Comments on: Gobi is brain food http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: boston_mahesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235903 boston_mahesh Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:37:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235903 <p>Pranav Veera was on the Today Show, and his interview with Ann Curry maybe found on msnbc.com. The kid is slightly bright - not that bright, but slightly slow. I don't think that an idiot savant is a genius, which is sort of what he is with his day/date recollections. When asked why he wanted to be an astronaut, his reply was that "[he] likes going into outerspace", and this got a big laugh from Ann and the other guy.</p> <p>Also, he got Ann's 2011 b'day wrong. It's NOT on a Saturday. It's on a Sunday. he seemed very agitated about getting this wrong.</p> <p>My point is: His parents are putting him through SO much stress by giving him TOO much attention and notifying the press about his abilities. Don't get me wrong: Knowing presidential tenures, days/dates, gravitational constant of Saturn, is all impressive at his age, but I strongly doubt that he knows anything than the recitation of words. I knew a kid who knew what 6 X 8 was, but he didn't know 5 X 8.</p> <p>When the differential between Pranav's IQ and his peers diminish, the world will notice him a lot less. I hope that he makes it OK.</p> Pranav Veera was on the Today Show, and his interview with Ann Curry maybe found on msnbc.com. The kid is slightly bright – not that bright, but slightly slow. I don’t think that an idiot savant is a genius, which is sort of what he is with his day/date recollections. When asked why he wanted to be an astronaut, his reply was that “[he] likes going into outerspace”, and this got a big laugh from Ann and the other guy.

Also, he got Ann’s 2011 b’day wrong. It’s NOT on a Saturday. It’s on a Sunday. he seemed very agitated about getting this wrong.

My point is: His parents are putting him through SO much stress by giving him TOO much attention and notifying the press about his abilities. Don’t get me wrong: Knowing presidential tenures, days/dates, gravitational constant of Saturn, is all impressive at his age, but I strongly doubt that he knows anything than the recitation of words. I knew a kid who knew what 6 X 8 was, but he didn’t know 5 X 8.

When the differential between Pranav’s IQ and his peers diminish, the world will notice him a lot less. I hope that he makes it OK.

]]> By: paradesi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235539 paradesi Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:04:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235539 <p>That counting the alphabet backward will come very handy when a cop pulls him over for drunk driving</p> That counting the alphabet backward will come very handy when a cop pulls him over for drunk driving

]]> By: Rads http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235485 Rads Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:54:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235485 <p>LOL. Pranav's cute, and he can rattle some stuff out. Hope he gets to do and become whatever he wants!</p> <p>The GGM video's just plain hilarious! Thank you for the laughs! :)</p> LOL. Pranav’s cute, and he can rattle some stuff out. Hope he gets to do and become whatever he wants!

The GGM video’s just plain hilarious! Thank you for the laughs! :)

]]> By: ROMEO 86 http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235367 ROMEO 86 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:12:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235367 <p><i>17 · <b>boston_mahesh</b> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005692.html#comment235282">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>To Pranav: Pranav, brother, I was just as gifted as you when I was a kid. I was winning spelling bees at my county level, I knew the atomic weights of the first 20 or so atoms on the periodic table by the time I was 10; I knew algebra at 10 as well (even the quadratic formula). Where did this get me? It didn't get me laid, put it that way. It took me many years to find out that girls weren't impressed with my Chess Championship. What do I do now? I've got a dead-beat job, and I post regularly onto Sepia Mutiny. But at least I get laid. So kid, please enjoy your childhood, and don't be molded by your family. Play sports, don't be afraid of failure, do extra-curricular activities besides chess and Math Club, and associate with many different peoples. Yes, you will eventually get a hot-shot job, but you need to not allow your parents to tell you what to do and how to think all the friggin' time. </blockquote> <p>Geez, dont hate yourself that much. Forget girls, Even the guys here are starting to slowly back away. I like cars/motorcycles, how many girls like that? I didnt buy myself a prius and prance in SF.</p> 17 · boston_mahesh said

To Pranav: Pranav, brother, I was just as gifted as you when I was a kid. I was winning spelling bees at my county level, I knew the atomic weights of the first 20 or so atoms on the periodic table by the time I was 10; I knew algebra at 10 as well (even the quadratic formula). Where did this get me? It didn’t get me laid, put it that way. It took me many years to find out that girls weren’t impressed with my Chess Championship. What do I do now? I’ve got a dead-beat job, and I post regularly onto Sepia Mutiny. But at least I get laid. So kid, please enjoy your childhood, and don’t be molded by your family. Play sports, don’t be afraid of failure, do extra-curricular activities besides chess and Math Club, and associate with many different peoples. Yes, you will eventually get a hot-shot job, but you need to not allow your parents to tell you what to do and how to think all the friggin’ time.

