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17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize
autospa writes "A California teenager who cracked a complex mathematical equation has been awarded the Intel Science Talent Search's $100,000 first-place prize. Evan O'Dorney, 17, won the prize for 'his mathematical project in which he compared two ways to estimate the square root of an integer. [He] discovered precisely when the faster way would work,' Intel announced Wednesday."
Or maybe I didn't create the site, don't read it, and am just offering a lighthearted counter-balance to the fawning praise XKCD unjustly receives from nerds because someone put a mathematical equation into a stick figure webcomic, your post being a perfect example.
Most people enjoy criticising things they see as over-rated, especially when it is deemed to represent the subculture to which they belong. Critics the world over do it for fun and profit. I don't call you a failure for your views about reality televison or Paris Hilton, so spare us the fucking sanctimony.