Neodosa

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, one needs to understand China's political system. To do this, we first need to understand the core of state power itself, how the CPC holds grasp of this system and how the CPC itself is organized. Secondly, we must look at how all this plays out in practice. (I'm in the middle of reading a couple books and documents on the topic so some of what I'm saying may be outdated or incorrect)

As for the core of state power, it's very similar to other ML countries throughout history and currently, to run through it quickly: Fundamentally, the core of state power lies in the "People's Congresses" which are organized in a pyramid structure with the National People's Congress at the top. At the lowest and second lowest level of people's congress (town level & county level), delegates are elected directly by the populous via secret ballot. People's Congresses on higher levels than this are made up of delegates who are elected by the People's congresses below it. All these delegates are subject to recall by their constituents at any time. Moreover, delegates cannot be trialed for their speech, they are obliged to hear the opinions of the public and make their work publicized through media and other channels (which is why you will see "law rundown" programs on chinese state television).

Now, the CPC holds a very firm grasp of this state structure. Going into exactly how it holds this grasp is quite complex, but basically: it's status as ruling party isn't formally enforced, but it instead recommends candidates and legislature to the government, and these recommendations usually pass without a hitch because the government has so many CPC members.

(The source for everything mentioned above is the book: "China's political system" by Yin Zhongqing)

As for how the CPC itself operates and is subject to the proletariat, I'm still in the process of studying it, but I can provide some sources which may be interesting. I would recommend this talk as an introduction (I disagree a bit with his analysis, specifically he tends to boil a lot down to cultural differences between west and east). For a more in depth look, you can check out this infographic explaining the CPC structure. When reading it, note that you shouldn't confuse party congresses with the aforementioned people's congresses.

So how does all this play out in practice? Thankfully, with China's political system it's a lot easier to prove that it works than to explain why it works. First off, there are countless studies from various sources which show that China's government approval is among the highest, if not the highest in the world, including this, and some other sources which I don't have on hand at the moment. Government officials are routinely held accountable. As Eric Li said in his talk, in order to become a prominent CPC member you will need to go through extremely rigorous inspection and public scrutiny. The result is that corruption gets curbed the higher up you go in the party. There's lots more to say on this point, but yeah that's basically it.