The Future of Education

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If a student is having trouble with a problem they continue to work on it until they get it right. To Thrun, that’s still worth an A+. Imagine that, an entire class of students who can test at an A+ level. He sums up the attitude by paraphrasing a point made by Salman Khan, founder of the online Khan Academy: “When you learn to ride a bicycle, and you fail to learn a bicycle, you don’t stop to learn a bicycle, give the person a ‘D’ and move on to unicycle.”

#khanacademy #udacity

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Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize University Education With Udacity | Singularity Hub
This past August fellow Singularity Hub writer Aaron Saenz wrote about Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence professor and Google autonomous vehicle leader, Sebast…

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The Self-Driving Car

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Can't wait to get me one of those! :)

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I loved Wired's article on self driving cars. This technology has been a passion of mine for years because it will help save lives, help lots of people who have difficulty driving, and reduce congestion on our roads. In 2006, Stanford's driverless car (named Stanley!) won a DARPA challenge, and $2M in prize money, when it successfully drove solo for hours through the desert. I was lucky enough to watch that race, and not the previous year, where none of the cars had been able to finish — quite a fast technological improvement. Fast forward to today — Google's self-driving cars have now clocked up over 200K miles, and they can easily navigate the freeway in rush hour at highway speeds. According to the article nearly 370,000 people lost their lives on American roads between 2001 and 2009–93% due to human error. Using technology to improve safety on our roads will make the world a better place.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/all/1

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» Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
Robotic vehicles, from Google to Mercedes, have arrived. So what form and purpose will these cars have when we finally let go of the wheel?

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“Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!”

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“Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!”

That's what +Paulo Coelho writes in response to the current SOPA controversy. And he really means it, too!

However, I have a strong feeling that his publishers – especially HarperCollins – might not share his opinion completely ;)

/via +Jeff Jarvis

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My thoughts on S.O.P.A. — Paulo Coelho's Blog
IN THE former Soviet Union, in the late 1950s and 60s, many books that questioned the political system began to be circulated privately in mimeographed form. Their authors never earned a penny in roya…

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