What a great adventure!
I have been participating for much of this year, representing the viewpoint of a brain cancer care partner, in the Low Grade Glioma Registry’s OPTIMUM research initiative. A couple of months ago I learned this initiative was part of the … Read More »
With my work, I often interact with Physicians, Hospitals and Life Sciences companies. Seldom do my discussions center around brain cancer, but I often think about how whatever I am doing could be applied to cancer patients like Susie and … Read More »
I recently received an email from Count Me In’s Brain Tumor Project, previously called the “Brain Cancer Project.” Susie and I participated in the launching of the effort with other patients, advocates and the Broad Institute. In addition to volunteering, … Read More »
This blog post is part of my Capstone Project for the IBM Data Science Professional Certification, offered via Coursera. I specifically documented some of the challenges and twists and turns that a lay person might encounter digging into publicly available … Read More »
Back in April, I wrote a blog post titled Corona Virus Observations. The post was really a back of the napkin analysis of US versus EU daily case and mortality rates. It showed the US case rates were higher than … Read More »
I’ve seen quite a few charts and graphs comparing the US to different countries. Some of these countries have much smaller populations and different demographics. This is especially the case when looking at countries in Europe. Some countries are more … Read More »
Recently, I experienced a twitter shaming attack from an account whose description is “PROUD MUSLIM. LIVERPOOL! BOXING! @LFC #FreePalestine #FreeSyria #Humanity”. His tweet was “@IBM this guy that represents you likes people starving to death, and thinks PALESTINE are terrorists“. … Read More »
In early November, I did a whirlwind trip with business visits in Melbourne (Australia) and Bangalore (India). I obviously had a lot of time in the air, as my travel took me across the Pacific Ocean (LAX-MEL), the Indian Ocean … Read More »
We are now approaching the middle of July. First the good news. Susie and I returned from MD Anderson this last week. Her scans are stable, no growth/ significant changes to report. So, this weekend we are collecting our thoughts … Read More »
This month marks a major milestone for me. I have just joined IBM’s Watson Group. I will be focusing on cognitive computing solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Combining my professional passion around software engineering with my personal interest in oncology … Read More »
I recently read a very interesting and personally relevant article in IEEE Spectrum Magazine. It was about how IBM and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are working together to teach IBM’s Watson to read patient medical records and search medical literature … Read More »
As this morning is a bit odd, to say the least, this is going to be a strange posting. To preface today’s oddity, the kids received iPod Touches for the winter holidays this year. Therefore, Gabriel is no longer using … Read More »
I’ve been doing a bit of traveling with work. Most of which has been to Dublin and Prague. This last week, I was in both cities. Strangely enough, the weather was near identical (raining and cool). I try to work … Read More »