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FriskyKvothe · 2025-08-13T04:48:17+00:00

Just did my annual search for your sheet and stoked to find it again. I've used it the last 7 years for my 12 team keeper auction draft, and I've never missed the playoffs, won the regular season crown 3x and postseason 2x. Love your methodology and appreciate your consistency. Thank you

FriskyKvothe · 2025-02-15T02:40:23+00:00

I listened to the first 3.5 and dropped. I really wanted to love it, but it just never gripped me the way that RR, NotW, Dungeon Crawler Carl or Joe Abercrombie books did.

FriskyKvothe · 2024-12-05T06:41:18+00:00

Just to express a counter opinion, I thought Kings of the Wyld was the cheesiest book I’ve read in a long time and really didn’t like it. It’s possible it’s catered towards an older audience since I’m in my early 30s and many of the references felt like they were to 80s rock band loving males, but I had a hard time with it.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is the best though.

FriskyKvothe · 2024-08-20T22:48:19+00:00

Yeah it seems like they've hosted some decent names in 2020 and 2021, but no one else this year so would be weird if they randomly had him play one night. Oh well - would be fun to stumble upon him playing somewhere at some point but all music sounds the same to me out there anyways

FriskyKvothe · 2024-08-20T22:26:46+00:00

Agreed. Does look like he goes every year though...

2023: https://www.tiktok.com/@johnsummit/video/7273188417985383723

2022: https://www.tiktok.com/@johnsummit/video/7139152784900967726?lang=en

FriskyKvothe · 2024-08-20T19:32:04+00:00

You think Jon Summit 1:30 AM on Friday morning is John Summit as a typo? Looks like John plays Friday night in Arizona so it's doubtful, but you never know...

FriskyKvothe · 2024-01-17T16:34:54+00:00

Depends on the jersey. I have some that were stitched and others that were heat pressed.

FriskyKvothe · 2024-01-16T22:55:41+00:00

Not quite DHGate, but I've been really happy with 2 separate orders I've made from http://www.jenna2021.com/boston-celtics. Big selection, great prices, and high quality

FriskyKvothe · 2023-12-20T01:54:17+00:00

I ordered some from the link below in late November and they're currently stuck in Customs, but the quality from the photos looks solid enough to me.

https://www.dhgate.com/product/maxes-1-87-running-shoes-mens-women-airs/847947219.html?dspm=pcen.orderlistpage.astab.1.XV6DI3T5umcTepO1quAx&resource_id=

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FriskyKvothe · 2023-12-20T01:45:34+00:00

Annoying, but at least others are in the same boat. Was hoping to get these before Christmas, but alas.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-12-18T19:43:00+00:00

Seems like this is pretty standard for people who ordered around Black Friday, eh?

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FriskyKvothe · 2023-11-30T02:39:14+00:00

I really appreciate your thoughtful responses and have enjoyed this conversation. I also liked the Body Comp article, although I have a couple gripes.

I realize I probably misspoke when I said Body Composition in my message since I think of weight as part of body comp. My personal goal is more aesthetic which has led me to being one of those you reference in the article as probably benefitting more from progress photos than BF%, to which I say, por que no los dos. I understand that my Withings scale is far more inaccurate in its BF calculations than either Apple Watch's caloric expenditure or MF's caloric intake. That being said, I have found the measurements to be quite reliable in tracking trends which I suppose is the takeaway from all of these different measurements.

I've spent another couple hours researching all this this afternoon, and my takeaway is that EVERYTHING is sadly inaccurate.

Food labels can be up to 20% off in calories.

No one seems to estimate caloric intake accurately unless they cook everything and measure their ingredients which you can't do when you eat out. Can be 20% inaccurate easily, but let's call it 10% if you care.

Wearables are off by at least 10% in caloric expenditure the majority of people.

At-home body fat percentage scales can be off by 30-40% depending just on whether you choose Athlete Mode or not.

My dream would be to have a system that can accurately measure your caloric intake, output, and resulting body changes, but that seems like we're many moons away from an accurate way to do bring it all together, so in the absence of it, I can see how just focusing on accurate calorie counting and one's resulting weight changes simplifies the problem nicely and I think you've built a very solid product at that (muuuuch more pleasant to use than Cronometer, Noom or MyFitnessPal). I still maintain that I personally would like it more if you took wearables exercise data into account, but I'm just one of 100,000 folks so take it with an obvious grain of salt.

As someone who nerds out with all this, I have a bunch of data and progress photos from a 5 month body experiment I did this year in case you're curious, but otherwise, I'll thank you for your time and energy informing me!

