Luke Rasmussen
@lrasmus.bsky.social
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Health and biomedical informatics nerd and research software engineer. Interests in computational phenotyping using EHR data, data privacy, and security. Thoughts and comments are my own.

Biology 36%
Computer science 21%
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Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Are we currently clean on OPSEC? Asking for a friend.

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“Posting personal information to Grok is more like, ‘Wheee! Let’s throw this data out there, and hope the company is going to do what I want them to do,’” Dr. Malin said.
Yup - listen to @bradmalin.bsky.social! Caveat Emptor!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/w...
Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged
Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.
www.nytimes.com

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If you didn't make the cut, feel free to reach out to cfp at bsideschicago.org and we will do our best to provide feedback to help you improve. And again, so many great talk just missed the mark due to running out of time slots. #BSidesChicago #CFP
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I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila

If that's true, then I must be tremendously fit! Can't wait to tell my doctor the good news.

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SIPS 2024 Online Program

We are happy to announce that the online conference schedule is now ready to view. View the Online program here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tppQ2LwDzpdqatTA0JUm3NZ9k1vrer2qWKJVxv0r5HQ/edit#gid=1932976819
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Sorry, all I can hear is "Goodbye Horses" playing in the background...

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Ten simple rules to leverage large language models for getting grants.

About $4.50 a bottle 🥁
Am curious if it's legit, but I'm more and more skeptical of all this stuff being more than a way to sell product.

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it's nice to see Cybertrucks just parked alongside more ordinary vehicles
two grey dumpsters amongst some parked cars

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Working on another data dictionary today, I am reminded again how important these documents are in the research life cycle. Creating data dictionaries early on creates a roadmap for your entire project, leading to more high quality and usable data.
cghlewis.com/blog/data_di...
Using a data dictionary as your roadmap to quality data | Crystal Lewis
An introduction into why and how to build a data dictionary.
cghlewis.com

I realize I'm being a snarky jerk, but given what happened with Epic's sepsis model, this just feels a little... ironic. Hopefully they will use their own tools.

I remember one of my science teachers had one, and there were 2 videos he showed on it :) I thought it was pretty cool too!

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Really great read, thanks for highlighting!

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Found this on my desktop. Classic in the making...

So true! Sadly, I know I have been that speaker on more than one occasion...

Love reading #informatics papers that have a #ResearchSoftwareEngineering focus! Kudos to Post et al for describing their architecture and approaches with TDD. academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions

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We'll be doubling the space for #BSidesChicago 2024 - surveys were commenting on many talks overflowing. And #CareerVillage will be a thing for sure! #Hacking #CyberSecurity

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New euphemism for Twitter discovered, thanks to Metroid Fusion (2002)
Screenshot of Metroid Fusion that says, “attacker: the parasitic organism we now know as X.”