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{{collapse top|title=Summary}}Brady and Grey talk about Pi Day and Vi Hart's "Anti-Pi Rant" video, comparing Pi and Tau and their feelings towards "celebrity numbers"{{Empty section|date=September 2017}}
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Grey 0:00
We'll edit this out. This is editing out song. We have five new countries that have left reviews for us in iTunes. And this week it is
Brady 0:32
We only just got China
Grey 0:33
I was surprised that we only just got China and I was almost wondering if the iTunes store was even available in China. I wasn't sure if it was like YouTube, which I don't know if the internet is aware or not
Brady 0:58
We're breaking into big markets now mate.
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Grey 1:03
We're going to capture all of that China market very shortly
Brady 1:06
Grey 1:12
Yes, yes, that will... never happen.
Brady 1:17
So, the last podcast was about emailing. Yes. And you gave some advice about emailing that I personally found really useful. And I know some of the viewers did. And I sort of,
Grey 1:50
Brady 2:17
So maybe I should start like some some sort of Kickstarter or crowd campaign and if people give enough money
Grey 2:25
Now I don't think that's necessary. I don't I don't think we need to do that. We can we can skip. We can skip that one.
Brady 2:31
What else is going on then? Have you been much else? much else in the feedback? I've been following the Reddit it's been it's been good fun.
Grey 2:37
Yes, Yes, I have. I've been following the Reddit as well. And I think we both commented, I'll put it in the show notes. Someone left an absolutely hilarious image that I want to find out whoever left this image I need to know where this is from. But this image under just the link said CGP Grey visits Brady and his
Brady 3:09
I'm looking at it now
Grey 3:13
It is absolutely perfect.
Brady 3:15
I know talking about a photo is not excellent podcast
Grey 3:33
I think
Brady 3:46
And it does help, it does help that the caveman as well has kind of long matted ginger hair. So that sort of adds to the
Grey 3:58
But yeah, so well, I'll put a link in the show notes people can check that out. And if someone can tell us where the original poster can tell us where that's from, I'm really curious. It looks like it's from some TV show in the 60s maybe? I don't know exactly. But I'd be really curious to know the origins of that image.
Brady 4:14
under ine I think?
Grey 4:19
Brady 4:25
Yeah.
Grey 4:34
What else? What else from
Brady 6:32
Grey 6:36
So yeah, but
Brady 6:46
Grey 7:37
Brady 7:44
But imagine if
Grey 7:52
No, no, you do not when people are sending you math proofs,
Brady 9:15
I mean, even something like that Poincare can never say it correctly Poincare conjecture, you know, the one. Yeah, it was one of the it's the only one of the seven Millennium problems that has been solved. And even that was sort of just, it was solved by attrition in many ways. I mean, they solved it for all the different dimensions, and then eventually, the only dimension they couldn't solve
Grey 10:28
Yeah, I think that that that one was actually mentioned in the, in the book that I was just reading, as an example of a proof that had to be farmed out to a whole bunch of people to try to figure out, you know, is this even correct? Let's, the only thing I might just mention here is that a lot of people commented on how serious I got at the end of the last podcast.
Brady 10:50
Yes. I noticed that I was when I was talking. This was when I was talking about
Grey 10:59
Yes, yeah. That's what you were talking about. And I guess I can't hear it in my own voice but enough people commented on on Reddit that they that they noticed the swing in my tone to suddenly very serious tone. And yes, it is true. I just want to make a little a little comment about that about why, why I'm serious about this. Why I'm so serious. But Internet addiction, email addiction, Twitter addiction,
Brady 11:23
Grey 11:25
Brady 11:34
Yeah.
Grey 11:40
Yeah, I guess Okay.
Brady 13:54
Grey 14:05
But I am part of this conversation too right. I this is why I'm always sad that I'm not a robot, I'm not that robot in that image before, because I'm keenly aware of like the sad, sad limitations of my own mammal monkey brain. I, like you know, I think I'm this this clever, rational person, right, but I have a monkey brain in my skull, just like every other human does. And that monkey brain is easily distracted, and it doesn't want to pay attention or like it engages in all this horrible self destructive behavior. So that's, this is like, like, being productive is learning to deal with the monkey in your head, who just wants to sit in the sunshine and eat bananas, you know, or go run around and do other kinds of stuff. So that's that Enough, enough with the seriousness. just mentioned a quick link. This is going back a couple shows ago, but on one of my favorite sections of Reddit is a section called
Brady
Oh yeah, this is our last prime number of the experiment then.
Thank you. It was the was this debate cross posted to the newly created freebooting subreddit which I noted the other day.▼
Grey 16:12
It is our last prime number of the experiment. Good on you for thinking that.
Brady 16:15
▲Thank you.
Grey 16:23
Yes, I saw someone I saw someone made that I took a little screenshot because I thought now you are the one who's pushing this freebooting word. Again, again, internet. I'm totally fine with copyright infringement, though. I will I will admit
Brady 16:37
You're fine with copyright infringement
Grey 16:40
Yes, the term the term although I will acknowledge that it is very awkward in certain circumstances. But I noticed, I noticed on the description of the freebooting subreddit. It's this the description is that this is a subreddit that is about those who don't want to pay or sorry about those who don't pay
Brady 17:32
I think
Okay. All right. Yeah. But yeah, someone,
Brady 18:02
Man, If this word catches on in any way. Like, I'll be so proud that that original podcast were brought up that will become like a historic document.
