Leo Ying

I left behind school days that ran from 5:30 a.m. to midnight, and built my own way to learn.我离开了从凌晨 5:30 排到午夜的学校生活，搭建了自己的学习方式。

I’m Leo, a high school student from a small town in China. Inside ChatGPT, I built Learning Lab and gave it one rule: after every session, re-read the whole conversation and check both my answers and its own teaching. With it, I relearned chemistry from almost zero. I passed the chemistry exam I needed to graduate 14 days after my first diagnostic.我是 Leo，来自中国一个小镇的高中生。我在 ChatGPT 里搭建了 Learning Lab，给它定了一条规则：每次学完，都要重读完整对话，核对我的作答和它自己的教学。我用它从几乎零基础重学化学。第一次诊断之后 14 天，我通过了毕业必须通过的化学考试。

See Learning Lab看 Learning Lab Read my story读我的经历

My real school day. The gaps are the breaks.我真实的在校作息，空隙是课间。

I didn’t let that environment make me just like everyone else. I knew what suited me, even though I was definitely the odd one out.我没有被环境同化。我很清楚什么适合自己，尽管我绝对是个异类。

For a long time, this was my day. Up at 5:30.很长一段时间，这就是我的一天。5:30 起床。

I often couldn’t follow the lessons.上课常常听不懂。

Just as something started to make sense, the next class began. There was no time to practice.刚理解一点，下一节课就开始了，没有时间练。

Every evening, about two hours of exams.每天晚上，约两小时的考试。

Bad results, again and again, on things I hadn’t learned yet.还没学会，就一遍遍拿到糟糕的结果。

Classes and study hall until 10:30 p.m.上课和自习排到晚上 10:30。

Not asleep until around midnight.十二点左右才睡。

Classes on Saturday, exams all day Sunday. Just two and a half days off a month.周六照常上课，周日全天考试。一个月只放两天半。

This isn’t just my story.这不只是我一个人的经历。

Classes and exams fill the whole day, and there’s rarely time to work out what you didn’t understand.课程和考试把一天排满，没学懂的问题却常常来不及解决。

I tried to adapt. This way of learning didn’t suit me.我试过适应。这种方式不适合我。

In my final year, I stopped going to class and studied at home. The exams were still ahead.高三这年，我不再去学校上课，在家自学。考试还在前面。

No one around me supported it.身边没有人支持。

What I wanted most was to breathe freely and walk out of a life where even my time wasn’t my own. I wanted my questions taken seriously and my situation taken into account. I wanted real progress, and hope.我最希望的，是能自由呼吸，从那种连时间都不属于自己的生活里走出来。我的问题能被接住，我的情况能被照顾，有真实的进步，能看到希望。

Leaving school made me a sunnier person. The day still had twenty-four hours, but now I learned at my own pace and lived the way I chose.离开学校让我变得阳光。一天还是二十四小时，我终于能按自己的节奏学习，也按自己的想法生活。

Nothing yet proved this path would work. So I built a place where my questions would be taken seriously: Learning Lab.还没有任何结果能证明这条路行得通。于是我搭了一个能接住我的问题的地方：Learning Lab。

How Learning Lab worksLearning Lab 怎么运行

The real exam decides what I learn. My own learning record decides how I learn next.真实的考试决定学什么，我自己的学习记录决定下一步怎么学。

  1. ME我

    Set the goal定目标

    SEP 19 月 1 日

    The goal: pass the exam on September 19.目标：9 月 19 日通过考试。

  2. ME我

    Do the problems first and let the gaps show先做题，把不会的地方暴露出来

    SEP 59 月 5 日

    First diagnostic: done in twelve minutes, because I could do almost none of it.首次诊断：十二分钟就做完了，因为几乎都不会。

  3. CHATGPT

    Teach; explain it another way if I say it isn’t working讲解；我说不管用就换讲法

    SEP 179 月 17 日

    I said, “After you expanded on it like that, I’m even more confused,” and it changed how it explained.我说“你这样展开之后我更不清楚了”，它换了讲法。

    Translated from Chinese · Show original

    “你这样展开之后我更不清楚了”

