Alternate Day Feasting

First Stab at Alternate Day Feasting Wait Don’t you mean Alternate Day Fasting? Haha yes but I am still working up to the level of stoicism required to do proper Alternate Day Fasting and a low stress life also helps especially if you rely on snacks to counter the stress of the daily Work-From-Home-Wake-Up-Surprise-You-Are-At-Work-And-Work-Throughout-The-Entire-Day-Life haha! But having already been doing Time Restricted Feeding for several years now, I think I have the stoicism requirements to at least give Alternate Day Feasting a go, which is basically aiming at calorie restriction every other day....

March 25, 2023 · (updated March 26, 2023) · 5 min · 924 words · Michal Piekarczyk

adjustments when migrating to hugo paper mod theme

Quick note, I had moved to the PaperMod theme last month and have been slowly fixing a few things that borked. Images disappeared? So first, my images disappeared all together , from this post I had them like <table> <tr> <td><img src="https://my-blog-content.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/06/06/wahoo/2020-06-06+11.39.42.png" width="30%"/></td> <td><img src="https://my-blog-content.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/06/06/wahoo/2020-06-06+11.39.49.png" width="30%" /></td> <td><img src="https://my-blog-content.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/06/06/wahoo/2020-06-06+11.44.39.png" width="30%" /></td> </tr> </table> and I had to change them to be using the hugo language, below, then I saw the images again....

March 17, 2023 · (updated March 18, 2023) · 3 min · 497 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Passing large dataframes with dbutils.notebook.run in databricks

(Note, originally posted this here but cross posting here too) Passing large dataframes with dbutils.notebook.run ! At one point when migrating databricks notebooks to be useable purely with dbutils.notebook.run, the question came up, hey dbutils.notebook.run is a great way of calling notebooks explicitly, avoiding global variables that make code difficult to lint and debug, but what about spark dataframes? I had come across this https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/notebook-workflows.html#pass-structured-data nice bit of documentation about using the spark global temp view to handle name references to nicely shuttle around dataframes by reference, given that a caller notebook and a callee notebook share a JVM and theoretically this is instantaneous....

February 25, 2023 · (updated August 16, 2025) · 3 min · 528 words · Michal Piekarczyk

fact checking dark humor

So my friend and I were discussing the general topic of what happens to our employability as people once we reach the age of retirement. My feelings on this are I am hopeful and I think people can retain their skills and probably express different kinds of skills too. (some call this wisdom =D ). At this point my friend introduced some dark humor, citing this link with an actuarial table, saying that,...

February 18, 2023 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 1 min · 139 words · Michal Piekarczyk

langchain interview me 2023 feb

type:: #project-type status:: #in-progress-status blogDate:: 2023-02-18 Note This is not a blog post but kind of a landing page I’m using to aggregate on-going project notes here Vision Broadly would like to do here something like the following compare against arbitrary #job-listings , #job-description , collapsed:: true And [[my projects/personal/langchain-interview-me-2023-feb]] , also now the repo usable by anyone who wants to compare their #brag-document to #job-listings [[job-description]] out there , get a delta , and more broadly , understand say , their industry posture , since that’s a moving target ....

February 18, 2023 · (updated September 30, 2023) · 135 min · 28652 words · Michal Piekarczyk