Polymath

[jim_mich]

It compresses nicely to: "First get something viable", and I hope such addition helps both sides to settle this.
If it does help: don't expect the "other side" to admit one thing or the other, because ... polarized. (So Jim both 'never' and 'actually' intended it like this)

"First get something viable" is closer to my original intent.

Thank you Marchello, you are one of the few really intelligent ones here.

[Fletcher]

Obviously I am late to this thread.

I offer a mere distraction.

If the range is from monomath to polymath then I think most of us are somewhere in between ( as voted by others ). That seems obvious.

Personally I like 'monopoly' and so it should be included as an option ;7)

But .. it raises the question off association - is a polymath necessarily intelligent or is a polymath ability highly correlated to intelligence ?

Anecdotally we might assume so, since it takes time to learn many varied skills and so the ability to learn things quickly would be an advantage to accumulate an abundance of skills.

But is the ability to learn quickly intelligence ?

Intelligence tests are supposed to be culturally unbiased. I always believed so. The ability to make associations, discern patterns, efficient and accurate problem solving abilities etc etc.

Imagine my surprise when I got home a couple of days ago after 5 weeks away (straight from no internet, no wi-fi, not having to think about anything taxing except counting the change for my next beer and how to fix a door and some plumbing after cyclone Winston) to have my wife say I should try a 20 question IQ test which should take 15 to 20 minutes. She had a glint in her eye and the challenge was obvious. What could I do but play along and hope the grey matter responded. She had obviously taken the test and scored well as I latter found out.

To own the truth - I took twice as long spending half the time on one question where my answer didn't match any of the multiple choice answers. I was sure I was right and the test was wrong so I picked the closest to my numerical answer. It didn't stop her ribbing me for taking so long and I knew why there was the glint in her eye.

Here's the fun test for anyone who is interested in such things or alternatively thinks that being a high ability polymath is highly correlated to scoring well in culturally unbiased IQ tests.

http://www.brainmetrix.com/free-iq-test/

[jim_mich]

tell us Jim why the forum should let you get special treatment that you will not let others have?

I may be a polymath, but I'm not a mind reader. What is this "special treatment" you speak of?

[jim_mich]

Daxwc, you seem to object to me saying...

Just as I know that a 12 foot board will span a 10 foot river, I also know how to make a PM wheel based upon Bessler's writings.

What is your problem? You seem to hate truth, but love to lie and bully people.

[jim_mich]

The way I see it: Jim defends his ego and not his principle which is just deliberately protected by his defense which was put into place to cover-up his lies. It obviously "works" for him, not for the rest of us.

Daxwc, are you some sort of shrink? You keep posting this psycho-babble crap. I defend the truth, which you ignore. Bill still clings to using MY PLAN as an excuse for his posting that I lied to him. There was never any lies. There was never an intent to deceive. But Bill sure attempted to deceive the forum when he accused me of lying. Then when I poste proof that I had never lied, Bill twisted MY PLAN into an excuse for his not understanding simple American English. Bill seems to believe that he know better than myself what my intent was when I wrote Step [A] of my plan.

Bill need to take a good hard look at himself. Bill need to apologize to me and the forum for all his lies and word twisting. And daxwc need to do the same thing. I'm not the bad guy here. I come in peace. But then you guys throw crap at me. Do you expect me to just roll over and be silent?

I can't type fast enough to keep up with all the crap you guts throw at me.

[ovyyus]

Bill seems to believe that he know better than myself what my intent was when I wrote Step [A] of my plan.

Nonsense. You defined it yourself:

"First get something that works!" This means a working wheel, not just a concept or idea.

Your words, not mine.

[cloud camper]

Word twisting, alterations, avoidance, redefinition, revisionism, misdirection, deception, projection.

Our polymath is so busy spinning stories he has no time to sleep let alone ever build a wheel!

[Furcurequs]

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(Edit: I couldn't decide)

It seems that Eli Wallach - the guy who played Tuco - died just a couple of years ago. He almost made it to 99, it seems. He was apparently about 51 when The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly came out. I was still a toddler at the time, but I remember seeing that movie later on television. I rented it and watched it again just a few years ago.

I had seen Eli Wallach in lots of things in his later years and hadn't realized he was the guy who played Tuco until I rented the movie and looked him up.

[daxwc]

daxwc, the liar, wrote:
tell us Jim why the forum should let you get special treatment that you will not let others have?

Jim: I may be a polymath, but I'm not a mind reader. What is this "special treatment" you speak of?

I guess not that surprising I would have to spell it out to a self-proclaimed polymath. christo4_99 was not allowed to present a quick sketch or vague concept and claim success, but then you give yourself the privilege of claiming success with a vague concept. In fact we know about your fluid wheel than his claims.

[daxwc]

Jim: What is your problem? You seem to hate truth, but love to lie and bully people.

Obviously you’re my problem Jim. Make know doubt I will step on anybody’s toes that I believe needs it. If you think that is bullying that is good with me. There is the people that stood up to the Nazi’s and those that didn’t.

[jim_mich]

So, daxwc, you admit to hating truth and to being a tyrant and a bully.

Why do you think I need my toes stepped on?

[daxwc]

I don’t think one person on the forum meets what is normally called a polymath. That is a person who made great strides in various fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

I wonder if we give Wiki a picture of Jim they will put him in there? Do we have a photo of Jim with a 10 ft board?

[daxwc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

Jim maybe you have “encyclopedic Knowledge� Under related terms there is “When a person is described as having "encyclopedic knowledge", he or she exhibits a vast scope of knowledge. Wasn’t it you Jim who was pleasing themselves with the encyclopedia?

[cloud camper]

I don’t think one person on the forum meets what is normally called a polymath. That is a person who made great strides in various fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

I wonder if we give Wiki a picture of Jim they will put him in there? Do we have a photo of Jim with a 10 ft board?

With a picture of Jim hand spinning his non-running wheel it would be a cinch!

[jim_mich]

Jim maybe you have “encyclopedic Knowledge�

So you admit I have “encyclopedic knowledge�. But most of the items on my polymath list are learned skills, and not “encyclopedic knowledge�.

So just admit that I have both “encyclopedic knowledge� and also many hands-on skills.

I'll just ignore cloud camper's sophomoric comments