Overheard (June 2020)
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Overheard Tue 6/23/20
"Eggplant cookies taste... weird..." --- T.
"Eggplant cookies are so yesterday." --- X.
"SUMMON DA PO-SHEN LOH FROM THE MATHVERSE lol" --- A.
"(Prof. Loh is late" because he was eating a banana." --- A.
"A triangle slams at Po-Shen Loh at 30 mm per second..." --- C.
"Po-Shen Loh PLEASE SEE THIS!!!! I HAVE YOU AS A ZOOM VIRTUAL BACKGROUND!!!!" --- E.
"Looks like bacon kinda (re: the hand-drawn parallel lines by Prof. Loh)" --- M.
"Can we create bots so that there are "more" people watching?" --- H.
"He looks like he's rapping." --- C. -
Overheard Wed 6/24/20
"BANANABOI" --- L.
"Thank you for doing my homework!" --- I.
"I ASK MATH HOMEWORK." --- L.
"ASK ANYTHING ANYTHING." --- L.
"Mobius bread." --- X.
"POTATOES AND CARROTS ARE RADIOACTIVE AS WELL." --- L.
"I don't mean this offensively, but this livestream is so unprofessional in such a great way." --- E.
"Everybody is sad.... I am very sad.... I always hate dividing by 7..." -- Prof. Loh
"I hope I didn't make a mistake yet, because I always make mistakes." --- Prof. Loh
"Have you ever thought of becoming a banana researcher?" --- A.
"Is it possible to have an equilateral banana?" --- C.
"Yeeto Burrito." --- A. -
Overheard Thu 6/25/20
"Can we have a livestream at 20k subs where you just draw lumps and bananas?" --- I.
"Humans are upside-down lobsters." --- A.
"The circle looks like a 2-D tomato." --- M.
"CLOCKS AND LUMPS." --- L.
"You know England started taking down normal clocks because kids couldn't read them and could only read digital clocks! Hopefully everyone here knows how to read a normal clock lol..." --- D.
"Our second drawing looks like a seatbelt Prof. Loh." --- M.
""Ancient people learn maths for maths competitions." --- Prof. Loh" --- V.
"Po-Shen Loh on farming." --- T.
"That's assuming we can smush numbers." --- P.
""We do Algebra." (Does calculus one minute later.)" --- C.
"What happens when a moderator mutes everyone permanently?" --- V.
"Is this a school?????" --- I.
"Cmon I went to get a cheese stick and now it's over?" --- P. -
@debbie for the Wednesday overheard of Prof Loh being a zoom virtual background, does he mean this:
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@RZ923 Haha, good job!
I don't know what the other person's background is like; it could be anything from a screenshot of the live stream to a photo of Prof. Loh from somewhere on the Internet. If you're curious, maybe you could try asking on the live stream! -
Overheard Friday 6/26/20
"* insert nice meme here *" --- P.
"LBOOM." --- S.
"IT'S TRULY MAGIC!!!" --- S.
"mindblown!!!" --- E.
"Eat something sir." --- B.
"You're a wizard, Po-Shen Loh." --- D.
""Discovered a way to connect the dots!" --- Po-Shen Loh 2020" --- T.
"ERASER TRICK: Use eraser with background color!" --- I.
"hello everyone nice performance and nice chatters." --- B.
"HE WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED History has its eyes on you." --- S.
"Im addicted to this channel" --- D.
"THE IDEA WAS PASTA (maybe)" --- I.
"Po is a dolphin!!!" --- J.
"I'm getting my 40 hours of math in." --- N.
"the teacher like what he do..." --- B.
"HAHA HE GOT MY QUESTION HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" --- I.
"Did I just say you should never use the word never? Oh no, not again!" --- Prof. Loh
"Po-Shen Loh do you like the ocean? Because your name is POCEAN L'EAU (l'eau means water in French)" --- A.
"Loh's Raindrop Theorem." --- S. -
Overheard Saturday 6/27/20
"YAY THE GOD HAS RISEN." --- F.
"I wouldn't give you a problem to brute force, because I wouldn't be able to brute force it." --- Prof. Loh
"You just accidentally proved what you said earlier about how brute forcing leads to mistakes." --- A.
"We need to do immediate surgery on the exploded brains." --- S.
"I am struggling with my mysteriously descending chair..." --- S.
