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Check out the lives of a 6 year old and a 17 year old.See if you could tell the difference:Average schedule of a 6 year old:7:30am - Arrival at school7:30am to 10:30am - Arts and crafts and P.E“Look, Misses Pewdershon, I made a dragon!”10:30am to 11:30 am - Playtime.“You stole my pawper dragon, give it back!”11:30am to 12:30pm - History.“Okay kids, we're learning about Christopher Columbus today with a fun little educational video!”12:30pm to 1:00pm - Recess.Glorious.1:00pm to 1:30pm - Lunchtime“Ximena, Saraswati, come sit here! You guys will be so fun!”1:30pm to 3:30pm - Social Studies, English, Math, etc.“I before E except after C?”By the end of the day:Average schedule of a 17 year old:7:30am - Arrival at school.7:30am to 9:00am - Tutorials.“Sorry, I have to study quadratic functions before the test worth half of my grade.”9:00am to 9:45am - Computer Science.“Mrs. Peterson, I finished the project for me to code and array of dragons.”“Okay. It's late, so you'll get a 70%”9:50am to 10:35am - Study Hall“I totally saw Ashlynn high and doing it with Ryan, but she and her ******* *** won't admit it.”“I'm toats gonna embarrass her on the Twits and on Instagram.”10:40 am to 11:25 am - AP GT Dual Credit College Level History“Okay, open your textbook to page 5,437,592 to do the next 500 pages of notes due tomorrow. Okay? No late grades accepted.”“Johnny, don't be complaining to me about the textbook ‘hurting your back.’”11:30am to 12:15pm - Arts and Crafts III“Okay, you'll want to use the techniques you were taught to make a realistic dragon, unless if you want a fifty.”12:20pm to 12:45pm - Lunch“Ximena and Saraswati are sitting alone again? And… why should I care?”12:45pm to 12:50pm - A passing period“We'z gots to gets to class on time - we can't afford another tardy!”That one first year who's confused as to why there's no recess.12:50pm to 4:30pm - AP World, AP Literature, PAP Algebra II, etc.“You spelled 'receiving' as ‘recieving?' Embarrassing, minus 50 points.4:30pm to 7:30pm - Club practices and Music practices.“Band practice until 10 o'clock tonight!? I love band, but I got to study for my AP Lit quiz!”By the end of the day:Personally, because I was bullied in grade school, I like high school better.But I think the other 99% of you can agree what's the better choice here.

Guys, we’re going to learn AP calculus!“Ugh…”“Por que?”“Excuse me teacher?” A student speaks up above the mournful groans.Mrs. Applegate, the teacher, looks back and says, “yes, Kathrine?”“Ahem.” She clears out her breath and sighs, clasping her hands together, before, “Why in the flippin’ world are we learnin’ this piece of ****.”I’m sure that 99.9% of high school students think about that every school-day.After all. why would we need to know about calculus? I don’t think that all of us are training to be physicists in the future, so it really doesn’t make too much sense.(Yes, I can see calculus in use for skills such as advanced statistics or engineering, but those are specific career paths that really use calculus. Meanwhile, a hair-stylist in training wouldn't ever need to learn about calculus)(Yes, I also see not every highschool having calculus as a required course - it's just an example.)So, what is important?Statistics and economy.Millennials don’t know how credit cards work: surveyMost American high schoolers don't know how to manage money60% of highschoolers don’t know how to do basic financial math.In young adults’ first year in college, the average person brings $1,585 of credit card debt. Just in their first year.17% of millennials don’t know that missing card payments could affect their credit card score.36% of millennials have maxed-out cards.About 25% of millennials carry 3 or more credit cards, while about 33% of highschoolers carry at least 1 card.About 50% of millennials thought the credit card was too “scary” to use.Wow, am I lucky to have a wonderful Algebra I teacher who taught us all about statistics and economy.More and more statistics pile up.If this is the case, then why is it that the math we’re learning is calculus, while basic statistics is only an optional course?Meanwhile, economy isn’t even an option.A bit ridiculous, don't you think?Cooking and home economics.Why millennials don’t know how to cookMillennials Struggle to Pass Life Skills 10180% of millennials believe cooking at home is a good way to live (good, better be), yet only 45% or 18–24 year olds admit to only being “somewhat-good,” with 63% of 25–36 year olds being in the same shape.53% of millennials eat out at least once a week, and, in the last 30 days, 78% had eaten out at least once.Most millennials don’t even know about fixing a car - let alone a house. Few know how to sew without someone helping them, make basic home repair without calling a company, or navigate streets without a GPS.Is this seriously the generation I’m part of as well?How is none of this being taught in high school?Is this the beginning of the next dark ages?Morals and ethics.Are We Teaching Millennials to Be Amoral?The New Millennial 'Morality': Highly Sensitive and Easily OffendedThere aren’t too many statistics on this one, but I can assure you - what we call morality in the millennial world is… messed up.The closest thing in my highschool in which is like this is “teen-leadership class,” yet, even so, that doesn’t go into the full depth of what we should be morally doing in our daily lives.Not to mention that most classes like that isn’t compulsory or even optional across the world - it just so happens that in this area of Texas, it is.Political and out of the box thinking.Millennials' Political Views Don't Make Any SenseNow, I’m not advocating for anyone to push their political views on anyone else.But millennials really should be thinking about how politics and the government