rockerest’s Twitter Archive

Seeing a lot of jokes about "bamlanivimab" and none of them are very funny but all of them imply that the authors have never seen non-branded drug names before?
On twitter.com 2020 Nov 9 Mood +6 🙂

…in reply to @rockerest
Fun fact: the suffix -mab is for Monoclonal Antibodies. (I know this from personal experience) For the rest of these fun facts, check out this list of REGULATORILY REQUIRED generic drug name: druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/m.drugportal/jsp/drugportal/m.DrugNameGenericStems.jsp
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2020 Nov 9 Mood +8 🙂

…in reply to @rockerest
(this should say "generic drug name stems" but I typed it twice and autocorrect deleted it twice so fuck it, we're doing it live)
Permalink On twitter.com 2020 Nov 9 Mood -4 🙁
…in reply to @rockerest
Fun fact about the fun fact: word stems are neat, and they're how you build a robust text indexer that doesn't require every possible word permutation in plain text in order to categorize matches. I built 🔎 handlens so I could understand this better: npmjs.com/package/handlens
Permalink On twitter.com 2020 Nov 9 Mood +15 🙂

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(You can use 🔎 handlens, but I don't recommend it. It's not very feature complete, and it's much slower than competitors. It was a learning exercise only)
Permalink On twitter.com 2020 Nov 9 Mood +1 🙂

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Maybe a less fun fact: these drug name stems are standardized this way so that doctors are less likely to accidentally KILL someone, since they can sort of see what a drug might do just by looking at the name.
Permalink On twitter.com 2020 Nov 9 Mood -1 🙁