What Does My IQ Score Mean?

I feel that my college days was when I was at the peak of my intellect and studious achievements. It was probably the sharpest I've ever been. Back in my college days at 1997 through 2000 I tested my IQ and took the Mensa IQ each year. In 1998 I scored 127, in 1999 I scored 126, and in 2000 I scored 127. So what does this mean?

What is Mensa?
Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. In order to become a member of Mensa, you need to achieve an IQ score of 132 or higher.

What is the origin of Mensa?
Roland Berrill and Dr. Lance Ware founded Mensa in 1946 in England. According to American Mensa, Ltd., the Latin word mensa has several meanings: "mind," "table" and "month." Mensa was created to serve as a round-table society for highly intelligent people to meet on a monthly basis.

How is IQ measured?
Standardized IQ tests are given and scored by trained administrators. The score represents how you compare to your peer group in:

    language
    reasoning abilities
    processing speed
    visual-spatial processing
    memory
    math

If you have a high IQ score, it means your reasoning and problem-solving abilities are better than average and may signal intellectual potential.

An IQ of 70 or below may indicate limited intellectual functioning. However, IQ alone doesn’t tell the whole story. Testing of social, practical, and conceptual skills is needed to make that kind of determination.

What are the typical IQ score ranges?
IQ scale        Interpretation of IQ score            % of population
121-130        Gifted                                         6.4%
111-120        Above average intelligence        15.7%
90-110          Average intelligence                   51.6%
80-89            Below average intelligence        15.7%

I was good at everything I did but I was not an over achiever. I didn't strive to be at the top of the class, nor did I want to be. Instead, I was more focused on being very social and was super passionate about being around the people important to me. Martial Arts, girls, friends, sports, and partying were higher on my priority list than proving I could get better grades than my peers.

I'm in my 40's now and of course there are days where I feel dull, and can't remember certain things that should be easy to recall. That's when caffeine is my saviour. My preferred caffeinated beverage is Rockstar Zero, and Rockstar Thermo-X which is the sugar-free energy drink that comes in a myriad of different flavors. If don't have access to those, I usually go with a home-brewed Keurig K-Cup Tim Horton's Original coffee with cream and sugar.

Am I still smart? I'd like to think so but I know for sure that I've lost much of what I learned back in my school days. Alot of what we were taught in school was not even really practical, and only the practical things that we use regularly are what makes us wise in our current state.

Am I ever going to use Calculus to find derivatives in things?...NOPE! Am I going to try to calculate Moles and Titrations when combining Hydrogen molecules, with Oxygen molecules?...I don't work in a lab. Do I need to know if 320 Kbps or 192 Kbps is better for MP3 or AC3 audio-streaming?...well yes. Can I still, trip take-down an opponent and crush their wind-pipe in three moves?...also yes.

We take only the knowledge of what we need based on what we do in day-to-day life. That's not to say that some of what I learned in school was a complete waste. Rather, education in general is an exercise to test the potential of anyone's abilities, so that one's self can carry that knowledge into whatever direction life takes them.

Some Observations During 2019 Through 2021

My name is Walt Jimenez. I am 41 years old born in 1979. I am an Asian man of Filipino-Spanish descent, but I am 100% Canadian and was born and raised on Canadian soil. I practically bleed Maple Syrup. English is my main language. I have not had any illness or colds since April of 2019. That was two whole years ago and well before the current pandemic began. My family and I have always obeyed COVID-19 rules, and policies since the beginning of February 2020 and I can attribute my excellent health to the extreme social distancing methods, face mask wearing, and constant washing of hands and just general good hygiene practices. Before the summer of 2019 I did not really follow those simple rules and our family members regularly took turns getting sick with colds, and flu at least three times a year previously even with regular annual cold & flu vaccinations. It really goes to show what a positive difference it makes to follow rules and not spread sickness.

My spouse Marie and I had also made some changes in our autistic son Xavier's education at the end of the 2019 school year in June when he had finished Kindergarten. We had decided to begin homeschooling him in September 2019 where he would start Grade 1. When we had him kept at home rather than being together with hundreds of other children or away from publicly used spaces, we noticed that none of us would ever get sick. We absolutely did care that he would be missing out on important social contact, but we felt that he needed us with a bigger focus on individualized learning to help him feel comfortable in his own progression. In previous years, where he went to daycare, preschool, and kindergarten, it almost seemed like a never ending cycle of getting sick. One or all three of us would be getting sick every other month it seemed.

