A collection of scanned notes on a variety of topics reflecting my personal interests.
Notes from Edwin Jaynes' magnificent book Probability Theory. Explains the mysterious "N-1" part of the formula for the standard deviation of the mean, and gives insight into mean vs median vs mode.
View PDFAlso from Jaynes's book. The normal distribution is anything but. This note explores Chapter 7 and how abnormal the normal distribution really is.
View PDFDuring my physics degree I made notes to summarize what I had learned. I realized that by writing small with many things on the same page I could draw connections (physically as arrows) between related topics—these connections were extremely valuable to understand the field. Solid state devices on page 21 of Part 2 is a good example.
| Physics Summary Notes Parts 1A and 1B | First and second years. Included for completeness, poor style. | View |
| Physics Summary Notes Part 2 | Third year. Found my feet. | View |
| Physics Summary Notes Part 3 Term 1 | First part of fourth year. | View |
| Physics Summary Notes Part 3 Term 2 | Second part of fourth year. | View |
Notes from a talk given at the 2023 metauni festival
View PDFThe (flat space) Geometric Algebra version of generalized Stokes and relationship with complex analysis and Cauchy's integral formula, from chapter 6 of Doran and Lasenby.
View PDFIn the summer of 1996 I was lucky to get the opportunity to help build a thermometer at the UK's National Physical Laboratory.
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