“Hindemburg Melon Jr. is considered one of the most intelligent people in Brazil, he stands out for his incomparable capacity for logical reasoning and abstract thinking, in other words for his excellence in what is most evolved in human thought.” ( Dr. Silésia Maria Veneroso Delphino Tosi , specialist in intelligence tests, with a PhD in Neuropsychology from USP)
“Everything that is played by the intellectuals of Hindenburg Melão Jr. becomes a wealth of knowledge. Endowed with an incredible cognitive ability, which allowed him to become a profound connoisseur of various subjects, and a brilliant reasoning that enables him to challenge concepts and launch new ideas on these subjects.” ( Colonel José Paulo do Prado Dieguez , professor of Numerical Calculus at the Instituto Militar de Engenharia and author of academic books )
“There is no intellectual in Brazil or in the world who produces content of depth and originality similar to the work of Melão Jr. In addition, Melon Jr. assumes the simultaneous position of innovator and disseminator of ideas – in science, researchers who make relevant innovations, such as Newton and Einstein, are rare; in the same way, there are few who manage to disseminate these ideas in a didactic and captivating way to the lay public, often influencing lay people to stop being so, like Carl Sagan. Melon Jr. simultaneously assumes both roles in its articles, brilliantly innovating and disseminating in a variety of areas.” ( João Antonio Locks Justi , finalist in the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad, specialist in Tax Law and author of innovations in Mathematics, Computer Science and Cryptography )
“I know Hindemburg Melon Jr. since 2002, when I was contacted regarding the Sigma Society, of which he is a founder. Since then, I have had the privilege of getting to know him better and, at the same time, of always being impressed by the scope of his genius, creativity, simplicity, integrity and his refined sense of humor. Melon is a highly capable and creative polymath who is deeply dedicated and takes ownership of any subject that interests him. His qualities make him capable of performing any high-level role or project he dedicates himself to with the maximum possible result.” ( Prof. Dr. Renato P. dos Santos , researcher and university professor, referee in several international scientific journals, has two post-docs in Artificial Intelligence, one in Germany and the other in Austria, supervisor of Doctoral students).
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BIOGRAPHIC-CURRICULAR SUMMARY
Hindemburg Melon Jr. was born in the East Zone of São Paulo, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. His father was orphaned at an early age and started working while he was still a child, having even dropped out of second grade to help out at home. He came to work as a shoeshine boy, mechanic's assistant, assistant in a glass factory and truck driver; her mother was the granddaughter of Indians and was an elementary school teacher in the state public school system.
At just two years old, Hindemburg had a hemorrhage that lasted several days and was diagnosed as a hemophiliac. This had a profound impact on his life as his mother would not let him leave the house to play as he could bleed to death if he suffered any minor injuries. Years later, when she lost her first deciduous teeth, her mother was also desperate, afraid that she might openly bleed again, but that didn't happen. That's why the initial diagnosis was disputed, as hemophilia would be incurable, but in your case, apparently there was a “spontaneous remission” or maybe it was a misdiagnosis. Reanalysis of the case led to the hypothesis that it could be a platelet deficiency with hemophilia-like symptoms.
Although he grew up in an environment without financial and cultural abundance, he presented several precocious talents and a behavior very different from that of other children, to the point that, at the age of 3, his parents took him to be psychologically examined and it was found that he had the mental age of 9 years. This corresponds to an IQ of around 300 on the Cattell scale, equivalent to 200 on the Stanford-Binet scale. For comparison, the average IQ of the world population is 100 and the average IQ in Brazil is 87. According to the classification originally proposed by Dr. Lewis Terman, the IQ required to be considered “gifted” is 140 and to be considered “genius” is 180. According to Garth Zietsman in the average IQ of MIT engineers is 144 and the average of Nobel Prize winners in scientific fields is 155.
From the age of 5, Hindemburg already showed a deep curiosity about scientific topics. At age 9 he deduced some of the principles of Fractal Geometry and at 13, before learning anything about logarithms, he developed a method for calculating logarithms different from Napier's.
At the beginning of the 20th century, studies carried out in the United States by Dr. Leta Hollingworth showed that children with an IQ above 160 and especially above 180 tend to drop out of school, as schoolwork does not offer stimulating challenges, the pace of teaching does not follow the pace of learning of these children, creativity or critical thinking. Conventional teaching boils down to memorizing and repeating information. This problem is especially acute among poor children. Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday, Steve Jobs are some examples of deeply gifted children from low-income families who dropped out of academic life early. In these three cases, despite having faced numerous adversities, they achieved professional success, but they are exceptions. The vast majority of these children end up like Christopher Michael Langan (IQ 195, nightclub security) or Rick Rosner (IQ 193, nudist model), in underemployment, resulting in inestimable damage to the world, as they could contribute to the cure of numerous diseases. and solve a wide variety of scientific, social, technological, educational, etc.
To face this catastrophic problem of truancy, which implied precisely the loss of the most brilliant minds in the country, Dr. Hollingworth founded an institution to identify children with this profile and offer special courses to them, respecting the individual rhythm of learning, encouraging creative production and critical analysis. To this day, The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children annually serves hundreds of talented children and guides them towards an academic career, or the area in which they are most gifted, ensuring that they become productive citizens and contribute to the well-being of the community.
According to Dr. Eunice Maria Lima Soriano do Alencar, in 1978 there were 1200 institutions in the United States dedicated to special education for talented children. In Israel, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia and virtually all developed countries, there are also numerous institutes with similar proposals. An Australian educational issuer stated that he considered investing in special education for highly skilled people to be very important because this is a nation's most valuable natural resource. Indeed, in the 1970s, China, India and Thailand began a vigorous process of encouraging and supporting talented children and youth, with massive investment in special education. Thailand did not continue the project, but China and India soon began to reap the excellent fruits of this enterprise, whose results, about 15 years later, began to be reflected in an accelerated scientific, technological, cultural, economic and social development, elevating these countries to the status of major world powers and with the fastest rise in the last 30 years, substantially improving the quality of life of all their citizens. Unfortunately, there is nothing similar in Brazil.
