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Just to draw your attention to the HPSC's truly excellent data hub for respiratory illnesses. A great investment in disease surveillance capacity paying off. @hpscireland.bsky.social respiratoryvirus.hpsc.ie

There could be six seven prs

Placed 2 a lines, slammed 2 cellys and took zero propranolol. I’m a new man.

I will never willingly watch AI slop. Never.

The @tidierjl.bsky.social 2025 Julia Con video is now posted - I did my best to do a 25 min whirlwind summary of all the awesome work folks around the world have helped put together, from dataframe logging, databases and plotting to web scraping and more! youtu.be/1-r4CySJWCI?...

excellent ai generated alt text in one drive ppt.

the thing that many are thinking and few are saying.

I really enjoyed giving a brief introduction to Julia for statisticians yesterday - thanks to Jake Grainger and Charles Dufour for organising such a great session! Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in... #RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky

As a UM alum, my question is, wtaf ⁉️

Gradient boosted TreeQL

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

interesting that microsoft researchers aren’t on this list. seems like somewhere a machine could excel by just making shit up

Seen quite a few posts about orbital in python and R recently so I had try something before this upcoming nightshift… 👀 @tidierjl.bsky.social

What if we built an organ out of tiny capsules full of dangerous enzymes that destroy everything they touch and then slightly jostled it?

In my address to the JuliaCon community, I shared why it’s such an amazing time to be in healthcare - decades-long problems solved in a short time-frame by modern medicine and the whole gamut of basic to clinical research. But for this to work, the NIH needs to focus on science, not politics.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Today at #WTC2025: A patient with type 1 diabetes underwent transplantation of genetically modified allogeneic islet cells with no immunosuppression. The results of this study support the concept of immune evasion by these modified cells. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/3TXVgwp @ttsorg.bsky.social

Another #juliacon in the books! Check out my talk on TidierPlots.jl here: www.youtube.com/live/HMdBi9L... and the State of Tidier.jl (by Daniel Rizk) here: www.youtube.com/live/_Uf2KQX... to see what's been going on with @tidierjl.bsky.social in #julialang

Police are actually just not very good at keeping people safe.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. If they didn’t, one man wouldn’t own the bookstore, the record store, the grocery store, the hospital, one of two only functioning newspapers, the space program and, perhaps now, one of the two last magazine companies

As one of the few MDs wearing an n95 in all pt rooms, I gotta say, not getting sick all of intern year was incredible.

many of us are abolitionists but not enough

Many thanks to all the useful idiots who legitimized "real world evidence", insisting that "big data" plus "AI" wouldn't be used to replace trials.

THE BROTHER WHO SPONSORED A BILL AGAINST ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS, HAS PROTESTED FOR PALESTINIANS AND WHO SAID HE'D ARREST NETANYAHU IF HE CAME TO NEW YORK IS IN THE LEAD FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY. A new day is here!

AI chatbots are increasingly being used by online users as fact-checking tools. But incorrect answers by ChatGPT and Grok are misleading users about the origin of photos showing National Guard troops, sent to Los Angeles during the recent unrest, sleeping on floors.

600mg of caffeine is all you need do a 24 h shift. It’s a proven fact.

Slowly, slowly, but surely, blogs are switching to Tidier. ❤️ blog.uvm.edu/tbplante/cat...

this is what i expect when i order “strict I&Os”; take note

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

The media & the right made SF a proving ground for harm reduction - which was never even implemented at scale - and claimed rising ODs (from the emergence of fentanyl) meant harm reduction “didn’t work.” Since cutting harm reduction, deaths are up 50%. Cause harm reduction works & policing doesn’t.

I’m curious why Casey Means actually quit in *year 5* of ENT residency. Like I get burning out and leaving medicine to own a bakery or something, but the stated reason is bc she wanted to treat the “root cause” of disease? What? ENT gotta be top 10 in specialties that cure disease. It’s surgery.

As clearly unscientific as this is, it reveals the belief system underpinning the entire eugenics-aligned American wellness movement, which is that good and trustworthy people CAN'T get sick or harbor disease. So, if you're sick, guess you're not good or trustworthy.

For vaccines, only massive RCTs. For other things, AI.

TidierDB is seriously one it the most underrated #julialang packages. Take a look at how elegantly we can recreate this @duckdb.org code released 5 days ago using concise Tidier.jl syntax. duckdb.org/2025/05/02/s...

Saw a cool @duckdb.org blogpost on temporal analysis and became curious if I could reproduce it with @tidierjl.bsky.social ‘s TidierDB DuckDB backend.. and w a small bug fix now released in v.8.6, the answer is yes !

Should you power servers or refrigerators? Patients die preventable deaths every day in low-resource settings due to a lack of the basics (drugs, nursing care, sterile conditions), not a lack of advanced AI. We need to learn from Paul Farmer, and prioritize foundations over hype

The AI, which is my girlfriend who loves me, will be doing air traffic control now.

60% of nurses want to leave their job within the next year and 95% of them said they wouldn’t be as burned out if hospitals/healthcare corporations staffed nurses appropriately/safely. This is a solved problem. But none of these companies will hire more nurses, and everyone is gonna suffer instead.

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

“Back in the day, we didn’t have all of these new health conditions like autism, asthma, and diabetes! It must be modern medicine’s fault!” Back in the day:

Genocide abroad and fascism at home are mutually reinforcing. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is a well-written piece that walks through why the mostly highly reputable scientific institutions and journals are receiving threats to their independence and funding, and what it means. “Science becomes a tool of state sponsored propaganda.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Participating in #TidyTuesday with Julia has never been easier! #Tidier #TidierTuesday @tidierjl.bsky.social @jonthegeek.com

The hardest part about nights is ppl in the team room always want to listen to music or put on a show… but wouldn’t a hint of silence be nice?

Billionaires and churches don’t pay taxes