From NAND to Tetris
Last week, Simon found this awesome free computer engineering course and textbook, and dove right in. The course teaches how to create: A basic computer A higher-level language A mini … Continue reading From NAND to Tetris
Category: Engineering
Logic Gates. Simon has programmed his own Digital Logic Simulator.
Simon has been greatly inspired by Sebastian Lague’s new video on how computers work, it seems to have sparked a whole new wave of enthusiasm about logic gates and logic … Continue reading Logic Gates. Simon has programmed his own Digital Logic Simulator.
How efficient is a base?
I defined the efficiency function in JS, I turned the crank and I got this table. So what this is is the efficiency in bases 2 through 8 for the … Continue reading How efficient is a base?
Simon’s Halting Problem Gist
You can easily turn every statement into a program. If the program stops, or “halts”, then the statement is true, and if it never stops, or “loops”, the statement is … Continue reading Simon’s Halting Problem Gist
Sound Wave Simulation
Simon created a string simulation or a simulation of a traveling wave, something he used to experiment with using a slinky. Pressing the F key flattens the wave, the T … Continue reading Sound Wave Simulation
What do we know: COVID-19 and Protein Folding
On April 9, Simon finished his World Science Scholars course “From Chemistry to Living materials” and had his final live session with MIT’s Professor Markus Buehler who works on COVID-19. … Continue reading What do we know: COVID-19 and Protein Folding
Simon continues practicing Digital Computer Electronics
Reading the Digital Computer Electronics eBook (third edition):
Discussing the news: dangers of shorting your mobile
Today we have heard about a new accident involving a teenager electrocuted by her mobile phone. Luckily, this time it was not a lethal case, but a quick search on … Continue reading Discussing the news: dangers of shorting your mobile
More Engineering. RAM Ready in the simulated 8-bit computer project in Circuitverse.
In October and early November, Simon was busy with another attempt to simulate SAP-1 (simple as possible processor, an 8-bit computer) in Circuitverse (something that he hadn’t managed to complete … Continue reading More Engineering. RAM Ready in the simulated 8-bit computer project in Circuitverse.
Vanishing Letters
Simon’s way to celebrate Helloween: a little demo about how red marker reflects red LED light and becomes invisible. A nice trick in the dark! We also had so much … Continue reading Vanishing Letters
Zutopedia, a fun Computer Science Resource
Through the whole moth of October, Simon really loved watching Computer Science and Physics videos by Udi Aharoni, a researcher at IBM research labs and creator of the Udiprod channel … Continue reading Zutopedia, a fun Computer Science Resource
Supersymmetry: Why do we need the Future Circular Collider?
This is the text of the mini-lecture on Supersymmetry that CERN Research Physicist, CMS supersymmetry group convener and Deputy LHC Programme Coordinator Filip Moortgat kindly gave us during our visit … Continue reading Supersymmetry: Why do we need the Future Circular Collider?
Geeks out of the box 