Gradient Descent towards life satisfaction
I’m currently studying a lot of machine learning, and have noticed some analogies between the methods computers use to learn and the approaches we take to life. So today I wanted to share one abou...
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
When things don’t go according to plan
I started this week very optimistically. I had everything planned out; I’d scheduled when I was going to do each work assignment, when I’d spend time with friends and I’d even written a rough outli...
Starting from Zero
I’ve thought about starting an email newsletter for some time. However, when I look to successful newsletters for inspiration, I’m often overwhelmed by how good they are, and in comparison, how fa...
UK healthcare AI companies to be aware of
Last updated: 11th October 2019 It’s useful to be aware of companies working in the healthcare AI space, whether it’s to understand the current state-of-affairs, to look for internships, future pl...
How to find local medical AI projects to get involved with
The last several years have seen a huge surge in amount of funding going into, and research papers coming out of, groups working on artificial intelligence in healthcare. Many new research groups a...
How might you use machine learning in a medical career?
If you’re a healthcare professional with an interest in machine learning (ML), but unsure how can combine it with your career, then we hope you’ll find this post useful. The most common ways of co...
On the importance of technical and job-specific skills
For true happiness in work or life, we need to feel that we are contributing towards a worthy goal; that our work matters. From this perspective, the challenges become part of the process, rather t...
Why should doctors understand machine learning?
We are seeing increasing use of, and discussion about, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across all sectors; healthcare included. Greater volumes of data, improved computing po...
Resources for building the foundational understanding of machine learning
To understand machine learning in medicine, it goes without saying that you need to understand machine learning. For those from a healthcare background, this will be the most challenging part. So…...
Why machine learning? Why medicine? Why the hype?
What is machine learning and artificial intelligence? Machine learning (or ‘ML’) is a key area of artificial intelligence (AI). AI can be defined broadly as when a computer performs a task usually...