Sam Stokes

Sam Stokes

Mastodon @samstokes@hachyderm.io
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Followers
373
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

Preparing a batch of letters to turn out registered voters in Michigan. I can imagine if I received a hand-written letter from a stranger I might consider voting if I otherwise wasn't planning to. Was easy to sign up and download letters to fill out via #VoteForward #VoteFwd24 views Preparing a batch of letters to turn out registered voters in Michigan. I can imagine if I received a hand-written letter from a stranger I might consider voting if I otherwise wasn't planning to. Was easy to sign up and download letters to fill out via #VoteForward #VoteFwd Sleepy cat makes the best foot warmer #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday11 views Sleepy cat makes the best foot warmer #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday Is @SutroTower wearing a seasonal outfit? What's with the bobbles?7 views Is @SutroTower wearing a seasonal outfit? What's with the bobbles? It's over, Anakin, I have the high ground #CatsOfMastodon6 views It's over, Anakin, I have the high ground #CatsOfMastodon

📊 Post engagement

6
Avg engagement / post
1.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Preparing a batch of letters to turn out registered voters in Mi · 24 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.14 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 11 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
0.9×
Follows 414 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Preparing a batch of letters to turn out registered voters in Michigan. I can imagine if I received a hand-written letter from a stranger I might consider voting if I otherwise wasn't planning to. Was easy to sign up and download letters to fill out via #VoteForward #VoteFwd ★ 24
It's also helping build intuition for how modern LLMs work. Although they're a lot more sophisticated in every way, they still have a lot in common with my toy implementation. For example, there's evidence that they can regurgitate large p… ★ 1 I've been writing a toy neural network library as a hobby project, and I've got to the point where it can recognise handwritten digits pretty accurately. Because this is a learning exercise, I'm visualising the training process and network… ★ 2 ▶ It's over, Anakin, I have the high ground #CatsOfMastodon ★ 6 Kids today have no idea what this is ★ 1 My sourdough starter Marvin has finally lost the battle against mold 😢 He had a good run and had many loaf children. ★ 5 The touch in question ★ 2 Sleepy cat makes the best foot warmer #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday ★ 11 Is @SutroTower wearing a seasonal outfit? What's with the bobbles? ★ 7 I set up this filter, belatedly, a week ago, and recommend it highly. Adds a little friction to remind me not to doomscroll. (Only after returning my ballot, of course.) ★ 1 What the act-ual fuck In OpenAI's own "correctness" benchmark, their best model answered questions incorrectly 48% of the time! This bothers me, given widespread use of LLM chatbots to answer questions. (This isn't a blanket anti-LLM post - there are things the… ★ 1

🐘 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.
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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 79% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Content engagement (~1.6% of followers) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
79%
Fake-follower risk
Medium

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Immigrant, mixologist, engineer. Interested in feedback loops, abstractions, nuance. I move JSON around | ex LaunchDarkly, Honeycomb, LinkedIn, Rapportive

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It's also helping build intuition for how modern LLMs work. Although they're a lot more sophisticated in every way, they still have a lot in common with my toy implementation. For example, there's evidence that they can regurgitate large parts of their training data. But there's not enough space in I've been writing a toy neural network library as a hobby project, and I've got to the point where it can recognise handwritten digits pretty accurately. Because this is a learning exercise, I'm visualising the training process and network weights, and it's really cool to watch it work. Here is a co It's over, Anakin, I have the high ground #CatsOfMastodon Kids today have no idea what this is My sourdough starter Marvin has finally lost the battle against mold 😢 He had a good run and had many loaf children. The touch in question Sleepy cat makes the best foot warmer #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday Is @SutroTower wearing a seasonal outfit? What's with the bobbles?

🔀 Audience overlap

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Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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