Neodosa
Not to mention the fact that captain america isn’t censored or anything in China.
Bro that’s terrifying. Should’ve seen this coming.
First off, as someone who has programmed GPT stuff since way before ChatGPT, we don’t even need to train our own model. That is overly expensive and unnecessary for our purpose. What is much smarter to do in this case is to take all of the Marxist works and let a chatbot access the contents of the works using semantic search. The way we do this is to convert the works into small chunks which we then convert into embedding vectors. When the user sends a message to the chatbot, the message and the context of the message will be converted into an embedding vector. We then run a dot-product between the message of the user and the chunks of the texts in order to find the most relevant chunks to the question which the user has asked. Then a pre-trained model can make use of the information fetched in order to answer the user’s question.
Of course, training one’s own model can be good if we want it to be even more accurate and familiar with the material, however a good starting point would be to use semantic search.
Personally I never bothered with language parents. What I recommend more is to follow the core principles of the Refold method and adapt it a bit to your own liking. I’m certain language parents can help but since I already had good pronunciation I figured it wasn’t necessary.
I tend to rely on the algorithm to find this stuff, but I would recommend starting by looking at 房叔叨叨叨, 36氪, 酷玩实验室, 硬核资本论. Then I would just recommend looking at recommended to find some more content of interest. I would also recommend searching for something you want to learn more about since Bilibili has lots of university lectures uploaded to it. For example there are thousands of hours of content explaining Das Kapital and Machine Learning.
So I’ve been spending roughly 30-50 minutes a day on Anki, and about 3-5 hours every day consuming content in Chinese.
Yes, Refold is now a company and they’re trying to make money from selling courses and tutoring, but they still have the roadmap available to the public and that’s really everything you need.
In the beginning stages I did use Duolingo and some Youtube videos covering basic grammar as a jumpstart. However, I think the more important thing was that when watching content, I would write down entire sentences which the content creator would say and put them through DeepL/google translate/GPT in order to get a translation which I could put into Anki. If you memorize enough whole sentences then the grammar will start to uncover itself quite naturally. As for pronunciation, I would consider myself lucky since my ear is apparently pretty good for this and I picked it up easily. Perhaps doing some iTalki lessons might be a good way to get pronunciation right.
Anki changed my life man. Not just when it comes to language learning but also school, and I’ve even used it to memorize statistics and talking points which help during debate.
Some real ‘we were always at war with Eurasia’ shit 😂
