Itamar Turner-Trauring

Itamar Turner-Trauring✓

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📣Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $12→ 🧵Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story — the fediverse rewards dept… $30→ 📦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product — I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $16→ 📌Pinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $36/mo→ 🔗Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $18/mo→ 🔁Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month — di… $24/mo→ 🏛️Instance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run — a sponsor line in the About/rules… $30/mo→ 🤝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances — a value swap between … Swap→

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Followers
1.4K
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

Photo post71 views Photo post Reminder that you should never ever every rely on information from #AI chatbots. Here's an example from #bard in which it makes up multiple, mutually incompatible crimes supposedly committed by me.14 views Reminder that you should never ever every rely on information from #AI chatbots. Here's an example from #bard in which it makes up multiple, mutually incompatible crimes supposedly committed by me. @numba profiler is becoming less of a prototype and more of a reality: #python12 views @numba profiler is becoming less of a prototype and more of a reality: #python OK this time I got an actual answer from CircleCI's artificial "intelligence" solution tool. It's very helpful! Apparently my tests are failing because there is a problem with the test code, or maybe some other reason, and I should ask the maintainer (i.e. me) what I did wrong.9 views OK this time I got an actual answer from CircleCI's artificial "intelligence" solution tool. It's very helpful! Apparently my tests are failing because there is a problem with the test code, or maybe some other reason, and I should ask the maintainer (i.e. me) what I did wrong.

📊 Post engagement

14
Avg engagement / post
1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Photo post · 71 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.07 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.1×
Follows 448 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Photo post ★ 71
Photo post ★ 8 Using braille to render graphs in the terminal is kinda cool, but also pretty bad. In this case you can see how the graph looks quite different in different fonts: In December 2007, I saw the advertisement in the attached image in an airport; the company was dead soon after. Today, I discovered yet another company that will generate apps for you with AI. It is, to be fair, much better than average, i… ★ 4 Meanwhile, in Googleland, we're still hearing about the benefits of throwing batteries in the ocean... ★ 6 AI! It can help you with cooking! (If you're not an American, the punchline to the joke is that fluid ounces are a measure of volume.) ★ 7 @numba profiler is becoming less of a prototype and more of a reality: #python ★ 12 Apparently this recipe site runs on WiFi or something? OK this time I got an actual answer from CircleCI's artificial "intelligence" solution tool. It's very helpful! Apparently my tests are failing because there is a problem with the test code, or maybe some other reason, and I should ask the… ★ 9 CircleCI is experimenting with an AI tool for identifying fixes for bugs. It's going great! ★ 3 Reminder that you should never ever every rely on information from #AI chatbots. Here's an example from #bard in which it makes up multiple, mutually incompatible crimes supposedly committed by me. ★ 14 Here we have Bing telling you the benefits of drinking... bleach. Don't drink bleach! As always, it's fragile to the search phrase, and results are stochastic and possibly personalized so it may not be reproducible by you. While the summar… ★ 6

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
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 14 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

75/100 Good
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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

About

Articles on Python performance (with a focus on data science / scientific computing) and Docker packaging at https://pythonspeed.com (click through and sign up for my newsletter for weekly articles in your inbox!).

📸 Gallery

Photo post Using braille to render graphs in the terminal is kinda cool, but also pretty bad. In this case you can see how the graph looks quite different in different fonts: In December 2007, I saw the advertisement in the attached image in an airport; the company was dead soon after. Today, I discovered yet another company that will generate apps for you with AI. It is, to be fair, much better than average, it was built as a no-code platform predating LLMs, there's vis Photo post Meanwhile, in Googleland, we're still hearing about the benefits of throwing batteries in the ocean... AI! It can help you with cooking! (If you're not an American, the punchline to the joke is that fluid ounces are a measure of volume.) @numba profiler is becoming less of a prototype and more of a reality: #python Apparently this recipe site runs on WiFi or something?

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