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
Building Multi Agent AI Research Systems at Anthropic
Learn about Building Multi Agent AI Research Systems at Anthropic
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00:31:12 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Flip the Genome: The Hidden Power of Chromosomal Inversions
Explore chromosomal inversions—the tiny flips of DNA that can ripple through health, fertility, and evolution. We’ll explain paracentric vs pericentric inversions, how they arise, what they mean for …
00:18:12 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Unbundling Prestige: AI and the Quiet Reshaping of Law, Medicine, and Finance
In this deep dive, we explore how AI is unbundling elite professions—taking over repeatable, data-heavy tasks in law, medicine, and finance. Through concrete stories, from a New York partner getting …
00:17:49 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
OEIS A000250: Number of Symmetric Reflexive Relations on N Nodes
In this milestone Deep Dive, we tackle OEIS A000250: the count of symmetric reflexive relations on an N‑node set. We spell out what reflexive and symmetric mean in plain terms, why the naïve count 2^…
00:10:13 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
MILP Demystified: Turning Discrete Decisions into Global Optima
A practical tour of mixed-integer programming (MILP): what it is, why discrete (yes/no) and continuous decisions matter in logistics, manufacturing, and services, and how solvers guarantee the best s…
00:20:02 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
50 Essential LLM Interview Questions and Answers
Learn about 50 Essential LLM Interview Questions and Answers
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Sponsored by Ember…
00:18:07 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Memoir: A Sparse Notebook for Lifelong Model Editing
We dive into the challenge of updating large language models without erasing what they already know. The Memoir framework freezes the base model, adds a sparse residual memory, and uses a top-hash ma…
00:17:03 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Real-Time AI Video: The AAPT Breakthrough for Live, Interactive Worlds
We dive into ByteDance Seed's AAPT—autoregressive adversarial post-training—that promises fast, frame-by-frame AI video for interactive experiences. Learn how a pre-trained diffusion model is convert…
00:19:34 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Deep Dive: Primality in the Digital Age — From AKS to Elliptic Curves
We explore how scientists test massive numbers for primality, why it's crucial for encryption, and how modern methods like elliptic curve primality proving produce compact certificates that let anyon…
00:14:48 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
OEIS A000249: Nearest integer to the modified Bessel function K_n(5)
We peel back the math behind A000249, defined as the nearest integer to K_n(5), the modified Bessel function of the second kind. We introduce K_alpha(x), contrast it with the ordinary Bessel function…
00:13:13 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Economic Value Added Principle
Learn about Economic Value Added Principle
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:27:13 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Cost of Delay: Unpacking the Hidden Price of Waiting in Tech and Defense
A deep dive into the unseen price of waiting. We unpack cost of delay analysis—from practical metrics like CD3 and loss-month cost to the four COD curves (standard, urgent, fixed-date, intangible)—an…
00:18:33 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Idempotence Across Dimensions: From Discrete Grids to Banach Spaces
A Fields Medalist guides us through how the simple rule P^2 = P resounds in two mathematical worlds. First, idempotent-compatible maps on grids reveal 3D compatibility, complementary maps, and a path…
00:14:28 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
OEIS A000247: 2^n - n - 2
In this Deep Dive we explore OEIS A000247, the sequence a(n) = 2^n − n − 2 for n ≥ 2, which starts 0, 3, 10, 25, 56, 119, 246, 501. We’ll unpack the meaning of the closed form, the offset, and how su…
00:19:26 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Across Time at Sea: The Chronicles of Famous Ships
From the Bronze Age Uluburun to Archimedes’ Syracusia and Tudor Mary Rose, join us as we dive into the stories behind legendary ships. We’ll unpack cargoes, construction, and crews to reveal how vess…
00:16:20 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Android 16 Baklava: The Deep Dive into Google's Bold New Android
A guided tour of Android 16 Baklava (June 10, 2025): from the trunk-stable codename and privacy-first goals to Material U 4.0, refined navigation, 16KB memory pages, ART cautions, and on-device Linux…
00:23:05 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
The Gentle Singularity: Sam Altman’s Near-Term AI Roadmap
A focused exploration of Sam Altman’s The Gentle Singularity. We unpack his claim that the takeoff has begun, walk through his near-term timeline (2025 AI agents, 2026 novel insights, 2027 robots), a…
00:19:43 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
OEIS A000246: Permutations with only odd-length cycles
We explore A000246—the count of permutations of n elements whose cycle decomposition uses only odd-length cycles. Key ideas: every counted permutation is even (each odd-length cycle is an even permut…
00:11:54 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Cantor Set Unfolded: Infinite Points, Zero Length
In this Deep Dive, we unpack the Cantor ternary set—from its simple step-by-step construction by removing middle thirds to the base-3 characterization using digits 0 and 2. We'll explore why the set …
00:19:30 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
OEIS A000245: Catalan differences and rooted-tree interpretations
We dive into A000245, the first difference of Catalan numbers (C_{n+1} − C_n). We’ll unpack its defining formulas, take a look at the first terms (0, 1, 3, 9, 28, 90, …), and survey the rich set of c…
00:13:48 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
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