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Forgot to share this last week... Redid a test I did at the end of February (3 rounds of 500m with 1 min rest between rounds). I improved by a minute each round 💪 Now my average for 100m is around 1 minute! It will be interesting to test again in another 6 months. I have definitely been feeling that I am getting stronger and more powerful in my upper body. Just got to make sure I use it, otherwise I will lose it!
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Pulled a 40 kg sled today as part of my PT session. 8kgs more than my previous recorded effort!
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#367: Jarred Karp -- Filmmaker Capturing the Experience of Russ Cook's "Project Africa" - SoundCloud
Listen to #367: Jarred Karp -- Filmmaker Capturing the Experience of Russ Cook's "Project Africa" by Like a Bigfoot on #SoundCloud
An earlier interview with Jarred Karp. Another good one 👌
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Travelling Africa alongside Russ Cook: 'I’d do the whole thing again'
A great interview with one of the Project Africa support crew Jarred Karp!
He has also done another interview after he left the team halfway through, on the Like a Bigfoot Podcast ep 367 (do a search on Spotify or any podcast app).
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Have just finished watching Russ Cook's Project Africa series. Amazing rollercoaster of a journey! Below are some of the crazy stats from his successful attempt.
📈16,295 kms
🥵4000 cals burned/day
🍲877 Huel meals
🏃🏼➡️386 marathons
🗓️352 days
👟30 pairs of HOKA shoes
🌍16 countries
😎6 support crew members
🏆1 Hardest Geezer!
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Just over a week ago, I finished the final workout in the Adaptive CrossFit Open. I did them without signing up formally as I did last year. Over the course of the three workouts I found that my fitness had improved significantly from last year. Below are summaries of the workouts and how I did:
The scaled version of workout 24.1 involved alternating dumbbell snatches and box u-turns all within 15 minutes. Using 4kg Dumbbells for the snatches, I completed the workout in 9 mins 44s. If I had completed it formally, I would have been in the top 20-30 on the leaderboard.
Workout 24.2 was a 20 minute 'As Many Rounds/Reps as Possible. It involved rowing, kettlebell deadlifts and skipping. Using 6kg kettlebells for the deadlifts, I worked out that I managed 7 rounds and 75 metres in the 20 minutes time cap. That works out as 602 reps! That would have put me again, around 20-30 on the leaderboard.
Workout 24.3 was a time based workout involving barbell shoulder press thrusters and pull ups. Using 7kgs on the barbell for the first half of the workout, and 9kgs for the second half, I completed the workout in 14 mins 5s. That would have put me somewhere in the top 20-30 again!
I still think it is slightly crazy that I am quite close to the top 20 in the Seated With Hip Function Classification!
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As a few of you may have heard, on the 7th of April a British man, Russ Cook, aka 'The Hardest Geezer' finished his series of marathon runs in 352 days from Cape Agulhas in South Africa, to Ras Angela in Tunisia. With the assistance of a support crew following him, Russ Cook ran the equivalent of 386 marathons (16,294 kms) in close to a year and all of it was documented on social media and 91 YouTube videos. 🤯
I only became aware of this attempt after someone told me of Russ Cook's YouTube channel at Christmas, and since then, I have become hooked. At the moment, the episode I am up to is the one that Russ starts running across the Sahara at night because of the heat.
This is the one of the most amazing feats of mental strength, and stamina, that I have witnessed in the last 10 - 20 years Still can't get over how Russ and his support team have recovered from all the setbacks they have had throughout this crazy challenge. From sickness to holdups at border crossings, Russ and his crew have experienced it all!
For anyone who is interested in travel vlogs, I would totally recommend the Project Africa playlist on his YouTube channel. The episodes have been a very interesting and entertaining watch. As well as showing Russ running, they also show a bit of what goes on for the rest of the support team, and the country they are passing through (most of the drone shots are amazing 🤩). Watching the Project Africa videos has been a real eye opener for me, as I didn't know much about Africa before.
A word of warning though, it can be quite crass at times. I really appreciate the decision to bleep out all the F***s. Don't let that deter you, as I think the Project Africa series is a great watch!
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Data Science
What is Data Science? Wikipedia states that it is "the extraction of knowledge from data." From what I understand, it is a mix of maths, statistics and computer science. The definition that sums it up the best for me comes from Columbia's Data Science blog.
It is "a blend of Red-Bull-fueled hacking and espresso-inspired statistics," and its practitioners have to have a knowledge of the tools to use and how to use them in order to analyze messy data (the most common form of data that Data Scientists are presented with).
Drew Conway's Venn diagram of data science sums up the skills that a data scientiest needs to have, very well (a variation of the diagram is reproduced below).
