From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 08:57:03 MST
--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Petter Wingren-Rasmussen <petterwr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/25/09, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Petter Wingren-Rasmussen
> <petterwr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This is freely from the foreword of the swedish translation
> > > of "Check your own I.Q." by H.J.Eysenck.
> > >
> > > He claims that intelligence is dependent on three different
> > > factors:
> > > 1. Mental quickness.
> > > 2. Carefulness (ie lack of mistakes made).
> > > 3. Endurance.
> >
> > By this criteria my calculator is a million times
> smarter than I am.
>
>
> I'm not sure of what you mean here, maybe we define
> mental quickness differently.
> Your calculator surely cant be better than you at pattern
> recognition for instance.
> I see that as one aspect of mental quickness.
That's really an unfair test for a calculator. I was testing how quickly, accurately, and for how long I can solve arithmetic problems.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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