  4. AUDIT, BY MY RULES审计，按我定的规则

    Re-read it all; check my answers and its teaching重读完整原文，核我的作答和教学

    SEP 139 月 13 日

    In the session: I solved it my own way, then it suddenly switched topics and broke my train of thought.课上：我用自己的方法做对了，它却突然岔开去讲别的，打断了我的思路。

    After the audit: The session had already confirmed my method. The audit saved the correction to my learning record and told future lessons to keep it.审计后：课上已经确认我的方法没错。审计把这次纠正记进学习记录，要求后续教学保留这个方法。

    See excerpts from the conversation →查看对话摘录 →

  5. CHATGPT, AS I ASKED，按我的要求

    Update my status, reports and review schedule更新状态、报告和复习安排

    SEP 189 月 18 日

    It planned 90 minutes of review before the exam. I worried that would drain me for the afternoon exam, so it cut it to 30 minutes at most, in the morning.它原定考前复习 90 分钟。我担心耗掉下午考试的状态，它改成上午最多 30 分钟。

  6. NEXT SESSION下一次

    Practice last time’s mistakes first先练上次错的地方

    SEP 199 月 19 日

    The exam-day warm-up started with the kind of question I’d gotten wrong the day before. This time I got it right on the first try.考前热身先练前一天做错的那类题，这次一次做对。

The night before the exam, I wrote: “Studying with you has also brought back that state where I can really understand, where I can keep moving forward.”考试前一晚，我写下：“跟你的学习呢，也让我找回了那种真正能学得懂的状态，能推进的状态。”

Translated from Chinese · Show original

“跟你的学习呢，也让我找回了那种真正能学得懂的状态，能推进的状态。”

Enter Learning Lab进入 Learning Lab

NOW现在

Learning Lab is built for learning and exam prep in general. Chemistry is its most fully recorded use so far. I also make short explainer videos with AI. In both, I use my own data to keep improving how I work.Learning Lab 面向更广泛的学习和备考，化学是目前记录最完整的一次。我也在用 AI 做知识短视频。在这两件事上，我都用自己的数据，不断改进做法。

I’ve trained regularly since I was 12: strength four times a week, road cycling on the other days. I’ve had several surgeries for a collapsed lung (chest drainage and thoracoscopy), and I never gave up training. I use ChatGPT to plan my training and analyze the data, too.我从 12 岁开始规律训练：每周 4 次力量，其余几天公路骑行。中间做过几次气胸手术（引流和胸腔镜），我依然没有放下运动。训练计划和数据分析，我也交给 ChatGPT 来做。

Me in a cycling jersey
  1. OCT 20242024 年 10 月Started using ChatGPT开始用 ChatGPT
  2. AUG 20262026 年 8 月Started building Learning Lab开始搭建 Learning Lab
  3. SEP 5–199 月 5 日–19 日Chemistry: from first diagnostic to passing the exam化学：从第一次诊断到通过考试
  4. OCT 1410 月 14 日First video posted发第一条视频
  5. NOW现在Still learning with Learning Lab, still making videos继续用 Learning Lab 学习，继续做视频

How I make videos我怎么做视频

PROJECT · SINCE AUGUST 2026项目 · 2026 年 8 月起

Learning Lab

On August 25, I wrote: “I think my big problem right now is actually that I don’t know where my problem is.”8 月 25 日，我写下：“我觉得我现在很大的问题实际上是不知道自己的问题在哪。”

Translated from Chinese · Show original

“我觉得我现在很大的问题实际上是不知道自己的问题在哪。”

So I built Learning Lab with ChatGPT’s Projects feature. It holds my goals, learning status, reports and review schedule, so my learning carries over from one conversation to the next. I keep changing it based on how well it actually works for me.于是我在 ChatGPT 的 Projects 功能里搭建了 Learning Lab：里面存着我的目标、学习状态、报告和复习安排，让学习能在不同对话之间接上。我根据它实际好不好用，不断修改它。

In ChatGPT it’s called “高考学习重建｜Learning Lab,” which means “rebuilding how I learn for the gaokao.”它在 ChatGPT 里的名字是「高考学习重建｜Learning Lab」。

