CEO StealthStartup, Adjunct Prof at Stanford and GaTech

Mountain View, CA
Taxing unrealized capital gains might place Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like myself in jail. Udacity stock went up and down (on paper!), but at its "unicorn" prime I would not have been able to pony together the cash necessary to pay those taxes. Jail time for people who build? Atlas, please shrug.
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Wow. Asking workers to report what they did last week freaks everyone out?? What planet do we live on?
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Let today mark the end of wokeness!
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"According to @LinkedIn ’s analysis of its 500 million users, emerging online educational platforms like @udacity , FreeCodeCamp, and General Assembly have each placed more full-stack engineers into jobs this past year than any American university." fastcompany.com/90205557/how…
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So humbled!
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Can we give @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy options for the US economy worth one trillion dollars, contingent on the Dow hitting $60,000 (inflation-adjusted)? There is only one person in the world who can do this. It would be a small price to pay.
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Looking for engineers for an exciting agentic AI startup in San Francisco. Contact me at sthrun@gmail.com
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This is me!! One of over 1,000 successful flights so far by about 15 different riders.
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Sad to see so many promising AI startup throwing the towel. Are we all back to getting rich fast? Or did those founders all believe that hype is business success? Sad.
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I really wonder why so many AI companies seem to blindly compete for building the same thing: the best foundational models, as measured by some abstract set of benchmarks. It feels like there is now an entire ecosystems of companies that want to outperform GPT.x. Why?
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Proud to announce that @Udacity has signed the @WhiteHouse Pledge to America’s workers and will fund 100,000 scholarships to empower America’s workers with the tech skills they need to future-proof their careers! bit.ly/2nDqCgc
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I LOVE the fact that so many AI companies are open sourcing their models. Thank you for placing humanity above shareholders and investors.
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Extremely proud to have met PM @narendramodi at #ETGBS. Super inspired about our impact with @udacity in India and worldwide. Thank you ⁦@UdacityINDIA⁩
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The AI hype is now finally and officially over. Let numbers (like: growth, revenue, margins, EBITDA) reign once again.
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So proud to be an immigrant! I love my country (new and old :). forbes.com/sites/stuartander…
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My favorite book review on "Probabilistic Robotics"
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So great to be back on Twitter. Thank you @elonmusk
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I just spent time with one of the very largest @udacity enterprise customers, and I learned that they observed a stunning 82% graduation rate from our nanodegree programs. Amazing. We must be doing something right. So happy! Changing the world one learner at the time.
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Amazing day in the Bay area today
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Thank you @googledevs . 50,000 scholarships available with @udacity .
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Giving commencement speech at Georgia tech today. Excited.
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Just spotted this from my back yard. After rain comes sunshine. So beautiful.
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Today was an awful reminder of what happened in Germany on Feb 27, 1933. It didn't end well. I love the USA, I love the freedoms we all enjoy, and and I love democratic system. Let us be stronger than my ancestors in the Weimar Republic.
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Now we know the cost of driving over a person and dragging her along with a self driving car: $9,200,000,000.
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Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks in @nature : rdcu.be/oNac
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Gave commencement speech at ⁦@harveymudd⁩ today. Loved it.
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Fascinating new @Columbia online course on Computer Vision by my friend @shreenayar on @YouTube : fpcv.cs.columbia.edu/
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I just spent a week without blame. No blaming me, no blaming others. Just enjoy everyone, love life, and live life to the fullest. It was amazing!
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Excited to be an advisor to arXiv. It's an awesome project and a great service to the community. Finally papers aren't one way any longer.
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Super excited what the @udacity Self driving car team along with many of our students accomplished today. Will provide details soon.
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Take my lesson on how my @stanford research team used neural networks to detect + classify skin cancer! bit.ly/2hbOuRf
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This article makes me insanely happy! .@tomfriedman thanks for explaining me how edu can transform the Middle East. medium.com/udacity/from-0-to…
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My thoughts on AI, technology, and the future: credit-suisse.com/ch/en/news…
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The Cora prototype is the culmination of eight years of hard work from the entire @coraaero team at @kittyhawkcorp . Couldn’t be more proud. #meetcora
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Perhaps our most exciting program ever!
Thanks to our partnership with WorldQuant, you’ll get real-world experience in the fast-growing field of AI-powered financial trading. bit.ly/2KkeRk0
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With ⁦@Infosys⁩ founder ⁦@NandanNilekani⁩ and ⁦@UdacityINDIA⁩ head ⁦@ishan_gupta⁩ at ⁦@ET_GBS⁩ in Delhi. Wish I had more hair :)
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Excited to sign education plan for Saudi Arabia with @MiskKSA and @udacity.
