Blog posts – nickopotamus.co.uk

What happens when you switch propofol infusions?

Using Eleveld and R to model changing from ml/h to TCI

r

transfer

tci

medicine

I was lucky to be invited to deliver a talk at the recent SIVA Annual Scientific Meeting where I argued that we should be using target-controlled infusions to manage…

Coin flips and Bayesian reasoning

One final gasp of usefulness from Twitter

statistics

bayesian

r

Everyone is abandoning ship from ~~Twitter~~X to Bluesky (come join me there!). However, it’s not quite yet entirely porn-bots and right wing extremism - there’s still some…

Modelling climbing performance in Zwift racing

Because the only thing geekier than racing cartoon bicycles in the garage is doing stats about it

zwift

statistics

r

nerdiness

Racing on the virtual cycling platform Zwift is a great way to ~~imagine you’re Tadej Pogacar~~ test your fitness in a sociable yet competitive way. And everybody knows that the…

Handwashing for the avoidance of COVID-19: A Bayesian Meta Analysis

Rev Bayes says: Keep washing your hands!

statistics

bayesian

r

medicine

We’ve all had enough of this buffoon spouting rubbish for the last two years - but does the “Hands / Face / Space” message he promoted in lieu of actual governance or action…

Keras and TensorFlow with GPU support on macOS?

macOS

deeplearning

tensorflow

r

After my raging success at getting a GPU-accelerated deep learning stack installed and running on Ubuntu, I wondered - could it be done on my MacBook? Third generation 15”…

Installing Keras and Tensorflow with GPU support on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Just follow the instructions and it’ll all be fine

ubuntu

deeplearning

tensorflow

r

Everyone who’s dabbled in deep-learning knows TensorFlow and its wrapper Keras, but few realise it runs beautifully in R. But to really experience the benefits of the…

A Bayesian reanalysis of the BaSICS trial

Short version: saline is still evil. Probably.

medicine

bayesian

r

statistics

BaSICS was kind of a big deal earlier this month. You may have read about it on Twitter when all the excitement was being live-streamed…

Bayesian Statistics for Doctors

Let’s be honest, you only want to know this so you can pretend that you understand REMAP-CAP

statistics

bayesian

REMAP-CAP have released their preliminary report into immune modulation and everyone is getting very excited by the potential for tocilizumab and sarilumab to improve…

Fixing the ModuleNotFoundError in Jupyter

tl;dr: python -m ipykernel install –user –name=your_environment_here

python

Python is great. It’s no R, obviously, but an increasing number of machine learning courses are using Python, including the one I’m currently taking, so it’s worth getting…

Flight tracking using a Raspberry Pi

Because it’s about time I went full dad

nerdiness

planes

rpi

The only people cooler than those who hack Raspberry Pi’s for fun are plane spotters. I grew up with a techy dad who not only helped me build (and repeatedly break)…

Vaccine immunology for the non-immunologist

Vaccines are much safer than COVID. Get vaccinated as soon as you can.

medicine

vaccines

I want to write a post about a human factors observation from when I got jabbed recently, but realise I can’t without rationalising why I got jabbed. This is why you (almost…

Optimising a route round the Christmas lights using the Travelling Salesman Problem

I’ll do literally anything to escape my kids at Christmas, and that includes programming

statistics

python

nerdiness

My local village has set up a lovely Christmas trail this year, with many houses going overboard on the flashing lights and decorations being listed on a charity-produced…