Paul Sochacki, MS

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A biologi§t once had a name

data science, rstats, SQL, Python, JavaScript, EMR/EDR systems, HL7, biology, preventive medicine, labs, blood banking, public health, biostats, ecology, symbiosis, evolution, biotech, conservation biology, climate change, social justice, biking, outdoors, fitness, health. Currently exploring a career in the trades ⚡ Views expressed are my own.

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iNaturalistcyberskout99
Paul Sochacki, MSJun 19, 2024
Paul Sochacki, MSAug 18, 2023

Excellent podcast from #TheCarbonCopy with guests from Climate Change AI and Google discussing #EnergyGrids #ML #AI #usecase #machinelearning #datascience #distributedenergy #solarwinds #PredictiveModels #chatgpt and what this could mean for shaping a clean energy future. 🌎 ⚡ 💻

https://www.canarymedia.com/podcasts/the-carbon-copy/how-ai-is-being-used-in-energy-right-now

How AI is being used in energy right now

Priya Donti of Climate Change AI and Savannah Goodman of Google describe the different ways artificial intelligence is shaping energy today.

Canary Media
Paul Sochacki, MSJun 19, 2024
(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jun 19, 2024

“Donald Trump had severe memory issues," Setoodeh said. "As the journalist who spent the most time with him, I have to say, he couldn’t remember things. He couldn’t even remember me.

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/17/he-couldnt-even-remember-me-has-severe-memory-issues-says-author-interviewed-him/

"He couldn't even remember me": Trump has "severe memory issues," says author who interviewed him

Variety's Ramin Setoodeh said Trump's cognitive decline is readily apparent

Salon
Paul Sochacki, MSJun 19, 2024
Bruce MirkenJun 19, 2024
Recently I got into an argument with someone putting out happy-talk nonsense about #Biden's deeply flawed handling of #COVID, while 3 of us tried to correct the record. This person basically insisted that the only way to criticize Biden was to put just as much criticism of #Republicans in the same post. I and the others criticize Republicans almost hourly, but that didn't matter. I was always civil, but this person has blocked me. Folks, pretending Biden's perfect is NOT how to win.
@inquiline
Paul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
Zack LabeJun 18, 2024

Well now I can finally share - I just started my first day as a federal scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

I'll be continuing research on improving our understanding of climate prediction and projection, especially with data-driven approaches for high-impact extremes.

Paul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
Show threadDebbie BelairJun 18, 2024
@RebelGeek99 The main thing is that a study can be replicated to get similar results. I would drop masking if and when the results can be repeated that the vaccines prevent long COVID-19. The ones I've seen say that there is a *modest* amount of protection for people that had updated vaccines.
Show threadPaul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
@Scienceisnotopinions that's why I started masking again in late summer 2021, right before the Delta variant evolved and started spreading. The only two metrics being tracked were death and hospitalization, all anyone heard about on the news was about death and hospitalization, exclusively. Then Omicron hit, SOTU and the midterms were coming up, and we rarely heard about COVID after that. We hear a little bit about Long COVID now, but not often and it's presented as "other people's" problem.
Paul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
Waldo JaquithJun 18, 2024

A blind colleague recently joined a new federal agency. The agency is refusing to let him use the NVDA screen reader (free, open source), because it's created by an Australian non-profit which is not registered on SAM.gov (because they're not a vendor).

If you know of how a federal employee has gotten approval to use NVDA, would you let me know what magic words were required?

Paul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
CurrentBiasJun 18, 2024

"We need to work harder to catch ourselves in the act of staying silent or avoiding uncomfortable information and do more real-time course correcting.

We need to guard against lowering our standards for normalcy. When we mentally and emotionally recalibrate to the new normal, we also disassociate from our own humanity."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality

We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our head in the sand and why we need to pull it out, fast

Scientific American
Paul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
Brian MarickJun 17, 2024
Everyone makes a big deal about the people who designed and built Voyager 1 because it was supposed to last 4 years and it’s lasted for 47, but all that means is they spent money on reliability that could have been returned to shareholders in a stock buyback.
Show threadPaul Sochacki, MSJun 18, 2024
@Captainobservant @GeorgiaOnMyMind Okay cool, I took some time tonight to read the Atlantic article in the link... A minor point re: hospitalization bc the CDC metrics for hospitalization were altered in the first half of 2022, so it's no longer an apples-to-apples comparison with 2021. Some of that was the benefit of vaccination, of course. It sounds like 12 weeks is where risk tapered off in the UK and Swedish models, and I'm halfway through, so maybe I'll take it easy another six weeks.