rain man

http://www.wimp.com/bigmind/

fantastic documentary, this guy is just amazing
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is this that guy who learned pi for 22500 digits? I love that documentary film
now thats really useful -_-
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care? I learned it on 150 digits,its easy.. and he has megaubermegabrain so np for him.. and if you will say "its useless" its just because its because of you cant learn it :D
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now that's weird.
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what do you mean with "now"?
and weird? it was bet with my brother.. and on it you can see what your brain can do..
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it is useless..amazing, but useless
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I wouldnt call it useless but amazing it surely is ;)
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Thats just matter of studying :d Everyone can remember 150 digits

Seems like you dont have any decent entertaiment in your developing country if you have to do that shit XD
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no,I dont have to do this, nor any shit. probably you just missunderstand why he was learning it in documentary + why i was trying it
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not stupid enough to bother
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you are too dryasdust to bother
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u actually made me google that :|
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to google what? :D
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dryasdust, and i still dont understand what it means :<
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its men with less sense of humour and lifesense.. smth like that :X
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oh, well thats pretty offensive :(
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en :o i just tell you that.. :D
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Do you still remember them?

I learned to 34 digits some years ago, still remember them
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Yeah. I learned it like 1/2 year ago and one month ago I tested myself, I found i remember just around 75 so I repeated that (took just few minutes) and I am back in
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it really isnt hard. try it on your own. if you bet with anyone, it makes everything easier :D
in the beggining you will have little problems,later you will bash it easy. better way how to learn it ( me and also my brother used it for this ) is learning 10 digits in row ( order of 10 ) and than adding it to these we already knew
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QuoteI learned to 34 digits some years ago, still remember them

But should do more maybe..

I went to a memo seminar before christmas, held by one of the worlds best memo-guys(whatever you call them).. He even made some really dumb blonde chick remember pi to 1000 places in 24 hours. He said it was smart to use other associations, and routes. E.g. i think of a route in my room, and there's a thing representing what i'm remembering in the room. He used remembering the worlds ten largest nations as an example:
Outside my door there's a "russ"(norwegian tradition thing). That reminds me of Russia.
When I come in there's a duck running around in the hallway. That's Canada.
In the staircase, there's Mickey Mouse. That's USA.
In the next staircase, there's a kangaroo. Australia... etc.

You can do the same for numbers:

1 looks like a cock (there's a cock in my room, wat)
2 looks like a swan
3 looks like some handcuffs, or an ass
4 looks like a sailboat
5 looks like Captain Hook's hook
6 looks like a foster
7 looks like a pickaxe
8 looks like Angelina Jolie
9 looks like a club
0 looks like a ball

There you go. You can also assign actions to them, so you can remember two things at once.. E.g. a number and something, which makes up a year. I decide that my livingroom is going to be the span 1940-1949, and then I imagine Hitler killing himself with Captain Hook's hook. That means, the war ended in 1945.

The thing is, when you use this way to remember stuff you use your long-term memory (i already know the route in my house), plus associations make it stronger, because you can relate it to something.. Gonna try it next exams!
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I heard about this method and I tried it, but I failed. It doesnt work for me, probably I am doing something wrong. On the other side, I dont have any problems with learning anything :)
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that's daniel tammet
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is that that 'autist' wich is amazingly smart BUT also has good social skills?
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Yes, that's him
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start = smart :C thanks anyway, heard about him on radio 1 once
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yeah, I love that guy.. I'd like to be like he is
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jew?
why do you think its vicious?
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define nerd? what did i say wrong so you can flame in racist style???

nerd - a person who knows everything about something, e.g math


now you made a fag out of yourself

p.s im not a jew, x2 fail
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how can i know what nerd is :D
so sorry anyway..
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Nice not mentioning the negative connotations of the word which in your previous post obviously was predominant.
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no, it was a compliment :D
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Nice not mentioning the negative connotations of the word which in your previous post obviously was predominant.
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living pc
He got it from me.
didnt watch but is it Daniel Tammet?
kim peek iirc. daniel tammet wrote the book "born on a blue day", there is a documentary of him and kim peek meeting however
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oh my bad, dude who mentioned the pi stuff confused me. of course it was peek! but Tammet > Peek!
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had to check the facts myself too :D
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Yea I checked wiki as well, was reading about savants recently though!
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the video is about daniel tammet however and not about kim peek. so you were right from the start :P however, kim peek = rain man and daniel tammet is from the brainman documentary :)
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after checking wiki I gotta say Tammet skills > Peek's. Kinda useless to remember over 12k books and some postcodes!
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well, I guess Peek would be a star @ irc trivia :-D
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always wondering if its gift or curse for them.
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cooolioooos
didnt you quit? :<
nobody quits ET!
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i quit et, not virtual life
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you are CF junky!
been there :<
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why he told only 22500 digits? why not more? why not 100000000? he just could continue on the next day!
he can remember how many he wants to, but he had just some time to learn it.. he would need more time to learn 1 000 000
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how awesome wud it be if i could remember all my books & speak 10 languages :oD
i love these english teeth
do you have anything against his teeth?
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yes, a toothbrush.
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:D if you had brain as he has, you would know, its useless :P
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and you dont even have a brain like me :/