Now that we have the definition out of the way, we need to ask "What does a Data Scientist do?"
It is not just a case of analysing some giant spreadsheet of data for someone and presenting them with the results. When a data scientist gets a dataset (not necessarily in spreadsheet format), they have to:
Clean the data (get it into a form so it can be analysed).
Analyse the data (perform statistical and probability calculations on it so certain patterns can be found).
Present the data in ways in which the average "joe public" can understand).
Wikipedia has a very good diagram of the process that I have linked to below.
What about Big Data? How does fit in to all of this. Big Data refers to data sets so massive, that they are very hard to comprehend and analyse. Take Wikipedia as a prime example. How do you even begin to analyse the information here? Hard isn't it? Over the last couple of years tools have been created to help with the analysis of big data, namely Hadhoop
For the most part though, many data sets that we would want to work with can be analysed by a modern multi core computer using software such as R and RStudio.
So that is Data Science. A very interesting field if you are at all aware of all the data that we are creating on a daily basis (especially through social media).
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The NeuCube
NeuCube is able to interpret complex data beyond the capabilities of the most powerful computers.
Health implications include predicting strokes and establishing treatments.
It could more accurately predict natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis.
It can interpret complex brain signals, potentially enabling paralysed people to walk in robotic exoskeletons controlled by their thoughts.
Other uses include interpreting business and financial data; cyber-security data; social media data; and audio/visual data.
Another really amazing NZ invention. This has the potential to be one of those few ground-breaking devices that are invented every 10 years or so!
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The Data Deluge
We are living in a world where data is created virtually every second. Many people don't realise that every Facebook post, tweet, or WhatsApp message is data that can be analysed to show trends like how many people go out for meals in the USA, or how many under the age of 30 buy designer clothes. These are very rough examples, but they give you a sense of what can be used by Data Scientists when they have a question they need to answer.
I have just started to go through the Johns Hopkins Data Science courses on Coursera and am finding the first really interesting. It is an introduction to Data Science as well as the gateway for the rest of the courses I am planning to do. In the next few days I will upload another post outlining what Data Science is and how it fits in to the other sciences, but for now, here are three infographics that have been doing the rounds over the last few years.
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The EU vs Google
Don't think the story below will come to anything, but the EU definitely wants Google to feel uncomfortable.
Today the Financial Times is reporting that the European parliament is on the verge of taking even more drastic steps, preparing a plan that would call for the break up of the search giant, specifically the "unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services."
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Was a brilliant concept. But with all the privacy concerns, I can see why Google has put this project on ice for now.
Google Glass has always been a solution in search of a problem. Now, for Google, it has become a problem in its own right.
The latest bad news for Google’s dreams of putting a computer on every face came on Friday, when Reuters reported that the company no longer plans to release its smart glasses to the public in 2014. At this point, it has no official timetable for a consumer launch.
Google insists it remains committed to the project. A company blog post on Monday celebrated the debut of the 100th app for Glass. And spokeswoman Anna Richardson White told me the device will be released “when it’s ready.”
Source: The Moonshot That Missed/Slate
Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images
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Smartphones are turning us into hunchbacks!
How about this!
A new study published in the journal Surgical Technology International concludes that frequently hunching over a smartphone puts significant strain on your cervical spine (neck). Spine surgeon Kenneth Hansraj used a computer-generated spine model to calculate that the force can be 60 pounds or possibly even more. It’s sort of like picking up an elementary school student with your neck.
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(via More than 70,000 sign up for UQ’s first free Massive Open Online Course - UQ News - The University of Queensland, Australia)
Can't believe these numbers!
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Net Migration Between California and Other States: 1955-1960 and 1995-2000 (via Net Migration Between California and Other States: 1955-1960 and 1995-2000)
Interesting, isn't it!
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The National Security Agency has been monitoring online games including World of Warcraft, Second Life and video games on Xbox Live, sometimes even using undercover agents disguised as trolls or orcs. SEE ALSO: NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks Worldwide With Malware: Report This is the latest revelation to come from documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, as first reported by The New York Times, ProPublica and The Guardian on Monday. Since at least 2007, the NSA and its sister British spy agency the GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) have worried that terrorists might use online video games to secretly plan attacks, drive fundraising efforts or simply communicate on unmonitored channels, according to the leaked documents (.PDF). (via NSA Sent Undercover Agents to Spy on 'World of Warcraft')
Have an image in my head of all these 'men in black' sitting in front of PCs playing games ;-)
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Christmas Idea 2: Ostrich Pillow for US$99
Think this is plain out weird!
(via Desktop Nap Pillow Is Perfect for Catching ZZZs on the Job)
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