Now I Get It, with Dr. Andy
by Andrew Winkler
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AI Math Tutoring That Won’t Do Your Homework, Plus an App That Maps…
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About this podcast
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. We’ll give answers to all the most confusing questions everyone has, have new books and authors, and reach new understandings.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 56 episodes
- AI Math Tutoring That Won’t Do Your Homework, Plus an App That Maps Your Muscles · 11 min · Episode 55I’ve been building apps with AI programming tools, and I’ve seen them do some remarkably clever things and some remarkably stupid ones. In this episode I talk about two of the…
- Building with AI: Hackathon Apps, Games, and Lessons from an "Army of Interns" · 15 min · Episode 54I'm sharing what I've been building with artificial intelligence tools, starting with why I began: when you have something you know people need, you have a moral obligation to do…
- CardSmart: The Free App That Finds Your Best Credit Card and Pays You to Share It · 6 min · Episode 53I'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…
- Why AI Creates a Monopoly, Not a Democracy: Runaway Growth and Pandemic Lessons · 23 min · Episode 52I'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…
- From Child Prodigy to Language Obsessive: How Literature Shapes Theory of Mind · 12 min · Episode 51I'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…
- Why AI Is a Wave You Can Either Surf or Get Crushed By · 20 min · Episode 50I 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…
- Why I Built an AI Reading Tool for Ancient Languages (And What Six Months of AI Progress Taught Me) · 26 min · Episode 49I'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…
- Pride and Prejudice, Personality Feedback Loops, and AI-Powered Reading Tools · 29 min · Episode 48Today I'm talking about something that's been on my mind as I've been writing Love Quotient: the two feedback loops that quietly corrode almost every relationship we have. I…
- Why Tax Software Is Broken (And What Vectors Really Are) · 13 min · Episode 47Today I'm tackling something a little different: taxes. After spending years writing my book Love Quotient and other projects in physics and math, I funded that work through…
- Why Your Relationships Are Slowly Falling Apart — And How Your Love Quotient Can Save Them · 26 min · Episode 46In today's episode, I'm sharing the core insights from my new book, Love Quotient: Stop Dying of Thirst in an Ocean of Love — and my goal is to give you everything you need to…
- How AI Really Works: Large Language Models, Human Intelligence, and the Math Behind the Magic · 12 min · Episode 45What if artificial intelligence doesn't replace human intelligence — it amplifies it? And what if the quality of what you bring to AI is exactly what determines what you get…
- Why Mud, Logs, and Bugs Beat Plastic Toys: The Science of Proprioception and Nature-Based Play · 26 min · Episode 44Welcome back to Now I Get It with Dr. Andy. I'm sitting down once again with Angela McEwen, our resident expert in early childhood development, to dig into one of the most…
- Why Every Child Feels Loved Differently — And How to Use That Knowledge · 26 min · Episode 43In this episode, I sit down with early childhood education expert Angela McEwen to explore one of the most transformative ideas I've encountered in how my work on love languages…
- Why Giving Kids Control Is the Secret to Calming Them Down · 15 min · Episode 42Every parent has been there — the meltdown, the screaming, the feeling that nothing you say or do is going to get through. This week, I sat down again with early childhood expert…
- How Children's Love Languages Can Transform Your Parenting and Classroom — with Angela MacEwen · 14 min · Episode 41In this episode of Now I Get It with Dr. Andy, I'm joined by Angela MacEwen, a veteran child development expert who helped design San Francisco's citywide childcare plan during…
- Are Screens Rewiring Our Children's Brains? The Child Development Crisis Every Parent Needs to Hear · 25 min · Episode 40Welcome to Now I Get It with Dr. Andy. In this episode, I sit down with Angela MacEwen, a lifelong child development expert and former site supervisor at Friends of St. Francis —…
- Why Police Accountability Protects Every Officer: Understanding Brandishing and the Danger of Normalizing Violence · 11 min · Episode 39Today, I tackle one of the most critical and challenging conversations we need to have in America right now—the intersection of law enforcement heroism and accountability. While…
- Uncovering Border Patrol Shooting Patterns: What a 2012 Government Report Reveals About Deadly Force · 7 min · Episode 38In this episode of Now I Get It, I'm diving into a 2012 government report that's been sitting on the Customs and Border Patrol website, and what it reveals is deeply disturbing…
- Love Lost — and Found Again: How to Stop the Relationship Death Spiral Before It’s Too Late · 7 min · Episode 37In this episode of Now I Get It, I take a hard, compassionate look at one of the most tragic patterns I see in relationships: what I call the death spiral. It’s the painful…
- When Military Power Crosses a Line: What “Harm’s Way” Really Means in Modern Warfare · 5 min · Episode 36Welcome back to Now I Get It. In this episode, I break down a term we hear all the time in national security conversations but rarely slow down to understand: harm’s way. I…
