Engineering

• The Eat Watch
  • Food and feedback
  • Motivation and manipulation
  • Programmer, hack thyself
  • Problems: managing, fixing, and solving
    • Managing problems
    • Fixing problems
    • Solving problems
    • Weight: what's the connection?
  • What, me exercise?
• The Rubber Bag
  • What goes in
  • What you burn
  • What comes out
  • Inside the rubber bag
    • Too much goes in
    • Too little goes in
  • Seizing control
    • Controlling what you burn
    • Controlling what goes in
  • Input/Output
  • Food fads
    • Fuzzy thinking
    • Food and fact
  • Summary
• Food and Feedback
  • Measure the quantity
  • Determine the goal
  • Apply negative feedback
  • Avoid positive feedback
  • Bang-bang vs. proportional control
  • Three possible outcomes
  • Three different people
    • Skinny Stable Sam
    • Calories and weight
    • Overweight Oscillating Oscar
    • Bulky Blown-up Buster
  • Fun with feedback
• Signal and Noise
  • Wired science
    • The calorie counting catch
  • Cause and effect
  • Dexter's diet
    • Dexter's diary
    • Dexter deceived
    • Dexter's discovery
  • Moving averages
    • Meet Movin' Marvin
    • Simple moving averages
    • Weighted moving averages
    • Exponentially smoothed weighted moving Marvin
  • The truth in the trend
    • Floats and sinkers
    • Weight and calories
  • Closing the circle
  • Exploring moving averages
    • Trying trend fitting
• What, Me Exercise?
  • Living longer
  • Feeling better
  • The fitness ladder
  • Climbing the ladder
  • Introductory ladder
    • Bend (introductory)
    • Sit up (introductory)
    • Leg lift (introductory)
    • Push up (introductory)
    • Run and jump (introductory)
  • Lifetime ladder
    • Bend and bounce
    • Sit up
    • Prone lift
    • Push up
    • Run and jump
  • How much is enough?
  • Progress and motivation
    • Easy to start
    • Feeling of accomplishment and progress
    • No pain or exhaustion
    • Small time commitment
    • View from a height
    • Daily and monthly feedback
    • Private and portable
  • Details
    • A regular schedule
    • When you're sick
    • Serious problems
    • Other exercise
    • High altitude