The internet is a nasty place and you lot should recognise it as such. I did note this:
"As a self taught programmer of age 16, I knew from the start that taking on the complex topic of neural networks and then trying to combine it with the famously difficult field of prime numbers would be a challenge."
... and I read on and I am suitably impressed - good skills.
This is like the mathematical version of trying to build a perpetual motion machine for a science fair project. At 16, I may not have known enough make the GP's argument, but I would have the intellectual humility to pick a project I can reasonably understand.
Re:Neural Networks and Primes
by DSingularity on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:38PM
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Re:Neural Networks and Primes
by throwaway_bob on Saturday May 05, 2018 @03:26AM
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honestly, then y'all are mostly responsible. If you are going to have a younger student do a guest blog post, you should make sure that the project makes sense technically, or at least is not silly. What if the student tried to train a neural net to build a perpetual motion machine and reported their progress on that? Would you have posted it? That project would be about the same level of silliness as what is reported here. I don't blame them at all for doing a silly thing, but I surely blame you for making it your guest blog post.
Regardless of the outcome of his research, the fact that a sixteen year old felt empowered to tackle such an advanced topic and was able to teach himself the tools to dive into it is pretty damn cool.