I’m working on Peak Flow Meter Diary, a simple app to help people with asthma record peak flow readings more easily, then combine those records with environmental data to provide earlier warnings about possible triggers.
In the UK alone, around 7.2 million people have asthma. Globally, WHO estimates that asthma affected 363 million people in 2023 and caused 442,000 deaths.
Peak Flow Meter Diary is not meant to detect every possible trigger. It will not warn you if someone suddenly sprays perfume nearby, or if a dusty bag is opened in the same room. But it could help with risks that can realistically be monitored ahead of time, such as weather, pollen, pollution, cold air, storms, and similar factors.
The aim is to make daily tracking easier, show simple visual warnings and notifications, and make it easier to share useful records with clinicians.
I’m also trying to build it in a way that reduces paper, plastic, and electronic waste. If funding allows, I would like to make the project carbon-negative.
That is the bigger dream: to make a small example of how even modest start-up can think about environmental impact from the start, and use it as a practical showcase.
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone with asthma, clinicians, carers, or people who have worked on health tracking tools. By now I know that my kickstarter is not going anywhere, so I would value any input was the idea that bad, or lack of marketing and accessing appropriate groups etc. I think this community has a lot of experience so I would like someone to share what could have I done better. Do not be shy to tell me if you think idea was waste of time.
I am kind of late to comment, but let me try anyway.
Can we have a day off? Yes and no, or yes, but at your expense.
The problem is system design. If a company earned money for its contributors/workers, then each gain would be shared across the company, from the board to its employees. But a company earns money for its shareholders, and you, as an employee, are in the expense column.
Therefore, a day off is either a mandatory legal right meant to help you rest so you can be more productive, or it is just additional unproductive time that does not create more value or maximize profit.
Therefore, this is where the argument for a 4-day working week collapses. To get a 4-day working week would mean yes, but with less "expense", or a lower salary.
For the same reason, taxing the rich would not help "the people" much, as it goes to the wrong pocket.
I am so tired of this type of tech, it does not solves anything, but it looks like further pushing and intrusion into privacy, but it is not anymore just reading what we like and want, but trying to push us to do things and sell us things, lately from time I get that urge just to smash all my electronics and go somwwhere in woods (I know it is romantic dream and I would not survive more than 3 days it is just a feeling) ... Travel was interesting when you heard about exotic places and colors and smells, and then you go to experince nowadays they supply you with full pamper plan of what you going to see and experince it is not fun anymore, and all I see is like that Ghibli no-face monster, but instead of giving you money just asking you give-us-money give-us-money, money, moneeey ... then you arrive to destination and there all you get pushy salsmen, fake smiles and all you see give us money money money ...
Edit 1: When I was growing up, a started with tech not because of money but because I belived we will endup in StarTrek society, solving real problems expanding civilisation, older I am all I see is money worshiping cult
English - in China there is more English speakers than in rest of the world so not sure what is criteria (100% of people must speak?)
Serbia - missing Croatia / missing Montenegro it is the same language (officially it is called Serbo-Croatian).
Slovenia can understand and Macedonia as well ...
How is this exactly going to work, when there are dark military programs in each country? And also having in mind military policies of superpower as USA, Russia and China?
Statements like this are very dangerous and detrimental.
I have personally tested ChatGPT with multiple different topic, and found issues and errors across the range, even more disturbing is that explanation why "result" is as it is, is very confident bullshit. If person is not familiar with subject probably will blindly believe what machine says.
That being said, in the field of medicine people will use ChatGPT as poor man doctor (especially inspired by studies likes this), where wrong results coupled with confident BS could result in increase of fatalities due to wrong self medication.
This article is NOT entirely correct.
From personal perspective to improve yourself and doing your own art knowing that no one will ever see it, and that you doing your art only for your own sake, then it is true, the other people art does not matter.
But it is completely opposite if your livelihood depends on it, your income or your business, all trades depends on money, and there is limited amount human attention out there equal to number of people online multiplied by number of minutes spent.
So, there is uneven spread, and the same reason why some artist thrive and many starve. Same for writers, and many other arts and sports.
If you take tennis as example, you will see that only maybe 100 or so tennis players earn amount of money that is good for the comfortable life style. Others are struggling to get by.
Same in any arts, or creative work ... only very small will actually manage to live out of their art ...
Long time ago I read one of the predictions, cannot remember who, and one of the lines was saying "World will struck illness of rapid aging", at the time it looks so silly, but after reading this it looks so odd...
After Covid and CRISPER advances, I wonder how far is future where someone come up with idea to weaponize this finding or just try a test that will go wrong and escaping lab. Well, I hope not ...
Mesmerizing, I am interested for the code and how is this built.
When I said build the entire fractal concept is it emergent or deliberate?
Who did author envisioned this>
Heaven oh mighty, I just wanted something web based to take a peak not to download 5Gb of data :D. Few resolution layers, real time like google map, there are public domain algorithms now, should not be difficult to setup and they could put something like wiki. (support me button)
What to do in case of nuclear disaster? What type of nuclear disaster?
In case of full scale nuclear war?
Nothing we will just die, if you do not have long term survival bunker that is it. The End.
In all calculations of global clash everyone forget one thing, it is not nuclear weapons but that there is 450 nuclear reactors with thousands kilograms of nuclear rods far more worse than nuclear weapons combined, so just imagine 450 untended Chernobyl at the same time.
In the UK alone, around 7.2 million people have asthma. Globally, WHO estimates that asthma affected 363 million people in 2023 and caused 442,000 deaths.
Peak Flow Meter Diary is not meant to detect every possible trigger. It will not warn you if someone suddenly sprays perfume nearby, or if a dusty bag is opened in the same room. But it could help with risks that can realistically be monitored ahead of time, such as weather, pollen, pollution, cold air, storms, and similar factors. The aim is to make daily tracking easier, show simple visual warnings and notifications, and make it easier to share useful records with clinicians.
I’m also trying to build it in a way that reduces paper, plastic, and electronic waste. If funding allows, I would like to make the project carbon-negative.
That is the bigger dream: to make a small example of how even modest start-up can think about environmental impact from the start, and use it as a practical showcase.
The pitch and full project explanation are here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/why5/peak-flow-meter-di...
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone with asthma, clinicians, carers, or people who have worked on health tracking tools. By now I know that my kickstarter is not going anywhere, so I would value any input was the idea that bad, or lack of marketing and accessing appropriate groups etc. I think this community has a lot of experience so I would like someone to share what could have I done better. Do not be shy to tell me if you think idea was waste of time.