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Breakup, as captured by my fitbit
- thedz 11y agoI once left my fitbit in the wash (and then dryer) and was wondering why I was suddenly getting all these "congrats on hitting your steps goal!" alerts on my phone.
- myth_buster 11y agoGot a badge for climbing 33 stairs + a plethora of others, while in actuality I was riding my motorcycle.
- kabdib 11y agoA few hours' ride is good for 10K steps. I don't know if it depends on the type of engine or motorcycle brand. I'd love to experiment :-)
- myth_buster 11y agoI noticed the condition of the road had a significant affect on the readings. I think we could use supervised learning to perhaps determine different activities.
- RyJones 11y agomy truck runs on five of the six cylinders available to it, and shakes like it does. Holding the steering wheel with my left hand means I hit step goals like crazy.
- jacquesm 11y agoBe careful about continuing to drive it like that you may end up wrecking the catalytic converter.
- RyJones 11y agoYou're right to be concerned. I paid $1500 for it, three times that to have the misfire issue "fixed" (among a bunch of other delayed maintenance), and after the misfire came back I gave up. I've been driving it on 5 cylinders for years now. If only I could find an "open loop" switch to just disable the engine monitoring. Everything runs fine in open loop mode.
- jacquesm 11y agoThat's an interesting puzzle. If you want my $0.02 cents on it check the knock sensor or unplug it for a bit and see what that does, alternatively replace ignition coil for that cylinder, cable, cap and plug. Those would by my main suspects if it works well in open loop mode, knock sensor first.
- Tiksi 11y agoIf it runs fine in open loop mode, it sounds likely to be a bad knock sensor causing the ecu to think there's detonation and retard the timing to the point it doesn't fire at all. As far as getting it into open loop mode, unplugging the throttle position sensor or any of the other intake sensors (MAP, Mass airflow, etc) would probably get you there.
- darryl42 11y agoI think my best was 125 stories, over a mountain pass.
- CWuestefeld 11y agoMine has never registered a stair climb, despite my office being on the third story of the building, and I typically park on the 4th or 5th floor of the garage. Its sleep stats are also laughable. It's shown me as sleeping right through the time I was showering and cooking breakfast.
- tlrobinson 11y agoMy wife put her Fitbit on the cat's collar after she forgot to wear it one day...
- jxm262 11y agoWow , thought I was the only one. I accidentally left mine in the washer/dryer the other day. Was expecting it to be broken, it came out with 4,000 steps :)
- state 11y agoPerhaps if everyone tagged their breakup moments on their fitbits then fitbit could mass-process the preceding few months / weeks to find a common pattern. You show up a few minutes early to the restaurant and your fitbit can just let you know what's about to happen.
- ihsw 11y agoThat sounds like an excellent way to freak people out and preemptively break up.
- Jtsummers 11y agoExcept it wouldn't work. If Fitbit is collecting my data, and I'm not intending a breakup, then my heart rate now is independent of what my partner will be doing or saying in five minutes when they break up with me. It'd only really be useful if it collected your partner's data and fed it to you. However, you'll see similar spikes from your partner before any major relationship event. They want you to meet their family. They need to tell you they can't stand your mother and her overbearing nature. They want to move in together or propose. All these would likely look the same (modulo degree) to Fitbit.
- protomyth 11y agoGiven that these gadgets will probably all be location aware, I'm pretty sure the company[1] can figure out who you're dating and what stress they have. Basically, triggering your reaction to the breakup will probably get a search on what your former significant other was feeling and the data processing would probably happen from that end. I really don't want to deal with that world. 1) both people need to be using the same device, but that's probably more common than not with peer groups. Lord help us all if they come up with a standard exchange protocol between devices. The alert "Hey, the dude entering the room now is really mad" is going to set off all kinds of hell.
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- jasonkostempski 11y agoDoesn't say which side of the breakup he was on.
- protomyth 11y agoI'm thinking the receiving end. I would expect a sense of relief in the person doing the breaking and not the lingering effects.
- glibgil 11y agoUm, did you see the guy's photo? I'm going to guess no one breaks up with that guy unless he does the old trick of acting like a jerk until the other person wants out.
