Smartest Person Alive
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I've been fortunate to know a number of people with 160-170 IQs and a number of other exceptional people. Met a guy who new the entire UK tax code, clause by clause at the age of 22, he's probably a billionaire by now and another who's one of less than 10 people in the world who actually fully understand both UK and European pension systems. I worked with a guy who was writing code against interfaces that Microsoft hadn't written yet but would get around to in 18 months time and he was close enough it took me 5 minutes to make it work when their new UI components showed up 2 years later. So how do you compare them? Is the guy who wins jeopardy smarter than the guy who wrote a novel where one in every 4 chapters was an internet news feed, in 1964? Are either of them smarter than the guy who lives his whole life without ever being called smart, without ever being rich and is happy every day?
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
Met a guy who new the entire UK tax code, clause by clause at the age of 22, he's probably a billionaire by sitting in a padded room now
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise." Matthew Faithfull
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Yes. Leonardo gets my vote because he was so broad and so far ahead of his time with so little to build upon. Did you know they recently discovered that his glider design actually works, 350 years before the Wright brothers. :omg:
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Not only that but he must also be in line for the oldest man alived too! (personnely I thought he was Leslie Neilsen)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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The IQ scale is to measure how much practice you've had at doing silly little puzzles, and is completely useless for discerning anything else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wrong question... Sons are supposed to think their daddy is the smartest person in the world. At least until they turn 12.
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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I think just about everyone in this trade is good at silly puzzles. The thing is that if you do a lot of them for a week, you can do them better, and, according to idiots like the mensa bunch, that means that you're more intelligent at the end of the week than you were at the beginning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It could be Erwin Schrödinger in a box.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I think just about everyone in this trade is good at silly puzzles. The thing is that if you do a lot of them for a week, you can do them better, and, according to idiots like the mensa bunch, that means that you're more intelligent at the end of the week than you were at the beginning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
... if you do a lot of them for a week, you can do them better, and ... that means that you're more intelligent at the end of the week than you were at the beginning.
And you disagree with this why? The fact that you're doing them better should imply that you're learning to do something faster and more efficiently, which means that you should becoming more intelligent in this (puzzles) aspect. Now if they were to give you a slightly different test and you can't use what you've learned from this to solve that, then I agree, you haven't learned much. But tests have been and will always be subjective. Just because you test well doesn't mean you're smart, and just because you test poorly doesn't make you an idiot. However, tests should give us an idea of where a person lies and what they're good at.
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I was going to nominate both of us for that honor. After all, you know everything there is to know except that you're an idiot, and I know that. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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True, but are you as humble as I?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
Hmmm... Doubtful. I was once accused of being arrogant, but arrogance is a fault, and I haven't any.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Great signature Naerling :laugh: BTW, I once had a cousin who was a half-naerling...
Cheees, Edo
He was missing his legs...?
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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It's just a shame that you spelled his name wrong. After all, it's not as though it was on the screen in front of you.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easierAnd of course I deserve to have my name spelled correctly! :-D
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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Everyone is alive 'or' dead... :^)
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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Well, that's one way of looking at it from a positive angle ;)
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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Well, that's one way of looking at it from a positive angle ;)
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
