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Simon had his first public performance in front of a large audience last Saturday (February 9, 2019): he spoke about his Times Tables Visualization project at the Processing Community Day … Continue reading Simon speaking at the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam
How many bits will computer operation memory have and how many do we need to have to link every single particle in the Universe to the internet? And how useful … Continue reading Computers of the Future: How Far Do We Need to Go?
It’s official! Simon is going to be speaking at this event, his presentation (about his Times Tables Visualization project in Processing) is planned for the 15-o’clock block! The day … Continue reading Processing Community Day Amsterdam has published its program and Simon is in it!
Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s live coding lesson on Wednesday, and when fluid dynamics and Navier-Stokes equations came up (describing the motion of fluid in substances and used to model … Continue reading Fluid Dynamics: Laughing and Crying
Simon getting ready for his presentation at the Processing Community Day Amsterdam, printing additional copies of his ginormous Times Tables Visualization poster at the Antwerp Art Academy (made possible thanks … Continue reading Getting ready for the Processing Community Day Amsterdam
Simon explains strong and weak tree sequences and reveals the greatest finite number used in mathematics: TREE(3), a lot larger than Graham’s number. The TREE sequence is a fast-growing function arising out … Continue reading Larger than Graham’s number!
Simon tests how well different light waves travel through the minuscule hole of the camera obscura.
Bayes’s Theorem calculates the probability of an event based upon the conditions that might be relevant to the event and is widely used to test the precision of medical tests … Continue reading Bayes’ Theorem
Simon loves various L-Systems, sets of rules transforming letters into geometric structures. He used to program these, this time he recreated some by hand.
To solve the problem, Simon chooses not to look up what the derivative of a tangent is but work everything out from scratch. He generally doesn’t like rote learning but … Continue reading Simon differentiating 3tan(2x)
Simon was trying to get a cylindrical beaker to float in water (first in bath and then in a deeper bowl), by filling it with the optimal number of marbles. … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Center of mass lower than buoyancy center
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