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
- 1388
- Years Active
- 2024 - 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
Code in Focus: The Design of Google Sans Code
A deep dive into Google Sans Code—a fixed-width geometric sans built for clarity and fewer typos in code. We unpack its design architecture (geometric precision with a subtle calligraphic touch), how…
00:05:32 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
OEIS A000294: Partitions and related series
Today we dive into OEIS A000294, the sequence counting solid partitions of n—and you’ll see how this number sits at a striking crossroads between partitions and 3D geometry. Solid partitions are 3D c…
00:04:46 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Alpha Earth Foundations: Mapping a Changing Planet with AI
A fast-paced deep dive into AEF, the July 2025 geospatial AI that fuses optical, radar, climate, and more to produce high-resolution, time-aware maps of Earth's land and coasts. Learn how it tackles …
00:05:14 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Superheated Gold: Redefining Temperature at Extreme Conditions
In this Deep Dive, we explore SLAC researchers' breakthrough: heating gold to 14 times its melting point with a fast laser and diagnosing its temperature directly with ultra-bright X-rays. This chall…
00:04:31 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Deep Dive: John von Neumann — The Last Great Polymath
In this Deep Dive, we cut through the noise to illuminate John von Neumann’s extraordinary life and unparalleled intellect. From pure mathematics to quantum foundations, computer science, and economi…
00:16:44 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
ASIRC and the AlphaGo Moment for AI Architecture Discovery
A deep dive into ASIRC—the autonomous AI research system that designs, implements, trains, and evaluates novel AI architectures, aiming to accelerate discovery beyond human cognitive limits. We explo…
00:06:03 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
The Deep Dive: Implicit Weight Updates and In-Context Learning in LLMs
We unpack a Google Research study proposing that in-context learning emerges from context-driven, implicit weight updates inside a transformer block. Learn about contextual blocks, low-rank updates t…
00:04:43 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Interfaces That Build Themselves: From Conversational UI to Generative Interfaces
Explore three evolving AI interface styles—conversational (type one), co-inhabited (type two), and generative (type three)—and how they reshape the way we work. We’ll unpack benefits and challenges l…
00:07:04 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Microcrypt: Building Quantum-Safe Crypto from Quantum Advantage
Explore Karana and Tomer’s provocative paper, Founding Quantum Cryptography on Quantum Advantage, which argues cryptographic security can be built from the hardness of quantum-sampling tasks—without …
00:06:31 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Notebook LM: The Inside Story of Google's Grounded AI
Take a deep dive into Notebook LM, Google's research-and-writing tool built around your own documents. We trace its rapid prototype, the relentless user feedback loop, and how features like inline ci…
00:04:45 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Moving Off the Map by Ruthanne Huising
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Fri 01 Aug 2025
Grounded Insights: Turning Unstructured Text into Trusted Data with LangExtract
Dive into LangExtract, Google's open-source Python library that converts dense, unstructured text into precise, source-grounded data. Discover how few-shot, controlled generation and long-context chu…
00:05:42 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
OEIS A000293: Solid partitions
Join us as we delve into A000293, the solid partitions: the 3D analogue of integer partitions where unit blocks pile in nondecreasing order as you move away from the origin along the X, Y, and Z axes…
00:04:50 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
OEIS A000292: Tetrahedral numbers
A quick tour of tetrahedral numbers (the triangular pyramidal numbers). We cover the formula A_n = binom(n+2, 3) = n(n+1)(n+2)/6, their interpretation as the number of balls in a triangular pyramid, …
00:05:30 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Concyclic Harmony: Exploring Mikkel’s Pentagram Theorem
In this episode, we dive into Mikkel’s Pentagram Theorem: five circles arranged around a pentagram intersect such that the adjacent circles meet at a pentagram vertex, and the second intersection poi…
00:05:07 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
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