October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to Knud Sørensen | Knud Sørensen wrote:
> I got:
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> Your Score Summary
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> Overall, you scored as follows:
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> 1% scored higher (more nerdy), and
> 99% scored lower (less nerdy).
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> What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
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> All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
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> Finally the programme I wrote at age 15 to memories the periodical table paid off :-)
Why don't you write a program to perfect your score? :)
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October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter Bright | In article <dj4tdv$161h$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says... > >> I got a 10%. Not sure what I missed :-) > >I figured it out by hitting the back button and modifying the test results. I goofed the thing about what was the second question, and I also answered "10" for the number of planets, since it was reported recently that another was discovered <g>. I also got the dirt-in-the-hole answer wrong (slapping my forehead). Many of the questions had no effect on the score regardless of how they were answered. Ah right. I did miss the second question one. I initially answered "10" on the planets as well then backed up and changed it just to see. As for some questions not affecting the score, I noticed that while playing with the nerd test as well, but I figured some might be factors in determining the weight of a separate question. Or perhaps patterns of answers are somehow considered for bonus points... though that sounds a tad complicated for a web quiz :-) Sean |
October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to Sean Kelly | Sean Kelly wrote:
> In article <dj4tdv$161h$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>>>I got a 10%. Not sure what I missed :-)
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>>I figured it out by hitting the back button and modifying the test results.
>>I goofed the thing about what was the second question, and I also answered
>>"10" for the number of planets, since it was reported recently that another
>>was discovered <g>. I also got the dirt-in-the-hole answer wrong (slapping
>>my forehead). Many of the questions had no effect on the score regardless of
>>how they were answered.
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> Ah right. I did miss the second question one. I initially answered "10" on the
> planets as well then backed up and changed it just to see. As for some
> questions not affecting the score, I noticed that while playing with the nerd
> test as well, but I figured some might be factors in determining the weight of a
> separate question. Or perhaps patterns of answers are somehow considered for
> bonus points... though that sounds a tad complicated for a web quiz :-)
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> Sean
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>
A übernerd should feel obliged to reverse engineer the formula! :-)
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October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to zwang | In article <dj5ose$26a9$1@digitaldaemon.com>, zwang says... > >Sean Kelly wrote: >> In article <dj4tdv$161h$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says... >> >>>>I got a 10%. Not sure what I missed :-) >>> >>>I figured it out by hitting the back button and modifying the test results. I goofed the thing about what was the second question, and I also answered "10" for the number of planets, since it was reported recently that another was discovered <g>. I also got the dirt-in-the-hole answer wrong (slapping my forehead). Many of the questions had no effect on the score regardless of how they were answered. >> >> >> Ah right. I did miss the second question one. I initially answered "10" on the planets as well then backed up and changed it just to see. As for some questions not affecting the score, I noticed that while playing with the nerd test as well, but I figured some might be factors in determining the weight of a separate question. Or perhaps patterns of answers are somehow considered for bonus points... though that sounds a tad complicated for a web quiz :-) >> >> >> Sean >> >> > >A übernerd should feel obliged to reverse engineer the formula! :-) ..and then proceed to immediately compose a superior solution, thus asserting one's nerdyness by making the older quiz look pathetic in comparison! Seriously, it really should have been a question at the end: "What do you think about this quiz?" (o) Neat! (o) I've seen better. (o) I figured out how it works, and didn't need to know the answers. (*) I've already thought out a better way to do it and plan on writing it. A personal example: Back in Highschool CS, myself and a two other 'ubernerds' in the class found our way into demo programming. It hit a point where we just kept trying to out-do each other's work, culminating in a sort of a tennis match of programming expertise. Size, speed, memory footprint, effects and of course hacks were all traits to be admired... and outdone. Oh, the things that can be done on a 286 and VGA registers! .. it sure made our CS homework seem boring, that's for sure. So yea, I think its essential to *need* to constantly establish a 'better way to go' if one truely walks the path of the nerd. ;) - EricAnderton at yahoo |
October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to pragma | Right on, I was a Mode-X addict! I havent had as much fun since I was plugging VGA registers. Its funny - I met Abrash at Microsoft and acted like a giddy schoolgirl talking to him about how cool mode x was - he gave me this funny look and said "yah Im glad we dont have to do that crap anymore"
Kinda like santa claus telling you toys are lame.... :D
pragma wrote:
> A personal example: Back in Highschool CS, myself and a two other 'ubernerds' in
> the class found our way into demo programming. It hit a point where we just
> kept trying to out-do each other's work, culminating in a sort of a tennis match
> of programming expertise. Size, speed, memory footprint, effects and of course
> hacks were all traits to be admired... and outdone. Oh, the things that can be
> done on a 286 and VGA registers!
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> ... it sure made our CS homework seem boring, that's for sure.
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> So yea, I think its essential to *need* to constantly establish a 'better way to
> go' if one truely walks the path of the nerd. ;)
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> - EricAnderton at yahoo
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Posted in reply to zwang | In article <dj5ose$26a9$1@digitaldaemon.com>, zwang says... > >A übernerd should feel obliged to reverse engineer the formula! :-) An ubernerd with more free time perhaps ;-) I got as far as discovering that different questions awarded different numbers of points and stopped. Though I would be interested to know which of the questions had the largest impact on overall nerdiness. I was thinking perhaps the photo recognition. Sean |
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Posted in reply to pragma | In article <dj5r2q$28e1$1@digitaldaemon.com>, pragma says... > >A personal example: Back in Highschool CS, myself and a two other 'ubernerds' in the class found our way into demo programming. It hit a point where we just kept trying to out-do each other's work, culminating in a sort of a tennis match of programming expertise. Size, speed, memory footprint, effects and of course hacks were all traits to be admired... and outdone. Oh, the things that can be done on a 286 and VGA registers! Ah, the good old days ;-) That reminds me of a story that's been floating around the web for a long time now: http://home.att.net/~rmestel/articles/real_programmers.txt Sean |
October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to Niko Korhonen | "Niko Korhonen" <niktheblak@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:dj52d4$1ck8$1@digitaldaemon.com... > Walter Bright wrote: > > The nerd test at http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php scores me at 90%, or "Supreme Nerd." > > I got 96%, or a SUPREME NERD GOD status. Methinks that this admirably high status is mostly due to my Hewlett-Packard pre-1990 RPN calculator, which usually scores extremely high at these nerd quizes. I have my HP-16c on my desk, and use it regularly. I bought it new in the 80's, and am shocked at the prices it brings on Ebay. I still have my TI-SR-50A, but it no longer works. > It also could be that I entered COBOL as "not a real programming language" :) That was a no-brainer <g>. |
October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to zwang | On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:42:29 +0800, zwang wrote: > Knud Sørensen wrote: >> I got: >> >> Your Score Summary >> >> Overall, you scored as follows: >> >> 1% scored higher (more nerdy), and >> 99% scored lower (less nerdy). >> >> What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: >> >> All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!! >> >> Finally the programme I wrote at age 15 to memories the periodical table paid off :-) > > Why don't you write a program to perfect your score? :) No, coding where my old life now I have taken the red pill and is learning to rewrite reality while I am fighting the machines. I got 100% on this matrix test: http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html |
October 19, 2005 Re: Code of the Nerds | ||||
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Posted in reply to Knud Sørensen | Yeah I LOVE that test, I got 100 too.
My favorite are "The Federal Reserve is a branch of the U.S. government." and "The fluoride added to drinking water is sourced from naturally-occurring fluoride mineral deposits."
ROFL - some people actually think this stuff!
Knud Sørensen wrote:
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> I got 100% on this matrix test:
> http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html
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