A 14-year-old won a prestigious award for his discoveries on 'antiprime numbers'

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15. they were amazing little kids.

4 of them in the end. they were all clearly executing sophisticated programs to educate themselves. i took my job to be- feed that, supply that, encourage that, answer endless questons, then stay the f out of the way. and keep away anyone who wasnt down w the plan.

interesting coincidence that my next door neighbor shortly after that was working on a phd in child development at the erickson institute. we had many long and interesting conversations, and i have to think that my kids made an impression on her.
she was studying how babies learn, and what babies know. ended up taking 7 yrs to finish, and its at the root of the common core math for primary grades. she was made erickson's first fellow.

a most amazing journey. but up there w hiking death valley in august.