ChatGPT sidebar showing the project “高考学习重建｜Learning Lab” (rebuilding how I learn for the gaokao | Learning Lab) and four of its chemistry chats, titled in Chinese: “深挖 Learning Lab 化学学习经历” (A deep dive into my Learning Lab chemistry experience), “记录化学合格考通过” (Recording that I passed the chemistry Academic Proficiency Test), then, after a gap, “继续学习” (Continue studying) and “继续化学过滤操作学习” (Continue learning chemistry filtration).
The project in ChatGPT, with its chemistry chats (screenshot, cropped)ChatGPT 里的项目和化学对话（截图，已裁剪）

The full-record audit原文审计

I gave it one core rule. After every session, the Lab re-reads the whole conversation and checks my answers and its own teaching side by side. It notes what went wrong and how far it got fixed, then updates my learning status and review schedule. The next session starts from there.我给它定了一条核心规则：每次学完，Lab 重读完整对话，把我的作答和它的教学放在一起核对；记下哪里出了问题、解决到什么程度，再更新我的学习状态和复习安排。下一次就从这里开始。

List of five Markdown source files in the ChatGPT project “高考学习重建｜Learning Lab”: long-term chemistry experience, review schedule, exam and teaching basis, the project's main rules, and the end-of-session audit instructions (file names in Chinese).
The Lab’s files: main rules, audit rules, review schedule (screenshot, cropped)Lab 的文件：总纲、审计指令、复习调度（截图，已裁剪）

SEP 59 月 5 日 · AFTER MY FIRST CHEMISTRY SESSION化学第一课之后

I asked it to redo the full-record audit and actually make the improvements, not just point out problems and then change nothing.我要求它重新做一次原文审计，而且要把改进真正做出来，不能只提出问题，之后什么都不变。

It has to read the whole record. If it sees only that I got something wrong, a teaching problem can get logged as my weakness. If it sees only that I got it right in the end, something I did only after hints can get logged as mastered.必须读完整原文：只看到答错，可能把教学的问题记成我的能力问题；只看到最后答对，又可能把提示后才完成的记成已经掌握。

SEP 59 月 5 日

An answer handed to me doesn’t count送到眼前的答案不算数

It asked how many elements were in a formula, when the answer was already in its own notes. I said: “Actually, you already told me.” The audit later made this a rule: a question that hints at its answer doesn’t count as evidence that I’ve learned something.它问我一个化学式里有几种元素，答案就写在它自己的笔记里。我说：“实际上你都跟我说了呀。”审计后来把这定成规则：暗示了答案的题，不算我学会的证据。

See excerpts from the record查看记录摘录
  1. ME我

    “Of course there are two elements, calcium and chlorine… Actually, you already told me. Your notes already say Ca is calcium and Cl is chlorine, so obviously there are two.”“当然有两种元素，分别是钙元素和氯元素……实际上你都跟我说了呀，因为你的笔记当中已经写了Ca等于钙，Cl等于氯，那所以很显然有两种。”

    Translated from Chinese · Show original

    “当然有两种元素，分别是钙元素和氯元素……实际上你都跟我说了呀，因为你的笔记当中已经写了Ca等于钙，Cl等于氯，那所以很显然有两种。”

  2. CHATGPT · SUMMARY摘要

    Agreed the question tested almost nothing, and switched to one that mattered: the ratio of Ca to Cl.承认这题信息量太低，改问真正有用的问题：Ca 和 Cl 的数量比。

  3. The audit later made this a rule: a question that hints at its answer doesn’t count as independent evidence that I’ve learned something.后来的审计把它定成规则：暗示了答案的题，不能算作我学会的独立证据。

From the audit of my September 5 session:9 月 5 日那次学习的审计：

  1. 1. Questions gave answers away or repeated, so I got more right than the real evidence showed.题面泄露与重复，使正确次数高于有效证据量
  2. 2. It upgraded me to “mastered” or “stable” before the evidence was there.对“掌握/稳定”的升级早于证据
  3. 3. Shortcuts in the teaching weren’t controlled well enough to keep them from misleading me.教学省略未充分控制误导边界
  4. 4. Admin and source notes kept taking over the lesson.管理与来源说明持续占据学习正文
  5. 5. It said it would stop repeating and stop adding new ideas, but didn’t keep to it.“不再重复/不开新概念”的行动没有保持
  6. 6. Quotes from our conversation were inaccurate or repeated.原文引用不精确及重复输出
ME我CHATGPT
ME我