Hindemburg's school life was not much different than expected, based on Dr. Hollingworth, especially for living in Brazil, where the neglect of Basic Education is demeaning, and even worse with Special Education, which practically does not exist in the country. Hindemburg dropped out of studies several times, since the 5th grade, until he left permanently in the 1st semester of the Physics faculty. Although he did not choose an academic career, he ended up producing a very substantial intellectual legacy, with numerous innovations.
Hindemburg is the author of more than 1700 articles in different fields of knowledge, including innovative proposals of considerable relevance in Investments, Psychometry, Chess, Astrometry, Astrophysics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Theology, Anthropometry, Biomedicine, Risk Management, Data Science, among others. Hindemburg also holds some world records for intellectual pursuits, one of which is recorded in the Guinness Book, 1998 edition, pages 110-111 .
From a very young age, he had an exceptional memory for numbers and for chess, a characteristic he inherited from his parents, as both had hypermnesia. Years later, this feature contributed to breaking a world record in blind chess, as well as helping to recognize and organize a large number of patterns that occur in the Financial Market, patterns that indicate asymmetries in the probabilities that quotes will follow in a certain direction and , therefore, used these standards in the development of the Saturno V Artificial Intelligence system, with which it won more than 20 international awards for high performance in fund rankings such as Preqin, Barclay's Hedge and IASG.
Between 1999 and 2006, even without any academic training, Hindemburg was a prominent participant in the private forums and discussion groups of the main communities for the gifted and genius, to the point of receiving invitations to become an honorary member in some of the most exclusive high IQ societies. in the world, in several countries on 5 continents, always exempt from all fees and exemption from entrance exams, only in exchange for actively participating in the groups, sharing their opinions and knowledge. See what people say about Hindemburg groups .
Hindemburg is founder of Sigma Society, a multidisciplinary cultural association for people with an IQ above 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale, similar to Mensa. He is also the founder of Sigma VI, for people with an IQ above 196 on the Stanford-Binet scale. He is the author of Sigma Test and Sigma Test VI. The Sigma Test has been translated into 14 languages, has been published in 7 peer-reviewed journals and is accepted as a criterion for admission to many high-IQ societies in different countries on 5 continents. The Sigma Test is considered one of the hardest and most creative cognitive exams out there. See here Marco Ripà's article (2014 genius of the year, region - Europe) about the Sigma Test and see the opinions of other prominent intellectuals about this test at this link: testimonials . See also the article written by Albert Frank about the Sigma Test and published in “ Papyrus ” magazine: Albert was Professor of Logic and Mathematics at the University of Brussels, international referee in several scientific journals, was Brussels Chess Champion and Veteran Champion of Belgium.
The following table shows some statistical information about the theoretical distribution of each IQ range, based on the Stanford-Binet scale (mean=100 and standard deviation=16). It is important to note that although the Gaussian distribution is a good approximation for the real distribution of scores in the range between -2 and +2 standard deviations, when considering scores above +2 and especially above +2.5 standard deviations, the percentages observed empirically are substantially greater than those predicted by the theoretical distribution. To better understand this process, it is recommended that you read the articles listed on this page, especially the 2003 and 2004 Sigma Test standards.
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Selected interviews (most complete): video || text
Article on the program "Fantástico", Globo network: https://youtu.be/A0IXRR3PfII
Article in Jornal da Vanguarda, a subsidiary of Globo: https://youtu.be/lbScHV118-M
World record registered in the Guinness Book: certified || Photograph || video
Selected articles: ( Science, Philosophy, Statistics, Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Psychometry, History of Science, Biomedicine, Astrobiology, Data Science, Investments etc. )
See also, at the end of this page, a list of reports and interviews in which there are videos and photos of this record, with more detailed information about it. Hindemburg also holds other intellectual records, cited at the end of this page.
From a very young age, he had an exceptional memory for numbers and for chess, a characteristic he inherited from his parents, as both had hypermnesia. Years later, this feature contributed to breaking a world record in blind chess, as well as helping to recognize and organize a large number of patterns that occur in the Financial Market, patterns that indicate asymmetries in the probabilities that quotes will follow in a certain direction and , therefore, used these standards in the development of the Saturno V Artificial Intelligence system, with which it won more than 20 international awards for high performance in fund rankings such as Preqin, Barclay's Hedge and IASG.
Between 1999 and 2006, even without any academic training, Hindemburg was a prominent participant in the private forums and discussion groups of the main communities for the gifted and genius, to the point of receiving invitations to become an honorary member in some of the most exclusive high IQ societies. in the world, in several countries on 5 continents, always exempt from all fees and exemption from entrance exams, only in exchange for actively participating in the groups, sharing their opinions and knowledge. See what people say about Hindemburg groups .
Hindemburg is founder of Sigma Society, a multidisciplinary cultural association for people with an IQ above 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale, similar to Mensa. He is also the founder of Sigma VI, for people with an IQ above 196 on the Stanford-Binet scale. He is the author of Sigma Test and Sigma Test VI . The Sigma Test has been translated into 14 languages, has been published in 7 peer-reviewed journals and is accepted as a criterion for admission to many high-IQ societies in different countries on 5 continents. The Sigma Test is considered one of the hardest and most creative cognitive exams out there. See here Marco Ripà's article (2014 genius of the year, region - Europe) about the Sigma Test and see the opinions of other prominent intellectuals about this test at this link: testimonials . See also the article written by Albert Frank about the Sigma Test and published in “ Papyrus ” magazine: Albert was Professor of Logic and Mathematics at the University of Brussels, international referee in several scientific journals, was Brussels Chess Champion and Veteran Champion of Belgium.
