The Beyond Podcast
By: Vadim Yushprakh
Language: en
Categories: Science, Mathematics, Leisure, Hobbies
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, various paradoxes, and other fun puzzles and problems. We will discuss meta references in art and entertainment. And we will try to make these discussions fun and entertaining! Check out The Beyond Podcast at thebeyondpod.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
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Jan 03, 2026This episode looks at probability theory, statistics, epistemology, and thought experiments involving the Self Sampling Assumption.
Duration: 00:32:39This Episode Halts
Sep 19, 2025In this episode we discuss paradigms for naming very large numbers, and how this connects to the power of algorithms, programming languages, and the machines they run on.
Duration: 00:36:44This Episode’s Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Jul 08, 2025In this episode we discuss metaness in the realm of physics.
Duration: 00:34:48This Episode’s Title Exists Somewhere In the Digits of Pi
Apr 14, 2025This episode discusses The Book of Tao, minimal descriptions of strings, as well as Kolmogorov Complexity.
Duration: 00:30:45This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency
Jun 02, 2024This 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!
Duration: 00:36:20This Episode’s Title Has Thirty Eight Letters
Jan 29, 2024In this episode we discuss the metaness of maps, and Schelling Points.
Duration: 00:30:42This Episode Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Creation
May 22, 2023In 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.
Duration: 00:32:49This Episode Is Coming From Inside Your Headphones
Mar 13, 2023In this episode we will discuss JOOTsing - Jumping Out Of The System, in the context of software systems and security exploits.
Duration: 00:38:39The Following Episode Is False
Jan 03, 2023This episode discusses metaness and Strange Loops in real life. We also review the 1985 novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan.
Duration: 00:32:43This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon
Dec 05, 2022In this episode we will discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and Fixed-Point proofs.
Duration: 00:37:14This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon
Dec 05, 2022In this episode we discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and fixed-point proofs.
Duration: 00:37:45This Episode’s Transcript is a 89742 Byte PDF Document
Nov 13, 2022In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.
Duration: 00:35:03This Episode is 2580 Seconds Long
Oct 30, 2022In 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.
Duration: 00:43:00This Episode Has 6650 Words
Oct 21, 2022Our first episode introduces the podcast and explores the idea of self-describing messages to send information far into the future.
Duration: 00:44:55