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Three Years of Argmin
My annual navel-gazing post.
Jul 1
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Ben Recht
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June 2026
CJ2K battles ALS
Chris Johnson's ALS diagnosis and the indefatigable search for treatments.
Jun 30
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Ben Recht
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A Tribute to Dimitri Bertsekas
My teacher and friend Dimitri Bertsekas passed away earlier this month.
Jun 23
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Ben Recht
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All Data Is Good Data
How the Midjourney ultrasound project started a war between medicine and tech.
Jun 22
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Ben Recht
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I Want A New Drug
Is it helpful to think of improvement as optimization?
Jun 17
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Ben Recht
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Language Models and Automated Reification
A new piece in The Ideas Letter with Leif Weatherby and Tyler Shoemaker.
Jun 12
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Ben Recht
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The Objective Pursuit of Knowledge
Why statistical thinking is postmodern.
Jun 8
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Ben Recht
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We're Computerizing and Don't Need You
On the good intentions and bizarre conclusions of evidence-based medicine
Jun 4
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Ben Recht
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Mesmerized by My Own Beat
On the history of anticoagulation and the role of randomized evidence in cardiology.
Jun 2
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Ben Recht
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May 2026
Sharing different heartbeats
On the power of large-scale randomized trials in cardiology.
May 29
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Ben Recht
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Only One Company Makes the Game Monopoly
Revisiting David Graeber's theories of bureaucracy, violence, and interpretative labor.
May 26
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Ben Recht
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Individual Experience vs. The Cochrane Review
On my decade-long exploration seeking a scientific language for singular evidence.
May 20
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Ben Recht
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