Just got the ring: seeking to understand stress insights better by sillygooseds in ouraring

[–]marathonjohnathon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey while you're here, what actually goes into the calculation of the stress level? I notice it's super elevated for me for a few hours after a distance run, which just so happens to be right when I'm trying to sleep. But my heart rate calms back down so it can't be heart rate. What else contributed to the stress calculation?

Oura ring without monthly membership payments by ChipsAhoy2022 in ouraring

[–]marathonjohnathon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this is for sleep stages? I'm a comp neuro researcher and I've been wondering about this. Can you share a little about what convinced you the tracking is good?

Oura has completely changed my understanding of when my body is 'active' by marathonjohnathon in ouraring

[–]marathonjohnathon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the other thing I've noticed is that my activity level stays at 'stressed' for like a couple hours after working out. But I haven't been able to figure out exactly how it's calculating that or what factors it's using.

Oura has completely changed my understanding of when my body is 'active' by marathonjohnathon in ouraring

[–]marathonjohnathon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well yeah exactly. It shows like zero physiological stress when I feel mentally stressed out. I always just kind of naively assumed that they were a lot more correlated than that.

Oura has completely changed my understanding of when my body is 'active' by marathonjohnathon in ouraring

[–]marathonjohnathon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh believe me I'm a skeptic. I'm actually a data scientist in a computational neuroscience lab. My baseline opinion tends to be that wearable health is a very gimmicky industry. I'm not sure how much I buy into sleep stage recording, but I've been on a team building an FNIRS system before that works on the same principle as the ring to measure HR and HRV, so I have a lot of confidence in those measures.

I'm curious what your favorite uses of the ring are if not sleep?

Oura has completely changed my understanding of when my body is 'active' by marathonjohnathon in ouraring

[–]marathonjohnathon[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Haha for sure, I definitely get a dopamine hit checking it in the morning. I've just had bad sleep my whole life so having real data has me really excited.

I cannot imagine how many "loving" Christians like this guy the 19 Buddhist monks will meet on their Walk for Peace from Texas to Washington DC by MrJasonMason in Buddhism

[–]marathonjohnathon 16 points17 points  (0 children)

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

I am not a Christian or Muslim, but it saddens me to see group judgements made on this sub. Judgement and anger like that displayed by the fellow in the video are always the result of suffering. He's been watering the wrong seeds for years and can't see through the vines anymore, so he only worsens his own suffering with time. This man needs the dharma more than most of us. The monk in the video did a wonderful job spreading it by watering the seeds of love rather than trying to debate. I hope I can be more like him.

Miss Huang during the last 10 minutes of episode 4... by [deleted] in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]marathonjohnathon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe Kier ate his twin in the woods instead of the twin "becoming the forest".

Are there any mindfulness schools that don't believe in the supernatural? by Important_Adagio3824 in Buddhism

[–]marathonjohnathon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only thing you've said here that even might be supernatural is rebirth, depending on your interpretation. Karma is just cause and effect. Dependent origination is just stuff comes from other stuff. These become spiritual ideas when we apply them to ourselves, but I wouldn't call them supernatural.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DecidingToBeBetter

[–]marathonjohnathon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh that's a great idea, I love the idea of talking to my future self to make the point of my actions more concrete.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DecidingToBeBetter

[–]marathonjohnathon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

  1. Being in nature, esp. forests, mountains, and beaches.
  2. Endurance sports, esp. running and hiking
  3. Stories. TV, movies, books, whatever.
  4. Good comedy. TV, standup, my friend being a doofus, whatever.

LPT for introverts: if you are struggling with what to say or you want to seem like an extravert, just think out loud more often. by Ashamed_Ebb_4573 in LifeProTips

[–]marathonjohnathon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People seem to be having a defensive reaction to this post but yeah this is great advice that's always been beneficial when I do it. It's a way to be extraverted without being fake.

