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In the fast-growing area of digital healthcare, medical chatbots are becoming an important toolfor improving patient care and providing quick, reliable information. This article explains how to build a medical chatbot that uses multiple vectorstores. It focuses on creating a chatbot that can understand medical reports uploaded by users and give answers based on the information in these reports. Additionally, this chatbot uses another vectorstore filled with conversations between doctors and patients about different medical issues. This approach allows the chatbot to have a wide range of medical knowledge and patient interaction examples, helping it give personalized and relevant answers…
This fall I am teaching for the n-th time our introductory signals and systems course (ECE 345). This time I’m teaching all of the students (at the time of writing, 206 of them): prior offerings split the class into two sections taught by different faculty and in the last two years of COVID-induced remote instruction I co-taught a combined class with my colleague Salim El Rouayheb. I had thought about some plans to change a few things about the class based on my last in-person offering in 2019 and drew up a few ideas, planning to get things organized in…
A few days ago, OpenAI announced a new successor to their Language Model (LM) – GPT-3. This is the largest model trained so far, with 175 billion parameters. While training this large model has its merits, reading a large portion of 72 pages can be tiresome. In this blog post I’ll highlight the parts that I find interesting for people familiar with LMs, who merely wish to know (most of) the important points of this work. “The diversity of tasks the model is able to perform in a zero-shot setting suggests that high-capacity models trained to maximize the likelihood of…
Weather is a complex system, and small variations at any moment can lead to significant and sometimes unpredictable changes over time. But, cracking this chaotic system is no easy feat. Over centuries, we have been doing multiple things to predict the weather, such as listening to the cricket chirps or looking to the stars for the answers. Is it practical or not? Don’t bother. What if I tell you technology can predict when to pack the umbrella or prepare for a hurricane 10-15 days in advance? Sounds great, right? GenCast by Google Deepmind is DOING it all. Technology has given…
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since the last post but I made my course website and “published” it. Rutgers has basically forced all courses into their preferred “Learning Management System” (LMS) Canvas. Even the term LMS has some weird connotations: is it a management system for learning or a system for managing learning? A system for students to (barely) manage to learn? Canvas in particular seems terrible for things math-related (one semester the entire LaTeX rendering engine crashed with no notice) or engineering-related, and in general the whole question management system is garbage. So if Canvas is so…