Andrew Warrington

Cardiac Risk, Outcomes, and Management Among Older Adults with Stage I-II NSCLC Undergoing Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

2026-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Never Let Me Go & Poverty, By America

2026-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

This post contains my thoughts on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</em> and Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond</em>. (SPOILERS, DUH)</strong></em></p>

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Favorite Quotes</h2>
Never Let Me Go</h3>
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Poverty, By America</h3>
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Author:</strong> Matthew Desmond Published:</strong> Genre:</strong> Non-Fiction
Length:</strong></p>
First Impressions</h2>
I was blown away by the ease with which I was able to digest such a nuanced, complex issue as poverty in America.</p>
The Writing Style</h2>
Never Let Me Go:</strong></p>
Key Themes</h2>

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What Worked Well</h2>
Never Let Me Go</h3>
Strength 1</h4>
I really, really liked the fact that</p>
Strength 2</h3>
It did not feel preachy, like many other books that attempt to discuss spirituality. It approached the subject with a sense of humility and a genuine curiosity about the intersection of faith, art, and culture - and how individuals experience this intersection, and how they can channel this convergence into their own lives.</p>
What Could Have Been Better</h2>
Point 1</h3>
I was of the belief that the main character’s flat, monotone, almost 2D form of narration was a stylistic choice. But, after listening to the [Literary Ramblings](insert link here)</p>
Memorable Passages</h2>

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Final Thoughts</h2>
I think reading Never Let Me Go immediately after reading Poverty, By America really informed my interpretation of the former.</p>
Never Let Me Go</h3>
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>
Poverty, By America</h3>
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>

Never Let Me Go</h3>
Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p>
Poverty, By America</h3>

Read from [2026-]</li> </ul>
Related Reading:</strong></p>

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood</li>
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (To Be Read)</li> </ul>

An agentic AI system enhances clinical detection of immunotherapy toxicities: a multi-phase validation study

2026-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Multimodal Modeling of CCI, FaceAge, Thymic Health, and OS Among Older Adults with Early-Stage NSCLC Undergoing SBRT

2026-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Face Aging Rate: Artificial Intelligence-based Quantification of Temporal Changes in Biological Age as a Prognostic Biomarker in Cancer Patients

2025-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

FaceAge Web Application

2025-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

Clinical Research Platform | MGB</strong> Production:</strong> faceage.bwh.harvard.edu</a></p>

Designed and built a full-stack clinical research web application enabling IRB-approved studies to collect facial photographs from participants and estimate biological age using the FAHR-Face deep learning model. The system is deployed in production at MGB under two IRB protocols (healthy volunteer and MGB patient arms).</p>
Key responsibilities and technical contributions:</strong></p>