The Sigma Test difficulty ceiling was estimated at about 203 and that of the Sigma Test VI was estimated at 226. These values were "corroborated" by comparing the scores of people who took the Sigma Test and also took other high range IQ tests, such as like Mega Test, Titan Test, Test for Genius, Logima Stricta and the like, however, the ceilings of these tests are inflated, so the Sigma Test scores were also contaminated by these distortions. In 2003 an attempt was made to revise these scores based on the standardization method I had proposed in November 2000 . The result was an article in which I presented a method for determining IQs on a proportion scale, generating a new score concept, potential IQ (pIQ), which respects the true distribution of scores, rather than trying to force scores to distribute themselves like a Gaussian. This preserves the isotropy of the scale and has numerous advantages over traditional assessment methods. In addition, I also deduced an equation to convert pIQ to rIQ and vice versa, so it is possible to calculate the true rarity level for the IQs measured by the high range IQ tests, without the fanciful distortions that are observed in most of these tests. To better understand the difference between the norms usually adopted by the high range IQ tests and the correct values that these norms should have, it is recommended to read the article " A proportion scale for cognitive tests ".
The following table shows some statistical information about the theoretical distribution of each IQ range, based on the Stanford-Binet scale (mean=100 and standard deviation=16). It is important to note that although the Gaussian distribution is a good approximation for the real distribution of scores in the range between -2 and +2 standard deviations, when considering scores above +2 and especially above +2.5 standard deviations, the percentages observed empirically are substantially greater than those predicted by the theoretical distribution. To better understand this process, it is again recommended to read the article " A Ratio Scale for Cognitive Tests " and the cited links, especially the 2003 Sigma Test standard.
In Chess, Hindemburg was undefeated champion in the International Master Class ICCF Tournament 1999 , undefeated champion in Group 1 of the Zonal Sulamericano ICCF 1999, qualified to represent Brazil in the semifinal of the ICCF World Championship, was invited by Mario Ceteras, team captain “ Potaissa Turda”, from Romania, to represent that country in the 2002 ICCF European Champions League and was nominated by Brazilian Champion and International Grand Master Salvador Homce De Cresce to represent Brazil in the 2004 ICCF Chess Olympiad. He is the author of more of 450 works analyzing and commenting on chess games published in the main international journals, including Sahovski Informator, Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Chess Base Magazine, La Mecca Encyclopedia of Chess, Super Ajedrez Hispano Americano and Mega Database.
See article by the International Master Junior Tay about Hindemburg Melão Jr., published in Correspondence Chess News, volume 50, pages 41 to 50: access here .
In 2010, Hindemburg developed a method for measuring risk-adjusted performance in investments, which has important advantages compared to the methods developed by William Sharpe (Nobel in Economics in 1990) and Franco Modigliani (Nobel in Economics in 1985). The proposal was presented at the 2015 National Congress of Investment Robots. In 2020, in an article in the Empiricus magazine, which brings together the most renowned team of investment analysts in the country, the method developed by Hindemburg was considered superior to that of William Sharpe, as well as any other existing method for this purpose.
In 2002, he created a method to determine the number of hypervolumes generated by hyperplanes that intersect regular polytopes with any number of dimensions. A particular case of this problem was published in the Sigma Test VI question form.
In 2003, it developed a new method for calculating BMI, superior to the traditional method. The work was initially published as an article on the Sigma Society website and can be accessed here .
But at the time, the fractal dimension of the human body had not been empirically measured; used an estimate of around 2.53 for the dimension and 3.06 for the exponent of the formula. In 2008, the article was expanded and published in book form (ISBN 978-85-613-0618-2). In 2013, Nick Trefethen, director of the Dep. of Numerical Analysis at Oxford University, apparently unaware of Hindemburg's book, published a work basically the same as the first half of the 2003 article, with the detail that Dr. Trefethen used the same value for the exponent of the formula that he estimated for the fractal dimension (2.5), which Hindemburg considered to be an inadequate (incomplete) approach, as it does not take into account the strength of materials. In 2021, Hindemburg did a study with several databases with weights and heights of more than 300,000 people, and the empirical value found for the exponent of the formula was about 3,144, corroborating that the approach of his original 2003 article was correct, as well as his 2008 book.
During the analysis of data from NHANES, NCBI and other major healthcare databases, Hindemburg came across numerous errors, including evidence of fraud, which is a very serious problem, as these databases are cited in more than 160,000 articles. , and the authors of these articles assume these data as reliable. So he decided to devote a considerable part of the book to the analysis of this problem.
Book “ IMCH – Mathematical analysis of errors in the BMI formula ”.
In 2002, Hindemburg also found the (likely) best solution for the Shannon Number. This is a combinatorial analysis problem that has remained unsolved for over 500 years (although it has been named “Shannon's number” for only 70 years). It consists of determining the number of possible positions in a chess game. There are several works in this area and advances are frequently made, with increasingly better approximations. In 2014, in an article published in the International Journal of Game Theory, Stefan Steinerberger, professor of Mathematics at Yale University, published a solution that so far is the closest to the one presented by Hindemburg in 2002.
Author of an improvement on the method used by NASA and ESA for calculating stellar parallaxes, in an article published in 2003, which can be accessed here . The then technical director of the Ibirapuera planetarium and researcher at IAG-USP Ednilson Oliveira examined the proposal, found it interesting and passed it on to some Brazilian specialists in Astrometry, but they didn't give it any importance. Ironically, in 2016, a group of researchers from 15 different universities from several countries published a joint article with a similar proposal and the article of these researchers is available for download on the page of Kepler de Souza Oliveira Filho, who was president of the Brazilian Astronomical Society and one of the people who “examined” the Hindemburg paper 13 years earlier, but at the time showed no interest, can be accessed here . Currently, the highest level works use this method, including the GAIA DR2 project, the most important currently in Astrometry.
