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Simon’s September visit to CERN has been featured in a World Science Scholars newsletter: Here’s our update on the World Science Scholars program. Simon has finished the first bootcamp course … Continue reading World Science Scholars Feature Simon’s visit to CERN in a newsletter. The current course is about neurons. Reading Stephen Wolfram.
This project is a simulation of how many people can stem from the same ancestor, something Simon has learned from James Grime’s “Every Baby is a Royal Baby” video on … Continue reading The All Common Ancestors Generation
Simon opened up a genetic algorithm game he built about two years ago and made a fascinating discovery: one of the organisms seems to have become immortal! Simon has called … Continue reading Simon has created an “immortal” organism?
Bayes’s Theorem calculates the probability of an event based upon the conditions that might be relevant to the event and is widely used to test the precision of medical tests … Continue reading Bayes’ Theorem
Simon has been fascinated about theĀ Opponent-process theory (suggesting that color perception is controlled by the activity of three opponent systems, three independent receptor types which all have opposing pairs: white … Continue reading Electromagnetic Spectrum and the Opponent-process Theory
Simon is seriously enjoying his new Molymod chemistry modeling sets and has been obsessing about which set contains what atoms and bonds. Alcohol (Ethanol): Hurray! We have just built 7,333333333333 … Continue reading Molecules
What looks like strange planets in dark space are actually glimpses of the microstructures forming the Giant Blue Morpho’s wings, as seen through a microscope. Simon told me about how … Continue reading Microstructures Interfering With Light
You need 24 bits (3 bytes) to simulate color. That’s 24 ones and zeros. How many bits are necessary to simulate taste? Or smell? Correction: You would need 584 bits … Continue reading The Senses: Simulating Taste and Smell
Although Simon doesn’t have the Magformers Dinosaur Set, he does have all the pieces (he collects the set using the pieces from other sets). It’s great fun to be able … Continue reading Building dinos and looking them up in the encyclopedia
Simon used an algorithm that applies transformations randomly, with some transformations more likely to be picked. The result is a stunning fern leaf pattern. Amazing how such beauty can be … Continue reading Barnsley Fern in Processing
Simon wrote this JavaScript code for Langton’s Ant (a type of Cellular Automaton) himself, inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s description/version in Processing (Java) during the Coding Train live stream on January … Continue reading Langton’s Ant in p5.js
Simon’s version of theĀ Citius InvadersĀ game in Processing is finally working! The big bug that seemed so unsolvable (enemies endlessly crossing over) has been defeated! Siraj Raval presented this game in … Continue reading The Genetic Algorithm Game Bug Solved!
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