Our First Month in the US
It has been exactly a month since our first day in Boston. Our heads and my phone are about to burst from the sheer number of impressions and stimuli we … Continue reading Our First Month in the US
Category: Writing and calligraphy
The Game
I’m too excited to sleep. I’m excited about the game. I’m excited about our future games. I’m excited about the games we will play. And I’m excited about the milkshake … Continue reading The Game
The Winter Game
Neva invented this game for us and we have had a late night candle light “party” playing it (just the three of us, Dad already gone to bed). We laughed … Continue reading The Winter Game
The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
Simon has been pondering a lot about various ways to visualize or prove the quadratic formula. He eventually came up with a 4-meter-long quiz sheet, slowly revealing the logic behind … Continue reading The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
Mind Your Decisions
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
Practicing Chinese calligraphy
Simon uses this book for his Mandarin lessons.
Chienese and pancakes
From the wonderful set “Chineasy”. Simon says he knows about 100 characters, not sure that’s true.
Happy Birthday to Dad in Chinese
Simon created this animation in Codea during his Chinese lesson, to congratulate Dad on his 40th birthday. And this was a task he came with after the vacation:
Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
Chinese
Simon’s progress in Chinese over the last couple of weeks. It’s funny how he writes neat cursive English words alongside the characters during the Mandarin lessons but hates writing cursive … Continue reading Chinese
Chinese homework
Simon doing his Chinese homework: And here’s the same homework corrected by the tutor:
I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
Simon was doing sentence analysis (something that he quite likes), but this time it involved writing (and he hates physical writing). Even though he has been writing since age 3 and … Continue reading I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
Geeks out of the box 