Grey 18:12
It will. They will, that will that will be in the Oxford English Dictionary. When they when they talk about first usage of a term it'll Yeah, right because that's what they need to have like earliest known use of this word. It'll be Brady, in a podcast.
Grey 18:26
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Brady 20:24
Pi Day,
Grey 20:25
It is Pi Day today, the day we are recording,
Brady 20:
Grey 20:41
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Brady 20:49
Yeah. So obviously making having a YouTube channel all about numbers. I have a tremendous interest in
Grey 21:01
Like, it sounds like you need a channel dedicated to
Brady 21:07
Maybe, maybe.
Brady 21:28
And her video for Pi Day today. Like, like all her videos was excellent. I mean, essentially, in a nutshell. I mean, I hope people will watch it if they haven't already seen it. And I'm sure
Grey 24:40
Find your
Brady 24:44
Really, I think. I think it's a very human thing to do. Like, you know, like, like, like, like, like how some people have a soft spot for Saturn because it's got rings or, you know, we we look for little-
Grey 25:00
That is different I just think you description of, of I Oh, there's others there's all these poor numbers milling around and like we as a society have taken this one number and and raised him up to celebrity status and he was the he was the lucky guy in the right place at the right time. I don't know I find that that whole description very hard to relate to and very
Brady 25:24
I want to know what do you think do you think, do you subscribe to you know, what's the big deal with
Grey 25:33
you well okay you
Brady 26:50
And I had a lot of I had a lot. It was thought provoking for that reason.
Grey 26:52
Yeah, it was good.
Brady 26:55
But I still think it's okay to to love Pi and think it's special.
Grey 26:59
Okay, so now
Brady 27:23
Wow. That is impressive. That is impressive.
Grey 27:25
It sounds impressive, it is not as impressive as actually sounds, because I was using, you know, there's memory techniques for this kinds of things where you can transform digits into words and then the words into sentences. And so it's not as hard as it as it actually sounds to memorize an arbitrary sequence of digits. You know, this is this is basically a technique that I learned for school and to memorize stuff. And so then I was just, you know, just doing this as as a as a boredom kind of thing, and I thought Pi was was cool, right? Because I'm, I was a nerdy High School guy. And I never came across Tau until some point when I was in college. I don't remember exactly when. But some math professor brought it up.
Brady 28:16
This is
Grey: 28:17
Yeah. Yeah.
Brady 28:19
Which some people argue is a more obvious constant to use.
Grey 28:22
Yeah. So basically, I think the, to sum it up,
Brady 30:53
Well, there was some good there are some good videos on there are some good
Grey 31:16
Well, I think celebrity numbers, I know what you mean. So think it's a funny term. I mean, I would say I am, I am for it. You know, for example, I love the fact that there is a Pi
Brady 31:43
And it's Einstein's birthday of course.
Grey 31:44
Oh is it? I did not know that.
with it. I did not know that. So yeah, I'm in favor of celebrity numbers. I know I can't conceive of of a reason not to be and if you know if people really like pie, I think I think I think maybe part of the celebrity of pi is that it is an interesting looking number, right? Whereas towel looks too much like a tea and the imaginary number is an eye symbol. It's a cool symbol. Yeah, it's a very cool symbol. Or if people who've been following me on Twitter know that I have been re working my way through the wire, the TV series series for probably the fourth or fifth time now, man, that's a good show. Yeah, man, I could talk about that forever. And there is a character in the second season who has a PI tattoo on the back of his neck. And I was wondering if this is I assume that maybe it's the actors tattoo. I was I was always kind of curious about that. Cuz it's a detail that as the striking in the second season, and seems a little bit out of place. But yeah, the PI symbol is just cool. So I can see why it is it is more prominent as a feature or it looks cool on movie posters. You know, if you want to have something mathy you put a pie up there, it's immediately recognizable. Whereas lots of other mass symbols. They're just using boring old regular letters, you know, and it's that's that's not as interesting. But yeah, so I I'm in favor of,▼
Brady 31:45
Mhmm, I believe so
Grey 31:46
So yeah, I'm in favor of celebrity numbers. I know I can't conceive of of a reason not to be and if you know if people really like Pi, I think I think I think maybe part of the celebrity of Pi is that it is an interesting looking number, right? Whereas Tau looks too much like a T and the imaginary number is an i.
Brady 31:58
It's a cool symbol, its a cool symbol yeah.
Grey 32:00
It's a very cool symbol. Or if people who've been following me on Twitter know that I have been re working my way through The Wire, the TV series series for probably the fourth or fifth time now.
Brady 32:11
man, that's a good show.
Grey 32:12
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Brady 33:01
Grey 33:16
No, I'm in favor of
Brady 33:21
I mean, it's an analogy isn't that you get that
Grey 33:31
Brady 33:34
That's exactly what I was about to say
Grey 33:56
Haha, I think I've been beaten to it.
▲You should read his book.
Grey 34:00
Brady 34:04
Yeah, right. What's going on with you? I think I think we have even for a celebrity number we have given
Grey 34:10
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