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If AI platforms can avoid FDA oversight if they are âsimply providing informationâ, why canât physicians sidestep liability by just âsimply providing informationâ ??
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If AI platforms can avoid FDA oversight if they are âsimply providing informationâ, why canât physicians sidestep liability by just âsimply providing informationâ ??
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Happy New Years yâall
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Interesting to see where citations come from... and even more interesting once they introduce ads...
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Interesting to see where citations come from... and even more interesting once they introduce ads...
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Ah yes all the private jets arriving on schedule for their annual climate conferenceâŠ
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Ah yes all the private jets arriving on schedule for their annual climate conferenceâŠ
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So uhhh⊠whatâs the other 84% ?
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So uhhh⊠whatâs the other 84% ?
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Super excited to share! We generated synthetic cervical spine radiographs which were indistinguishable from real patient scans when reviewed by neuroradiologists & neurosurgeons. We also publish a dataset of >20k synthetic scans Check out the preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.22166
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Super excited to share! We generated synthetic cervical spine radiographs which were indistinguishable from real patient scans when reviewed by neuroradiologists & neurosurgeons. We also publish a dataset of >20k synthetic scans Check out the preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.22166
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What a Brilliant way to teach pathology! Itâs like the game concentration, but with histology Try it out:
x.com/alvie_barr/s...
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What a Brilliant way to teach pathology! Itâs like the game concentration, but with histology Try it out:
x.com/alvie_barr/s...
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Replace doctors with AI but keep consultants they sayâŠ
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Replace doctors with AI but keep consultants they sayâŠ
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To prompt the LLM, obviously. Why are we still seeing headlines like these???
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To prompt the LLM, obviously. Why are we still seeing headlines like these???
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USMLE â , brain diagrams... â My favourite is the 'hypohalenus', what's yours?
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USMLE â , brain diagrams... â My favourite is the 'hypohalenus', what's yours?
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Elevators should have an undo button if you press the wrong floor
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Elevators should have an undo button if you press the wrong floor
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When your loss function converges but your understanding doesnât:
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When your loss function converges but your understanding doesnât:
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I tend to do quite well on open book tests too
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I tend to do quite well on open book tests too
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You may be GPT-5, but Iâm the rock, paper, scissors champion!
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You may be GPT-5, but Iâm the rock, paper, scissors champion!
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Interesting paper: When any use of AI is mentioned, participants perceived physicians as less competent, trustworthy & empathetic, & were less willing to book an appointment with them Link:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@moritz-reis.bsky.social
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Interesting paper: When any use of AI is mentioned, participants perceived physicians as less competent, trustworthy & empathetic, & were less willing to book an appointment with them Link:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@moritz-reis.bsky.social
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This has to be a joke
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This has to be a joke
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When they ask you to put your thinking cap on:
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When they ask you to put your thinking cap on:
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Officially the longest author list I've ever seen: when et al. = et everyone
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Officially the longest author list I've ever seen: when et al. = et everyone
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People are now adding prompt injections to their articles in case reviewers just feed them into an LLMâŠ
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People are now adding prompt injections to their articles in case reviewers just feed them into an LLMâŠ
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EXCITED TO SHARE! Here we show synthetic clinical data may be used in place of real-world data to answer research questions, train ML models, and to amplify sample sizes Check it out:
thejns.org/focus/view/j...
@emreszg.bsky.social
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EXCITED TO SHARE! Here we show synthetic clinical data may be used in place of real-world data to answer research questions, train ML models, and to amplify sample sizes Check it out:
thejns.org/focus/view/j...
@emreszg.bsky.social
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That was the most Friday the 13th of Friday the 13ths
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That was the most Friday the 13th of Friday the 13ths
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Paper straw⊠in a plastic wrapperâŠ
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Paper straw⊠in a plastic wrapperâŠ
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Why is it always âAI is going to replace physiciansâ as if accountants, programmers, analysts, lawyers arenât at greater risk?
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Why is it always âAI is going to replace physiciansâ as if accountants, programmers, analysts, lawyers arenât at greater risk?
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What if LLMs had whistleblowing capabilities? From the system card Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4:
www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68...
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What if LLMs had whistleblowing capabilities? From the system card Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4:
www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68...
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Call your mom today, it's evidence-based: Happy Mother's Day!
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Call your mom today, it's evidence-based: Happy Mother's Day!
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