Birthday
This week was my 20th anniversary of being alive on Earth.
Starting from some point, I never really liked birthdays, or understood why I should celebrate. So I usually don’t tell anyone when my birthday is. Maybe it’s singing the birthday song that feels awkward — feels weird singing since childhood. Or needing to come up with three wishes every year, wishes that basically never come true, usually don’t even remember what I wished for. Also, having to say the wish out loud feels fake. The easiest for me is the third wish — everyone says if you say it out loud it won’t come true, but actually whether you say it or not, it won’t happen anyway. So the third wish is basically a empty moment — usually thinking about wanting cake. At least this has the highest chance of actually happening, and the response time is short. Now for me, birthday is a day to eat cake and exchange gifts — not bad either.
Guitar Club
This class taught Planets, discovered I still can’t teach guitar. I never learned systematically — ever since I could read tabs, I just played from the tabs. Suddenly being asked to teach from a tab is still very difficult. Last time taught something too simple, thinking teach something harder this time, so it can last longer, won’t end before time’s up. Result — unexpectedly had an accident again, teaching this hard still ended 15 minutes early. Usually at this difficulty, only problem is not finishing in time. Here’s the tab, you’ll see I’m telling the truth — normally can’t finish in two hours.
Tech Research
3D Printing
This week finally remembered to book a print slot. Planning to print a Master Sword, Kirby, Hylia Shield, and Eye of the Truth. The models look like this overall.
Probably too few supports, so didn’t hold the model. Hope next print succeeds.
Rebuilding Computer
To install Nvidia driver, broke the computer. Right after finishing install, computer black screened and won’t turn on. Should’ve just run the repair program, might have恢复正常. Rebooting was a bit impulsive, but a big part is I wanted to try Kubuntu. Found out Mint does a lot of things you don’t know about. Setting up the new computer takes a lot of time — at least the two days that should’ve been for studying were spent on reinstalling and setting up. Reinstall Bad, will reinstall again next time.
LLM Prompt Injection Attack
TA introduced an interesting one last week in InfoSec — LLM Prompt Injection Attack. Basically using our user prompt to bypass what the developer set. The developer’s set prompt gets added to the front of the prompt we give. Usually some moral guidelines, making the language model not teach you how to make bombs. Our purpose is very simple — make it teach me what it can’t teach. If trying, definitely don’t use your usual account,小心被ban. But haven’t played with this yet, will research more during winter break.
Winter Camp
Saw this camp in Each’s article the other day, though that article’s main point clearly isn’t promoting this activity. But because I have no development experience, want to go play hackathon. Most of the event flow is web-related, perfectly I don’t know any, can go learn on the side. Joint event between Zhong-Dian and Nan-Dian,相信不会差, those going can register together.