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I'd never heard of Pierre Novellie til I listened to this. I find his comedy funnier than most - it's worth finding him on YT and listening.
How Do You Cope?: Pierre Novellie: 'I wasn't able to get what I wanted out of life' | 18
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Wondery - Feel The Story
Wondery, an Amazon company, is a podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy stories including Dr. Death, British Scandal, Even the Rich, and Business Wars, and distribution of hit partner shows Morbid and How I Built This.

Penalised spline estimation of covariate-specific time-dependent ROC curves
Mar\'ia Xos\'e Rodr\'iguez-\'Alvarez, Vanda In\'acio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13604

Penalised spline estimation of covariate-specific time-dependent ROC curves
The identification of biomarkers with high predictive accuracy is a crucial task in medical research, as it can aid clinicians in making early decisions, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality in high-risk populations. Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are the main tool used to assess the accuracy of prognostic biomarkers for outcomes that evolve over time. Recognising the need to account for patient heterogeneity when evaluating the accuracy of a prognostic biomar…

Nasty one for a late #GrindayFriday, because the weather in Phoenix is gross. MOCSKœSHI is from Slovakia/Czechia and is a project with members of Morbid Angel Dust and Sick Destroyer. This demo they put out last year is grody and raw, and as a bonus, it has a full 'noise' version of all the tracks, as well. Double gross.

Viele Menschen verstehen #Warnungen wie „#Hitzeindex“ oder „#Hitzewarnung“ falsch. Das zeigt eine US-Studie.
Fast die Hälfte hält den Hitzeindex für die reine

Bridging the Gap between National Weather Service Heat Terminology and Public Understanding
Abstract Clearly communicating heat warning information to the public is an important way to reduce heat mortality and morbidity. However, heat communication interventions from the National Weather Service commonly include technical and scientific terms, otherwise known as jargon. These terms, such as heat advisory or heat index, may not be understood by the public. Given the importance of message understanding in protective action decision-making, the purpose of this study is to assess how the…

Calamus 15 O drops of me!
It's a remarkably morbid poem for Whitman, literally about blood dropping from wounds, corrupting his poetry.
stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
But he turns this blood into a sort of virtue that infuses his poem, starting with an inversion. It's not "saturate yourself with the drops". Instead it's saturate them with yourself.
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
I can make a case for a queer reading of recognizing gay shame and overcoming it. To take the stigma of homosexuality and turn it into a virtue, "let it all be seen in your light".
But I think I may be out on a limb with that interpretation. Whitman's not typically a writer about shame. And I think "gay shame" doesn't apply well as a concept in the 1850s, that's a malady that comes with a backlash against modern gay identity.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00095 has been replaced.
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ClinBench-HPB: A Clinical Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases
Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) disorders represent a global public health challenge due to their high morbidity and mortality. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in general medical question-answering tasks, the current evaluation benchmarks are mostly derived from standardized examinations or manually designed questions, lacking HPB coverage and clinical cases. To address these issues, we systematically eatablish an HPB disease evaluation benchmark comprising…

Very-wide-orbit planets from dynamical instabilities during the stellar birth cluster phase
Andr\'e Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Nathan A. Kaib, Alessandro Morbidelli, Andrea Isella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24093

Very-wide-orbit planets from dynamical instabilities during the stellar birth cluster phase
Gas giant planets have been detected on eccentric orbits several hundreds of astronomical units in size around other stars. It has been proposed that even the Sun hosts a wide-orbit planet of 5-10 Earth masses, often called Planet Nine, which influences the dynamics of distant Trans-Neptunian objects. However, the formation mechanism of such planets remains uncertain. Here we use numerical simulations to show that very wide-orbit planets are a natural byproduct of dynamical instabilities that o…

Active Lubrication of Transluminal Medical Instruments
Mostafa A. Atalla, Jelte Nieuwenhuis, Alan Martin, Xuan Wang, Ahranee Canden, Matt J. Carr\'e, Roger Lewis, Aim\'ee Sakes, Micha\"el Wiertlewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07225

Active Lubrication of Transluminal Medical Instruments
Transluminal minimally invasive surgery uses natural orifices and small incisions to access internal anatomical structures, promoting quicker recovery and reduced morbidity. However, navigating instruments--catheters and endoscopes--through anatomical pathways creates frictional interactions with luminal walls, risking complications such as perforation, poor haptic feedback, and instrument buckling. In this paper, we present a new approach to actively lubricate transluminal instruments and dyna…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00095 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

ClinBench-HPB: A Clinical Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases
Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) disorders represent a global public health challenge due to their high morbidity and mortality. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in general medical question-answering tasks, the current evaluation benchmarks are mostly derived from standardized examinations or manually designed questions, lacking HPB coverage and clinical cases. To address these issues, we systematically eatablish an HPB disease evaluation benchmark comprising…

ClinBench-HPB: A Clinical Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases
Yuchong Li, Xiaojun Zeng, Chihua Fang, Jian Yang, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00095

ClinBench-HPB: A Clinical Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases
Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) disorders represent a global public health challenge due to their high morbidity and mortality. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in general medical question-answering tasks, the current evaluation benchmarks are mostly derived from standardized examinations or manually designed questions, lacking HPB coverage and clinical cases. To address these issues, we systematically eatablish an HPB disease evaluation benchmark comprising…