I remember the first time I heard about the new Novel Corona Virus way back in the first week of December 2019. I saw it on the news several times and distinctly remember that it began with a reported outbreak of 64 infected people in Wuhan, China, and knew it was extremely serious as soon as they even mentioned "CDC" (The Center for Disease Control) and no cure. Right then and there I took it extremely seriously, and began denying business meetings, turning down friendly meets with friends, and even not visiting family before it was even announced that we had to do so. I regularly checked on updates on the news for this Novel Corona Virus that would become referred to COVID-19. Every time I heard about it, the numbers multiplied...64, 266, 1100, 2800, 4200, 10,000, 14,000 etc. and the days and weeks went by and the numbers kept skyrocketing. More and more countries were reporting outbreaks, and it was getting worse by the day.

For me when social distancing rules were announced in March 2020, not much had really changed for me at all. I had already taken a backseat from big social meets and interactions. I feel like I already naturally started social distancing in the past few years since I was probably around 35-years old back in 2014. Perhaps it was the realization that I needed to be a better dad. I just wasn't interested in abusing my health, partying so hard that my wallet was empty, and having to suffer effects of a hangover for 24 hours anymore. In my mid 30's I pretty much stopped drinking any alcohol for my own personal health. The last time I had an actual hangover was September 2018 and that's because I went to a bachelor party for my cousin. In my 30's I was absolutely not the party animal, that I was in my 20's. In my 20's I also used to smoke like a chimney buying packs of cigarettes from the years 2000 to 2008 but I did manage to quit and quite successfully. 2008 (29-years old) for me was a very rough year battling depression, ulcers, and extreme overworking and anxiety. After that, I made some lifestyle changes and came out stronger than ever. Even now, I don't over indulge in anything except maybe Netflix, and video games.

A positive thing about being locked down and staying indoors, was that it brought me closer to my family via video conferencing. I was and still am talking more often to my siblings and parents via Facetime, Zoom, and WhatsApp more than I have in years or even decades. I love my my family and we were brought even closer together in the fear of losing our parents and elderly to COVID-19.

Then starting in March 2020, I tried out my own social experiment over a number of months to observe people's behavior when I did or didn't wear a mask. I religiously walk my dog twice a day around the neighborhood. Most of the time I would wear a mask to cover my nose and mouth but sometimes I purposely didn't and was making some astute observations. I randomly recorded that on average, 5 out of 10 times, people will berth wide and walk around me when I wear a mask and only 1 out 10 times people would walk further away to avoid me when I didn't wear a mask. To me, this is totally backwards and not right. I can only extrapolate and try to understand the logic here. It could be that some people automatically associate mask wearing, with already being sick which is false. It could also be assumed that these people are associating non-mask wearing individuals as not being a threat, or not being infected with COVID-19 which is also false. Perhaps, it could be simplified that most people just favor unmasked individuals over masked individuals because their identity can be made and therefore seem safer!? That's not a very wise assumption that people should be making either. People need to understand that masks make it safer, period.

While outdoors and social distancing while riding my bike I again made some other observations. A few times while out riding my bike while wearing a mask, I received some dirty frowning looks. Other times I got weird comments like, "Are you feeling okay to be out like that?" or "You aren't social distancing." (commentor walks closely with a group of four other people not even social distancing amongst themselves). I just shake my head and wonder why these people exist. Racism towards me is not new to me whether it be a joking matter or a serious threat to my well-being. Every time I hear about racism, or anti-maskers, or anti-vaxxers, or anti-asian hate and violence, the more and more I think that Thanos actually had the right idea. Oh well, at least it's just cowardly words. If they would actually come at me they'd just be digging their own graves.

My Top Ten Games Enhanced By PS5

 

These games have gotten a visual boost with Playstation 5. They all feature increased resolution, increased frame rate to 60 frames per second, and smoother responsive controls than on the original Playstation 4 hardware. 

