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As part of our effort to support and develop AI talent, we're excited to announce the OpenAI Residency. This new program offers a pathway to a full-time role at OpenAI for researchers and engineers who don't currently focus on artificial intelligence. We are excited to get applications from everyone, and

Prisma is made for homeschooling families, for kids who say “I hate school”, for families disappointed by local options, and for rebels, idealists, and lifelong learners.

The Bibliothek Andreas Züst includes approximately 10,400 titles on topics ranging from, e.g., the weather, geology, astronomy, physics, literature, photography, art, kitsch, and popular culture.

20Mission is a  41 room  community in San Francisco filled with art and technology creators in the heart of the Mission District. The space is composed of individual rooms and shared common spaces...

If you are outside of university and want to learn liberal arts, what do you do? You could read a book or join a book club, but there will be minimal guidance. You could enroll in a university course, but these courses will often be expensive and allow for extraneous pressures, like grades and requirements, that impede focused learning. You could even use Coursera, but you won't be able to interact with other students or an instructor.

Tinker Kitchen frontend site cooking makerspace hackerspace

An institution encouraging creative exploration

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The California Academy of Sciences is a science museum—and scientific and educational institution—located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

John Muir College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The college is named after John Muir, the environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club. It has a humanitarian emphasis focused on the "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice." The college opened in 1967, at the height of the American environmentalist movement triggered in part by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. John Muir College describes itself as the "Heart of UCSD" and boasts a strong and distinct character after fifty years of existence.

Earn a computer science degree at Shopify through a learning and placement path that’s unlike any other program. Our innovative work-integrated learning model provides hands-on experience across a breadth of disciplines and teams, giving you the confidence to jump-start your future—wherever it takes you.

Powderhouse Studios

MC is a community of builders, founders, creatives and rebels in SF and beyond.

Welcome to The World’s Largest Community Lab Space for BiologyLocated in the heart of Silicon Valley, CA Explore more... As seen in ProjectsActive & Previous One of the most asked questions at BioCurious is, “What are people working on?” We’re glad you asked. Explore Project

Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and parents. Wildflower aspires to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high quality, beautiful learning environments as they follow life’s unfolding journey.

Learn and Create Together

co-living in the valley of genius

fruitful.school is an independently-run learning initiative for making 'fruitful websites' founded in 2020 by Laurel Schwulst and John Provencher and is dedicated to exploring new ways of publishing together using the www. For our Fall 2020 workshop, participants will hang out and work together online to self-publish a piece to the www over the course of 6 weeks.

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