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Simon loves looking at things geometrically. Even when solving word problems, he tends to see them as a graph. And naturally, since he started doing more math related to machine … Continue reading Just another day in graphs
Simon is trying to write a program for Sphere Morphing in Processing, first making a test code in p5.js (available here: https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/S1zcwevkz) In the video below, Simon is explaining the … Continue reading Sphere Morphing in Processing
Excerpts from Simon writing about distributions in an IPython Notebook, consulting Numpy Documentation. The code for the examples below is his own. Simon had earlier created similar examples about Matplotlib, … Continue reading Simon writing about distributions in an IPython Notebook
When instead of a bed time story, your child insists upon teaching you gradient descent:
This has been an interesting arithmetic task Simon came up with from his Secrets of Sums book, aimed at practicing long division. You had to do the division and count how … Continue reading A Rude Joke
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 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 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 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
It’s great that Simon continues to find the time to teach me some JavaScript. We’re now done with the Basic course he had prepared, below are some impressions. The video … Continue reading Lessons for Mom continued
Simon is not only doing Precalculus en Calculus, but also enjoys maths at all levels (see previous post about The Secrets of Sums). For example, we do some Dutch elementary … Continue reading Graphic arithmetics
Simon pulled out his old Magformers Pythagoras set and this time around, he really nailed all the tasks independently. The set offers a variety of puzzles to “prove” the Pythagorean … Continue reading Magformers Pythagoras set
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