PinnedTransformer models: an introduction and catalog — 2022 EditionUpdate 04/02/2022 Thanks for all the interest and feedback in this post. As a result of all your comments, today I am updating the catalog with the following Transformer models: Megatron, Jurassic-1, MT-NLG , Wu Dao 2.0, Gopher, SeeKer, GPTInstruct, Chinchilla, Turing-NLG, VIT, and Swin Transformer. …Artificial Intelligence17 min read
Jul 14Principles for data driven organizationsOriginally posted in my personal blog. What does it mean to be “data driven”? Data driven is a somewhat controversial term that has many definitions and interpretations. In fact, many argue that being data driven can harm organizations, and instead argue that they should be “data informed”. I believe that this stems from an incorrect interpretation of the…Data Science12 min read
Jun 8Migrating Medium and Blogger blogs to self-maintained Github PagesIn case you are reading this post in my now Medium mirror, you can access the result of this migration here. For quite some time I have been pretty disappointed with my current Medium blog here. It has been sad to see how much Medium has failed as a product…7 min read
May 30The death of the stars: A brief primer on online user ratingsA few weeks back, Netflix announced that they were adding a two thumbs up option to give feedback on their content. At the same time I was being asked on Twitter why we had given up on 5 star ratings at Netflix back in the day. …Hci5 min read
Published in Curai Health Tech·Apr 182021 Engineering Internships — Part IAt Curai we accept interns on all our different teams all year round. For obvious reasons, we have gone to a full-remote model the past two years, and we expect it to continue like this at least for now. We have always been fortunate to attract amazing interns every year…Healthtech12 min read
Published in Curai Health·Aug 6, 2021Patient Stories: The Human side of Curai HealthBy: Yvonne K. Okoh, MD, MPH (Head of Clinical Operations) Introduction At Curai, we have the very human-centric mission of providing the world’s best healthcare to every individual. In order to do so, we use state of the art technology and are constantly innovating on our products and services. We talk…Healthcare8 min read
Jun 23, 2021On the “Usefulness” of the Netflix PrizeIt has been over 10 years since the Netflix Prize finished, and I was not expecting to write a blog post about it at this point. However, just in the past couple of weeks I have found myself talking about it extensively both in the context of a Twitter thread…Machine Learning6 min read
Published in Curai Health·May 7, 2021Curai’s Medical Advisory BoardAt Curai we take our mission of “Providing the world’s best healthcare to everyone” to heart. This means our company must be informed by the best medical expertise. We have an amazing group of doctors on our team. In addition, we believe that receiving input from independent experts from outside…Healthcare8 min read
Mar 21, 2021Valuing Equity in Startups: A Decision-Making Frameworkand a spreadsheet — (In case you came here looking for the spreadsheet, here it is. However, I recommend you continue reading to help you understand the overall framework.) I am often surprised that many folks I talk to, even those working at startups, have very little understanding of how to think about the…Startup12 min read
Feb 11, 2021The AI/ML FDA PlanIn case you are not familiar with it, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. that is responsible for the control and supervision of food safety, drugs, vaccines, medical devices, and the likes. In recent times the FDA has…AI9 min read