Pramod Kumar

Funny. Now do human physician errors.

@RishiJoeSanu What’s up with telengana…???

Kerala's alcohol consumption rate is below the national average. It's a myth that Kerala is an alcoholic state.

@fno1984 South Indian food and Japanese cuisine have a lot of similarities. 😅😅😅

市内の南インド料理店の周年パーティーに参加。普段の店のより現地感強いホームスタイル味でポンニが進む。十年前は南インド飯食うのに都内まで行ってたのが、車で15分のとこにタミルの店ができて実家にも遊びに行かせてもらうとかインド料理好きの妄想が現実化したような状況になったなーと改めて思う

World's Fastest Growing Major Economy 2000 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2001 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2002 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2003 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2004 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2005 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2006 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2007 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2008 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2009 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2010 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2011 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2012 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2013 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2014 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2015 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2016 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2017 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2018 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2019 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2020 ⟶ 🇨🇳 China 2021 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2022 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2023 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2024 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2025 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India 2026 ⟶ 🇮🇳 India Source: International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook Database & World Bank Group Historical Datasets.

A 17 year old in his mother's kitchen in New Jersey unlocked the iPhone in 2007 so it could run on any carrier in the world, and 18 years later he is the only person on Earth trying to break NVIDIA's monopoly on AI compute from his apartment in San Diego with a 12,000 line piece of code. His name is George Hotz. Most people call him geohot. The framework he built is called tinygrad. It is open source. It is MIT licensed. And it is what he believes will end the trillion dollar moat around CUDA. At just 17, George became the nightmare of tech giants. He did it in his mom's kitchen with a soldering iron and an eBay-bought original iPhone. Apple had locked the device to AT&T. He unlocked it in 500 hours of work over a summer. He uploaded a video to YouTube. The world lost its mind. Three years later he reverse engineered the PlayStation 3 and put the keys on the internet. Sony sued him. The case settled. He kept hacking. Elon Musk noticed. He tried to recruit George to fix Tesla's Autopilot. George's response became legend. "I don't want to work for you. I want to beat you." In 2015 he started his own self-driving car company called comma AI out of a garage. He sold a $1,500 device that you plug into your Honda and it drives itself on highways. The thing actually worked. Then in November 2022 he walked away from his own company to start something most engineers thought was impossible. He decided to break NVIDIA. NVIDIA is worth around 3 trillion dollars right now. Every serious AI lab on Earth runs on NVIDIA GPUs. The reason is not the silicon. AMD makes silicon that is comparable on paper. The reason is CUDA, the software layer NVIDIA spent 20 years building that nobody has been able to replicate. CUDA is what people in the industry call a moat. A trillion dollar moat. George looked at this and decided one person could rewrite it. He started tinygrad in late 2022 as a neural network framework so small you could read the entire codebase in an afternoon. PyTorch has millions of lines of code. Tinygrad fits in roughly 12,000. His bet was that if you could write a framework small enough for one human to understand, you could port it to any hardware on Earth in months instead of years. He bought six AMD Radeon 7900 XTX cards, the consumer gaming GPUs you can buy at Best Buy, and tried to make them train AI models. AMD said it would not work. The drivers were too unstable. ROCm, AMD's official software stack, was famously broken. For two years George fought AMD publicly on X. He posted bug reports daily. He called out AMD's CEO Lisa Su by name. He live streamed himself debugging firmware crashes at 3 in the morning. The AMD subreddit followed it like a soap opera. Then in March 2025 something changed. AMD shipped him two MI300X data center systems, the same chips that power Microsoft and Meta's AI infrastructure. AMD's lead GPU software engineer Anush Elangovan posted publicly that he was working closely with tinygrad to "commoditize the petaflop." George wrote a blog post titled "AMD YOLO" the same day. Tinygrad now has a fully sovereign AMD stack. They rewrote the entire pipeline from the hardware up to PyTorch compatibility. Their own driver. Their own runtime. Their own libraries. The line that broke the AI infrastructure world was this one. NVIDIA is either massively overvalued or AMD is massively undervalued. The hardware is similar. CUDA is not the moat people think it is. The whole thing runs on roughly 12,000 lines of code. You can buy a Tinybox from him today. Six AMD GPUs in a custom chassis. Around $15,000. It trains models. It works. NVIDIA spent 20 years building the deepest moat in tech. A solo hacker just walked across it.

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.

In December 2008, Elon Musk gave Tesla the last money he had. The wire went through at six in the evening on Christmas Eve. A few hours later and the payroll checks would have bounced. He'd sold PayPal in 2002 and walked away with about 180 million dollars. He did almost none of the things a person does with 180 million dollars. He put it into a rocket company and a car company, two industries with almost no history of outsiders winning, and then 2008 arrived and started draining what was left. By the end of the year he was down to a few hundred thousand dollars and borrowing money from friends to make rent. His marriage had fallen apart that year too. Two companies. Both nearly out of cash. The same month. The rockets had failed first. SpaceX had one product, a small rocket called the Falcon 1, and only enough money to fly it three times. That was the whole budget. The first one caught fire and fell back to the pad. The second reached space and lost control before orbit. The third separated cleanly, and then the spent first stage drifted back up and tapped the second one... a timing error on a new engine, and the rocket was gone. Three launches, three failures, no money left. He built a fourth out of the scraps and put the last of the cash on it. It launched on September 28, 2008, from a small island in the Pacific, and reached orbit. The first privately built liquid fueled rocket that ever had. He said afterward it was the last money they had, and a fourth failure would have ended the company that night. It didn't save Tesla. Tesla had been about to close a hundred million dollar round that summer when the banks collapsed and credit froze. A tiny car startup raising money while General Motors itself slid toward bankruptcy had almost no chance. It was burning cash, had no car in real production, and was days from missing payroll. So he took over as CEO. He put in his last dollars. He talked the existing investors into restructuring the round as debt to get past the one who was blocking it. That deal closed at six on Christmas Eve. He gave Tesla the last of his cash and, in his words, "didn't even own a house or anything sellable." The day before, NASA had called SpaceX with a 1.6 billion dollar contract to carry cargo to the space station. He said he could barely hold the phone. Two companies pulled back from the edge in 48 hours, at the bottom of the worst year of his life. People look at Musk now and argue about genius. The genius was already there through all three failures, and it didn't save him. What saved him was a choice he'd made months earlier, when the money was running out. He could have put everything left into one company and let the other one die. That was the sane move. He split his last dollars between both instead, knowing it could mean losing both. He said later it nearly gave him a breakdown, and that it could have killed both companies at once. Most people fold at zero for three. He paid for the fourth and... it worked.

Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come. Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release. This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.

There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.

This trend will continue for many years

The Starship V3 heat shield held well

A Galactic Year = 230 Million Earth Years Take a moment to wrap your mind around this mind-blowing perspective.Right now, our entire Solar System is hurtling around the center of the Milky Way at over 500,000 miles per hour (roughly 828,000 km/h). One full orbit — known as a Galactic Year — takes approximately 230 million Earth years.That means:When the dinosaurs were roaming the Earth 66 million years ago, our Solar System was in a completely different part of the galaxy. The last time we were exactly where we are right now in our galactic orbit, Earth was still ruled by massive reptiles. Modern humans have existed for only about 0.001 Galactic Years — we literally appeared in the cosmic blink of an eye. While we measure time in days, seasons, and lifetimes, the Sun and all its planets are on an incomprehensibly vast journey, completing one majestic loop around the galactic center every 230 million years.This stunning image captures our tiny Solar System’s place within the vast spiral arms of the Milky Way — a single speck on an epic journey through the stars.Every 230 million years, Earth gets a fresh “lap” around the galaxy, carrying new chapters of life, extinction, evolution, and discovery.We are not merely living on a planet.We are passengers on a starship, orbiting the heart of a galaxy.And our ride has barely just begun.

This nonsense pushed by Communists in Kerala needs to end. Kerala is not a city or a “megacity”. It doesn’t have any real urban density or urban culture. It’s a polycentric, suburban, desakota continuum. It could be a megalopolis, but it doesn’t even have one proper urban anchor.

@Masterji_UPWale Exactly 👍

Anyone else has a yahoo id ???

More than 10 billion devices run on his idea. He made $0 from every single one ~ and he planned it that way. 🤯 Meet Ajay Bhatt 🇮🇳🇺🇸 > Indian-American engineer. Born 1957 in Vadodara, Gujarat. > Came to the US with a master's degree and joined Intel in 1990. > One frustrating night, he couldn't connect a printer for his daughter's homework. > He asked: why isn't there ONE universal port? > His boss said it would never work. Told him to drop it. > He didn't. > Built it with fellow Intel engineer Bala Cadambi. > Then united 7 fierce rivals ~ Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Compaq, DEC, NEC, Nortel ~ behind one shared standard. > Apple fought it with FireWire. USB was cheaper. USB won. > USB 1.0 launched in 1996. He went on to build USB 2.0 and 3.0. > Intel made it royalty-free ~ free for the entire planet. 🚀 > Bhatt earned not a dime in personal royalties. By choice. > 2009: Intel made him a "rock star" in a viral ad ~ played by a hired actor, not him. > 2025: India finally honored him with the Padma Shri. The man who connected the world. And asked for nothing in return. Absolute Legend 🐐

In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, showed up in work boots to compete in Australia’s toughest ultramarathon alongside elite athletes. Unaware that competitors were meant to sleep during the race, he kept running continuously. Against all expectations, he won by a margin of 10 hours. In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, arrived at the start of the Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon looking entirely out of place. The race, stretching nearly 600 miles across Australia, was typically reserved for elite endurance athletes with specialized training, equipment, and support teams. Cliff turned up in loose overalls and rubber work boots, and most observers assumed he would not even make it through the first day. Yet Cliff had spent much of his life herding sheep on his family farm, often covering long distances on foot for hours at a time. His running style was nothing like the others—short, shuffling, and unorthodox—but it was steady and relentless. Crucially, he was unaware of the standard race strategy, where competitors ran in long shifts and then slept for several hours. Cliff simply kept moving. While the favorites stopped to rest, he continued through the night. As the days passed, it became clear he was not just surviving the race—he was leading it. Spectators began lining the route to watch the slow, determined figure pass mile after mile. After 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes, Cliff Young crossed the finish line in first place, finishing about 10 hours ahead of his nearest competitor and shattering the previous record by nearly two days. When he learned there was prize money, he reportedly gave it away to the other runners, saying they had all worked just as hard. His distinctive running style later became known as the “Young Shuffle.” Initially mocked, it was eventually studied by ultramarathon athletes for its efficient, energy-conserving motion over extreme distances.

After nearly 18 years I can stop working on Model S and X. We put so much love into these products, but will continue to pour that into the future products. Thanks to everyone who believed in and supported these cars through the years. We strived for the best and will never stop. Saying goodbye to something great and making room for something even greater!

The SpaceX team is incredible!

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.

Bravo @JeffBezos!