The Beyond Podcast

By Vadim Yushprakh

The Beyond Podcast explores meta-topics and concepts. Note: this has nothing to do with Meta - the corporation. We will focus on mind-twisting subjects like recursion, self-similarity, self-reference,... more

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The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.

The Beyond Podcast episodes:

April 14, 2025 This Episode’s Title Exists Somewhere In the Digits of Pi
This episode discusses The Book of Tao, minimal descriptions of strings, as well as Kolmogorov Complexity.
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31min
June 02, 2024 This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency
This episode discusses the work of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel, drawing parallels between the Halting Problem and the Incompleteness Theorems. We also review a fun book of puzzles!
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37min
January 29, 2024 This Episode’s Title Has Thirty Eight Letters
In this episode we discuss the metaness of maps, and Schelling Points.
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31min
May 22, 2023 This Episode Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Creation
In this episode we discuss Von Neumann probes, and also review Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge..." as well as “We Are Legion (We Are Bob)” by Dennis E. Taylor.
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33min
March 13, 2023 This Episode Is Coming From Inside Your Headphones
In this episode we will discuss JOOTsing - Jumping Out Of The System, in the context of software systems and security exploits.
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39min
January 03, 2023 The Following Episode Is False
This episode discusses metaness and Strange Loops in real life. We also review the 1985 novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan.
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33min
December 05, 2022 This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon
In this episode we will discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and Fixed-Point proofs.
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38min
November 13, 2022 This Episode’s Transcript is a 89742 Byte PDF Document
In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.
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36min
October 30, 2022 This Episode is 2580 Seconds Long
In this episode we will discuss quines - computer programs that can reproduce their own code. We will also talk about Exhalation - a sci-fi short story by Ted Chiang.
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43min
October 21, 2022 This Episode Has 6650 Words
Our first episode introduces the podcast and explores the idea of self-describing messages to send information far into the future.
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45min

FAQs about The Beyond Podcast:

How many episodes does The Beyond Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.