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Pick some unrelated lectures, they said.
(sh.itjust.works)
It will widen your horizon, they said. And here I was, foolishly thinking I could get away with half-assing statistics during my degree.
As somebody with a degree in bioinformatics, I have never seen something more true in my whole life.
Some more lies from my time in academia:
Biostatistics was the only part of my biomedical engineering PhD course load that I enjoyed
Guess who doesn't have a PhD
My dog
Your dog and I have a lot in common
Almost every Baby Boomer ever.
I thought the punch line was that biostatistics is actual biology, and biology is statistics :)
A someone not in the field (CS/Machine learning) what did you expect these to be?