Pi Day 2020
This year’s Pi Day wasn’t as joyful as in the previous years, as it coincided with our first week in self-isolation and we were too preoccupied to make sure we … Continue reading Pi Day 2020
Category: Murderous Maths
Beautiful fractals, this time not programmed but drawn by hand in an image editor
Simon learned this technique from a wonderful channel he has recently discovered called CodeParade. He mainly follows this channel for its machine learning projects, but this cool little trick on … Continue reading Beautiful fractals, this time not programmed but drawn by hand in an image editor
Math for Neural Networks and Calculus Fundamentals via Brilliant.org
A little over a month ago, Simon picked up neural networks again (something he had tried a while ago but couldn’t grasp intuitively). He started the Artificial Neural Networks course … Continue reading Math for Neural Networks and Calculus Fundamentals via Brilliant.org
Some more math tricks
Sometimes, Simon loves a trick or a puzzle so much he writes it down several times over the course of a couple of days. he also really enjoys teaching this … Continue reading Some more math tricks
Spherical Geometry
After Simon read up on spherical geometry on Brilliant.org, he and Neva crafted some pretty colourful half-spheres. How’s that as an alternative to Easter eggs? Simon has also discovered a … Continue reading Spherical Geometry
BeĢzier Curve in p5.js
Code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/nPNGc_1g Interactive project online: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/nPNGc_1g
Brilliant’s Daily Challenges
Simon is doing an increasing load of Brilliant’s daily challenges. Some more recent challenges:
Fun crafty puzzles Simon did with Neva
Three boxes with fruit, all the three labels are misplaced. What is the minimum number of times one will have to sample a random piece of fruit from one of … Continue reading Fun crafty puzzles Simon did with Neva
How Many Dice Rolls Until You Get a Repeat. A Probability Experiment in p5.js
How many times, on average, do you have to roll a dice until you get a repeated value? I saw this probability challenge on the Mind Your Decisions channel. I … Continue reading How Many Dice Rolls Until You Get a Repeat. A Probability Experiment in p5.js
Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem
In a complete binary tree, every node has two children (except for the bottom nodes that don’t have any children at all). This means one mind-blowing thing: that the bottom … Continue reading Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem
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.
Geeks out of the box 