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
CV Compass: Navigating Data Variability with the Coefficient of Variation
A practical dive into the coefficient of variation (CV): what it is, why it matters, and how to read it correctly. From investing risk to lab precision and archaeology, we unpack when CV is helpful, …
00:11:52 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Delphi Deep Dive: Structured Forecasting for Modern Supply Chains
We unpack the Delphi method—an anonymous, iterative way to harvest expert judgment for demand forecasting, risk assessment, and strategic decisions in supply chains. Learn how it differs from ordinar…
00:19:52 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Matryoshka Quantization: Multi-Scale Precision for Efficient LLMs
We unpack Matryoshka quantization, a DeepMind-inspired approach that trains one model to run at multiple bit widths (e.g., int8, int4, int2) by sharing the most significant bits. We explore how its n…
00:11:28 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
WPL 2025 Deep Dive: Five Teams, Four Cities, One Crown
A comprehensive preview of the 2025 Indian Women's Premier League: the five teams, a bold multi-city schedule across four venues, captains and star players, and the key fixtures that could decide the…
00:13:13 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Rare Earths: Filling Gaps with Polynomial Modeling
A quick dive into the 17 rare earth elements powering modern tech and why complete data matters. Learn how polynomial modeling fills in missing measurements, turning incomplete datasets into clearer …
00:09:24 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Aether and the Dry Lithography Revolution
Chasing ever-smaller chips requires new approaches beyond wet resists. In this episode, we dive into LAM Research's Aether—an all-dry resist process that uses vapor deposition and EUV lithography to …
00:12:53 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Python 3.14 Deep Dive for Engineers: Features, Performance, and Deprecations (Parts 1 & 2)
A practical two‑part look for software engineers: what’s new in Python 3.14, how it affects your code—from lazy evaluation of annotations and clearer error messages to a tail‑call‑based interpreter a…
00:13:10 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
OEIS A000131: Asymmetrical triangulations of a polygon
In this episode we explore A000131, which counts asymmetrical (chiral) triangulations of a convex n-gon. Starting at n=7 with two examples (the heptagon) and n=8 with five, the numbers grow rapidly a…
00:09:15 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
The Deep Dive: AI Tackling Decades-Old Math Puzzles
In this episode, we explore how AI is moving beyond code and games to crack hard math problems. We break down reinforcement learning, PPO, horizon problems, and adaptive AI, and we examine how langua…
00:12:24 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Reasoning Models Unleashed: The O-Series and the New AI Playbook
Join us as we compare O-Series reasoning models, like O1, with familiar GPT-style models. We'll explore how these masters of ambiguity, multi-step planning, and visual reasoning tackle complex domain…
00:18:53 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Neutrino Detectives: How We Catch the Ghost Particles
An accessible tour of the ghostly world of neutrinos: what they are and why they’re so hard to catch. We explore the main detection strategies—scintillators, radiochemical methods, and Cherenkov dete…
00:09:51 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Tiny Pointers, Big Savings: Rethinking Memory References
What if pointers didn’t have to be log n bits? We explore tiny pointers, the deference table, and the load-factor trade-off that lets fixed-size or variable-size pointers shrink to astonishingly smal…
00:10:32 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Liechtenstein: Tiny Country, Big History
A fast-paced exploration of Liechtenstein's unlikely rise—from Roman roads and Rhine borders to the Liechtenstein dynasty, Napoleonic drama, neutrality through two World Wars, the postwar financial b…
00:07:05 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
KS, Cookies, and Distributions: A Practical Dive into the Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test
In this episode, we unpack the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test—the nonparametric tool that compares whole distributions rather than just means. Learn how one-sample and two-sample KS tests work, how to inter…
00:08:37 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
OEIS A000130: Exactly one rising or falling adjacency in permutations
A deep dive into A000130, the sequence that equals half the number of length-n permutations with exactly one rising or falling succession. We walk through a concrete n=3 example, clarify what rising …
00:09:15 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Clockwork Math: How LLMs Add with Helices and Clocks
A deep dive into a surprising mechanism behind AI math: LLMs represent numbers as helices on a cylinder and add by rotating these helices. We’ll unpack the clock algorithm, how attention heads and ML…
00:12:26 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Parrot Optimizer Deep Dive: Bio-Inspired Search with Levy Flights
We unpack the Parrot Optimizer (PO)—a bio-inspired optimization method that mimics parrot behaviors (foraging, staying, communication, and fear of strangers) to explore and exploit solution spaces. F…
00:09:38 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Meta's Infrastructure Evolution: From Data Centers to Global AI Computing
A two-part deep dive tracing Meta's journey from early data centers to a unified global AI compute fabric. We explore TAO, data center fabrics, the shift to a data center-as-a-computer mindset, centr…
00:18:06 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products Martin Fowler Feb 2025
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Wed 12 Feb 2025
OEIS A000129: Pell numbers
From the simple recurrence A0=0, A1=1 and An=2·A_{n-1}+A_{n-2} arise the Pell numbers, a family that quietly links continued fractions, square-root approximations of sqrt(2), and a web of geometric a…
00:17:21 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
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