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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by nunez »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #82
nunez wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strong disagree. I've started keeping a mood journal after a mood swing caused a very negative incident last year. It's been absolutely indispensable. I could have used "less tech" and kept it in notebooks, but (a) handwriting is time-consuming, (b) handwriting a lot is fatiguing, and (c) I could lose the notebooks (like I lost the diary I kept when I was younger or the notes I exchanged with my first girlfriend that…

I don’t know if this is in your blog anywhere because I have not checked yet, but what are you using for your journal app or software needs now? Do you feel the CBT helpers found in many popular apps are necessary?

Thanks for checking out my blog!

I'm using Daylio for my mood journal. It's private. I use it every day, sometimes multiple times per day. (I _always_ use it when a significant emotional event happens.)

I love it because I can explicitly pick my mood based on five options (rad, good, meh, bad, awful), can create and pick unlimited additional identifiers to associate with each journal entry, and can see reports showing me not only my average mood for the month/year but also which identifiers corresponded to what mood.

Example. I slept well today, felt really good, wrote code, spent time with my wife and worked out. So in my entry today I picked the "Good" mood (internally a 4/5), then picked the "good sleep", "home", "sunny", "time together", and "wrote code" identifiers. I also have a custom identifier called "do i need alone time" wherein I can pick how badly I need it on a scale of 0-2. I didn't feel like I needed time alone, so I picked "0". Then I wrote my entry.

At the end of the month, Daylio will send a push asking me if I want to see how I did this month. In that report, I'll be able to see a line graph of my mood along with the number of times I selected identifiers like "good sleep" or "time together", in descending order.

It would be REALLY powerful to connect these entries to Apple Health, as I track my sleep and what I eat. This would answer questions like "how does my mood change when I cut carbs to 150g/day max and 1800 cals/day max? how long does it take for changes to set in?" or "how does my mood affect how much I can push it in the gym, or vice versa?"

For my work journal, I track that in Git and have Alfred shortcuts to make that easy.

I also track weekly goals at https://retrospectives.carlosnunez.me.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by mlajtos »

staticfish wrote: post #73
mlajtos wrote: post #65

The compression rate seems like a magic. Surprised nobody talks about that point... Signed up for the beta. Really curious about it.

I believe it's because they are using middle-out compression.

For uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdyrtEf2Jk

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by nshm »

shubhamjain wrote: post #30

Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them. From the docs: > Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific words that were said. [1] Yeah, we only…

They could easily use offline transcription like Vosk

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by froster134584 »

mlajtos wrote: post #65

The compression rate seems like a magic. Surprised nobody talks about that point... Signed up for the beta. Really curious about it.

I'm pretty sure this is a BS marketing claim. Their site mentions "We compress raw recording data up to 3,750x times". This is just the regular hardware supported h.265 codec that comes in every mac. They're claiming "up to" because there are compressed frames such as B-frames that are the smallest frames which can typically be as small as 2000 - 4000 bytes. So if you look at an uncompressed 4k frame (3840 pixels * 2160 pixels * 10 colordepth)/ 8 = 10.368 MB. So an uncompressed frame of 10.368 MB / 2700 Bytes (H265 B-Frame) will give you ~3750X compression.

I could be wrong but I'm skeptical about this claim because video compression can't be done so simply just by creating a new algorithm and writing it in software. Especially the newer codecs such as h265, h266, and AV1 must be in hardware or else it would be too computational heavy and your device will just choke up trying to spend so much cpu time compressing when you're trying to run other processes.

Also if it was their own video compression, they would have to write their own decoder for their own player for every device. That is way too much for a start up to take on. It just smells like BS to me.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by justinlloyd »

v8xi wrote: post #80
justinlloyd wrote: post #62

Interesting product. I will take a wait and see approach though because my trust of companies pinky promising not to upload my data, especially when dealing with such invasive data as camera and audio and screen recordings, has been wearing thin of late. I've been recording my desktop on Mac, Windows and Linux, recording audio in my office, including transcription of the audio, and multiple camera capture for over a…

Wow - would love to hear more about the hardware/software stack you're using to perform all this. And how do you go about it when away from the office?

Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446093

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by mlajtos »

froster134584 wrote: post #96
mlajtos wrote: post #65

The compression rate seems like a magic. Surprised nobody talks about that point... Signed up for the beta. Really curious about it.

I'm pretty sure this is a BS marketing claim. Their site mentions "We compress raw recording data up to 3,750x times". This is just the regular hardware supported h.265 codec that comes in every mac. They're claiming "up to" because there are compressed frames such as B-frames that are the smallest frames which can typically be as small as 2000 - 4000 bytes. So if you look at an uncompressed 4k frame (3840 pixels * 2…

> I could be wrong but I'm skeptical about this claim because video compression can't be done so simply just by creating a new algorithm and writing it in software. Especially the newer codecs such as h265, h266, and AV1 must be in hardware or else it would be too computational heavy and your device will just choke up trying to spend so much cpu time compressing when you're trying to run other processes.

This is the key information, as they support M1/M2 which have en/decoders in silicon, they definitely use some off the shelf codec. So they don't use any new breakthrough tech, but marketing existing tech in a shady way.

Thank you for your insight!

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by anonymouse008 »

nunez wrote: post #91
anonymouse008 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know if this is in your blog anywhere because I have not checked yet, but what are you using for your journal app or software needs now? Do you feel the CBT helpers found in many popular apps are necessary?

Thanks for checking out my blog! I'm using Daylio for my mood journal. It's private. I use it every day, sometimes multiple times per day. (I _always_ use it when a significant emotional event happens.) I love it because I can explicitly pick my mood based on five options (rad, good, meh, bad, awful), can create and pick unlimited additional identifiers to associate with each journal entry, and can see reports showin…

> It would be REALLY powerful to connect these entries to Apple Health, as I track my sleep and what I eat. This would answer questions like "how does my mood change when I cut carbs to 150g/day max and 1800 cals/day max? how long does it take for changes to set in?" or "how does my mood affect how much I can push it in the gym, or vice versa?"

Aye captain - tis what I'm working on. We should zoom sometime.

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