Algorithms & Adipose

Farah Deshmukh MD MPH

A practical, evidence-based show for physicians who want to understand AI in Medicine. Hosted by Dr. Farah Deshmukh, a board-certified internal medicine and obesity medicine physician, medical director, and assistant professor who teaches AI in medicine to internal medicine residents. Start at episode one, the season is built in order. Written about at algoadipose.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 7h ago

    Episode 5: How You Ask Changes What You Get

    This episode: Why a prompt isn't a request but a set of conditions, why "be accurate" accomplishes nothing, and why letting a model say "I don't know" is the highest-leverage move you can make.Paper: Pandit S, et al. MedHallu: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Detecting Medical Hallucinations in LLMs. EMNLP 2025. Substack: https://algoadipose.substack.com Music credit: NCS Dream – Di Young

  2. 6d ago

    Episode 4: What is RAG?

    This episode: retrieval-augmented generation - giving the model a library instead of a memory. Paper: Zakka C, et al. Almanac — Retrieval-Augmented Language Models for Clinical Medicine. NEJM AI. 2024;1(2). Substack: https://algoadipose.substack.com Music credit: NCS Dream – Di Young

  3. Jul 25

    Episode 3: Why It Makes Things Up

    This episode: hallucination. The model produces a correct answer and a completely fabricated one by exactly the same process. Paper: Pal A, et al. Med-HALT: Medical Domain Hallucination Test for Large Language Models. CoNLL 2023. Substack: https://algoadipose.substack.com Music credit: NCS Dream – Di Young

  4. Jul 20

    Episode 2: Tokens and Context

    In this episode we talk about tokens and context - the model's working memory. What's in it, what falls out, why long chats degrade, and why a bigger context window is not the same as a bigger attention span. Paper: Liu NF, et al. Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts. TACL. 2024;12:157-173. Substack: https://algoadipose.substack.com Music credit: NCS Dream – Di Young

  5. Jul 18

    Episode 1: "The Prediction Machine"

    what actually happens in the seconds after you hit enter after typing your prompt. Paper: Goh E, et al. Large Language Model Influence on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(10):e2440969. Substack: https://algoadipose.substack.com Music credit: NCS Dream – Di Young

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About

A practical, evidence-based show for physicians who want to understand AI in Medicine. Hosted by Dr. Farah Deshmukh, a board-certified internal medicine and obesity medicine physician, medical director, and assistant professor who teaches AI in medicine to internal medicine residents. Start at episode one, the season is built in order. Written about at algoadipose.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Farah Deshmukh MD MPH
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Farah Deshmukh MD MPH
  • Show Website
    Algorithms & Adipose