Question Bot
Simon has built a question bot that will collect questions on The Coding Train Discord so that Daniel Shiffman can answer them during the following live session. This is something … Continue reading Question Bot
Category: Contributing
How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation?
This is Simon’s contribution to #blacklivesmatter How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation? This video and coding project is based on Segregation Solitaire by Thomas Schelling, an American mathematician and … Continue reading How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation?
Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan in p5.js
Simon has recreated the CodingGame.com’s Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan game in p5.js to be able to work on the AI versions after the spring challenge has finished. Link to Simon’s … Continue reading Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan in p5.js
Linear Equations in Geogebra
“This is what matrices and matrix manipulations really look like”, Simon says, making this visialization inspired by a video on Zach Star’s channel. Simon’s Geogebra project is published online at … Continue reading Linear Equations in Geogebra
New Friends. New Horizons.
Thanks to the lock-down, Simon’s got new friends. For a little over a month now, he has been part of exciting daily discussions, challenging coding sessions and just playing together … Continue reading New Friends. New Horizons.
Simon’s Corona Epidemic Simulation Code Along Project
At the beginning of April, Simon started working on his COVID-19 epidemic simulation project, implementing a number of scenarios (like various degrees of hygiene, quarantine, social distancing), explaining his code … Continue reading Simon’s Corona Epidemic Simulation Code Along Project
Corona Math
On March 17, Simon started a series of math and coding projects about COVID-19. The first projects he called Corona Math: Why Social Isolation? This is part I of my … Continue reading Corona Math
Live Session with Stephen Wolfram and the Wolfram Demo Project, World Science Scholars.
Simon has completed the course A New Kind of Science with Stephen Wolfram and the World Science Scholars program. Which doesn’t mean he is done with digging deep into Wolfram’s … Continue reading Live Session with Stephen Wolfram and the Wolfram Demo Project, World Science Scholars.
Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges
Simon keeps thoroughly enjoying Brilliant’s approach to intelligence and learning (even though he sometimes dislikes the way the daily challenges are formulated). His latest stats: From the courses he has … Continue reading Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges
How Simon takes part in the Coding train live sessions
Every live session Daniel Shiffman mentions Simon several times, usually because Simon gives good feedback/ advice. On the other end, Simon is invigorated and jumping about the room. Sometimes resulting … Continue reading How Simon takes part in the Coding train live sessions
Simon Builds a Chess AI with Minimax
I’ve been terrible at keeping this blog up to date. One of Simon’s best project in December 2019 was creating a chess robot and I haven’t even shared it here. … Continue reading Simon Builds a Chess AI with Minimax
MathsJam Antwerp 20 November 2019. A Blast and a Responsibility.
Today, Simon returned to a problem he first encountered at a MathsJam in summer: “Pick random numbers between 0 and 1, until the sum exceeds 1. What is the expected … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 20 November 2019. A Blast and a Responsibility.
Geeks out of the box 