New Collab
Simon’s got a new collab going and possibly what is a beginning of a real friendship with a peer from Bangalore, India. They have already finished several wonderful projects together … Continue reading New Collab
Tag: homeschooling
Babylonian Method vs. Newton’s Method of extracting square roots
Simon has proved that the two methods are exactly the same.
Conway’s Game of Life
Simon’s version of John Conway’s famous Game of Life, a cellular automaton zero-player game whose evolution follows certain simple rules and mainly depends on its initial conditions. Cellular automata-like models … Continue reading Conway’s Game of Life
The Twelve Days of Christmas: How many Presents in Total?
I was looking up the lyrics of The Twelve Days of Christmas song (you know, the one that goes “On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to … Continue reading The Twelve Days of Christmas: How many Presents in Total?
A quick experiment to prove that a catenary is not a parabola
I sampled 9 points on this curve. The x coordinates have constant increments (equally spaced horizontal coordinates). I then measured the y coordinates — that’s what the numbers at the … Continue reading A quick experiment to prove that a catenary is not a parabola
Christmas Eve
The Xmas Eve tradition here is late night baking and a good nerdy quizzz!
Merry Xmas! Simon’s Xmas Card.
You can turn the card around by using the mouse if you open it in p5.js: Simon made this card during Daniel Shiffman’s Processing Telethon last night, joining other programmers … Continue reading Merry Xmas! Simon’s Xmas Card.
Happy Winter Solstice!
Happy Winter Solstice! Last night, we made these solstice cookies, one for every hour. Symbolizing 7 hours 52 minutes of light and 16 hours 08 minutes of dark at where … Continue reading Happy Winter Solstice!
NAND to Tetris with hardware: Problem Solving
Reading on in the From NAND to Tetris textbook. I realized I have a problem. One RAM chip only has one address but will have to be connected to three … Continue reading NAND to Tetris with hardware: Problem Solving
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
Simon contemplating various voting systems
Last night, using simple logic, Simon proved to me why a two-candidate plurality voting system is better than many others. There’s a theorem called Arrow’s Theorem which says that any … Continue reading Simon contemplating various voting systems
Simon’s sketch book, P vs. NP and Fallacy vs. Paradox
Simon took a piece of paper and drew P vs. NP and other complexity classes. P vs. NP is probably the most famous millennium problem, one of the seven most … Continue reading Simon’s sketch book, P vs. NP and Fallacy vs. Paradox
Geeks out of the box 