[foolinaround]

If the kid was innately driven to do this, a big win for the kid and for humanity...

On the other hand, if the kid is 'coached' to look/identify, as you say, it is a sad state of affairs when kids are pushed into adulthood too soon...

We have seen this for more than a decade also with the marketing practices around sexualization of fashion for younger and younger kids...

[kartben_]

To briefly clarify on why I believe it is the former: Caleb just happened to have caught a really bad fungal pneumonia when he was 9yo, and that was his inspiration to explore what could be done to diagnose things differently. And he just happened to do tons of research to try and re-use open source technology, etc.