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
- 1399
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Megaraptora Unveiled: Claws, Clues, and the Theropod Puzzle
Dive into Megaraptora, medium-to-large predatory dinosaurs famous for massive hand claws and unexpectedly light pneumatised bones. We explore their anatomy, wide geographic reach—from Patagonia to Au…
00:16:43 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
OEIS A000137: Series Parallel Numbers
Today we dive into A000137, the sequence counting series-parallel graphs by edge count. We’ll uncover its link to A000084 (series-parallel networks) through a generating-function relationship: the ge…
00:12:31 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Quantum Frontiers: Majorana 1 and the Million-Qubit Quest
A deep dive into quantum computing—from the basics to the buzz around Microsoft's Majorana 1. We unpack topological qubits, why Majorana particles could offer stability, the race to a million qubits …
00:16:04 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
AI Co-Scientists: Teaming Up with AI to Accelerate Discovery
Explore how a multi-agent AI acts as a superpowered research partner—generating hypotheses, critiquing ideas, and guiding experiments to speed breakthroughs without replacing scientists. From drug re…
00:09:57 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
The English Detour and the Semantic Hub: How LLMs Think Across Data Types
We explore new research on how large language models reason across text, code, images, and audio. From Llama 2’s English detour to a proposed semantic hub that binds meaning across modalities, we dis…
00:12:14 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
OS in 1000 Lines: A Minimalist Tour of a RISC-V Kernel
Join us for a hands-on tour of a compact, 1,000-line operating system built for RISC-V. We unpack how it boots with OpenSBI, runs a tiny kernel, and exposes multitasking, paging, system calls, a basi…
00:17:15 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Brace's Paradox: When More Roads Make Traffic Worse
In this episode we explore Brace's Paradox, the counterintuitive idea that adding roads or links can increase total travel time. We'll unpack how Nash equilibrium and simple linear travel-time models…
00:11:22 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Evo 2: Designing Life—The AI Writing Genomes
We explore Evo 2, the genome-designing AI from ARC Institute and NVIDIA. Trained on trillions of DNA sequences, it can analyze and design entire genomes—from mitochondria to microbes—validate designs…
00:13:13 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
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00:09:32 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Placeholder Demand: Planning Through Uncertainty
A deep dive into placeholder demand—how to forecast when you have little to no historical data. We cover methods like analogous analysis, expert panels, the Delphi technique, and targeted market rese…
00:12:45 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
OEIS A000136: Stamp Folding and the Shuffle Pattern
Join us as we explore A000136, the classic stamp-folding sequence. We trace how alternating folds—the shuffle pattern—drive a combinatorial explosion, helping explain why the counts jump from 1, 2, 6…
00:11:53 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
AI Meeting Delegates: A Digital Teammate Attending for You
A deep dive into LLM-powered meeting delegates that can prep for, participate in, and even voice your contributions in meetings. We explain how the three-part system works (pre-brief, live engagement…
00:13:58 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
False Sabers, Real Journeys: The Barbara Felidae of the Miocene
Explore Barbara Felidae—the “false saber-toothed cats”—from their African origins to three migrations into Europe and across North America. Meet diverse genera like Sansanosmylus, Vampirictus, and Or…
00:16:15 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
OEIS A000135: Number of Partitions into Non-Integral Powers
In this episode we explore A000135, the number of ways to write a positive integer n as a sum of distinct terms of the form m^(2/3) (the two-thirds power of integers). We unpack what it means to part…
00:15:25 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Lindworms Uncoiled: Serpents, Dragons, and European Folklore
Join us as we unravel lindworms—the fearsome yet fascinating serpent-dragon of European folklore. We’ll compare Swedish legends with Central European depictions, explore their roles in heraldry, and …
00:11:46 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Almost Primes: Counting, Properties, and Cryptographic Connections
A deep dive into almost prime numbers: integers with exactly k prime factors (counted with multiplicity). We’ll connect the omega function, explore product and factor properties, learn how to count t…
00:12:04 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Van Allen Belts: Earth's Invisible Radiation Shields
In this episode, we explore the two Van Allen radiation belts that guard our planet, how they were discovered, what powers them, and how engineers and spacefarers survive and study this dynamic radia…
00:14:36 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
Math as Reality: A Deep Dive into the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
Join us for a mind-bending journey into Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH) and the Computable Universe Hypothesis (CUH). We unpack the bold idea that the universe is not merely desc…
00:10:23 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
Winging It: MOEBs, Transformers, and the Bird-Inspired Edge in Stock Prediction
A deep dive into how the multi-objective Escaping Bird Search (MOEBs) algorithm can optimize transformer models to forecast stock trends. We’ll explore why single-objective optimization can miss impo…
00:16:16 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
Harpoons, Venoms, and Medicine: The Cone Snail Deep Dive
A deep dive into cone snails—their stunning shells, deadly harpoon hunting, and a venom cocktail of hundreds of conotoxins. Explore how some species can be dangerous to humans while others inspire gr…
00:18:33 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
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