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Followers

541

Account age

3 yrs

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Known for

1 views You, a pretentious blowhard: [opening your book chapter with the Richard Feynman quote "What I cannot create, I do not understand"] Me, a genius:

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.4%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: US friends, and other folks who haven't quite given up on the US · 3 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.7 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.8×

Follows 695 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post US friends, and other folks who haven't quite given up on the US yet: icymi, the OMB has proposed sweeping revisions to rules for grants that would disrupt and corrupt scientific research and federal funding in general Please comment like I did: https://blog.nicholdav.info/posts… ★ 3

🍖🥩📊 meatdata 🍖📈 #typooftheday #meatdata RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nicholdav/116884831723332034 would appreciate any boosts from folks that are more in tech world since I think this has gotten a lot of attention in academic science but less so in more tech-y spaces ★ 1 RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nicholdav/116493606730911253 Bernhardt presents a framework for describing how computing and programming languages evolve: capability vs suitability e.g. Lisp is about capability--you can express anything--and Ja… Watched this Gary Bernhardt talk from 2012 as a way to avoid work yesterday https://youtu.be/NftT6HWFgq0?si=xCPAZKb_OkOH8XNe Methods of representing signed integers on computers, ranked: 1. Two's complement 2. Ones' complement 3. Three's company 4. Based -2 5. Goated offset RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116422488539924592 tired: the trolley problem wired: the kidney waitlist ★ 2

You, a pretentious blowhard: [opening your book chapter with the Richard Feynman quote "What I cannot create, I do not understand"] Me, a genius: ★ 1 RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116415481100648924 👏 YouTube 👏 let 👏 us 👏 block 👏 channels RE: https://mastodon.social/@hynek/116414479381780447 Learning C to emulate the PDP-11 so I can finally read Parallel Distributed Processing Volume 1 RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nicholdav/116235630625832741 Update: closest books I have found so far are Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and Advanced UNIX Programming These are pretty good but clearly written for a different audi… --dry-run implies the existence of a wet run, which, disgusting

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

fosstodon.org

A open-source software server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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 0.7× per week.

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Estimated

43/100

Fair Credibility score

73%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Ok biologist, ok programmer, pretty good generalist. Cognitive dissident. Open science, broadly defined. Pythonista. He/him/they/them. Bailador a medio tiempo

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