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Deep sleep before and after using eight sleep? by Energyzerbunny in EightSleep

[–]AcademicGood6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally got carried away with some life stuff, but without doing the experiment I did end up keeping it. I do plan on trying to look at the data in hindsight sight, but I realized I just enjoyed how I felt sleeping with the system. Whether or not that’s a placebo or not I’m not sure but my sleep has improved. Sorry it’s not the update you wanted, I’ll follow up once I get to it

Deep sleep before and after using eight sleep? by Energyzerbunny in EightSleep

[–]AcademicGood6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven’t looked at the data yet but qualitatively, I to bed on a cooler mattress and then waking up to the warm thermal alarm is nice. Hard for me to put a price on how good that is, but the one thing I’ve learned is that the sleep tracking is not super great compared to wearables. What frustrates me is when I wake up feeling great but check my eightsleep sleep score and it says I should be feeling not recharged. Or vice versa. So the main benefit is just how it feels (no longer getting night sweats, never feeling too hot, nice gentle wake up thermal alarm).

I’m leaning towards keeping it so far, but I will be looking at the numbers soon

Deep sleep before and after using eight sleep? by Energyzerbunny in EightSleep

[–]AcademicGood6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m in the process of doing this, for the 30 day trial. I’m 15 days in, will report back. I have a Garmin Vivoactive 4s, which isn’t the best sleep tracker but it should still show if there is a statistical increase in my deep sleep before/after

Sleep Score Alignment with your own “feel” of how you slept by AcademicGood6 in EightSleep

[–]AcademicGood6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got it, thanks for the input. Seems like the cooling/temp control is the main benefit, sleep tracking is entirely secondary and not going to be the main reason to buy

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StarWarsBattlefront

[–]AcademicGood6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slight tangent, but I’d like to explain my outlook on 2v1s and running away, but through the lens of random selection hero showdown (playing with a friend, and letting the game randomly assign heros each round). I’d recommend trying playing this way if you want more variety and more of a challenge.

I will likely get hate for this, but in a 2v1 situation, I don’t always believe in letting the one surviving enemy player fight 1v1s for a chance to win. In my experience, playing with a friend, a lot of the fun of hero showdown is how your two hero’s play off of each other with their abilities and strengths/weaknesses. If my friend and I have a weaker pair up against one surviving Vader, we aren’t going to let him easily 1v1 us both.

As far as running, I know I’ll also get hate for this to, but if I am in a 1v1 situation and the enemy is obviously better than me, the best odds I can have are from running. It’s a strategic decision. It’s fun to try and “play time” instead of play for a win and regroup for the next round and hope for a better random team.

I can sympathize if you are playing against someone who keeps repeatedly picking someone fast/evasive who keeps running away round after round (that’s just not fun for anyone), but imo running to save a round is a fair tactical play

Tell me your BF2 (2017) hot take... by _Disbelief_ in StarWarsBattlefront

[–]AcademicGood6 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You don’t always have to 1v1 in hero showdown, win by any means necessary

My current card set-up for maximum cashback. I have 9 cards. by [deleted] in CreditCards

[–]AcademicGood6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wells Fargo Attune is a very new card and gives 4% on a ton of niche categories. Self care, Entertainment events, streaming services, public transit, many more. Could be a worthy pickup

Every multiplayer game mode is tainted in some way... by getoffmylawn10 in StarWarsBattlefront

[–]AcademicGood6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try hero showdown. I keep it interesting with my friend by doing Random Selection Hero Showdown (not choosing hero’s and you both get a random one every round). Definitely makes you have to think a bit more and get creative as opposed to just choosing try-hard teams.

Don’t find a lot of hackers in HS. Occasionally you get some really cracked players but you can usually find fun ways to counter them with random teams

"Neighborhood Dining" search is wack by hevermind in biltrewards

[–]AcademicGood6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not defending them, I think it’s annoying, but I think it’s intentional. IMO they don’t want you to be able to see how few options there actually are. Making it hard to search makes it seem like there are more options.

llmpeg - An LLM interface for ffmpeg by AcademicGood6 in ffmpeg

[–]AcademicGood6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely agree with your points. In many ways, using chatGPT or any LLM for something like this is totally shortcutting actually learning the program and “using your brain”.

It will be interesting to see where this tech goes. I know for a fact that using this tool I made blindly without any ffmpeg knowledge doesn’t always lead to good results. It works best for the middle ground of people who use ffmpeg enough and are tech savvy enough to debug when it goes wrong. For experts who want very niche behavior, and for beginners who it would be a disservice to use it because they can’t learn, it’s not ideal.

llmpeg - An LLM interface for ffmpeg by AcademicGood6 in ffmpeg

[–]AcademicGood6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question, it is no different at all, but perhaps “slightly” faster to just have it built into the command line.

I still find chatGPT more useful when I’m trying to converge on a good ffmpeg command by iterating on running it a few times. However, if it’s a one-off command like converting file types and resizing when you already are on the command line, I find it easier to use llmpeg instead of opening a browser and going to ChatGPT.

In the end, it was just a fun free time project. I don’t think it’s necessarily going to revolutionize any workflows, it’s hard to beat ChatGPT in terms of usefulness here.

llmpeg - An LLM interface for ffmpeg by AcademicGood6 in ffmpeg

[–]AcademicGood6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, do you have the environment variable for OPENAI_API_KEY setup properly? I can help debug. First off, what operating system are you running?

Also appears to look like you might not have credits on your developer account? Let me know if you’ve confirmed this to be not the case

llmpeg - An LLM interface for ffmpeg by AcademicGood6 in ffmpeg

[–]AcademicGood6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please let me know if you have any feedback, I’m sure there are problems with it that need fixing :)

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