Set the goal and the standard定目标和标准

 CHATGPT

Find materials, propose plans找资料、提方案
ME我

Do the problems myself, say where I’m stuck自己做题，说出哪里不会

 CHATGPT

Explain, write questions讲解、出题
ME我

Spot what’s wrong, propose a change发现不对，提出改动

 CHATGPT

Make the changes I ask for按我的要求修改
ME我

Test it against how I do next, decide whether it stays用之后的表现检验，决定留不留

 CHATGPT

Diagnose, plan my review诊断、安排复习

Chemistry in 14 days14 天的化学

Chemistry isn’t one of my gaokao subjects, but I had to pass the chemistry Academic Proficiency Test to graduate. My basics were extremely weak; I had to relearn atoms, molecules, coefficients and subscripts. Learning Lab was brand new and still rough. From my first diagnostic on September 5 to the exam on September 19 was 14 days. I studied while building and fixing the Lab.化学不是我的高考选科，但毕业必须通过化学学业水平合格性考试。我的化学基础极弱，原子、分子、系数、下标都要重新学。那时 Learning Lab 还刚搭起来、很不成熟。从 9 月 5 日第一次诊断，到 9 月 19 日考试，一共 14 天。我边学、边搭、边改。

Exam result and study records →考试成绩与学习记录 →

The lit days are the ones with a study record in the Lab.亮起的是 Lab 里有学习记录的日子。

  1. 9/5 Diagnostic; formulas and particles诊断；化学式和粒子
  2. 9/6 Classifying matter; colloids物质分类；胶体
  3. 9/7
  4. 9/8 Chemical symbols; purifying crude salt化学符号；粗盐提纯
  5. 9/9
  6. 9/10
  7. 9/11 Separation, distillation, ions; Test A分离、蒸馏、离子；检测 A
  8. 9/12
  9. 9/13 Nuclides, periodic table, bonds, equations核素、周期表、化学键、方程式
  10. 9/14 Valence; redox化合价、氧化还原
  11. 9/15
  12. 9/16 Test B; the mole检测 B；物质的量
  13. 9/17 Balancing, organic chemistry, esterification配平、有机、酯化
  14. 9/18 Rates, equilibrium, cells, moles; 72+ minutes速率、平衡、原电池、计量；至少 72 分钟
  15. 9/19 Short review, then the exam考前短复习，然后考试

Six moments from building and using the Lab搭建和使用 Lab 的六个时刻

SEP 19 月 1 日

I set the goal, and the standard我定目标，也定标准

The goal: pass the exam by September 19. I asked it to find past papers first. When the research came back, I told it not to treat that as the only authority, and to check whether it had drifted from the goal.目标是通过考试，期限 9 月 19 日。我要求先找历年考题。研究交回来后，我又要求不能把它当作唯一权威，要检查有没有偏离目标。

SEP 59 月 5 日

Where I really started我真正的起点

My first diagnostic was a real 2023 Anhui exam paper. I handed it in after twelve minutes: “Not because I could do them all, but because I could do almost none of them.” I couldn’t even count the atoms in 2H2O.第一次诊断用的是 2023 年安徽的真卷。我十二分钟就交了卷：“不是因为我都会做，而是因为我几乎都不会做。”连 2H2O 里一共有几个原子，我都数不对。

See excerpts from the record查看记录摘录
  1. ME我 · FIRST DIAGNOSTIC首次诊断

    “I finished these questions in exactly twelve minutes. Not because I could do them all, but because I could do almost none of them.”“我十二分钟整就做完了这些题目。不是因为我都会做，而是因为我几乎都不会做。”

    Translated from Chinese · Show original

    “我十二分钟整就做完了这些题目。不是因为我都会做，而是因为我几乎都不会做。”

  2. I knew 2H2O meant two water molecules, but couldn’t get the total number of atoms right, and said I wasn’t sure.知道 2H2O 是两个水分子，但没能算对总原子数，并说出自己不确定。

  3. CHATGPT · SUMMARY摘要

    Explained coefficients and subscripts by treating each molecule as one whole unit, then gave new examples.用“整份”的方式解释系数和下标，再换新例子。

