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That's really interesting. How did you know that?
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
That's really interesting. How did you know that?
- pkilgore 9y agoThe article: "Surely the smartest redhead in Ireland,” read one headline about 16-year-old Patrick being named Young Scientist of the Year for developing a programming language and artificial intelligence system."
- defen 9y agoAre "redheads in Ireland" stereotyped as being particularly smarter or stupider than other Irish? That's the only way I can make sense of that headline - it makes as much sense to me as "the smartest black-haired person in Ireland"
- s_dev 9y agoNo -- "smartest red head in Ireland" just an arbitrary qualifier and a throwaway comment -- if anything it just emphasizes the number of red heads in Ireland.
- barking 9y ago10% of Irish people are redheads while about a half carry the gene apparently. I'd be willing to bet the dark haired brother has forearms covered in freckles
- Symbiote 9y agoThere's discrimination against red-haired people in Ireland. https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/discrimination-against-redheads-very-real-says-author https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/discrimin...
- magic_beans 9y agoBecause redheads are so unbelievably common in Ireland, calling him the "smartest redhead in Ireland" is a clever little joke that draws a contrast between his exotic intelligence (building an AI system, desigining a programming language) and his incredible ordinariness (having red hair in Ireland).
- mschaef 9y agoI've plinked around with Lisp implementations for quite a while, and remember the press he got back in 2004 for Croma. This was before all of the startup stuff of the last 12 years, so at the time it was just a story of a really smart high school student doing something awesome with a style of programming language I really liked.