Reading Advantage has a mission to improve education in poor SE Asian areas through the use of technology and AI. Our work is open source.

Bangkok, Thailand
Joined December 2007
I am seeking "investors" (donors) for a free, not-for-profit bilingual international k-12 boarding school exclusively for Thai students from poverty-striken areas. The model will be inspired OTOP with one student admitted per Ampur (district) per year. I have a decade of school leadership, including school accreditation and curriculum experience. The instructional model will be scripted and AI-assisted with local teachers and visiting volunteer foreign teachers. The graduates will be expected to "pay it forward" to help their local areas out of poverty. I don't plan to take more than the legally mandated minimum salary to secure a a work permit. If you or someone you know it's interested in changing the lives of children through education, please contact me.
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When I was in sixth grade, our science class did an egg drop project. The assignment was to build something that could protect an egg when it was dropped from ceiling height. I was really excited and spent full weekends trying to come up with the perfect design. I think I ended up cutting open a Nerf football, making a little space for the egg, and putting that inside a box stuffed with paper. I was convinced it would work. Then the contest started. My egg was dropped and broke completely. As the day went on and the other kids had their turns, I realized I was the only kid in the class whose egg broke. The other kids had come up with these brilliant designs, and I vividly remember being shocked when one girl had her egg suspended inside a box using pantyhose. How did she think of that? How did I not? I remember feeling devastated, as I’d put so much time and effort into this thing, and I was the only kid who failed. And I got a C on the project. I couldn’t understand how the other kids had come up with such great ideas when mine didn’t work at all. I carried that memory with me for years and remembered it as a story about putting your heart into something and then coming in dead last. Only years later did I look back and realize that I was the only kid whose parents didn't do the project for them. I was a 12-year-old competing with adults, had no idea it wasn't an even playing field, and there were consequences. It had a big impact on me at that impressionable age. There are a lot of life lessons in that egg drop project.
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My current workflow: * Still using Measure * Moved to OpenChamber * Opus 5.5 is orchestrator for measure tracks. No write permission. * 13 steps per phase with Opus choosing the model depending on availability in my subs (OpenAI, Claude, OpenCode, Kimi, Minimax, Bytedance) - strategy - red - green - review A/B/C, etc. - adversarial - browser testing - acceptance - closeout
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I don't want state-guaranteed universal healthcare. I want a free market in healthcare that is so robust, solutions become as accessible as buying a tee-shirt.
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Gemini Argon seemed to be bench maxed for 3D, so I decided to test it by generating one of the assets in my Chibi Quest pack. * One hour for the asset * 35% of my OpenCode Go session. * It looked pretty good. For comparison, Sonnet 5.5 * Fifteen minutes * Hundreds of assets overnight. * Can't tell the difference.
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I don't run agents in the cloud, but certain tasks are infinitely parallelizable and therefore probably should use multiple subagents on order to keep the main thread's context clean. My example: I am creating hundreds of 2D/3D assets. The manifest and descriptions are all complete. 1. Run as many subagents in parallel as possible to generate assets. 2. Run the results through a review subagent. 3. Kick back the failures to be reworked. 4. Keep the pipe full. Why would I have Claude do that one at a time?
People who are running "agent swarms in the cloud" while they sleep, what's the use case? Even if I had a backlog of 100 issues I'm pretty sure a single Claude instance could rip through that in 30 mins let alone multiple, all night. Curious to know what people use this for.
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Sure, you can argue this, but at some point, this is a distinction without a difference, and pragmatically the LLM mimics understanding a given topic so closely that we can use it for that purpose.
Not sure who needs to hear this but.... An LLM doesn't "understand" anything. It is a statistical model that spews out tokens based on probabilities calculated through massive matrix operations and context, not an understanding of the subject matter.
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Communists always out themselves in the comments. This thread started with some fake empathy, but when the objections start coming, they can't stop themselves from "classless society vs hoarding wealth." You want other people's property and are willing to take it by force. That's your long-term goal. Please be up front about it.
Replying to @WTFMCMXIV
Ur right in a perfect society there would be no path to middle because it would be unnecessary because class distinctions wouldn't exist because nobody would be hoarding wealth or being taken advantage of labor wise
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I independently followed @davepl1968 on X and also discovered to him on YouTube years ago, having no idea it was the same person. I only figured out last night. I like to imagine I'm intelligent. Reality check.
