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"Heidi Hankins, only 4 years old, is now being considered as UK‘s newest genius girl after she reportedly has a 159 IQ, one point lower than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has been accepted at British Mensa. According to British news sites on Friday, April 13, 2012, Heidi Hankins, from Hampshire, recently became one of the youngest member of Mensa, so-called the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. As noted in reports, the 4-year-old genius girl started to read by herself using computer when she 18 months old; and could count to 40, draw pictures of people, recite poems and read books meant for seven-year-olds, when she was only 2 years old. “We always thought Heidi was bright because she was reading early. I was curious about her IQ and the results were off the scale.” Matthew Hankins, 47, Heidi‘s father, a psychologist and a University of Southampton lecturer, was quoted at Daily Mail. “I got her the complete set of the Oxford Reading Tree books when she was two and she read through the whole set of 30 in about an hour. It’s what you would expect a seven-year-old to do.” Dr. Hankins added. “We don’t push Heidi at all. She has taken up everything herself and teaches herself. She is not precocious, she is just a little girl who likes her Barbies and Lego but then you will find her sitting down and reading a book.” Dr. Hankins explained further. Based on Mensa standard, the average adult IQ score is 100 while a ‘gifted’ score is 130, with British Mensa chief executive John Stevenage, of British Mensa saying that “Heidi‘s parents correctly identified that she shows great potential”. "

http://www.batangastoday.com/4-year-old-genius-girl-heidi-hankins-has-159-iq-a-point-below-albert-einstein-joins-british-mensa/21927/

4/18/2012 12:04:13 PM

in before wolfwebbers start bragging about their IQs

4/18/2012 12:05:37 PM

i'm really jealous of her





i didn't have reading tree books growing up

4/18/2012 12:06:32 PM

I, for one, have a very high IQ

4/18/2012 12:08:33 PM

Why do people post these shitty article threads?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

4/18/2012 12:11:59 PM

159? that's nothing. 185 right here.




an online quiz told me so.

4/18/2012 12:13:38 PM

i suspect when someone is that smart, their IQ is hard to measure definitively. such a small pool of comparatively smart people.

4/18/2012 12:17:00 PM

Canal smarts > book smarts

I'm Krallum and I got canal smarts bitch

4/18/2012 12:20:43 PM

^thanks Mitch

4/18/2012 12:23:06 PM

The scores of iq tests administered to children under 7 aren't correlated as closely to adult IQ as those administered in the tween years... no reason to go around comparing a 4 year old to Albert Einstein since we don't know what he would have scored on the same test at the same age.

4/18/2012 12:37:18 PM

There is an equation for standard learning progression.

If you change the variable of rate she's learning, you can extrapolate from that to a certain degree of guarantee that she'll be as smart as Einstein.


If a race car driver were to compete for the world record, you'd know by the first lap whether they are likely to succeed or not through extrapolation.

4/18/2012 12:43:00 PM

yes its just like my friend who ran in the boston marathon

her splits were about 7:30/mi halfway

and when she finished it was 8:15/mi

extrapolation

4/18/2012 12:50:21 PM

"Not correlated as closely to" means exactly that. The extrapolation is more likely to be inaccurate.

4/18/2012 1:00:10 PM

shes already in mensa huh? I guess in a few years she'll post on message board begging people to be a fake date for them at their high school prom to impress the people she "doesn't care about"

4/18/2012 1:30:18 PM

jesus man, that's harsh.

also, does england do prom?

4/18/2012 1:41:37 PM

That should be only 1 out of 24000... cool but idk if newsworthy.

Mathematica code for the lazy:
1/(1 - CDF[NormalDistribution[100, 15], 159.])

4/18/2012 1:43:27 PM

what kind of a 7 year old can read through a set of 30 books in an hour?

4/18/2012 1:44:43 PM

They have prom, but its a little different. Regardless, this girl won't have a date.

4/18/2012 1:44:47 PM

Extrapolating outside data range? That's a no no...

4/18/2012 1:52:27 PM

yeah it's not like people this smart are a dime a dozen

4/18/2012 1:59:27 PM

I bet I could kick her ass.

4/18/2012 2:05:50 PM

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"what kind of a 7 year old can read through a set of 30 books in an hour?"

Makes me wonder too, I mean I know they're not books as in Moby Dick or An American Tragedy but still.

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"Dr. Hankins"

I'm calling bullshit.

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"I bet I could kick her ass."

Because she's white?

[Edited on April 18, 2012 at 2:55 PM. Reason : &]

4/18/2012 2:55:06 PM

That's intense.

4/18/2012 3:03:34 PM

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"shes already in mensa huh? I guess in a few years she'll post on message board begging people to be a fake date for them at their high school prom to impress the people she "doesn't care about" "

ahahaha

4/18/2012 3:06:18 PM

troll troll is troll

4/18/2012 3:07:23 PM

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"in before wolfwebbers start bragging about their IQs"

4/18/2012 3:26:24 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan

4/18/2012 3:53:50 PM

In before she can't ever live up to the expectations and gets knocked up by a black dude when she's 15.

4/18/2012 3:59:53 PM

Dear Little Mensa Girl,

Please have cancer cured by 6 1/2, Parkinson's by 8, and time travel before your first period.

Thanks.

4/18/2012 11:51:16 PM

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"There is an equation for standard learning progression. If you change the variable of rate she's learning, you can extrapolate from that to a certain degree of guarantee that she'll be as smart as Einstein."

I came for the genie sex boy crazy, I got the genie sex boy crazy.

A++ thread would read again.

4/19/2012 12:02:04 AM

lol. I'm convinced he's not trolling either and that he really does believe the shit that comes out of his mouth.

