This afternoon, Coursera reports its first quarterly earnings since the Udemy deal closed. Yesterday, it announced a $100 million investment in LearnVector, a new AI learning company founded by Andrew Ng. LearnVector’s domain was registered exactly one month ago and somehow it’s worth $300M? It’s a single page website with five open roles in Mountain View, and a promise of a first product in early 2027. Its founder is the co-founder of Coursera and the chairman of its board. If my reading of t

Are you new to programming or do you know a beginner programmer? Have you looked at pages of code and thought it’s just too hard to even try to learn programming? There is an easy way: welcome to the world of Scratch! Created in 2007 by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, Scratch was designed as an easy, fun introduction to programming for children. But you don’t need to be a child to appreciate Scratch. In CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch, I enjoyed personalizing the cartoon

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