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 A000224: Number of Squares Mod N
Explore A000224, the number of distinct quadratic residues modulo N (including 0). For N = 10, the residues are {0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 9}, so A(10) = 6. In general A(N) < N for N > 2, so not every residue i…
00:08:29 |
Thu 15 May 2025
OEIS A00023: Sphere lattice-point error in a 3D ball
In this episode we explore the classic problem of counting lattice points inside a three-dimensional sphere and how that count deviates from the smooth volume. Define A_N as the number of integer tri…
00:12:07 |
Thu 15 May 2025
OEIS A000222: The Menage-Hit Polynomials and the Menage Problem
We explore A000222—the coefficients of the Menage-Hit polynomials that count, for n couples around a circular table with alternating genders, how many arrangements have exactly k adjacent couples. Fr…
00:08:08 |
Tue 13 May 2025
HealthBench: Measuring Safe, Real-World AI in Healthcare
An in-depth look at HealthBench, the open-source benchmark for safe, effective healthcare AI. We explore how 5,000 multi-turn clinical chats are scored by 262 physicians across 60 countries on 48,562…
00:15:30 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Mind Palaces: The Science and Skill of the Method of Loci
In this Science Corner episode, we unpack the method of loci—the memory palace technique. Learn what it is, why it taps into our brain’s spatial and memory systems, and the neuroscience behind its ef…
00:13:23 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Seeing Through Circles: The Ebbinghaus Illusion and the Brain
A deep dive into one of psychology’s classic visual tricks—the Ebbinghaus illusion. We explore how the brain constructs size, what it reveals about perception and action pathways, and how genetics, d…
00:15:26 |
Tue 13 May 2025
OEIS A000221: The happy numbers orbit of 5
In this Deep Dive we follow 5 under the map that replaces a number by the sum of the squares of its decimal digits. The sequence goes 5, 25, 29, 85, 89, and then falls into an eight-term cycle: 89, 1…
00:05:33 |
Mon 12 May 2025
The Friction Economy: How Ease Displaces Friction Across Digital, Physical, and Curated Worlds
What if the promise of 'zero friction' tech is just friction in disguise? This episode digs into the three worlds of friction—the frictionless digital realm, the creaking physical world that underpin…
00:14:05 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Deep Dive: Systems Theory — The Hidden Connections Shaping Our World
We unpack what a system is, why the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and how boundaries, feedback, and emergence drive biology, technology, and society. From cybernetics to modern complexity,…
00:14:18 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Elaborative Encoding: The Brain's Memory-Boosting Trick
In this Science Corner episode, we unpack elaborative encoding—the process of linking new information to what you already know to create durable memories. We explore why it works, the cognitive mecha…
00:12:56 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Data Modeling in the AI Era: Shifting Left, Grounding Gen AI, and the Polyglot Landscape
We cut through the hype around AI to explain why solid data modeling is the bedrock of reliable AI today. This episode covers shifting data quality into the operational layer, the difference between …
00:15:59 |
Mon 12 May 2025
OEIS A000220: Asymmetric trees
An introduction to A000220, counting asymmetric (identity) trees with n nodes. We unpack what symmetry means for trees, why the first nonzero term appears at n = 7, and how the sequence connects to t…
00:08:36 |
Sun 11 May 2025
Voyager in Minecraft: A Lifelong-Learning AI Inside the Sandbox
In this episode, we unpack Voyager—the embodied AI that learns on the fly inside Minecraft. We break down the architecture (action agent driven by LLMs, a skill library of executable JavaScript, and …
00:12:22 |
Sun 11 May 2025
Self-Regulated Learning: Learn How You Learn
We unpack self-regulated learning (SRL): metacognition, strategic action, and motivation; how learners plan, monitor, and adapt to reach goals; and why a growth mindset matters. We'll compare key mod…
00:18:01 |
Sun 11 May 2025
Harmonic Regression: Unraveling Seasonal Patterns in Time Series
On The Deep Dive, we tackle harmonic regression—the art of decomposing time-series seasonality with sine and cosine terms. We’ll walk through the linear regression setup, how to add trends or adapt t…
00:17:01 |
Sun 11 May 2025
Visual Studio Code Python Extensions May 2025 Update
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00:10:23 |
Sat 10 May 2025
OEIS A000219: Planar partitions
A deep dive into the sequence A000219, the number of planar partitions. We explore McMahon’s theorem linking box-restricted planar partitions to lozenge tilings of a hexagon with a hyperfactorial for…
00:11:27 |
Sat 10 May 2025
VS Code April 2025 Release Notes
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:18:49 |
Sat 10 May 2025
OEIS A000218: Sum of squares of digits
We explore the classic A000218, the rule that replaces a number with the sum of the squares of its decimal digits. Starting from 3, the path is 3 → 9 → 81 → 65 → 61 → 37 and then settles into the eig…
00:08:31 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Cosmic Spin: Could a Rotating Universe Solve the Hubble Tension?
In this Science Corner episode on the Deep Dive, we explore a bold idea: might the universe itself be rotating? We examine the Hubble tension—the mismatch between early- and late-universe measures of…
00:12:51 |
Fri 09 May 2025
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