a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced … Continue reading This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematical mind into coding and cubing, and his little sister Neva
I’m so happy I captured this priceless moment. Simon’s first official success in 3×3 Blindfolded at Cubing in Cambridge 2023: A more complete video: Now Simon has added a 3×3 … Continue reading The First 3×3 Blindfolded Single
Simon has created a really mind-boggling version of Wordle: Yellowle. If you’re brave and don’t mind a headache, you can try Simon’s Yellowle here: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/full/1Va4ZUqKp The idea came from a … Continue reading Yellowle (version of Wordle)
Simon’s first official success in solving a 3×3 cube blindfolded happened during a multiblind attempt lol. By the way, the person judging Simon in the above video is Rowe Hessler, … Continue reading Three Cubing Competitions Further
Over the past three months, Simon has taken playing puzzle games to whole a new level: his love for this kind of playful and complex problem solving has led him … Continue reading Next Level
Simon has built what he calls a platformer template, a foundational platformer game that he can later use as a basis for more hifi game ideas. Below is a short … Continue reading Platformer Template
Simon has kicked the year off with a 3×3 pb on New Year’s Eve and three new cubing competitions, in Cambridge and Lexington, MA and in Bristol, Connecticut. The Cambridge … Continue reading Happy 2023 Cubed!
Simon’s way to celebrate the holiday season is by taking part in the Advent of Code, a month-long marathon of daily problem solving challenges organized by software engineer Eric Wastl. … Continue reading Advent of Code
Simon has been learning a new method to solve the 3×3 blindfolded and even hopes this can become of his main events, now that his cast is off and he … Continue reading New 3×3 Blindfolded Attempts
In November and early December, Simon spent quite a few hours working on a clone of the new puzzle game 14 Minesweeper Variants. The puzzle generation algorithm he had to … Continue reading Minesweeper
The expected value is not necessarily the value you should expect, Simon has proven to me today. It started from a morbid story about a dangerous attraction in Kyoto. We … Continue reading Unexpected Value
We have a new rule: I am not allowed to interfere with Simon’s coding projects (ask him to record a work in progress vid) while he is busy with them … Continue reading Abridge Demake in Puzzlescript
Some impressions from the new MIT museum. We had actually hoped to do the high-speed, multiple exposure imaging of water droplets and balloon popping to investigate fluid dynamics — something … Continue reading The New MIT Museum
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