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The Thiel Fellowship but it’s just buying college dropouts Claude subscriptions and teaching them Anki.
Would unironically put them ahead of 99% of their peers.
Mckay Wrigleyx.comSeventy percent of community college students in California never complete their programs.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
But out of the original roughly 30 students who started at the Brownsville campus in 2022, only 2 remained by the end of Year 3.
ALPHA School Brownsville Campus Review Pt. 1
An alternative to drop-out discourse is “speed-run” discourse. Every agentic kid starting from ~middle school should be trying to get out ASAP. Do your research upfront. Max out on credits. Don’t listen to the admins.
Example: Get an associate’s degree while you’re in high school, then transfer. You can get your... See more
Lillianx.com
The next wave of startups seems to be PhD Students dropping out to build MLOps companies because they got good at training models and that turned out to be more valuable than their actual research
Cody Blakeneyx.com