Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,200 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology.
Inspiration for this podcast:
“Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 1379
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
On-Device AI Unleashed: EmbeddingGemma and the Private, Fast Future
Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma is a compact 308M-parameter text embedding model designed for mobile-first AI. With quantization-aware training it runs on-device in under 200 MB of RAM and exhibits …
Skyhook: The Orbit-Sling That Could Change Spaceflight
OEIS A000328: Circle problem — lattice points inside a circle
Prince Rupert's Cube: A Tilted Passage Through Geometry
CD Decode: Reading Biomolecular Shapes with Circular Dichroism
OEIS A000327: Partitions into non-integral powers
OEIS A000326: Pentagonal numbers
A deep dive into the pentagonal numbers A000326, tracing their geometric roots and arithmetic formula P(n) = n(3n−1)/2, including the pentagonal test x is pentagonal iff (sqrt(24x+1)+1)/6 is an integ…
Is the Heavy Cream Cinnamon Roll Hack Baking Magic?
We unpack the viral heavy-cream cinnamon roll hack—explaining why heavy cream's fat, moisture, and caramelization transform ordinary rolls into bakery-soft, gooey treats. We trace its rediscovery thr…
OEIS A000325: 2^n - n
llms.txt: A Markdown Bridge for AI-Ready Web Context
OEIS A000324: The Infinite Coprime Sequence and the Lucas Connection
Planetary Black Holes: Using Exoplanets to Hunt Super‑Heavy Dark Matter
In this deep dive, we explore a provocative idea: giant, cold exoplanets—especially gas giants—as cosmic detectors for super‑heavy dark matter. Particles streaming through a planet could be captured,…
The Pomegranate Odyssey: From Ancient Orchards to Modern Science
Silurian Renaissance: Sea-to-Land Leap and the Rise of Jawed Fish
Time Crystals — Ground-State Clocks and the Quantum Frontier
We explore time crystals, quantum systems whose patterns repeat in time even in their lowest energy state, breaking time-translation symmetry without violating thermodynamics. From Wilczek’s original…
OEIS A000323: Gauss circle problem—record lattice-point errors
Circulimulus discobulus: Bridging 80 Million Years in Horseshoe Crab Evolution
OEIS A000322: Pentanacci numbers
A deep dive into A000322, the Pentanacci sequence started with five 1s, defined by a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-3) + a(n-4) + a(n-5). We'll contrast with the zero-start version A01591 to show how dif…
The Cosmic Shoreline: Do Exoplanet Atmospheres Survive Around M Dwarfs?
We explore how exoplanets keep or lose their atmospheres, the evolving 'cosmic shoreline' concept, and what JWST's look at Gliese 486 tells us about habitability around the most common stars. From es…
History of IBM: From Punch Cards to AI and Hybrid Cloud
Join us as we trace IBM's evolution from CTR and Hollerith punch cards to the modern AI and hybrid‑cloud powerhouse. We'll unpack the leadership, culture, and pivotal bets—from Watson's Think era and…