Thomas Brox Røst
@brox1974.bsky.social
CTO at TRIKKS - E-learning for competence, not just compliance | Associate Professor at NTNU | PhD in clinical decision support systems
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We turned medicinal chemistry into a card game, which takes 3-10 years to play.
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July 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We turned medicinal chemistry into a card game, which takes 3-10 years to play.
PDF: jabde.com/wp-content/u...
PDF: jabde.com/wp-content/u...
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Me, to every young journalist I ever meet.
July 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Me, to every young journalist I ever meet.
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With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive
May 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive
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‘It offers ASMR in a world of ADHD.’ So many great lines in this piece on snooker
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
The strange success of snooker
Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going
economist.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
‘It offers ASMR in a world of ADHD.’ So many great lines in this piece on snooker
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
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Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, almost all letter writers had to use letterlocking. "Letterlocking" provides an archival history of the practice, including sources so readers can learn how to make locked letters for their own correspondence: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204927...
April 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, almost all letter writers had to use letterlocking. "Letterlocking" provides an archival history of the practice, including sources so readers can learn how to make locked letters for their own correspondence: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204927...
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj
April 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj
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Check out tonight's livestream of Derek Muller (Veritasium on YouTube) giving the @perimeterinstitute.ca Public Lecture on the topic "How Will AI Change Education?"
It starts at 7pm Eastern!
www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX...
It starts at 7pm Eastern!
www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX...
Veritasium: How Will AI Change Education? Derek Muller on the Future of Learning.
YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Check out tonight's livestream of Derek Muller (Veritasium on YouTube) giving the @perimeterinstitute.ca Public Lecture on the topic "How Will AI Change Education?"
It starts at 7pm Eastern!
www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX...
It starts at 7pm Eastern!
www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX...
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What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky.
Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.
Credit: Joshua Rozells
Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.
Credit: Joshua Rozells
March 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky.
Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.
Credit: Joshua Rozells
Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.
Credit: Joshua Rozells
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This is a nice piece about writing (applies to anyone who really just needs to do it)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is a nice piece about writing (applies to anyone who really just needs to do it)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say
www.science.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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'In response to the DeepSeek mania in January of this year, he said, “I confess I hadn’t heard of them”. This oversight might have been excusable had it not been made by the most senior AI researcher at a [UK] national AI institute.' www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to...
How not to build an AI Institute
What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?
www.chalmermagne.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
'In response to the DeepSeek mania in January of this year, he said, “I confess I hadn’t heard of them”. This oversight might have been excusable had it not been made by the most senior AI researcher at a [UK] national AI institute.' www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to...
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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📢 Excited to share our paper "The Last JITAI?" was accepted to #CHI2025! We explored how LLMs can transform Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions. GPT-4 outperformed humans in JITAI generation signaling a shift toward Generative Context-Aware Computing! #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety
March 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📢 Excited to share our paper "The Last JITAI?" was accepted to #CHI2025! We explored how LLMs can transform Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions. GPT-4 outperformed humans in JITAI generation signaling a shift toward Generative Context-Aware Computing! #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety
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Hard to imagine how counterproductive this would be. It would dramatically increase threats to the US, given shared role in continental/cyber defence. But given many of Canada’s key contributions relate to Russia, & you don’t see Russia as a threat anymore…
A reckless and dumb trade tactic.
A reckless and dumb trade tactic.
Interesting. FT gets more detail on what I wrote on Feb 16: that the Trump admin had made threats to expel Canada from Five Eyes. "Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes Eyes." www.ft.com/content/2dfa...
For a sense of mood: I was told today by one person - albeit second hand - that Trump admin threatened Canada with revisions to the border & expulsion from Five Eyes. Canada said to have threatened retal on energy front. (Despite that, Gabbard seems to have impressed in Munich).
February 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Hard to imagine how counterproductive this would be. It would dramatically increase threats to the US, given shared role in continental/cyber defence. But given many of Canada’s key contributions relate to Russia, & you don’t see Russia as a threat anymore…
A reckless and dumb trade tactic.
A reckless and dumb trade tactic.
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You can create synthetic data with a single prompt!
We present a zero-shot approach to synthetic data generation which can outperform a GAN in preserving correlations, means, 95% CI and privacy of real-world data (without access to data)
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.14523
We present a zero-shot approach to synthetic data generation which can outperform a GAN in preserving correlations, means, 95% CI and privacy of real-world data (without access to data)
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.14523
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
You can create synthetic data with a single prompt!
We present a zero-shot approach to synthetic data generation which can outperform a GAN in preserving correlations, means, 95% CI and privacy of real-world data (without access to data)
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.14523
We present a zero-shot approach to synthetic data generation which can outperform a GAN in preserving correlations, means, 95% CI and privacy of real-world data (without access to data)
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.14523
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Super excited to share our latest preprint: We generate synthetic neurosurgical data with an LLM (using a single prompt) and train an ML model on it to predict real-world neurosurgical outcomes
Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09566
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Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09566
@emreszg.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Super excited to share our latest preprint: We generate synthetic neurosurgical data with an LLM (using a single prompt) and train an ML model on it to predict real-world neurosurgical outcomes
Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09566
@emreszg.bsky.social
Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09566
@emreszg.bsky.social
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Yeats talking smack again though perhaps not anticipating that in the future nobody would care about poetry unless it was uplifting short slogans with line breaks.
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Yeats talking smack again though perhaps not anticipating that in the future nobody would care about poetry unless it was uplifting short slogans with line breaks.
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New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ...
The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant
breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.
thelancet.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“The number of smart founders is not a function of the amount of money available.” ... "LPs of American VC firms have made compound annual returns of 1.45% in the past three years". www.economist.com/business/202...
Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
Venture capital’s hardiest perennial gets back to its roots
www.economist.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“The number of smart founders is not a function of the amount of money available.” ... "LPs of American VC firms have made compound annual returns of 1.45% in the past three years". www.economist.com/business/202...
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Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
January 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
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i like asking deepseek questions which look like logical puzzles but are actually just nonsense and watching it go insane
January 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
i like asking deepseek questions which look like logical puzzles but are actually just nonsense and watching it go insane
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This is a golden opportunity for cancer researchers to seize the potential of Web3.
Launch a memecoin to fund your study. It's The Future!
Launch a memecoin to fund your study. It's The Future!
January 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is a golden opportunity for cancer researchers to seize the potential of Web3.
Launch a memecoin to fund your study. It's The Future!
Launch a memecoin to fund your study. It's The Future!
"Imagine, for example, that you keep your books clumped together, leaving empty space on the far right of the shelf. Then, if you add a book by Isabel Allende to your collection, you might have to move every book on the shelf to make room for it." www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sor...
New Book-Sorting Algorithm Almost Reaches Perfection | Quanta Magazine
The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Imagine, for example, that you keep your books clumped together, leaving empty space on the far right of the shelf. Then, if you add a book by Isabel Allende to your collection, you might have to move every book on the shelf to make room for it." www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sor...