Language-learning Artificial-intelligence I built a GPT app to help me learn Spanish Learning a language is hard. But I’m convinced that large language models like GPT could make it a lot easier.
Entrepreneurship Building-in-public I'm going public I spent the last 12 months trying to build a healthtech start-up with a cofounder I met on the Entrepreneur First accelerator. We iterated through a bunch of ideas, but ultimately it didn’t
Spanish Language-learning An experiment in learning Spanish - writing a daily log, with a twist For the next 30 days I’m going to write 250+ words in Spanish every day and share them on this site.
Academia Productivity The Academic Knowledge Management (AKM) system that 10x'd my research productivity How I published 15 academic papers in my free time, using Obsidian, Zotero and Overleaf
Coding Productivity I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time) Using the YouTube API and Amazon’s AWS Lambda
Perspectives and reflections Personal Year in Review: 2020 Welcome to my first (formal) year review. I’ve been doing this informally for a while, but this year decided to tidy it up and share in public.
Coding 6 Reasons You Should Learn to Code Through Projects - Not Courses (Or learn anything, for that matter)
Machine learning From Correlation to Causation in Machine Learning: Why and How our AI needs to understand causality What’s wrong with correlation?
Machine learning Careers Coding Beginner to Data Scientist in 25 months: Every Project and What I Learnt Learning to code as a full-time doctor 🩺
Careers How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as a Doctor): 5 takeaways from an unconventional career transition Background
Machine learning Coding Generating Art with Artificial Intelligence After hearing about the AI technique of ‘style transfer’, I decided to try my hand at creating art work.
Machine learning Medicine Some thoughts on the role of AI in healthcare and whether AI will replace doctors A couple of weeks ago, we published an article in the British Medical Journal reviewing research papers that evaluated AI algorithms and compared their performance with clinicians. Our main findings in the article
Machine learning Medicine The Best Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare Courses We keep on hearing about how artificial intelligence and machine learning is going to revolutionise Medicine.
Machine learning Machine learning in medicine in the 2020s: My thoughts I wanted to articulate some of my current thoughts on the state of AI in medicine, so I wrote this stream-of-consciousness reflection. It’s pretty rough, and not comprehensive, so I may tidy it
Machine learning How might you use machine learning in a medical career? If you’re a healthcare professional with an interest in machine learning (ML), but unsure how can combine it with your career, then we hope you’ll find this post useful.
Machine learning How to find local medical AI projects to get involved with The last several years have seen a huge surge in amount of funding going into, and research papers coming out of, groups working on artificial intelligence in healthcare. Many new research groups are
On the importance of technical and job-specific skills For true happiness in work or life, we need to feel that we are contributing towards a worthy goal; that our work matters. From this perspective, the challenges become part of the process,
Medicine Machine learning Why should doctors understand machine learning? We are seeing increasing use of, and discussion about, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across all sectors; healthcare included. Greater volumes of data, improved computing power and break-throughs in machine learning
Machine learning Resources for building the foundational understanding of machine learning To understand machine learning in medicine, it goes without saying that you need to understand machine learning. For those from a healthcare background, this will be the most challenging part.
Machine learning Why machine learning? Why medicine? Why the hype? What is machine learning and artificial intelligence?
Productivity The benefits of expressing ideas in multiple forms (such as text vs slides) I read an article a few months ago about how Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoints from meetings at Amazon. Instead, people write a “narratively structured six-page memo” to lay out what’s being discussed.
Medicine Perspectives and reflections The benefits of reflection and role models in learning medicine An interview with Dr Paquita De Zulueta
Medicine What will British healthcare look like in 20 years' time? At 8:40am, a medical student named Derek entered the doctor’s office on the Enhanced Recovery post-op ward and sat down by a computer. Two of the foundation doctors, Amir and Sarah, looked up
Medicine Perspectives and reflections Is medicine right for me? Elements of medicine are fantastic but others can be upsetting or frustrating. At any point during your medical career, you may ask whether medicine is really the right career for you. You would
Medicine Model Answer Examples for Medical Exam Vivas To prepare for medical final OSCEs, I prepared answers based on the most likely examination findings and the most common questions asked. For each, I thought of a logical structure for an answer
Medicine Productivity Tips for using the Pomodoro Method effectively For an explanation of the Pomodoro Method, watch this video.
Medicine Productivity The Feynman Method The Feynman method is a useful way to identify any gaps in understanding of a concept and how to solve them:
Medicine Learning from Others in Medicine During your medical degree, as you cycle through different rotations, you will meet some inspirational doctors. They may teach you things that stick with you for life. There are many things you can
Machine learning Key research papers in medical AI - read these first Last updated: 14th October 2019
Medicine If Medicine Gets You Down I left the ward without telling anyone and headed back to my room. I slumped down on my bed, put on some music and stared at the ceiling.
Medicine Conclusion Medical school can be tough but it can also provide some of the best times of our lives. Our approach to medical school can determine the projection that the rest of our medical
Medicine Commanding Clearer Communication (Part 1) “The scan showed it is something sinister”, the consultant explained. “We think probably the best is to let you be.”
Medicine A Scientific Approach to Research (Part 1) - The Idea I turned off my computer, flicked the light switch and climbed into bed. I was bored and exhausted.
Medicine Increasing Your Impact (and the power of Self-Education) (Part 1) “… And that’s why my friend quit medicine and became a banker.”
Medicine Medicine from Fifty Thousand Feet: Perspective, Targets and Limits Welcome to medicine, a fascinating field with endless amounts of knowledge that can be obtained. Someone could, and many do, spend an entire life striving to learn as much medical knowledge as possible
Medicine From That Day To This book “I’ll be there in five minutes”, I said. I hung-up the phone and my heart skipped a beat.
Perspectives and reflections Mastering Rap by Dr Mandeep Singh About 3 years ago, I developed a deep interest in learning to rap well. I emphasize the word ‘developed’ because up until this point, I was waiting to passively discover a passion which
Productivity Save time by eliminating, automating and batching Automate what you hate, but have to do anyway and the power of batching
Productivity How to use Facebook without wasting time and energy Maintaining focus in an increasingly distracted world
Productivity How To Learn Faster In Six Steps The amount that you learn largely determines the quality of life that you live.
