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>At age 10, Hikaru became the youngest American to beat an International Master when he defeated Jay Bonin at the Marshall Chess Club. Also at age 10, Nakamura became the youngest player to achieve the title of chess master from the United States Chess Federation, breaking the record previously set by Vinay Bhat (Nakamura's record stood until 2008 when Nicholas Nip achieved the master title at the age of 9 years and 11 months). In 1999, Nakamura won the Laura Aspis Prize, given annually to the top USCF-rated player under age 13. In 2003, at age 15 years and 79 days, Nakamura solidified his reputation as a chess prodigy, becoming the youngest American to earn the grandmaster title at the time, breaking the record of Bobby Fischer by three months.
>In 2020, Hikaru undertook the Mensa online IQ tests, in which he scored 102. Considering that average IQ is 100, Nakamura seems to have only slightly passed the average person’s IQ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Nakamura
https://thelittlefacts.com/what-is-hikaru-nakamura-iq/
LOL. So you're telling me, a kid who became a tilted chess master, at 10, and became a chess grandmaster at 15, isn't actually intelligent. He's actually only average? What the fuck? How does this make sense?
>B-B-B-BUT IQ tests don't measure intelligence!!!
So then you admit they're literally fucking meaningless?
Can someone defend this shit?
Anonymous
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>>13659185 I don't know. The psychologist applied it because of organizational reasons, and I never thought of asking the name. It has the stuff of the Internet tests plus also a verbal section and a general knowledge section.
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>>13670334 >That still doesn't mean there isn't an unusual discrepancy between his numerical and spacial reasoning abilities, germane because it demonstrates the aforementioned 'Spearmans law of diminishing returns'. Yeah, you can measure that discrepancy and that will tell you that the discrepancy is there. It still takes a lot of assumptions (including data gathering assumptions) to claim that the underlying cause for that discrepancy is what you claim it is.
I'm so average (30 y/o)
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I just got 131 on Queendom and I'm a fucking idiot. What gives?
Anonymous
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>>13670108 nigga youze a empty game boy
no game, boy
Anonymous
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>>13657680 >>13657694 Doesn't matter IQ is still a chad predictor of a ton of things.
Only thing this makes me think is that Chess is not a high IQ game... how do you get 102 in these meme online tests that inflate your IQ??
Anonymous
A few days ago I learned that companies make medication to treat people who are on medication. For example, schizo meds cause lots of negative side effects, and so corporations make meds specifically for people who are suffering from the negative effects of schizo meds. So you need to take meds to cure your other meds...
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>>13670891 Cutting resources from one thing is not the same as cutting all resources all together.
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>>13668325 about 1% of the population is schizophrenic in all societies around the world, so there aren't a whole lot of schizos around. Schizophrenia has a very strong genetic component that is further exacerbated by traumatic experiences, drug abuse, that kind of stuff.
>why is schizo used for non-schizophrenics well, why is retard used for non-retarded people?
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>>13668256 No one is forcing you to take meds. The fact that there is something to mitigate the side effects is a good thing.
>>13668259 So insightful!!!
>>13668316 One time while my dad had some stuff to take care of I was waiting in a car and some old lady came up to me and started explaining how my dad is actually a KGB agent and I need to run away. How she's seen him massacring other people and other dumb shit. Not cool at all. I didn't tell her off and instead just nodded my head pretending to be interested lol.
Anonymous
>>13668256 People are overmedicated in place of healthy diet. The thing is most people can't do what is necessary when it comes to dieting. If you get heart burn from eating something, you stop eating it or you eat less of it. Nope, they take prilosec or tums. Many things snowball into bigger problems when not addressed, not just immediately, but never addressed. .
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>>13671563 brb curing dyskinesia, heart arythmia and liver damage by eating more kale or some shit
Anonymous
Scientifically speaking, what causes thunder and lightning, respectively?
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God and Jesus moving furniture and testing the lights up in heaven
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>>13671472 Lightning occurs when two areas of electrostatic energy, one atmospheric and one ground, become equal in state and therefore lightning will find the quickest path toward the ground. Thunder is the shockwave from nearly a gigajoule of energy being released instantly.
Anonymous
Why is self-plagiarism an offense? How is it possible to plagiarize yourself?
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>*other* people have to quote you haven't you learn'd anything from 4channel?
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>>13668632 It's bad form. It's not that you're stealing "intellectual output" like usual plagiarism but by doing so you're displaying laziness, lack og commient and originality. As a writer (even as an assignment) it is expected that your thoughts remain genuine, current, and above all, as forward and honest as any other original conversation/thought. Slef-plagiarizing is the big finger to all that.
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>>13668632 You can give the same talk 5 times, but you can't publish the same research 5 times. If you want to repeat yourself give another colloquium.
