Joe Chou
@incidentalfindings.org
Data geek, coder, hacker, ex-student pilot, foodie, Disney fan, neonatologist (MD), PediTools developer, ex-molecular biologist (PhD), snarky nonconformist, and annoying dad (+spouse)
Pre-alpha public release of Kitten Space Agency!!!
I played a bit of KSP and was disappointed by KSP 2.
KSA is looking GREAT after very little time, and the devs seem to have their hearts in absolutely the right place — I’ll be making a contribution to support them!
#ksa #KittenSpaceAgency
I played a bit of KSP and was disappointed by KSP 2.
KSA is looking GREAT after very little time, and the devs seem to have their hearts in absolutely the right place — I’ll be making a contribution to support them!
#ksa #KittenSpaceAgency
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Pre-alpha public release of Kitten Space Agency!!!
I played a bit of KSP and was disappointed by KSP 2.
KSA is looking GREAT after very little time, and the devs seem to have their hearts in absolutely the right place — I’ll be making a contribution to support them!
#ksa #KittenSpaceAgency
I played a bit of KSP and was disappointed by KSP 2.
KSA is looking GREAT after very little time, and the devs seem to have their hearts in absolutely the right place — I’ll be making a contribution to support them!
#ksa #KittenSpaceAgency
First time I’ve seen this, and even through light pollution of suburban Massachusetts
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
First time I’ve seen this, and even through light pollution of suburban Massachusetts
A moment of calm in the botanical gardens of Tilden Park, Berkeley CA
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A moment of calm in the botanical gardens of Tilden Park, Berkeley CA
Well, at least it’s better than very similar graphics, but where the cogs are closer together and therefore completely locked up and unable to turn.
Like this one. My question is whether it’s actually meant as an accurate representation of their school system…?
Like this one. My question is whether it’s actually meant as an accurate representation of their school system…?
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Well, at least it’s better than very similar graphics, but where the cogs are closer together and therefore completely locked up and unable to turn.
Like this one. My question is whether it’s actually meant as an accurate representation of their school system…?
Like this one. My question is whether it’s actually meant as an accurate representation of their school system…?
When you lie at the interview, but get the job anyway.
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When you lie at the interview, but get the job anyway.
The reason I provided to them was: "There are consequences to Disney being unwilling to do what is right."
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The reason I provided to them was: "There are consequences to Disney being unwilling to do what is right."
I might not like using AI to replace thinking.
But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.
But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.
August 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I might not like using AI to replace thinking.
But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.
But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.
Boys with Noonan Syndrome at the 97%ile for BMI will collapse into a singularity at ~17.5 years age. It's very sad.
In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354
In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Boys with Noonan Syndrome at the 97%ile for BMI will collapse into a singularity at ~17.5 years age. It's very sad.
In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354
In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354
For Disney fans, a couple of #HiddenMickeys from Aulani
May 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For Disney fans, a couple of #HiddenMickeys from Aulani
Going to be hard leaving this.
April 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Going to be hard leaving this.
Beautiful day out so went on a mini-hike post-call and combined it with logging my first geocache in a year or two.
Should get back into geocaching, if only as an excuse to explore cool places I would not have thought of to go to otherwise.
www.geocaching.com
Should get back into geocaching, if only as an excuse to explore cool places I would not have thought of to go to otherwise.
www.geocaching.com
April 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Beautiful day out so went on a mini-hike post-call and combined it with logging my first geocache in a year or two.
Should get back into geocaching, if only as an excuse to explore cool places I would not have thought of to go to otherwise.
www.geocaching.com
Should get back into geocaching, if only as an excuse to explore cool places I would not have thought of to go to otherwise.
www.geocaching.com
Drove to a local airfield which has a well-regarded breakfast / lunch restaurant.
The French toast was out of this world.
Have done touch-and-goes there and used it for a XC checkpoint, but never “been” there.
Someday I hope to spend $400 to fly there to get the same food.
#studentpilot
The French toast was out of this world.
Have done touch-and-goes there and used it for a XC checkpoint, but never “been” there.
Someday I hope to spend $400 to fly there to get the same food.
#studentpilot
April 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Drove to a local airfield which has a well-regarded breakfast / lunch restaurant.
The French toast was out of this world.
Have done touch-and-goes there and used it for a XC checkpoint, but never “been” there.
Someday I hope to spend $400 to fly there to get the same food.
#studentpilot
The French toast was out of this world.
Have done touch-and-goes there and used it for a XC checkpoint, but never “been” there.
Someday I hope to spend $400 to fly there to get the same food.
#studentpilot
Who ever selected and arranged the images for Harvard Magazine wasn’t really thinking about how they looked together.
April 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Who ever selected and arranged the images for Harvard Magazine wasn’t really thinking about how they looked together.
Solo long cross-country finally done! Air was a bit rough below 3000 feet especially for this #studentpilot, but the sky was clear enough to see checkpoints from WAY far away. Just a beautiful but bumpy day. As always, I could have flown better, but it's done!
