Cyril Zakka, MD
@cyrilzakka.bsky.social
Health AI x @Huggingface | Medical Doctor & ML Researcher. Prev: @Stanford
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Cyril Zakka, MD
@cyrilzakka.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hey all - thanks for following! By means of a quick intro, I’m currently the Health Lead @huggingface.bsky.social 🤗 where I research and develop clinical AI tools.
If there’s anything you need help with on that side, please feel free to reach out!
If there’s anything you need help with on that side, please feel free to reach out!
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I'm writing an article series about creating tensors from scratch in Rust. #tensors #machine-learning #ml #ai
huggingface.co/blog/KeighBe...
huggingface.co/blog/KeighBe...
Building Tensors From Scratch in Rust: Part 1, Core Structure and Indexing
A Blog post by Kyle Birnbaum on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
June 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I'm writing an article series about creating tensors from scratch in Rust. #tensors #machine-learning #ml #ai
huggingface.co/blog/KeighBe...
huggingface.co/blog/KeighBe...
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If you're interested in language, AI, and cognition, this is the *must-watch* video of the week: Debate a few days ago between Dr. @emilymbender.bsky.social and Dr. @sbubeck.bsky.social on whether chatbots can "understand". Was a lively and fun debate to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQ...
CHM Live | The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand?
YouTube video by Computer History Museum
www.youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you're interested in language, AI, and cognition, this is the *must-watch* video of the week: Debate a few days ago between Dr. @emilymbender.bsky.social and Dr. @sbubeck.bsky.social on whether chatbots can "understand". Was a lively and fun debate to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQ...
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Hey physicians, now is actually the exact time we need to all be talking about racism and health equity. Everything that is happening is going to worsen disparities. Silence is not an option.
February 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hey physicians, now is actually the exact time we need to all be talking about racism and health equity. Everything that is happening is going to worsen disparities. Silence is not an option.
Very well written blog post on agents by some titans of the industry.
💫...And we're live!💫 Seasonal newsletter from ethicsy folks at @hf.co, exploring the ethics of "AI Agents"
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!
AI Agents Are Here. What Now?
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Very well written blog post on agents by some titans of the industry.
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
💫...And we're live!💫 Seasonal newsletter from ethicsy folks at @hf.co, exploring the ethics of "AI Agents"
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!
AI Agents Are Here. What Now?
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
💫...And we're live!💫 Seasonal newsletter from ethicsy folks at @hf.co, exploring the ethics of "AI Agents"
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!
Calling all medical researchers and practitioners! 🩺
We’re looking for folks able to share 5+ de-identified medical cases for general AI benchmarking purposes across all specialties. Credits will be attributed.
Retweets appreciated!
Please DM or reach out at firstName.lastName@huggingface.co
We’re looking for folks able to share 5+ de-identified medical cases for general AI benchmarking purposes across all specialties. Credits will be attributed.
Retweets appreciated!
Please DM or reach out at firstName.lastName@huggingface.co
January 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Calling all medical researchers and practitioners! 🩺
We’re looking for folks able to share 5+ de-identified medical cases for general AI benchmarking purposes across all specialties. Credits will be attributed.
Retweets appreciated!
Please DM or reach out at firstName.lastName@huggingface.co
We’re looking for folks able to share 5+ de-identified medical cases for general AI benchmarking purposes across all specialties. Credits will be attributed.
Retweets appreciated!
Please DM or reach out at firstName.lastName@huggingface.co
I spent my winter break redesigning the Health app with an AI focused approach starting with clinical records.
The goal here was to help patients get a deeper understanding of their own records, with the eventual goal of enabling continuous health monitoring and personalized health suggestions.
The goal here was to help patients get a deeper understanding of their own records, with the eventual goal of enabling continuous health monitoring and personalized health suggestions.
January 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I spent my winter break redesigning the Health app with an AI focused approach starting with clinical records.
The goal here was to help patients get a deeper understanding of their own records, with the eventual goal of enabling continuous health monitoring and personalized health suggestions.
The goal here was to help patients get a deeper understanding of their own records, with the eventual goal of enabling continuous health monitoring and personalized health suggestions.
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
my wl:
- fewer low-hanging proof-of-concept studies (yes, it works for your specialty/organ/classification, too)
- fewer head-to-head model comparisons (yes, llama 3.1 was better than llama 2 for your case, but peer review took 8 months, now there’s llama 4)
- instead: RCTs, relevant outcomes
- fewer low-hanging proof-of-concept studies (yes, it works for your specialty/organ/classification, too)
- fewer head-to-head model comparisons (yes, llama 3.1 was better than llama 2 for your case, but peer review took 8 months, now there’s llama 4)
- instead: RCTs, relevant outcomes
December 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
my wl:
- fewer low-hanging proof-of-concept studies (yes, it works for your specialty/organ/classification, too)
- fewer head-to-head model comparisons (yes, llama 3.1 was better than llama 2 for your case, but peer review took 8 months, now there’s llama 4)
- instead: RCTs, relevant outcomes
- fewer low-hanging proof-of-concept studies (yes, it works for your specialty/organ/classification, too)
- fewer head-to-head model comparisons (yes, llama 3.1 was better than llama 2 for your case, but peer review took 8 months, now there’s llama 4)
- instead: RCTs, relevant outcomes
I have a feeling that in 2025 we’re going to be seeing an interesting shift in healthcare delivery/medical education thanks to this new crop of LLMs.
