Benford’s Law
Simon is looking at his subscribers count on YouTube. We speculate if he gets to 1000 before the end of the academic year. Simon tells me that’s because subscriber count … Continue reading Benford’s Law
Category: Notes on everyday life
Simon’s new “giant project”: Sorting Visualizations
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
Interview with Simon on Repl.it
Repl.it has published a cool interview with Simon! It was interesting how Simon struggling to answer some of the more general questions gave me another glimpse into his beautiful mind … Continue reading Interview with Simon on Repl.it
Pathfinding algorithms: Dijkstra’s and Breadth-first search
The photos below show Simon playing with Breadth-first search and Dijkstra’s algorithms to find the most efficient path from S to E on a set of graphs. The two more … Continue reading Pathfinding algorithms: Dijkstra’s and Breadth-first search
A Knot Theory Puzzle
Simon has shown us a curious puzzle: if you hang a poster on a string using two pins, what is the way to arrange the string so that the poster … Continue reading A Knot Theory Puzzle
Always listen to Simon!
Just a funny piece from a member-only Coding Train session 😉
E-mail from Ron Graham
Wow! We have received an e-mail from his mathematical majesty Ron Graham today! In reaction to Simon’s Graham Scan project: “Hi Sophia and Simon, I love the video on Graham’s … Continue reading E-mail from Ron Graham
What Simon did instead of taking the SAT on Saturday
On Saturday morning, Simon didn’t go to the SAT examination location, although we had registered him to try taking the SAT (with great difficulties, because he is so young). In … Continue reading What Simon did instead of taking the SAT on Saturday
More examples of Simon’s chat contributions on math and coding
Simon is always extremely active in the discussions about the current projects made by/ lectures given by NYU’s Asdociate Professor Daniel Shiffman during his live sessions on the Coding Train … Continue reading More examples of Simon’s chat contributions on math and coding
Vladimir Krasnoukhov at MathsJam Antwerp!
When we arrived at the MathsJam last Tuesday, we heard a couple of people speak Russian. One of them turned out to be a well known Russian puzzle inventor Vladimir … Continue reading Vladimir Krasnoukhov at MathsJam Antwerp!
Graham Scan Algorithm
“Connect some points into a convex polygon such that all of the remaining points are inside that convex polygon. The algorithm that will find it for me is called the … Continue reading Graham Scan Algorithm
Geeks out of the box 