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I think the answer depends on "why do you want to learn?". The implicit answer to that question for this blog post seems to be "to advance your career". That's

by bla3 5y ago

I think the answer depends on "why do you want to learn?". The implicit answer to that question for this blog post seems to be "to advance your career". That's a fine answer, but not the only answer.

whoisburbansky 5y ago
It sounded to me like the answer for the author was "because it's fun!" and then turning around and figuring out how to arrange his career in a way that lets him continue learning, which ends up benefitting his career anyways, almost as a side effect.
dominotw 5y ago
i am currently researching cancer due to my diagnosis. Its a fascinating world that will keep me occupied for a long time. I am learning statistics p-values, multi-variate analysis , kaplan-meier ect. A little bit of genetics and cell anatomy, mutations when i am bored of stats and reading about human side of cancer in the book 'emperor of all maladies'. I am really enjoying this part of the journey, learning something from scratch, beginner gains.
- nick__m 5y ago
  Good luck, I hope every things goes as good as it can and that you and your oncologist take every decision, that maximizes your odds of surviving. The were two positive thing about my wife's cancer 1- She survived 2- The intense learning experiance. P.s. You could add medical imaging to your list of interesting cancer related things to learn. It won't really help you but it is extremely interesting . If you can get the DICOM files of your scans try to interpret them with the full radiologist report. I got started with the trial of radiant viewer¹ (it easy to use but you will probably hit a ceiling before the end of the trial) and then try 3D slicer² (it's a lot harder to use but I feel that I used maybe 10% of that software capability and I was able to cleanly isolate the tumor and make the rest of her body translucent). 1- www.radiantviewer.com 2- slicer.org

by bla3 5y ago

I think the answer depends on "why do you want to learn?". The implicit answer to that question for this blog post seems to be "to advance your career". That's a fine answer, but not the only answer.

whoisburbansky 5y ago

It sounded to me like the answer for the author was "because it's fun!" and then turning around and figuring out how to arrange his career in a way that lets him continue learning, which ends up benefitting his career anyways, almost as a side effect.

dominotw 5y ago

i am currently researching cancer due to my diagnosis. Its a fascinating world that will keep me occupied for a long time. I am learning statistics p-values, multi-variate analysis , kaplan-meier ect. A little bit of genetics and cell anatomy, mutations when i am bored of stats and reading about human side of cancer in the book 'emperor of all maladies'. I am really enjoying this part of the journey, learning something from scratch, beginner gains.

nick__m 5y ago
Good luck, I hope every things goes as good as it can and that you and your oncologist take every decision, that maximizes your odds of surviving. The were two positive thing about my wife's cancer 1- She survived 2- The intense learning experiance. P.s. You could add medical imaging to your list of interesting cancer related things to learn. It won't really help you but it is extremely interesting . If you can get the DICOM files of your scans try to interpret them with the full radiologist report. I got started with the trial of radiant viewer¹ (it easy to use but you will probably hit a ceiling before the end of the trial) and then try 3D slicer² (it's a lot harder to use but I feel that I used maybe 10% of that software capability and I was able to cleanly isolate the tumor and make the rest of her body translucent). 1- www.radiantviewer.com 2- slicer.org