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Jeffrey B. Benyacar

@drjeffreyb.bsky.social
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Health policy wonk/ biostats, healthcare econ & what the data actually say| "Despair has its own calms"| KNICKS, Mets & Jets fan| sic labitur ætas

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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 18h
Totally. I get winning requires compromise. But there’s a difference between political pragmatism and abandoning principles, especially as a pediatrician. I wish she’d found a better balance. Darlene Graham is a stammering cipher: the lesser of two evils is obvious but still sooo disappointing!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I guess it rains down in Africa.”😉
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm on the fan's side. He caught the ball fair and square, and the child isn't entitled to it. Giving it away would have been a lovely gesture, but generosity CEASES to be generosity when a crowd demands it. ⚾
nypost.com
Dodgers fan’s brutal response when entire stadium demanded he hand foul ball to young Braves fan
A viral video of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan refusing to give an NLDS foul ball to a young Atlanta Braves fan has sparked a massive online debate
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This reminds me of Advanced Math in college. We had practice quizzes to prep 🫠 Practice quiz: You have 2 apples. Someone gives you 2 more. How many? (Hint: 🍎) Actual exam: Prove the Riemann Hypothesis. (Hint: Every nontrivial zero of the zeta function has real part 1/2.)🙃
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh geez. Never mind. Hope you crushed it!!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sure. Will post tomorrow.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Would you like a nifty hint I used? 🤔
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They're built from the same cloth. Catch Vivek's near miss? 🤦‍♂️
youtu.be
Vivek Ramaswamy struggles to pick up boy, awkward moment caught on camera | Ohio Gov race
YouTube video by The Economic Times
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three out of four ain't bad! 🧐😁
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
לא נשכח ולא נסלח
Black memorial graphic marking three years since October 7, 2023. Two white candles burn against a dark background, their flames forming the numbers “10” and “7.” Text reads, “Three years. We remember. 1,200 murdered. 251 taken hostage.” The Combat Antisemitism Movement logo appears above.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Worse, after an intervention, the data generating process that defined the model changed! That distinction between predicting WHO returns and knowing what would prevent their return is huge. A variable can be highly predictive (if you're lucky) and utterly useless as an intervention target. 🫠
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I remember trying to predict SNF readmission and then divine which interventions would actually prevent it. The goal was simple: happier patients and lower costs. Prediction was hard enough. Identifying modifiable causes and effective interventions was a much harder causal problem.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
YES!!! In some ways, the greatest virtue of propensity scores is pedagogical: they force you to make explicit just how HEROIC the assumption of conditional exchangeability really is. Complex patients and clinician patient interactions are NOT vectors of a dozen neatly measured covariates.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hell yeah!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Poland schooling Hitler apologist and moral sewer Tucker Carlson: Hitler was a genocidal monster. Imagine being so morally bankrupt, so utterly disgusting, that Poland has to explain Hitler to you.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not one patient mentioned it. Five star patients. No notes.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🥛🍼Fun fact: Pasteurization wasn’t invented for milk. Pasteur developed it in the 1860s to stop microbes from spoiling wine. And milk is NOT boiled: standard pasteurization is about 161°F for approx. 15 seconds. It kills dangerous pathogens WITHOUT meaningfully reducing nutrition.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk? He was a kind Hulk. THAT other Hulk in the two part episode was ☠️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@rmcarpiano.medsky.social : Adding extra cream which is part of the original cookie: 💯 Weird Frankencookie concoctions: 🈲🚫
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What on earth 🌍? No, they don't go together. Just 🛑 ✋!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thirty years later Peter Ratcliffe won the Nobel 🏆 Prize after this rejection from Nature (Nature Medicine didn't exist yet). You're in good company, Robin.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hot Pastrami sandwich from Katz's Delicatessen
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apocalypse Now Plan 9 From Outer Space. 🪐
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ditto (with meatballs) Hot fudge sundae with chocolate marshmallow ice cream 🍨 Open Hot Turkey Sandwich from good dinner Hot Patrami from Katz's
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hot fudge sundae with chocolate marshmallow ice cream Open Hot Turkey Sandwich
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Taxi Driver
