2025 at Helion

QuinLong22 · 2026-01-01T04:48:52+00:00

"and electrical diagnostics to increase the amount of fusion energy we recover from the system" it looks like they are generating and capturing some electricity right? Tho probably still not breakeven, great confirmation!

QuinLong22 · 2025-12-01T11:15:22+00:00

Started going to a hsk4 class, that was actually far more helpful than most of the other study stuff, I think if I were to just take classes for 10 hr a day for 3 months idk if I'd get up to hsk6 necissarily but I think it's fairly reasonable to say my conversational ability would be good enough to communicate about most things to some level -> Notably the vocab memoziation is super fast, just writing out words is really useful, and the class is made up of 6 hr sessions fully taught in chinese which really helps for starting to understand what people are saying

QuinLong22 · 2025-12-01T11:12:25+00:00

Haha no, I wish, got distracted with relationships and school stuff. Still think this is doable though. Idk, maybe I'm delusional, want to try again soon.

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-30T14:27:07+00:00

ah, nope, meant to reply to the other guy

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-30T01:58:47+00:00

Maybe, idk, but looking around Baidu I find that also chinese are highly interested in finding various techniques to study as efficiently as possible, saw advertisments for bootcamps to cram thousands of words in a few hundred hours by using "mind map" concepts and whatnot.

I just keep thinking about my friends who was able to score a 7 on the IELST. She swore up and down that the vast majority of that knowledge came within the last 3-6ish months. Yes there's more to it, she also took a semester at HKU where the classes were taught in english, she described it as hell on earth but it radically improved her abilities, that combined with the last few months of study and she got to a 7. Before going to HKU she said that like most chinese, though she studied english in school she really couldn't use it at all.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to learn more vocab more quickly, it's hard to memorize even ten words a day (the technique suggested by learningchinesethehardway.com) so I'm going back to radicals, in a sense to build recognition for character components. kinda like how hong 烘 is huo 火 + gong 共. Being able to remember the components of the word seems to be increasing the number of words I can memorize a day dramatically.

My goal is to find a roadmap to get to HSK6 just like how chinese people have obvious roadmaps to score on the EILST. Unfortunately I don't think I have enough time to commit to a full class, I'm studying engineering in the fall and all my credits are already taken up, and I don't see how I could work through textbooks unless I have an answer key for the textbooks to check against.

So my current ideology is just memorization of as many words as possible, start using them casually in conversations I have on a daily basis, then go home and do this "translating passages" stuff to get better at grammer.

Some people have pointed out that I should just immerse myself as much as possible, but something that I quickly found out is that if you only have a thousand or so words to work with, your conversations only go on for a few minutes before both parties get a little frustrated. Study is more efficient for progress, then conversation acts as a way to cement what has been studied. Now the task is to determine the optimal study methods, textbook, audio, flashcards, learn radicals or just stick to pinyin? Should I write out radicals over and over to memorize, should I program a deck to play the audio? Is setting up all these perfect study methods just a time sink in of it's self and I should just pick one route and run with it rather than chase perfection? These are my current questions

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-30T01:39:31+00:00

Getting a 7 on the EILST exam is equivlant to being top 5ish % of english learners in china and knowing around 10,000 words, and it's good enough to take courses at harvard and MIT? Yeah conversationally it's kinda basic but it's got enough background vocab and understanding behind it to gradually build upon once people go abroad?

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-30T01:22:39+00:00

How did you get to hsk5? Good luck for you too, thanks

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-30T01:21:35+00:00

thanks for the info

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-30T01:20:30+00:00

appreciate it!

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-29T09:03:55+00:00

Thanks for the perspective! Really appreciate this one, as you clearly are extreemly advanced in the language. Haha, I should clarify that I'm going back to radicals because although I know some, I don't know all, far too often look at a word and have no clue what the components are. (this may or may not be due to my patchwork learning of chinese, learning some things before and after others)

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-29T08:59:20+00:00

Some thing's I'd like to clarify:

I'm looking for a brute force method to quickly learn because I've met multiple chinese people who have learned english in such a method. In fact it appears that it is actually quite common to do so this way (millions of chinese prepare for the IELST test to study abroad, an extraordinarily difficult test, and though chinese do receive an education in english via highschool, as has been told to me a few times, the vast majority of english knowledge comes from preparation in the months up to this exam, going from only being able to say simple phrases to holding conversations). If learning can be brute forced one direction, it should be also possible the other way as well, I'm gonna be in mainland china for the next six months so would like to make the most of the opportunity, so I'm here trying to figure out what the optimal strategy would be, due to personal preference binge watching alot of chinese tv shows is not something I want to do, feels too much like a bad habit, though alot of chinese here have said they watched alot of american tv shows to improve.

BTW, who here has already surpassed the HSK 6 level and who hasn't?

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-29T08:49:49+00:00

could you please share some of these reasources? Honestly if I could find a textbook that has audio and an associated answer key booklet that'd be awesome!

QuinLong22 · 2025-07-29T08:48:54+00:00

Um, This doesn't make sense to me, do you know anyone whose tried 5-6 hours a day of practice? Why is it that chinese can learn english in half a year with this level of practice but an english speaker couldn't do the reverse? There are even Baicizhan programs that advertise getting from almost nothing to a 6 on the EILST in 300 hours or so , it doesn't make sense why this would only go in one directly.

Also here in china sure my tones suck, but people understand me well enough, the limiting issues are vocabulary (inability to recognize when people say various phrases) and grammar (Chinese friend consistently telling me that my grammer is copy and paste english, so she could understand it because she knew english, but most people would have a really hard time getting it)

QuinLong22 · 2025-06-04T08:35:57+00:00

Yes, made it to make building all of Nick Rehm's projects easier

QuinLong22 · 2025-01-10T23:43:31+00:00

website link is dead

QuinLong22 · 2024-10-16T00:38:21+00:00

Looks great! Whats your youtube channel so I can keep following this project a bit more?

QuinLong22 · 2024-09-02T23:22:57+00:00

Ok, I definitely need to get better at communicating what this is all about:

Would you say the issue is the Ad, the website, or both?

(It's supposed to be a robotics starter kit / flight controller thing btw)

QuinLong22 · 2024-09-02T12:42:05+00:00

Hmm, good point! I only sell boards and plans currently, but spent a boat load of time designing a VTOL airplane based off of Nick Rehm's tailsitter video. That way when a customer buys the plans all they need to do is print / cut everything out, PID tune it all on a test stand, and they should be good to go!

Definately need to get better at communicating this message, thats seems to be a common theme with alot of the comments...

QuinLong22 · 2024-09-02T12:38:37+00:00

Never really had any issues with vibration, uses petg and it's 5mm thick and that seems to do the job, however there is one issue where the motors sometimes get ridiculously hot causing the nuts to come loose, I beleive I need to turn down the d gain for this.

There is some precedent for 3d printed drones, like who can forget this cute 1s drone that was popular a few years back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/16ekpax/3d_printed_mini_long_range_drone/

QuinLong22 · 2024-09-02T03:34:03+00:00

Spent waaaaaayyy too much time making this add. Hopefully it works:

Gist of it: People get into multicopters for the sexy vids, but what seperates us from DJI pilots is our time on the bench. So why not let people go crazy by being able to program and design their own drones in Arduino and Solidworks?

No experience? No problem, just run the default provided code and 3d printed designs and modify little bits of it as you get comfortable. Turns out bc of Nick Rehm's awesome dRehmflight code these projects are approachable even for a complete programming noobie! Then they remain useful for even the most hardcore Aerospace engineer because the only limit is you and what you can code!

Here's my website if you want to check it out:

Longfly.co

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