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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 1d

I will never willingly watch AI slop. Never.

Daniel Rizk MD MS @notreallydaniel.bsky.social · 11d

The @tidierjl.bsky.social 2025 Julia Con video is now posted - I did my best to do a 25 min whirlwind summary of all the awesome work folks around the world have helped put together, from dataframe logging, databases and plotting to web scraping and more!

youtu.be/1-r4CySJWCI?...

State of Tidier.jl | Rizk | JuliaCon Global 2025

YouTube video by The Julia Programming Language

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Daniel Rizk MD MS @notreallydaniel.bsky.social · 23d

excellent ai generated alt text in one drive ppt.

A graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of a graph of

AI-generated content may be incorrect.

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Daniel Rizk MD MS @notreallydaniel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Medfluencing should be outlawed.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 6

the thing that many are thinking and few are saying.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Sep 3

I really enjoyed giving a brief introduction to Julia for statisticians yesterday - thanks to Jake Grainger and Charles Dufour for organising such a great session!

Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in...

#RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social

Screenshot of slides comparing R and Julia code for visualisation

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Aug 25

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...

Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯

This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.

#rstats #econsky

Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.

dbreg(
tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#>
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> fare_amount 0.106744 0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086 0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Aug 21

As a UM alum, my question is, wtaf ⁉️

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 20

The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.

Questions to ask yourself
As GenAl poses to be a revolutionary tool that can change the academic space and beyond, it is important for you to understand why and how you intend to use these new, powerful tools. These are a few questions to consider and note that the answers to these questions will vary for each person.
• Is using a GenAl-based tool helping me learn more and think better?
• Is using a GenAl-based tool enabling or hindering my mastery of the stated course objectives?
• Is the content I generate accurate and verifiable? Is it free of biases that might harm other groups of society?
• How will I treat content that might have been generated using a GenAl-based tool?
• Is using a GenAl-based tool equitable to my peers in my course?
• How can my actions in using a GenAl-based tool lead to the greater good of society?
Understand that your usage of GenAl-based tools can give you the means to better not just yourself, but also society as a whole, and there is an ethical responsibility towards doing so.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Aug 19

git commit message: I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tried of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · Aug 18

a man wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket is talking about scientists .

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket is talking about scientists .

media.tenor.com

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Daniel Rizk MD MS @notreallydaniel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Gradient boosted TreeQL

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊

Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie

This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

nrennie.rbind.io

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Daniel Rizk MD MS @notreallydaniel.bsky.social · Aug 16

Seen quite a few posts about orbital in python and R recently so I had try something before this upcoming nightshift… 👀 @tidierjl.bsky.social

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RiderToast, fumbler of the First Bag @ridertoast.bsky.social · Aug 15

What if we built an organ out of tiny capsules full of dangerous enzymes that destroy everything they touch and then slightly jostled it?

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Karandeep Singh @kdpsingh.bsky.social · Aug 13

In my address to the JuliaCon community, I shared why it’s such an amazing time to be in healthcare - decades-long problems solved in a short time-frame by modern medicine and the whole gamut of basic to clinical research.

But for this to work, the NIH needs to focus on science, not politics.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 5

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · Aug 4

Today at #WTC2025:

A patient with type 1 diabetes underwent transplantation of genetically modified allogeneic islet cells with no immunosuppression. The results of this study support the concept of immune evasion by these modified cells. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/3TXVgwp

@ttsorg.bsky.social

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · Jul 26

Another #juliacon in the books! Check out my talk on TidierPlots.jl here: www.youtube.com/live/HMdBi9L... and the State of Tidier.jl (by Daniel Rizk) here: www.youtube.com/live/_Uf2KQX... to see what's been going on with @tidierjl.bsky.social in #julialang

JuliaCon Global 2025 | Else Room | Day 2

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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · Jul 27

Police are actually just not very good at keeping people safe.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 26

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jul 11

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. If they didn’t, one man wouldn’t own the bookstore, the record store, the grocery store, the hospital, one of two only functioning newspapers, the space program and, perhaps now, one of the two last magazine companies

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jul 11

Bezos rumored to be buying Condé Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica.

Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs.

Bezos to buy Vogue as a gift to new wife? Insiders link deal to Sanchez’s cover shoot, could cost him billions

Rumors are swirling that Jeff Bezos might acquire Condé Nast, Vogue's parent company, as a wedding gift for Lauren Sanchez. This speculation is fueled by Sanchez's recent Vogue cover, hand-picked atti...

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Daniel Rizk MD MS @notreallydaniel.bsky.social · Jul 6

As one of the few MDs wearing an n95 in all pt rooms, I gotta say, not getting sick all of intern year was incredible.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jul 6

I love my N95. I wear it whenever I am indoors and not eating (& try eat outside most of
them time). It make my life more carefree, not less. I visited a friend w cancer. My mask let us visit. Later I saw another friend who was ill & it turned out to be Covid. Didn’t have to worry bc of my N95!

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Jul 4

many of us are abolitionists
but not enough

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Jul 1

Many thanks to all the useful idiots who legitimized "real world evidence", insisting that "big data" plus "AI" wouldn't be used to replace trials.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 1

"At FDA we're accelerating drug approvals so that you don't need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI."

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jun 25

THE BROTHER WHO SPONSORED A BILL AGAINST ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS, HAS PROTESTED FOR PALESTINIANS AND WHO SAID HE'D ARREST NETANYAHU IF HE CAME TO NEW YORK IS IN THE LEAD FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.

A new day is here!

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