3 ms·
I'd add music (performance) to the list, but I can't think of any others.
by hugh 18y ago
I'd add music (performance) to the list, but I can't think of any others.
- nostrademons 18y agoGymnastics & figure skating, though very few people can make it as professional gymnasts. That's largely because their bodies give out before they're 20, though. Lots of the manual trades - isn't their a huge uproar about child labor in textile & small goods factories? Probably not what you had in mind, though.
- eru 18y agoHow about Math?
- hugh 18y agoTen-year-olds doing serious mathematical work? I don't think it's happened since maybe Gauss.
- eru 18y agoAt least as serious as programmers at that age.
- hugh 18y agoI'd disagree, just because I think the bar for "passable work" in mathematics is a lot higher than the bar for "passable work" in programming. Passable work, for a mathematician, still means proving something original and nontrivial, whereas passable work for a programmer just means creating something that works.
- eru 18y agoIf you define it that way, you're right. Do you know a ten year old hacker?