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
- 1391
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
The Great Stagnation
Learn about The Great Stagnation
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:14:31 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Progress Studies Conference 2024
Learn about Progress Studies Conference 2024
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00:23:48 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Palindromic Power: The Largest Product of Two 3-Digit Numbers
A concise dive into Project Euler's palindrome problem. We explore why six-digit palindromes are divisible by 11, how to prune the search with number theory, and a Python approach to finding the larg…
00:04:42 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Yttrium: From Ytterby to LEDs, Lasers, and Superconductors
A journey from a Swedish quarry to the cutting edge of tech. Discover how yttrium—first found as yttria in Ytterby, later isolated as a metal—powers color TVs, YAG lasers, and high-temperature superc…
00:20:05 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Deep Dive: Patterns in Nature
Join us on Deep Dive as we explore the patterns that shape the natural world—from leaves and seashells to spirals and fractals. We trace ideas from ancient philosophers to Da Vinci and Kepler, uncove…
00:20:01 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
AI Personhood
Learn about AI Personhood
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00:23:32 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Patterns in Math: The Hidden Language of Nature and Numbers
A lively tour through symmetry, arithmetic and geometric sequences, the Fibonacci sequence, and tessellations—showing how repeating patterns reveal the structure of nature, technology, and daily life…
00:16:09 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Row Polymorphism Unplugged: Flexibility in Hindley–Milner Type Systems
Take a deep dive into Hindley–Milner type inference, row polymorphism, unification, and let-polymorphism. We'll explore how flexible record types unleash composable software, compare Algorithm W and …
00:13:29 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
OEIS A000015: Prime Powers and Runs
In this episode we dive into OEIS sequence A000015, the smallest prime power greater than or equal to n. We’ll unpack what prime powers are, illustrate how the sequence stays constant for a while bef…
00:08:16 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Deep Learning, Deep Economics: AI’s Next Frontier in Economic Modeling
We explore how deep learning is transforming economics—from dynamic equilibrium models and heterogeneous agents to retirement savings and policy design. Learn how AI can tame complexity, improve fore…
00:09:52 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Prime Factorization on the Fast Lane: Project Euler Problem 3
We break down the classic Project Euler Problem 3—finding the largest prime factor of a colossal number—starting with the small example 13195 (factors 5, 7, 13, 29). Then we explore an efficient Pyth…
00:04:15 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Strontium: From Scottish Mines to Space Probes
Take a journey from a lead mine near Strontian, Scotland to the cutting edge of technology. Discover how strontium shows up in fireworks, old TV glass, and even in the bones and teeth that tell us wh…
00:09:25 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
OEIS A00014: Series-reduced trees
In this Deep Dive we explore the idea of series-reduced trees—a family of rooted trees with a tidy rule: every internal node either has no children (a leaf) or at least two children, with no single m…
00:08:12 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Claude Computer Use
Learn about Claude Computer Use
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00:16:43 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Ramanujan: Visions in Numbers
A documentary-style dive into the life and work of Srinivasa Ramanujan: a self-taught Indian genius, the Hardy–Ramanujan partnership, breakthroughs in number theory like partitions and the circle met…
00:11:20 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Elegant Fibonacci: A Pythonic Shortcut for Project Euler Problem 2
A deep dive into Project Euler Problem 2—sum the even Fibonacci numbers below four million. We compare brute-force brute force with a math-driven shortcut, uncover why every third Fibonacci is even, …
00:03:40 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Borders of Life: A Biogeography Deep Dive
A guided tour through the history and ideas of biogeography—Buffon, Linnaeus, Humboldt, Lyell, Darwin, and Wallace—showing how climate, geology, and evolution explain the distribution of life. From i…
00:11:26 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Multiples, Patterns, and Python: A Project Euler Deep Dive
We break down the classic Project Euler challenge: sum all natural numbers below 1000 that are multiples of 3 or 5. We’ll show how a little number theory—arithmetic progressions and inclusion-exclusi…
00:03:40 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Gödel: The Limits of Knowledge
A riveting deep-dive into Kurt Gödel’s life and work — from incompleteness theorems that shatter the dream of a complete mathematical system to his philosophical realism, friendship with Einstein, an…
00:13:31 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Rubidium: Time, Medicine, and Fireworks — A Deep Dive
Rubidium is a soft, silvery-white metal that reacts with air and water, yet it's woven into technologies we use daily. In this episode we trace its story from 1861 discovery by Bunsen and Kirchhoff w…
00:12:14 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
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