Elite universities and disability claims. At Stanford, 38% of students are claiming disabilities, primarily for mental health and learning challenges like ADHD and anxiety. This raises questions about whether these diagnoses are becoming identity markers rather than medical conditions. ~ […]
Software is changing (again). “Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej [Karpathy] sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural language becomes the new programming interface and models […]
It’s interesting that this work comes from Stanford, which is host to Professor Mark Jacobson (not mentioned here), profound hater of carbon capture as a climate solution. True diversity of opinions over there! “Stanford University chemists have developed a practical, […]
It went around the news that he said Google chose work life balance over winning. That’s in here, and the rest of the talk is good too! The transcript and recording are both available. ~ learn more
From How I Built This: “Sam talks about his journey from Stanford dropout and teenage entrepreneur to president of the legendary startup incubator Y Combinator and co-founder of the nonprofit OpenAI. Plus, Sam shares his hopes and fears for the […]
“The new exoskeleton is a motorized boot that applies torque at the ankle, in doing so performing some of the function of the calf muscle, helping the user push off with each step.” | learn more
“Despite making up just 14% of the population, immigrants are responsible for 30% of U.S. patents and 38% of U.S. Nobel Prizes in science. A team of Stanford economists recently estimated that nearly three quarters of all U.S. innovation since […]
“Thin, dyspeptic, and humorless, he had seemed like an alien to his classmates since arriving at Stanford two and a half years earlier. He didn’t drink, didn’t date, didn’t crack jokes, and he seemed to possess both an insatiable ambition […]
“An aggressive Bitcoin trade got crypto VC shop Paradigm flying out of the gate. But Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang aim to do more than just generate outsized returns for their blue-blooded backers — they want to take alt-currencies into […]
Researchers from Stanford and Harvard Business School studied new ventures in an emerging fintech space for several years. “Want to succeed in a young and unformed market? Try acting like a preschooler.” | learn more