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Arpan Gupta retweeted
Just moved my daughter to Alpha School. Personalized AI-driven academics delivered in 2 hours per day, leaving the rest of the afternoon for life skills. We’re a few weeks in and she’s already a different kid.
Arpan Gupta retweeted
Today, I’m honored to join Andrew Huberman for a deep conversation about how children learn and how we can redesign school around what science makes possible.
Just one year ago, I recorded my first podcast with @patrick_oshag on Invest Like the Best.
Since then, word of mouth and demand for Alpha School have exploded.
We’re now bringing Alpha to 50 communities across the country, each made possible by founding families determined to build a better education for their children.
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt
0:00 Joe Liemandt
3:16 History of Traditional Classroom Model; Education Milestones
8:08 Sponsors: David & Lingo
10:25 Alpha School, High Standards & Support
22:33 Effective Support, Academics vs Athletics; Homeschooling
30:03 AI, Individualized Learning & Mastery
34:31 Teacher Education, Standardized Tests, Role of School
40:52 Sponsors: AG1 & Helix Sleep
43:42 AI, Scaffolding Learning, Mastery; Working Memory & Fluency
52:41 Working Memory, Focus; Gifted Kids
1:00:30 Basics Mastery, Grade Level Catch-Up, Individualized AI Lessons & Pace
1:06:57 Sponsor: LMNT
1:08:17 Shame, Motivation, Growth Rate; Overcoming Mental Blocks & Paying Kids
1:20:55 Suffering & Motivation, Kids Goals, Sports; Doing Hard Things
1:31:21 Founders High School, Life Skills; Kids' Goals
1:42:44 Reimagining Classroom Education
1:47:21 Importance of Building & Creating, AI & Humanity
1:58:04 Science & Redesigning Experiments, Kids' Interest-Led Projects
2:05:26 Huberman Lab Live Events
2:06:14 Learning Predictors, Gender, Income; Redesigning the School System
2:18:32 Success; Sports Academy, Alpha School Expansion
2:28:36 Acknowledgements
2:31:07 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
Includes paid partnerships.
If you're just looking at "token cost" vs. "cost to do this with humans", you're missing the point.
Even if your token costs were more expensive than having a human do it, you'd still want the agent since you can build + iterate + launch 10x faster.
One of the more uncomfortable observations in our AI Value Capture piece is internal: our token spend at SemiAnalysis now runs at roughly 30% of employee compensation, with employees pulling just under 5 billion tokens per month on average, over 5x more than Meta, and our top contributors clearing 100 billion. We wrote about it openly because every research firm, hedge fund, and law firm we know is heading toward a similar number, just on a delay. (1/4)🧵
Arpan Gupta retweeted
Texas Sports Academy is launching the nation’s first flag football school for girls.
Flag football is the fastest-growing high school sport in the country. LA28 is on the horizon. The NIL era is here.
Opening this August in Frisco, TX. This is where the future of girls flag football is being built:
Elite athletes aren't built at million dollar facilities.
They're the product of
1) Relentless coaching from experts who are obsessed with technical details and long-term player development
2) Consistent exposure to elite peers who constantly push them to new levels
3) Meticulously designed training programs that prioritize deliberate practice and skill development
Arpan Gupta retweeted
Sports is the most underrated talent development system in America.
- Harvard/NBER tracked 400,000 Ivy grads over 25 years. Athletes earned 3.4% more and reached more senior positions, even after controlling for school, major, and industry.
- Ohio State: Adults who played youth sports scored significantly higher on grit. Adults who quit scored lower.
- Gallup: 42% of former college athletes are “highly engaged” at work vs. 38% of non-athletes.
This is the thesis behind Texas Sports Academy. Sports develop winners in life, not just on the field
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Elite-level athletic analysis used to require a lab. Now it fits in your pocket.
This is Daito Manabe's work. Rhizomatiks in Tokyo.
He's the rare artist-engineer operating at the exact seam of computer vision, AR, and human sensing. He built AR for the Rio 2016 closing ceremony. Bjork's VR concerts. Perfume's Tokyo Dome laser shows. Drone choreography. EEG-driven music.
And he's pointed all of it at a fencing blade.
A sabre tip moves at 30 m/s, too fast for a coach's eye to reconstruct the path. 100 years of fencing coaching has been half-guessing at what the blade actually did.
Before Rhizomatiks, tracking something this fast required putting reflective dots on the object, surrounding a room with a bunch of high-speed cameras, and running it all through a six-figure system (Vicon rigs start at $50K, Hawk-Eye installations run $100K per court). You could not do it on a fencing blade bc the blade is too thin, moves too fast, and flexes mid-swing.
Rhizomatiks did it with no dots. No sensors. Just cameras and a deep learning model trained to find a sword tip a few pixels wide, in real time, against a chaotic arena background. They debuted it at the 2019 All Japan Championship and ran it again at the Tokyo Olympics. Nobody had shipped that before.
