What the smart people are recommending. 7789 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.
“You know, I love the Escape artist. I love the Fifth of Assassin.”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮), and more!”
“A recent STM experiment in 2D bilayer graphene [Y.-C. Tsui, et al., Nature 628, 287 (2024)], under a strong perpendicular magnetic field, has made a direct observation of the existence of three distin…”
“I am Martin Luther King Jr. And on the top 10 list of kids' books banned last year as I am Billie Jean King. \nUm, we have fought back successfully against every time they banned us.”
“Load a chat-formatted version of the [Glaive function calling dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Locutusque/function-calling-chatml)”
“A recent STM experiment in 2D bilayer graphene [Y.-C. Tsui, et al., Nature 628, 287 (2024)], under a strong perpendicular magnetic field, has made a direct observation of the existence of three distin…”
“We argue that the spatially random localized phase at low filling is the recently proposed disorder-dominated strongly localized amorphous "Anderson solid" phase [A. Babber, et al., arXiv:2601.03521],…”
“# Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI.”
“It's been 5 years since The Almanac of Naval first came out. And to honor that, Naval and I wanted to do a special edition for you. ...This book has grown as a word-of- mouth phenomenon, being gifted …”
“And I went independent to start this show because there was something that I felt like I was missing when I looked out into my media diet. I really wanted to find a show that was optimistic that helpe…”
“Okay, uh, okay. Well, it's my pleasure to be uh speaking today about the James Web Space Telescope as just one example of an amazing mission where humans are pursuing science and exploring the univers…”
“There is one company that is huge in this space. They're called Zipline. Keller Renado Clifton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest autonomous logistics and delivery system. We sh…”
“This is Wakanda. So Wakanda is a fictional radically advanced uh African city hiding in plain sight from one of my favorite movies, Black Panther. And the provocative idea is that we”
“Um well it's a much better thing than the Google Glass. Google Glass had a little tiny display up here.”
“This project was 99% vibe coded as a fun Saturday hack because I wanted to explore and evaluate a number of LLMs side by side in the process of [reading books together with LLMs](https://x.com/karpath…”
“You know, if you haven't seen the video of Google Genie 3 uh that's a new 3D model that you talk to and it creates anything that you can walk through right so hey Genie 3 I want to be skiing down in t…”
“Pennsylvania banned.\nI am Martin Luther King Jr. And I am Rosa Parks.”
“There's Andrew Mayne: a plugin for VS Code, so I can go use this there.”
“We decided to not launch this as a product. Thibault Sottiaux: It didn't feel like polished enough. Thibault Sottiaux: It was called 10X because we felt like it was giving us this 10X productivity boo…”
“And so you can start to see it right with the codex IDE extension being able to run remote codex tasks.”
“I'm sure it happens in some obscure edge cases, just like it does for humans. Greg Brockman: But it's really amazing to see that we're at a level where even when it's not quite zeroed in on the right …”
“I guess there's the temptation to cargo cult Sam Altman or Roon, but if OpenAI really believed all lowercase was better, ChatGPT would use it!”
“Quantum-Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality”
“I guess there's the temptation to cargo cult Sam Altman or Roon, but if OpenAI really believed all lowercase was better, ChatGPT would use it!”
“We argue that the spatially random localized phase at low filling is the recently proposed disorder-dominated strongly localized amorphous "Anderson solid" phase [A. Babber, et al., arXiv:2601.03521],…”
“Retro Diffusion's pixel art models are now on Replicate”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮), and more!”
“`mistral-finetune` is a light-weight codebase that enables memory-efficient and performant finetuning of Mistral's models.”
“Hello and welcome to The Tech Download - a new CNBC Original podcast where we unpack the tech stories that matter most.”
“And on the top 10 list of kids' books banned last year as I am Billie Jean King.”
“You know, the best imagining of this future that I've read is from Iain Banks, the Culture books. So I recommend people read the Culture books.”
“There's the books, The Story of Civilization by Durant, which is a long series of books, very, very deep. Those books take a long time to get through.”
“I've been at AWS reinvent all week.”
“Whimo came to St. Louis, Grant.”
“The idea of this repo is that instead of asking a question to your favorite LLM provider (e.g. OpenAI GPT 5.1, Google Gemini 3.0 Pro, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, xAI Grok 4, eg.c), you can group them…”
“You can also use codeex in your terminal as a CLI um in the cloud on your phone.”
“Backend: FastAPI (Python 3.10+)”
“Frontend: React + Vite”
“react-markdown for rendering”
“Basically the idea here is that if you want someone to like the same analogy works for like a human teammate. If you want someone to go off and do a lot of work, you might want to agree on what work t…”
“OpenRouter API”
“There's The Adventurer's podcast.”
“But uh one of the like more idealistic visions that that I remember that project having is this idea that Estonia can expands to be this digital nation and like Estonia can be much bigger than the tha…”
“So probably our most successful non-financial application is uh ENS which uh I'm sure you'll hear about in various places this week. So you can have your you can own your own name basically you know y…”
“I'd encourage people here this week to like try at least once paying for a coffee and ETH”
“If you don't have a wallet, you know, install a install a wallet.”
“like if you haven't used a DAP, use a DAP.”
“as well as other popular enterprise AI approaches like retrieval augmented generation, rag.”
“I've got one of them in front of me here called dying to win. So I mean you know a lot about this subject”
“I have a book coming out in September called Our own Worst Enemies.”
