Honey, I Finished The Internet

13 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. Memorized his “times tables” pretty well.
   “Jethro! Do some cypherin’ for the company.”

2. I’m sure he was off by 3 on the second calculation.
   Just saying !!

3. This guy is clearly a robot.

4. Geez, I logged in here to comment, and found I was referred to in the first comment!
   I saw a video about Daniel Tammet from the UK with similar abilities. He tried to describe how he did the calculation, and while he couldn’t describe it perfectly, it was obviously significantly different from how any of us would do the calculation.
   “The numbers are moving in my mind,” he says. “Sometimes they’re fast, sometimes they’re slow. Sometimes they’re dark. Sometimes they’re bright. That emotion, that motion, that texture will be highly memorable for me.”
   The phenomenon is called synesthesia, a mixture of the senses that results in a heightened sensory experience. Tammet is able to see and feel numbers. In his mind’s eye, every digit from zero to 10,000 is pictured as a 3-dimensional shape with a unique color and texture. For example, he says, the number fifteen is white, yellow, lumpy and round.
   The human brain is an amazing thing, and by my cyphering we don’t understand 1/100 of 1% of how it works.

5. Clearly he’s been visiting too many those websites that use objects compared to pallets of cash to describe the US debt.

6. Almost good enough to be a cashier in Zimbabwe.

7. He’s no Ben Bernanke thats for sure.

8. A boy from Brazil? 🙂

9. Be afraid.
   Be very afraid.

10. Holy ship. Amazing

11. What? Don’t all Germans normally do their math in German?

12. Never, repeat never, will you see a game show from ‘Merca where true intelligence is celebrated. The new pop ideal is being a dummy and revelling it your ignorance – trailer park nation.

13. Post of the day!