In Soviet Russia, intelligence tracks your smartwatch.
Training my smartwatch to track intelligence
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#32I've tracked sleep using a number of devices and algorithms and I haven't found a single one that regularly aligns with what and how I feel. I know it's tracking real data, but the conclusions feel completely made up. What are other people's experience -- especially from those who are more bullish about sleep tracking?
I use an Android app called "Sleep", it just works by accelerometer with your phone on the corner of your bed. I've found it's not really good with its automatic rating and suggestions, but the activity graph has an extremely reliable wave pattern on the mornings I am well rested. Like an hour and a half of no movement at all, then an hour of restlessness, which repeats through the night. Usually the hour of restlessness even has the same pattern each time it happens. But any other pattern and I generally feel tired the whole morning.
Originally I got this app for its alarm, it tries to go off in the half hour before the alarm time when you're already partially awake. The sleep tracking was just a bonus.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
People used to sleep with watches 50 years ago too. You just get used to it.
True. Though the difference with smart watches is that they tend to be significantly bigger in size than what common watches used to be like. Smart "bands" tend to be less perceptible.
I think it depends what kind of smartwatch you choose. It should fit your wrist. The amount of people I've seen with e.g. a Galaxy Ultra watch that stands over their wrist on both sides is staggering to me.
For me, the Galaxy Watch 7 in 44mm fits perfectly
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#34I really wish Garmin had an official API that can be used by their users instead of the reverse-engineered solutions (although they're very good), but they're at the mercy of Garmin.
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#35Absolutely love this kind of project, combining different data sources to predict/model how you're doing. I also use chess as a proxy for my brain is working!
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#36> exercise-induced fatigue impairs complex cognitive tasks
Apparently your study is strictly about cardio.
Heavier compound lifts can surely knock me out for 30 minutes to 2 hours. I don't know how in the heck people train in the mornings. But a lot of this is because they are complex cognitive tasks.
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#37A petty correction to this excellent post: you say "Even a single serving of alcohol disproportionately impares REM sleep", but your source says "Reductions in REM sleep were observed starting at approximately 2 standard drinks".
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#38In Soviet Russia, intelligence tracks your smartwatch.
In the USA, too. That's one of many methods they use to decide where to send ICE.
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#39> exercise-induced fatigue impairs complex cognitive tasks Apparently your study is strictly about cardio. Heavier compound lifts can surely knock me out for 30 minutes to 2 hours. I don't know how in the heck people train in the mornings. But a lot of this is because they are complex cognitive tasks.
Mornings (~6am), I often walk ~40min to my gym, do heavy compound lifts (~1hr total with ~2-3min rest between sets), walk ~40min back, and I tend to feel fine by the time I get back home. It's usually at the end of the day where the fatigue seems to catch up to me.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
People used to sleep with watches 50 years ago too. You just get used to it.
True. Though the difference with smart watches is that they tend to be significantly bigger in size than what common watches used to be like. Smart "bands" tend to be less perceptible.
Surprisingly, I find the Apple Watch significantly more comfortable and less perceptible than any other watch I've worn in the past. My theory is it's the contoured back for the heart rate monitor, etc. But maybe I'm just weird.