Intellectually Curious
Five minutes of wonder. Discover something fascinating about AI, space, science, or mathematics—with an optimistic view of what comes next.
Intellectually Curious is a daily podcast for people who love learning. Explore surprising ideas, ingenious inventions, and discoveries that reveal how our universe works and what people can achieve. Most episodes run 5–7 minutes: a little curiosity to brighten your morning, commute, or coffee break.
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Created and curated by Mike Breault. Episodes are generated with Google NotebookLM. Mike listens to and reviews every episode before publication. AI can make mistakes; please double-check critical information.
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Latest Episodes
Inside Vera Rubin: How NVIDIA Builds a Rack-Scale Supercomputer
What does it take to make 72 GPUs work together on a single AI problem? Inside NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72, 36 Vera CPUs share a liquid-cooled rack with 72 Rubin GPUs. The CPUs coordinate the work, the GPUs perform the calculations, and a network...
How Claude Helped Map a Vault Particle
In 1986, two researchers spotted a tiny structure whose curved ribs reminded them of a cathedral ceiling. They called it a vault. Forty years later, scientists are still working out what these tiny barrels do in our cells.We follow a te...
From Tokens to Bytes: AI Learns Its Own Building Blocks
Most language models begin with a tokenizer that cuts text into predetermined pieces. What if the model could learn those pieces for itself? Cartesia’s hierarchical networks, or H-Nets, start with raw bytes and build useful chunks inside the mo...
Life on the Moon: Designing a Settlement Worth Living In
What would it take to make the Moon a place to live, work, and build a community? The Aurelia Prize invites designers, architects, and engineers to answer that question with imaginative but technically grounded settlement concepts. We explore a...
When AI Chooses: Jev, Confidence, and Better Decisions
An AI system often needs to make a small, specific choice: which team should handle a message, which category fits a document, or whether a request needs clarification. We explore Jev’s Choice primitive in TypeSafe, which returns a selected opt...
