Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Pifanjr]

Does your IQ increase with age or does it degrade with age? and what is the use of having IQ results?

IQ is relative to other people of your age and typically does not change as you age.

Your IQ results give some indication of how smart you are. Or at least how good your abstract logic is. A result of 125 means you're "smarter" than 95% of the people of your age. There's no real reason why an employer would need to do IQ tests though, especially not multiple ones, unless they're really worried about cognitive decline.

 

[Charagma]

IQ is relative to other people of your age and typically does not change as you age.

Your IQ results give some indication of how smart you are. Or at least how good your abstract logic is. A result of 125 means you're "smarter" than 95% of the people of your age. There's no real reason why an employer would need to do IQ tests though, especially not multiple ones, unless they're really worried about cognitive decline.

LMAO I am assuming the school gets a "Kickback" from the test centre hence everyone (Teachers, Aids and Tutors) had to get tested. About 40 of us.

Smarter than? Results must be cooked then. I am the person that forgets names and need students to show me how to use Instagram (which I still do not understand just as a side note). I was just wondering what it is for and why it would be a requirement and also if it is "handy" to me (personally) in any way. I paid for the test so thought maybe it is worth something to me.

Wishfull thinking I guess.

 

[Zloth]

Uhoh, button pushed!

"Smart" and "stupid" cover so many things, the words are almost useless now*. If anything goes wrong with your thinking process, it gets counted as stupid. It could be memory, ignorance, ignorance because you learned differently 50 years ago and have since forgotten, not taking the time to think through all the possibilities, not thinking of all the possibilities, not being able to keep all the factors in your head at the same time, and on and on.

Then we take it another step and pretend all of these factors are really one factor - being "smart" or "stupid." If you're good at one, you're good at all of them. If you're bad at one, you're bad at all of them. Hence, different people will be convinced that you're "smart" while others will be certain that you're "stupid" - all in the same day!

And then there's still another silly step - turning it around. Hey, I'm not stupid! I can remember the name of every kid in grade school still at age 50, can you? No?? Well then, I'm smarter than you so I'm right and you're wrong! <facepalm>

An IQ test measures a pretty small part of 'smartness.' It gives you every bit of information you need to solve the problem, so you don't have to figure out what is and isn't relevant. You also know that there IS a way to get to an answer, which you don't always get in the wild. The information is all delivered at once and placed in front of you, so if you forget any bits, it's right there to read again. They keep as far away as they can from anything controversial, so you don't have to worry about personal prejudices getting in the way. This is all stuff you have to deal with when thinking through issues outside of a test environment.

* except when you need to call a game stupid because it made you mad. That's TOTALY appropriate!

 

[dxchase]

Had to take a trip to Detroit mid-week because my father-in-law had to go to the hospital because one of his heart valves was leaking (hes doing fine now). Her mother has MS so noone was there most of the day to take care of her, her RN only comes for 2 hours every other day so had to go there for a couple days to help out which is fine.

Trip was easy enough because i can drive through Canada to Detroit, making the trip roughly 4 1/2-5 hours with stopping for food which is better than the 8-9 going through the states.

I brought my switch but, tbh i didnt have much interest in using it even if i bought the new Shinobi for it, i feel it would have been different had i had a steam deck, so thats probably going to be a purchase coming up.

 

[Zloth]

Had to take a trip to Detroit mid-week because my father-in-law had to go to the hospital because one of his heart valves was leaking (hes doing fine now). Her mother has MS ...

Her? You mean your wife, so you're talking about your mother-in-law having MS?

 

[Pifanjr]

I woke up at 6 AM today to watch the Leonides meteor swarm with my kid. We could see the part of the sky from our balcony, but there's quite a lot of light pollution there and my wife and I ended up seeing only one shooting star and I'm not sure my daughter saw any. Hopefully we'll have more luck with the Geminids next month, which should have 10x the amount of meteors.

One thing I did notice was how many satellites I saw. I haven't really looked up at the stars for years, but now it seems there is at least 1 satellite visible at any time.

 

[neogunhero]

Small little tip for online shopping this holiday season. Some of you may know this already but I just found out about it. It could also be a US only issue, I'm not sure.

I'm sick of looking for something online on Amazon, Walmart or the like, and my searches come up with a sea of cheap looking products from random, unknown brands. They have weird names like FEEL2NICE, MAILESI, KIYODA or PRAKIE. Often something that makes no sense, written in all caps, sold from China. A lot of times you want a more recognizable brand, usually just for peace of mind, but it's hard when they're swimming in a sea of these cheap brands.

If you change the search filters under the "Seller", "Retailer" or "Sold By" tab and change it to the store you're on, most times this results in much better searches from reputable, known brands. For example, "Sold By: Amazon" or "Retailer: Walmart". I found this to be true mostly for electronics of any kind.

When searching for monitors, I came across so many random Chinese brands that I wouldn't trust to last very long. After changing the search filter, it comes up with well-known gaming and tech brands instead.

The issue is these stores have become "marketplaces" where anyone with a seller account could sell pretty much whatever. They hope you don't care about the brand and just buy the product. My thought process is that these brands can be more dangerous especially when it comes to electronics. I've seen far too many videos of cheap Chinese portable chargers exploding their lithium-ion batteries. I'd put my trust in a globally recognized brand than something called OHOVIV or AURYHNTHRA.

 

[BeardyHat]

I woke up at 6 AM today to watch the Leonides meteor swarm with my kid. We could see the part of the sky from our balcony, but there's quite a lot of light pollution there and my wife and I ended up seeing only one shooting star and I'm not sure my daughter saw any. Hopefully we'll have more luck with the Geminids next month, which should have 10x the amount of meteors.

