a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon’s sister Neva has started a vlog and Simon, busy as he is, enjoys editing her videos. For the first 17-minute video he has also done all the subtitles (translating … Continue reading Simon edits his sisters vlog and does the subtitles
This one’s back from mid-October, forgot to post here. Simon created a random number generator that generates a frequency, and then picks it back up. Then, it calculates the error … Continue reading Simon’s Random Number Generator
Simon has worked really hard for several days on his first machine learning community contribution! He has created this mini-series about building a game of Make 24 with Google’s Teachable … Continue reading Make 24 with Teachable Machine in p5, ml5.
This is an example of the learning style that Simon enjoys most. He really likes doing the daily challenges on Brilliant.org. He later sometimes discusses them with other participants or … Continue reading Brilliant Discussions
Take any real number and call it x. Then plug it into the equation f(x) = 1 + 1/x and keep doing it many times in a row, plugging the … Continue reading Why the Golden Ratio and not -1/the Golden Ratio?
While in Southern France, Simon really enjoyed solving this puzzle (he originally saw in a Brilliant.org vid). He was so happy with his solution he kept drawing it out on … Continue reading Simon having fun solving math puzzles on Twitter.
Here we are, on the day of my 40th birthday, while recording a lesson of drawing with turtle in Python. It was meant to be my birthday present, a beginner-friendly … Continue reading Drawing with Turtle
Simon believes that he has found a mistake in one of the installations at the Technopolis science museum. Or at least that the background description of the exhibit lacks a … Continue reading The Brachistochrone
Simon writes: I’ve built a giant project; a website / community project / platform for making algorithms! I’ve built in this video Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Insertion Sort, Mergesort, Quicksort, … Continue reading Simon’s new “giant project”: Sorting Visualizations
Just a funny piece from a member-only Coding Train session 😉
This is Simon’s version of Daniel Shiffman’s 2D Casting code, made on Wednesday last week right after the live session. Link to the live session including the coding challenge. Code … Continue reading Simon’s Community Contribution: Variation of 2D Casting Coding Challenge in p5.js
Below is Simon’s issue/ topic suggestion he contributed to the Coding Train GitHub yesterday, addressed to Daniel Shiffman: Function Overloading Nah. Operator Overloading OK, first, we have to understand the valueOf() function. valueOf() is … Continue reading Example of Simon contributing an issue on GitHub
Geeks out of the box 