Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 3/Jan/11 10:39 | Jan3:
To keep things going here are the first Sinclair News in 2011:
Today at 20:30 Sir Clive Sinclair can be seen in Celebrity Mastermind (a
celebrity quiz) on BBC1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xc86z
QL forever, Urs
He he, it'll be interesting to see if a genius like Sir Clive does well
or badly in a quiz like this.
How did you find out about this in Switzerland - or do you watch a lot
of British TV?
Knowledge is not intelligence. Sir C is certainly bright, but does he
have a prodigious memory, and, as importantly, have instant recall?
In these sorts of quizzes, a machine (or Google) could do better.
Look at the Rain Man and most other savants.
They can recall *everything* they have seen in books etc, but that is
usually all.
A classic example of knowledge vs intelligence is quoted by Richard
Feynman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman ). He was hired
by the Brazilian government to teach Physics, and to explain why
students there got great marks at university, but were useless in the
real world.
He found they could answer questions *perfectly* if they were told in
the way they had originally been put. Ask the question in a roundabout
way, and they couldn't. They were rote learners but had no understanding.
Follow the links for "Clive Sinclair" from that page. I see Alan Turing,
correctly, won the BCS "Information Pioneer" award. Sir C was though in
the running. He did not pioneer, but brought the technology to the
masses. He, Chris Curry, or Alan Sugar would be in line for *that* award.
Tony
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