Quite the nice surprise to see this hit the front page after getting back from a long road trip that included explosive diarrhea from our son on the last pitstop
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Maybe when presented with such an unfortunate design you may be able to search the items for a nonsensical search term, resulting 0 items in the list. Then, the footer should be visible.
Credit to Jason Fung (author of The Obesity Code) for the tips!
And I can very much relate to not being able to stop once I start eating something. I find this especially hard with processed/refined carbs, which I believe play some tricks on our hunger related hormones so our body can't detect when we've had enough food. If I stick to mostly more protein/fat and unprocessed carbs I find it much easier to control how much I eat.
It's interesting to hear your success with an extended fast. I haven't ventured beyond the 16:8 but am intrigued to experiment with something a bit longer this year.
Has anybody ever used stack ranking to power book recommendations? Instead of rating books on a scale of 1-5 star you instead rate each book relative to every other book you’ve ever read.
Some other factors that I think could be used to create a high quality book recommendation engine on top of stack ranking: number of books read (the top 5 books from someone who has read 200+ books is a stronger signal than someone who has read 10 books) and release date (give extra weight to older books to reduce recency bias).
What do you think? Am I onto something or just spewing some sat night nonsense?
Are all books comparable linearly like this though? I could see separate stack ranks for different genres (practical books, sci-fi, relationships, whatever), attributes (readability, teachability if applicable, subject matter interest), or more.
I also can't help but think in graphs, so I could also see horizontal-ish linkages between the stacks as well. Each book, then, could have a number of attributes that get an independent stack ranking for each one, leaving you with a constellation score as well as a focused look at what the book is good at or focused on. I could see it getting unwieldy though.
Thinking through this, maybe genre stacks based on some collapse of attribute ranking scores.
I think this could work, although perhaps in combination, not replacement, with the traditional ranking system. The book on the bottom of somebody’s list isn’t necessarily a bad one.
Love seeing all the other personal apps people are building