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You will continue to be amazed, kids nowadays have grown up with instant access to an incomprehensible wealth of knowledge via the internet.
by faissaloo 8y ago
You will continue to be amazed, kids nowadays have grown up with instant access to an incomprehensible wealth of knowledge via the internet.
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- herpes 8y agoAnd also regular wealth. Have you seen the photos of it? It looks like a pre-assembled Radio Shack kit. Probably cost thousands of dollars in professionally machined parts.
- colmvp 8y agoYup. I was at a ML meetup and one of the kids who was only 12 or so knew advanced level coding and Tensorflow. Another one was a 16 year old who had been coding C++ for more than half a decade. They both credit a lot of it to the internet and the ease of learning which books to acquire.
- yesenadam 8y agoIn chess, there have now been four 12 year old grandmasters. ('Grandmaster' isn't an easy title to achieve, needing besides incredibly strong play, a high rating and doing very well in 3 tournaments with strong international opposition.) It's because of computers and the internet making every facet of chess learning/study incomparably faster than a few decades ago. And you can get a game in seconds anytime online.. There's no-one from before the chess + computer age on the list of the 36 players who've become Grandmasters before their 15th birthday : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy#List_of_youngest_grandmasters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy#List_of_youngest...