Himanshu Pal

IITR'20 → Barclays → IIITH'25 (MS-Research) → ServiceNow

मर्त्य मानव के विजय का तुर्य हूं मै,
उर्वशी अपने समय का सूर्य हूं मै..

[Himanshu Pal @hmnshpl]

May God grant us the strength to call out journalists who are busy giving lap dances to the government.

[Himanshu Pal @hmnshpl]

@karpathy What %age of ASD-STE100 have you used here?

[Swathi Soren @Soren_Media]

@Deepakbaghel13 is an alumnus of IIT Bombay who now runs a very successful agro business

He is the Hindi topper of 2010. Graduated in 2016

He talks of his own experiences here

Give it a listen & reflect, keeping in mind he's going to @HarvardHBS next

[Simone Scardapane @s_scardapane]

*The Transformer Cookbook*
by @pentagonalize @davidweichiang et al.

A beautiful introduction to "hardcoding" algorithms inside the weights of a transformer (addition, lookup, branching) following the seminal RASP paper (https://t.co/AXEpZQCdQc).

https://t.co/u0oaZ7a3hB

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

He was right. The cult of personality around Jobs paved the way for the disastrous misreading of Musk.

[Sophia @kaliyugacowgirl]

lana said it first, baby

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[Sakshi @333maheshwariii]

Slap on the classist people who think a certain domain is only for themselves.

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"When I am an old man, I will tell my Grandchildren bedtime stories about how their Grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi." 🥹❤️

[History Defined @historydefined]

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered the malaria drug artemisinin after reading a 1,600-year-old Chinese medical text and realizing the herb had to be extracted cold, not boiled, paving the way for a treatment estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives.

[Sai Rajeswar @RajeswarSai]

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.

Run the math on why.

A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.

The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit.

Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.

Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.

67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.

Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.

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[Kapil Birthala @Kapil_birthala]

🚨 Huge disappointment with @IndiGo6E ! Flight from Delhi to Hyderabad rescheduled from 3:30 to 3:40 PM. Tried web check-in 2-1 hrs before takeoff as per guidelines, but no seats available 😕. Reached airport at 2:32 PM, staff said I'm late & can't help 🤯. Ground staff asked me

[Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳 @mshahi0024]

BJP is the worst party India could have, whether in opposition or in power.

They opposed everything that could help India compete with the world, spreading fear & blocking crucial bills since 1990s.

Ironically, many of the very policies that CM Modi once opposed are the same ones being implemented today, but tweaked in way to benfits few capitalists.

[Himanshu Pal @hmnshpl]

Crazy that this is true.

[Neet @neet_sol]

Type of girl who approaches you when you don't have a job

[Neet @neet_sol]

Type of girl who approaches you when you don't have a job

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

"Our real job is to go shopping."

[PHILOSOPHY | φιλοσοφία @PhilosophyOnX]

@elonmusk Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Mark Twain

[Himanshu Pal @hmnshpl]

Does SPC counts? I was ghosted tbh.

[The Open Economist @openeconomist_]

If you've ever been rejected by
> YC
> fdotinc
> odf
> the residency
> alliance dao
> the network school
> your crush

It's a sign, but not a bad one.

You're an underdog.
And we're taking big bets on underdogs.

Would you actually commit a year to building the next big thing?