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         - [Spring 2024 Ideas](diary/spring_2024_ideas.md)
             - [Rethinking The Web](diary/spring_2024_ideas/rethinking_the_web.md)
             - [Rust](diary/spring_2024_ideas/rust.md)
+        - [Spring 2024 Activities](diary/spring_2024_activities/index.md)

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+# Spring 2024 Activities
+
+*2023-03-28*
+
+## Flower "AI" Summit 2024, London
+
+Professor Nicolas Lane invited Professor Bing Luo to give a talk at Flower
+Summit 2024 about FedCampus.
+Since Professor Luo thought it to be a nice opportunity for me (or rather,
+he does not know how FedCampus works technically),
+he brought me in to co-talk.
+
+As a result, I begged DKU Undergraduate Studies
+and Division of Natural and Applied Sciences (DNAS)
+to sponsor my trip to London, and got
+a whopping ￥3500 + ￥5000.
+
+I stayed at London from 03-13 night to 03-16 morning,
+brought [a poster about Fed Kit](fedkit_flower_summit2024poster_15.45.24.pdf), and gave $\frac{1}{3}$ of a talk.
+The talk was [live streamed on YouTube](https://youtu.be/sHfVgseQG_g?t=22339),
+together with all other Flower Summit talks.
+Though, it was one of the only talks where the audience was laughing...
+But, the live stream did not catch that sound track.
+
+On my flight back, however,
+I had some thermal cycles, and caught what I believed to be a bacterial
+infection. After I got back, I heard someone else also got sick on a plane. Man,
+flights are dangerous! Not because they crash, but because they are infectious.
+
+Overall, I bought only 3 brunches at the inn,
+and figured out all other meals with unhealthy free food from the summit.
+On 03-16, my butt hurt, so I was standing and kneeing,
+and got really tired in the afternoon, and started sleeping in the conference.
+I immediately went to sleep once back to the inn, at around 18.
+
+And then, I suffered from a -2hr jet lag when I got back to DKU.
+
+People asked me whether it was fun. I told them the conference was "fine".
+> The academics wanted to present their papers - so, yeah...
+
+I did talk to a few Ph.D. students and some Flower Labs people.
+I remember people being unsatisfied when I told them to find me on GitHub, and asked for my LinkedIn.
+I guess I have to use this atrocious ad platform now.
+There was a recently-graduated dude from New Zealand -
+who added machine learning to his statistics research because everyone was doing
+machine learning -
+and a few people who basically told me that they "borrowed" our implementation
+to do on-smartphone federated learning.
+
+I mean, FedKit is open source, and so is the code we contributed to Flower,
+but getting 0 credit is less fun than anticipated.
+I now understand why people put those corporate-style authorship and copyright
+notice in every single one of their source files.