a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
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.
This is what I got from the kids yesterday as my Mother’s Day present. Simon has taught Neva to make little animations in Python. This is another little video of … Continue reading Making small animations with Python turtle
What has been your silver lining during this COVID-19 crisis so far, in terms of self-directed learning? Simon is happy that Grant Sanderson, Stephen Wolfram and Brian Greene all have … Continue reading More Stephen Wolfram and Brian Greene
Pondering over the future, I told the kids the universal basic income and Doughnut Economics should be the next step. Simon game me an improvised lecture on doughnut topology. Well, … Continue reading Doughnut Education
Since mid-March, all playgrounds have been closed in Belgium, so we’ve been left with simply taking walks, first at the park and then, after we were no longer allowed to … Continue reading Math and Game Theory Outside
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
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
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
After a whole night working on my writing and not feeling very fresh in the morning, I told Simon about the three ages of life: the young age is when … Continue reading The three ages or 1-input 1-output logic gates
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
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.
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