Geez, dont hate yourself that much. Forget girls, Even the guys here are starting to slowly back away. I like cars/motorcycles, how many girls like that? I didnt buy myself a prius and prance in SF.

]]> By: Janeofalltrades http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235362 Janeofalltrades Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:35:55 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235362 <p>He's cuteee hehe. Hey if I had a kid with an IQ of 176 at age six I'd be flashing him to the world too. This is far more harmless, entertaining and adorable than the sexy Bollywood dancing and parroting of sexualized lyrics of filmy songs I see from the average 6 year old in the desi community. Nothing is more irritating and disturbing than that.</p> He’s cuteee hehe. Hey if I had a kid with an IQ of 176 at age six I’d be flashing him to the world too. This is far more harmless, entertaining and adorable than the sexy Bollywood dancing and parroting of sexualized lyrics of filmy songs I see from the average 6 year old in the desi community. Nothing is more irritating and disturbing than that.

]]> By: Mac http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235359 Mac Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:19:15 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235359 <p>This, ie.</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELqoPdryti8</p> This, ie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELqoPdryti8

]]> By: Mac http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235358 Mac Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:17:40 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235358 <p>But how about this?</p> But how about this?

]]> By: curly http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235356 curly Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:07:41 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235356 <p>The video clip was hilarious!!! It reminded me of my mom growing up....I would get an A- and she would say why not an A?? =P Gotta love mom for that...always pushing for perfection..</p> The video clip was hilarious!!! It reminded me of my mom growing up….I would get an A- and she would say why not an A?? =P Gotta love mom for that…always pushing for perfection..

]]> By: boston_mahesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235355 boston_mahesh Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:32:41 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235355 <p>Pranav's parents need tohang out with their son, Pranav, a little bit less. This is embarrassing. I'd rather have a son who's more like Sanjaya than this kid. They're both good kids, but I can clearly tell that Sanjaya's parents are more chill and obtrusive. Oh...and Sanjaya knows how to use an Almanac to discern when Martin Van Bueren's b'day is. And Pranav can't hit a falsetto tenor note.</p> Pranav’s parents need tohang out with their son, Pranav, a little bit less. This is embarrassing. I’d rather have a son who’s more like Sanjaya than this kid. They’re both good kids, but I can clearly tell that Sanjaya’s parents are more chill and obtrusive. Oh…and Sanjaya knows how to use an Almanac to discern when Martin Van Bueren’s b’day is. And Pranav can’t hit a falsetto tenor note.

]]> By: oldMarty http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/19/gobi_is_brain_f/comment-page-1/#comment-235354 oldMarty Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:55:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5692#comment-235354 <p><i>31 · <b>zee</b> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005692.html#comment235350">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>While I absolutely agree on that, but then again he may have become a wall-st quant by now instead of going for research or art, if he was born in US some 25 years back .</blockquote> <p>Paradoxically, the meltdown has actually increased the demand for quants on Wall Street. I hope this is highly temporary. As the stimulus kicks in, however, I expect more physicists and engineers would go into (or stay in) careers in such useful things as green energy (solar, nuclear) or biotechnology (food, health) instead of 'finance'. And I hope to God the finance sector contracts relative to the rest of the economy in employment and output, ending the colosssal distortion it currently constitutes.</p> <p>'Everything I needed to know about finance I learnt in the third grade - compound interest.'</p> 31 · zee said

While I absolutely agree on that, but then again he may have become a wall-st quant by now instead of going for research or art, if he was born in US some 25 years back .

Paradoxically, the meltdown has actually increased the demand for quants on Wall Street. I hope this is highly temporary. As the stimulus kicks in, however, I expect more physicists and engineers would go into (or stay in) careers in such useful things as green energy (solar, nuclear) or biotechnology (food, health) instead of ‘finance’. And I hope to God the finance sector contracts relative to the rest of the economy in employment and output, ending the colosssal distortion it currently constitutes.

‘Everything I needed to know about finance I learnt in the third grade – compound interest.’

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