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I've started writing book summaries

I've been making notes and highlights from a lot of books recently, so I decided to start sharing them here.I'm going to set up a dedicated page for this soon, but for

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Coding

I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time)

Using the YouTube API and Amazon’s AWS Lambda🚀 Escaping the YouTube algorithmI love watching YouTube videos that improve my life in some tangible way. Unfortunately, the YouTube algorithm doesn’t agree. It

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    Chris Lovejoy
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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.I’ll be up-front: This

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Coding

6 Reasons You Should Learn to Code Through Projects - Not Courses

(Or learn anything, for that matter)"WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WE MAKE." - GIAMBATTISTA VICO (PHILOSOPHER)🖥 Why learn to code?Learning to code is a really valuable skill. You can use it to

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Coding

Beginner to Data Scientist in 25 months: Every Project and What I Learnt

Learning to code as a full-time doctor 🩺At the start of 2018, I had recently graduated from medical school. I knew basic web development and not much more.Since mid-2020, I've been working

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

The Best Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare Courses

We keep on hearing about how artificial intelligence and machine learning is going to revolutionise Medicine.But what’s hype, and what’s realistic? And how can you get involved?The first step

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

From Correlation to Causation in Machine Learning: Why and How our AI needs to understand causality

What’s wrong with correlation?In May 2016, the COMPAS algorithm was flagged as being racially biased [1]. This algorithm was used by the US to guide criminal sentencing by predicting likelihood of

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Test your Medical AI knowledge (the basics)

This is intended as a fun exam to test your knowledge on different areas of AI and it's application in healthcare. For those at an early stage in their medical AI journey, it can be helpful to highlight areas you're less familiar with, to prompt further reading.

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Careers

How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as a Doctor): 5 takeaways from an unconventional career transition

Background3 years ago, I had just finished medical school and started working full-time as a doctor in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Now, I work full-time as a data scientist at

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Generating Art with Artificial Intelligence

After hearing about the AI technique of 'style transfer', I decided to try my hand at creating art work.The basic idea of style transfer is that you take the style of one

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

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

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Coding

Automating my job search with Python (Using BeautifulSoup and Selenium)

This article was also featured at Towards Data Science here.MotivationI’m currently looking for a new data science role, but have found it frustrating that there are so many different websites, which

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence in drug discovery

This was originally shared as part of my weekly email newsletter.I’ve written in the past more formally about how AI may impact different medical specialties, from psychiatry through to intensive care.

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    Chris Lovejoy
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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

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Predicting Acute Kidney Injury with AI (Research Paper Summary)

A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of future acute kidney injury - Tomašev et al., Nature, July 2019Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1390-1One-sentence summaryIn this paper, a research group from

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Research Summaries

Predicting Hospital Appointment Attendance using Artificial Intelligence (Research Paper Summary)

Predicting scheduled hospital attendance with artificial intelligence - Amy Nelson et al., April 2019Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0103-3#MOESM1One-sentence summaryIn this paper, a research group from UCL trained an AdaBoost

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    Chris Lovejoy
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I'm starting a weekly email newsletter

I've decided to start a weekly email newsletter.Its exact content and theme are not yet tightly defined, but it will broadly be a collection of my experiences as a doctor working in

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Predicting Hospital No-Shows using Neural Networks [coding exercise]

Approximately 20% of medical appointments that are booked are not attended in the UK. This costs an estimated £1 billion annually. If we were able to predict who might not show up, we

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Classifying breast cancer with machine learning [Introductory coding exercise]

This exercise takes you through the process of training a neural network to classify pathology slides from lymph node samples as malignant vs benign, based on the features of the images.The exercise

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Machine Learning

Why machine learning? Why medicine? Why the hype?

What is machine learning and artificial intelligence?Machine learning (or ‘ML’) is a key area of artificial intelligence (AI). AI can be defined broadly as when a computer performs a task usually requiring

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Perspectives and Reflections

The benefits of expressing ideas in multiple forms (E.g. Word vs PowerPoint)

I read an article a few months ago about how Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoints from meetings at Amazon. Instead, people write a “narratively…

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Medicine

The benefits of reflection and role models in learning medicine

An interview with Dr Paquita De ZuluetaDr Paquita De Zulueta is a GP from London who has volunteered for Doctors of the World, lectured at Imperial College London and completed a Masters in

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    Chris Lovejoy
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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,

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    Chris Lovejoy
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Is Medicine Right For Me?

“Is medicine right for me?” is a question that a lot of medics ask at some point during their career.Perhaps you’re fed up of endless exams, not enthusiastic about working nights

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    Chris Lovejoy
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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

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    Chris Lovejoy
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