Overheard (June 2020)
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Overheard Thursday 6/18/20
(Montgomery Blair Math Tournament Special Livestream)
"Happy date of existence, Po-Shen Loh!" --- S.
"We are so close to tau day, which is June 28." --- T.
"I named the people in this problem after my friends, lawl" --- Nathan Choi (MBMT problem writer)
""....and banana drops 7 points on the circle." --- Po-Shen Loh" --- S.
""You can make a right angle with your fingers like this... Please do not try this at home. I am not responsible for any of your medical bills." --- Po-Shen Loh." --- E.
"The chat has been cleared of mice." --- T.
"Po-Shen Loh, do you need a cameraman? If so, pls pick me." --- F.
"Who is the cameraman?" "That's Prof. Loh." "He is everything but the moderators." --- A.
"He should teach a class on stand-up comedy." --- A.
"I got inspiration to write this problem from a classroom app we used in orchestra. The teacher gives a grid of colors to every student and asks a 4-choice question." --- Gabriel Wu (MBMT problem writer)
"I broke my wrist trying to impersonate Po-Shen Loh." --- Fish Stick
""Po-Shen Loh: explains math has to include don't try this at home disclaimer." --- A.
"Oof, he was drinking water this entire time." --- A.
"Bananananananana for wrong answer." --- R. -
Overheard Fri 6/19/20
E: "If you could only have 1 food and 1 drink for the rest of your life, what would they be?"
S: "I would eat geometry and drink algebra.""\( \cos 36^{\circ}\) is half of the golden ratio. That's really cool." --- V.
"The world will end on June 21." --- S.
"Well, math will never end, soooooo" --- S."MOAR broken calculators... for the 9375293729472th time." --- X.
"1 is like a black hole." (relates to the proof about repeated square-rooting approaching 1)
"I have a Ph.D in toilet paper math problems from Carnegie Mellon and Prof. Loh is teaching it." --- R.
""What did you do this week?" Prof. Loh: "I calculated the length of toilet paper." " --- A."Answer: \( 3000 \pi\) (the length of the toilet paper)" "WOW THAT'S A BIT TOO LONG." --- H.
"He made a famous mistake." --- X.
"Bananas are going extinct." --- S.A: "Do you eat ripe bananas?" Prof. Loh: "If you don't eat ripe bananas, they get over over ripe."
"Banana republic!" --- A. -
Breaking news: Comedians attempt to shut down unstoppable (and hilarious) YouTube viewers!
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I think that Debbie is correct and I think that Po Shen Loh will do more integrals and calculus!!
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@Kaden-Xia Today he's doing some easier problems kindly provided by the Newport Math Club, from their Knights of Pi Math Tournament. Don't worry, they are much easier than what we've been doing recently.
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I think that more people won't understand the calculus I am just saying not me I would like calculus like integrals though well there aren't that many people who understand these things so I think that this would be the best for everyone!!
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Knights of Pi... hmm maybe I can make a coalition with a similar name
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@Kaden-Xia Oh, lol, that's great! I didn't understand that you weren't complaining about the calculus.
Here's to the hard stuff! -
Like me what are integrals
Also will all the math visual posters you've been showing be consolidated into a package like some 60-series of math posters or something?
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@The-Darkin-Blade The posters are in the Course Index (https://daily.poshenloh.com/pages/all-course-topic-index), and they show up as little "picture" icons which are actually links that you can click on.
This method of organization seems to work well enough for now, as the Course Index is a comprehensive list of everything, all in one place.
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ooh nice
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Oh wow how long did it take you guys to make that? It's quite long.
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@The-Darkin-Blade About a week
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I'd take a month if I were to make it...
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@The-Darkin-Blade It's probably the most helpful for me, because when I give course help, I need to hunt for the relevant lesson for each math topic. So the faster it could be made, the better.
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@debbie
“The world will end on June 21” —S
Well, it’s June 21 in Victoria, Australia. -
@debbie
Overheard for the KPMT Special?
(I’ll add one:
“This thing looks like it would eat me. I don’t like it” - Prof Loh regarding a concave pentagon”) -
Overheard Saturday 6/20/20
""I promise we'll never do hard stuff." -- Po-Shen Loh *2 days later... AIME question comes." --- C.
"This one looks like it wants to eat me." --- Prof. Loh, looking at the concave pentagon that he just drew
"It doesn't want to eat me, it wants to eat lumps." --- J.
"Calculus time! (joking)" --- K.
"Yeah you need a license to get married? That is kinda weird." --- P.
"This humor is driving me crazy!" --- O.
"Like the video, or a spider will be in your bed." --- L.
"ICE CREEEEEAAAAAAM = diarrhea." --- W.
"Oil go boom." --- P.
"I want a pistol shrimp as a pet." --- B."How do I make a nuclear reactor?" --- D.
"Why would you want to know how to make it?" ---R.
"I want to be a nice person and sell low and buy high (regarding trading stocks)." --- H. -
Overheard Monday 6/22/20
"You almost almost got me." --- P. (In response to Prof. Loh pulling their leg about the correct answer.)
"WHAT'S THE QUESTION" --- S. (When we had an answer of \(9 \times 9 \times 8\) but no question to match it.)
"But let's keep on answering the question that we just asked because we had to think of a question to answer, "WHAT'S THE QUESTION?" " --- Prof. Loh
"Wow that's loud rain." --- I.
"I'm mathing in the rain! Mathing in the rain!
" --- J.
"Do you cook your own food there?" --- P. (Referring to the small kitchen in the Expii office where Prof. Loh films his live stream)
"It's too loud. I'm sorry that there's nothing that I can really do about the rain." --- Prof. Loh
"Words of the wise: "Snow is fluffy, rain is not fluffy."" --- H.
"Rain drops are tear-shaped, silly." --- S. (In response to Prof. Loh drawing cubical rain drops.)
""Imagine a giant cube of water drops down." Prof. Loh pushing my limits of imagination." --- V.
"On the bright side, it would only rain for a second." --- X.
"If the rain drop was so big, air resistance would break the rain drop before it could land on the ground." --- S.
"You said 199 people were watching, and then one more came. They clearly heard you ... and then they went away again." --- Prof. Loh
"They couldn't go and watch Pythagorus' Youtube Channel." --- Prof. Loh
"Is this math or cooking lol" --- R. (Prof. Loh talking about baking cookies.)
"I'm hungry now!" --- R.
"I sprayed myself with the hose two times yesterday (that's how hot it is here!)" --- M.
"Prof. Po, can you make a baking channel?" --- M.
"I should start selling my homemade brownies that I made from scratch. How much should I sell one brownie for? What do you guys think?" --- D.
"The way you make chocolate chip cookies ... is ... add one cup of chocolate chips and two cups of flour... " --- Prof. Loh
"That's chocolate mush." --- A.
"PO-SHEN LOH: MASTER CHEF AND BAKER." --- E.
"The way you make chocolate chip cookies is YOU DON'T ADD EGGPLANTS." --- S.
"Eggplant cookie banana." --- E. 
"Do you mean avocado's number?" --- Prof. Loh (In response to the question, "What's Avogadro's Number?")
"Daily Bake: Bake Choc Chip Cookies Challenge with Prof. Loh." --- D.
"Bananas will change your genes and make you smarter via the radiation." --- A.
"Please don't try any of my recipes at home. Please don't try to make any cookies out of eggplants." --- Prof. Loh -
Lol $$$$
