What the smart people are recommending. 7735 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.
“Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks”
“I plugged in Nano Banana and VO as APIs to OpenClaw and now it has the ability to create images and video anytime I want for any use case.”
“particularly these large language models that are running chat GPT or Google Gemini or uh anthropic Claud uh or or this llama model that just came out today”
“man search for meeting the book talks about you know if you don't have a purpose then you effectively die and if you have a purpose I.E survival you live”
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“JAX is the open-source library behind Google's Gemini, Veo, and other advanced models. This short course teaches you to build and train a 20-million parameter language model from scratch using JAX and…”
“Larry is your product. It's larbrain.com.”
“I built my own little tool on top of playwright called shot scraper which is a command line tool for taking screenshots of web pages”
“While your vocabulary and understanding develop, there are some shortcuts. Skills (as in https://t.co/egfC60tXum) magically augment your prompt and offer variety.”
“Shopify helps turn browsers into buyers with the internet's best converting checkout up to 36% better compared to other leading Commerce platforms and Shopify helps you sell more with less effort than…”
“From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This [music] is The Daily.”
“It's time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud Oracle Cloud INF infrastructure or oci oci is a single platform for your infrastructure database application development and AI needs”
“enjoy plugins!”
“So we have all of the browsers that have come out like, you know, Dia, comet, Atlas.”
“I mean actually yeah L2 beat is like if you go to ltv.com they like have a classification for this I mean there are like a couple of details that I'm still talking about them with like their current l…”
“# LlamaIndex (@llama_index) Transform your document processing with intelligent table extraction that goes beyond basic OCR.”
“If you are new to neural networks, this "Dummy's Guide" looks pretty good for a lot more context.”
“try it now with Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp or build with it in @GoogleAIStudio!”
“Sam, you have said that you think in the future there will not only be unlimited intelligence, but unlimited energy, and you’ve made significant investments in Helion. We were actually super lucky to …”
“I'd recommend one of the forks below. [trevin-creator/autoresearch-mlx](https://github.com/trevin-creator/autoresearch-mlx)”
“I'd recommend one of the forks below. [jsegov/autoresearch-win-rtx](https://github.com/jsegov/autoresearch-win-rtx)”
“I'd recommend one of the forks below. [andyluo7/autoresearch](https://github.com/andyluo7/autoresearch)”
“It’s the beginning of the end for the iPhone’s dominance.”
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“To get half-decent results I'd use a dataset with a lot less entropy, e.g. this [TinyStories dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/karpathy/tinystories-gpt4-clean).”
“We’re genuinely impressed with what Cohere has built with Transcribe. The speed is exceptional - turning minutes of audio into usable transcripts in seconds - and it immediately unlocks new possibilit…”
“AI Gateway now solves the metering problem across models & providers with one /𝚟𝟷/𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝 API call”
“I'd recommend one of the forks below. [miolini/autoresearch-macos](https://github.com/miolini/autoresearch-macos)”
“also at microsoft azure and very recently google cloud platform”
“TBPN is my favorite tech show.”
“This new Nature paper (using old models) illustrates the point of my latest Substack post on AI interfaces. AI did a good job diagnosing medical issues, but when users had to interact with chatbots th…”
“My post: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-dispatch-and-the-power-of”
“Um brief background on Learn Prompting for those who don't know us. Uh we published the first guide to prompt engineering on the internet a few months before ChatGPT even launched. Um Sander, our foun…”
“It would be delightful if you pulled an @elonmusk , bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism.”
“Then maybe do MIT Technology Review.”
“Finally, we urge all vulnerable cryptocurrency communities to join the ongoing migration to PQC without delay.”
“If you're familiar with [neural scaling laws](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361), you can consider this challenge a form of L(N) optimization, where the objective is to optimize the lowest loss given a…”
“Challenges like the [NanoGPT Speedrun](https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt), which optimizes for a form of L(T) (~lowest time given constrained loss) or the [NanoGPT Slowrun](https://github…”
“Our OSS engineer @itsclelia recently built 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, a fully local document ingestion and retrieval CLI/TUI application powered by LiteParse ⚡”
“Chunking: @ChonkieAI”
“Runtime: @bunjavascript for speed and versatility”
“Every business has an ambition. PayPal Open is the platform designed to help you grow into yours with access to business loans so you can expand and reach hundreds of millions of PayPal customers worl…”
“You can rent GPUs from anywhere, but OpenAI is partnering with Runpod to make setup as easy as possible.”
“Um so the other day I was on, you know, I'm paying for my Anthroposa subscription. Just a little plug. Little plug everybody.”
“Challenges like the [NanoGPT Speedrun](https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt), which optimizes for a form of L(T) (~lowest time given constrained loss) or the [NanoGPT Slowrun](https://github…”
“I'm not sure if LM Studio or Ollama can handle that yet”
“Vulnerability Research Is Cooked”
“https://github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm”
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“In practice, Spectre is the beginning of a company world model: a live picture of what is happening inside Harvey and what needs to happen next.”
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“you are one of the first people to write um a review, a testimonial for my book when it came out 10 years ago, 2020 Mindsight, and I always always appreciate you for that so much. Um, and continuing t…”
“So my son is a huge Minecraft fan. Like he's he's he's turning five soon, and so that's it's playing so much Minecraft and watching Minecraft videos on YouTube and so on.”
