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

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18. his thing was topology of imaginary surfaces.

he thought he was gonna crunch numbers for a living, but after he had sucked the subject dry, he got bored.
computers are in his blood, so it was easy to fall back to that. we used computers extensively, starting w a commodore 64 when he was 3. he dropped out of hs and sat on my couch for 5 years.
taught himself ruby, java, and a couple other things. practiced his japanese online w gamers over there, back when that was a new thing.
eventually got up, went to college, got straight a's and a full boat bs->phd.

#3 is a drummer, and #4 is an artist. they ended up just the kind of fucked up i knew they were gonna get. but i was just worn to a ravel, and i got sick, and i just couldnt do it any more.
broke my heart, tho.
sometimes, you dont want to be right.