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Meet Brittany Wenger, Google Science Fair 2012 Winner and All-Around Awesome Person
Florida teen develops artificial intelligence breast cancer detection tool
If we lived in a just world, 17 year-old Brittany Wenger would have endorsement contracts, too many cars and an assistant. You know, if she wanted them. Because this is what a role model looks like. She’s this year’s winner of the Google Science Fair, and must add that I’m jealous of that Lego trophy.
Far from being an exception, Brittany exemplifies the quality of her fellow finalists. Looking through this year’s list of top projects, I can’t help but notice how stunningly intelligent and confident all the competitors are.
Brittany developed an artificial neural network (a “software brain” of sorts) to help doctors take what used to be a safer but less reliable form of biopsy and turn it into a highly successful tool for detecting breast cancer.
Seem out of reach? Brittany explains where she got her inspiration:
In school we were researching the future, and my part of the future that I was researching was future technologies. I grew fascinated by artificial intelligence, which I came across. I went home that night, and I bought a computer programming book and, with no experience, decided that was what I was going to do with the rest of my life.
Congrats to her and all this year’s finalists. And congrats to everyone who was inspired to do projects this year and will be inspired in years to come.
I’m with Neil, I’m not worried about young people. This proves why.
Hello World,
Adam and Avi here. We’re excited to tell you about a new adventure we’re embarking on. While the “who, what, when, where, and how” can be found at www.flatironschool.com, we feel its important to share the “why,” so for those ofyou interested, read on.In March, I…
- Census Bureau Releases 1940 Data. America Has Changed.
After 72 years, the U.S. Census Bureau today released data from its decennial count in 1940. The release includes a fascinating graphic about how Americans have changed over time. Here’s just one section, comparing our workforce:
There’s much more in the graphic: housing, demographics, etc. Check it out.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein“I prayed to Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, Buddah… ‘someone get my ass out of here” - Amazing story of American Heron Tibor Rubin. - via @vrikhter
Written by David Oglivy in 1935 - he sold ovens door-to-door before founding Oglivy & Mather. Easily one of the best sales guides I’ve ever read.
A few random gems from Warren Buffett’s letter to shareholders in the 2011 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report (in no particular order). What I would give to compete in the Newspaper Tossing Challenge.
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On Putting your Money where your Mouth is
The annual meeting will be held on Saturday, May 5th at the CenturyLink Center (renamed from “Qwest”). Last year, Carrie Kizer debuted as the ringmaster and earned a lifetime assignment. Everyone loved the job she did – especially me.
Soon after the 7 a.m. opening of the doors, we will have a new activity: The Newspaper Tossing Challenge. Late last year, Berkshire purchased the Omaha World-Herald and, in my meeting with its shareholder-employees, I told of the folding and throwing skills I developed while delivering 500,000 papers as a teenager.
I immediately saw skepticism in the eyes of the audience. That was no surprise to me. After all, the reporters’ mantra is: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” So now I have to back up my claim. At the meeting, I will take on all comers in making 35-foot tosses of the World-Herald to a Clayton porch. Any challenger whose paper lands closer to the doorstep than mine will receive a dilly bar. I’ve asked Dairy Queen to supply several for the contest, though I doubt that any will be needed. We will have a large stack of papers. Grab one. Fold it (no rubber bands). Take your best shot. Make my day.
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On Honesty
Last year, I told you that “a housing recovery will probably begin within a year or so.” I was dead wrong.
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On Goal-Setting
We now have eight subsidiaries that would each be included in the Fortune 500 were they stand-alone companies. That leaves only 492 to go. My task is clear, and I’m on the prowl. —
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On Boards
The primary job of a Board of Directors is to see that the right people are running the business and to be sure that the next generation of leaders is identified and ready to take overtomorrow.
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On the Housing Market:
Early in a recession, household formations slow, and in 2009 the decrease was dramatic.
That devastating supply/demand equation is now reversed: Every day we are creating more households than housing units. People may postpone hitching up during uncertain times, but eventually hormones take over. And while “doubling-up” may be the initial reaction of some during a recession, living with in-laws can quickly lose its allure.
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On Accounting
Certain shareholders have told me they hunger for more discussions of accounting arcana. So here’s a bit of GAAP-mandated nonsense I hope both of them enjoy.
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On Inflation
“In God We Trust” may be imprinted on our currency, but the hand that activates our government’s printing press has been all too human.
