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AsheeshR

14:04

@JonEricson So, next week? :P

Doorknob

14:26

Are you planning to launch Puzzling and DS at the same time?

AJ Henderson

14:54

@Doorknob ohh, did Puzzling reach the commit threshold?

excellent

Doorknob

Yep :-D

Rory Alsop

@AJHenderson oooh - hadn't spotted that one...

AJ Henderson

I realized I'm a bit to in to puzzles when I figured out "petals around the rose" on the very first dice roll

Rory Alsop

@AJHenderson I have always loved them. Was the 2nd reason I joined Mensa. (The first being to annoy my smart-alec brother)

AJ Henderson

@RoryAlsop I've thought about doing that, but just never bothered

too easy to get in

Rory Alsop

14:59

@AJHenderson yep, and too many weirdos in it

I discovered

AJ Henderson

my father in law is a member and my wife was a member

Rory Alsop

I'll need to send you the link to a much more challenging set of puzzles

no time limit on them - I've been working on them for a year or so.

Think I need to find it when I get home

AJ Henderson

have you heard of project Euler?

I've thought about joining Triple Nine, not sure if I'd quite make Promethius

I generally place in around 4 9s, but 1 in 30,000 might be pushing it a bit

Rory Alsop

15:14

@AJHenderson yes - that one requires too much compute, not so much intelligence, and it has been a long time since I was a programmer

@AJHenderson Yeah - that was the level I went for when I sat my Serebriakoff. I get around 4 - 5 nines

but what is interesting is what changes over time

My current role had a 45 minute modified Cattell B as part of the entry interview

which was fun

AJ Henderson

@RoryAlsop I still think the best ones are when you are given a test you aren't familiar with, you end up thinking it was a personality test and it was actually an intelligence test and you just never even thought it was mildly challenging

I didn't find out until I got my third job that apparently the entry test requirements for my first job were known for being hard

meanwhile, I got the best score they'd ever seen and didn't even realize it was supposed to be hard

Rory Alsop

@AJHenderson yup. For this one the interviewer was a bit taken aback when I pointed out that one question did not have 1 unique answer :-)

AJ Henderson

I still maintain that the reason that I didn't get an 800 on the verbal SAT was that I simply found analogies that I thought had more merit than the "official" answer

I got a total of 9 answers wrong on my verbal SAT of which 5 of them were analogies

which was half of the analogies

and I could give clear reasons for every one of them

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