On Freedom, Purpose and Investors
Iām currently trying to build a healthtech start-up. Weāll announce the exact idea in due time, but what I can say is: what weāre trying to build is ambitious the space is crowded, with lots ...
Chris Lovejoy
About Me
Hi, I'm Chris Lovejoy š I build AI products for complex, domain-specific verticals like healthcare.
Previously: founding team at Anterior (healthcare LLM startup backed by Sequoia/NEA), medical doctor, academic researcher, and ML engineer.
I write about building vertical AI products that generate real-world value. I previously wrote a book about learning medicine and lectured on AI for healthcare.
Popular
- Own your vertical: A playbook for building a domain-native LLM application (100k+ views)
- Machine Learning for Healthcare video series (50k+ views)
- The Academic Knowledge Management (AKM) system that 10x'd my research productivity
- The Truth Is In The Title? Video Title Generation as a novel training objective for video summarisation
- Mission-Critical Evals at Scale: Learnings from 100,000 medical decisions
- AI versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies (1,000+ citations)
- I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time) (100k+ views)
Recent Essays
I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time)
Using the YouTube API and Amazonās AWS Lambda š Escaping the YouTube algorithm I love watching YouTube videos that improve my life in some tangible way. Unfortunately, the YouTube algorithm doe...
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 Ā£1 billion annually. If we were able to predict who might not show up, we could take ta...
The Truth Is In The Title? Video Title Generation as a novel training objective for video summarisation
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...
Personal Year in Review: 2020
Welcome to my first (formal) year review. Iāve been doing this informally for a while, but this year decided to tidy it up and share in public. Iāll be up-front: This was written primarily as (i) ...
Pausing this weekly email
TL;DR Iām committing toĀ notĀ writing weekly emails or making YouTube videos until atleast mid-2021. Iām also strictly reducing content consumption. Basically, IāmĀ switching from output to input. Iā...
Learn To Code Through Projects,āNotĀ Courses
(Or learn anything, for that matter) āWE ONLY KNOW WHAT WE MAKE.ā - GIAMBATTISTA VICO (PHILOSOPHER) š„ Why learn to code? Learning to code is a really valuable skill. You can use it to build ...
Who am I serving?
My approach to ācontent creationā so far has been to just make and write about things that interest me, and share them with others. But Iām re-thinking this after being introduced to the idea of a...
From Correlation to Causation in Machine Learning: Why and How our AI needs to understand causality
Whatās 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...
Not having much to say
I feel like thereās a lot of pressure these days to share things. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc are built around the idea of people sharing their thoughts, opinions and experiences with others. ...