a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
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
Simon’s returned to cosmology, as he always does, on a new level. Binge watching PBS Spacetime and Domain of Science Space Playlist.
Code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/nPNGc_1g Interactive project online: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/nPNGc_1g
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.
Simon saw this thumbnail (by the channel Mind Your Decisions) among the YouTube recommended videos and sat down to solve it, without watching the video, so that he doesn’t see … Continue reading The Ladder Problem
Simon’s visualization of the notorious thee-body problem (two stars and a particle) in 1D: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/WTUoBaxgo and in 2D: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/B0pQl94pd
Simon saw a prototype of this Galton Board in a video about maths toys (it works similarly to a sand timer in a see-through container). He created his digital simulation … Continue reading Galton Board in p5.js
Link to the interactive project and the code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/n6-WZhMC3 Simon built a simple cellular automaton (rule 22) model for fracture. He read about this model a couple nights before in … Continue reading Crack Simulation in p5.js
Today we have heard about a new accident involving a teenager electrocuted by her mobile phone. Luckily, this time it was not a lethal case, but a quick search on … Continue reading Discussing the news: dangers of shorting your mobile
Simon’s September visit to CERN has been featured in a World Science Scholars newsletter: Here’s our update on the World Science Scholars program. Simon has finished the first bootcamp course … Continue reading World Science Scholars Feature Simon’s visit to CERN in a newsletter. The current course is about neurons. Reading Stephen Wolfram.
In October and early November, Simon was busy with another attempt to simulate SAP-1 (simple as possible processor, an 8-bit computer) in Circuitverse (something that he hadn’t managed to complete … Continue reading More Engineering. RAM Ready in the simulated 8-bit computer project in Circuitverse.
This one’s back from mid-October, forgot to post here. Simon created a random number generator that generates a frequency, and then picks it back up. Then, it calculates the error … Continue reading Simon’s Random Number Generator
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