The following is a conversation with Po Shen Lowe, a professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University,

National Coach of the USA International Math Olympia team, and founder of XP, that does online education of basic math and science.

He's also the founder of Novid, an app that takes a really interesting approach to contact tracing,

making sure you stay completely anonymous and it gives you statistical information about COVID cases in your physical network of interactions.

So you can maintain privacy, very important, and make informed decisions.

In my opinion, we desperately need solutions like this in early 2020, and unfortunately, I think, we will again need it for the next pandemic.

To me, solutions that require large-scale distributed coordination of human beings need ideas that emphasize freedom and knowledge.

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As a side note, let me say that Po and I filmed a few short videos about simple beautiful math concepts that I will release soon.

It was really fun. I really enjoyed Po sharing his passion for math with me in those videos.

I'm hoping to do a few more short videos in the coming months that are educational in nature, on AI, robotics, math, science, philosophy,

or if all else fails, just fun snippets into my life on music, books, martial arts, and other random things.

If that's of interest to anyone at all.

As usual, I'll do a few minutes to have it as now. I try to make these interesting, but I give you time stamps, so if you skip,

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Fridays episodes where this combination of fearlessness and thoughtfulness is especially on display, touching topics of sex,

corruption, mental disorders, hate, love, and everything in between.

I've overheard somebody talking about this idea that some podcasts that they enjoy are educational, and some are just fun to listen to.

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