a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon prepared this project as a community contribution for The Coding Train (Simon came up with his own way to draw the Hilbert Curve and added interactive elements to enable … Continue reading Space-filling Curves in p5.js.
Simon’s latest independent coding project involved some biology lessons! He loves the channel Primer by Justin Helps and watched his evolution series many times, studying the rules for species’ survival … Continue reading Evolving Creatures in p5.js
For over a month, Simon has been fascinated by Presh Talwalkar’s channel Mind Your Decisions. The channel is full of short videos on famous math problems, logic riddles, proofs and … Continue reading Mind Your Decisions
Simon learned this from an alternating series visualization by Think Twice.
Simon learned this from a visual mathematics video by Think Twice.
December was all about computer science and machine learning. Simon endlessly watched Welch Labs fantastic but freakishly challenging series Learning to See and even showed me all the 15 episodes, … Continue reading Learning to See. On Machine Learning and learning in general.
Simon had a wonderful time at MathsJam Antwerp again. One of the problems was something he was already familiar with – the puzzle about hanging a painting using two pegs … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 18 December 2019
Reading the Digital Computer Electronics eBook (third edition):
Simon spent the morning of December 5 pondering about how to test whether a number is a triangle number. “To test if something is a triangle number: double it, ask … Continue reading Simon’s Formula to Check Triangle Numbers
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
Geeks out of the box 