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
- 1391
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
OEIS A000257: Rooted Bicubic Map Enumeration
We explore OEIS sequence A000257, the Rooted Bicubic Map Enumeration. From rooted bicubic maps to Eulerian planar maps, indecomposable 1342-avoiding permutations, and Tamari-lattice intervals, we unc…
00:12:35 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Grounding Meaning: The Symbol Grounding Problem and the Geometry of Understanding
Join us on this Deep Dive as we unpack the symbol grounding problem—how AI can move from manipulating tokens to attaching real meaning to words. We trace the problem from Harnad's iconic three-stage …
00:18:31 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
FlakeBench and the Digital Wingman: When AI Handles Your Exit Strategy
We unpack a tongue‑in‑cheek study from Sigmavic about how large language models generate humane excuses to cancel plans. From FlakeBench’s efficacy, kindness, and humanity metrics to surprising model…
00:19:46 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Bitcoin A Global Liquidity Barometer
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00:20:31 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Social Media Optimization
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:24:40 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
OEIS A000256: Simple triangulations of the plane
We explore A000256, the OEIS entry counting simple triangulations of the plane. We unpack what a “simple triangulation” means, why counting them is rich in geometry and combinatorics, and how these i…
00:17:15 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Nonograms Unveiled: From Window Art to Pixel Perfection
A Deep Dive into nonograms (Picross) tracing their surprising twin origins in Japan in 1987— Ishida's window art and Nishio's magazine puzzles— and how a British publisher popularized them worldwide …
00:15:48 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Memory Decoded: From Grandmother Cells to Concept Cells
In this Deep Dive Science Corner, we trace how our memories are stored in the brain. From the old dream of a grandmother cell to the discovery of Jennifer Aniston cells and the idea of sparse coding,…
00:15:11 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
OEIS A000255: Euler's permutation sequence
Today on Deep Dive we explore OEIS A000255, Euler's permutation sequence. We trace its origin in Euler’s work on derangements and Euler’s difference table, and see how it counts permutations of n+2 e…
00:12:52 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Deep Dive: The IRGC — From Revolutionary Militia to Power Broker
We unpack the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: its birth in 1979 as a revolutionary militia, its core ideological mission, five guiding principles, and its evolution into Iran's most powerful insti…
00:17:47 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Software 1.0, 2.0, 3.0: The AI-Driven Rewrite of Software
We unpack Andrey Karpathy's framework—from explicit code to neural nets to natural-language programs—and why the shift is redefining how we build, interact with, and deploy software. We'll explore th…
00:19:13 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Detachment 201: Silicon Valley Meets the Army — The Executive Innovation Corps
A deep-dive into the Army's new Executive Innovation Corps (Detachment 201), where top private-sector technologists join the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers to accelerate modernization. …
00:11:46 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
OEIS A000254: Unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind
A000254 are the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind. In this episode we unpack two striking combinatorial interpretations that yield the same numbers: (1) the number of permutations of n+1 el…
00:14:50 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Inside the D-Layer: Cracking Earth’s Deep Mantle Mystery
Journey 2,891 kilometers below the surface to the seismic D layer at the core–mantle boundary. We unravel how Murakami and team solved the long-standing puzzle of the DO region, combining seismic ima…
00:12:50 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
OEIS A000253: Binary strings containing the pattern 010
We explore A000253, which counts binary strings of length n+2 that contain the substring 010. With offset 0, the sequence starts 0, 1, 4, 11, 27, 63, ... and satisfies a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{n-2} + a_{n-…
00:10:01 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
OEIS A000252: Number of invertible 2x2 matrices modulo n
We dive into OEIS A000252, the sequence that counts the invertible 2x2 matrices over the ring Z/nZ (the order of GL2(Z/nZ)). The sequence is multiplicative and ties together several core ideas in alg…
00:13:05 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
OEIS A000251: Diameter-6 Trees
We count non-isomorphic trees with diameter exactly 6. Starting at seven vertices, the sequence shows how many distinct trees exist for n vertices, with terms that grow rapidly as you add vertices. T…
00:10:19 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Sprites, Jets, and Elves: The Secret Sky-High Light Show
A deep dive into transient luminous events—the spectacular, fleeting electrical discharges that light up the upper atmosphere well above thunderstorms. From sprites and blue jets to gigantic jets and…
00:22:39 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
From Timber to Arrow: The Craft of the Victorian English Longbow
An inside look at the traditional English longbow, focusing on the Victorian form, from forest timber to finished arrow. Guided by a family of bowyers keeping the craft alive, the episode unpacks woo…
00:20:49 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
The Deep Dive: Autogyro — The Hidden Hybrid of Flight
In this special Deep Dive from The Science Corner, we explore the autogyro (gyrocopter/gyroplane) — a rotorcraft that flies on autorotation with forward thrust. We unpack how it works, from rotor fla…
00:22:15 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
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