I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

Posted by showmypost 19 hours ago

I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night(martin.sh)

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nephihaha 6 hours ago|

3am is a common time to wake up or be half awake. This is the old "witching hour" (not midnight) when most people claim to sight "ghosts" or "aliens" in their room, and/or suffer sleep paralysis.

Then there is the two sleep theory that suggests we are not supposed to sleep in single block. In more traditional environments, people got up to stoke the fire at this point. I know some folk that get up to urinate or have a drink. I used to turn the radio on for a bit.

sciencesama 18 hours ago||

long time back i had this sense orb that did something similar and it was night sounds made me wake up !

sciencesama 18 hours ago|

https://sense.io/

toss1 13 hours ago||

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No relation other than a very happy Coros user (Pace Pro). They make an excellent series of sport & health monitoring watches and bike gear, best GPS I've ever seen producing the most accurate run/bike tracks I've ever seen (using 5 GNSS systems: GPS, Galileo, QZSS, etc.), very reasonable pricing compared to the competition, continuous useful updates, and just a great overall approach to health and technology.

Ylpertnodi 14 hours ago||

I sleep terriibly. It got 'better', when i worked out i have a 'day', of around 32-36 hours. So, to people kon a regular 24 hour day, I'm tired at the wrong times and wide awake over aboit two of their sleep cycles. Damned annoying, as I've gone out when i should have stayed in - but everyone is out and awake, and viceversa. I've learned to say 'no' to invites I know I won't make. 8 hour working days, suck. For long creative bursts, it's great, though.

gverrilla 13 hours ago||

Have you tried sleeping without a watch?

sneak 17 hours ago||

Earplugs also solve this problem with many fewer tokens.

curtisblaine 18 hours ago||

This is cool, but a simple circular buffer audio recorder connected to stdin would have been sufficient. The recorder records continuously on a circular buffer that stores the last 5 minutes, and whenever OP wakes up, he can press any key on the keyboard to dump the current 5 minutes on storage, with the timestamp as file name. False positives are much less possible, and the whole system can just be a small CLI program.

showmypost 17 hours ago|

Not sure I understand how this would work. The whole point is that you often don’t realize that you even woke up. And not sure jumping to go to the computer to hit a key is the smoothest way to fall back asleep

I spend most of my days in front of CLIs but here I really think a cli wouldn’t be the right tool for the job..

accidentpr0ne 14 hours ago||

Dude used ai to determine that slamming a door, moving dishes, or driving a motorcycle near this bedroom woke him up. Revolutionary stuff.

accidentpr0ne 14 hours ago||

Did you really need to build an ai app to figure out that doors, dishes, and motorcycles wake you up?

cyanydeez 18 hours ago|

hint: your watch is probably lying to you and you're following a normal bifurcated sleep pattern.

AI is melting your real world understanding: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/biphasic-sle...

darkwater 6 hours ago||

Intrigued by your comment and being someone that have a broken sleeping pattern due to both me being a nervous person and having went through raising 2 kids, I went to the linked article hoping to learn something new about my pattern. And it turns out it's just about talking the habit of "siesta" - so having a short sleep period during daytime - and NOT about wake up in the middle of the night naturally.

So, I find totally inappropriate the snarky comment about OP and AI melting anything.

jrmg 1 hour ago||

In the third paragraph:

Prior to that, many people across different continents and cultures followed a biphasic sleep schedule. They went to bed in the evening and slept for a few hours, waking up around midnight. Then, they would stay up for a few hours to eat, tend to their children, or add wood to the fire, before finally falling back asleep for their second sleep phase.

And it goes on to mention this pre-industrial biphasic ‘schedule’ many times throughout the article.

showmypost 17 hours ago|||

Good article! Not agreeing with the statement before the link

Also, not sure if you’ve taken the time to read the post but it clearly states that I’m not using AI to analyze the data. The point of posting this was a different one

I’m happy because I can clearly hear what wakes me up at night. I knew I wake up from noise and now I can clearly see it in the data that I wake up right after door slams, noisy motorbikes, car horning, and dishes from the kitchen (own and neighbors)

After taking action I now sleep better and don’t have those random wake-up moments.

jrmg 13 hours ago||

I often wake up at 2-4 AM long enough to look at a clock - then fall back asleep. I’ve never even considered that it could be something in my environment waking me up!

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