“Node.js >= 22”
“This webinar series is a lot about sort of building stuff on modal and how to use modal.”
“Try the Easter templates on Grok Imagine”
“Maker of Hermes that is kicking OpenClaw’s behind.”
“my friends who are extremely optimistic about LLMs and expect AGI within the next couple of years. In some sense, they also agree that scaling is not all you need but that the rest of the progress is …”
“In the design studio, Square helps you run your business without running yourself into the ground. With Square, you get all the tools to run your business with none of the contracts or complexity. And…”
“# How Middleware Lets You Customize Your Agent Harness”
“we have Gemini CLI, which is crushing it and doing really, really well.”
“Last night I was at GenSpark talking to his to the founders over there and I love Genpar. It's an enentic platform that builds your slide decks, builds all sorts of things, is leading to a new way of …”
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“I'm excited to announce Context Hub, an open tool that gives your coding agent the up-to-date API documentation it needs. Install it and prompt your agent to use it to fetch curated docs via a simple …”
“We don't want to find ourselves in a James Cameron movie. You know Terminator [laughter] he's he's great movies. Love his movies but but we don't want to be in Terminator obviously.”
“Lyria 3 (and 3 Pro) from @GoogleDeepMind are now on Replicate! Produce studio-quality tracks with the ability to prompt intros, verses, choruses, and bridges.”
“Leaving Stripe _Blog post by Greg Brockman_ https://blog.gregbrockman.com/leaving-stripe”
“Welcome back to the Big Deal Podcast. I'm Cody Sanchez. Today, if you want to make money online and you want to do it building with code and are curious about AI, but even if you've never coded before…”
“I think if you look at something at like v0 by versel um that's probably much more reliable than 12.5 % right”
“I mean we ourselves we've spun out a new company Isomorphic labs that uh actually uh tries to build on AlphaFold and uses it to indeed in this in this block here uses it to uh uh as as one of the piec…”
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“This all led him to create the popular app waking up which I am a subscriber to which teaches the theory of mindfulness and includes the best of ancient wisdom while also being pressure tested by mode…”
“it's best phrased kind of framed in system one versus system two thinking so it's from the book Thinking Fast and Slow basically system one is like high level deliberate planning reasoning and system …”
“Botox, onabotulinum toxin A, prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. It's not for those with 14 or fewer headache days a month.”
“Ethan Mollik is a professor of management at Wharton. He's also the author of the very popular Substack, One Useful Thing, which is dedicated to tracking the development of AI.”
“Generate character images with Seedream 5 (Lite) and set return_byteplus_urls=true”
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“What's involved there? What drove you? Uh curiosity um about the nature of the universe.”
“the one I've always liked most is actually the culture series by Ian Banks um I started reading that back in the '90s and and I think that is a picture it's it's like a thousand years into the future …”
“RAMP. The best businesses in the world are constantly attacking and questioning their costs. And RAM helps many of the most innovative businesses in the world do exactly that.”
“As you read about Anthropik's Mythos capabilities to find critical security weaknesses, consider what if a Chinese company had gotten here first?”
“the first AI engineer, the first of these conferences that you organized uh was when I was uh going there to cover.”
“Our friends from Zai released GLM 5.1 continuing on the trend of Chinese companies that don't release open source immediately, but we did some preview in their API run this and then open source after …”
“I love the film Fight Club and uh there's some scene in it I think where Brad Pitt or or or maybe it's Ed Norton I can't remember takes off his ring uh uh before having a fight”
“what it might look like if you're starting from scratch and you just want to create a design and almost describe how the design should work with no coding background.”
“Thiago Forte is the best-selling author of building a second brain, which teaches how to capture the important information in your life so you can use it later when you need it most.”
“I fell in love with Evernote back I don't know whenever it first started was 10 or 15 years ago and it got so cluttered because I didn't know how to use it that I quit.”
“Like I use Momentous Creatine. They're a sponsor of the podcast, but I like their stuff and everything is like NSF certified and third party analyzed.”
“You can either go to dribble mob or any website to get some UI reference and just copy the image over and ask cursor or super design to extract CSS stylesheet from the UI mock.”
“Is Superbase at $10 billion a good buy? How do”
“So, um, if you go to, uh, stillcore capital.com, s t i lc o rc capital.com. My friend Mark Jeffrey started this. He asked me to be a partner in it. So, I seated this fund with a couple of hundred,000.…”
“It's the all-in-one finance, banking, and HR app. They understand startups. And they're now at over 1,000 startups. And that means first-time founders working on their preceeded rounds, but also veter…”
“Mew's Spark isn't racing to the very top of the LLM pecking order, but it's certainly in the mix. It lags in coding ability but can keep up on most reasoning issues and excels at multimodal functions …”
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“The most I I know and have the privilege to work with actually have, you know, like 10, 15, 20 years of experience, but are really on top of AI really know the latest tools.”
“Support for the show comes from Retool. Too many companies run critical operations on duct tape spreadsheets, Slack workflows, and whatever else they could cobble together. Not because they want to, b…”
“So that's where hackathons are pretty good.”