Alec Lau's Website

For a while I've thought that having a website to share some stuff useful to people including me would be a good idea, so here it is.

My primary interests are tinkering, math, physics, movies, taekwondo, parkour, geography, and art. I do the first three professionally now, and have posted some of my old (non-professional) pet projects here.

I also do projects in math. These days my main interests are in topology, algebra, and theoretical condensed matter physics, as well as pretty much any math related to the name "Witten." As one can probably figure out, I also posted some art and a list of my favorite movies.

Links:

• My resume
• Movie thoughts to consider
• Hackaday
• Scott Aaronson's blog, with great gems such as this and this
• Robin Hanson
• David Tong's excellent lectures
• Anything written by Ravi Vakil.
• Ethan Lake's notes
• What makes a (general) work great?

Art:

Visual artists: Karoo Ashevak, Dorina Costras, Tivi Etok Cosimo Galluzzi, Mario Henrique, Gabriel Picolo, Cindy Press, Darren Quatch, Carlos Séquin, Simon Stålenhag, Gábor Szücs, Tompswell, Jack Vettriano, Philippe Vignal, Sam Yang,

Novels:

• The Count of Monte Cristo — Dumas
• Gravity's Rainbow — Pynchon
• Frankenstein — Shelley
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Smith
• Suttree — McCarthy
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Twain
• A Christmas Carol — Dickens
• Dracula — Stoker
• Dreamer — Johnson
• The Metamorphosis — Kafka