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Next time I'm in town Violet Hour is on the itinerary. It sounds like a great time.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And her CHIROPRACTOR shared the photos in the Facebook group!!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Think it IS still there Crif Dogs at 113 St. Marks Place East Village Never heard that ad but 💯 As I recall even the owner mocked the "secrecy" haha
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Too harsh IMO. Risky Business, Born on the 4th, the Firm (still watch again if it is on) and A Few Good Men are quite good. It's become hard to distinguish his private antics from the characters he tries to inhabit as he gets older.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shia LeBoeuf Mel Gibson Dwayne Johnson Steven Seagal Jared Leto As for Cruise, it depends on my mood. For MI mindless cartoonish stunts, why not? Cocktail however was inspid junk. 🗑️ The Mummy was ghastly. And he's no Jack Reacher!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's also interesting that anyone who has tried to write a really AIRTIGHT prompt discovers that natural language programming IS still programming. The bugs have just migrated from the code to the specification, no? 😁
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very fair. Syntax I suppose is becoming cheap. The scarce skills are knowing what you actually want, specifying it precisely, and recognizing when the output is wrong. Natural language MAY remove a lot of friction, but I worry some may try to use it as a substitute for thinking.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That distinction feels important: Abstraction removes the need to understand implementation details. It doesn't HOWEVER remove the need to understand the problem. I think my "hmmmmmmmmm" explains it perfectly. 💯
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can use glmer() intelligently without knowing how its machine instructions execute. But you do need to understand what statistical model you are asking it to fit, its assumptions, parameterization, convergence issues, and what the output means.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm🤔🤔🤔
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Same in the States. Legitimate companies frequently train EXACTLY the behavioral response that phishing depends upon.
pbs.org
Scammed | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
How online scams steal billions of dollars and ruin victims’ lives.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Light sensitivity? Floaters?
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice glasses 👓 professor. Now listen carefully: “Mass suicide of the elderly” is not edgy intellectualism but adolescent provocation and eugenics dressed up as contrarian brilliance, with a Yale affiliation doing the intellectual heavy lifting. 🤡
nytimes.com
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? (Gift Article)
Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like those floors too! Stay safe
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I knew mocking that Morris Albert song might offend some.
static.klipy.com
Dexter Idk
ALT: Dexter Idk
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rear Window Dr. Strangelove Both are 💯
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah.I tend to expect more from MIT full professors regardless of their specialty. But, alas, we're stuck in a hellscape where that Morris Albert song plays on an infinite loop. 💀
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sick tats
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even credentialed (in ancillary fields) professors embarrassingly glide to each step w/o any corroborating evidence. Possible signal → association → plausible mechanism → causation → clinically important harm → population level danger🚨🚨🚨
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FFS. 🤦‍♂️Conspiracy mongering dressed up as scholarship. Paper gets rejected, therefore censorship, Big Pharma, corrupt editors...No evidence, no demonstrated causal mechanism, just throwing 💩 around. This is embarrassingly unserious, especially for an MIT prof. What are his credentials exactly?
Screenshot of a post by Retsef Levi claiming that scientific journals censor discussion of vaccine injuries. He says a preprint titled “Reporting on Prolonged Adverse Health Impact Among V SAFE Enrollees” was rejected by the journal Vaccine and by medRxiv. Levi suggests the rejections reflect pharmaceutical industry influence over scientific publishing and questions the integrity of peer review.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To my untrained ears it all sounds the same tbh. The distortions on YouTube make the variations even subtler. Wonder how much of guitar 🎸 culture would fare in a properly blinded experiment. Not the experts. Just normal tinkering folks 🤔
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dan and Mick know their stuff
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting swap. If you’re after the classic Klon sound, what made you choose the Deluxe over the standard Tum?
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting Op Ed from George Will: "In this year of an inconclusive war, a soaring deficit and stubborn inflation, many Republican candidates seem most worried about transgender matters." ‼️Graham is comically and dangerously unqualified. Hope South Carolinians see the light and vote for Andrews
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Independence-minded South Carolina has an alternative to Darline Graham
Democrat Annie Andrews provides a ballot alternative to a Republican who'll cater to Trump's whims.
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