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If you're not yet familiar with it, I present to you the Datasaurus Dozen: https://www.research.autodesk.com/publications/same-stats-di...


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If bmi says you're obese, you very likely (~95%) are. The problem is that bmi only catches about half of people who are obese.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69498-7


I haven't been down in the normal BMI range since 8th grade. And I was measured at 6% body fat my senior year in high school! BMI has always run several points high for me. For that reason, I've always liked waist to height ratio better.


Go for waist-to-hip.


Studies seem to favor waist to height over waist to hip for a stronger correlation to better outcomes.


How about other categories, in either direction? I seem to remember it to be a lot less clean cut at the normal/overweight boundary.


Do you have a citation for that? I've had thoughts in a similar direction (specifically around the upper/lower intervention points) but have had no luck finding data.


> Are you really going to review these small changes? So far the example I saw from agents are terrible. Full of drive-by, unrelated changes here and there. Mostly harmless or OK changes, but not focused.

What I'm getting from tfa is that the point is to fix exactly this. Changes get packaged into focused changesets that make sense together. I've done this manually when working on a hairy feature, not splitting it into multiple pull requests but rebasing the history into (ideally) atomic commits that make sense sequentially.


That should work well too.


I appreciate the ethos of your app but am uneasy. First, you have given me no reason to trust you with my data—there is not even a mention of data security, for all I know all my data would be hosted on a public firebase instance. Second, you have given me zero reason to trust your advice—you are not a financial planner, the AI is not a financial planner. It is—maybe—sufficient for someone doing this on their own, but once you package it into an app and offer the service you own that relationship and you are responsible. I don't see any mention of that either.

Trust is what's missing, and you've given me no indication that I can trust you.


Fair criticism, and I appreciate you saying it directly. The footer disclaimer ("not a bank, broker, or financial advisor") is mentioned on the page, and everything is based on pure math/statistics. Savings rate, emergency fund, goal progress and more. But you're right, even if /privacy and /terms are mentioned outside and within the app i should reinforce it so it can be much clearer. On data: hosted on Supabase (SOC 2 certified, encrypted at rest and in transit), no bank credentials ever requested, no data selling. I should have made that visible above the fold, not buried in a footer. Thanks for the push


Oh ffs you can't even answer yourself and have to delegate to the bullshit machine.


As someone who’s new to these spaces I’ll always appreciate criticism however this isn’t the thread to be rude for no reason. I took your valid feedback and I applied them. Have a nice day!


XP had crapware trial versions but you could disable them and there were never ads on the actual UI.


This is the Active Record pattern, I used to hear about it all the time. Don't know if the zeitgeist has changed or if I'm just around different parts of the internet these days.


One use case: you adopted a (new?) formatter, now tracking the evolution of a line/its vicinity is a lot more difficult past that. So you apply the formatter to every commit since the beginning. Literally it's not the true history of what the code looked like, but semantically it is, and it's more useful.


Amazing! I have the same MAC address on my luggage!


I made things easier by setting the permission action link on all my nuclear weapons to zero

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=permissio...


Remind me to rotate my GitHub tokens.


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