2025 02 09

    Oh my word, I am being cooked by classes. Forget twice a week, I might start struggling with weekly uploads. I am at least glad to be able to write this out now. Sad thing is though, that since so much of my time is occupied with schoolwork, there is not as many interesting things to talk about. Less time for passion projects mean less time to want to write about passionate stuff too. Hopefully what little of my endeavors left still make for an interesting read.
    One thing that really stumped me is how diffraction is interpreted in a quantum mechanics perspective. I have always held, & consistently forgot, that diffraction in the mechanical wave interpretation as wave sources spawning along the direction of propogation. Given that different matter interact differently with electromagnetic waves of similar nature, such as that of light, their unlike waves construct & destruct the original waves, thus creating diffraction. I really liked the quantum interpretation, however, since it seems simpler & therefore easier to remember. Imagine a cartesian plane where the electromagnetic wave propogates along the x-axis, & our single slit of length d lies along the y-axis at x=$\alpha$ for some constant $\alpha$. As the wave propogates from left to right (- to +), any point before $\alpha$, a photon can have infinitely many x positions, so (\deltax~=\infty). With heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, since we know precisely the position of a photon, its (\deltap_x~=0). However, after passing through the slit, $\deltax$ will have a value of $\alpha$, $\deltap_x$ will be restricted to an inequality of numerical nature by heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, (\deltax/\deltap_x \lte \hbar/2). As we apply this trigonometrically, it is stunningly way simpler to visualize diffraction naturally. Now my concerns lie with still understanding Maxwellian principles, in addition to the newfound De Broglie’s wavelengths. I have known the latter for a while, but never quite grasped it on a fundamental level. I do wonder if I should even bother, given that quantum mechanics is inherently puzzling & only sensible to the mathematically sound. As I am writing this, I am praying the inline LaTeX works
    I have resumed a bit of rev by doing another crackme. I have yet to solve this one, but insofar no problems have arised. It is once again just a problem of time alongside the constraint I put on myself for this attempt. In trying rev on the go & improving my foundations, I have resorted to using only cli for this. This also entails no Ghidra, & no decompilers. I am reading the program from assembly as is, which is quite time consuming yet a fulfilling challenge thus far. Honestly, not much has changed in my inherent work apart from the additional load from manually deriving the operations. I do wish I can get to use z3 for more practice though, because once I familiarize myself with it I can learn others, such as angr.
    Finally finished Ayase’s route after a little hiatus. I can say I’ve familiarized myself with Riddle Joker’s style at this point, & can confidently interpret & make judgements from such. Ayase’s route gets most of its appeal from Ayase herself, with her wide variety of expressions through gap moe making dialogue reinvigorating. I do believe it is a shame that such variety is not seen in other heroines (I haven’t finished Nanami’s yet though, so I have my fingers crossed) but that we get to see fun interactions from such at all is nice. Leading back into Riddle Joker’s writing, I find that some quirks the heroines have are superficial. They are just there for the sake of adding flack, serving no role in narrative or character development. Such is Ayase’s obsession with cats. Thanks Yuzusoft, for that cat roleplay CG, it was fucking cute, but I see no mention of cats like anywhere after that little arc. Another thing was that the reveal of the villain being Kaori & Suou as an undercover agent was a ‘whoa’ moment, but it was so in the face that I just brushed it off after a minute. There was no foreshadowing that made it exciting, or maybe I’m just reading lazily. Kind of a shame since I kinda liked Kaori. And from this I can say that Riddle Joker’s narrative progression is jarring. In hindsight the sequence makes sense, but in the moment there is no allure. I’d rate Ayase’s route as second best, owing to fun dialogue & gap moe alongside the best gimmick-centric thematic narrative thus far. Despite having the best such narrative, I can’t say it is good. Therefore, Chiaki’s still mogs with its simple but sweet nature with a goated heroine. Just started Nanami’s, hoping we end strong. & as always, flat is justice.

EDIT: unfortunately LaTeX doesn’t work yet. will be fixed soon.