Humans of TPOT: Sankalp has a dream

“Long time no see”

I keep saying this a lot, but I keep coming back here.

I still don’t know if I should be writing it as “we” or “I”, I am confused.

A long time has passed since we published a blog, I know you have missed me/us. But you shouldn’t be sad, I still am an active lurker, I keep an eye on everyone of you. *wink, wink*

I have no anecdotes for you today. My present life is quite uneventful but maybe I can tell you a childhood story. When I was a kid, I participated in many fancy dress competitions. One such event I dressed up as a balloon seller. A freakin balloon seller. Astronaut? No. Scientist? No. A balloon seller. My mom painted a moustache on me, I wore a dhoti and a dirty brown kurta and I sold balloons.

I did not win anything.

Anyway today we have with us Sankalp with us (that counts as a win)

I met Sankalp on tpot, good guy. He had a phase of making spectacular GenAI images (lots of beautiful women), now he posts memes and about his GenAI journey. He knows a lot of people on tpot. I interacted with him on a mutual gc, nice kid. He is the second most famous person who we have featured on hotpot (7500+ followers).

I don’t think he looks like the pfp he has on twitter.

Questionnaire

When did you join tpot?
I joined Twitter in Oct 2021. Back then, I don’t think we had the “tpot” (the bbit group or the bangalore tpot). SF tpot was still there but I didn’t know of it.
Don’t want to appear narcissistic but I think I sort of led to the formation of of our current tpot along with the bbit people who started the gc. So whenever bbit formed. End of 2022?
Origin of your username/handle? (iff)
it was 1st year of college. i had watched the movie matrix (1999). one of my friend’s had a handle glitchinamatrix. i wanted something cool too. so i took dejavu plus i had started programming so dejavu + coder. Tweet link https://x.com/dejavucoder/status/1725005009547678176
How did you come across tpot?
@amuldotexe, Telt, unironictechbro (basically bbit founders) Yacine, TDM ji for helping me find technical people / lowbies / anime people -> for anime pfp hacker tpot
Which account do you worship here/ fav account?
I will write who all I have worshipped / fanboyed (I may not fanboy them anymore because if you continue to fanboy, you can’t be friends haha)
Worshipped: Sidu Ponnappa, amuldotexe, TDM ji, Yacine, Daniel(growing_daniel, love his unhinged poasting), Visakanv, Tokenbender, main_horse, @teortaxesTex (god level ai research guy), Sophie (netcapgirl) Loved Sidu sir’s writing and had lots of interesting convos with him.
Learnt a lot from Amul about a lot of things - he is the master of networking and communication. TDM ji, Yacine, Daniel -> I just love their posts. Tokenbender I started interacting with him recently (honestly should have started earlier). It’s fun to talk with him, he casually drops so much alpha too. Main_horse -> I like some of his thoughts and his research replies, same for teortaxes. Sophie is a meme favourite.
Favourites - honestly a lot over time - lots of people who i talked to in bbit (even though I am not in constant touch) Talked a lot to - debadree, filterpapi,Niharika (my tpot mom), barbie, raj,pushkar, beeryaniboi (alas), iliekcomputers, naina (fun and inspirational) Lately a lot of ai/ml folks who share alpha/are helpful like @andersonbcdefg, @xjdr, Basically a lot of people who I follow are my favourites.
Hobbies? These keep changing. When I was a kid, I learnt classical music but stopped pursuing when my voice got lower pitch. I shifted to instruments like keyboard and drum. Nowadays I just listen to music - mostly indie pop. I was into sports - basketball, table tennis but currently don’t have required infrastructure near me to pursue these. I just try to go to the small gym I have in my apartment. I like writing and building stuff and talking about it. I like posting on twitter. I like reading ai research tweets and blogs from people across the internet. video games (ps5), movies and tv shows (depends on mood), anime - uggh all these are consumption but yeah. I am a fan of FromSoftware games. My favourite one so far is Elden Ring. I like travelling in scenic/naturesque place - this is something I don’t do enough and have been bad at planning. Gotta show some agency in this department. Gotta go to Japan someday. I am sort of a foodie too.
Profession?
Backend software engineering (B2B SAAS java lol). To put it more glamorously, Highly scalable distributed systems guy. Got laid off few months back and currently on a break. Did deep learning during college. Last few months, I have been catching up on the LLM research (Foundational layer) as well as trying to catch up with the applied LLMs.
Please refer/guide lol for genai/ai positions (india/US remote)
What is your favourite breakfast?
Bread omelette with chai
A dish you can never get enough of?
Butter chicken (Delhi style) Very hard to get good butter chicken man these days.
Who is your favourite anime waifu/ fav actress/actor?
Anime waifu: Makima, Ayanami Rei, Yor Forger, Mitsuri Kanroji (sexy and cute), Fern is cute, Makise Kurisu (top tsundere)
Actress: Keep changing to be honest. Ok some recent ones - Hailey Steinfield, Ana De Armas (bladerunner 2049), Saoirse Ronan(Ladybird), Amy Adams
Actor: Growing up, I liked Aamir Khan. Now I am into Ryan gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal for the vibe.
*belated happy birthday from us*
What is the secret to your bangers?
I am good at observing the current discourse and then my mind comes up with ideas. Also I just post a lot based on what I feel so my internal ml models has sort of trained (plus it’s also the audience build up and big part of it is luck). Post a lot and some will eventually bang. I also keep things authentic/natural so the posts hit hard/are relatable. Then you can capitalise on some of them. Don’t go too formulaic, it gets boring.
If you had to impress someone by showing them 5 movies, which ones would you pick?
- Arrival
- Bladerunner 2049
- Portait of a lady on fire
- Chungking Express
- Before Sunrise
If you were to go to a place with no connectivity and you could choose only 5 songs to take with you on a device, which ones would you choose?
Basically men i trust
- Show Me How (men i trust)
- Sugar (men i trust)
- Lauren (men i trust)
- Tree Among Shrubs
- City of Stars (Wang OK version)
any kinda sports you follow?
I used to play table tennis, basketball, badminton. I was good at T.T
Favourite pepe / fictional internet celebrity?

The last meme that made you chuckle?

https://x.com/dejavucoder/status/1801940023920808266

A tweet you think is based? There are a lot to be honest.
https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1791430722089038240
Just do stuff. Otherwise you will get depressed/fall into rut/get brainrot.
Just do stuff what you find remotely interesting. You will soon find a direction, get momentum.
Just do stuff because it will keep reminding you of what you want to do more.
Just do stuff, it will keep ya alive son.
An image from your camera roll that you think captures your essence?
If AGI and robots were to take up all the jobs in the world and humans would be left with the choice of doing whatever they want, what would you choose to do?
Build cool projects
Play games
Make cinema / art
Travel the world
Who is your tpot bestie?
deba/filterpapi i guess