curious, where the guys who are working on mathematical models run their simulations these days.
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And often people tell me not to eat "suger" and carbs like "rice". I never listen to them.
People find it hard to lose weight and it's not hard to understand why.
Nothing beats a calorie deficit for weight loss.
Deficit = TDEE (total calorie burn for the day) - calorie intake
Most people go wrong when they diet. These are the reasons I see most often:
a) They try to eat too little. It works in the short term, but within several weeks, they become miserable and bounce back to binge eating, undoing all their progress.
Many people have a TDEE of 2,700 kcal and start eating an 800–1,100 kcal diet for weight loss.
Eating 800–1,500 kcal isn't wrong, but it's more suitable for someone who is an experienced dieter. Beginners, more often than not, will fail with this approach.
b) They don't know the calorie density of foods. Many believe granola is a low calorie, healthy option based purely on their gut feelings about the food and its appearance.
c) Many people are sedentary and have low muscle mass, so their TDEE is quite low. To cut weight, they need to go 400–500 kcal below it, and guess what? They end up miserable because their TDEE is already low, and lowering their intake by 400–500 kcal puts them in a zone with too little food.
The solution is Zone 2 cardio not because it burns more fat, but because it's easy on the joints, and most people can sustain it for hours, resulting in a higher cumulative calorie burn with much less stress on the recovery system.
To throw a monkey wrench into this scheme, oftentimes when you diet down, your body lowers its metabolism (through metabolic adaptation or increased efficiency in physical activities). Other times, people simply move less when they eat at a deficit because they feel low on energy, lowering their TDEE.
Remember, since deficit = TDEE - intake:
If TDEE drops too low, calorie intake must go down to maintain the deficit; otherwise, there will be no weight loss.
I've been working to solve this problem and we've lots of success with maintenance tracking approach.
it's like those ddos rings, but works on social networks.
You can create a sub and a Discord group, then ask people in the Discord group to launch a mass report against your competing sub and its moderators. You can use scanners to find questionable stuff that you can report, and more often than not, this will get the mod banned. If the sub doesn’t have multiple mods (with unique IPs, as Reddit tracks fingerprints), the sub is now in the hands of Reddit’s mod team.
Back then it was not this easy, but now with AI and residential IPs you can create lots of fake users and reports etc... and take almost any avg redditor down.
many times you'll notice the new mod became active as a contributor on specific sub only 2-3 days before the OG mod gets banned and sub declared orphan.
Coincidence?
How can reddit even hand over a sub to someone who has nothing to do with a community? Simply because they install and control who controls the sub.
Mods get "comment/post removal" power, so they use it to shape the community towards specific "narrative", there is no audit trail for any mod specific actions unless you are a mod you perhaps can't see what all a mod is doing on a sub.
Also, they can simply make an automod/bot rule which simply removes your comment by creating a rule with your username after that you'll not know your comment is gone but others will not see it!
Good luck trying to write any helpful posts in the community anymore, someone will come along and respond with "AI."
If you are in a calorie surplus, your weight goes up. If you are in a calorie deficit, your weight goes down. MacroCodex uses that relationship to estimate your true maintenance calories over time: https://macrocodex.app/ This can be used to gain or lose weight. You simply need to eat above your maintenance calorie line to gain weight and below it to lose weight. No ads, no subscriptions, no payments, 16k users already.
If you're interested in how it works: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/
This can be used to gain or lose weight. You simply need to eat above your maintenance calorie line to gain weight and below it to lose weight. No ads, no subscriptions, no payments, 16k users already.
If you're interested in how it works: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/
apps appear much faster because db is on the same server
There is no limit to greed, you can find billionaires who are after trillions. This line of reasoning is at fault.
Android comes with auto backup, https://developer.android.com/identity/data/autobackup
App developers choose to collect more data than they need.
That's something you can directly do in AI studio for free, or use free API quota.
my keyboard is actually r65 by royal kludge i got that wrong!
