intelligence & synergy of everyone

Our mission is to maximize the intelligence and synergy of everyone.

To do this, we will invent new applications of computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, and algorithmic design. This means inventing new machine learning algorithms that are scalable to any size data set - so we can most intelligently recommend the most important knowledge and applications thereof. This also means understanding the fundamentals of how humans learn (neuroscience), and building natural user interfaces that maximize learning experiences: beautiful, intuitive, intelligent, adaptive, fast, and empowering. These are the constraints of our optimization. The key research-based discoveries driving our extraordinary determination follow: statistical techniques can precisely and accurately represent and predict any complex distribution of data from physics any defined goal can be optimized using computationally efficient algorithms applied to any size data set through distributed parallel computing multiple semantically organized goals (objective functions) can be optimized sequentially or in parallel through collaborative filtering Masters of the theory and optimization of these discoveries, we are capable of solving any problem in the world, with our performance a function of how descriptive our data is of the underlying generative models (physics). We intend to create and organize and secure more data for our optimizations than any other company has ever done before, including Google. We believe that by 2050 there will be at least one trillion times our current collective data. We will lead the most progressive, ethical, sustainable, and beautiful applications of this data for everyone. Core Founders Lance Legel Ezio Blasetti Kui Tang Matt Feldman

Leadership Design Science Technology

linkedin.com/in/legel code.algorithmicdesign.net + ezioblasetti.net kui-tang.com SpaceX + Tutor.com + nanofab + neuromorphic

Recruiting Needs [Jeff Dean] - Distributed Computing and Optimization Engineer [ ] - HTML5/JS/WebGL Ninja [Eric Schmidt] - COO

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// hyperlink Inventing the Future of Education After years of proactive epistemological research into the nature of everything, combined with years of award-winning leadership for presenting aggressive solutions to some of the worlds most difficult problems, Lance Legel crystallized the resolution to present a new model for education to the world. Over half of American college graduates are underemployed, while they together have over one trillion dollars in debt. Schools and universities can no longer keep up with how fast job requirements change, as a result of globalization and information technology. We believe this will be proven to be exponentially exacerbated in the coming years, as new companies and organizations invent new ways of optimizing work. Demos To see how HTML5+JavaScript+WebGL is the future of natural user interfaces: www.chromeexperiments.com. This has been a great inspiration for us. Specifically, we recommend you see a real-time interactive online physics engine and beautiful and artistic visualization of data. In case you want to make sure we can actually code what we intend to code, heres an ugly functional piece of our 2014 DevFest hack. Minimum Viable Product Visit [transcend].com. Immediately you know this website is different from anything ever experienced. Its beautiful. A 2-4 second Hollywood-like animation renders unprecedented visualizations of pathways for users to immediately start learning from free elite education providers like Wikipedia, Coursera, Udacity, Kahn Academy, EdX, and TED. All content and data extracted from such organizational databases (most of which requiring partnerships) we have already pre-computed statistical associations, hierarchies of importance, and statistically representative visualizations. The user does not need to know this. They just play: zoom from one sphere of topics to another, quickly and without any freedom for getting lost or doing anything useless. They see multimedia rendered for what it is: videos are obviously videos, carefully and exquisitely interlaced with brilliantly-fonted text, while links outsourcing education to new platforms like Coursera or Udacity are clearly visualized as well. Finally, the user must know that we are considering everything they do: they have a profile, and on this profile you can see all previous nodes of knowledge they have visited. This is one of our favorite visualizations, probably looking similar in terms of how the links between nodes are rendered as this Google Chrome experiment shows links between nations (specifically, click on a small nation and see beautiful blue light sources flowing over Bezier curves).

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Next Steps Only once we have click-stream data on at least one hundred thousand users does the fun really begin. First, we would move on to a Series B, on the order of $10m, to ignite work on several other very interesting and valuable features we have mind. Our knowledge recommendation algorithms get way smarter. We can make the overall UX more seamless, and introduce simple 80/20-like buttons for user ratings of content. We can introduce two major new API-based features as we explore seamless, admirable means of monetizing: 1. Recommending careers ( jobs) as a function of previous exploration history. 2. Providing the best tools and mediums possible for teaching millions of people. For a personal taste of the lead founder, here is a 17 minute talk about key problems and solutions in education by Lance Legel, made with love on Valentines Day 2014 for submission to TEDxTeachersCollege Agents of Change conference at Columbia University. His goal is to finish recruiting, funding, and developing the MVP by March 28 2014 to launch the platform on that day to the world, through a video-recorded talk designed to maximize probability of going viral to over one hundred thousand people within one month of launch.

What We Need f (recruiting, technology, domain, organizing) = O($1.5m)