Fooling Java
I wanted to get Java to mix the order of the numbers between -128 and 127. I think there’s no way to do that because the shuffling algorithm would break … Continue reading Fooling Java
Month: September 2020
World Cleanup Day 2020
10 times the volume of an olympic swimming pool of plastic waste ends up in the world ocean every hour. E v e r y h o u r. Today … Continue reading World Cleanup Day 2020
Back to Integral Calculus
Simon’s back to the Integral Calculus course on Brilliant.org, picking up where he left off in July: trigonometric integrals. His private teacher says that in a Belgian high school, this … Continue reading Back to Integral Calculus
The Perfect Sorting Algorithm
Simon showed us this guessing game where we had to guess the correct sequence of cards with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 while the cards are all flipped upside down. … Continue reading The Perfect Sorting Algorithm
A Color Palette Generator in p5.JS
One more project from back in July. Inspired by one of his favorite resources Coolors.co, Simon created a beautiful color palette generator in p5.JS that builds off of a theme … Continue reading A Color Palette Generator in p5.JS
Smoothing
Something else I forgot to post from back in July: Simon explaining linear smoothing and exponential smoothing. You can play with Simon’s smoothing sketch at https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/ABdeWZVvs The white circle is … Continue reading Smoothing
Why does everyone get tides wrong!?
We were having a beautiful evening back home in Antwerp, at the harbor. At one point Simon started jotting some calculations on the reverse side of the menu sheet (he … Continue reading Why does everyone get tides wrong!?
Some thoughts on the dimensions of polyhedra and polygons: How to make a 3D polygon with no area
A polyhedron is just a bunch of faces connected by edges. All the vertices are closed, so there’re no open bits. So there’s no rule that a polyhedron has to … Continue reading Some thoughts on the dimensions of polyhedra and polygons: How to make a 3D polygon with no area
How efficient is a base?
I defined the efficiency function in JS, I turned the crank and I got this table. So what this is is the efficiency in bases 2 through 8 for the … Continue reading How efficient is a base?
“Triangular” Roots
Simon trying to work out what number you have to triangulate to get a given number, a “triangular root”. Just like a square root is basically how many dots there … Continue reading “Triangular” Roots
ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
Amidst all the traveling in August, Simon was working on his first serious coding competition submission. Together with a friend from Australia, he was building a new programming language called … Continue reading ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
#MegaFavNumbers
Simon has made it into the #MegaFavNumbers playlist, organized by Cambridge’s James Grime for mathematicians on YouTube. Nearly 250 mathematicians (including StandUpMaths and 3Blue1Brown) have pitched in with videos about … Continue reading #MegaFavNumbers
Geeks out of the box 