Non-Bio ppl sometimes ask me how to get up to speed with Biology. Most recently, @PradyuPrasad. These ppl tend to be CS/Maths oriented.
Their most common complaint is: “I find Biology interesting but gave up on learning it because it is so memorisation based.”
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If you are a technical person (engineer, quant, mathematician) interested in learning biology, I encourage you to hit textbooks and memorize the "things", eg. cytokines, surface proteins, cell types, pathways, in core fields like immunology.
You will be averse to this because it wasn't how you learned math and... See more