a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Entering a new domain! Making specifically this bookmarklet (delete bookmarklet) was Simon’s idea. He learned to make bookmarklets today during Daniel Shiffman’s live session on basic bookmarklets and Chrome extensions. The … Continue reading Bookmarklet
Here is Simon playing à quatre mains with his little sis, something he loves doing since she started piano lessons. She is not very keen on taking instructions, which upsets Simon enormously … Continue reading à quatre mains
This is the archived version of Simon’s first live stream. It went really well, even though Simon’s code didn’t function together with his Speechjs library. Simon didn’t panic and showed … Continue reading Simon’s Live Stream
Today is a big day as – for the first time in human history – a short story has been published that was written by a robot together with … Continue reading Simon explains the I, Robot project. How do synthetic literature neural nets work?
This is how happy a child can be while taking a class:
Simon is planning to do his fist coding live stream (online lesson he is going to teach to his audience on YouTube) on Thursday, 2 November at 5 p.m. CET. … Continue reading Announcing Simon’s First Live Stream!
Excerpts from Simon writing about distributions in an IPython Notebook, consulting Numpy Documentation. The code for the examples below is his own. Simon had earlier created similar examples about Matplotlib, … Continue reading Simon writing about distributions in an IPython Notebook
Last week Simon suddenly unpacked his old electronics sets and completed several projects with Arduino, his old single-board friend that got him into coding a little over a year ago. … Continue reading Arduino to relax
When instead of a bed time story, your child insists upon teaching you gradient descent:
Simon usually doesn’t like going places that much, but the trip to the Atomium in Brussels was a huge success, largely thanks to the Magritte exhibition hosted there at the … Continue reading Love for the absurd
Simon has just finished working on his first library, a #speechlibrary Speechjs. You can find Simon’s library on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/speechjs Simon also added a reference page at: https://github.com/simon-tiger/speechjs/wiki/Reference You can … Continue reading Simon made his own speech library: Speechjs
Following the exciting text-to-speech and speech-to-text projects yesterday, this morning Simon made a basic speech-to-text-to-speech demo, which means that the computer can now repeat (parrot) everything Simon says. Simon relied … Continue reading Computer repeats after Simon
Geeks out of the box 