*edit* naaah dont be haten :**
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16.14 made me sad :<
i'm almost done watching now only the icelandic language test still to come but so far it's been really fascinating, i've never even heard of this guy before. It was also cool how they included the other savants to the doc.

+10 wins for you
LOL MEEZ IS AMAZING
nothing special =(
nothing special? :D you arent serious
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yeah wow he can calculate huge numbers the other guy saved the whole weatherforcast for the last 40 years cool.

now he can participate in a geek show \o/ awesome.
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so what is "really awesome" for you? lowbrain entertainment?
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its just a weird failfunction in his brain so what ? do you think albinos are awesome or siamese twins ? and did you just call his "mental deficiency" entertainment ?
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I just asked you what is awesome for you. not that IT is awesome.
albins are something different. this is about brain. its like anyone would be able to rise 1 ton dumbell. you would be interested surely
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So an absolutely unique insight into something humans know very little of - the brain - isnt something to pay attention to? Go play a game or something.
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its my personal opinion, sorry that you cant live with it =(
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it's amazing what the brain is able to do..if his brain is at like 50% my brain is like 0.01% :D
but however i think nobody would like to change with him
because of sociopathic? mmm.. i'd change probably..
was it told there that his brain is @ 50%? he is able to do such things just because of some centres in his head was forced together imo
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yes those people are total "retards" in everydays life, they are totally dependent and that stuff.. and what do you what with such a superbrain when you cant handle the things a man is born to do.but i dunno what % his brain works at but if his is at only 50% mine would be like..in maths :D
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I dont think his brain use much more % than yours. It just works in another way. This guy is retarded, but not as much as others.. this one can clean his teeth alone etc :D
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he's not retarded at all.
there are connections between regions in his brain which a usual person doesn't have.
normal autists lack the connections a usual person has so they are intelligent in one field and 'retarded' in all the others.
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you dont have to tell me. i know. i used retarded just for.. imagination..
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okie dokie

still need the song @ 5.02. come on music experts, don't let me down :[
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hey,if you will get to know the name of the song, let me know pls :<
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Thomas Newman - Dead Already
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yeah but that guy could easily express himself and stuff, not like that painting genuis in america

he was even able to explain how he remembers things and sees stuff
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i didnt watch it but normally those guys are fucking r€tardZ :<
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but he is little sociopathic
yes,i read it around one year ago. it has to be terrible. i dont want to remember everything (btw. she didnt remember EVERYTHING but just what happend to her).. but its apparent on it, how great brain is, and how we teorically in future can get better
thanks for the link! interesting stuff.
that is just amazing
thanks for sharing.
need the name of the song starting @ 5.02
very interesting video. actually inspired me xD
To me that's pretty old, nice docu none the less, makes you wonder what we're really capable of
ugly > brain
The real rainman is Kim Peek: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=k2T45r5G3kA
(the one who remembers all postal codes & every street in every city in US, a day of the week in last hundred year or sth, and all historogical stuff like that).
And btw, as for human calculator: Rudiger Gann (I'm not sure how his surname is spelled exactly) is better - he calculates faster, and I found that vid more interesting when watching tbh: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsD2V6ijyQ (he calculates 87^12 in a blink of an eye, can speak backwardly etc). And finally they found out he's not really a savant.
yeah, Kim Peek is really the one, who inspired the film with rainman.
but he is absolutely depended on his father and cant do anything alone.
on the other hand, his style of reading book is just incredible. each eye reading another page.. an he remember around 91% of every book he have read if I remember right.
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ye, I found it extremelemy amazing too. It's still not worth the price he paid for it, but somehow amazing if we think about human brain in that context :>
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yeah, I wouldnt change too. I would lost all my life. But I think there can be some.. compromise.. there has to be some way how to have normal life + uberbrain
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called the title rainman to get some attention!
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woah cool post
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