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Re:The Mysterious Dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:49PM (#35941249)
https://tinkerings.org/2020/06/17/roman-dodecahedrons-part-i...

My hacker friend solved this. It's a calendar.

Re:How I accidentally discovered the pill to enlightenment but I would... on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:20PM (#16064679)
Apologies. I think all the HN-ites crashed my teeny wordpress install. It's back up now.
Re:How I accidentally discovered the pill to enlightenment but I would... on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:52PM (#16064433)
Eastern enlightenment is not what you think. I mean, maybe it is. But it’s probably not. There’s a reason it’s so elusive, and there’s a reason that it hasn’t joined western science and the western world the way that curiosity and discovery have as a driving force.

This is the story of my mistake accidentally discovering enlightenment.

February 2017 I was noticing some weird symptoms. I felt cold. Which was strange because I have never been cold. Nicknames include “fire” and “hot hands”, my history includes a lot of bad jokes about how I am definitely on fire. I am known for visiting the snow in shorts and a t-shirt. I hit 70kg, The least fat I have ever had in my life. And that was the only explanation I had. I asked a doctor about it, I did some reading – circulation problems. I don’t have circulation problems at the age of 25. I am more fit than I have ever been in my life. I look into hesperidin (orange peel) and eat myself a few whole oranges including peel. No change. I look into other blood pressure supplements, other capillary modifying supplements… Other ideas to investigate. I decided I couldn’t be missing something because there was nothing to be missing. I would have read it somewhere already. So I settled for the obvious answer. Being skinnier was making me colder.

Flashback to February 2016 This is where it all begins. I move out of my parents house into an apartment with a girl I have been seeing for under 6 months. I weigh around 80kg (that’s 12.5 stones or 176 pounds or 2822 ounces for our imperial friends). Life happens and by March I am on my own. I decide to start running. Make myself a more desirable human.

I taught myself a lot about routines and habits and actually getting myself to run. Running is hard. Actually, running is easy. Leaving the house is hard. But I work that out too.

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http://bearlamp.com.au/how-i-accidentally-discovered-the-pil...

Re:Machine Learning and Ketosis on Saturday August 13, 2016 @07:48AM (#12281119)
I collect some of my own data in 1/0 form in regard to whether I was productive the day before as well as a few other things (I have a google form for myself that I fill out each morning). I only have a month of data but here is what it spat out:

  FeatureName       HashVal   MinVal   MaxVal    Weight   RelScore
  ^dreams         24546     0.00     1.00   +0.0705     47.11%
  ^shower           215555     0.00     1.00   -0.0239    -15.96%
  ^exercise         190069     0.00     1.00   -0.0350    -23.41%
  ^vitamins         252959     0.00     1.00   -0.0442    -29.56%
  ^write                129676     0.00     1.00   -0.0687    -45.90%
  ^publish            12600     0.00     1.00   -0.1496   -100.00%
Which is to say that when I write and publish I also have the willpower and combined other factors to lose weight.

Interestingly I was tracking dreams because I made various changes all at once:

  -phillips hue bulbs
  -new mattress
  -new exercise routine (up from nothing)
  -started taking vitamins
  -stricter on my diet
And was wondering what the cause might be.

When I say "dreams" I mean - "did I wake up remembering vivid dreams?". I wonder now if it's related to caloric surplus.

I also have minutised step data, nightly minutised sleep data and hourly mood self-reported data that I might try to throw in to the system and see what it says.