A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

🚨📢 Incredibly proud to share our new paper and R package on non-linear regression modelling for medical professionals; making it simple! 🔗 Open access paper: doi.org/10.1093/post... #rstats #nonlinear #biostatistics More details 🧵👇👇👇

Happy #Caturday!

ESOT wants to make sure AI in transplantation addresses real-world clinical needs, starting by listening to those on the ground. This short survey (<5 mins) is your chance to contribute.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Please tell me again how the LLM will help me code better and faster.

Tariffs on your spreadsheets.

Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+

🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller

Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.

❓Can we predict kidney viability before transplantation—non-invasively, in real time? Our latest study explores contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) during normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) to assess microvascular perfusion, a key factor in ischaemia-reperfusion injury🧵👇

What about big data and AI? Thought-provoking and informative session chaired by @adnan-sharif.bsky.social featuring talks by Lynn Morrice and Colin Wilson. #QUODbiobank @nhsbt.bsky.social @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

I wonder what would happen if my VA colleagues and I discussed patient data in a non-secure messaging app and one of us invited the editor of the @startribune.com in? Actually I don’t wonder- we’d all be fired for reckless disregard of patient privacy. Good thing this was less consequential 🤦🏻‍♂️

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The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000. 👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.

Just saw a rant from a neurologist about people who use the term “cerebrovascular accident” and everyday I’m reminded about how accurate my characters are

For years I justified my twitter habit by saying, "I need to be here to promote my books and stuff like the Project for Awesome." Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000. Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...

Freedom of reach is the real battle in social media right now. Algorithmic feeds vs. deterministic timelines isn't just UX - it's about whether platforms or users control what gets seen. And these choices fundamentally reshape online communities. 1/6

Happy to see this publication move out of Medium. I highly recommend them to anyone wanting to learn about data science. towardsdatascience.com/towards-data...

Yup. By Bill Bramhall

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

That’s how you write a headline, people.

Jesus christ, was I giving him ideas?

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

Supporter of all free speech!! Just not every type of exercising speech, I guess...

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Can't believe the amount of heat we used to get for downloading an mp3 when every tech company is downloading the sum total of human expression to sell a scromited version back to us

re-reading this tweet every few years with a new perspective on who "we" refers to

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

Heroes

 and yet, at the moment he’s golfing

Curious if you can get DeepSeek R1 running locally on your computer? 💻 DeepSeek is all over the news today. Excitingly it's an open source LLM, meaning you can download and use it right on your machine. ❓❓But how ❓❓

Finally! NEJM AI is here @ai.nejm.org.

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I'll just leave this here. Never more applicable than today in a world where meglomaniacs are trying to rule, and we're allowing them.

Imagine the response of this meeting had taken place in a building in Europe rather than America. www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...

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Here, the artist breaks it down for you anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

2024 saw a major update of the TRIPOD reporting standards for #artificialintelligence and #machinelearning in healthcare www.bmj.com/content/385/... (guidance) www.bmj.com/content/385/... (opinion piece) #statsSky #MLSky #transparency #reportingstandards #AI

2024 saw release of the CHEERS guidance for reporting economic evaluations of health technologies that use #AI www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109... #artificialintelligence #reporting #transparency

And the same for Python is here: python-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...