Hi all,
I started P90X 3 weeks ago (I had to skip week 2 though) and I'm not sure how to adjust my diet. I'm 178 cm (5'10) and weigh 82 kg (180 lbs). I'm not sure whether I should be focusing on slimming down (eat less calories) or focusing on gaining muscle (eat more calories). I have little muscle and lots of fat (fat rolls, love handles, A-cup moobs, ...). Currently I'm doing the former and I was thinking of doing another round of P90X in a few months where I eat more calories.
Is there a difference if I eat more calories now, and less during the second round? Should I be eating more calories for both rounds? What effects on my body can I expect with the different diets?
Thank you
A few years ago I had my one and only session with a personal trainer (it was free with my new gym membership lol). When I mentioned I only ever use the machines, he kept stressing I need to move to free weights only. I still only use machines, for a few reasons. I’m worried about having bad form with free weights and injuring myself if I push myself (with the machine, I can fail and the weights just fall, but not on top of me!). I’m also uncomfortable without the machines hiding me, like if I squat, a whole gym of men will see my ass- I know I shouldn’t care, but I do. But I still wonder why the trainer said free weights are so much better?
Like, we can't deny that the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2 was the better final mission than the one on Earth in Mass Effect 3. Like with the suicide mission, you're upgrading the Normandy SR-2's weapons, armor, and shields to save three of your teammates, and then making decisions as to which squadmates tackle which job based on their skillsets as well as their loyalty to Shepard. With Mass Effect 3, on the other hand, all the war assets, the galactic readiness, and the EMS score affected was which of the three different endings you can unlock and pick between, and that was it.
But in-terms of final DLC, it's almost the reverse. Mass Effect 2 had an incredibly mediocre final DLC, Arrival, one where you couldn't bring your teammates with you and instead had to go solo. Plus, it didn't have any major decisions that affected the outcome, because no matter what you chose, you were always going to destroy the Bahak System and its batarian colony just to delay the Reapers by destroying the Alpha Relay with that meteor. Mass Effect 3: Citadel, on the other hand, was the superior one. It outright celebrated the entire team Commander Shepard gathered throughout the entire Mass Effect trilogy, and what Shepard's relationships with them meant for the trilogy. Like, Arrival had you fly solo, whereas Citadel puts you together with your entire team, both past and present, for one final hurrah before the whole trilogy ended.
Thoughts?
I'm not entirely sure how to word this but basically i'm wanting to know how and what the metric system is designed or based around.
Mainly the fact around 1sq cm equals 1 gram of water and this obviously transfers to 1sqm equals 1 ton etc etc
so i this just pure universe coincidence that weights and sizes mesh so perfectly or was it originally based off water weight?
The more time I spend learning of the benefits of a decentralised network for curency the more impressed I am with its efficiency and transparency. I can strongly visualise a future where p2p is all decentralised.
My main question is this: how will this ever be allowed by any government? Our whole WORLD is built on old school conventions of central authorities, banking systems and networks. Can bitcoin ever REALISTICALLY become a global power currency because surely as it gets more popular, governments will get concerned that they are losing control and regulate it down.
Why would a government ever want the world to go decentralised? It is not in their interest at all. The migration to decentralisation would be carnage too, given how many moving parts there are as dicussed above.
Can anyone explain how this could feasibly work? I love the idea but just don't see how it will be allowed.
The trading empire of the Dutch Republic would be impressive alone for it's achievements in trade and warfare, but it's astounding when you realize that by 1600, the Netherlands had 1.5m for population! Compare that to 18m of France, or 9m approx of Spain, or 5.6m by England.
I get that they were very sophisticated and had advanced commerce, production and politics. But still... 1.5 million? How is that enough manpower to arm enough soldiers on land to prevent invasions, and sailors to operate a huge fleet? And given the immense wealth and manpower of Spain and Portugal compared to that of the Dutch - what prevented them from just dropping in on Amsterdam and burn it so to keep them out of their business? Or maybe drop in on Calais and march on land if they didn't have enough naval power.
My 15 week maltipoo currently weights 7.1 pounds. The vet expects her adult weight will be around 20 pounds but her parents were 10 and 3 pounds so that surprised me! I know mixed breed pets have harder to predict weights…curious about your pups weights!
I'm a naturally skinny-ish guy with fast metabolism. I could eat fast food/junk a lot and not get too big.
Now I'm living with IBS I eat less and have cut out gluten, potatoes, bread, pasta etc... EVEN gluten free as they still cause me issues... Basically I'm saying I've cut a lot of food out not just these carbs...
Now I want to gain weight as I'm going to the gym a lot and I don't want to be skinny... How on earth do I achieve this with IBS? Do I just eat a shit ton of vegetables lol...
Hoping someone here has been in similar position that might offer some light?
All the best to everyone here dealing with their... shit
I have the V11 Absolute and while I appreciate the extra capacity, it is pretty taxing on the forearm for longer cleans with its weight. The V15 is about a pound lighter according to the website, but I'm wondering whether folks who have used both thought that was a significant difference in weight or if the V15 still feels pretty heavy with extended use. Considering selling mine and buying the V15, but don't know if it'll be worth my time to do so if the weight difference doesn't seem significant in day-to-day use.
As the title states. If I have a multiclass classification task with 5 classes, total instances for them being [1000,1000,500,250,100], without any special care taken to address class imbalance, most methods would be far more concerned with learning about the larger classes, and might miss for example the 5th class entirely.
To address this, my understanding is there are two main favored approaches. The first is to simply duplicate the undersampled (training set) instances until the training set is perfectly balanced, e.g. if the above example is my training set, I'd duplicate instances until I have [1000,1000,1000,1000,1000]. I'd then train like usual, and validate using the usual validation set, taking care that these instances are are not twins from the training data.
The second approach is to augment the loss function such that the model is penalized relatively more for predictions away from ground-truth for the undersampled classes, e.g. in PyTorch's nn.CrossEntropyLoss, I'd add weight=[0.1,0.1,0.2,0.4,1] such that being correct about 1 instance of the 100-instance class is as valuable as being correct about 10 instances of the 1,000-instance class.
The main thing I'm getting from various sources is that in practice, these two approaches arrive at similar results. For already-large models that demand a lot of compute, if that's the case, would it not be more time-efficient to simply augment the loss function? Oversampling for the above example is nearly doubling the size of the training set.
On the other hand, I'm also seeing that the risk in augmenting the loss function is if the batch size is small enough, it's still possible the model will not see enough examples of the undersampled classes to learn about them in a consistent way, even with them receiving a higher priority.
I guess my question is what are the concrete differences between them, and what works best in practice (in general, or task-specific)? Is there some other approach to handling class imbalance that's far better and I'm just missing it? Thanks for any insight you can offer!
I see ones on Amazon and it’s like 250g carbs 50g protein and 1300 calories. Will this help me gain weight fast if I drink this on top of eating more too?
