Exporting messages from Apple imessages

The problem Messages have been clogging up my iphone for a while now and at this point, they are taking up maybe 15Gigs. Most of this is photo attchments. I thought an options was to manually go through the phone UI, deleting photo attachments to save space, but I did a bit of this tedium and the storage space did not seem to clear up. Maybe it is delayed? The other alternative is to hit a button that says “only keep messages up to a year old”....

December 9, 2023 · (updated December 10, 2023) · 5 min · 885 words · Michal Piekarczyk

test drive chat gpt data analysis

blog-date:: 2023-11-18 So lets try out Chat GPT’s new Data Analysis functionality I passed in my multi-year food log dump from Carb Manager and thought, can I plot the protein data. Here is more or less what transpired. In the Analysis tool, I upload a csv file that I exported from Carb Manager and I opened with this question below. Me Can you plot the calories per day over time ?...

November 18, 2023 · (updated December 24, 2023) · 15 min · 3088 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Help diagnose no coffee coming out of your Kamira Espresso Machine

I have loved using the Kamira stove top espresso machine for five plus years now, but here is one interesting thing I learned I did not know about until now. What is coffee soup? I might be making this term up, but this is what comes to mind if I cannot get any coffee to drip out of my Kamira Espresso stove top machine and after giving up, finding that there is a pool of coffee water in the filter holder....

September 24, 2023 · (updated September 30, 2023) · 2 min · 394 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Odd pyspark window function behavior

I was working through some odd window function behavior Analyzing some feature drift data, I wanted to obtain min, max and mean drift values for features, partitioning on the compare_date here. I would have just done a group by, but I also wanted to get the baseline_date relevant to the largest drift score and so I went with the below approach. But I ended up with some strange results. from pyspark....

September 23, 2023 · 6 min · 1275 words · Michal Piekarczyk

summary learning how to learn coursera

What On Coursera [[Barbara Oakley]] Learning How to Learn Originally, came across by reading a medium post by [[Aleksa Gordić]]. This was a surprisingly useful meta-course ! (NOTE my mini write-up here is still somewhat in DRAFT mode) In three sentences You control the input of learning and the output is a side-effect. But not all strategies are as useful and rote learning is overrated and recall like spaced repetition is where the benefit is....

September 10, 2023 · 5 min · 1053 words · Michal Piekarczyk