1.  God Of War
   
   
2.  Monster HunterWorld: Iceborne
   
   
3.  Ghost Of Tsushima
   
   
4.  Spider-Man Remastered
   
   
5.  Days Gone
   
   
6.  Titanfall 2
   
   
7.  Spider-ManMiles Morales
   
   
8.  Ratchet & Clank
   
   
9.  Killzone: Shadowfall
   
   
10.  Knack

Next-Gen Hardware Spring Update

As it stands right now in April of 2021, all next-generation gaming and graphical hardware is still pretty much impossible to acquire unless you are a scalper using AI purchasing bot tools. It is unachievable for any normal consumer to buy a new Playstation 5, or an XBOX Series X/S, or a GeForce RTX 3000 series GPU, or an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPU. These types of units have been unattainable since October, November, December of 2020 etc or when they all had their respective debuts recently. 

What's new is that Crypto-currency miners are now involved. Crypto-currency companies are now using bots to buy up all of the new next-generation GeForce RTX, and AMD Radeon RX GPU's (Graphics Processing Units otherwise known as Video Cards) in order to use them in crypto-coin hashing calculations and crypto-mining operations. This creates another huge problem and effectively keeps these useful GPU's out of the hands of gamers, and content creators and video editors alike.

The bots + scalpers are the biggest most obvious issue but are only part of the problem.
There is the abysmal quandary of not having enough units to meet the demand in the first place.
There is also the dilemma in which the manufacturers, and distributors are not setting rules for how the products are distributed by retailers. The manufacturers and distributors probably don't even give a damn since they are just able to just offload their full stock, and are already meeting their quota and getting paid.
An additional frustration is that retailers themselves are doing little or not enough to fight, let alone stop AI purchasing bots via the online avenue.
Similar in fashion to the manufacturers and distributors, the retailers probably just don't care about the actual consumers because they are able to just offload their entire stock to bots & scalpers and are still able to get paid. They don't really care if the product actually reaches the hands of real people, and real buyers, and real individual users.

COVID-19 is an obvious culprit, forcing the manufacturers to have lower than desired output of actual hardware. The current pandemic plays a big hand but, the supply & demand & hype trends have existed for much, much longer and continue the same patterns they've had for decades.

As long as retailers only trickle out a few hundred units at a time or relatively small quantities, there is no hope for us normal consumers. Bots will continue to snap up all of that limited stock every single time. If retailers are even able to push out thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of units, there would be a much better result for regular consumers. With plentiful stock, there would be absolutely no chance for bots to be able to buy up everything as they are doing now. The deceptive profiteers behind the maddening AI bots are just not rich enough to buy up all of the units if the inventory was ranging in the high thousands.

My opinion in the last three paragraphs in my winter blog entry still remains very similar:

If I could reach out to my fellow people and shoppers out there I would say this, "Please don't spend your hard earned money on next-generation hardware from Scalpers. Every time one of us buys from a scalper, we just enable them to keep doing it. Wait patiently and in a few months we will all have one from a retailer at a fairer price".

Because of how the supply and demand system works, there will still likely be a shortage of Next-Generation hardware well into 2021 and maybe even into 2022.

Retail online websites absolutely need to protect us consumers and change their websites and online sales systems. They need to implement a form of 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) in order to stop these auto-buying AI bots from ruining everyone else's experience. One good example of 2FA would be introducing a Captcha form somewhere during the sequence of an online transaction. Captcha images usually rely on human user input to select either an image sequence, or selecting a word from analogue cursive writing style that is not using a regular text font. Another one is MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication in which a one-time alphanumerical code is sent to the human purchaser's point of contact, whether that be a mobile phone call, mobile phone text, or an e-mail address and then that code has to be sent back to verify that they are a real valid human being that is shopping.

One interesting tactic I had heard rumors about was that one retailer was very concerned with protecting it's human buyers. So this rumored retailer implemented a massive price hike of the PS5 to add something like $2000 over the retail price, but then only offered a specifically handed out coupon to real human buyers that discounted the $2000.  The positive result here would then cause these bot-using scalper type scammers to lose money if they attempted to buy up PS5 units.

