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Simon has started a huge new project: a series of video tutorials about sorting algorithms. In the videos, he codes on his RaspberryPi, but here is the link to the … Continue reading Simon creates a playlist with Sorting Algorithms tutorials in Python
Simon explaining his creative coding poster to artists from the Antwerp Art Academy at a small exhibition he was part of last Wednesday.
Simon has tried Matt Parker’s multiplicative persistence challenge on Numberphile: by multiplying all the digits in a large number, looking for the number of steps it takes to bring that … Continue reading Multiplicative Persistence in Wolfram Mathematica
Simon has created the Recaman Sequence audio in Wolfram! First with 70 notes, then with 300 notes.
Simon has been completely carried away by Wolfram Mathematica. He keeps starting new projects, just to try something out. After working on his Knot Theory book for days, and making … Continue reading Domain Coloring with Complex Functions in Wolfram Mathematica
These are just a couple of pages from Simon’s new book/ digital presentation on knot theory that he’s currently working on: I see him scavenging the internet in search of … Continue reading Simon working on a book about Knot Theory
Simon’s general plan for his 2048 project: Link to the project in progress on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/2048 In this third part he shows how he changed the fonts, how that messed … Continue reading Building a 2048 Game. Part 3.
Simon opened up a genetic algorithm game he built about two years ago and made a fascinating discovery: one of the organisms seems to have become immortal! Simon has called … Continue reading Simon has created an “immortal” organism?
Link to the project in progress on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/2048 Simon has started building his own 2048 game. In the two videos below he explains the initial stages of the project … Continue reading Simon’s own 2048
Simon had his first public performance in front of a large audience last Saturday (February 9, 2019): he spoke about his Times Tables Visualization project at the Processing Community Day … Continue reading Simon speaking at the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam
The number of collisions between two objects equals a number of digits of Pi. The code on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/Pool_Pi Simon writes: From where I got this I called this sketch … Continue reading Simon’s code for an intriguing problem from the 3Blue1Brown math channel
My Times Tables Visualization Poster has arrived! Will probably present this at @CC_Amsterdam @ProcessingOrg Community Day Amsterdam! https://t.co/ChTg0eOLIn
Geeks out of the box 