MTV Cribs - NICU Dailymotion video by Modesta Lofton

Your post reminded me of a video from at least 2009, possibly earlier.

Yes it’s somewhat offensive. Yes I’m a bad person and still laugh at it.

www.dailymotion.com/video/x2okwn4

TIL that splattering your scrubs with beet juice at lunch leaves you looking like you were at a VERY bad C-section.

And it doesn’t blot out.

So now I look like an axe murderer, taking care of the babies.

This image was taken by NASA's EPIC camera onboard the NOAA DSCOVR spacecraft

A view of Earth as seen by NASA's EPIC camera aboard the NOAA DSCOVR spacecraft, capturing our planet suspended in the darkness of space from nearly a million miles away

I could raise my hand. But it’s pointless.

I’d much rather see more people NOT raise their hand but say they have changed.

Forever ago I really enjoyed SimAnt.

Two of my favorite non-fiction books include EO Wilson and Holldobler’s Journey to the Ants and The Leafcutter Ants

Will have to check this out. Is it more game or biological sim?

🐜

Installed Linux Mint a few days ago.

It’s good. Very good actually.

Didn’t expect this, but I could see myself migrating eventually, or even pretty soon.

(Currently Mac OS >>> Windows)

Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Thoughts on the impact of exponentially (literally) growing capabilities of AI. Very much worth the 10 - 15 minutes to read, particularly if you're closer to the start than the end of your career, no matter what that career might be.

Coffee and improved cognition, reduced dementia
>130,000 people followed 37 years
Benefit seen only with caffeinated coffee or tea and most pronounced ~2 cups/day
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In my office, I still have “books” (those things made out of trees) that I learned PHP and Perl from.

(My clinical calculator website is fully hand coded in PHP…)

Maybe I should see if my laserdisc player still works.

Like the finding. Don’t like the Y axis.

Former pediatrician here (now just newborns) — congratulations and thank you. When you feel sore and achy afterwards, remember that it’s because IT’S WORKING! Your body’s immune system is going “what the heck is this stuff?!? I’m going to learn to kick the sh*t out of it if I ever run into it again.” Whenever I got my shots and I DIDN’T feel sort of crummy the couple of days afterwards, I was worried the shots weren’t working :)

Encouraging a kid who decided to get vaccinated, in my own apparently strange way.

#PedSky

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So much depth to the half-time show that I missed. Really nice post sharing the cultural meaning.

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Ice Cream for Breakfast Day - Wikipedia

This is today.

I guess for me it’ll have to be “Eat ice cream for third breakfast day”

I bet they’re going to flood Pooh, 7 Dwarfs, and Ariel and bring back submarines, right?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Was working with a medical student recently who said I had a “moral code”.

I don’t really know what that means but I felt strangely disturbed.

They probably shouldn’t let me work with medical students. I’m contaminating them.

Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

Groundhog Day Meaning
https://xkcd.com/3202/

Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3202

I prefer:

“Don’t believe anything without thought.” - Me

This is both horrifying and expected.

I have been dismayed at how many clinicians I know are quite willing and even excited to offload their clinical judgement to large language models.

I’m aware of Palantir and what they do

But I’m a physician, and protected health information is (or was) considered sacred. The information a patient (or parent) communicates with us shouldn’t be fair game for data harvesting.

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt “illegal immigrants” US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...

Anyone else find this concerning?

#MedSky #PedSky #NeoSky

Parents terrified to leave home to bring kid to the hospital is yet another thing making me very angry (bili over 25 mg/dL)

How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively…

You do have to give Anthropic credit here. It is rare for a lab to publish data questioning its own tools.
Meta constantly buries internal findings that challenge their business model. This kind of transparency is uncommon and should be encouraged instead of dog-piled.

Link to the full study:

I’m actually really pleasantly surprised that Anthropic (Claude) was willing to disseminate these results.

Much respect to them.

Confession: I use Claude at times to help with R coding

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Really important research out of Anthropic: In a RCT study, they found AI coding assistance resulted in a 𝟏𝟕% 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 in mastery for users.
While tasks were slightly faster, offloading thinking to AI stunted skill growth. Using AI to explain code, rather than just write it did help with retention.

I had a mom in the nursery ask if I was The Baby Whisperer yesterday, after calming a cranky small one.

Honestly, my dream retirement would include being a volunteer cuddler. Someday.

From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning. Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community

There are no words.

Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE An image like this could once change history. Can one still?

“This is an image of universal moral urgency, akin to a small number of photographs that once upon a time had the power to change our behavior, away from cruelty or indifference and in the direction of basic decency.“ Gift Link

Dang it, how did I miss this?

Back in 2018 I worked (very slowly) through an earlier edition of this book using R but always meant to go through it again (with the 2nd edition) to try to cement understanding.

This is perfect! Hopefully I can catch and keep up!

Basket of around 30 whistles 3D printed and packaged up with info cards with phone number to report ICE activity and what to report, ready for distribution.

Around 30 whistles printed and packaged up with Reporting info cards, ready for distribution.