Mayank Bhotika

[FLA Henrique @flahenriquebr]

Fizeram um compilado de 4 minutos mostrando os lances em que a Argentina foi favorecida contra o Egito.

Simplesmente um escândalo mundial. Quanta sujeira envolvida. 🤢

[` @wristofkohli]

Back when England's crowd threw a plastic ball at siraj, He reminded them, that they are 1-nil down in the series🤣

One of the cold but unhyped incident.

[Anupam Kher @AnupamPKher]

THANK YOU DAVID FOR THE LESSON! 🥹❤️
Life is full of lessons. Last week, on a flight from Goa to Mumbai, I learned one.
In the picture is David.
When David boarded the flight, many people looked at him because he was overweight. He came and sat across the aisle from me. In the middle of the flight, he opened his bag, took out a huge collection of chocolates and sweets, and then walked towards the washroom.
I exchanged a glance with the gentleman sitting next to him and said, “He shouldn’t eat so much sweets and chocolates!” This was said out of concern! The gentleman smiled and replied, “Well, that’s probably why he looks the way he does.”
A little while later, David came back, gathered all the sweets, and handed them over to the cabin crew. 🥹
I was surprised.
So I told him, “I must confess, I thought you were going to eat all those chocolates yourself, and that’s why you were overweight.”
He smiled and said, “ I don’t blame you for thinking like that! I have a medical condition. But I used to work with airlines, and I know what cabin crew members go through every day. So I like to bring them something sweet whenever I travel.”
What an outstanding human being.
And what a lesson for me.
How quickly we judge people. How easily we create stories about them without knowing anything about their lives.😳
Thank you, David, for reminding me that kindness is often hidden behind appearances, and that the best people are sometimes the ones we understand the least.
I asked him for a pic! He obliged!
Thank you for the lesson my friend!❤️ #LifeLessons #Encounters

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

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[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

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I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

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[Mayank Bhotika @mayank_bh]

How silly of @IRCTCofficial to update the train no. 22896 ( Vande Bharat ) status only before 15 mins of the scheduled departure. How does a group of 20 manage a 2 hr delay with senior citizens & lots of luggage.

@EasternRailway

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Bengal will see Expressways, Vande Bharats & Investments. It sits at such a strategic geographic location, that it’s a shame it was lagging behind.

It’s time for the rise of Bengal. The resurgence of the erstwhile Capital of India, Kolkata.

[Today's Chanakya @TodaysChanakya]

#TCAnalysis
#Election2026
West Bengal 2026
Seat Projection
BJP 192 ± 11 Seats
TMC+ 100 ± 11 Seats
Others 2 ± 2 Seats
#TodaysChanakyaAnalysis

[Today's Chanakya @TodaysChanakya]

#TCAnalysis
#Election2026
West Bengal 2026
Vote Projection
BJP 48% ± 3%
TMC+ 38% ± 3%
Others 14% ± 3%
#TodaysChanakyaAnalysis

[Kartik Kannan @kartik_kannan]

In India cricket ticketing is a very hushed affair. I think we need to be transparent about how many tickets are released to public for sale, and how many are kept for assosiation. Maybe a last day allocation mechanism for physical tickets (complimentary or paid) that are unused, so that fans can get their hands on them.

Yesterday RCB said 4 PM for tickets sale, and it was such a frustrating experience till 5 PM owing to the load of people who wanted to buy tickets. I can understand that RCB has bigger worries than that with the state goverment for now, but I want fan experience to be taken on priority.

All this frustration that I have or many fans exude is the "hidden tax" of being an Indian cricket fan.

It’s wild that in 2026, with all the tech at our disposal, the experience of buying a ticket still feels like a digital stampede. Given the tragic events in Bengaluru last year and the current pressure on the Chinnaswamy with the state government, "fan experience" shouldn't just be a buzzword—it needs to be a legal framework.

I was driving home last evening, while keeping an eyte on tickets, and thought about how it would be to have a National IPL Fan Charter, designed to move the needle from "lucky to be there" to a potentially "valued customer."

a) Transparency in Inventory
The most significant source of fan angst is the "Black Box" of ticket allocation

Mandatory Disclosure: Every franchise must publish a verified "Inventory Manifest" 24 hours before sales go live.

Public Quota: What % of total stadium capacity is made available for direct public sale for a given match?What is the % Association/VIP Quota or Sponsor/Internal Quota

b) Real-time Tracking: The booking platform must show a "Live Heatmap" of the stadium.

If a stand is marked "Sold Out," fans should see if those seats were sold to the public or held for "Internal Use"

c) The "Last Call" Re-Allocation Mechanism

To solve the issue of empty VIP stands while fans wait outside, a Match-Day Liquidation system is required:

The 2-Hour Rule: All complimentary or association tickets not scanned at the gate 2 hours before the toss are automatically voided. Or maybe like the airlines do, it needs a self-check in on the ticket to know that it will be used.

Flash Sale: These "re-possessed" tickets are instantly released on the official app at a flat "Base Price" (e.g., ₹500 across all categories) for fans physically present near the stadium (verified by Geo-fencing).

