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me in an unfamiliar grocery store

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Kant: "Because each [tree] seeks to take air and sun from the other, [they] are constrained to look for them above themselves, and thereby achieve a beautiful straight growth; whereas those in freedom and separated from one another, that put forth their branches as they like, grow stunted and awry."

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The pho restaurant I’m at is playing “Apple Bottom Jeans” on the stereo

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"65% of the cross-county variation was explained by variation in service utilization, while price and intensity of services, disease prevalence, and population age explained 24%, 7%, and 4% of the variation, respectively" 🤯

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Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller March 28,1938

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As better early warning systems are deployed in healthcare, they contribute to the process that generates data used in the training of subsequent systems. This causes new systems to largely identify patients for whom early warning of decline did not improve their prognosis.

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From Ursula Le Guin's "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.e...)

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I see AI prescribing as creating a step between OTC drugs and things you really need a doc's supervision for. This bill isn't designed to let AI prescribe every drug, but it could massively improve access by freeing up docs from managing routine, guideline-driven care like antihypertensives.

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David McRaney, as quoted in the linked article: “Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.”

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TIL: “None other than Vannevar Bush pioneered indirect cost reimbursement during World War II at a flat rate of 50%.”

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Kinda glad that the Civ VII reviews are pretty mediocre so far. That way I'm not too tempted to buy it and spend another 700 hours like I did with VI.

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A bill has been introduced in the House by AZ Congressman David Schweikert that would allow AI to qualify as a "practitioner" under FDA rules. This would be a huge step forward in improving access to affordable healthcare, even if current applications might be limited.

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Judging by the amount of attention the environmental impact of generative AI gets online, you'd imagine it was as bad as a hamburger.

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A fascinating/horrifying look inside a company's decisions about which doctors to pay for speaking engagements: - Speakers were selected based on high rates of prescribing - Fake events were held with spouses and friends to justify the speaker fees

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Submitting a journal article that requires suggesting EIGHT reviewers...

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It's as important ever to affirm the importance of an open society.

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Received a hongbao filled with gelt.

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"Treating things with dignity, even if they are not alive, imbues our own actions with meaning, and underlines the impact of our choices to affect others. Care is something we carry with us." A beautiful meditation on our relationship with technology and non-human life.

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People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think? Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯

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La Rochefoucauld: "When vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are the ones who are leaving them."

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Every Manski paper I've read has been worth the time.

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I've somehow found my way onto 'insanely bright flashlight' YouTube. It's incredible here (annoying music aside):

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“Again, opium smoking is very involved, very time-consuming. At first, that’s what I was attracted to, the whole ritual aspect of it. But then I started bringing the stuff to my apartment. That’s when things went crazy.”

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Nice data viz.

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the resentment against the Biden white house for not leaking or generating scandals was intense

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"I think some of the general reaction and the general understanding of things as 'cringe' is one of the ways the system protects itself - to describe as deviant the behavior of describing the system." From this excellent interview of Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

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From this excellent article: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-wor...

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Georgetown University Department of Family Medicine has opened a faculty position in quantitative research. They're open to PhDs in biostats, health services research, health econ, and similar quant degrees. I work with this group and there's a lot of exciting research going on! LMK if you apply.

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How many songs of yearning were obsoleted by cell phones? I'm listening to Joni Mitchell's "Car on the Hill," where she listens for her lover's car climbing the hill she lives on. Instead of wondering "where in the city could that boy be," she'd either know via text or be left on read.

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Quarto is so good it's ridiculous

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