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[Ganesh Sonawane @ganeshsonawane]

Making movement easier with Frido Patient Transfer Lift. Designed and Made in 🇮🇳

[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.

[Sanju S Menon @sanjusmenon]

@areyyswaraa

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

Indore Takes Its Cleanest City Tag Quite Seriously.

Indore was not always clean.

Ranking in Swachh Survekshan:
2023-1🥇
2022-1🥇
2021-1🥇
2020-1🥇
2019-1🥇
2018-1🥇
2017-1🥇
2016-25 🤡
2015-149 🤡

How Indore came to be ranked India’s cleanest city, year after year.

A thread🧵

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

I don't know about advanced tech but what India has successfully managed to invent, is a system of Governance where nobody is responsible, nobody is accountable and nobody is to be blamed.

We have created such a convoluted Chakravyuha of responsibilities and jurisdictions, that once a citizen enters, the can't exit.

We have also successfully invented the world's first perpetual motion machine for blame, where the blame game can go on and on forever.

For example, you complain that Mumbai roads are atrocious. Because they are atrocious.

Then it starts.

The centre says it is a state issue. The state says it is a municipal corporation problem.

The municipal corporation says it is a PWD issue. PWD then points a finger to the Roads and Bridges department. The road people pass the blame to MMRDA.

Then MMRDA passes it back to PWD. PWD then passes it on to the Tahlisdar saying it is a land acquisition issue. Tahsildar then sends an FYI to the Block development officer.

The block development guy suddenly brings in Mahanagar Gas into this.

By this time you as a citizen have become like Abhimanyu. You are so tired after breaking thru rings and rings of paperwork that you, instead of fighting, start adjusting.

You give up.

Because India has managed to create a system where the buck never stops.

We have created a football game where people can keep passing the blame like a ball, for an infinite period of time, but never score a goal.

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

This 843-acre park, New York's Central Park, is entirely man-made. Yes, the entire park was constructed by hand in the 1850s.

See, urban planning is directly related to economic growth but our Municipal Corporations are busy putting up “I ❤ XYZ” boards. 😭🤦‍♂️

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Four years on, the echoes of the battle of Baghpat still thunder. The warriors of fought not for survival, but for glory, honor, and an unyielding thirst for dominance.

They wielded sticks, chairs, and bare hands, but their greatest weapon was the fire in their hearts. The earth trembled beneath their defiance, and the sky bore witness to their unwavering will.

Time has healed wounds, but the legend endures. On this day, we honor those who rose, not as mere men, but as warriors. Happy fourth anniversary of the battle of Baghpat to all.

[NanoBaiter @NanoBaiter]

1/ Meet Sushil Chouhan, An Indian national who owns a scam call center in New Delhi, India. He has been scamming thousands of innocent people since November 2023.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Devanagari is an extremely elegant script. But this was never explained to us in school.

A thread on the awesomeness that is devanagari.

Let's start with the things that my teachers did *not* teach me in school:

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The baby trusted her feelings and knew. 😂

https://t.co/EtUjpYTaBZ

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

Peter Thiel recruited Reid Hoffman, Chad Hurley, Sam Altman, David Sacks, and Keith Rabois. Also partnered with Elon Musk.

He's used these 4 questions time and time again to identify 20-year-olds who would go on to be billionaires.

Test yourself with these questions:

[ℝ𝕒𝕛 𝕄𝕒𝕛𝕚 @Rajmajiofficial]

MUMBAI | A four year old girl studying in Little Captain school in kandivali east Ashok nagar was raped by school peon bcoz of such incident Little girl have been traumatized went in coma, kid is infected and having injures in her private parts. Victim girl father have claimed that school authorities us not taking responsibility of the peon. Local area residence is protesting outside school Police have registered an FIR. Victim Parents have demanded to take strict action against school principal and authority.

[Tanya Khanijow @TanyaKhanijow]

Planning for Lakshadweep? Read this before you plan a trip there ⬇️

[Mahavir Chopra / Beshak.org @themahavir]

🚫 Insurer: "Claim rejected. Hospitalization not necessary"
🧑🏻‍⚕️ Doctor: Hospitalization is necessary

Customer: Confused, annoyed 😡🤬

This has become very very common.

Let's understand:
- Why does this happen?
- How can insurers dispute doctor's advice?
- What should you do?

[Sunil Chhetri @chetrisunil11]

To every Indian supporter in the stadium - make sure that our bowlers run up to a roar for every SINGLE BALL.
This team has given us 10 flawless games. Let’s give them an unforgettable one. Pull these boys over the line.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

:/

[VM @vaibhavmht]

@CricCrazyJohns @RemindMe_OfThis 21 May 2023

[Netflix India @NetflixIndia]

‘The Elephant Whisperers’ themselves, Bommon and Bellie are the real stars of the show. It is only through their constant support, and willingness to share a piece of their life with the world, that this film won this highest honour.

[Cam Heartless @camharless]

every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet

46. Joe Biden