TIL that splattering your scrubs with beet juice at lunch leaves you looking like you were at a VERY bad C-section. And it doesn’t blot out. So now I look like an axe murderer, taking care of the babies.
Joe Chou
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Data geek, coder, hacker, ex-student pilot, foodie, Disney fan, neonatologist (MD), PediTools developer, ex-molecular biologist (PhD), snarky nonconformist, and annoying dad (+spouse)
A view of Earth as seen by NASA's EPIC camera aboard the NOAA DSCOVR spacecraft, capturing our planet suspended in the darkness of space from nearly a million miles away
Installed Linux Mint a few days ago. It’s good. Very good actually. Didn’t expect this, but I could see myself migrating eventually, or even pretty soon. (Currently Mac OS >>> Windows)
Thoughts on the impact of exponentially (literally) growing capabilities of AI. Very much worth the 10 - 15 minutes to read, particularly if you're closer to the start than the end of your career, no matter what that career might be.
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
shumer.dev
Coffee and improved cognition, reduced dementia >130,000 people followed 37 years Benefit seen only with caffeinated coffee or tea and most pronounced ~2 cups/day @jama.com ☕️☕️https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844764
So much depth to the half-time show that I missed. Really nice post sharing the cultural meaning. www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQu... www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQu...
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This is today. I guess for me it’ll have to be “Eat ice cream for third breakfast day”
Ice Cream for Breakfast Day - Wikipedia
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Was working with a medical student recently who said I had a “moral code”. I don’t really know what that means but I felt strangely disturbed. They probably shouldn’t let me work with medical students. I’m contaminating them.
Groundhog Day Meaning https://xkcd.com/3202/ Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3202
This is both horrifying and expected. I have been dismayed at how many clinicians I know are quite willing and even excited to offload their clinical judgement to large language models.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoDr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
Anyone else find this concerning? #MedSky #PedSky #NeoSky
ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt “illegal immigrants”
US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...
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Parents terrified to leave home to bring kid to the hospital is yet another thing making me very angry (bili over 25 mg/dL)
You do have to give Anthropic credit here. It is rare for a lab to publish data questioning its own tools. Meta constantly buries internal findings that challenge their business model. This kind of transparency is uncommon and should be encouraged instead of dog-piled. Link to the full study:
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively…
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Really important research out of Anthropic: In a RCT study, they found AI coding assistance resulted in a 𝟏𝟕% 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 in mastery for users. While tasks were slightly faster, offloading thinking to AI stunted skill growth. Using AI to explain code, rather than just write it did help with retention.
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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I had a mom in the nursery ask if I was The Baby Whisperer yesterday, after calming a cranky small one. Honestly, my dream retirement would include being a volunteer cuddler. Someday.
“This is an image of universal moral urgency, akin to a small number of photographs that once upon a time had the power to change our behavior, away from cruelty or indifference and in the direction of basic decency.“ Gift Link
Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE
An image like this could once change history. Can one still?
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Dang it, how did I miss this? Back in 2018 I worked (very slowly) through an earlier edition of this book using R but always meant to go through it again (with the 2nd edition) to try to cement understanding. This is perfect! Hopefully I can catch and keep up!
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 6mo agoPossums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
So there’s this suspicious looking spot on my loaf of bread. I think it’s mold. Wife thinks it’s just a bit of ash. Good thing I have access to a clinical grade microscope. The truth will be known.
I'm tired of feeling helpless, so here's a first pass of a project I've been working on: trying out different 3D-printed whistles to distribute along with informational cards (front and back shown)
Just installed #LibreOffice for use on MacOS — any tips or suggestions? It’s a bit janky with intermittent app hangs on saves (which I’ve seen previously reported but without solutions) and odd UI issues, but I want alternatives to M$ Office and Google apps.
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Uh, Denmark? Massachusetts is also pretty nice — maybe a two for one deal?
Danish petition to buy California from Trump signed by thousands
A satirical petition urges Denmark to "buy" California, poking fun at Trump’s Greenland plans amid U.S.-Europe tensions and tariff threats.
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Here's an annoying behavior that resulted in a hard to find bug: Our build of SnowflakeSQL returns queries in R with: - datetimes as POSIXct (yay!) - time in local (yay!) - timezone in UTC (boo...) It'd be great if I my hospital was near the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, but it isn't.