(Quick background first, my two questions are in bold at the bottom!)
I am a 28 year-old American, studying/working in Japan for the past 6 years. My educational background is 100% soft humanities (BA in History, MA in Japanese Studies, fluent in Japanese).
For the past year I have been doing Japanese-English translation work for a major Japanese tech company designing voice-recognition software (like Siri). I don't do any programming, but do handle enormous raw data sets and am picking up a lot about the machine-learning process.
However, I recently realized I "missed my calling", and have decided to re-educate into biotech. Specifically interested in bioinformatics and/or biomedical
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