<story><title>I&apos;m choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.&lt;p&gt;Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>escot</author><text>There is an immense amount of software work to be done in biotech.  Molecular biology research is in need of better automation, analysis, visualization techniques, and on and on.  We need folks at all levels.  I entered biotech as a web developer and have been able to pick more challenging problems to approach on a monthly basis.   We know next to nothing about the human body.  Im optimistic that tech will help out us on a stable path towards more robust research practices.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.&lt;p&gt;Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>&amp;gt;I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I somehow ended up in a academic Genetics lab, writing software.  We use a lot of languages here (Php, python, perl, java, R, javascript and even some C) and various web frameworks to let people use our tools to do science.  I don&amp;#x27;t know if the creators of these tools imagined they&amp;#x27;d be used for science, but they put the tools out there in the public and they were used.&lt;p&gt;You contribute, because its the right thing todo, that makes you significant.  You never know how significant what you put out there will end up being, but it helps you grow too.  The open source community inspires and you by contributing are part of that.  Every little bit helps.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Bioinformatics&amp;quot; is a general term of the use of computing in Biology.  Its an interesting field.</text></comment>