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by dist-epoch 453 days ago
> amusing that people minimize it by just calling it pattern matching

Even funnier when the typical IQ test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, are 100% about pattern matching.

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I once tried myself on an official Mensa test which was very similar to that. It got very boring after I realized they test for mundane & | ^ in varying ways. Dropped it halfway and passed, lol. But I guess you have to be pretty smart to detect logical ops without a hacker background.