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Wow, and I feel bad for going on one (usually short) flight per year on average...
Same here - I do fly 1-3 times a year and I always feel bad about it. I can't help but think that flying will hopefully become a taboo topic, something that people do occasionally but definitely don't brag about.
I hope we can figure out more environmentally sustainable flight, not hope we just stop flying
This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…
This project is super cool. I would recommend the author starts tracking the amount of CO2 he emits in a year, which could easily be approximated with the flight/transportation and food data he has. Carbon emissions per Capita per year in the US: 18 metric tonnes. In Italy: 8 metric tonnes [1]. Author is probably close to 60-80 with all the transatlantic flights. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2…
Then, they actually let you donate/spend a bit of money towards offsetting your individual carbon footprint, towards whatever initiatives you choose (personally donated towards planting trees).
It's not like it would have as much of a profound impact as stopping the mega-corps would, but it's still something and pretty easy to do.
Disclaimer: not affiliated with them in any way, just thought it's a cool idea.
This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…
I don't feel you will be able to detect big correlation by using that kind of system. If there is a big correlation to be found, it is likely to have already been found by researchers. I'm tracking my life by a similar system than OP, but the error with tracking is to start tracking useless things. For example OP track his calorie intake, it is a lot of work, and it is not really usefull at the end. It is unlikely to…
Just reflect on yourself at the end of the day.
This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…
> There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project. This is my general feeling towards all quantified-self projects. Perhaps it creates interesting insights for some people, but I can imagine the kinds of conclusions I'd actually get from it will be things like "I'm happier on sunny days" and I'll say…
Neat, and interesting that his conclusion is that it's too much effort to do for oneself. My take on this is Timelinize[0], which is capable of downloading all your data from various digital records like social media, your phone, arbitrary files and unstructured folders, your Google account, etc. So it can aggregate data from Google Photos, Location History, Twitter, Facebook, text messages, and more, onto your compu…
Thanks for sharing Timelinize and Timeliner. It's always great to meet other people in this space. My own take on this problem is Chronomize [0], which I've been working on since 2020. It's interesting how we independently came up with similar names. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat about personal data management. [0]: https://chronomize.com
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What was the quality of life improvement in tracking water intake? I find it interesting, because your body tracks it whether you want to or not, and I never found forcing myself to drink more water beneficial.
It’s surprisingly easy for some to get disconnected from the signs of dehydration. For example: when focused on a project I can go a couple days before realizing that I did not drink any water at all.
This post is interesting, but the whole project seems like a vanity project to put on your resume. I’d argue that it’s peak vanity project. Once you have the basics of collect>summarise>publish metrics, it’s trivial to add just one more. Do people really need every single aspect of their lives measurable to this degree? Does anyone (other than your mother) really care? I, for one, would hate for this to become a thin…
If you read to the bottom of the site, you'll find that the author agrees with you that the end result was not particularly useful: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this proje…
it was a vanity project - Felix just found out that it's not worth it later than sooner
Enlightenment
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> There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project. This is my general feeling towards all quantified-self projects. Perhaps it creates interesting insights for some people, but I can imagine the kinds of conclusions I'd actually get from it will be things like "I'm happier on sunny days" and I'll say…
It's still useful for uploading in a couple of decades. The more digital crumbs we leave, the more will be uploaded. Has anyone tried to fine-tune GPT-3 on their own comments?
Didn't do it for politics, just for lolz and prototyping a concept. Got to Twitch's advertising unlock, but stopped running it because it was a headache to maintain with my home setups/remotely.
But yeah, not trained on my comments, but someone else's, and it didn't take a ton of content to get it going for gpt-2.
Edit: Here's a clip for reference