Emily Moin
@emilymoin.com
Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)
I apparently don't post about this as much as I thought because I had to go into the wayback archives but suffice it to say I sidestepped that particular scourge of middle age
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I apparently don't post about this as much as I thought because I had to go into the wayback archives but suffice it to say I sidestepped that particular scourge of middle age
This was the ringtone on my Nokia flip phone in college...
January 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This was the ringtone on my Nokia flip phone in college...
Sometimes you think no one has done an analysis and you're excited to do it and you're sad if you find it. Sometimes you think no one has done an analysis and you're dreading doing it... and it was there all along... and that's beautiful.
January 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Sometimes you think no one has done an analysis and you're excited to do it and you're sad if you find it. Sometimes you think no one has done an analysis and you're dreading doing it... and it was there all along... and that's beautiful.
It doesn't seem on-brand for you to be shocked that things need delicately managed fluid balance!
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
It doesn't seem on-brand for you to be shocked that things need delicately managed fluid balance!
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I'm very happy I got to see that video and not the other ones.
January 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I'm very happy I got to see that video and not the other ones.
In my eyes Kristen can do no wrong and if we don't like it it's because we don't understand it, it's not for us, or we aren't supposed to.
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
In my eyes Kristen can do no wrong and if we don't like it it's because we don't understand it, it's not for us, or we aren't supposed to.
Circling back to the difficulties in covering this beat: a real danger here is that the most accessible people who have expertise in these systems are the people selling them.
January 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Circling back to the difficulties in covering this beat: a real danger here is that the most accessible people who have expertise in these systems are the people selling them.
I've written before about the claims in the "deskilling" article and the press that surrounded it. bsky.app/profile/emil...
January 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I've written before about the claims in the "deskilling" article and the press that surrounded it. bsky.app/profile/emil...
There is virtually no evidence to support any nutritional guidance for cancer patients, period, so why would an LLM be able to generate personalized nutritional guidance and, more importantly, how could we possibly assess whether it's beneficial to the patient?
January 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
There is virtually no evidence to support any nutritional guidance for cancer patients, period, so why would an LLM be able to generate personalized nutritional guidance and, more importantly, how could we possibly assess whether it's beneficial to the patient?
To my knowledge there are no commercial products that draw from "only vetted medical sources," although there are several high profile VC-backed companies that market themselves as such because physicians (and institutional buyers and the WSJ) don't know what RAG is.
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
To my knowledge there are no commercial products that draw from "only vetted medical sources," although there are several high profile VC-backed companies that market themselves as such because physicians (and institutional buyers and the WSJ) don't know what RAG is.
I give the authors some credit for including this figure, which demonstrates that their model is not infrequently beaten by one that only uses age, sex, race/ethnicity, and BMI.
January 7, 2026 at 5:31 AM
I give the authors some credit for including this figure, which demonstrates that their model is not infrequently beaten by one that only uses age, sex, race/ethnicity, and BMI.
Reposted by Emily Moin
you studied defense procurement, seapower, sociology of the military......but its secondary to the fact that a likely dying old man has been hypnotized by the mercator projection into wanting greenland
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
you studied defense procurement, seapower, sociology of the military......but its secondary to the fact that a likely dying old man has been hypnotized by the mercator projection into wanting greenland