Have you ever met a genius in your university Veeky Forums? Like the type they portray in movies

Have you ever met a genius in your university Veeky Forums? Like the type they portray in movies

asking cause ive been going to a top ten uni for two years now and have yet to meet rain man, do they exist?

There's a 12 year old in my calc 3 class. Makes me feel like a mega brainlet

Is he smarter than you, or just in comparison when you consider that he's 12?

The latter

I just know I'll never amount to what he's going to achieve

I have, though he is an older employee. Doesn't waste time teaching anyone.

He focuses on emotional recognition software. Some punk kids broke his computers (they were easily fixed, thankfully). It hurt me to see the sadness in his eyes, all due to the stupidity of the average brainlet.

Knew a guy who taught at university. He's as smart as any NASA scientists and the guy didn't graduate high school.

Had a friend from an ivy. He did pure math. Published by his 2nd year undergrad. Also, by the end of his 2nd year he completed every undergrad math class and masters level math class the department offered. He attended REU style programs to supplement his education.

He never attended upper level courses from what I saw and aced all exams. he was textbook case of rain man.

Priest in my old catholic school used to work for NASA. He walked through the halls with a look of absolute disdain for the human race.

do you ever feel jelly

I've heard of people who were pretty good, but I never personally met someone like that after 4 years at a top 5 school.

ITT
>worked for NASA
>must be genius

there was a 12 year old in my database systems courses, always knew the content ahead of time (theory is piss easy but he knew every fine detail)

Too bad he was a turbo autist and couldn't help but try to have a conversation with the lecturer every class.

I went to a top university for 5 years (completing my BS and MS). In my experience, the kids that come close are always deficient in some small but fatal manner. For example, there's this undergraduate that was in my research group as a graduate (I was in a cryptography research group), and this kid was extremely sharp: he rarely missed a beat in class, did well on tests, and was able to read and remember research papers like no tomorrow. His flaw, however, was in that he had absolutely 0 creativity or capacity to generate anything new. He is literally just a human information retrieval system for existing knowledge and solutions to problems.

An example:
>kid starts talking to me about a paper he read
>I oblige, asking about how the authors achieved what they claimed to achieve
>15 minutes of standard back-and-forth
>me: "so the authors said [x] is hard. how do you think we could extend what the authors did to achieve [x]?"
>him: [shoulder shrug; deer in headlights look]
>me: "it might be interesting to modify the method by doing [y] to get closer to doing [x] by ..."
>him: [walks away]

One of my good friends is a bit like that.
He was a very precocious kid and has an extraordinary memory, incredible verbal and analytical skills (he once translated an entire passage in polish despite having never read a word in that language, just by inferring the meaning from other languages he knew), is probably among the best math grad students in the country, and doesn't even like math that much. He's also a bit autistic (I mean he communicates perfectly and is very witty, but he doesn't handle his emotions very well).

I know two, but none of them from uni. One is a cousin the other is a family friend. One is a musician with an tested iq of 170 and the other is a math genius that got his phd at 20.

No. Because I get the impression he came from a very well off family and had educational resources better than me. I'm playing catch up and he was really humble. He didn't really have friends when I knew him but he treated me really well and mentored me when I had questions. He was extremely nice. But he kept to himself and spoke to no one unless approached. He never bragged. He was very fact based and said things in a way that didn't come across as being competitive.

Oh, user. That's just disdain for plebs (read: You).

He knew you lacked even a basic grasp of concepts and couldn't stand the presence of a brainlet any longer!

I will add. It isn't enough to simply say my friend is smart. His intellect matched or exceeded those of his professors as an early undergraduate student. I got the very clear impression he was smarter than some of our professors in class. I would say my friend is a prodigy.

There was another exceptionally intelligent math student in our class but he worked very hard for it. I never saw my friend out much effort in math or even study. He was one of the smartest people I ever met, and still I would rank my friend above that other guy.

Last I saw or my friend he entered a PhD at another top ivy. Saw he was ta'ing some class. No clue what he's doing now

Autocorrect is terrible. Apologies for the mess

Yeah. Although not conventional for course.
Moved from a medical science course at a higher-tier university to a business course that intersected with my Info Tech degree.

I met him reading Chinese accounts on the Mao takeover, and we talked world economics and history at an extreme pace that I could not keep with him.

