German - Scientist | May 14, 1967 -
You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.
Sebastian Thrun
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Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.
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I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.
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I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.
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Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
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Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.
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Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen.
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Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.
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There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!
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Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
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I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
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You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.
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