A deep learning tool for personalized workout recommendations from fitness tracking data

Tom Patriot

Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have developed FitRec, a recommendation tool powered by deep learning, that is able to better estimate runners’ heart rates during a workout and predict and recommend routes. The team will present their work at the WWW 19 conference May 13 to 17 in San Francisco. Researchers trained FitRec on a dataset of more than 250,000 workout records for more than 1,000 runners. This allowed computer scientists to build a model that analyzed past performance to predict speed and heart rate given…

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A 5-STEP SKIN-CARE ROUTINE FOR BEAUTY MINIMALISTS

Tom Patriot

If you’re searching for tips on how to build an effective skin-care routine that won’t consume hours of your day, we’re sharing an easy, five-step system that can fit into even the busiest of schedules, ahead! Let’s face it, that ten-step skin-care routine is great but for minimalists, it can feel like ten steps too many. If you’re the kind of person who prefers to keep it simple, you’re going to want to adopt this routine ASAP! A MINIMALIST’S SKIN-CARE ROUTINE With a minimalist skin-care routine, you’ll only want to concern yourself…

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Ciara Embraces Her ‘Beauty Marks’ In a Gorgeous, No-Makeup Selfie

Tom Patriot

A quick scroll through Ciara’s Instagram proves that she’s all about the glam. But the singer recently surprised her fans by sharing a rare, makeup- and hair extension-free selfie and encouraging them to embrace themselves as they are. (Find out how Ciara finds “me” time in the midst of chaos.) “No makeup. No extensions. Vulnerable,” the former Shape cover girl wrote alongside a photo of her fresh, glowing face. “My Beauty Marks and all. The real me…and I love it.” https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwkuoc8n5mV/?utm_source=ig_embed “Beauty Marks” refers to both Ciara’s upcoming album—which drops on May 10—and her record…

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No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy

Tom Patriot

An international group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in finding the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). New work using chaos theory to analyze brain signals, discussed this month in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, shows the long-term effects. Researchers found that teenagers who were exposed to alcohol while in the womb showed altered brain connections that were consistent with impaired cognitive performance. Their findings were reached by measuring the responses from a brain imaging technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG)…

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