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
Deep Learning for Quantitative Economics
Learn about Deep Learning for Quantitative Economics
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00:26:43 |
Sun 06 Apr 2025
The Pigeonhole Principle and Complexity Theory
Learn about The Pigeonhole Principle and Complexity Theory
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00:26:24 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Menage Hit Polynomial Coefficients: Counting Exact Forbidden Adjacencies in the Circular Seating Problem
We dive into the Menage problem—sitting n couples around a circle so no husband sits next to his wife—and the associated Menage hit polynomial U_n(t). The coefficient of t^k counts the arrangements w…
00:11:30 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Cosmic Whispers: Weighing Dark Matter with Dwarf Galaxies
From galaxy rotations to gravitational lensing, dark matter leaves its fingerprints in gravity alone. In this episode, we zoom in on ultra-faint dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—tiny, dark-matte…
00:11:51 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
OEIS A000184: Genus zero rooted maps with three faces
We explore A000184, the count of connected rooted planar maps on the sphere with exactly three faces. We unpack the genus-zero condition via Euler's formula, explain how rooting fixes symmetry, and s…
00:09:28 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Premium Model Rollout
Learn about GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Premium Model Rollout
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00:15:43 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
AI 2027: The Race to Superintelligence and Global Power
A concise tour through a plausible 2027 AI surge—vast compute networks, rapid agent progress, and the US-China race. We pull out the must-know implications for security, geopolitics, and alignment, d…
00:17:07 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
OEIS A000183: Discordant Permutations
Today on Deep Dive we turn to A000183, the Discordant Permutations. This is the circular-constraint cousin of the classic derangement: count the ways to arrange the numbers 1 through n around a circl…
00:11:46 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
OEIS A000182: Tangent numbers
We explore OEIS A000182, the tangent numbers: how they arise as the coefficients in the exponential generating function of tan x, and the rich combinatorial world they inhabit (Joyce trees, tremolo p…
00:17:46 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Microcode Deep Dive: The Hidden Layer Between Software and Silicon
We pull back the curtain on microcode—the tiny, on‑chip layer that translates machine code into the sequence of hardware steps your CPU executes. Learn what microcode is, why it exists (flexibility, …
00:15:29 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
OEIS A000181: Coefficients of ménage hit polynomials
We explore the classic ménage problem—seating n couples around a circular table with men and women alternating and no adjacent partners. We spotlight OEIS A000181, the ménage hit polynomials, whose c…
00:08:24 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Algebra, Analysis, and the Abel Prize: Kashiwara's D-Modules and the Rise of Algebraic Analysis
An accessible dive into Masaki Kashiwara's groundbreaking work at the intersection of algebra and analysis, the birth of D-modules, and how this bridge reshaped our understanding of differential equa…
00:17:57 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
OEIS A000180: Expansion of exp(x)/(1-3x)
Join us for a deep dive into OEIS A000180: Expansion of exp(x)/(1-3x). We’ll trace its many faces—from the early terms 1, 2, 13, 16, 1,393, 20,894, 376,093 onward—to a Cloitre-style summation formula…
00:08:29 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Astrocrete and Lunarcrete: Off-World Construction
A deep-dive into building on the Moon and Mars using in-situ resources. We explore lunarcrete from regolith and local water, sulfur concrete as a waterless option, and how to reinforce structures in …
00:16:25 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
The Highway Dragon: Fractals from Paper to Plane
A Science Corner deep-dive into the highway dragon, a simple folding rule that becomes a self-similar fractal. We trace its origins from paper folding to iterated function systems, explore its plane …
00:18:16 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
The Triboelectric Effect
Learn about The Triboelectric Effect
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00:31:19 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
OEIS A000179: Menage numbers
We dive into A000179, the Menage numbers, and how a simple seating puzzle blossoms into a web of combinatorial ideas. From the classic menage problem—alternating men and women around a circle with no…
00:13:59 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Reading the Room: Demand Characteristics in Psychology
Join us as we unpack demand characteristics—the subtle cues in research that nudge participants' behavior. We’ll break down common signals, the roles participants adopt (the good participant, the scr…
00:14:35 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Goodharts Law When Measures Become Defective Targets
Learn about Goodharts Law When Measures Become Defective Targets
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00:25:43 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Factorial Building Blocks: The TAN Quest to 1/e
A deep dive into the TAN function—the largest minimum factor in a factorization of n!. We trace the Erdos–Selfridge–Strauss conjecture, the mystique of the lost proof, and Terence Tao’s asymptotic bo…
00:17:04 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
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