  4. For 3CO2 I said 3 molecules, 3 carbon atoms, 6 oxygen atoms, and explained the multiplication. 4NH3: 4, 4, 12. I said I had it for now but could use more practice.3CO2：3 个分子、3 个碳原子、6 个氧原子，并解释了乘法过程。4NH3：4、4、12。我说暂时掌握了，可以多练。

SEP 139 月 13 日

The full record had the final say: my method was right原文说了算：我的方法是对的

On September 13, I solved an equation problem my own way. Then it suddenly switched to another topic and broke my train of thought. The session had already confirmed my method. The audit then wrote the correction into my learning record and told future lessons to keep it.9 月 13 日，我用自己的办法做对了一道方程式题，它却突然岔开去讲别的，打断了我的思路。课上已确认：我的方法成立。审计随后把这次纠正写进学习记录，要求后续教学保留这个有效方法。

See excerpts from the record查看记录摘录

September 13, 2026 · reading a balanced equation2026 年 9 月 13 日 · 读配平后的方程式

  1. ME我 · SUMMARY摘要

    From N2 + 3H2 → 2NH3, I read off 3H2 : 2NH3 myself and doubled it: 4NH3 needs 6H2.从 N2 + 3H2 → 2NH3 自己读出 3H2 : 2NH3，翻倍得出 4NH3 要 6H2。

  2. CHATGPT · SUMMARY摘要

    Then it switched to explaining subscripts.接着转去讲下标。

  3. ME我 · SUMMARY摘要

    I asked whether my method had just been luck.问自己的方法是不是凑巧。

  4. CHATGPT · TRANSLATED

    “Your method is completely right. It wasn’t luck.” “Then I suddenly switched to subscripts and pulled you off your line of thinking…”“你的方法完全正确，不是凑巧。”“我后面突然讲下标，岔开了你的思路……”

    Translated from Chinese · Show original

    “你的方法完全正确，不是凑巧。”“我后面突然讲下标，岔开了你的思路……”

  5. AUDIT审计 · SUMMARY摘要

    Written into my learning status: my method works; keep it. Future lessons should not drag me back to subscripts without reason.写进学习状态：我的方法成立，保留；要求后续教学不要再无故拉回下标。

SEP 6 · 14 · 189 月 6 日 · 14 日 · 18 日

I changed the system itself我改了系统本身

I almost never read the scheduled reminders, so I had them turned off and moved review to the start of every session.我几乎不看那些定时提醒。于是让它停掉，把复习移到每次开始学习的时候。

When the project hit its file limit, I also proposed merging the reports for each subject.项目文件达到上限时，我也提出把同一科目的报告合并。

SEP 179 月 17 日

The explanation didn’t work. My question was taken seriously.讲法不对，我的问题被接住了

On September 17, I was learning esterification. It switched notations, and I told it straight that explaining it this way only confused me more. It re-explained with one fixed notation, and I wrote the ester myself.9 月 17 日学酯化反应，它换了写法，我直接告诉它，这样讲我更不明白了。它改用一种固定写法重讲，之后我自己写出了酯。

Then I asked for another problem.然后，我又主动要了一道新题。

See excerpts from the record查看记录摘录

September 17, 2026 · esterification2026 年 9 月 17 日 · 酯化反应

  1. ME我

    “Actually, after you expanded on it like that, I’m even more confused… Can you explain it in a more intuitive or straightforward way?”“实际上你这样展开之后我更不清楚了……能用直观或者简单明了的方式讲吗？”

    Translated from Chinese · Show original

    “实际上你这样展开之后我更不清楚了……能用直观或者简单明了的方式讲吗？”

  2. CHATGPT · SUMMARY摘要

    Admitted that switching notations made it harder to follow. Switched to one fixed notation and a table: original structure → the part that stays.承认换写法增加了理解负担，改用固定写法和“原结构—留下部分”的表格。

  3. ME我 · SUMMARY摘要

    Wrote CH3COOCH3 myself, then asked for another problem.自己写出 CH3COOCH3，接着要再出一题。

  4. ME我 · NEXT QUESTION下一题

    Propanoic acid and ethanol: I wrote the product and water, and named the conditions: concentrated sulfuric acid, heat, reversible arrow.丙酸和乙醇：我写出了产物和水，并说出条件：浓硫酸、加热、可逆箭头。

