Fortune interview with Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity
“Facebook has a class internally that they used to be teaching just to internal engineers to become basic data scientists. And we digitized on this specific class so everybody in the world can become a data scientist at the level a Facebook engineer is required to be a data scientist. You might argue this is kind of giving away some of the competitive advantage, but the truth is it's really great for the world that now everybody in the world can take this class, free of charge actually, and tool themselves up, to be able to educate themselves with our help. Obviously the class doesn't contain any confidential Facebook information. It's at a level which is industrywide, and Udacity as a policy only accepts these kind of classes. We don't do proprietary classes because we are really passionate about democratizing education.”
A Unified Theory of Comedy
The result is The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, to be published next week—on April Fool’s Day, naturally. As is often the case with good experiments—not to mention many of the funniest gags—not everything went exactly as planned, but we learned a lot about what makes the world laugh.
Slate Magazine
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