Social Media
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All that Glitters is not... Evidence
Recently, I wrote about a new machine learning model called GPT-2 which was conspicuously not released by OpenAI. GPT-2 is a massive language model which can be used to generate often highly convincing text when given a prompt. Using the 'attention' framework, the language...
Stop Fighting, You're Making Me SAD
Does medical science have to be adversarial to make progress? Does progress in patient care consist of weeding out treatments which are ineffective and replacing existing therapies with new and better alternatives?
Echoes of Evidence
Do you have an idea of what makes good medical evidence in your mind? Do you have ideas about the kind of evidence you’d pay attention to, and the kind of evidence you can safely disregard? Or ideas about the evidence that would strongly sway your beliefs and actions, and the...