What the smart people are recommending. 7786 books, tools, and products endorsed by the thinkers absorb.md tracks. Ranked by how many times each has been recommended across compiled podcasts, papers, posts, and tweets.
“The annual @IQIM_Caltech retreat at Lake Arrowhead is an opportunity to spend the weekend with some of my favorite scientists. It is always an uplifting and illuminating experience.”
“Well, let's get to that. I mean, so, so yesterday, you know, and I'm glad to say this was the cover of Nature, Nature Journal yesterday.”
“For some context on this repository, GPT, and language modeling it might be helpful to watch my [Zero To Hero series](https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html).”
“Please watch: https://t.co/hgURPFQITX 👀”
“The model is available now on @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API. Find out more → https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=”
“The model is available now on @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API.”
“Counterpoint: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/”
“Enterprise: Rolling out in preview on Vertex AI”
“I would buy Gro”
“The three options right now for you and it's different in Europe because I know there's limitations but that's Claude 3 Opus that gp4 which you can also get access to for free in a limited form throug…”
“And we can put those together in a hybrid simulation engine that we open source called Robocassa. And it is an engine that leverages LOM's diffusion models text to 3D to procedurally generate infinite…”
“There was an algorithm that was theorized by a guy named Peter Shor. I think I talked about this on a prior episode in 1994 called Shor's algorithm. Today, it's kind of the commonly well-known model f…”
“If you want to understand how to build LLM applications, I'd strongly recommend this course. It's a great course if you want to understand how to use LLMs, adapt them, fine tune them, really worth tak…”
“It is a rewrite of [minGPT](https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT) that prioritizes teeth over education.”
“- [numpy](https://numpy.org/install/) <3”
“- `datasets` for huggingface datasets <3 (if you want to download + preprocess OpenWebText)”
“- `tiktoken` for OpenAI's fast BPE code <3”
“- `wandb` for optional logging <3”
“- `tqdm` for progress bars <3”
“I recommend getting the bleeding edge PyTorch nightly ([select it here](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/) when installing) as it is currently quite likely to make your code more efficient.”
“This downloads and tokenizes the [OpenWebText](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openwebtext) dataset.”
“I think the best prediction for where the world is headed and this is not a endorsement or necessarily like this is where I think the world's headed because I think part of it is \nwill be slightly in…”
“Today, it's kind of the commonly well-known model for how you could do this, and it's a You can watch a YouTube video on it. There's some YouTube videos that explain it pretty clearly. Takes a bit of …”
“This book that I've been pawing through by the way, The Magic of M.C. Escher, is something that I got on a delightful visit to the Escher Museum in The Hague, which, if you're ever in the Netherlands,…”
“One thing is maybe kind of random, but like I get really fired up to see like mad science experiments like the uh Deepseek OCR that came out the other day. Did you Did you see it? It's It's wild where…”
“we've been publishing at the general of laward we've been P publishing prompts that turn the AI into a tutor into a mentor that uh into a student you have to explain stuff to”
“If you haven't had a chance to check out the Gemma models, I highly encourage you to do that.”
“Specifically, the [GPT video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY) is popular if you have some prior language modeling context.”
“And then, a couple years ago, I think in 2023, there was another computer scientist named Oded Regev from NYU who published another paper that showed a faster different approach to Shor's algorithm.”
“This book that I've been pawing through by the way, The Magic of M.C. Escher, is something that I got on a delightful visit to the Escher Museum in The Hague, which, if you're ever in the Netherlands,…”
“if it helps we've at the J of we have a bunch of free YouTube videos on teaching there's a free corsera course”
“We're doing Hard Fork Live again! ... June 10, SF, tickets just went live: https://www.nytimes.com/events/hardforklive”
“Requires the latest iOS update from the App Store.”
“I saw another thing on hacker news the other day where um you know uh text diffusion \nuh where someone made a text diffusion model by instead of doing go saying dnoising he would take like a single B…”
“Also, if you want to see a fun application of this formula for high-dimensional sphere volumes, you might enjoy a video I did with Numberphile a couple of years back that includes a puzzle that incorp…”
“Everyone: Rolling out to @Google Vids”
“Read more: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/plaid-integration-provides-full-view-of-personal-finances”
“Register: https://www.perplexity.ai/computer/a/the-billion-dollar-build-ZWzIFW.FTaKdLtufMa0yhw”
“Mistral Large v2 is now compatible with `mistral-finetune`!”
“the open zone map that we can put on screen. The open zone map shows hundreds and hundreds hundreds of special economic zones globally, right?”
“The code and model are open-source and accessible via Spinal Cord Toolbox v7.0.”
“We also introduce a lifelong learning framework to automatically monitor the morphometric drift as the model is updated using additional datasets.”
“Here we present RareCollab, an agentic diagnostic framework that pairs a stable quantitative Diagnostic Engine with Large Language Model (LLM)-based specialist modules that produce high-resolution, in…”
“This paper introduces KunLunBaizeRAG, a reinforcement learning-driven reasoning framework designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in complex multi-hop question-a…”
“Claude Opus 4.7 is now the default orchestration model powering Computer.”
“It's also available for Max subscribers on Perplexity web, iOS, and Android.”
“Using glm-5 as a daily driver for a lot of things”
“I want to teach uh this this semester only with um perplexity like biology especially right but that got changed entirely where All both the teaching assistants and the students were in one interface …”
“I first got to know his work through his blog which can be found at one useful thing. org”
“I think a good place to start will be Michelson-Morley and how special relativity is discovered, if it's different from the story that you get off of YouTube videos. I will prompt you that way, and th…”
“Last week I shared our recent arXiv paper detailing the world’s largest entangled state, with 120 qubits at 56% fidelity with a shot-retention rate of 28%, run on Heron R2 ibm_aachen.”
