▲ 17 r/NooTopics
Lemon balm for anxiety?
Has anyone tried lemon balm for anxiety?
u/dataoops — 3 days ago
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r/research r/vitamins r/Supplements r/buildinpublic r/iOSProgramming r/Nutraceuticalscience r/HotScienceNews r/vegan r/NooTopics r/sleephackers
▲ 1 r/buildinpublic
Whats actual growth look like if you aren't an influencer?
First off, holy shit I'm so sick of 'building isn't challenge distribution is', I promise I'm not going to make this about that.
Posts on reddit are making it hard for me to calibrate what to expect for my own funnel, I launched my a pre-launch wait list for my app, and considering that a wait list requires people to actually get to my site and then to also decide to submit their email, I feel this is better than I told myself it would be.
Obviously I wish it was 10x more, but its not zero. For very poorly optimized screenshots on a launch page I just slapped together, people are still trickling in, so there is some interest here. The problem is I just have no sense of scale, and the bot posts about hitting 10k MRR after 4 months drown out most of the real conversation.
What did your initial months of trying to gain traction look like?
Also, would you dip into your launch wait list to recruit testers? I need to expand my feedback sources beyond family and friends, but I also keep telling myself that I have to finish X Y and Z before I do, which is probably just thinly disguised rejection anxiety tbh.
u/dataoops — 29 days ago
▲ 40 r/Supplements
Workout Supplement Guide (With Evidence)
All of this data is from meta-analyses focused on general healthy population adults, the people diagrams are mine, but I think they are reasonably in the spirit of Cochrane's guidance^(1):
Page 1
Creatine monohydrate
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39519498/
Protein supplementation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28698222/
Caffeine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32551869/
Beta-alanine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27797728/
Page 2
Dietary nitrate / beetroot
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35580578/
Dietary nitrate / beetroot, muscular performance
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33554654/
Sodium bicarbonate
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34794476/
Citrulline malate, repetitions to failure
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34010809/
Citrulline malate, maximum strength
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34176406/
^(1)15.5.3.3, “Re-expressing SMDs through dichotomization and transformation to relative and absolute measures.”
u/dataoops — 29 days ago
▲ 3 r/research
Looking for cursed PDF data tables
Hey r/research, I’m a software engineer working on extracting clean structured data from ugly scientific PDFs, think multi-level headers, merged cells, nested row labels, footnotes mixed into labels, repeated subheaders, broken text layers, and scanned physical documents.
There are some decent tools in this space, specifically I've been building on top of PyMuPDF, Camelot, GMFT/Table Transformer, and img2table. Each has different strengths, so I’m combining them in a hybrid pipeline instead and trying to heuristically select the best results on a table by table basis, axis by axis basis.
It’s working pretty well so far, and on clean tables the existing tools do most of the work by themselves, where it breaks down is gross PDFs, the ones that when you try to copy and paste from it chrome freaks out and the text comes out all wrong, or you cant select it at all.
Currently from my test set I can recover the complete physical structure of a nasty 54-row table from a medium res scanned image. This specific test is one that all of the tools I'm building on fail in isolation, but using them as an ensemble my system is recovering it correctly. One of the more interesting cases has a symptom score with nested Pain, Burning, Paraesthesiae, and Numbness underneath it, and that hierarchy comes through correctly instead of being flattened into unrelated rows.
I’m looking for more hard cases so I can find where it still under performs, any cases with ugly merged headers, interrupted sections, image-only scans, corrupted symbols, enormous tables, or layouts that make no sense are all welcome.
Unfortunately, since I'm an engineer not a researcher, I don't have any kind of journal access, so anything you want to share would need to be open access. DOI, PMID, or direct PDF link would be ideal.
Hey, if you read to this point, thank you, and please help me break my code.
u/dataoops — 30 days ago
The Sleep Supplement Chart You Actually Need
u/CreativeSite1 — 1 month ago
▲ 8 r/iOSProgramming
What is the UI right pattern here?
