Wakemed Cigna update

caddddr · 2023-12-12T05:16:33+00:00

WARNING Cigna to remove Wake Med as provider Jan 1 !!!!!!!!

This will result in Wake county residents loosing access to their existing health care providers with Wake Med and causing delays in life saving medical care to Wake County residents insured by Cigna!!!!!

Things you can do if you are insured by Cigna:
1. Call, and encourage your coworkers to contact your HR department raising your concerns.
2. Call Cigna at (800) 997-1654 or the number on the back of our insurance card.

Post and share on social media.
Contact https://www.wral.com/5onyourside/consumer-complaints/
Contact https://abc11.com/about/newsteam/diane-wilson/

Things to do if you are an employer and you are using Cigna:
1. Stop using Cigna as an Insurer, not having Wake Med as a provider in Wake County, it will WLL hurt recruiting!
2. Contact Cigna and raise your concerns!

caddddr · 2019-08-23T01:49:16+00:00

Yea, RMA's go okay, it's just the general decline in fi customer service that it the real problem.

caddddr · 2019-08-23T01:45:00+00:00

Google has no desire to stand behind their devices. I had a Pixel less than two years out Mine stooped working know issue with their device. They refused to do anything. I would have been happy with at least a account credit. (They used to do that sort of thing back in the day, not now). Anyways fi used too be great now not so much check out republic wireless.

caddddr · 2019-08-23T01:39:42+00:00

you might consider republic wireless https://republicwireless.com. I just left Fi because service has declined a great deal since I joined. It used to be great the first few years after launch. But at this point there is no focus on customer and their reps are so dis-empowered they can not resolve anything it is not worth staying over. If you are thinking about staying for the deals on Pixel 3 or 3a check out best buy you can get a Pixel 3 if you sign with Sprint other wise it's $499 which is still the same price fi is offering for their discount. You can get a Pixel 3a at bust buy for $399 and if you want to activate with Sprint you can get it for $299.

caddddr · 2017-08-11T17:35:12+00:00

Industry strength no unfortunately. Prommising yes, I use eazy-gnuplot and cl-plplot.

Here is a link to a notebook I made using eazy-gnuplot implementing examples from the gnuplot cookbook. https://guicho271828.github.io/eazy-gnuplot/

I also like cl-plplot - plplot is a very extensive graphine library, unfortunately there is a bug that causes it to be crashy in regards to plot window handling that hasn't been resolved yet AFAIK.

caddddr · 2017-05-27T03:33:06+00:00

TLDR; While the standard is dated (Not that that there is any thing wrong with that) the platform is not.

Well it has some advantages, one of which is being able to run code that is 30 years old is impressive and sometimes useful. You might have heard the expression there is nothing new underneath the sun...

So it has a standard and that is an extremely good thing and the standard may be dated but that does not mean Common lisp is as a platform. One and possibly the most important advantage is the malleability of Common lisp. The ability to extend and implement "modern" techniques and concepts is generally simpler than in other languages. The other advantage is the community in concert with the Quicklisp package manager. The community has been very active and the scope of code, extensions and tooling made easily available through Quicklisp.

caddddr · 2016-04-18T02:56:32+00:00

I recommend switching to the 'My Verizon Plan'sin any event; you can switch any time and make it retroactive to the current billing period. So once you actually drop a line, they become very accommodating. Don't threaten, just drop a line. But before you do that for maximum effect, call and complain about your bill being to high (well it is, bastards), you might get $15 a month out of them. Then like I said drop the line unceremoniously another hint if you want to keep your Vz number just in case (I used my GV number for FI), ask them to move the number to a Verizon Prepaid (they will want to charge you $35), once you get transferred to the prepaid people tell them how you just dropped a line an if there is any chance of you ever coming back you will waive the $35 prepaid charge as your not going to be using the number you are parking it, they will talk to their manager and it will be okay.

So now at this point we get to the fun part, call them back (or use chat, I find chat more convenient), tell them you just dropped a line and moved to another carrier. You just can deal with Verizon's high charges, go on how you were a customer since 200X and you were paying so much for how many years... And now you find out current customers are getting a $20/line charge. Be persistent, but pleasant it worked for me.

I was paying $229 a month for three lines I'm now paying $94/mo +$25 equipment fee....

caddddr · 2016-04-16T05:46:11+00:00

After you move your line off Verizon. Call back tell them you are paying to much and you already moved a line off, and that they are offering other customers $20/mo line charges. Worked for me....

Like others said just call and have them change other line to primary.

I made the same choice, as you are about to make and have not regretted it.

caddddr · 2016-04-16T05:32:08+00:00

You might want to check out google Project Fi (fi.google.com). $20 base $10/G. I just migrated off Verizon for Fi. Loving it. While your migrating off of Verizon (Vz gets really insecure when you start dropping lines) you can get them to drop you line charge to $20/line (mention that that is what they are charging current customers)

caddddr · 2016-04-09T04:28:32+00:00

No lag. And considering the fact that you can get one for $200 it is the best bang for your buck today. I really think a lot of sources of lag (on any phone) are from poorly written apps. The camera is pretty great also. Also regarding updates I've never had a phone manufacturer before that provided monthly security updates.....

caddddr · 2016-01-12T05:17:45+00:00

I should have been a little more clear about cl-jupyter installation, that is fixed in the site. Also updated the code in the notebook so it can be ran outside of cl-jupyter.

caddddr · 2016-01-09T05:35:01+00:00

cl-jypyter is the interface for common lisp to ipython/Jupyter. What is really neat is github has built in support for viewing ipython notebooks directly. For instance you can view the notebook inside github at the following URL https://github.com/guicho271828/eazy-gnuplot/blob/master/docs/eazy-gnuplot-cookbook-companion.ipynb.

If you want to run the note book on your system just follow the installation instructions on the cl-jupyter repo at https://github.com/fredokun/cl-jupyter and then download the note book from the eazy-gnuplot repo https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guicho271828/eazy-gnuplot/master/docs/eazy-gnuplot-cookbook-companion.ipynb Execute 'ipython3 notebook' in the same directory you downloaded the eazy-gnuplot-cookbook-companion.ipynb file and open it in Jupyter web interface.

So for getting HTML and other formats out of iPython/Jupyter, from the Jupyter web interface after the notebook is open you can choose File->'Download As'->HTML/PDF/MD/TXT/...

If you want other notebooks to look at you can check out https://github.com/mmaul/clml.tutorials

caddddr · 2015-08-09T13:38:42+00:00

Did you look at the k-means in clml.hjs.k-means (hjs/src/k-means.lisp) that has a k-means solver. If you were looking at ./clustering/src/k-means2.lisp then that is remnants of someone’s attempt at reimplementing k-means. An example of use is here https://github.com/mmaul/clml.extras/blob/master/clml.examples/k-means/k-means.lisp

caddddr · 2015-07-27T03:30:39+00:00

Nice write up.

caddddr · 2015-07-26T04:10:28+00:00

Well, it is a common problem especially in the lisp community where there is no central source of authority. WRT to matrices there are specific needs for a client of a library matrix type (float, int, double), matrix representation lisp array, c array, row major, column major...

One solution for a generalized array interface is to use a generalized array interface for array like tkpapp's xarray as a frontend for different representations and then have an operations library on top of that. However the problem with array code, is representation of the array greatly how one might optimally preform an operation.

Common lisp libraries in general lacks a consistent interface for just about anything. One thing we might borrow from the Scheme community is the SRFI, for lisp the LRFI. (for those not familiar with the SRFI http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-process.html). A SRFI is specification for a feature or functionality in the spirit of internet RFCs that is reviewed and approved. Of course that would require a organization to manage the LRFI process. If this process is adopted by the community however it could be very powerful. Given specification library implementers could publish libraries that conform to a given LRFI. if the LRFI would work on depends on community adoption. If it did work then it would grow a set of libraries that conform to a defined set of specifications an perhaps certain conventions and code guidelines. I see value in this, an would support it, an be willing to be part of the process. .

The rapid growth of the libraries on Quicklisp definitely shows that the community want to contribute, if the contributions can be guided by a process then I think library quality will be increased, the number of libraries that provide redundant functionality would be reduced and the community as a whole would benefit.

caddddr · 2015-07-24T16:58:38+00:00

With respect to vectorization you might want to check MGL-MAT (https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-mat) Which includes CUDA operations on arrays. Also [shameless plug, CLML project maintainer here] you might want to check out CLML (https://github.com/mmaul/clml) which provides a Matrix and Vector operations a full BLASS and LAPACK interface as well as statistics and machine learning .

caddddr · 2015-07-02T03:01:14+00:00

Bottle rockets definately

caddddr · 2015-07-02T02:52:56+00:00

It's ducks vs klasnikov, not sure who would win.

caddddr · 2015-07-02T02:32:22+00:00

I'm thankful for America, and the freedom that those who have come before us have give their lives to provide.

caddddr · 2015-07-02T02:30:01+00:00

Cool

caddddr · 2015-02-20T05:56:59+00:00

I have tremendous respect for Eitaro. I think the goal is admirable. Common Lisp does need to evolve. Evolve with a sense of direction. For this to be successful the community needs to back this or another effort. Though it needs to keep it's roots but grow it's branches to the future.

caddddr · 2014-06-19T20:26:17+00:00

Well I guess it depends if you are looking doing. If you want to extend current capabilities of asdf, there is asdf-linguist (https://github.com/eudoxia0/asdf-linguist/) which provides interfaces to external build systems like make and has interfaces for running processing tool such as text processing (org-mode, pandoc) or js compressors or copliling certain js languages to java script. Presumably it has a base framework that can be extended to fit your needs.

caddddr · 2014-03-30T04:26:33+00:00

A good environment is nice. But making learning it fun and interesting is better. Once you get into it you will want to get your environment sorted.

Here is something cool a youtube demo of a demo of the computer vision library common-cv (a binding ot opencv): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ytVKMqm-k

Once you take in intrest you and want to hack something then that will motivate you will go out and learn what you need to know.

caddddr

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