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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

Jeremy Howard : I'm Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco. So we left San Francisco a long time before the lockdown happened, went somewhere remote, but reasonably close to a good hospital. Jeremy Howard : So people who demand gold standard evidence to do anything, like masks for example.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Some of the best cities to work in the US to get paid well for being a statistician are ; Connecticut, Bridgeport. California, San Francisco. California, San Jose. There is no lack in demand for graduates specializing in statistics. Massachusetts, Boston. North Carolina, Raleigh. New Jersey.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? The ecosystem is just hard to beat.