“So go ahead and get clone.”
“And you can also use LMS to author the XML files and then you combine them into this exponential number of procedurally generated rooms and putting all of them together. This is a project, an open sou…”
“he was getting a lot of value out of the chatbt desktop integration with his terminal and that it was a very simple thing. He was just like, if there's an error in my terminal, I just ask chatbt like …”
“Subtle is the Lord. Also from Imre Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes.”
“And I couldn't do it without uh Back Blaze and Render, two of our great sponsors. And I I'll thank them a bunch of times, but uh and also Jetro, who's helping me uh launch Foundry University in Japan,…”
“but like the u the gro 2.5 um open source model is actually very good. Um, and I think we'd probably be and and we'll continue to open source our models”
“In fact, we did the math and published it published the math, but nobody looked at it. Uh um it's on the Tesla website”
“And I couldn't do it without uh Back Blaze and Render, two of our great sponsors. And I I'll thank them a bunch of times, but uh and also Jetro, who's helping me uh launch Foundry University in Japan,…”
“Watch today’s live pitches from 9–10:30 AM PST: https://pplx.ai/pitch/finals”
“# Cambrian-S: Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video”
“The Institute for Quantum Information (and Matter) @Caltech is celebrating its 25th anniversary. It has been a great run so far, and quantum information science is more fun now than ever!”
“That's Gbrain, the Y Combinator CEO's personal AI knowledge brain, now fully open-sourced for everyone to use and build on. GitHub link in the description.”
“the best tool out there in tutoring is Khan Academy's kigo um which while flawed is still the best approach out there right now to doing tutoring with AI and like anyone can subscribe for 20 bucks a m…”
“This is not in the technical report but this is from the paper actually that kind of originates our tokenization approach. \n Paper name is called one tokenizer to rule them all.”
“in terms of the training data for the tokenizer we use fine web 2 which you can access \n publicly in hugging face”
“The corresponding paper is actually the art of asking you can find in in the archive that actually has research on this particular focus.”
“We use their command a translate which is state-of-the-art translation model from coher that works in 23 languages”
“All of them in command line translate but it includes rulebased \n filtering again difficulty filtering which come up again this difficulties as an important metric and also we looked at some some of …”
“And in fact, there's this great book called um >> gosh, it was like three New Deals. You might have you seen this one? Okay, you'll like this one.”
“For for the merging recipe. We have another paper here a simmer merge that is actually not using only one merging technique \n but kind of select the merging techniques based on some of the metrics.”
“then Quen is the model from Alibaba”
“# Seemingly Conscious AI is Coming _Blog post by Mustafa Suleyman_”
“But there's actually an alternative phrasing and this is uh I think John Stokes's coinage or others. Go broke, go woke.”
“Today we're releasing Personal Computer.”
“Beyond Annual Planning: Adapting to AI with the Six-Quarter Walk https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynKOloBqOEGR”
“Namex is a simple utility to separate the implementation of your Python package and its public API.”
“Make sure your codebase is correctly structured. Your file structure should look like this (here we use the `keras_tuner` package as an example)”
“The Messy Middle of AI Culture Change https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BdxYqdeZoLxX”
“And then our third product is obviously the full scale error corrected quantum computer. That's the big game for us.”
“This paper is concerned with Quantum Picturalism, a novel visual mathematical language for quantum physics. Originally developed over two decades ago to explore the foundational structure of quantum t…”
“This brings us directly to a project called Superpowers. Right? It was created by a very clever developer who goes by Obra. Superpowers adds real software engineering discipline directly to claude cod…”
“This brings us to a project called Hermes Agent. It was built by the brilliant team over at Noose Research. Hermes is a completely self-improving AI agent framework.”
“If you're vibe coding anything with a UI, install this first.”
“Just use deepagents and the memory built in there!”
“It's a collection of 20 plus skills that enforce a strict development methodology. Test-driven development, debugging frameworks, a full plan-to-execute pipeline.”
“We present Legilimens, a continuous learning system for the mobile edge's System-on-Chip GPUs.”
“One is in the machine learning space and that is to use essentially analog systems where we basically take classical data through what we call a quantum feature generator. It allows us to take that da…”
“Our second product is in the analog simulation space where we're literally looking at how to mimic certain molecules. This is an area that we think will explode. It's early days for analog simulation,…”
“_ArXiv paper co-authored by Andrew Ng_”
“I am excited to share that the mathematics for machine learning and data science specialization from deep learning AI is available.”
“I know you have too many suggestions, but consider this anyway. Clearly in your territory.”
“If you're building anything that involves iterating on results, study this repo. The pattern is actually probably more valuable than the tool itself.”
“If you install one MCP server from this entire video, make sure it is this one.”
“Vitalik already quoted some of the wonderful stuff that he released in his article in uh, April this year. And I want to focus on that, the importance of privacy.”
“Hi listeners and welcome back to No Priors.”
“I really followed Charlamagne as the blueprint. Like I looked at Charlamagne, what he did with Wendy.”
“You feed it your PRD, and it breaks it down into structured tasks with dependencies, complexity scores, and subtasks. Then Claude executes them one by one in order.”
“The Urgency of Interpretability: Why it's crucial that we understand how AI models work”
“Made by Microsoft, this gives Claude the ability to control a browser, click buttons, fill forms, navigate pages, take screenshots. Your AI agent can now use the web like a human.”