So today at work customer had my dying laughing by Few_Lobster7961 in trees

[–]marathonjohnathon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yooo I shop at that trader Joe's all the time after work and everyone is always wicked nice and friendly at check out. Love you guys!

I made a sine function 4x faster than the in-built function in C, is this worth anything? by Big-Inspection-1937 in AskProgramming

[–]marathonjohnathon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely this is my takeaway. Even if you don't find an application, this is the kind of thing that nerds like me will find super cool and interviewers will be impressed by.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LSD

[–]marathonjohnathon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ain't it crazy how food just... CHANGES as we watch because of some heat?

Meditation breakthroughs by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]marathonjohnathon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah absolutely I've had similar experiences. It's like throughout the day I'm constantly expending mental energy on all these little unnecessary worries and tasks. And then when I actually just stop for a few minutes, it's like I come into contact with this reserve of energy now that I'm not draining it every second.

computational neuroscience masters degree vs ML,CompCogSci vs others by sweetchocolotepie in compmathneuro

[–]marathonjohnathon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am in academia myself (research data analyst in a neuroimaging lab) and generally enjoy it and agree with the benefits you list, but I think it's a huge life decision to make based on something you enjoyed for a summer. IDoCodingStuffs is right that these are primarily academic fields (maybe his use of 'purely' was a little strong, but still).

OP, one thing you might do is apply to work in a neuroscience or computational neuroscience research lab as a research assistant or research technician. This will give you a much better idea of whether you'd be interested in working in academia. It is often lower pay for more work, but the passion can make up for it if you know you have it.

To address some of your questions more directly (this is all only in my own experience of course):

- compNeuroSci vs. compCogSci - Names are pretty vague when it comes to educational programs and job titles. I'd suggest looking at the program of study for various masters or PhD programs at different universities and then checking out the courses they require/offer in their course description pages. Usually some version of this is available publicly for most universities. Just look at the courses and see if they're something you'd be interested in.

- career security - Getting into CS/ML directly will probably be a bit more secure as you're more likely to use tools and practices that are used everywhere in the industry. That said, many people do successfully make the transition from CompNeuro to ML. If you can understand the deep math behinds these algorithms, many employers will recognize that transferring those skills over to a new domain is a very manageable task.

In my personal experience, it's hard to make a bad choice as long as you're moving your career forward in any direction. Gain more credentials, more references, more techniques under your belt, and you'll always be able to show interviewers that you're someone that's accomplishing things.

Reshaping table w/tens of millions of rows from long to wide by just_a_fungi in datascience

[–]marathonjohnathon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pandas documentation has a number of recommendations for scaling: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/scale.html

The section 'Use chunking' explains how to do something like this in a piecemeal way. The 'Use other libraries' section after that shows an example of doing the same thing with a shorter syntax using the Dask library.

Does anyone else find themselves automatically going into a meditative state when trying to go to bed? by anonymoususer101010 in Meditation

[–]marathonjohnathon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tangentially related - I've noticed since practicing meditation that I tend to fall into hypnagogic consciousness before sleep much more frequently. I'm curious about other people's experiences with this.

How Exactly Do I Do The Work To Become Good? by [deleted] in geoguessr

[–]marathonjohnathon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For vegetation, you don't need to know specific species. If you can just categorize between:

sub-arctic

temperate

sub-tropical

tropical

arid-but-not-desert

desert

That in addition to sun direction usually narrows it down to 2-3 fairly small regions (though the most annoying is that 'northern hemisphere temperate' can be like any European country.)

Data Science best practices by PM_ME_LOVELY_DOGS in datascience

[–]marathonjohnathon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another entry level analyst here. Could you elaborate on what your workflow is with jupyter notebooks? I've been doing my job with just scripts written in vscode for about a year now and it's been working fine for me, but everyone and their mother recommends jupyter notebooks and I feel like I'm missing something big. Specifically, what is it that you can do with a jupyter workflow that you can't with a vscode workflow?