Any of these can help deter AI bots and can significantly reduce the amount of non-human buyers.

Netflix Secret Codes and Categories Search

Here are the secret categorized Netflix codes that unlock a plethora of hidden movies and shows. 

*THESE ACTUALLY WORK! I CHECKED THEM!*

Just input the numeric code in the search bar and it gives you all the shows, documentaries, and movies without searching each one individually by name.

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Every First Game I Ever Had...

Do you remember the first game you ever bought for any of your gaming consoles and PC? I dug way back into my archive and made my list. Each of the games that made it onto this list aren't necessarily my favorite for that system or platform. It just means it was likely one of the first available and I had to absolutely have it with each new system when they were released.

Here's my list of every first game I ever had for every console and PC I ever owned.

Atari 2600 - Frogger (1981 by Konami)

ColecoVision - Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom (1982 by SEGA)

Intellivision - Burger Time (1982 by Data East USA)

Nintendo Entertainment System - Duck Hunt (1984 by Nintendo)

Nintendo Game Boy - Tetris (1989 by Nintendo)

Sega Genesis - Sonic The Hedgehog (1991 by SEGA)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1992 by Capcom)

Sega 32X - Mortal Kombat II (1993 by Midway)

PC Pentium Windows 3.1/DOS - Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993 by Strategic Simulations Inc.)

Nintendo 64 - Super Mario 64 (1996 by Nintendo)

PC Pentium MMX Windows 95 - Diablo (1996 by Blizzard)

Playstation - Tekken 3 (1998 by Namco)

PC Pentium II Windows 98 - Final Fantasy VII 7-disc Collector's Edition (1998 by Square)

PC Pentium 4 Windows XP - Diablo II (2000 by Blizzard)

Playstation 2 - Final Fantasy X (2001 by Square)

Xbox - Halo: Combat Evolved (2001 by Bungie)

Nintendo DS - Mario Kart DS (2005 by Nintendo)

Xbox 360 - Gears Of War (2006 by Epic Games) 

Nintendo Wii - Wii Sports (2006 by Nintendo)

Playstation 3 - Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007 by Treyarch)

PC Intel Core 2 Duo Windows Vista - Left 4 Dead (2008 by Valve Corporation)

PC Intel Core 2 Quad Windows 7 - Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty (2010 by Blizzard)

Playstation Vita - Gravity Rush (2012 by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Studio) 

Nintendo Wii-U - New Super Mario Bros. U (2012 by Nintendo)

Nintendo 3DS XL - New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012 by Nintendo)

Xbox One - Call Of Duty Ghosts (2013 by Neversoft Entertainment)

Playstation 4 - Killzone: Shadowfall (2013 by Guerilla Games)

PC Intel Core i7 Windows 8 - Far Cry 4 (2014 by Ubisoft Montreal)

Playstation 4 Pro - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016 by Naughty Dog)

Xbox One X - Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate Edition (2016 by Playground Games)

Nintendo Switch - Super Mario Odyssey (2017 by Nintendo)

PC Intel Core i7 Windows 10 - Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate Edition (2018 by Playground Games)

Xbox Series X - Gears 5: Game Of The Year Edition (2020 by The Coalition)

Playstation 5 - Marvel's Spiderman Miles Morales Ultimate Edition (2021 by Insomniac Games)

Wi-Fi Terminologies & Important Notes

Wi-Fi 6e    * The 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard in 2021, but it is extended to the 6 GHz range for even more spectrum space. The 6 GHz expansion leads to even more stable connections and even less Wi-Fi interference.

802.11ax    * referred to as Wi-Fi 6 and the newest 2019 Wi-Fi standard.
   
OFDMA        * An updated version of OFDM. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access. Using multiple frequencies to carry data on multiple data streams to avoid inteference on a single stream.
Similar to CDMA (cellular division multiple access)

OFDM    * orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. It is a term used in legacy Wi-Fi networks preceding 802.11ac. Using multiple frequencies to carry data on multiple data streams to avoid inteference on a single stream.

BSS Color    * Basic Service Set color is a feature of Wi-Fi 6. It is used in SSIDs to solve high density. an AP + 1 user = a BSS. identifying each individual BSS, helps in re-using spatial streams within a channel.

