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 build ...
Chris Lovejoy
About Me
I'm part of the founding team at Anterior, a Sequoia/NEA-backed start-up building an AI clinical brain. I've been a medical doctor, academic researcher, entrepreneur and AI/ML engineer.
Popular
- Machine Learning for Healthcare video series (50k views)
- The Truth Is In The Title? Video Title Generation as a novel training objective for video summarisation
- The Academic Knowledge Management (AKM) system that 10x'd my research productivity
- How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as a Doctor): 5 takeaways from an unconventional career transition
- I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time) (100k+ views)
Recent Essays
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 o...
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 full...
How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as a Doctor): 5 takeaways from an unconventional career transition
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...
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 image (e.g. a painting b...
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 finding...
Automating my job search with Python (Using BeautifulSoup and Selenium)
Motivation I’m currently looking for a new data science role, but have found it frustrating that there are so many different websites, which list different jobs and at different times. It was beco...
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 i...
When good ideas flow
One thing I’ve noticed when I sit down to write is that sometimes the ideas flow and I can write for hours, while at other times things can feel forced and I can spend hours without really getting ...
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 at ...