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Re:Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom s... by Heliosmaster on Saturday October 05, 2013 @01:54PM (#6501418)
you can also use the strategy described in the hacker's diet[1]

[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

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Re:Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom s... by saidajigumi on Saturday October 05, 2013 @07:52PM (#6502521)
Worth noting: the author of the Hacker's Diet, John Walker, explains why his choice (exponentially smoothed weighted moving average) is a good choice of smoothing function (vs. some other common functions) for tracking weight over time. See the section "Signal and Noise".
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Re:Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom s... by dreeves on Sunday October 06, 2013 @05:23AM (#6503585)
Highly recommended. Beeminder implements it too (inspired by the Hacker's Diet).
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