Not having much to say
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Chris Lovejoy
About Me
Hi, I'm Chris Lovejoy š I build AI products for complex, domain-specific verticals like healthcare and life sciences.
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
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. Iām 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 ofā¦ āto 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 didnāt understand. I was aware that I should probably put my money into savings and investments, but didnāt really know how. I rea...
Beginner to Data Scientist in 25 months: Every Project and What IĀ Learnt
Learning to code as a full-time doctorĀ š©ŗ At the start of 2018, I had recently graduated from medical school. I knew basic web development and not much more. Since mid-2020, Iāve 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
š 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 āI can code in Pythonā. You have to make...
How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as aĀ 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 UKās National Health Service (NHS). Now, I work full-time as a data scientist at dunnhum...
Finding and learning from technical mentors
šĀ Accelerating early progress with technical friends Coming from a medical background, I didnāt have the first clue about how to develop coding skills or data science understanding. And neither di...
Know just enough for the next step
Our education system encourages us to ālearn lots about Xā before actually doing anything with the knowledge. Weāll spend a term in mathās class learning about differential equations. Then, maybe, ...