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Edwin Dalmaijer
@dalmaijer.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist with many interests, including why our stomachs churn when we feel disgust. I also write books on programming; teach Python, statistics, and machine learning; and develop open-source software.

https://www.dalmaijer.org
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“Moederkoekje van eigen deeg” lives rent-free in my head. Also, some of the lyrics in the outro to Suryalisme will randomly pop into mind to great amusement.

Currently at In De Coupé, will keep an ear out for Beste Buurvrouw!
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Felt cute assumptions, might retract later.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I know they’re in different clades of fungus, but APA rules officially state that scientific accuracy can be traded off against bad puns in paper titles and/or quote-posts.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Obligatory reference to “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names”: www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...
People have exactly one canonical full name. People have exactly one full name which they go by. People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by. People have exactly N names, for any value of N. People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space. People’s names do not change. People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events. People’s names are written in ASCII. People’s names are written in any single character set. People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points. People’s names are case sensitive. People’s names are case insensitive. People’s names sometimes have prefixes or suffixes, but you can safely ignore those. People’s names do not contain numbers. People’s names are not written in ALL CAPS. People’s names are not written in all lower case letters. People’s names have an order to them. Picking any ordering scheme will automatically result in consistent ordering among all systems, as long as both use the same ordering scheme for the same name. People’s first names and last names are, by necessity, different. People have last names, family names, or anything else which is shared by folks recognized as their relatives. People’s names are globally unique. People’s names are almost globally unique. Alright alright but surely people’s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name. My system will never have to deal with names from China. Or Japan. Or Korea. Or Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Russia, Sweden, Botswana, South Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, France, or the Klingon Empire, all of which have “weird” naming schemes in common use. That Klingon Empire thing was a joke, right? Confound your cultural relativism! People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly. (Yes, yes, you can do it if your algorithm returns the input. You get a gold star.) I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it. People’s names are assigned at birth. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth. Five years? You’re kidding me, right? Two different systems containing data about the same person will use the same name for that person. Two different data entry operators, given a person’s name, will by necessity enter bitwise equivalent strings on any single system, if the system is well-designed. People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎. People have names.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Riiiight, I see! That does allow room for waiting times when they pull from the endpoint directly, depending on how and how much info they’re querying.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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It’s interesting that this works so quickly, as I assume you get info through an OSF API? That would suggest the sluggishness is actually just the page rendering (perhaps not helped by all the social media spyware).

Down with the frameworks, back to artisan html and css!
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Exact same thing happened to me! This was 7 months ago, so before the redesign. Resolved only through their team, which was quick and helpful in my case. But, yeah, definitely not as “unprecedented” as they make it sound in their responses to you! bsky.app/profile/dalm...
dalmaijer.bsky.social Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · Mar 25
LOL, turns out the Open Science Framework has rather faulty spam detection. All I did was upload an updated preprint, and in response OSF automatically and immediately nuked my entire account. #openscience
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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In fact, if you ask “why” enough, you end up in full-time nursery or after-school club because your parents are tired of your shtick.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Strong “this sign doesn’t apply to me because I can’t read” energy.
October 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Bit later:

"You think I'm p-hacky, baby
Stop talking dirty to me"
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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It feels like we’re going back to one-to-one chats and smaller groups. Like MSN back in the day, but through Snapchat or Fortnite (or whatever newer thing I’m unfamiliar with). Or Signal and the like for us olds, for sharing kids photos or planning military strikes.
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM