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thirtythree

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Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?
heh. all I saw was new mexico. where are you from usualuse?
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: nativesunshine
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?

City: Warsaw

Province/State: New Mexico

Country: Poland


hm...new mexico's a province/state in poland, huh?

*enjoys this thread*
 

Ime

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Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?

My wife is from the Philippines, and she knows who to spell. In fact her spelling is a whole lot better than mine. I can't spell worth crap. :)
 

thirtythree

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Originally posted by: usualuse
Originally posted by: Deslocke
Originally posted by: usualuse
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Stephen Hawking

He's a lier.He didn't even see space through any kind of Telescope,how it is then that he knows more about stars than ex.Armstrong?
hm. you must be smarter than me because I have no idea what you just said.


if you don't know,ASK:)
nah. I don't really care to know.
 

Rapidskies

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I find this to be amazing, from this linky :

William James Sidis is arguably the brightest human who ever existed on our planet Earth.

He was born of parents Boris and Sarah Sidis, emigrant Jews who escaped anti-Semitic Russian pogroms and came to America at the end of the 19th century. William James Sidis ('Billy') boggled minds of normal intellectuals and theoreticians. He was born on April Fool's Day in 1898. He became a strange combination of an April Fool and a 20th century genius vastly beyond common sentient discernment.

Boris and Sarah met each other some time after they entered the USA. Boris arrived in 1886 at age 19, and Sarah arrived a year later at age 13. Boris arrived with a few hundred dollars which afforded him opportunity to find a decent place to stay and to spend several months learning English and rudimentary American customs. Sarah arrived broke and had to borrow a minimum $20 needed for entry, which she promptly returned having passed immigration officials.

Sarah needed Boris to tutor her. That is how they met. Unknown to her, he fell in love at first sight, but delayed disclosure to a more opportune time.

Both Boris and Sarah became well educated. He with Ph.D's and M.D., and she with M.D. His first Ph.D. was basically settled upon him by Harvard to entice him to do their bidding. Boris and his family were so bright that they could learn and understand difficult, complex intellectual concepts at a rate greater than ten times as quickly as typical advanced academics. Boris claimed to have a technique which allowed him access to an energy source. He taught Sarah, then William how to access and manage this source of abundant energy.

In her first three chapters of The Prodigy, Amy Wallace belies details and essence of William James Sidis' (Billy's) persona. Your reviewer decided to capture this as partial lists which allow you reader to quickly capture essence of Billy as a Homo sapiens (some might argue he is a precursor of our successors ? Neo sapiens).

Here is a partial list of William James Sidis' extraordinary capabilities and accomplishments:

Given IQ is a purely anthropocentric means of assessing intelligence, Sidis' IQ is crudely estimated at 250-300.
Infant Billy listened to Greek myths read to him by Sarah as bedtime stories.
Started feeding himself with a spoon at eight months (after two months of trial and error).
Cajoled by Boris, Billy learned to pronounce alphabetic syllables from blocks hanging in his crib.
At six months, Billy said, "Door." A couple months later he told Mom he liked things, doors and people, that move.
At seven months he pointed to Earth's moon and called it, "moon." He wanted a 'moon' of his own.
Mastered higher mathematics and planetary revolutions by age 11.
Learned to spell efficiently by one year old.
Started reading The New York Times at 18 months.
Started typing at three. Used his high chair to reach a typewriter. First composed letter was an order for toys from Macy's.
Read Caesar's Gallic Wars, in Latin (self-taught), as a birthday present to his Father in Billy's fourth year.
Learned Greek alphabet and read Homer in Greek in his fourth year.
Learned Aristotelian logic in his sixth year.
At six, Billy learned Russian, French, German, and Hebrew, and soon after, Turkish and Armenian.
Calculated mentally a day any date in history would fall at age six. Absolutely fascinated by calendars.
Learned Gray's Anatomy at six. Could pass a student medical examination.
Billy started grammar school at six, in 3 days 3rd grade, graduated grammar school in 7 months.
At age 8, Billy surpassed his father (a genius) in mathematics.
Corrected E. V. Huntington's mathematics text galleys at age of eight.
Total recall of everything he read.
Wrote four books between ages of four and eight. Two on anatomy and astronomy, lost.
Passed Harvard Medical School anatomy exam at age seven.
Passed MIT entrance exam at age eight.
Intellect surpassed best secondary school teachers.
At age 10, in one evening, corrected Harvard logic professor Josiah Royce's book manuscript: citing, "wrong paragraphs."
Attempted to enroll in Harvard at nine.
In 1909, became youngest student to ever enroll at Harvard at age 11.
In 1910, at age 11, lectured Harvard Mathematical Club on 'Four-Dimensional Bodies.'
Billy graduated from Harvard, cum laude, on June 24, 1914, at age 16.
Billy entered Harvard Law School in 1916.
Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!
 

usualuse

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Originally posted by: nativesunshine
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?

City: Warsaw

Province/State: New Mexico

Country: Poland

hm...new mexico's a province/state in poland, huh?


I live in POLAND but i would like to live in New Mexico.
It's a great place to live from what i know:)

 

nativesunshine

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LOL....i've got nothing against you..

I'm actually in the best of moods right now (except for a splitting headache). :) Couldn't be happier.
 

usualuse

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Originally posted by: Whade
I find this to be amazing, from this linky :

William James Sidis is arguably the brightest human who ever existed on our planet Earth.

He was born of parents Boris and Sarah Sidis, emigrant Jews who escaped anti-Semitic Russian pogroms and came to America at the end of the 19th century. William James Sidis ('Billy') boggled minds of normal intellectuals and theoreticians. He was born on April Fool's Day in 1898. He became a strange combination of an April Fool and a 20th century genius vastly beyond common sentient discernment.

Boris and Sarah met each other some time after they entered the USA. Boris arrived in 1886 at age 19, and Sarah arrived a year later at age 13. Boris arrived with a few hundred dollars which afforded him opportunity to find a decent place to stay and to spend several months learning English and rudimentary American customs. Sarah arrived broke and had to borrow a minimum $20 needed for entry, which she promptly returned having passed immigration officials.

Sarah needed Boris to tutor her. That is how they met. Unknown to her, he fell in love at first sight, but delayed disclosure to a more opportune time.

Both Boris and Sarah became well educated. He with Ph.D's and M.D., and she with M.D. His first Ph.D. was basically settled upon him by Harvard to entice him to do their bidding. Boris and his family were so bright that they could learn and understand difficult, complex intellectual concepts at a rate greater than ten times as quickly as typical advanced academics. Boris claimed to have a technique which allowed him access to an energy source. He taught Sarah, then William how to access and manage this source of abundant energy.

In her first three chapters of The Prodigy, Amy Wallace belies details and essence of William James Sidis' (Billy's) persona. Your reviewer decided to capture this as partial lists which allow you reader to quickly capture essence of Billy as a Homo sapiens (some might argue he is a precursor of our successors ? Neo sapiens).

Here is a partial list of William James Sidis' extraordinary capabilities and accomplishments:

Given IQ is a purely anthropocentric means of assessing intelligence, Sidis' IQ is crudely estimated at 250-300.
Infant Billy listened to Greek myths read to him by Sarah as bedtime stories.
Started feeding himself with a spoon at eight months (after two months of trial and error).
Cajoled by Boris, Billy learned to pronounce alphabetic syllables from blocks hanging in his crib.
At six months, Billy said, "Door." A couple months later he told Mom he liked things, doors and people, that move.
At seven months he pointed to Earth's moon and called it, "moon." He wanted a 'moon' of his own.
Mastered higher mathematics and planetary revolutions by age 11.
Learned to spell efficiently by one year old.
Started reading The New York Times at 18 months.
Started typing at three. Used his high chair to reach a typewriter. First composed letter was an order for toys from Macy's.
Read Caesar's Gallic Wars, in Latin (self-taught), as a birthday present to his Father in Billy's fourth year.
Learned Greek alphabet and read Homer in Greek in his fourth year.
Learned Aristotelian logic in his sixth year.
At six, Billy learned Russian, French, German, and Hebrew, and soon after, Turkish and Armenian.
Calculated mentally a day any date in history would fall at age six. Absolutely fascinated by calendars.
Learned Gray's Anatomy at six. Could pass a student medical examination.
Billy started grammar school at six, in 3 days 3rd grade, graduated grammar school in 7 months.
At age 8, Billy surpassed his father (a genius) in mathematics.
Corrected E. V. Huntington's mathematics text galleys at age of eight.
Total recall of everything he read.
Wrote four books between ages of four and eight. Two on anatomy and astronomy, lost.
Passed Harvard Medical School anatomy exam at age seven.
Passed MIT entrance exam at age eight.
Intellect surpassed best secondary school teachers.
At age 10, in one evening, corrected Harvard logic professor Josiah Royce's book manuscript: citing, "wrong paragraphs."
Attempted to enroll in Harvard at nine.
In 1909, became youngest student to ever enroll at Harvard at age 11.
In 1910, at age 11, lectured Harvard Mathematical Club on 'Four-Dimensional Bodies.'
Billy graduated from Harvard, cum laude, on June 24, 1914, at age 16.
Billy entered Harvard Law School in 1916.
Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!


Maybe he was bright,but I didn't know him.
From what i know Napoleon was very inteligent one.Axl Rose is quite smart either:)

 

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Lifer
Sep 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: Whade

Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!

Everything in that list is impressive but believable, til it comes to that. You probably can't even hear all the words, or a reasonable amount of them, in a given language in one day.
 

usualuse

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: Whade

Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!

