[tchened]

Hi all, Repl.it employee here. It's worth noting that the author of the guest blog post took on this project as part of his EPQ, or Extended Project Qualification, an exploratory project undertaken by some high schoolers (equivalent) in the UK. Repl.it took no part in the origins or the directions of his work; Ollie just chose Repl.it as his tool of choice. He learned the concepts, tools, and code on his own.

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.

[gerdesj]

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.

[amvalo]

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.

[DSingularity]

I just start using your service to tutor friends trying to sharpen programming skills. I love it. I will definitely be looking to use it more. Thanks for building this awesome app!

[tchened]

Glad you're enjoying it! We're working on "live editing", which is the ability to see people write their code on their repl in real time. Let me know if you're interested in testing it out early! [e-mail] :)

[throwaway_bob]

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.