In 2015, Hindemburg wrote an article in which he defends the impossibility of black holes. The text is accessible in the private area, in our repository, for those who are interested, and will be part of one of his next books.
In 2001, Hindemburg proposed improvements to Darwin and Wallace's Theory of Evolution, with applications in the field of Artificial Intelligence, especially Genetic Algorithms. The same idea had been independently developed by José Antonio Francisco at approximately the same time. In short, the idea is that if at some point organisms developed mechanisms through which they could record throughout their lives which of their characteristics are most useful and, thus, select which characteristics should be primarily transmitted, rather than transmitting randomly, these organisms would have a competitive advantage over the others, and over the generations, all surviving organisms, or the vast majority, would transmit their characters in this way, rather than transmitting randomly. Some research published in the following years showed results that can be interpreted as corroboration of this idea.
On other occasions, Hindemburg has been compared to Newton, Einstein, the character Sheldon Cooper, Galileo and Carl Sagan.
Between 2005 and 2007, Hindemburg published several articles on investing, unmasking salespeople of technical analysis courses, and with that created a list of enemies. He also made strong statements about the low quality of scientific production in Brazil, which was not well received and multiplied the number of haters who started to promote numerous boycotts and persecutions. As a result, his Wikipedia page was removed on the grounds that there was no documentation, that his achievements did not reach the level of "notoriety" by Wikipedia standards, a "vote" was held in which several people presented clear evidence in favor of the page maintenance, as well as several irrefutable arguments. Despite this, the arbitrary decision of the administrators was for elimination. The complete "voting" history can be accessed here . One of the arguments in favor of keeping it was extremely simple: several people are on Wikipedia "just" because they have some Guinness record, including records in clearly unimpressive disciplines, such as "spit at distance" or "longest standing". Therefore, the record in Blind Chess alone, which is one of several achievements of Hindemburg, would already clearly justify the maintenance of the page. But obviously the vote was not intended to be fair. The Guinness record is a glaring example, but there are thousands of biographical pages on Wikipedia in which the biographees are kept for having just one of the hundreds of Hindemburg accomplishments.
The "vote" is basically the same as the Galileo trial, a political meeting to harm someone you don't have affection for, and the reasons for the disaffection are just as far-fetched. Some excerpts from the "trial" that were completely overlooked by voters:
Declaration of Renato P. dos Santos , Dr. in Physics from UNESP, with two post-docs in Artificial Intelligence
Detailed post by João Antonio Locks Justi:
Dear moderators,
First of all, I would like to start this vote by paying my respects to everyone who carries out this important and valuable activity on a voluntary basis, helping to make knowledge more accessible and for society to become more informed.
Precisely because I consider the moderation activity of Wikipedia so important, I also think that there is a great responsibility when making certain decisions: what information should or should not be included in an article; what is the position to be adopted when there are discrepancies about certain information; which articles should be included or excluded; among others. These decisions are often very difficult and, at the same time, important, so they require a thorough and complete analysis of all relevant factors.
In order to contribute to a correct and effective decision, I will list points that I consider fundamental when making a decision on this matter. I will take into account the rules and customs of the Brazilian and international Wikipedia community, in order to provide an opinion without spurious biases and with a logical basis.
It is important to analyze the decision criteria from two angles: statutory and customary. From a legal point of view, a statutory system is one in which decisions are guided by previously written and established rules. This is the case of the French, Italian, Brazilian and other legal traditions. In these systems, when making a decision, the primary aspect that will be taken into account by the judge is the body of laws that govern the relationship under analysis. The judge will interpret these laws according to the hermeneutical principles of the country and apply them to the specific case. On the other hand, we have the customary system, in which decisions are guided by the particular customs of the country or region, especially previous decisions taken on similar cases. It is the case of the American, English and Australian legal tradition. In this system, when the judge reviews a case, he primarily looks at past decisions, especially higher court decisions on the same topic, and applies them to the specific case.
Each system has its positives and negatives. Critics of common law commonly claim that it arrests the judge by forcing him to apply decisions consistent with past decisions, even if he disagrees with them. On the other hand, critics of statutory law claim that it provides less legal certainty to the population, since written law can be interpreted broadly and subjectively, depending on the prevailing interpretation methods, from which opposing decisions often emanate. to the literalness of the law. In fact, in many statutory systems literal interpretation is considered a hermeneutical method of lesser value, as opposed to a comprehensive view of prevailing rules and principles. However, the reality is that, in practice, the force of the law is less due to its interpretative malleability, providing less legal certainty.
Taking these considerations into account, we initially note that decisions on Wikipedia need to be made taking both aspects into account. The community has written and predefined rules, which should guide the decisions of editors and moderators. On the other hand, many of these rules are open to broad interpretation, and it is necessary and useful to look at similar decisions from the past, in order to provide a fair system, in which all decisions on the same material aspects are analyzed in the same light. One of Wikipedia's official policies in this regard is "ignore all rules" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules ). Therefore, the community is required to take a comprehensive look at both the written rules and the tradition, that is, how decisions were made in the past, as well as an analysis of the quality of these decisions and what criteria could improve them.
In the present decision, it is about the inclusion or exclusion of an article about Hindemburg Melão Jr. The inclusion of articles on Wikipedia rests on two clear pillars: the criterion of notoriety and not contracting “what Wikipedia is not” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not ).
The notoriety criterion is relevant because it is at the heart of what constitutes an encyclopedia: a collection of articles that provide accurate and relevant information on well-known topics. Decisions to include and exclude articles are important in both cases, but in a ranking of priorities, we have to note that including takes precedence over exclusion. If a user tries to find information about notorious topics in an encyclopedia and he does not have this information, the encyclopedia has effectively failed in its main purpose and aspiration. Exclusion also has its value, and is a very important instrument in maintaining the quality of the encyclopedia, after all, an excess of irrelevant articles would reduce the effectiveness and efficiency of the community in maintaining adequate editing standards in these articles, as well as hinder or even prevent the adequate moderation of all topics, due to the excess of information that would have to go through this sieve.
