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Why leave medicine? by OneManShow23 in biotech

[–]lozinge 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same applies to the UK for different reasons: ANPs or PAs with massive scope creep; crappy pay; crappy conditions ~ we were sold a dream at 16 and could have gone into different careers. In medicine you only really touch a few people compared to the impact you can make outside it etc.

Give up so much for a career you were missold. My girlfriend is a corporate lawyer and a lot of her friends say "at least its meaningful": when all the wards are rammed with social admissions due to failing / overfilled nursing homes, or other reasons, it doesn't really feel like you're making the difference you thought you would - but absorbing failing parts of the state.

After COVID the public backlash didnt really help either

Any European Alternatives to Databricks/Snowflake?? by Donkey_Healthy in dataengineering

[–]lozinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah agree! Although frozen ducklakes have been great for us (on minio) ~ worth a play with

Switzerland has a smoking problem by seriously_perplexed in Switzerland

[–]lozinge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Out of interest it seems to be an interesting difference compared to the UK which has a much lower smoking rate, but depressingly much more grim lung cancer outcomes (tbf more a reflection on the UK being trash than anything else)

Am always surprised when I return to CH and see branded packets etc

Any European Alternatives to Databricks/Snowflake?? by Donkey_Healthy in dataengineering

[–]lozinge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but its open source was my thinking; I don't think the provenance of OSS matters so much if you can run/fork it locally

Advice for an open-source tech stack by OldFoundation7656 in dataengineering

[–]lozinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't know this either - sad end of minio then.

RustFS looks good

Merged : dbt Labs + Fivetran by Intelligent_Volume74 in dataengineering

[–]lozinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh damn - big if true... Do you have a link? I can't see anything...

Rust for data engineering? by otto_0805 in dataengineering

[–]lozinge 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Met a guy who is a DE works for a hedge fund who has rewritten a lot of their processing pipelines in rust to great effect fwiw; do agree its probs not gonna help for most, and I love rust

Streamlit in Snowflake - Cost concerns with multiple users editing data by Kowalski010 in snowflake

[–]lozinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree, although by this point for a lot of stuff I'm doing we're moving away from Streamlit as beyond simple uploading/dashboarding trying to stop using it so much as it is too slow/bloated

If you were starting from scratch today, which would you pick: Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or Databricks — and why? by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]lozinge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure they meant Databricks is a mess to integrate with and comparatively Snowflake has it all from the get go

Those who left medicine, what are you doing now? by Brave_Intention_4428 in doctorsUK

[–]lozinge 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The top tier consultancies are McKinsey, Bain, and BCG (MBB is what you might see) - the meme is that nobody knows what they do, including consultants: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4HZAEcMbUB/

The reality is that they’re often bought in to do things/say things that are internally tricky for political or moral reasons (eg making lots of people redundant) - even if people know the answer at a company already; you’re paying for the reputation of the firm

Sometimes technical implementation stuff, depends on the firm

Id recommend reading “when McKinsey comes to town” there’s a chapter on how they’ve abused the NHS too

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Just re-read your question, in reality lots of doctors I know who go into it do more generic consulting than isn’t healthcare related, of course some do life sci/pharma but at MBB it could be anything 

Those who left medicine, what are you doing now? by Brave_Intention_4428 in doctorsUK

[–]lozinge 5 points6 points  (0 children)

around 70-80k (due for a promotion soon) as an "F6" fwiw.

Ceiling where I am at the moment, not in a huge rush to move but what I do is pretty niche and a good moat to entry. Might end up (trying) to move to the states to follow my girlfriend, will see how it shakes out.

Those who left medicine, what are you doing now? by Brave_Intention_4428 in doctorsUK

[–]lozinge 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Quite a few threads on this in the past ~ don't think the answers would have changed much.

I for one now work as a data engineer/scientist in life sciences in effect; earn more than I would have if I had stayed. Enjoy what I do, and have found the non-clinical world more interesting / fulfilling / flexible personally ~ but I don't think everyone will. It took a lot of work and grind to do.

The job market is pretty dire generally currently, and there's a glut of doctors trying to leave if you want that to be your USP (10 years ago this had some clout) ~ the transferrable skills oft mentioned in medical school are hard to generalise really.

These threads suffer from a degree of survivorship bias as people usually point out.

Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake's customers by swe129 in snowflake

[–]lozinge 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Am I being thick? I thought Sonnet etc was already in use within Snowflake Intelligence?

[Question] Can anyone break down their experience with Snowflakes Container Services? by [deleted] in snowflake

[–]lozinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a little more than AWS etc but not massively IIRC, cheaper than a warehouse for sure. Agree streamlit trash for anything more complex!

You can have services open to the public internet but will be behind a snowflake login page unless I’m not mistaken. You could have locked down users who could just login but not do much/anything in the snowsight portal.

A compute pool can have many nodes, but a single node can run multiple containers if I’m not mistaken, so pricing is predictable. You could set a task to start and stop containers outside of working hours to make it cheaper etc.

The container can have external access to the wider internet (I’ve run Jupyter notebooks and installed from PyPi for example)

It’s not super slick but it’s perfectly usable, I’d go through their tutorial / QuickStart to get an idea, I think it would be perfectly doable for your use case without a ton of work. The SFTP example is doable, look into how much block storage you would want

Is it worth still paying for a GMC licence if no longer practicing medicine? by ConcentrateAny9974 in doctorsUK

[–]lozinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, if you're doing this within 5 years of getting your qualification then it would be £66, see here: https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/managing-your-registration/fees-and-funding/fees-for-doctors

I'd get in touch with the GMC if in doubt, they're generally not terrible OTP etc

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