New Collab
Simon’s got a new collab going and possibly what is a beginning of a real friendship with a peer from Bangalore, India. They have already finished several wonderful projects together … Continue reading New Collab
Category: Group
The Winter Game
Neva invented this game for us and we have had a late night candle light “party” playing it (just the three of us, Dad already gone to bed). We laughed … Continue reading The Winter Game
A Beautiful Universe by Professor Cumrun Vafa World Science Scholars Live Session
Simon enjoyed the informal interaction during the live session, even though he had been a little critical about the course. He always tunes in better once it gets less formal. … Continue reading A Beautiful Universe by Professor Cumrun Vafa World Science Scholars Live Session
Simon’s first impressions of this year’s first course with World Science Scholars
Last weekend, Simon started this new school year’s first World Science Scholars course, A Beautiful Universe: Black Holes, String Theory, and the Laws of Nature as Mathematical Puzzles with Breakthrough … Continue reading Simon’s first impressions of this year’s first course with World Science Scholars
Year two of the World Science Scholars program
The new cohort of World Science Scholars (a World Science Festival program for young math talents from across the world) seems to be more active than last year’s group. Or … Continue reading Year two of the World Science Scholars program
World Cleanup Day 2020
10 times the volume of an olympic swimming pool of plastic waste ends up in the world ocean every hour. E v e r y h o u r. Today … Continue reading World Cleanup Day 2020
ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
Amidst all the traveling in August, Simon was working on his first serious coding competition submission. Together with a friend from Australia, he was building a new programming language called … Continue reading ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
After months is self-isolation, we spent the whole month of August away from home, first at our old home in Amsterdam, where we had some urgent personal matters to arrange, … Continue reading Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
Tchisla Clone
Simon is working on a clone of Tchisla, an absorbing number puzzle app from the (Russian!!) creators of Euclidea. The aim is to represent numbers as arithmetical expressions using only … Continue reading Tchisla Clone
Dissecting Polygons
Every polygon can be triangulated into exactly n-2 triangles. So you’ve got the triangulation theorem and the totally opposite theorem in the math universe, Girard’s theorem (the formula for the … Continue reading Dissecting Polygons
Simon made a discord bot
Last Tuesday, May 19, was somewhat a historic day as Simon created his first Discord bot (actually, two bots: one that does polls and count-downs and another programmable one that … Continue reading Simon made a discord bot
Geeks out of the box 