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theodp writes "Forget about his self-driving cars. CNN reports that Sebastian Thrun's Udacity &mdash; where you and 159,999 fellow classmates can take a free, Stanford-caliber online course together at the same time &mdash; just might be the future of higher education. Interestingly, of all the students taking Thrun's AI class globally and at Stanford, the top 410 students were online; the 411th top performer was a Stanford student. 'We just found over 400 people in the world who outperformed the top Stanford student,' Thrun said."

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