Mini survey of some high level deep learning curiosities.

motivation I know more about Databricks for distributed computing. But there is also the Kubernetes world. Let’s read some more on that. Was wondering hmm, I have used Tensorflow, pytorch on standalone VMs in the past and I know that Spark has its own distributed libraries, so do Tensorflow, pytorch natively support spark, hmm? lingering questions (1) What are the dominant technologies for distributed computing? (spark, and containerization by K8S) (2) specifically GPU vs cluster based, are these alternatives?...

September 5, 2024 · (updated September 6, 2024) · 8 min · 1574 words · Michal Piekarczyk

read iphone temp

My iphone has been overheating lately, 🤔 Read one good tip, forget where, just try to avoid using your phone while charging it if it is starting to overheat. But also, if it is really heating up, to stop charging it just in case. Makes sense. Going to try that next time. But what is the temp anyway? Nice, learned from here, https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-check-iphone-temperature/, you can access your iphone temp through the Privacy Settings, Analytics data....

August 25, 2024 · 4 min · 716 words · Michal Piekarczyk

troubleshooting home cold plunge 🤔

The legit cold plunge was great but the home one… A few weeks ago I tried the cold plunge at the Standard Spa at Miami Beach. Someone measuring the temp said it was 57 F and this was on a sunny 80 plus something day. That was amazing and I am glad I had a chance to try it a handful of times while there. While attempting to leave Miami back, hurricane Debby blocked most flights out including ours and we ended up leaving Miami two days later....

August 25, 2024 · 2 min · 401 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Streamlit is lit

Briefly describing this Streamlit fronted python app that queries against menus pulled from a kaggle uber eats dataset found here. A Streamlit menu search Mini screencast First query something random It is off topic, so no results Continuing from an earlier post, this is taking advantage of Facebook’s BART model. A hugging face pipeline is used to hit against six food and restaurant related topics are averaged and compared against a threshold of 0....

July 20, 2024 · (updated August 2, 2024) · 5 min · 908 words · Michal Piekarczyk

withings wireless scale infinite loop

holding pattern Kind of out of the blue, my Withings Body+ screen is on but theres nothing there. After some reseting, also cannot connect by phone. Removed it from the Withings app on my phone, trying to reconnect the scale as a new scale, but searching for the device, I see the Body+ c0 pop up, I select it, but then I am right back to the search for device screen....

June 29, 2024 · (updated June 30, 2024) · 2 min · 245 words · Michal Piekarczyk