4/19/2012 12:30:08 AM

this is impressive

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"She was making noises and trying to talk literally since she was born and by age one her vocabulary was quite good. She was using full sentences almost as soon as she started to speak.’ Dr Hankins said Heidi was drawing princesses and animals aged 14 months – an age when most children can only mark the page."

4/19/2012 1:41:42 AM

[Edited on April 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM. Reason : no]

4/19/2012 1:47:50 AM

^fucking suspend

4/19/2012 7:20:42 AM

Teenage genius Shouryya Ray solves two fundamental particle dynamics theories

Shouryya Ray, a 16 year old from Dresden, Germany has solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories that have baffled physicists and mathematicians for over 350 years. Ray, who was born in India and moved to Germany when he was 12 claims “schoolboy naivety” led him to solve the puzzle. “I didn’t believe there couldn’t be a solution,” said Ray.

Many professors, mathematicians and physicists had previously stated the problems Shouryya Ray solved were “uncrackable.” In fact, only partial solutions had been discovered up to this point with the help of a supercomputer.

The solution devised by Shouryya Ray makes it possible to calculate the path of a projectile in Earths gravity while factoring in air resistance. Shouryya’s work could lead to greater precision in fields such as ballistics.

According to the Die Welt newspaper, Ray has been fascinated with math since a very early age. In fact, his father (an engineer) began giving the young boy complex arithmetic problems to solve when he was only six years old.

In conclusion, although Shouryya Ray solved two extremely complex mathematical riddles that have baffled mathematicians for over 350 years, the young prodigy claims he is not a genius, and says he isn’t very good at sports either. Well, either way, we here at The Hals report salute you Shouryya Ray!



http://www.thehalsreport.com/2012/05/16-year-old-boy-solves-350-year-old-mathematical-theory-posed-by-isaac-newton/

5/28/2012 11:44:04 PM

Lies. No one uses the term "schoolboy naivety."

5/29/2012 12:01:08 AM

that stack of books shes leaning on isnt too impressive for her age (judging by the titles i can see).

[Edited on May 29, 2012 at 8:41 AM. Reason : s]

5/29/2012 8:41:35 AM

this kid will be single and own lots of cats.

or

she will grow tired of being "different" in the 5th grade and fail tests on purpose to fit in.

5/29/2012 8:46:43 AM

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"and says he isn’t very good at sports either"

5/29/2012 8:49:25 AM

she will major in graphic arts and end up truly doing nothing.

5/29/2012 8:53:16 AM

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"Shouryya’s work could lead to greater precision in fields such as ballistics."

Congrats, kid. Your “schoolboy naivety" will be responsible for killing thousands of people.

5/29/2012 9:23:32 AM

so what? as long as hes financially compensated.

[Edited on May 29, 2012 at 9:25 AM. Reason : plus reduction of collateral damage, more killing of actual bad guys]

5/29/2012 9:25:18 AM

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"Lori Anne Madison A six-year-old Virginia girl who started reading before the age of two is the youngest person ever to qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Lori Anne Madison will join 278 other contestants, including some more than twice her age and size, for the Super Bowl of spelling. The precocious child has become something of a national celebrity since winning a regional competition in March, correctly spelling "vaquero." "It was shocking," her mother Sorina said. "I didn't expect all the media attention. We're private people. We're regular people. It was intimidating. But I'm happy for her.""

5/29/2012 10:28:38 AM

im smeart

5/29/2012 12:46:09 PM

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"Shouryya"

shoryuken

5/29/2012 2:13:55 PM

It sounds like a problem that had been solved in the '70s, but not with a computationally efficient solution, so in practice most people just numerically solved the differential equation when they needed to use it: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/150945

The specific differential equation is (x''(t)^2+(y''(t)+g)^2)^(1/2)=c*(x'(t)^2+y'(t)^2) with the constraint that (x''(t),y''(t)+g) and (x'(t),y'(t)) have opposite directions, where x(t) and y(t) are the positions of a particle at time t, g is the magnitude of gravitational acceleration, and c is a drag coefficient.

It turns out that an ingenious trick to find an integrating factor was all that was needed to reduce the order of the equation by one, which is all that Ray did in his solution: https://www.jugend-forscht.de/images/1MAT_67_download.jpg
(He used alpha as the drag coefficient, u(t)=x'(t), and v=y'(t).)

There is suspicion that G. W. Parker of NCSU had already published a solution in the American Journal of Physics in 1977: http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/29121

This article, from a journal for physics teachers, actually solves the equation for x(t) and y(t) in terms of a rather difficult integral, as opposed to Ray's solution, which found an implicit solution for reduction of order in the form of a single equation relating x'(t) and y'(t): http://www.df.uba.ar/users/sgil/physics_paper_doc/papers_phys/mechan/air0.pdf
If it's hard to get the paper from that link, due to overwhelming demand, try this archive.org link: [link]http://web.archive.org/web/20070610103030/http://www.df.uba.ar/users/sgil/physics_paper_doc/papers_phys/mechan/air0.pdf[/link]

Ray also, as the second StackExchange link shows, found more explicit solutions in terms of a particle's initial speed and elevation angle, in which x'(t) and y'(t) are the quotients of two Taylor series: http://i47.tinypic.com/2v0oco8.jpg
Of course, if the derivatives of the solutions are the quotients of infinite series, it's likely not more efficient to numerically evaluate the functions themselves than to numerically integrate the original equation, so this was likely of little interest.

Although these solutions are "more explicit" they are not "analytical" because they rely on infinite series: http://physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=609259&page=2#post3931884
This interesting Wolfram Alpha link was also posted, for u'(a)+k*u(a)*tan(a)+k*c*arccos(a)=0: http://j.mp/KuWo2D

[Edited on May 30, 2012 at 5:29 AM. Reason : tl;dr: FUCK YEAH NCSU

5/30/2012 5:28:31 AM