Video: The most powerful (and useless) algorithm

Another Polylog video! We teased this one on April Fools’ Day with a video claiming that we had found the optimal algorithm for factoring numbers. This video explains why that’s technically true but still useless in practice, exploring the weird territory where big-O notation ceases being useful.

I used Descript to cut the audio as well as the video and I have to say it’s really cool! I encourage you to try it out if you’re making your own podcasts or videos.