Koch Snowflake
His sister an grandma visiting from snowy Russia making paper snowflakes inspired Simon… Right is Simon’s sister’s snowflake, left is Simon’s:
Category: Simon teaching
Random Number Generator
Programmed a random number generator to hep him with a card trick. Inspired by Numberphile:
Live Stream #7. Chapter 3 of Living Code: Random Numbers.
Simon’s 7th live stream on Thursday went great. He has about 230 subscribers at the moment, so there were people watching and posting encouraging comments in the chat. In the … Continue reading Live Stream #7. Chapter 3 of Living Code: Random Numbers.
Infinite sum formulas
Simon writes: Sorry the video was cut off, we’ve recorded this video from our phone, but the phone ran out of memory. Actually, if -1/4 = 3S, can you … Continue reading Infinite sum formulas
The Square-Sum Problem
Simon has become a full-blown Numberphile fan over the past couple of days. He had already watched two Matt Parker videos before, but it’s this week that he got seriously … Continue reading The Square-Sum Problem
Live Stream #6. (Mostly) Chapter 2 of Living Code: Forces.
Simon’s latest live stream on Thursday, January 11 was a blast! For the first time in his programming career he actually had quite a few viewers – largely thanks to … Continue reading Live Stream #6. (Mostly) Chapter 2 of Living Code: Forces.
Simon writes CodePen blog on for-loops
Simon has authored a comprehensive post about For-Loops (in JavaScript ES5 and ES6) in the CodePen blog, nice for anyone learning about loops syntax: https://codepen.io/simontiger/post/for-loops Simon’s update: I now also … Continue reading Simon writes CodePen blog on for-loops
Simon’s Fibonacci function and Fibonacci counter in p5.js
Simon came up with this Fibonacci function while taking a walk downtown: f(0) = 0 f(1) = 1 f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2) When we got home, he used the function to … Continue reading Simon’s Fibonacci function and Fibonacci counter in p5.js
Live Stream #4 on December 14. Living Code > Vectors.
Simon debuted with his own coding course last week! The course is called “Living Code” and Simon has already planned all its sessions for the year ahead. He is going … Continue reading Live Stream #4 on December 14. Living Code > Vectors.
What comes before infinity?
Overheard the kids talking to each other (in Russian): Neva: Simon, I do understand what infinity is! But which number comes just before infinity? Simon: Infinity minus x equals infinity!
The Neural Nets are here!
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 explains K Means Clustering
Simon has prepared this implementation of “K-Means Clustering” in Processing as a gift for Daniel Shiffman, who is plainning to talk about this Machine Learning model in one of his … Continue reading Simon explains K Means Clustering
Geeks out of the box 