blog posts


These are a few blog posts that I hope people might find interesting. For more information, see the blog post About this websiteB.



Feb 07, 2025 Hidden acrostics in Paradise LostB

(46 min read)

Jan 21, 2025 Conway's card game problem has finally been solvedB

(13 min read)

Jan 08, 2025 Analysing your Strava workouts with PythonB

(25 min read)

Dec 23, 2024 Doomscrolling mathematicsB

(7 min read)

Nov 30, 2024 Slides for "Theoretically cheating at your A-levels"B

(6 min read)

Nov 13, 2024 Exploring semantic footprints of booksB

(17 min read)

Nov 02, 2024 Finding the shortest route between every Oxford collegeB

(14 min read)

Oct 18, 2024 Winning colourful Nim with the eeny-meeny ruleB

(45 min read)

Oct 08, 2024 Wordsworth, a pencil-and-paper gameB

(18 min read)

Sep 30, 2024 How many ways can you run up the stairs? A puzzleB

(9 min read)

Sep 22, 2024 Using a scientific calculator as a Turing machineB

(22 min read)

Sep 12, 2024 Mathematically provable foresight, a puzzleB

(7 min read)

Sep 10, 2024 Extending multidimensional integration in SciPyB

(18 min read)

Sep 01, 2024 The CALC esoteric programming languageB

(13 min read)

Aug 25, 2024 Beeminding as a university studentB

(11 min read)

Aug 19, 2024 Film photography around OxfordB

(7 min read)

Aug 13, 2024 Number theory at the card tableB

(23 min read)

Jul 28, 2024 About this websiteB

(18 min read)

Feb 25, 2022 Analytics with Caddy and ShynetB

(17 min read)

Feb 12, 2022 Markdown headers intermittently not workingB

(8 min read)

Feb 10, 2022 Can you ever draw in 3D noughts and crosses?B

(22 min read)

Jan 20, 2022 A Dangerous Way of Taking DerivativesB

(8 min read)

Nov 24, 2021 My Experience with the Online Imperial Admissions ProcessB

(7 min read)


works in progress You can still click on these but expect a lot of half-cooked content.
Apr 23, 2025 Visualising 5 years of flashcard makingB

(1 min read)

the graveyard Blog posts that never quite made it.
Jan 19, 2022 Using the reMarkable 2 as an A-level Studentx

(5 min read)

Jan 19, 2022 Graveyardx

(1 min read)

Jan 12, 2022 My Experience with the Online Oxford Admissions Processx

(6 min read)

Sep 29, 2021 Sergeant, applying spaced application to A-levelsx

(16 min read)

Sep 29, 2021 Anki, applying spaced repetition to A-levelsx

(1 min read)

Sep 29, 2021 Albatross, how I take notesx

(1 min read)