Conway's site

Assorted musings of a remnant of the 20th century, with the metabolism of Sir Doris the Hamster.

Mostly applied maths and translations of Literary Chinese.

Feedback welcome: yawnoc.outsell414@passmail.net

General

• Conway's Romanisation for Cantonese
• FAQ
• A cynic's 7.30 (and other programs)
• Mao on separatism: 27 Chinas
• Crowded Xiangqi

Applied mathematics (or, physics)

• Daytime: dependence on latitude and season
• Projectile motion: optimal launch angle for weak quadratic drag
• Projectile motion: optimal launch angle from a platform
• The power rule for integration and the logarithm

English translations of Literary Chinese

• Conway's Lexicon for Literary Chinese

Mathematics

• 《孫子算經》
  "Sun Tzŭ's Computational Classic"
  • 《序》 "Preface"
  • 《卷上》 "Volume I"
  • 《卷中》 "Volume II"
  • 《卷下》 "Volume III"
• 《海島算經》
  "[The] Sea Island Computational Classic"

Not mathematics

• 《論語》
  "[The] Analects" (incomplete)
  • 〈學而〉 "[To] Learn And"
  • 〈為政〉 "[He that] Governeth"
  • 〈八佾〉 "[With] Eight Dancer-Rows"
• 《御製康熙字典序》
  "Imperially-Made Preface [unto the] Kʻang‑hee Dictionary"
• "The Need to Win"
• 《孔子問答》/《小兒論》
  "Q [&] A [with] Confucius" / "[The] Little Child's Discourse"
• 《太平山獅子亭記》
  "Record of [the] Lion's Pavilion, Victoria Peak"
• 《狐假虎威》
  "[The] Fox Feigneth [the] Tiger's Authority"
• 《施氏食獅史》
  "[An] History of Mr Shih's Eating Lions"

Useful code

Apps

• Android Chinese keyboard: Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法)
  • Data set for the stroke input method

Web development

• Conway-Markdown (documentation)

Configuration

• Git configuration: .gitconfig
• Termux configuration: termux.properties
• Chinese font configuration in Linux
• Debian on Pinebook Pro via Daniel's installer
• Debian on Metabox Alpha-S NP50HJ
• Install npm packages globally without sudo
• Nuking a phone

Mathematical stuff

• Slow Fault Tree Analyser (Python)
• Big Two (鋤大弟) Scorer (Python)
• Mahjong Scorer (Python)
• Animating a tumbling polygon (GNU Octave)
• Image to ASCII art converter (GNU Octave)
• Unicode mathematical symbols

Miscellaneous

• Stuff I can never remember
• Ping the sitemap (Google)

Me elsewhere

Testimonials

• [He's] British.
  — Frank (circa 2006)
• Conway's disagreeing with himself.
  — Norm (2008)
• Conway is just dumb.
  — Liam & Kat (2014)
• [Yeah, I'd kill him] for a lifetime supply of raspberries.
  — Georgia (2022)

Cite this page

Conway (2023). Conway's site. <https://yawnoc.github.io/> Accessed yyyy-mm-dd.