I mean, the post office is not a magic box. Actual people will take your letter somewhere, sometimes batching sends. So running to the post office might actually get your letter in an earlier batch, same as ordering on amazon or your online supermarket in the morning or in the evening might change the delivery time.

Pedantic, I know, but interesting example.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11095576/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03449-4

> LLMs strongly prefer word-level tokens, and word substitutions follow semantic similarity and not the more human auditory similarity.

Is this an elaborate joke or your full-word misspelling of writing is both agreeing with your statement (word substitutions) and contradicting it (not semantic but only pronunciation similarity)

Rectang explained it very well, and all their points stand imo.

And Chernobyl. And Fukushima. Nuclear is great but it has some very real risks

> align: to be the same or similar, or to agree with each other; to make two things do this

But I get it, you are using it as correlation.

Still, if gdp per capita average is 130 and median is 100 (ratio is 1.3) there is a 30% difference. This is exactly why, even if they correlate they are not very similar aka they "do not agree with each other" as per the definition above. With your definition they "align".good enough for me. It aligns even better (more closely) to the median.

A different dsl inside Java or js implemented with duct tape in a dynamic way. React was screaming for a real typed functional language like elm imo, instead of a kludge of abstractions enforced by linters and weekly-changing best practices. React should have been "finished" like jquery. It is possible to develop something solid in it of course, but elegant it is not. Full of leaky abstractions.

> GDP/capita aligns very closely with material standard of living for the median person

GDP per capita is an average. This means it does not align with the _median_ person, but with the average. I believe this is factual and undeniable. No doubt it is interesting too to try to find other metrics for different usages as well.

> For purposes of comparing countries to each other and the same country over time, it’s not 30% off

You said the ratio for the same country between gdp mediand and average is 1.30. That means it is 30% off. Again, we can keep moving the goalposts and I could agree, but for the quoted statements i believe the above is true.

Being off by 30% might not matter for some usages, but it is not a small amount. It seems the median is more accurate to report and we agree.

Didnt USA benefit from mostly not being bombed during ww2? Didnt Germany benefit from cheap Russian gas and educated immigrants after 2008 crisis in EU? In the end, we can keep going back looking for pthers to thank but the country did it, and it is fair to say so.

P.S. I also live in Poland, not Polish. I also lived in Berlin, and I dont think the salaries are always so different.

GDP is an average, not a median, so it might align with the average person, not the median. The average/mean can hide many things (see Anscombe s quartet) which is one of the problems with GDP IMO.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14759574/