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You could rewrite it to

    int* ptr = ((v != 0) * lwr) + ((v == 0) * rwr);

We're doing this sort of tracking in a Telegram group. We just send messages with a well-defined structure:

    <category code> <time> <optional description>

    S 2000
    W 0800
    F 0900 banana
    P 1010
    ...

    (S = sleep, W = wake up, F = food, P = poop, etc.)

Coincidentally I have the Oura ring too, and my sleep HRV oscilates around 100ms; haven't compared with a strap in the morning though. Strange that you get such low values, maybe something faulty with the ring, or finger placement? It's possible also that the absolute values are not extremely accurate, but the relative trends are. Garmin for example requires a strap to measure HRV stress, even though the watch has an optical HR sensor, which leads me to think optical sensors are not so precise.

What an amazing improvement to 4:30 pace at 140 bpm btw! I've had a similar relative improvement over the first year when I think about it, from around 7:00 to 5:20-5:30 at 140 bpm. But my training was mostly 1km intervals at high end of zone 3 (still quite below threshold), translating to a lot of tempo running on average, plus one session of 200s or 400s faster intervals per week. Been stuck with little progress for a while though, and was thinking to try a more polarized approach like yours with higher volume; thanks for explaining it!

I do a lot of running as well and have observed the same effects. After anaerobic sprints or a race of up to 10k, sleep HRV drops / HR is higher and running HR:pace is elevated for up to a week. However, usually this is then followed by some improvement in all of these metrics compared to the baseline before the hard workout. Anaerobic exercise builds/maintains especially fast-twitch muscles, and higher muscle mass has positive influence on many health markers; as we get older we slowly lose muscle mass, but the losses are predominantly fast-twitch muscles [1]. So I believe anaerobic workouts are very important, despite causing quite some stress temporarily. Totally agree they require a lot of recovery inbetween.

Unrelated, out of curiosity, when you say 80% of your training: is it in mileage/time? Or some effort metric like TRIMP, calories, avg. HR, or so? Or something else?

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7493202/

Anaerobic exercise may have a temporary bad effect on cortisol, how are the long-term effects though? In moderation I suspect it is a net positive long-term.

You cannot automatically conclude that rasdaman comes on top because the author is also involved in its development, although it may be suspicious. I am also one of the authors and contributed to doing the benchmarks: our goal was to configure and implement the queries in the best way for each system and achieve comparable results. Note that this report was done almost three years ago, the results may be getting out of date.

This query language that looks like SQL is an official part of SQL now [1]. Surely there is place for integrated DB solutions that let you work with both relational and array data in one place? There are more benefits in this than just performance/scalability. Think of building services on top of big array datasets, beyond one-off data science experiments.

1. https://www.iso.org/standard/67382.html

5.10 is LTS

The Netherlands too as far as I know?

The largest I've worked with until now is a bit over 0.5TB. It's still performing as well as if it was a few GB.

It's unusual in South-East Europe in my experience. It's far more common to eat Bulgarian yogurt instead.

Does pasteurization have any effect on the hormones? It deactivates enzymes, maybe it does the same to hormones?

There are dedicated GPS devices (by TomTom, Garmin, etc) which are much cheaper than smart phones. In the past they provided a far better experience too, I'm not sure how they compare to Google Maps nowadays though.

If maps is the only thing, you could easily replace it with a cheap dedicated GPS device?

You may find prm useful for this purpose, it lets you create projects with start/stop scripts that get executed when you do `prm start project` or `prm stop project`. I use it to quickly switch to the right directories, open editors, services, etc. needed by a project.

1. https://github.com/EivindArvesen/prm

https://dimitarmisev.com/blog

Contains a couple of travelogues so far. Probably the best piece is on Iceland, it may be useful to you if you plan on camping there in winter: https://dimitarmisev.com/blog/iceland

It's rss-compliant in case you want to subscribe, and has no analytics tracking nonsense. Posting frequency has been extremely low so far, however. Even though the end result is usually rewarding, producing posts has been seriously time consuming. But I'm thinking every now and then to restart it.

Note: it doesn't show very well on screens wider than 1920 pixels, I just noticed.

This is not so unusual around Europe I think, I'm off 3 days a week for 7 months for parental leave (in Germany).

The study was only done on members of American Mensa, I wonder if there would be any difference across countries.

I'm from a poor European country; in high school (~15 years ago) I measured 156 in a Mensa IQ test, a friend had 168, and a third friend 172. We were top students in the generation, going to programming and math competitions. Definitely not in the popular kids club, but otherwise perfectly normal as far as I can tell. In the couple of Mensa meetings I've been to back then I have not really seen any of the mental or physical disorders considered in the study either.

I have noticed the same trend in me, but have never done any meditation so far. It could as well be due to growing older.

There's a technical report ISO/IEC TR 19075-6:2017 corresponding to the standard, freely available from [1]. It's a much more accessible version of the standard if you're not looking to implement it.

1. https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

I've observed something similar with suitcase handling at airports, where they are thrown around and piled up like it's typically done with bags of rice for example.

The SDS011 with firmware from luftdaten.info seems to work in this mode by default: sensor is turned on for 20 seconds for measurement at every 150 seconds interval. This should be tunable though. The theoretical lifetime is 8000 hrs of continuous operation, so they estimate 6-7 years longevity in this default mode.

SDS011 is the basis for luftdaten.info; have a look here for a diy guide (optionally including humidity/temperature as well): https://luftdaten.info/en/construction-manual/

Is it 2/3 though? With the assumptions below it comes out to about 40% of waking time:

- 8 hours of work + 2 hours of commute / 5 days per week

- weekend 2 days per week

- 20 days of vacation + 5 public holidays per year

Any source for the "genetically same" claim? To me Bulgarians look fairly distinct from Macedonians, although I'm not certain if that's any strong genetic indicator.

Germany doesn't seem to care much about http://germany.com :)

Oh, I was wondering why the prices on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=de are higher than on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us, this explains it.

Take him to the library and let him roam around and pick whatever he likes. I used to do this at the age of 9-10-11: I would go to the library once a week, pick about 5-6 books and read them all by the next week. Wish I had discovered the library when I was 6 :)

Boredom can be uncomfortable, but it is not necessarily bad. It boosts creativity for example [1]. Not sure what are the benefits of mindless browsing on the phone then, if we suppose that it's mainly about killing boredom.

1. https://www.fastcompany.com/3042046/the-science-behind-how-b...

An alternative to bouldering is sport climbing. I find it offers a much better balance between the physical and mental parts.

Bouldering routes are only a couple of moves so the focus tends to be on raw power; climbing routes are longer and require more time planning and developing an optimal/working strategy, which can be more engaging and interesting.

It works just fine for me, I've never gone above the 10MB. "Restrict background data" on my Android 4.1 on each app/service does the trick.