So I did something similar (well less cool), but as old Software devs start finding our bodies don’t work as well after a while we will see more and more of this sort of “taking control”
I have high blood pressure, managed with a low dose of medication. I've had plenty of advice from my PCP and other actual doctors on how to take blood pressure - how to sit, how long to sit still, how to position your arm, etc.
It is remarkable how many medically-adjacent professionals are bad at this. My dentist starts my sessions with a blood pressure reading - theoretically in case they have to numb me or something, probably because it's billable or whatever. What always seems to happen is that I get in for my appointment (driving, which can be stressful even if I'm not running late), they take me to the chair within 2 minutes max, immediately put some sort of wrist cuff on me, hold my arm at an angle that is not what most actual doctors have recommended to me and take a reading that is often high enough to surprise both the hygenist and myself.
The thing is that I have two sufficiently-calibrated Omron units, one at home and one at the office. I take my blood pressure often enough to know what it usually is (and my real doctor takes it at least twice a year). That is to say that no, it's not 200/160 or whatever nonsense the dentist thinks it is and you'd think that with a very small amount of reading they'd know better.
Would be fun to see the traffic dumps, I would love to try to figure out the protocol offline with them.
Just spent half a day reverse engineering a Windows virtual printer driver (for work) and had to force myself to stop spending the rest of the day doing it.
> I tried feeding a lot of this into various Als (Kagi gives you access to a few with a nice interface) and I found that they mostly were stupid in ways that made me think
"stupid in ways that made me think" is (IMO) a really good summary of how AI is useful, as well as its pitfalls.
The reason Bottles/WINE doesn't work with USB devices like that is likely because WINE isn't supposed to support kernel level device access. It's for running programs and just fakes enough for that to work.
Bananas are good, berries and most leafy green vegetables. Avocados, sweet potatoes, nuts and legumes.
Switched to potassium-enriched salt for cooking so no-one else in the household has to suffer bland food.
Beetroot juice (+ apple & carrot to counter the acidity) is also something you could try. Actually good for your blood flow with potential flow on effect for your BP.
Personally taking Omega-3 and magnesium supplements.
I’ve been wearing a heart rate monitor for a while, and after analysing the data, I noticed something interesting: my heart rate spikes in only two situations, when I’m driving, and when I’m talking to my wife.
I tried feeding a lot of this into various Als (Kagi gives you access to a few with a nice interface) and I found that they mostly were stupid in ways that made me think.
Perfect summary of why AI is useful for rubber ducking. Doing this with a co-worker you always get some questions that are a few layers too shallow for what you need (because they haven't been thinking about it more than a few minutes), but it always makes you think and really helps.
> A few times I thought they had "cracked the case" but actually they just made me waste time.
Despite trying various models and services for years now, I've come to the conclusion that the current iteration of AI services hurts more than it helps. I spend more time prompting, reading pages of babble, and trying to find signal in the noise that I would just chilling out and thinking through the problem.
Even when the duck doesn't answer at all it still often works.
I worked next to another engineer in the early eighties who was working on a different project. At tea break time we got into the habit of sitting opposite each other and explaining the problems we were having. Neither of us put much, if any, effort into trying to solve the other's problems because it often turned out that simply attempting to formulate the problem in a way that would make sense to the other party was enough to reveal the answer or at least a promising idea to try.
You put on a cuff (supplied) to calibrate it, and then you wear a little gadget on your wrist. It takes frequent measurements throughout the day and night when it senses you aren't moving. It then syncs with your phone to store the results. Its a little pricey, but seems to work well[1]. And it avoids the faff of a pressure cuff[2] and 'white coat hypertension'.
[1] Apart from the option on the app to do a reading from your finger using your phone camera - which gives wildly different results to a cuff.
[2] You need to recalibrate it every month or so using the cuff.
Played around with the format a bit and made a Kaitai format if anybody else wants to play with it. Not confident about the year, but I have observed some timestamps based on date of manufacture if the device came out approximately 2016. The rest seems to line up rather well as bit-packed integers.