TWT    * a feature of Wi-Fi 6, Target Wake Time is used to increase the efficiency of battery life in Wi-Fi 6 devices only. Wi-Fi 6 enabled devices, can sleep their Wi-Fi connection and resume as soon as data as transmitted, rather than always being on.

PHY     * predicitive physical data rate within 150m
    * data rates are measured by Megabytes per second or Mbps

dBm     * decibel milliwatts measures signal strength range
        -70 dBm (minus 70) is the minimum but poor signal
        -67 dBm is nearly double the data rate and is optimal (-3 difference is double)
        -30 dBm is at the maximum end and is usually only 5ft or less away from AP
 

Acceptable Signal Strengths

RSSI	Rating	Requirement for
-30 dBm	Amazing	Max achievable signal strength.         The client can only be a few feet from the AP to achieve this. Not typical or desirable in the real world.     N/A
-67 dBm	Very Good	Minimum signal strength for applications that require very reliable, timely delivery of data packets.    VoIP/VoWiFi, streaming video
-70 dBm	Okay	Minimum signal strength for reliable packet delivery.            Email, web
-80 dBm	Not Good	Minimum signal strength for basic connectivity.         Packet delivery may be unreliable.    N/A
-90 dBm	Unusable	Approaching or drowning in the noise floor.         Any functionality is highly unlikely.    N/A
(source =  http://www.metageek.com/training/resources/understanding-rssi.html )

MIMO    multiple-input and multiple-output. Similar to OFDM in concept. Specifically refers to a practical technique for sending and receiving more than one data signal simultaneously over the same radio channel by exploiting multipath propagation.

RSSI    * received signal strength indication
    * Cisco RSSI is usually measured from 1 to 100 and is similar to dBm
    * the higher the number, the more powerful the connection and signal

There is sometimes confusion with SNR vs RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) vs Signal Strength. Cisco RSSI is always measured in positive values ranging from 0 to 100 in order to simplify the relative measurement. The true value of RSSI is difficult to interpret as different manufacturer brands use different scales. Atheros uses a scale from 0 to 60. Cisco uses 0 to 100. Other manufacturers may use anything between 0 and 255.

RTLS    * Real-time locating system.
    * used to automatically identify and track the location of objects or people (RFIDs) in real time, usually within a building or other contained area.

RFID    * Radio-Frequency Identification.
    * a small device used in RTLS systems as tracked units. Also referred to as Smart Labels. Can be attached to inventory as tags. Can also be used as wrist-bands on individuals.

WIDS/WIPS    * Wireless Intrusion Detection Software, and Wireless Intrusion Prevention Software

802.11ac Backwards Compatibility:
The AC standard is backwards compatible with 802.11n. All connected clients do not revert downward to 802.11n and AC will support both clients simultaneously. This is a feature of the new Wi-Fi 80211ac 5 GHz band.

On the 2.4Ghz band the same is not true. It is opposite. For example ‘N’ standard down to ‘G’ or from ‘G’ standard down 802.11b standard, the lowest common denominator will revert the whole section of LAN subnetwork to the speed of the slowest client connected.

Bluetooth operates on the 2.4 Ghz frequency. Similar to 802.11g/n. Used in short range wireless electronic accessories.

Cellular mobile phones operate on the 800Mhz and 1900Mhz frequencies typically.

DECT (6.0)    * wireless phone standard designed to minimize interference with Wi-Fi
        * Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
        * operates on 1920 MHz–1930 MHz, or 1.9 GHz
        * older generation cordless phones without DECT usually used 2.4 GHz which interferes with Wi-Fi.

Typical Wi-Fi Range    * 802.11b/g (2.4Ghz) WAPs and routers support a range of up to 150 feet (46 m) indoors and 300 feet (92 m) outdoors. (75 ft radius from center)
        * 802.11a (5.0Ghz) is approximately one-third or 50 feet propogation. (25 ft radius from center)

QAM    * Quadrature amplitude modulation
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) uses both the phase and amplitude of a radio frequency signal to represent data bits. WiFi 6 will support 1024-QAM and new modulation and coding schemes that define higher data rates.