https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
Ayumu the chimpanzee has made headlines around the world for his ability to beat humans on memory tests, in both speed and accuracy. Does Ayumu's ability force us to reconsider our assumptions about human superiority to other primates?
You need ocamlsdl2 to run and/or compile:
https://github.com/fccm/OCamlSDL2
This version of the program is known to work with:
- SDL2 version 2.0.10
- OCaml version 4.14.0
- OCamlSDL2 version 0.03
After installing ocamlsdl2 you can run the program with:
ocaml -w -6 -I $(ocamlfind query sdl2) sdl2.cma chimp_test.ml
If you just compiled ocamlsdl2 without installing it:
ocaml -w -6 -I ../OCamlSDL2/src sdl2.cma chimp_test.ml
This program is released under a restrictionless Zlib license,
see the file LICENSE.txt for details.
I personally spent 20 minutes by day for 3 days before to be able to pass this test. At the beginning I was only trying to memorise 3 positions to get used to the exercise, after I exercised 5, then 7 and so on.
The mental method that I use to memorise the 9 positions is that I mentally draw a path from number 1 to 9, and this is this drawing that I memorise rather than really the 9 positions.
I'm a person that learned to draw young, and if you watch tutorials about how to draw on a video website you will see that it's usually recommanded to draw construction lines and shapes before to draw your subject. When you learn how to draw you really draw these construction lines and shapes, but after a while you will just draw it in your head. So maybe this is why I feel comfortable to mentally draw the path of this test from 1 to 9.
I don't beat Ayumu in speed, but I only trained 3 times for 20 minutes, Ayumu spent more time than that to train, and there's no rewards that comes out from the side of my screen when I succeed.
If there was free money coming out from ATM's with this test I bet a lot of people would be as good as Ayumu on it.
Write to me if you have comments about this program:
monnier.florent (at) gmail.com