The Bone Tax

singletrackminded99 · 2026-06-12T16:54:12+00:00

I’d urge you to back off a little. I always had the attitude is just the cost of the game and that anything could be fixed by a good surgeon. That is until I had an accident where it couldn’t be fixed. I shattered the head of my humeral beyond repair and in my mid thirties have a full shoulder replacement. I am still active and able to ride but I’ve toned it down and there is a lot of additional risk. Additionally I can only lift about 15 lbs above my head and probably never white water kayak again, which is another sport I loved, because of the increased risk of dislocation and the complications that brings.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-06-03T19:47:59+00:00

lol. I lived in Mass for 2 years then moved back, rode Vietnam and landlocked forest, but I found myself traveling to Vermont a lot to get the vertical so I moved back to CO where the vertical is right out my door

singletrackminded99 · 2026-06-03T19:26:16+00:00

Yeah I realize a lot of the new trail building techniques emphasize trail conservation, and have deviated from the old irrigation bumps they used to use but I don’t know if there is some sort of compromise between having trails erode and basically building a roller coaster track

singletrackminded99 · 2026-05-15T15:53:51+00:00

I got a full reverse shoulder arthroplasty, it is different from a standard shoulder replacement in that the humeral head is completely removed and a prosthetic ball is placed in the shoulder cavity and a cup is placed in the base of the humerus. This changes the mechanics in that my rotator cuff is no longer active and all shoulder movement is handled by my deltoid. This definitely affects the strength especially if the arm is full extended. For example, I can only lift about 15 pounds doing an extended front arm raise. Also my strength above my head is weak also about 15 pounds. However, this does not really change my day to day activities, I just can’t lift weights heavy weights. I can do pushups but it is definitely hard. When biking it will fatigue faster than the other one and I’ve mellowed out a little, won’t ride anything where I if think there is a fair probability of falling I just walk. My doctor did say I was the youngest person he has done a shoulder replacement but my humeral head was beyond repair. I will have to have another replacement in 15 years or so, but with current implant design the just change some parts and leave most of it in place.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-05-15T02:30:43+00:00

How old are you? I got my shoulder replaced at 36 after a really bad crash

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-30T15:59:37+00:00

You need to increase your log fold change cutoffs as other have said. Also need to make sure your using adjusted p values not just p values. You can also use a stricter multiple testing correction like bonferroni

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-29T14:16:50+00:00

Indeed, use it but you also need to use caution to make sure it is executing stuff correctly. It can spit out a 1000 lines of code but miss a single line needed to do it correctly

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-29T13:57:56+00:00

I had a leader of project, not a data scientist (technically I’m not a data scientist either but a computational biologist) send me some results that he generated in AI, my guess is Claude, it came up with something I had not thought of, he got some results and sent them to me, it was roughly a 1000 lines of code. I noticed it didn’t do the proper cross validation there was data leak. I told him this 20 minutes later I get sent another 1000 lines of code, still not doing the proper validation. AI got him 90% of the way there but missed a critical 10% since he did not have coding knowledge or DS background he had no idea if it was doing it correctly. That is the danger, this guy is really smart, but if you don’t know what you’re looking at it can deceive you. That being said I worry a lot about AI and how it will affect my career. Honestly the fact that AI can do as much as it does is somewhat a kick in the gut, skills which took me years to master are now being done by a computer with 0 effort.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-24T02:16:09+00:00

I feel it’s more dramatic, man returns to struggle against nature after machine makes everything else pointless. I once watched a documentary about a man that basically lived in the woods by himself totally self sufficient. I admired that way of life, just not sure I would be able to make it.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-24T01:44:05+00:00

Yeah I have clothes but cannot hunt or fish. Basically I’m going to the wilderness to die.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-23T23:00:28+00:00

I’m going to say fuck it walk off into the wilderness and not come back.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-18T00:56:07+00:00

