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Mathematics education
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Po-Shen Loh's Novid app uses Bluetooth for anonymous contact tracing, aiming to reduce COVID-19 spread more effectively than traditional apps.
Math Olympiads score participants on a 42-point scale, emphasizing problem-solving skills over rote answers.
Loh argues that teaching math through live problem-solving fosters creativity and critical thinking.
The ideal election circuit design allows a candidate to beat N/2 opponents, but current methods only achieve square root of N.
Loh believes the pandemic exposed our poor intuition for exponential growth, crucial for future predictions.
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