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440
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Man, the ACM website -- the Association for Computing Machinery' · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.2×
Follows 139 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Exhibit B: the United States Constitution.
The US Constituion was the original "let's just ship it and fix the bugs and technical debt later" software...
Americans love to crow about how old our democracy and our constitution is. But it's …
I seem to need to understand everything by way of a metaphor with something related to math or CS.
Exhibit A: I am currently reading "Religion for Atheists" by Alain de Botton -- and I find his argument very compelling, although perhaps …
And even if we don't want to measure human cognition, we can use token usage to just compare AI coding agent performance under different kinds of instructions or designs.
For example: you are making...a thing. You know what you want, but …
Watching a talk by Titus Winters at the ACM2Y meeting, and he floats an interesting idea:
https://youtu.be/lzFxmYn9onM?si=FF-XxHt_asDlPBMV&t=2438
If tokens are a meaningful measure of human cognition and effort, then you can use them to e…
Reading "Know thine enemy: A critical engagement with AI-assisted software development" by Amy Ko ( https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/know-thine-enemy-a-critical-engagement-with-ai-assisted-software-development-e41d9b058ab1#:~:text=Thes…
Oh...my. Yikes.
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news
Here in the US Midwest, we get much warmer winters in El Nino conditions. Looks like we are in for a very, very warm winter...
My office right now.
A reasonable person could be forgiven for thinking I'm a kindergarten teacher, and not preparing materials for a college introduction to programming course.
(Let me know if you're interested in what those activities a…
Grades are a 1-pixel approximation to a large, complex picture.
https://dandrake.github.io/writing/grades_1_pixel/grades_are_a_1-pixel_approximation_to_a_complex_picture.html
I think a lot about grades and assessment, and in general I can'…
Now I am thinking of actually making some kind of computer that could be programmed with punch cards.
I am thinking of a Raspberry Pi, with some kind of input -- you feed the card through something, the Pi reads it with a camera (yielding …
I want to get some actual punch cards partly just for fun, but I'm also contemplating some actual kind of activity for my students.
They are 18-22-year-olds, mostly. They have lived their lives in the smartphone era. Saying "you had to pro…
Alternatively, I'd take PDFs or images of those punch cards could print out. I see Wikipedia has lots of images. I might edit one of those.
I also would like one of the punchers to actually punch the cards.
2/N
My office right now.
A reasonable person could be forgiven for thinking I'm a kindergarten teacher, and not preparing materials for a college introduction to programming course.
(Let me know if you're interested in what those activities a…
Grades are a 1-pixel approximation to a large, complex picture.
https://dandrake.github.io/writing/grades_1_pixel/grades_are_a_1-pixel_approximation_to_a_complex_picture.html
I think a lot about grades and assessment, and in general I can'…
Now I am thinking of actually making some kind of computer that could be programmed with punch cards.
I am thinking of a Raspberry Pi, with some kind of input -- you feed the card through something, the Pi reads it with a camera (yielding …
I want to get some actual punch cards partly just for fun, but I'm also contemplating some actual kind of activity for my students.
They are 18-22-year-olds, mostly. They have lived their lives in the smartphone era. Saying "you had to pro…
Alternatively, I'd take PDFs or images of those punch cards could print out. I see Wikipedia has lots of images. I might edit one of those.
I also would like one of the punchers to actually punch the cards.
2/N
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mathstodon.xyz
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Former #softwareengineer, current #mathematician, college #math, #computerscience and #datascience lecturer in #stpaulmn #Minnesota at #Macalester College. (And, starting fall 2026, Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN.) I'm searchable on tootfinder.
Here, have a hashtag-y list of things I'm interested in (no particular order):
#math, #geometry, #origami, #crochet, #Linux, #emacs, #bicycling, going #hiking, #sciencefiction, #science fact, #mtbos #csed
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