Analyzing notoriety is not a trivial task, as there are several criteria that can be used to assess whether a given topic is well-known or not. For example, while the overwhelming majority of the community would agree that “Albert Einstein” and “Brazil” are notorious topics, perhaps a large part of the community would not interpret that “Lee Jae-Dong” is a notorious topic. Although Korean has an English Wikipedia page, its notoriety is not widely established, especially among the non-video game audience. Precisely for these cases, Wikipedia includes among its notoriety sub-criteria the substantive coverage of the topic by secondary sources, from reputable and independent sources.
In the specific case of Hindemburg Melão Jr., notoriety is claimed in a few different areas, including chess, investments and science in general. If there is notoriety in one of them, following the statutory and customary criteria of Wikipedia, then it is necessary to maintain the existence of the article.
In the field of chess, the notoriety claim is substantiated by a few different sources. A particularly relevant one is the Guinness Book, which records a world record authored by Hindemburg Melão Jr. The argument was raised that the Guinness Book contains bizarre records, such as longest toenail and others, which would disqualify it as a source that gives enough notoriety to a topic. This argument, however, does not conform to Wikipedia's tradition of enforcing its rules, which would therefore indicate that disqualifying this source using this argument would be arbitrary. The English Wikipedia, for example, gives notoriety to several people solely for records, therefore accepting articles about them, such as an extensive list of tallest people in the world (“List of tallest people”), fattest (“List of heaviest people”), older, shorter, and a host of other people who are recognized almost exclusively for their records, often in regional activities such as cricket championships in India or Rugby in Australia. In the case of Melão Jr., as opposed to the aforementioned cases, the record is just one of several aspects that gives him notoriety, so it is not being argued that the article should be kept on the air exclusively for the record, but that there are cases on Wikipedia English and other languages in which the record is enough to confer notoriety, so even if hypothetically there was only this fact, it would already be consistent with the other decisions of Wikipedia's moderation for the page to remain online.
Analyzing the Wikipedia tradition on this topic, we see that Marylin Vos Savant, for example, has an article exclusively for its inclusion in the Guinness Book in the 1980s in the “higher IQ” category, which category was later eliminated. All other sources and facts about Marylin are self-published, in her newspaper and magazine columns. By including it as a result of its record, it becomes incompatible and unfair not to admit Melão Jr.'s record, especially considering that there is an objective method to assess the accuracy of the result that led to his record (chess games were witnessed and recorded by several people), while Vos Savant's score was obtained on an exam incompatible with his claimed IQ level, which indicates low reliability of his record record.
So while not every record is noteworthy, as in the case of the longest toenail, it is noted that records related to cognitive activities, sports or that generally indicate talent of the recipient are extremely well received by English and global Wikipedia, presuming them to be. that in themselves already confer notoriety, being consistent with Wikipedia's tradition to offer the same treatment to the world record contained in the article under discussion.
In the case of Melão Jr., the record in blind chess is not an isolated activity in this area. Melão is a recognized chess player, both as a practical and theoretical. The inclusion of his analysis in Sahovski Informator, as well as the award as one of the top 10 theoretical novelties, with a positive vote coming from a world champion (Viswanathan Anand), demonstrates once again his relevance and notoriety in chess. We must remember, in an auxiliary way, that among chess players, especially those interested in the blind modality, there is no doubt about the relevance of Melão Jr. in this area. The use of reliable secondary sources ends up being a heuristic to allow people from different areas and with different levels of knowledge to identify who is notorious in specific areas, when the judge does not have enough knowledge in the area to do so independently. To reach the same end, we can directly analyze the comments of those who know the area, for which the notoriety of Melão Jr. in chess, especially postal and blind.
In addition to these two main sources, there is a wide variety of other citations and acknowledgments in publications, which have already been addressed in the favorable comments above. The fact is that, following Wikipedia's rules and customs, the record alone would guarantee the inclusion of Melão Jr., and the Sahovski Informator's recognition would leave no doubt as to its relevance to the overwhelming majority of the Wikipedia community that lends itself to take the case seriously.
To put the nail in the grave of the thesis that Melão Jr. would not have notoriety in chess, we have his participation in national level articles, in one of the most watched programs on Brazilian TV, Fantástico, on air since 1973, in which he appears in an article about IQ, also exposing his prowess as a chess player. We then have additional evidence of notoriety, by Wikipedia's criteria, from an independent and substantive source, putting an end to this discussion.
To stick to the points where there is ample evidence of notoriety, which justifies the present vote according to the objective criteria and customs of Wikipedia, we also present the work as a developer of artificial intelligence software for the financial market Saturno V. At this point it is necessary to expose a particularity that only those who are familiar with the investment area know: the level of regulation in this area is tremendous. To such an extent that the disclosure of certain information in public forums or other websites accessible to the general public may give rise to questioning by the regulatory authorities involved. Therefore, much of the evidence regarding Saturn V's notoriety cannot be published as a source. At first, this could seem an obstacle to the use of these activities to support the position of maintaining the article. However, a brief analysis shows that this is not the case. Let's see: the funds of great managers, such as George Soros and James Harris Simons, are also private, including closed to external investors, and do not publish information to the general public. Even so, the English Wikipedia accepts and appears this information in the respective pages of these people. In the case of Melão Jr., since there is no direct access to the 17 awards received for the performance of his system, we can nevertheless cite his participation in Shark Tank to corroborate this item, which is an independent source, as well as the invitation to be a speaker at the Congress. Robot National.