I’m trying to use this row as both a navigation element that takes you to a detail page, and as a checklist item where you can tap to track if you’ve taken that supplement for the day, but visually it feels a bit busy with the chevron and the check circle.
I added the chevron because without it my only tester (my wife) didn’t know the row had dual functionality.
Is there a way to make this work without looking bad or should I abandon trying to make the row also function for nav?
FWIW, there are other places in the app to navigate to a supplement’s detail page I just thought it’d be convenient to get there from the stack tracking page too.
u/dataoops — 2 months ago
▲ 17 r/Supplements
Do you still take Acetyl L-Carnitine?
A little while back there was a thread that discussed how 90% of ALCAR gets converted by gut bacteria into TMAO.
Subjectively I feel like ALCAR was one of the supplements that had more oomph, but if its just going to be getting metabolized into a harmful byproduct then its probably not worth it.
I haven't personally dug into this one much is it actually a big concern?
u/dataoops — 2 months ago
▲ 43 r/Supplements
Research indicates why you shouldn't add bananas to your smoothies
Unfortunately I really like a PBJ smoothie.
u/dataoops — 3 months ago
▲ 10 r/NooTopics
Is this just a Guerilla Marketing campaign?
Reposting this for this sub since another once just got spammed over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NooTopics/comments/1th74ra/when_your_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_strongly/
There is a series of accounts that seem to be attention farming by posing memes over and over about a frustration with labs / ordering labs on your own.
I don't want to name the provider, but I bet this is guerilla marketing from that one labs provider that buys a bunch of ads on reddit.
There are probably more than just these two accounts, but after like the 10th eerily similar post in a week I finally clicked into the profiles and saw the pattern in these two
https://www.reddit.com/user/NYM2000/search/?q=labs - account created 3 weeks ago, repeated posting of the same meme
https://www.reddit.com/user/Exotic-Cook-7740/search/?q=labs - account created 1 week ago same deal
In just two weeks this is what those two accounts alone have posted on this topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cardio/comments/1t7jawo/the_guessing_game/
https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/1te3h2e/patient_portal_season/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tgo51z/when_the_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_says/
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalmemes/comments/1t7c2kp/and_round_and_round_we_go/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tcykzi/fake_it_till_you_make_it/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hellcare/comments/1tb8w7r/elbows_up/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tae8r8/getting_it_on_my_own/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1td7ikg/going_9_innings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1t7ddss/normal_labs_zero_answers/
u/dataoops — 3 months ago
▲ 13 r/Supplements
Is this just a Guerilla Marketing campaign?
There is a series of accounts that seem to be attention farming by posing memes over and over about a frustration with labs / ordering labs on your own.
I don't want to name the provider, but I bet this is guerilla marketing from that one labs provider that buys a bunch of ads on reddit.
There are probably more than just these two accounts, but after like the 10th eerily similar post in a week I finally clicked into the profiles and saw the pattern in these two
https://www.reddit.com/user/NYM2000/search/?q=labs - account created 3 weeks ago, repeated posting of the same meme
https://www.reddit.com/user/Exotic-Cook-7740/search/?q=labs - account created 1 week ago same deal
In just two weeks this is what those two accounts alone have posted on this topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cardio/comments/1t7jawo/the_guessing_game/
https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/1te3h2e/patient_portal_season/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tgo51z/when_the_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_says/
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalmemes/comments/1t7c2kp/and_round_and_round_we_go/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tcykzi/fake_it_till_you_make_it/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hellcare/comments/1tb8w7r/elbows_up/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tae8r8/getting_it_on_my_own/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1td7ikg/going_9_innings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1t7ddss/normal_labs_zero_answers/
u/dataoops — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/Supplements
Saffron for mood?
How do feel about saffron for mood? There are some encouraging studies:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6503633/
Its been a daily driver for me for a while, but currently I'm evaluating what to keep vs cut from my stack. Is it a keeper for you?
u/dataoops — 3 months ago