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@desh

Sort of a consultant, aspiring food, travel, and fiction writer, test cricket lover

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Joined February 2008
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Wow ! All along, Old Monk hasn't been a rum at all, but a "rum flavoured spirit", based not on sugarcane juice or by-products, but a cheap, neutral base spirit, caramel colouring & additives to pass it off as a dark aromatic rum ?!? share.google/uItsdJnUCLSHS89…
Old Monk can’t be sold as rum, FSSAI tells Bombay High Court, as company submits revised labels |...

Old Monk can’t be sold as rum, FSSAI tells Bombay High Court, as company submits revised labels |...

The food regulator argues the beverage is a ‘rum-flavoured spirit’ made from neutral alcohol and rum flavouring.

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Alibaba just dropped QwQ-32B, a reasoning model as good as DeepSeek R1 and better than OpenAI o1-mini on Math and Code. — DeepSeek R1: $0.14/M input toks, $2.19/M output toks — o1-mini: $1.10/M and $4.40/M — QwQ-32B: $0.20/M and $0.20/M 90% haircut on frontier intelligence.
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Excited to introduce the Perplexity Deep Research Agent: available for free to all users. Paid users only need to pay $20/mo to access an expert level researcher on any topic for 500 daily queries, and need to wait less than three minutes for getting a full research report.
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I studied computer science in college, but I wised up after I graduated, and transitioned to the more risk-averse conservative career of podcasting.
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Software developer job postings over the last five years Hard to find a crazier chart
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Google Chief Scientist, Jeff Dean "AI now generates 25% of Google's integrated code" Google has already trained a Gemini model on its internal codebase to help developers this doesn’t cover everything, but it improves AI-assisted coding by integrating code into its parameters
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20 jobs that OpenAI o3 CANNOT replace human, according to Deep Research
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I said it before, I'll say it again
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1/ New Gemini 2.0 updates, here we go! Gemini 2.0 Flash is now GA, so devs can now build production applications. Find it in AI Studio or Vertex AI.
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Can’t wait for an IITian to invent a Robotic papdi-chaat dispensing machine called ChaatGPT.
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If you have more than 40 browser tabs open, you can’t be trusted.
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Sidhu has done to Congress what he had done many times when he was a cricketer: run better batsmen out and then get out himself.
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Douglas Adams, who passed away twenty years ago.
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Sorry for the aborted launch!!! I’m a bad twitterer. Enjoy this small step for man!
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Nayak in a startup. A thread 🧵
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“ ..kahaan tak ye mann ko andhere chhalenge , udaasi bhare din kabhi to dhalenge...” composer Rajesh Roshan, born on this day!
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'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander' completes 29 years - The film that changed my life!🥰
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Launching heal.indiacovidresources.in to help people going through difficult times and seeking help regarding mental health issues. Thank you all the professionals for your support. 🙏 Share it in your networks.
Creators Of Products (@CreatorsOfProd) profile pictureCreators Of Products@CreatorsOfProd16 May 2021
The #COVID19 crisis has been overwhelming. The grief, fear & uncertainty has left us anxious & unproductive. We @IndiaCovidRes have launched a safe space to connect you with mental health care professionals working pro-bono (free) to help you cope🧘🏾‍♀️❤️ heal.indiacovidresources.in
Heal - A mental wellness website connecting you to pro-bono(free) mental healthcare professionals.

ALT Heal - A mental wellness website connecting you to pro-bono(free) mental healthcare professionals.

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Points to @desh for guessing X - Kabir Bedi who became hugely popular in Italy in late 70s as he acted in Sandokan a TV series where and hence Italian parents wanted to keep their kids as Kabeer Why were they denied ? Reply for remaining points
Sumukh Herlekar (@sumukh_herlekar) profile pictureSumukh Herlekar@sumukh_herlekar29 Apr 2021
#qotd
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Thread of some awesome people giving their expertise if you donate. The best of both worlds. Go Donate, what's stopping you!
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ANAND released 50 years ago on this day in 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s classic.
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