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
Goldratts Theory of Constraints
Learn about Goldratts Theory of Constraints
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00:23:43 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
OEIS A000244: Powers of 3
In this Deep Dive we explore OEIS A000244, the simple-looking sequence 3^n, and uncover why powers of three show up so often across mathematics. We trace how base-3 representations and the concept of…
00:15:23 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
OEIS A080234: Partitions into non-integral powers
We explore A080234, the counting function for the number of nondecreasing sequences of positive integers (psi1, psi2, ..., psik) with psi1 ≥ 1, k ≤ n, and sum of psi_i^23 ≤ n. Through concrete exampl…
00:17:45 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
OEIS A000243: Trees with two labeled nodes
Explore A000243, the count of unrooted trees on n nodes with two distinct labeled vertices. We’ll cover the offset (n=2 corresponds to 1) and the early terms (1, 3, 9, 26, 75, 214, …), its connection…
00:09:32 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Model Context Protocol: AI-Ready Interfaces for Services
In this Deep Dive, we examine MCP—the Model Context Protocol—and why it matters for AI agents. We contrast MCP's strict, wire-based communication with traditional REST/OpenAPI, explore runtime discov…
00:20:55 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Shining a Light in the Brain: The Neurophotonics Revolution
A deep dive into how light is being used to watch, stimulate, and control neural activity. We explore optogenetics, advanced light delivery (fibers, microLEDs, OLEDs), and the physics of getting phot…
00:19:22 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Avatar Economy: Inside AI Influencers, Money and the Brand Future
A deep-dive into AI-generated influencers: how they're built from concept to CGI avatars, how they earn real money, and what brands and creators need to know. We'll unpack the tech stack (face-lock, …
00:14:52 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
GOFMs: Geospatial Foundation Models and the New AI for Earth
Geospatial Foundation Models (GOFMs) are large AI systems pre-trained on Earth-observation data—satellite imagery, maps, and time-series—designed to learn transferable geospatial knowledge. In this e…
00:19:50 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
The ODA Loop: Fast Decisions in Uncertain Times
Join us as we unpack the ODA loop—Observe, Orient, Decide, Act—and see how fighter-pilot instincts translate into smarter business decisions. We'll map the loop to real-world supply chains, walk thro…
00:16:05 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Ishikawa Diagrams
Learn about Ishikawa Diagrams
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00:23:48 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
OEIS A000242: Third power of rooted tree enumerator; number of linear forests of three rooted trees
We explore OEIS A000242, which is the cube of the rooted-tree enumerator. Its generating function is B(x)^3, where B(x) is the generating function for rooted trees (A000081). Thus A000242 counts orde…
00:16:06 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Light After Darkness: The Cosmic Dawn and Reionization
A Deep Dive in the Science Corner, where we unravel how the first stars and galaxies lit up the universe. We explore the physics of Lyman-continuum photons, the escape fraction, and the contenders fo…
00:20:21 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
OEIS A000241: Crossing numbers of the complete graphs K_n
An introduction to A000241: the minimum number of edge crossings required to draw the complete graph on n vertices. We trace the problem from Turan's brick factory through Harary-Hill, explain why ex…
00:13:48 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Prime Secrets: From Sieve to Zeta
Join The Deep Dive as we trace the interplay between randomness and structure in prime numbers: from Gauss's intuition and the prime number theorem to the sieve, Euler products, and the zeta function…
00:19:37 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
OEIS A000240: One-Fixed-Point Permutations
Delving into A000240—the number of permutations of n items with exactly one fixed point (a Rencontres number). We’ll trace the journey from derangements (no fixed points) to these partial fixed-point…
00:18:08 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Platform Engineering Demystified: The IDP, DevOps, and Developer Self‑Service
In this episode of The Deep Dive, we cut through the buzz to define platform engineering, explain how it differs from DevOps and SRE, and explore why it’s taking off. We dive into the Internal Develo…
00:13:27 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Deep Dive: The State of Aviation 2025 — What McKinsey Tells Us About the Industry’s Next Horizon
In this episode, we synthesize McKinsey’s The State of Aviation 2025 to map the health of the industry in 2024–2025, identify the six fundamentals that separate winners from the rest, and explain how…
00:22:21 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Iconic Advertising Mascots and Their History
Learn about Iconic Advertising Mascots and Their History
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00:26:55 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Vec2Vec: Translating Embedding Universes — An Unsupervised Rosetta Stone for Text Vectors
We dive into why embedding spaces from different models (BERT, T5, CLIP, etc.) live in separate worlds and explore Vec2Vec, an unsupervised translator that maps vectors through a shared latent space …
00:13:48 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Deep Inside: The Hidden Interiors of Musical Instruments
In this episode of Dep Dive, we explore Charles Brooks’s extraordinary project—capturing the architectural interiors of instruments without disassembly. We unpack the technical hurdles, from tiny ope…
00:12:40 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
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