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The circus left town, but the clowns are still here.


But whose monkeys are these?


> The image depicts and older man...

Ouch


No, I think you are misunderstanding. IQ does not describe the likelihood of someone being that smart. It just means you order a number of people by their „intelligence“, the one in the middle is defined as 100 and then it depends on how many other people are in that line which IQ number the person at the end of the line gets. So it’s impossible because the definition of IQ is such that a certain number doesn’t come up without a certain number of measurements.

It‘s as if you would say 150% of all people are female. That is impossible, not just unlikely.


If you just take the statistical definition of IQ and run with it, AFAIK the smartest person alive will be at something like 190 IQ. If you really run with it, the smartest person that has ever lived should be around 200.


There is also an old point-and-click adventure game based on the story, in case you didn't know.


I also use Windows App to connect to my Fedora box from my Mac :-P


First I thought "WTF why?" and then I turned on RTL text. Now I'm thinking "?yhw FTW".


When I saw the release notes, I checked the calendar to see if it's April 1st... The reasoning is really cool though.


I hope what I write will not scare you away from trying these, I just want to add to make sure to know about all potential side effects. My daughter tried Atomoxetine and reacted very badly to it. I recognized it as a potential side effect from the documentation that came with the meds. The doctors did not even know it could happen. Everyone is different though! She uses Elvanse now (I don’t know how that’s called outside Europe) and it works for her.

Again, chances are it will work for you without side effects so work with your doctor. Just be well informed.


Elvanse, which is lisdexamphetamine, is sold under the Vyvanse brand in the US. It is a prodrug for one of the isomers found in adderall. This just means that you take elvanse, which is initially sort of ‘inactive’ and your body eventually converts it into what can essentially be thought of as adderall, or more accurately, d-amphetamine. Adderall specifically also contains l-amphetamine which is absent from this drug, the l-amphetamine isomer is responsible for more of the unwanted nervous system / cardiac effects.


> If AI agents can train on outputs alone, any organization that can define quality and provide enough examples might achieve similar results

Great, we're safe!


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