"The regular cartesian plane is so outdated." --- R.
"You can be an artist like Po-Shen Loh." --- H.
"What is the Po dolphin problem?"
"I never realized the division sign in the background was actually a percent sign!!!" --- Prof. Loh (blown away) -
Overheard Monday 6/29/20
"A new week to be less weak at math." --- S.
"Why gray shirt again?!" --- S.
"I like drinking my hot dogs." --- K.
"I just ate a 16th of a watermelon in 20 minutes." --- A.
"Bumpy lumpy lump." --- S.
"To everyone who are speed, I am velocity." --- V.
"The opposite of gold is trash. This is the trash ratio." (Speaking about \( \frac{1}{\phi}\)) --- Prof. Loh
"It's not the trash ratio, it's the homeless ratio." --- C.
"I wrote "Pow" for "Power"! Pow!" --- Prof. Loh
"Prof. Loh uses a stylus pen with style." --- V.
"MAKE A VIDEO OF YOU EATING BANANAS." --- I.
"It's Fibonacci inside Fibonacci." --- P.
""Let's just Fibonacci our way through." --- Prof. Loh" --- D.
"A daily challenge a day keeps the virus away." --- M.
"Hmmm... I would not want to be in that car." --- M.
"That truck is actually speed." --- P.
"This magical truck... okay, it's not magical, but I think it is magical..." --- Prof. Loh
"This truck broke the speed limit... It broke the universal speed limit... It broke Einstein's speed limit. It should get a massive ticket." --- Prof. Loh
"Gets a ticket but you can't catch him." --- K.
"German highways don't even have speed limits." --- S.
"It would need a different universe." --- A.
"All the roads in the world aren't even that long." --- P.
"Your mass gets HUGE (if you go at the speed of light)." --- R.
"You would rip apart the space-time continuum." --- J.
"Fix Your Broken Calculators with Po-Shen Loh the Calculator Fixer." --- C.
"Cut, physics teacher! This is an Ask Math Anything class, not an Ask Physics Anything class!" --- V. -
@debbie I only care about the shirt comments...
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Overheard Tue 6/30/20
"[The number of minutes left on the countdown timer is] the second perfect number minus the quantity "the second perfect number divided by four."" --- M.
"Complementary counting! Oh, that's where you ask a bunch of senators to count themselves for you, and then you compliment them on their good efforts. Oh, that's a different complimentary. Spelling-wise, it's spelled different. Complementary counting means that someone else does the counting, and it's free! Ah, that's not the kind of complimentary you're talking about, is it?" --- Prof. Loh doing the Senators problem
"Let's see, how can you find all the dogs and cats in America using math? Am I supposed to find all the dogs and cats in America who know how to use math? The way I would do that is I would attempt to run a live stream covering the type of math that dogs and cats like to do, and we'll see how many of them tune in." --- Prof. Loh
"For every 3 people there is like \(\frac{1}{3}\) of a pet." --- Prof. Loh
"That's amazing! So there are like \(300\) million people in the U.S., and like \(120\) million dogs and cats." --- Prof. Loh
"Are there actually more pets than people in the U.S.? Wow, I've just learned something new!" --- Prof. Loh
"And if anyone wants to have pet bacteria, then those will outnumber us very soon. Please do not grow pet bacteria. Please do not do that at home." --- Prof. Loh
"Last Sunday I saw a person walking a guinea pig in a park." --- V.
"In Australia there are more kangaroos than people." --- V.
"I just like killing bugs, of the computer variant." --- T."[On "What if it literally rained cats and dogs?"] If it were raining cats and dogs, then it would probably also be raining TVs, dishes, refrigerators, etc. because that means there would have to be a tornado." --- Prof. Loh
"The first time I saw a spider on a book, I nearly threw the book in the trash can, no lie, no lie." --- S.
"I'm bad at math; what's the point of listening to Prof. Loh if I can't understand?" --- C.
"To learn about bananas, lumps, and art." --- H. -
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@debbie
The one about a guinea pig being walked in a park (I did that), it is actually true.
I got such a surprise.
I was like that:
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@debbie Where is the new overheard post for today?
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@CoherentMango Wow you are so observant!!
I'm running a bit late on this; I apologize! -
@debbie It's totally fine, I was just curious
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@The-Rogue-Blade
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Lol $$$$
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!