SEP 199 月 19 日

The exam考试

The night before, I wrote: “Studying with you has also brought back that state where I can really understand, where I can keep moving forward. … Before, whenever I studied, I got stuck at the very first step…”考试前一晚，我写下：“跟你的学习呢，也让我找回了那种真正能学得懂的状态，能推进的状态。……以往去学习，真的都是卡在第一步……”

Translated from Chinese · Show original

“跟你的学习呢，也让我找回了那种真正能学得懂的状态，能推进的状态。……以往去学习，真的都是卡在第一步……”

On September 19, I passed the chemistry Academic Proficiency Test required for high school graduation.9 月 19 日，我通过了高中毕业要求的化学学业水平合格性考试。

Certificate of results for Anhui's high school Academic Proficiency Tests, issued by the Anhui Education Examinations Authority: name 应乐杨, exam month September 2026, chemistry 合格 (pass); the ID number, registration number, QR code and verification code are blacked out.
Official result: certificate from Anhui’s provincial exam authority, with ID details redacted. The certificate shows my Chinese name, 应乐杨.正式成绩：安徽省教育招生考试院出具的成绩证明（已打码）。应乐杨是我的中文名。
The scores, as recorded分数记录
Sep 59 月 5 日Diagnostic (real 2023 Anhui paper)诊断卷（2023 年安徽真卷）19–23 / 100 (estimated), handed in after 12 minutes19–23 / 100（估分），12 分钟交卷
Sep 119 月 11 日Test A, written by the Lab检测 A，Lab 出的卷26 / 10026 / 100
Sep 169 月 16 日Test B, written by the Lab, different difficulty from A检测 B，Lab 出的卷，和 A 难度不同45 / 10045 / 100
Sep 199 月 19 日Academic Proficiency Test合格性考试Passed通过

After the exam, I retired chemistry from the Lab. It keeps only the long-term lessons and the original words they came from.考试后，我让化学退出 Lab，只保留长期经验和对应的原话。

Evidence证据

  1. ChatGPT sidebar showing the project “高考学习重建｜Learning Lab” (rebuilding how I learn for the gaokao | Learning Lab) and four of its chemistry chats, titled in Chinese: “深挖 Learning Lab 化学学习经历” (A deep dive into my Learning Lab chemistry experience), “记录化学合格考通过” (Recording that I passed the chemistry Academic Proficiency Test), then, after a gap, “继续学习” (Continue studying) and “继续化学过滤操作学习” (Continue learning chemistry filtration).

    The project in ChatGPT, with its chemistry chats (screenshot, cropped)ChatGPT 里的项目和化学对话（截图，已裁剪）

  2. List of five Markdown source files in the ChatGPT project “高考学习重建｜Learning Lab”: long-term chemistry experience, review schedule, exam and teaching basis, the project's main rules, and the end-of-session audit instructions (file names in Chinese).

    The Lab’s files: main rules, audit rules, review schedule (screenshot, cropped)Lab 的文件：总纲、审计指令、复习调度（截图，已裁剪）

  3. ChatGPT “Advanced settings” dialog in Chinese showing the beginning of the project's custom instructions; the text box is cut off by the app, with 7,496 of 8,000 characters remaining.

    Project instructions (screenshot; the app can’t show all of it)项目指令（截图，软件无法完整显示）

  4. First page of Test A: title 化学合格考检测 A (Chemistry Academic Proficiency Test, Test A), “calibration paper, not real past-exam questions”, 100 points, 60 minutes, and multiple-choice questions 1–6 with blank answer brackets.

