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.
Problem with a Genetic Algorithm Game
Simon has been working very hard at making his version of the Citius Invaders game that Siraj Raval presented in Python during Week 9 of his “Math of Intelligence” course. … Continue reading Problem with a Genetic Algorithm Game
Simon working on a neural networks paper
Simon was working on a neural networks paper in Jupyter Notebook on Friday evening, but didn’t finish it because the Coding Train live stream started. He says he can no … Continue reading Simon working on a neural networks paper
Simon building a Perceptron in Processing
Simon has already built a Perceptron before, several months ago, while following along with Daniel Sgiffman’s Coding Train channel. This time around, he is writing his own code ad doing … Continue reading Simon building a Perceptron in Processing
Simon’s bedtime lectures on neural networks
There’s a part 3 coming! “Mom, my ClickCharts trial period expired, so I found this Virtual Paradigm Enterprise!” (Simon independently searches for free options to make beautiful diagrams … Continue reading Simon’s bedtime lectures on neural networks
Simon’s Live Streams (Speechjs and Supershape Morphing)
Simon’s second Live Stream today (in two parts, see the archived versions below) was a big success! He fixed the bug in his own Speechjs library (for speech recognition and … Continue reading Simon’s Live Streams (Speechjs and Supershape Morphing)
Just another day in graphs
Simon loves looking at things geometrically. Even when solving word problems, he tends to see them as a graph. And naturally, since he started doing more math related to machine … Continue reading Just another day in graphs
Pajama Lecture on Quarks, Leptons and Bosons
Pajama Lecture on Quarks, Leptons and Bosons (and a little bit on the Graviton):
Sphere Morphing in Processing
Simon is trying to write a program for Sphere Morphing in Processing, first making a test code in p5.js (available here: https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/S1zcwevkz) In the video below, Simon is explaining the … Continue reading Sphere Morphing in Processing
Simon building P5 onoffline editor
Simon has been working on a large-scale project for a while, building his own editor that he called onoffline editor because it’s downloadable online. As always, the idea is totally … Continue reading Simon building P5 onoffline editor
Denoising Auto Encoder
Simon explaining how a Denoising Auto Encoder (DAE) neural network works:
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