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 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
- AI versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies
- I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time) (100k+ views)
- How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as a Doctor): 5 takeaways from an unconventional career transition
Recent Essays
Who am I serving?
My approach to ‘content creation’ so far has been to just make and write about things that interest me, and share them with others. But I’m 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
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...
Not having much to say
I feel like there’s 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. ...
3 routes to combine machine learning with domain-specific experience
One of the most common questions I get is from medics interested in machine learning, wondering how to get started. I’m currently in the process of writing a longer article about getting started w...
Deciding what to focus on
For the past couple of years, my rough modus operandi has been something along the lines of… “to build deep technical skills and understanding in machine learning (and computer programming more bro...
How to understand the business world (and why I did an MBA as a doctor)
When I graduated from University, there was a lot about finance I didn’t understand. I was aware that I should probably put my money into savings and investments, but didn’t really know how. I rea...
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...
Should I go on a project-based course or bootcamp?
One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started on the route to becoming a data scientist (or building technical skills, more broadly). There are things that are easy for me to ...
Build a portfolio of 3 projects
📑 Building a portfolio: the rule of 3 To be taken seriously as a technical person (or any area, really), you need to have something to show. Anyone can say “I can code in Python”. You have to make...