Calculate When You Are Most Awake 184
cjellibebi writes "Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired. Using their website, you can work out your alertness profile for any given day. It is also discussed on this BBC News article."
Guess what they recommend (Score:5, Insightful)
"A nap combined with 2 Pro Plus tablets will temporarily alleviate tiredness."
I don't trust a "scientific method" that ends with a sales pitch.
Re:Guess what they recommend (Score:5, Funny)
Knuckleheads.
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Re:Guess what they recommend (Score:5, Informative)
So a nap and caffeine will alleviate tiredness? I'll stick to coffee.
Re:Guess what they recommend (Score:5, Informative)
Just as you said...I'll stick with coffee!
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Re:Guess what they recommend (Score:3, Funny)
(Nothing against the parent, just against the company's obvious advice.)
Re:Guess what they recommend (Score:3, Funny)
Does your planet orbit one or more stars whose electromagnetic output includes light that is visible to your species?
1. Yes
2. No
Does your planet's star (or one of them, in case your planet orbits multiple stars) produce significantly more visible light than any other object in your planet's sky from the point of view of an observer on your planet's surface?
1. Yes
2. No
Is your planet's rotation tidally
Quite accurate... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Quite accurate... (Score:1)
I already know (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I already know (Score:5, Funny)
Striving to be common... [blogspot.com]
Not Accurate At All (Score:4, Insightful)
I work 3rd shift (1 am - 9 am), so most days, I end up sleeping from 2 pm - 10 pm.
Re:Not Accurate At All (Score:2, Insightful)
We Are Slashdot. Resistance is futile. (Score:5, Funny)
Not for much longer, you can't. It's already getting slower...
Not only that... (Score:5, Funny)
glitch (Score:3, Interesting)
Looks like.... (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn't account for important factors (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doesn't account for important factors (Score:2)
saturday morning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:saturday morning (Score:2)
Re:saturday morning (Score:1)
Lunch time. (Score:5, Funny)
"Is that program finished yet?"
"URGH!"
Well, according to that (Score:4, Funny)
Interesting results (Score:2)
I don't know about you, but I know quite well myself when I am feeling sleepy and when not. What about you?
Re:Interesting results (Score:1)
Its an Advert for caffiene pills YHBAT (Score:5, Informative)
you have been astro-turfed
next on slashdot, scientists devise a new compound said to give men a huge wang
Re:Its an Advert for caffiene pills YHBAT (Score:2)
More like infomercialled.
Re:Its an Advert for caffiene pills YHBAT (Score:2)
Isn't that what the recent "male enhancement" ads on TV are all about? If so, it *must* be true - after all, it's on TV!! :)
Re:Its an Advert for caffiene pills YHBAT (Score:2)
but you realize that we're all way to cheap to buy his junk, just wait till he gets the bandwidth bil from tens(hundreds?) of thousands curious
My results (Score:4, Funny)
(... hey, is that coffee I smell?)
Tired at work (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tired at work (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Tired at work (Score:5, Funny)
Err... umm... too easy.
Re:Tired at work (Score:5, Funny)
So, how's being a janitor working out?
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unrealistic form options (for me at least) (Score:5, Interesting)
Guess they didn't think about students. Or unemployed programmers...
Re:unrealistic form options (for me at least) (Score:2)
Site is slashdotted now but if I'm remembering correctly from an earlier visit (Discovery Channel Canada mentioned the site a week or two ago), it also doesn't allow you to specify going to sleep from 4:46am until sometime in the afternoon.
Naps? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Naps? (Score:2)
Ugh... that's the exact sleep schedule that I'm trying to break!
I much prefer to fall asleep around 10pm and rise at 6am. I've always found it to be rather relaxing to have 2 hours in the morning to dop around prior to walking downstairs and logging in.
Don't Think This is Going to Work for Me (Score:3, Informative)
For anyone who may be confused by the term knackered:
Main Entry: knackered
Pronunciation: 'na-k&rd
Function: adjective
Etymology: English slang knacker to kill, tire, perhaps from knacker, n.
British : TIRED, EXHAUSTED
Maybe someone who's really English (i.e., not the fake Canadian type like myself) can expound on the etymology. IIRC it has something to do with killing old horses.
On an more related note, I have noticed that I read Slashdot when I start to tire of whatever it is I'm working on (or not working on). I believe it has something to do with the rhythm of 20-minutes of focused attention followed by a few minutes of wandering thoughts we all have.
At least that's my theory.
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nope, horse-meat is eaten in france.
they eat frog legs, for goodness sake... how could you doubt horse-meat?
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Obligatory "O Brother" reference (Score:2)
"I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I'm 'fraid she's startin' to turn..."
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AHA ! (Score:5, Funny)
May I please be funded in order to come up with s.th. astounding like that ?
CC.
Re:AHA ! (Score:4, Insightful)
They might suffer from some sort of post-viral illness, they might be in shock, they might be depressed, or one of many other reasons.
I find the advice about taking pep pills to be particularly poor, when one considers these other reasons for fatigue.
Real World Application ... (Score:4, Funny)
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Site is knackered (Score:2)
Or, you know... (Score:3, Funny)
*honk*
Worthless! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Worthless! (Score:5, Interesting)
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I caught it in Mid/. (Score:3, Funny)
I did all the questions and t h e n.....
Now I won't know when to be tired.
OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Prediction (Score:1, Funny)
God I'm tired...
I think it's broke (Score:2, Funny)
And what's really odd is it's not even asking me any questions before giving me my results.
I guess they figured out a way to determine when you are most alert based on your IP or something.
Parents don't need to guess this... (Score:5, Funny)
About 72 hours after the arrival of my first child, I was more tired than I'd ever been in my life. Just when things were starting to improve, a few years later, along came the second.
At this point, I'm not even making the interest payments on my sleep debt, and the Sandman keeps threatening to send his goons around to beat the rest of it out of me.
Re:Parents don't need to guess this... (Score:1)
When my wife wanted to have a second child, part of was thinking, "But things are getting better now. I can write and be creative again." But then another part of my body took over. "Make another baby? Sure! Or I'll die trying."
Sigh.
Re:Parents don't need to guess this... (Score:2)
as a parent, too, I can sympathize (my 6 year old was up at 5am this morning singing in the shower) but...
Just when things were starting to improve, a few years later, along came the second.
since you're posting on slashdot, perhaps you don't know what causes this?
Science? Try advert (Score:5, Informative)
Just walk on, folks...ank
Re:Science? Try advert (Score:3, Informative)
whose sole active ingredient is caffeine.
Doesn't work with any of the 8 browsers on my PowerBook, not even IE.
A quick check shows that it's a frameset, and the URL in the main frame gets a "refused" reply.
Obligatory Simpsons (Score:2)
Carl: And how!
I find it easier to calculate my alertness profile (Score:2, Funny)
I know when I'm most awake (Score:1)
hm (Score:1)
-If master Yoda so strong in the force be, why then proper english he cannot speak ?
zz (Score:4, Funny)
Gender characteristics (Score:5, Insightful)
But, um, isn't that just the usual gender stereotype (it might have some truth to it, I'm not judging)? Women being more aware of their emotions while men are more performance driven?
Next thing you know, they notice alcohol affects men and women differently: men can't change tires, while women can't find their eyeliner in their purse.
Re:Gender characteristics (Score:2)
Gotcha! (Score:2)
The requested URL / was not found on this server.
It's
Science, baby! (Score:5, Funny)
And next on BBC:
"If you are thirsty, drink!", scientist claims.
Re:Science, baby! (Score:2, Funny)
The British really don't need to be told to drink more. But apparently they do need to be told to sleep more.
Panic attack! (Score:1)
Problem pinpointed (Score:2, Funny)
Oh wait.
Am I misreading the title? (Score:2)
That's blindingly obvious, isn't it? I mean, I do most of my calculating at about 4:30am (when the birds start singing and the sleepiness clears).
What, are most people foolishly doing their important calculations at 9am or some other such gibbering horror of an hour?
Odd results (Score:3, Insightful)
"You will start to feel noticeably tired at 15:60 and you will feel most tired at 17:60"
15:60? 17:60?
Re:Odd results (Score:2)
Odd (Score:3, Interesting)
Apaarently, this means that I am in fact never alert. I have to agree with other
I think I can do this... (Score:2)
"At what time of day do you feel at your best?"
OK, if you know when you feel your best, don't you think its likely you already know when you're worst?
Because it's there (Score:1)
My conspiracy theory is that behind all the feedback is our lurking bad conscience that most of us actually do not sleep enough and hence do not do as well as we could when we're awake.
On the other hand it is more interesting to sit up all night chatting with friends o
Real Book Recommendations (Score:5, Informative)
I will, perhaps foolishly, jump in with two real book recommendations.
The shorter of the two is Stanley Coren's "Sleep Thieves." It goes quite heavily into the various consequences of sleep deprivation. It's quite scary.
The longer of the two -- and probably more informative on the biology of sleep -- is William Dement's "The Promise of Sleep." Dement is viewed by many as the leading sleep researcher in the United States.
It will take you much longer to read this books than take the linked for test, but you'll be much better informed. You might even be able to marshall substantial arguments against a PHB's death march.
Both books also have tests to take to find out how sleep deprived you are. There are also recommendations for treating this condition.
Both are available from your favorite book seller.
Re:Real Book Recommendations (Score:3, Informative)
The second is a book dealing with polyphasic sleep and chronobiology. Some of the findings presented t
I don't need no fancy formula to calculate that (Score:1)
Before morning coffee: tired as hell
after first morning coffee: I'm alive!
after second morning coffee: ahh it is a fine day indeed.
during the rest of the day the second morning coffee feeling is sustained by regular dosis of cafeine.
easy does it
It's an advert, people. (Score:3, Informative)
Sure enough, in the results they show that I never even make it as awake as "little sleepy", let alone "alert". If that were true, I'd have been out of a job (or dead from lack of attention when crossing the road) a long, long time ago. Funny then that I spend most of my Saturdays dancing from around midnight til 7:30am, and all without any chemical assistance...
Genius *Sarcasm* (Score:2, Insightful)
Funny, when you go to the website, you tell them when you sleep, when you are tired, when you feel awake, and then they graph your answers out. Ummmmm....that is truly amaaaaazing.
Amazing! (Score:2)
You will start to feel noticeably tired at 15:00 and you will feel most tired at 15:00
But if I'm just starting to feel noticeably tired at 15:00 shouldn't I be most tired sometime after 15:00?!
The sad thing is that I was giving it honest info!
Welcome to the Neoliberal "Sweatshop Economy" (Score:3, Insightful)
the results weren't far off (Score:5, Interesting)
At 2:30 in the afternoon, I'm usually completely wiped out, and occasionally I'll end up face down on the keyboard.
I used to sleep so much better when I was physically active. Now, it's get up, commute, sit like lump at desk all day, become unmotivated due to typical work day, get home, sit around the home or at the computer all evening because I've got no energy.
Life was better when I went rollerblading every day, before my knees went to hell.
I bet exercise a few times a week would be a hell of a lot more effective than that little caffeine pill.
And someone should do a study on what professions tend to get better sleep. I bet a construction worker will have insomnia 10 times less than a desk jockey.
I know this already (Score:2)
Patient, heal thyself. (Score:3, Insightful)
Sort of like asking what card you are holding before before magically guessing what card you picked.
After asking all that, they draw a line graph that matches your answers. I didn't go on to the recommendation page, so I didn't get to see how many no-doze I need to take a day to be 'normal'.
Using your sleepy time of day for diagnostics (Score:5, Interesting)
Practitioners use this diagnostically by associating when people have a major dip in their energy level to show them which energy needs to be strengthened, which may indicate a pathology in that associated organ.
The individual energies correlate to five elements that are each expressed by particular flavors, seasons, colors etc. and they will recommend a person increase their exposure to the things associated with the element where their energy is weakest.
It would be interesting to see if the times of people's energetic nadir as predicted by this system or observed empirically did correlate to physical or emotional issues as predicted by this ancient system.
I have to tell you I have been pretty skeptical learning about it all but there are a lot things that correlate with accepted western medical theory and some intuitive things that are just dead on, whether I believe in it or not.
Problems right off the bat (Score:2)
10-2-4 (Score:2)