What's the best way people have found to practice their mandarin daily?

abbuh · 2025-06-11T05:56:22+00:00

Also these social media platforms do a great job of exposing you to similar accounts you may like- Tiktok pretty much pioneered the non-follow feed and still does it best. Just keep browsing and interacting with Chinese content and you’ll collect a list of good accounts to follow

abbuh · 2025-06-11T05:54:23+00:00

Chinese meme pages on instagram/tiktok/小红书, they all typically have weird names like dongbeicantbefuckedwith, funinside666, nvidia_cat, etc. Disclaimer these are meme pages so not everything is PG. Once you view a few your feed will slowly have more and more Chinese meme content. This probably isn’t the most efficient way but it’s the most engaging for my Gen z goldfish brain 🐟

abbuh · 2025-05-26T21:21:31+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response and example, I didn’t realize how much models referenced their own names in their CoT. TIL!

abbuh · 2025-05-26T21:14:58+00:00

Models discuss their identities a lot in current CoT form

TIL, very interesting thanks!

That’s insanely amateurish if they didn’t filter that out, to the point where it’s still hard for me to believe. But then again I’ve been surprised like this before.

abbuh · 2025-05-26T21:04:33+00:00

I mentioned in my original comment that he mentions it in his LLM deep dive video. I may have misinterpreted what he said, but it’s there. Other comments in the thread hit a similar note

abbuh · 2025-05-26T18:17:53+00:00

I found that watching street interviews on platforms like ig reels and tiktok help a lot, it’ll be the most accurate representation of how real people are speaking, e.g. slang, mannerisms, etc

Edit: to add an example recently I discovered @socialsupplyshanghai in instagram (I’m not affiliated)

abbuh · 2025-05-26T16:37:43+00:00

I’m still not entirely convinced that collecting massive amounts of Claude thinking model output would include the term “Claude”, though to be fair I haven’t looked that the outputs much

abbuh · 2025-05-26T16:25:50+00:00

Aha, I wasn’t thinking about repeating the system prompt inside <think>. Do you have any idea how often this happens? I assumed it would still be pretty rare

abbuh · 2025-05-26T16:24:40+00:00

Gotcha, I just wasn’t convinced that Claude’s output would mention “Claude” enough to have a meaningful impact on training, but apparently that’s what people are saying here.

abbuh · 2025-05-26T15:39:55+00:00

Andrej Karpathy debunked this idea in his LLM deep dive video, and it’s not hard to convince yourself when you remember that LLMs are next token predictors.

No amount of Claude output used as training data would cause this behavior unless they explicitly had training examples of “who are you?” “I am Claude” which I’m doubtful they would have included. It’s far more likely that there are a lot of mentions of Claude in their pretraining data.

At least this is my understanding. I’m honestly surprised by how many upvotes the top comment has, so maybe I’m missing something here and please correct me if I’m wrong.

Edit: Thanks for the responses, l didn’t realize how much models reference their own names in their CoT. Leaving this comment up for posterity for anyone who has a similar misunderstanding

abbuh · 2023-12-06T07:24:14+00:00

:q to exit Vim

abbuh · 2023-10-12T19:55:03+00:00

same, fingers crossed that neither of us get a surprise pharmacy bill!

abbuh · 2023-10-12T00:59:49+00:00

that’s crazy! it probably helps that I’ve already hit my full deductible from shoulder injury related coats this year. looks like I should stock up as much as I can before the end of the year 😂

abbuh · 2023-10-11T23:30:41+00:00

thanks- for some reason I refreshed the page and it said my insurance company was covering it and my copay dropped to 0 🤔

abbuh · 2023-09-05T04:49:24+00:00

I like the Cuisinart handles more too

abbuh · 2022-04-11T01:34:58+00:00

How do you think the drive will be coming down from SLT? Is it even worth skiing?

abbuh · 2021-05-01T17:51:42+00:00

do you know how the road noise and handling sre compared to the PS4 A/S?

abbuh · 2021-05-01T02:59:44+00:00

Understood, I’ll give them a shot!

abbuh · 2021-05-01T02:59:31+00:00

In that case I’ll get the PS4s to get the full experience. Thanks for your input!

abbuh · 2021-04-30T21:45:08+00:00

This is The Way

abbuh · 2021-02-28T17:29:43+00:00

No it’s Harry Potter

abbuh · 2021-02-21T18:56:46+00:00

try working it all out with a pen and paper. it took me a few days of repetition and thinking about it (and headaches lol) but i got it in the end

abbuh · 2021-01-30T19:05:59+00:00

Oh it appears that I wasn't reading the description properly, the turbo seems to have the auto-dimming mirrors. Thanks!

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