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Couldn't be more excited about @udacity 's willingness to offer a month of our classes for free. This is an unprecedented situation, and none of us knows where it will lead us. I sincerely hope we will emerge strong and united.
#COVID19 has changed our lives. In a scenario when education and workforce are experiencing some of the biggest challenges, learning new #skills should be made more accessible. Hence, we're excited to announce one free month on 40+ Nanodegree programs. bit.ly/3al84UT
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Last week I did 5 Google searches and placed 28 questions with ChatGPT. Wonder if others here see similar patterns. So many questions I have on a daily basis are much better served with LLMs.
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Just saw self driving car cut off fire truck
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For all @udacity self driving car students: Awesome study guide: bpinaya.com/posts/udacity-sd…
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Great day for @udacity and all companies and governments in the world. Thanks Team Chronicle. blog.udacity.com/2018/10/enr…
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We are now truly democratizing software engineering. With LLMs, computers can be programmed in plain English. So anyone who is fluent in English can now be a programmer. Going forward, who would want to pay big bucks for "experts" to manually generate cryptic computer code? We just made ourselves obsolete!
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No Need To Have A College Degree: .@elonmusk piped.video/watch?v=CQbKctnn… Try a Nanodegree program at .@udacity
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It’s an incredible time to become a Data Engineer! Our @udacity School of #DataScience just launched the Data Engineering Nanodegree program. Build an impressive portfolio of real-world projects and get valuable hands-on experience. Enroll today: bit.ly/2SKHviC
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I am very proud to share that @Udacity & @Intel have partnered to bring you a new scholarship program for Edge Development! Apply today for this awesome opportunity to learn most cutting-edge technologies bit.ly/2Xd4Ay3 #computervision #AI #deeplearning
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Just finished reading #Brotopia . Amazing book with lots of learnings. The USA has always led the way in civil rights and inclusive thinking. This book is a painful reminder there is still lots of work to do. Thank you @emilychangtv .
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Check out ted.com/ for some provocative thoughts on Artificial Intelligence....
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Inspiring: “How I learned to code in my 30s” by Brad Crispin medium.com/udacity/how-i-lea…
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LLMs are like mirrors. They are trained with text written by people. So if we find their output to be harmful, we need to remember they just mirror back to us what's readily available on the Internet. Should we punish the mirror if we don't like what we see? Really?
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Anyone want to work on autonomy for flight vehicles? Please apply: jobs.lever.co/zee.aero/068df…
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A few days ago I had the opportunity to ask Sam Altman about the future of jobs in the age of AGI. He gave a brilliant answer: People and their jobs will evolve with the tools they use. Couldn't agree more. AGI will make work so much better for humanity. AGI will open entire new possibilities for humanity. (and yes the transition will be challenging and we need to be socially responsible).
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Deep learning for traffic sign detection: goo.gl/zmFR9p
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Replying to @GaryMarcus
I was about 100m on paper.
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Doggy Paradise.
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We finally have a noble price for computer science. Very exciting.
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Fun being at the #WhiteHouse today.
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This is really important for students of @udacity. Excited!
This is BIG: 🚀 Introducing Udacity Blitz—fully managed teams of Udacity alumni engineers scope & build your idea: blitz.com
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Excited about the rebirth of #googleglass, the launch of #focalsbynorth (amazing!) and of course my first week into #magicleap. #magicleap is truly magical. Perhaps the most amazing visual AR experience ever. Can't wait for more apps available for the Leap!
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Fun day today, flying an exotic animal!
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Course Correction - a great read about GaTech and our joint Masters degree. So proud!! asee-prism.org/course-correc…
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Excited to announce Autonomous Tech Scholarship in partnership with @KPIT for the students in India. Apply Now if you are passionate about self-driving cars like me - bit.ly/KPIT-Scholarship
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New courses built by Google: udacity.com/google
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Just got my #MagicLeapOne . Incredible experience. Wow! Best ever!
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Another great partnership with @Google to bring free Kotlin courses for #Android development. It is one of the fastest-growing #programming languages on Github used by orgs like Netflix & Lyft. This is the #futureofwork! bit.ly/30IHaAT #coding #edtech
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Impressive!
Driving in the city often requires the ability to fit through very tight spaces.
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Don't pay $80k. At @udacity you can build a new career for less than $2k. And it'll be more fun. Learning through projects not boring professor videos!
Was talking with someone last week about something unrelated + he remarked that he's upset about paying $80K for his daughter to "watch college lectures online" and it dawned on me that this could be the thing that finally bursts the bubble that Peter was talking about years ago.
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Excited to see @Udacity @Infosys strengthen partnership to fast track engineers into the jobs of tomorrow bit.ly/InfyUFT
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