We could continue for several paragraphs commenting on other areas in which Melão Jr. had a relevant impact. He is the author of the Sigma Test (and the New Standard of the Sigma Test), whose notoriety in the area of high IQ can be demonstrated by the societies that accept it for admission: Pars, Platinum, Glia, Sigma, among others. We point out at this point that Ronald K. Hoeflin, creator of IQ tests, also has a page on English Wikipedia, which indicates that Sigma Teste alone could already confer the inclusion of Melão Jr., in coherence with the article about Hoeflin. We can also mention the publication of the book “IMC na Balança”, publications within the scope of Sigma Society and Saturno V, among several other items that have already been exposed in previous comments, which is why we will not expose them again.
The inevitable conclusion is that Melão Jr. should necessarily be included in Wikipedia for several isolated factors, as these already confer enough notoriety on their own. Combined with all the notorious factors, it becomes impracticable to defend that Melão Jr. not be included, except for those who don't care about reality, but rather a personal vendetta against the subject of this article.
The Wikipedia page would indeed need improvement. Nevertheless, the reaction of trying to exclude it is not compatible with the fact that not all stylistic standards of Wikipedia are being followed. The correct answer to this fact would be to indicate where the article can be improved, so that interested parties can do so in a fruitful way.
In view of the foregoing, I give an unequivocal vote for Keep, respectfully asking moderates to review all the above points carefully and rigorously, making a decision for the sake of Wikipedia, for the sake of science, and for the sake of knowledge.
This (above) was João Antonio's second post in this debate. There is no way to summarize here how ridiculous, cowardly and biased this "vote" was, a modern version of the old Holy Office court, in which a small group of owners of the truth imposes everything they want, with no room for arguments or facts against it. that they wish were true . The only way to understand what went on in this shameful "debate" is to read the entire log of the conversations in this link:
at https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1ginas_para_eliminar/Hindemburg_Mel%C3%A3o_Jr.
In one of the posts on Quora, Hindemburg comments on this persecution:
"When I came into contact with this subject of the "alleged" persecution of Hindenburg, in 1999, my first feeling was that Hindenburg would be another one of the many crazy people who think they are wronged, the "misunderstood geniuses", who are really nothing more than paranoid with persecution mania. Although after deeply examining all the details, it becomes evident that this is a real problem, a personal feud of some people, who never identify themselves, but do everything they can to harm you in the most diverse ways. The link text above is a clear synthesis of this problem, a social disease that afflicts a group of psychopaths who hide behind anonymity to further their cowardly pursuits, and that for decades has harmed one of the most prodigious minds in history, a rare case in the world with multiple talents for completely different areas, and remarkable in all of them. In any serious country in the world, Hindemburg would be celebrated by the media and the academic community for its prodigious achievements in such varied fields of knowledge. But in Brazil he is persecuted cowardly and with impunity, without any action being taken by the authorities. In the final excerpt of the link above, Hindemburg quotes the phrase “What worries me most is not the cry of the bad, but the silence of the good.” And it goes further, discussing the correct and incorrect points of this statement. But the details don't matter so much. The important thing is that the inertia of those who think they are good people, but who witness cowardice and injustice without mobilizing to fight it, are no better than those who practice this cowardice. This phrase “What worries me the most is not the cry of the bad, but the silence of the good ones” it should continually echo in the head and reflect in the heart of every truly decent person, and cause him to take concrete action every time he encounters injustice. And the case of Hindemburg Melão Jr. it is an injustice comparable to the case of Galileo, a person with a difficult temperament, but with brilliant, profound, innovative, correct and fair ideas, being persecuted by groups of fanatics." Alessandro P.
"(...) When I met him, in 1999, I thought of the invisibility machine as fiction, but 10 years earlier he had already found a scientific, rational solution to turn it into reality. I read all the written content produced by Melão, watched all of its videos, and I can safely say that any cultured and sensible person who If you have read his articles (at least 100 out of 900+) you will agree with me that he has one of the most creative and profound minds to ever emerge on this planet. The scope of his ideas is absolutely out of the ordinary, transcends the limits of our time, and perhaps only 200 or 300 years from now will all his ideas be fully appreciated and valued, as was the case with Da Vinci and other visionaries. However, some of his ideas can already be appreciated by us mere mortals. Just read carefully and appreciate what he has to teach us. We must not pretend to expect to understand everything he says, for it is beyond the reach of most, but what little of his wisdom we can taste is already a priceless treasure." Ricardo Luis Gerber (Note: Ricardo refers to 900 articles because the text is from 2011, although the correct number at that time was already greater than 1200)
Awards and Distinctions:
World record for longest announced mate in blind chess simuls, recorded in the Guinness Book 1998, pages 110-111 .
World record holder for longest announced mate in Epistolar Chess, published in the Pi Society journal (Greece-France) in 2001 and in the Revista Brasileira de Chess Postal.
Invited by the president of Pars Society, Baran Yönter, to be an honorary member of this institution, exempt from all fees and exemption from any entrance exam. Pars Society is one of the most exclusive high IQ societies in the world, for people who score above 180 on standardized tests on the Stanford-Binet scale or above 220 on standardized tests on the Cattell scale, equivalent to the theoretical percentile of 99.99997% ( cut-off 1 in 3,500,000). List of Pars Society members .
