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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OEIS A000230: Smallest Primes for Prime Gaps
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NLWeb: Giving Websites a Voice in the Agentic Web
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OEIS A000232: Gilbert Triangle and the Gilbert Conjecture
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OEIS A000229: The smallest moduli where 2 is the least quadratic non-residue
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OEIS A000228: Polyhexes and the boundary algebra
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OEIS A000227: Nearest integer to e and the integer maximizer
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OEIS A000226: Triangles, Trees, and the Web of Unicyclic Graphs
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OEIS A000225: One-less-than-a-power-of-two (the all-ones binary numbers)
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OEIS A00023: Sphere lattice-point error in a 3D ball
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Zipf's Law: The 1/n Rule Behind Words, Cities, and More
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OEIS A000224: Number of Squares Mod N
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AlphaVault: Evolutionary AI for Algorithms
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Two Kingdoms, One Name: The Burgundians' Journey
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SPHEREx: All-Sky Infrared Spectroscopy
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Seeing Through Circles: The Ebbinghaus Illusion and the Brain
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Mind Palaces: The Science and Skill of the Method of Loci
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HealthBench: Measuring Safe, Real-World AI in Healthcare
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OEIS A000222: The Menage-Hit Polynomials and the Menage Problem
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OEIS A000221: The happy numbers orbit of 5
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The Friction Economy: How Ease Displaces Friction Across Digital, Physical, and...
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Deep Dive: Systems Theory — The Hidden Connections Shaping Our World
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Data Modeling in the AI Era: Shifting Left, Grounding Gen AI, and the Polyglot L...
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Elaborative Encoding: The Brain's Memory-Boosting Trick
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Voyager in Minecraft: A Lifelong-Learning AI Inside the Sandbox
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Harmonic Regression: Unraveling Seasonal Patterns in Time Series
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Self-Regulated Learning: Learn How You Learn
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OEIS A000220: Asymmetric trees
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OEIS A000219: Planar partitions
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Cosmic Spin: Could a Rotating Universe Solve the Hubble Tension?
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OEIS A000218: Sum of squares of digits
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Happy Numbers Across Bases: A Deep Dive
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OEIS A000217: Triangular numbers
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The Perception Encoder: A Unified Path to Robust Vision-Language Learning
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OEIS A000216: The eight-term cycle of the sum-of-squares-of-digits map
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Castle Itter: The Odd Alliance That Defied the SS
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OEIS A000215: Fermat numbers
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Forecasting the City in Minutes: Lyft’s Real-Time Spatial-Temporal Forecasting
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Unfinished Business: The Zeigarnik Effect
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OEIS A000213: Tribonacci numbers
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Code, Conspiracy, and the Zimmermann Telegram
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The Sycophancy Snafu: Inside OpenAI's GPT-4o Update and Rollback
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OEIS A000214: Essential Boolean function types under affine symmetry AGN2
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Levels of Infinity: Cantor, Hilbert's Hotel, and Tao's Non-Standard Analysis
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Fluid Intelligence: Thinking on Your Feet in a Changing World
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Box-Cox Unpacked: Transforming Data for Better Analysis
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OEIS A000213: The Floor of n^2/3 and Its Surprising Connections
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Pairwise Power: The Bradley-Terry Model Explained
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Generative AI GUI: Visual Interfaces for the Next Computing Era
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Generative UIs: Visual Interfaces for the AI Era
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Stellar Nurseries: Inside the Molecular Clouds Where Stars Are Born
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