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Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by oldmanjay »

duaneb wrote: post #41
protomyth wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm thinking the receiving end. I would expect a sense of relief in the person doing the breaking and not the lingering effects.

I don't think I could ever experience just relief breaking up. It's never that black and white of "I don't want to be around them at all"; you invariably miss the person you were spending all your time with.

Be careful making blanket statements about things you can't possibly know. I've had breakups that were unmitigated relief, due to my having horrible taste.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by shas3 »

lectrick wrote: post #53
trjordan wrote: post #13

Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" Days where I'm antsy all day tend to be days I have a higher resting heart rate. Days when I have a higher resting heart rate tend to come after a couple nights of less-than-stellar sleep. It's easy to guess…

Welcome to my sleep-apnea life. The CPAP is only partially effective due to (surprise, surprise) a new allergy to... well, everything airborne, seemingly, including house dust... and even though Allegra does a decent job, sometimes I unconsciously take the thing off in my sleep, and proceed to have a much shittier sleep: http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png

There is research that shows that at least with outcomes measured by BP, CPAP and mandibular devices are almost as good: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2473494

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by Grishnakh »

funkysquid wrote: post #8

This is fascinating (and sad), but it makes me wonder, could police use your fitness tracker as a sort of poor-mans polygraph? i.e. interview a subject normally, and then get a warrant (or not get a warrant) to view the online data and correlate them after the fact? Wikipedia mentions "blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity" as parameters for a polygraph [1], and while fitbit only supports 2/4 righ…

My understanding is that polygraphs absolutely DO work, but they're not that reliable, and they don't work correctly for everyone which is why they're inadmissible as evidence in any decent jurisdiction. Worse, people who are good liars and people who have trained for the test can beat it, and those are frequently the people you want to catch with the test, so all you're doing is scaring and harassing the honest people, because they get the opposite problem, that they fail the test because their nervousness shows up as lying.

So, the fundamental premise of the machine, that these physiological factors frequently change in response to peoples' thought processes brought on by particular lines of questioning, is true, but it's nowhere near reliable enough to be used as any kind of test. It'd be like a police radar gun that gives inaccurate readings for 20% of the cars, leading to both lots of unearned tickets and lots of speeders evading a ticket.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by trjordan »

flashman wrote: post #80
trjordan wrote: post #13

Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" Days where I'm antsy all day tend to be days I have a higher resting heart rate. Days when I have a higher resting heart rate tend to come after a couple nights of less-than-stellar sleep. It's easy to guess…

> Getting a puppy Yep looks like my 'parenting two kids under 3' sleeping hours. > It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" My resting heart rate went up 15% when I had a cold last year - starting two days before I felt any symptoms: http://i.imgur.com/X7vEFsC.png

Based on parallel experiences, having a puppy is like having a kid, except that the puppy is on dog-years time. They first sleep through the night after a month instead of 7, they start to talk back and push limit at 3 months instead of 2 years, ... and whatever else comes after that, since my dog is only 4.5 months old!

It probably diverges at some point. I don't think I have to worry about college applications when my dog is 2.5 years old, but who knows?

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by lumpypua »

DenisM wrote: post #98
lumpypua wrote: post #92

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Any particular suggestions? I need to go shopping soon.

I swear by my Resmed AutoSet S10. They have too many S10 models, so be sure to get the AutoSet (or higher), as it dials the pressure up and down. I'm kicking myself for sticking with an older S8 model for far too long, all the misery I endured was entirely unnecessary! Proper pressure is the key to compliance. This machine has auto-set, so the minimal required pressure is used; it has better algorithms for it (compar…

Thanks for the extensive answer! I did an at-home CPAP trial after a sleep and they gave me some POS machine and I hated it. Unfortunately getting anything more fancy is going to require jumping through insurance hoops. rolleyes Pretty new to this whole thing.

My posture definitely makes a big difference, I'm at 9 AHI sleeping on my side but 50+ on my back untreated. I'm gonna duct tape pillows to myself or something. Glad you found something that works for you!

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by soared »

jreed91 wrote: post #35

This just reminds me on how no one has made the killer app for all these sensors. It's just data, no one has shown me how to make myself better from all this data.

Having gotten a fitbit for christmas, I was disappointed by the app. All this data, and they don't do any interpretation besides displaying a few graphs. The data definitely shows how my resting heart rate is affected y how many hours I slept, or how I exercised, etc.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by RyJones »

jacquesm wrote: post #93
RyJones wrote: post #67

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my truck runs on five of the six cylinders available to it, and shakes like it does. Holding the steering wheel with my left hand means I hit step goals like crazy.

Be careful about continuing to drive it like that you may end up wrecking the catalytic converter.

You're right to be concerned. I paid $1500 for it, three times that to have the misfire issue "fixed" (among a bunch of other delayed maintenance), and after the misfire came back I gave up. I've been driving it on 5 cylinders for years now.

If only I could find an "open loop" switch to just disable the engine monitoring. Everything runs fine in open loop mode.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by peterwallhead »

jreed91 wrote: post #35

This just reminds me on how no one has made the killer app for all these sensors. It's just data, no one has shown me how to make myself better from all this data.

https://exist.io is attempting to solve this problem (no interests, just a happy user).

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by jacquesm »

RyJones wrote: post #107
jacquesm wrote: post #93

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Be careful about continuing to drive it like that you may end up wrecking the catalytic converter.

You're right to be concerned. I paid $1500 for it, three times that to have the misfire issue "fixed" (among a bunch of other delayed maintenance), and after the misfire came back I gave up. I've been driving it on 5 cylinders for years now. If only I could find an "open loop" switch to just disable the engine monitoring. Everything runs fine in open loop mode.

That's an interesting puzzle. If you want my $0.02 cents on it check the knock sensor or unplug it for a bit and see what that does, alternatively replace ignition coil for that cylinder, cable, cap and plug.

Those would by my main suspects if it works well in open loop mode, knock sensor first.

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