I was gifted this keyboard and i just love its feel.
I use usevia, all i had to do was find a keyboard definition file for my keyboard which claude found in 2 minutes!
Wish something like this existed instead i am stuck with flutter and react native on Mobile.
When will a time come when i can use some functional languages like Haskell or a plain boring language like Go for making apps with OTA ability for mobiles.
As vibe coding takes over, app store approval will become slowerer and OTA is really great when you need to make quick changes!
You can OTA each day and do base app release to store once each week.
i think this maybe the space where very little work is being done.
why is it silly? modern phones can easily do this (they are running local llm, what issue is with jit?), if it's done one time per update what's the problem?
what's the problem with jitting couple of hot paths which have been updated and were not part of base app?
>Apple does not allow running code from internet either (even if interpreted iirc)
And how is React native expo/eas updates are working then? Isn't it downloading a bytecode bundle?
Afaik, interpreter is allowed. JIT isn't?
AOT will be in base app and it will include JIT or Interpreted OTA updates.
For Apple, JIT can simply be disabled and OTA update can run patched part in interpreter.
But JIT works on Android (well), so this Hybrid system is capable of being much faster than React Native where your JS code only runs in Hermes VM which isn't JIT.
In this system, all your crazy math and algorithms (on hot path) stay easily updatable as this small part can be run on JIT with snapshot saved for next load if it has not changed!
JIT on average is 100x faster than dumb interpreter for language like Dart.
Does it already exist? otherwise i am seriously thinking about building something like this.
I've been lately into mobile apps and i am finding that there is no system which combines these 3
1. AOT 2. JIT (for hot paths) 3. Interpreter for non JIT paths or where you explicitly do not want jit.
Imagine, a system which compiles your app to AOT but when you push OTA update, part of the app are selectively replaced to JIT or Interpreted mode.
it's theoretically possible but nobody seems to be doing it. I found react native / expo eas update but i don't think it's like this, it has a Hermes VM which runs bytecode but it has no JIT so you'll write native code for hot path then you'll need to upload a full update to Android. So, only toy level code performance can be can actually be written in JS?
Much better, patch the parts where AOT calls into JIT or interpreter.
Currently i am using react native and flutter. Flutter's UI framework code is in Dart if you load this whole code into JIT, it will consume a lot of resources on mobile device as the framework is big and does lot of work. If all framework code was AOT and your custom patchable code also comes with AOT but upon OTA replaced by JIT or Interpreted code, crazy performance!
But what if we could run the most of the code in AOT and only run changed code in JIT or interpreted mode? arguably it would perform as good as it does not being complete AOT while also providing react native like fast updates.
This is kinda misleading. First of all, MacroFactor uses the Gemini API for photo to calorie/macro estimation, so the data does leave their premises. It does not work completely offline, so it does call home, and after that, you never really know what happens with the data.
MacroFactor charges roughly $70 a year. MacroCodex is free and doesn't require an internet connection to work. It can also offset random weight gain due to PMS or other short term hormonal cyclical issues, as well as other water retention issues. It doesn't even ask for your phone number or email or even date of birth!! (it just asks age) on Android. On the web app, an email is required only for storing your data (due to the volatile web storage offered in PWAs, where the OS/browser can evict storage under memory pressure).
If an app doesn't collect your personal identifiable data it cannot sell it, if it's capable of running offline it can be put behind a firewall rule and/or diagnostic/telemetry data disabled in setting though i'd argue if it's not collecting your personal info and want data for improvement of specific app feature (which benefit from data analysis) then you should perhaps analyze the risk of this decision.
i don't want to pay for servers just to have an app.
and updating apps is slow, for flutter you need to pay for shorebird.
In react native land, not sure but there are paid stuff like expo? you can self host but usually you end up payign for some OTA provider?
Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway:
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-c...
This is why I keep a separate repo for important parts that I do not want competitors to get access to, and only use ai on dumb parts which I don't care if get leaked tomorrow.