This is a slightly more polished version of something I posted in the Beeminder forum. The forum is also the place for ongoing discussion about this. OpenAI’s Deep Research tool was made available to premium users the other day and I tried it out with the following prompt: “What does the science say...

This is part 4 of our Melzaminder Series. Previously we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program, talked about scale weight as a metric, and talked about proxy metrics more generally. Here we talk about how the Metrics part of Mindful Munching with Metrics work. Alright, any non-nerds who...

That’s Fatebook with a T. Made by the impressive folks at Sage. What is Fatebook for? It’s for predicting things. Specifically, it’s for publicly or privately logging your estimates of the likelihood of certain future events. Which events? It’s totally up to you. You can predict the course of history,...

This is part 3 of our Melzaminder Series. Previously we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program followed by To Weigh Or Not To Weigh, in which we argue in favor of poor maligned scale weight as a useful getting-in-shape metric. Here, we generalize the idea of metrics that aren’t quite the...

This is part 2 of our Melzaminder Series. Last time we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program, which is now at capacity and going amazingly. We’ve already started a wait list for the next one. The very first step of the program is choosing a suitable gauge of one’s progress. We discussed...

Happy New Year! Starting today, for the first 9 weeks of the year, Beeminder and MelzaFit.com are teaming up for a group accountability coaching program. If you want to try intuitive eating as a weight control strategy, dump the diet mindset, and also try out some nerdtasticness with Beeminder graphs...

Welcome one and all to this announcement of our latest Beeminder integration: Curlminder. This one’s for the nerds. The idea is that you give us a URL and a regular expression, and we fetch the contents of the webpage, match it on the regex, and pull out a number. In theory you can use this to beemind...

Users have been lobbying for this feature for years. Finally we threw in the towel and implemented it. Hitting the Uncle Button (crying uncle) means accepting a derailment before the clock runs out. This is actually kind of critical to let users do and it’s silly it took us so long. I mean, for starters,...

Remember Fractional Beeminding? We’ve been putting it to great use for such goals as Our meta goal to keep churning out autodata integrations Project Euler, and Workerbee-Visible Improvements. A key clarification before reviewing how it works: fractional beeminding doesn’t mean beeminding something with...