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
Deep Dive: GPT-5 for Developers — The API, Tooling, and Agentic Power
In this episode, we unpack OpenAI’s GPT-5 API release for developers: how the new model improves coding accuracy, long context, and agentic automation. We cover the new controls (reasoning effort, ve…
00:04:58 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
OEIS A000301: Fibonacci Exponentiated Sequence
We explore the Fibonacci-exponentiated sequence A000301, which has two elegant definitions: a_n = a_{n-1} a_{n-2} with a_0 = 1, a_1 = 2, and a_n = 2^{F_n}, where F_n is the nth Fibonacci number. We d…
00:05:03 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Beyond Percentage: Demystifying Cohen's Kappa
A clear, approachable dive into interrater reliability and Cohen's kappa. We’ll explain how observed agreement and chance agreement come together, walk through a concrete example, discuss interpretat…
00:06:14 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
The Highlands Giant: Australia’s Heaviest Insect Unearthed
An extraordinary new species—Acrifila alta—has researchers buzzing. Described in 2025 by Ross Copland and Angus Emmett, it's touted as Australia’s heaviest insect, with individuals up to 44 grams and…
00:05:30 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
OEIS A000300: Fourth power of rooted tree enumeration
We dive into A000300, the fourth power of the rooted-tree enumerator. Its generating function is B(x)^4, where B(x) is the rooted-tree generating function (A000081); geometrically, it counts linear f…
00:04:21 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Claude Opus 4.1: The AI Co-Pilot Elevating Coding and Debugging
In this Deep Dive, we unpack Claude Opus 4.1 (launched Aug 5, 2025) and what makes this upgrade a real leap for developers. We cover autonomous bug fixing and agentic, multi-step task planning, plus …
00:04:18 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
OEIS A00299: Number of n-node rooted trees of height 4
We dive into OEIS A00299—the count of n-node rooted trees of height 4. We’ll unpack why fixing height sparks explosive growth (zeros for n<5, then 1, 4, 13, 36, and beyond, eventually billions by n=3…
00:04:45 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
OEIS A000298: Number of Partitions into Non-Integral Powers
We explore A000298, the count of ways to sum square roots of positive integers with nondecreasing indices so the total is at most n. For example, a2 = 4 and a3 = 12, with terms like sqrt(1), sqrt(2),…
00:05:16 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Open-Weight AI: The GPT-OSS 120B & 20B Breakthroughs
In this Deep Dive, we unpack OpenAI’s August 5, 2025 release of open-weight language models GPT-OSS 120B and GPT-OSS 20B. We explore how mixture-of-experts design, edge-friendly memory footprints, an…
00:06:13 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
The Deep Dive: Fast CSP and the UMA Revolution in Molecular Crystals
We explore crystal structure prediction for molecular crystals, why traditional DFT is accurate but slow, and how the open-source FastCSP workflow powered by UMA — a machine‑learning interatomic pote…
00:06:14 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Genie 3: Real-Time Interactive World Models and the AI Frontier
We unpack Google DeepMind's Genie 3, a general‑purpose world model that can generate and interact with dynamic environments in real time from simple text prompts. With frame‑by‑frame generation, a vi…
00:07:28 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Growing Strength: The Dynamic Biosynthesis of Bacterial Cellulose
Plastics are everywhere—and so are their health and environmental costs. This episode dives into a radical alternative: a bio-grown, customizable material—bacterial cellulose—made stronger and smarte…
00:05:08 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Game On: Kaggle's Open Arena for AI Intelligence
In this episode of The Deep Dive, we unpack the Kaggle Game Arena—a new, open-source platform for head-to-head AI competition in strategic games. We discuss why games provide robust signals for gener…
00:04:33 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Hierarchical Reasoning: The HRM Breakthrough in AI
We unpack HRM, a brain-inspired two-module architecture with a high-level H for abstract planning and a fast low-level L for detail work. Featuring hierarchical convergence, adaptive computation time…
00:06:21 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Solarized: Precision Colors for Screens
A Deep Dive into Solarized—the scientifically designed 16-color palette built to reduce eye strain and boost focus across terminals, editors, and design tools. We explore how CIELAB-based perception,…
00:05:49 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Dion: Distributed Orthogonal Updates for Scalable AI Training
An exploration of the Dion optimizer (Distributed Orthogonal Updates) and how it tackles the scalability bottlenecks of training giant models. We break down why orthonormal updates matter, why Muon’s…
00:05:24 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
OEIS A000296: Partitions without singletons
We explore A000296, the number of ways to partition an n-element set into blocks of size at least two. From the initial terms 1, 0, 1, 1, 4, 11 to diverse combinatorial interpretations—such as comple…
00:05:55 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
OEIS A000297: Triangles in Turán graphs and related combinatorial interpretations
Join us as we unpack OEIS A000297. The entry centers on the algebraic formula A_n = ((n+1)(n+3)(n+8))/6, which produces the initial terms 0, 4, 12, 25, 44, and, intriguingly, counts concrete combinat…
00:04:22 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Mid-Sized Giants: The Quest for Intermediate Mass Black Holes
Join us as we investigate intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs)—the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. We explore the strongest clues—from HLX-1’s extreme X-ray luminosit…
00:04:43 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
OEIS A000295: The one-descent Eulerian numbers (and why they’re not Euler’s triangle)
In this episode we untangle OEIS A000295, the sequence that appears with Eulerian-number flavor but isn’t the classic geomet rics Euler triangle. The entries 0, 0, 1, 4, 11, 26, 57 follow the closed …
00:05:11 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
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