actually works.And, no, I don’t mean your basic social studies/history class, I mean actually looking at how - not what, but how - we should be thinking.After all, that way, we can actually truly debate knowledgeably about political topics, such as distribution of taxes, rather than just arguing “they’z takin’ tuu mani of me moneys!”Sexual education and health education.Yes, people, sex-ed.Now my highschool, as well as the districts around me, do a wonderful job in educating us about this.But many don’t.Several highschoolers exit out of school and they barely even know what troubles a baby can have if they have one in the wrong time of their lifes.Or how sex works exactly.Maybe this doesn’t need to be a whole school year, but at least a semester, so that way, we can exit highschool without doing any majour mistakes.Meanwhile, another semester should be based on Health education.Yes, I do know that many highschools already teach such.But they often don’t teach them as in-depth as they should.My highschool, for one, breezed through Health class.And yet, we still have people thinking that “zero calorie tea” with sucralose or aspartame in it and “Snapple” with loads of sugar in it is somehow healthy for them.I don’t know about you, but the next generation shouldn’t be so tricked by fake marketing tactics.Neither should they not know anything about their own body.Daily life science and philosophy.We Need to Rethink How Science Is Taught In SchoolDon’t get me wrong, I love science.In fact, these science classes taught in highschool are useful to me since I want to become a scientist.But to 99.9% of the population?Nope.Rather than learning about chemical equations in chemistry, why don’t we instead learn about how objects in our daily lifes work?Sure, it may be important to know some parts about biology, chemistry and physics, but how important is it really for us to know about the vast majourity of information taught in these classes?We should know what medicines to use in a specific illness, or what might’ve possibly gone wrong if our device malfunctions.We should know how to diagnose certain problems in our body, or how we can question everything in life like a true philosopher.After all, if we question all that we know in life, all the norms and values in all of the world, wouldn’t we have a better place than what we have now?

Our class went on an excursion. We played with different kinds of food compounds which could shape themselves around the outside of a balloon. And then got taught about these tools which could output very small drops.‘What are these called?’ I asked.‘Pipettes.’We got back to school. The teacher turned and asked what I thought of the trip.‘I liked the tour but it was very focused on science.’‘That’s what it was all about.’She was right. We went to a science institute.The same teacher asked me to be captain of debating. It was tradition to get up and talk in front of the school. I got up and gave a talk. Everyone clapped but my speech wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be.I was set out to do law. I’d see lawyers on the TV. All it looked like was a form of debating where everyone wears suits and says ‘objection!’ Followed by something smart.I thought, ‘I could do that.’A few episodes of Law & Order and everyone becomes a lawyer.We got our grades, I got 7/25, lower was better. Not as good as I hoped but I expected it. Most of my senior year was devoted to running our Call of Duty team. We were number one in Australia.The letters came, it was time to choose what to study at university. I read the headings in bold and left the rest to read later. I was set out to do law.We were on the waterfront riding scooters. There was a girl there I knew from primary school. I had a crush on her in grade four. For Easter, my mum gave me two chocolates to take in, a big one and a small one. The big one was for my teacher, Mrs Thompson. When I got to school I gave the big one to the girl. But she still liked Tony Black.She was smart. That’s why I liked her.‘What are you studying?’ I asked.‘Biomed.’‘What’s that?’‘Biomedical science, it’s what you study before getting into medicine.’‘Oh, that’s what I’m doing.’I wasn’t. I hadn’t filled out the form. I was set out to do law.I got home and checked the study guide. Biomedical science required a score of 11/25. I was eligible. I put it down as my number one preference. Same as the girl.The email came a few weeks later. I got into my number one preference. A Bachelor of Science majoring in Biomedical Science.We went to orientation day together. I spent $450 on textbooks. I used my mum's card. There was a biology one with 1200 pages. It had a red spine and a black cover. The latest edition.Our timetables were the same. 30-something contact hours per week. I lived 45-minutes from university by car. 90-minutes by train and bus. The first lecture of the week was at 8 am on Monday. BIOL1020. Why someone chose this time for a lecture still confuses me.The lecturer started.‘30% of you will fail this course.’‘That won’t be me.’It was me.My report card in high school went something like this.Maths - BExtension Maths - CPhysics - BReligion - A+ (most of religion was storytelling, debating helped with this)English - BGeography - BSports - ANot a single biology course. I was set out for law.I took the same course the next year. I passed. It took me a year to get some foundations in biology. By then the girl was already through to second year. She was smart. That’s why I liked her.Being a doctor sounded cool.‘I’m going to be a doctor,’ I told people at parties.But by end of my second year, my grades were still poor.The Dean of Science emailed me. Not him. One of his secretaries. But it said I had to go and see him. My grades were bad. The email was the warning. Improve or we’ll kick you out.I met with the Dean. He told me I could change courses if I wanted to. I changed to food science and nutrition. Still within the health world but less biology. I wasn’t set out for law.My grades improved and I graduated three years later. Five years to do a three-year degree.People asked when I finished.