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
- 1379
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Formation 2.0: AI Reads Football Before the Snap
Explore a deep-learning approach that localizes players, assigns roles, and instantly identifies formations from a single image—initially trained on Madden data to scale, then fine-tuned for real gam…
00:10:17 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Sound as Language: Inside Google's AudioLM
A deep dive into AudioLM, Google's groundbreaking AI that generates human‑quality audio by learning semantic and acoustic tokens. We unpack how it treats sound as a language, predicts structure, and …
00:06:39 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Argon: The Invisible Powerhouse of the Periodic Table
A deep dive into argon—the noble gas that hardly reacts yet shapes history. From Cavendish’s near‑miss to Rayleigh and Ramsey’s discovery, learn how argon’s inertness becomes a superpower: guarding p…
00:09:29 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Relational Algebra: The Hidden Orchestra Behind Databases
An accessible tour of relational algebra—from the five core operators to natural joins and set operations—how Calcite turns them into fast queries, and how streaming SQL reshapes the game with waterm…
00:11:53 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Clippy Reborn: The Comeback of the Paperclip
A deep dive into the strange life of Clippy—the Office Assistant that haunted early computers, became a meme, and now resurfaces in every corner of tech culture. Why was he created? Why did we hate h…
00:06:57 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Bronze: The Alloy That Shaped Civilizations
From the Bronze Age’s copper-tin miracle to modern skylines, this episode reveals bronze’s powers—durability, musical resonance, low friction, and corrosion resistance—and how it shows up in bells, c…
00:07:46 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Best Fit Packing: Training AI That Actually Understands
We break down how large language models learn and why data organization matters. From truncation errors like undefined names and ungrounded content to missing knowledge, we’ll explain how these slips…
00:10:19 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Archimedes’ Cattle: A 2,000-Year Math Mystery
From an ancient cattle puzzle hidden in verse to modern supercomputers, this episode untangles Archimedes’ cattle problem: color ratios, geometric patterns, and a smallest solution with hundreds of t…
00:06:49 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Optimization Unplugged: Real-World Math That Makes Your Decisions Smarter
An accessible tour of applied mathematical programming, from maximizing profit under constraints to smart portfolio design, scheduling, and diet planning. We break down core tools—the simplex method,…
00:09:28 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Context is Everything: Inside Anthropic's Contextual Retrieval
A deep dive into contextual embeddings, contextual BM25, and re-ranking—discover how Anthropic’s approach helps AI understand the full story behind data, boosting accuracy by up to 67%. Real-world us…
00:08:35 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Snapshots of Ancient Greece: City-States, Wars, and a Lasting Legacy
A lively tour of a fragmented world built from independent city-states. We trace the rise of Athens and Sparta, the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, and the conquests of Philip and Alexander, the…
00:10:49 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
From Baby Carriages to Water Purification: The AO Smith Odyssey
A rapid history of AO Smith—from 1874 Milwaukee beginnings making baby carriages to supplying war materiel, pioneering glass-lined tanks, and becoming a global leader in water heating and filtration …
00:08:49 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
ChemPy Unlocked: A Practical Dive into Python's Chemistry Toolbox
This episode introduces ChemPy, a Python package that acts like a chemistry toolbox you can code with. Learn how it handles core tasks—balancing equations, parsing formulas, computing molecular masse…
00:09:43 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Carbon Nanotubes: Tiny Tubes, Big Potential
In this episode we explore carbon nanotubes—rolled graphene strands whose structure dictates whether they conduct like wires or behave like transistors. We'll unpack how their zigzag and armchair pat…
00:07:02 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Calcium: The Fifth Element—From Bones to Climate, Steel, and Space
A deep-dive into calcium—far beyond bones and teeth. Explore how calcium powers muscle contraction and blood clotting, how it helps remove impurities in steelmaking, and its surprising roles in Earth…
00:12:12 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Porphyrion: The Giant Radio Galaxy Redrawing the Cosmos
We explore the record‑breaking giant radio galaxy Porphyrion—seven megaparsecs across—and the physics of cosmic jets, redshift-space distortions, and how these behemoths sculpt the cosmic web. From L…
00:13:26 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Binary Quadratics Unveiled: From Diophantus to Gauss
A friendly dive into binary quadratic forms: what they are, how we decide when two forms are equivalent, and how reduction and discriminants reveal a finite map of an infinite landscape. Join the jou…
00:12:47 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Ancient Astronauts: A Critical Dive into a Cosmic Idea
A balanced, source-grounded exploration of the ancient astronauts hypothesis, tracing its mid-20th-century rise and the scientific counterarguments. We unpack notable claims—from the Dogon and Sirius…
00:10:45 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
AlphaChip: AI-Designed Chips and the Future of Tech
Dive into Google's AlphaChip, the AI-powered approach that designs chips using reinforcement learning. See how AI-designed chips can be faster, more power-efficient, and unlock new possibilities from…
00:06:43 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
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