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 mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva
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
It hasn’t been an easy month for Simon. On top of having to live with the cast on his arm, which he has been handling stoically, he has also had … Continue reading The Trolley Problem
Simon has had an unsolicited rite of passage that included excruciating pain, 14 hours at ER, a ketamine trip when an IV malfunctioned and he says he saw himself in … Continue reading Rite of Passage
Mesmerized by the Borealis installation. As part of the Cambridge Science Festival last weekend, Dan Acher recreated the Northern Lights right above the MIT Open Space on Kendall Square. Dan … Continue reading Cambridge Science Festival
In mid-September, Simon spent a couple days learning how to build a Feed Forward Neural Network, together with a friend. It all started after the friend shared a cool business … Continue reading On Machine Learning and Self-Directed Learning
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