Where are my compasses?
There’s been a lot of drawing going on here lately. And jokes, like in the video above. Yesterday, after he got distracted while trying to draw the exact tangent … Continue reading Where are my compasses?
Category: Notes on everyday life
Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
A few more pics from the coding everywhere series: Here Simon made a game especially for his sister: Among the remaining favorites were reading (see an earlier post), swimming (and … Continue reading Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
Simon turned 8!
For his 8th birthday, Simon made a present for himself in Node.js and spoke about his new year’s resolutions that mainly involve live streaming: Today, two days later, we actually … Continue reading Simon turned 8!
At Het Pass in Mons (Bergen)
Simon is not really into museums. He prefers to learn things at his own pace and dislikes crowds. The pictures below are from our visit to Het Pass, a science … Continue reading At Het Pass in Mons (Bergen)
Simon’s Rational Fractions Rule
This weekend Simon told me he came up with this rule that if you take two denominators that make rational fractions when you divide one by those denominators and you … Continue reading Simon’s Rational Fractions Rule
Newton’s Laws
I heard Simon jump and talk about Newton’s Laws at the same time, so I asked him to remind me what all the 3 Newton’s Laws were for the camera:
Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game
Note: See the update at the bottom of this post! We’ve had quite a dramatic situation here for the past couple of days, after Simon turned Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering … Continue reading Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game
Simon and the Butterflies
Simon told me about two butterflies trying to mate: “One is attracted to the other one and the other one is repelled from it!” He added that he’d already built … Continue reading Simon and the Butterflies
And some of the latest quotes:
Simon talking to himself in English, lying on the floor under his desk, his chair upside down next to him: “Am I also 4D? Probably, because I live through time…” … Continue reading And some of the latest quotes:
Back to Python (and C#)!
Simon was preoccupied with vector functions for most of the day on Saturday, compiling what, at first site, looked like a monstrously excessive code in Processing (he recycled some of … Continue reading Back to Python (and C#)!
Geeks out of the box 