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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

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Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St. Invest Midwest ended with a presentation by Jim McKelvey, cofounder of the mobile-payment company Square and a local St.

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

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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. We wrote a whole new kind of development environment for writing it from scratch. Jeremy Howard : Sure.