Author: 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.
The Puzzle Man is Back!
Guess who was in town in mid-October? The amazing Vladimir Krasnoukhov, a one-of-kind puzzles inventor from Russia! (I know, I should’ve written about this earlier, but I’ve been lagging behind … Continue reading The Puzzle Man is Back!
Simon’s first steps in Stephen Wolfram’s Computational Universe
Simon has been enjoying Stephen Wolfram’s huge volume called A New Kind of Science and is generally growingly fascinated with Wolfram’s visionary ideas about the computational universe. We have been … Continue reading Simon’s first steps in Stephen Wolfram’s Computational Universe
Code Solving Towers of Hanoi
Simon has written a short Python code solving the Towers of Hanoi puzzle: https://repl.it/@simontiger/Towers-of-Hanoi
Mind Mystery
Our visit to Mind Mystery, a place featuring a few famous optical illusions and math puzzles museum in the Dutch province of Limburg was really impressive.
MEL Chemistry Experiments: Foil Etching, Magnetizing Magnesium, Metal Contest
In the Foil Etching experiment we had copper burn a whole in the aluminium foil. As you can see, aluminum Al is much more reactive than copper Cu, but nothing … Continue reading MEL Chemistry Experiments: Foil Etching, Magnetizing Magnesium, Metal Contest
Modular Arithmetic visualized with Wheel Math
Simon learned this method from a MajorPrep video and was completely obsessed about it for a good couple of weeks, challenging everyone in our inner circle to factorize numbers using … Continue reading Modular Arithmetic visualized with Wheel Math
CERN Open Days September 14 – 15, 2019
The most important experience was actually simply to see how huge the Large Hadron Collider is. We totally didn’t expect the site of every experiment on the 27km ring to … Continue reading CERN Open Days September 14 – 15, 2019
Surrounded by the equations that changed the world
At the main entrance to CERN there is an impressive smooth curve of a memorial to the world’s most important equations and scientific discoveries:
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