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What I Noticed On Social Media During the 2017 Hurricane Season

Austin Startup

Irma and Maria together practically wiped out the entire island of Puerto Rico. But instead of being glued to my television or listening to the radio in my vehicle (because who has a radio in their home in 2017), I learned about these storms via social media. Here we go!

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. And that would never get past an Ethics Review Board because you can't. What did you actually see?

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before. I'm able to do my work from home effectively, and all the technology, everything works. I haven't seen my mom the entire time we've been quarantined and socially isolated. It's hard.