vitamin D

Vitamin D questions There are a couple mini researach questions I have around Vitamin D. How different are humans with respect to Vitamin D, from other life forms or just other mammals. Also what does the synthesis pathway look like for Vitamin D (or more than one pathway if dietary is a separate pathway from skin). And how exactly does vitamin D enable immune function? The names. Per 1 , “plasma concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D” is one “vitamin D” biomarker....

November 7, 2020 · (updated November 3, 2024) · 2 min · 361 words · Michal

What I consume

Quick idea around more active content consumption My goal is to write about/ annotate what I read/ watch Just came up with a pattern of consumption to enable this. So on a youtube video for example, I can “Share” into “Dropbox” , specifically into a new folder say, of just metadata Then I found this youtube api doc where you can actually give the hyoutube api a youtube id and it will give you the metadata, like title, channel name, date, etc Then in a separate place, I can have my actual notes but they can now get linked together more easily, because I have the matching metadata....

November 2, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 1 min · 116 words · Michal Piekarczyk

our lock finally bent my key haha

November 1, 2020 · (updated November 3, 2024) · 0 min · 0 words · Michal

Halloween kitchen sink pipe leak

We had a surprise Halloween pipe leak but luckily I got to our local hardware store just 15 minutes before they closed. And they had the pipe I needed. We had guests over that night, so this went much better than the worst case scenario!

October 31, 2020 · (updated November 3, 2024) · 1 min · 45 words · Michal

Visualizing time of day and birth year

This is a mini post part of this project. (Originally posted here ). Take a quick look at time of day distribution import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import pandas as pd datadir = '/opt/data' localdir = '/opt/program' tripsdf = pd.read_csv(f'{datadir}/2013-07 - Citi Bike trip data.csv') stationsdf = pd.read_csv(f'{localdir}/datas/stations/stations-2018-12-04-c.csv', index_col=0) tripsdf.iloc[0] tripduration 634 starttime 2013-07-01 00:00:00 stoptime 2013-07-01 00:10:34 start station id 164 start station name E 47 St & 2 Ave start station latitude 40....

October 22, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 4 min · 784 words · Michal Piekarczyk