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“Mom, how long would it take a supercomputer running at 10^15 additions per second to calculate the 1000th Fibonacci number?” Simon has learned this problem from the new course he … Continue reading Fun with Brilliant’s Computer Courses
This magical time of the year, Simon’s craziest, most daring dreams come true! First, his guru from the New York University Daniel Shiffman sends Simon his book and the words … Continue reading Magic around New Year’s Eve
Simon has started building neural networks in Python! For the moment, he has succeeded in making two working neural nets (a Perceptron and a Feed Forward neural net). He used … Continue reading The Neural Nets are here!
Simon’s version of theĀ Citius InvadersĀ game in Processing is finally working! The big bug that seemed so unsolvable (enemies endlessly crossing over) has been defeated! Siraj Raval presented this game in … Continue reading The Genetic Algorithm Game Bug Solved!
Activation functions used in machine learning:
Simon told me today he was ready to start building his own DAE (Denoising Auto Encoder) neural network. He said he would be using a documentation page about a machine … Continue reading DAE neural net and Keras
Simon was working on a neural networks paper in Jupyter Notebook on Friday evening, but didn’t finish it because the Coding Train live stream started. He says he can no … Continue reading Simon working on a neural networks paper
There’s a part 3 coming! “Mom, my ClickCharts trial period expired, so I found this Virtual Paradigm Enterprise!” (Simon independently searches for free options to make beautiful diagrams … Continue reading Simon’s bedtime lectures on neural networks
Excerpts from Simon writing about distributions in an IPython Notebook, consulting Numpy Documentation. The code for the examples below is his own. Simon had earlier created similar examples about Matplotlib, … Continue reading Simon writing about distributions in an IPython Notebook
Simon has been watching a lot of Siraj Raval’s videos on neural networks lately, brushing up his Python syntax and derivatives. He has even been trying the great Jupyter editor, … Continue reading Introducing Siraj Raval
In this video, Simon gives an introduction to the basics of programming languages (what languages there are, which ones are front end and which ones are back end and what … Continue reading Simon’s Lecture on Programming Languages
Simon hadn’t been writing in Python for months but seems to be quite fluent still, here using the Python space in Processing for the first time:
Geeks out of the box 