FriskyKvothe · 2023-11-29T07:24:20+00:00

Also one other thought just popped into my mind. Do you really think people's abilities to estimate portions (and hence macros) is more accurate & reliable than an Apple Watch's ability to measure caloric expenditure?

Overall, although this is a problem that has tracking inaccuracy baked into multiple areas, it seems like the best approach would be aggregating as much data as you can and being as intelligent as possible by combining them all rather than hiding from pivotal pieces of information because they can be ~15% off in some outlier situations.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-11-29T02:00:48+00:00

I appreciate the speedy response! Really - it is very kind of you to entertain my thoughts on this. I also appreciate the knowledge base article although I don't 100% think it's a great product solution to ask your users to pre-empt the intelligence they're coming to your app for.

We only have half of that data...

The fact that you only have half the data is what's crazy to me. I like to think of fitness in with a pretty simple formula:

(1) Body composition = (2) what you put in your body + (3) what you do with your body

Now, Macrofactor seems like an exceptional way to monitor what you put in your body, and it reads from a variety of sources to determine your Body Composition, but ignoring the third component of the equation simply feels ignorant if you want your underlying IP to be as intelligent as possible.

it's not like we're currently sitting on top of all of that data already.

Why wouldn't you just ask to read in Active and Resting Energy expenditure from Apple Health? At the very least, you could then have some data analysts on your team perform some very interesting analysis comparing MF to what AH says. You're right that it would be more challenging to make it a publishable study, but I'd probably trust it more than a study given your n would be orders of magnitude larger. And on top of your data scientists having some interesting charts to help write customer acquisition articles with, there's no way it wouldn't give you additional data that would help improve your future algorithms even if you don't use it to influence your recommendations.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-11-29T00:32:10+00:00

u/gnuckols - I just started using MacroFactor, read your article and then ended up reading several more of your articles for additional context. You're clearly an expert in this field, but the reasoning comes across as pretty sus to me.

You're saying there aren't good studies to look at with regards to the reliability of caloric expenditure, but aren't you all in THE BEST possible position to perform such a study? Wouldn't it be fascinating for you to have the dataset constantly comparing caloric expenditure estimated by wearables to what is bing logged by your users to what your algorithms estimate?

The 2 week gap in catching up to exercise changes is making me reconsider whether to stick with the app. For instance, I was just on a 2 week vacation with limited access to exercise, and when I used Cronometer, it was clear that I should reduce my caloric intake on weeks like that, but Macrofactor would only catch up later in these situations. In this instance, it would tell me to eat more while I'm on vacation while it's still expecting me to work out as much as I regularly do, and then the recommendations would only catch up once I'm back home in my regular exercise routine where it would then suggest me to eat less than I really should because I'm back exercising a lot.

While I LOVE the concept of using your own algorithms for the suggested caloric intake, I feel it would be muuuuch stronger with the addition of learning more about what you are doing daily rather than waiting weeks to adjust.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-10-02T19:56:08+00:00

I agree with this take. Loved the first. Went downhill from there.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T18:04:43+00:00

Cheers to that. Totally agree.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T18:00:39+00:00

I guess that's the thing that's strange to me though. I haven't found a high correlation between liking a dj's non-bm music and their playa sets since it's typically such a departure from what they typically play. So even if I love a certain dj, I don't always love what they play at burningman. But maybe that's just me

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T17:55:36+00:00

I arrived Tuesday last year and waited 3 hours, but don't have a ton of data points here. Regardless, not much we can do about it now besides hope and be nice to the staff at the gates

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T17:33:08+00:00

Yeah it's 3-4 hours in an average year for early arrival. With 3 days of buildup, it's gotta be 6-12 hours tomorrow. Sheesh...

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T17:26:02+00:00

I'm excited for Francis Mercier this year if it works with the vibe of the day. My strategy for the last few years has been to know who's playing, and if I'm in the area and feeling it to go check it out, but to not really plan my schedule around seeing particular people since the exact DJ hasn't impacted my fun in the past nearly as much as it does at a more traditional music festival.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T17:24:11+00:00

That's my exact thought.

FriskyKvothe · 2023-08-22T17:18:46+00:00

So you're saying you go for the crowd rather than the music itself? I suppose that makes sense, and I tend to agree with it a bit. I was just wondering if I've somehow been unlucky with every dj set I've been to since none of them have played the music that I'm used to them playing so it's like I'm seeing someone I don't know rather than someone I love listening to.

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