    Test A, as the Lab wrote it (PDF, 6 pages, no answers)Lab 出的检测 A（PDF，6 页，不含答案）

  5. Daily study summary (compiled from the Lab’s reports); note: Not every session got a full audit. The start of September 14 and parts of the 16th and 18th are missing, and the records say so.每日学习汇总（整理自 Lab 报告）；注：不是每次都审计完整：9 月 14 日前段、16 日和 18 日的部分原文缺失，记录里也照实写着。
    1. 9/5 Diagnostic; formulas and particles诊断；化学式和粒子
    2. 9/6 Classifying matter; colloids物质分类；胶体
    3. 9/8 Chemical symbols; purifying crude salt化学符号；粗盐提纯
    4. 9/11 Separation, distillation, ions; Test A分离、蒸馏、离子；检测 A
    5. 9/13 Nuclides, periodic table, bonds, equations核素、周期表、化学键、方程式
    6. 9/14 Valence; redox化合价、氧化还原
    7. 9/16 Test B; the mole检测 B；物质的量
    8. 9/17 Balancing, organic chemistry, esterification配平、有机、酯化
    9. 9/18 Rates, equilibrium, cells, moles; 72+ minutes速率、平衡、原电池、计量；至少 72 分钟
    10. 9/19 Short review, then the exam考前短复习，然后考试
  6. Certificate of results for Anhui's high school Academic Proficiency Tests, issued by the Anhui Education Examinations Authority: name 应乐杨, exam month September 2026, chemistry 合格 (pass); the ID number, registration number, QR code and verification code are blacked out.

    Official exam result certificate (PDF, redacted)考试成绩证明（PDF，已打码）

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VIDEOS · SINCE OCTOBER 2026视频 · 2026 年 10 月起

Phase Gap: making videos with Claude相位差：和 Claude 一起做视频

Phase Gap is my short explainer video account, on Douyin (China’s TikTok) and TikTok.相位差是我的知识短视频账号，发在抖音和 TikTok 上。

WATCH Same Smoke 54 seconds The 37% rule 66 seconds看作品 Same Smoke 54 秒 37% 法则 66 秒

Why I started为什么做

EARLY OCTOBER10 月初

On Douyin I came across a new, fast-growing category called “vibe 知识大赏” (roughly, “vibe knowledge showcase”): explainer videos made with AI. AI has made knowledge cheap to get, and social media has made it far easier to reach people. I saw the opening and started my own account.我在抖音上看到一个新兴的板块“vibe 知识大赏”：用 AI 做知识类视频，而且很火。AI 让获取知识变得廉价，自媒体让传播门槛大幅降低。我看准了这个机会，开始做自己的账号。

More importantly, many people don’t know what to do with AI, or what to ask it.更重要的是，很多人不知道拿 AI 做什么，也不知道该问什么问题。

TikTok bio:抖音简介：

Questions you never thought to ask, answered. Every number has a source.你没想过去问的问题，我替你问出来，再讲明白。

Who does what谁做了什么

ME我
Set the direction and topics, review every version, decide what gets posted, and post it myself.定方向和选题，审每一版，决定发不发，自己动手发布。
CLAUDE
Research and fact-checking, scripts, animation drawn in code, sound and covers, checks before delivery, data analysis.研究和事实核对、写剧本、用代码做动画、做声音和封面、交付前检查、分析数据。
CHATGPT
Pulls the platform analytics on schedule, and gives feedback on cuts.按时读取平台后台数据，也给片子提意见。

At first Claude suggested most of the topics. Since October 26, they’ve mostly been my own.一开始选题多由 Claude 推荐，10 月 26 日起以我自己的选题为主。

Look at the data, change the approach看数据，改做法

Four times, data or feedback changed how I work.四次因为数据或反馈改变做法。

  1. OCT 1810 月 18 日

    1. ME我

      Pointed out that Claude and I were overproducing: we kept making new videos without reviewing the ones already posted.指出我和 Claude 产能过剩：一直在做新片，却没有复盘已经发布的。

    2. WHAT CHANGED改了

      Stopped starting new videos that day and began reviewing the posted ones. Two days later, the first finding: most viewers left in the first five seconds.当天停开新片，开始复盘已发布的视频。两天后的第一批结论：观众主要在开头 5 秒离开。

  2. OCT 2010 月 20 日

    1. ME我

      “Is this a real review? Did you get real data? I don’t think I’ve given you any yet. How did you do the review?”“是否是真实复盘？你拿到真实数据了吗？我似乎还没有给你，你如何做的复盘？”

      Translated from Chinese · Show original

      “是否是真实复盘？你拿到真实数据了吗？我似乎还没有给你，你如何做的复盘？”

