[rzk]

This is amazing—made even more impressive by the fact that the author is just 15 years old!

Also, it's nice to see this mentioned:

> For this 10k-word write-up, I spent around a month finishing up the main parts, and refining/editing it took an extra while. Writing this is indeed a painful process. I spent the entire day on the weekend and 4-5 hours during the rest of the week working on it for around two weeks.

It's the kind of behind-the-scenes effort that often goes unspoken.

[Sheeny96]

10k words was the word count for my 3rd year undergraduate dissertation in the UK. Typically, this is tirelessly worked on over months. The quality of this far exceeds anything I produced during that time and anything I saw from my peers.

[asveikau]

I'm also detecting hints of non-native English in his writing which may make it even more effort. Though his Twitter account says he's based in Connecticut.

Edit: Wow, shocked that I'm being received so negatively about this, non native English is not "bad". It isn't meant as judgement but praise for what he's accomplished.

[johnisgood]

He's 15. Many adults whose native language is English can't write it correctly, or what are you referring to if not grammar errors? Can you give me examples?

[asveikau]

The way grammar works is that it is hard to describe the rules of your native language. I am parsing this as non native. My older kid is a few years younger than this guy, and her text messages to me sound more native than this corpus. No I can't describe it concretely. It's just how I parse word choice and sentence structure.

[johnisgood]

I read it again. I can see where you are coming from though. I didn't downvote you.

[asveikau]

Yeah, I removed the first part and made it into an edit of the original comment, since it wasn't directed at you.

[johnisgood]

I know, thank you.