Welcome to Rami’s Readings #160 - 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, and The VC Corner. 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.
🤖 AI Reads
The two following papers consumed my entire thinking this week.
Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
Notes: A super important paper to read from Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun.
LLMs Can Natively Read & Write Neural Network Weights
Notes: Another interesting discovery from MIT. Is all that investment in training infrastructure even necessary now?
Fastino GLiDE: Decision Models for Classification, Routing, and Scoring with Text, JSON, and Images
Notes: Full family of open-weight decision models from the same company behind GLiNER.
💼 Business Reads
Nvidia CEO’s Affair Engulfs AI Giant in Chinese Spying Probe
Notes: Not what I expected to be thinking about this weekend. The memes just wouldn’t stop too. I got wind of the story more than a week ago, reports were around, but it’s interesting how quickly this story blew up this weekend. The stock market will be interesting tomorrow. NVIDIA shares are already down on Robinhood. Gary Marcus on this affair.
Buffett and Munger Would Know How to Invest in AI
Notes: Yes. Also, I can’t stop thinking about this Charlie quote this weekend.
There are only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage.
The Global Office: How Globalisation’s Frontier is Shifting from Factories to Offices
Notes: Having spent most of my career at Microsoft, this shift was intuitive to me. It’s good to see data.
What Millions of Data Points Reveal About US Inflation
Notes: Beautiful data visualization.
Tokyo Is Being Reshaped by a Historic Real Estate Boom
Notes: It’s still early and not too late if Tokyo is a long-term destination for you.
🔀 Other Reads
Sony Debuts $60 Wired Headphones With ’80s-Inspired Design
Notes: YES! I had a pair of these when I was a kid. Great memories!
Signing off from Redmond, WA.