Tag: self-directed learning
Fun crafty puzzles Simon did with Neva
Three boxes with fruit, all the three labels are misplaced. What is the minimum number of times one will have to sample a random piece of fruit from one of … Continue reading Fun crafty puzzles Simon did with Neva
How Many Dice Rolls Until You Get a Repeat. A Probability Experiment in p5.js
How many times, on average, do you have to roll a dice until you get a repeated value? I saw this probability challenge on the Mind Your Decisions channel. I … Continue reading How Many Dice Rolls Until You Get a Repeat. A Probability Experiment in p5.js
Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem
In a complete binary tree, every node has two children (except for the bottom nodes that don’t have any children at all). This means one mind-blowing thing: that the bottom … Continue reading Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem
Rainbow Quicksort in p5.js
Link to Simon’s code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/UMuLxaHJ
Space-filling Curves in p5.js.
Simon prepared this project as a community contribution for The Coding Train (Simon came up with his own way to draw the Hilbert Curve and added interactive elements to enable … Continue reading Space-filling Curves in p5.js.
Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges
Simon keeps thoroughly enjoying Brilliant’s approach to intelligence and learning (even though he sometimes dislikes the way the daily challenges are formulated). His latest stats: From the courses he has … Continue reading Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges
Hyperbolic space
This is a model of hyperbolic space (7 triangles around a vertex). It’s an open problem of how far you can keep expanding your structure this way (possibly infinitely far, … Continue reading Hyperbolic space
Evolving Creatures in p5.js
Simon’s latest independent coding project involved some biology lessons! He loves the channel Primer by Justin Helps and watched his evolution series many times, studying the rules for species’ survival … Continue reading Evolving Creatures in p5.js
Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe-Toe in p5.js
Simon has programmed this game of Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe-Toe Game in p5.js from scratch. He and his sister have had hours of fun playing it (and she turned out to be better … Continue reading Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe-Toe in p5.js
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
Alternating series, a crafty solution.
Simon learned this from an alternating series visualization by Think Twice.
Geeks out of the box 