I was going to do something like this but turns out it was my baby the whole time.
What did you do with the bathwater?
I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
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Re: I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have fallen into the (questionable) habit of sleeping with Airpods. I used to wake up with my mind racing and not be able to fall back asleep. The Airpods helped distract and sedate my midnight thoughts such that I would fall back asleep much quicker than without. I've progressively shifted towards falling asleep listening to the droll of engaging non-fiction, but keep them in my ears in noise canceling mode with n…
I was wondering how good their noise cancelation would be for night-time sleeping, how effective would you say it is?
It's pretty good, but I guess it depends on your environment. Pretty decent at removing things like traffic, air conditioning, television. Even Sirens are pretty muted unless they are extremely close, which is a good thing I guess. They probably won't block the base beat if you sleep above a night club..
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#253Interesting. I may need to add some sensors. I spend time in two places. San Juan Islands WA and Santa Cruz, CA. On island, nights are too quiet. During the day, a float plane a mile away sounds like it is next door. In Santa Cruz, the house is on a major street. Busses, ambulances all sorts of yahoos. I sleep better quiet. But I sleep even better when settled - mind not going, etc. I generally don’t sleep well at al…
> The biggest factor is - has my brain settled. Background and noise don’t matter.
I'm there too on this. Something I've found helps is listening to certain types of audio. Some audio books can work, but if they're too engaging or interesting it's counter-productive.
My current solution for this is a particular YouTuber; I noticed a long time ago that watching his videos in bed (when I already given up on trying to sleep immediately because my brain was too alert) seemed to help me relax and feel drowsy. Now it's almost a switch - start a video, phone face down, and I rarely need a second one.
Re: I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
#254Why didn't you just record the whole night and listen to the part where you woke up?
Also ear plugs.
Re: I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
No no, we first need to adopt a technology that consumes more water and energy than a small town to solve a problem we've already solved! Jokes aside: overengineering issue like this to LEARN a new coding language, hardware setup, platform etc. used to be a great opportunity for skills growth. Now honestly it's hard to justify, if you're using AI to do it. With the added insult that the sycophantic AI will also make…
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I don't want to paint your comment as pro-AI brigading, but in the solution to any problem, considering the collaterals is a pillar principle of engineering. You don't get praise for solving a bug infestation problem by nuking the city.
I feel some of the recent HackerNews stories start leaning a bit too much toward using AI regardless of whether it makes sense. A solution to any problem, however interesting or clever should be critiqued holistically, alternatives included.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're regularly waking around 3 (as opposed to random times throughout the night) you might want to reconsider cortisol as a possibility, at least as setting a baseline wakefulness that allows you to be easily woken up from a noise. There is a natural cortisol spike at that time, and that combined with elevated levels from background stress causes the same problem for many people who fall asleep without issues, m…
Second this Have the same pattern, issue is cortisol/stress, not sounds / etc that happen precisely at night Built simular things tonwhat Op did (thoug using Oura for sleep tracking, not Garmin) Result: no statistically significant variations in sounds, CO2 normal etc. Cortisol is what doctors/AI told me first
Yeah, if you continuously wake up around 3am you are anxious/stressed/depressed. Whole article is overthought/engineering mindset nonsense.
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#257hint: your watch is probably lying to you and you're following a normal bifurcated sleep pattern. AI is melting your real world understanding: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/biphasic-sle...
Intrigued by your comment and being someone that have a broken sleeping pattern due to both me being a nervous person and having went through raising 2 kids, I went to the linked article hoping to learn something new about my pattern. And it turns out it's just about talking the habit of "siesta" - so having a short sleep period during daytime - and NOT about wake up in the middle of the night naturally. So, I find t…
In the third paragraph:
Prior to that, many people across different continents and cultures followed a biphasic sleep schedule. They went to bed in the evening and slept for a few hours, waking up around midnight. Then, they would stay up for a few hours to eat, tend to their children, or add wood to the fire, before finally falling back asleep for their second sleep phase.
And it goes on to mention this pre-industrial biphasic ‘schedule’ many times throughout the article.
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#258I read so many doom and gloom stories on hn regarding ai, it's a breath of fresh air to read articles about genuine use cases that improve quality of life. And all that without complaining. Marvellous
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#259Had a similar problem in 2013. Fitness tracker showed my partner and I woke up at exactly 4:00am every day. Barely audible TV from neighbor through a shared wall the source.
Literally 5 minutes of online search and a white noise app solved the problem.
I know this is a post on a blog designed to sell us on Martin, but it's sort of like a movie where a single text message would spoil the whole plot. AI didn't really need to help solve this problem. Martin didn't "let" AI build a tool, he just asked (Claude, probably) how to build something that is replicated by existing apps that record sound and are activated over certain decibel levels. Comments seem to confirm many of us have done the same. Just seems a a bit over-engineered for the sake of it. Sorry, Martin.
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#260I live in a silent area at night and regularly woke up at 3:30 am a couple of years ago. Turns out it was a leading indicator for digestive issues, nothing major and fixed now but it seems 3:30am was the point my body said “I need more food and I don’t care you’re asleep” and according to the dietician I saw this is relatively common with IBS.