Physical Box Office: A "Last-Minute" window at the stadium to cater to those without high-speed internet access. Very India specific thing, but this has its pros and cons

4) Digital Queuing & Infrastructure

The "4 PM Crash" is a failure of server scaling. Having worked at an ecommerce company, I know how tough this is to manage. But, given it leads to a bad fan experience, someone at BCCI must certify a franchise selling tickets for the basics of tech. The authorised ticketing platform must demonstrate load capacity certification for a minimum of 5x the expected concurrent user peak before any sale goes live. This certification must be shared with BCCI and should have a digital approval.

Staggered Entry: Tickets should be sold in "Batches" (e.g., North Stand at 10 AM, East Stand at 12 PM) to distribute server load. So that fans who want to a particular stand know when that is coming, and can accordingly keep a back up or buy the stand that is going for sale. This helps fans outside the state to also plan for travel. If Franchisees are able to create last minute packages for fans with extra trains, flights it creates a beautiful overal experience, instead of looting fans with high airfare and hotel prices.

The "Fair-Queue" System: Users are assigned a random queue number 15 minutes before the sale. This prevents bots from "jumping the line" via high-frequency scripts. RCB website does not have that like the way BMS or District has this tech.

Sometimes, it has happened that I have a queue number of 100, and I get into the booking screen and something bombs and I go back to a queue number of 80,000 from 100. Snakes and Ladders feels. If a fan loses their queue position due to a platform failure and misses purchase, the franchise must offer them priority early access to the next home fixture ticket sale for the same or adjacent category.

Unified Resale Marketplace: A safe, team-sanctioned platform where fans can resell tickets at Face Value + 5% handling fee. Anything sold above face value results in a permanent ban of the user's ID/Phone number from all IPL venues. This needs more thinking to prevent black marketing ticketing in the name of supply-demand capitalism

5) In-Stadium Standard of Care
Once inside, the fan is often treated like a liability rather than a guest, especially with the way some regular items are not allowed in, causing a hassle (Eg Smart watches, coins, chargers, powerbanks etc)

The "Hydration Guarantee": Especially given the current summer all over India, free, RO-filtered drinking water must be available every 50 meters in the concourse. It is sometimes available only in a World Cup or kept in some corner, so that people still are fleeced to spend for water.

Digital Concierge: An AI-powered WhatsApp bot for every stadium to report:

Blocked views or broken seats.
Harassment or security issues.
Overpricing at food stalls (MRP enforcement)
Toilets that are not clean
Bad Food/Drinks standard

Entry/Exit Dignity: Standardized "Fast-Track" lanes for families, elderly, and differently-abled fans. No fan should spend more than 20 minutes in an entry queue. I recently travelled from Gate 2 in Motera to my seat in 3 minutes. I was pleasantly surprised.

Fan Facilities Report- All stadiums hosting IPL matches must publish a Fan Facilities Report before the start of each season, disclosing: toilet-to-capacity ratio, drinking water points, shade coverage percentage, and first-aid station count

Fan Advisory Council- Each IPL franchise or BCCI must establish a Fan Advisory Council of 8–12 members, selected through open application, with a minimum 6-month rotating tenure. The council must meet with the franchise management at least once per season.

Fan Welfare Fund - Must be used exclusively for: subsidised ticketing for school groups to get kids to experience sport, accessibility upgrades, and fan safety infrastructure. Its expenditure must be audited and publicly reported annually.

6. Accountability & Compensation

The Service Level Agreement (SLA): If a match is delayed or canceled, the refund process must be automated and completed within 48 hours.

Ombudsman: Each state association must appoint a "Fan Advocate" to mediate disputes between the public, the franchise, and local police. This will also ensure that any event with humans in a closed arena is ticketed and fans are treated as customers

These are a few pillars, or broad points I could come up with. Anything more, add to the thread. Who knows, this fantasy could be real some day soon!

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

I am all for the credit given to Ian Bishop for the research he puts into the junior cricketers.
But he's reading up and giving you stories written by reporters in the front lines who have travelled to the small venues, interviewed aspiring cricketers in locations around the country and really put in the hard yards.
To not credit the likes of @PurnimaMalhotra, @pratyush93_raj, @captainshanky and so many others while acknowledging Bish's efforts in reading up on them from the stories written by these reporters is a bit surprising.
Every one of these stories are being heard on air because a reporter went and chased it down. Please do give them the credit they deserve.

[Mayank Bhotika @mayank_bh]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Maj Manik M Jolly,SM @Manik_M_Jolly]

One of the greatest videos EVER 😂😂

She’s standing in protest to support ‘gays of Hormuz’ while ‘straights of Hormuz’ are being targeted.

Yes, you read it right. Watch the video 😅

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

In 2018, Uber data scientists plotted millions of ride coordinates in Toronto and turned off the underlying street map.

The sheer density of human movement perfectly drew the city anyway. Negative space outlined Lake Ontario, major parks, and the exact footprints of buildings. The telemetry data had become the map.

Getting to that realisation required solving a massive computational bottleneck. Uber was drowning in location data. Traditional cartographic software was built for static maps. Feeding those systems the high-velocity data of a global rideshare network essentially caused browsers to freeze and crash.

