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CORE-BEHRT: A Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT
Mikkel Odgaard, Kiril Vadimovic Klein, Sanne M{\o}ller Thysen, Espen Jimenez-Solem, Martin Sillesen, Mads Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15201

CORE-BEHRT: A Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT
BERT-based models for Electronic Health Records (EHR) have surged in popularity following the release of BEHRT and Med-BERT. Subsequent models have largely built on these foundations despite the fundamental design choices of these pioneering models remaining underexplored. To address this issue, we introduce CORE-BEHRT, a Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT. Through incremental optimization, we isolate the sources of improvement for key design choices, giving us insights into the…

Dusted off my 20 year old Kinesis Classic keyboard. Still works! It's a bit of nostalgic feeling for me. https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2024/04/12/kinesis-classic-on-a-modern-computer/

How the author of notorious Hollywood gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights inadvertently revealed his identity to a Florida court following an extramarital affair (Jared Holt/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/crazy-days-a

‘Crazy Days and Nights’ Blogger Unmasked as John Nelson—by Ex-Mistress Cassandra Crose
The story of how his identity was revealed could have been ripped from his own blind-items gossip site.

On Greg Olear's Prevail podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talks about #SCOTUS - court packing, judicial mindsets, the Federalist Society, term limits, issues before the court, and more.
"No other constitutional democracy is in thrall to a court the way the United States is."

‎Prevail with Greg Olear: Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Prevail with Greg Olear, Ep Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) - Mar 1, 2024

In my head, the title is pronounced “Zhakob hazh Zhumped the Zhark.” Which explains… well, nothing, I guess.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/03/jakob-has-jumped-the-shark.html
Yes, that is the bear from Jakob’s clearly spurious alternative text exa…

Jakob Has Jumped the Shark
Yes, that is the bear from Jakob’s clearly spurious alternative text example and yes, that is The Fonz after jumping the shark. If you have been following the saga of Jakob Nielsen, there a few quotes I could use here: Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster (Nietzsche).…

Legendrian loops and cluster modular groups
James Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12951 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12951

Legendrian loops and cluster modular groups
This work studies Legendrian loop actions on exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links in $(\R^3, ξ_{\st})$. By identifying the induced action of Legendrian loops as generators of cluster modular groups, we establish the existence of faithful group actions on the exact Lagrangian fillings of several families of Legendrian positive braid closures, including all positive torus links. In addition, we leverage a Nielsen-Thurston-like classification of cluster automorphisms to provide new combi…

"It’s a people problem, not an accessibility problem", by
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https://darice.org/2024/03/12/its-a-people-proble…

It’s a people problem, not an accessibility problem / Darice de Cuba
I have been following the fallout from Jakob Nielsen’s betrayal of accessibility. Yes, that is what I am choosing to label it. He’s giving people and companies an excuse not to do their…

Yearly allergy post! Took my first Allegra today. Not feeling any of the usual itchy or sneezing but my sinuses have been clogged for days now.
2024: April 7
2023: April 16
2022: Jan 13
2021: Mar 4
2020: none?
2019: Feb 2

Grateful to JetBlue for flying me home comfortably and with no drama in the teeth of a serious storm. My plane had to come from San Francisco to Florida and back yesterday; both flights on time. No idea how they managed it when so many others cancelled.

The feeling of freedom after finishing a book you are reading as an obligation.