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.

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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!

Tyler Cowen's latest podcast episode is a 42-minute discussion with Henry Oliver on the philosopher John Stuart Mill.

Standard Ebooks is giving away free ebooks of classic titles with custom covers! via kottke.org

Doug Fish sold his Indy Pass, a cheaper alternative to the Epic and Ikon ski passes, to entrepreneur Erik Mogensen. via Outside Online.

Tyler Cowen discusses Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's new book, "Who Makes the NBA?", which uses data analysis to answer questions about basketball. via Marginal Revolution