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Essays by Fabiano Filho, MD, on artificial intelligence in medicine: clinical prediction, fairness, evaluation and what it takes to use AI well in health care.
The ranking that did not survive a new seed
In April a multicalibration method came first in our comparison. One changed argument in the data split put it last. What forty partitions showed, and what changed in how I report a comparison.
The paper got cheap
A same-day desk rejection, an unusually frank editor and what it taught me: with AI agents the benchmark, the figures and the prose got cheap. The question did not.
The feature ceiling
Seven diabetes models, from a logistic regression to a tuned ensemble, all landed on the same AUC. What that tie says about the data, and why the next month of work belongs to the variables.