What I Mean When I Say Colonic Motility
What the colon actually does, what cine MRI sees, and why a quantitative motility score is only one view of a much larger system.
A working notebook
September 15, 2026
Papers I’ve read, methods I’m learning, books that shaped my thinking, ideas that don’t have a home yet. Some of this grows into research. Most of it doesn’t, and that’s fine. Nothing here is finished.
seedling rough, first pass, might just be a question
sprout revisited, starting to take shape
evergreen fairly confident
What the colon actually does, what cine MRI sees, and why a quantitative motility score is only one view of a much larger system.
A p-value says a result probably exists, not that it matters. On statistical significance versus clinical meaning, and why the fix is reporting practice.
Motility means different things depending on who you ask. What two years of work on it in UC taught me, and why it is harder to measure than it sounds.
Reading BABEL by R.F. Kuang made me think about how LLMs handle meaning across languages, and what that costs us in clinical settings.
Notes on the spectrum between rigid clinical workflows and autonomous agents.
Notes on going from surgery lover to agentic AI builder, and what changed in between.