The reason I provided to them was: "There are consequences to Disney being unwilling to do what is right."

Sad but grateful today. Told CFI that I'd be stopping flight training. Just under 100 hours total time, 33 hours solo, just needed school stage check + FAA checkride. I'm grateful that I fulfilled a childhood dream of FLYING, but this is enough. I'm going to miss the sky. #studentpilot #aviation

Thank you, Massachusetts

Great books and support a charity

I might not like using AI to replace thinking. But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.

Boys with Noonan Syndrome at the 97%ile for BMI will collapse into a singularity at ~17.5 years age. It's very sad. In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354

🎉 Quarto R package v1.5.0 is here! New features to boost your workflow: - Pass R values to Quarto metadata - Markdown in HTML tables - Light & dark themes for plots/tables - Work with R scripts & automate CLI Read more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #Quarto #DataScience #OpenSource

MOSAIC announcement! #aviation #studentpilot

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌 We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

Oh yay, they announced it!!

Anyone know how to convince crows to visit? I wanna become a crowbro 🐦‍⬛ I’ve never personally seen/heard them close by home, but BirdWeather suggests they’re around. Roasted unsalted peanuts at the ready…

Yay!

I deployed a calculator for 2025 Fenton 3rd generation preterm growth charts. Also analyzed effect of Fenton 2013 vs 2025 with n=2516 births <34 weeks (2016-2024): • rate of SGA (10%ile) classification from 9.2% to 21%, • mean ∆Z wt birth to discharge changed from -0.67 to -0.43 #NeoSky #PedSky

TIL that if you deploy changes to a testing environment, but then assess it in the live server, you are unlikely to see the newly implemented changes functioning. And it only took me 2 days to figure out 🤦🏻‍♂️

The 3rd generation Fenton preterm growth charts were recently released, so being a data geek, I did some analysis of how the Fenton 2003/2013/2025 and Olsen 2010 preterm charts compared, and harmonization with the WHO growth standards. Also some opinionated musing. #NeoSky #PedSky #rstats #dataviz

Third generation Fenton growth curves #neosky #ebneo pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40534585/

Whether or not moving the controllers back to N90 (New York TRACON) might still depend on whether the FAA has already started ripping out equipment there. Newark's problems are not short-term fixes, but they could possibly be alleviated by moving controllers back to N90. 6/

For aviation types or curious public, this is a long one anonymously written by a controller on FB who works the Newark sector about what is really happening there. I'll post the screenshots of his post in the comments, but first I want to give you a sense of scale... 1/

Awesome news. I only wish I had been more successful convincing more parents to accept the prophylaxis. #NeoSky #PedSky

“Sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.” - #Murderbot (Artificial Condition, Martha Wells)

For Disney fans, a couple of #HiddenMickeys from Aulani

Going to be hard leaving this.

Beautiful day out so went on a mini-hike post-call and combined it with logging my first geocache in a year or two. Should get back into geocaching, if only as an excuse to explore cool places I would not have thought of to go to otherwise. www.geocaching.com

Superb news. There are numerous modern-day Vavilovs stepping up. Dark times always bring out the best in people, too. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Good VFX and CGI are wonderful things, but I love how CREATIVE film-makers had to be in the creation of low-tech film miracles like this Buster Keaton visual trick. Imagine seeing Sherlock Jr. when it first came out in 1924 & trying to figure out how these tricks were done.

Drove to a local airfield which has a well-regarded breakfast / lunch restaurant. The French toast was out of this world. Have done touch-and-goes there and used it for a XC checkpoint, but never “been” there. Someday I hope to spend $400 to fly there to get the same food. #studentpilot

Who ever selected and arranged the images for Harvard Magazine wasn’t really thinking about how they looked together.

This is my go to example of the unexpected payoff of basic science: The serendipitous discovery of a bacterium that shortens the lifespan of fruit flies was the basis for the development of the world mosquito program to combat infectious diseases spread by mosquitoes.

This is what Seattle-Tacoma International Airports departures look like as modern art www.axios.com/local/seattl...

2 Louisiana infants die of pertussis as infections rise; pediatric flu deaths reach 168 publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Geek poetry. Robert Frost is probably rotating around his longitudinal axis.

"The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. ... No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." Veritas.

I am ecstatic right now, thanks to a coincidence in timing. 1) Murderbot coming on Apple TV, May 16 - Jul 11 🎉 2) I don't have Apple TV 😢 3) But I got an iPad recently 😕 4) Got reminder email today that iPad comes with 3 month trial of Apple TV, needs to be redeemed by May 11 😀

New checklist item: secure penguin. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hopefully good news soon! #avgeek #aviation #studentpilot

I need this. Need to figure out how to source specific #LEGO parts. This version www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HUC... includes a parts list, but not all numbers match at LEGO Pick A Brick. Another version also looks good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HUC... #studentpilot

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

PubMed link to the article referenced. Going to have to dig into this, but am worried the statistical approach may be beyond me. Especially wondering about strength of findings with n=168 compared with original 2 RCTs with n=239 and 234 (Shankaran, Gluckman)

Solo long cross-country finally done! Air was a bit rough below 3000 feet especially for this #studentpilot, but the sky was clear enough to see checkpoints from WAY far away. Just a beautiful but bumpy day. As always, I could have flown better, but it's done!

You ever watch YouTube while on the elliptical in the basement, and suddenly want to borrow a sextant to try it out, or is it just me? (3 part series, easy to understand, but doesn’t talk about the actual celestial navigation.)

Prolonging CPAP in the preterm to improve pulmonary outcomes I wrote about this trial after last year's PAS meeting, mentioning that it looked like a potential significant improvement in respiratory care of the preterm The full publication confirms that is a real possibility. McEvoy CT, et al.…

Evolution of converting data into #studentpilot understanding: Short-field takeoff POH performance tables --> #dataviz plots of the tables --> interactive #rstats #Shiny App for "What if?" analysis Also fetches weather and runway info (Needs runway refactor for small fields with no weather)

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

The weather still hates me. Green is visual flight rules (VFR); blue is marginal VFR. I'm in the Northeast. Fun to compare SkyVector (limited # of reporting sites) vs. full data download from Aviation Weather Center and personal R script (previously described). #datavis #studentpilot

A measles outbreak has killed a second child in Texas, with almost 650 people now infected as the highly contagious disease spreads jrnl.ie/6670809

Wandered into an art museum and found this painting by Samuel Morse, of works of art from the Louvre (I only recognized the Mona Lisa). Couldn’t help but thinking of identifying VORs by this guy’s code.

The reason I will never get my private pilot certificate is because of the exponentially decreasing probability of simultaneously fulfilling: - 3 airfields with #studentpilot solo weather minimums - my availability - plane availability p1•p2•p3•p4•p5 = essentially infinitesimal No long XC again.