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Augmenting clinical reasoning, without replacing it

On building AI tools that supercharge physicians' thinking while keeping them in control

The Human → AI Reasoning Shunt

Thoughts on AI systems that can reason alongside users, rather than taking all reasoning over

Using LLMs to Improve Information Retrieval

vs. using Information Retrieval to improve LLMs

Example-Driven Development

A popular technique for interacting with Large Language Models such as ChatGPT is Few-Shot Prompting: providing a few examples of the desired task as part of the prompt, effectively providing the model a guide for how to structure its responses. Recently, I’ve taken this framework of “providing some examples” to ChatGPT to a larger scale — on the scale of many files often spanning multiple…

Large Language Models for Clinical Applications: Part 1

Insights and considerations about the clinical applicability of LLMs, and the importance of domain knowledge in guiding these systems

"Semantic Macros" with Emacs + GPT

Finding the Goldilocks level of complexity for GPT-3 tasks

Improving by "giving up" skill: Lessons from Tabla in Medicine

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a few hours learning Tabla from a senior disciple of the instrument.

LLMs that “store knowledge” — thoughts from a clinical learning perspective

Some brief, off-the-cuff thoughts around this tweet I came across a few weeks back, specifically regarding of how I utilize knowledge and context together in a clinical setting —

On the Relationship Between Memorizing and Understanding

All throughout studying Computer Science in undergrad, I believed memorization was orthogonal at best, and actively detrimental at worst, to actually understanding something.