Full-stack development</strong> using Python/Flask (Gunicorn, 5 gevent workers), with Jinja2 templating, Bootstrap front-end, and SQLAlchemy/SQLite for authentication data</li>
Deep learning inference pipeline</strong>: deployed FAHR-Face — a 12-layer Vision Transformer (ViT) with a linear regression head on the [CLS] token, operating on 112×112 aligned face crops; weights loaded at runtime from a volume-mounted checkpoint; RetinaFace used for face detection and alignment; per-session median age computed across multiple images and age delta calculated against chronological DOB; results returned to participants asynchronously by email</li>
Asynchronous task architecture</strong>: designed a Redis Queue (RQ) system with a scheduler container polling REDCap every 60 seconds, enqueuing face-age jobs picked up by a dedicated worker container</li>
Third-party integrations</strong>: REDCap API (participant records, questionnaire data, results), Dropbox API (photo storage and file request links), MGB internal SMTP relay (automated transactional emails)</li>
Authentication and security</strong>: implemented full participant auth flow (bcrypt, token-based account activation, password reset, session management, account lockout); added CSRF protection (Flask-WTF), security headers (Flask-Talisman/HSTS), and Redis distributed locking to prevent race conditions on concurrent registrations</li>
Containerised deployment</strong>: orchestrated 5-container Docker Compose stack (nginx reverse proxy with SSL termination, Flask app, RQ worker, RQ scheduler, Redis); cross-platform multi-arch builds (docker buildx</code>) for Apple Silicon → amd64 Linux server</li>
E-consent and data capture</strong>: built a multi-step participant flow covering study-arm selection, electronic consent with PDF generation, baseline and daily questionnaires, and photo upload (file or webcam)</li> </ul> Tech stack:</strong> Python · Flask · Gunicorn · SQLAlchemy · Redis · RQ · Docker · nginx · PyTorch · HuggingFace Transformers (ViT) · RetinaFace · REDCap API · Dropbox API · SQLite · Flask-WTF · Flask-Talisman · Flask-Mail</p>Underlying model:</strong> Haugg F, Lee G, He J, Nürnberg L, Bontempi D, Bitterman DS, Catalano P, Prudente V, Glubokov D, Warrington A</strong>, et al. Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models for Health Recognition Using Face Photographs (FAHR-Face)</em>. arXiv:2506.14909. Under review at Lancet Digital Health</em>. arXiv</a></p>
Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models for Health Recognition Using Face Photographs (FAHR-Face) 2025-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 FAHR-Face is a foundation model trained on >40 million facial images and fine-tuned for two tasks: biological age estimation (FAHR-FaceAge) and survival risk prediction (FAHR-FaceSurvival). FAHR-FaceAge achieved a mean absolute error of 5.1 years on public datasets and outperformed benchmark models across the full human lifespan. FAHR-FaceSurvival demonstrated robust mortality prediction, with the highest-risk quartile showing more than triple the mortality of the lowest (adjusted HR 3.22; P<0.001). The combination of both models improved prognostic accuracy. Deployed at faceage.bwh.harvard.edu</a>.</p> The Drama 2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 This post contains my review of Kristoffer Borgli’s film ‘The Drama’ starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.</p> </p> The Handmaid's Tale 2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 This post contains my review of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale</em>. (SPOILERS)</strong></em></p> </p> Favorite Quote</h2> “I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name, remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me.”</em></p> Author:</strong> Margaret Atwood Published:</strong> 1985 Genre:</strong> Literary Fiction Length:</strong> 311</p> First Impressions</h2> I am very fond of Margaret Atwood’s poetry. In fact, one of my favorite poems is February</em>. And I am always delighted to see it as Poem of the Day from The Poetry Foundation on the first day of February each year. So, I was very excited to read her prose for the first time and was not disappointed.</p> The Writing Style</h2> Key Themes</h2> Feminism</li> Politics</li> Gender roles</li> </li> </ul> What Worked Well</h2> Strength 1</h3> Margaret Atwood’s prose is {something here}. To create Offred’s voice in such a way she is not bitter, or angry. But also not devoid of hope or filled with resignation. A critical balance, and one that surprised me. Offred, and all the other Handmaids’ situation warrants anger, and spite,. It is what one would more or less expect if you had had your life ripped away from you</p> Strength 2</h3> What Could Have Been Better</h2> Point 1</h3> As far as ambiguous endings go, this was very well done. The imagery in the final scence as she is lifted (christ-like, angel-like? My knowledge of religious symbolism is lacking) into the van – left me feeling rather optimistic. I am not sure why, this could be because I had seen the first season of the show way back, and was aware Offred’s story continued.</p> Also, the fact it was not quite overnight. I think the show expands quite a bit on the lore of the fall of the U.S. and the rise of Gilead.</p> Memorable Passages</h2> “Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing: I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can’t be helped. And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.“</em></p> </blockquote> “That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that’s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.”</em></p> </blockquote> Final Thoughts</h2> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p> Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p> Related Reading:</strong></p> Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</li> </ul> Septology 2024-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 This post contains my review of Jon Fosse’s Septology (I-VII)</em>.