Comments on: Happy Pi Day (and Einstein’s Birthday) http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/03/14/happy-pi-day-and-einsteins-birthday/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:34:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/03/14/happy-pi-day-and-einsteins-birthday/#comment-16836 Dan Klarmann Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:25:13 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1145#comment-16836 Happy Pi Day, Albert! Happy Pi Day, Albert!

]]> By: Ben http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/03/14/happy-pi-day-and-einsteins-birthday/#comment-13052 Ben Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:44:37 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1145#comment-13052 Actually, THIS was the guy (tammet) who remembered Pi to 22,500 digits.  <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Vs6R5YZQ3c">Click here.</a> and on Letterman, he shows that he not the "average" savant, in that he is quite articulate and funny http://www.youtube.com/v/qXG-1YLGAS0 Also, here is the "human google" who can read a page of writing in 10 seconds, with 98 percent recall (unless it is legal jargon, of course!). But it has taken him decades to learn other things we take for granted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2T45r5G3kA& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aA5osvYgY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjAbs-3kc8& Actually, THIS was the guy (tammet) who remembered Pi to 22,500 digits.  Click here.

and on Letterman, he shows that he not the “average” savant, in that he is quite articulate and funny
http://www.youtube.com/v/qXG-1YLGAS0

Also, here is the “human google” who can read a page of writing in 10 seconds, with 98 percent recall (unless it is legal jargon, of course!). But it has taken him decades to learn other things we take for granted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2T45r5G3kA&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aA5osvYgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjAbs-3kc8&

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