Alexandr (Alex) Wang

Uh, uh, and I, I like, uh, it was in, it was in the whole state of, of New Mexico.

Uh, and I scored the best out of any fourth grader in New Mexico, um, which, uh, and then that like activated this like competitive gene in me.

And then I just started like, you know, I got consumed by math competitions, science competitions, physics competitions.

Yeah, yeah.

I remember, let's see, my parents taught me algebra in, I want to say it was second grade, maybe between.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

I don't know if I mastered it, but I was, yeah, I was playing around with algebra.

They taught me the basics of algebra and I would just like spend all time thinking about it in second grade.

It's like seven, eight years old, right?

yeah like eight and eight yeah holy um and then and so by the time i was by the time i was in fourth grade i could do kind of like i could do some basic algebra i could do um some basic geometry stuff like that and then uh let's see where where did i do from there by the time i was in middle school i was doing calculus and then um

And then I was doing college level math in middle school as well.

So those are the two things I was doing in middle school.

And then in high school, I just became obsessed with computers and I just spent all day programming.

And I realized like science and math are cool, but with computers and programming, you could actually make stuff.

And that ended up becoming the major obsession.

Yeah.

Uh...

So there's this famous paradox, the Fermi paradox, which is what are the odds that we live in this vast, vast, vast universe and there's billions, hundreds of billions, trillions of other stars and planets and what are the chances that none of them have intelligent life?

I mean, I think definitely somewhere else in our universe there has to be