offered a different perspective. Great show.
I love Hannah, her face is so pleasant to the eyes and has great personality
11 MONTHS still my favorite episode. had to watch again.
Oh Hannah's great. I'm so glad to see two of my favorites in one video :-)
hannah fry! love her!
This was a fantastic segment. Thank you all for sharing!!
Omg. Neil, chuck and Hannah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How have i missed this!🎉
As a Math and Finance nerd i love the word ALGORITHM. SO YES PLEASE MORE HANNAH.
I can watch and listen to her talk all day...😍
Just found out about her today, I adore her perspective, tone and how she focuses on humanity and mathematics at the same time. Humble and clever af (ofc)
I could listen to Hannah all day : )
Always nice to see Neil bringing the new guest(s) with the new queries!!
I love the chemistry Chuck and Neil have. I could totally see them in a funny movie as cop buddies.
Twizted Dezign perfect!!! 😄😄😄
@Hannah Fry is a rare beauty. Seriously, she is an actual national treasure.
Definitely must have Hannah back!
Great show as always Neil and Chuck
Why haven't we seen more of her...this was 2 years ago 😮
👍 agreed I just found the video today and it's 3 years old I think. She was very good and insightful. I liked her talk time.
You three are awesome!
Incidentally, watch Hanna's documentaries and podcast!
Dr. Fry and Dr. Tyson are the best female and male voices, respectively, in science popularization.
Carl Sagan is #1.
Nice hosting Hannah, she is amazing. And as always, NDT is the best!
33:47 brilliantly sums up the internet, although It makes me happy and gives me genuine hope for the world that there are intelligent, interesting people out there trying to solve the mysteries of the universe 👍
Please have Hannah back on. I've seen her TED Talk and other appearances like on Numberphile and she is brilliant! I look forward to when she's on the show again!
Love the subject, love the intelligence provided and LOVE HER ACCENT!!!! I could listen to her for HOURS! (but the knowledge hurts my brain!) but i LIKE it!
I want to thank you Neil & Chuck for being an oasis of intelligence and humor in a desert of ignorance and negativity. Also I think I’m in love with Hannah 😍
The amount of knowledge in this video is crazy!
Just place a reservation of Hannah's book at my local library, fascinating subject.
21:00
If it is based in math, you can always choose an answer and check it for accuracy as long as you know at least one correct factor. In grade school it's basically called reverse checking.
That is how I made it through a LOT of math tests growing up. And oddly, since my math abilities are in fact limited, I use the same technique when I try out a sudoku puzzle. I say try because 99% of the time I end up on another task.
Havent watched yet but excited to see Hannah Fry collaborating with y'all!
Hello StartTalk Crew!
Great show. Please show a little camera trick to Dr. Tyson.
Ask him to make sure he is in Focus and then toggle the AutoFocus feature to Lock. That way the camera stops autofocusing every time Dr. Tyson reaches out or does hand gestures.
It's not the end of the world, just quite distracting for some of us.
Thank you and keep it up!
PLEASE take the frames around the black and white swans and switch them around! The black swan would look better in the black frame. White swan in white frame. It's a far better contrast. Their backgrounds wash out the frames. I've been mentally switching them in my head for 2 months now. Have mercy on me! Otherwise, facinating topics, as always. Love the show.
Edit: Also IDK if you plan to paint that wall, but a medium gray would look stunning and make those swans pop!
Great video as always! Looking forward to the next video with Hannah, extremely interesting insights and can't wait to hear more! =)
On the sudoku example.
Could you run a program that randomly fills in the sudoku and a parallel program that checks the previous randomly filled puzzle.
Could you in this create a system that uses the checking quicker than the solving method to solve general problems quicker than you could find a proper way to actually solve the problem in an elegant way.
Brute force is some times brutally beautiful.
I like Hanna. She did a documentary about Mathematics under BBC. It's on UA-cam also. Thanks for making her your guest for this episode. I hope she gets invited again in future episodes of this show.
I love this series. It's always so vibrant and diverse.