April 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Solo long cross-country finally done! Air was a bit rough below 3000 feet especially for this #studentpilot, but the sky was clear enough to see checkpoints from WAY far away. Just a beautiful but bumpy day. As always, I could have flown better, but it's done!
Evolution of converting data into #studentpilot understanding:
Short-field takeoff POH performance tables
--> #dataviz plots of the tables
--> interactive #rstats #Shiny App for "What if?" analysis
Also fetches weather and runway info
(Needs runway refactor for small fields with no weather)
Short-field takeoff POH performance tables
--> #dataviz plots of the tables
--> interactive #rstats #Shiny App for "What if?" analysis
Also fetches weather and runway info
(Needs runway refactor for small fields with no weather)
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Evolution of converting data into #studentpilot understanding:
Short-field takeoff POH performance tables
--> #dataviz plots of the tables
--> interactive #rstats #Shiny App for "What if?" analysis
Also fetches weather and runway info
(Needs runway refactor for small fields with no weather)
Short-field takeoff POH performance tables
--> #dataviz plots of the tables
--> interactive #rstats #Shiny App for "What if?" analysis
Also fetches weather and runway info
(Needs runway refactor for small fields with no weather)
The weather still hates me. Green is visual flight rules (VFR); blue is marginal VFR. I'm in the Northeast.
Fun to compare SkyVector (limited # of reporting sites) vs. full data download from Aviation Weather Center and personal R script (previously described).
#datavis #studentpilot
Fun to compare SkyVector (limited # of reporting sites) vs. full data download from Aviation Weather Center and personal R script (previously described).
#datavis #studentpilot
April 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The weather still hates me. Green is visual flight rules (VFR); blue is marginal VFR. I'm in the Northeast.
Fun to compare SkyVector (limited # of reporting sites) vs. full data download from Aviation Weather Center and personal R script (previously described).
#datavis #studentpilot
Fun to compare SkyVector (limited # of reporting sites) vs. full data download from Aviation Weather Center and personal R script (previously described).
#datavis #studentpilot
Wandered into an art museum and found this painting by Samuel Morse, of works of art from the Louvre (I only recognized the Mona Lisa).
Couldn’t help but thinking of identifying VORs by this guy’s code.
Couldn’t help but thinking of identifying VORs by this guy’s code.
April 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Wandered into an art museum and found this painting by Samuel Morse, of works of art from the Louvre (I only recognized the Mona Lisa).
Couldn’t help but thinking of identifying VORs by this guy’s code.
Couldn’t help but thinking of identifying VORs by this guy’s code.
And I think it's an equal rite of passage to share a picture of the archaic materials -- here's mine from last October. :)
Did it manually the first time. Then went on to create spreadsheets and computer code. But will likely use ForeFlight in the future.
Did it manually the first time. Then went on to create spreadsheets and computer code. But will likely use ForeFlight in the future.
April 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
And I think it's an equal rite of passage to share a picture of the archaic materials -- here's mine from last October. :)
Did it manually the first time. Then went on to create spreadsheets and computer code. But will likely use ForeFlight in the future.
Did it manually the first time. Then went on to create spreadsheets and computer code. But will likely use ForeFlight in the future.
April 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Any word on why prog charts at AWC have been inaccessible since yesterday?
#avgeek #aviation #studentpilot
#avgeek #aviation #studentpilot
April 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Any word on why prog charts at AWC have been inaccessible since yesterday?
#avgeek #aviation #studentpilot
#avgeek #aviation #studentpilot
In a dark mood today and inflicted this on my family group chat.
![From Wikipedia, re: Capt Ratcliffe
Surprysed Capt[eyn]e Ratliefe alyve who he caused to be bownd unto a tree naked w[i]th a fyer before, and by woemen his fleshe was skraped from his bones w[i]th Mussell shelles and before his face throwne into the fyer. And so for wantt of Circumspection miserably p[er]ished.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qm2k6rvko6jfm2hd3j4k6e5n/bafkreiancqlh7emgognr3vq2i635ljh3wvfiimnqdpzar2vs7fh3fdiln4@jpeg)
March 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In a dark mood today and inflicted this on my family group chat.
Follow-up: "Were James Bond's drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24336307/
(Quantification of Cmdr Bond's alcohol consumption by retrospective literature review.)
Unusual and irreverent articles, satire and serious. #AltJournalClub #NeoSky #PedSky #MedSky
(Quantification of Cmdr Bond's alcohol consumption by retrospective literature review.)
Unusual and irreverent articles, satire and serious. #AltJournalClub #NeoSky #PedSky #MedSky
March 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Follow-up: "Were James Bond's drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24336307/
(Quantification of Cmdr Bond's alcohol consumption by retrospective literature review.)
Unusual and irreverent articles, satire and serious. #AltJournalClub #NeoSky #PedSky #MedSky
(Quantification of Cmdr Bond's alcohol consumption by retrospective literature review.)
Unusual and irreverent articles, satire and serious. #AltJournalClub #NeoSky #PedSky #MedSky