a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Everyone at our household have always had aversion to violent computer games. When we speak of games, we mainly speak of immersive environments, educational games and, since Simon took his … Continue reading First Steps in Unity 🎱
Simon has been hiding so-called “easter eggs” on his Discord server, i.e. hidden surprises that can be anything ranging from a character code to a math puzzle, for his friends … Continue reading What Geeks Do for Easter Egg Hunt 🥚
CodinGame is a fun and social way to learn to code. Neva has been practicing in both speed solving other people’s coding challenges and authoring her own math-based puzzles for … Continue reading Neva has started creating her own puzzles on CodinGame
It never seizes to mesmerize me how Simon sees math. So many times has he solved math problems or proved theorems relying on visual, geometric illustrations instead of bluntly applying … Continue reading Simon Shares his Derivatives Tricks: Visualizing Calculus
Simon and his wonderful friend Abhay built a text to speech bot, who now joins their almost daily meetups: Earlier in March, Simon and Abhay also built a different bot … Continue reading More bots
Thanks to the amazing Brick Experiment Channel, Simon has been hooked on experimenting with Lego gears to create a number of crazy aggregates, like a paper ribbler: The biggest project … Continue reading Lego Power Experiments
We’ve calculated the perfect (optimized) combination of biological corn snack (dinos) vs. premium Belgian chocolate eggs. Simon takes it from here: Here’re the assumptions that we used: Both one bag … Continue reading Easter Eggs Optimization Problem
Simon continues his regular and very rewarding collabs with his friend Abhay Kashyap. Here’s what they have been up to lately: We recreated another Flash game, Gravitee. The hardest part … Continue reading Latest Collabs: Rainbows, Wormholes and Fireballs
This was a beast of a project but Simon didn’t cave in. The video below features the two of us trying to unscramble the bot’s scrambles and also the painful … Continue reading Discord Bot to Play Word Scramble
After a good friend from Amsterdam invited us to take part in his self-made quiz show, this got Simon really excited about Kahoot.com and all the possibilities it has to … Continue reading Quiz Jazz
Simon is continuing to explore the world of music outside formal piano lessons (which he currently doesn’t attend due to Covid disruptions). He has learned polyrhythms on Adam Neely’s channel … Continue reading How to Play (with) Music
Correction to an earlier post about one hour of snow this winter. Just as winter was wrapping up we did get more snow and ice (as did many people across … Continue reading Winter Memories
Geeks out of the box 