Hopefully we’ll be seeing more healthcare workers involved in the development, deployment, and evaluation of these systems.
Hopefully we’ll be seeing more healthcare workers involved in the development, deployment, and evaluation of these systems.
December 26, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I have a feeling that in 2025 we’re going to be seeing an interesting shift in healthcare delivery/medical education thanks to this new crop of LLMs.
Hopefully we’ll be seeing more healthcare workers involved in the development, deployment, and evaluation of these systems.
Hopefully we’ll be seeing more healthcare workers involved in the development, deployment, and evaluation of these systems.
Christmas came early! 🎅🏻 Today marks the newest release of the HuggingChat 🤗 update with some really exciting capabilities! First up, automatic context injection!
1) Open a file in a supported app, summon HFChat, and it pre-populates the context window. No more copy-pasting. /cc @hf.co
1) Open a file in a supported app, summon HFChat, and it pre-populates the context window. No more copy-pasting. /cc @hf.co
December 9, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Christmas came early! 🎅🏻 Today marks the newest release of the HuggingChat 🤗 update with some really exciting capabilities! First up, automatic context injection!
1) Open a file in a supported app, summon HFChat, and it pre-populates the context window. No more copy-pasting. /cc @hf.co
1) Open a file in a supported app, summon HFChat, and it pre-populates the context window. No more copy-pasting. /cc @hf.co
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
Care to learn #AI #ML to apply it to spaceflight biology & health?🚀
Here’s an open, free, at-your-own-pace course:
🔗 About www.nasa.gov/using-ai-ml-...
🔗 Register: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/8JYKD7
Cheers to NASA for the Transform to Open Science Training grant awarding this work 🎉🤗
Here’s an open, free, at-your-own-pace course:
🔗 About www.nasa.gov/using-ai-ml-...
🔗 Register: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/8JYKD7
Cheers to NASA for the Transform to Open Science Training grant awarding this work 🎉🤗
Using AI/ML for Space Biology Research - NASA
As the field of space biology continues to generate vast amounts of data, the ability to effectively analyze and interpret this information is becoming
www.nasa.gov
December 7, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Care to learn #AI #ML to apply it to spaceflight biology & health?🚀
Here’s an open, free, at-your-own-pace course:
🔗 About www.nasa.gov/using-ai-ml-...
🔗 Register: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/8JYKD7
Cheers to NASA for the Transform to Open Science Training grant awarding this work 🎉🤗
Here’s an open, free, at-your-own-pace course:
🔗 About www.nasa.gov/using-ai-ml-...
🔗 Register: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/8JYKD7
Cheers to NASA for the Transform to Open Science Training grant awarding this work 🎉🤗
More features shipping out this week:
- Support for document/media upload
- System-wide on-device dictation support (supports all EHRs by default) with injection into ANY text field.
- Context injection based on currently active app
If you squint, you can guess where medical AI is headed 🤗
- Support for document/media upload
- System-wide on-device dictation support (supports all EHRs by default) with injection into ANY text field.
- Context injection based on currently active app
If you squint, you can guess where medical AI is headed 🤗
December 5, 2024 at 8:04 PM
More features shipping out this week:
- Support for document/media upload
- System-wide on-device dictation support (supports all EHRs by default) with injection into ANY text field.
- Context injection based on currently active app
If you squint, you can guess where medical AI is headed 🤗
- Support for document/media upload
- System-wide on-device dictation support (supports all EHRs by default) with injection into ANY text field.
- Context injection based on currently active app
If you squint, you can guess where medical AI is headed 🤗
Small part of a big update I’m pushing out this week. Happy with the result!
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Small part of a big update I’m pushing out this week. Happy with the result!
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
Holiday hacking underway. Following the blog post from @cyrilzakka.bsky.social I'm trying to read data from a Colmi R02. Let's see how this goes! The post is here: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Halo: Open Source Health Tracking with Wearables
A Blog post by Cyril on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
November 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Holiday hacking underway. Following the blog post from @cyrilzakka.bsky.social I'm trying to read data from a Colmi R02. Let's see how this goes! The post is here: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
Did you know that 99% of email today is spam? Your inbox isn’t 99% spam because AI is used to filter it.
The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.
The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.
November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Did you know that 99% of email today is spam? Your inbox isn’t 99% spam because AI is used to filter it.
The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.
The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.
