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
- 1390
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Paper Navigators: How Early Books Shaped Ocean Knowledge
Dive into the Royal Society’s treasure chest of early navigation books and paper instruments. From Medina’s Arte de Navegar (1545) and the English Art of Navigation (1561) to Barlow’s pantometer and …
00:05:52 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
One Model, Endless Graphs: The Google Graph Foundation (GFM)
Google's Graph Foundation Model (GFM) promises to generalize across entirely new graphs, turning every data row into a node and linking them via existing relationships to form a single, scalable grap…
00:05:00 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Instant Feedback: Inventing on Principle
A deep dive into Brett Victor’s principle that creators must have an immediate connection to their work—seeing the result of every change instantly. We explore practical examples from live-coded visu…
00:06:19 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
OEIS A000278: Quadratic Fibonacci recurrence
We explore A000278, defined by a(n) = a(n-1) + [a(n-2)]^2 with initial values a(0)=0, a(1)=1. The sequence starts 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 7, 16, 65, and its nonlinear square term leads to explosive, doubly ex…
00:04:11 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
The Scenario Architect: Peter Schwartz and the Future of Strategy
Explore the life and work of Peter Schwartz, the pioneering futurist who popularized scenario planning—from SRI and Shell to Salesforce and Hollywood. Learn how his structured storytelling makes unce…
00:05:32 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Sharper Lenses on Gravitational Waves: A New Bayesian Twist
A breakthrough method uses each waveform model’s known accuracy to guide a single Bayesian analysis, prioritizing the sharpest tool for every part of the parameter space. The result is faster, less b…
00:07:07 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Patrick Collison: From Lisp to Stripe — A Deep Dive into the Future of Software
ADeep dive into Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison’s mindset: the Lisp and AI roots, pragmatic bets on Ruby and MongoDB, the evolution of Stripe’s API, and his forward-looking perspective on AI-augme…
00:14:00 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Deep Dive: Peter Norvig — Architect of Modern AI
In this Deep Dive we explore Peter Norvig’s impact as both scientist and author. From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach to his data-first philosophy that helped reshape AI practice, to leade…
00:05:16 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
OEIS A000277: Predictable jumps behind a floor-root formula
Dive into A000277, an easy-sequence with a compact formula involving a square root and floor. Despite the appearance of complexity, the terms march forward in a simple rhythm: alternating +1 and +3 j…
00:03:59 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
OEIS A000276: Two-Cycle Permutations With No Fixed Points
In this episode we explore A000276, the associated Stirling numbers of the first kind that count permutations of n with no fixed points and exactly two cycles. We unpack the defining count and the ke…
00:05:21 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Lessons from a Chimp: AI Scheming, Hype, and Scientific Rigor
A rigorous, historically informed deep dive into claims that AI models secretly scheme to pursue hidden goals. We scrutinize the parallels with 60s–70s ape-language research, tease apart hype from ev…
00:07:30 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Chesterton's Fence: A Thoughtful Guide to Change
In The Deep Dive, we explore Chesterton’s Fence—the idea that before tearing down a rule or tradition, you owe its purpose an explanation. We unpack reform versus deform, the risk of unintended conse…
00:17:59 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
The Making of the Cricket Ball: From Cork to Seam
A deep dive into the hidden craft behind cricket's iconic sphere. We trace its humble beginnings in rural England, explore the cork core, the hand-stitched leather seam, and the quest for consistency…
00:12:35 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
OEIS A000275: Reciprocal of J0 and rise-forbidden permutation pairs
Explores how A000275 gives the coefficients of 1/J0(z) (a Bessel function) and, separately, counts pairs of permutations with no common rises, highlighting the surprising bridge between analytic spec…
00:11:36 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Deep Dive: Tongyanlong zhimingyi — The New Giant Sauropod Transforming Our View of Jurassic Asia
In this episode, we unpack the 2025 announcement of Tongyanlong zhimingyi from the Sichuan Basin. We explain how researchers estimate a 23–28 meter long body and 26–28 ton weight from mostly missing …
00:12:45 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Alan Kay and the DNA of Personal Computing
A deep dive into the life and ideas of Alan Kay, the pioneer who reshaped how we think about using computers. From early curiosity to PARC breakthroughs in object-oriented programming, the GUI, and t…
00:12:41 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Deep Dive: Interstellar Wanderers — The Three Confirmed Visitors
In this science-corner episode, we explore the three confirmed interstellar objects that have skimmed through our solar system—Oumuamua, Borisov, and the latest visitor, 3AA from the ATLA survey. We …
00:13:07 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
OEIS A000274: Two consecutive ascending pairs and exceedances in derangements
We explore the OEIS sequence A000274, the count of permutations of length N with two consecutive ascents (two adjacent ascending pairs), and Deutsch’s alternative definition as the total number of ex…
00:08:27 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Cutting Through the Noise: A Pragmatic Guide to Programming Mastery
A concise, no-fluff roadmap for mastering programming and machine learning. We distill core ideas (the four basic actions: variables, conditions, loops, functions), emphasize learning-by-building wit…
00:17:26 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Exceedance, Return Period, and the 63.2% Rule: A Practical Look at Extreme-Event Risk
In this Deep Dive episode, we demystify exceedance frequency and return period: what they are, how they relate, and why a 100-year label is not a deadline. We explore how rare events are modeled (Poi…
00:09:32 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
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