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
- 1394
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
OEIS A00026: Even Sequences with Period 2n
We explore A00026, counting the 'even' orbits of binary necklaces of length 2n under the combined dihedral symmetry DN cross S2 (rotations, reflections, and color inversion). A binary necklace is a b…
00:11:41 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
The Zettelkasten Effect: Cards, Connections, and the History of Thinking
Trace the Zettelkasten—from 16th-century slips to today’s digital note systems—and uncover the core ideas that make it work: atomic notes, strong linking, and flexible organization. See how this 'ext…
00:10:22 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
BCA Unpacked: The Benefit-Cost Ratio, Discounting, and Decision Making
A practical deep dive into benefit-cost analysis. We unpack the BCR, explain discounting and present value, discuss how to calculate and interpret results, and examine strengths, limitations, and rea…
00:19:47 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
OEIS A000205: Representable integers by x^2 + 3y^2 up to 2n
An exploration of A000205—the count of positive integers ≤ 2n that can be written as x^2 + 3y^2. We unpack the binary quadratic form x^2 + 3y^2, its discriminant -12, and why representability ties to…
00:08:42 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Wormholes in Wood: The Wormhole Coffee Table
A Deep Dive into Olivier Gomez’s segmented black walnut table—how meticulous woodworking creates a tangible interpretation of spacetime shortcuts, the real physics of wormholes, and where art meets c…
00:10:27 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
MCP Unchained: Cursor's Model Context Protocol for a Smarter AI Partner
We dive into Cursor's MCP, a plugin-like protocol that lets AI see your whole project—databases, Notion docs, GitHub workflows—through SDTO and SSE servers. Learn why this matters, how to set up JSON…
00:13:35 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Python T Strings
Learn about Python T Strings
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:12:49 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
OEIS A000204: Lucas numbers
In this episode we dive into OEIS A000204, the Lucas numbers, starting with L1 = 1 and L2 = 3 and obeying L_n = L_{n-1} + L_{n-2}. They’re Fibonacci’s close cousins, sharing a recurrence but with a d…
00:11:17 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
OEIS A000203: Sum of divisors
Sigma(n) is the sum of all positive divisors of n (including 1 and n itself). It is multiplicative: if gcd(a,b)=1 then sigma(ab)=sigma(a)sigma(b), and for a prime power p^a we have sigma(p^a)=1+p+p^2…
00:13:12 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
The Odd-Triangle Puzzle: Minsky's Theorem and the Two-Adic Twist
Can a square be dissected into an odd number of equal-area triangles? In this episode of The Deep Dive, we trace Fred Richmond's 1965 challenge, Paul Minsky's 1970 resolution, and the surprising blen…
00:09:51 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
AI at Scale: Energy, Compute, and the ARC Breakthrough
We unpack the ARC challenge and OpenAI's O3, examine the staggering compute costs behind giant AI systems, and explore how scaling laws, data-center power, and chip manufacturing intersect with nucle…
00:18:29 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Discriminative vs Generative Models: The Two Lenses of AI
In this Science Corner episode, a Nobel laureate guides us through the core distinction between discriminative models (learning P(Y|X) to draw decision boundaries) and generative models (learning P(X…
00:07:55 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Acts of the Apostles
Learn about Acts of the Apostles
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:30:16 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Brinell Hardness Unveiled: Indenters, Dwell Time, and HBW
A Science Corner deep dive into the Brinell hardness test. Learn how a tungsten carbide ball indenter, a controlled dwell period, and careful indentation measurements produce the HBW value, how scale…
00:14:53 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Pilidar Deep Dive: Open-Source 360° 3D Scanning from LiDAR to Point Cloud
A Science Corner breakdown of the Pilidar DIY project: a Raspberry Pi–based, open-source 360° scanner. We explore how LiDAR distance data, panoramic imaging, and color-aware fusion create textured 3D…
00:12:50 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
OEIS A000202: Floor(13n/8) with a recursive seed and Fibonacci connections
In this episode we unpack A000202: a sequence defined from its first eight terms by the recurrence a_{i+j} = 13i + a_j, which yields the closed form a_n = floor(13n/8). We explore how such a simple r…
00:07:21 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Deep Dive: The Mujoko Fly—Biology, Simulation, and Reinforcement Learning
A concise, accessible tour of the Mujoko-based fruit fly model (Flybody) from Google DeepMind and Janelia Research Campus. We explore how anatomically detailed physics drives reinforcement learning f…
00:09:14 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Captain of the Attack: Mastering Bowling in Cricket
A Deep Dive into how captains orchestrate bowlers across formats—from new-ball swing to death overs, field settings to data-driven matchups. We explore conditions, ball types, workload management, an…
00:16:33 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Within-Subjects Design: Repeated Measures in Math Research
A clear, practical tour of within-subjects design—where the same participants experience all conditions or are measured repeatedly over time. We explore the core idea, key advantages like controlling…
00:11:56 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
The Hidden Complexity of Booking a Flight
In this Deep Dive, we pull back the curtain on online flight pricing—from routes and fare components to priceable units and airline inventory. We explore why computing the cheapest itinerary is NP-ha…
00:12:34 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
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