so actually, right around after the US Civil War. And he was a savant of a particular kind, which is he, and you can see this in the book as he had apparently read, and, you know, sort of absorbed and memorized every possible scrap of Greek and Roman literature.
Why da, da, da? Marilyn vos Savant , Jack Horner, Martin Rees, Brian May,
Why da, da, da? Marilyn vos Savant is actually an autodidact-- she never finished even an undergraduate degree-- but she has the highest recorded IQ in history, 228.
If you're over 30 and kids, it's like a nightmare. He was an autistic savant who was a musician.
blue and raspberry together and I thought, "Oh, that's good for the colors of the book." And that's what I did. So, I think about something that I would wanna eat and I say this-- I'm like an idiot savant about what people want to eat-- nobody wants to eat fish eyeballs in foam. You wanna eat roast chicken and rack of lamb. And so, I start with an idea of what I want it to taste like and what I want the texture to be, and if I don't I never get where I'm
Donc là, on n’est pas en train de parler au producteur, on est en train de parler au bas de la chaine, on va dire. d'initiatives de savants fous, superbes, comme la vôtre.
This is just such a brilliant story. They're called the savants . And among them were Fourier, the French mathematician, there were some extraordinary French biologists.
So they've got one kind of Greek that they recognize, another kind of Greek that they don't recognize, and the hieroglyphs. And one of the savants made the guess, this could be the same bit of text written in these three languages. And it's really boring text, isn't it?
months um we could never understand that but trying to put myself in that place of a woman who is a mathematic Savant so she's seeing me beyond the physics she seeing Beyond The Ether that she's trapped in her science her knowhow her Ingenuity her mathematic sense could see
"Beverly Hillbillies." He plays this strange, beatnik guy. But Hopper is sort of a pop savant . That was one thing that he got.
They all speak five languages. They're all total cultural savants who traveled the world. And so you walk in there all meek and mild and thinking, I'm not sure I can do this.
New Belgium does a million. I had a couple of idiot savants who are just geniuses when it comes to brewing beer.
Our money prison. And this little thought bubble of a Gold Commission was met with polite smiles and in some cases, outright derision, by the savants of the economics profession, especially the academic world. And one of them-- I believe it might have been Larry Summers-- as long as Republicans were thinking about gold, they might as well investigate the possibilities
It's like I had to work to be like this and I had to I think mature and I had to gain like expectation that I on one hand some people thought I was like a savant because I was their child but most
Someone with a high IQ? Absolutely not. Have you heard of Marilyn vos Savant , anyone? High IQ. 220. Perhaps the highest ever recorded.
And another thing that's been that big turnaround is that we now have so many people with autism telling us that when you allow me I'm not saying every person with autism has great talents or great savant skills.
And I think I would have been the same. Stephen Merchant: but sort of like a genius moron like an idiot savant .
And they do think-- it's sort of rude to refer to them as idiot savants -- people who have one ability, like the ability to just hear
is instead driven people into this world in which everyone acts like idiot savants .
And we kind of have this idea of Asperger's today as people can possess these savant powers and are really remarkable.
able to have these amazing numerical skills, the kind of the sort of idiot savant type.
a musical and visual novelty for a while he wore Viking helmets to protest the fashion industry he was no idiot savant
Donc là, on n’est pas en train de parler au producteur, on est en train de parler au bas de la chaine, on va dire. On va pouvoir rester dans notre canapé à attendre qu'il y ait des mecs, des savants fous ou des petits génies qui trouvent des solutions
but don't give it a second thought. You guys are like the idiot savants of democracy.
Human Calculate would give you the ability to do mathematics in a highly advanced way, like a savant .
And I was fascinated by that, thinking it was for the elite few who have naturally good memories or are autistic savants people with photographic memories,