Jungs,
Können wir darüber sprechen, dass dies kein Wettbewerb mehr für Kinder ist, sondern dass ihre erwachsenen Eltern oder Reiseleiter dies als Möglichkeit nutzen, etwas zu gewinnen?
Die aktuelle Gewinnerin ist 15 Jahre alt und ihr Beitrag war "GlioScope: Multitasking-Deep-Learning und kausale KI für die Profilerstellung von Gliomen und Glioblastomen" Können wir uns damit abfinden, zu glauben, dass ein 15-Jähriger das erfunden und vollendet hat?
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Von lifeandtimes89
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It’s actually not BT anymore it’s Stripe, like the one Homer used to make the nuclear power plant look pretty sharp
BT Young Scientist, not BT Young Innovator.
It is to encourage interest in science in schools. The kids are doing science. Mission accomplished. Even great science discoveries are built on foundations provided by others/those who went before.
There are serious young coders out there, cop on
Just because you were thick as a ditch at 15 doesn’t mean everyone is
Yeah, its all done by their parents, which is why a former winner who turned their parents project into a successful business presented the award.
Just because these kids are smarter than you doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get an award.
Given that I know teenagers who would give that a shot I can absolutely believe that.
It’s not BT now, it’s Stripe, you know, the company which made it’s two founders, now worth multiple billions each, and the Collison brothers, who previously won the BTYSE and went on from their project on cryptography for payments to become what they are now.
Do you think they coffee their project too?
You understand there’s tonnes or scientists who are judges and grill the winners constantly over the week to quiz them on their methods?
Was shortlisted in the 80s. I built a laser. All by ourselves. Only needed parents money. The rest was pretty much my doing.
It’s supposed to be a power plant not Aunt Beulahs bordello!!
Tell me you don’t know any teenagers with an interest and aptitude for science without telling me
Oh bore off
I’m waiting to hear what biomedical company her parents work at??? Fair play to them but it couldn’t be a 15 year old coming up with this?
I don’t agree – know a few people who were in it back in the day and they certainly were not their parents‘ projects.
Honestly think sneering at kids doing their best in a science and technology event is a bit low.
If someone created a machine which converted the misery of r/Ireland into a useable energy source they would win the BT Young Scientist
Im guessing you didnt actually read what it was that she created, beyond the headline. It was essentially a model trained on recognising what glioblastomas look like vs. benign tumors. Plenty of teens are coding these days and can easily train a model. This girl was bright enough to have the skills, the idea and the work ethic
OP there were some actual ground breaking projects this year and every year. There might be a handful of clangers but at least they’re trying their best to achieve something.
It’s not for the winners, per se, a lot of exhibits are just projects on a subject, rather than an innovation.
Scientific literacy is always a good thing. This promotes that.
That and doing history and critical thinking are way more useful than a lot of the shit inflicted on kids to get a good leaving cert….
You’re telling on yourself here. There are plenty of very gifted 15 year olds with a passion for science/computer science.
Just because you can’t imagine your 15 year old self being capable of this doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Last year at 14 she won a section award with “Neurovision” AI . Her da owns a company called Daly innovations out of university of Limerick so you can see where her interests come from.
wish her well.
Science is iterative.
As a researcher, I add the next few percent to something. The majority of any project I ever work on will have been long figured out by someone in the past. Maybe a supervisor of mine, or maybe we just read a paper by them that we liked and then added to it.
In future someone will take my research and add on to it.
That’s the reality of science. Everyone is building on top of everyone else, and it’s how we keep pushing forward.
It’s just labelling data and feeding it into a neural network to generate a model. Anyone could do it if they were bothered.
Of our kids, one has zero interest. Even if I did it all for her she’d have no interest. So fair play to that girl for taking an interest 🙌🙌🙌
I’m a teacher who had an intermediate student in the competition. He devised the project all by himself. Collected and tabulated the data all by himself. Wrote the report, with citations, proper structure and layout, by himself. It was in a topic I had 0 clue about until I sat down and was explained the nature of it **by him**. He was passionate about it to a fault when he walked away with nothing tonight.
Just because you weren’t interested to a point of cynicism at 15 doesn’t mean every 15 year old is. A lot of these kids put their heart and soul into this and because you can’t imagine putting 1/4 as much work into anything in your life, „it must be the parents/teachers doing it for them“. Says more about how you must deal with your problems than about them.
More barrel-scraping clickbait. What was your point here?
Getting a bit tiresome now to be honest.
An American here….this has forever been a problem. Even worse, AI is Daddy now.