I think that everyone who says to stick with the basics is very correct. You should teach him physics, not nanotechnology. But I think the focus should be on well-roundedness first. You are shaping an intellect, and it is for no one to determine that such a brilliant and astute mind is to pioneer technology. You might have the next Ludwig Wittgenstein or James Joyce on your hands. You want to expose him to everything, in an intensive undergraduate sense. Expose him to everything from Plato to Quantum Mechanics, and everything in between. I was by no stretch of the imagination a child prodigy, but I did have a very remarkable propensity for economic theory when I was young, and instead of going to a B-School, I went to a 'small, expensive liberal arts college,' and became a triple major in Mathematics, Economics, and Philosophy (as well as extensive work in Physics), and now I find that the unfocused education has given me many unexpected tools to access in terms of my economics research, and as a 20 year old student in Classical-Harrodian Macrodynamics and CGC modeling, I often think in terms of physics analogies, or philosophical investigations of my models.
Teach the kid how to think, and he can take care of the rest by himself.
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I have never complained about the quasi-journalism here at/. but Jon Katz needs to calm the hell down. His apocalyptic conjecture is unwarranted and unprofessional. He should NOT post on front page space, and he should try reading more real op-eds before he expounds endlessly on what is not really "one of the darkest days" in Net history. History has seen and is seeing darker periods of media and transmission monopoly than this, and humans have always found a way to access important information. There is nothing that anyone can do to stop it, the Net only adds an inherent irony to a situation like this b/c it is uncontrollable. Just my two pennies.
Unfortunately, this is the price we have pay for open source- you are all right, ID does a great thing for the computer community, but much like the inherent freedom of the Internet, the prize of free speech comes with the price tag of flamers and anonymity. There must be a way for the login to detect altered source; like the new Mod-Chip proof Playstation games which, I am assuming work on the basis of an architecture encoded in the CD that MUST match the system or the process terminates; any ideas, guys?...I imagine this would only affect the game servers, b/c who gives a %$#& if someone cheats on their own?
I will be honest, I rarely post, for I am not an Uber-Geek. But I am a damn good deconstructionist, and I think this interview was a total hack. I have never seen anyone jerk-off the/. community so well; but if anyone could and would do it, cdc would. They said nothing at all; it was an amusing game. But they said it well. I say you replace the story icon with the MP's Flying Circus foot, b/c they (especially G Ratte and Tweety B) have really abused our attention with the utmost wit. I commend them.
If jack helped you off your horse, would you help Jack off his horse?
If at all possible, I would be interested in reading this article, I am well aware of the ludicrous nature of western law, but at the same time, I cannot believe that this kid could have been so egregiously violated...do you think you could remember a detail that would assist me in the search?
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I think that everyone who says to stick with the basics is very correct. You should teach him physics, not nanotechnology. But I think the focus should be on well-roundedness first. You are shaping an intellect, and it is for no one to determine that such a brilliant and astute mind is to pioneer technology. You might have the next Ludwig Wittgenstein or James Joyce on your hands. You want to expose him to everything, in an intensive undergraduate sense. Expose him to everything from Plato to Quantum Mechanics, and everything in between. I was by no stretch of the imagination a child prodigy, but I did have a very remarkable propensity for economic theory when I was young, and instead of going to a B-School, I went to a 'small, expensive liberal arts college,' and became a triple major in Mathematics, Economics, and Philosophy (as well as extensive work in Physics), and now I find that the unfocused education has given me many unexpected tools to access in terms of my economics research, and as a 20 year old student in Classical-Harrodian Macrodynamics and CGC modeling, I often think in terms of physics analogies, or philosophical investigations of my models.
Teach the kid how to think, and he can take care of the rest by himself.
I have never complained about the quasi-journalism here at /. but Jon Katz needs to calm the hell down. His apocalyptic conjecture is unwarranted and unprofessional. He should NOT post on front page space, and he should try reading more real op-eds before he expounds endlessly on what is not really "one of the darkest days" in Net history. History has seen and is seeing darker periods of media and transmission monopoly than this, and humans have always found a way to access important information. There is nothing that anyone can do to stop it, the Net only adds an inherent irony to a situation like this b/c it is uncontrollable. Just my two pennies.
Unfortunately, this is the price we have pay for open source- you are all right, ID does a great thing for the computer community, but much like the inherent freedom of the Internet, the prize of free speech comes with the price tag of flamers and anonymity. There must be a way for the login to detect altered source; like the new Mod-Chip proof Playstation games which, I am assuming work on the basis of an architecture encoded in the CD that MUST match the system or the process terminates; any ideas, guys?...I imagine this would only affect the game servers, b/c who gives a %$#& if someone cheats on their own?
I will be honest, I rarely post, for I am not an Uber-Geek. But I am a damn good deconstructionist, and I think this interview was a total hack. I have never seen anyone jerk-off the /. community so well; but if anyone could and would do it, cdc would. They said nothing at all; it was an amusing game. But they said it well. I say you replace the story icon with the MP's Flying Circus foot, b/c they (especially G Ratte and Tweety B) have really abused our attention with the utmost wit. I commend them.
If jack helped you off your horse, would you help Jack off his horse?
If at all possible, I would be interested in reading this article, I am well aware of the ludicrous nature of western law, but at the same time, I cannot believe that this kid could have been so egregiously violated...do you think you could remember a detail that would assist me in the search?