a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Caught Simon’s reaction to Wednesday’s breaking news on video: the first-ever image of a black hole published, made by the Event Horizon Telescope project team. Simon explains why, if you … Continue reading Black Hole Breakthrough
Bayes’s Theorem calculates the probability of an event based upon the conditions that might be relevant to the event and is widely used to test the precision of medical tests … Continue reading Bayes’ Theorem
A really fun phenomenon that Simon learned from the Veritasium channel, based upon the Coanda effect. Simon later went on to repeat this experiment several times, even in the cold … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Hydrodynamic Levitation
Simon’s illustrations to the Regressions to the Mean video by Veritasium (about whether reward and punishment affect performance).
Inspired by the Veritasium channel, Simon tests throwing a Slinky nd watching it collapse together and only then fall to the ground. He then ties a tennis ball to the … Continue reading The Slinky Experiment
Geeks out of the box 