This weekend I climbed Mount Shasta which has been a dream of mine for a while now. I wanted to wait until I hit my fitness goals so I was in peak physical condition. The plan was to drive up to Shasta City (5 hours), and then crash in the parking lot until the morning. [...]
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What’s up with this? This makes me crazy Google releases the Android Open Accessory API but fails to ship ANT+ support? ONLY USB and no Bluetooth for now. This is amazingly LAME. Sony can ship ANT+ for Android but Google can’t? The demo they gave on the screen, with an Android game monitoring the pace [...]
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I did a bunch of research tonight on using oximiters and heart rate monitors for helping to diagnose sleep apnea. I think I might have a mild sleep apnea. I was diagnosed before but the sleep lab was so pathetic that I just completely wrote off the results and never really went back. It turns [...]
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I really hate it when mainstream media covers lame science. This study recently done at the University of Pennsylvania is interesting but not really helpful. For starters. It was VERY small…. dozens of subjects: In what was the longest sleep-restriction study of its kind, Dinges and his lead author, Hans Van Dongen, assigned dozens of [...]
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I have some initial conclusions from my ~2 weeks of sleep experiments. – A pitch black room does increase my perceived sleep quality. I remember my dreams more and seem to have more dreams in general. – The blue blocker sunglasses don’t seem to yield any meaningful result for me. This might be because of [...]
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Wow. This is really slick. The new Sony Ericsson Xperia phones have Ant+ integrated directly into the phone hardware. This is huge as it means that more support for ANT+ will hopefully be forthcoming and other vendors I am pleased to announce that the much anticipated ANT API for Android has now been released. The [...]
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Tagged: ant+, cycling, fitness, quantifiedself
Here’s the data I have so far on tracking down my ideal sleep patterns. – Too much caffeine is bad. Causes me to feel horrible in the morning, over sleep, etc. – Too little caffeine is bad too. Causes me to wake up in the middle of the night with the inability to get back [...]
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Tagged: fitness, quantifiedself, sleep
This is pretty nice. Google released Zippy as Open Source: Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster [...]
Tagged: bigtable, compression, gfs, google, mapreduce, opensource, spinn3r
This is my 3rd day sleeping in an environment which is 100% pitch black with no interruptions (no sound). My bike rides have seen a marked improvement in their subjective ride quality. I also feel a bit more rested in the afternoons. What’s more amazing are that my dreams are now amazingly vivid! For the [...]
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Tagged: health, quantifiedself, sleep, zeo
Interesting review of some JDK 7 features: I think the main one I like is the try-with-resource hack: private String example() throws IOException { try(BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(…) { return reader.readLine(); } }
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