Hi all, this is Carlos and I’m the founder of ParrotsCage (www.parrotscage.com), a system I’ve been developing to help me overcome depression and anxiety. ParrotsCage has a few strategies to help with that:
- It allows you to track your mood variations and then display it in a 30-days chart (or 90-days, depending on the screen resolution). This is important as usually when a psychiatrist or the health professional you are seeing asks you about how you are feeling, it’s hard to give an accurate answer as the last happenings or the mood of the day gets more importance than what really happened since the last time you talked to them (usually, 30 days ago at minimum).
- Tick boxes (also named “Cards”) allows you to check in on medication intakes as well as any kind of events that you engage to, such as workouts, meditation, detox, and so on. These checkins also display in charts that overlaps with the mood variation chart, allowing one to find correlations and/or get insights on what might be helping and what frequency works best (excellent for habits development).
- Insights generated by ChatGPT3. All the data you recorded is fed into ChatGPT and then we generate a summary of what happened on a monthly basis together with insights and actionable items. It is a faster way to get access to good moments you had, as well as not so good moments. Regardless, sharing monthly insights with the health professionals I visit allows for much more efficient communication and treatment.
I’d love to get feedback from you and in case you want to give it a try, please reach out. I’m still working on pricing and I’m open to suggestions.
I had a similar demand and started working on something for myself. It's a very simple system where you have a set of checkin buttons and a progress button at the top. There's a progress page where all checkins and progress display in a chart that can overlap, making a little easier for one to see how the progress and the checkins possibly correlate.
I'm still working on a landing page, but I put some screenshots[1] together to show what I'm talking about. This is a mobile friendly application, data is grouped according to the screen width, meaning that on a computer you are able to see with more details the chart points.
The system is working well for me, now I have much more content to share with my doctors and track medicine usage as well as any other event in life I'd like to track, such as sports, naps, booze etc.
I'd be happy to provide access to whoever want to give it a try, just shoot me an email: username at gmail.
Yeap, but storing data in things like dropbox/drive/s3 would require the app to have some sort of indexing in place (I'm thinking about ElasticSearch), as querying on these storages would perform really bad I think.
Great post! I've been thinking about it myself for some time. My main concern is that once you let the user to hold the data, you might introduce a security issue as it is very unlikely the end user will protect its data as well as you would as a service provider, especially as you would be subject to prosecution if you did something "wrong" with the data (read "leaking" or "selling" it).
I guess you are right about APIs, they eventually won't provide what you need. I'd love to see Solid starting to be used for the apps I use, but honestly I don't feel like it will happen. I don't understand much about Urbit, but from what I read that sounds like another world.
That said, I think there's some startups doing some work with regards to data privacy and security (and it seems like it caught a lot of attention!). As for getting access to the data itself, I think a sort of "open-source" and "reverse engineering" approach would help here, meaning that if you have a proxy between you and the app's server, and supposing you can add plugins to this proxy, you could hijack the data, make sense of it and store somewhere else for your own usage.
Obviously, any external processing of the data would have to be granted by the app itself, but I have a feeling this is what their APIs would contribute with.
I'd be more than happy to talk more about this and even spend some time implementing a PoC, let me know if there's anyone else interested here and we can exchange ideas and/or code/docs/etc.
I started this project because currently it is too "hard" to profile requests for python webapps. There are attempts that create a new URL for you to inspect the results, but I guess that embedding the results directly into the response would be best, as you can check the info through devtools.
There are obviously space to improve, but I thought I would share my approach before I work more on it.
Thanks a lot for this project, I've been thinking about coding in the browser for a while, but you guys went much ahead... it is just sad for me to not understand Chinese, but hopefully it will get translated to more languages soon now it is open source!
If we're talking about a general purpose event provider/consumer API that takes into account that some event sources will be voluble, while others will be almost always silent/blocked, then that's a real upgrade. It could bring a real event-oriented capability to generators. You see bits and pieces of that now--attempts to use generators with greenlets and coroutines, say. But until the 3.4 asyncio work, GvR hasn't seemed sufficiently interested/invested to make a big step forward on event processing idioms. Now he is.
