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Augmenting clinical reasoning, without replacing it

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

Aug 11 • 

Sam Rawal

January 2025

The Human → AI Reasoning Shunt

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

Jan 10 • 

Sam Rawal

1

June 2024

Using LLMs to Improve Information Retrieval

vs. using Information Retrieval to improve LLMs

Jun 13, 2024 • 

Sam Rawal

August 2023

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…

Aug 17, 2023 • 

Sam Rawal

April 2023

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

Apr 11, 2023 • 

Sam Rawal

2

December 2022

"Semantic Macros" with Emacs + GPT

Finding the Goldilocks level of complexity for GPT-3 tasks

Dec 7, 2022 • 

Sam Rawal

1

November 2022

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.

Nov 21, 2022 • 

Sam Rawal

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…

Nov 21, 2022 • 

Sam Rawal

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…

Nov 21, 2022 • 

Sam Rawal

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