Down in LA, at Mayumi

Staying at The Mayumi in LA for my Regard double work week. Pretty cute little place – feels more like a small LA apt building than a hotel, and is largely booked out by us Regardians.

Work-related link: Microsoft Nuance DAX is exploring using GPT-4 to draft clinical notes, announcement here. Given GPT is an impressive writer, I’m certain some LLM could be incarnated to write a clinical note. Yes, yes. However, I also have to believe that a tailored model / high fidelity patient input will be more effective than just feeding the patient data into chat GPT and asking it to spit out a note. That being said, the in-context few-shot approach does seem to allow a “super” model that just focuses in appropriately.

Med-PaLM is a medically focused model, and well explained in the linked paper.

I’m excited about using the bench & bar for chest & tri’s before the rain drives me in. Good variety from the dumbbells, and gives new benchmarks with the bar: