Thursday: I do not like insurance companies.

Mostly because today when I went to pick up a refill, I discovered what was previously a $15 prescription is now a $75 prescription.  Apparently shit changed on July 1st, and instead of all drugs being $15, there are four tiers.  Generic drugs are $5, name brand are $10, name brand but not preferred drugs are $45, and specialty drugs are $75.  Why?  Because they can, probably.  Why not raise prices just for funsies?

And looking now, it seems that the other plan I could have chosen has the same bullshit pricing structure, but, in an additional "fuck you," doesn't actually cover the drug at all.  So yeah.  Health insurance should be nationalized, and everything covered for everyone.


Other than that, I was wondering something about how extreme you could expect a normally distributed population to go.  Assume mean zero, sigma one, and then calculate the inverse normal CDF for a range of population sizes.  Then, note that doing it analytically would require a call to the inverse complementary error function, so do it numerically by guessing a value and doing an inefficient binary search tree until the calculated and target values differ by less than 1e-15.  Because 1e-12 isn't sufficient apparently, and gives far larger errors than I would have expected.

That increases far slower than I would have expected.

• I was thinking about gjetost last night, and grilled cheeses, and then found this.
• A good read.
• Ha-ha.
• Eh, I have an emulator that can play those if I really need to.  Odd choice not to include Castlevania 3, but if I remember correctly, that used a special chip in the cartridge to do sound, so that may be why.
• Wonder Woman.
• Frank Cho sounds like kind of an asshole.
• And I'm just going to put this link here, just for fun.  No other reason.
• Coloring book.
• Dog.
• Ko Takeuchi.
• Pokemon.
• I still don't think the gadget is a good idea.
• Interest.
• Ash Ketchum.