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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

We wrote a whole new kind of development environment for writing it from scratch. Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. So we rewrote it from scratch. And so that.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Life Beyond Code

I lost my 21-year-old brother-in-law and my 10-week old son (both named Gavin) and it hit upon me that life is too short not to act on those most pressing thoughts that come to our mind even if they seem “stupid.” ” 2. ” 3.

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