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>>13668632 >[The jewish enquirer monthly, Issue number 34, page 5, paragraph 6, Goldberg Et Al., Tuesday, 28 of May, 1999, jem.com/circumcision_debacle_eating_foreskin ] Or....
>It is well known that... You decide.
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>>13668632 It’s like sucking your own dick. Do it too often and in front of too many people, it only breeds jealousy.
Anonymous
We are fucking over potential geniuses because we don't make number theory the most important stuff in high school
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>>13665752 You're aiming too high
Most jobs in u.s. are service and need even less education than those professions
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>>13666983 Oversupply of hardcore drugs (think meth and heroin) and their users
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>>13666983 It's pretty much just Mexico ruled by wealthy jews
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>>13666983 hmmm perchance the intellectual dark web will give me insight as to why everyone around me is a cuck! hmmm yess hehehe
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>>13665740 > math is basic arithmetic which is number theory Many such cases!
Anonymous
Hello /pol/tard here. I'm looking for information on the long term / lasting effects from contracting COVID. I remember at the beginning of this pandemic there was lot of talk of how if you got covid you had a high chance of never fully recovering. Has anyone be tracking this? I used to use a search engine to find things but those days seem to be gone now.
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>>13670656 Even just on google it shows they don't even know how to define long covid or what they mean by it.
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>>13670403 >it made me a skeptic of 100% of the things I see. That doesn't sound like Expert™ trusting to me...
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>>13670901 Why would anyone trust the experts especially when they can't back up their claims with data and studies.
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>>13670532 There are plenty of studies but most of them are utter garbage as they have no control group and use generally weak reporting methods. I read one and I would say they overestimated the problem at least by a factor of 3. I rarely hear anyone talk about long covid anymore so my assumption would be that at least with delta it's not a serious issue anymore.
I'm not a fan of the vaccine either but what really makes me not want to take it is the absolutely disgusting politics around it. I'd rather have a seminar with greta than having to listen to any more of this cringy hypocritical political idiocy.
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>>13671437 I'm thinking the same. If long covid actually was a big deal they be using it endlessly to "encourage" people to take it.
Evne the top google results are saying they still haven't got a working definition of what long covid is which leads me to believe they have not accomplished any meaningful research on the topic.
My government is giving out $100 a shot and that really made me pump the breaks. If your going to bribe me to get something make it worth it.
Anonymous
Why are things like cancer cures and age reversing a thing in rats but never in humans?
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>>13667729 >Why are things like cancer cures and age reversing a thing in rats Because you can get grant money publishing useless and/or fabricated garbage.
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>>13667729 why are things like giving an experimental medicine that ends up killing rats only a thing in rats?
they are rats, not humans
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>>13667729 because the life insurances and pension would be fucked. all the "cancer" cures are already there.
also the gene therapy grifters keep grifting, nothing ever came out from that bullshit.
>muh designer babies they all died
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As harsh as it sound, because it's not profitable economically.
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>>13667759 They exist. Just not for the cattle.
Do you think they prove and approve millions in rat research if it didn't work in humans?
Anonymous
are there any known scientists, engineers who came to its field late in life?
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>>13671284 >elon musk and nikola tesla these are not role models, these are charlatans
yes, plenty of people have contributed to science at various decades of life. you are still a child. keep learning.
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>learned a few basics about data structures and how they can be used >go on google >search for how to code this and that >stack overflow thread >copy and paste >put snippets of pasted code together >maybe change here and there a bit >done
Anonymous
if all you can do is copy and paste, you are going to be a shit programmer.
see this /g/ thread (and the related threads) from a few days ago to get some perspective on how even a trivial problem can turn very complicated if you want the best solution.
>>>/g/83429841 Anonymous
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>>13671170 No, that's what code monkeys do and are for, software engineers/computer scientists are the people who actually solved those problems such that you can use them in the way that you have.
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>>13671179 I am not saying that is a good way to code. And I'm not even a programmer, just a shitty physics major working in engineering.
But it seems to me that creating programs this way isn't that hard and this is actually a good way to lean coding because you're actually lreaning by doing. I stumbleb across some problems in code this way, and by googling the problems that occur I understand it better bit by bit.
Plus I think this way it's actually fun to learn, because in the end you're created something that works, even if it is a stupid algortihm for analyzing data or some shit.
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>Is software development really that simple?
Anonymous
If ones self image depends on approval of random internet people on /sci/, what degree should one pursue?
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>>13667391 Pure math.
Not only the most respectable degree but guaranteed at least 300k starting.
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>>13667391 >If ones self image depends on approval of random internet people on /sci/, what degree should one pursue? Suicide
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>>13667391 Liberal Arts but you figure out how to make money
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i'd pay you a tenner to suck my dick op, that's the closest to a degree you'll get
