a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon is currently working on a “Matter.js textbook”, a set of tutorials on how to use Matter.js (a physics library) that he writes on GitHub. Simon writes everything himself, not … Continue reading Simon writing a Matter.js textbook
Simon has been working on a RiveScript Editor for creating chat bots. RiveScript is a markup language, that gives chat bots the ability to respond to messages from humans using natural … Continue reading Simon builds his own RiveScript Editor
Simon has come up with a code (in Processing) for an editor that includes live Webcam image to help him record coding tutorials. The project is still in progress.
Simon built “the shadow of a 4D object” during math class, inspired by the Royal Institution’s video Four Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension with Matt … Continue reading Shadow of a 4D object
Simon has made a pull request to the p5.Speech GitHub repo (a milestone!) and hopes his request gets merged. In this video he explains what he wants to improve with … Continue reading Simon contributes to the p5.Speech library
Simon programmed a presentation to explain why 28×28 is not the same as 20×20 + 8×8 geometrically. The code is quite complicated and involves some trigonometry and conditional statements: the … Continue reading 28 times 28
Simon shows the Cannon game he created in Processing (Java). He says he was inspired by the Stackoverflow forum, where he saw an example of the game and later wrote … Continue reading Cannon Game in Processing
Simon has been watching a lot of Siraj Raval’s videos on neural networks lately, brushing up his Python syntax and derivatives. He has even been trying the great Jupyter editor, … Continue reading Introducing Siraj Raval
Simon made a particle system based on Daniel Shiffman’s latest live stream. Here is the link to Simon’s code on CodePen: https://codepen.io/simontiger/pen/OxvYYW?editors=0010 He also tweeted about it: #particletrain https://t.co/LDvVuWtQ6B pic.twitter.com/Mv0yJ64Jyh — … Continue reading Simon’s Particle Train
Inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s recent live stream on chat bots, Simon made two chat bots himself. He seems to really enjoy the logic behind programming bot conversations. Daniel Shiffman even … Continue reading Simon’s Chat Bots
Simon is a fan of the 3Blue1Brown channel and absolutely loved their video on solving the Towers of Hanoi puzzle with binary and ternary numbers. He practiced a lot with … Continue reading The Towers of Hanoi
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