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A cancer drug is a classifier. My body is the dataset.

I'm a data scientist with stage IV cancer. I build an AI tool that matches patients to clinical trials — but the model I can't stop thinking about isn't in my code. It's the drug in my arm. A cancer treatment is a classifier. Not as a metaphor — literally. Every dose of chemo, every round of radiat…

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  1. 2026-10-17 04:58 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    A cancer drug is a classifier. My body is the dataset.

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