Geeks out of the Box

This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. 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 education and have had to move countries to make this possible as a family. Visit Simon’s website at https://simontiger.com/ We are a family from Amsterdam who moved to Antwerp because homeschooling is illegal in The Netherlands. This blog started as https://antwerpenhomeschooling.wordpress.com in March 2016. Over the years, most of our entries have gravitated towards exploring together with Simon as he has developed an insatiable passion for programming, math and science. His sister Neva is treading on his heals. We changed or name to Geeks of the Box in May 2021.

By Geeks out of the Box March 3, 2020March 20, 2020

Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem

In a complete binary tree, every node has two children (except for the bottom nodes that don’t have any children at all). This means one mind-blowing thing: that the bottom … Continue reading Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem

By Geeks out of the Box February 27, 2020

Rainbow Quicksort in p5.js

Link to Simon’s code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/UMuLxaHJ

By Geeks out of the Box February 25, 2020

Sonatina by F. Kuhlau

By Geeks out of the Box February 25, 2020February 25, 2020

Live Session with Stephen Wolfram and the Wolfram Demo Project, World Science Scholars.

Simon has completed the course A New Kind of Science with Stephen Wolfram and the World Science Scholars program. Which doesn’t mean he is done with digging deep into Wolfram’s … Continue reading Live Session with Stephen Wolfram and the Wolfram Demo Project, World Science Scholars.

By Geeks out of the Box February 17, 2020

Space-filling Curves in p5.js.

Simon prepared this project as a community contribution for The Coding Train (Simon came up with his own way to draw the Hilbert Curve and added interactive elements to enable … Continue reading Space-filling Curves in p5.js.

By Geeks out of the Box February 8, 2020March 20, 2020

Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges

Simon keeps thoroughly enjoying Brilliant’s approach to intelligence and learning (even though he sometimes dislikes the way the daily challenges are formulated). His latest stats: From the courses he has … Continue reading Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges

By Geeks out of the Box February 8, 2020

Hyperbolic space

This is a model of hyperbolic space (7 triangles around a vertex). It’s an open problem of how far you can keep expanding your structure this way (possibly infinitely far, … Continue reading Hyperbolic space

By Geeks out of the Box February 8, 2020

Evolving Creatures in p5.js

Simon’s latest independent coding project involved some biology lessons! He loves the channel Primer by Justin Helps and watched his evolution series many times, studying the rules for species’ survival … Continue reading Evolving Creatures in p5.js

By Geeks out of the Box February 8, 2020February 8, 2020

Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe-Toe in p5.js

Simon has programmed this game of Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe-Toe Game in p5.js from scratch. He and his sister have had hours of fun playing it (and she turned out to be better … Continue reading Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe-Toe in p5.js

By Geeks out of the Box February 8, 2020February 8, 2020

Mind Your Decisions

For over a month, Simon has been fascinated by Presh Talwalkar’s channel Mind Your Decisions. The channel is full of short videos on famous math problems, logic riddles, proofs and … Continue reading Mind Your Decisions