A Rude Joke
This has been an interesting arithmetic task Simon came up with from his Secrets of Sums book, aimed at practicing long division. You had to do the division and count how … Continue reading A Rude Joke
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.
Almost talking to the computer!
This is one of those wow projects, so much fun! Simon built his Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text demos following Daniel Shiffman’s recent live streams on working with the p5.Speech library and … Continue reading Almost talking to the computer!
Simon writing a Matter.js textbook
Simon is currently working on a “Matter.js textbook”, a set of tutorials on how to use Matter.js (a physics library) that he writes on GitHub. Simon writes everything himself, not … Continue reading Simon writing a Matter.js textbook
Simon builds his own RiveScript Editor
Simon has been working on a RiveScript Editor for creating chat bots. RiveScript is a markup language, that gives chat bots the ability to respond to messages from humans using natural … Continue reading Simon builds his own RiveScript Editor
Code Editor with Webcam
Simon has come up with a code (in Processing) for an editor that includes live Webcam image to help him record coding tutorials. The project is still in progress.
Shadow of a 4D object
Simon built “the shadow of a 4D object” during math class, inspired by the Royal Institution’s video Four Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension with Matt … Continue reading Shadow of a 4D object
Simon contributes to the p5.Speech library
Simon has made a pull request to the p5.Speech GitHub repo (a milestone!) and hopes his request gets merged. In this video he explains what he wants to improve with … Continue reading Simon contributes to the p5.Speech library
28 times 28
Simon programmed a presentation to explain why 28×28 is not the same as 20×20 + 8×8 geometrically. The code is quite complicated and involves some trigonometry and conditional statements: the … Continue reading 28 times 28
Cannon Game in Processing
Simon shows the Cannon game he created in Processing (Java). He says he was inspired by the Stackoverflow forum, where he saw an example of the game and later wrote … Continue reading Cannon Game in Processing
Introducing Siraj Raval
Simon has been watching a lot of Siraj Raval’s videos on neural networks lately, brushing up his Python syntax and derivatives. He has even been trying the great Jupyter editor, … Continue reading Introducing Siraj Raval
Simon’s Particle Train
Simon made a particle system based on Daniel Shiffman’s latest live stream. Here is the link to Simon’s code on CodePen: https://codepen.io/simontiger/pen/OxvYYW?editors=0010 He also tweeted about it: #particletrain https://t.co/LDvVuWtQ6B pic.twitter.com/Mv0yJ64Jyh — … Continue reading Simon’s Particle Train
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