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Highly recommend giving The Bit Player[0] a watch for those interested in learning more about Claude Shannon and their pursuits in both their academic and personal life. [0] https://thebitplayer.com/
I particularly liked the idea that he is one of the most important figures in science/tech/maths that most people have not heard of.
I first read about Graham as a friend and collaborator of Paul Erdos in 'The Man Who Loved Only Numbers'. As well as his mathematical achievements, Graham was also at one time president of the Internal Jugglers Association. If you have never read the book, it is a fascinating insight into the lives and non-math idiosyncrasies of Erdos and his fellow wizards.
He built a flame-throwing trumpet and a rocket-powered Frisbee. He built a chess-playing automaton that, after its opponent moved, made witty remarks. Inspired by the late artificial-intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, he designed what was dubbed the Ultimate Machine: flick the switch to “On” and a box opens up; out comes a mechanical hand, which flicks the switch back to “Off” and retreats inside the box.
Highly recommend giving The Bit Player[0] a watch for those interested in learning more about Claude Shannon and their pursuits in both their academic and personal life. [0] https://thebitplayer.com/
Loved that film. I particularly liked the idea that he is one of the most important figures in science/tech/maths that most people have not heard of.
I'm nearly always met with "Who..??"
One of the photo shows his highly concentration. I have a hypothesis that many world class masters have talent to get into "Flow State". Juggling is one of the activity that associate with the state. Another example is DHH who created RoR eventually became professional sport car racer. It's well know that in sports area, many top players have the talent. My guess is it's also applicable on "mind sports".
I’ve watched vide with guy that supposedly has 200IQ and in his view IQ is ability to focus on small on small set of things but many high IQ ppl can’t „refocus” it easily and aren’t doing well in life.
It’s a statistical measure comparing the test taker against the average, much like percentiles.
At a certain IQ score, somewhere in the 170’s I think, the expected number of individuals with that IQ is about 1.
If we had absolute measures of intelligence (that would be a breakthrough for the ages), then we could say “A is twice as smart as B” and award A twice the points of B. In such a system, the sky is the limit for the number of points.
EDIT: If/when we build a human-level AI, perhaps we could use the number of transistors / artificial neurons involved as a proxy for an absolute measure of how difficult it is to answer some problems. This would be imperfect but better than nothing.
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I’ve watched vide with guy that supposedly has 200IQ and in his view IQ is ability to focus on small on small set of things but many high IQ ppl can’t „refocus” it easily and aren’t doing well in life.
A 200 IQ is not possible at current population levels. It’s a statistical measure comparing the test taker against the average, much like percentiles. At a certain IQ score, somewhere in the 170’s I think, the expected number of individuals with that IQ is about 1. If we had absolute measures of intelligence (that would be a breakthrough for the ages), then we could say “A is twice as smart as B” and award A twice th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rul...
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A 200 IQ is not possible at current population levels. It’s a statistical measure comparing the test taker against the average, much like percentiles. At a certain IQ score, somewhere in the 170’s I think, the expected number of individuals with that IQ is about 1. If we had absolute measures of intelligence (that would be a breakthrough for the ages), then we could say “A is twice as smart as B” and award A twice th…
It’s close though. Iq sd is 15. 200 is about 6.7 sd above mean. Odds of being 6.5 standard deviations away is 1 in 12 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rul...
Kind of off-topic, but one thing that really confuses me about Shannon's biography is the following: according to the authors of "A Mind at Play", Shannon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1983 [0], and the illness progressed "very quickly". They continue: > In too-brief moments, the family was given a flash of the Claude they knew. [His daughter] Peggy remembered that she “actually had a conversation with hi…
Doesn't surprise me that some of our greater minds of our time would have a similar experience, but with a even stronger contrast.