Jins Thomas

An amateur news byte i covered for @manoramanews regarding covid cases in Laos, sometime ago #ShowingOff 😬

A wonderful hour-long conversation with Kerala Chief Minister @vdsatheesan today in Delhi. We discussed the way forward for our state’s development in extensive detail. He requested my help and policy advice in wide range of areas and I pledged my fullest cooperation to work with him to bring about a transformed Keralam. Since he is a tireless reader, I presented to him my most recent work on Sree Narayana Guru — he agreed with me that a book is always better than a bouquet!

@alitiknazoglu Nice yes Vietnam has more options for coffee and even night time opening.

@thomasJins_ this is pattaya, thailand. i was in da nang a few months ago

good morning i love a coffee shop most when there's no one in it. feels like my own backyard. have to admit though, vietnam has better coffee shops than thailand.

🇮🇳India population: 145 crore 🇹🇼Taiwan population: 2.3 crore 🇮🇳India land area: 3.28 million sq km 🇹🇼Taiwan total land area: 36,193 sq km 🇮🇳India market cap: $4.92 trillion 🇹🇼Taiwan market cap: $4.95 trillion Taiwan has overtaken India in market capitalization & entered the global top 5 despite being a small island.

@spectatorindex @grok please help me understand this more. Is it alarming

Thailand has reported trade deficit of $10 billion in April, the biggest on record.

Re-edit. Same streets, different story. 📸🔥 Bangkok Chinatown — chasing light, contrast, and real moments. Monks, motion, and everyday life… all hitting different through this glass. What do you see? 👀

@systemdesignone x.com/zodchiii/statu…

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ONLY Why are there zero successful vibe-coded apps?

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

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.

വി ഡി കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ ചെന്നിത്തല തന്നെയാണ്.. ഒരാഴ്ച പിന്നിട്ട സർക്കാറിനെ വിലയിരുത്തുമ്പോൾ വി ഡിക്ക് ശേഷം ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച പെർഫോമൻസ് ആഭ്യന്തര മന്ത്രി രമേശ് ചെന്നിത്തലയുടേത് തന്നെയാണ്.. വിഷ സർപ്പങ്ങളെ കൂട്ടിലടക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.. അന്യായം പ്രവർത്തിച്ചവർ ഭയചകിതരായിട്ടുണ്ട്.. ഡ്രഗ് മാഫിയകൾക്കെതിരെ യുദ്ധം പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്.. പത്ത് വർഷത്തിന് ശേഷം കേരളത്തിലെ പോലീസിനെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കാൻ ഒരാൾ ഉണ്ട് എന്ന പ്രതീതി പൊതു സമൂഹത്തിന് ഫീൽ ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്.. അനുഭവങ്ങൾ തേച്ച് മിനുക്കിയ മനുഷ്യനാണയാൾ.. ഇനി പരാജയപ്പെടാൻ സാധ്യത കുറവാണ്.. വെള്ളത്തിന് തീ പിടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന , ഭക്ഷണത്തിൽ പോലും വിഷം കലർത്തുന്ന സംഘി വർഗ്ഗീയവാദികളെ കൂടെ നിലക്ക് നിർത്താൻ അങ്ങേക്ക് സാധിക്കട്ടെ.. എന്നാൽ മതേതര കേരളം അങ്ങയോട് എന്നും കടപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കും.. @chennithala

📍 Khao Sok National Park, Thailand 🇹🇭

This is a real video, not from any movie. In Vietnam war, when a bridge was destroyed by US Air Force and Vietnamese soldiers had to escape, women made this temporary bridge to cross and stood in water for hours. No way you can win a people’s war.

Bangkok through my lens 📸 Quiet moments, street stories, monks, markets and city life unfolding between the chaos and neon lights every day.

@techopsasia Just curious, is composer 2.5 bigger bet than claude code. I'm so comfortable with claude code, but i also want to be not-too-biased. would like to know your thoughts. Also we do need cursor for composer 2.5 right?

Just back from Vietnam's rice fields. Did you build anything with Composer 2.5?

"A mother's dream" by photographer Trần Hồng. The woman in the photo is Heroic Vietnamese Mother Nguyễn Thị Thứ, who lost nine sons in the war.

A telugu guy from Hyderabad built PyTorch. Now it powers most of the world’s AI research.

ഒരാളെ മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയാക്കാൻ നാടൊന്നായി മുറവിളി കൂട്ടിയ ഒര് സംഭവം കേരള ചരിത്രത്തിൽ വിരളമാണ് - മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി ശ്രീ വിഡി സതീശന് എറണാകുളം പൗരാവലി നൽകിയ സ്വീകരണത്തിൽ പങ്കെടുത്ത് സംസാരിച്ച ശ്രീ മോഹൻലാലിന്റെ വാക്കുകൾ ❤️ @vdsatheesan @Mohanlal

Proudly announcing "TOOFAN: The Narco Hunt"—a systemic, borderless policy offensive designed to serve as a national benchmark in the eradication of synthetic drug networks. Why "Toofan"? Because a conventional cleanup wasn't going to cut it, we needed a legislative and operational storm to completely uproot a deeply entrenched syndicate. Under this mandate, the Kerala Police will enforce a paradigm of absolute impartiality. No political influence, social status, or state borders will shield traffickers. Coordinated via interstate protocols with neighboring DGPs and powered by an advanced Cyber Wing targeting dark web networks, this operation introduces a rigorous law enforcement model. The structural blueprint is finalized. As schools reopen and the new academic year commences on June 1st, Operation Toofan goes into full effect to guarantee secure campuses and a protected future. Kerala Police. Set to action. — Ramesh Chennithala

@TARUNspeakss Also PVN

Imagine the level of work done by them that even after 12 years of Modi constant selling institutions to Ambani & Adani, India is still surviving and can bounce back. Pure Aura!!

The first name that came to my mind when @vdsatheesan was announced as the Chief Minister of Kerala was Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of modern Singapore. Legendary actor @Mohanlal 💙💙