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Research Notes26 min read

The Patient Is Not a Label: Toward World Models of Physiology

Clinical AI has spent a decade scoring labels. The next frontier is action-aware patient-state modeling: physiology, measurement, intervention, uncertainty, and consequence.

Clinical AIWorld ModelsPhysiologyDigital TwinsMultimodal AI

Jun 17, 2026

Clinical AI22 min read

Clinical Note Extraction in the Age of Generative AI: Error Patterns, Methodological Architectures, and Strategic Implementation

An in-depth survey of clinical note extraction methods--rule-based, BERT, and LLMs--with error patterns, taxonomy of failures, and implementation strategy.

Clinical NLPInformation ExtractionLLM

Jan 31, 2026

Decision-making10 min read

The Psychology of Risk: Why Smart People Still Gamble Badly in Trading

Behavioral finance explains how cognitive shortcuts and emotional responses distort risk perception and lead even highly educated traders to gamble badly.

Behavioral FinanceTrading PsychologyRisk

Jan 30, 2026

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