szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Got a new shirt

Quite shocking: a total of 145 FDA aproved new #cancer #drugs between 2000 and 2020 improved overall survival by only 2.5 months and only 4% report improvement in quality of life.

Even worse: most aprovals based on single RCT’s with small effects, so #evidence base very weak.

#MedMastodon

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijc.34473

Albert Antoine work over his 40+ years as a chemist at NASA included research on alternative energy, batteries, and fuel cells. Along with 5 Black colleagues, he encouraged minority students to pursue careers in space.
#NASAhistory

@pluralistic
Why not just name the chatbot after George Santos and be done with it?

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Google's chatbot panic; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/

#Pluralistic

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Norfolk Southern:

-Helped kill a safety rule to upgrade outdated braking systems

-Fought off a shareholder initiative to mitigate risks of transporting hazardous materials

-Cut thousands of employees despite the safety risks of understaffing

Atrocious corporate greed.

Update: I was informed by an engineer that no one wants that, and it’s not possible on Mastodon anyway.

I fired the engineer an email praising them for their honesty and integrity, and they’ll be getting a bonus next week.

Alfred Eisenstaedt captured this 1932 picture of an ice-skating waiter, Rene Brequet, at the rink of the Grand Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Brequet skated around the rink with a tray of cocktails serving patrons at the Grand Hotel.The skating waiters were a popular attaction.

"I did one smashing picture", Eisenstaedt wrote, "of the skating headwaiter. To be sure the picture was sharp, I put a chair on the ice and asked the waiter to skate by it."

#History #Photography

Are they sure? 😹
Photo credit: @noelhawkins

Here's another pic of my natural habitat. Yay #WanderlustWednesday!

#forest #ferns #mosstodon #swamp #nature #wanderlust

Where can I find art or artist bots to follow? (No AI, please.)

Excited to introduce the #Rstats package rang (developed by @chainsawriot and me). The pkg helps to reconstruct historical R environments to make old code run again (ie make it reproducible!). So far, it supports all code back to R 2.1.0 (2005!)
https://github.com/chainsawriot/rang


The package is an Rchaeological tool to ensure reproducibility retrospectively. You can also use rang to make your current projects future proof, but pkgs like renv or groundhog are better suited for this task.

Does the animal we see on Mastodon server error pages have a name, and can it please be Errorphant?

Polar Bear lying in a field of purple lupine.

Martin Gregus, Jr
#WildLife #wildlifeofmastodon #Polarbears #Animals

I really should have said:

"Ask a question in one way, get a dangerously wrong answer. Ask the same question in a slightly different way, get an answer close to correct".

Either way, it's dangerous. Don't use Chat Bots for Trip Planning.

#AI #ChatGPT #BingChatAI #ParkChat

RT @apukwa
Also, ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer.

(Hanes Valley Route is closed and navigation markers have been removed)

This is actually quite sc…
https://twitter.com/apukwa/status/1625723996112318465

A friend is currently in Utquiagvik and took these wonderful photos. 💗
#Alaska #FarNorth

“Pet peeve” implies the existence of wild, feral peeves as well