Hello World ?

欢迎来到我的博客!

因为在主页上挂着Hexo的Introduction着实是有些奇怪,所以先写一点文字,一是让博客里有一些电子垃圾,二是留一些以后可以怀念的文字。

当然我并不能确保特定的更新频率,而且维护博客大概也会上我的人生必做清单(这个清单上已经有如下事项:读完紫龙书,读完C++大部头,完成Sencondary Market Project的前后端分离),当然了,也很难想象会有人特地来赏光我的博客。所以,我对于这个博客的定义更倾向于是一点点的个人介绍,大量的生活经历分享和不知所云的灌水文字。

或许不久以后因为申请会陆续挂上个人简历和项目链接,不过相比全是paper的大佬博客,这儿不过是“存在主义”罢了,仅供commitee或者prof一笑。

好了,回归正题。

既然是作为可以怀念的文字,我先写写为何突发奇想创建自己的博客。我现位于UW-Madison,WISC,作为交换生在北美虚度光阴。上学期初寻找系统方向的Prof能够接纳我进组做一些项目带带我水文章,觉得需要创建一个个人网站来贴点CV和toy project。不曾想Prof Xiangyao Yu欣然接受我的申请,并且与我合作了一个项目我觉得大概是CAII写的RISCV Simulator起了作用,导致筹划到一半的个人网站不了了之。到了暑假,不堪项目的推进,托福和GRE,还有几个toy competition的压力,便乘机做个博客,写点不用debug多线程的文字,贴点四处晃荡的图片,以期在满屏error和low performance的大山下苟延残喘。

对于博客的内容,我想有一部分会是对过往岁月的“追忆”,我对此有充足的理由。首先,根据幸存者偏差的乱用,我们往往会注意到不如以前的事务,比如Madison的中餐让我开始可以接受博海一楼的自选菜。此外,随着心智和年龄的增长,我往往会对过往的人和物有更多的理解和思考,并且自责于当时的错误做法,遗憾于产生的bad ending,留下这些思考可以作为一面明镜,警醒我现在的所作所为,毕竟人往往会进入同一条河流。当然了,更多的其实还是像林海音之于《城南旧事》,曹雪芹之于《红楼梦》,对于自己曾经岁月的无限追忆,因为其美好,其蕴含的无限可能。

还有一部分会是一些技术的留档,f**k you, CSDN虽然我觉得其实如果自己真要用了使用chatgpt会更方便(GPT-4已经能帮我调多线程Bug了,我哭死)。考虑到之后回国可能的TGW问题,或是一些刁钻的环境问题,或是一些第三方库古怪的调用,我还是会不定期将一些技术整理成文档上传。

当然了,肯定还有一部分是关于美食,旅游等生活方面的分享,毕竟我已经没有了高中从医救济苍生的伟大理想,Just enjoy the fking world!之后8月中旬会飞往波士顿和旧金山,十分期待某人请客的龙虾。

最后,创建博客还基于一点点个人的想法,大刘说过“给岁月以文明,给时光以生命”,仅以此给这个宇宙和这片时间一点点来自Zhenghong Yu的痕迹。


Welcome to my blog!

It feels a bit weird to have Hexo’s default “Introduction” on the homepage, so I figured I’d write something to fill the space—a bit of digital junk, and maybe something I can look back on in the future.

Honestly, I can’t promise any regular updates here. Keeping this blog alive will probably just end up on my never-ending to-do list (which already includes things like: finishing the Purple Dragon Book, working through that thick C++ tome, and completing the front-end/back-end separation of the Secondary Market Project). And let’s be real—it’s hard to imagine anyone actually visiting this place on purpose. To me, this blog is more like a mix of some personal background, a lot of life rants, and random rambling.

Maybe at some point, I’ll post my CV and links to some personal projects, just for applications. But compared to those blogs stacked with research papers, this one is more of an “existentialist” corner—something for a committee or prof to stumble upon and maybe chuckle at.

Alright, back to the point.

Since this is meant to be something I can look back on someday, let me write a bit about why I suddenly decided to start this blog. Right now, I’m at UW-Madison, WISC, spending my days as an exchange student here in North America. At the beginning of last semester, I was trying to find a systems professor who’d take me in for some projects and maybe let me tag along to write some papers. I thought I’d need a personal site to show off my CV and some toy projects. But surprisingly, Prof. Xiangyao Yu accepted me right away and let me join a project with him probably thanks to that RISCV Simulator I wrote for CAII. And just like that, my half-finished personal site plan got tossed aside.

Fast forward to summer—between juggling that project, TOEFL, GRE, and a few coding competitions, I figured I’d just start a blog. It gives me a break from debugging multi-threaded programs, lets me post some travel photos, and helps me feel like I’m doing something other than drowning in error messages and poor performance.

As for the blog content—part of it will definitely be “reminiscing.” And I’ve got good reason for that. Thanks to the ever-abused survivorship bias, people tend to focus on how “things aren’t as good as they used to be.” Like, after being stuck with Madison’s Chinese food, I’ve actually started to find the ground floor cafeteria at Bohai somewhat acceptable. Plus, as I get older, I’ve found myself reflecting more on people and events from the past—regretting bad choices or missed chances, thinking about how I’d do things differently now. Writing these thoughts down feels like holding up a mirror to remind myself not to repeat the same mistakes—because, well, people really do step into the same river twice. But honestly, a lot of it is just nostalgia—like Lin Haiyin’s My Memories of Old Beijing or Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber—looking back on those beautiful, bittersweet times full of endless possibilities.

Another part of this blog will be technical posts. f**k you, CSDN. Though, let’s be honest—if I really need help, ChatGPT is way more useful these days (GPT-4 already helped me debug a multithreading issue—I nearly cried). Still, considering potential Great Firewall issues in the future, weird environment setups, or bizarre third-party libraries, I’ll probably document some tech stuff here every now and then.

Of course, there’ll also be posts about food, travel, and other slices of life. I’ve long abandoned my teenage dream of becoming a doctor to save lives—now, I just want to enjoy the damn world! In mid-August, I’ll be heading to Boston and San Francisco—really looking forward to someone treating me to some lobster there.

Finally, this blog also comes from a little personal sentiment. As Liu Cixin once said, “Give civilization to time, and give life to years.” So here’s my little mark, a tiny trace from Nemo Yu, left for this universe and this brief stretch of time.


Hello World ?
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Nemo Yu
Posted on
July 3, 2023
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