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Correlation does not imply causation.


The result of the experiment in the article was that there was no correlation.


Links to these studies?


Not debating the actual content of the article, but what kind of English is this? Did anyone proof read this? Emphasis mine.

... reported long wear times in gold rooms ...

... with their sleep premium ...


It's ironic the author's name is literally "English" and the article has so many typos.


Sarcasm over the internet fails again


Played with robots yet? They'd let you re-use & "move" (tear down + rebuild) parts of your factory around.


Guessing those last two parameters are languages. I don't see the issue, but I commonly trim tracking strings off too.


For the layperson reading, for articles, this is usually anything after the ? in a URL.


That's not a good rule of thumb since often the unique identifier you're interested in is a query arg, so if you strip of everything after the ?, you're left with nothing. like the URL above, all you'll have left is:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search


Yes, there's no real general rule (see HN articles for instance) but "if I omit these parts of the URL, I get the same content" is usually a safe bet.


Not suggesting you’re saying this, but I want to state that Ambien should never be the first tool in the toolbox for better sleep. The state it produces is not too dissimilar from a knockout.


I’d also suggest some interval training. If you have access to stair steppers, I highly recommend them. Easy to get started, and not too tough on your joints. 2 minutes at a pace that’s tough to sustain, and then 2 minutes off. I have a max HR of ~200 and I tend to level off at 180-188 during the interval section. Once you get accustomed to it you can play around with the timing ofc.


Prof. Matthew Walker says the accuracy of sleep trackers when it comes to per stage time is questionable. See Peter Attia podcasts w/ Walker.

Have you thought about going to a sleep lab to get some higher quality data? It’s near impossible to diagnose someone over the Internet, especially when the subject matter is so complex.


I think the problem is that most sleep trackers try to judge sleep based on heart-rate, which I don't think is valid.

There are a few sleep headbands that use an EEG though and in my experience they've been reliable (e.g. mine correctly judges when I actually fall asleep and has correctly judged that I was in REM sleep when I woke up from a dream).


That's good to hear! My sleep tracker seems to base results on heart rate, and maybe my heart rate doesn't dip enough during sleep to register?

I'd like to do a sleep study, but it's over $1,000 out of pocket, so not a small investment.


That seems plausible to me. I don’t know if HR is a good enough signal, since it varies so much between person to person.

Didn’t know they were that pricy, ouch.


It will be worth it. No price is too high for a lifetime of good sleep.


But that’s a ~TV~... a screen etc

Here it’s $1000 for two slabs of metal and a hinge...


Something got lost in editing on my phone. B&O stand starts at $1000.

Sorry.


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