Rick Hass
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Rick Hass
@rwhass.bsky.social
Day Job: Associate Professor in the College of [oops this is a personal profile] at [Some School] in Philly, Yo!

Interests: applied statistics and theory, cognitive science and computation. Health is also good.

My employer approves of my dog posts
This sure looks like a product expo to me.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Haha bonus points for the owl
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I already like it
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It’s not even a formula! It’s just the definition of a derivative
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Oooh now I need to know the joke 😂
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If I ever write an r package for DAGs, I call dibs on dagnabbit
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Ooh this is very nice!
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Manchester Indian food is top notch. I recommend eating it until you nearly pass out, then walking a few miles to a football match and chugging two Fosters before you take your seat
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ha! For sure. We’re trying to understand the factors that clinicians use when they intuitively conclude a pediatric patient is likely to come back to the hospital. spoiler: it’s not stuff that’s in the EHR anyway
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nice! We're undertaking something like this now for pediatric asthma readmission. Most of the clinicians I've spoken to don't even pay attention to what the EPIC model tells them re: chance of readmission. We want to know why and whether we can make it better.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s become ridiculous at this point. At least with Microsoft buying into OpenAI, you know it’ll slowly get even crappier
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I know! I wish it were true. What it will do, however, is give you a more realistic picture of what the data offer, even though the coefficient estimates will be slightly biased
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
No, LASSO can be thought of as variable selection and regularization in one. It's optimized to make calibrated predictions, but isn't going to rescue any causal claims
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM