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
React Compiler Release Candidate Announcement
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00:12:17 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
OEIS A000201: Lower Wythoff sequence
In this Deep Dive we unpack A000201—the lower Wythoff (Beatty) sequence. Defined by a(n) = floor(n·φ) with φ = (1 + √5)/2, it forms a companion pair with the upper Wythoff sequence b(n) = floor(n·φ²)…
00:13:18 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Faxian: The Monk Who Walked from China to India
In The Deep Dive, we follow Faxian, a Chinese Buddhist monk who, around age 60, set out on foot from Chang’an to India and back in the late 4th–early 5th century. His decade in India, his quest for a…
00:17:30 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Alchemy: From Ancient Transformations to Modern Science
An accessible tour of alchemy’s history, ideas, and legacy. From Egypt and Greco-Roman Alexandria through the Islamic and Indian worlds to medieval Europe and the birth of modern chemistry, we explor…
00:14:54 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Remembering with Science: Ebbinghaus, the Forgetting Curve, and Spaced Repetition
A Science Corner deep dive into Hermann Ebbinghaus's pioneering memory experiments. We unpack the forgetting curve, the savings method, and the spacing effect—and discuss what these ideas mean for pr…
00:22:41 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
OEIS A000200: Number of bicentered hydrocarbons with N atoms
In this episode we explore OEIS A000200, the sequence that counts bicentered hydrocarbons with N carbon atoms. We explain bicentered meaning two shared carbon atoms (bridgeheads) in a two-ring system…
00:08:00 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
The Ultimate Org Chart: A Deep Dive into Biological Taxonomy
We explore how biologists turn the messy diversity of life into a coherent map. Starting with Linnaeus's hierarchical system and binomial names, through Darwin's evolution, to cladistics and DNA-base…
00:14:33 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Goldbach's Conjecture: The Additive–Multiplicative Bridge
In this Deep Dive we unpack the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. We explore why the problem sits at the crossroads of addition and multiplicati…
00:10:12 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
OEIS A000199: Coefficients of Ramanujan's FQ mock theta function
Join us as we trace the history of Ramanujan's mock theta functions, explain what A000199 captures—the odd-power coefficients in the FQ series—and survey the modern theory of mock modular forms, incl…
00:10:39 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Cosines Unlocked: Generalizing Pythagoras and Solving Any Triangle
A Deep Dive into the law of cosines: how it generalizes Pythagoras, how to use it to find sides or angles in any triangle, and the tricky ambiguous case. We’ll cover practical computation notes like …
00:10:57 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
OEIS A000198: Automorphisms of tournaments
We explore A000198, the number of automorphisms of tournaments with n labeled vertices—a fascinating intersection of group theory, graph theory, and combinatorics. A tournament is a complete directed…
00:08:05 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Prompt Engineering for LLMs: A Deep Dive
A practical tour of prompt engineering for large language models. We cover what prompts are and how model settings like max tokens, temperature, top-k, and top-p shape outputs. Explore zero-shot, one…
00:17:30 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
OEIS A000197: Double factorial sequence
Meet A000197, the double factorial sequence a(n) = n!!. Defined by a(0) = a(1) = 1 and a(n) = n · a(n−2), it splits into elegant even/odd cases with closed forms: for even n, a(n) = 2^{n/2} · (n/2)!;…
00:06:46 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Claude in the Classroom: A Data-Driven Look at AI in Higher Education
This episode unpacks Anthropic’s large-scale, privacy-first study of nearly a million Claude conversations from university students. We explain how Clio anonymized and categorized the data, review th…
00:16:42 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
OpenAI Practical Guide to Building AI Agents
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00:25:09 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Latent Space Generative Modeling Concepts and Techniques
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00:24:31 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
GPT 41 API Enhanced Intelligence and Long Context
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00:14:27 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Curie Temperature Magnetism and Phase Transitions
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00:31:06 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
K218b: DMS Clues, Hyacin Worlds, and the Search for Life
A Science Corner deep dive into JWST's hints of dimethyl sulfite (DMS) in the atmosphere of exoplanet K218b, a candidate 'hyacin' world about 124 light-years away. We unpack how transmission spectros…
00:09:54 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Deep Dive: Odious Debt and International Law
We unpack the controversial idea of odious debt—the notion that loans taken by a regime to oppress its people may not bind the state or its successors. This episode traces the concept through interna…
00:09:55 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
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