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...
Chris Lovejoy
About Me
Hi, I'm Chris Lovejoy š 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
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, ...
Deciding my next steps on content creation
šDeciding my next steps with content creation The purpose of this weekās newsletter is to figure out what direction I want to go in next in the area of ācontent creationā with my blog, youtube cha...
Making an impossible list
Iāve often had goals - sometimes in my head, at other times written down - but until now Iāve had no central place that Iāve stored them. Inspired by Thomas FrankāsĀ āImpossible Listā, Iāve decided ...
Three rules for social media usage
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. Iāll share them here in ...
Generating Art with Artificial Intelligence
After hearing about the AI technique of āstyle transferā, 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...
Will AI replace doctors?
A couple of weeks ago, a group of researchers and I publishedĀ an article in the British Medical JournalĀ reviewing research papers that reported AI algorithms and compared their performance with cli...
Some thoughts on the role of AI in healthcare and whether AI will replace doctors
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...
Automating my job search with Python (Using BeautifulSoup and Selenium)
Motivation Iām 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...
Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies
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...