Nick (nt)

I'm building an app for language nerds and polyglots. I'm using it to learn Mandarin Chinese - it's helping me distill the insights from dozens of research papers on learning into a single, highly effective routine. I'm opening up access to a handful of alpha testers who are learning Chinese, German or Russian. Reply/DM if you're interested.

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the trick to making voice agents fast is pipelining everything: first pipeline: audio packets -> speech to text -> turn-taking model second: LLM -> text to speech -> encoding -> output here's a render of my current latency. bear in mind, I'm running this locally from a wooden hut in the mountains in Turkey - it should be significantly faster once I host it!

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Here's a mental map 👇 except it's not a map of some idea in your mind, it's a map of your mind and how well it remembered something. i'm using this to predict individual patterns of forgetting during learning in order to optimise how fast I can learn Mandarin.

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Mandarin progress update: I am 14% to B1 (conversational) - about 1 year away at the current pace. - I advance around 1.5% every week. - learned 97 core words last month - ~200 phrases/sentences learned last month 2x tutor sessions per week and daily flashcards + AI sentence translation exercises (roughly 100-150 per day)

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