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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 24/03/2025

LLMs become much less useful the moment you dismantle bureaucracy.

Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 17/03/2025

The modern internet penalises anyone who thinks for more than 3 seconds before forming a strong opinion. You’ll be happy to know that I only thought for 2 seconds before typing this.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 28/02/2025

The idea that scaling up LLMs on human data will produce superhuman performance is magical thinking. The highest attainable performance in any given domain is simply the best human performance. Yes, maybe some insights span across domains, but I don’t think there’s actually evidence for that.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 27/02/2025

The people who laugh about hacky “vibe coding” with LLMs are the same people who think that grok 3 is better than a doctor. Absolutely nuts.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 24/02/2025

“Below is the updated code” followed by absolutely no code is such an o3-mini thing to do that at this point I don’t really understand why this model exists.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 31/01/2025

After much time spent looking at reasoning traces from DeepSeek R1 for medical cases, I have to conclude that there isn’t a strong correlation between good reasoning and a good answer.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 20/01/2025

These R1 distilled models are absolutely amazing on a single turn, but truly horrible on multi-turn conversations.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 15/01/2025

"Mildly elevated rheumatoid factor has a very low positive predictive value that is completely overwhelmed in magnitude by the negative predictive value of not having any signs or symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis."

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 13/01/2025

My 2 year old has 3 adjectives for the size of things. In increasing order: small, mummy, big.

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Leandro von Werra @lvwerra.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Releasing Jupyter Agents - LLMs running data analysis directly in a notebook! The agent can load data, execute code, plot results and following your guidance and ideas! A very natural way to collaborate with an LLM over data and it's just scratching the surface of what's possible soon!

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 17/12/2024

What percentage of “rhupus” is just misdiagnosed Sjögren?

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 17/12/2024

o1 is equal parts brilliant and boring. Very, very boring.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 16/12/2024

Llamafile is a cheat code.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"Zuckerberg's eyes brimmed with tears, and his heart felt full. He truly loved Big Brother!"

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 15/12/2024

Sora’s idea of a hand exam. This 60 year-old rheumatologist is giving me very 2nd year medical student vibes with this bizarre technique. No synovitis was detected this day. #rheumsky

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ACR Journals @acr-journals.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Four-year follow-up of patients with hand osteoarthritis found that the course of pain was variable. Changes in pain were associated with BMI, employment status, mental wellbeing, illness perceptions, and coping styles In Arthritis Care & Research doi.org/10.1002/acr....

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Course of hand pain over four years in patients with hand osteoarthritis depends on BMI, employment and mental wellbeing: The Hand OSTeoArthritis in Secondary care cohort study

Objective We aimed to characterize hand osteoarthritis (OA) patients with deteriorating or improving hand pain, and to investigate patients achieving good clinical outcome after four years. Method...

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 10/12/2024

Vlado Chernozemski, who assassinated King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, belonged in his youth to a club that was devoted to a game of regicide. In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 08/12/2024

I love the fact that Wikipedia’s awful contributor guidelines have lead them to work on algorithms that force contributors to adhere to the guidelines, rather than just making better guidelines www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_ch...

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Edit check - MediaWiki

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 08/12/2024

Finally have COVID. 5 year streak comes to an end 😢

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 08/12/2024

I think anthropic and pretty much anyone can beat o1 with better training data. I give o1 a complex problem, o1 thinks for 4 seconds, outputs a bad answer. Seriously, who trained this thing?

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Mark Lindsay @markelindsay.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

We need some normies here, too many word smiths, phrasing police, you can’t use that word posters, ie annoying left people

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 07/12/2024

Reports of Australian cricket’s death are greatly exaggerated*

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 07/12/2024

This is actually good to show skeptics of structured generation @dottxtai.bsky.social. Demonstrates very clearly that you can stop the model from fighting the constraints by telling it how it’s constrained, even if those constraints might seem absurd (like only using words from the King James Bible)

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.txt @dottxtai.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

There's often a lot of confusion about what structured generation actually is. Brief thread. Structured generation, also called structured output or constrained decoding, is always correctly formatted. The model literally cannot fail to output the format you specify.

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thebes @vgel.me · 06/12/2024

i wrote a custom llm sampler for llama-3.1-8b so it could only say words that are in the bible github.com/vgel/biblica...

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 03/12/2024

The best feed (and it’s not even close) is this one. The signal:noise ratio is phenomenal bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 02/12/2024

Liking a product without liking the person/company that makes it is extremely normal. I am dubious of Meta, but I like the Llama models. I don’t like Elon, but I like jokes about his weird, obsessive fans.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 02/12/2024

#ACR24 people would anyone be interested in a Chrome extension that adds the top 5 most similar abstracts at the end of the page.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 01/12/2024

When we prompt a VLM with an image and text, we don’t know to what extent the response depends on the image vs text. These are clear illustrations of this concept. This is important to consider when looking at benchmarks for these models – quite often the answer comes simply from the text.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 30/11/2024

My 2-year-old and I are debating: brown bear or wombat?

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 28/11/2024

clearsky.app “blocked by” is so much fun. Very pleased to see that I’m blocked by @trashmuppet.bsky.social. Only good muppets on my timeline, thank you very much.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 28/11/2024

I think people would like AI more if our most aesthetic poster (roon) didn’t sound like every precocious 16 year-old who has just read Nietzsche and vaguely heard of Heidegger.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 28/11/2024

The first rule of using the bluesky API: don’t talk about using the bluesky API.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 28/11/2024

Rheumatology-adapted version of Llama 3.1 8B, running on my MacBook at 20 tok/s, correctly answering a question that no open weights models other than Llama 405B can answer. No instruction tuning involved, lots of synthetic data.

A variant of Llama 3.1 8B answering a difficult rheumatology question (Answer: test UBA1 gene, because the patient has VEXAS)

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 27/11/2024

This conforms with my anti-paracetamol/acetaminophen bias.

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ACR Journals @acr-journals.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Repeated acetaminophen use among older adults in the UK was associated with significant incidence of renal, cardiovascular, and GI side effects Results suggest recommendations for repeated use for long-term conditions such as osteoarthritis should be reconsidered In AC&R acr.tw/41lP46n #Medsky

Incidence of side effects associated with acetaminophen in people aged 65 years or more: a prospective cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Graphical abstract created with BioRender

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 25/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Rheumatologist: Do you find it difficult to use a cup in the morning?

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 25/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. AI:

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 25/11/2024

AI generated gaits are very odd.

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 24/11/2024

X is insufficiently academic and this place is too academic. Where’s the place for people who just want to build things, but are not the kind of people who post “you can just build things”?

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 24/11/2024

Trying to make a starter pack of people and organisations on here who produce content and tools for practical AI use. All suggestions welcome. go.bsky.app/Vr73Ggw (also, how do I remove myself from a starter pack? 😂)

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Chris McMaster @rheumai.com · 23/11/2024

How many GPUs to fry this thing?

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