When it comes to vitamins for your baby’s development, you are definitely eating for two — Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, we were already staying indoors more and spending more hours in front of the computer and out of the sun. For all you fellow “pale office vampires”, if you’re pregnant you really need to consider taking Vitamin D supplements. According to a recent 2021 study…

And how to prove the answer with the power of computers — In 1990, The smartest person in the world, Marilyn Vos Savant, stumped mathematicians and professors with her answer to a simple gameshow question. Were you likewise tricked? For a long time, I was too — but it turns out I was confused because my friends posed the question incorrectly. The misstated problem, as my high school friends framed it

Follow me on my journey into the science of Toxoplasmosis and how the work of dedicated scientists saved me from having to choose between my baby and my cat — My heart sunk. “Your cat has Toxo” were the last words I wanted to hear from my vet during a routine checkup. The vet continued, “you have to get rid of him up if you want to start a family”. Even if the cat was asymptomatic? I wondered. How Bad is Toxoplasmosis?

A recent in-depth analysis of a COVID outbreak in Guangzhou (China) shed light on the ways people tend to get infected by COVID. Note that this is in the context of a city of 15 million inhabitants. The most common transmission scenarios were dining and same-household at about 30% each. …

No need for fancy or expensive services because you have everything you need in open-source Gnu Privacy Guard — If you’re not encrypting your archived data, you’re really opening up yourself to ransomware plus extortion attacks that threaten to publish your sensitive data. …

How to predict on new text data based on your exported NLP model — Starting out in fast.ai NLP it is easy to be confused about how to make predictions on new datasets outside your training and validation data. Unfortunately, the example given in the Leader.get_preds docs only works on the dataset it was originally trained on. Futhermore, the basic fast.ai video course tends…

Part 1 explains how to record your Zoom webinars for free. — The pandemic has caused an explosion of webinars as professors and speakers are unable to travel to conference venues. But often times the webinars are held near midnight for your timezone, or at other times of the day where you just can’t be watching them. The best way to save…

Part 2 explains how to make your video files 13% of the original size to share with friends, for free — In my previous post, we learnt how to record Zoom meetings at a .mkv file using OBS Studio. But we noted that the video format was not playable on most devices like iPhone and desktop without additional software like VLC. And we also saw that the file size was about…

Advance your scientific and career goals with a business framework called Strengthsfinder — Do you feel generic? With the sheer numbers of graduates and postgraduates in science, it is easy to vanish into the sea of labcoats. A careful study of our strengths can help us scientists achieve our scientific and career goals. As a life scientist, I am fascinated by the natural…