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“There was this inescapable sameness, in a way. No matter what I did, I was in the same place doing mostly the same things,” she said. “I was very isolated, and
by impish9208 1y ago
“There was this inescapable sameness, in a way. No matter what I did, I was in the same place doing mostly the same things,” she said. “I was very isolated, and nothing I could do could really change that. I’d wake up on certain days and realize, I’m just older.”
I finally have something in common with a math prodigy.
- revskill 1y agoLoneliness is maththematician best friend.
- munificent 1y agoThank God she found math instead of Factorio.
- sbennettmcleish 1y agothe factory must grow ;-)
- _benj 1y agoMaybe hot take… I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus by 11 or the equivalent of an undergrad in math by 14! That flexibility must be found in something non-traditional! I’m no prodigy at all whatsoever but school was mostly dull and filled with teenager drama! Nobody knew what Linux was, cared about music production or anything interesting! The talk was which boy/girl whatever
- cultofmetatron 1y agoits so much better nowadays. I"m 40 now and I'm low key jelous of kids today. Today if you want to learn to code, you have freecode camp and chatgpt to ask questions. Math? there's mathacademy and khanacademy. There are so many options now for learning stuff that we didn't have
- pmdr 1y agoLearning opportunities are indeed better. But time sinks such as TikTok and YouTube have gotten exponentially better (read: addictive). I think there's a higher overall likelihood that a kid gets trapped in doomscrolling than in Khan Academy.
- ronjakoi 1y agoFor those who speak strong English, yes
- erazor42 1y agokhan academy is available in many language
- kiba 1y agoVery difficult to take advantage of if you don't have good control over your brain. I am learning bit and pieces on how to do this but it's a long and uncertain process. Conflict monitoring is willpower is a new concept to me but it gave me a framework on how to improve my discipline over time.