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Simon writes (this is a copy of the question he has published in Coding Train’s Slack chat): Hi! I was unconvinced on a Brilliant puzzle: The problem (at https://brilliant.org/practice/treaps/?p=4): Me … Continue reading Unconvinced on a Brilliant puzzle
We have tried using an LED backwards: not get it to shine by letting an electric current pass through it but produce electricity by shining light on an LED (this … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Using an LED backwards
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
“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
Simon explaining his creative coding poster to artists from the Antwerp Art Academy at a small exhibition he was part of last Wednesday.
Simon showed us this amazing hing with a fidget spinner. It’s called stroboscopic effect. It’s a visual phenomenon that occurs when continuous motion is represented by a series of short or … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Stroboscopic Effect
Mesmerised by the 3D printed gears on Numberphile: “If you move two of these, the third one appears to be hovering in mid-air!”, Simon made a similar construction of his … Continue reading How do 3 gear work?
Simon has finished working on his Pi Composition, a piece of music entirely based on Pi (in the treble clef). Simon used only the digits of Pi he knew from … Continue reading Simon’s Pi Composition
We have wanted to do the Double-Slit experiment for a long time. Finally, last Friday, armed with a suitable box, we ventured outside. To our common disappointment, light just wouldn’t … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Double Slit
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
Geeks out of the box 