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Does anyone else approach these "teen invents x" or "wiz kid middle schooler discovers y" articles with extreme skepticism? About half the time the invention turns out to be bogus or trivial, and in the other half it comes to light the parents were behind it.
I wonder what his parents do for a living. Just curious.
Does it matter? Watching everything through the myopic lens of "privilege" is wrong. A kid can have an idea and parents can help. For now, the set of {kids, parents} that can do that is limited. But technology changes and becomes more accessible. What matters is the new things that become not just possible but easy and cheap. For a previously "costly" problem that in 2012 would involve a 5 MP digital pictures + geota…
Of course, the electronic nose itself is a work of plumbing too, where some existing gas sensors are put on a pcb.
In short, nothing seems really new here, but the application is interesting. I guess it's always interesting when people start looking for correlations in data and get some positive results, so from that point of view it is noteworthy.
I wish I could read the paper. I’m interested in what kind of fungal pneumonia they were looking at. My googling got me to find the title on the Middle School Facebook page but not sure if it’s available ti read.
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Does it matter? Watching everything through the myopic lens of "privilege" is wrong. A kid can have an idea and parents can help. For now, the set of {kids, parents} that can do that is limited. But technology changes and becomes more accessible. What matters is the new things that become not just possible but easy and cheap. For a previously "costly" problem that in 2012 would involve a 5 MP digital pictures + geota…
It does when the title says "13yo kid builds e-nose". It's not about privilege, it's about being honest. Maybe the title is honest and the kid is just very bright, that's cool too!
Cool. And, I have a 13-year and she is still, literally, crying over spilt milk, hacked Roblox merchandize, how done the steak is, why her monitor is tilted wrong, and why I din't warned her before rebooting the primary router.
I’d be pissed too. You don’t mess with the router without warning people using it ;)
Cool. And, I have a 13-year and she is still, literally, crying over spilt milk, hacked Roblox merchandize, how done the steak is, why her monitor is tilted wrong, and why I din't warned her before rebooting the primary router.
I wish I could read the paper. I’m interested in what kind of fungal pneumonia they were looking at. My googling got me to find the title on the Middle School Facebook page but not sure if it’s available ti read.