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Looks like he died from pancreatic cancer. This cancers always reminds me of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. He was a CMU professor who also died from pancr
by melling 3y ago
Looks like he died from pancreatic cancer. This cancers always reminds me of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. He was a CMU professor who also died from pancreatic cancer 15 years ago.
https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
Here’s an HN discussion from a few years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972377
- jseliger 3y agoThere is some hope for improved M&M in pancreatic cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06063-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06063-y, thanks to personalized mRNA vaccines and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors.
- xupybd 3y agoThat's good to hear. It's one of those cancers that is normally not noticed until it's far too late.
- Grazester 3y agoI remember that lecture very well and thought about it a few days ago.