- protomyth 11y agoIt is true for all, no matter how beautiful - someone, somewhere is tired of that person's crud. [edit: this is true for all sexes but I guess the unkind reader will think beautiful doesn't apply to guys]
- sundaeofshock 11y agoSome studies suggest we date people of compete able attractiveness. Whoever he was dating was most likely as good looking as him and would not consider it a blessing to stay with him.
- Jtsummers 11y agoPlenty of people that are attractive and good (or at least non-jerks) that get broken up with. They don't necessarily have to be a jerk, just not a good match for their partner. Politics, views on marriage, mismatched libido, kids, etc.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoI dated someone once who was really great, did everything right, perfect on paper. However we broke up because I just didn't feel anything, there was no chemistry and sex was boring and lifeless. Sometimes that happens and its nobody's fault.
- Analemma_ 11y agoNot a Fitbit, but I do have a Microsoft Band, which tracks, among other things, your galvanic skin response. I still haven't found any real use for this data, but I have noted that resistivity definitely plummets in response to stressful events, even if I'm not sweating enough to consciously notice it. I once looked at the daily graph and noticed a dip right when our application started throwing errors while I was on-call :) Again, I don't know what use this is, but physiological data is just fascinating in its own right.
- viraptor 11y agoIsn't that basically what scientology e-meters are? I didn't know they had any relation to real life events.
- robg 11y agoCore biological response that we've been looking at! http://news.mit.edu/2015/startup-neumitra-stress-tracking-wearables-1019 http://news.mit.edu/2015/startup-neumitra-stress-tracking-we... How do you like your MS Band?
- teach 11y agoMy heart rate data has been similarly interesting. For example, I'm a musician for my church band. You can see the spike when I'm doing the lead vocals on a song I don't know that well. It repeats in each of the three services. :)
- forty 11y agoThat would be a great ad for this kind of device: the heart rate of <famous singer> before/during <awesome concert> :)
- funkysquid 11y agoThis is fascinating (and sad), but it makes me wonder, could police use your fitness tracker as a sort of poor-mans polygraph? i.e. interview a subject normally, and then get a warrant (or not get a warrant) to view the online data and correlate them after the fact? Wikipedia mentions "blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity" as parameters for a polygraph [1], and while fitbit only supports 2/4 right now, the goal of fitness tracking is to have all of those. Whether or not polygraphs even work is another question, but being able to do them secretly and without consent is scary none the less. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph
- pmalynin 11y agoThe polygraph is shit for chirst's sake. Clench your anus and it will mess up it up. Polygraphs have time and time again have been shows to be ineffective, and yet people still keep advocating for them.
- vinceguidry 11y agoNewer machines detect clenching and the practitioner will tell you to stop.
- girvo 11y agoInteresting. They are still useless things built on pseudoscience considering what question they're attempting to answer, and I find their use in court cases a blight on an otherwise advanced society.
- pc86 11y agoI think it's pretty widely accepted that they don't work as a "is this person telling the truth about _____" They're fine if you don't mind false positives (true statements flagged as dishonesty). This is largely why they're still in use e.g. for hiring with the CIA. It's much better to filter out many otherwise fine candidates than it is to let someone in who would lie at that point in the interview.
- 6stringmerc 11y ago"Had to break up with boyfriend over lunch, he was just too obsessed with his tech gadgets to give me attention." - Corresponding Facebook Post, Presumably
- ljk 11y agorelevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/523/ https://xkcd.com/523/
- trjordan 11y agoGetting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" Days where I'm antsy all day tend to be days I have a higher resting heart rate. Days when I have a higher resting heart rate tend to come after a couple nights of less-than-stellar sleep. It's easy to guess that being antsy all day is nervous energy from work, but if it only happens after 4 days of 6.5 hours of sleep... the fix isn't to work on my resting heart rate via meditation, it's to get more sleep. The great thing for me is that I have concrete actions that help fix specific biometric anomalies: going to bed earlier, drinking less/more alcohol/coffee, exercising more/less. I know I should do all of these things all the time, but being able to see the effectiveness of specific actions is really satisfying.
- munificent 11y ago> It's easy to guess that being antsy all day is nervous energy from work, but if it only happens after 4 days of 6.5 hours of sleep... the fix isn't to work on my resting heart rate via meditation, it's to get more sleep. Holy crap. You may have just changed my life.