Does anyone here use www.passwordstore.org? I read through the source and I simply love how simple things are... therefore I wonder why something like keepass is preferred over passwordstore?
It seems that passwords are stored in files with plain text names that identify the website, service, etc. that the password is used for. Most other password managers don't expose this kind of information.
I haven't looked at those 3rd party clients mentioned on their website but I would say a console based command isn't an option for most people when there are password managers that come with a simple management gui and a convenient keyboard shortcut that insert the right account and password information directly into html login forms in your browser.
I also use it here. I miss not being able to autocomplete browser forms when I switched over from 1password, but it isn't really that big of a deal.
As others mention, I wish there was a built in way of protecting the meta-data. I guess it wouldn't be that hard to just encrypt/decrypt the entire directory myself.
You know what is interesting? In the city I currently live (São Carlos, an inner city in the state of São Paulo, Brasil), there's a 20 years old research that is helping victims of cancer with a new drug. The idea is pretty simple, but unfortunately I don't have a source in english, so the following is in portuguese:
Here's the interesting part though, the Brazilian government and even ANVISA (Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency) are not giving a fuck about his discovery, thus the researcher is covering the costs of fabrication of drug and giving it away for free.
Thousands of people from all the country is coming to my city for this drug -- people who used it before says it is a miracle, it really works.
I guess the media can help pressing the government/ANVISA, and it is what is already happening (very slowly though). I hope this text I'm writing spread his discovery further and someway reach someone who can help us. I'm here for whatever questions you have and I will do my best in answering them.
This is also a well documented phenomena in the US if the compound isn't patent-able. You gotta get the $50mm to get it through the FDA from somewhere, and if there are no patents there's literally zero years before the generics come out.
So if this guy doesn't want to play ball with a pharmaceutical company, it's entirely likely that his research could go under-reported or under-utilized for many years.
Now of course, these facts don't MAKE his story true. Just that your offhand dismissal of the possibility of it being true isn't quite so rock solid.
He has more than one research, he even has a factory where he provides materials to a big company here in Brasil. It is irrelevant for this discussion anyways, since it is completely unrelated.
Well it could have been the case that he still makes money from the drug, just not from directly selling it. People could make donations, or he could give seminars where people pay to learn how to get healthy, or whatever. Or people prefer to do business with him because he has such a good reputation. So it's not irrelevant.
JoeAltmaier you are breaching the negativity rules.
You're just being negative here by willfully ignoring that said doctor is giving the drug away for free, which is not the usual modus operandi of quack doctors.
> A fosfoetanolamina, atualmente, possui dados experimentais concluídas de fase I, II e III.
The problem with the press coverage is that it has too few information. In this case it sounds too good to be true. Usually the drug is useful against some kind of cancers, but not against others. (For example, useful against fast growing cancers, but not useful against slow growing cancers.) I want a link to the a fase III study to see the relevant information.
Most press coverage have a few success stories, for example someone that had a 20% reduction of the cancer in the last months. (Usually it's a measurement problem, they take two images with slightly different methods, and the second image look smaller.) It's extremely suspicious that this article doesn't even have one of this anecdotes.
With at least 10,000 people he must be sitting on an amazing pile of data. Has he published it? If not, why not? If the patients aren't being tracked to check their progress, or at least their identity to find when they die, then his efforts are kind of wasted because nobody will trust anecdotes.
On a completely unrelated note, I just moved to São Carlos, and am looking to connect with the tech community here. Could you contact me via the email in my profile, and we could talk further?
Hey, we have a gaming startup here in São Carlos. Happy to go out for a few beers. A place you might like is Bridge Coworking[0], though I do not know them.
Couldn't find your email (it's hidden by default), but you can reach me at renato at hackerexperience dot com.
My Portuguese is terrible, but enough to parse that. The drug appears to be "fosfoetanolamina sintética" or synthetic Phosphorylethanolamine, which its Wikipedia page seems to say that it has anti cancer uses. As I have no bio chem or medical background I can't evaluate that claim.
The article says that it is formed by combining mono -ethanolamine with phosforic acid.
Thanks so much, I hope you have great days ahead.