Six healthcare problems I care about
“Start with the problem, not the solution” is common advice - whether it’s about building a company, doing research or solving a personal problem. With all our new technological advancements, it c...
Chris Lovejoy
About Me
Hi, I'm Chris Lovejoy đź‘‹ I build AI products for complex, domain-specific verticals like healthcare and life sciences.
Currently: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.
Previously: founding team at Anterior (healthcare LLM startup backed by Sequoia/NEA), medical doctor, academic researcher, and ML engineer. (I describe that journey here).
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
Mistakes to avoid - Machine Learning in Healthcare
I’ve worked and consulted on my fair share of projects applying machine learning to healthcare over the last few years. So this week I thought I’d share five common mistakes that I have made, or ha...
On Finding the Right Partner (Business and Romantic)
I’ve heard that finding a cofounder to start a company is a lot like finding a romantic partner. I got married a few years ago and recently went through the process of finding a cofounder. I can c...
On Freedom, Purpose and Investors
I’m currently trying to build a healthtech start-up. We’ll announce the exact idea in due time, but what I can say is: what we’re trying to build is ambitious the space is crowded, with lots ...
I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time)
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...
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 ÂŁ1 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. 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) ...
Pausing this weekly email
TL;DR I’m committing to not writing weekly emails or making YouTube videos until atleast mid-2021. I’m also strictly reducing content consumption. Basically, I’m switching from output to input. I’...
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 ...