They needed a completely new architecture.

Uber brought in Shan He, a former physical architect who had pivoted to computer science at MIT. She recognised that data scientists needed to manipulate massive datasets without writing custom rendering code.

She led the creation of https://t.co/JkXDlXB5xV. Instead of using standard web rendering, the framework bypassed the browser's main thread and offloaded the complex geometric calculations directly to the user's graphics processing unit.

The result was a web application that could smoothly render over a million data points and thousands of trips simultaneously. Anyone could build complex 3D visualisations in seconds.

The internal discoveries saved Uber millions. By mapping Estimated Time of Arrival errors across Manhattan, analysts visualised severe supply shortages near the water. The physical boundaries of the rivers were forcing cars into northbound vectors, silently breaking the global dispatch algorithms.

They mapped pick-up success rates using highly granular hexagonal grids over 3D building geometries. The visualisations pinpointed the exact alleyways and complex building exits that consistently caused cancellations. Uber immediately used this data to rewrite their pick-up recommendation engine.

Because the rendering engine only processed coordinates and time, it was completely indifferent to the subject matter. An engineer used it to model theoretical urban airspace logistics for flying cars. Academics used the exact same tool to track the spatial distribution of tick-borne viruses and map satellite orbits.

Uber made the strategic decision to release https://t.co/JkXDlXB5xV under an open-source licence. It became the industry standard almost overnight. Airbnb used it to track rental pricing volatility during the pandemic. City planners used it to untangle commute patterns across New York.

Then, the core engineering team left Uber to found a startup called Unfolded. They built enterprise-grade data management tools on top of their open-source rendering engine.

They raised $6 million, proved the enterprise value of their architecture, and were acquired by Foursquare in 2021.

A tool originally built to stop browsers from crashing when visualising taxi rides became a pretty important tool in geospatial visualisations.

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

omg had such a beautiful moment today😅

so i was in the middle of work and suddenly realized i need to get my bike serviced but i just moved here so i don’t know the area yet.

i've kiri on my desk, so i picked up the phone and said "hey kiri, find the best service center for my bike that fits my commute"

few minutes later an email shows up with the full plan. 

yeah ofcourse not some wild ai but it gave me this funny feeling cz i’ve always seen those bollywood office scenes where boss casually picks up the phone and says "figure this out and email me the details"

as a kid that always looked so cool. today i kinda lived that moment 🫶

[Suryanarayanan S @ssurya1696]

Built a multi-agent AI system for cricket pre-match intelligence

Agents analyze:
• squad eligibility
• venue conditions
• player form
• matchups
• bowling rotations

A final Coach Agent synthesizes everything into a match strategy report.

Architecture and samples below

[PrinCe @Prince8bx]

peak detailing by aditya dhar

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i was tired of talking to ugly plastic boxes. so i turned my grandfather's old rotary phone into an ai assistant🤳

i pick it up, say "hey kiri" and just talk like book a cab, schedule a meeting, order me maggi, turn off the lights, summarise my emails literally anything and it just does it.

it sits on my desk. looks like a normal phone from the 1970s. nobody knows there is a raspi & little ai agent living inside it

built the whole thing for like $25 with a dummy phone, raspi and a bunch of hardware components.

idk if anyone would actually want a diy for this. its stupid fun having this vintage + ai on the desk man. lmk

(^pls dont mind the bad demo)

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

sometimes i really wonder how did i get here. i don't really know how to start this but i'll try

5 years ago i started solving my own stupid problems, building weird fun solutions for myself and consistently throwing them on the internet

then one day something took off

and then slowly, national news channels. interviews with big folks in the industry. met founders i used to look up to. sat in rooms with govt officials. opportunities i never saw coming. so many of them actually appreciated what i was doing.

AND all of this by building random useless funny little projects in my room??????????

i'm not even an expert. decent at coding. not really deep in anything. why would anyone care

but my projects have reached over 50 million people across the world. people i'll never meet, in countries i've never been to, loving something i built out of frustration or boredom

overwhelming tbh

so if you're sitting on an idea thinking it's too stupid, too small, too useless. just build it. share it. don't wait for the right time. the right time doesn't exist. the internet loves weird.

just be weird and build. you have no idea where it takes you 🍻

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i was tired of waking up at 3 am either sweaty or freezing. so i taught my ai roommate to automatically control the fan by watching me sleep 📸

arms or leg sticking out means i'm hot so fan turns on, arms curled up means i'm cold so fan turns off. it uses a remote button pusher to physically press the fan switch.

runs mediapipe pose vision model on my raspi home server, detects my sleep position in real time, sends a signal, button gets pressed. that's it.

this is what a real smart home looks like, i guess.

^fyi, demo uses a stock photo, not putting my real pic lol. nd current version struggles a bit with blanket sometimes, fixing it.

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

internet went absolutely wild on this (2.4M views???) 😭alright alright, shipping it properly :

👉https://t.co/xyhFB3q8fW

code: https://t.co/NmyKSULJyE

credit to @TimDarcet for the perfect name