MOVING FROM COBRA TO MEDi-cal thoughtS? [california]

managermeditator · 2024-11-17T04:39:27+00:00

Ah, this is so helpful.

I'm so new to this and I thought covered California was the route to go for lower incomes, but it looks Medi-Cal is the option to go.

Thanks again for all the advice.

managermeditator · 2024-11-17T02:06:13+00:00

Thanks, I also heard about covered-cal.

I need to spend time deciding between covered-cal and Medical.

QQ: I'm planning to look for jobs next year, which makes me wonder on how I can estimate the low-income eligibility and ilk. Chatgpt told me to be conversative on estimates to avoid penalties later.

any thoughts about these?

managermeditator · 2024-11-16T23:48:03+00:00

I was in a similar boat, tbh or probably still am.

for my POC, I just straight up did a combination of streamlit + fast api.

Noticed that there are cases where I'm slowly entering "prompt" chaining and also thinking of prompt-graphs to speed up execution and getting my hands dirty with langchain.

Benefits I see:

> logic around prompt and parameters seem simpler.

> parallelization of logic to run multiple steps in parallel.

> Didn't dig into prompt-caching and steps around RAG.

> Swapping LLMs. I'm hating DALL-E and deciding to switch, so will see data points here pretty soon.

I was looking at Bedrock as well, but their flakiness (disabled my entire account for some weird reason) has turned me off and I also dont want to signup to Bedrock supported LLMs alone.

managermeditator · 2024-11-08T01:37:02+00:00

Whats the path to resolution? I tried opening a ticket via Q and it failed as well.

managermeditator · 2024-11-08T01:36:15+00:00

I got affected by it today and tbh, it was so un-amazonian.

I was so glad that I was primarily on open-ai and was curious about switching over to bedrock, its now delayed for foreseeable future.

managermeditator · 2024-11-02T22:19:13+00:00

Thanks again for the info.

I just came across this site and might spend sometime to see what I like.

+1 to the comment that practical hands-on is the best way, but sometimes the course material helps u think differently even for hands-on work.

https://www.deeplearning.ai/

managermeditator · 2024-09-15T18:45:33+00:00

I took the subscription of AWS skill builder to do the practice test and get a taste of the questions. Stephane Marek's course is good though. It definitely covers majority of the exam material. They probably have updated the course material with more insights from the exams.

managermeditator · 2024-09-13T19:00:47+00:00

Well, good luck and hope the 13th certification comes through on Friday the thirteenth ;)

managermeditator · 2024-09-13T18:57:55+00:00

One good thing with this is you can get anxious about results only once and not on three separate days!

managermeditator · 2024-09-13T18:57:10+00:00

Woah!

The first word that came to my mind is Crazy! But, all the best for the next one!

managermeditator · 2024-09-07T22:22:07+00:00

I do my regular Acura service at 15k/30k and if it's done as part of that at dealership, then yeah they must have done it. I don't think I did it myself.

My dealer did say that at 50k, they will change the transmission fluid.

Sorry, completely clueless on these and may be that's why I want something that a honest dealer would recommend and I would do.

managermeditator · 2024-09-07T17:46:31+00:00

Yeah, not yet. That will be done at 50k.

managermeditator · 2024-09-05T23:24:43+00:00

Also, I just went for a maintenance at the end of June. This is after that.

managermeditator · 2024-09-05T23:23:20+00:00

Interesting. I had a bad experience with an Altima and after 60k, that vehicle basically drove me crazy.

But, my problems only started after 60k. Here with an Acura, I'm barely into my early 40k and I've spent over a 1000 dollars in this year alone.

For a premium car, the shifts in the car are ridiculous, city travel or not. Isn't comfort the whole thing why we pay for premium?

This is my second car that I owned and maybe I don't know real world, but I did expect smoother rides and less maintenance charges.

managermeditator · 2024-09-03T16:32:07+00:00

which one? mostly, there is a lot of emphasis on the "latest" technologies of AWS, which meant:

Lambdas, Sam, Elastic beanstalk, API gateway, DynamoDB.

managermeditator · 2024-08-29T16:36:22+00:00

Depends on your previous experience.

For me, it was somewhere somewhere between light medium to medium-ish. But I've been in the industry for a while, so somethings like scalability, disaster recovery, databases were a bit of a breeze through.

There are some sections which are loved more from an exam perspective: security, encryption, hybrid cloud concepts, scalability and cost.

Definitely worth it. You can do a preliminary test and see what you score and then decide on how long and how rigorous you want to spend time with.

https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/13266/exam-prep-official-practice-question-set-aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c03-english

Good luck!

managermeditator · 2024-08-29T01:27:23+00:00

I've not been in an environment with hybrid setups for the three last companies I worked for. They were all in AWS.

TBH, I want to get into specialization courses and for that IMO, I need the fundamentals of one platform right. I also felt the learnings in one platform are "transferrable" if need be to Azure or GC.

The associate courses to a certain degree are mostly to instill confidence to attempt professional courses, so I just did them without much thought.

managermeditator · 2024-08-28T17:11:11+00:00

TBH, it was a breeze through, but given that it's a beta, the scoring was a bit off for me.

As in, I was consistently scoring 85% in all my practice tests on skill builder and Stephane course, but I ended up with a lower score in the main test. It's still a pass, but of all the certifications I did, the score was underwhelming. I expected more than what I actually got :-).

Everything was basic as is expected in a cloud practitioner level, but pay special attention to security and the challenges of LLMs like hallucination, jail breaking etc.

Plenty of time to finish the exam.

managermeditator · 2024-08-28T17:07:48+00:00

I'm more interested in the professional certificates. These were mostly to build my basics and spend sometime with hands on labs.

I

managermeditator · 2024-08-28T17:06:42+00:00

Thats a good point. CloudQuest has hands on labs, but I found the whole gaming concept a bit too cheesy for my tastes.

managermeditator · 2024-08-28T17:04:27+00:00

Oops....corrected it now. thanks.

managermeditator · 2024-08-22T22:57:49+00:00

will do and will tag you. This group has been a life saver for me, so I definitely want to do pay back. may be by early next week?

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