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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · 15d

That’s pretty cool.

A few months ago I tried using birth date and birth gestation to calculate conception dates but wasn’t able to find interesting trends.

Only used data from a single healthcare system. Maybe low n, or maybe folks here just don’t like to … celebrate … as much as in England/Wales.

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · 17d

The reason I provided to them was: "There are consequences to Disney being unwilling to do what is right."

Disney+ subscription cancellation notification.

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · 19d

My kid (now 21) would have gotten along with your kid. Around the same age, she asked for a cake that said “Happy Birthday, Supreme Overlord”.

And for my birthday last year, she got me a book of the collected works of H.P. Lovecraft

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · 26d

Sad but grateful today. Told CFI that I'd be stopping flight training. Just under 100 hours total time, 33 hours solo, just needed school stage check + FAA checkride.

I'm grateful that I fulfilled a childhood dream of FLYING, but this is enough.

I'm going to miss the sky.

#studentpilot #aviation

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Sep 5

Thank you, Massachusetts

From the boston community on Reddit: Massachusetts becomes first state to dictate its own vaccine coverage rules

Explore this post and more from the boston community

www.reddit.com

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Sep 1

Would be nice if all those who left the CDC for conscience were welcomed to New England to set up shop

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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Aug 25

Sometimes I put notes to myself in a separate directory that I .gitignore because I don’t want them on GitHub.

Works ok until eventually I somehow accidentally save a private document outside that directory and essentially permanently make a private document public. Ugh.

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Aug 24

Great books and support a charity

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

www.humblebundle.com

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Aug 24

Where is that hidden Mickey?

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Aug 24

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.”

Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Aug 6

I might not like using AI to replace thinking.

But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.

For all intensive purposes, we need to nip this deep-seeded issue in the butt so we can hone in on our next-gen synergy stack and give stakeholders piece of mind, irregardless of the mute points raised in yesterday’s pow-wow, which, supposably, peaked a lot of interest — Viola! The paradigm shift we've been axing for!

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 31

As a med student, I did my family and community medicine block at San Quentin prison.

My complete orientation was “Don’t wear jeans, don’t wear orange, and if you get taken hostage, our primary responsibility will not be to rescue you.”

It was an interesting experience.

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 30

Boys with Noonan Syndrome at the 97%ile for BMI will collapse into a singularity at ~17.5 years age. It's very sad.

In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354

Published LMS parameters to create Noonan Syndrome growth curves have severe issues, with the male BMI curve at the 97th percentile approaching infinity (and then imaginary numbers) at around 17.5 years of age.

Reposted by Joe Chou

Quarto @quarto.org · Jul 28

🎉 Quarto R package v1.5.0 is here!

New features to boost your workflow:

- Pass R values to Quarto metadata
- Markdown in HTML tables
- Light & dark themes for plots/tables
- Work with R scripts & automate CLI

Read more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

#RStats #Quarto #DataScience #OpenSource

quarto R package v1.5.0: Streamlined Workflows for R Users – Quarto

The quarto R package 1.5.0 brings powerful new features for passing R values to Quarto metadata, inserting Markdown in HTML tables, working with R scripts, building paths from Quarto projects, and aut...

quarto.org

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 27

Trying out Typst and Quarto templates for the very first time today and came across your `quarto-preprint` -- looks great!

Do you happen to have a test document that's ridiculously filled with every possible option that's currently supported, so I can see and poke at examples?

#rstats #quarto

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 22

MOSAIC announcement!

#aviation #studentpilot

www.faa.gov

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Jul 14

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌

We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

What is Scientific American?

YouTube video by Scientific American

www.youtube.com

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 11

Liked the Apple TV series, loved the books and LOVED this short story.

Spoilers minimal so long as you've read the first two books, but I think the short story is best appreciated after reading the entire book series.

Looking forward to Season 2 of more premium, quality entertainment!

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 10

Oh yay, they announced it!!

SeaWitch1031 🎃👻🧙 @seawitch1031.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ma'am. I am so happy right now! Congratulations! Now can we get H. Jon Benjamin for ART?

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

‘Murderbot’ Starring Alexander Skarsgård Gets Season 2 Renewal at Apple TV+

The series created and showrun by Oscar nominees Chris and Paul Weitz airs its Season 1 finale on Friday with star Alexander Skarsgård.

www.yahoo.com

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 10

Anyone know how to convince crows to visit? I wanna become a crowbro 🐦‍⬛

I’ve never personally seen/heard them close by home, but BirdWeather suggests they’re around.

Roasted unsalted peanuts at the ready…

BirdWeather

app.birdweather.com

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 7

Yay!

Read a New Murderbot Story for Free, Right After the Season Finale - Reactor

The new novelette will be released on Reactor immediately following the final episode of AppleTV+’s Murderbot

reactormag.com

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jul 2

I deployed a calculator for 2025 Fenton 3rd generation preterm growth charts.

Also analyzed effect of Fenton 2013 vs 2025 with n=2516 births <34 weeks (2016-2024):

• rate of SGA (10%ile) classification from 9.2% to 21%,
• mean ∆Z wt birth to discharge changed from -0.67 to -0.43

#NeoSky #PedSky

Fenton 2025 Growth Calculator for Preterm Infants

Pediatric clinical calculators and tools

peditools.org

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jun 29

TIL that if you deploy changes to a testing environment, but then assess it in the live server, you are unlikely to see the newly implemented changes functioning.

And it only took me 2 days to figure out 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Joe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · Jun 29

The 3rd generation Fenton preterm growth charts were recently released, so being a data geek, I did some analysis of how the Fenton 2003/2013/2025 and Olsen 2010 preterm charts compared, and harmonization with the WHO growth standards.

Also some opinionated musing.

#NeoSky #PedSky #rstats #dataviz

Growth chart comparison – Incidental Findings

Comparison of Fenton, Olsen, and WHO growth charts and observations on the interpretation of small, large, preterm, and term.

www.incidentalfindings.org

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