Grumpy Old Health Stats Dude

At some point the field of medical informatics will have to come to terms with the fact that clinicians rarely even pay attention to prediction models in the EHR. "Decision support" is a nice fantasy but there are already too many competing demands on clinician time.
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Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

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while experimenting with Claude Code I made a MAJOR DISCOVERY!!

yeah! this is the next one on my list, all i know is the blurb (pic) but when i first read “for whom the bell tolls” i gained instant interest in that part of history (plus you’re right, really good read)

check out Savage Coast for a different look at the same war. she is sometimes more elegant than hemingway in her descriptions, too.

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exactly. listen to what you like! and fuck the critics.

JUDGE: Again, this is an emergency hearing with limited briefing. No new information has been provided about issues in Portland, so for all of the reasons stated in my prior opinion, I GRANT plaintiffs second motion for a TRO. 16/

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, including the California National Guard.

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon

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this is sadly true, and not completely historical

who gives a shit? listen to what you like. 🎶

ps: cool plots!

🤣 hopefully not “kissing cousins”

bwhahahahaha what a moron schmusk is

yeah! i use them in healthcare for circular time!

someone in the hawks locker room did something to cause this loss

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Like adding googly eyes to inanimate objects.

Wait, googly eyes... googly AIs... Oh my god.

i dunno. 1987 is when gingrich took down wright, showing the GOP how powerful bad rhetoric could be in politics

did you use alpha/beta or p to determine that?

STEPWISE?!? 😱

they will no doubt live free AND die

but it _is_ a guess

(i wasn’t being frivolous tbh)

sophomore psych be like

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🤣 awesome

just passing by to give a shout out to @epiellie.bsky.social