Einstein claimed never to memorize anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes

>>408053
> ability to discriminate between useful material and worthless fluff
That's why he was a genius, faggot.

>>408034
I think it sort of is. When I have a heavy amount of studying going on, I become so absent minded about other things. Sometimes it reaches fairly rediculous levels.

>>408082
With me it reaches bluediculous levels.

>>408091
I like the way you think spellnazi

"The absent minded professor" is a pretty common trope, but really, when you look at the good scientists, they are actually very well rounded and high functioning people. Learning in one area tends to bleed through to others, even if it's something unrelated.

>>408034

I wouldn't forget how to make the toast, but would just be so mentally exhausted that I wouldn't want to bother...

>>408034
when I was in the 4rd grade of elementary school I knew more than half a thousand binomial names of animals and their taxonomic placement as well as the general tree of life of vertebrates and I did not know how to tie my shoelaces.

>>408143
DUUUUUUUUDE! I think you're my clone" When I was two I spoke in complete sentences and knew over two hundred dinosaurs and their genus and characteristics but I couldn't walk.

>>408168
That quotation was supposed to be a period.

>>408168
you must have been my genetically engineered clone (I doubt you were born before '83)

cause I was 5 when I was able to do that.

(btw learnt to right before I could speak in complete sentences)

>>408172
lol

>>408182
right = write

oh the irony!

>>408194
yeah I always sucked in orthography (not natural eng speaker btw but I know it's a lame excuse)

>>408182
Want to exchange emails or something? Us clones have to stick together.

>>408226
I guess... but seriously I am genetic junk... I am no /sci/entist btw.

just an early life geek

>>408235
I'm not a /sci/entist either. I'm a high school senior.

>>408235
point is you are not going to find any interesting or informed conversation

just an insecure fag swifting between shitty jobs and trying to pass the exams in whatever lesson he has left in the University-like school he STILL is and lurking wikipedia just to take his taxonomic dose


<world's smallest violin playing in the background>

so I'll pass, so you won't have to feel awkward afterwards

>>408265
Trust me, my conversations aren't usually that deep. I'd still like to exchange information.

>>408286
okey then... how do I give you e-mail without posting in 4chan?

also let our posts under that one have sage in the e-mail field for being "hook-up" related

>>408301
This isn't /b/ so I don't think we have much to worry about. My email is daleksftw@gmail.com.

>>408379
way to sage fail

I've forgotten all basic mathematics. I will pull out a calculator for the simplest of calculations.

>>408379
If it wasn't so early I might bother to flood that email with spam as punishment. If in doubt sage goes in all fields.

Well, i know exactly how to create millions and millions of deadly bacteria over the course of 3 months but fuck no how does a washing machine work.

Everyone forgets stuff, sometimes elementary things. With educated people this is just more noticable because of the breadth of their knowledge making it look they dropped trivial stuff for higher knowledge, while with dumber people you don't notice because these simpler things are on their level of understanding and it just seems normal.

>>408053Einstein claimed never to memorize anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes

Holy shit it's a good thing the internet wasn't around when he was working or he would never have learned ANYTHING.

....
I couldn't make any toast this morning.

>>408168
Apparently i was kind of like that when i was 3-4. I could identify a few hundred different types of car by make and model (and engine size in a lot of cases) just by the engine note. I'd completely forgotten how to do it by 6-7 and have no idea how/why i did it at all. I've still got a propensity for retaining huge amounts of useless shit in my head like the password for the end level of RayMan 1 on the ps1 (fjsj!c62op) which i havn't played for over 10 years. Maybe one day i'll find a use for it all.

as a grad student i am at the level where i either find what i am supposed to learn really easy - or impossible (meaning that its either outside my field or just plain beyond me)

remember, a smart greek dude once stated that the wisest man is he who knows what he does not know - or basically one who admits that he's not perfect and has his limitations.

i know i have my limitations - but if you wanna talk interaction immersion theory or flow theory, then i'm all yours

I make toast using an oven

>>408168
I knew all dinosaur names, but i never really talked to anyone to...

not amused

>>408406
I'm sick and I have a fever of 102 give me a break.

>>408060
No it's not. I realised that when I was 12 years old, but I didn't invent no gravity.

>>408523
>I didn't invent no gravity.

>>408034
Does it mean I'm a nerd if I looked over the math and chemistry on those blackboards to see if they were realistic?

>>408379
okey adding you

>>408447
Not particularly out there examples of stat and chemistry...

>>408523
Because Jesus did.