Invited by the presidents and directors of several other high IQ societies to be an honorary member, life member, meritorious member, etc., including World Intelligence Network, ISIS, Etranger Prometheus, Ludomind, Creative Genius Society, International High IQ Society, High IQ Society for Humanity etc. The latter consisted of a project to support underprivileged children in Africa, coordinated by David Udbjørg, in which Hindemburg was a co-sponsor with periodic donations during the years in which she remained active. HIQSH has benefited more than 500 children with various educational, cultural and scientific projects. Later, in 2004, it changed its name to “CAILI”, but unfortunately it ended up being deactivated due to lack of resources.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100113091913/http://www.sigmasociety.com/diretoria/sigma_diretoria.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/20030604121121/http://hiqh.org:80/people.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070819164213/http://www.etienne.nu/isis/members.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20090211194804/http://gui.pro.br/artigos/testesdeqi.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20040224233856/http://www.vademecum.com.br/sapiens/links2.htm
https://www.iqsociety.org/iq-societies/iq-societies-inc-iq-required/
https://iqsociety.gr/links/
Presentation of works in congresses, symposia, lectures:
Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science – Presentation of a method to calculate factorials of any real numbers (including non-integers and negatives) that had been developed in 1991. The Hindemburg solution arrives at a formula whose first two terms are equal to the of Stirling's formula, but in an entirely different way, and without using Calculus. This puts this solution higher than De Moivre's, but lower than Stirling's. Then, Hindemburg used a mathematical resource that leads to an exact result, superior to Stirling's method, but with a high processing cost. Hindemburg also found several relevant small details, including the complement of Euler's constant (0.5772156649...). The work was highly praised by the Director of the Department of Mathematical Physics at USP, Prof. Dr. MS6 Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Pizza. In 2001, Hindemburg developed yet another method to calculate the factorial of any real, but it converges more slowly.
National Congress on Investment Robots – “ A little beyond the Sharpe ratio ”.
National Congress on Investment Robots – “ Test and evaluation of investment strategies ”.
Secretary of Education of Araçariguama – lecture on “The importance of the scientific method in the process of acquiring knowledge”.
Faculdade Metodista – lecture on “Heuristics applied in polytomous decision-making processes” (the same lecture was given in other educational institutions).
EMEI Prof. Liani Maria Barbosa dos Santos – lecture on “Halley's Comet”, given at the age of 13, for the institution's faculty and students.
Bom Jesus dos Perdões Education Department – lecture on Item Response Theory for standardizing pedagogical assessment instruments.
Secretary of Education of Bom Jesus dos Perdões – lecture on chess as a pedagogical tool.
GC Brasil – lecture on “Comparative analysis between heuristic and random brainstorming”.
Interviews, reports and other video materials:
Interview of Hindenburg Melão Jr. for the channel “Clube de Xadrez On-line”, on various topics (NEW)
Report in Fantástico about intelligence and IQ with the participation of Hindemburg Melão Jr.
TV Vanguarda report on Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Marcos Ripá, about the Sigma Test, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Fragments of the video about the blind simultaneous at the CPP, with Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Interview of Hindenburg Melão Jr. for Márcio Strumiello, from TV Record
Interview of Hindenburg Melão Jr. about chess for the magazine “Conexão Professor”
https://web.archive.org/web/20100131073405/http://www.sigmasociety.com/entrevista_xadrez.htm
http://xadrezescolarbrasileiro.blogspot.com/2009/03/revista-conexao-professor-faz-materia.html
Other selected videos:
Oracle Section, on the existence of God, a scientific approach, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Oracle Section, is the Earth's mass increasing? By Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Part 1
Part 2
Oracle Section, can “intelligence” be treated as a quantitative variable? By Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Oracle section, on telescopes, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Oracle section, on the shape of the Earth, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Oracle section, about black holes, analysis of the video from the Ciência Todo Dia channel, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Moon tour, by Hindemburg Melão Jr., with Meade 10” LX 200 GPS telescope
Chess, didactic games commented by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Chess, match analysis between Alpha Zero and Stockfish, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Martial Arts, Nunchaku, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Martial Arts, Weapons, by Hindemburg Melon Jr.
Martial Arts, Kamas, by Hindemburg Melon Jr.
Oracle section, on global warming, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Jupiter and 3 of its satellites, with Meade LX 10” 200 GPS, by Hindemburg Melão Jr.
Interviews, reports and other written materials:
Interview for“Grafistas” magazine, on various topics related to Investments, Science, personal and professional life
World record for longest announced mate in blind chess simuls. Guinness Book of Records
“Transcendent Geniuses”, interview for the study developed by John Hallenborg, on people with an IQ at the rarity level above 1 in 1,000,000.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100206175301/http://sigmasociety.com/iq_tv.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20100130030625/http://www.sigmasociety.com/john_2.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20100119073936/http://www.sigmasociety.com/entr_john_melao.htm
Top-10 theoretical novelties. Sahovski Informator 80 – Theoretical novelty among the 10 most important in the world in the period (semester). First Brazilian to receive this distinction.
Top-20 theoretical novelties. Sahovski Informator 80 – Theoretical novelty among the 20 most important in the world in the period (semester).
Top-30 best matches.S ahovski Informator 80 – Match between the 30 best in the world in the period (semester).
"Genius lives next door". Report in the newspaper “O atibaiense”
“ One against many, and without seeing! ” Reports in the CPP newspaper – simultaneous blindly at the CPP. In total, there were 3 reports.
Chess game selected in the book “ LEARN CHESS FROM THE GREATS ”
Awards and Distinctions in Childhood and Adolescence:
Author of a project for an optical device that he called “the invisibility machine”, and it was described in a book that participated in a literary contest in 1993 and was used as question 23 in the Sigma Test, in 2001. In 2003, Prof. Emeritus of the University of Tokyo Susumu Tachi developed a project with some limitations, but compatible with the technology available today, going so far as to build a prototype he called “invisibility cloak”.
Author of an incorrect “proof” for Fermat's Last Theorem, in 1992. Although incorrect, it was considered interesting by academics from several universities, and was even published as a question in Sigma Test in 2001; the question is to refute the proof. In 2003, Professor Kaida Shi, from Zhejiang University, presented a basically the same “demonstration” (but joining the edges, instead of joining the faces and the varieties), but in essence the idea is the same, but apparently Kaida Shi does not realized the demo is incorrect and posted it tohttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309005 .
Author of a method to calculate factorials of non-integer numbers, in 1991. This work was presented in 1994 at the SBPC Annual Meeting and was highly praised by the director of the Mathematical Physics department at USP, Dr. Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Pizza. In 2001, he created a second method for the same purpose, but with slower convergence.
