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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s somehow funnier when people don’t know that’s the reason, and the assumption is that I always dress this way / am super odd 😆

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Love this! Perhaps to add: that the odds ratio becomes a rate ratio under density / risk-set sampling designs is pure magic.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Privacy preservation for PHI etc in local models is a massive bonus. Am planning to happily accept 80-90% performance of frontier models (especially as those goalposts move in 1-2 years) for this off the shelf feature

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I was struggling with this recently, had Claude walk me through a new strategy which (absurdly?) includes a skill for skills. Without getting into either of our specifics, a generic meta-skill pattern for this looks something like attached image. Interested in other replies here!

/mnt/skills/public/skill-manager/
SKILL.md ← trigger description + high-level instructions
scan.py ← discovers SKILL.md files across paths
registry.json ← cached manifest of all known skills
audit.py ← runs quality checks
README.md ← human-facing docs

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just did the same, except since I'm represented by this feckless clown, I also ended with "I realize Congressman Issa is going to do nothing but thanks for listening." bsky.app/profile/atru...

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

👋 from Propagandhi dad with Justin Bieber kid 🤜 🤛

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I have a doctorate in epidemiology, I can’t save your life but I can tell you how you are most likely to die

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This review is what motivated my choice for sticker junkie. Thin quality of sticker app mentioned there too (though it remains a way better alternative to 🐴 💩 of course) nldcreative.com/2024/08/19/c...

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Very serious answer: embrace how mentors are so often mentored by their mentees.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

this is extremely cool, thanks for sharing!

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Released {ducklake}: an R package for DuckLake data lakehouses 🦆 I like to think of DuckLake like git for data. The package supports: - Automatic versioning - Time travel - ACID transactions - Audit trails - tidyverse-like interface Feedback most welcome! tgerke.github.io/ducklake-r/ #rstats

tgerke.github.io

ducklake: Interact with DuckLake from R

R package that complements duckdb and duckplyr packages to support the new DuckLake ecosystem.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Big corp gonna love this. Have agents ask off-books “employees” do to unethical tasks in unethical conditions to support the bottom line with no accountability i.e. “the agent gave the instruction” 🤷‍♂️

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

(in which there must be at least 1 node which is a 💩)

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Fine to do with appropriate DAG

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The time and $$ savings running clinical trials is gonna be lit (phase 3 in a day!!!)

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Reviewer 2 heard on good authority from RFK Jr that Trump balls have volume 4/3 pi k^10

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Post of the year and it’s only January

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Just occurred to me how funny it will be if/when the AI this administration loves gets good enough, it will identify vaccines as the best vehicle for population health and “discover” mRNA vaccine technologies

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

the rad thing about this though is that it features Tony Hawk. San Diego, never stop

Screenshot of news headline San Diego legend Tony Hawk makes ballet stage debut in “the nutcracker”

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

god help me, we are going to the nutcracker with our two middle school boys [insert Beavis laugh]

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Darren do it to save the entire US economy which is now wholly predicated on this shit

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Isn’t that always the case with GPL though? I.e. as long as the interpreter is kept at arm’s length it’s ok to sell your app. Makes for weird workarounds though, like I assume installing R separate from Rstudio is necessary for this reason. Clunky.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🤣 but Shiny for Python now legitimately in the chill zone!

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Doesn’t R itself being GPL and running under the shiny hood still present the same problem though?

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

👋 rural CA living person here, years dealing with mice. Hot glueing a dog food kernel with some peanut butter on top to your favorite trap is a hack

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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

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Bhav Patel (Dodonerd) @bhav.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Im thrilled to once again not be taking part in advent of code

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

AI is not coming for your job but it is coming for this scene, and I hate it

Screen shot of Love Actually where Jamie is about to lose his typewritten pages into the water which Aurélia will retrieve

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The most useful thing I ever learned on social media is the incredible culinary gains from microwaving things at 50% power

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

That’s helpful. Somewhat contrarian position but I’m in the camp that says interpreting coefficients outside of a causal context lacks meaning. C.f. this paper with particular attention to the “table 2 fallacy” section and its source reference pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching

Regression methods dominate the practice of biostatistical analysis, but biostatistical training emphasizes the details of regression models and methods ahead of the purposes for which such modeling might be useful. More broadly, statistics is ...

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

What is the context of the attempted interpretation - predictive, causal?

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 04/12/2025

it’s the year of our lord 2025 and auth is still near impossible

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

but no worries the c-suite decision makers on both sides who made this partnership happen will profit handsomely from the bump in valuation whether or not any real problem is solved

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

👆 See for example this lmfao press release I just read. "Agentic AI!!" "Democratizing AI for health sciences!!" "Clinical trial automation!!!" wtf are the robots going to see the patients and enter their data into the EDC www.iqvia.com/newsroom/202...

iqvia.com

IQVIA Announces Strategic Collaboration with AWS, Naming AWS as Preferred Agentic Cloud Provider to Power Next-Generation AI Platform

<p> <strong>RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — December 2, 2025</strong> — IQVIA (NYSE: IQV), a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intell...

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This. Effect size assumptions come way later, usually backed into per above constraints. Totally backwards, but somehow medicine keeps finding new treatments that work

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I'm doing hypothesis tests. I'm making confidence intervals. I'm making combination hypothesis test confidence intervals!

screenshot of an article title "Efficient Construction of Test Inversion Confidence Intervals"

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"We're nearing AGI" but it's still hard to understand meeting availability across teams, audio visual devices consistently don't work in said meetings, a single web service bug brings down half the internet

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Love all of this thank you! And same story here: much easier to push well-supported docker containers into existing org infra, and if rix makes the R specific stuff inside easier to handle (which I’m sure it does) we’re really cooking. Giving this a whirl next week!

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I’m here for the rix inside docker going why didn’t I think of that 🤯 are you able to elaborate on the reasons your team had for that setup?

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

@propagandhi.com somehow managed to do this in a series with their first 3. How to clean everything -> less talk more rock -> today’s empires tomorrow’s ashes. Each one absolutely 10x the previous

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Uh, voters shouted FIGHT HARDER to the Democratic Party and the party said no thanks

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