travis gerke

@travisgerke.bsky.social

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sometimes #dataBS #causalsky #statsky #episky #rstats but mostly yolo skeeting nonsense

/mnt/skills/public/skill-manager/ SKILL.md ← trigger description + high-level instructions scan.py ← discovers SKILL.md files across paths registry.json ← cached manifest of all known skills audit.py ← runs quality checks README.md ← human-facing docs
Photo of Tony Hawk on stage after performing in the nutcracker with the San Diego symphony
Screenshot of news headline San Diego legend Tony Hawk makes ballet stage debut in “the nutcracker”
Screen shot of Love Actually where Jamie is about to lose his typewritten pages into the water which Aurélia will retrieve
screenshot of an article title "Efficient Construction of Test Inversion Confidence Intervals"
Photo of my back gate which borders Camp Pendleton with their artillery range circled
Screenshot of enshittified google's AI overview telling me Blake Snell's 2025 average annual salary of $36.4 million is significantly larger than the entire Milwaukee Brewers' active roster payroll of $121.7 million
a line plot made with ggplot2 that says "cost of family prescriptions before and after 650% decrease" The cost today is $75 and the cost after the discount "in two weeks" will be -$412.50
screenshot of a section of a causal inference paper which talks about counterfactual data as "data that only God could see" with Table 1: God's table showing some simple relationships between variables A and Y
a concert photo of Jeff Rosenstock and band performing, backed by a large pride flag with 666 surrounded by weed logos in the top left
A google search result for "who won the head to head series this year cubs padres" saying the Cubs won the series 4-2, followed by a description which says the Cubs won two and the Padres won two (all of which is wrong, the season series is 3-3).
headshot of Robert Malone, potato head
Screenshot of JAMA paper published last year titled "Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability" with highlighted text "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses."
a DAG representing selection bias produced with ggdiagram
an image of RFK Jr looking very interested at a speech, probably in some kind of radioactive shit that he thinks will cure autism
screenshot of the NCI website which describes the "Environmental Epidemiology Branch" that studies, for example, environmental exposures as cancer risk factors
A selfie of me on the podium with the audience smiling in the background after giving a talk at SER 2025
the Hernan what if book saying causal graphs cannot encode violations of positivity
the classic airplane graphic which describes survivorship bias: Diagram in which red dots stand for places where surviving planes were shot. This only tells you where planes can get shot and still come back to base. Survivorship bias: your only information is what has survived.
Video selfie of me riding a motorcycle through socal desert
Selfie of me in a Harvard sweatshirt
Photo of 3 cuddling kittens
photo of textbook question "Look at the data. 0,1,2,1,2,0,1,2,0,2,1,2,1,2. Which measure of center could best be used to describe the data?" It says the mean because there is not much variation. wut?
Photo of renowned health 🤡 RFK Jr eating french fries and a burger and Steak N Shake
A very long email from senator Padilla’s office which is clearly form generated and not about the thing I called for (it’s all about the Trump administration and not Schumers leadership, the point of my call)
the family guy meme with "ok" for white colors and "not ok" for brown colors, with tesla pasted at the top in the white category
The neighborhood protected watch sign, which features the outline of a man in a hat with a red X through it
a screenshot stating "In the paradox of democracy, he points out the possibility that a democratic majority could vote for a tyrant to rule, thus ending democracy."
Photo of my two kids looking at a sunset in the treehouse I built today
Screenshot of a causal diagram (DAG) from the cstructure platform which shows a set of confounders on a potential relationship between antidepressants and school shootings. These include bullying, substance abuse, SES, family environment, gun access, and mental health status
Screenshot showing that pubmed has been taken offline and fails to load
A photo of beaker from the muppets
Screenshot of a message I got when trying to open Docker this morning: "Docker will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash."
Screenshot of new Washington Post mission statement, "Enjoy the Darkness You Plebs"
a github commit from me which has a comment that reads "remove masculine energy"
An AI generated photo of a guy giving thumbs up. He has too many fingers on each hand 👍
A screenshot of the wiki entry that says "A Wilhelm Scream (abbreviated as AWS)"
a screenshot of my google person card, with circles around the "Suggest edits" button in the top right and a blank space in the bottom right where my twitter/x link used to be
Screenshot of the default pubmed link pair at a computer who I am sure had no idea their image would be so widely shared lol
source for the stopjava site which shows a <script> tag including js
Text from my github pull request which says "This started out as an attempt to add the bluesky logo to replace twitter, but blew up into a full migration from postcards to quarto."
a screenshot of my updated homepage, with the bluesky vector logo circled
Screenshot of a NYT headline from king goober Bret Stephens titled "Slim Shady, Not All You Other Slim Shadys, Is the Real Slim Shady"
A screenshot of the cstructure interface allowing selection of a prior on an edge within the Lalonde DAG
a screenshot of the cstructure platform interface with a casual DAG and the Lalonde study design loaded
A snippet from the linked paper stating anything outside 500 to 3500 calories is considered implausible
Incoming deputy secretary of HHS says that FDA should approve drugs after safety is shown, then efficacy is “proven” after enough people use them at their own risk
An article discussing how police departments across the us are starting to use AI to write crime reports
an AWS diagram showing cloud moving through ADFS proxies. Firewalls are represented by brick walls and the Kool-Aid man is about to run through them
Screenshot of email with subject "Did we put enough work in?" and body "Yes. Now go listen to GNX."
An article on bsky from NYT about ghosting people that has zero reacts
Butt-head sitting on a copy machine while Beavis inspects print-out copies of his butt
Photo of a sunset I took last week at a vineyard near my home in San Diego
R script showing x <- y <- z <- 3 -> a
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the U.S. Surgeon General Office of Global Affairs National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Indian Health Service (IHS) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Human Services agencies Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Administration for Community Living (ACL) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – formerly the Health Care Financing Administration.
A very verbose and hard to follow function that reads: # Convert blanks in character fields to NAs g <- function(x) if(is.character(x)) ifelse(trimws(x) == '', NA, x) else x
an emoji mashup which is smiling and crying with sunglasses
Headline stating 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic Begs Donald Trump to Pardon Him Amid Offer to Join His Cabinet
A news article from Slate stating that dems should nominate AOC in 2028
The top 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. Vaccination, Motor-vehicle safety, Safer workplaces, Control of infectious diseases, Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke, Safer and healthier foods, Healthier mothers and babies, Family planning, Fluoridation of drinking water, Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard