Europe then and now
Europe then and now

Europe then and now

how the fuck does someone finish high school at 8, and gets a PhD at 15?? boomers read super genius, i read rushed school, under constant stress and socially stunted.
It's usually all the things you mentioned, no interest in socializing the child with humans their own age, and parents that are also PhD havers. Most prodigies have some unusual access to a very learned person in the field they end up a prodigy.
no interest in socializing the child with humans their own age
If he's genuinely that intelligent, socializing him with humans his own age will just get him bullied or result in the other kids feeling inferior. He deserves to be able to engage with people who are on his level.
These stories almost never end well
if you're gonna get a group together to do 80+ people all at once, you should totally take the heads and make like some furniture or a trophy/altar with the skulls.
it's a timeless way to say, "we handle our shit around here, so don't start any."
tangential point, but these days i find myself astonished to see someone get a STEM PhD that isn’t AI related
…why? Most STEM research isn’t AI related, so why shouldn’t there be PhDs that aren’t?
Right after the defense, he returned to Munich to start a second doctorate in medical science with artificial intelligence.
Good news!
What's this post about?
...Hypothetically, of course
He says the degree is a means to a larger goal: building longer, healthier lives by enhancing human biology.
Simons research focuses on Bose polarons, mobile impurities dressed by surrounding particles, in superfluids and supersolids.
Maybe it's because I'm not a genius child prodigy but I'm not seeing the connection between these two ideas.
Also, I had to stop reading that article midway through because it's an incoherent jumble of sentences that reads like a game of journalistic beautiful corpse.