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Customer...Is my bike ready?
rjones28...Yes, but after an hour of riding, I was not able to find the mysterious creaking noise
Customer...Gee...Thanks? Thanks for looking into that, but all I wanted was my bar tape replaced
rjones28...Okay, great, I'll get right on that, be done in a few minutes
rjones28...Yes, but after an hour of riding, I was not able to find the mysterious creaking noise
Customer...Gee...Thanks? Thanks for looking into that, but all I wanted was my bar tape replaced
rjones28...Okay, great, I'll get right on that, be done in a few minutes
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#129
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Oops, failed to read the fine print. I guess they suggest it for pre and post ride consumption:
Mix 1 pack (10g) thoroughly with 4 oz. of water. Use 30 minutes before workout or competition.
Beet juice may turn your urine and other waste pink. This is normal.
Beet juice may turn your urine and other waste pink. This is normal.
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I borked my Galaxy S4 and I guess Strava won't run on Gingerbread (which is on my backup phone), so no Strava for me 'til September upgrade party time
I guess endomondo runs on it, so I guess I could endomondo rides, then import *.gpx files into Strava...
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Day 3 of June and only 6 pages? Is there a power outage across the entire country??
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#135
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Anyone know whither @patentcad?
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Anyone know whither @patentcad?
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#139
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If only @coasting were around to witness this breakthrough in on-bike beetroot-based nutrition:
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Yes. It's called slackers.
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What a joke. Instead of USAC being happy I had insurance, and covering a bit of my out of pocket, they slap a honkin old deductible in there, and say.... We're happy your hip isn't dead.
Don't wreck your bike, kids! Nothing about that is cheap, especially if you do it right!
Don't wreck your bike, kids! Nothing about that is cheap, especially if you do it right!
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Beets taste like dirt, and turn everything else on the plate red. In other words, beets infect everything they touch.
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You're not fixing them right. Someone else said the exact same thing just this week. You need a good recipe, let me check with the missus.
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#146
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Well, I found two walls today. This thing on Creemer Rd that zoomed to 20%...another one on John St, that zoomed to 20% in a spot, average 14.5....mind you these are wee little dips E/W across +/- 200-300ft, nevertheless they sure can be fun in succession, especially coming down into the dip, nevertheless the ouch kicks in. 60 miles.
Some sort of newfangled weed growing in the Bronx:
A tree, 'cause you know...it was there:
Bought a new water-bottle, had to empty it first, filled with some factory installed liquid:
Water...:
Some sort of newfangled weed growing in the Bronx:
A tree, 'cause you know...it was there:
Bought a new water-bottle, had to empty it first, filled with some factory installed liquid:
Water...:
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What a joke. Instead of USAC being happy I had insurance, and covering a bit of my out of pocket, they slap a honkin old deductible in there, and say.... We're happy your hip isn't dead.
Don't wreck your bike, kids! Nothing about that is cheap, especially if you do it right!
Don't wreck your bike, kids! Nothing about that is cheap, especially if you do it right!
It did cost me a Guru crash replacement though. That sucked, but Guru lets you keep the broken one, which is awesome, since it's a pretty easy repair... for someone who wants a repaired Guru anyway.
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Interesting stuff today.
For example, some people have refractory epilepsy. No medications help these people. They can have a device implanted in their brain that will record their brainwaves and there are certain waveforms that are characteristic of seizure activity. If you can't treat the peoples seizures, the next best thing is to be able to forecast them so the person can at least avoid doing something dangerous on a day when a seizure is likely to happen. Like don't drive a car or go swimming. What is needed is algorithms to analyze these massive data sets of continuous brain wave recordings in people, to reliably detect the pre-seizure brain wave activity. Algorithms have been developed to do this in people, but each algorithm is a little different, tested in small numbers of people over short periods of time and the results are not very reproducible. So what's needed is better algorithms. The medical device is proprietary though and the human data really can't be shared.
There are actually eight dogs in the world with naturally occurring epilepsy who have similar devices implanted in their brains. These devices have been in place for 5 years now. The dog data can be shared. So a big international contest was sponsored, with two prizes. One $10000 prize for anyone who could develop a computer algorithm to reliably identify seizure waveforms without a human needing to look at every waveform. The other $25000 prize was for the best algorithm for seizure forecasting.
The scientists participating in the contest knew nothing about epilepsy. They are not veterinarians or physicians, they are scientists in the field of "big data". Mathematicians and computer scientists and the like. The contest was set up like Strava. During the contest period, the teams fine tuned their algorithms and the results were posted on a leaderboard. Some of the teams, people who didn't even know each other, could see some other team was doing well and they abandoned their individual efforts and joined forces, to have a better chance of winning.
The guy who won the seizure identification portion of the contest is from Australia and his algorithm is 97% accurate. The team that won the seizure forecasting contest is a combo team from Sunnyvale CA and New Zealand. Their algorithm is 84% accurate in predicting seizures. The dogs live happily at the University of Minnesota's vet school, right next door to the ICU. Their implants are set to page a veterinarian if they have a seizure, who then calls the ICU so the seizure can be treated. Whenever something new comes along that might successfully treat seizures, these dogs get first shot at the treatment, so it's a pretty decent deal for them, compared to being euthanized, which is what was in store for each of them before being enrolled in this study.
So like I said interesting stuff, big huge mind meld trying to solve a really difficult problem.
For example, some people have refractory epilepsy. No medications help these people. They can have a device implanted in their brain that will record their brainwaves and there are certain waveforms that are characteristic of seizure activity. If you can't treat the peoples seizures, the next best thing is to be able to forecast them so the person can at least avoid doing something dangerous on a day when a seizure is likely to happen. Like don't drive a car or go swimming. What is needed is algorithms to analyze these massive data sets of continuous brain wave recordings in people, to reliably detect the pre-seizure brain wave activity. Algorithms have been developed to do this in people, but each algorithm is a little different, tested in small numbers of people over short periods of time and the results are not very reproducible. So what's needed is better algorithms. The medical device is proprietary though and the human data really can't be shared.
There are actually eight dogs in the world with naturally occurring epilepsy who have similar devices implanted in their brains. These devices have been in place for 5 years now. The dog data can be shared. So a big international contest was sponsored, with two prizes. One $10000 prize for anyone who could develop a computer algorithm to reliably identify seizure waveforms without a human needing to look at every waveform. The other $25000 prize was for the best algorithm for seizure forecasting.
The scientists participating in the contest knew nothing about epilepsy. They are not veterinarians or physicians, they are scientists in the field of "big data". Mathematicians and computer scientists and the like. The contest was set up like Strava. During the contest period, the teams fine tuned their algorithms and the results were posted on a leaderboard. Some of the teams, people who didn't even know each other, could see some other team was doing well and they abandoned their individual efforts and joined forces, to have a better chance of winning.
The guy who won the seizure identification portion of the contest is from Australia and his algorithm is 97% accurate. The team that won the seizure forecasting contest is a combo team from Sunnyvale CA and New Zealand. Their algorithm is 84% accurate in predicting seizures. The dogs live happily at the University of Minnesota's vet school, right next door to the ICU. Their implants are set to page a veterinarian if they have a seizure, who then calls the ICU so the seizure can be treated. Whenever something new comes along that might successfully treat seizures, these dogs get first shot at the treatment, so it's a pretty decent deal for them, compared to being euthanized, which is what was in store for each of them before being enrolled in this study.
So like I said interesting stuff, big huge mind meld trying to solve a really difficult problem.
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