Cardiology — Foundation Learning Guide¶
For a reader with no background in this area. If you have watched the Foundations film series, this follows directly from it.
The one idea to hold¶
A risk score is a probability, not a prophecy — and its value is in whether it changes what you do next.
What this subject does with that idea¶
Turns cardiac data into a structured risk assessment with the reasoning shown.
Risk only matters if it changes management. Pair it with imaging findings and pharmacogenomics to decide whether a given statin will work.
Decision support for a qualified clinician — never autonomous diagnosis or prescribing. Every output on this page is intended to inform a clinician's judgement, not replace it.
What it cannot do¶
Risk scores are population statistics applied to an individual. They inform, they do not determine.
Stating the limit is not a disclaimer bolted on the end — it is how you tell a tool that helps from a tool that misleads.
Vocabulary you will meet¶
| Term | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Capability | One named thing the platform can do, registered in capabilities.json |
live / planned |
Whether a capability actually answers today, or is intended |
| Decision support | Output that informs a clinician; it never decides |
| LIVE / REPRESENTATIVE / BURST | Whether a demo ran now, was pre-computed, or ran on remote GPUs |
Try it¶
The demo for this subject is E6:
.venv/bin/python scripts/run_demo.py E6
If it reports BLOCKED, the message names exactly what is missing. That is intentional — a demo
that cannot run says so rather than showing you something canned.