Dean Wampler

Mastodon @deanwampler@discuss.systems

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Followers

490

Account age

3 yrs

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Two photos of the aurora tonight, between about 9-10 PM, taken about 15 miles N of Charlottesville, VA. The first one was shot with a 24mm lens (about twice the width of normal vision) and the second was shot with an 85mm lens (~2x normal...).

3 views Two photos of the aurora tonight, between about 9-10 PM, taken about 15 miles N of Charlottesville, VA. The first one was shot with a 24mm lens (about twice the width of normal vision) and the second was shot with an 85mm lens (~2x normal...).

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.8%

Engagement vs followers

Dec 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: RE: https://mastodon.social/@MattMerk/116785389047871824 The Ref · 9 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.35 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.3×

Follows 370 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post RE: https://mastodon.social/@MattMerk/116785389047871824 The Reflecting Pool fiasco is so emblematic of Trump's 💩 'ing on everything he touches ★ 9

Etiquette tips for those of you who send AI note takers to meetings: 1. Don't. 2. If you still do, find a way to turn off *all* the messages they post in the meeting chat. Nobody benefits from that garbage and they obscure messages from re… ★ 4 Here's an informative Business Insider article on how SpaceX might enter various indices and the % impact it is likely to have in each one. https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-index-investing-etfs-spy-vti-qqq-spcx-stock-2026-5?op=1 This is evil. Why would anyone ever help us in the future? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/afghan-refugees-congo-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share ★ 7 I have noticed over the years that interest in programming languages comes in waves. In the 80s and early 90s, when object-oriented programming was "hot", it inspired many new languages and interest in language design ideas. That ended whe… ★ 6 I wrote an O'Reilly Radar post about the "PARK" stack for generative AI systems: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-is-the-park-stack/ ★ 2 The whole racist backlash in "some quarters" against Bad Bunny and hispanic culture, in general, is not just bad, it's clueless and pathetic. Young people have largely embraced music from alternative cultures for a long time, starting with… ★ 4 Despite all the AI coding assistants, I'm still fastest going to Stack Overflow for answers... ★ 1 NANDA is an interesting MIT project working on distributed AI agent technologies. If you are in the Washington DC area, there is a hackathon on Saturday, Feb. 21 at George Mason U. https://luma.com/4pwuq0o4 The big difference: The web was fundamentally simple at its core. A lot of advances were added on top of it (and scaling underneath it), but the core was straightforward. The core of AI is far from simple. Trusting models to do what you wa… ★ 2 I'm old enough to have been a software engineer during the web/.com explosion in the 90s. I think about that time vs. this current AI era a lot. I had no doubts about the web being massively successful, despite missteps (pets.com...). I'm … ★ 4

Two photos of the aurora tonight, between about 9-10 PM, taken about 15 miles N of Charlottesville, VA. The first one was shot with a 24mm lens (about twice the width of normal vision) and the second was shot with an 85mm lens (~2x normal.… ★ 3

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

discuss.systems

Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.

On Mastodon since

Dec 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 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.4× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.8% 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.

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About

The person who's wrong on the Internet. Meme-worthy. Lurking in the AI Alliance (thealliance.ai). Also pretending to do FP, Scala, Physics, writing books, and conference speaking. Alleged photographer (flickr.com/photos/deanwampler/). IBM Research