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by mjac 2y ago
Thank you! Native apps not released yet but you are welcome to try the web app at my.strengthlevel.com
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by mjac 2y ago
I'm working on a workout API and native apps (iOS/Android) for Strength Level [1] as another interface for my.strengthlevel.com [2]. Strength Level helps you understand your relative strength - how strong you are for your bodyweig
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by mjac 5y ago
The Faber Book of Science by John Carey I’m a professional HN lurker but I can’t not contribute this one. The book all scientists should have read and would love, but haven’t heard about… “The editor of the internationally acclaimed Eyewitn
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by mjac 6y ago
Thank you for the encouragement! Did you find any areas to improve? The seed standards reference data is mainly from publicly available race data in CSV form and common running formulas used in the industry (e.g. Effective VO2 Max / VD
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by mjac 6y ago
I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ recently along the same lines as my other site Strength Level https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms are closed here in the UK so a
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by mjac 11y ago
We would love to provide that kind of guidance. By training age, do you mean age of user?
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by mjac 11y ago
Yes, so we have to say you are better than 75% of other users instead of 75% of humans. Do you have any advice in this area?
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by mjac 11y ago
Understood, thanks for the explanation.
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by mjac 11y ago
We really appreciate the positive feedback. Good point with the back button. The original page was made in 2007 and the full page form submission could be refined to use an AJAX post. Would it be possible to explain "you could remove t
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by mjac 11y ago
Originally http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards.... (Starting Strength tables) but later refined with 500k+ user results. What were you expecting to see? Could you explain further?
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by mjac 11y ago
Yes, you are exactly right about the original source data. However, Strength Level has been around since 2007 and we use 500k+ user lifts to refine the estimations.
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by mjac 11y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback. It would be great to monetize Strength Level, to fund further development and expand its capabilities. We have two ideas at the moment: 1. iPhone app - people want to rate lifts at the gym 2. Premium accoun
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Show HN: Strength Level – Squat/Deadlift/Bench Calculator(strengthlevel.com)
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by mjac 12y ago
The source code is very well commented, a high quality piece of engineering.
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Getting the Color Scheme of a Website Using Canvas and Hierarchical Clustering(harthur.wordpress.com)
2 points by mjac 15y ago|0 comments
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Backpropagation Tutorial (feed-forward artificial neural networks)(blog.zabarauskas.com)
2 points by mjac 15y ago|0 comments
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by mjac 15y ago
I like this a lot. Could we make it the default theme?
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by mjac 16y ago
That's a great point. Photoshop has extensive capabilities for visual rearrangement and transformation. Once the core design is created it can be cut up and extended with further XHTML/CSS elements (minimally for consistency). Quora does no
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by mjac 16y ago
In the first year all of us do Computer Science (2 papers), Mathematics (1 paper), and a science subject (1 paper, I did Physics). It is predominantly theoretical (something I found hard to cope with): 1st year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/tea
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by mjac 16y ago
As a student at Cambridge, I doubt Oxford is "far" more theoretical. The London Universities like Imperial are also notable for focusing on theory over practice. I think they assume we can learn practical skills on-the-fly and they are not
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Monocle: design notes for an exceptional magazine(cityofsound.com)
1 points by mjac 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjac 16y ago
Reading that letter makes me proud of the Security Group at Cambridge University. Ross Anderson took us for a couple of Security courses in second/third year Computer Science and was interesting, direct and completely no-nonsense. He emphas
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Sean Lip's algorithms course (Cambridge, with videos)(srcf.ucam.org)
4 points by mjac 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjac 16y ago
I went into the theatre not knowing what to expect. I left dumbstruck, somewhat in doubt of the world. What if I was three levels deep and this wasn't the real world? It was great seeing the viewers dazed, stepping tentatively towards the e
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by mjac 16y ago
That would be great.