I believe e-courses will eventually change people’s attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people’s lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a ‘failure.’ In Silicon Valley, we call this ‘gaining experience.’ We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They’re all creative expressions.
You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which – by and large – have advanced humanity.
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming – reward, accomplishment, and fun.
It’s sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.
When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.
In much of computer science, I can easily ‘auto-grade’ your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can’t do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.