HeyJaredNow I Get It, with Dr. Andy
I’m Andrew Winkler, a former Stanford and Columbia math professor. We’ll explore the most interesting insights I’ve come across, ranging across the mental landscape: math, science, personality, how we think and feel, and how we love or feel unloved.
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Episode 53: CardSmart: The Free App That Finds Your Best Credit Card and Pays You to Share It (opens the original)
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I've been experimenting with AI tools lately, and my newest project came out of that: CardSmart, a free app that solves a problem I kept running into myself. Credit cards pay you back differently depending on where you shop, and keeping track of which card wins where, especially with rotating categories and payout caps, is more than anyone should have to manage in their head. CardSmart uses your phone's location, which never leaves your device, to tell you which of your cards earns the most wher
Why AI Creates a Monopoly, Not a Democracy: Runaway Growth and Pandemic Lessons (opens the original)
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I've been thinking a lot lately about AI, a subject I explored back in grad school and postdoc. In this episode, I walk through a hackathon project to democratize AI by distributing neural network training across home computers. I explain why it failed: first the obvious reason, a bad actor can silently poison a distributed model, then a subtler one rooted in the physics of computation. I break down how neural networks work, why a single nonlinearity lets them approximate almost anything, and wh
From Child Prodigy to Language Obsessive: How Literature Shapes Theory of Mind (opens the original)
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I'm taking you through my own origin story this episode, from getting swept into a Johns Hopkins study on intellectual talent as a sixth grader to skipping straight into college at fifteen. I share how that unusual path, being identified as gifted, accelerated through school, and landing in a college honors program that clashed with my own academic ambitions, shaped the way I think about learning today. Along the way I talk about my late AP English teacher Adrian Morris, and how I completely mis
Why AI Is a Wave You Can Either Surf or Get Crushed By (opens the original)
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I open this episode with a story from my childhood: a dam that broke above my uncle's farm, and two California kids who survived the flash flood only because they knew how to surf a wave instead of fighting it. That's exactly how I think about AI right now. It's a massive wave bearing down on all of us, and whether it becomes a wonderful tool or something that crushes us depends entirely on whether we learn to ride it. I walk through what happened when I went from writing off AI-generated code a
Why I Built an AI Reading Tool for Ancient Languages (And What Six Months of AI Progress Taught Me) (opens the original)
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I'm digging into something that's genuinely changed how I spend my free time: using AI to build the tool I've wished existed for decades, one that helps me read the world's great literature in its original language. I tell the story of a chance dinner with a Hertz Fellow who turned out to be a major figure at Anthropic, and how that connection eventually led me back to a project I'd tried and abandoned before, a computer-assisted reader for Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts. Six months ago
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