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George is a fantastic teacher with very attractive lectures. I think his secret sauces include the following:

• Look at everything from different views: Zoe (ζωή, big picture) versus Bios (βίος, details).
• Selectively focus on the most important techniques and examples, ignoring unnecessary points. Students can feel that they learned a lot without remembering too much boring concepts.
• Have his own methodologies on creative process. Students can experience those "Aha" times when following his introduction.

The trade-offs may be as follows: (very biased personal view, don't take it serious)

• (+) Attending lectures is always pleasant.
• (+) Students can learn things quickly and apply to his own research.
• (-) His lectures may give the false image that creating things is as easy as the fusion of ideas. This is not true because one must have a broad view to know what to borrow, and there are boring times such as trials and errors, non-trivial adoptation and modification of existing methods. He omitted these in his lecture.

I would strongly recommend everyone interested in networking try his 216 and 219.

In this post I won't put all Bia unless interesting. Using those well-defined mathematical terms, Zoai are quite easy to state and thus very short.