Welcome to Rami’s Readings #152 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers
Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami's Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Product Byte, The VC Corner and from the AI in Action Conference in Montréal. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.
Apéro & Intellect #15 - NYC Edition & Apéro & Intellect #16 - Boston Edition
NYC has 1 spot left. There’s a few more available for Boston. It’s going to be fun!
🤖 AI Reads
CIS 6280: World Models
Notes: From UPenn, covering various World Model architectures and applications.
nvidia / nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b
Notes: SOTA ASRA model from Nvidia. Ready for commercial use.
kyutai-labs / pocket-tts
Notes: Fast TTS. I previously shared Kyutai’s work in #117.
LFM2.5-230M: Built to Run Anywhere
Notes: A very small model from Liquid AI released in June.
RyanCodrai / turbovec: A Vector Index Built on TurboQuant, Written in Rust with Python Bindings
Notes: I haven’t tried it yet, but the project seems promising. Claims to be much faster than Meta’s FAISS.
herdrdev / herdr: The Runtime Your Coding Agents Live On
Notes: An open source agent multiplexer if you don’t already have your own setup with tmux.
💼 Business Reads
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Mackay
Notes: A very old book (1841) but relevant to read today.
Z.AI’s Cash Burn Drives Alibaba-Like Hong Kong Fundraising Spree
Notes: If there’s demand…
Kalshi Moves to Expand Into US Stock and Commodity Markets
Notes: Huh… interesting.
Where to Invest $10,000
Notes: Always a fun article series to read.
🔀 Other Reads
WA K12 Academy Atlas
Notes: Surprisingly beautiful website for parents in WA.
The Website Specification
Notes: Point your coding agent at this website to improve code quality.
WSL 2 Is Getting Faster: Windows File System Access
Notes: This provides a significant quality of life improvement and increases the iteration speed for your coding agents if you run them in WSL.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.
Apéro & Intellect #15 - NYC Edition & Apéro & Intellect #16 - Boston Edition
Limited spots available on September 17 and September 18th!