‘What are you going to do with your nutrition degree?’‘Stay healthy.’I thought it was a good plan.I was working at Apple. They paid for language courses. I signed up for Japanese and Chinese. Japanese twice a week. Chinese once a week.My study routine was solid. The main skill I learned at university was learning how to learn.I was getting pretty good. When Chinese customers came in, I’d ask them if they had a backup of their iPhone in Chinese.‘Nĭ yŏu méiyŏu beifan?’They loved it.I passed the level 2 Japanese exam the night before flying to Japan. Being solo for a month meant plenty of walking. Plenty of listening to podcasts. Most of them were about technology or health. Two things I’m interested in. And all the ones about technology kept mentioning machine learning.On the trains between cities, I’d read articles online.I went to Google.‘What is machine learning?’‘How to learn machine learning?’I quit Apple two months after getting back from Japan. Travelling gave me a new perspective. Cliche but true.My friend quit too. We worked on an internet startup for a couple of months. AnyGym, the Airbnb of fitness facilities. It failed. Partly due to lack of meaning, partly due to the business model of gyms depending on people not showing up. We wanted to do the opposite.Whilst building the website, the internet was exploding with machine learning.I did more research. The same Google searches.‘What is machine learning?’‘How to learn machine learning?’Udacity’s Deep Learning Nanodegree came up. The trailer videos looked epic and the colours of the website were good on the eye. I read everything on the page and didn’t understand most of it. I got to the bottom and saw the sign-up price, thought about it, scrolled back to the top and then back to the bottom. I closed my laptop.The prerequisites contained some words I’d never heard of.Python programming, statistics and probability, linear algebra.More research. Google again.‘How to learn Python?’‘What is linear algebra?’I had some savings from Apple but they were supposed to last a while. Signing up for the Nanodegree would take a big chunk out.I signed up. Class started in 3-weeks.Back to the internet. It was time to learn Python.‘How hard could it be?’ I thought.Treehouse’s Python course looked good. I enrolled. I went through it fast. 3-4 hours every day.Emails came through for the Deep Learning Nanodegree. There was a Slack channel for introductions. I joined it and starting reading.‘Hey everyone, I’m Sanjay, I’m a software engineering at Google.’‘Hello, I’m Yvette, I live in San Francisco and am a data scientist at Intuit.’I kept reading. More of the same.Mine went something like this.‘Nice to meet you all! I’m Daniel, I started learning programming 3-weeks ago.’After seeing the experience level of others, I emailed Udacity support asking what the refund policy was. ‘Two weeks,’ they said. I didn’t reply.Four months later, I graduated from the Deep Learning Foundations Nanodegree. It was hard. All my assignments were either a couple of days late or right on time. I was learning Python and math I needed as I needed it.I wanted to keep building upon the knowledge I’d gained. So I explored the internet for more courses like the Deep Learning Nanodegree. I found a few, Andrew Ng’s deeplearning.ai, the Udacity AI Nanodegree, fast.ai and put them together.My self-created AI Masters Degree[1][1][1][1]was born. I named it that because it’s easier than saying, ‘I’m stringing together a bunch of courses.’ Plus, people kind of understand what a Masters Degree is.8-months into it I got a message from Ashlee on LinkedIn.‘Hey Dan, what you’re posting is great, would you like to meet Mike?’I met Mike.‘If you’re into technology and health, you should meet Cam.’I met Cam. I told him I was into technology and health and what I had been studying.‘Would you like to come in on Thursday to see what it’s like?’I went in on Thursday.It was a good day. The team were exploring some data with Pandas.‘Should I come back next Thursday?’ I asked.‘Definitely.’A couple of Thursday’s later I sat down with the CEO and lead Machine Learning Engineer. They offered me a role. I accepted.One of our biggest projects is in healthcare. Immunotherapy Outcome Prediction (IOP). The goal is to use genome data to better predict who is most likely to respond to immunotherapy. Right now about it’s effective in about 42% of people. But the hard part is figuring out which 42%.To help with the project we hired a biologist and a neuroscientist and a few others.Before joining, they hadn’t done much machine learning at all. But thanks to the resources available online and a genuine curiosity to learn more, they’ve produced some world class work.We had a phone call with the head of Google’s Genomics team the other day.‘I’m really impressed by your work.’They’ve done an amazing job. But compliments should always be accepted with a grain of salt and a smile. Results on paper and results in the real world are two different things.The team know that.Can a biology student get into AI and machine learning?I’m not a good example because I failed biology. Almost twice.But I sit across from two who have done it.The formula?You’ve already got it. The same one which led you to learn more about biology. Be curious and have the courage to be wrong.Biology textbooks get rewritten every 5-years or so right?Back to day one BIOL1020. The lecturer had another saying.‘What you learn this year will probably be wrong in 5-years.’It’s the same in machine learning. Except the math. 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