Overheard from the Livestream (August 2020)
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Overheard from the August, 7, 2020 live stream
"I love the intro music." -- A.
"Prof. Loh got a haircut!!!!" -- P.
"What is the Roman numeral for zero?" --- L.
"Prove that Halloween = Christmas." --- J.
"There's a proof that \( 9 + 10 = 21...\) I challenge you to find it." --- L.
(2 minutes later) "Nooooooooooo the chat got it." --- L. (He wanted Prof. Loh to solve it)"Drinks mouse
doesn't work very well." 
"I ate a banana but I don't understand." --- L.
"Eat another one?" --- V. "That mouse looked like a LUMP." --- L.
"* drinks mouse*" --- I.
"How do you make some water disappear in 10 minutes without pouring?" --- C.
"Being a nerd nowadays is so cool." --- A.
"Python or Java?" ---
"Java is better for USAcO I heard." --- L.
"C++ is best for competitive programming." --- D."Drawing circles is easier than drawing squares, you know. How do I draw a square?" --- Prof. Loh, genuinely flummoxed.
"Nobody was telling me that my circle was tilted. Wasn't my circle tilted too?" --- Prof. Loh (regarding his tilted-circle-inscribed-within-a-tilted-square)
"Oh no, how can I draw a good square? Help!"
--- Prof. Loh"The first lesson that I learned when I did these Olympiad questions is that when you draw a diagram, draw the circles first." --- Prof. Loh. "A circle is more fundamental than anything else. It's just the set of points an equal distance away from a point."
"THERE IS A NOVID 19." --- S.
"Clearly this show is called, "Ask to draw anything." " --- Prof. Loh
"We probably spent more time drawing the picture than doing the problem." --- P.
"WHAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN THAT TOOL BEFORE" (referring to the huge fat pink marker) --- P.
"Did you know that other countries don't have pennies?" --- P.
"Madagascar has only \(\frac{1}{5}\) of an ariary." --- U.
"29 bronze Knuts to a silver Sickle, 17 silver Sickles to a golden Galleon." --- P."From what I hear, coordinate bash is actually helpful if you're not as good at geometry (aka me)." --- W.
"epolS-tnioP form?" (Point-Slope flipped around) --- T.
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." --- P.
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Overheard from the August 14, 2020 Livestream
"Remember the paperboy era?"
"I once saw a math problem where someone was walking at 300 mph." --- S.
"I was not dumb for once wOoHoO." --- P.
"I used my calculator, not mental math." --- U.
"Multiplying by 25 is kind of relaxing." --- Prof. Loh
"Yuck! How is this useful?" --- Prof. Loh
"I can spam cause it's live chat now." --- L.
"lol sometimes I'm still confused on how to spell 'friend.'" --- A.
"You wanted to \(n\)-phesize." --- A.
"You need themz godly estimation skillz." --- P.
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Overheard from the August 21, 2020 Livestream
"I asked myself to ask myself what we are asking today." --- Prof. Loh
"Is this Mr. Relativistic Truck Driver's cousin?" --- T.
"Hacker po, hacker po, does whatever a hacker does." --- A.
"What is the probability that Hacker Loh can hack Prof. Loh's bank account?" --- E.
"What's your favorite triangle?" --- W.
"Cube roots of unity triangle!!!!" --- T.
"Pascal's Triangle, Leibnitz Triangle." --- P."Who has the weirdest name in the AMA livestream?" --- V.
"Can we do turbo the snail?" --- A.
"No more dinging for you." --- Prof. Loh
"sigh I am so mad that we have online school sigh." --- E.
"You can get the Fibonacci numbers by summing up values along a diagonal in Pascal's Triangle! It's really cool!" --- V.
""Zoop---" Prof. Loh's most used phrase." --- V.
"Yea I guessed that bots can copy and paste too quite easily so that's why I thought you were a bot I'm sorry." --- N.
"Now you're watching me multiply." --- Prof. Loh
"EVERYONE, PO-SHEN LOH IS NOW A MEME TEMPLATE." --- L.
"donuts kill cats." --- X.
"I have two outdoor cats rip me." --- E.
"PO FOR PRESIDENT!" --- C.
"This looks like those highway exchanges..." --- Prof. Loh commenting on his hyperbola graph.
"I hate math, so can you force me to learn?" --- L.
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Obviously java because they don't teach the others, at least not very well for free
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More about cats (from the August 21, 2020 Livestream)
Q: "Do you like cats?"
Prof. Loh: "I think cats are cute. I guess.... yeah. Cats are cute. They don't seem to cause much trouble. I'm not so sure cats are that interested in me, though.... So, I'm just like, 'they are cats.' Oh, but let me tell you something about cats. It's related to COVID-19. There are researchers who are getting fairly convinced that cats can actually spread COVID. COVID can go from people to cats, and then from cats to other cats, and then from cats back to people. This particular researcher advised me that if you have cats, then to be careful that they don't go outdoors and associated with other cats, otherwise you will have people catching COVID from their cats."
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Just when we thought the trouble was kind of over.
Up next: cat accessibility for NOVID
