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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 13h

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

I think this about yankees and dodgers fans all the time

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 8d

TIL, cool!!

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 11d

💯! 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 · 12d

Your wife is empirically correct.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

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

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 15d

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

travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 17d

Hell yes, I’m down to help recruit

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18d

Also Robert Malone, man made of potato

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18d

Robert Malone has already done that study and the pharmacokinetic profile which only he has seen and understands has been determined safe and effective. He will put you on mute if you disagree.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18d

💯 and I think we're now full circle regarding current ACIP aims: "can't do placebo controlled RCTs for vaccines now due to cost, time, ethics, whatever; therefore vaccines should be abandoned."

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18d

Periodically tuned into ACIP 🗑️ Repeated calls for placebo controlled RCTs.

Just shouting the obvious (🤡 ACIP excepted) into the void: we identify life-saving therapies through active control RCTs all the time. Eg effective therapies for cancer exist, we cannot withhold them to study new treatments.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19d

Presumably Dr. Robert Malone gets out of bed each day, maybe showers or gets in his car or drinks water or eats food or exercises or even flies in a plane.

Does he demand a randomized clinical trial showing that there are zero possible adverse events to any of these actions?

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 25d

Save time by washing hands while you poop

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 26d

brb implanting my eye into my cardiovascular system so that i can tolerate this 5th cup of coffee i just drank

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