Author: paschmann

DIY – Carbon Fiber

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After years of dreaming and ideating around making carbon fiber products of some sort, I finally had a need to build some custom parts for my triathlon bike. After spending a considerable amount of time reading, watching and listening to tutorials online, I took the plunge and purchased some starter materials. My initial plan was to work with 3D printed moulds and do wet layup.

I purchased a 3D printed started kit from Easy Composites. The shipping was a little expensive (they are based in the UK) but seemed to have the best products, prices and matching material requirements for my needs.

My first project was a simple chain ring cover (which would be the next version of the 3D printed aero cover I 3D printed here). The purpose of this cover is to streamline airflow over the crank while in motion to reduce the bikes Cda (Coefficient of Drag). aka. More slip streamed. read more

Color.com

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Some interesting, and a few not so interesting or surprising insights from my DNA test from Color.com … SAP had a fairly large discount code offering employees to use the service.

you are unlikely to experience the alcohol flush responseBlushing from alcohol flush response
you’re more likely to notice the smell of asparagus in your urineWhat’s that smell?
you’re unlikely to taste certain bitter compounds.The science of bitter taste
you’re somewhat likely to drink more caffeine than averageYour genes and your daily grind
you have a slightly higher chance of disliking cilantroBeyond DNA
you’re likely to have wet earwax.Earwax keeps our ears healthy.
you’re unlikely to be lactose intolerant.Lactose intolerance, and other gut feelings

Bookmark: Fish Audio

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TTS (Text to Speech) by this new open-source model is pretty darn impressive, check it out here:

Fish Audio: Free Generative AI Text To Speech & Voice Cloning Powerful, fast, and customizable text-to-speech solution. Ultra-low latency, rapid voice cloning, and flat-rate pricing for AI voice infrastructure.

Think or Swim Scripting v2 #ToS

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A new take on an old idea of using EMA (Exponential moving averages) to aide in making stock trading decisions. This is a new version of my previous script.

This strategy/study also makes some assumed long buy/sells (With a cap of $5K per trade) of the stock to provide a report of the performance based on the time period.

I still have not had the time to invest in trying to execute these in a timely manner, but always fun to speculate and run some hypothetical scenarios.

TOS v2GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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I have been on the waiting list for Stelos early access program and was pleasantly surprised to see an email pop into my inbox suggesting I could order one 🙂

I spent roughly 3 months collecting data, doing workouts, monitoring my blood glucose levels, but like many of my data focused gadgets, it ended in with some unique insights about my health, but also nothing ground breaking or earth shattering. I did use it during a 70.3 Race, lots of tough training sessions and I was hoping to identify some weaknesses and low points which would correlate with low energy or fatigue but that did not seem to materialize.

Ultimately what I am learning is that the human body is extremely complicated, there are a handful of reasons why we feel the way we do which we can measure, but probably millions of others, which we can’t. It always seems to bring me back to the mantra of “Correlation does not equal causation”. read more

Inspired: Stephen Wolfram

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I just came across a super cool implementation, and now inspiration, for all the data and insights I am collecting on my personal site. (NB. I am not suggesting my life is even remotely unique or insightful and valuable to science versus Wolframs).

I do hope that one day I can look back and quantify the memories, experiences and insights I had the opportunity to enjoy.

The Life and Times of Stephen Wolfram: TimelineTimeline of significant events in Stephen Wolfram’s life, from birth through school, awards, publications, starting his company, major projects. The Personal Analytics of My Life—Stephen Wolfram WritingsUtilizing data analysis capabilities in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram looks at his quantified self based on his large collection of lifelogging data.