</p> </p> Favorite Quote</h2> “and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and maybe that’s why my good paintings, yes, all good paintings, have something to do with what I, what Christians, call The Holy Spirit, because all good art has this spirit, good pictures, good poems, good music, and what makes it good is not the material, not matter, and it’s not the content, the idea, the thought, no, what makes it good is just this unity of matter and form and soul that becomes spirit, that’s what culture is, probably, he says, it’s probably just one person being like another person that creates a culture, for example wearing a suit and tie, while what art is, yes, art is everyone just being like themselves, and totally themselves”</em></p> Author:</strong> Jon Fosse Published:</strong> 2019-2021 Genre:</strong> Literary Fiction Length:</strong> 824 pages (complete trilogy)</p> First Impressions</h2> I’m left with no words. However, I am filled with emotion and a sense of spiritual fulfillment. I think the best way to describe this book is to not describe it at all. Merve Emre has already said it best in Book Forum</a>, “to describe what Septology is about—or even to claim that it is about something that can be fixed in words—is already to defile it.”</em></p> The Writing Style</h2> This is by far the most unique prose I have ever read. The entire trilogy is written in a single, unbroken sentence. This sentence is the seemingly endless stream of consciousness of the protagonist, Asle, in the days leading up to Christmas. There are times where I felt like I was swept away by that stream, and entered a trance-like state. Feeling Asle’s feelings and thinking his thoughts. I felt the delineation between myself and Asle melt away.</p> Key Themes</h2> Spirituality</li> Art</li> Culture</li> Grief</li> </ul> What Worked Well</h2> Strength 1</h3> I thought the writing style was one of the greatest strengths of the trilogy. Though I underestand that it may not be for everyone. You either get it or you don’t - and if you do, it is an incredible experience.</p> Strength 2</h3> It did not feel preachy, like many other books that attempt to discuss spirituality. It approached the subject with a sense of humility and a genuine curiosity about the intersection of faith, art, and culture - and how individuals experience this intersection, and how they can channel this convergence into their own lives.</p> What Could Have Been Better</h2> Point 1</h3> For one, it is incredibly difficult reading each of the three books in the trilogy consecutively. I found it necessary to take breaks between books to digest what I had read.</p> Memorable Passages</h2> “how it has to be, it must have a meaning, yes, Our Lord must have given it meaning, they think, he writes straight on crooked lines, they think, or anyway the good Lord is part of it all somehow, and it’s the devil who made the lines crooked, they think and they hold onto their cigarettes and pints and then they pray a silent prayer, a prayer more like a look out over the sea inside them, wordless, but as far as the eye can reach over that sea the prayer extends, entirely wordless, because the words will be left behind, definitely, but there must be a port for people like them too, they’re probably thinking, and then they feel a prick of something like fear so they raise their pint and have a taste of beer, the good old taste, it gives them a sense of security, I”</em></p> </blockquote> “…there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..”</em></p> </blockquote> Final Thoughts</h2> I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a unique and thought-provoking read. Religious or not, this book evokes a sense of spirituality in the reader that is both humbling and uplifting.</p> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p> Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p> Related Reading:</strong></p> Stoner by John Edward Williams</li> </ul> Effective Altruism at UVA 2022-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 Role:</strong> Discussion Leader</p> Course Description:</strong> From the Effective Altruisim at UVA website</a></p> Effective Altruism is a philosophical and social movement focused on answering one question: How can we best help others?</em></p> Our resources are limited, so we have to use them wisely. Effective Altruism is about:</p> Using evidence and reason to find the most promising causes to work on</strong></li> Taking action by using our time and money to do the most good we can</strong></li> </ol> Responsibilities:</strong> Fellowship Program Outline</a> As a Discussion Leader for the Fellowship Program, I:</p> Facilitated discussions to introduce students to the core principles and values of the Effective Altruism movement</li> Guided participants through thought experiments, hands-on activities, and group exercises designed to explore creative and practical approaches to addressing pressing global challenges</li> Fostered an inclusive, respectful, and intellectually stimulating environment, encouraging strong yet civil discourse on diverse and potentially conflicting viewpoints</li> Empowered students to articulate and defend their beliefs while promoting openness to diverse perspectives</li> Inspired participants to apply evidence-based reasoning in their decision-making and to take meaningful action to help others effectively</li> </ul> The Neural Basis of Behavior 2022-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 Role:</strong> Teaching Assistant</p> Course Description:</strong> After an overview of brain organization and function, the course examines what we know about the physiological bases of several behaviors including sensation and perception, learning, memory, sleep development, hunger, thirst, and emotions.</p> Responsibilities:</strong></p> Cooperated to devise complex lesson plans with other TAs and lead instructor for 10 lab sessions</li> Created and led exam review sessions for over 100 students</li> Directed and graded assignments and student participation for up to 18 students over 1.5-hour lab sessions</li> </ul>