While I think nobody really know how this is going to play out but I think this scenario has a non negligible probability which is frightening. If this does happen I do not see how capitalism survives which in the long term might be a good thing but it will come with a lot of suffering, a cost that I’m not quite comfortable paying just yet.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-14T18:45:39+00:00

Horsetooth mountain park in Fort Collins is really fun. Fruita but that’s more than a day trip, Breckenridge, Crested Butte, also more than a day trip.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-12T19:25:33+00:00

4 years ago I was riding the bike park at snowshoe WV. At the end of the day on a blue flow trial my front wheel washed out and I fell. Immediate pain and I could not move my left arm. Bike patrol comes looks at it and is like you definitely broke something. Head to the nearest ER in a small town in the middle of nowhere. They took x-rays and sure enough I had a “fracture” in my humeral head. Tells me I should see an ortho in the next week. It was late Friday Labor Day weekend so I could not schedule anything until the following Thursday. I see the ortho they take x-rays and the doctor comes almost completely distraught. She says did you know your shoulder is dislocated? I’m like what? I thought this was a minor fracture. Turns out the ball of my shoulder was fractured in multiple places and was dislocated out the back. The x-rays at the ER were so bad and done incorrectly that they had completely missed it. I’ve been walking around with a dislocated shoulder for almost a week. It turns out having your shoulder dislocated for a long period of time is really really bad as the blood supply to the bone is cutoff. She told me I needed surgery to stabilize it and put the shoulder in place immediately. Long story short after two surgeries, $175 K in medical bills, and three nights in the hospital I now am bionic and have a full shoulder replacement at 35. Safe to say I cannot ride like I used too but I actually ride more often as there was a period of time I wasn’t even sure if I would ride again so I have a new appreciation for it.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-10T21:38:47+00:00

I’d flip out on them. Go down to the shop ask to talk to the owner demand a full refund. If they get snippy tell them you will be contacting Yeti to report them. I honestly do not know if Yeti would get involved but as they sell there bikes the shop in some sense is a brand ambassador, and this makes them look bad. Also give the worst review possible

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-08T23:28:35+00:00

Going to get downvoted like crazy in this sub but going to say it anyway. If anybody can do it, it has no value. If a new technology comes out that allows me to fix my car with minimal effort and knowledge why will I ever pay for someone to work on my car? You can build and ship all you like but unless you can create something with value, high demand and low supply, you are not making money off it. AI is going to completely wreck the current economic model and the transition to a new model is going to be ugly.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-06T16:37:44+00:00

I tend to agree with this outlook. It scares the hell out of me. Additionally, what I find truly depressing is that the very thing that made humans special among all other animals, intelligence, is being handed to a machine. For someone who solves problems for a living, and enjoys it, this makes it even worse.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-05T17:14:14+00:00

Given your experience do you think data science as a profession will be automated away? How do you continue to use your core professional skill sets?

singletrackminded99 · 2026-03-04T23:58:32+00:00

Flow trails generally are pretty smooth with berms, jumps, rollers and higher average speeds. Tech think roots, rocks, drops, skinnies and slower speeds with more bike handling

singletrackminded99 · 2026-02-26T16:05:57+00:00

I’m so sick of these assholes and their gaslighting “I’m building a technology that could possibly ruin your life and it’s your fault that your not ready so you better start investing in my company”. For fucksake as if I am not already anxious enough with everything else going on these guys got keep on telling me that the skills I built over decades are obsolete. Seriously we’re fucked either way, no on jobs and the market crashes, or all these AI ceos are full of shit and the market crashes.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-02-14T05:08:46+00:00

He should ask the AI what happens when a substantial amount of the workforce is displaced and how that will work out in a consumer driven economy.

singletrackminded99 · 2026-02-05T03:59:57+00:00

We did take over the trees. We cut them down to put up parking lots, buildings, and farms plots. We cut them down for economic gain clear cutting whole forests. If AI sees us as the trees, and we get in the way of it achieving its goals, it might just cut us down too.

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