Everything in that list is impressive but believable, til it comes to that. You probably can't even hear all the words, or a reasonable amount of them, in a given language in one day.


Anyone even knows how many languages there is on A Planet?Lol.
 

Cyberian

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Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?

My wife is from the Philippines, and she knows who to spell. In fact her spelling is a whole lot better than mine. I can't spell worth crap. :)
Obviously!! . . . :D

How long has your wife lived in the US?
That really would make a difference.

 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: nativesunshine
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?

City: Warsaw

Province/State: New Mexico

Country: Poland


hm...new mexico's a province/state in poland, huh?

*enjoys this thread*

*pops some corn*
 

Ime

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Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: Ime
Originally posted by: usualuse
Who is the most inteligent person you know?
To be ohnest i have NEVER EVER meet more clever person than ME.:)

You may be clever, but your spelling needs work.
His profile says that he's from Poland. - maybe we could cut him a little slack?

My wife is from the Philippines, and she knows who to spell. In fact her spelling is a whole lot better than mine. I can't spell worth crap. :)
Obviously!! . . . :D

How long has your wife lived in the US?
That really would make a difference.

LOL!!!! I'm busted! :)

I 0wn her on pronoun usuage, though! She's always mixing up her he's and she's.

She's been here about 8 years now. I've known her nearly 5 years.
 

usualuse

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HA,it's my first topic that has about 40 massages (in quite a short time) on Anandtech.
I MUST be very intelligent:)
 

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Lifer
Sep 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: usualuse
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: Whade

Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!

Everything in that list is impressive but believable, til it comes to that. You probably can't even hear all the words, or a reasonable amount of them, in a given language in one day.


Anyone even knows how many languages there is on A Planet?Lol.

Linguists keep an approximate track of how many in-use languages there are. Current number is an approximate 6,000
 

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Lifer
Sep 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: usualuse
HA,it's my first topic that has about 40 massages (in quite a short time) on Anandtech.
I MUST be very intelligent:)

ROFL. I'm WAY more intelligent than you then, because I have a topic that has over 500 posts! No massages though. ;)
 

"My wife is from the Philippines, and she knows who to spell. In fact her spelling is a whole lot better than mine. I can't spell worth crap."

Actually, no! Your wife is expected to know how to spell if she's from the Phillippines. Why? Well, English (in addition to Tagalog) is also the official language of the Phillippines. In fact, that's what she's supposed to have been taught during primary school at least. She is expected to know basic English.

On the other hand, the official language in Poland is not English. It's Polish. I don't know why I would equate the two or have the same expectation for both.
 

usualuse

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Jul 28, 2003
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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: usualuse
HA,it's my first topic that has about 40 massages (in quite a short time) on Anandtech.
I MUST be very intelligent:)

ROFL. I'm WAY more intelligent than you then, because I have a topic that has over 500 posts! No massages though. ;)

Yeah,but every other thread i had made here ended up on 25 posts, moreless. Till- this one --About my inteligence:)

 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: HotChic

Linguists keep an approximate track of how many in-use languages there are. Current number is an approximate 6,000

:Q
 

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Lifer
Sep 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: usualuse
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: usualuse
HA,it's my first topic that has about 40 massages (in quite a short time) on Anandtech.
I MUST be very intelligent:)

ROFL. I'm WAY more intelligent than you then, because I have a topic that has over 500 posts! No massages though. ;)

Yeah,but every other thread i had made here ended up on 25 posts, moreless. Till- this one --About my inteligence:)

Your high logic eludes me, oh great one. ;)
 

Hey, UsualUse, you asked us to bring up any subject. Well, I remember you saying you would rate yourself a 10 in the appearance thread. I requested a picture if you had any, but I'm afraid you may have missed my post. So . . . do you care to share a picture of yourself with us?

I mean, remember, I asked if you don't mind. I'm not saying you must. Thanks in advance!
 

usualuse

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: usualuse
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: usualuse
HA,it's my first topic that has about 40 massages (in quite a short time) on Anandtech.
I MUST be very intelligent:)

ROFL. I'm WAY more intelligent than you then, because I have a topic that has over 500 posts! No massages though. ;)

Yeah,but every other thread i had made here ended up on 25 posts, moreless. Till- this one --About my inteligence:)

Your high logic eludes me, oh great one. ;)

That's why i'm inteligent.
And yes i have my moments:)

 

usualuse

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Originally posted by: luvly
Hey, UsualUse, you asked us to bring up any subject. Well, I remember you saying you would rate yourself a 10 in the appearance thread. I requested a picture if you had any, but I'm afraid you may have missed my post. So . . . do you care to share a picture of yourself with us?

I mean, remember, I asked if you don't mind. I'm not saying you must. Thanks in advance!

I don't have a scanner.But as i said i have usual looks,and i'm loved by girls:)