I enjoyed the writing style (maybe it's the mistrust of Windows).
I'm currently wearing a cheap smart-watch (<£20) that I spotted on AliExpress (i.e. Chinese product) that unbelievably records biometrics such as blood pressure and blood lipid profiles. I was mainly curious about the uric acid measurements as I get the occasional attack of gout, but am curious as to whether it actually does measure anything like blood pressure. I've previously compared the blood glucose measurements by getting my diabetic brother (type 1) to wear it and compare it to a pinprick measurement - within 10% which is pretty much useless for medical usage.
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I have high blood pressure, managed with a low dose of medication. I've had plenty of advice from my PCP and other actual doctors on how to take blood pressure - how to sit, how long to sit still, how to position your arm, etc.
It is remarkable how many medically-adjacent professionals are bad at this. My dentist starts my sessions with a blood pressure reading - theoretically in case they have to numb me or something, probably because it's billable or whatever. What always seems to happen is that I get in for my appointment (driving, which can be stressful even if I'm not running late), they take me to the chair within 2 minutes max, immediately put some sort of wrist cuff on me, hold my arm at an angle that is not what most actual doctors have recommended to me and take a reading that is often high enough to surprise both the hygenist and myself.
The thing is that I have two sufficiently-calibrated Omron units, one at home and one at the office. I take my blood pressure often enough to know what it usually is (and my real doctor takes it at least twice a year). That is to say that no, it's not 200/160 or whatever nonsense the dentist thinks it is and you'd think that with a very small amount of reading they'd know better.
Just spent half a day reverse engineering a Windows virtual printer driver (for work) and had to force myself to stop spending the rest of the day doing it.
They all give me different numbers, by a lot sometimes
btw you think they ever clean those devices?
you think healthy people go to pharmacies?
I won't even touch the signature pen, imagine what's on that
"stupid in ways that made me think" is (IMO) a really good summary of how AI is useful, as well as its pitfalls.
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I feel healthier after reading this.
Switched to potassium-enriched salt for cooking so no-one else in the household has to suffer bland food.
Beetroot juice (+ apple & carrot to counter the acidity) is also something you could try. Actually good for your blood flow with potential flow on effect for your BP.
Personally taking Omega-3 and magnesium supplements.
I'd be wary of the sugars in bananas and orange juice.
> A few times I thought they had "cracked the case" but actually they just made me waste time.
Despite trying various models and services for years now, I've come to the conclusion that the current iteration of AI services hurts more than it helps. I spend more time prompting, reading pages of babble, and trying to find signal in the noise that I would just chilling out and thinking through the problem.
The technology is neat but not productive.
I worked next to another engineer in the early eighties who was working on a different project. At tea break time we got into the habit of sitting opposite each other and explaining the problems we were having. Neither of us put much, if any, effort into trying to solve the other's problems because it often turned out that simply attempting to formulate the problem in a way that would make sense to the other party was enough to reveal the answer or at least a promising idea to try.
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You put on a cuff (supplied) to calibrate it, and then you wear a little gadget on your wrist. It takes frequent measurements throughout the day and night when it senses you aren't moving. It then syncs with your phone to store the results. Its a little pricey, but seems to work well[1]. And it avoids the faff of a pressure cuff[2] and 'white coat hypertension'.
[1] Apart from the option on the app to do a reading from your finger using your phone camera - which gives wildly different results to a cuff.
[2] You need to recalibrate it every month or so using the cuff.
Kaitai Structured Output:
KSY: Using the following hex dump as my source "binary":I'm currently wearing a cheap smart-watch (<£20) that I spotted on AliExpress (i.e. Chinese product) that unbelievably records biometrics such as blood pressure and blood lipid profiles. I was mainly curious about the uric acid measurements as I get the occasional attack of gout, but am curious as to whether it actually does measure anything like blood pressure. I've previously compared the blood glucose measurements by getting my diabetic brother (type 1) to wear it and compare it to a pinprick measurement - within 10% which is pretty much useless for medical usage.