UPDATE (Feb 2023): I decided to stop at day 16. It was a helpful exercise, but writing itself wasn’t the rate limiting step. I realised I needed to learn more words, and I came across an awesome to...
How I published 15 academic papers in my free time, using Obsidian, Zotero and Overleaf Download the Obsidian template here The part-time academic Last summer I was battling the demands of fath...
Using the YouTube API and Amazon’s AWS Lambda 🚀 Escaping the YouTube algorithm I love watching YouTube videos that improve my life in some tangible way. Unfortunately, the YouTube algorithm doe...
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 could take ta...
Abstract We propose the task of video title generation (VTG) and present the YouTube Titles and Transcripts (YTT) dataset which consists of 17,886 video titles and accompanying transcripts. We app...
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 was written primarily as (i) ...
(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 build ...
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 o...
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 full...
Background 3 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 dunnhum...