Vadim Yushprakh

The Beyond Podcast

Science EN ↓ 13 episodes

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.

Author

Vadim Yushprakh

Episodes

This Episode Was Randomly Selected From The Set Of All Possible Episodes 03.01.2026 32:39

This episode looks at probability theory, statistics, epistemology, and thought experiments involving the Self Sampling Assumption.

This Episode Halts 19.09.2025 36:44

In 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.

This Episode’s Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny 08.07.2025 34:48

In this episode we discuss metaness in the realm of physics.

This Episode’s Title Exists Somewhere In the Digits of Pi 14.04.2025 30:45

This episode discusses The Book of Tao, minimal descriptions of strings, as well as Kolmogorov Complexity.

This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency 02.06.2024 36:20

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!

This Episode’s Title Has Thirty Eight Letters 29.01.2024 30:42

In this episode we discuss the metaness of maps, and Schelling Points.

This Episode Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Creation 22.05.2023 32:49

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.

This Episode Is Coming From Inside Your Headphones 13.03.2023 38:39

In this episode we will discuss JOOTsing - Jumping Out Of The System, in the context of software systems and security exploits.

The Following Episode Is False 03.01.2023 32:43

This episode discusses metaness and Strange Loops in real life. We also review the 1985 novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan.

This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon 05.12.2022 37:14

In this episode we will discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and Fixed-Point proofs.

This Episode’s Transcript is a 89742 Byte PDF Document 13.11.2022 35:03

In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.

This Episode is 2580 Seconds Long 30.10.2022 43:00

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.

This Episode Has 6650 Words 21.10.2022 44:55

Our first episode introduces the podcast and explores the idea of self-describing messages to send information far into the future.