    2. WHAT CHANGED改了

      Split the work: ChatGPT collects the platform data 24 hours, 48 hours and 7 days after each post; Claude analyzes it.定下分工：ChatGPT 在每条发布后 24 小时、48 小时、7 天采数据，Claude 负责分析。

  3. OCT 24–2610 月 24–26 日

    1. ME我

      I didn’t post a video that night; I didn’t think any of the finished ones were good enough. I said Claude and I could throw out our old format, so our past work wouldn’t limit us.那天晚上我没有发视频，因为觉得做好的几条都不够好。我提出，我和 Claude 可以推翻之前的形式，不被自己的过去限制。

    2. WHAT CHANGED改了

      Held back four finished videos and switched to mostly my own topics.已经做好的四条片子不发，改以我自己的选题为主。

  4. OCT 2910 月 29 日

    1. DATA数据

      Each time a new example started, more viewers dropped off. The AI’s analysis suggested using only one example per video.每换一个例子，观众流失得更快。AI 的分析建议：一条片只用一个例子。

    2. ME我

      “Only one example per video… isn’t that too extreme?”“一条片子只用一个例子……会不会太极端了？”

      Translated from Chinese · Show original

      “一条片子只用一个例子……会不会太极端了？”

      I thought there might be more than one factor.我认为影响因素可能不止这一个。

    3. WHAT CHANGED改了

      Each video hangs on one main question. It can use more than one example, as long as they all answer it.一条片只悬一个主问题，例子可以不止一个，但都要回答它。

FEATURED · 54 SECONDS · OCTOBER 2026代表作 · 54 秒 · 2026 年 10 月

Same Smoke

Made during the transboundary haze over Singapore and Malaysia. Scattered news merges into “the same smoke,” then five time scales carry it, step by step, into the body. No narration. English came first, then Chinese and Malay.做于新马跨境烟霾期间。零散的新闻汇成“同一片烟”，再用五个时间尺度把烟一步步带进身体。没有旁白。先做英文版，后来又做了中文和马来文版。

I care about social issues and want to speak up about them. Each of us has a responsibility to make society better.我关注社会问题，也想为它发声。我们每个人都有责任让社会更好。

What I asked for我提的要求

  • Powerful and memorable, but built on science.要震撼、有记忆点，但必须以科学为根本；
  • Not a government PSA, and not ordinary popular science.不要做成政府宣传片或普通科普；
  • Something that sparks discussion, not controversy.要引起讨论，而不是争议。

Watch on TikTok在 TikTok 上看

The 37% rule37% 法则

66 seconds66 秒

If you can’t go back once you choose, when should you stop looking and pick? My first posted video.选了就不能回头时，什么时候该停下来选？这是我发的第一条。

Chinese version on Douyin中文版在抖音English version on TikTok英文版在 TikTok

Past figures and how they were counted历史数据与统计口径

On Douyin, Oct 17–27: 7 videos, about 43,000 plays in total (most counted 7 days after posting, the newest about 2 days after). The 37% rule alone had 24,000. 32 followers as of Oct 29. On TikTok, as of Oct 30: Same Smoke 249 plays, the 37% rule 53.抖音，10 月 17 日到 27 日发了 7 条，共约 4.3 万次播放（多数按发布后 7 天计，最新一条按约 2 天）；其中《37% 法则》一条 2.40 万。10 月 29 日粉丝 32 人。TikTok 上，截至 10 月 30 日，《Same Smoke》249 次播放，《37% 法则》53 次。

Play counts of 7 Douyin videos by posting date: Oct 17, 2.40万 (about 24,000); Oct 18, 1,229; Oct 19 13:57, 3,034; Oct 19 20:04, 830; Oct 20, 1.04万 (about 10,400); Oct 22, 1,778; Oct 27, 2,091. Douyin dashboard for the video titled 继续挑，还是就选它？37%法则 (the 37% rule), posted Oct 17 2026: 2.40万 plays (about 24,000) and 466 likes.
Douyin play counts: original analytics screenshots, cropped.抖音播放数：后台原始截图（已裁剪）

I’m still making them. Each new video tries just one new thing.现在还在做。每条新片只试一样新做法。

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