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I think his point is that any universal bed will be comfortable for some people and uncomfortable for others because people are different.

Keep in mind, 80% of that is private spending on insurance premiums and out of pocket expenses.

Americans spend a lot on mediocre healthcare because we have to line the pockets of insurance companies and drug companies.

Homebrew might as well be default.

Grade school is a US synonym for primary or elementary school; it doesn't seem to be used as a term in England or Australia. Apparently, they're often K-6 or K-8; my elementary school was K-4; some places have a middle school or junior high between grade school and high school.

You generally don't see algebra in grade school textbooks, though.

That's not really true.

You'll regularly see textbooks where 3x/2y is written to mean 3x/(2y) rather than (3x/2)*y because they don't want to format

3x
----
2y

properly because that's a terrible waste of space in many contexts.

People hate inflation, just not enough to spend less: This is one of the central tensions of today’s economy, in which things are going great yet everyone is miserable. And in some ways, Americans have nobody to blame but themselves.

The article is mostly paywalled, but seems based on the opposite idea, that inflation is "too much money chasing too few goods", I.e. demand-pull inflation. Inflation would go down if people just bought less stuff, the idea is.

Additionally, the idea that the serpent in the garden of eden is the devil is post-biblical.

First of all, the old testament doesn't really present the devil as a character, at all. Satan is a Hebrew word meaning "accuser", not a name of a specific entity.

For example, in the book of Job, a bunch of angels come before God, and "hasatan/the accuser" is among them; it seems more like it's a job title of one of the angels than as being the Christian idea of the devil.

Second of all, the new testament doesn't unambiguously call the serpent in the garden of eden the devil, literally anywhere.

Christians will often point to Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Although this is probably a reference to Leviathan instead, who is called both a dragon and a serpent elsewhere, and features in canaanite creation myths that are referenced elsewhere (e.g. Isaiah 27 closely mirrors some Ugaritic tablets we've found, just replacing Baal defeating Leviathan with God defeating Leviathan)

They'll also cite some verses calling the devil the father of lies, although this is fairly ambiguous. Particularly since the serpent doesn't actually say anything untrue in Genesis - it's at best a lie of omission, and saying it's a lie of omission presupposes that the serpent knew how God would punish everyone involved.

Keep in mind, though, AI progress is often more like punctuated equilibrium.

Each new approach gets you much further, and polishing each approach gets you slight improvements until the next approach comes along. Improvements to chatgpt might plateau until the next big breakthrough architecture. Or maybe not.

1 - 3 + 1 is interpreted as (1 - 3) + 1 = -1

Yes, they're non commutative, and you need to evaluate anything in parens first, but that's basically a red herring here.

It's BE(D=M)(A=S). Different places have slightly different acronyms - B for bracket vs P for parenthesis, for example.

But multiplication and division are whichever comes first right to left in the expression, and likewise with subtraction.

Although implicit multiplication is often treated as binding tighter than explicit. 1/2x is usually interpreted as 1/(2x), not (1/2)x.

Crappy default package management.

What's wrong with homebrew?