3rd place in the Text and Writing Challenge of the Stage, 1994. This competition has national scope and is open to students from all pre-college courses, as well as to those who do not take pre-college courses. It would be equivalent to a National Writing Olympics, which did not yet exist at the time.
2nd place in the Trip College Magazine Writing Contest, 1993.
Author of a method to calculate logarithms different from that of Napier, at 13 years of age.
Deduced some principles of Fractal Geometry at the age of 9.
At 3 years of age, he was examined with psychological tests and showed performance equivalent to that of 9-year-old children.
Chess Champion at EEPSG Prof. Alvino Bittencourt 1986 and two-time champion at the 7th Teaching Police Station, 1986 and 1987.
Suspension of activities by the CVM:
On January 8, 2013, the CVM published resolution 701, preventing Melão Jr. to exercise the function of manager and to make public offerings of securities in Brazil, due to the fact that Melão does not have the CGA certificate.
In 2014, a petition was promoted, based on an open letter from Hindemburg Melão Jr. addressed to CVM and IOSCO, claiming the issuance of a CGA certificate on an extraordinary basis, based on Article 4, §2, of CVM Instruction 306 and on the fact that the performance of the Saturno V, created by Hindemburg, was superior to the of all 283 Brazilian funds listed in Infomoney's ranking. The full content of the letter can be foundhere .
Several professional managers from different countries, university professors and researchers from different areas signed the petition, but it had no effect. One of the petition's signatories was Dany Provost, a member of Giga Society and cited in some of the 10 smartest people in the world lists.
On January 15, 2015, the president of the Swiss confederation (which serves as the president of Switzerland) made a bombastic statement that dramatically affected the world economic system, causing the biggest swing ever recorded in Forex history since 1970, in which the quotation of the Swiss franc against the dollar showed an exceptional increase in volatility in a few minutes, fluctuating more than 35%, leading to bankruptcy of several banks and brokers. Amid all this turmoil, the Saturno V suffered a loss of less than 4% in most accounts and did not reach 7% in any of the accounts, even operating at 100:1 leverage and applying 10% of the portfolio, totaling an effective leverage. of 10:1.
Between April 2016 and May 2021, the Saturno V was used in the management of a European fund and won more than 20 international high-performance awards in competitions and rankings by Preqin, Barclay's Hedge and IASG.
The prototype developed by the team led by Susumu Tachi, although much simpler than the design developed by Hindemburg 10 years earlier, was widely acclaimed. the project of Himdemburg never received any recognition, although it is clearly documented.
Hindemburg also authored an incorrect “proof” for Fermat's Last Theorem in 1992. Although incorrect, it was considered interesting by academics at several universities. In 2003, Professor Kaida Shi of Zhejiang University presented a basically the same “demonstration” (but joining edges rather than joining faces and varieties), but in essence the idea is the same. Hindemburg realized that the proof was incorrect a few minutes later, and years later, in 2000, decided to present it as a curiosity, putting as a challenge "point out the error in the demonstration", as it appears (Q26) in the Sigma Test . However, The Doctor. Kaida Shi missed the mistake and posted it at https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309005 as if it were correct.
In 1991, Hindemburg developed a method for calculating factorials of non-integer numbers . This work was presented in 1994 at the SBPC Annual Meeting and was highly praised by the director of the Department of Mathematical Physics at USP, Dr. Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Pizza. In 2001, Hindemburg created a second method for the same purpose, but with slower convergence.
Hindemburg also won some minor prizes in writing contests, such as in the Desafio de Texto e Redação do Passo, 1994. This contest has a national scope and is open to students from all pre-college courses, as well as to those who do not attend pre-college courses. It would be equivalent to a National Writing Olympics, which did not yet exist at the time. And 2nd place in the Trip College Magazine Writing Contest, 1993.
He was the author of a method for calculating logarithms different from that of Napier, at the age of 13.
Deduced some principles of Fractal Geometry at the age of 9.
At the age of 5, when an event with Disney characters was promoted, his parents were impressed by his argument in which he claimed that the characters shouldn't be real, because they would need to have been born from other beings similar to them, and if they were the only ones of that kind, who would they have been born from?
At 3 years of age, he was examined with psychological tests and showed performance equivalent to that of 9-year-old children.
Chess Champion at EEPSG Prof. Alvino Bittencourt 1986 and two-time champion at the 7th Teaching Police Station, 1986 and 1987.
Suspension of activities by the CVM:
On January 8, 2013, the CVM published resolution 701, preventing Melão Jr. to exercise the function of manager and to make public offerings of securities in Brazil, due to the fact that Melão does not have the CGA certificate.
In 2014, a petition was promoted, based on an open letter from Hindemburg Melão Jr. addressed to CVM and IOSCO, claiming the issuance of a CGA certificate on an extraordinary basis, based on Article 4, §2, of CVM Instruction 306 and on the fact that the performance of the Saturno V, created by Hindemburg, was superior to the of all 283 Brazilian funds listed in Infomoney's ranking. The full content of the letter can be found here .
Several professional managers from different countries, university professors and researchers from different areas signed the petition, but it had no effect. One of the petition's signers was Dany Provost, a member of Giga Society and cited in some of the 10 smartest people in the world lists.
On January 15, 2015, the president of the Swiss confederation (which serves as the president of Switzerland) made a bombastic statement that dramatically affected the world economic system, causing the biggest swing ever recorded in Forex history since 1970, in which the quotation of the Swiss franc against the dollar showed an exceptional increase in volatility in a few minutes, fluctuating more than 35%, leading to bankruptcy of several banks and brokers. Amid all this turmoil, the Saturno V suffered a loss of less than 4% in most accounts and did not reach 7% in any of the accounts, even operating at 100:1 leverage and applying 10% of the portfolio, totaling an effective leverage. of 10:1.
Between April 2016 and May 2021, the Saturno V was used in the management of a European fund and won more than 20 international high-performance awards in competitions and rankings by Preqin, Barclay's Hedge and IASG.