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A little bit. I keep an eye on what he’s doing there, which is quite easy, as he just won’t stop talking about it. It’s also an opportunity for me to teach him, but in a way that he finds exciting. If one day I had decided to teach him XOR or NAND, he would’ve found it very boring. This way, he comes to me with questions, and I can pick up a piece of paper and show him what a truth table is, and he soaks it up. He feels like he’s cheating a bit at the game, because he has a Dad who helps him on the side, but no one knows, so he progresses very quickly and everyone thinks he’s very smart.


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