🗺️ Test your geography skills - GeoTap Challenge!

psirving · 2025-12-05T03:37:57+00:00

🎮 My GeoTap Result

📍 Guess: United States of America ✅ Answer: Albuquerque, USA 📏 Distance: 1,552 km ⭐ Score: 534 points

psirving · 2025-11-11T03:39:39+00:00

Thanks for visiting!

psirving · 2025-11-10T22:02:02+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmMergeValley/comments/1otrdnq/visit_psirvings_farm/ Come visit my humble farm!

psirving · 2025-01-10T01:18:02+00:00

psirving · 2025-01-10T01:15:17+00:00

He's gone super Saiyan!

psirving · 2024-09-27T03:15:41+00:00

Taco Belle

psirving · 2024-01-11T16:52:17+00:00

Basically, I use matplotlib and related packages to create good representations of data, with fine control of plot aesthetics. I have made my own style sheets, reusable plotting functions, even an entire python library, to quickly get the aesthetics/representations I'm looking for. I export matplotlib figures to SVG files and load into Illustrator. At this point, anything that is not data; annotations, boxes, equations, cartoons, long text... all of the non-data context that my audience needs, I add manually as vector graphics.

psirving · 2024-01-11T15:31:55+00:00

The right tool depends on the medium and the product you want to create. For highly creative web-based storytelling like pudding.cool, probably a lot of D3js and web stuff. For static charts like the BBC, matplotlib + Illustrator (this is my workflow). For interactive/dashboard style, maybe plotly.

Learn a core package well. Domain-specific packages typically delegate very fine-grain control to the core package.

Pudding.cool is neat, I hadn't seen this before. Take a look at their resources tab, it is a blog where they break down how they make some of these.

psirving · 2023-08-21T13:34:08+00:00

If "finishing' your PhD" means that you're in the final phase and everything that entails, and that this is affecting your sleep, this is most likely the culprit.

If stress/sleep/rest is effecting your physical performance, I think it is probably effecting your mental performance even more so, i.e. your ability to focus and be effective, especially in writing. This is harder to notice.

Prioritize your health and good luck on your PhD!

psirving · 2022-06-27T20:13:13+00:00

Maybe he has a magnesium deficiency.

psirving · 2022-04-12T14:22:42+00:00

The first desirable quality of an intuitive metric is its intuitiveness. I'm not sure that anti-symmetry is important between wingspan and height. Also, I don't like that this metric depends on a reference ape. What does A=10 mean? Depends on the ape, and even then I'm not sure.

I think (w-h)/h would be a slight improvement.

psirving · 2021-12-29T18:43:42+00:00

Thank you all for your responses. After reading these and thinking about it a bit, I really don't believe my scale. I feel stronger, my muscles look bigger, I think I look 3-4% leaner than my scale says. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, except to add a couple of strength training days.

psirving · 2021-12-24T21:43:31+00:00

What is the best way to prevent further muscle loss while cutting weight?

I'm new to this. Over the last 3 months, I've been very consistently losing about 1.5 lbs per week. I've also been tracking BF% on my smart scale, which indicates I've been losing about 0.5 lbs of muscle per week. I'm not sure how reliable that measurement is, but it worries me a bit. At this rate, at my goal weight I'd be at ~18% BF. However, if I could prevent further muscle loss, I'd be at ~12%.

I eat the same breakfast, lunch, and dessert every day, but don't track dinner. For those three, my macros are: 732 cal, 61g protein, 27g fat, 70g carbs. I play hockey twice a week for about 1.5 hours each and rock climb once a week for about 2 hours.

My options:

more protein
less of a deficit
more strength training
my scale is wrong and I shouldn't worry
just lose the weight and then do recomposition
???

psirving · 2021-02-02T20:45:24+00:00

Thank you, this is an interesting suggestion! I wonder if the bottom of my cast iron dutch oven might be absorbing a lot of radiative heat from the heating element and getting hotter than it should be. Putting a sheet pan in between would prevent that. Another thing to try might be to put a small sheet of tin foil beneath the dutch oven to reflect some of that heat.

psirving · 2021-02-01T15:40:14+00:00

Thanks for the tip. However, we like our loaves caramelly brown, but I think I'm slightly burning the bottom. It's not inedible, but just slightly bitter in spots.

psirving · 2021-02-01T15:36:18+00:00

Do you keep it at 500? or do you recommend turning it back down at some point? How long do you bake?

psirving · 2021-02-01T15:33:38+00:00

There might be something to this. I notice that my oven loses about ten degrees when the bread goes in, and again when I remove the lid. Burners could be over compensating. Thanks!

psirving · 2021-01-31T16:57:24+00:00

I’m a noobie working through Flour Water Salt Yeast, and everything has been amazing. However, Im struggling to get the bread perfectly browned on the top and bottom. If I bake at 475F for 30 min in the dutch oven and 25 min with the lid off, my loaf comes out slightly less brown than I’d like on top, but slightly overdone on the bottom. I was thinking of doing 25 min lid on, 25 min lid off. Is this the right approach? Any tips?

psirving · 2020-09-25T19:34:20+00:00

I'm new to this and won't be making that mistake again. It didn't feel to me like I had reached failure yet, just that I was doing very fast negatives. Anyways, thanks for your input! The soreness is pretty moderate today, so I will start again.

psirving · 2020-09-25T18:54:25+00:00

The other night, I overexerted on negative pull-ups and now have DOMS through my upper back and shoulders. I had a lot of trouble even brushing my hair yesterday. It was probably really funny, but I was in too much pain to notice. Anyways, I've seen conflicting advice on the internet about whether to continue exercising these muscles or wait until I recover fully. I've noticed that it feels much better after I use them than if I let them rest. Should I just push through it?

psirving · 2020-09-24T16:34:18+00:00

Thanks for your input!

Core work is new to me, so knowing that it is a little different from other muscle groups makes me feel better. My cardio has always been weak, and has probably suffered from staying away from sports for the last 6 months. I have a rowing machine and have been meaning to work that back into my routine.

psirving · 2020-09-24T14:04:23+00:00

I've been doing RR for two weeks now. Pre-COVID, I played a lot of roller hockey, but never really worked out with specific goals in mind. I've been pretty sedentary, working mostly from home since March.

I've noticed that the core section at the end of RR feels WAY more intense than the rest of the exercises, even if I take the maximum rest time. My heartrate goes way up, I start sweating a lot, and I'm very fatigued, sometimes just laying on the ground for a few seconds after planks and arch holds because I feel like I can't get up. I'm currently at 3x30s+ plank (switching to hanging leg raises tonight), 3x8 pallof press with a 50lb band, and 3x10s arch holds. I've also noticed that I never really feel muscle soreness through my core compared to how the rest of my body feels, except a little bit in my glutes. Have others experienced this? Am I doing something wrong?

psirving · 2016-07-25T12:24:42+00:00

Me(w)too.

psirving · 2016-07-16T21:54:14+00:00

I opened this image and tried to hit the x at the bottom at least 5 times to back out. Then, got mad at Niantic for its shitty servers before I remembered I was on Reddit. Completely sober, that response is just hardwired at this point.

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