Random thoughts

[Kalah]

Didn't get any sleep last night so I decided to stay up until it was time to go to school. It's 16:00 now and I'll keep myself awake until bedtime...

[ThunderTitan]

Or you could have done the smart thing and not go to school at all.

[Kalah]

Had a lecture to give on a Norwegian poet and it was required. Anyway, it's only a couple more hours now... then I can go to sleep..

[ThunderTitan]

I knew it had a name.... and now i found it. In your face everyone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic_completion

[Omega_Destroyer]

Was anybody aruging with you about the existance of aesthetic completion?

[Corribus]

I was on the train today and someone around me kept farting. Serious SBDs. I almost passed out.

[Omega_Destroyer]

I would have moved... or at least tried to.

[Corribus]

I would have moved... or at least tried to.

Full train, unfortunately. We all kept looking at each other, trying to figure out who it was. Infuriating.

[ThunderTitan]

Was anybody aruging with you about the existance of aesthetic completion?

No, just about how H5 looks.

[asandir]

Yeah, I was always told I had a 205 IQ in school

you do know that the person with the highest recorded IQ ever has an IQ in the range of 186-224 (depending on which IQ test you use) right?

[winterfate]

That makes Mytical a genius then .

[asandir]

perhaps

[Corribus]

First of all, normal IQ tests - those which are sometimes offered in school - greatly lose accuracy past about 130 or so. People with very high IQs need to take special tests to accurately determine their values. You can take some of them online if you really want to (not that that's a controlled environment or anything). If you never took one of these special tests, and someone told you you have a specific IQ value above 140, they are mistaken. Even so, determining high IQs is rendered even more difficult because the distribution is not necessarily gaussian in the high IQ range. There's also the difficulty of normalizing such distributions because of small sample sizes. Marilyn vos Savant, who is often credited as having the highest IQ ever, has a reported IQ that ranges from about 180 to about 230 or so, depending on the test. So that should give you an idea of how meaningless it is.

[winterfate]

I see...

I've never taken one of those IQ tests...so I'm not sure what my IQ is.

[asandir]

I think that's what I was getting at

plus there are different types of IQ tests as well the have different ranges ....

[Corribus]

I've never taken one of those IQ tests...so I'm not sure what my IQ is.

Don't bother. It's meaningless. But: the tests can be fun if you like logic puzzles. The ones geared to test higher-IQ people are enjoyably challenging. But don't try to do them all in one sitting - you'll just give yourself a headache.

[Omega_Destroyer]

Stupid logic problems. We had a logic problem "games" section on the LSAT. The questions were sickening. I had to figure out who sat where, wearing what and eating what, then modify something and find the new result. Ordinarily, it wouldn't be so bad if I had more than 1.5 minutes a question, 30 questions.

[asandir]

the real ones are just insane .... I had a look at some that they use for the Giga, Mega and Glia societies and the like .... it's some very deep stuff!! not for the faint of heart, nor the non-genius!

the internet ones are just a bit of fun

[Omega_Destroyer]

I don't know how hard these were in comparison. I just couldn't think fast enough to solve them, so I pretty much just started filling in answers hoping I'd at least get something right by chance. In restrospect, I wish I had studied for the LSAT. Hindsight sucks.

[asandir]

well here's part of the Ultra Test:

1. Once : Twice :: Bitten : ?
2. Amphibian : Salamander :: Political district : ?
3. Riddle : Mystery :: Mystery : ?
4. Penny : Thrift :: Pinch : ?
5. 2.54 : Inch :: 454 : ?
6. One-eyed : Cyclops :: Two-faced : ?
7. Swiftness : Velocity :: Stickiness : ?
8. Say : Hear :: Imply : ?
9. Space : Hyperspace :: Vector : ?
10. Wind : Rain :: Typhoon : ?
11. Scenic : Picturesque :: Roguish : ?
12. Inward : Outward :: Infection : ?
13. Strong : Herculean :: Polymorphous : ?
14. Sophisticated : Wisened :: Wrinkled : ?
15. Wicked Woman : Witch :: Bad Taste : ?
16. Silly, Not Obese : Fatuous :: Offensive, Not Loud : ?
17. Column : Row :: File : ?
18. Humbug : Bach :: Seek : ?
19. Coals : Newcastle :: Rough Beast : ?
20. Enlightenment : Illuminati :: Knowledge : ?
21. Pride : Prejudice :: Sense : ?
22. Of Ten : Factor :: Of Magnitude : ?
23. 2.54 : Inch :: 3.26 : ?
24. Pocus : Hocus :: Pokery : ?
25. Eggs : Grading :: Wounded : ?
26. Mock : Mach :: Oiler : ?
27. Go : Gang :: Awry : ?
28. Tall, Dark : Handsome :: Nasty, Brutish : ?
29. Split Apart : Cleave :: Stick Together : ?
30. Image : Idea :: Hallucination : ?
31. Hairpiece : Wig :: Party : ?
32. Tom : Harry :: Gold : ?
33. Them : Us :: Eskimo : ?
34. Wedding Assistant : Best Man :: Movie Production Assistant : ?
35. A, AB, B, BO, O : BO :: A, C, G, T, U : ?
36. Plus Ultra : Ne :: Ne Sais Quoi : ?

The following number sequences are each based on pi, whose first fifty-one digits (counting the initial 3) are as follows: 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510. Find the number that best continues each of these sequences:

46. 3 4 5 5 7 5 1 9 1 8 9 ?
47. 2 2 3 2 4 10 1 7 4 4 4 ?
48. 8 6 10 15 16 17 13 14 13 ?
49. 6 13 15 31 39 43 45 ?

If lightbulbs are put at two different corners of a square, two distinct patterns are possible: one in which the bulbs are at opposite ends of any side of the square, and one in which the bulbs are diagonally across from one another. If lightbulbs are put at four different corners of a cube, how many distinct patterns are possible?

yep, not for me