TIL that splattering your scrubs with beet juice at lunch leaves you looking like you were at a VERY bad C-section.
And it doesnβt blot out.
So now I look like an axe murderer, taking care of the babies.
This image was taken by NASA's EPIC camera onboard the NOAA DSCOVR spacecraft
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
I could raise my hand. But itβs pointless.
Iβd much rather see more people NOT raise their hand but say they have changed.
Forever ago I really enjoyed SimAnt.
Two of my favorite non-fiction books include EO Wilson and Holldoblerβs Journey to the Ants and The Leafcutter Ants
Will have to check this out. Is it more game or biological sim?
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Installed Linux Mint a few days ago.
Itβs good. Very good actually.
Didnβt 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.
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 βοΈβοΈhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844764
In my office, I still have βbooksβ (those things made out of trees) that I learned PHP and Perl from.
(My clinical calculator website is fully hand coded in PHPβ¦)
Maybe I should see if my laserdisc player still works.
Like the finding. Donβt like the Y axis.
Former pediatrician here (now just newborns) β congratulations and thank you. When you feel sore and achy afterwards, remember that itβs because ITβS WORKING! Your bodyβs immune system is going βwhat the heck is this stuff?!? Iβm going to learn to kick the sh*t out of it if I ever run into it again.β Whenever I got my shots and I DIDNβT feel sort of crummy the couple of days afterwards, I was worried the shots werenβt working :)
Encouraging a kid who decided to get vaccinated, in my own apparently strange way.
#PedSky
So much depth to the half-time show that I missed. Really nice post sharing the cultural meaning.
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This is today.
I guess for me itβll have to be βEat ice cream for third breakfast dayβ
I bet theyβre going to flood Pooh, 7 Dwarfs, and Ariel and bring back submarines, right?
Tonightβs dumb napkin cartoonβ¦
Was working with a medical student recently who said I had a βmoral codeβ.
I donβt really know what that means but I felt strangely disturbed.
They probably shouldnβt let me work with medical students. Iβm contaminating them.
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.
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
I prefer:
βDonβt believe anything without thought.β - Me
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.
Iβm aware of Palantir and what they do
But Iβm a physician, and protected health information is (or was) considered sacred. The information a patient (or parent) communicates with us shouldnβt be fair game for data harvesting.
Anyone else find this concerning?
#MedSky #PedSky #NeoSky
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:
Iβm actually really pleasantly surprised that Anthropic (Claude) was willing to disseminate these results.
Much respect to them.
Confession: I use Claude at times to help with R coding
Really important research out of Anthropic: In a RCT study, they found AI coding assistance resulted in a ππ% ππ«π¨π© 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.
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.
βThis 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.β Gift Link
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!
Basket of around 30 whistles 3D printed and packaged up with info cards with phone number to report ICE activity and what to report, ready for distribution.
Around 30 whistles printed and packaged up with Reporting info cards, ready for distribution.
What advice can you give to folks in other cities expecting an ICE surge?
What lessons learned of things that worked or didnβt work?
