Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,800 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...
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The Highlands Giant: Australia’s Heaviest Insect Unearthed
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OEIS A000300: Fourth power of rooted tree enumeration
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Claude Opus 4.1: The AI Co-Pilot Elevating Coding and Debugging
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OEIS A00299: Number of n-node rooted trees of height 4
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OEIS A000298: Number of Partitions into Non-Integral Powers
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Open-Weight AI: The GPT-OSS 120B & 20B Breakthroughs
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The Deep Dive: Fast CSP and the UMA Revolution in Molecular Crystals
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Genie 3: Real-Time Interactive World Models and the AI Frontier
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Growing Strength: The Dynamic Biosynthesis of Bacterial Cellulose
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Hierarchical Reasoning: The HRM Breakthrough in AI
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Game On: Kaggle's Open Arena for AI Intelligence
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Solarized: Precision Colors for Screens
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Dion: Distributed Orthogonal Updates for Scalable AI Training
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OEIS A000296: Partitions without singletons
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OEIS A000297: Triangles in Turán graphs and related combinatorial interpretation...
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Mid-Sized Giants: The Quest for Intermediate Mass Black Holes
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OEIS A000295: The one-descent Eulerian numbers (and why they’re not Euler’s tria...
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Code in Focus: The Design of Google Sans Code
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OEIS A000294: Partitions and related series
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Alpha Earth Foundations: Mapping a Changing Planet with AI
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Superheated Gold: Redefining Temperature at Extreme Conditions
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Deep Dive: John von Neumann — The Last Great Polymath
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ASIRC and the AlphaGo Moment for AI Architecture Discovery
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The Deep Dive: Implicit Weight Updates and In-Context Learning in LLMs
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Interfaces That Build Themselves: From Conversational UI to Generative Interface...
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Microcrypt: Building Quantum-Safe Crypto from Quantum Advantage
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Notebook LM: The Inside Story of Google's Grounded AI
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Grounded Insights: Turning Unstructured Text into Trusted Data with LangExtract
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OEIS A000293: Solid partitions
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OEIS A000292: Tetrahedral numbers
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Concyclic Harmony: Exploring Mikkel’s Pentagram Theorem
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Stablecoins and the Global Economy: A DECO Deep Dive
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Fortunate Triangles: The One-to-Two Secret in Geometry and Number Theory
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OEIS A00291: Bipartite partitions
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OEIS A000290: Perfect Squares
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OEIS A000289: Explosive nonlinear recurrence, infinite coprime property, and con...
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OEIS A000288: The all-ones tetranacci sequence
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The Bitter Lesson: Why Computation Trumps Hand-Coded Intelligence
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Garbage Cans & Bitter Lessons: AI in Messy Organizations
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OEIS A000287: Rooted polyhedral graphs with n edges
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Helly’s Theorem Demystified: From Local Overlaps to Global Intersection
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Bridger at the Edge: The Real Jim Bridger and the Making of the American West
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The Deep Dive: Scaling Human Ingenuity—The ChatGPT Productivity Revolution
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Aeneas Unlocked: AI, Inscriptions, and the Epigraphic Revolution
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OEIS A000286: Representations of integers as 2x^2 + 5y^2 up to 2^n
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The Deep Dive: Subliminal Learning in AI — How Traits Travel Between Models
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OEIS A000285: Pseudofibonacci numbers
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All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful: A Practical Dive into Modeling
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OEIS A000284: Cubed Recurrence Sequence
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Camille de Gast: Trailblazer of Speed, Service, and Suffrage
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