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
- 1383
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Gridlock to Flow: The Ingenious Science of Congestion Control
From the early internet’s near-collapse to modern TCP’s smart back-off, this episode unpacks how networks avoid congestion. We explain the difference between congestion control and flow control, how …
00:20:25 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Soulformer: A Transparent Leap in Tourism Forecasting
In this Deep Dive, we explore Soulformer, a new time-series transformer that targets both accuracy and interpretability in forecasting tourism demand. We unpack how its encoder–decoder structure, att…
00:06:54 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
OEIS A000307: Four-level labeled rooted trees
We explore A000307, the count of four-level labeled rooted trees with n leaves. Despite the OEIS tag 'easy', the numbers explode quickly, and the mystery is why this structure is considered easy in t…
00:06:15 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Shift Gears: The Transportation Revolution from Supersonic to Self-Driving
A deep-dive into how transport is transitioning from digital buzz to real-world infrastructure. We dissect supersonic and hypersonic flights, eVTOLs, and autonomous robo-taxis, unpack the policy shif…
00:06:23 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
DINOv3 Unleashed: The Universal Vision Backbone
A deep dive into Meta AI's DINOv3, the self-supervised vision model trained at unprecedented scale that learns without labeled data and uses a single frozen backbone to handle diverse tasks. We explo…
00:05:05 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
The Data Gatekeepers: AI Agents for Access and Security in Modern Data Warehouses
A deep dive into how multi-agent AI systems help data teams securely and efficiently access massive data warehouses. We unpack data user and data owner agents, explore features like partial data prev…
00:05:14 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
The Deep Dive: ETH's Pull, Altcoin Signals, and the Coinbase August 2025 Outlook
On this episode of The Deep Dive, we unpack Coinbase's August 2025 Outlook to separate altcoin season signals from ETH-driven momentum. We explain why Bitcoin dominance is falling even as the 90-day …
00:05:52 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Lerner Symmetry Unpacked: Tariffs, Taxes, and Trade in Theory and Practice
A concise dive into Abba Lerner's symmetry theorem: how an import tariff can mirror an equivalent export tax in effect, the ideal conditions that ensure this equivalence, where real-world frictions c…
00:06:40 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
OEIS A000306: Unlabeled trees with diameter 8
Today on Deep Dive we explore OEIS sequence A000306—the count of unlabeled, connected acyclic graphs (trees) whose diameter is exactly 8. We unpack what diameter means in graph terms and why counting…
00:03:42 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Albania: Echoes of a Resilient Nation
An immersive journey through Albania's dramatic landscape and enduring spirit—from ancient Illyria and Skanderbeg's resistance to centuries under Ottoman rule, the Albanian Renaissance, and the birth…
00:17:52 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Punctum: The Point in NGC 4945 That Breaks the Mold
A Deep Dive into punctum, a mysterious ultra-compact millimeter source found in the nearby galaxy NGC 4945 by ALMA. With polarization around 50% and no counterparts at other wavelengths, punctum resi…
00:05:03 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
ALMA: The Cosmic Zoom — Inside the Desert Telescope Rewriting Our View of the Universe
From the Chilean high desert to the edge of black holes, this episode explores the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Seventy-six antennas? No—66 precision behemoths working as one interfe…
00:06:36 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Seeing Waste: The Toyota Production System and the Lean Mindset
What if continuous improvement isn’t about working harder, but spotting waste others miss? We unpack Toyota’s Production System—the ideas of muda, mura, muri—and the two pillars JIT and jidoka, plus …
00:05:41 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Afghanistan: The Roundabout of the Ancient World
In this Deep Dive, we trace Afghanistan’s long history as a crossroads of empires, cultures, and trade. From prehistoric settlements and early empires to the Kushan Silk Road, the Timurid Renaissance…
00:22:35 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Rough Numbers in Prime Gaps: Erdős, Tao, and the Modern Breakthrough
In this Deep Dive, we explore Erdős’s puzzle about rough numbers inside prime gaps. We first define prime gaps, rough numbers, and cousin primes, using simple examples to show how a gap can or cannot…
00:05:45 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
OEIS A000305: Number of Certain Rooted Planar Maps
In this episode we explore OEIS A000305, which counts rooted, non-separable planar maps with N edges. A planar map is a connected graph embedded in the plane without edge crossings; rooted means we d…
00:05:15 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Cosmic Birefringence: The Universe's Hidden Handedness
We dive into cosmic birefringence—the subtle rotation of the CMB's polarization as light travels across the universe. Learn how E- and B-modes trace early-universe physics, why a detection would hint…
00:06:52 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
OEIS A000304: A multiplicative recurrence tied to Fibonacci exponents
We examine OEIS sequence A000304, defined by a_n = a_{n-1} a_{n-2} with starting values a_2 = 2 and a_3 = 3 (offset 2). The terms grow unbelievably fast: 2, 3, 6, 18, 108, 1944, 209952, ... Yet there…
00:05:06 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
OEIS A000303: Permutations with longest increasing run of length 2
We dive into A000303, the counting sequence for permutations of {1,...,n} whose longest increasing run (a maximal consecutive block that is strictly increasing) has length exactly 2. We unpack what a…
00:05:08 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
OEIS A000302: Powers of Four
In this Deep Dive we explore A000302 — the powers of 4 — a deceptively simple sequence that secretly ties together number theory, combinatorics, and beyond. We start from 4^n and observe every term i…
00:04:46 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
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