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I sometimes feel like her success is driving me into madness, I feel like Salieri looking at Mozart when I look at her work. Here is the Alyssa timeline: * Sh
by __madness 2y ago
I sometimes feel like her success is driving me into madness, I feel like Salieri looking at Mozart when I look at her work.
Here is the Alyssa timeline:
* She started programming at ~3 with MIT Scratch. Her Father introduced it to her, he works at Intel and is a very successful person.
* I think around age 11-12 she knew C very well, worked on some low level networking stuff for games, she wanted to make an MMO.
* At 12 she made a project to convert LLVM IR to MIT Scratch.
* She was involved with libreboot, not sure to what degree.
* She was 15 when she worked to the open source RPI firmware.
* Interned at FSF
* I think she was ~16 when she developed the Panfrost GPU driver.
I can't help but wonder how my life would be if I was a native English speaker. Lived in USA and had a great father and mentors like hers. I gave everything to programming, everything I have to give. Wonder if I am hitting the limits of my nature or just had worse nurture.
- arresin 2y agoIt is brutal. Especially when you read about this: https://chesswizards.com/buzz/Chess-biography-the-Polgar-sisters/#:~:text=They%20were%20part%20of%20an,were%20made%2C%20and%20not%20born https://chesswizards.com/buzz/Chess-biography-the-Polgar-sis.... And think if only I had a parent like this.
- internet101010 2y agoIt's like being born a Gracie and starting jiu jitsu before you can walk. Of course you are going to be proficient in that field at a young age due to being taught by an expert at a time when the mind is most malleable.
- darkwater 2y agoShe probably was born with already very good genetics for her brain to grasp those concepts + bespoke tutorship from a very competent tutor very early on, that's a winning combination (at least concerning low-level programming)