Andrew Warrington

Cardiac Risk, Outcomes, and Management Among Older Adults with Stage I-II NSCLC Undergoing Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Never Let Me Go & Poverty, By America

Never Let Me Go</h3> “”</em></p>

The Writing Style</h2> Never Let Me Go:</strong></p>

What Worked Well</h2>

Never Let Me Go</h3>

Strength 1</h4> I really, really liked the fact that</p>

What Could Have Been Better</h2>

Point 1</h3> I was of the belief that the main character’s flat, monotone, almost 2D form of narration was a stylistic choice. But, after listening to the [Literary Ramblings](insert link here)</p>

Never Let Me Go</h3> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>

Poverty, By America</h3> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>

Never Let Me Go</h3> Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p>

Poverty, By America</h3> Read from [2026-]</li> </ul> Related Reading:</strong></p> The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood</li> Evicted by Matthew Desmond (To Be Read)</li> </ul>

An agentic AI system enhances clinical detection of immunotherapy toxicities: a multi-phase validation study

Multimodal Modeling of CCI, FaceAge, Thymic Health, and OS Among Older Adults with Early-Stage NSCLC Undergoing SBRT

Face Aging Rate: Artificial Intelligence-based Quantification of Temporal Changes in Biological Age as a Prognostic Biomarker in Cancer Patients

FaceAge Web Application

Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models for Health Recognition Using Face Photographs (FAHR-Face)

The Drama

The Handmaid's Tale

What Worked Well</h2>

Strength 2</h3>

What Could Have Been Better</h2>

Final Thoughts</h2> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p> Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p> Related Reading:</strong></p> Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</li> </ul>

Septology

What Worked Well</h2>

Strength 1</h3> I thought the writing style was one of the greatest strengths of the trilogy. Though I underestand that it may not be for everyone. You either get it or you don’t - and if you do, it is an incredible experience.</p>

What Could Have Been Better</h2>

Point 1</h3> For one, it is incredibly difficult reading each of the three books in the trilogy consecutively. I found it necessary to take breaks between books to digest what I had read.</p>

Effective Altruism at UVA

The Neural Basis of Behavior

Never Let Me Go</h3>
“”</em></p>

The Writing Style</h2>
Never Let Me Go:</strong></p>

Strength 1</h4>
I really, really liked the fact that</p>

Point 1</h3>
I was of the belief that the main character’s flat, monotone, almost 2D form of narration was a stylistic choice. But, after listening to the [Literary Ramblings](insert link here)</p>

Never Let Me Go</h3>
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>

Poverty, By America</h3>
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>

Never Let Me Go</h3>
Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p>

Poverty, By America</h3>

Read from [2026-]</li> </ul>
Related Reading:</strong></p>

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood</li>
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (To Be Read)</li> </ul>

Final Thoughts</h2>
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)</p>

Read from [2024-09-19] to [2025-01-16]</em></p>
Related Reading:</strong></p>

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</li> </ul>

Strength 1</h3>
I thought the writing style was one of the greatest strengths of the trilogy. Though I underestand that it may not be for everyone. You either get it or you don’t - and if you do, it is an incredible experience.</p>

Point 1</h3>
For one, it is incredibly difficult reading each of the three books in the trilogy consecutively. I found it necessary to take breaks between books to digest what I had read.</p>