Elon Musk has hired a 14-year-old California wunderkind to write rocket software

Elon Musk's SpaceX has hired 14-year-old Kyren Kwaizi. He will work as a software engineer, reports “Ukrainian Truth".

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The teenager recently graduated from Santa Clara University in California (USA). He became the youngest student of this educational institution.

To start working in the SpaceX department, Kyren Kwaizi plans to move with her mother from California, where she now lives, to Washington state.

Unique child

The boy grew up as a very capable child. At the age of two, he could already speak in full sentences. In kindergarten, he told other children and teachers the news he heard on the radio. When the boy was 9 years old, his parents realized that school assignments were too easy for him, so they helped him go to college in California.

“I felt like I was learning at the level I should have,” Kyren said of his college days.

That same year, he took an IQ test - the results were higher than 99,9% of the world's population.

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A few months later, Kyren was doing an internship at Intel Labs as an AI researcher. At age 11, he taught computer science and engineering at Santa Clara University.

"Being an extrovert hasn't stopped me from making a lot of friends in college - they even ask me to teach them," Quasi wrote in HuffPost.

“Whenever I start a new class, other students look at me with curiosity and I see some people secretly taking photos and videos of me. I hear them whisper, "He's so cute!" or "He's so smart!" But I'm trying to break the ice by introducing myself so they can see that it's okay to talk to me and be my friend. I also email my teachers before the first day of class so they don't get confused when I walk in," he added.

However, Kwazii says his quick wit sometimes puts him in difficult situations and creates more than just trouble, reports BrainGainMag.

“I learned in kindergarten that if I told my friends that Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people, the kids would cry on the playground,” Kwazi wrote. “That day, my parents received a call from a disgruntled director. I told my third grade science teacher that her knowledge of gravity lacked depth. This earned me the top spot on her naughty list for the rest of the year.”

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“People always ask if I'm a genius, but my parents explain that genius is an action - it requires solving big problems that have an impact on a person. Mom says she's the only genius in the house because there's only one person who can keep this house from falling apart!" Quasi jokes.

Quasi is surprisingly good at what doctors call "asynchronous learning." This means that he can excel in academic subjects and even learn things out of turn. For example, he learned the concepts of linear algebra even before he took formal algebra classes.

No wonder the genius guy is "obsessed with books".

“A good book makes me forget to eat and get ready on time. Because of this, my parents scream a lot. Wait, isn't reading supposed to be a good thing?" he jokes.

Some of Quasi's favorite books include Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Rush, reviewed by Braingainmag.com, George Orwell's 1984, and the Game of Thrones series.

Kyren is an idealist who loves to talk about politics and hates America's increasing polarization and political dysfunction.

New job

He announced his new position on June 8.

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“I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. This is one of the rare companies that did not use my age as an outdated indicator of maturity and ability,” Kyren wrote on LinkedIn.

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