- nedwin 11y ago32 years old, only recently made the connection between poor moods and mental acuity and a series of nights with less than 8 hours sleep. :/
- bitcointicker 11y ago8 hours sleep seems like bliss to me. Even if I actually get to bed giving me enough time to have 8 hours sleep, I usually have trouble drifting off and then when I do, I'll wake a few hours later, and repeat. I find that there is so much stimulation throughout the day, so many things I want to read about, experiment with and work related problems to solve, I really struggle to switch off at the end of the day. I try to console myself with this - http://www.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-optimal-nights-sleep-1405984970 http://www.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-op... 7 hours is better than 8 :-)
- alialkhatib 11y agoIt's always interesting to see qualitative stuff associated with quantified self; it seems like ultimately the goal is to lead a (happier|better) life, which is a very qualitative notion, but we end up turning as many things as possible into quantitative criteria and looking post hoc for some pattern. Koby's tweet shows what a breakup looks like, and it's tragic, but if you imagined someone retrospectively posting a screenshot of their heart rate readings from the day they met their current partner, we might see a similar pattern of elevated readings as well, wouldn't we? It seems like it would be just as plausible (to me, anyway). I'm not saying that we should find better dimensions to measure (I think we'll always find ambiguous, confusing results absent context), but that whatever we measure should get qualitative context if we want it to really mean anything.
- dominsbeard 11y agoSomething similar happened to me when I lost my laptop. For the hour it took to retrace my steps and find it my hr spiked.
- jreed91 11y agoThis just reminds me on how no one has made the killer app for all these sensors. It's just data, no one has shown me how to make myself better from all this data.
- JadeNB 11y agoIt reminds me of how, in response to the popularisation of the 'science' of graphology, schools popped up teaching you how to mimic the handwriting that a graphologist would associate with desireable personality traits.
- yarou 11y agoData (and QS generally) can't help you change your personality, your mannerisms, etc...but it might be useful in catching an underlying medical condition.
- soared 11y agoHaving gotten a fitbit for christmas, I was disappointed by the app. All this data, and they don't do any interpretation besides displaying a few graphs. The data definitely shows how my resting heart rate is affected y how many hours I slept, or how I exercised, etc.
- peterwallhead 11y agohttps://exist.io https://exist.io is attempting to solve this problem (no interests, just a happy user).
- zimpenfish 11y agoLooks neat - will have to see how it compares against https://gyrosco.pe/ https://gyrosco.pe/
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- madcaptenor 11y agoI recently moved from a one-story apartment to a two-story house. You can't really see it in the number of steps my Fitbit says I took, but the number of flights of stairs I did in a day suddenly went way up.
- siruva07 11y agoBreakup, as captured by my fitbit aria scale http://imgur.com/ePX7o8m http://imgur.com/ePX7o8m It gets better and life goes on :)
- jjore 11y agoSee also http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-clues-why-women-get-broken-heart-syndrome-1451932640 http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-clues-why-women-get-broken-h... for occasionally fatal and measurable symptoms of psychogenic (or vagus mediated?) heart attack.
- jgh 11y agoHm, I should post "Secondary screening at immigration, as caught by my Apple Watch"
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- anigbrowl 11y agoI'm beginning to warm up to the idea of a civilization-destroying EMP.
- sago 11y agoLooked like 'got up at noon, haven't been to bed yet' to me. Surprising lack of difference between sleep and waking if the only change was the breakup. Not doubting it, just interesting.
- xyzzy4 11y agoHow about "Death, as captured by my fitbit"
- hellofunk 11y agoWould an Apple Watch also capture these interesting moments the same as a fitbit? I don't have either, but find it quite interesting.
- bobbles 11y agoIt captures heart rate at a much lower rate unless you indicate you're working out, so I guess if you knew it was getting to breakup stage of the conversation you could ask them to wait a sec while you start your workout
- brandonb 11y agoYes—Apple Watch records your heart rate every 10 minutes during the day, and every five seconds when you put it in workout mode. For example, here's what my heart rate looked like during the Game of Thrones finale: https://cardiogr.am/c/gameofthronesfinale https://cardiogr.am/c/gameofthronesfinale
- jamiewildehk 11y agoWent back to the UK over the holidays - perhaps drank a little bit too much - my fitbit tracked my resting heart rate over the trip. It drops 10 bpm after I came back to HK. https://twitter.com/jamiewildehk/status/689726514959495169 https://twitter.com/jamiewildehk/status/689726514959495169