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That might explain why Singapore is surprisingly strong in CS. For example in the last olympiad (IOI) they managed to get 3 gold and 1 silver medals despite their relatively small population size: https://stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2021


Singapore has a fairly good education system for rote learning, but pre-FAANG, computer science was seen as a dumping ground [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SGExams/comments/azb9rq/uni_why_is_...


causal link is very tenuous here. i dont think he's ever been involved in the education system and this code is pretty much the only code related thing we've seen out of him since he got his CS degree in 1974


To be fair, Singapore is surprisingly strong in everything. Google "little red dot" and you'll get a window into their mindset.




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