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Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption. That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time. Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.” The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs. That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone. But the education system still runs on its logic. A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait. Neither is being served. Both are being processed. Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.” AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student. One at a time. Every time. It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle. It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done. A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture. The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does. No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill. Because the math doesn’t work. AI doesn’t have that constraint. Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.” The brain isn’t broken. The format is. Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem. Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.” Four years. Six figures of debt. And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you. The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance. Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.” The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you. Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace. The question isn’t whether the old model survives. It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.
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Race Day in Miami for the Tesla Scouting team. Let’s get Tesla in F1! Could have the first driverless car in #F1 #Tesla @elonmusk @ChrisAtkinson78 @wholemars
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Disappointed with @AlaskaAir today. Had to cancel all my reservations for a family trip planned for next month. Cruise line, other airlines, hertz, excursions all refunded no questions asked. Was told only way I was getting a refund is if the airline changes the flight, ugh.
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Now Available! Orchestrate Storage and Virtualization with #CiscoIntersight and @PureStorage. Learn more: cs.co/60151Fxsv
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Here's something I once learned in virology school that should make you feel a bit better about why, unlike the flu, #COVID19 most likely won't be able to mutate to escape the vaccines we're developing. It has to do with the fact that COVID-19's genome is made up of...
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Chris Atkinson retweeted
Free Webex for all at these difficult times. #WorkFromHome
6 Mar 2020
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In the past two weeks I've seen the best and worst conference concerts. CLUS FTW with Weezer and Foo Fighters. Chain Smokers show at HPE Discover was just terrible, mediocre singing over EDM. I'm certainly biased by the genre.
That realization that the aisle seat you just graciously moved to is last row next to shitter.
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Do any top tier hotel reward programs allow early checkout free or reduced fee? Disappointed by @hiltonhotels @HiltonHonors Diamond service this week. @MarriottBonvoy do you, and will you status match?
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Not cool @tesla, just want my car fixed. Been a month now since I was told to wait for parts now this.
I rented a car with Apple CarPlay this week. I love my @Tesla but the CarPlay experience was really nice and left me wishing my Tesla had it. @elonmusk #makeitso
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Mental note, if your city is hosting the superbowl, don’t schedule business travel the day after.
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I feel I’ve done something right as a parent, my 11yo only ever wants to watch either Spaceballs or Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Is there a contest between Webex and Zoom on how often to update their Outlook plugin?
What is the lifespan of the reactor? #asknasa
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3D Printer recommendations <$1k. GO
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When people tell you that AI is going to take over the world, keep in mind that this is state-of-the-art #ArtificialIntelligence.
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Data Center Modernization Needs Modernized Servers lnkd.in/epWns4K
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