Heya! I'm nightxade :)

───[nightxade@github ~]$ whoami

nightxade · /ˈnītˌSHād/
an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

───[nightxade@github ~]$ cd interests
───[nightxade@github ~/interests]$ cat ctf.txt

🚩 /interests/ctf.txt
love love love playing ctfs <3
crypto/pwn main on Cosmic Bit Flip/Squid Proxy Lovers

───[nightxade@github ~/interests]$ cat cs.txt

💻 /interests/cs.txt
fancy badges for my favorite languages:

passionate about lots of things in cs :> here's a few of my favs

• operating systems
• software security
• microarchitecture
• algorithms
• programming language design
• machine learning
• etc. etc. (like anything cs-related tbh :D)

really, really enjoy reading lots of cs books, papers, blogs, etc... here are a few i found particularly interesting!

• Meltdown
• Rogue In-flight Data Load
• Caching with Delayed Hits
• Prequal
• Sarathi Serve

───[nightxade@github ~/interests]$ cat math.txt

♾️ /interests/math.txt
$\text{my love for math} = \lim_{x \to 0^{+}} \frac{1}{x}$
did a lot of math competitions in high school, still enjoy math now! :>
studied abstract algebra and galois theory in college, maybe will take the putnam
24 1000 game is super fun

───[nightxade@github ~/interests]$ cat misc.txt

❓ /interests/misc.txt
quantum computing literally anything cool in STEM (bio, chem, astronomy, physics, etc.) world history

───[nightxade@github ~]$ cd ..
───[nightxade@github ~]$ cd fun
───[nightxade@github ~/fun]$ cat hobbies.txt

😊 /fun/hobbies.txt
FORMULA 1 🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️
Counter Strike + Valorant esports
Reading manhua
monkeytype
chess
skiiiiiing