Toby Lam

Writing Less Ever since I started working, it has become harder to put thoughts on the page.

Social Media I used to recommend people to start their own websites.

Esoteric Writing I really liked Arthur Melzer’s book, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, on how philosophers in the past concealed their thoughts through careful writing, why and how they did so, and why it fell out of fav…

Publish or perish?

tl;dr: Buy books on TaoBao, browse books at Eslite.

See how likely it is to get any combinations of resources in Catan (and more)!

Truth-seeking To summarise the whole degree, it’s about truth-seeking.

“They turn 20 or 21 and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas.

“Natásha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk, that is, with extraordinary clearness and rapidity, understanding and expressing each other’s thoughts in ways contrary to all rules of logic, without premises, deduc…

Cambridge The Cambridge University Press Bookshop do be a gem at Cambridge.

A stream-of-consciousness short novel on the inner worlds of a man and a woman over the course of a day in 70s Hong Kong.

Fleeting present Since last year, I’ve known that by my fourth year, I wouldn’t care much about Oxford anymore.

Matter solved 99% of this problem for me.

You can check out the plotter at tobylam.xyz/3dplotter!

There’s just something about these music videos that hits different.

Adaptability Despite not having been in HK at all for almost 3 years, I adapted to HK much quicker than I thought I would.

Exams I feel like my 3rd year exams are the peak of exams for me.

An autobiography about a physicist who emigrated from a small Serbian village to the US.

We will see that the 3D plot of \(x^2 + (y + zi)^2 = 1\), where \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) are real and \(i\) is the imaginary unit, contains both a circle and a hyperbola.

Given some \(f(x)\), what’s the taylor series of \(f(x)^p\) for some real \(p\)?