Five years later the same class of computer vision runs on a phone. HomeCourt reads shot arc for $8/month. MediaPipe is free and open source.
Youth sports development is still gated by geography and income. The kid with access to a $200/hr biomechanics coach gets a real feedback loop. Everyone else gets a dad with a phone and a hunch.
Rhizomatiks proved the vision stack works on a sabre tip moving at 30 m/s. A baseball swing is a slower problem. The hard part is already solved. Someone just has to ship it for parents.
At Texas Sports Academy, we're building the apps that put a D1-level coach in every parent's pocket.
Arpan Gupta retweeted
He's right.
We surveyed students at Texas Sports Academy.
97% say they like it more than their old school.
89% say they'd be sad if they couldn't come back.
50% said they'd rather be at school than on vacation.
These kids do 2 hours of Alpha School powered academics in the morning.
Then they train like elite athletes the rest of the day.
Academically, they test 2-3x above the national average.
Instead of forcing kids to waste 8 hours a day, we're giving them their time back
Arpan Gupta retweeted
"The average kid learns seventh grade science in 22 hours to mastery. A normal school takes 200+ hours."
Joe Liemandt on The Knowledge Project
Millions of student athletes have been taught a lie. They believe that they can either be a world-class athlete or a top student.
They think it's impossible to do both.
Our kids at Texas Sports Academy are proof it's not.
For both basketball (Texas Sports Academy Dynamic Prep) and baseball (Texas Sports Academy Bennett)... we're #1 in Texas.
Our kids get 4 extra hours a day to train since our academics are only 2 hours a day (we use the same AI system as Alpha school).
And the learning results?
In the first half of this school year, our Texas Sports Academy athletes learned at 3.9x the speed of traditional students (measured by the MAP growth tests).
Kids should never have to choose between sports and academics. They just need a better system.
Houston Chronicle just profiled The Bennett School - Houston's first high school sports academy powered by Texas Sports Academy.
The model: 2 hours of AI-powered learning. Rest of the day: elite baseball development.
The results:
• 24-4 record, #1 in Texas
• Beat IMG Academy
• Players committed to Texas, Oklahoma State, Rice
Academically? Students are outperforming in a fraction of the time.
Texas Sports Academy is expanding across the state - new schools, new sports, new cities.
You don't have to choose between being a great student 📚 and a great athlete. ⚾
At Texas Sports Academy, we track and optimize *everything* around the student's experience.
One of our core commitments to our kids is that they will love coming to school. No exceptions.
At first, we just asked our students "Do you love Texas Sports Academy more than your previous school?"
It turned out this bar was way too low and we'd crush the survey every time.
So we raised the bar.
Now, we ask students "Would you rather go to a day of school or be on vacation?"
50% of our students said they'd rather be doing a day at Texas Sports Academy.
The cost of youth sports is spiraling out of control.
Texas Sports Academy Online is the only product that solves this for families - and gives them access to amazing academics and elite sports training...for free.
Texas has opened applications for the new $10k student voucher.
You can use this at Texas Sports Academy Online and get amazing academics (powered by alpha) and elite sports training at local trainers - completely covered by the voucher.
Zero out of pocket costs to you.
Kids travel sports teams are a scam.
My daughter did competitive gymnastics.
It was costing us $9–11K per year.
I see families doing the same with travel baseball, soccer, volleyball…
Spending $8K–$15K annually.
And almost every parent I talk to says the same thing later:
“Why did we spend so much?”
Less than 1% will play in college.
Even fewer will go pro.
So why are we draining savings accounts for it?
We switched to rec ball.
$90 a season.
No more lost summers.
Kids are still having fun.
We have our life back.
Anyone else step off the travel team treadmill?
Applications will be closing in a few weeks - so apply now if you haven't already.
sportsacademy.school/voucher…
Arpan Gupta retweeted
Opening Day at our first Gymnastics School!
Using the Timeback program, our students crush academics by 12pm.
And our students study in pomodoros: 30mins on, 10mins off.
For study breaks, they sprint to their playground, doing flips and rope climbs to unwind
Texas Sports Academy Gymnastics coming soon!
These elite middle school gymnasts currently attend traditional school from 8am-3pm, then train daily from 4-8pm.
This means:
- They get home past 8pm five days week
- They still have homework after they’re back home
- They’re less energized during gymnastics training
But with our Texas Sports Academy opening soon, these athletes will now:
- Crush all their academics and training by 4pm
- Learn twice as much as before, with no homework, more family dinners
- Have better energy for training, best position themselves to go D1
More videos on this school coming soon 💯
Arpan Gupta retweeted
Just started building this with @arpangup @PalmerTheDev & @malekaimischke
It's called Texas Sports Academy Online
Our goal is to create the #1 sports + academics solution for the modern student-athlete.
sportsacademy.school/tsa-onl…