“Even Democratic governors have admitted this is a problem. So just the other day, Kathy Hokll, the governor of New York, it basically said that she might prefer to enact California's SB53, which is a …”
“Even Democratic governors have admitted this is a problem. So just the other day, Kathy Hokll, the governor of New York, it basically said that she might prefer to enact California's SB53, which is a …”
“Let me just say on on the job loss question because I think this is really important that Yale just released a study and it showed that in the 33 months after the launch of Chat GPT there was no disce…”
“There was an article in the Wall Street Journal just last week talking about the uh construction boom that's happening that's benefiting construction workers like electricians like plumbers like worke…”
“# How to prompt Nano Banana Pro _Blog post by Replicate_”
“A demo of using RSC and Vercel Postgres, legally brought to life”
“Dominik Hangleiter weighs in with an informative post about a much debated question: Has quantum advantage been achieved? This is the first post in a three-part series.”
“If uh, you know, like you have never written a smart contract, try like writing a uh, a smart contract.”
“The US National Archives opened up Nazi party member cards and @DIEZEIT made them searchable so German families can examine their heritage.”
“May 13, in-person workshop with @jerryjliu0 on turning complex financial docs into LLM-ready data using agentic OCR. Build real pipelines. Hear from a Top 5 PE firm's production agent. Make sure to br…”
“Layerize from @ideogram_ai is up on Replicate! Turn any flat graphic into an editable, layered design detecting font styles (h1, h2, body, small) and grouping related text into smart containers.”
“So we teamed up with @lancedb to build a structure-aware PDF QA pipeline🚀”
“Embedded like Astra in eyelasses. What can you tell me about this building I'm looking at? This is the cold drops yard, a shopping and dining district. She sees what I see. There's a speaker in the ea…”
“4. A Claude agent retrieves the relevant context and, if text isn’t enough, it falls back to image-based reasoning on the screenshots🧠”
“So we teamed up with @lancedb to build a structure-aware PDF QA pipeline🚀”
“Philanthropy is entering the playbook for asset managers. Joel Holsinger... on Promote Giving, his giving journey, and bringing the Giving Pledge to investment firms.”
“bringing the Giving Pledge to investment firms.”
“https://www.capitalallocators.com/podcast/promote-giving-a-new-model-for-performance-driven-giving/”
“Joel Holsinger, Co-Head of Ares’ $50B Alternative Credit strategy, on Promote Giving, his giving journey...”
“We, therefore, introduce DexWM, a Dexterous Interaction World Model that predicts future latent states of the environment conditioned on past states and dexterous actions.”
“This paper introduces SpidR-Adapt for rapid adaptation to new languages using minimal unlabeled data.”
“And I think the two breakthrough examples of this over the last year were Deep Research and Notebook LM.”
“We open-source the training code and model checkpoints at https://github.com/facebookresearch/spidr-adapt.”
“You know, I don't know if any of the young people here saw the movie 2001 where Hal the computer says basically, "Sorry, uh, no longer taking orders from you."”
“I like the Rolling Stone obituary for Kishinger.”
“Run FLUX.2 on Replicate”
“Oh, I see one hand uh go up. I'll try to find you afterwards. Uh so lisp is a um well many people say that lisp is a dead programming language, but the lisp defenders say that it's not dead. It just s…”
“And I think the two breakthrough examples of this over the last year were Deep Research and Notebook LM.”
“Introducing Rerank 4: Cohere's most powerful reranker yet”
“For more information on Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin evening, head to the link on the screen right now. Banker.”
“Here's the video of my talk on December 10 at Q2B Silicon Valley, reviewing recent progress in quantum computing.”
“Manis talks about like they initially saved like a Manisto-do.md file to the to the Manis file system.”
“We open-source FailFast at https://github.com/ruipeterpan/failfast.”
“Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead”
“# Fail Fast, Win Big: Rethinking the Drafting Strategy in Speculative Decoding via Diffusion LLMs”
“I recently built this little utility called lang fetch it's just like a simple command line utility allows you to get traces from langmmith”
“it basically takes shrunken whites elements of style classic book on writing”
“Uh your biggest GitHub project is probably SEC lists which you did for Kali Linux with 70,000 uh GitHub.”
“# From Generated Human Videos to Physically Plausible Robot Trajectories”
“This repository contains code to run evals released by Mistral AI as well as standardized prompts, parsing and metrics computation for popular academic benchmarks.”
“MM-MT-Bench is a multi-turn LLM-as-a-judge evaluation task released by Mistral AI that uses GPT-4o for judging model answers given reference answers.”
“One the best example of that is our latest image model NO Banana Pro which um I think shows some astonishing sort of understanding of visuals and it can kind of you know create infographics that are r…”
“Chapter 4 in my dissertation from 1986 is "From Crowd to Public." https://pressthink.org/j/rosen-archive/dissertation/reader/#from-crowd-to-public”
“So uh we have this um uh uh system called Genie Genie 3 which is like an interactive video model you can think about. So you can sort of generate a video”
“VQAv2”
“Here's journalist and PhD candidate, Samuel Earle, who is working in similar territory, but 39 years later. We asked him to comment: https://pressthink.org/j/rosen-archive/dissertation/network-effect/”
“DocVQA”
“It's called the Mod Retro Chromatic. It plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color Games. It has an magnesium aluminum alloy shell. It's the same metal that's used in some of our attack drones at Android. ... …”
“MathVista”
“GameStop just launched a new uh a new game in house. We just relaunched Croc back for its 25th anniversary.”