Our education system encourages us to “learn lots about X” before actually doing anything with the knowledge. We’ll spend a term in math’s class learning about differential equations. Then, maybe, ...

👟Deciding my next steps with content creation The purpose of this week’s newsletter is to figure out what direction I want to go in next in the area of ‘content creation’ with my blog, youtube cha...

I’ve often had goals - sometimes in my head, at other times written down - but until now I’ve had no central place that I’ve stored them. Inspired by Thomas Frank’s “Impossible List”, I’ve decided ...

As part of my on-going quest to utilise the benefits of the internet without succumbing to the adverse effects, I decided to create some personal rules to guide my actions. I’ll share them here in ...

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...

A couple of weeks ago, a group of researchers and I published an article in the British Medical Journal reviewing research papers that reported AI algorithms and compared their performance with cli...

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...

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...

Published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Abstract Objective: To systematically examine the design, reporting standards, risk of bias, and claims of studies comparing the performance of dia...

One of my motivations for starting a YouTube channel at the start of this year was to develop skills that I felt could be valuable; the main two being video editing skills and public speaking. I’m...