Matt Alldian

Tyler Cowen responds to a reader wondering if a long-lived restaurant is a mark of quality, suggesting it points more toward consistency than excellence.

via Marginal REVOLUTION.

Tyler Cowen shares some assorted links on varied things like techno-optimism and cheating detection. via Marginal REVOLUTION

Saveur Magazine shared their 10 most popular recipes from 2023, featuring dishes inspired by cuisines from around the world. Readers can find recipes ranging from Icelandic Rhubarb Bars to Jamaican Sweet Potato Pone.

MetaFilter user 'taz' highlights a post with the latest developments in space exploration, including asteroid bits, fast spaceships, and even a space cat video. via MetaFilter

Tyler Cowen shares six links, including one discussing deregulation in Argentina and its impact. via Marginal REVOLUTION

Google AI introduces Gemini, a new family of multimodal models designed for understanding image, audio, video and text data. via Hugging Face

PowerInfer is a new inference engine designed to run large language models more quickly on a single consumer-grade GPU, achieving speeds up to 11.69x faster than llama.cpp. Read the paper on Hugging Face.

via Hugging Face.

Bon Appétit chronicles 2023's viral food moments, from all-female M&M packages and carnivore bread to Lana Del Rey's Waffle House shift and the rise of "girl dinner." via Bon Appétit.

James Pethokoukis explores in this article if AI's recent problem-solving breakthroughs, such as one by Google's DeepMind, could lead to a productivity boom. via Faster, Please!