I cannot recommend this group enough. Dream team of clinicians, researchers, and engineers. 💫
We are excited to announce the launch of our company - Cognita! We are working towards building the future of radiology through multi-modal AI systems with a great group of founders Louis Blankemeier, Zhihong Chen , and I, and advisors Ajit Singh, Chris Re, and @curtlanglotz.bsky.social
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November 27, 2024 at 10:38 PM
I cannot recommend this group enough. Dream team of clinicians, researchers, and engineers. 💫
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
We are excited to announce the launch of our company - Cognita! We are working towards building the future of radiology through multi-modal AI systems with a great group of founders Louis Blankemeier, Zhihong Chen , and I, and advisors Ajit Singh, Chris Re, and @curtlanglotz.bsky.social
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November 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
We are excited to announce the launch of our company - Cognita! We are working towards building the future of radiology through multi-modal AI systems with a great group of founders Louis Blankemeier, Zhihong Chen , and I, and advisors Ajit Singh, Chris Re, and @curtlanglotz.bsky.social
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It's "on-device LLM" today.
Soon, it'll be "on-chip" LLM. Or LLM cores. The system default local LLM. The coding framework's default local LLM.
I find this incredibly exciting. A privacy-first, self-contained, user-owned AI—a 24/7 agent for action, insights & feedback.
github.com/huggingface/...
Soon, it'll be "on-chip" LLM. Or LLM cores. The system default local LLM. The coding framework's default local LLM.
I find this incredibly exciting. A privacy-first, self-contained, user-owned AI—a 24/7 agent for action, insights & feedback.
github.com/huggingface/...
GitHub - huggingface/smollm: Everything about the SmolLM & SmolLM2 family of models
Everything about the SmolLM & SmolLM2 family of models - GitHub - huggingface/smollm: Everything about the SmolLM & SmolLM2 family of models
github.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:01 PM
It's "on-device LLM" today.
Soon, it'll be "on-chip" LLM. Or LLM cores. The system default local LLM. The coding framework's default local LLM.
I find this incredibly exciting. A privacy-first, self-contained, user-owned AI—a 24/7 agent for action, insights & feedback.
github.com/huggingface/...
Soon, it'll be "on-chip" LLM. Or LLM cores. The system default local LLM. The coding framework's default local LLM.
I find this incredibly exciting. A privacy-first, self-contained, user-owned AI—a 24/7 agent for action, insights & feedback.
github.com/huggingface/...
Part of me wants to make a Bluesky client just to add the ability to bookmark posts
November 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Part of me wants to make a Bluesky client just to add the ability to bookmark posts
In case you're doing any sort of on-device inference or training (MLX, GGML, LMStudio), we just released a free and sudo-less menu bar utility to track CPU (E/P cores), GPU, and ANE usage in real time!
Link: github.com/cyrilzakka/EMG
Link: github.com/cyrilzakka/EMG
November 22, 2024 at 8:18 PM
In case you're doing any sort of on-device inference or training (MLX, GGML, LMStudio), we just released a free and sudo-less menu bar utility to track CPU (E/P cores), GPU, and ANE usage in real time!
Link: github.com/cyrilzakka/EMG
Link: github.com/cyrilzakka/EMG
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
We need more open-source models, datasets & apps in AI healthcare. It makes it not only more likely to benefit everyone but also much safer, controllable and respects privacy!
Great initiative so that everyone can build their own open-source AI health tracker for $12: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Great initiative so that everyone can build their own open-source AI health tracker for $12: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Halo: Open Source Health Tracking with Wearables
A Blog post by Cyril on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
We need more open-source models, datasets & apps in AI healthcare. It makes it not only more likely to benefit everyone but also much safer, controllable and respects privacy!
Great initiative so that everyone can build their own open-source AI health tracker for $12: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Great initiative so that everyone can build their own open-source AI health tracker for $12: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Reposted by Cyril Zakka, MD
Track your own health privately, from @huggingface.bsky.social and @cyrilzakka.bsky.social
huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Halo: Open Source Health Tracking with Wearables
A Blog post by Cyril on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
November 22, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Track your own health privately, from @huggingface.bsky.social and @cyrilzakka.bsky.social
huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...
Super excited to introduce Halo: A beginner's guide to DIY health tracking with wearables! 🤗✨
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Super excited to introduce Halo: A beginner's guide to DIY health tracking with wearables! 🤗✨
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
We also some exciting collaborations/hackathons in the works with NASA and NEJM AI so look out for those announcements soon! 🤖🩺
November 11, 2024 at 6:55 PM
We also some exciting collaborations/hackathons in the works with NASA and NEJM AI so look out for those announcements soon! 🤖🩺
Hey all - thanks for following! By means of a quick intro, I’m currently the Health Lead @huggingface.bsky.social 🤗 where I research and develop clinical AI tools.
If there’s anything you need help with on that side, please feel free to reach out!
If there’s anything you need help with on that side, please feel free to reach out!
November 11, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Hey all - thanks for following! By means of a quick intro, I’m currently the Health Lead @huggingface.bsky.social 🤗 where I research and develop clinical AI tools.
If there’s anything you need help with on that side, please feel free to reach out!
If there’s anything you need help with on that side, please feel free to reach out!