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I noticed this last night. I was already planning to write a mood to do this, but the Claude team best me to it. Awesome feature!
We recently added idle compaction to Claude Code! It now compacts long idle sessions right before the prompt cache expires (~1h). If you come back to it later, it only has to reprocess the summary instead of the entire conversation, which saves you some usage.
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I’ve disliked the ‘we were the generation that mattered’ boomer thing since before it was popular. The Big Chill already had it locked in.
Well, I went to #unify my @X and @SuperGrok and @GrokBot accounts. Linked them. Cancelled Google Play. Entered Premium payment info with Link (Stripe). Clicked pay. Approved. Got dumped on a Stripe page with no way out -- "close this page" Nothing changed at all. Flummoxed.
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I have three setups, depending. 1. My oldest and most trusted is OpenCode (through OpenChamber now) with a pretty elaborate, bespoke spec-driven system and multiple agent roles. 2. This month, I've got Claude 20x max and Claude Code so that I can develop two assets packs for a 3D open world. Hundreds of models in each pack. That eats tokens and Opus / Sonnet are best at 3D right now. Other months, I'm on the Pro plan. 3. Codex Plus plan. In July and August, I did the 20x Max Plan, which was good timing for Mac number of tokens, but all I really accomplished was creating hashes everywhere in my established projects. Haha.
what are you actually using to vibe code right now? claude code, codex, cursor, windsurf or something else? are you running it in a terminal, an IDE or a separate app? curious what made you stick with your setup over the others
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You know I'm not a bot because every post I make has between one and five swipe typos. Everyone may think that's because I'm incautious not in detail oriented but in reality I'm playing 4D chess by proving my humanity.
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People continue to misunderstand the law of nature where things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. I assume this guy had a contract, and that the landlord honored the contract for the term of the contract. After that contract is over everybody gets to renegotiate. That's because we all have freedom to make our own decisions.
HYPOTHETICALLY… IF MY LANDLORD RAISES MY RENT FROM $1,600 TO $2,000 A MONTH, WHAT EXACTLY IMPROVED ABOUT MY APARTMENT? Did I get a bigger bedroom? No. Did the kitchen get renovated? No. Did the building get new plumbing? No. Did my salary go up by 25%? Absolutely not. But now I'm paying $4,800 more every year to live in the exact same place. I called to ask why the rent was increasing. The answer was that comparable apartments in the area were renting for more, so the market justified the increase. So I asked a simple question. If nothing about my apartment changed, why did the cost of living in it suddenly jump by $400 a month? Apparently, the answer is that other landlords are charging more, which gives mine a reason to charge more too. Meanwhile, my groceries cost more, my car insurance costs more, and my paycheck hasn't magically increased to cover any of it. I'm not getting a better apartment. I'm not building equity. I'm just paying someone else more money every month for permission to stay where I already live. IF THE MARKET CAN RAISE MY RENT BY $4,800 A YEAR WITHOUT IMPROVING A SINGLE THING, HOW IS A TENANT SUPPOSED TO EVER GET AHEAD?
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I'm not going to join this debate, but... "Tasted like burnt rubber and regret" is an awesome line. Kudos on that.
QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!!!! Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’! I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!” Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes. And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it. Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner. Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes. And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush. When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived. The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story. Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent. Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why. Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work. They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on. So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard. Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week. It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle. Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth. It’s truth....God is Good, God is Great, I thank HIM for this day and everything I have!!
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I have started using @openchamber_dev for my *multiple* subs (Kimi, Minimax, @opencode Go, Bytedance x2). It's really quite good and extremely well featured straight from the start. I especially live the "Usage" feature which gives me a report across my providers that I used to keep a bunch of browser tabs open for. But that usage report didn't include the ByteDance Volcano Ark plans. Sad. So almost the first thing I did after seeing a long running goal in one session was to create a new "Arl Plan" extension for Openchamber in another session. It can't really integrate with the built-in usage overview, but it's still way better than keeping another web page open.
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The world is an awful place with awful people in it. Everything on the internet is fake. These are my two fundamental starting points for dealing with unknowns.
A. Power attracts evil people. B. Evil people are often good at pretending not to be evil people. B is so real that I can generally work under the assumption that the people who yell the loudest about caring the most, or constantly showcase themselves as defenders of the helpless, are the worst kinds of people.
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One of the strongest arguments against school choice has always been "But special education!" Turns out, choice schools are actually MORE likely to serve students with disabilities A seemingly small finding with huge implications
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