He essentially scanned through every new piece of data presented and within an instant could overwrite and argue the practical course teacher's answer. I asked why he left the medicine related course for this easymaths finance course and he essentially replied 'I'm not good with people and it was boring'.

Although not creative, digressive and very involved to a degree so much that he spoke a mile a minute and started elaborating on the history of the world.
You could tell he thought and did things extremely fast, but unfortunately, never got to see his skills beyond world history and economic theory.

this thread is depressing desu

I'm not sure what he thought. He generally used to seek conversation with me because I had actually solved an open problem while I was an undergraduate. He just never seemed to grasp that you need to do more than just read and understand the papers in order to be able to do that sort of thing.

What problem did you solve?

I know guys who are super smart and also work super hard. I don't think literal geniuses would attend my rather non-noteworthy university though.

Still some guys put in so much work consistently that I'm baffled how they do it. I guess that's also a kind of mental skill, no?

>Also, by the end of his 2nd year he completed every undergrad math class and masters level math class the department offered

How the fuck is that even possible? That like what 60 credits at once? How the fuck? I don't believe it. Like he'd barely have enough time to go through the text, not to mention doing the problem sets.

>Because I get the impression he came from a very well off family and had educational resources better than me

That won't turn you into a super genius, user. It's genetics. Simple as that.

There is nothing to be jealous of. It's just life.

Guess who's retarded between the two of you.

Why? You can still do science. You don't have to be a genius. Just do what you can and have fun doing it at your own pace.

I knew a 16yo in my university's math department who was like this. He had taken almost all the undergrad courses my university had to offer, and was planning to apply to Chicago in two years with Princeton as his back-up. He could recite every definition or theorem you asked him to.

Yet when it came to original research, he was completely lost. My professor wanted to add his name to a paper he was working on, so he asked him to come up with a few corollaries to his main results. The kid spent the whole summer working on it, and came up with nothing.

i knew a rain man, but he met a rain woman in the department, and so all his potential was wasted, all the extra time he might have spent in the lab was instead spent banging her

I went to highschool with this kid that was succeeding at some theoretical ecology when he was 16. The kind of guy that was more informed at the start of puberty than most of us will be when we die. He'd just fuck around in the woods and read all day. Never really showed up to class or reached any kind of acedemic success but ended up getting published somehow somewhere in a legitamate journal.
Last I heard from him he gave me a huge bag of mescaline he said he synthesized. Apparently he lost it on some end of the world shit and disappeared.

So how the fuck did he complete all the undergrad courses then?

The proofs on the exam might be easy, but the once in the problems sets are usually pretty though. Not something you can just recall reading in a book.


Also the guy might have not honed his problem solving skills yet. He probably was just banking on memorising stuff.

> all the extra time he might have spent in the lab was instead spent banging her

Smarter than all the other geniuses to be quite honest. He realised that he's here to procreate first and foremost.

>What problem did you solve?
How to reference my own posts.

teach me

I think it was more he came into university already have completed many undergraduate courses in math in HS vs the initial way I worded it of taking "all undergrad courses". So he was able to jump into graduate level courses in math as a freshman and sophomore. He took summer courses and when I knew him he was finishing up an algebraic topology course over the summer or something.

He had essentially completed all requirements to get a masters degree by his sophomore year minus a masters thesis. So even though he was qualified and had published a paper in mathematics he was still going to get a BS upon graduation.

I am no and don't know how soristion. My friend got all As except in on class the semester I was taking classes with him. He got a B in one. Cause the professor got ticked off he skipped 16 weeks of courses and aced his final. He aces every final and I never saw him study. Not once.

I don't know if he's still in a PhD program or graduated. He's was a grad student at one of the ivies

Most child prodigies are just people of normal intelligence who develooed early and don't amount to anything special in adult life.

I never had a class with him, so I can't speak directly for his class performance. He probably was just really good at memorizing, which would've worked really well for him at my university. Not too many of my undergrad professors liked asking proof questions that weren't just trivial exercises in applying the definition of something.

They often end up horribly socially handicapped.
Going to school, and socializing with your peers, is an important part of psychological, social, and emotional maturation.

