Sebastian Thrun

Scientist

1967-05-14

Books by Sebastian Thrun

Probabilistic robotics
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Recent Advances in Robot Learning
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Learning to learn
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Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
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Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
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I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.
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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.
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I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
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Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.
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If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.
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I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
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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.
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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
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Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
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At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
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I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
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The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?
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You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
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I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
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