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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 5h

No cap 🔥

travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 5h

Right now eating nothing but bacon before blood work on Monday, gonna get misdiagnosed with every condition under the sun and laugh all the way from the pharmacy to the bank

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 6h

Our family spends around $75 per month on prescriptions. Did a quick plot to find out how much the 650% is going to save us and hell to the yes the pharmacy is about to *pay us* $412.50 per month

a line plot made with ggplot2 that says "cost of family prescriptions before and after 650% decrease" The cost today is $75 and the cost after the discount "in two weeks" will be -$412.50

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! Also if you’re looking for other low code options to get the principles down (because the R/python implementations can get gnarly for an undergrad course pretty quick), cstructure.io @erickscott.bsky.social could be helpful to you

cStructure

Causality. Simplified.

cstructure.io

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 1d

Agree, they are useful when used in focused contexts and driven by experts or at least experienced people in those contexts. I’m not sure I’d try to vibe code a whole manuscript as OP did, but I’ve definitely seen awful human generated code in manuscripts too 🤷‍♂️

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 1d

This person sounds funny and cool but I am definitely worried about the “baby in placenta” part

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 3d

After exits from padres and boston I had no horse in the world series race but this turned me. Seattle all the way

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 3d

I'm convinced god's table must be more chaotic than this

screenshot of a section of a causal inference paper which talks about counterfactual data as "data that only God could see" with Table 1: God's table showing some simple relationships between variables A and Y

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 7d

I just said almost exactly this today 🤣 “dodgers fans are the yankees of the west coast”

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 7d

I think this about yankees and dodgers fans all the time

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7d

The “fuck the law we’re putting Trump on a coin” thing is once again making me marvel at how many people apparently grew up without learning how to be grotesquely embarrassed

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 8d

hell yes, went last night in SD and you won't be disappointed!

a concert photo of Jeff Rosenstock and band performing, backed by a large pride flag with 666 surrounded by weed logos in the top left

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10d

TIL, cool!!

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10d

If I'm understanding correctly, I think you're looking for

data |>
add_count(x, sort = TRUE)

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 12d

Could bring a whole new meaning to Dashboard Confessional (we could probably get Chris to play the social event, I used to run in those circles)

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 13d

And your posit talk where you channeled the same! I reference that all the time

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 13d

💯! I learned the bootstrap way too late in grad school (because program was focused on deeply theoretical shit) and I still want to smash my desk thinking about all the time spent deriving/proving complex variance calculations. “Wait, I could have been kicking ass at real problems 2 yrs ago?!!”

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JAMES HEATHERS @jamesheathers.bsky.social · 14d

Your wife is empirically correct.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 14d

Obv not the most important thing right now, but I am continuously astounded that Google invests heavily to push incorrect AI slop to the top of search results. In this easily verifiable case, the season series is actually 3-3. Even their own counting of the 2-2 description is wrong!

A google search result for "who won the head to head series this year cubs padres" saying the Cubs won the series 4-2, followed by a description which says the Cubs won two and the Padres won two (all of which is wrong, the season series is 3-3).

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 16d

I use <<- to just throw something from a function into the global environment

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18d

Corollary:
> "Love" == Negate(`%in%`)
[1] TRUE

travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 19d

Hell yes, I’m down to help recruit

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 19d

My bad, I should be able to make Houston next year! Some enquo knuckle tats are next on my list (not a joke), maybe I’ll plan to do so at next year

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 21d

I'll admit I didn't anticipate the plot twist of "America's health system is now run by people googling home remedies even though they are among the few who could afford to go to the hospital"

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 21d

Both he and Malone are trying to argue that people with pre-existing conditions *must* already have access to a doctor. I just...have they been to this country before?

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 21d

These ACIP comments from the public are brutal 💀 Kulldork was so clearly unhappy to field them, citing that they are "required by law"

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