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Inside the Nerdball revolution
With a spreadsheet as his compass, Coach Kyle Smith is rebuilding Stanford basketball through quantifiable toughness—and the players are embracing it.
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David, Goliath, and the future of AI
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Surya Ganguli is helping pioneer a new science of intelligence—one that studies how brains perceive, how AI learns, and what each can reveal about the other.
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Engineering the overlooked
As a Stanford undergraduate, William Tarpeh learned to spot problems others ignore. Financial aid gave him a path forward—all the way to a MacArthur Fellowship.
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