What happens to me — the physician, the surgeon, the person who has spent forty years inside the system — while AI compresses a century of medical progress into a decade? A terrain map, in the spirit of Dario Amodei's 'Machines of Loving Grace' and drawing on the DeepMind documentary 'The Thinking Game.
Read articleLesson 6 of Learning With Dr Neal. The raw next-token predictor you trained in Lesson 5 is the 'before' picture. This is the 'after' — instruction tuning, feedback-based refinement, why the same weights can host such different behaviours, and what the post-training pipeline means for the failure modes you'll meet in deployed clinical tools.
⏱ 30 min Read articleLesson 5 of Learning With Dr Neal. Stop reading and train one: take the TinyGPT from Lesson 4, feed it a corpus small enough for a laptop, write the training loop with your own hands, and watch generated text condense out of randomness — from noise, to word-shaped noise, to sentences.
⏱ 35 min Read articleLesson 4 of Learning With Dr Neal. How a language model actually turns a transcript into the next token: tokens and embeddings, why attention was the breakthrough, what a context window physically is — and a complete tiny GPT in PyTorch, small enough to read in one sitting and train on your laptop.
⏱ 35 min Read articleLesson 3 of Learning With Dr Neal. What separates a chatbot from an agent, the six building blocks every production agent shares, how a single request travels from your keystroke to the final answer, and how a permission system keeps an autonomous loop from wrecking your machine.
⏱ 30 min Read articleMemory and storage stocks have moved more than a thousand percent in the past year on the back of an AI-driven chip shortage, and the sector just took its sharpest pullback since the rally began. A full tour of SanDisk, Western Digital, and the semiconductor stack behind the AI boom — and why Dr Neal thinks this dip is the entry point, not the exit.
⏱ 24 min Read articleCASGEVY proved CRISPR could work as medicine. Three years later the harder question is whether it can work as a business. A deep dive into Vertex Pharmaceuticals, CRISPR Therapeutics, and the genomic medicine sector — the science, the pipeline, the balance sheets, and a full year of stock chart data.
⏱ 22 min Read articleA step-by-step, jargon-free guide for doctors and nurses who want to use DR Detector — the offline AI retinal screening app — in their clinic today. No technical background required.
Read articleThe convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency will produce the largest wealth transfer in modern financial history, and the window to position for it is closing. Talk to Dr Neal about how you can invest in these opportunities and take part in this wealth transfer.
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