> so all his potential was wasted, all the extra time he might have spent in the lab was instead spent banging her

This isn't a bad thing. A healthy relationship is good for your well-being and mental health.

what's with geniuses in movies and window math though

>a brilliant man banging a brilliant woman, producing brilliant children

why does this arouse me

No geniuses at my university (atleast in the math department)

There have been cases where people turn to me to help figure something out, but I'm just good at reasoning.

Makes me think my plan to become an educator/instructor is a good choice.

its an autism thing

Being good a good researcher does not a good professor make.

what kind of sorcery is this?
>inb4 newfag

I don't want to research or profess, just teach. Community college probably.

I'm not dedicated/knowledgeable enough to get a PHD

found this guy at my highschool:
>he was the worst student in my year by far
>he never studied anything school related until he was 18
>he would get shitty grades but still be approved because the teachers had no balls
>he was approved at a great college in the humanities, but he needed to end highschool, the math teacher decided to not be a pussy and actually make him study
>guy started learning math from 0 when he was 18, professor made him fail anyway because the guy was so fucking lazy
>second time doing highschool nigga decided that he would start studying math
>he learned calculus and linear algebra in months
>when he finished highschool people said that he made every professor in school look like a fucking brainlet in math and physics(it was a good school)
>he is now in the best university of my country, he is doing pure math.
>he hates classes so he studies at home and just go to the university to do the exams(his grades are fucking high).

he was a very funny guy, not autistic, just genious.

I am a genius. Ask me AMA.

Yeah wtf? My dad works for NASA. Probably a 130 IQ, very smart but not genius. It's mostly average scientists there..

The only man to ever show me up regards spatial reasoning - when I thought something wouldn't go when it would - was a man doing a PhD in chaos theory, math.

But while they were definitely sharp they were never *that* that far ahead of me in my work area.

Once the neurochemical changes of puberty kick in there's zero guarantee of them being an ongoing luminary.

Kid at my school who's graduating pure math w/ masters in 2 years. Super social frat bro, fun and nice guy. Lives and breathes math. Loves telling me about what he does with great enthusiasm.

Memes not genes faggot.

...

just a story to show how this guy was crazy:
>he was working on prime numbers in highschool
>professor tells him that there's no formula to calculate exactly how many prime numbers there are in a given interval, just approximations
>the guy goes with one of my friends to the gym, he was talking some random shit about zyzz and steroids when suddenly he stops and start walking in circles
>guy gets a paper in his bag and write down some ugly symbols, my friend asks about what is he doing and the guy simply says "I had an idea"
>next day we know discover that he found a formula that calculates exactly the number of primes in any given interval
>in ONE FUCKING DAY
>he gets mad when he notices that his formula is hard to compute and that similar formulas do exist(differently than the professor said)
>he simply says that the formula is worthless and do it again... yes, next week he had a better formula.

No one knows what he is doing with those formulas since he doesn't tell anybody since he discovered that they weren't that new.

I believe it

Theres a kid in the math class I TA for.

He can do insane calculations in his head very quickly. I honestly thought he was cheating in someway when I first saw him do this.

But overall he is not very bright. Gets a lot of homework wrong because he tries going off on irrelevant tangents.

He just sounds like a hardworker, when you commit an insane amount of your time teaching yourself something it kinda sticks with you all day. It's the reason why people can figure a homework problem while eating dinner with their friends (i've done that eating a hot dog).
Everyone in my high school thought I was retarded and expected me to not pursue anything. Jokes on them, I discovered MOOCs and ended up going into Aerospace Engineering. Only STEM major in my graduating class.

Learn to differentiate unbelievable tenacity from genius.

They lurk at casinos

Tbh most people on here end up socially handicapped anyway and they`re still dumber than a 12 year old taking calc 3 classes.

Most child "prodigies" are just kids that had their childhood ruin because their parents couldn't accomplish anything in life so they use their kids to try to accomplish what they couldn't by cramming them through college at an early age.

This. It's the same thing as the poor kids who get shoved into pageants over and over again, the parents who have their kids playing baseball in traveling leagues and the like.

>He realised that he's here to procreate first and foremost.
I doubt that, it's more like he realized that nutting in a girl feels really good

My father was an electrical engineer, and I taught myself CS. So I already knew everything in my degree, because of this I was able to finish all my classes in two years by petitioning for independent study courses.

I may have. He's so passionate and deeply knowledgeable about fields he doesn't even study for his major. You can see his eyes light up whenever he talks about genetics and microbiology and music and pharmacological neuroscience. And he always has some really thoughtful insights and different ways of seeing things. He's just fascinating to talk to.

I could think he's especially smart just because I'm 5 years younger, but considering he's been written up for breaking the rules over a dozen times now, and the uni basically kicks people out after 5 times, something tells me they really want to keep him.

If I suck his dick will some of his IQ rub off onto/into me?

The could do calc 1 if mass education worked right

Was his name Mike?

It means you're a eugenicist

not @ University. He's a political science major. I read some of his papers & they're dead on, like 100% no grammar issues & all the ideas are there, and he hasn't peaked, since some ideas are like hard to grasp, but nevertheless for a second I can see them true. He's an unhappy genius I think-chose poly sci because the world stinks and he wants to fix it. Tried to get him to study physic, but he's not interested. the coolest thing about him tho: we once got into a fight and (he's homosexual) I called him a "self-proclaimed fag" and he was so mad that had he been any1 else he would've killed me, he actually put me in the killing position, he picked up a weapon and I knew I was about to die, but he didn't kill me. He just put it down and shrugged it off, like "hey, it's your problem"

I once talked to him and we agreed that sometimes it's right to give the wrong answer to teachers if the teacher's being dumb. he got a 135 iq when he was 3, but he's literally the smartest guy I've met. I honestly test him and his intelligence, and he's never failed. CONTEXT, it's all about it-he's never been like "wait what?" it's just that sometimes he forgets stuff.

We have a young kid taking a few higher level undergrad math courses. He's horrifically autistic. I hope he figures out that there's more to life than math sooner rather than later.

Being good at math is no replacement for social skills.

Terry Tao is good boy.

a little more about him: he's always been different than others and obviously the leader in charge

Are you trolling or just retarded?

what?

Got it.

one more thing: breaking rapport tonality is all he's done, I've never heard him use anything else
if that tonality is a new concept (since his birth) I bet it actually originated from him

oh, and if you were then my bad, I meant to reply to

ok brainlet u fuct

this is prolly a good spot to post this: i was reading a quantum mechanics text and realized strings are actually boomeranging particles
what's the fewest number of atoms in a boomeranging molecule?

If you're the guy going on about his poly-sci friend, then I'd honestly think about get psychologically evaluated. Your thinking patterns seem unusually erratic, and might be symptomatic of a larger issue, maybe Schizotypal. Not trying to be mean, like I was earlier, but sentences like this one:
>if that tonality is a new concept (since his birth) I bet it actually originated from him
are indicative of potentially serious lapses in rational thought and/or delusional thinking.

ok witchdoctor

let's b clear- you came into this thread assuming u'd be one of the talked about, but you're pisst

What does AMA stand for?

and anyways, i'mand have the poly-sci "friend. Did u ever think of this????did u ever ufcking think of it?

stands for askma I assum

or do u not read?

ok mr wynand papers

give me your achievements (it's what u were asking me to do)

I don't know if either one or both of you is the person I'm referring to, but please take a look at these posts and tell me this person's sanity isn't highly questionable. As far as I can discern, there doesn't seem to be any humorous intent behind them, which means that one can only be left to assume that the disjointed and deluded thoughts are the symptom of some sort of mental disorder.
The most recent three posts suggest he might be trolling, in which case he'd be one of the strangest shitposters I've seen here.

sorry mods, please don't ban me, i use shared internet so others would be punished-i'll stop arguing

hahahha

Seriously man, are you just pretending to be crazy? Genuinely curious if you've been diagnosed with anything like schizophrenia.

yes I have. now answer my question? are stringed particles possibly boomeranging quasipartciles?

I don't know anything about "boomeranging quasiparticles." I can't help you.

i'm also the imaginer behind the retractable-rotor-vaccumated-centrifuge (a misnomer) which may prove that speed of light is higher than c

I wasn't asking for help.i was outright testing. is your name Brandon? did we meet and you say that "people need to be killed because of co2 emissions"?

i'm ALSO a guy who decided calculus (integral and derivative) are the ONLY routes to reason mathematical systems

i hold the theory people before newton and Leibnitz knew calculus and eistein was an idiot