Jamie Ferrell

Homeschool x Education System ReDesign
📚 M. Ed in Reading | Former Teacher
🌎 @Outschool Insider & Educator
🧠 @unschools DDM pedagogical approach

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@mooniejoon9 @PostMovesShow @Candace_Parker Portrait likeness is in the eye of the beholder; stylized art isn’t the same thing as photorealism. Our goal was simply to create a version that celebrated AB, inspired by her reaction to the 2K reveal. We aimed to create something fun and positive.

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@mooniejoon9 @PostMovesShow @Candace_Parker Yep, the one on the left is what NBA2k put in their video game. They discussed how bad it was on a recent episode

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

Counting down until @IndianaFever tip off tomorrow…it’s been a week for our girls! Still loving the fan art NBA 2k remake my hubs @OutlawHue made for @aa_boston and wanted to share something positive ❤️‍🔥#indianafever #aliyahboston #nba2k #feverrising

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@SportsPatriotUS 🔥 Well said!

[CCFC-New season @sohali2012]

I honestly think that Caitlin Clark played decent defense vs Portland. She had no help from any bigs in the paint. That’s coaching. Those fouls against don’t really look like fouls. 3 of them looked weak to me. Plus she wasn’t getting same consideration on her offense when she was getting fouled .

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@coachandere6xa Not to mention we sit around wondering why so many teams kill us on offensive rebounds…welp maybe bc everyone is at the perimeter watching a 1 on 1 🤦‍♀️ I can’t believe it. The last 2 games have been so hard to watch

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@audrawrongspeak Exactly! We didn’t buy it and in fact, have functional rooms in our 3/2. A sleeping room where all the beds are, a play room where all the kids toys are, and a creative room where our desks, tech, art supplies, books, etc. are 😁 Love to see you challenging this!

[OJ 🎯 @THEREALDAWG74]

. The tape in question is her playing good defense and nobody rotating to help 😭😭😭😭😭🕊️🕊️

[allison @_girltalk]

You cannot actually watch Caitlin Clark games and tell me her whistle is the same. Even when tiny touch foul are called, she can get hacked the entire same game with nothing.
Nasty to watch really

[CCKent22 @cckent22]

The @WNBA is signing it's death warrant if they keep letting the refs call ticky tack fouls on Caitlin Clark like this.

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@kenswift I just tweeted about how they’re driving me bananas on a night I’m already grumpy from staying up late 😂

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

Good time for an Aliyah Boston fan art drop…leave our girl alone 💪 Art by my husband @OutlawHue #feverrising

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

I’m staying up late for this fever game and the broadcasters are driving me insane 😅 among an already ugly game. Usually love Kara but the tangents are killing me. Anyone else? #feverrising

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@moniquebillings Hope your ankle is okay!

[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.

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@MelK_Ed I’m really sorry—that has to be so frustrating and upsetting 😢

[Jamie Ferrell @jmeferrell]

@_Breezy_Briii Love any brilliance you’ll share ❤️