One thing I did notice was how many satellites I saw. I haven't really looked up at the stars for years, but now it seems there is at least 1 satellite visible at any time.

Friday I took my oldest to an astronomy event, hosted by our city, which included a local night sky group. It was super fun. I don't know if my 8 year old really cared all that much, but being able to see Saturn and Titan through a few telescopes was awesome, as well as a binary star system; plus there was someone doing some astral photography, taking a layered picture of Andromeda, which was also super awesome.

Hopefully it'll stick with him and he'll develop a greater interest in it as he ages, but even if not, I had a great time and it was fun to hang out with just one kid, which doesn't happen too often.

 

[neogunhero]

Hopefully it'll stick with him and he'll develop a greater interest in it as he ages, but even if not, I had a great time and it was fun to hang out with just one kid, which doesn't happen too often.

I bet he had fun with just you two as well. I remember being a kid, it was always special to have one on one time with a single parent. I grew up as a middle child and my family always did everything together, so it was special to be with just my mom or dad. Maybe he doesn't fully comprehend it now, but it could only be good for him.

I'm upset that I missed the aurora lights here. My wife and a few of her friends went up to the mountain to look at it, but I stayed home feeling sick. Her pictures were beautiful, the sky was a dark shade of red with these really cool light streaks coming down on it. Too bad I didn't get to go, I would have brought this cheap, tiny little telescope a buddy gave to me.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Friday I took my oldest to an astronomy event, hosted by our city, which included a local night sky group. It was super fun. I don't know if my 8 year old really cared all that much, but being able to see Saturn and Titan through a few telescopes was awesome, as well as a binary star system; plus there was someone doing some astral photography, taking a layered picture of Andromeda, which was also super awesome.

Hopefully it'll stick with him and he'll develop a greater interest in it as he ages, but even if not, I had a great time and it was fun to hang out with just one kid, which doesn't happen too often.

My next door neighbor and I where I used to live went to a local astronomy club meeting once. It was a pretty good one to go to because they were showing some awesome pics taken by one of the members who made his own telescope, including the lenses. That would be a handy skill if you had a hobby like this, as good telescopes can get pretty expensive.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Ever seen a duck with big forehead syndrome before? No, well now you have!

 

[BeardyHat]

My next door neighbor and I where I used to live went to a local astronomy club meeting once. It was a pretty good one to go to because they were showing some awesome pics taken by one of the members who made his own telescope, including the lenses. That would be a handy skill if you had a hobby like this, as good telescopes can get pretty expensive.

My brother in law did try to do this at one point, but ended-up just buying a telescope instead

Ever seen a duck with big forehead syndrome before? No, well now you have!

All I see is Mars Attacks.

I'd been painting the mechs I 3d printed recently. Painted two fully and didn't like how they turned out and finally on my third I figured out a paint scheme for myself and then promptly took a break from painting right after finishing.

Ended-up diving full on back into my RC cars, as I've had a new motor and body sitting around for 6+ months for my favorite one. I've been a little scared to tackle trimming the body and painting it, because I was wary I'd screw it up; eventually here I decided to hell with it, I can't be a perfectionist and we're just going to do the best we can. And I must say, it came out pretty alright. There are definitely flaws with it, but I'm happy with how it turned out overall.

Next step is getting everything switched over to a new, low center of gravity frame. Now that I have a 3d-printer, rather than buy a frame for $30-$40, I simply printed one. It should be fairly durable, as I've used a type of plastic that is a bit stronger than what I use for models, but worst case scenario, I'll pick-up either some ABS plastic or Carbon Fiber and print that. So I'm in the process of getting things taken off and transferred over (that's everything, control arms, axles, motor, transmission, etc) and I had about 100 little pieces on my desk. Unfortunately, part of the way through I realized I was going to need new driveshafts; my old motor, which was powerful but less so than the one I'm putting in, kept throwing the front driveshaft off.

So I ordered some new metal ones to be delivered today. Only to realize that the new motor also won't mesh with the spur gear on the transmission, because while the pitch is correct, the amount of teeth aren't (I'm just learning this stuff), so I found one on Amazon I think will work and also ordered that.

Unfortunately, all of it will probably come at the end of the day today, so I ended-up just cleaning up and storing all the pieces for now so I can get back to painting mechs. My Campaign for Battletech is coming up fast and I want to my force to at least be painted before they're wiped out by the other players...

 

[Frag Maniac]

My brother in law did try to do this at one point, but ended-up just buying a telescope instead

Yeah I found out after that meeting we went to that making the lenses and mirrors is more complicated than some lead on. It's because their curve has to be super precise and consistent. There's a video I've seen of a guy taking on one of the observatory telescopes in the canary islands with his home made telescope. He thought he'd gotten the distortion out of the mirror by gluing it to the base with silicone vs using wrap around clamps. He found out when he got there that just the alignment set screws were slightly warping the mirror, causing stars to look triangular instead of round. This is why most now a days use a fairly thick backing plate for the mirror. He solved it by using 3M industrial grade double stick tape, which cushioned the mirror enough to take up any alignment pressure from the set screws.

This all was done btw with a premade mirror. If you hand make one you need to have it checked for accuracy with instruments. Fun fact, if a telescope lens or mirror bends just one wave length of light, it will show distortion in distant stars. The average wavelength of visible light is about 540 nm, or .00054 mm. Not much margin for error there.

A telescope capable of seeing distant nebula and galaxies well can cost $2,500 minimum, but you have to step up to around the $10,000 range to see them in high clarity. Then you have the cost of a stable tripod, camera, tracking system, etc. Basically you have to have deep pockets to yield shots good enough to sell.