I went to high school with Logan and with Mario. Mario was in my AP Comp Sci class with Mrs. White. I remember being proud of my forays into encryption, concurrency, and network programming.
And then I looked over and Mario had implemented a graphing calculator (as in, take "y = x^2 + 4x -10" and emit a graph) in the windows command prompt. Then, when that was boring, he started researching and implementing the graphics algorithms for drawing lines at various slopes with minimal distortion. And then, when that was boring, he made his graphing calculator support polar coordinates (something I understood only as "oops, my graphing calculator is misconfigured").
Also, he was ~12 years old (IIRC) having skipped a few grades.
I've met a lot of smart people between Carnegie Mellon, Facebook Infrastructure, and the Linux Kernel community, but Mario's one of two or maybe three at the absolute top in terms of intellectual horsepower.
And then I looked over and Mario had implemented a graphing calculator (as in, take "y = x^2 + 4x -10" and emit a graph) in the windows command prompt. Then, when that was boring, he started researching and implementing the graphics algorithms for drawing lines at various slopes with minimal distortion. And then, when that was boring, he made his graphing calculator support polar coordinates (something I understood only as "oops, my graphing calculator is misconfigured").
Also, he was ~12 years old (IIRC) having skipped a few grades.
I've met a lot of smart people between Carnegie Mellon, Facebook Infrastructure, and the Linux Kernel community, but Mario's one of two or maybe three at the absolute top in terms of intellectual horsepower.