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Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology. https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 https://x.com/iskander/status/190307
by Naru41 2y ago
Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.
https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 -- about a dozen of us with math/CS backgrounds ditched tech for biomedicine. And we got humbled hard: most of what we did flopped & techies
- mschuster91 2y ago> Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology. No surprise given that biotechnology has a lot more stakeholders. Ethics aren't just an afterthought because unlike VC/the stock market, academia has lots of ethics review gates in place. And for those that think they can sidestep ethics by going private (be it Theranos, 23andMe or various other such services), they'll all find out one day that it will catch up to them.
- johnnyanmac 2y agothey are all very different worlds. math works purely in theory and simply explains phenomenon. Likewise, much of software is ephemeral and gets its ethic indirectly once people are involved. to work with life is to work in factors that directly affect others, Unless you're doing something like pure biology where you simply observe. Even then, the art of observing sentient beings has its hundreds of quirks.