Theo Rashid

Then we need some layer joining together these tasks, passing data between them and orchestrating/triggering them – not sure what that looks like but something really light because modal does all the heavy stuff.

I was thinking more of the individual tasks of a DAG. Each task would have an image and spec (dealt with by modal) and some python code to execute.

@ericmjl.bsky.social just enjoying some of your modal posts.

The only part missing is how modal would work in an MLOps setting. I wonder if there's anything that can get the most out of modal in a DAG with orchestration support – i.e. flyte/metaflow but modal instead of some Kubernetes cluster.

backfill done.

GitHub - theorashid/xarray-tropical-cyclones: Rewriting some tropical cyclone analysis. Rewriting some tropical cyclone analysis. Contribute to theorashid/xarray-tropical-cyclones development by creating an account on GitHub.

A while ago, I used to research atmospheric physics. Specifically, tropical cyclone data.

The original code I used was some low-quality pandas stuff. Given the original dataset is an .nc file, I redid the analysis with xarray. github.com/theorashid/x...

GitHub - theorashid/numba-oslo: Oslo model with help from numba. Oslo model with help from numba. Contribute to theorashid/numba-oslo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rewriting some simulation code from my undergrad now that I'm better than a python while loop. github.com/theorashid/n...

Using bayeux to massively reduce blackjax mcmc boilerplate inference code for a dynamax (jax) state space model:

jax-ml.github.io/bayeux/examp...

Majid was on Andrew Marr.

Where in England you’re most likely to die of cancer - how does your region do? THE risk of dying from cancer varies massively depending on where in England a person lives, a major study has found. People living in the poorest areas are more than 70 per cent more likely to die…

And in the Sun with everyone's favourite women <- pink, men <- blue palette. www.thesun.co.uk/health/25023...

Health inequality raises chance of fatal cancer 70% in poor areas The risk of dying from cancer in some poorer parts of England is over 70 per cent higher than in wealthy areas, new research has uncovered.The study, published in The Lancet Oncology found that

Write up in the Times www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

“Astounding inequality” in England affects risk of dying from cancer, researchers report The risk of dying from cancer in some poorer areas of England is far higher than the risk seen in wealthier areas, with northern cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, and Newcastle among the wor...

The study wasn't published in the BMJ, but apparently the BMJ just do general news? www.bmj.com/content/383/...

1 in 7.14 chance of dying in South Lakeland. inews.co.uk/news/health/...

Risk of dying from cancer in England varies hugely between regions, say scientists Researchers say ‘astounding’ inequalities are widest where risk can be cut with lifestyle changes

The Guardian picked a nice colour scheme for the map. www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

Areas of England with highest cancer death risk revealed Northern cities - including Liverpool, Manchester, Hull and Newcastle - and some coastal areas have the highest death tolls, while affluent parts of London had the lowest.

The Mail made some interactive viz so I don't have to.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Boom. Front page Daily Mirror.

Fyi, neither person on this front cover is me. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

I had my viva yesterday. This paper came out last night. What a time to be alive.

I had to write these tweets, so read them in my voice. The rest of this thread is to keep track of some of the press.

(12/12/2023)

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I was trying to find out where Cauchy distributions were used, was reminded about Gull's lighthouse problem, and found this great article and demonstration:

mjoldfield.com/atelier/2017...

Left behind: can anyone save the towns the UK economy forgot? Soaring antidepressant usage, falling life expectancy: Blackpool embodies much of what is going wrong on the fringes of Britain

"Things have deteriorated so much that the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far), synonymous with deep-rooted social decline ft.com/blackpool%22 -- JBM

Life expectancy gap between rich and poor London areas increased as house prices rise Researchers at Imperial College London studied life expectancy in thousands of areas alongside house prices

standard www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

The latest paper from the dream team of Bennett and Rashid (2023). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Add CAR distribution by theorashid · Pull Request #1394 · pyro-ppl/numpyro Hi @fehiepsi, This is for #1390. There&#39;s a lot going on in the numpyro code base, and I&#39;m fairly new to writing good code, so if it&#39;s okay I&#39;ll open this draft PR and we can discuss...

You can now fit aggregated spatial level data in numpyro 0.10.0 with a CAR distribution. So spatial modellers have an alternative to R.

(Thanks a bit to me but a lot to fehiepsi for dealing with me during numpyro's longest ever PR – "3x more comments than the runner up".) github.com/pyro-ppl/num...

I've ported my multilevel mortality model to numpyro so I can let their JAX samplers loose on my large dataset.

num.pyro.ai/en/latest/ex...

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Cuts, covid and community in Blackpool: 'There's no such thing as a hopeless case' – video Mark and Abbie Butcher run a pizzeria that hands out free food and advice to people who need it

Mark and Abbie Butcher run a pizzeria that hands out free food and advice to people in Blackpool who need it. The town, one of the poorest in the UK, with jobs seasonal and dependent largely on tourist income, has been left reeling from the pandemic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

Life expectancy and risk of death in 6,791 communities in England from 2002 to 2019 Article- ADR UK - Data driven change

Case study showing impact of administrative data www.adruk.org/our-mission/...

Britain’s troubling trends in life expectancy The UK must get to grips with poor health and mortality across the country

Another editorial in the FT on Britain's declines in life expectancy. on.ft.com/3mmTgAE

The FT's JBM (aka best plots in the game) using our data. We discussed that the life expectancy declines in England follow an earlier trend in the US, but it seems the US is really going above and beyond to lower its life expectancy recently. x.com/jburnmurdoch...

Ringfence 10% of UK health spending for preventive measures, report urges Thinktank warns ‘political short-termism’ over health is exacerbating levels of illness and inequality

Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change have cited the 27 year gap in life expectancy for men in England from our study, noted here in the Guardian's write up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How austerity caused the NHS crisis The A&E delays can be traced back to Cameron – and have been worsened by successive health secretaries

This from Danny Dorling links the life expectancy declines we found to specific cuts to funding and services during austerity. www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-a-and...

Tory austerity caused misery – and now they want to make it worse | Polly Toynbee Even though the human cost of a cruel policy has been confirmed, expect another turn of the screw next week, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee for guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...