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Matt Jensen

@mattjensen.bsky.social

Day job: designing scientific software. Interests: data analysis, bioinformatics, information design, statistics, history of science, 18thC, history of culture

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Matt Jensen @mattjensen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New temporary character limit? Let us never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever abuse it.

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Matt Jensen @mattjensen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It was 100 years ago today that Floyd Collins got trapped in a Kentucky cave. It became a riveting national story, and then the first news spectacle to be covered by radio. The metastory combines some of the very best and worst of the news /media business. #FloydCollins #History

Public domain photo of Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Colliins wearing a suit and a badge reading "Great Crystal Cave".

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Matt Jensen @mattjensen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you've heard the general story of how B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to steer bombs in #WWII, read his declassified article about Project Pigeon [1] to find surprise after surprise, in dry wit. 🧪🧵...

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Matt Jensen @mattjensen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

MSK's Schulz Lab has a great Nature paper combining NLP-abstracted clinical records with tumor sequence data at scale. The combination ("MSK-CHORD") improves outcome prediction and suggests some of AI's potential. 🧪 The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Justin Lee's blog post: bit.ly/3UVGffe

An overview of the MSK-CHORD paper's ideas, this figure contains four subfigures.
a. MSK-CHORD creation overview.
b. NLP model performance and errors audited.
c. MSK-CHORD characteristics and survival data.
d. Patient data visualization in cBioPortal.

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