Bharat Ganrajya

Running downhill is where maximum injuries happen. It’s rare to get injured running uphill as cardio rather than muscular system is the limitation. Best to leave running in boots to Army, SF, Navy SEAL types. Otherwise the probability of a shin splint goes up exponentially for weekend warrior ITvity...

I hope it puts a damper on the property prices in the California Bay Area but somehow I doubt it will be my much as the main driver is funny money from abroad. The locals aren't that cash rich.

So old mortgage interest deductions are still kept in place for existing mortgages and the new caps only apply for new mortgages going forward?

Running uphill is all about patience and very disciplined pacing as the line between sustainable effort and redlining & being reduced to a walk is very fine. Women usually do better than men running uphill as they are typically lighter with better T/W ratio.

There are plenty very stout big bellied types like Vlam the legendary 12 hour pacer. At those distances you have to be a Jeep not a gazelle. Speed doesn’t matter, pacing and strength does. I actually felt sorry for that pacer coz he was about to get thrashed by the crowd before cops stepped in. I ma...

The video shows the up run - much less preferable than the down run which has a much smoother ride and hits the exposed sections during the cooler parts of the morning plus you don't go thru the ghetto parts of Durban in the dark (runners have gotten mugged and stripped there). Hopefully the 100th a...

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Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:43 am

very interesting concept. one can trust the founder of barkley to come up with it and throw in the rattlers on the trail for "fun" lol.

SHQ and me are thinking of going next year if we can register on time.

Actually the need to maintain a steady rhythm with no end in sight is what kills most runners.

Big's Backyard Ultra - A Race with No End Its an event with a sequence of 1 hour duration races. Each race is 4.16 miles long along a loop in the race director's backyard (hence, the name). Each race starts on the hour (1st race starts at 7am, next race at 8am etc.) and a runner wanting to run the ...

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Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:41 am

Raja wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 28, 2017 6:00 am

The matching algorithms for biometrics like fingerprint are closely guarded IP and rarely protected by patents.

How about Face?

Same thing. Perhaps even more as in case of face as the sensor operation itself (the way Fruit does it) is key IP.

Singha saar, those elite gazelles you are admiring all have 3 things which we don't have: (1) Genetics; (2) A rural upbringing with zero processed foods.; (3) Full time focus. The 1st 2 are what really matter with the 3rd ensuring they break into the top 100 ranks. With #3 you can get into Kasture m...

Singha saar, you need to do strengthening exercises like that 5 minute hill training circuit I had posted. Just running doesn't help.

Yes important to underscore the fact that unlike Euros and Egyptians India is not just a land of past glories.

The matching algorithms for biometrics like fingerprint are closely guarded IP and rarely protected by patents.

Today's pre-work 5 mile run in the nearby hills - onlee in the Bay Area :lol: One of the mine entrances https://preview.ibb.co/grj2km/CE829835_C74_C_4042_ABAB_899_E176_B464_A.jpg Entering the mine https://preview.ibb.co/muurd6/7_DCBAFE5_5_C6_E_481_B_9_B9_E_90_F0_A44816_CC.jpg 100 ft in, this is what...

My KB is a Caltech shop onlee so they are a dime a dozen here (including people who worked on the LHC and other stuff). Some are super smart, some are stupid, rest are OK. Just like any other school's grads.

Mort uncle not just med schools or YumBeeAye, SDEE intake is actively restricted even in engineering and science degrees in places like Stan madrassa. Even for ITvity types, CA Bay Area is only a great place to live when you are young and working and stability is not the #1 criteria. It’s a great pl...

It will eventually work. Not yet. Not enough data. Then why did they release it? Mahdi would have thrown a major fit. After the Mahdi died, Fruit has been releasing buggy half baked stuff for a long time now. But that's not the case with Face ID. Its not buggy and they solved major technology chall...

Drag that lazy bugger negi with you. Might do his hangover some good!

It will eventually work. Not yet. Not enough data.

More on the Fruit FaceID SE fiasco.... Inside Apple’s Struggle to Get the iPhone X to Market on Time I love gems of BS like this: Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said “Bloomberg’s claim that it reduced the accuracy spec for Face ID is completely false and we expect Face ID to be the new gold standard...

If you are getting a hang of Blender and feel like its giving you what you want to see then stick to it. Otherwise give Rhino a try.

BMW Self-Driving car will come out in 2021 Here's the interesting part - their self-driving cars were already doing daily roundtrips on 101 from SF to LA & back, in 2010. And it will take them till 2021 to bring out a level 3 autonomous vehicle suitable for consumer use. That's how much effort it t...

OK this is a really bad idea...surprised something like this got productized on Amazon which is more hardnosed about these things unlike Chacha.... :roll: Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door Instead they could have made a home mailbox version of their Amazon locker ...

another munna this time a food czar in the bag https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/john-besh-sexual-harassment.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=20&version=internal&contentCollection=www....