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Interesting. What kind of habits?
Glasses and ID together. Car keys on top of work items like laptop and badge. White board next to front door with dates and reminders and mail to drop off. Arrange things like you would for a Sims character.
And I'm not even "old" yet...I guess it will pay off in the long run.
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I think the test case (which nobody has passed) for true photographic memory is: you are given an image of a bunch of random dots with no apparent structure, then you are given a second such image, and you have to mentally combine them and say what image they form. Because if you superimpose the two images of random dots — say using transparent slides, one on top of the other —- they actually form a photograph of Mar…
I don't know if I agree that it's a good test. If I had two images in front of me of random dots, I cannot superimpose them and see a picture of Marilyn Monroe, no matter how long I can look at them. (ah, actually I could go cross-eyed to make them overlap in my field of vision, but I can't do it mentally). I could imagine a "spot the difference" type of test would be a good one though. The fields of random dots are…
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Um, yeah, I stated all the evidence at hand. If you’re looking for a strong convincing case, I ain’t giving one. And the likely cause wouldn’t be some gamma rays, it’d be from ingesting radioactive or chemically harmful matter.
So, your theory is he licked that plutonium sphere when he was in there? Sounds legit!
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Its not talked about alot, but basically ashkenazis are the genesis of alot of modern intellectual ideas and companies. both FB and Google are ashkenazi creations
Also Bernie Madoff , Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein; should we be quick to talk about their origin?
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There is a reason why a cashier works for minimum wage. A few days ago I went to a grocery store to buy sparkling water. I got 16 small bottles and arranged them as a 4 by 4 grid before cashier, so she wouldn't need to spend time counting them and delaying the line. It took her over 10 seconds to count the bottles: apparently, she didn't recognize the pattern and counted them by groups of 3-4 bottles covering the cou…
> Imagine a 3x3 grid and draw there words oil/gas/dry. Now read all the words that you see on the grid. I can't do this for shit and I'm a genius.
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> Imagine a 3x3 grid and draw there words oil/gas/dry. Now read all the words that you see on the grid. I can't do this for shit and I'm a genius.
I bet you can still enumerate them though through a different method.
On the other hand even when I think of a three letter word I don't see the letters, I just kind of know what they are.
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>This scene hints that the cashier's analytical skills are >next to none and this alone explains why she is a cashier. Her numerical analytics skills perhaps, but she might be great at something else. Maybe she is a poet, or a musician, or great at handling 5 kids, or something else that you are terrible at. Just something that doesn't pay well, so she has to be a cashier. This is kind of a form of Moravec's paradox:…
Eh. Poetry and handling kids is orthogonal to intelligence. Intelligence is a very narrow and specific skill of discerning the real. It allows us to predict things. Coincidentally, it allows to make money and thus is well paid. It's ok if others disagree with me. My two examples above are meant to hint that intelligence consists of two distinct skills: ability to keep a still detailed image in your mind (the 3x3 grid…
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> If you're intellectually gifted (many programmers are) Lets not jerk each other off too hard, eh? Just like everybody in life, in any trade or profession, most programmers are just average people like everybody else. They just happened to luck out and be good at a talent that pays well. Odds are incredibly high you aren't any smarter than somebody who paints houses for a living, fills your prescription, or plays fo…
There is a reason why a cashier works for minimum wage. A few days ago I went to a grocery store to buy sparkling water. I got 16 small bottles and arranged them as a 4 by 4 grid before cashier, so she wouldn't need to spend time counting them and delaying the line. It took her over 10 seconds to count the bottles: apparently, she didn't recognize the pattern and counted them by groups of 3-4 bottles covering the cou…
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Um, yeah, I stated all the evidence at hand. If you’re looking for a strong convincing case, I ain’t giving one. And the likely cause wouldn’t be some gamma rays, it’d be from ingesting radioactive or chemically harmful matter.
So, your theory is he licked that plutonium sphere when he was in there? Sounds legit!
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There is a reason why a cashier works for minimum wage. A few days ago I went to a grocery store to buy sparkling water. I got 16 small bottles and arranged them as a 4 by 4 grid before cashier, so she wouldn't need to spend time counting them and delaying the line. It took her over 10 seconds to count the bottles: apparently, she didn't recognize the pattern and counted them by groups of 3-4 bottles covering the cou…
> Imagine a 3x3 grid and draw there words oil/gas/dry. Now read all the words that you see on the grid. I can't do this for shit and I'm a genius.
I guess I'm living proof that not all programmers are smart.