Magic around New Year’s Eve
This magical time of the year, Simon’s craziest, most daring dreams come true! First, his guru from the New York University Daniel Shiffman sends Simon his book and the words … Continue reading Magic around New Year’s Eve
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.
Stardust
Looking at the Moon and the Orion nebula from a roof top together with a true friend The telescopes were brought to the panorama floor of the museum “het MAS” … Continue reading Stardust
Simon writes CodePen blog on for-loops
Simon has authored a comprehensive post about For-Loops (in JavaScript ES5 and ES6) in the CodePen blog, nice for anyone learning about loops syntax: https://codepen.io/simontiger/post/for-loops Simon’s update: I now also … Continue reading Simon writes CodePen blog on for-loops
Simon’s Fibonacci function and Fibonacci counter in p5.js
Simon came up with this Fibonacci function while taking a walk downtown: f(0) = 0 f(1) = 1 f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2) When we got home, he used the function to … Continue reading Simon’s Fibonacci function and Fibonacci counter in p5.js
Multiplying Complex Numbers in Processing
The math behind this project comes from the amazing math channel 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYmyhnaaek
Tetris in Processing continued
Inspired by a Meth Meth Method Tetris video, Simon has come back to his Tetris project in Processing, something he started a long while ago and never finished. At the … Continue reading Tetris in Processing continued
Practicing Blue Room by Rodgers and Hart
Simon’s classical repertoire has extended to include some jazz, although he still seems to prefer Brahms and Bach. And the math of music.
Live Stream #4 on December 14. Living Code > Vectors.
Simon debuted with his own coding course last week! The course is called “Living Code” and Simon has already planned all its sessions for the year ahead. He is going … Continue reading Live Stream #4 on December 14. Living Code > Vectors.
Simon a Processing member!
Simon has become a Processing Foundation member! We love Processing! Anyone is welcome to join, just go to Processing.org to support this wonderful open source platform – what better way … Continue reading Simon a Processing member!
“Corrected Newton’s Law”
Simon has decided to correct Newton’s second law:
What comes before infinity?
Overheard the kids talking to each other (in Russian): Neva: Simon, I do understand what infinity is! But which number comes just before infinity? Simon: Infinity minus x equals infinity!
The Neural Nets are here!
Simon has started building neural networks in Python! For the moment, he has succeeded in making two working neural nets (a Perceptron and a Feed Forward neural net). He used … Continue reading The Neural Nets are here!
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