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Author Archives: Khai Yin
Jakarta
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The Cephalic
Good to see you again after three long years, old mate.
Huxley on Newton
For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood… As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb. Aldous Huxley
Truth
I remembered our RF engineering lecturer Dr Steve Collins lamented at us, “You lot are going to be bankers, aren’t you?” And yes, many of my peers did end up working for Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan. Thankfully I didn’t become a banker, and yet I didn’t practice as an engineer also, a decision I …
Punting on Cherwell
Suyash and I enjoying Pimms with Izrin on the punt along Cherwell. Circa 1997.
The Oxford Angst
Colin Wood had said to me more than two decades ago – You won’t learn much about engineering here, Khai. Not as much as you would if you had gone to, say, Imperial College. But you will know that you don’t know. And you can (then) find out (about what you don’t know). Or, more …
Five Mathematicians
Because as Tim was wont to say to me, “What’s an engineer but a failed mathematician?”
Gentle Regrets
Like Scruton at Cambridge, at Oxford, I was socially estranged, but spiritually at home.
Je ne veux pas travailler
Sometimes you don’t feel you truly own something unless it presses against the flesh.