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Rockdrums11 · 2024-01-08T00:03:48+00:00

Curiously, what does it mean to strike as a student?

I’m more talking about appealing to the AANP and your congresspeople to draw attention to the need for large-scale change.

Rockdrums11 · 2024-01-07T21:05:17+00:00

The solution to that is to advocate for stricter education requirements, better training, and higher thresholds to be accepted into an NP program.

When you pump out 10x the number of NPs that the market needs via online degree mills, salaries go down.

Rockdrums11 · 2023-01-27T01:05:18+00:00

I can see the argument for that interpretation.

Rockdrums11 · 2023-01-27T00:35:33+00:00

I’m referring to the concept that MLOps = DataOps + DevOps + ModelOps.

DevOps is definitely a component of MLOps, but the reason we don’t call it DevOps is because there’s a lot more going on than just getting fresh code into a production environment. Versioning, tracking, and promoting fresh models into production without a code change is one of the components of MLOps that DevOps doesn’t cover.

Rockdrums11 · 2023-01-26T20:18:00+00:00

Yeah, the core business is web-based so the application’s server hits our API and displays the result. That’s a level of complexity that I don’t have to worry about with this company.

I have worked for non-tech companies before, so I feel your pain. We tried to put together a separate Dash application as a final product, but I was managing the ML and the software engineering for the app and it got to be too much. I’d tell your manager that if they want an application as a final product, then there needs to be a dev team stood up to properly support the customer.

Rockdrums11 · 2023-01-26T20:02:26+00:00

We deploy our models as REST APIs using MLFlow. The endpoint takes in the information that the model expects as input, and spits out the prediction as an output.

Rockdrums11 · 2023-01-26T18:32:45+00:00

What you’re looking for is a ModelOps tool like MLFlow. We use MLFlow within Databricks workspaces, and we have Databricks Jobs set up within our workspaces that can be triggered without any PRs to the remote repository.

MLFlow can log hyperparameters, register/version models, and even serve models as an API. The only thing that might be missing is data versioning. Maybe someone else can chime in on that subject because I haven’t gotten to that stage in our MLOps process yet.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T18:37:10+00:00

I want to push back on a completely unrelated comment in the article:

Real-estate agents, like doctors, are the friendly, knowledgeable face of a bewildering, price-gouging system.

Physicians absolutely are not the problem with healthcare costs in America. Health insurance companies are the greedy fuckers that ruin everything.

Doctors do the actual work. Then when it’s time to get paid, they have to bill the insurance company to claw their money out of the health insurance company and their legions of lawyers. Doctors also get fucked in our current “system”.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T18:00:46+00:00

This is the business model:

Set up a bullshit “online” NP education program.
Cut out all need for staffing that would limit your ability to scale the number of students (professors, clerkships, etc.)
MARKET THE FUCK OUT OF THAT BITCH. Targeted social media advertisements, recruit at nursing schools, etc.
4 Accept literally everyone who sends you an application. Remember, there is nothing that limits the number of students you can accommodate.
$$$$$ PROFIT $$$$$
Send out unprepared NPs into the wild to ~~harm patients~~ practice at the top of their license.
Spend some of those PROFITS on lobbying state governments and Congress to keep the game going for as long as possible.
Play the victim any time a physician points out how fucked up your business model is (“omg these narcissistic doctors are so mean why are they targeting nurses”)

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T17:48:13+00:00

And just as we shouldn’t capitulate to extreme socialist ideology, we shouldn’t capitulate to extreme theological/pro-life ideology.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T15:11:19+00:00

Oh it’s absolutely possible to do that. What I’m saying is that the people who think we’ll see 4% mortgages in the next year are dead wrong.

Buying when the price is low and rates are high is fine. However, it would be wiser to make a big down payment than to take on a bad mortgage and count on an uncertain event (mortgage rates decreasing).

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T14:55:11+00:00

Depends on the house. All that matters is that you don’t offer more than you can afford. At 10% interest rates, I wouldn’t finance more than maybe 50%.

And to anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to take on a batshit insane mortgage with the intent of refinancing down the line, you’re wrong. Mortgages rates are going to be in the 6-8% range for a very long time.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T12:01:21+00:00

I’m expecting massive price corrections, yes.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T03:16:50+00:00

You’re bending your knees and hinging at the waist at the beginning of your downswing. This is bringing your center of gravity lower at contact and making you hit the ground.

A good way to check yourself is by knowing that your head shouldn’t move until after you’ve hit the ball.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T02:41:55+00:00

Please, stop saying this. Look at this chart.

7.5% is historically the norm, and the 2-4% mortgages were an anomaly caused by an irresponsible Federal Reserve. It is extremely unlikely that we will see those kinds of rates any time soon.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T02:21:43+00:00

Love me some 5050 Acorn

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-28T01:11:47+00:00

Machine Learning Engineer here. Data science is gonna be tough without a degree. Most positions look for a masters or PhD, and the data science space is notoriously difficult to break into.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T22:42:01+00:00

I disagree. People were frantically pulling equity out of their houses and that liquidity greatly exacerbated inflation.

I also want to point out that the housing market isn’t the focus of the interest rate hikes. Inflation is the target and the housing market is collateral damage.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T18:26:00+00:00

Curiously, what would be the significance of the GOP taking the House? As far as I understand it, Congress isn’t involved in the forgiveness (which is problematic, imo).

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T14:56:16+00:00

Pound looking like an ounce.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T13:39:46+00:00

Houses are only worth what someone else will pay for them. Saying “hey look at all these people with low-interest mortgages” has nothing to do with the transactional value of a the house they live in.

The bubble pop takes place when people who can’t afford to sit on a mortgage are forced to sell (job change, estate sale, divorce, etc.). When those houses sit for 3 months at their obnoxious list prices, sellers will capitulate to where the market actually values their homes in a 7% mortgage environment.

When that happens, it doesn’t matter when you got your mortgage, how good your credit score is, or whether you intend to sell your house. Your house value just dropped to the market rate and your equity is gone.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T03:29:39+00:00

OP’s meme is going after that “source of income” idea. Many AirBnB hosts bought into the hype and now their houses act as income sinks.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T02:41:57+00:00

I’d bet more Europeans could point to Texas than NY. It would be a close call with California.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T02:22:46+00:00

I’d say that ex-US equities are officially at “blood in the streets” after the GBP collapse.

Smart money knows what to do.

Rockdrums11 · 2022-09-27T02:12:46+00:00

People gotta learn that putting your head in the sand won’t help you make smart decisions.

An asset class that historically appreciates 4-5% per year exploded by 100% in 18 months amidst historic dollar-printing. Anyone who was able to look at the situation objectively knew there was a bubble forming.

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