High interest rates, of course, can compensate purchasers for the inflation risk they face with currency-based investments – and indeed, rates in the early 1980s did that job nicely. Current rates, however, do not come close to offsetting the purchasing-power risk that investors assume. Right now bonds should come with a warning label.
The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything, but that are purchased in the buyer’s hope that someone else – who also knows that the assets will be forever unproductive – will pay more for them in the future. Tulips, of all things, briefly became a…
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Burning Man 2011 X Dr Seuss = BEAUTIFUL
You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!
“Bagels and Brooklyn go hand in hand. Used to be bagels, Brooklyn and the Dodgers. But we still have Brooklyn and the bagels.”
I hope you are ready to watch the greatest video on the Internet.
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- Great article by @Harris of @tutorspree. Where robots fail: Why education can’t just be digital. http://t.co/2ECDAfbfFe
- @aviflombaum @MattRogish @ag_dubs @rickyrobinett @gwenbell then why not be honest and see if they still want to meet you?
- @davetisch @Dropcam wait till tou discover "God function." You can control a speaker in the dropcam via mobile app. Tons of fun.
- RT @georgezachary: In ~18 years, got ~25K pitches, met 3.5K startups, funded 25. First 23 consumed $160M of total capital and returned $1B.…
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- Cat font. Via @Dharmishta http://t.co/ELq6YyC2ke . All of your pitch-decks will be forever changed.
- Genius. “@erinandcode: Whatt!!! this is greatness! - Recurring Developments: http://t.co/QdmGojSKiX via @beutlerink”
- @HBSAlumni That's ridiculous. Startups only need people who can either Build or Sell. If you can't code, SELL (not Strategy or BD- SALES).
- "Oh hey, that's the guy from 30 Rock. I like him." -@aviflombaum on catching me watching an interview of @jack_welch http://t.co/yjqtImuttr
- @dnfriedman also it's just $4.99 on kindle
- @DNFriedman It's well written and a VERY quick read. No big surprises but a lot of concrete examples & data to what you're already thinking
- Just read @jselingo's book College Unbound cover-to-cover in one sitting. Awesome focus on ROI of Higher Ed. http://t.co/K30ukWlkAS
- @RRombom solid. this is my favorite office hours - Jack Welch on Candor in the Workplace. Watched at least 5 times. http://t.co/yjqtImuttr
- Viewing party? I'll bring frozen bananas. MT @gsbeauchamp: Trailer for new season of #ArrestedDevelopment: http://t.co/M4yMTyaX2d
- Love that more & more ppl are using @timehop. I want all of my conversations to begin with "Today is the X year anniversary of ____!"
- RT @DanaDanger: Can't wait for 3D-printed food to become a reality so I can lay on the couch in my sweatpants and eat raw printer cartridge…
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- @MikeDuda realized the ridiculousness of that pic after this happened http://t.co/iU3OizCIpw
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Put a dent in the universe.
Specialties: Sales, Business Development, Inbound MarketingExperience- Aug 2012 - PresentCo-Founder / The Flatiron School
Fix education.
- Apr 2012 - PresentVC / Charles River Ventures
Help entrepreneurs change things.
- Apr 2011 - Apr 2012National Account Partnerships / HubSpot
- Jun 2010 - Mar 2011Inbound Marketing Specialist, Sales / HubSpot
HubSpot helps entrepreneurs and marketers grow their businesses by leveraging the power of the blogosphere, SEO and social media, to get found online by qualified prospects, and convert their visitors into leads and customers.
- Dec 2008 - May 2010Co-Founder & President, HBS Sales Club / Harvard Business School
Founded the HBS Sales Club to promote Sales as a fundamental business skill for leaders across industries; and to assist in the development of sales skills throughout the HBS community.
- Jan 2005 - Aug 2008Principal, Real Estate Development / Flatiron Equities
Boutique real estate development firm focused on distressed multifamily and retail, mixed-use developments in New York City.
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2008 - 2010Harvard Business SchoolMBA
Activities: Co-organized a ten day mission of 80 HBS students to Israel visiting cultural, political and business figures across the country. -
2001 - 2005Cornell UniversityB.S. in Policy Analysis & Management, Concentration in Consumer Markets
Activities: Public Relations Chair, Hillel / Jewish Students Union. Executive Board Member, Ski & Snowboarding Club.
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