Pravin (rhymes with ravine)

Startup product guy - dives into rabbit holes. Co-founder & Chief Operations Metallist at The Heavy Metal Network

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@lessin @eswarpr The winners in this next phase won't be the companies using the most expensive intelligence for every task, but those that effectively build the infrastructure to route tasks to the appropriate model level and cost structure - Eswar calls it a cognitive router.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@lessin But the path forward isn't just about managing the "incineration" of tokens - it’s about changing how we allocate intelligence to tasks. As @eswarpr argues, we need to stop prioritizing the "smartest" model and start prioritizing the "right" model for the job.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@PADI I've done it in the Andaman Islands. They are pretty shy and swim away pretty quickly.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@RakeshSFNYC @JoannaStern Just took the first long trip (Bay Area to LA). The Tesla Superchargers were a disaster. Most of them didn't work. I went to EA, pulled in, connected and in 25 minutes I was at 87%. When I disconnected, it said no payment required. My Ford credits just worked.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@nevmed @jasonfried DHL & UPS do this and you can follow the truck on a map to your house.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@PawelHuryn @threadreaderapp unroll

[Simply Railway @Simply_Railway]

Always fun to troll Murica 🤠🦅🚄

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@josephus77 @dieworkwear ❤️

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@yadav_shantanu @alisa_stephens @dieworkwear @trufelman Derek is on multiple episodes in Season 3. Here's episode 1 of that season.

https://t.co/yowPT7ZSOP

[Usha Jey @Usha_Jey]

Hi @sc & @aliciakeys, I’m Usha Jey, choreographer from Paris and this is my version of Empire State of Mind 🗽

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@byanijames @FromAerin One place that I started was the Articles of Interest podcast. Avery Trufelman is an incredible storyteller.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@dieworkwear It all started with Take Ivy, a book that was published for the Japanese market in 1965. The English translation is available on Amazon.
https://t.co/fuHeDgjwIw

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@dieworkwear The Articles of Interest podcast (Season 3) explains how and why Japanese fashion has been fascinated (obsessed) with Ivy style since 1965. It's absolutely brilliant - especially if one is interested in style.

You obviously know this since you're interviewed in the podcast.

[Jerque Cousteau @neo_antiquarian]

@KaivanShroff I’ve worked around comics and writers for nearly 4 decades and I’ve never seen anyone fact check a white comic’s specials like this. If you need proof of racism, this explanation is it. Creative license exists for a reason, he’s a comedian, not a journalist. Wow this all sucks

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@dieworkwear @Bob_Meisterling It's not that uncommon in Northern California either - people regularly commute from Tracy, Manteca, etc. It's not quite three hours but it's >2. The folks that I've met doing this are teachers, nurses, etc.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

This episode of the Empire podcast by @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita goes into fascinating details. They gave up on California just before the Gold Rush and sold Alaska just before the discovery of gold and other resources. https://t.co/Wn4zSQG4jB

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The costliest mistake in human history is often considered to be Russia selling Alaska to America. This sale was driven by the Russian Empire's difficulty in maintaining control of Alaska, facing threats from the British Empire at the time. The negotiation resulted in a purchase price of $7.2 million, equivalent to $123 million today or about 2 cents per acre.

The official transfer ceremony occurred in Sitka on October 18, 1867, with a parade of Russian and American soldiers. The Russian flag was lowered, and the American flag was raised. At that time, Russia was unaware of the valuable resources lying beneath Alaskan soil, and they feared the purchase would threaten British control of their Pacific coast colony.

Approximately 20 years later, in the 1890s, oil was discovered in Alaska. It's estimated that there are around 1.2 billion barrels of oil in the region, along with an estimated 53 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, making the oil alone worth approximately $85 billion dollars today. To put this in perspective, Alaska is more than seven times the size of the UK.

[Pravin (rhymes with ravine) @ppk007]

@dieworkwear Beautiful. My (improbable) goal is to go to Florence and have a suit tailored at Sartoria Salabianca and if I'm lucky a topcoat as well.

https://t.co/J9UMdxWXOF

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

This is the Pepper X.

It was just crowned the world’s hottest pepper, hitting a Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) of 2,693,000.

Here are other SHUs for comparison:

▫️Red bell pepper: 0
▫️Frank’s Red Hot Sauce: 450
▫️Sriracha: 2,000
▫️Tabasco: 5,000
▫️Jalapeño pepper: 8,000
▫️Cayenne pepper: 30,000
▫️Pepper Spray: 2,000,000

SHU measures the number of times the capsaicin content in a chili pepper needs to be diluted before it is no longer detectable.

For example: Tabasco needs to be diluted 5,000x while Pepper X needs to be diluted over 2,000,000x (the previous record-holder was Carolina Reaper pepper, which has a SHU of 1,641,183).

Both Pepper X and the Reaper — which held the title from 2013 to 2023 — were created by Ed Currie, a pepper breeder based in South Carolina.

Each took about ten years to make using a selective plant breeding process.

Last week, “Hot Ones” Sean Evans hosted Currie and tried a Pepper X.

My takeaway: There is literally no amount of money you could pay me to eat one.