Neil hard carried this show. Not a slight to chuck and guest but a nod to Neil's skills
Dear Startalk,
Put Hannah Fry on the payroll.
I first heard of Dr Hanna Fry when I watched BBC's Magic Numbers and it was very enjoyable. Glad to see her being interviewed here too.
Beautiful conversation thank you neil for being the main force of this amzing show
Fantastic show, a few years back visiting London we rented a "flat" in Greenwich, a walking distance to the observatory. Beautiful part of town, full of history.
31:30 the triangular hexacontahedron is also a platonic solid, but the pentagonal hexacontahedron is not.
The triangular hexacontahedron is the shape of the interior box from "The Last Mimzy".
It is composed of sixty equilateral triangles and can be made by placing five obtusely protruding triangular faces into each pentagonal face of a pentagonal dodecahedron.
This conversation has taken years to resurface. I'm sitting and enjoying the communication of these ideas. First time was in the 80's, then I have to ask. Has this conversation happened on a regular bases, as ideas and technology became available, to check the questions?
37:59 oh my god, Greenwich mean time... it makes sense now... always wondered, but never questioned it... I love StarTalk
this is more informative than any of my classes on algorithms.
I wish I had this video when I was writing my dissertation.
Her last algorithm reminded me of The Minority Report movie. Fascinating talk and I like the explanation of what algorithm means
Watching Hannah light up with some of these questions makes it obvious she's in the right field and loves her job =)
Minority Report and Westworld are algorithm based science fiction film that I love!
Fascinating discussion. One of your best episodes
Hannah is just perfect.
I love Hannah! I'm so happy you had her on.
I would love to hear Sir Hanah Fry discuss the Navier Stokes equations, Arrhenius equations and Iterative closest point (ICP) algorithms or anything else for that matter, very nice voice(PLEASE COME BACK!). Anyway buying the book now.
One of the best episodes so far.
Great show. Always a fan of Hannah Fry.
Chuck is the best co host!!!!
There was a confusion at the beginning between algorithms (sets of steps) and models, especially prediction models, even though she tried to point that out, but was ignored...
Glad she was able to address that later in the video through a question.
Great to see Hannah on here, turns up in all the best places...
It's worth pointing out Radio-4 also has a lot of fantastic comedy and plays, Infinite Monkey-Cage (highly recommended if you enjoy star-talk, Neil has been a guest at least once), Hitchikers guide, the News-quiz, The Now show, Terry Pratchett adaptations, etc. "BBC-Sounds" app is worth a download.
This is so interesting, thank you all for that !
I love Hannah's eyes. And her hair. And her brain. And her accent.
In high school, I was really good at math. In my senior year, math wasn't required. This became my downfall, or at least a part of the reason for my downfall. I am the oldest of 3 boys. My younger brother has a photographic memory and quite literally learned how to read and how to do basic math before he learned how to walk. My baby brother......well, he was the baby of the family and all that comes with that. I, on the other hand, was the one who managed to get out of any locked door or window as soon as I could walk and was always taking things apart to see how they worked. Very long story short, my brothers were always treated with special preferences and I was treated like I shouldn't have been born. At some point in high school, I broke and no longer cared about school, or my future for that matter. So, I only did what was absolutely necessary. I still managed to get an 86.2 average and scored in the middle 1400's on my SAT. Point is that I let things slip over 20 something years ago that I sorely regret letting slip now that I'm almost 45. Math being chief among them.
50:07 Hannahs home is haunted, look at the books at the top middle of the screen
Gravity 😂
Yeah, I did notice that too. And came to find this comment.
She probably just made it tidy before the video conference. Hence the book being unstable and shiftinf.
If you notice the reflection of the window to the left on the picture, you will see that a gust of wind had blown over her house at the time of the book moving resulting in a gust of wind in the reflection just after
I noticed that and hoped to be the first on commenting that... how delusional I was xdd
Chuck and Neil are the best dou since PB&J.
Wow you lot are global treasures , I’m laughing and learning .....double whammy thank you🥳🥳🥳🥳