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Emily Moin

@emilymoin.com

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Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Apr 20

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
– George Eliot

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 17h

rocks that your body needs

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

To me, the early seasons of ER are the gold standard against which all other medical dramas must be measured.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

The Pitt occupies a weird part of the uncanny valley for me, it's accurate enough that I don't enjoy watching because it feels like being at work but they get enough details wrong that I'm also annoyed the whole time. And I genuinely enjoy a lot of other medical shows, just can't watch this one.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

"And why was the test obtained?", the unofficial slogan of internal medicine. See also: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians? - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians?

www.nature.com

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

I'm fascinated by this idea of "existing lab information from routine blood work." Whose routine? Why does that information exist?

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

Um, unrelatedly I guess,

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 1d

seeing a lot of hubris these days and not a lot of greek mythology type consequences

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

Reddit has been recommending the hematology subreddit to me for some reason and I can't overstate how many posts there are from patients (who are probably mildly dehydrated) scared they have polycythemia vera.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

It wasn't clear in the screenshot but the problem is not that it was sycophantic, the problem is that it wrote a pytorch script that just used whatever weights were in the model at the end of the training loop instead of loading the best weights. Which a vibe coder would probably not notice.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

Voluntarily fracturing your own ribs is actually really frowned upon by pulmonologists. It goes against the traditional concept of respiration, which means "to breathe"

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

If this article didn't namecheck a real plastic surgeon I would be pretty sure it was a bad example of satire.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

I feel fairly confident that employers should not perform cosmetic surgery on their employees and then use it to generate advertorial content. www.thecut.com/article/ribx...

I Fractured My Ribs to ‘Remodel’ Them and Cinch My Waist

No matter how much I worked out, I felt boxy. So earlier this year I got RibXcar to change my shape once and for all.

www.thecut.com

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

strsplit(string, ",(?! )", perl = TRUE)

Should work but I like @pwgtennant.bsky.social's simple approach better.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

One more banger bsky.app/profile/emil...

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Jul 31

I think I as a human coder have at least a few months of comparative advantage left, personally

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

I have a few of these saved for these very moments (which don't even address your very good point about statistical design and conduct) bsky.app/profile/emil...

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Aug 16

Every time I use Claude I am more convinced that it is both miraculously faster than learning to code and substantially slower than knowing how and writing code yourself.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Aug 3

AI disclaimer: ChatGPT actively worked against my efforts to perform this analysis.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

Scheduled downtime is going to start before my query finishes 😭😭😭

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

Still an incredible bop bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 8

one of my tiktok followers made this

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

The funny thing is that I'm a techno optimist, if anything, yet they've got me out here sounding like a Luddite because "appease poor people with robots I imagined" is actually crazy

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

"You do have enough food? Then why isn't it... logistics? You want me to write logistics? Alright... starving because of 'logistics'..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dN...