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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 · 16h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 22h

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

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

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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...

Vinny Thomas: Galactic Federation Interviews Earth

YouTube video by Twickenham Science

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

It's deeply cynical.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

Oh, this is glorious. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The Rapid-Rocking Bed: Its Effect on the Ventilation of Poliomyelitis Patients with Respiratory Paralysis | NEJM

RECENT improvements in the management of respiratory insufficiency in patients with acute poliomyelitis have considerably reduced mortality in this stage of the disease. As a result, increasing num...

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

Excerpt via Bob Wachter's substack substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Will AI Rescue Primary Care?

Eventually, But Not Yet

substack.com

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

I have expertise in both the technical and ethical aspects of clinical AI, so one of my most frequent refrains is that we need to separately address questions of "can we?" and "should we?"

Anyway, absolutely not.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

I've been procrastinating a project for a year because I knew the query to make the dataset would take a long time to run and now that I'm committed to doing the project I'm annoyed that the query is taking too long to run.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

Makes you wonder what other innovations we may live to see.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

What if we stole Henrietta Lacks's cancer cells again but this time purely for financial gain?

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

Safely share AND MONETIZE

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

When the dataset is big enough it's exciting to get a non-significant result

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

I mean, of all the things I'm willing to tolerate greenhouse gas emissions to facilitate, patients breathing is very high on the list.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

Budesonide-Formoterol Metered-Dose vs Fluticasone-Salmeterol Dry-Powder Inhalers

This cohort study assesses the clinical difference in outcomes associated with a Veterans Health Administration formulary change that replaced budesonide-formoterol metered-dose inhaler therapy with f...

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

We can agree to disagree about the importance of the environmental impact described here, but please remember: dry powder inhalers are harder to use and poor inhaler technique already drives a huge amount of "treatment failure" in asthma and COPD. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This cross-sectional study estimates greenhouse gas emissions from all inhalers approved for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using aggregated dispensing data across the US outpa...

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