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Grant Sanderson (B.S. '15)

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You know you’ve made it when you’ve got your own subreddit. In Grant Sanderson’s case, he corrected me that he had two. One for his visual, explanatory math YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown, which has 1.5 million subscribers as of writing. One for his mathematical animation engine Python package Manim. “The first subreddit is so helpful. The first link on that subreddit is for content requests. People can vote on the topics they like. It exists so that people can see just how incredibly many requests there are. If everyone sent me their request my inbox would be swamped and it’s unlikely I’d ever get to it.” Grant also enjoys the memes. The one he recently shared on his Twitter makes fun of his obsession with complex numbers. During our coffee, he managed to slip in the phrase “complex number” and I made the mistake of saying I’ve never used complex numbers in my life. “That,” Grant was triggered, “I can give you a lecture on.” But Grant had mixed feelings about the second subreddit. “I did

You know you’ve made it when you’ve got your own subreddit. In Grant Sanderson’s case, he corrected me that he had two. One for his visual, explanatory math YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown, which has 1.5 million subscribers as of writing. One for his mathematical animation engine Python package Manim. “The first subreddit is so helpful. The first link on that subreddit is for content requests. People can vote on the topics they like. It exists so that people can see just how incredibly many requests there are. If everyone sent me their request my inbox would be swamped and it’s unlikely I’d ever g

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